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Leftist fascist zombies Rioting vs. Peaceful Right Wing protest
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Pour out Your wrath upon the nations that do not recognize You, and upon the kingdoms that do not invoke Your Name. For they have devoured Jacob and destroyed his habitation. Pour out Your anger upon them, and let Your fiery wrath overtake them. Pursue them with wrath and annihilate them from beneath the heavens of HASHEM. |
שְׁפֹךְ חֲמָתְךָ אֶל־הַגּוֹיִם אֲשֶׁר לֹא יְדָעוּךָ וְעַל־מַמְלָכוֹת אֲשֶׁר בְּשִׁמְךָ לֹא קָרָאוּ. כִּי אָכַל אֶת־יַעֲקֹב וְאֶת־נָוֵהוּ הֵשַׁמּוּ. שְׁפָךְ־עֲלֵיהֶם זַעֲמֶךָ וַחֲרוֹן אַפְּךָ יַשִּׂיגֵם. תִּרְדֹף בְּאַף וְתַשְׁמִידֵם מִתַּחַת שְׁמֵי ה’. |
BREAKING : Gaza and its Media Allies |Caroline Glick’s Brief11May2023 |
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The Rav is refused entry to Uman14September2023 https://rivkalevy.com/the-rav-is-refused-entry-to-uman/ I heard this privately, but now it’s also up on A7, so I guess the ‘secret’ is out.HERE is the news story on the propaganda site called Arutz 7. It’s not the news we wanted to hear, but what I can tell you is that this is probably the last slap in the face these people get to aim at the Tzaddik HaDor. Now…. it’s going to be interesting. Remember, staying close to the True Tzaddikim, working on our bad middot, LEARNING TORAH LISHMA, and not just to get kavod, money or influence, sincere teshuva and tzedaka all cancels the evil decrees. God knows 100% what needs to be happening right now, there is nothing to fear except Hashem.And from here on in, BH, God is really going to start showing the evils in the world Who is really the ba’al ha’bayit here. And it’s not them.
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Torah Is the ONLY Thing Which Unites Us22 Tevet 5784 03January2024 http://palmtreeofdeborah.blogspot.com/2024/01/torah-is-only-thing-which-unites-us.html
In a recent interview, Jonathan Pollard drew a direct line between the Simchat Torah Massacre and the deep societal division that existed in Israel just prior to the invasion and attack. Today, that same message went out to both the secular public, via Ynet (Golani Brigade deputy commander warns division in Israel ‘worst thing that can happen’), and the religious public, via YWN (“Hamas Massacre And Rift In Israel Were Connected,” IDF Spokesperson Says) – in English at any rate. I didn’t check, but I guarantee you this conversation is being had in the Hebrew press as well.
It’s being raised now in the wake of the High Court’s slap to the face of every Israeli citizen by refusing to take the government’s advice to leave controversial subjects to the day after the war ends. In a clearly illegal move (depending on votes of justices who by their own rules should have already been retired and off the bench), they brazenly struck down the Knesset’s hard-won Reasonableness Law.
The JPost addressed this issue via its main op-ed today…
As usual, the consensus of the Democracy-worshippers is to shame and blame anyone who disagrees with or stands in the way of their desire to be a Western Liberal Democratic nation like all the rest. The Faithful of HKB”H cannot allow themselves to be influenced by these tactics. The only connection the Simchat Torah Massacre has to the escalating societal divisions in Israel is that they are both an unfortunately necessary part of the birrur process which is paving the road to our complete redemption.
“In the beginning…” the Creator began putting His world in order by making divisions – “each after its own kind” and in its own place, fulfilling its own Divinely mandated purpose in the world.
It’s not just the murderous Arabs who have to leave our Holy Land, but also the pretend Jews and Erev Rav who are doing everything in their power to prevent the rest of us from fulfilling our Creator’s will in this Land which He gave us specifically for this purpose.
The Torah is not silent on these subjects. Everything we need to know about how to set up a government and who may or may not live in this land alongside us and under what conditions is clearly laid out. Our main problems stem not from lack of knowledge but from a lack of will – an unwillingness to submit our own will to that of our Creator’s will. That’s where the critical change must and will come. Jewish unity comes only through our common commitment to HKB”H and His Torah. There can never be unity around Western values and liberal (anti-Torah) ideals.
Mashiach is the agent HKB”H is sending to impose His will on humanity. Peace with HKB”H is the only true path to peace in this world.
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Cartoon: [retired Supreme Court President Esther] Hayut is seen sticking a flag in the back of a IDF soldier
For the sake of freedom of expression, will be tweeted from now on on a regular basis.  Danny Hendler-tweet-4January2024-For the sake of freedom of expression
סערת הקריקטורה של חיות תוקעת דגל בגב חייל | קרעי: להסיר? זה חופש הביטוייועמ”ש הנהלת בתי המשפט דרש ממנהלי “שביעי” להסיר את הקריקטורה, שר התקשורת קרעי שלח לו מכתב זועם: “זו התנהגות נפסדת, אין לך סמכות לצנזר כלי תקשורת”. בשבועון הסכימו להסיר את הקריקטורה, אך תקפו: “זו השתקה ופגיעה חמורה בחופש העיתונות. הקריקטורה ביטאה מחאה בדרכה האומנותית”מורן אזולאי, טובה צימוקי, רוני גרין שאולוב|
The cartoon storm of Hayut sticks a flag in the back of a soldier | Karai: remove? It’s freedom of speechThe ombudsman of the administration of the courts demanded that the directors of “Savi’i” “שביעי” remove the cartoon, the minister of communication Karai sent him an angry letter: “This is a losing behavior, you have no authority to censor media.” The weekly agreed to remove the cartoon, but attacked: “This is silencing and a serious injury in the freedom of the press. The cartoon expressed a protest in its artistic way4January2024 https://www.ynet.co.il/news/article/bjzfgbeua
The cartoon leads to a political uproar: after this morning (Thursday) the free religious-national weekly “Savi’i” “שביעי” published a cartoon in which retired Supreme Court President Esther Hayut is seen sticking a flag in the back of a soldier, the legal Advisor of the Courts Administration demanded that the weekly’s managers remove that cartoon. In response to this, Communications Minister Shlomo Karai said that this was “lost behavior and an attempt to harm freedom of expression”. The weekly later agreed to remove the cartoon, but attacked that “this is silencing and a serious violation of the freedom of the press.”
 Supreme Court President Esther Hayut is seen sticking a flag in the back of a soldier The cartoon, in which Esther Hayut is seen sticking a court flag into the back of the soldier, who was apparently killed, was published on the Twitter page of the illustrator Or Reichert, and also appeared in the digital edition of the weekly – which will be published tomorrow in its printed version.
The legal advisor of the Courts Administration, Barak Lazer, contacted the weekly and demanded that its managers take immediate action to remove the cartoon from all the media under the newspaper’s control. In addition, there is in the aforementioned publication a suspicion of court misconduct,” it said.
 Communications Minister Shlomo Karai letter to the legal advisor of the Courts Administration However, Communications Minister Shlomo Karai did not see it that way, and sent a threatening letter to the consultant. “It has been brought to my attention that you addressed a media outlet with a puzzling instruction to refrain from publishing an illustration criticizing the judicial system. Needless to say, your instruction was given without authority, and that you cannot censor media outlets or give any instructions to citizens,” Karai wrote.
“I intend to bring up for discussion in the government your losing behavior in this case,” he added. “Until then, you are required to refrain from giving instructions to citizens, exceeding your authority. As Minister of Communications, I do not intend to stand by your attempts to harm citizens’ freedom of expression.”
Later, the Savi’i newspaper responded to the request of the Ombudsman of the Courts and announced that it would remove the cartoon, including the newspaper that had already been printed. However, the weekly maintained their position that “there is no incitement to violence or lewdness of the court in the cartoon”, and attacked that Attorney Lazer’s request “Constitutes silencing and a serious violation of the freedom of the press.” The “Savi’i” also claimed that “the cartoon expressed a protest in its artistic way”, and wondered why the court does not condemn “caricatures in the Haaretz newspaper that present right-wing people as Nazis”, as well as sketches of a great land “that present the Jewish settlers as murderers or perverts”.
Above the cartoon appeared a scathing editorial against Hayut, after the publication of the rulings on the law of fortification and the law to abolish the probable cause, in which it was claimed that “at the exact time when the citizens of Israel, especially the soldiers , are looking for the unifying and the closer, Hayut was looking for the distancing and the dividing. Did she not think of the danger of consequences Her decision on unity among IDF soldiers? She probably thought, but she just doesn’t care. At this time, when the Nazi enemy from Gaza is celebrating the division within us, Hayut sees only one thing – to continue the anti-democratic revolution that Emperor Barak started.”
Following the publication of the cartoon, Member of Knesset Matan Kahane from the state camp, a religious Zionist himself, protested: “Whoever does not understand how shocking this is, even if he is very, very angry with retired President Hayut, who would imagine this picture with Prime Minister Netanyahu, for example, or with Every other character is ‘on his side’. Does this still look like a legitimate cartoon? To draw a character, even of the person who hates you the most on the other side, stepping on the body of an IDF soldier, is definitely one of the lowest things seen here recently.”
Hayut, we will recall, explained in the “reasonable cause” ruling why she had to publish it even during the war. “About a month after the hearing on the petitions took place, we were moved by a brutal terrorist attack and since then the State of Israel has been engaged in a hard and determined war against the terrorist organizations that want our brides,” she wrote. “We offer a prayer for the peace of the female soldiers, the soldiers and the members of the security forces who risk their lives for the sake of the security of the country, as well as for the return of the abductees to their homes soon. “
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Right-wing protests prove judicial reforms are not synonymous with dictatorshipOpinion: The ongoing pro-judicial reform demonstrations reveal that the conflict reflects long-standing political divisions and puts to rest the misleading notion that the battle is not a matter of right versus left, but rather a struggle for democracyNaveh Dromi| 04April23 | 23:47 https://www.ynetnews.com/article/rytjg8fwh” The right-wing protests have yielded many positive outcomes. They have spared us of more national “days of disruption,” “paralysis,” and “resistance“; the women dressed as characters from the Netflix show “The Handmaid’s Tale” have given us a short breather from their hysteria; right-wing elected officials now understand that they are obligated to pass the reforms, and not let it fall between the cracks; and maybe the most important outcome of all – we can finally rebut the demagogic, childish, and manipulative claim that the ongoing affairs are “not a matter of left or right.”
