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Much of the public is familiar with the term “DNA” because it is associated with court cases involving paternity lawsuits and criminal investigations. Few people are aware, however, that there is no proof that DNA does what many biologists have long been saying it does. DNA is clearly important to heredity, yes, but it is not the blueprint for your body. The evidence for that is potentially revolutionary in terms of science.
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By Mark Sleboda, REAL POLITICK
– US officials tell Kiev regime that assistance level may not last forever and to “fight harder”
– Latest Western arms packages to the Kiev regime
– Stoltenberg warns NATO is losing the “ammunition war” against Russia
– US hysteria over balloons and aliens is a manufactured political distraction
– Domestic politics in Turkey over earthquake aftermath
– Pakistan’s new to sit down with US officials to “repair ties”, what’s up?
By Lewis Regenstein
For two thousand years, “the Jews” have been falsely blamed for the murder of Jesus. This charge of Deicide is the oldest and most damaging and pernicious of all the “blood libels” spread to provoke hatred and killing of innocent Jews by Christians through the ages.
But a careful reading of the Christian Bible, the “New Testament”, shows that it was not the Jews but the Romans who killed Jesus. Indeed, Jesus, his family, disciples, followers and supporters were Jews, and they, like him, were the victims of the Romans, not the perpetrators.
Since the 1980s, Israel has experienced a “judicial revolution”. By judicially declaring Israel to have a constitution, the court usurped the legislative power. Using a unique and exclusive “reasonableness” doctrine, it also transferred the last word on all executive decisions, including appointments to ministerial positions, to its own hands. And above all, the court holds a preposterous veto power over the appointment of justices to its own body.
By Elad Benari, INN 16.2.23
The United Nations Security Council is considering a draft resolution, seen by Reuters on Wednesday, that would demand Israel “immediately and completely cease all settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territory.”
The 15-member council is likely to vote on Monday on the text, drafted by the United Arab Emirates in coordination with the Palestinian Authority, diplomats told the news agency.
T. Belman. Bring it on.
The Biden administration is discussing additional steps it can take in response to Israel’s latest announcement on the authorization of nine communities in Judea and Samaria and the construction of 9,000 new housing units in the region, US officials told Axios’ Barak Ravid on Wednesday.
Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.
P.A. chairman Mahmoud Abbas was outraged by the Feb. 12, 2023, decision of Israel’s Security Cabinet to recognize nine unauthorized outposts in Judea and Samaria. He issued a statement that the decision is a challenge to American and Arab efforts and a provocation to the Palestinian Arabs that will lead to further tensions and escalation.
T. Belman. Dershowitz claims the current battle is “not about democracy. It is about justice, the rule of law and minority rights”. “But when it comes to decisions regarding basic issues of civil liberties, human rights, minority rights, civil rights, due process, free speech, religious liberty, equal protection and other enduring aspects of individual liberty, the Supreme Court should have the last word. “
Not so fast. Israel is at war with the Palestinian movement and should have the right to keep them in check. i.e., no flag, no naqba, no total free speech. Israel must have the right to pass laws that protect the Jewish state and Zionism. even if that means discrimination against the Arabs in their quest for collective rights or the destruction of Israel.. Save for that I am all for minority rights.
By ALAN DERSHOWITZ, JPOST 15.2.23
The time has come for both sides of the hotly disputed proposals for judicial reform to sit down and work out reasonable and principled compromises. Each side has some good points and both sides overstate the dangers they fear. But neither side seems in the mood to compromise, since their ideologically driven views have considerable popular support.
T. Belman. Two bills are going ahead. “One concerns changes to the makeup of the Judicial Selection Committee and the other prohibits the Supreme Court from weighing in on Basic Laws, which have a quasi-constitutional status in Israel.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS) 15.2.23
The government on Wednesday delayed three bills it planned to put up for a Knesset vote, “in order to encourage dialogue” regarding its judicial reform program.
