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The message Netanyahu might love to send to Joe Biden
If only he could have responded to Biden by saying what he really might be thinking, he might have said what I wrote below. Op-ed.
Israel has a corrupt Supreme Court that rules the country autocratically when it sees fit and reverses any Knesset (parliament) decision it chooses, overriding based simply on what the justices deem “reasonable” in their personal opinions. That Court has no standard of “justiciability,” so there is no issue they will not enter into.
-They will rewrite litigants’ business contracts based on what they deem to be reasonable.
-They have ruled on who is eligible to sit for rabbinical exams.
-They have no rule of “standing,” so anyone in the country can bring a case to them even on things that do not directly impact the petitioners.
-Most of the justices are extreme leftists, and they made self-perpetuating rules that assign to themselves who may or may not succeed them as justices, so they keep it all in-house. They appoint extreme-left successors and cancel out conservatives, middle-roaders, and even leftists who dare express opinions that the selection process should be more balanced.
-Meanwhile, the Attorney-General has tyrannical powers to order the head of government to stay out of urgent national issues like the instant effort to reform the courts.
Netanyahu’s government is trying to democratize the court system, and he has the parliamentary majority (64-56) to make it happen. The Israeli Left has watched in horror as their dominance from Israel’s founding has ended, and as the country has moved rightward from Marxism, secularism, and extremist state socialism as embodied by David Ben-Gurion, Golda Meir, Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres, Moshe Dayan, and Ehud Barak. The country’s population has evolved into a moderately conservative and religion-friendly electorate, and the right keeps winning, election after election. As a result, having lost electoral dominance, the Israeli Left now leverages the unelected, self-perpetuating extreme leftist Supreme Court to run the country by regularly intervening in Knesset decisions and by gagging elected politicians (like the prime minister himself) from speaking on issues that the voters elected them to manage.
Because the Left media control both Israel’s mass communications and those of America, “news” media in both countries have been reporting absurdly on the effort to reform Israel’s Supreme Court as though it were a fascist power-grab aimed at ending all freedoms in Israel. The exact opposite is true.
If the way you know when a politician is lying is when his or her lips start moving, the same may be said of TV newscasts on CBS, NBC, ABC, PBS, CNN, MSNBC, Israel Kan Channel 11, Keshet Channel 12, and Reshet Channel 13. The New York Times and Washington Post are jammed with distortion, as are Haaretz, Maariv, and Yediot Acharonot. (Thank G-d for Arutz Sheva and Israel's Channel 14.)
And all of it has reached Joe Biden, who has nothing else to worry about.
So Biden just commented publicly to say that he has known Bibi for forty years as a friend, and friends sometimes need to be straightforward with their friends for their own good. Biden said: “Like many strong supporters of Israel, I'm very concerned. I'm concerned that they get this straight. They cannot continue down this road. I've sort of made that clear.”
Bibi responded that “I have known President Biden for over 40 years, and I appreciate his longstanding commitment to Israel. The alliance between Israel and the United States is unbreakable and always overcomes the occasional disagreements between us. My administration is committed to strengthening democracy by restoring the proper balance between the three branches of government, which we are striving to achieve via a broad consensus. Israel is a sovereign country which makes its decisions by the will of its people and not based on pressures from abroad, including from the best of friends.”
Bibi was being diplomatic, and that is why he continues as Israel’s longest-ever-serving prime minister. If only he could have responded to Biden by saying what he really might be thinking, he might have said this:
“Dear Joe. We have known each other for forty years, and I value our friendship. I was rather surprised that you recently interfered with Israel’s internal affairs, telling us what we should do to preserve and protect our democracy. We are trying to get things balanced here after thirty years of judicial tyranny. In your country, Joe, you name the Supreme Court judges, so you just named to your Court that idiot who cannot define what a woman is. In your system, all she needed was for the president to name her because she is a Black woman and for his party that controls the Senate to fall into line and approve her. We are trying simply to set up a similar system. In our country right now, by contrast, the people’s elected representatives do not control the judicial selection process; rather, the justices self-perpetuate and control the Supreme Court themselves as their inside club.
“Can you imagine, Joe, if you had the system we now have? Under our system, the justices select or veto the new justices. So, if you had the self-perpetuating system we are trying to fix, Justices Alito, Thomas, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett would add or veto new justices to your Court. Your nominee, who cannot define what a woman is,never would have gotten to first base, no matter what size the base is. Some of your Democrat colleagues are trying to pack your Court with six more justices of their mindset. We don’t do that. We are trying to find a balanced way of choosing justices, neither the US method or the current Israeli one, but something in between.