What a tiresome manipulation that is. Claiming that a certain protest is not rooted in a political stance implies that said stance is inherently superior, apolitical, and indisputably true.  Pro-government demonstrators march in support of the judicial overhaul in Tel Aviv on Thursday “הפגנה בעד המהפכה המשפטית בתל אביב” This attitude of viewing any resistance to judicial reforms in Israel as a necessary act to prevent dictatorship creates a dangerous consensus.
Those who propagate this narrative often perceive themselves as altruistic champions of society’s interests rather than as individuals associated with a specific political faction or ideology.
This narrative further suggests that supporters of the judicial reforms are automatically excluded from the group claiming to be the selfless saviors of the State of Israel, fighting against Justice Minister Yariv Levin’s dictatorship.
The claim that this is “not a matter of left or right” has been frequently made, but has lost its meaning. Protests have been promoted through various channels, and even kids’ carpool WhatsApp groups have been hijacked to send invitations to participate. Anyone calling for those platforms to remain apolitical is immediately dismissed, with the response being “it’s not about left or right, it’s about democracy.”  Pro-judicial reform protesters rally in front of the Supreme Court in Jerusalem מפגינים בעד ההפיכה המשפטית בירושלים
On the contrary, those with knowledge of Israeli politics recognize that judicial system reforms have been a focal point of the right-wing bloc’s agenda for several years.
During Benjamin Netanyahu and Benny Gantz’s joint tenure, Yariv Levin declined to assume the role of justice minister, given his limited ability to advance such reforms. Levin and Simcha Rothman may now have the opportunity to make progress on this front, but numerous academics, experts and wise individuals from across the political spectrum had previously advocated for reforms of the judiciary system.
Perhaps, if the Israeli left had paid more attention to the right in the past, they would not have been caught off guard by the current agenda being put forth.
Therefore, the claim that “it’s not a matter of left or right” emanates from the left. Any right-wing individual who is familiar with the judicial system’s impact on the right would not oppose reforms in this regard.  rotests in Tel Aviv (Photo: Tal Shachar) הפרות סדר באיילון However, it is possible that a right-wing individual may disagree with how the reforms are being promoted, given the lack of a clear public explanation of the expected changes. Nonetheless, such individuals recognize that Israeli democracy cannot become more inclusive and ideal without these reforms.
A recent poll conducted by research and strategy firm Direct Polls, aimed to shed light on the driving force behind the ongoing protests in Israel, revealed that 88% of the respondents who support the coalition (right-wing bloc) stated that the protest movement’s goal was to topple the current right-wing government.
For those familiar with opposition members, this outcome is not at all surprising. Those who are taken aback may belong to the group that views the protests as a unanimous public struggle for democracy, independent of left or right leanings.
The political divide between Israel’s right-wing and left-wing blocs has long been evident in their respective stances on issues such as the Palestinians, foreign policy, security agenda, and the judicial system. |
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The ruling class must regain its sensesThe Golani Infantry Brigade has rebelled and is getting away with it because the IDF General Staff has surrendered its moral power to discipline its soldiers.Caroline Glick https://www.jns.org/opinion/the-ruling-class-must-regain-its-senses/ (April 20, 2023 / JNS) A group of soldiers from a company of Israel Defense Forces’ reservists in the Golani Infantry Brigade abandoned their posts at their training base in southern Israel on Tuesday and went home. The reservists revolted because they didn’t accept their battalion commander’s decision to replace their company commander with a company commander from the Paratrooper Brigade.
As Yediot Achronot’s military reporter Yossi Yehoshua reported, the last time that Golani experienced a mutiny of this dimension was in 2007. Back then, the top brass responded immediately, sentencing all of the soldiers to 56 days in jail.
This time, their commanders took their time responding and then hit them with a wet noodle. The soldiers were given suspended sentences and remanded to their base for a weekend.
The IDF’s decision to let the reservists off the hook for inexcusable behavior surprised no one. They had no choice. In February, a squadron of reserve Air Force fighter pilots shocked the country when they signed a letter announcing they would not serve in reserves so long as the Netanyahu government proceeded forward with its plan to place minimal limits on the powers of the Supreme Court and Attorney General. That is, they used their flight wings to extort the government and the public that voted it into office.
Rather than court-martial the pilots on charges of insurrection and sedition, IDF Chief of General Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi and Air Force Commander Maj. Gen. Tomer Bar opted to tolerate—and even coddle—the pilots in the hopes of getting them to relent.
The same cushy fate greeted the other leftist reservists from technology, artillery and other units. When in response, flight mechanics announced that they would refuse to service the planes of the leftist pilots who refused to defend the country for political reasons, Halevi and Bar recognized that they couldn’t discipline them without destroying what was left of the unity of force in the Air Force. And now, Golani has rebelled and is getting away with it because the IDF General Staff has surrendered its moral power to discipline its soldiers.
The implications of this situation are devastating. And they were anticipated. Halevi and Bar were warned repeatedly that if the General Staff permitted IDF service to be used as a political weapon, the generals would rupture the chain of command and compromise the unity of the force. But Halevi, Bar and their fellow generals went ahead and legitimized it anyway. And like Humpty Dumpty, once the egg of non-politicization of military service was broken, it was broken. ‘Good’ vs. ‘bad’ IsraelisIt would be bad enough if military unity was the only casualty of the rebellion of Israel’s ruling class. But, of course, it isn’t. Moody’s Investor Services didn’t lower Israel’s credit rating, despite massive efforts by Israel’s economic elites to convince the rankings service to do so. And Silicon Valley Bank’s crash demonstrated just how stupid Israel’s high-tech moguls were when they called for Israel’s wealthy leftists to pull their money out of the country.
But statements by the likes of Bank of Israel Governor Amir Yaron, former prime ministers Ehud Olmert and Ehud Barak, former foreign minister Tzipi Livni, former defense minister Moshe Ya’alon, current opposition leader Yair Lapid, and dozens of retired generals and other members of the ruling class warning that Israel’s economy isn’t a safe bet and that Israel’s democracy is hanging by a hair did more to advance efforts by Israel’s enemies to demonize and delegitimize the Jewish state and mainstream anti-Zionism than any U.N. resolution or any boycott campaign ever could.
One of the most extraordinary aspects of their campaign to overthrow the government through insurrection and demonization is its international bent. In the past three months, Lapid, Barak, Olmert, Livni, Ya’alon and their powerful comrades have turned to Washington and other foreign capitals to convince them to boycott Israel. Last week, Lapid flew to New York and met with American Jewish leaders to mobilize them against the only democratically elected Jewish leadership in the world: the Netanyahu government. Lapid met with powerful lawmakers to draft them into the service of overthrowing the government. Three weeks ago, former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert called publicly for foreign governments to boycott the Israeli government.
This week, Ya’alon met with visiting Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham. His goal was self-evident. The former hardline Likud minister who in recent years has undergone an ideological makeover and joined the radical left insisted three years ago that governing coalitions comprised of terror-supporting Arab Knesset factions are preferable to governments with Netanyahu and Likud. In recent months, like fellow former chiefs of general staff Barak and Dan Halutz, Ya’alon has called for soldiers and police to disobey lawful orders. In the context of his current positions, the only possible explanation for his meeting with Graham was that he and his comrades now seek to convince Republicans to hate Netanyahu and his voters as much as Ya’alon and his new friends hate them.
Back when he was first running for president in 2008, Barak Obama said, “I think there is a strain within the pro-Israel community that says unless you adopt an unwavering pro-Likud approach to Israel that you’re anti-Israel, and that can’t be the measure of our friendship with Israel.”
Obama’s remarks were panned by Israelis and American Jews for the contempt they displayed towards Israeli democracy. Likud is a major political party in Israel that has been the ruling party in the country far more often than not for the past 45 years because it is aligned with the views of the majority of Israelis. So whether or not you like Likud, if you support Israeli democracy, then you are expected to respect the will of the Israeli people. At the most basic level, you cannot be pro-Israel if you view the lawfully elected leaders of Israel as illegitimate.
Obama’s view has long been shared by many in the Democratic elite. In 2011, former President Bill Clinton gave a racist taxonomy of Israeli society as the Clinton Global Initiative’s annual conference. Ignoring that the Palestinians writ large rejected then—as they still reject today—any possibility of peaceful coexistence with Israel, Clinton blamed the bad, Netanyahu supporting Israelis for the absence of peace. Clinton explained that Israelis need to be divided into two groups: the good “pro-peace” Israelis and the bad “anti-peace” Israelis.”
By Clinton’s telling, “The most pro-peace Israelis are the Arabs; second the sabras, the Jewish Israelis that were born there; third, the Ashkenazis of longstanding, the European Jews who came there around the time of Israel’s founding.”
As for the bad Israelis, the former president and husband of the then-secretary of state, explained: “The most anti-peace are the ultra-religious who believe they’re supposed to keep Judea and Samaria, and the settler groups, and what you might call the territorialists, the people who just showed up lately and they’re not encumbered by the historical record.”
Back in 2008 and 2011, statements like Obama’s and Clinton’s were a cause for rancor, or at the very least, uncomfortable throat clearings among Israeli leaders on the left, and among liberal American Jews. But today, their contemptuous views of Israeli society are not merely accepted as legitimate. They have become the rallying cries of the Israeli ruling class that works with the Democrats and liberal American Jews to demonize and delegitimize not only Netanyahu and his government, but the majority of Israelis who voted them into office.
