Sunday, March 12, 2023

Is the Opposition using judicial reforms as pretext to force elections?

 

Last week, Justice Minister Yariv Levin, one of the main architects of the reforms, met with several prominent public figures who drafted a reform compromise proposal. Levin responded favorably to the outline, with sources from his office reportedly calling it a “breakthrough” and the “first outline that goes outside the box.”

 A day earlier, Levin and MK Simcha Rothman, another principal advocate of the reforms who chairs the Knesset Law Committee that is dealing with the legislation, accepted a proposal by the Israel Manufacturers Association, the Chambers of Commerce and groups representing tech companies and building contractors for talks starting at the President’s Residence without preconditions.

 “From the very first day we said we were in favor of a dialogue in an attempt to reach an understanding on the reform and at least to reduce the controversy,” the leaders of the reform said in a joint statement. “We respond to the call for talks without preconditions and call on others in the opposition to respond to the initiate and attend talks with the president on Tuesday.”

Opposition leaders swiftly rejected the proposal.

 Lapid and Gantz rejected the overture and conditioned any negotiations on the government freezing the accompanying legislative process.

President Isaac Herzog last Monday told a gathering of some 100 municipal officials that a compromise judicial reform proposal was nearly complete, and called on lawmakers to find common ground.

“I have already said that it is absolutely legitimate to discuss reforming the judicial system, and aspects of the proposal are indeed advisable. In the last few weeks, I have done everything in my power to bring about discussion and enable the sides to reach an agreement,” said Herzog.

We are closer than ever to the possibility of an outline. There are agreements behind the scenes on most things,” he continued. “Now it depends on our national leadership, the coalition and the opposition, who need to rise to the occasion and understand the terrible alternative and put the country and its citizens above everything else.”

Will the opposition leaders stand up and be counted? Watch this space

Wednesday, March 8, 2023

Israel to Open Embassy in Country on Iran’s Doorstep

 

In a regional show of strength, Israel will open a permanent embassy in Turkmenistan, the former Soviet republic and central Asian nation that is on Iran’s doorstep, Foreign Minister Eli Cohen announced Sunday.

The inauguration comes as another Muslim neighbor of Iran—Azerbaijan—is opening its first ever embassy in the Jewish state. Both diplomatic moves signal Israel is a present and growing influence in the region.

Israel’s top diplomat is slated to travel to Turkmenistan soon to inaugurate the official mission in the capital city of Ashgabat, located about 15 miles away from the border with the Islamic Republic.

“The relations between our countries are important and strategic, and this move will further strengthen the connection and increase our cooperation” Cohen tweeted.

A Muslim-majority country of about six million people, Turkmenistan, located just north of Iran, established relations with Israel in the run-up to its declaration of independence in 1991. About a decade ago, in light of good relations between the two states, Israel opened a temporary embassy there which has been active until now when the newly constructed permanent embassy has been completed.

Over the years, senior officials from Israel and Turkmenistan have visited each other’s countries, signing agreements of cooperation in the fields of politics, economy and energy. Recently, progress has been made in collaboration in health and cyber defense as well.

Historically, Turkmenistan—which possesses one of the world’s largest reserves of natural gas—has long served as a thoroughfare for several empires and cultures, and was one of the great cities of the Islamic world.

 

Thursday, February 23, 2023

Hamas Locate Missiles in Civilian Infrastructure

 The IDF struck a Hamas weapons production site in the central Gaza Strip and a Hamas military site in northern Gaza after Terrorists in Gaza fired 6 rockets indiscriminately towards southern Israel earlier this morning. 5 intercepted by Iron Dome, one landed in open area.

Reports from Gaza: 1 st time for months: Hamas and PIJ were coordinated. Didn't launch 107 mm rockets recently used but much more heavy explosive heads.

 IDF reports: In response to the rockets fired from Gaza, IAF fighter jets struck both a weapons manufacturing site and military compound belonging to the Hamas Terrorist Organization, located in central and northern Gaza.

 The compound is located adjacent to a mosque, medical clinic, hotel, police station and school.


This serves as further evidence as to how the Hamas Terrorist Organization exploits the civilian population of Gaza by deliberately placing its weaponry in the center of civilian areas.

