What the reaction to a rare Jewish riot in Israel says about Jewish liberals.

by Daniel Greenfield, FPM   13.3.23

One Sunday, two brothers, Hillel and Yagel Yaniv, young men with a bright future ahead of them were murdered while stuck in traffic in the Muslim village of Hawara in Israel. The locals celebrated their crime by singing, handing out candy and shooting off fireworks in the air.

Shmuel Sackett, the head of a tree-planting foundation, wrote:

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T. Belman. Netanyahu didn’t go far enough.  He and all government Ministers should stand in solidary with Smotrich and Ben Gvir and refuse to meet with American officials until the ban on meeting with Smotrich and Ben Gvir is lifted.

‘Following the humiliation of Smotrich’s visit, that’s not such a bad idea,’ responds Yair Lapid.

Israel National News    Mar 14, 2023, 9:29 PM (GMT+2)

Three months have passed since the current government was established, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has yet to receive an invitation to the White House to meet with U.S. President Joe Biden.

On Tuesday, after receiving the requests of several government ministers to travel to the United States, Netanyahu allegedly issued a response clarifying that they were not to make the trip until he himself has received an official invitation.

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By Hezki Baruch, INN       Mar 14, 2023, 11:38 PM (GMT+2)

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who is currently on a visit to the United States, responded on Tuesday evening to opposition leader Yair Lapid, who called Smotrich’s visit to the US “embarrassing and horrifying”.

“In the pages of the history of the State of Israel, you will only be remembered as one who did everything to lead us into a civil war. You also tried to recruit American Jews for your BDS campaign against the State of Israel. We will not allow you to succeed. We will mend the fractures, heal and unite, we will fix what needs fixing in our beloved country, and we will leave you disgruntled to shout from the opposition for many years,” Smotrich responded.

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The Caroline Glick Show #iran #israel #reforms #saudiarabia

T. Belman. This analysis is very informative but it leaves out the Palestinian question as a factor. Surely the Saudis and the Americans will demand the protection of the TSS i.e., no annexation of any parts of Area C and probably more.

Despite the renewal of ties between Riyadh and Tehran, there is still the possibility of rectification and there are still important things to offer the Saudis, mainly from the US, but certainly also from Israel.

By  Jacob Nagel, ISRAEL HAYOM   13.3.23

Israeli National Security Advisor Tzachi Hanegbi and Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer have recently held very important meetings with US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan and his team, with the participation of Deputy National Security Advisor Gil Reich and other senior representatives from the Ministry of Defense, the Foreign Ministry, the Mossad, and the IDF. Despite the fact that the meeting was held during a tense period in Israel’s relations with the US, it carried utmost importance for the joint progress on some important issues. According to the joint statement that came out after the meeting, there is an understanding between the parties, although there are still disagreements regarding the required course of action and especially the pace.

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BY STEPHEN GREEN, PJ MEDIA  MARCH 13, 2023

By Thomas Lifson, AM THINKER

The shocking announcement that China had brought together bitter rivals Shiite Iran and Sunni Saudi Arabia to resume diplomatic relations in a deal negotiated in Beijing is a stunning defeat for America, threatening the basis of our Middle Eastern and world diplomatic power.

Iran and Saudi Arabia announce the resumption of diplomatic ties in Beijing

If, as it appears, Saudi Arabia is no longer a reliable ally that can be counted upon to keep the Armageddon-mongering mullahs in Iran at bay while warming up to Israel, then the entire power calculus of the Middle East is shattered.

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By Raymond Ibrahim, AM THINIKER

What’s worse: physical evil from an open enemy or clandestine evil from a supposed friend?

One need look no farther than to Islam and the so-called “left” — in this case, the U.S. Department of Education — to appreciate the distinction.
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Kim Iverson, 8 minutes.

Scott Ritter. At his best. He explains Bukhmut and Georgia in great detail. Georgia will not join the war against Russia as America wants.  He referred to the Kissinger quote: “Its bad to be an American enemy. Its fatal to be an American friend.” Ask the Afghans, ask the Kurds. Ask the Israelis. Ask the Germans. Ask Ghadaffy. Ask the Ukrainians.

He also said that the G7 is on a downward trend whereas BRICS is richer and on an upward trend.  Everyone, including Saudi Arabia, is joining BRICS which is wealthier than the G7 Nations.