President Joe Biden has shown through his policies and statements on Iran, the Palestinians, Jerusalem, progressive anti-Semitism and a host of other issues of strategic importance to Israel that his Middle East policies are predicated on ideological positions that are hostile to Israel’s core national and strategic interests. Under normal circumstances, Biden’s hostile posture would place him in an uncomfortable position vis-à-vis the overwhelming majority of American Jews who are pro-Israel.
But with the likes of Lapid, Barak, Olmert, Ya’alon and their many partners demonizing the government and calling for American Jews, Democrat and Republican lawmakers and the Biden administration to boycott the government, Biden’s effective declaration of Netanyahu persona non grata last month went over with barely a word of protest among American Jewish leaders. He was applauded by Israeli leaders.
In this week’s “Caroline Glick Show,” Tony Badran from the Foundation for Defense of Democracies explained that Iran’s decision to escalate its aggression against Israel in recent weeks is predicated in part on Biden’s declared shunning of Netanyahu. Biden’s statement was interpreted by Iran as an invitation to attack Israel at will.
Likewise, in recent weeks, the Iranian regime-controlled media have given banner headlines to statements by retired IDF commanders like Barak and Ya’alon and politicians like Lapid declaring that Israel is doomed. And rather than join Netanyahu when he warns Iran not to believe the propaganda, Lapid, Barak, Ya’alon and their elitist comrades blame Netanyahu for failing to protect the country from the forces their insurrection has emboldened.
This week, the son of the former Shah of Iran Reza Pahlavi made a historic visit to Israel. He participated in the official Yom Hashoah ceremony at Yad Vashem. He visited the Western Wall. He went to a desalination plant and spoke of the assistance Israel can offer a post-ayatollah Iran that will seek to repair the environmental devastation the regime has inflicted on the land.
Rather than praise Netanyahu and Intelligence Minister Gila Gamliel who hosted Pahlavi, leftist commentators attacked them and Pahlavi. Former ambassador Daniel (“Danny”) Shek panned Pahlavi and Netanyahu for hosting him. In an interview on i24 News, Shek said the son of the former monarch “is not a force to be reckoned with” and that “Israel has nothing to gain from him.” Parroting Iranian regime propaganda, Shek insisted that no one in Iran supports Pahlavi.
Maariv columnist Yossi Melman attacked the government even more forcefully calling it “stupid” for hosting Pahlavi and inviting him to attend the Yad Vashem ceremony. Parroting the pro-Iran anti-Israel lobby in Washington, Melman wrote, “It’s counter-productive to topple the terrible regime.” Why? Because. Other members in good standing of the Clinton’s “pro-peace” Ashkenazi, sabra, Likud-bashing club joined the chorus of elitists standing with the Iranian regime and pillorying Netanyahu for hosting Pahlavi and Pahlavi for not hating Israel and Netanyahu.
With our ruling class in full revolt, Israel’s most important institutions—first and foremost, the IDF—are reeling. Our ability to defend ourselves on the battlefield and in diplomatic circles is constrained as never before. With our elites declaring our government illegitimate, and lobbying American Jews and politicians to boycott our leaders and reject the morality of the public that voted them into office, the government must fight against our enemies, against anti-Semitism, against BDS campaigns and anti-Israel propaganda machines with both hands tied behind its back, its mouth gagged while hopping on one foot. This situation is unsustainable.
As we approach Remembrance Day for Fallen IDF Soldiers and our 75th Independence Day next week, we must find a way to restore sanity and a sense of common destiny to our national life. We don’t have a spare country. Our ruling class needs to return to its senses and remember this obvious fact.
Caroline B. Glick is the senior contributing editor of Jewish News Syndicate and the host of the Caroline Glick Show on JNS. Glick is also the diplomatic commentator for Israel’s Channel 14 as well as a columnist at Newsweek. Glick is the senior fellow for Middle Eastern Affairs at the Center for Security Policy in Washington and a lecturer at Israel’s College of Statesmanship. |
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Context is everything: The gravity of Caroline Glick’s ‘ruling class’ articleIf Israel responds with unity, strength, conviction and self-respect the violent protests will wither as any extinction burst does. Op-ed.Paul Rotenberg 21April2023, https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/370329  Ehud Barak Flash 90 To fully appreciate the gravity of Caroline Glick’s article about the leaders of the protests (The Ruling Class Must Regain its Senses) some context is in order. The leadership of the protests is often referred to as the leftist elite. They are a group of individuals who have held positions of power in previous governments, from Prime Ministers and Defense Ministers down and in the army as generals and high ranking officers. They are accustomed to power, to being able to tell people what to do.
They are, however, to a one, failures. The politicians among them have been rejected by the voters, the generals and officers who engaged in the politics of Israel have also been rejected by the voters, after the voters saw what these “leaders” represented.
In behavioural terms, what we are seeing now is called an “extinction burst”, often described as the child who gets more violent when not getting the desired response to violence. Continuing the comparison, the required response is to give the increased violence no better response than the initial violence got.
Bringing out 100,000 protestors in Israel looks significant, but we have to remember it is significantly less than 1 mandate, 1 seat in the Knesset. For leadership to claim this gives them authority is pitiful, for them to use violence to increase the effect of their protest is hideously irresponsible.
It leads to only 2 conclusions, the first is logical. Israel has forever been subjected to the attacks of terrorists. My son, Daniel, pointed out that to appropriately respond to terrorism you first have to recognize what it is. It is the assumed power of a person who has none, but is desperate to show how much power he has. Not rights, not privilege, they have lots of those, but tyrannical power to force others to do what the terrorist wants done.
This is exactly the case with the “leftist elitists” exacerbated by the fact that they had power and lost it due to their abuse (in the voters’ terms) of their power. They were rejected for making bad decisions and enacting bad policy. This is the context of any response to terrorists, similarly this has to be the response to the extinction burst of violent protestors and their leaders.
Is it a fair comparison, is it a fair evaluation of them? Consider the second conclusion, which is historical. These “leaders” were the recently ousted government. This was a coalition that was formed in direct contradiction to the electoral platforms of the “leaders”. These are the “leaders” who created a government by giving veto power and a massive budget to a party representing the Muslim Brotherhood, Israel’s arch-enemy, sworn to destroy Israel.
This is a leadership that made bad decisions for Israel up until its last days, giving away massive natural resources critical to Israel’s energy independence to Hezbollah, another of Israel’s sworn enemies, to massively bolster Hezbollah’s coffers to buy the weapons that they would use to destroy Israel.
In other words these are “leaders” who showed nothing but contempt, not only for Israel and the Israeli voter, but for their own word as well.
And what are they protesting? They are out on the streets violently protesting the democratically elected government because those elected are working to fulfil their promises to the electorate. The ousted leftists can’t believe this government is actually going to do what they said they were going to do and were therefore elected to do, so they are protesting it.
Is that not bad enough? Unfortunately it gets worse. The retired commanders who are counselling soldiers to refuse orders are the same ones who, for more than a decade refused Netanyahu’s order that they prepare plans to destroy Iran’s nuclear capability. Don’t take my word for it, read the reports in the NY Times and on CNBC. This decision on the part of individuals defying orders, has today put Israel in existential danger, and now these same people are counselling soldiers and airmen to continue to defy the orders for political reasons. This may demand legal recourse – but there is no court to take them to because reform has not been enacted.
So is Iran right, has Israel gone weak? Voting indicates not the vast majority of Israelis. Is Israel ripe for destruction? Only if Israel chooses to be. If Israel chooses to respond with unity, showing strength, conviction and self-respect the violent protests will wither as any extinction burst will. The “leaders” who show contempt for Israel will fulfil their own worst fears and never regain the power they so much desire and Israel will be the better for it. And without their interference Israelis will constructively deconstruct their enemies, a task the IDF is fully capable of when it sees them for what they are and responds proactively. |
March of the Million’ shatters opposition claim nation against judicial reform“We are told that if the reform passes there will be a dictatorship. There is no bigger lie than that,” Israeli Justice Minister Yariv Levin told the crowd.By David Isaac
(April 28, 2023 / JNS) The “March of the Million” near the Knesset in Jerusalem on Thursday evening may not have hit its target (organizers say 600,000 attended; police say 200,000), but it succeeded in putting to bed opposition claims that Israelis are united against judicial reform. It also provided much-needed backing to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s beleaguered government.
Supporters of reform have been slow to respond to months of protests against it, which have forced the coalition back on its heels, leading Netanyahu to pause the process and enter into negotiations with the opposition under the auspices of President Isaac Herzog.
Those favoring reform worry that the result will be a watered-down version of the legislation. Among the crowd’s chants at the rally: “Stop being afraid” and “We don’t want compromise.”
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Of the many politicians and right-wing figures who addressed the assembled, the biggest cheers went to the chief architects of judicial reform: Justice Minister Yariv Levin of Likud and Knesset Member Simcha Rothman of the Religious Zionism Party, who chairs the parliament’s Constitution, Law and Justice Committee.
“Over 2 million Israelis voted six months ago in the real referendum: the election. They voted in favor of legal reform,” declared Levin. “We are here on this stage with 64 mandates to right an injustice. No more inequality, no one-sided judicial system, no court whose judges are above the Knesset and above the government.
“We are told that if the reform passes there will be a dictatorship. There is no bigger lie than that. Show me a single democracy in which the legal advisers decide [government policy] instead of the government,” said Levin, adding to cheers, “I will do everything in my power to bring the desired change to the judicial system.
“If someone were to tell me a few years ago that in 2023 there would be such a broad consensus in Israeli society for the need for judicial reform and that the situation today isn’t democratic, I would have told him he was delusional,” Rothman said. “Correcting the judicial system is my life’s mission and I will continue to promote it in every way.”
Likud Knesset member Avichay Boaron acted as master of ceremonies. “The purpose of the demonstration is to remind and demand from our elected officials in the government and the coalition that the people want judicial reform, that the people are behind them, that the people give them strength,” he said.
