Declaration of ex-Shin Bet chief’s full support for court-curbing legislation follows reports that he’d joined calls for talks; Likud MK Dallal also won’t break with party

By TOI STAFF     Today, 4:14 pm  

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee chair MK Avi Dichter, left, at an FADC meeting in the Knesset, November 19, 2018. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Two Likud Knesset members who had signaled they could vote against parts of the government’s judicial overhaul reversed course on Sunday and promised to toe the party line, seemingly quashing a brewing internal rebellion before it could get off the ground.

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By Dr. Eado Hecht, BESA CENTRE    March 26, 2023

BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,189, March 26, 2023

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The war in Ukraine is an example of modern high-intensity warfare. As such, it offers a number of lessons that can be learned about the capabilities, limitations, and requirements of armies conducting such warfare. New technology and methods have added capabilities, but have not rendered more traditional methods of warfare and technology obsolete. The IDF should learn to merge the new with the old by acquiring competence in new technology and tactics while maintaining technical and tactical competence in the veteran ”basics”.

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BY DAVID SOLWAY, PJ MEDIA       9:10 PM ON MARCH 25, 2023

Courtesy of Myra Kahn Adams

It has never been easy for Israel — the understatement of the century — from the moment of its establishment in 1948, when it was invaded by five Arab armies, to the present day, when it is facing multiple threats to its very survival. It suffers a history like no other nation in the world, surrounded by enemies, fighting wars on every front, infiltrated by terrorists, confronting the wetware dreams of genocidal regimes, in particular the prospect of a nuclear Iran sworn to the country’s annihilation, and subject to an international delegitimation campaign carried out via the United Nations, the World Council of Churches, spurious NGOs and “peace” organizations, labor unions, university campuses, and a hostile European Union.
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By Peggy Ryan, AM THINKER

Immediately after the 2016 election, the order went out: never let Trump’s presidency be normalized.”  Huh?  So someone controls what’s normal and what’s not?

Actually, yes, the leftist insurgency can and does control what’s normal, or at least what’s perceived as normal.  In fact, normalization is arguably the left‘s most powerful tool to control behavior,, herd the populace, even impose a tyrannical government.
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T. Belman.  Its not easy to hold the line as Bibi is doing.  The obstructionists are demanding a freeze. They should make a counter offer instead.

Defense Minister sought to have ministers hear the direct consequences of judicial reforms for Israel’s security.

Israel National News     Mar 26, 2023, 8:09 AM (GMT+3)

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant demanded that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convene the Cabinet to discuss the consequences of the judicial reforms, and decided to deliver his public address last night calling for the reforms to be frozen after Netanyahu refused to convene the Cabinet.

In his speech last night, Gallant said: “We need a change in the legal system, but such changes are made through negotiation and discourse. A victory for one of the parties will be a loss of the State of Israel. We must lead a participatory and unifying process.”

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Alongside Minister Karhi, who blasts Gallant’s speech, other Likud senior officials call to stop the legislation of the judicial reform.

Israel National News     26.3.23

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant’s speech on Saturday night, in which he called for the legislation of the judicial reform to be delayed until after Independence Day, led to a wave of reactions in the Likud Party that was split between firm opposition and even harsh criticism and support for his opinion.

Communications Minister Dr. Shlomo Karhi blasted Gallant and said, “I ask the voters of the Likud for forgiveness for our Defense Minister, who caved to the pressure of the left.”

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By Alexander G. Markovsky, AM THINKER

The unraveling of the Soviet Empire was widely perceived as a vindication of American verities and the beginning of an era of universal peace. Unfortunately, the preservation of the military alliance and its subsequent eastward expansion created an atmosphere of mistrust and trepidation.
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By Venus Upadhayaya, EPOCH TIMES

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping shake hands during a signing ceremony following their talks at the Kremlin in Moscow on March 21, 2023. [/caption]

Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladamir Putin’s three-day meeting at the Kremlin earlier this week was aimed at creating a new China-led global order that’s powered by the communist regime’s ideology and economic system, geopolitical analysts say.

Xi, himself, appeared to have unwittingly divulged this goal in his parting words to Putin as he left the Kremlin on March 22, caught on camera by media outlets waiting outside the complex gates.