“But, Joe, I need to say a bit more because friends sometimes need to be honest with friends for their own good. I’m very concerned, Joe, about what is going on in America. I’m concerned that your country gets this straight. Your country cannot continue down this road. Since you feel comfortable telling us how to run our country, here are a few of my concerns:
“We control our borders here, Joe. Gaza is run by Hamas on our southwest border. Lebanon and Hezbollah are on our northwesterly border, and Syria next door. Abu Mazen (Mahmoud Abbas) and his Al Fatah are on our eastern border. So we control our borders, Joe, because we have to. We have built a big beautiful wall to keep the terrorists out — and it works. I have been reading about the millions illegally crossing your southern border, where your security is completely out of control. Our people can advise on how to save your country there.
“I also understand, Joe, that your schools teach children as young as the early grades about transgenderism, and you even have cross-dressing queens at school library hour. Although our society does not discriminate against people based on issues of gender, our school curricula differ, Joe. Our parents do not feel they have to scream at school board meetings to protect their children. Our schools and textbooks are not polluted with critical race theory and intersectionalism. Our kids learn real history, even some Bible, although the non-religious schools do not teach enough about Judaism. Not that your schools are any of our business, Joe, but our kids come out reading, writing, schooled in math and technology, knowing their history, and prepared for great things.
"Our 9 million population is about the size of New York City’s 8.84 million and only three percent of your country. Yet that small population with our schooling has seen our kids grow to create or significantly co-create the Iron Dome, David’s Sling, the Arrow 3, Waze GPS, the world’s smallest video camera (used in American endoscopies), the pillcam (a pill with a tiny camera for gastroenterologists to monitor), the flexible stent, the pressure bandage for urgent life saving, Azilect for treating Parkinson’s disease, the USB flash drive, the Intel 8088 microprocessor, the laser keyboard, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), Pentium MMX, Apple Thunderbolt, the network firewall, the first instant messaging service, Windows XP and Windows NT, Microsoft Security Essentials, Babylon computer translation, the cherry tomato, drip irrigation systems, SodaStream, Epilator, Rummikub, and Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.
"Our schools do that, even without transgender studies.
“Joe, we hear about Saturday nights in Chicago and about skyrocketing crime in your inner cities. We certainly have some crime here, too, but our cities are quite safe. We have small pockets of challenges in South Tel Aviv where too many illegal entrants managed to get in, and we already took steps to clean out those crime pockets, take back those streets, and remove those Illegals — but that extreme left Supreme Court stopped us (meantime). Even so, we can advise you there, too.
“Joe, we of course have to deal with occasional Arab Muslim terrorism. It is the price of being Jews, Joe, something you could never understand even though you have been my friend for 40 years. Still, our citizens do not push others off platforms into oncoming trains at urban train stations. And we simply do not have non-terrorists doing mass shootings, not at schools, not at shopping malls. It’s not as though there are no guns in Israel, Joe. We have plenty of guns. After all, we have Arab Muslim terrorists aiming to hurt us. It’s just that we do not use our guns on each other.
"Maybe it is because we have better programs for treating the mentally ill and for keeping lunatics off the streets. Maybe because our society is more traditional with greater respect for parents and for authority. Maybe because a majority of our population, even among our non-Orthodox, respect G-d, refrain from eating bread on Passover, and fast on Yom Kippur. Maybe our respect for tradition plays a role in not having all those mass shootings. Your problems in Chicago, Memphis, and all your other centers of urban crime really are none of my business, Joe. But since we are such good friends sharing concerns, I am concerned for your country. I am concerned you get this right. You cannot continue on this road.
“There are so many issues of governance that I deal with, Joe — like assuring that trains do not derail, that our mothers have adequate access to baby formula, that we extract all natural resources of energy available to us, and that our banking system is competently regulated — but I presume you already have those under control. That’s the easy stuff.
“Thanks again for offering your good advice on how Israel should govern itself. I hope I have reciprocated collegially. That’s what friends are for.
“Bibi.”
Adapted by Rabbi Fischer for Arutz Sheva from a version of this article that first appeared here in The American Spectator.
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Subject: Dick Durbin
Can't help but love this woman! 😘
A brilliant woman's response to a complete IDIOT!!!!!!!!!
