The Massively Well Funded Protest Movement in Israel

 The massively well-funded protests against the plans for Judicial Reform are super organized and coordinated with mass media in Israel in order to literally drive the masses into hysteria, no matter what the ramifications. On this level, they are clearly succeeding.

The protest organizers are succeeding in giving off the impression of a country that is split down the middle on the question of Israel’s future. Should Israel be a western democratic State or a primitive religious country that tramples on the supremacy of law? That is what they want you to think this is all truly about.

What is it really about? Power, jealousy and yes, it is also about the rule of democracy vs. the rule of the mob.

The protesters are well-funded, in the tens of millions of dollars, with one clear goal in mind – to bring down Netanyahu and the right-wing – whatever the cost. The left wing of Israel dominated Israeli politics from 1948 till 1977, and has never truly accepted that in 1977, everything changed. The silent majority of Sephardic Jews, Jews from Arab Lands, shifted to the right in a tectonic shift that has stood until today. From 1977 till 1996, the left-wing did rise to power twice. But both times, it was a with a razor thin majority or via a tie in the general elections.

Afterwards, the only truly left-wing Prime Minister that was elected in an election that was clearly won by the left was Ehud Barak. He presided over a terrifying and embarrassing few years of constant terror across the State of Israel by Arab terrorists. He was unable to restore any sense of calm or order – for years. Thousands of Israelis were killed with weapons that the previous left-wing government under Yitzhak Rabin had supplied them. All of this was done with the clear support of the completely politicized judiciary that cleared the way of any legal obstacles to arming Israel’s enemies. Was the Judiciary actually responsible? Yes.

Barak was democratically kicked out of office in the next election in a massive shift to the right. Israel was fed up with the weakness of left-wing leaders, and would never elect a left-wing Prime Minister till today. It has been 20 years. The left wing of Israel knows this. They can’t win democratically anymore because 65-70% of Israel’s Jewish population is right-wing. Netanyahu’s reputation as a strong leader has allowed him to be reelected time and again into the seat of the Prime Minister. Ehud Barak has been jealous of this for decades.

The battle today is indeed about power and is driven by jealousy. But at its core, it is a culture war. The protesters don’t care as much about democracy as they care about losing power. They support a secular, non-Jewish country, and are willing to be violent and fight their own brethren in order to not lose control. Only one side truly cares about the unity of the Jewish people. That side will win, but only when they overtake the left-wing’s massive PR battle.

There are many examples of interference by the judiciary without any legal backing

1. When politicians make a political appointment that the legal system disagrees with the legal system cancels the appointment.

2. When politicians try to fire someone that the legal system disagrees with the legal system freezes the termination.

3. When right-wing elected governments want to pass laws that the activist-leftist judicial system disagrees with, the legal system kills the bill during the legislative process or has the Supreme Court annul the law.

4. When a left-wing elected government makes an international decision without Knesset approval even though according to law it requires Knesset approval the legal establishment approves the deal without problems.

5. While Israeli law forbids terror-supporters from serving in Israel’s parliament the Supreme Court constantly allows terror-supporting Arab Muslim representatives to serve in Israel’s parliament.

 

‘Why does my son have to pay for a political protest?’

 Just how low can the protest movement against Judicial Reform stoop? In fact it is now quite clear that the main objective is to bring the government of Natenyahu down,

‘Why does my son have to pay for a political protest?’- Israel’s medical strike denies child critical surgery

 “I sat with my wife in the hospital lobby, on the verge of tears,” says father of 8-year-old denied lung surgery. “How far will they go?”

An Israeli father and mother were left fuming after their son was denied crucial lung surgery due to a strike called by the Israeli Medical Association as an act of protest over the passage of a bill restricting the Supreme Court’s powers.

Although the Medical Association pledged that the strike would not hurt patients, numerous people were denied surgeries and treatments for which they had waited months.

Asher and Rebecca Ilovitch arrived at Schneider Children’s Hospital in Petah Tikvah on Tuesday morning with their eight-year-old son, who has special needs, for lung surgery. Because the procedure is performed under general anaesthesia, their son had been fasting since the previous night.

But the parents were shocked to learn that their son would not undergo surgery, nor would he be able to see a doctor, due to the strike.

“We arrived at the lung department after taking a day off and mentally prepared ourselves to support Lavi, our sweet son,” Asher Ilovitch told Ynet.

“The secretaries apologized and explained that the operation was canceled because of the strike, and told us that the hospital management forbade them to call and inform the parents that they shouldn’t come to the hospital and that the children could stop fasting.”

