tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-128092552024-03-13T19:09:37.808+02:00Conflicts in the Middle EastShimonzkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01409648440578570805noreply@blogger.comBlogger523125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12809255.post-68800883078064539632024-01-08T14:30:00.000+02:002024-01-08T14:30:36.968+02:00All that I Believed and Hoped for, has been Shattered<p> <span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; white-space-collapse: preserve;">All that I believed and hoped for has been shattered. The cause of this was the horrific massacre of Israelis on 7th October 2023. I have always said and believed that Israel had failed to treat the occupied Palestinians fairly and plundered their lands as well as settling it with right-wing religious zealots over the years. These fanatic zealots and messianic settlers have enormous representation in the present Netanyahu extremist right-wing coalition. The violence of these right-wing fanatics also played a part in increasing the Palestinian hatred of Israel. On the other hand, Hamas-ISIS never recognised Israel's right to exist. According to them, the occupation began the day Israel was established in 1948. Hence, generations of Palestinians were brainwashed to hate Israel and Jews generally. Israel could have made a more effective effort to safeguard Palestinian human rights, which they failed to do. All of Israel's governments are to blame. Integration of education where Jews and Palestinians should have been made compulsory to attend integrated schools at an early age. This would have played a part in building a multiracial society living in peace. This was never done, and any attempt to educate the pupils not to hate was never achieved.</span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-dd363456-7fff-e862-87eb-6ffc1a617461"><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Unfortunately, this is the reality with all the horrors of suffering on both sides.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">I cannot remain neutral when people here, who hate the present evil coalition and have helped the Palestinians, are tortured and murdered. I happen to know people whose homes have been destroyed by marauding terrorists. It could happen to us too. In this situation, I cannot remain neutral and keep to my beliefs but rather modify them to suit the situation as best I can. The IDF is protecting us, and many soldiers have lost their lives in their endeavour to protect us Israelis. Israel never realised how strong and well-armed Hamas-ISIS is. This dilemma, most of us face on the peace spectrum. </span></p><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></div></span>Shimonzkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01409648440578570805noreply@blogger.com0Israel31.046051 34.8516120.23318825018169065 -0.30463799999999708 61.858913749818306 70.007862tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12809255.post-12362019179241197172023-09-25T11:45:00.000+03:002023-09-25T11:45:25.673+03:00The Purpose of Yom Kippur<p> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt;">The purpose of Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) is to cleanse oneself from
one's sins and ask for forgiveness from one's fellow human beings for wrongs
committed against them, whether intentional or unintentional. This of course
includes slander ("lashon ra" in Hebrew). Before entering the
synagogue on the eve of Yom Kippur the Kol Nidrei (All Vows) chant is
recited or sung by the officiating cantor (chazzan). Forgiveness must be requested
from one's neighbours before entering the synagogue and requesting from The Almighty.
The fast begins before entering the synagogue for the Kol Nidrei service.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Israel's Orthodox and Ultra-Orthodox political religious leaders in
the Knesset, who fast on Yom Kippur should be asking for forgiveness before
embarking on their fast for their slander against Arabs, non-Jews, refugees,
left-wingers and fellow Jews who happen to be Reform or Conservative believers of Judaism. According to Halacha,
these pseudo-religious hateful slanderers holding ministerial posts in the
Knesset have broken the precepts of the Yom Kippur fast before it has even
started. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">The meaning of the fast for many traditionally observant Jews is to
identify with the Am Ehad (One People). There is no such thing! Thanks to the
present satanic, evil government of Judaic mutants that are leading the country
with a xenophobic, racist "Jewish" supremacist outlook that is
encouraged by their right-wing, rabbis give one the feeling that they hold the
monopoly on Judaism in Israel. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">I cannot identify with this kind of Judaism that rules Israel and is led by rabbinical bigots, who slander those who don't hold their despicable
worldviews. Fasting in Israel is an exercise in futility and is meaningless
when one has no purpose in identifying with such awful Jewish mutants led by
satanic rabbis with enormous power in the Knesset. Some of them and religious cabinet
ministers are a disgrace to Israel and the Jewish People. A right-wing
