by Steve Kramer
A new coalition to govern Israel will emerge in December. There’s been a hue and cry over the right wing/religious makeup of the coalition, especially from foreign governments. Among these fears are possible changes to Israel’s judicial system, especially its highest court. I believe that some changes are required to reduce the power of non-elected justices and return it to Israel’s elected members of Knesset.
(JNS) On Monday night, an Egyptian television reporter covering the World Cup tournament in Doha, Qatar was assaulted by an angry mob and forced to leave the games to avoid being lynched. The mob assaulted him because they mistook him for an Israeli reporter.
Qatari officials were reportedly embarrassed by the incident. They weren’t embarrassed about the crowd’s violent anti-Semitism, though. The Qataris were embarrassed because their officials hadn’t believed the poor Egyptian when he insisted he was one of them. And so, they stood by as the mob gave him the “Israeli treatment.”
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Israel’s Ambassador to the UN, Gilad Erdan, on Thursday blasted rapper Kanye West’s latest antisemitic comments, which he made in an interview with Alex Jones of Infowars.
In a tweet, Erdan called for West to no longer be given a platform to make such comments.
“All of the lights must be turned off on this despicable antisemite. Kanye West’s deplorable comments today endanger Jews around the world,” he wrote.
By Ted Belman
Everyone is reporting on Kany West’s latest pronouncement about Hitler on an interview with Alex Jones.
“I see good things about Hitler,” West, who also goes by Ye, told Jones during the bizarre appearance on the Infowars Network, alongside Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes. “Every human being has value that they brought to the table, especially Hitler.”
“I like Hitler,” he added later, and called himself a Nazi.
I can’t help but feel that there an overlap between what he said and what Candace Owen said on the matter of Hitler.
Smotrich and Netanyahu
The Religious Zionist Party signed a coalition agreement with the Likud Thursday night, giving the Likud three coalition deals, with two more agreements needed before it can form a majority government.
Under the agreement, Religious Zionist Party chief Bezalel Smotrich will initially serve as Finance Minister.
By Marina Zhang, EPOCH TIMES Dec 1 2022
A medical worker treats an intubated unvaccinated 40 year old patient who is suffering from the effects of Covid-19 in the ICU at Hartford Hospital in Hartford, Connecticut on January 18, 2022. (Photo by Joseph Prezioso / AFP) (Photo by JOSEPH PREZIOSO/AFP via Getty Images)
Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) showed that vaccinated and boosted people made up most of the COVID-19 deaths in August.
Ruthie Blum, an award-winning columnist and author, talks with the founder and publisher of State of Tel Aviv, Vivian Bercovici, about the right-wing perspective post-election #5, including why the incoming government can be seen as a good thing, what’s right-wing about it and her thoughts on the controversy surrounding judicial reform.
T. Belman. Only Israel can put an end to this. This is what happens when we seek to maintain the status quo. We must destroy the Palestinian narrative.. It does great harm to us at the UN and its promotion of antisemitism. To do this we must get off the fence and destroy their hope and thus their cause.
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The UN General Assembly voted on Wednesday in favor of holding a commemorative event in honor of the 75th “Nakba Day”, in conjunction with Israel’s Independence Day.
“Nakba Day” is what the Palestinian Arabs call Israel’s Independence Day, and on that day, they mark what they view as the “catastrophe” of the establishment of the State of Israel, often through violent protests.
90 countries voted in favor of the measure, with 30 voting against and 47 abstaining.
T. Belman. Biden just doesn’t let up. I am looking forward to our future government ignoring Biden or his various envoys. It should be fun.
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Hady Amr | File photo: US State Department
The top US official on Palestinian affairs reaffirmed on Wednesday that Washington wanted to reopen its Jerusalem consulate for Palestinians even as a new right-wing government prepares to take office in Israel.
Hady Amr was appointed US Special Representative for Palestinian Affairs two weeks ago, a position created by President Joe Biden. He was previously deputy assistant secretary of state for Israeli and Palestinian affairs in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs within the US Department of State.
by Rabbi Dov Fischer, THE SPECTATOR
Mara Largo
I begin with certain definitions:
1. The Jew-hater formerly known as Kanye West now prefers to be called “Ye.” Therefore, for the duration of this article, I shall call him “Kanye.”
2. The White Supremacist, Holocaust-mocking Jew-hater who was ancillary to the unfortunate dinner at Mar-a-Lago has compared Jews murdered in the death camps to baked cookies. Therefore, for the duration of this article, I shall call him by the name “Biscuit.”
Edvard Grieg’s masterpiece, In the Hall of the Mountain King, is truly ageless. Created in service to famed Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen for his magnum opus, Peer Gynt, the music is now used as the background sound for many a meme — the accelerando really sets the stage for a climactic crescendo.