Netanyahu, who didn’t attend for security reasons, tweeted, “I am deeply moved by the tremendous support of the national camp that came to Jerusalem this evening en masse. All of us, 64 mandates that brought on our victory, are first-class citizens. You warmed my heart very much, and I thank each and every one of you.”
 Benjamin Netanyahu-tweet-27April 2023-I am deeply moved by the tremendous support of the national camp Twenty-nine NGOs sponsored the protest, foremost among them Tekuma 23, an NGO founded by political activist Berale Crombie together with Boaron. Its mission is to build support for judicial reform in the wake of the protests against it.
The pro-reform rally was different in tone from its anti-reform counterparts, which are grim affairs with warnings of pending dictatorship, clashes with police, solemn torchlit marches and women dressed as Margaret Atwood-inspired handmaids with heads lowered.
This rally was boisterous, resembling a giant block party. Music pumped through large speaker systems. Protesters danced and sang. Strangers backslapped one another. It was festive. The optimism was palpable.  The protesters were largely young. Photo by David Isaac
The protesters were largely young. Photo by David Isaac. ‘Deterrence against terrorists’Encountering Herzl Hajaj of Choosing Life, a forum of Israeli terror victims and bereaved families, JNS asked him to explain the difference.
“The right is always happier,” he said. “There’s a lot of money driving the left’s protests. The folks who make all the noise and confusion do it for a payment. People here have left work. They came from Eilat, Metulla, Dimona because their hearts are with this government.”
Another notable difference was the age of the protesters. At Thursday’s rally, youth was the rule with thousands of teens in attendance. Young families with infants were not uncommon.
Israel’s right argues that the Supreme Court turned activist starting in the 1990s under then-Supreme Court President Aharon Barak, who orchestrated what he termed the “Constitutional Revolution.” The government says its judicial reform program seeks to fix the problem that has grown over the years and restore the balance of power between the three branches of government.
Rothman told JNS earlier in the week that for the opposition the protests aren’t really about judicial reform but a clash between two visions of what Israel should be—a secular state on the lines of Denmark or a Jewish state deeply connected to its particular religious and cultural traditions.
If such is the case, the young teens chanting “Rothman” at Thursday’s rally symbolize opponents’ fear that demographics are against them. They see the Supreme Court as a check on right-wing ascendance, which explains their determination to defend its power.
Reformers are just as determined to drive through changes to the court, which they say rules according to a left-wing, globalist worldview.
Hajaj said, “Bereaved families, victims of terror, are here because the Supreme Court plays a big role in undermining deterrence against terrorists. They give them rights that no other country gives them. And we paid with the blood of our children. And the citizens of Israel will continue to pay with their blood until we change this.”
JNS also met Lt. Col. (res.) Maurice Hirsch, director of legal strategies at Palestinian Media Watch, who served in senior positions in the IDF Military Advocate General’s Corps.
“What brings me here is the understanding that the legal system has to change. I was part of that ecosystem for 20 years. I was an assistant district prosecutor. And I understand that the legal system as it is today has completely failed,” he told JNS, highlighting the self-selection process that goes on in the judicial system and precludes a diversity of views on the bench.
“We have members of the Bar Association appointing judges, lawyers appointing their friends to be judges with the assistance of Supreme Court judges, ensuring that they only appoint lawyers who are the same as they—in their image. Nothing changes. There’s only one way of thinking,” said Hirsch.  Im Tirtzu street theater Protesters perform street theater. Photo by David Isaac.
Protesters perform street theater. Photo by David Isaac. Im Tirtzu, an NGO and one of the rally organizers, oversaw street theater highlighting the Supreme Court’s power. It featured people lined up in orange prison jumpsuits, representing a nation imprisoned by the court’s rulings. Each carried a sign with a different ruling: “The Supreme Court requires National Insurance payments to terrorists,” “The Supreme Court rejected petitions against the building of illegal mosques on the Temple Mount,” “The Supreme Court prevents the removal of illegal [aliens] even when they’re violent.”
One protester wearing a mask of current Supreme Court president Esther Hayut held a stick with which he pretended to threaten and beat the uniformed protesters should they get out of line.
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Am Yisrael Chai28April2023 https://rivkalevy.com/am-yisrael-chai/ A quick update on the ‘million man march’ yesterday.***UPDATE about the 600,000 ‘at the Gates of Jerusalem’***
Around 600,000 people showed up for it – the biggest demonstration since 2006 – and two of Israel’s biggest so-called ‘news’ channels, Channels 12 and 13, DIDN’T EVEN COVER IT.  Million man march-telegram-28April2023-Jerusalem Why is this important to know?
Those same channels have been in the forefront of running all the disgusting, slanderous stories about the Rav in recent years.
They are called ‘national news’ channels, and paid for, at least in part, by the Israeli taxpayer.
And now, hopefully, more people are starting to understand that they are ‘Deep State Propaganda Tools’ – and nothing much else. Of course, that also applies to pretty much all other media, including ‘right wing’ sites like Arutz 7 and YWN, and all the rest, that are also government-sponsored and government-controlled, as became totally obvious, during the Corona plandemic and fear-porn operation. Pay attention! People still think ‘the news’ is objective / why would they lie / journalists are just doing their jobs blahdy blah blah. The news is just one, huge, stream of government propaganda, and Deep State ‘psy-ops’, with a smidgen of truth thrown in to keep people thinking it’s all legit.Don’t be fooled! ====
The good news is – haha! – more and more people are turning it off in droves, and tuning it out.And may that process just intensify and continue. ==== The last thing to say is that I was very impressed with the calibre of the people showing up in Jerusalem yesterday.I didn’t attend the demonstration, but I live in Jerusalem and I was driving around, and I saw a lot of people who were giving off good vibes, and many families, and many people who I’d just characterise as ‘good Jews’.
It’s just a shame we are still putting way too much of our precious energy and time into totally corrupt ‘politics’, instead of prayer gatherings that are called by real Tzaddikim, that have the power to really resolve our ‘problems’ at their root…
But at some point, I’m sure that the penny will also drop on that score, too, and in the meantime, it was beautiful to see so many beautiful Jews in Jerusalem. ====
Things are being sweetened all the time here, you can literally feel it. One day – we are on the brink of chaos and war and terrible things happening, and then miraculously, time and time again, it kind of just fizzles and disappears.Ashrenu, that we have real Tzaddikim protecting us, and preventing all the evil plans for more wars and holocausts.
We aren’t out of the woods yet, I know.
There are still more ‘birth pangs’ ahead, until Moshiach shows up.
But, take heart that every prayer we say, every bit of teshuva we make, every Tikkun HaKlali we recite, every minute of hitbodedut we do, every bit of Torah we learn lishma, every good deed we do, every penny of charity we give – it’s all tipping the balance, where it really counts.
And as the Rav keeps telling us, there is no decree that seven Tikkun Haklalis can’t overturn! ==== There are more scary predictions coming into my email all the time, about wars and other things.We live in complicated times.
Even my so-called ‘normal’ friends are starting to worry about war, and one of them asked me yesterday if I was stocking up on food, because she’s getting emails from her other so-called ‘normal’ friends in Israel telling her to be prepared…. It’s totally an upside-down world. I told her that until I hear from the Rav that I need to stock up on food, I’m not rushing to stock up on food.The Rav warned people to get food in, without panic, at the very beginning of the Corona plandemic.
And he warned people to get medicine in, again without panic, two summers ago. And if he makes another warning, I will be sure to let you know, as soon as I know.But in the meantime, it’s life as usual. We can’t live our lives in a constant state of fear and anxiety. There’s a real Ba’al HaBayit here Who is running the show, and is doing everything for our ultimate good, however it sometimes seems. And that’s definitely not Ben Gvir. ==== UPDATE:After I wrote this, I realised I’d seen something before about ‘600,000 people at the Gates of Jerusalem’ when I was putting together One in a Generation Volume II.
 The Million Man Atzeret-Tehillim-2-March-2014 Jerusalem-Religious Zionist Rabbanim
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Some more ideas from this: ‘Binyamin of Shklov’ I now know to be that infamous ‘Frankist Rebbe’ who continued on ‘under cover’ in the Jewish community, i.e. this guy: Benjamin Rivlin of Shklov genealogy
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He’s the direct ancestor of former President of Israel Ruvi Rivlin – and a bunch of other people who are still playing a very big part in Jewish affairs today, on both sides of the ‘religious’ and ‘secular’ aisle.Literally two days ago, I suddenly had a massive brainwave that the ‘Eliyahu Rivlin’ who is listed as ‘Benjamin of Shklov’s’ brother is none other than… the Vilna Gaon himself.
The history of the family was all re-written by a Rivlin ‘historian’ at the turn of the 20th century, to cover all this up, and the Vilna Gaon got hidden under the strange name of ‘Eliyahu Platkes Rivlin’. RIVLIN is just an anagram of VILNA. Now, go and see how many people descend from this ‘RIVLIN’ family who are literally still running Israel today. ==== If you go HERE, you’ll find that there are apparently many mysteries around the supposed tomb of the Vilna Gaon in Vilna. I’ve written about this a lot before, but very surprisingly, the Vilna Gaon is meant to have been buried in a shared grave, with a shared tombstone, with someone else, called ‘Noah Lipshutz’. This is snippet:
==== HERE is that official ‘family tree’ on Geni, stuffed full of people I’ve linked back to the ‘Frankist Family Tree’.
Interestingly, the sister of the Maggid of Mezritch, Ruhama, is also meant to have married a ‘Noach’, surnamed Altshuler , and they became the grandparents of Chabad Rebbe Number 3, the Tzemach Tzedek- (but the more I look into the history, the more I understand so many of these names are made up and deliberately decieving.) ==== And HERE is the family tree for the person I believe to be AKA the Vilna Gaon, Eliyahu Platkes Rivlin.