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by Majid Rafizadeh, GATESTONE  •  March 25, 2023

Pictured: Iran’s then Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif (right) and China’s top diplomatic official, Wang Yi, at the signing of the China-Iran comprehensive strategic 25-year partnership agreement on economic and security cooperation, in Tehran, Iran on March 27, 2021. (Photo by AFP via Getty Images)

• The deal grants China significant rights over the Iran’s resources and help to Iran in increasing its oil and gas production. Leaked information revealed that one of the terms is that China will be investing nearly $400 billion in Iran’s oil, gas and petrochemicals industries. In return, China will get priority to bid on any new project in Iran that is linked to these sectors.

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By Caroline Glick, NEWSWEEK       24.3.23

On Tuesday, the State Department summoned Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Michael Herzog to demand an explanation for the Knesset’s abrogation of the 2005 law banning Jews from living in four communities in northern Samaria. That law was passed in the framework of Israel’s failed plan to disengage from the Gaza Strip and northern Samaria.

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Dr. Steve Turley

Sources of the global deep state confirm that the days of the rule of the Hashemites and the rule of Bashar al-Assad have become a number of days. Now the names of the candidates who will assume power in the new Jordan and the new Syria are being circulated. The Jordanian names that are being circulated for Jordan’s new rule are Aoun Al-Khasawneh. Muhammad Enad Al-Fayez. In the name of God. Khaled Obaidat. Mudar Zahran. Hassan Samik. Joseph Alawneh. Abdullah Mualla. Ghida Annab. Hussein Sheikh. Majid Faraj. Muhammad Al-Batoush. Mohamed Batteeb.

Sources of the global deep state confirm that the days of the rule of the Hashemites and the rule of Bashar al-Assad have become

a number of days. Now the names of the candidates who will assume power in the new Jordan and the new Syria are being circulated. The Jordanian names that are being circulated for Jordan’s new rule are Aoun Al-Khasawneh. Muhammad Enad Al-Fayez. In the name of God. Khaled Obaidat. Mudar Zahran. Hassan Samik. Joseph Alawneh. Abdullah Mualla. Ghida Annab. Hussein Sheikh. Majid Faraj. Muhammad Al-Batoush. Mohamed Batteeb..… pic.twitter.com/iFL6TaluqL

— Abedalelah Almaala (@AbedAlmaala) March 24, 2023

The reason Jordan's kinglet is picking Don Quixote's battles with Israel is he's trying to divert the attention of the angry and hungry Jordanian public. He has mobilized his puppet parliament and even enlisted the help of globalist mouthpieces in the region from Doha to Rabat to…

— Mudar Adnan Zahran ???????? ????? (@Mudar_Zahran) March 22, 2023

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By Ted Belman

FRONTPAGE published my article Clearly, the US is the aggressor in the Ukraine war under the above title and included Greenfield’s responses and my responses. as follows:

Daniel Greenfield Responds:

‘America First’ or ‘Blame America First’.
Americans spend too much time blaming themselves for what other peoples do.

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The emerging deal could leave the U.S. again on the sidelines during a dramatic shift in the Middle East’s geopolitics

By Summer Said, Benoit Fauconand Michael Amon, WSJ

Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow earlier this month.PHOTO: VLADIMIR GERDO/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE

DUBAI—Saudi Arabia and Syria are nearing an agreement to restore diplomatic ties after negotiations mediated by Russia, according to Saudi and Syrian officials familiar with the discussions, as the geopolitics of the Middle East shift.

Talks were continuing after rounds of discussions in Moscow and Riyadh in recent weeks, the officials said. If a deal is reached, it would mark an important step to reintegrating Syria and its leader Bashar al-Assad into the broader region after a brutal civil war.

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Estimate by Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman is shorter than previous assessments by some officials

By Laurence Normanand Michael R. Gordon,WSJ

Gen. Mark Milley’s statement was coupled with a warning that the U.S. won’t allow Iran to have a “fielded nuclear weapon.”PHOTO: DREW ANGERER/GETTY IMAGES

Iran would need only several months to build a nuclear weapon if Tehran opted to produce a bomb, Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told Congress on Thursday.

Gen. Milley’s assessment provides a significantly shorter estimate for how quickly Tehran could become a nuclear power than other public estimates by Western officials and adds to mounting concern about the advances in Iran’s nuclear program.

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The current maelstrom is about far more than judicial reform

By Melanie Phillips  24.3.23

The political crisis in Israel over the government’s judicial reforms has deepened.

An increasing number of institutions and prominent individuals have called for the changes to be halted. All are deeply alarmed by the enormous demonstrations that they perceive as posing an increasing threat to Israel’s security and the social resilience on which that security depends.

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