By November 2, 2022 at 6:15 pm
The founders of the group True the Vote are now behind bars after being found in contempt of court for refusing to name people who gave it information concerning a company that provides software used in elections.
Founders Catherine Engelbrecht and Gregg Phillips were locked up in Houston, according to The Washington Post.
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By Ted Belman
What follows is an excerpt from a Sept 12th article by Judy Maltz in Haaretz titled “Why So Many Young Israelis Adore This Racist, Politician” :
Ben-Gvir’s recent surge in the polls is often attributed to his growing appeal among young Jewish Israelis – particularly ultra-Orthodox men and traditional Mizrahi voters from the country’s geographic periphery. What became abundantly clear last week was that his appeal is spreading to less likely quarters – in this case, one of the last bastions of the secular left in Israel.
T. Belman. The court accepted the argument put forward by the Min of Defense:
” the restriction is “minor” while the level of political sensitivity regarding land in Judea and Samaria is immense. “.
The Court held “the question is whether the considerations of the military commander in this matter are reasonable or unreasonable to the extent that the intervention of the Court is necessary.” No, the question is whether the law is racist.
The Court should not be the arbiter of values. That’s for the Knesset to decide. I expect this decision to be overruled.
Yesterday (Wednesday), the High Court of Justice rejected a petition filed by the Regavim Movement to compel the military commander and the Civil Administration to repeal Jordanian Law #40 which prohibits the sale of land in Judea and Samaria to Jews – a law still in force due to Israel’s decision not to extend its law or sovereignty to territory liberated in 1967.
In the High Court hearing earlier this week, Regavim’s attorney, Boaz Arzi, argued that the discriminatory ordinance should be struck down without further delay.
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At 11’30 AM, With 97% of regular votes counted, Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-religious bloc is heading to a convincing victory, while the left-wing Meretz party remains short of crossing the threshold.
The Central Elections Committee has so far counted 4,101,766 votes, with 24,306 invalidated.
Based on the current count, Netanyahu’s bloc would pick up 65 seats, though this number may change as more ballots are processed, including some 500,000 “double envelopes” containing ballots cast by soldiers, prisoners and diplomats.
Currently, Likud has 31; Yesh Atid, 24; Religious Zionism, 14; National Unity, 12; Shas, 12; United Torah Judaism, 8; Yisrael Beytenu, 5; Ra’am, 5; Hadash-Ta’al, 5 and Labor has 4.
Benjamin Netanyahu scored a resounding victory over his detractors on the left in Tuesday’s election, but no less than that – he also settled the score with his rivals on the Right. Naftali Bennett, Avigdor Lieberman, Gideon Saar, Zeev Elkin, Zvi Hauser, Moshe Ya’alon, Yoaz Hendel, Ayelet Shaked, and all the other right-wing politicians who refused to toe the line found themselves in opposition or at home.
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T. Belman. I would rather have the Israeli government at odds with the Biden Administration then sharing the same bed with them as the Lapid government did. We must keep them at arms length and force them to understand that Israel is in charge of the country, not them. In football terms, we must strong-arm them.
The votes in Israel’s latest Knesset election are still being counted, but the exit polls confirmed the worst fears of the Biden administration. While Israel isn’t getting the same kind of obsessive attention it has received at times in the past, there’s no question that President Joe Biden and his foreign-policy team have strong opinions about who should be running the Jewish state that are echoed by most Democrats and the liberal mainstream media.
By a significant margin, and according to data reported weekly by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, the death rate in America remains elevated. If nothing else is certain as Americans continue to cope with the most disruptive event in the last half-century, one fact is indisputable: As the number of cases of COVID-19 decreased over the past few months, they now account for less than half of this persistently elevated death rate.
Alex TraimanPhoto: JNS
(JNS) Apparently in Israel, the fifth time is the charm. After repeated attempts by the opposition, by defectors from his own right-wing bloc, by the prosecution and the Supreme Court to prevent embattled former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from ruling, the electorate finally ended Israel’s protracted political deadlock by voting overwhelmingly in favor of Netanyahu and his natural—and loyal—right-wing allies.
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T. Belman. One of the big frustrations the Right has had with Bibi was that he was too centrist. He now has to be more aggressive in subduing Arab terrorism and the Arab narrative. And more aggressive in draining the swamp and in reforming the High Court and making the Knesset the voice of Israel and not the Court.
The Religious Zionist Party will insist on it.
The alliance with far-rightist Itamar Ben-Gvir was downplayed and Netanyahu came across as responsible, almost statesmanlike. Every time he was asked if he envisioned dramatic legislation if he became prime minister, he was deliberately vague.
By Victor Davis Hanson
As the midterms approach, one way of looking at America’s current disaster is that we, the American people, were lab rats. And since 2021, the Left were the mad scientists, eager to try out their crackpot leftist experiments on us.
The result is that the housing market is tottering on the verge of collapse.
As interest rates soar, our $31 trillion national debt crowds out everything else in the budget.
The Religious Zionism Party is NOT “Extreme.”
THIS IS A GREAT TO-DO LIST
Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) National President Morton A. Klein released the following statement:
The Zionist Organization of America congratulates former and soon-to-be-new Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the entire pro-Zionist bloc (including Likud, Religious Zionism, Shas and Agouda) on their apparent election win yesterday. According to reports, this victory is likely to be confirmed after the “double envelope” (absentee) votes are all counted.
Redacted w Clayton Morris
American troops are now on the ground in Ukraine
By Ted Belman
Haaretz asks how it is that both both the Bibi Camp and the anti-Bibi camp received 49.5 % of the vote, each, yet the Bibi Camp got 65 seats. They go on to blame the Labour leader for not running with Meretz. Meretz went on to garner only 3% of the vote and such votes ended up in the ash-can of failed votes. These votes if part of a joint run should have increased the Anti-Bibi Camps total of seats by 3 or 4.
T. Belman. I’m glad to hear it. The Biden Admin only communicates to influence and apply pressure.
It is a hinderance, not a help.
Israel National News Nov 2, 2022, 6:58 PM
Itamar Ben-GvirFlah 90
The Biden Administration is likely to refuse to work with Otzma Yehudit chairman Itamar Ben-Gvir if he becomes a minister in Israel’s next government, Axios reported.
Two US officials said that no final decision has been made yet, but the administration is likely to boycott Ben-Gvir, who would become the first Israeli minister the US government would refuse to work with.
T. Belman. Very interesting. I wonder what it means. Are they assuming that but for Shaked, those that voted for her wouldn’t have votes otherwise. Is that not a stretch.
What did she mean by “Our running is strategic and after the elections, you will understand why,”?
Did Bibi ask her to not drop out figuring that her votes would not be at the expense of the Right? If so, what did he promise her?Perhaps a Minister’s portfolio or an Ambassadorship. You don’t have to be an MK to be either.
Channel 12 journalist Amit Segal believes that Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked and her Jewish Home party brought the right-wing bloc to victory – even though the party itself did not pass the electoral threshold.
https://rumble.com/v1qj6k3-britain-has-fallen-with-rishi-sunak-the-wefs-coup-is-complete.html