He also explains where China stands. China can be the peace broker here just as they were between Iran and Saudi Arabia.

By Maurice Hirsch, Adv., Palestinian Media Watch   | Mar 13, 2023

A comparison of the aid provided by the United States to the Palestinians over the period 2011 through 2022, with the number of people murdered as a direct result of Palestinian terror provides a glaring insight: US aid to the Palestinians fuels terror, not peace.

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Likud MKs tell PM coalition is losing the argument on the judicial reforms, needs to moderate reforms and deal with right-wing minister.

Israel National News    Mar 13, 2023, 8:57 PM (GMT+2)

There are growing concerns in the Likud party that the efforts to pass Justice Minister Yariv Levin’s judicial reforms as well as the behavior of National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir could cause the government to fall.

Channel 12 News published quotes from the Likud faction meeting Monday in which party MKs demanded that the judicial reforms be moderated or even halted in order to create the opportunity for dialogue with the opposition on the reforms.

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Why is Yisrael Beytenu presenting bill for sovereignty, when Netanyahu has promised it multiple times?

By Shimon Cohen, INN

In January of this year, it was announced that Likud MK Danny Danon was drafting a plan to apply Israeli sovereignty over the Jordan Valley, a key campaign commitment of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prior to national elections in recent years. However, this Wednesday it will be Avigdor Liberman’s Yisrael Beytenu party placing a bill to apply sovereignty over the Jordan Valley before the Knesset. Undeterred by the results of a ministerial committee vote rejecting his bill, Liberman has vowed to move ahead and is scathing in his criticism of the Likud-led coalition for failing to do so.

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M ben Menachem. Under historically normal banking conditions and regulations, banks operate under a system called “Fractional reserves banking” — which means that a bank must retain a percentage of their depositor’s cash at hand at all times, and can only invest or lend out the remainder.  Historically, for the past several decades, this reserve has been about 9%.  That is, they were allowed to invest or lend 89% of the cash entrusted to them.  On 15 March 2020, the new Biden Admin changed this policy to 0%.  As far as I am aware, this was unprecedented.  It took just the relatively ‘mild’ pressure of rate hikes to cause banks to begin to collapse, as anyone with ANY knowledge and experience predicted.  In other words, the Biden admin caused this, knowingly and with maximum malice aforethought.

A Black Weekend for Israeli High-tech After SVB Collapse:  Sagi Cohen and Corin Degani, Haaretz, Mar 12, 2023

Bank Tank: SVB Debacle Presents Painful Lessons For Israeli High-Tech: Sophie Shulman, C Tech, Mar.12, 2023

Israeli Institutional Investors Exposed to SVB: Roi Weinberger, Globes, Mar. 12, 2023

The Collapse of Silicon Valley Bank: Causes and (Possible) Consequences:  Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, Mar. 11, 2023

If the democratically elected government of Israel capitulates on judicial reform now, other than agreeing to cosmetic compromises, know that the putsch will not stop with judicial reform. Op-ed.

By Rabbi Prof. Dov Fischer, INN

I have written previously regarding the judicial-reform issues for which there is no room to compromise. That article is foundational to my legal and Judaic thinking on the matter, as I contemplate some of the compromises now floating around. For example:

1. A judiciary must be fair and balanced. The current Israeli Supreme Court is corrupt and imbalanced, and has been since Aharon Barak took off his mask and made it into a tyranny of the Left thirty years ago. Therefore, because politics is cyclical, one approach to getting a more balanced court is the American way: to allow elected governments to select the judges. That way, when Democrats and the Left are elected, their president and senate select and confirm their judges, and then the Republicans and the Right get their chance to balance it all when they win. It keeps bouncing back and forth in cycles.

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 By Victor Davis Hanson, AM GREATNESS

Another couple of weeks, another bout of madness from Joe Biden and his team. Of recent Biden delusions, consider:

Biden went off in one of his impromptu Corn Pop, or “beat-up-Trump-behind-the-bleachers” fables. These often slurred and nearly unintelligible tales characteristically virtue signal Biden’s own victimhood and “courage.”

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By Pamela Geller – on March 12, 2023

Support the farmers. America seems to have lost its appetite and love of freedom. And the American media have censored and ignored this massive freedom movement.

Tens of thousands of demonstrators rallied in Prague to protest inflation and the government’s support for Ukraine.

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