It leads right down to people like the Koenig family of Lubavitchers (with a Breslov ‘sprig’ in Tsfat), amongst a bunch of other people you’ve also undoubtedly heard of, including the Schneerson family of Chabad Rebbes…. So much more to unpick here… but I’m totally sick of doing it!====
One last thing: It could be that the tomb of the real ‘Vilna Gaon’, Reb Eliyahu RIVLIN / VILNER is to be found in the old cemetery of Tiberias, and not in Vilna’s Shnipistok cemetery.
Right at the back there, behind the section where all the chassidic Rebbes were buried, there’s a tomb of a mysterious ‘Reb Eli’, who is meant to be one of the Perushim who came out with the other disciples of the Vilna Gaon. Very little is known about who that mysterious ‘Reb Eli’ actually is.I think I need to go back to Tiberius, and take a closer look at his tomb again. TBC ====
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The Rav on ‘Judicial Reform’
30April2023 https://rivkalevy.com/the-rav-on-judicial-reform/ Shavua tov!The Rav made some comments about ‘Judicial Reform’ and all the protests going on last week, that I thought you might find interesting.
Translated from Shivivei Or Newsletter, Number 307: ====
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Every word of the Rav contains mountains of information and clues. But these comments were a little more ‘understandable’, even just on the basic level.
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רה״מ מסביר את הרפורמה המשפטית באנגלית / Israeli PM Binyamin Netanyahu Explains the Judicial Reform in English02August2023 http://esseragaroth.blogspot.com/2023/08/israeli-pm-binyamin-netanyahu-explains.html ט״ו לחודש החמישי תשפ״ג
English follows the Hebrew. עשר אגורות (2¢):
הנה כמה קטעים מתורגמים מהסרטון להלן. המטרה האישית של הכתבה הזו היא להסביר ליהודים בחו״ל על המצב בארץ כלפיו הרפורמה השיפוטית.
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 העמידה טבלה Table of powers assumed by the court system Hebrew version
Esser Agaroth (2¢): This interview by Mark Levin covers the judicial reform issue clearly and concisely, focusing on the “reasonableness” clause, recently cancelled by the Israeli government. The partial, self-perpetuation of Israel’s Supreme Court will be addressed by the Knesset in due course.
This illustration from Kohelet, an organization with which I often do not agree, provides a picture of just how much power Israel’s Supreme Court currently posseses.  Table of powers assumed by the court system in English version I am not a fan of Netanyahu. He is very problematic in many ways. This video is biased, and Netanyahu definitely has his ulterior motives for judicial reform. However, on this issues in this interview, I believe he is right. See the posted highlights. The Israeli Supreme Court has been running amok for years. Unfortunately, the system’s supporters have the resources and the government didn’t see it coming. (or did they? 🤔) Their bad.
That was an explanation of the first part of judicial reform in Israel, which was just passed, removing the Israeli Supreme Court’s abiity to cancel a law or other government action is fins to be [subjectively] unreasonable. In other words, distasteful to the Left. Now here is an explanation of what is truly behind the protests against the judicial reform.
Interesting that he did not give former Supreme Court President Aharon Barak any power by mentioning his name. Most Americans would not have recognized his name. Why help Barak by doing so, no matter how much feins lack of involvement in the opposition to bringing his judicial power structure down?
Politics can be complicated in Israel. You can be economically left-wing, but conservative when it comes to social issues, vice-versa, and any other possible combinations you can think of.
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Why judicial reform is essential28 Shevat 5783 | 19 February 2023 https://en.kohelet.org.il/publication/why-judicial-reform-is-essential Related Articles
 הכנסת-The Knesset Like all liberal democracies, Israel needs a strong court and independent judges who will guard the rule of law, good governance, and civil and human rights.
In the past decades, the Supreme Court has empowered itself in a manner that completely violates the balance between government branches. In a series of decisions, the Supreme Court has changed the rules of the game and arrogated for itself jurisdiction which it was not given, some of these being exceptional by international standards. Against the basic concept of rule of law according to which the Court judges according to the rules set by the legislature, the Israeli Supreme Court has designed its own rules, and unilaterally taken unauthorized power, without any public legitimacy. In parallel, the Court has adopted the position that “everything is justiciable”, transforming itself into the sole adjudicator in almost all public and political controversies, large or small. The Court has interfered in issues of foreign policy, security, economic policy, and even who will receive the Israel Prize.
Many controversial decisions taken in the past by elected officials – such as advancement of Jewish settlements, funding events in support of terrorism, or calling for anti-Israel boycotts, or even decisions regarding imposing taxes, tax benefits, private prisons or raising the prices of food essentials – have become issues that are brought to the Court’s final ruling.
The Supreme Court has invented new legal grounds to review the reasonableness of government actions and even to disqualify government appointments. It has adopted interpretations that allow it to veer from the law and the legislator’s intent. It has created new powers ex nihilo in order to strike down laws by virtue of the Basic Laws, after it declared on its own authority that the Basic Laws are a constitution – the sole such case in the world. As of late, the Supreme Court judges have begun advancing the idea that they are authorized to interfere even in the Basic Laws themselves or to strike down legislation by virtue of principles that do not appear in law – ideas that are completely rejected in other democratic countries.
This process has completely changed the status and role of the Supreme Court. Instead of the Court reviewing and checking illegal decisions taken by public officials or government entities, a critical role in a democratic country, it has become the entity that decides upon policy in place of the elected officials and authorized bodies. Even if the court chooses not to get involved in every decision, it has the ability to do so.
The Supreme Court has transformed the legal advisors – unilaterally and without any legal basis – into veto-holders over government decisions. As a result, legal advisors interfere in policy from its early stages, not due to legal reasons but rather reasons of reasonableness, proportionality and other ambiguous grounds developed or adopted by the court. Today, the legal advisors claim that they can block government legislation that they oppose, and even to prevent the Knesset from regulating their powers. A minister who decides to act in opposition to their legal counsel will find themselves defending themselves in court without legal representation, and even in a situation in which the Attorney-General argues against them. There is simply no comparison anywhere in the world.
A situation in which public value decisions are taken by jurists and not elected officials is one that violates basic democratic principles of majority rule and individuals’ ability to influence policy through choosing elected officials; a situation in which the court bends all laws, decides on the content of Basic Laws through which it strikes down legislation, and even flirts with the possibility of striking down Basic Laws – violates the principle of rule of law; and principally – a court that acts without legitimacy loses public trust, and cannot fulfil its crucial social functions.
These processes violate the democratic mechanisms, the proper functioning of government branches, and the right of each one of us to influence our fate in a democratic society.
The legal reforms announced by Justice Minister Yariv Levin seek to heal the governmental system in Israel and balance the relations between the branches. It is meant to provide a comprehensive and basic response to the aforementioned failures. It seeks to regulate the rules of the game and the balances between the branches in Israel, for the good functioning of the three branches, for the goods of Israel’s citizens and for the fortitude of the State of Israel. Table of powers assumed by the court system in English version |
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Israel’s #MeToo Stalinists celebrate their victoryAfter denying the Kohelet Policy Forum its chief donor, far-left activists have trained their sights on the Tikvah Fund.Caroline GlickCaroline B. Glick is the senior contributing editor of Jewish News Syndicate and host of the “Caroline Glick Show” on JNS. She is also the diplomatic commentator for Israel’s Channel 14, as well as a columnist for Newsweek. Glick is the senior fellow for Middle Eastern Affairs at the Center for Security Policy in Washington and a lecturer at Israel’s College of Statesmanship. (August 20, 2023 / JNS) https://www.jns.org/column/kohelet-policy-forum/23/8/20/311640 Campaigners against Israel’s Netanyahu government scored a notable victory on Aug. 4. After a six-month demonization, defamation and harassment campaign against the Kohelet Policy Forum and its chief donor, Arthur Dantchik, Dantchik, a Philadelphia businessman, announced that he was ending his support for the conservative Jerusalem think tank.
Moshe Koppel, a Bar-Ilan University professor, founded Kohelet a decade ago as a full-spectrum policy think tank. Like its opposites on the left, Kohelet has developed policies on legal reform, economics, education and welfare. Its scholars work closely with like-minded policymakers to advance their policies in government ministries and the Knesset.
In March, Kohelet became the target of a demonization campaign the likes of which Israel has never seen. Its offices were barricaded and vandalized. Its leaders were assaulted on the streets and in restaurants, and were subjected to noisy demonstrations at their homes in pre-dawn riots. Israel Defense Forces Brig. Gen. (res.) Nehemia Dagan called for the military “neutralization” of Kohelet, describing its funders as “Jews of the kind upon which the antisemitic ‘Protocols of the Elders of Zion’ was based.”
Dantchik, whose funding enabled Koppel to establish Kohelet, was subjected to a prolonged, no-holds-barred campaign in Philadelphia.
Darkenu’s billionaire funder Kobi Richter proclaimed Saturday in a radio interview that the left will succeed in its anti-government campaign because it controls the military and the economy. It will destroy the economy to force Netanyahu to comply with its demands, he added.
Fink is a central figure in the anti-government campaign. He hosted an Aug. 8 Zoom conference with more than 1,000 participants to celebrate the victory over Dantchik and Kohelet. Conference speakers were key actors behind the operation. “We cut off their oxygen”The event opener was Eran Nissan, who leads a digital leftist outfit called “Strengthening.” Nissan initiated a campaign to demonize Kohelet three years ago and his operation was the basis for the left’s successful operation this year.
“If you want to understand in one word what the Kohelet Forum is, Kohelet Forum is the right’s brain,” proclaimed Nissan, sporting a black T-shirt with “FCKBNGVR” (“f*** Ben-Gvir,” referring to Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir) emblazoned in red and white.
Basking in the success of the campaign he spearheaded, Nissan bragged, “We shut off their funding, or to put it more bluntly, the brain of the right had a stroke because we cut off their oxygen.”
The left’s demonization campaign had done its job. “Kohelet has turned into a poisonous brand, in large part because of the protests, and very much owing to the media,” said Nissan.