The first bill seeks to reverse the Supreme Court’s ruling that Shas Party leader Aryeh Deri cannot serve as a cabinet minister. The second concerns an override clause that would let the Knesset re-legislate laws overturned by the Supreme Court, and the third calls for placing the Police Investigations Unit under the minister of justice and granting it additional powers, including the ability to investigate attorneys.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS) 15.2.23
Benjamin Netanyahu and Bezalel Smotrich in the Knesset. Dec. 20, 2022
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich on Wednesday to immediately transfer to him power over the Defense Ministry’s Civil Administration, in accordance with their parties’ coalition agreement.
Netanyahu phoned Smotrich after the latter slammed the Civil Administration for ordering the razing earlier Wednesday of a Jewish-owned olive grove and orchard in Samaria.
Israel National News 14.2.23
The Cabinet’s decisions are being implemented immediately: along with formal recognition of nine new towns in Judea and Samaria, 9,000 new housing units are being approved for construction.
These include, among other things, about 1,100 new housing units that will be approved in Ma’ale Adumim, about 600 in Tel Zion, about 500 in Givat Ze’ev and about 400 in Kedumim and Elazar. In addition, tenders will be published for another 2,377 new housing units throughout Judea and Samaria.
The Israeli Defense Ministry’s Civil Administration for Judea and Samaria uprooted a Jewish-owned orchard and olive grove in Samaria Wednesday morning, defying the instructions of Minister in the Defense Ministry Bezalel Smotrich (Religious Zionist Party).
Dozens of yeshiva and seminary students gathered at the olive grove and fruit orchard, owned by Hen Ben-Eliyahu and located in the Shilo Valley in the Binyamin district of Samaria, in an attempt to prevent the demolition.
HINDUSTAN TIMES
Putin’s missile storm hits Zaporizhzhia; Ukraine’s major ammunition depot destroyed
Russian Army pierces Ukraine’s defence in Luhansk; Zelensky’s men retreat 3 KMS
When Secretary of State Blinken met with PLO leader Mahmoud Abbas, he boasted of the over billion dollars in aid that the Biden administration had programmed for the terrorist territories.
That aid has come with a very heavy price.
by Jonathan Spyer, The Jerusalem Post
Foreign Minister Eli Cohen announced late last week that Israel will sign a full peace agreement with Sudan in the course of 2023. The announcement followed a visit to Khartoum by Cohen.
This development reflects the further crystallization and further advance of the undeclared regional alignment of which Israel forms a part, and in which Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia are all crucial components.
THE JEWISH VOICE 15.2.23
Following the Holocaust, Antisemitism was politically incorrect in America for about 30 years, but a new kind of anti-Semitism started originating from Campus leftism of the 1960’s just after Israel’s miraculous victory in the 1967 Six-Day-War and the new military alliance it formed with America
(JNS) Despite well-documented surges in antisemitism in America, new data suggests official numbers dramatically undercount the problem’s scope.
The term “Judeo-Christian values” is frequently used. I am one who uses it.
I do so for the same reason the late great British prime minister Margaret Thatcher did:
TIERNEY’S REAL NEWS 14.2.23
Remember I told you that Berlin held elections over a year ago and the machines failed just like they later did in Maricopa county, Arizona? There was widespread cheating & the conservatives DEMANDED a new election. They finally got it.
Last November, Germany VOIDED THE OLD ELECTION and ordered a new election due to all the problems – over a year later! It was run again last weekend and guess what?
T. Belman. Well argued by Pruzansky, except for his allusion to Jan 6 which I believe is without foundation. Their differences are much more significant than their similarities.
Jan 6 was about an actual perversion of democracy whereas the current protests in Israel are about an alleged potential perversion.
These protests are the Israeli elite’s attempt to supplant democracy with mobocracy. Spare us the crocodile tears.
Protest in Jerusalem against judicial reforms, Noam Revkin Fenton/FLASH90
There is an old trial lawyer’s maxim that “if the law is against you, pound the facts. If the facts are against you, pound the law. If the law and the facts are against you, pound the table.”