extremist Jewish terrorist, who is found guilty of murdering the Dawabshe family
in Duma by burning down their home, is considered a "tzaddik"(Saint) by
a large amount of religious right-wing Zealots, who have raised over a million
shekels to have him freed from prison. This is not a fringe group of thugs;
they have fascist representation in the Knesset that supports them.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjf8CtG35JH1i9f7evtIkhHWq2GlWcbZZVbg7IBYq50dTX85dItauA2YI_d_28ZLZmrOqE4MBmTySC3_WW9FIJqVdzVGUgGsi71RZnpvhJWJ97BWzf-H8mCnNSovysEMkHn_lMnxLVNxBdASk-uhK65156AAdKiODYTEuK-ai7BJwTqrHmvQRQd" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="385" data-original-width="685" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjf8CtG35JH1i9f7evtIkhHWq2GlWcbZZVbg7IBYq50dTX85dItauA2YI_d_28ZLZmrOqE4MBmTySC3_WW9FIJqVdzVGUgGsi71RZnpvhJWJ97BWzf-H8mCnNSovysEMkHn_lMnxLVNxBdASk-uhK65156AAdKiODYTEuK-ai7BJwTqrHmvQRQd" width="320" /></a></div><br /><o:p></o:p><p></p>Shimonzkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01409648440578570805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12809255.post-2820687334938037952023-08-23T10:41:00.000+03:002023-08-23T10:41:51.252+03:00Tragic Deaths in Israeli-Palestinian Towns<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">The tragic death of four Palestinian Israeli Citizens by a
gang of Palestinian Arab murderers is shocking. Words of condemnation of the
murder of innocent people, who have a right no less than Jewish Israelis for personal
security against crime gangs in Arab Israeli towns. The number of innocent
Palestinian Israeli Arabs murdered has risen to 159 since the beginning of this
year. The blame lies with criminal suspect, PM Netanyahu and his fascist
right-wing, scumbag cabinet ministers in the Knesset. The Minister of National “Jewish”
Security, who refers to Jewish terrorists, who go on a rampage of killing
innocent Palestinians, as “heroes”. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">Ben Gvir has a history of incitement against Arab
citizens of Israel and took part holding demonstrations with placards written
“Death to the Arabs” with his fellow Kahanist fascist scumbags. Since he was elected to the
Knesset, he modified his slogan “Death to the Terrorists”. The leopard never
changes its spots. However, to Ben Gvir this does not apply to right-wing
massive kippa-cladded, ear locks, and fringes dangling out of their shirts scum. The
stereotype that the evil coalition government refers to Jewish Israelis as “Am
Ehad” (One Nation) is far from the truth. We must dissociate ourselves from this neo-Nazi scum and their “godfathers” supporting them in the evil Netanyahu Coalition Government. The
Arab Israeli Community have no personal security. The perpetrators of the
murder of innocent Arab Israeli Citizens never seem to be caught. If it were Jewish Israeli citizens murdered in this fashion, the terrorists would be caught sooner
rather than later. One seems to get the impression that the two homophobic, Arab – hating cabinet ministers, Itamar Ben Gvir and Betzalel Smotrich, are only too pleased when Israel-Palestinians kill each other. This is why there is no police force preventing this tragic bloodshed.</span><o:p></o:p></p>Shimonzkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01409648440578570805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12809255.post-54715509666839269642023-01-15T11:30:00.000+02:002023-01-15T11:30:45.855+02:00The lack of a Constitution in Israel makes the Law Courts vulnerable<span id="docs-internal-guid-5f52bed6-7fff-04ce-6d3d-6da8cd30de32"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Israel has no written Constitution protecting citizens from human rights abuses. The reason is that if a citizen feels that he /she has been mistreated by the authorities, he/she has recourse to the Law Courts. According to the “reforms” by the Minister of Justice (perhaps the word Injustice” is more accurate), the selection of judges will be political and will judge within the framework of laws passed by the political parties in power. This means that the Law Courts, including the Supreme Court, will be subservient to the Netanyahu Coalition. The result for the complainant will be futile if political decisions govern the ruling of the judge.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This is how the justice system works in totalitarian communist and fascist countries. Britain has no constitution either, but they have committees and long traditions of justice ensuring that laws passed are acceptable and fair. </span><a href="https://www.bl.uk/magna-carta/articles/britains-unwritten-constitution" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Britain's unwritten constitution | The British Library</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> that Israel does not have. Political judge appointments are the destruction of Israel’s system of justice. The Courts will protect the Knesset’s power and not represent justice for the citizens of Israel. The President of Israel has the last word in his signature to the poisoning of Israel’s justice system. He should refuse to sign the destruction of justice.