(JNS) Friday morning brought the first piece of good news from Israel’s Supreme Court in years. Yediot Ahronot’s top headline declared that Supreme Court President Esther Hayut intends to resign if the Knesset passes Justice Minister Yariv Levin’s judicial reform package.
Hayut’s stewardship of the court over the past six years has been disgraceful and destructive to both the court and the State of Israel. The Hayut court dropped even the pretense of judiciousness. Hayut cast the court on a course of ideological radicalism and politicization that has no parallel anywhere in the world.
Much has been said and written recently about Israel’s new government pushing judicial reforms.
The incoming government views past decisions taken by Israel’s Supreme Court as undemocratic and autocratic rulings which, they claim, have been politically biased interference in the business of government for several years.
The origins of their complaint stems from the intrusion of Judge Aharon Barak who became the President of the Supreme Court.
It should come as little surprise to people who closely follow Israeli politics, as opposed to those who believe all they read in the international liberal media, that Israeli Ethiopians are disproportionately conservative and supporters of the Likud and other rightwing parties in Israel.
The same is the case for those Ethiopian-Israelis who have moved to the United States, just as has often been the case for Sephardi Israelis and former Soviet Israelis. Part of the reason is that their families have lived under socialistic regimes, but it is also because many feel condescend to by the Ashkenazi elites that are perceived to control Israeli institutions such as the media and Supreme Court.
Moscow-based international relations security analyst, joins us to discuss Ukraine. US sponsors of the Ukraine regime claim that they are preparing to ramp up military aid, possibly including Western main battle tanks.
Also, Russia to pull out of the European Council, Henry Kissinger reverses the course on Ukraine joining NATO and Sergey Lavrov gave a speech on several issues.
Spectacular! There is no other word to describe some of the latest incredible Israeli innovations in this week’s newsletter. Four exciting cancer treatment developments; a life-changing portable dialysis machine; a wearable to relieve chronic pain; a device to take your vital signs from 5 feet away; and another to diagnose ADHD from eye movements.
How else would you describe the appointment of an Israeli Arab as Israel’s youngest Professor; or as Israel’s ambassador to Muslim Azerbaijan? Or Israel hosting a cyber conference at the United Nations?
Then we have Israeli technology for machines to recognize smells; and to see in the dark, or to drive autonomously; or clean windows on skyscrapers. And don’t miss four exciting Israeli agricultural developments to help feed a hungry world. There has been a quantum leap in Israeli computer technology; and a massive increase in the number of new Israeli startups.
Finally, an Israeli has been running for charity in the harshest, but most spectacular places on Earth;
In the 22nd Jan 23 edition of Israel’s good news, the highlights include:
A professor at Hamline University, Erika López Prater, showed a picture of the Prophet Mohammed in class. The decision sparked a storm on campus after students reported the incident and the university refused to renew the professor’s contract. The case took place during an art history lesson. The lecturer had shown images of two paintings of Muhammad from the 14th and 16th centuries.
Medieval works are considered canonical. The teacher had given a two-minute warning to the class beforehand so that observant Muslim students could choose not to view the material for religious reasons. The case was reported by the university’s Muslim Student Association, which described the lecturer as an “Islamophobe” in an email to staff. Read more…
“Unfortunately, Trump is still hanging his hat on this vaccine. And he’s either got the worst advisors, or he’s got a bunch of Gríma Wormtongues (LOTR reference) whispering in his ear.”
Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian (R) meets with EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell in Tehran on June 25, 2022. (Photo by Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images)
The European Union’s charter stresses that “Human rights are at the heart of EU relations with other countries and regions. The European Union is based on a strong commitment to promoting and protecting human rights, democracy and the rule of law worldwide”. This is clearly not the case when it comes to the EU’s appeasing relationship with the ruling mullahs of Iran.
What is IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi’s biggest challenge?
His biggest challenge regarding the West Bank terrorism wave will be trying to press some advantages the IDF has gained from its Operation Breaking the Wave dating back to spring 2022, while possibly running into headwinds in relations between the Palestinian Authority and the new Netanyahu government.
Some statistics show the IDF has made great progress in killing or arresting large numbers of terrorists, seizing their weapons and completing portions of the West Bank security barrier that had been left vulnerable and incomplete for nearly two decades.