By demonizing Kohelet, Fink and his comrades made Dantchik embarrassed to be associated with it. But while Kohelet has been turned into a pariah, it remains a danger because “their ideas haven’t disappeared,” Nissan warned. “We have to keep sharp eyes focused on Kohelet and see what happens to this whole ecosystem.” He fingered the conservative Tikvah Fund, “Kohelet’s big sister,” as the next target. Creating a monsterShany Granot Lubaton, a fresh-faced, veteran far-left political operative in Israel who now works for J Street in New York, spoke next. Granot Lubaton organized the anti-government demonstrations in New York in May that saw expatriate Israelis ambushing, harassing and at times assaulting government ministers and senior Knesset members, who were in New York to participate in the Celebrate Israel Parade on Fifth Avenue.
Those demonstrations brought Granot Lubaton to center stage, but she has led the left’s anti-government operations in the United States since February. She also organized the slander and harassment campaign against Dantchik.
In the Zoom conference, she gushed with pride. “How great is it to see so many people here who want to celebrate and hear about our victory,” she said. “It’s something we need to mark and revel in.”
Granot Lubaton said she had identified Kohelet as “the enemy” in 2016, when she worked as a parliamentary assistant to then-opposition leader Shelly Yachimovich. “I saw how the lobbyists from Kohelet were present in every discussion against us,” she said.<
When anti-government protests began in Israel, Granot Lubaton saw an opportunity to go after donors who enable groups like Kohelet and the Tikvah Fund to think their “wrong” thoughts and discuss them in public.
She organized a group of leftist Israeli expatriates in Philadelphia, who demonstrated three times a week outside Dantchik’s home, synagogue and offices, and at an intersection near his house.
“I had to fire them up, to bring them the light. But what can I say? I created a monster,” she bragged, rolling with laughter. Granot Lubaton’s campaign against Dantchik included a full-page, derogatory ad against him in the Philadelphia Jewish Exponent. She shied away from taking credit for the ad, but proclaimed that with the ad, “We moved tectonic plates in the Jewish community of Philadelphia.”
The ad also helped “infiltrate” Dantchik’s circles and persuade him that supporting Kohelet “isn’t worth the trouble. He’s better off walking away,” she said.
Her group’s success in “breaking a billionaire’s soul” whet her appetite, and the next targets, she insisted, must be everyone associated with Kohelet—intellectuals and donors.
“We have a lot more work to defame them, to shame their people,” she said. She added that intellectuals affiliated with Kohelet “are in all the government ministries, in negotiations rooms. And the goal remains transforming Kohelet into a brand that people are embarrassed to have on their resumes.”
“I know someone who resigned from Kohelet with a top salary, because he understood it harms him professionally and he’s better off not to be mixed up in this thing,” she added, smiling broadly. “This is a great achievement of the protest. … And I think that this is a very important thing to do.”
Donors need to see Dantchik’s fate as a cautionary tale, according to Granot Lubaton. “If you give money to someone that undertakes the regime coup in Israel, we will destroy your lives,” she said. “Don’t mess with us.”
Like Nissan, Granot Lubaton said the Tikvah Fund is next on her target list. Among its many activities, the fund translates and publishes conservative books and publishes the Hebrew-language, intellectual journal Hashiloach.
In Granot Lubaton’s telling, Tikvah “funds book publishing,” and it “prints the most extreme policy papers in Israel.” So it must be destroyed. “We’ll do everything possible to push them back and prevent them from taking Israel apart,” she said. “Like a military operation”The next speaker was Eyal Naveh, whose Brothers in Arms group operates as the shock troops of the left’s political warfare campaign. Brothers in Arms is behind most of the violent attacks on government ministers, members of Knesset, ultra-Orthodox Jews and conservative intellectuals.
The group used barbed wire and garbage to barricade Kohelet’s offices in March—a criminal act that received so much support in the media that it catapulted the campaign against the think tank onto the national stage. Naveh said the assault was geared towards foreign audiences, to help demonize Dantchik.
“We planned it like a military operation. It went over great from a media coverage perspective,” he said. “We knew what we wanted to accomplish.” He added that the group wrote its banners in English and had English speakers on hand “because we had a clear goal of helping the people in the United States.”
Naveh joined the others in proclaiming the war against Kohelet ongoing. They have already prepared a harassment campaign against Aviad Bakshi, who heads Kohelet’s legal department. Justice Minister Yariv Levin credited Bakshi with helping him prepare the government’s judicial reform program. #MeToo tacticsThe final speaker, Gayil Talshir, devoted her remarks to Bakshi, whom she views as a mortal danger to Israeli progressives.
The conference placed the left’s tactics under a spotlight, demonstrating that it has adopted the tactics of the #MeToo movement.
The #MeToo movement did away with the legal process, replacing it with ground-level punishment for its targets. #MeTwo accusers went straight from accusation to execution. The only court involved was that of public opinion. And in active partnership with the media, #MeToo activists ensured that anyone targeted for destruction was destroyed.
Guy Rolnik, editor of the economics magazine The Marker, paid homage at the conference to Granot Lubaton and her followers in Philadelphia.
They realized there are better targets than politicians and understood that to destroy their political opponents, they had to destroy the latter’s ideas, according to Rolnik. So, they went to the source—the man whose funds enabled the right to produce and advance its ideas.
“Here you have a strategic understanding that there’s one person, a billionaire, who funds a great part of this process,” said Rolnik.
#MeToo’s targets were accused of committing actual crimes. Fink and his apparatchiks aren’t accusing Dantchik, the Kohelet Forum, the Tikvah Fund, academics, intellectuals and journalists on the conservative side of Israel’s ideological divide of doing anything illegal.
But he and his gang are targeting the right’s intellectual base for professional, social and financial destruction, because they dare to think, discuss and advocate on behalf of thoughts and ideas with which Fink and his comrades cannot contend intellectually.
Far from being guardians of Israeli democracy, Fink and his comrades are Stalinists. The goal of their campaign is to impose a thought police on Israel. They want all Israelis engaged in public affairs to either side with them or be silent. To this end, they impose a regime of intellectual, social and financial terror on Israeli public life.
Kohelet is far from their only target. Fink and his comrades have made massive advances in the universities, where faculty and students who support the government now live in a state of constant terror lest they be fired or failed by the commissars who run Israel’s academia.
In the Israel Defense Forces, career officers are similarly intimidated. Physicians and surgeons have joined the expanding list of professionals being subjected to intimidation and harassment by Fink and his comrades. Fink began the conference by hailing an earlier victory over the Bar Association.
On its surface, Fink’s conference was a victory lap. But in reality, it was a victory feast—on the entrails of his and his supporters’ prey, planning their next kills on their journey towards building their Stalinist utopia. There, only “the right views” will be permitted in Israel, which of course means leftist views.
“The protest isn’t the goal,” Fink proclaimed, closing the conference. “The protest is a tool for implementing a world view. We’re in the process of building infrastructures for the long haul.” |
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THE THIRD MESSIANIC WAR; THIS COULD BE IT!!!Tomer DevorahB”H [See Below:] There is a qualitative difference between what is transpiring now and what has been up until now. ** DEFENSE & SECURITY ** — IDF SURPRISE ATTACK… “Shield and Arrow” – A few hours ago the IDF attacked Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) leadership in Gaza, bombing and killing 3 top leaders, naming the operation Shield and Arrow. An additional 10 sites were bombed in Gaza per the IDF. — IDF HOME FRONT COMMAND… has declared an emergency situation within 40 km of the Gaza Strip. All outdoor activities are canceled. — IDF RESERVES… Defense Minister Gallant has approved the call up of reserves — GAZA CROSSINGS… Erez and Keren Shalom crossings are closed. — RISK…. the operation is directed against Palestinian Islamic Jihad organization and not Hamas, Hamas is out of the picture as far as Israel is concerned, will they choose to get involved? — BEN GURION…. Flights to Ben Gurion Airport were re-routed farther north to avoid risk of rocket fire. (None yet.) — HEZBOLLAH…. In Lebanon, Hezbollah has stated it is mobilizing. — ROCKETS? None so far, the funerals for the killed PIJ leaders are scheduled for right after noon prayers. Likely then? …updates as they become available. — EVACUATION FOR RESIDENTS AT SPECIAL RISK NEAR GAZA… HOME FRONT COMMAND has activated an evacuation plan for residents of near-Gaza towns & villages including Sderot who have special needs, seniors over a certain age, cancer patients, or disability over certain levels or who receive treatments or therapies. These people should expect to be contacted by their city or town officials for EVACUATION DUE TO HIGH ROCKET RISK. (source: note sent out by Sderot municipality) — PALESTINIAN NEWS SITES HACKED…. Palestinian Islamic Jihad news site Kanan News has been hacked as has PalToday and Jehad, the front pages now with a poster in Arabic showing the killed leaders and saying “Who’s next?”. ISRAEL REALTIME defense/security updates — SHECHEM (Nablus)… Situation escalating? “Reports on helicopters and helicopters participating in the activity in Nablus. Mosques calling on fighters confront the IDF. According to the Arab reports, such a large amount of forces has not been seen in Shechem for many months. Dozens of armed men are involved in shooting against IDF forces.” — PIJ KILLED LEADERS WERE HEADING TO EGYPT? According to reports, the three individuals have been in hiding for the past few days out of fear of assassination. They have recently resurfaced to join a delegation of political bureau members from the Islamic Jihad, to attend a convention of the movement’s elected officials from outside the Gaza Strip and West Bank. They emerged from hiding to bid farewell to their families in their homes after receiving permission from Egypt to leave through the Rafah crossing to Cairo. However, during this time, they were attacked and killed. — JETS OVERHEAD… IDF jets heard loudly overhead in southern Israel. Fly safe, be successful! Will the Third Messianic War Arrive with Mashiach ben Yosef?27 Adar II 5779 02 April 2019 In light of this news from yesterday’s Debka (Egypt’s Israeli-Hamas deal further shakes Jordan’s Hashemite throne), I am reposting something I wrote five years ago…
 Israel and Judah Map Like Mashiach’s arrival, just because it is delayed doesn’t mean it’s never going to happen! |
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 JerusalemCats Comments: As the Proxy war in Ukraine has proved. Israel like NATO can not survive with the IDF Generals and IDF Technology. It is the yeshivas that protect Israel and not the Iron Dome. Hashem is our protection.תהילים פרק כח: אֵ֣לֶּה בָ֭רֶכֶב וְאֵ֣לֶּה בַסּוּסִ֑ים וַֽאֲנַ֓חְנוּ בְּשֵׁם־יְהוָ֖ה אֱלֹהֵ֣ינוּ נַזְכִּֽיר׃Psalm 20:7 These trust in chariots and these in horses, but we call on the name of HASHEM our God. |
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 JerusalemCats-tweet-4May2023-Israel like NATO can not survive with the IDF Generals and IDF Technology
‘Technical error’ caused Iron Dome to malfunction during Gaza terror onslaughtSeveral rockets hit residential areas in Sderot, including one that wounded three persons.https://www.jns.org/technical-error-caused-iron-dome-to-malfunction-during-gaza-terror-onslaught/ (May 4, 2023 / JNS) A “technical error” caused a malfunction in the Iron Dome missile defense system during Tuesday’s conflagration with Palestinian terrorists in the Gaza Strip, an Israel Air Force investigation found.