Wednesday, February 22, 2023

Minister forbidden from publishing explanation of judicial reform

 So now the legal "advisers" are not allowing even the information department to put out a fact sheet of information on the subject of judicial reform - how absurd.

Reminds me of a contact in the UK who accused Israel of stealing Palestinian water. When i sent him all the facts from the Water Commissioners office, he replied that he was unable to continue the discussion with me as all  i was doing was "quoting facts"!!

As the head if the government information writes:-

"In advance of the extensive campaign, I planned to explain the reform and for the sake of unity, I just received the answer of the legal counsel: I am forbidden from publishing any factual information about the reform. First Netanyahu and now it's my turn. Because the veil of lies that divides the people must not be cracked. Only the elite will control the public discourse. There is no room for truth," the minister wrote on Twitter.

Heaven forbid we should dare to talk about facts!

Monday, February 20, 2023

The Muslim Invasion of Europe.

 In the last few decades, the countries of Europe have allowed into their midst tens of millions of Muslims. There are now 44 million Muslims in the Continent, some 6% of the population. Given that Muslims have much higher fertility rates than the indigenous Europeans, and that Muslim economic migrants continue to flow into Europe, the Muslim percentage of Europe’s population will inexorably increase. By 2050, Muslims may be 20% of Europe’s population. And by 2050, several studies suggest, there will be very few Jews left in Europe.

The Dutch writer and journalist Leon de Winter now predicts that “In 2048 the last Jews will leave Europe. “It’s over,” said the late Hebrew U. antisemitism expert Robert Wistrich. “It’s a slow death.” It is actually speeding up.

”In the last 50 years the Jewish population in Europe has decreased by 60 percent and a similar decline is expected in the next 30 years, explained Eldad Beck in a dramatic article in Israel’s largest newspaper, Israel Hayom.

“It’s over,” Wistrich said. “It’s a slow death.”In France there are cities, such as Grenoble, Nice, Lyon, and Toulouse where the number of Jews as fallen dramatically.

 “I don’t want to live in a country whose chancellor brings in millions of antisemitic Muslims who attack Jews and Jewish institutions in Germany,” wrote the chairman of the Jewish community in the German state of Brandenburg, Semyon Gorelick. “You can’t live in a country where you can’t wear a kippah on the street.” Most Jews in Germany today are Ukrainian, Russian or Israelis looking for work.

Angela Merkel made a fateful decision to allow one million Muslims into Germany in 2015, without considering the consequences, She knew nothing about Islam, about the hatred inculcated toward Unbelievers. She was in thrall to the notion that “diversity” was a Good Thing.

“Norway risks becoming a country without a Jewish population,” says an editorial in Aftenposten. According to the newspaper, 20 percent of the two largest communities (Oslo and Trondheim) have left. “Norway could be the first country in Europe to become jüdenfrei,” wrote journalist Julie Bindel. The synagogues of Oslo and Trondheim are the most protected buildings in all of Norway. Having to live their lives in constant fear of attack certainly explains why 20% of Jews in Oslo and Trondheim have already left the country in recent years.

Denmark’s Jewish community has lost 25 percent of members in the past 15 years. ”Natan Sharansky, the former Soviet refusenik, said: “We are witnessing the beginning of the end of Jewish history in Europe. The reason for this is the fear and despair that many Jews now feel because of the inexorably increasing population of Muslims, who bring with them to Europe, undeclared in their mental baggage, a virulent form of antisemitism.

The demographic data is clear. There are now 44 million Muslims in Europe. Through both continued immigration and very high fertility rates, by 2050 there will be far more than 100 million Muslims. Meanwhile, everywhere in Europe the indigenous population’s fertility rates are below replacement level, which means there are fewer non-Muslims in Europe every year. The tens of millions of Muslims now in Europe have had the following effect: They have been responsible for draining the national welfare systems of money needed to attend to the needs of the indigenous poor.

They — the Muslim migrants — have been responsible for soaring crime rates throughout Europe. Not content with what they receive from the state, many young Muslims males choose to “round out the month” by committing crimes of property — shoplifting, smash-and-grab, street robberies, house burglaries, car thefts. Young Muslim men have taken to drug trafficking and in some countries have taken over the drug trade over from the traditional gangs. In the U.K., Muslims are 4% of the population but 20% of the prison population. In France Muslims are 8% of the population, but 70% of the prison population. In Germany, Muslims are 7% of the population, but 23% of the prison population.

