Israel Supreme Court is due for a makeover
Supreme Court “Gang” Heading Out, Says Leading Journalist
by Gil Ronen, INN
The ultra-leftist “Rehavia Gang” that has controlled Israel’s Supreme Court for 16 years is on its way out, says muckraking journalist Yoav Yitzchak, on the News1 website.
“The great revolution that many good people have been waiting for is taking place at this very moment,” Yitzchak told his readers. “The ‘Rehavia Gang’… is losing de facto control over the process of appointments to the most important bastion of all – the Supreme Court.”
The two most notorious representatives of the ‘gang’ – named after the pricey section of Jerusalem where most of its members reside – are present Supreme Court President Dorit Beinisch and her predecessor, Aharon Barak.
Barak was the father of the approach known as “judicial activism” which had as its motto “everything is justiciable.” Under his leadership, the court saw itself as an alternative government to the...
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Obama threatens Netanyahu, denials notwithstanding
The breakdown of the Unity Agreement is just a fig leaf. Israel cannot accept the Obama demand for negotiations to be based on ’67 lines. Ted Belman
Report: US gives Netanyahu ultimatum
By JPOST.COM STAFF
06/12/2011 08:30
The United States gave Netanyahu an ultimatum on renewing negotiations with the Palestinians, according to reports cited by Israel Radio Sunday morning.
According to the ultimatum, Netanyahu has to decide within a month whether he agrees to accept US President Barack Obama’s platform and resume talks based on 1967 lines.
Israel: No Obama ultimatum; Fatah-Hamas breakup could restart peace talks
Obama’s The “Muslims First” Foreign Policy
Since 9/11 we have sunk billions of dollars into the Muslim world
– Daniel Greenfield Sunday, June 12, 2011, Canada Free Press
In France, American embassies and consulates have been directed to “empower” Muslims and push for the passage of “social reforms” that will benefit them. In the UK, American diplomats were directed to again “empower” Muslims and made outreach to them a top priority. In Israel, the US consulate in Jerusalem caters only to Muslims and does its best to pretend that Jews and Israel don’t even exist. And when Obama visited Greece, what else did he do but push the political and religious authorities to open more mosques and Islamic schools. America’s own interests and our obligations to our allies have been put aside to focus on a single goal of overriding importance. Pandering to the Muslim world. It’s as if we have no other foreign policy goal anymore beyond keeping Muslims happy.
The United States has its first Special...
The International Solidarity Movement’s Comfort Women
Palestinian named Aladdin allegedly tries to force his “magic lamp” into American peace activist
by Bill Levinson
Q: What is the difference between women of the International Solidarity Movement along with those of other so-called “Peace and Justice” groups, and the prostitutes who followed armies of the horse and musket era?
A: The prostitutes got paid.
MESS Report / Are the Palestinians silencing the attempted rape of U.S. peace activist? reports that Palestinians routinely use “international” women, including Americans, for personal sexual gratification and relief. The women are then pressured to remain quiet lest complaints let alone criminal charges damage the Palestinian cause. From where we sit, peer pressure is simply a kinder and gentler form of what the Imperial Japanese Army did to get so-called “comfort women” to service its troops.
During his stay Aladdin allegedly attempted to rape a Muslim-American woman,...
A French Intellectual In Praise Of Israel
“J’aime être en Israël, et j’aime le peuple israélien”.
Unlike so many members of the “intelligentsia” in his country and elsewhere in the West, French economist and writer Guy Millière, who teaches at the University of Paris , is a staunch public champion of Israel :
“J’aime être en Israël, et j’aime le peuple israélien …. Je rentre en Europe, et en entendant ce que j’entends dire sur Israël, j’entends parler d’un pays où je ne suis jamais allé et où je ne puis me rendre, parce qu’il n’existe que dans la tête malade de ceux qui parlent.”
Perhaps it’s no accident that he’s also a conservative.
What follows are extracts, in translation from the French, of his impressions of Israel following his recent visit there for an academic conference:
“I just spent a week in Israel . It was a very short stay, and it will give me a good reason to come back –...
Obama’s Not Done Hammering Israel on 1967 Lines
Tobin attacks Obama’s call as the wrong tactics. I think it is also a matter of substance. Ted Belman
By Jonathan S. Tobin, Contentions
While President Obama’s apologists have been busy trying to spin his ambush of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last month as not a sign of his hostility to the Jewish state, the administration spent the past week attempting to hammer Israel into submission on the question of the 1967 lines. As Eli Lake reported in the Washington Times on Friday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton renewed the demand that was the highlight of Obama’s May 26 Middle East policy speech: that Israel accept the 1967 lines as the starting point for future Middle East peace negotiations.
While the administration is trying to sell this pressure to Jewish supporters as being part of a master plan whose aim is to head off a vote in the United Nations on Palestinian statehood, it is a mistake to view it as anything other than a renewed attack on...
U.S. Government Cheers As Turkey Goes Islamist and Anti-American
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gives a “high-five” to Turkey’s Foreign Minister Ahmed Davuto?lu on June
Davuto?lu authored a Turkish foreign policy designed to align an Islamist Turkey with the Islamic world and turn against America and the West. So here’s the key figure in aligning Turkey with Iran, Syria, Hamas, and Hizballah, yet that’s no problem for Clinton, laughing it up with one of America’s most dangerous enemies
By Barry Rubin, RubinReports
On Sunday, June 12, Turkey will hold what might well be its most important elections in modern history. It may also be the worst thing that’s happened to the country in modern history. If the current regime is reelected—and it could do so, given Turkey’s electoral system, with less than thirty percent of the vote, the emboldened Islamist regime will hit the accelerator in transforming Turkey into...
Reclaiming a historical truth
by Efraim Karsh, Haaretz
I agree with Shlomo Avineri, in his op-ed “Zionism does not need propaganda” (Haaretz English Edition, May 23), that the tragedy befalling the Palestinian Arabs in 1948 was exclusively of their own making, and that there is therefore “a grave moral defect in the Nakba discourse.”
I am surprised, however, by his assertion that “despite decades of research, to this day no document or broadcast has been found confirming … by the Arab leadership for the population to leave.” This claim couldn’t be further from the truth. While most Palestinian Arabs needed little encouragement to take to the road, large numbers of them were driven from their homes by their own leaders and/or the “Arab Liberation Army” that had entered Palestine prior to the end of the Mandate, whether out of military considerations or in order to prevent them from becoming citizens of the prospective Jewish state. Of this...
The Economics of Settlement
By George Gilder from the June 2011 issue, AMERICAN SPECTATOR
The root cause of Middle Eastern turmoil, according to a broad consensus of the international media and the considered cerebrations of the deepest-thinking movie stars, is Israeli settlers in what are described as the “occupied territories” on the West Bank of the Jordan River. Even such celebrated and fervent supporters of Israel as Alan Dershowitz and Bernard-Henri Lévy put the settlers beyond the pale of their Zionist sympathies. Remove the settlers, according to these sage analyses of the scene, and the problems of the region become remediable at last.
Lester Brown of the Worldwatch Institute adds to these political concerns a coming environmental catastrophe, also presumably aggravated by the Israeli settlers and their hydrophilic irrigation projects. He sees the Middle East as severely threatened by the growth of population and the exhaustion of water resources. The Institute explains: “Since...
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