T. Belman. Powerful forces are aligned to convince Netanyahu to diminish the victory of the right in Israel.  This is the latest such attempt. You will recall that President Herzog also called for unity government, as did Bennett and Amb Kurtzer to name the most prominent voices.. To deny Ben Gvir a cabinet post is to exclude the Religious Zionist Party from the government. This pressure is also being apply to Gantz and Lapid to relent on their refusal to sit in a government led by Netanyahu.

Everyone can accept Netanyahu’s centrist policies. They cannot accept religious Zionist policies. ALL THE MORE REASON TO INSIST ON THEM.

Yisrael Beytenu MK: Bibi is trying to get rid of Ben Gvir and Smotrich

Mercaz Olami organization of Conservative Judaism makes direct call on next PM not to allow Otzma Yehudit leader to ministerial position.

Israel National News  Nov 8, 2022, 10:46 PM (GMT+2)

Itamar Ben-Gvir, Chai BarBen Kelmer/Flash 90

Mercaz Olami, the Zionist arm of Masorti-Conservative Judaism in the United States, Europe, Latin America, Asia, Africa and Australia, called on presumptive Israeli Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu not to allow Otzma Yehudit chairman MK a minister in the government he is expected to form.

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MK Bezalel Smotrich, Religious Zionism chief, to demand changes in how construction is approved in Judea & Samaria in coalition negotiations.

Israel National News

Bezalel SmotrichPhoto by Yossi Aloni/Flash90

Religious Zionism chief MK Bezalel Smotrich will demand the cancellation of the Civil Administration for Judea and Samaria as part of the coalition agreements, Israel Hayom reported.

According to the report, Smotrich’s plans would see the cancellation of the Civil Administration, with the services it currently provides being transferred to the authority of the relevant government ministries. Such a step is seen by many as progress in applying de facto Israeli sovereignty to Judea and Samaria.

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“We don’t understand what’s going on with him,” a senior member of the emerging coalition tells Israel Hayom after incoming prime minister seeks to swear in government without written promise to reform judiciary.

By  Amir Ettinger and Yehuda Shlezinger, ISRAEL HAYOM

With Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu set to form a coalition with right-wing and Haredi allies, there is growing discontent among his partners over what they say is a reluctance to promote legislation that would empower the legislative branch to override the Supreme Court in certain cases.

Netanyahu and the Haredi-Sephardi party Shas are at loggerheads with the far-Right Religious Zionism Party and the Haredi-Ashkenazi United Torah Judaism, with the former group seeking to put off any major initiatives on judicial reforms, while the latter two demanding this be cemented into the coalition agreements prior to the swearing-in of the government later this month.

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By Ted  Belman

Alon Pinkas, in Haaretz, asks  Can U.S. and Israeli ‘Shared Values’ Survive a Far-right Government? and writes:

“The narrative was simple: The United States and Israel are sister democracies, united by an unwavering commitment to a pluralistic, open, tolerant and diverse society. They cherish the rule of law, separation of powers, judicial independence, minority rights, women’s rights, LGBTQ rights, and checks and balances.

The Left in Israel may support that narrative but they were soundly defeated.

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By Michael Wing, EPOCH TIMES

Florida health officials on Friday, Nov. 4 voted to forbid doctors from providing “gender-affirming care” to minors in the state.

Meeting in Orlando, the Florida Board of Medicine and state Board of Osteopathic Medicine voted 6-3, with five members not present, to ban the prescribing of puberty blockers or hormones and performing of sex-reassignment surgery for children. Minors already receiving the drugs may continue treatment.
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Avi Maoz of Religious Zionism’s Noam faction calls for closure of Western Wall egalitarian section if he’s to join coalition, but will support Netanyahu-led government regardless

By JUDAH ARI GROSS and TOI STAFF    7 November 2022,

Avi Maoz, the head of the homophobic Noam party, which ran as part of the far-right Religious Zionism alliance, said Sunday he will condition his entry into the government on the promotion of a law to prevent the teaching of “gender studies” in elementary schools.

In an interview with the right-wing Channel 14, Maoz said that although he had conditions for entering a potential Benjamin Netanyahu-led government, he would in any case support the coalition unconditionally.

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T. Belman. Bercovici used to be the Canadian Ambassador to Israel. She now lives in Israel. She summarizes her bias by saying, “The erosion of liberal democratic principles is my top concern following Election #5, and it was heartening to learn that my perspective is shared by many on the other side of the Green Line.”  What the hell are “liberal democratic principles”?  Wikipedia says “Liberal democracy emphasizes the separation of powers, an independent judiciary and a system of checks and balances between branches of government.” That’s exactly what the Right wants. Its an insult to suggest otherwise.

BY Vivian Bercovivi, STATE OF TEL AVIV – 08 NOV 2022

Friday, November 4, 2022. At a West Bank settlement for Shabbat dinner.

I. Every time you cross the “Green Line,” the rough boundary separating Israel proper from the territories it has controlled since 1967, you feel “it.”

The population clusters are less dense, roads are less busy and street lighting is not quite as bright. I have travelled this road many times to visit friends who live on the other side.

Over the years, the Green Line has become like an inviolable article of religion among so many instant international law experts. At the end of the Six-Day War – in which Jordan attacked Israel on its eastern border – a ceasefire and terms were negotiated. In haste, on the battlefield, on a scrap piece of paper, a line was drawn with a green magic marker. It was cheap porous paper, the kind that ink seeps through when you write or draw on it.

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T. Belman. I am informed by a reliable source that Al Sisi’s fears are well-founded. The days are numbered for both Abdullah and Al Sisi.  In addition Qatar is in the cross hairs.