And the final effect of the Muslim invasion of Europe — for isn’t it an invasion? — has been the fear it has engendered in the Jews of Europe, leading to the steady exodus we now see. What will Europeans do without the fructifying cultural presence of Jews, without their contributions to literature, art, and music, to philosophy, history, and political science, to medicine and the law? For their absence will be filled by the presence of Muslims, whose cultural contributions are so small as to be scarcely discernible. By mid-century, they will be striding across the continent of Europe as if they owned it; even now some are crowing about that not-too-distant future when “Europe will be ours.”

Saturday, February 18, 2023

Supreme Court's "Disruptive" Decision

 More than twenty years ago, a brave, pioneering farmer had painstakingly removed every rock from a field. Tractors, and more likely, the hardworking hands of young people, had gone through the fields, removing rock after rock, preparing the ground to plant a vineyard. 

The farmer planted and tended the fields carefully, laboring for the first three years without any profit. Finally, after years of hard work and investment, he had a beautiful vineyard. 

Now, all one sees are piles of broken vines. One couldn’t help remembering when  walking through the rows of this vineyard more than a year and a half ago, filming a video in a desperate attempt to change the minds of the court in Israel that had called for its destruction.

 

Believe it or not, the courts decided that the vineyard came under what is known as a disruptive use order. This means that if an Arab lays claim to a piece of land, the courts can call for its owners to be evicted, and the land destroyed, even if the Arab does not show proof of ownership.

That is exactly what happened in this case. No one had brought proof of ownership. The land is not owned by Arabs. It was barely even disputed. After being bulldozed, no one will move onto it, no buildings will be built, and no farms will be planted here. It was simply the wish of Israel’s court system that it be destroyed, and in a way, the wish of the international community. 

Because now, the world should be happy with Israel. They demanded that Israel not build and farm in Judea and Samaria in exchange for peace. Now that a vineyard has been bulldozed, they should be happy, right?  No! The world will continue shouting that Israel must give up land for peace. The settlements in the “West Bank” are the problem, they’ll say, and those “pesky settlers” are just standing in the way of a Palestinian state. 

For the full article from the Israel Guys  read here  https://tinyurl.com/4x42m7km

Thursday, February 16, 2023

Biden Restores Funding To PLO, Israeli Deaths Rise

When U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with PLO leader Mahmoud Abbas last month, he boasted of the over one billion dollars in aid that the Biden administration had programmed for the terrorist territories.

That aid has come with a very heavy price.

In Feb. 2019, President Trump’s total cutoff of aid to the Palestinians became official. That year, 10 Israelis or people in Israeli controlled areas were killed in stabbings, shootings, rocket and other attacks, down from 12 the previous year, 15 in 2017 and 16 in 2016.

In 2020, however, only three Israelis were killed.

These numbers reflected the diminished capacity of the Islamic terrorists. The reduction in numbers was not due to the pandemic. The year still saw attacks, including firebombings, rocket launches and stabbings, but the success and lethality rates for these attacks were lower.

The numbers turned around dramatically once again in 2021.

In April 2021, the Biden administration restored aid to the PLO. Terror incidents, reflecting attack attempts, shot up sharply, from 91 in February and 89 in March to 130 in April.

By May, major fighting had resumed, with 13 Israelis, including two children, killed.

By the time the year was over, 17 people in Israeli areas had been killed. The over 400% increase in deaths was only the beginning. In 2022, 31 Israelis or people in Israeli areas were killed, up from only three in 2020, for a massive 900% increase in casualties since the restoration of foreign aid to the terrorists. This was the worst death toll since 2015 under Obama.

But in January and the first half of February, 10 Israelis have already been killed, including a 6-year-old boy and his 8-year-old brother.

Three times as many have been killed in the past month and as in all of 2020. That’s a 233% increase over 2020 in just a fraction of a year, but it’s also a marked month-to-month escalation from 2022, which featured no attacks at all in January or February. More people have already been killed by terrorists in 2023 than through most of March 2022.

What a difference a billion dollars makes.

For more on this read https://tinyurl.com/ye24jh6r