Universalism has undermined it from both inside and out. 

By Melanie Phillips

(JNS) The huge demonstrations that continue in Israel and turned violent this week are fueled by the claim that the government’s judicial reform package spells the end of Israeli democracy.

It is, of course, beyond nonsensical to try to bring down a democratically elected government with calls for “bloodshed on the streets” and “civil war” on the basis that—according to the organizers of Wednesday’s “day of disruption”—the government is a “regime” attempting a “coup” against democracy.

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BY TYLER DURDEN, ZERO HEDGE

Three years ago few of us knew the impending storm that was brewing; one that would upend the very fabric of global democracy, destroy whole communities, businesses and families and cause a vast number of children and adolescents to become unmoored and disengage from society, among many other deleterious outcomes.

Perhaps most chilling of all has been the sinister turn in those three years of what was once seemingly a force for good, “public health;” which changed into a punitive and authoritarian entity that wilfully engages in iatrogenesis and the disenfranchisement of those skeptical of the medical-industrial complex through widespread and draconian vaccine mandates.
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Top Israeli officials have all made direct threats against Iran. US-Israeli F-35 aircraft drills have helped make this option a possibility.

By YONAH JEREMY BOB, JPOST      25.2.23

PREPARING FOR a joint mission? US and Israeli fighter jets participate in the Juniper Oak drill over the Negev in January.
(photo credit: IDF SPOKESPERSON’S UNIT)

White, yellow and purple fire erupted from their engines like a volcano.

The force of the explosion in their engines was deafening, even at a distance of a couple of hundred meters, and slightly shook the entire area.

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PM reportedly was going to agree to freeze bills for up to ten days yesterday, relented when Justice Minister Levin threatened to resign.

Israel National News

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu intended to announce the suspension of the legislation on the government’s planned judicial reforms during his speech last night on the widespread protests against the reforms, according to a report by Channel 13 News.

Netanyahu reportedly intended to propose that the advancement of the legislation be frozen for a week to ten days to allow for negotiations with the opposition to take place under President Isaac Herzog’s proposal.

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Rendering them completely stateless is a closer step in the right direction.

by Jason D. Hill, FPM  2.2.23

The decision on Wednesday, February 22, 2023 to pass a law to strip Arab-Israeli terrorists of their citizenship for receiving financial rewards from the Palestinian Authority is a deep moral mandate that should have been established decades ago.

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Israeli officials and the media continuously warn about the dangers of the upcoming Islamic holy month – but is this a self-fulfilling prophecy?

By Hillel Frisch, IH    3.2.23

It has become commonplace for officials, analysts, and correspondents to warn about the dangers of the upcoming month of Ramadan and the Palestinian violence that will ensue. This has especially been the case after the May 2021 Hamas campaign against Israel, and even more so since the election of the “most right-wing” government Israel has ever had.
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By Andrew Thornebrooke, EPOCH TIMES    1.3.23

U.S. ambassador to the U.N., Linda Thomas-Greenfield, speaks during a press conference at the U.N. Headquarters in New York on March 1, 2021. (Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images)

The U.N. consistently demonstrates an anti-Israel bias and is overly beholden to authoritarian regimes, including China and Russia, according to testimony during a U.S. House subcommittee hearing on March 1.

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T. Belman. The death penalty may not act as a deterrent but it certainly delivers justice and is a fitting punishment for the crime. What would act as a deterrence is the termination of all financial support given by the PA to the murderers. By financially supporting the PA, the EU and the US both support the the terror which it advocates.

Germany’s foreign minister, diplomatic official voice opposition to legislation making its way through Knesset amid spike in Palestinian terror attacks

By LAZAR BERMAN, TOI 1 March 2023, 4:57 pm

As Israel advances a bill that would allow courts to impose the death penalty for deadly terror attacks against Israeli citizens, a European diplomat warned that its successful passage would transform relations between Israel and the continent.

The Knesset plenum on Wednesday gave preliminary approval to the bill, an item that National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir’s far-right Otzma Yehudit party has long been pushing for. It is set to be discussed by the high-level security cabinet, which is seen as likely to insert modifications.
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Brian Berletic

by David M. Litman, ALGEMEINER

Masked Palestinian youths clash with Israeli security forces on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount. Photo: Reuters/Ammar Awad

In yet another display of Christiane Amanpour’s prioritization of her disdain for Israel over journalistic integrity, the CNN anchor appears to have fabricated poll results to falsely suggest that the Palestinian side supports the two-state solution with Israel.

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The White House keeps the visit quiet around Lula’s visit to see Biden.

By The Editorial Board, WSJ

A Brazilian flag waves while the Iranian warship IRIS Makran sails on the coast of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on February 27,PHOTO: CARL DE SOUZA/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES

The arrival of two Iranian warships in Brazil on Sunday is unsettling for democracies in the Western hemisphere. Worse is that the Biden Administration seems to have been complicit in trying to bury the news.

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T. Belman. Yes, the US is openly challenging this government and will not back down. This time, hopefully Israel has the strength and determination to say “no”.

Anyone who doesn’t see how President Joe Biden’s administration is quietly marching toward a Kissinger-level pressure doesn’t know US diplomacy or is willingly blind.

By  Dan Margalit, IH    03-01-2023 

America is probably the most tolerant, liberal, and democratic empire ever seen in international relations. The founding father George Washington cast it as a new world that would have nothing to do with the old ways of the corrupt Old World. He saw the ocean as the best way to protect it. Read more…

Tucker Carlson:

“The origins of Covid was never a secret. The people who knew lied about the truth.”pic.twitter.com/ttmrSfopfY

— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) February 28, 2023

Tear gas also fired at crowds blocking Ayalon Highway, with several reported wounded; police use water cannons, horses in bid to break up rally

TIMES OF ISRAEL IS LIVE BLOGGING EVENTS TODAY.

Protesters clash with Israeli security forces during a demonstration against the government’s controversial justice reform bill in Tel Aviv on March 1, 2023. (Photo by JACK GUEZ / AFP)

The protestors are doing their best t make the protests newsworthy. The more laws they violate, the more attention they get from the media.

Ben Gvir with Netanyahu’s support permitted police to use water cannon and stun grenades to quell the lawless protestors.

Helping to kill Jews.

By Joseph Puder, FPM    28.2.23

The nation that is responsible for the murder of Six Million Jews in Europe during World War II, also known as the Holocaust, is now knowingly funding the murderers of Israeli Jews, through the “good offices” of the Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority (PA). Germany’s funds are being used by the PA to make payments to families of terrorists with Jewish blood on their hands, and terrorists currently in Israeli prisons. The Palestinian practice is better known as “pay to slay.”

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T. Belman. The West should cut its losses, pronto, and sue for peace. They should accept that Crimea and the four provinces which have been annexed to Russia are no longer part of Ukraine and that Ukraine is to be demilitarized and de-nazified. Thus Ukraine will be saved and will keep Odessa with its access to the Black Sea.

Many critics have questioned whether the territorial integrity of that Ukraine is really a US national interest, let alone the most important thing going on in the world.

By  Jonathan S. Tobin, ISRAEL HAYOM   28.2.23

The law of unintended consequences is an unforgiving master to those who specialize in predicting the course of international relations. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine in February 2022 surprised most international observers and the Biden administration. Not many, if any, in the ranks of veteran diplomats, think-tank denizens and journalists who make up the foreign policy establishment thought that the illegal act of aggression would turn into an increasingly bloody stalemate into which much of the rest of the world would be drawn.

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