Ilovitch said that the night before the surgery, shortly after the passage of the law, they had called the hospital to confirm that the surgery was still taking place. At the time, the hospital told them that the procedure would happen, he said.

“I want my son’s doctor to look me in the eyes and tell me why my son has to pay for their political protest,” Ilovitch said.

“How does this action save my son? I want to see [the doctor] shut down his private clinic – of course he won’t do that. How did we get to the point where public medicine is working to block medical treatment? I sat with my wife in the hospital lobby, on the verge of tears. How far will they go?”

Rebecca Ilovitch told Walla that “it’s possible to debate and argue and express an opinion. But there are red lines that can’t be crossed.

“Healthcare and providing medical services to the helpless are [above all.] Who will promise me that my son’s health will not deteriorate because the operation was postponed?

“Who will pay me for the days of work I missed? And above all, who will compensate us for the difficult feeling and heartache with which we left the hospital in shame?”

Exposed: Ex-premier Ehud Barak ‘detailed plans to bring down government 3 years ago’

A 2020 video reveals the ex-Israeli premier’s “master plan” to take power, according to Israeli Public Diplomacy Minister Galit Distel Atbaryan.

Israel’s Public Diplomacy Minister Galit Distel Atbaryan (Likud) on Friday exposed what she claimed was the plan of former prime minister Ehud Barak to bring down the government.

In the Twitter post, the Likud lawmaker describes an interview with Barak from July 2020 on Forum 555, a group of retired pilots and navigators.

In the interview, Barak detailed his “master plan” for creating civil unrest in a future coalition, she said, such as the one currently being led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, which since the start of the year has faced unrelenting opposition to its judicial reform initiative.

Atbaryan summarized the interview, which she reminded readers occurred a few years before the current right-wing and religious coalition took power and began its push to reform the judicial branch.

The plan, she said, included deliberately inflaming the civilian population, creating a false representation of a danger to democracy, and bankrolling protests, including purchasing flags.

Asked during the interview about a possible reprise of the “success of 1999,” when he was elected prime minister, Barak said, “A friend of mine, a historian, once told me, ‘Ehud, they will call you when bodies are floating in the Yarkon River.’ I wish to stress: not the bodies of illegally residing Palestinians from the territories will be floating, and not Israeli Arabs. The floating bodies will be of Jews that were killed by Jews.”

He went on to say that should Netanyahu somehow disappear from the scene, and should Israel’s situation worsen on various fronts, that “I am more suitable and prepared than any other person in the country to take the wheel.”

In an address to London-based think tank Chatham House in March, Barak went into detail regarding how protests could bring down a government.

The politician said he was sure his side would win “because I know our people, and we have even empirical evidence for this.”

He referred to the research of professor Erica Chenoweth and political scientist Maria J. Stephan, who co-authored the 2012 book, “Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict.”

Barak said the two researchers looked at hundreds of civil protests from 1900 to 2006, and “they found a common denominator”—protests that succeeded included 3.5% of the population, or roughly 8% of the adult population, and “tenaciously and persistently” kept up the protests, boycotts and civil disobedience.

“At the end the government either falls or capitulates,” said Barak. “We already crossed this number in less than three months so we are heading in the right direction.”

Barak in a Twitter post published on Friday claimed that the video interview being shared was incomplete and that it didn’t reveal any new information. ’ There is nothing new in this ‘fascinating discovery’. I have repeated this story at least three times live in the past.”

Commenting on the anti-reform protests, renowned attorney Alan Dershowitz, who believes that “compromise is essential” and is not right-wing, stated in March that the mass demonstrations in fact have nothing to do with Israel’s judicial system and are “all about trying to undo the [November 2022] election, this is all about Netanyahu.”

1,000 Haredi Combat Reservists Condemn the Refusal to Serve.

 

More than a thousand fighters and commanders from the Netzah Yehuda Battalion, Haredi companies Hetz and Tomers, and Haredi veterans of the Military Intelligence and Air Force on Thursday sent a letter to the Defense Minister and the IDF Chief of Staff, stating that they are ready to serve at any time and without conditions and even extend the number of their reserve service days in keeping with the security needs of the State of Israel.

The petition came from the Netzah Yehuda Veterans group, and the Derech Ahim group of Haredi combat veterans, following the Chief of Staff’s comments on the critical need to separate political debate from the security challenges of the State of Israel, where he stressed the need to defend the northern border which is heating up these days.