Dick Durbin, a Senator from Illinois calls senior citizens the Greediest Generation as he compared "Social Security "to a Milk Cow with 310 million teats. Here's a response in a letter from PATTY NYE from Illinois .. I think she is a little ticked off! She also tells it like it is!
"Hey Dick, let's get a few things straight!!!
1. As a career politician, you have been on the public dole (tit) for FORTY YEARS.
2. I have been paying Social Security taxes for 48 YEARS (since I was 15 years old. I am now 63).
3. My Social Security payments, and those of millions of other Americans, were safely tucked away in an interest bearing account for decades until you political pukes decided to raid the account and give OUR money to a bunch of zero losers in return for votes, thus bankrupting the system and turning Social Security into a Ponzi scheme that would make Bernie Madoff proud.
4. Recently, just like Lucy & Charlie Brown, you and "your ilk" pulled the proverbial football away from millions of American seniors nearing retirement and moved the goalposts for full retirement from age 65 to age, 67. NOW, you and your "shill commission" are proposing to move the goalposts YET AGAIN.
5. I, and millions of other Americans, have been paying into Medicare from Day One, and now "you morons" propose to change the rules of the game. Why? Because "you idiots" mismanaged other parts of the economy to such an extent that you need to steal our money from Medicare to pay the bills.
6. I, and millions of other Americans, have been paying income taxes our entire lives, and now you propose to increase our taxes yet again. Why? Because you "incompetent bastards" spent our money so profligately that you just kept on spending even after you ran out of money. Now, you come to the American taxpayers and say you need more to pay off YOUR debt.
To add insult to injury, you label us "greedy" for calling "bullshit" to your incompetence.
Well, Captain Bullshit, I have a few questions for YOU:
1. How much money have you earned from the American taxpayers during your pathetic 40+ year political career?
2. At what age will you retire from your pathetic political career, and how much will you receive in annual retirement benefits from the American taxpayers?
3. How much do you pay for YOUR government provided health insurance?
4. What cuts in YOUR retirement and healthcare benefits are you proposing in your disgusting deficit reduction proposal, or as usual, have you exempted yourself and your political cronies?
It is you, Captain Bullshit, and your political co-conspirators called Congress who are the "greedy" ones. It is you and your fellow nutcase thieves who have bankrupted America and stolen the American dream from millions of loyal, patriotic taxpayers
And for what? Votes and your job and retirement security at our expense, you lunk-headed, leech.
That's right, sir. You and yours have bankrupted America for the sole purpose of advancing your pathetic, political careers. You know it, we know it, and you know that we know it
And you can take that to the bank, you miserable son of a bitch.
P.S. And stop calling Social Security benefits "entitlements". WHAT AN INSULT!!!!
I have been paying in to the SS system for 45 years "It's my money"-give it back to me the way the system was designed and stop patting yourself on the back like you are being generous by doling out these monthly checks
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Bibi is too smart to allow a mean spirited dumb ass, like Biden, to best him.
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US-Israel tensions will pass; Netanyahu knows Biden won't win in 2024
Despite the division in Israel, and the division in the US, the one issue unifying Washington is the bipartisan, almost unanimous, support of Israel. And that’s all that matters.
PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu meets then-US vice-president Joe Biden at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem, in 2016. Netanyahu does not care that President Biden is displeased, says the writer. (photo credit: AMOS BEN GERSHOM/GPO)
The president of the United States, arguably the most powerful person in the world, publicly chastised the prime minister of Israel. Publicly chastised! But – and here’s the good news, the situation is not as dire as it appears.
Israel and the US have always had a big brother/younger brother relationship. And like all siblings, they fight. They quibble. They say awful things to each other. But they will always be there for each other. In fact, the reason they feel comfortable saying those awful things is because they know that they will always be there for each other.
These tensions, as high and dramatic as they are, will pass. But not just yet.
The most visible, the most public way for Biden to “dis” Bibi is by holding back on that traditional invite to the White House. For decades, every incoming Israeli prime minister would visit the White House. The tradition grew to resemble a rite of passage. Soon after assuming the mantel of leadership in Jerusalem, the prime minister makes the pilgrimage to Washington, DC to meet with the sitting US president.
The trip had many purposes. On the personal side, for some it was a first meeting and a “get to know you” chat. Israel and the US are such close allies and work so closely together on so many issues, it was important for the leaders to really get to know each other.
On the public side, the president and prime minister would reiterate a commitment to mutual support. On the security side, they would agree that Israel’s nuclear technology and weapons were properly secured and would be utilized responsibly.
