Two bills seeking to reform appointments to Israel’s High Court of Justice were approved by the Knesset Monday. The first bill called for the automatic appointment of the Bar Association president to the judge selection committee. The second bill, dubbed the Grunis Law, amends the present law and would allow the appointment of a Supreme Court Chief Justice with only two years remaining until retirement. The Grunis Law passed the first reading at the Knesset Monday evening by a 52-35 margin. The judge selection bill passed the preliminary reading... Let us transcend our present era—an era trapped in the trivia and transience of the media, which know nothing of wisdom and courage and of national pride and purpose. Prof. Paul Eidelberg, INN Kill for Peace, Part I concluded with a simple message: “We should not negotiate with warriors until they surrender. Until then we must kill them.” To the contrary, Israel’s government has been wedded to the timid and castrated policy of “land for peace.” Essentially, the author argues that Iran wants to redivide the ME pie and stand on an equal footing with the US rather than in a client-state relationship. Until such time as the US has indicated what it is willing to redivide the pie, there is nothing to talk about. Similarly the Arab Palestinians don’t want to negotiate unless they are assured the slice of pie that they want. The Iranians have assessed that the US is unwilling or unable to impose crippling sanctions and is unwilling to attack because of the huge economic impact and the regional war that is sure to follow. The West is just too burdened economically and militarily to take them on. He makes a convincing case for America’s lack of resolve. For Israel it is more existential.Ted Belman Reza Marashi, THE NATIONAL INTEREST Iranian foreign minister Ali Akbar Salehi made headlines recently when he said the Islamic Republic would like to have friendly relations with the United States—but not under the current... Laura: Another major medical breakthrough from Israel. Israelis continue to innovate and prosper even as they are constantly under seige through both terrorist violence and a global political campaign of demonization and deligitimization. This is the country most of the world rages against and wishes to see destroyed even as the Jewish state contributes to the betterment of the world through its science, technology, medicine and humanitarian aid. On the other hand, her enemies are indulged and catered to even as they contribute nothing but destruction and bloodshed on a massive global scale. The only ambition of Israel’s enemies is for martydom and genocide. Breakthrough: Israel Develops Cancer Vaccine Vaxil’s groundbreaking therapeutic vaccine, developed in Israel, could keep about 90 percent of cancers from coming back. As the world’s population lives longer than ever, if we don’t succumb to heart disease, strokes or accidents, it is more likely that cancer will get us... These various groups are planning massive Islamic marches, caravans of people, into Jerusalem as early as November 25, 2011. In March 2012, Islamic gatherings, armies of people, are being called upon to breach the Israeli-Jordanian borders. There will be ‘flotilla after flotilla’ that will quietly sail into international waters to challenge Israel’s sea blockade to the Gaza Strip, and a “fly-in” protest to Ben-Gurion International Airport planned for April 2012.” By Ted Belman A few weeks ago, I posted an article Palestinians are perceived as the underdog together with a video. The message was that the Palestinians get great support from the common man and even elites because of this perception. Shelby Steele calls it The Narrative of Perpetual Palestinian Victimhood in an article he wrote on HudsonNY. Shelby Steele, Robert J and Marion E. Oster Senior Fellow, Hoover Institute, are member of the Working Group on Islamism and the International Order. He advises, The following is excerpted from a speech delivered September 22, 2011 in New York City at the conference “The Perils of Global Intolerance: The UN and Durban III,” sponsored by the Touro Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust and the Hudson Institute. Here is a key paragraph, Why not? These narratives, these poetic truths, are the source of their power. Focusing on the case of the Palestinians, who would they be if they were not victims of white... By Ted Belman Jordan is Palestine is a movement that has been around time and attracts substantial support. The Elon Peace Initiative is founded on this idea. In it, Jordan replaces P.A., the refugee camps are closed, and Jordanian citizenship is given to the Arabs of Judea and Samaria. Lieberman just said ‘Jordan as Palestinian state’ discussion harms Israeli interests. Here’s why. Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman warned Monday against pushing for a Palestinian state inside Jordan, saying such claims harm Israel’s security interests. “Jordan is a stabilizing element in the region, in comparison to what is happening in other nations,” Lieberman said during a discussion at the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, responding to recent reports that sources in the government are again mulling the idea of a Palestinian state in Jordan. “Discussion about Jordan as a Palestinian state is against Israeli interests and... DEBKAfile Exclusive Analysis November 13, 2011, In Kuwait, lawmakers demanded an urgent debate on the potential fallout from an attack on Iran three days after British ministers were briefed on a possible US-backed Israeli strike against Iran’s nuclear sites in the last week of December or early next year. Hopes faded for effective international sanctions in the wake of nuclear watchdog evidence of Iran’s... The Anti-Defamation League’s original charter is simple, straightforward, and honorable: The immediate object of the League is to stop, by appeals to reason and conscience and, if necessary, by appeals to law, the defamation of the Jewish people. Its ultimate purpose is to secure justice and fair treatment to all citizens alike and to put an end forever to unjust and unfair discrimination against and ridicule of any sect or body of citizens. Nowhere does this call for the ADL to shield Barack Obama from the consequences of his policies toward Israel and other allies of the United States. The “National Pledge for Unity on Israel,” which the ADL cosponsored with the American Jewish Committee, is but the most recent example of how this organization has lost touch with the very reason for its existence.Judicial Reform Bills Pass on First Reading
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Tuesday, 15 November 2011
Israel’s Supreme Court Chief Justices are appointed on the basis of seniority. The bill is widely seen as meant to pave the way for Justice Asher Dan Grunis to serve as the next president instead of Justice Miriam Naor.
Grunis has more years on the Supreme Court than Naor, but by February he would have slightly less than three years remaining until his retirement (Grunis will be 70 in January 2015).
I therefore propose a bold and ultimately life-enhancing policy of “Kill for Peace”—a policy seemingly cruel, but not one of indiscriminate killing, but one that would actually reduce Jewish as well as Arab death and destruction. The rationality and effectiveness of such a policy is substantiated not only by Ralph Peters but also by the greatest military theorists in history, Carl von Clausewitz and Sun Tzu.
Moreover, the thinking of these military geniuses is supported by principles of statecraft enunciated by the...
The Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center has issued warnings regarding “anti-Israel networks, organizations, and activists from the Middle East and around the globe who, in the very near future, intend to orchestrate ‘propaganda events’ challenging Israel’s borders.
The following is the Meir Amit’s initial report of the main events planned against Israel in the near future:
1) An Islamic...
As windows shattered in Tehran, the streets were awash with rumors that Iran was under attack, or that the regime had staged a failed nuclear test. Foreign businessmen were said to be fleeing the country.
by Bill Levinson
Originally in the American Thinker
Ted Belman
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