“There are hundreds of us who paid and these days are paying a heavy price on the family and social level for the decision to enlist in the IDF, sometimes as lone soldiers. Nevertheless, we never imagined using the merit we received to try and use it to involve the security of the state in political issues from any side,” the Haredi veterans wrote.

They concluded: “The security of Israel is above everything else. We declare our commitment to volunteer and serve, at any time and in any task that is required, routine and emergency, for the sake of the people and the State of Israel.”

AND THST IS SHOWING CONCERN FR THE STATE OF ISRAEL - WELL DONE

 

Biden attacks Israeli judiciary reform, then he & Democrats undermine US Supreme Court

In recent weeks, U.S. President Joe Biden called the Supreme Court ruling that he lacked the authority to waive student debt “wrong,” adding, “This fight is not over.” When the Supreme Court ruled that affirmative action in higher education is unconstitutional, Biden said, “This is not a normal court.” 

“We cannot let this decision be the last word. I want to emphasize: We cannot let this decision be the last word,” Biden added. Vice President Kamala Harris said another recent Supreme Court decision “threatens future progress.”

The Biden administration has often stated that “trust in our democracy and democratic institutions” is essential. “Toxic polarization is increasing across society and Americans’ trust in institutions and in one another is decreasing,” it stated in December 2021.

H.R.3422, the Judiciary Act of 2023, which seeks to expand the Supreme Court from nine to 12 judges, has drawn 63 signatures since it was introduced nearly two months ago. It and the way Biden and Democrats talk about the Supreme Court threaten democratic institutions more than does Israeli judicial reform, which Biden and his administration target frequently.

“Packing the U.S. Supreme Court would do far more to undermine the judiciary than the judicial reforms proposed by Israel,” Alan Dershowitz, the Harvard Law School professor emeritus and prominent litigator and commentator, told JNS.

‘Breathtaking’ usurpation

Zack Smith, a legal fellow and manager of the Supreme Court and appellate advocacy program at The Heritage Foundation, told JNS that the justices which former President Donald Trump appointed to the U.S. high court and the judicial reforms underway in Israel seek to return the systems to interpreting law as written.

“In Israel, the Supreme Court has usurped power to a breathtaking extent,” Smith said.

Jenin - 'A Remarkable achievement unprecedented in modern warfare'

 (With thanks to Israel National News)

Colonel Richard Kemp, the former commander of the British military forces in Afghanistan, spoke recently about the complete avoidance of civilian fatalities over two days in Jenin. This constitutes a "remarkable achievement by the IDF," which is "probably unprecedented in modern warfare."

"To conduct an operation of such intensity in an urban area without killing any uninvolved civilians at all is a remarkable achievement by the IDF and probably unprecedented in modern warfare. Casualty ratios in most such operations have often been 3 to 5 civilians killed for every fighter, and that is by Western armies that do their best to avoid civilian casualties and adhere to the laws of war," he explained, adding: "I doubt any other army in the world would be able to achieve what the IDF did in Jenin."

Col. Kemp noted that avoiding civilian casualties in a terrorist stronghold such as Jenin "is even more remarkable given that the terrorists in Jenin hid behind the civilian population, used human shields and deliberately tried to lure the IDF into killing civilians in order to attract world condemnation."

Kemp responded to UN Secretary-General António Guterres, who told reporters at the UN that Israel used “excessive force” : "Guterres is wrong to accuse the IDF of using disproportionate force as the facts very clearly show. Proportionality in warfare only refers to the killing and wounding of innocent civilians in relation to the military objective. No innocent civilians were killed. We don’t know how many uninvolved civilians were wounded by IDF fire, but the death rate strongly indicates that IDF action was the opposite of disproportionate."

Sven Kuehn von Burgsdorff, the European Union (EU) representative to Palestinian Authority-assigned territories, went even further than the UN Secretary-General, calling the operation a "violation of international law." In response to Burgsdorff's accusation, Col. Kemp said: "Burgdsdorff needs to explain which international laws were violated by the IDF. The IDF used no weapons or tactics in Jenin that are banned under international law.