Most importantly, they would agree that the US has Israel’s back and that the US would actively engage and defend Israel in any multi-front war against her attackers. For certain, other items would be discussed by the various presidents and prime ministers, issues that, based on their personalities, we can only speculate about.
Historically, the meetings were always conducted behind closed doors. Afterward, there was always a press conference. That was the opportunity for these world leaders to charm the media. The smiles and handshakes and pats on the back appeared genuine, and usually were. But the audience they were playing for was not their respective local audience.
It was essential for the security of Israel, for the security of the region, and in the best interest of the US, for the world to see that the relationship between Israel and the US – the warm relationship, the cordial relationship, the “we-are-on-the-same-page” relationship between these two nations – continues even though the leadership has changed.
BY BREAKING with tradition, the White House is trying to teach Jerusalem a lesson. They are minimizing the brush-off by using a historical argument. They claim that Biden has known Netanyahu for 40 years and that they already have a strong and very friendly relationship. But the world needs to see it in action. And right now, what the world has heard Biden say belies that explanation.
It is obvious that Washington is not pleased with his new government, especially Netanyahu’s push for judicial reform. And despite the decades of warm friendship between the two leaders, Netanyahu does not care that Biden is displeased.
Netanyahu knows Biden won't be re-elected and that the US is divided
Netanyahu has almost certainly determined that he can weather the storm. He has calculated that Biden cannot and will not be re-elected. No matter which victor emerges in the 2024 US election for president – Republican or Democrat – it will not be Biden. That realization gives Netanyahu peace of mind. He will be friendly to the sitting US president, but Netanyahu is behaving as if Biden is a lame duck.
The non-invite to Washington, aka the invite which will come whenever it comes, does not trouble Jerusalem. If it did, Jerusalem would be lobbying hard for the meeting. And they are not lobbying at all.
This White House does not understand that Israel today is a divided country. It is split nearly perfectly in half. The division is not just about judicial reform, it is about almost everything. And it is certainly split – especially split, about Netanyahu.
And this is where Israel has the upper hand. The US is also split, right down the middle, and not just about former president Donald Trump and his indictment. You see it in the television ratings war, where it is Fox vs the others. Congress is split, with the House of Representatives for the Republicans; the Senate for the Democrats. The US is wrenched right down the middle.
Israel understands the United States. The Prime Minister’s Office is feeling secure. They see these divisions in the US. Most importantly, they know that their real friendships rest in Congress and not the White House. And they know that regardless of what happens regarding judicial reform, the friendship, the family ties between the US and Israel will remain intact.
Despite the division in Israel, and the division in the US, the one issue unifying Washington is the bipartisan, almost unanimous, support of Israel. And that’s all that matters.
The writer is a social and political commentator. Watch his TV show, Thinking Out Loud, on Jewish Broadcasting Service.
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The Zionist Point of View:
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Only This Judicial Reform Can Save Israel From Dictatorial Supreme Court
By Morton A. Klein
(APRIL 4, 2023 / JERUSALEM POST) The Israeli government’s decision to delay enacting badly-needed, reasonable, democratic judicial reforms brings to mind the famous adage, “justice delayed is justice denied.
Delaying the judicial reform can enable the court to continue to ignore laws passed by Israel’s elected government; decide cases based on a judge’s subjective (left-wing) views of what’s reasonable; fail to require or examine evidence when acting as the High Court of Justice; decide cases where no party has standing; and perpetuate its extraordinary power by controlling sufficient seats on a judicial selection committee to enable the justices to select their own successors.
A delay can enable the unelected, self-appointed Israeli Supreme Court to maintain its tyrannical power over Israel’s democratically-elected branches of government. On March 19, during the height of the recent debate over judicial reform, the Supreme Court demonstrated its lawless, dictatorial control over the elected branches of government again by ruling that Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir cannot issue direct or indirect operational orders to Israeli police forces.
How else can delaying judicial reform endanger Israel?
A delay can also enable the court to decide even more cases that violate Israel’s democratically-enacted laws; interfere with Israeli security, military actions and sovereignty; and jeopardize Israeli lives.
A delay will moreover reward the left-wing opposition, which lost the November 2022 election, for refusing offers to discuss compromise and instead endangering the country by violently clashing with police and blocking ports, the airport and roads, while Palestinian Arabs perpetuate multiple life-threatening terror attacks every day.
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