JaFaJ Intelligence  October 23, 2022

1. Summary: The most trusted intelligence officers of Egypt’s President Sisi have confirmed to him that senior army generals were plotting to topple him allegedly in a coup disguised as a public revolution. At the same time, Egyptian activists in exile have been calling for the mother of all revolutions to topple Sisi. They have set November 11th as the day to inaugurate the revolution. Some of those activists are indeed tied to certain elements of Egyptian military intelligence. It is reported that Sisi became frantic after hearing the warning, and has been on a conquest to “identify the traitors”. The call for a November 11 revolution has gained substantial momentum. It is unlikely though that a revolution could topple Sisi unless it received the backing of the Egyptian army itself.

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By Daniel Greenfield, 07 Nov 03:37 PM

The last time that Israel had a prime minister from the Labor Party was over twenty years ago. Most military recruits were not even born or were in diapers the last time a member of the leftist socialist movement that had ruled the country in a virtually unbroken life of succession for a generation from Ben Gurion to Rabin last headed the country.

The news is even worse now with Labor, which once dominated the legislature of the Knesset, receiving only 4 seats making it the smallest party, below the Muslim Brotherhood’s Ra’am and the Arab Communist Hadash-Ta’al, not to mention the Jewish religious parties and the parties of Middle Eastern and Russian immigrants.
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by Steve Kramer

Judaism v democracy in the State of Israel, is a subject that many American Jews have been arguing for decades. I don’t get it. Could a country that has had five elections in less than four years, in which 71% of eligible voters cast ballots, be anything other than a democracy? All citizens of Israel, 18 years or older, are eligible to vote (period)

In the recent November 1 election, the plurality of Israeli voters chose the Likud Party, headed by Bibi Netanyahu, to form a new government. The second most popular party of this bloc is the Religious Zionism Party, which is the proponent of Judaism v capitulation (to those who deny our Zionism). This militant party to the right of the Likud can act as a backstop against caving to outside influencers who don’t credit Israeli sovereignty over its homeland.

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Georgia Meloni

This election was a vote for Israeli sovereignty and the rule of law.

 By  Moshe Dann

North American Jewish leaders who consider themselves Zionists should not only support the results of the Nov. 1 Israeli election, but applaud them.

We not only have a government that represents a majority of the citizens of Israel – unlike the previous government – but one that is dedicated to a Zionist vision that supports the rights of Jews to live in Judea and Samaria, eastern Jerusalem and the Golan.

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By Ted Belman

Since I first pointed out that The Bibi Camp got 49.5% of the vote, yet 54% of the seats, everyone has been writing about it.

Today TOI published an article in which they explored the turnout:

The first thing to note is that overall turnout actually went up, from 67% in 2021 to 71%. Irrespective of everything else, it is quite remarkable that the Israeli public’s response to election after election is actually to go to vote in greater numbers.

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by Bassam Tawil, GATESTONE  •  November 7, 2022

 Pictured: Ismail Haniyeh, a leader of the Hamas terrorist group, casts his vote in the Palestinian Authority legislative election in, on January 25 2006 in Gaza City. 

• The Palestinians, who keep complaining about the rise of the right-wing parties in Israeli elections, are the ones who brought the terrorist Hamas group to power.
• In 2006, a majority of Palestinians voted for Hamas, whose charter openly calls for the elimination of Israel.

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By Ted Belman

JPOST just published a very long but very interesting article titled The Israeli left has lost more than an election by Haviv Rettig Gur and subtitled “Israel’s left has been in freefall for 3 decades. It didn’t lose ground in the election; it simply woke up to the mismatch between its political institutions and the electorate”

Essentially, he points out that the electorate has been changing for 30 years but the left, Meretz and Labour, didn’t.

In the US, we often read older Democrats say, “I didn’t leave the Democratic Party, it left me.”  which is quite true.
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STUNNING REVALATIONS

DAILY CALLER

By ROBERT EPSTEIN,  SENIOR RESEARCH PSYCHOLOGIST AT THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY

November 06, 2022

My research team is currently monitoring online political content being sent to voters in swing states through more than 2,500 computers owned by a politically-diverse group of registered voters (our “field agents”), and we are concerned about what we’re seeing.

We are aggregating and analyzing search results on the Google and Bing search engines, messages displayed on Google’s home page, autoplay videos suggested on YouTube, tweets sent to users by the Twitter company (as opposed to tweets sent by other users), email suppression on Gmail, and more.
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Democratic Party talking points about a supposed threat to democracy from the right may be the cause of the surge in American-Jewish hysteria about Netanyahu’s partners.

by Jonathan Tobin November 6, 2022

(JNS) As far as many American Jews are concerned, this time the Israelis have gone too far. After more than four decades of tolerating, with decreasing patience and growing disdain, Israeli governments that were led by the Likud Party, the results of this week’s Knesset election go beyond the pale for a lot of liberals.

Their angst is not so much focused on the return to power of Benjamin Netanyahu for his third stint as the Jewish state’s prime minister, even though he is widely viewed by many Jewish Democrats as the moral equivalent of a red-state Republican. The panic about the election results is caused by the fact that the Religious Zionist Party and its leaders, Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir, will play a leading role in the next governing coalition. The party won 14 seats, making it the third largest in the Knesset and an indispensable part of the majority that Netanyahu is about to assemble.

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Voters expect the incoming Netanyahu government to clean up the mess that Lapid and his colleagues are leaving behind, and to push Israel forward. The only way for Netanyahu and his partners to meet these expectations is by making far-reaching reforms to the legal system.

By Caroline Glick

(November 4, 2022 / JNS) After an electoral triumph as profound as Tuesday’s win for incoming Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his Likud Party and the right-religious bloc, you’d think that politicians and voters would be having street parties and celebratory rallies, similar to those of Ehud Barak and his supporters in the aftermath of their victory in 1999.

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