 

The Real Facts of the Jenin Operation

 Before examining the implications of the IDF’s two-day special counter-terrorism operation in Jenin, here are the outcomes as a result of IDF activities in and around the area of operation;

- 300 terror suspects were questioned, and of them, 30 were arrested.
- 14 apartments used for terror activities and control rooms were identified and demolished.
- 6 bomb-making labs were destroyed
- 300 ready-to-use explosive devices were neutralized by the IDF.
- 10 landmines, 24 M-26 rifles, 8 handguns, hundreds of bullets, tens of kilograms of chemicals for preparing explosives, 6 tunnel shafts, and 2 hidden weapons storage centers were all uncovered. Dozens of kilograms of chemical materials for making explosives were confiscated.
- Hundreds of thousands of terror funds were confiscated.
- 0 Palestinian civilians killed
- 12 Palestinian terror operatives killed
- 1 IDF soldier killed 

These numbers are a testament to the IDF’s ability to enter a deeply hostile, heavily populated sector filled with explosives, IEDs, and terrorist gunmen, a hornet’s nest of terrorism, and to exit without harming noncombatants with only one IDF soldier killed.

A simple explanation can be the fact that the terrorist gunmen of Jenin made the decision early on to go into hiding after losing their motivation to confront the IDF’s elite units, who were coming at them from multiple directions, and were backed by UAV air power. Hence, the operation focused on weaponry and less on terrorists.

There is reasoning behind this. It looks like during the past decades, IDF developed counter-terror techniques that don't include features of a military ground campaign that we have seen in other arenas like Gaza and Lebanon in the past. Such as artillery cannon fire and tank maneuvers. This is one of the reasons why the IDF was able to keep this operation so surgical and precise. However, this operation was tactical and not broad in scale also in regard to its goals, and this is important to keep in mind for future scenarios.

Over a thousand weapons confiscated in Jenin

 

IDF, Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet), and Israel Border Police forces have thus far confiscated over a thousand weapons in Jenin, among them explosive devices, ammunition, guns and explosives facilities.

As of 7:00p.m. on Tuesday evening, Israel's security forces have accomplished the following in Jenin:

* 14 wanted suspects’ hideouts and operational situation rooms used for terrorist activity were located and thwarted by security forces.

* 6 explosives manufacturing facilities were located and dismantled, in which over 300 explosives, explosives manufacturing materials, and additional weapons were located.

* Three operational situation rooms used as terrorist infrastructure were thwarted.

* 10 explosive devices, 24 “8” rifles, M16 rifles, and hundreds of bullets for a diverse number of weapons were confiscated and neutralized.

* Hundreds of thousands of shekels in terror funds were confiscated.

* Dozens of kilograms of chemical materials for making explosives were confiscated.

* Six underground shafts and two weapon pits identified with a terrorist organization containing large quantities of weapons were located.

The weapons were located in hideouts, a mosque, pits concealed in civilian areas, operational situation rooms, and in vehicles.

Imam Shocked Everyone With These Comments About The West

 

Imam Tawhidi  speaking about the future of Europe and the West gives the following analysis.  Around 5-10 years ago, Europe became flooded with immigrants from the Middle East. Most of these refugees were not merely running away from misery and war-torn areas. They were running to freedom, free handouts, and free health care in countries that they thought would be better for them to live in.

Is it so bad to let in tens of thousands of immigrants? Isn’t that what helped build up America into becoming a superpower? Doesn’t every normal person want more freedom? Aren’t these people more or less the same as everyone in the West? Don’t we owe it to humanity to do our part to help the downtrodden?

Those are a sampling of the typical arguments that many voiced back when the influx began. There is logic to those arguments. But there is more logic in the arguments against allowing unbridled immigration into the European Union.

First of all, the European Union has many countries that are dealing with negative population growth. This is due to many factors, especially the breakdown of the traditional family unit. The solution to that problem is not to bring in foreigners who have more children. The solution is a return to tradition and rejection of so-called alternative lifestyles as accepted norms. That sounds old-fashioned and non-progressive. It is. But if we don’t return to our senses, and accept that normality is not two men raising a baby or two women raising a baby, but a father and a mother raising a baby, then we are deciding to rip apart the most basic building blocks of our society. There will be no superpower in the world that develops from children raised in new-age families.

The truth is that many of the Muslim immigrants who fled to Europe do want a better life. But, by and large, assimilation into Western culture is not anywhere in their list of priorities. Actually, the vast majority are looking to defeat Western culture. That is exactly the opposite of what most immigrants who flooded America in the early 20th century were looking for.

So, yes, we should help those people who are looking for a better life. But not on a mass level in our own countries. A measured number of immigrants who truly indicate intention and ability to enter and contribute should be allowed in. Those who are clearly looking for freebies should be rejected. There are other countries in the world that are indeed looking to increase their populations. That is where the efforts should be used to help those who indeed need to get out of Syria, Iraq or other war-torn countries.

Europe is now paying the price for it’s policies 5-10 years ago. America and other Western countries must learn the lessons too.