During a barrage on Tuesday afternoon, several rockets hit populated areas in Sderot, including one that wounded three foreign nationals working on a construction site.
A ceasefire that took effect early Wednesday ended 24 hours of fighting during which more than 100 rockets were fired at the Jewish state.
The IAF said Thursday that the interception rate of rockets headed for populated areas during the flare-up was nevertheless 90.5%.
The exchange erupted early Tuesday morning when senior Palestinian Islamic Jihad operative Khader Adnan died in an Israeli prison after an 87-day hunger strike.
Thereafter, terrorists in Gaza fired four projectiles at Israel, which responded later in the afternoon by shelling Hamas targets in the Palestinian enclave. Following the IDF strikes, barrage after barrage of rockets were fired from Gaza into southern Israel, setting off warning sirens in numerous communities for the remainder of the day and overnight.
Amid the ongoing rocket fire, the IDF began striking terror assets in Gaza, including military compounds, weapons manufacturing sites and depots, a subterranean attack tunnel and training grounds.
Both Hamas and Islamic Jihad took responsibility for the rocket fire, the worst such outbreak since a conflict in August 5-7 of last year. |
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US’ banning of Israeli entities in Judea & Samaria – boomerang19July2023 https://theettingerreport.com/us-banning-of-israeli-entities-in-judea-samaria-boomerang/ Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger, “Second Thought: a US-Israel Initiative” State Department policy*The June 2023 banning of all Israeli research and scientific entities in East Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) and the Golan Heights from the mutually-beneficial US-Israel binational commercial research and development projects, such as BIRD, BARD and BSF, reflects the return of the State Department to the center stage of foreign policy making.
*This ban is consistent with the State Department’s systematically erroneous and counterproductive policy on critical Middle East issues, as documented by this video and this article. For example: *The State Department provided an essential tailwind to the Ayatollahs’ rise to power in Iran and the toppling of the Shah, who was “America’s policeman in the Gulf.” Foggy Bottom contended that the Ayatollahs would be moderate, anti-Soviet, pro-US, preoccupied with tractors and not with tanks, and refrain from the global exportation of the Islamic Revolution….
*The State Department considered Saddam Hussein as a potential ally (until the day of his 1990 invasion of Kuwait), worthy of an intelligence-sharing agreement, financial assistance, and the supply of advanced dual-use systems. It communicated to the ruthless despot that a military invasion of Kuwait would be treated as an intra-Arab matter.
*Foggy Bottom welcomed the 2010 turbulence on the Arab Street – which is still raging – as a “Facebook and youth revolution” and the “Arab Spring,” failing to realize that it has been an Arab Tsunami.
*The State Department establishment has opposed the Abraham Accords because they bypassed the Palestinian issue, centering on Arab interests,. However, all of the State Department’s own peace initiatives have crashed on the rocks of Middle East reality, because they dwelt on the superficial assumption that the Palestinian issue was the crux of the Arab-Israeli conflict, a crown jewel of Arab policy making and a core cause of regional turbulence.
*Since January 2021, the State Department has resumed its role as the chief foreign policy maker, as evidenced by the shift from unilateral policy making – based on an independent US national security action – to multilateral policy making, seeking a common denominator with the anti-US UN and international organizations, as well as with Europe, which has lost its will to flex a muscle against Iran’s Ayatollahs and Sunni Islamic terrorism.
*In July 2023, reflecting its multilateral policy, the US rejoined UNESCO, following the 2011 congressional suspension of the annual US contribution to the organization, and the 2018 US withdrawal from UNESCO for falsely disclaiming the 4,000-year-old Jewish roots in the Golan Heights, East Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria – the cradle of Jewish history, religion, culture and language, as documented by a litany of archeological findings throughout the area. In fact, the rejoining of UNESCO commits the US to transfer to UNESCO all its arrears, which amount to some $600mn. Legal status of Israel’s presence in Judea and SamariaThe State Department claims that banning Israeli research and scientific entities in Judea and Samaria from the mutually beneficial US-Israel binational commercial research and development projects is consistent with international law. The State Department claims that international law considers Judea and Samaria an “illegal occupied” area, and that the UN Security Council Resolution 242 mandates an Israeli withdrawal from Judea and Samaria. Is it true? *According to Prof. Eugene Rostow, a former Dean of Yale University Law School and Undersecretary of State, who co-authored the November 22, 1967 UN Security Council Resolution 242: “[Under international law], Jews have the same right to settle in the West Bank as they have in Haifa…. [According to Resolution 242], Israel is required to withdraw ‘from territories,’ not from ‘the territories,’ nor from ‘all the territories,’ but from some of the territories, which included the West Bank, East Jerusalem, the Gaza Strip, the Sinai Desert and the Golan Heights…. Proposed resolutions calling for withdrawal from ‘all the territories’ were defeated in the Security Council and the General Assembly…. Israel was not to be forced back to the fragile and vulnerable 8-15-mile-wide lines… but to ‘secure and recognized’ boundaries, agreed to by the parties…. In making peace with Egypt in 1979, Israel withdrew from the entire Sinai… [which amounts to] more than 90% of the territories….”
*Judge Stephen M. Schwebel, a former President of the International Court of Justice, Deputy Legal Advisor at the State Department and Prof. of International Law at Johns Hopkins University stated: “[The 1967] Israeli conquest of territory was defensive rather than aggressive… as indicated by Egypt’s prior closure of the Straits of Tiran, the blockade of the port of Eilat and the amassing of troops in Sinai… [and] Jordan-initiated hostilities against Israel…. Jordan’s annexation of the West Bank and the Old City of Jerusalem in the 1950 were unlawful…. Modification of the 1949 armistice lines [by Israel] were lawful….” *The legal status of Judea and Samaria is embedded in the following binding internationally ratified documents: <The November 2, 1917 Balfour Declaration, which called for “the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people [on both sides of the Jordan River]…. Nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine….;” <The April 24, 1920 San Remo Peace Conference of the Allied Powers Supreme Council, which incorporated the Balfour Declaration, and carved the boundaries of over 20 countries in the Middle East; <The July 24, 1922 Mandate for Palestine, ratified by the Council of the League of Nations, and dedicated exclusively to Jewish national rights; <The October 24, 1945 Article 80 of the UN Charter incorporated the Mandate for Palestine, which means that Jewish rights in Palestine are legal and may not be transferred; <The November 29, 1947 General Assembly Partition Resolution was non-binding and superseded by the Mandate for Palestine. The bottom line*The State Department’s determination that Israel’s presence in Judea and Samaria constitutes “illegal occupation” has been based on mistaken and misleading interpretation of international law. This determination has yielded false expectations among rogue elements in the Middle East (e.g., Palestinian and Hezbollah terrorists and Iran’s rogue Ayatollahs), which has undermined the attempts to minimize regional instability and advance the cause of peaceful coexistence.
*The decision to punish Israel, by blackballing research institutions in Judea and Samaria – while courting the rogue Ayatollahs, the Muslim Brotherhood and the hate-education Palestinian Authority – is interpreted as an erosion of US’ regional stature by pro-US Arab regimes, such as Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt. These regimes have expanded their defense and commercial cooperation with Israel irrespective of the Palestinian issue. In additon, they have also been subjected to US pressure; they oppose the US diplomatic option toward Iran’s Ayatollahs, and are concerned about the lack of a determined US response to Iran’s aggression (which has pushed them closer to China and Russia). |
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JerusalemCats Comments: The only Questions is, Who is going to send the International Criminal Court to HELL, Israel or Russia? 
Reasonableness bill will not endanger IDF soldiers at ICC – KoheletKontorovich said the ICC has no jurisdiction over IDF soldiers regardless of the status of Israel’s local courts.Published: 19July2023  The International Criminal Court in The Hague. INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL Court, The Hague.
During debates about the reasonableness standard bill in the Constitution, Law, and Justice Committee, opposition members have repeatedly warned that the passing of the legislation would lead to IDF soldiers being brought to stand trial before international legal forums.
The chief argument made by opposition members center on the principle of complementarity, the idea that international courts are supplemental to local courts, and that they only have jurisdiction when the local judiciaries are unable to prosecute war crimes and other criminal action because they are unable or unwilling, and are not independent or lack the authority or power.
Opposition members contend that if the reasonableness bill were to pass, the independence and power of the Israeli courts would be altered in a way that the ICC would feel that it had the right to bring itself to bear on IDF soldiers, officers, and officials accused of crimes.