T. Belman. What a disgusting smear job by Horovitz. First of all, Smotrich and Ben Gvir are courageous patriots not “toxic provocateurs”. He is right to say, “What we are witnessing, in short, is a moment of destiny for Israel, a moment of drastic, fateful, fundamental change.” Thank G-d for that.
Israel is changing from a liberal democracy ruled by the bureaucratic swamp to a patriotic democracy ruled by the Knesset.
The centre-left has been in charge since Israel’s declaration and have brought Israel disaster after disaster, namely giving the Temple Mount to the Jordanian Wakf, not extending Israeli sovereignty to Judea and Samaria after the ’67 War according to Ben Gurion’s Law, in perpetrating the Oslo Accords which included the introduction of Arafat and his 40,000 terrorists into Israel, disengaging from Gaza resulting in being inundated from time to time with thousands of rockets, all in the name of chasing peace at any cost.
It is time for “fundamental change”. Israelis voted for it. I predict that Smotrich and Ben Gvir will do much to correct the errors of the centre-left and they will not destroy democracy in Israel.
Today, 10:50 am
Day after day, as he negotiates the staffing and agenda for his incoming coalition, Benjamin Netanyahu is openly preparing to turn Israel from a remarkable democracy, the only one in the region — with all the healthy strains of a powerful political echelon rubbing up against the brakes of a liberal judiciary — into something approaching untrammeled rule by a narrow, relatively homogeneous, hardline majority.
By Chris McGreal, THE GUARDIAN
Two former senior US diplomats have made a highly unusual call for the Biden administration to cut weapons supplies to Israel if the incoming far-right government uses them to annex Palestinian land, expel Arabs or finally kill off the diminishing possibility of a Palestinian state.
Daniel Kurtzer, a former US ambassador to Israel under George W Bush, and Aaron David Miller, a US Middle East peace negotiator during several administrations, have called for what they described as an “unprecedented and controversial” break from America’s largely unconditional military and diplomatic support for Israel if “the most extreme government in the history of the state” pursues the stated aims of some of its members.
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This was a cloak and dagger week – lots of saboteurs were exposed and lots of schemes outed. I’m going to write a narrative of what I saw and you can find links and back up to support my claims on my Facebook page. You can find out how to do that at the end of the post. There’s too much going on to put it all in one post. It would be three hours long.
I’m sure there are conservatives who will disagree with me and are convinced that ONLY if DeSantis & Tulsi were in charge of America that all would be well. If so, I encourage you to do your own homework and send it to me and not condemn me for doing mine!
ZOA Deplores that Pres. Trump Dined with Jew-Haters Kanye West & Nick Fuentes, and Demands he Condemn Them
Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) President Morton A. Klein, a child of holocaust survivors, released the following statement:
“We must never ignore the vile poison of anti-Semitism, or those who spread its venomous creed. With one voice, we must confront this hatred anywhere and everywhere it occurs.”
– Pres. Donald Trump, State of the Union Address, Feb. 5, 2019
President Trump’s stirring call to the entire nation, during his 2019 State of the Union Address, to confront the vile poison of antisemitism anywhere and everywhere it occurs, and to condemn those who spread this venom, was the clearest statement ever made by a U.S. president about what we need to do to stop the dangerous horrors of Jew-hatred.
By Yaniv Kubovich, HAARETZ 30.11.22
Far-right lawmaker Itamar Ben-Gvir asked Defense Minister Benny Gantz on Wednesday for permission to visit the soldier sentenced to 10 days in military prison for threatening left-wing activists in Hebron last week, just as the Israeli military announced it has decided to follow through with the punishment following an investigation.
“I don’t see anything wrong with the soldier’s behavior towards the bullies and I regret the disproportionate punishment directed at him,” Ben-Gvir wrote in the letter, adding that he “would like to visit the soldier in the military prison tomorrow and provide him with support.”
Today, 6:03 am
A little over a decade ago, as the 2009 election campaign gathered pace, a little-known but radical right-wing activist secured the respectable, albeit unrealistic, ninth spot on the electoral list of the ultra-nationalist and religiously hardline National Union party.
A few days shy of his 29th birthday, Bezalel Smotrich was making his first foray into frontline Israeli politics.
That Knesset bid, which failed, came just four years after he was arrested by the Shin Bet on suspicion of organizing violent Jewish nationalist activity.
by Daniel Greenfield, GATESTONE • November 30, 2022 at 4:00 am
The most fundamental virtue of our constitutional government is that the public has supreme power over the government. The civil service system has effectively eliminated that power. This is what a slow-motion coup looks like. (Image source: iStock)