The extreme political Left talks quite about “intersectional struggles,” including the racist intersectionality that equates African-Americans who were once forced to sit in the back of the bus and drink from separate-but-unequal water fountains (the one for Caucasians had a chiller, the one for Black people did not) to Palestinian terrorists who murder children and Olympic athletes, and fire rockets into cities while using their own people as human shields. It’s just so woke to equate American citizens of color to the absolute dregs of the human species, isn’t it? Read more…
“Today, the Democratic Party may be the most ruthlessly organized and efficient political entity in the world,” the Wall Street Journal‘s Editor-at-Large Gerard Baker wrote. “We can denounce the activism and deplore the outcome, but we can only marvel at the political efficiency with which it has been achieved.”
The Democratic consolidation is the product of ideological, economic and cultural forces. The Left seized the commanding high ground of the entertainment industry and the educational system to cultivate generations that were culturally primed to accept its ideas.
Eighty thousand Leftist-Secular demonstrators in Tel Aviv, many waving PLO flags. How about more than two million, three hundred and sixty thousand — 2,360,000 — Right-Wing, Religious demonstrators throughout Israel on Election Day? Remember these numbers?
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Maybe you are already sick and tired of all the attention being paid to the elites meeting in Davos for the annual World Economic Forum gathering. They are, after all, a pretty repulsive bunch, a collection of self-involved, arrogant elitists, what CDR Salamander calls a “wannabe gaggle of quasi-oligarchs and autocrat throne sniffers” (hat tip: Glenn Reynolds). Read more…
Israeli police forces began dismantling a newly-established hilltop outpost community in Samaria Friday afternoon, just hours after the outpost was established.
Jewish settlement activists erected a number of structures on a hilltop adjacent to the existing town of Migdalim in Samaria overnight, dubbing the outpost “Ohr HaHaim,” in honor of the late Religious Zionist spiritual leader, Rabbi Haim Druckman.
T. Belman. This is a masterful exposition of the facts leading up to the present crises. It must be studied carefully to appreciate the arguments made.
It was the Shas leader’s corruption imbroglio in 1993 that helped launch the right’s war on judicial activism, a war that now stands to cripple the courts
Israeli politics were thrown into turmoil on Wednesday when Israel’s High Court of Justice ruled that Interior Minister Aryeh Deri, the leader of Shas, could not remain in his post after he’d become embroiled in a corruption scandal.
But the Wednesday in question wasn’t this past one. As fans of Israeli legal history will know, it was a Wednesday 29 years ago, on September 8, 1993. Read more…
L. Goudsmit. There is nothing wrong, inaccurate, or exaggerated in this article. In fact, the situation is far worse. What VDH does not do in this particular article, is identify how political medicine’s Panic Methods are being coordinated with the Manic Methods of Mad Democrats, to implement the fascistic anti-American policies gripping the nation. Everything is connected, and the Mad Democrats are the corrupt tools of globalism’s technocrats who fully intend to impose a planetary totalitarian Unistate.
We are faced with a strictly disciplined, no-nonsense revolutionary party, well known from history that aims to change the nation into something unrecognizable by most Americans. And it feels that it has now created the means to do it.
The Panic Methods of political medicine are foundational to the revolutionary party’s “means” to impose its fascistic policies. Election warping, projection, suppression, changing the rules, and asymmetries were all done in the context of Covid-19 and its fear-mongering political medicine.
We are faced with a revolutionary party well known from history that aims to change the nation into something unrecognizable by most Americans—and it feels that it has created the means to do it.
For all Joe Biden’s talk about “semi-fascist” and “un-American,” “ultra-MAGA” Republicans, it is the Democratic Party that has far more radically changed. It is descended into a woke, neo-socialist, radically green party. And it is committed, as Barack Obama once promised, to fundamentally transforming America. How it proceeds with that agenda is now as entirely predictable as it is creepy. Read more…
The high mark of the rights of the Jews to Palestine, formerly known as Judea for 1,000 years, was not the 1917 Balfour Declaration, it was just a declaration, but the San Remo Resolution of 1920.
The San Remo Resolution is the subject of research of international law scholar and lawyer, Jacques Gauthier, Ph.D. Gauthier, who is Christian, spent a quarter-century researching and writing a 1,300-page thesis to investigate legal ownership rights of Jerusalem, the ancient-modern capital city.
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