Kontorovich told The Jerusalem Post that the ICC has no jurisdiction regardless of the status of Israel’s local courts. Across Israel’s political factions for the last 20 years, the view has been that the court has no right to judge Israelis. Israel has not ratified the Rome Statute to become a party to the ICC.
“The issue is not whether the ICC should prosecute us if we’re naughty or prosecute us if we’re nice,” said Kontorovich. “Under Israel’s view, the ICC is an illegitimate international tribunal. It is not a lawfully constituted court. It is just something that has no connection with Israel. Israel has not accepted its jurisdiction, and it has absolutely no authority to exercise that jurisdiction over Israel, especially in the way that it is trying to do about issues involving Gaza and the West Bank, which are not even a country capable of joining the ICC.”
IDF soldiers won’t be arrested abroadIDF soldiers wouldn’t be arrested in other states that were a party to the convention and brought to The Hague, said Kontorovich, as jurisdiction was about authority over where the alleged crime occurred.
Kontorovich said the argument by the opposition lent legitimacy to the ICC, and while he didn’t want to exaggerate the danger, undermined Israel’s ability to push back.
Kontorovich also noted that even if the court had jurisdiction, ostensibly revolutionary changes to Israel’s legal system would not actually change the ICC’s conduct toward Israel.
“They have a clearly anti-Israel agenda, which means they’re probably going to act against us anyway, and they should not be treated as an impartial act,” said Kontorovich. “The ICC has said that it is going to exercise jurisdiction and has advanced an investigation through several important phases until it had, two years ago, opened a full investigation, completely undeterred by the lack of judicial reform. If Israel’s current judicial system in all of its details is truly some kind of Iron Dome against international lawfare, why has it been raining ICC actions against us? The ICC has taken numerous steps opposed by the Israeli government with no regard to the functioning of our legal system.”
Bias aside, Kontorovich that the perception of the ICC as global police rooting out wrongdoing is incorrect – it has only convicted 10 people in its 20-year history. Independence of the courts was not actually enough of a factor to motivate the ICC.
“It is not about any details of the legal system,” explained Kontorovich. “It is not even about judicial independence. There are countries that completely lack judicial independence where the ICC has found complementarity satisfied. For example: The African country of Guinea, where, according to the US State Department, there is no judicial independence and massive corruption. The own internal investigations of crimes in Guinea were thought to be adequate by the ICC. The ICC does not look into the details of how the legal system functions – which is not surprising because it has members from all over the world.”
Kontorovich continued to argue that independence of the courts was not impacted by the reasonableness bill in the first place.
“Reasonableness has nothing to do with criminal prosecutions. It’s principally about appointments of officials and administrative action. It’s not about investigating people for crimes. You can’t prosecute someone for not being reasonable,” said Kontorovich.
The ICC’s investigations, the Kohelet fellow said, also had nothing to do with crimes, but were lawfare initiatives of the Palestinian Authority to have settlements ruled illegal.
In the Law Committee sessions, opposition members have argued that the reasonableness standard also created a requirement for officials to be reasonable in their decision-making and explain their reasoning. IDF soldiers, they said, relied on this guardrail to ensure that the orders and guidelines given to them were in fact reasonable, and would not lead them to commit crimes. Kontorovich rejected this idea, saying Israel’s laws and regulations on military conduct already guided such actions.
“Reasonableness is something that only kicks in after all actual legal requirements have been exhausted. The argument of reasonableness is, ‘you have complied with all of the laws, but still, we think it was bad what you did, even though it’s completely legal.’ You don’t need reasonableness if something actually violates a law,” said Kontorovich.
“Israel has a complicated system of military justice, which criminalizes things that are illegal under the Geneva Convention and basically requires soldiers to comply with the law of war. It’s hard to imagine something which complies with the law of war, but is unreasonable and is so obviously unreasonable that you would rather trust the judgment of the courts over commanders, even though it complies with international law.”
Kontorovich said the Israeli consensus was that the ICC isn’t legitimate, and shouldn’t be honored as an institution of international justice based on how one felt about domestic policy like judicial reform.
Kohelet has advocated for judicial reform for over a decade and advised the current government on the proposed reform legislation.
 Lt. Col. (R) Peter Lerner-tweet-11August2023-This morning in Yedioth Ahronot  bogeyman
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Attempting to Pre-Empt MashiachPosted by Devorah Chayah http://palmtreeofdeborah.blogspot.com/2023/07/attempting-to-pre-empt-mashiach.html 8 Av 5783 26 July 2023 As is now known, the disruptions in Israeli society were planned years ago and it is part of a greater agenda. This is the Israeli “Spring”. And nothing is really as it seems. “The most right-wing, religious government in Israel’s history” – FAKE NEWS! “Netanyahu is a dictator” – FAKE NEWS! “This is the death of democracy in Israel” – FAKE NEWS! From the mass of silver tents to the mass of red costumes to the black covers of the newspapers (and more) a lot of money has flowed into this effort. And if you want to know the truth, just think the opposite of what you read in the media. Is Biden really upset with Bibi? Is the US really concerned about what’s happening here? Since it’s all fake, then I have to conclude that their staged reaction is also fake. It’s all a show and Bibi is the knowing fall guy. It’s a fake falling out between the US and Israel in order to inspire fear and manipulate Israelis into self-destructive behavior which will give the powers that be an excuse to insert themselves further into our business. They’ve even gone as far as to orchestrate a lowered credit rating, a fall in stock value and the decline of the sheqel! And why? Because they want to discredit Judaism, and religious Jews in particular. See Ben Gvir put front and center as the embodiment of the danger “messianism” poses to the “liberal democracy,” which itself was the result of the first attempt at preventing Mashiach from coming. Ben Gvir will instantly be recognized by the Christian/Western world as representative of Judas the Betrayer, or one of those loathed Pharisees. And even though Ben Gvir has no real power (everyone has refused to follow his instructions), media reports, both here and abroad, find a way to lay the blame for all the troubles at his feet, and by extension, those whom he represents.
See all that they are capable of doing in an attempt to quash the pathway down which Mashiach will come. They want a civil war here. They are instigating a civil war here. That’s why Olmert is announcing to the world that there is a civil war here. But it’s FAKE NEWS!
Have any of you wondered why two national traumas have occurred at this particular time of year for the Jews – the “vote” taken yesterday and the expulsion from Gush Katif in 2005. The pressure was built higher and higher until it culminated right at Tisha b’Av. Why? A very wise woman told me, and I agree with her, that it is because we, as a people, are most cognizant at this time of year of the danger and peril of sinat chinam and lack of unity. Their plan was to do these evil deeds right when we were most vulnerable to the charges of sinat chinam and disunity, and it would hamper any impulse on our part to fight them.
This is the army of the Sitra Achra trying to pre-empt Mashiach’s arrival and prevent the redemption which marks the end of their reign of terror over humanity. This is surely what was spoken of in Kol HaTor (Ch. 2, Part 2:2):
Let’s enter our fast, if fast we must, with a determination to do a complete teshuvah and dedicate ourselves to the war which lies before us, the war which Mashiach ben Yosef will lead in what I sincerely and desperately hope are the coming days and weeks. Amen!!
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You Are Being Tested26July2023 https://drybonesblog.blogspot.com/2023/07/you-are-being-tested.html
 DryBones: fight baseless hatred Celebrate this special Tisha B’Av by NOT Hating the “Side” that you disagree with! And, hey, how about forwarding Tisha B’Av greetings to someone you don’t agree with? Donate |
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More ‘the year we beat sinat chinam’ – in action28July2023 https://rivkalevy.com/more-the-year-we-beat-sinat-chinam-in-action/ A commentator left this on the bottom of the last post.It had a very profound effect on me, so I’m giving it its own post. And let me add a story that I heard from one of my daughter’s friends – a Shomronista, a ‘settler-ite’ – who got caught in terrible traffic in Jerusalem because of the ‘Left Wing’ protests against *judicial reform*.
She’d come out specially for the day with her sister, to have some time in the holy city – and then they spent hours and hours in the heat, caught in a massive traffic jam because the roads were blocked. So what did she do?She had to cancel the trip she’d planned….she went and found a candy store close by when she finally got out of the traffic jam….where she bought a ton of sweets….which she then took back and distributed to the ‘Left Wing’ protestors who were blocking the street. When I heard this, I told her: You have no idea, what awful decrees you just sweetened with your actions! This girl single-handedly diffused 5 billion tons of ‘sinat chinam’ – the sin that Chazal taught destroyed the Second Temple, and THE MAIN REASON WE ARE STILL IN EXILE TODAY.Other people can have different opinions about that, but then they are going AGAINST Chazal…
There’s a long list of people that go against Chazal about a bunch of stuff…. Each person can decide for themselves if that works for them or not. ==== So now, here is what got posted up on the previous post, in the comments section.At the end of the day, the people who preach hatred of their fellow Jew – even if they have big beards and big yichus and big ‘Toyrah Learning’ – they are just as much part of the real problem as the ‘Lefties’ who preach hate against their fellow Jews.
A real Jew is kind and compassionate. They don’t preach ‘hatred of the other’, even what that other is definitely doing hate-filled, despicable things.We can hate the ACTIONS, but we can’t hate the people.
That’s a denial of God, and a denial that God is running the world, and just using all these horrible people as sticks in His hand, to encourage US to change something within ourselves. That’s the whole point of all of this – our own personal teshuva.(I know that people who have made it a ‘mitzvah’ to hate other Jews won’t agree. Those people are totally entitled to their opinions. But my soul is very weary of having to deal with their hate and never-ending anger in my comments section….) ==== And now, here’s what I got sent.Yesh Tikva! And the birur continues. ====
==== Please, please, send me more of this ‘good news’ if you come across it.There are way more people pulling for peace and unity, than there are haters and dividers. Just, the haters and dividers shout the loudest, and get the most air time. So whatever we can do to ‘even that up’, let’s do it!Together. TBC ==== |
