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.

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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.

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The cabinet has decided to immediately implement several decisions to strengthen Judea and 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.

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Defense Minister Gallant again overrides Smotrich, orders Samaria demolition.

Israel National News

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.

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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

It cost $10,000 to kill a 6-year-old boy and the terrorists have the money.

by Daniel Greenfield, FPM

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.

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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.

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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.

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By Dennis Prager, JWR    14.2.23

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:

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– even in big cities! It’s a global con job!

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?

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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. 

By Rabbi Steven Pruzansky, INN     15.2.23

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.”

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T. Belman. Both Lapid and Gants have demanded that the legislative process must be stopped as a pre-condition..

The coalition wants negotiations without pre-conditions.

President repeats his call for negotiations and for reaching that will benefit the State of Israel and its citizens.

By Hezki Baruch, INN      15.12.23

Yair Lapid, Simcha Rothman, Isaac Herzog and Benny GantzAmos Ben Gershom/GPO, Hezki Baruch, Yonatan Sindel/Flash 90

President Isaac Herzog is continuing his efforts to reach a compromise regarding the judicial reform, and on Tuesday evening he met with the chairman of the Knesset Constitution Committee MK Simcha Rothman, the leader of the opposition Yair Lapid, and the chairman of the National Unity Party, Benny Gantz.

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Hirsch’s script will make for an exciting and profitable fictional thriller for the big screen.

By Andrew Benjamin   Feb 13

This story begins and ends with the observation: Everything is so, unless it isn’t.

A great fiction scribe but a poor journalist, Seymour Hirsch at SUBSTACK concocted an amazingly-intricate-but-contrived script for a Hollywood production, from which he will make millions for his progressive friends and himself.

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T. Belman. Col D. Macgregor said in this video, with full confidence, that the balloons were no national threat whatsoever.

By Clare Lopez, NEWSMAX   8.2.23

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s brazen intrusion into U.S. air space in early February 2023 provided the Chinese valuable streams of information. Clearly, the balloon first spotted over the continental U.S. on Feb. 1 was on a surveillance mission.

It departed the Chinese mainland on Jan. 21, traversed the Pacific Ocean, entered U.S. air space over Alaska’s Aleutian Islands, and then, after drifting down Canada’s west coast, entered continental U.S. air space. The White House reportedly was aware of the balloon from Jan. 28.

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Yeshiva student who witnessed incident where a Golani soldier was filmed beating an Arab activist in Hebron says activist struck first.

Israel National News    14.2.23

The Golani soldier who was imprisoned after he was filmed assaulting a Palestinian-Arab activist in Hebron on Monday was defending himself after he was attacked, according to a Jewish witness to the incident.

The soldier was filmed knocking PA-Arab activist Issa Amro to the ground and kicking him. Amro was accompanied by a US film crew that included prominent journalist Lawrence Wright of The New Yorker, who wrote afterward that, “I never had a source assaulted in front of me until today, when an Israeli soldier who stopped my interview did this with a Palestinian peace activist Issa Amro in Hebron. I can’t stop thinking how dehumanizing the occupation is on the young soldiers charged with enforcing it.”

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By Alex Grobman, PhD

The ubiquitous denigration, demonization and holding Israel to a double standard by those whom Daniel Greenfield calls “tenured academics, progressive journalists and irreligious clergy for whom Jewish values, like American values, mean appeasement and surrender to terrorists,” is an ongoing problem, although not a new one.

As early as May 1, 1936, Labor Zionist leader Berl Katznelson asked: “Is there another people on earth whose sons are so emotionally twisted that they consider everything their nation does despicable and hateful, while every murder, rape and robbery committed by their enemies fills their hearts with admiration and awe? As long as a Jewish child…can come to the land of Israel, and here catch the virus of self-hate…let not our conscience be still.”
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Despite their protests, we’re going to normalize life in Judea and Samaria, says Finance Minister.

By Hezki Baruch, INN

On Tuesday morning, Knesset members and ministers from the Religious Zionism party convened their party meeting in Givat Harel in the Binyamin region, following the decision of the state-security cabinet to legalize the community along with eight others in Judea and Samaria. Most of these communities have existed for years; some were established decades ago.

At the start of the meeting, those participating held a moment’s silence in memory of Asil Sawaed, the Border Police officer who lost his life following a terrorist attack on Monday.

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When there’s clearly no “partner in peace.”

Joseph Puder, FPM   14.2.23

Western governments and media critical of the newly elected government coalition led by Likud’s Benjamin Netanyahu failed to ask themselves how it happened that the likes of Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben Gvir are now prominent ministers in Netanyahu’s government. The same critics in the west labeling Smotrich and Ben Gvir “extremists,” haven’t attached that title to Mahmoud Abbas.

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By Jack Hellner, AM THINKER

The Republicans in the House are having an investigation into the collusion of the media, Justice Department, and Intelligence officials as they censored the true story of the Biden family corruption right before the 2020 election.

This was pure election interference to mislead the public.
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