</span></p></span><p> </p>Shimonzkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01409648440578570805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12809255.post-43982147449282066542023-01-12T10:18:00.004+02:002023-01-12T10:21:09.546+02:00The Movement of Israel towards Fascism and Apartheid<p><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f0f2f5; color: #050505; font-size: 15px;">Israel is moving in a dangerous direction by politicizing the Courts and dispensing justice according to the party lines of the evil, homophobic, fascist government in power that </span><a style="background-color: #f0f2f5; color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" tabindex="-1"></a><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f0f2f5; color: #050505; font-size: 15px;">is shooting holes in Israel's present faulty democracy. The courts will be subservient to the present evil, right-wing government</span></p><p><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f0f2f5; color: #050505; font-size: 15px;">The solution does not lie with the Israeli electorate, as there is a move to destroy the left and possibly the center opposition. Demonstrations will not change the government. Apartheid SA ended by boycotting SA sports as starters followed by boycotting South Africa economically brought the end to apartheid. When Israel is harmed by boycotts, sanctions and divestment, democracy, and an end to the occupation of Palestinian lands will end and a two-state solution will be negotiated. If Israel is hit economically and things go bad for the Israeli citizen, then the evil, messianic, religious, racist, homophobic Netanyahu Government will lose support and disintegrate. I never supported BDS in the past. It may be the first stage of failure of fascism in Israel, which is now on the increase.</span></p><p><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f0f2f5; color: #050505; font-size: 15px;">The right-wing extremists of the Itamar Ben Gvir-Betzalel Smotrich types and Likudniks and their gangster shenanigans will encourage antisemitism. The attitude towards destructive, racist changes against a country moving towards </span><a style="background-color: #f0f2f5; color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" tabindex="-1"></a><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f0f2f5; color: #050505; font-size: 15px;">fascism logically encourages antisemitism. Discrimination against Reform and Conservative Jews and hatred expressed towards them by the corrupt, self-righteous orthodox rabbinical bigots, as well as the non-recognition of pluralism in Judaism. The fear of assimilation of the Jewish people is paranoia! It will result in the selection of Jews under the Law of Return. The direction Israel is moving is homophobic. It is developing into fascism and apartheid that is racist and homophobic - certainly not according to halacha. I don't think that reasonable Israelis will "put it down to antisemitism". What the Israeli Government is doing is creating antisemitism, creating hatred of the stranger, and those who do not tow the Netanyahu - Ben Gvir - Smotrich line. They may consider themselves Jews but lack Judaism's teachings of welcoming the stranger, the Jewish heart and soul. They have forgotten generations of suffering. Furthermore, they have forgotten what it is to be a Jew. Even the political rabbinical leaders, who are chief rabbis and those in the Haredi political parties, are corrupt and parasitic. If there is no food, there is no Torah! (</span><a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x6umtig x1b1mbwd xaqea5y xav7gou x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz xt0b8zv x1fey0fg" href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.myjewishlearning.com%2Farticle%2Fno-food-no-torah-no-torah-no-food%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR3Fbu7WtUoD2b8XEoZMS7XiUnoFQ2Ze2PTBA8ZIBTAQOGH9Qm15f8_riIs&h=AT0UQyNomV5p8Q-lBScAAb83LcyJoKGpbH-5GYdh3OONFb5kBj35D7k7hhiu32glzKYBk78H4fpJW9xQYI58HD9LEyrp4FYVj9UNkDJxXaHlcBGbe56GC2fKiSCtNxHzt7AOkt4NiwfSfzzR0A&__tn__=R]-R&c[0]=AT1dokWES7olmeKc57tfuklTXqN97WM9qaaOXyfVubxym1zq_9o5cBAYhrb4C9LEcB5fhPmDL0NlfGi89NUUJCDIRSZKsKaucedRY3x79NVxddF9Vvl-VFfS0ipkDvsJytryoHMzXtWQ0CJw_V8aLVGPEXxc5wkyd-5PiWU" rel="nofollow" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: #f0f2f5; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">https://www.myjewishlearning.com/.../no-food-no-torah-no.../</a><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f0f2f5; color: #050505; font-size: 15px;"> ) Ignorance because of not receiving a proper education in mathematics, sciences and English and only religious subjects will ensure that they remain parasites and eat the taxpayer's money. They are NOT JEWS IN SPIRIT, but JUDAIC MUTANTS.</span></p>Shimonzkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01409648440578570805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12809255.post-43574443716967277962022-11-29T10:03:00.007+02:002022-11-29T11:08:58.641+02:00Under the Kahanist, Itamar Ben Gvir the incoming Minister of Internal Security, the Israel Police Force will resemble the Nazi SA<div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><h2 style="text-align: left;"></h2><h2><span><span><a name='more'></a></span></span></h2><h1 style="text-align: left;"><span><span><span style="font-size: large;">Under the Kahanist, Itamar Ben Gvir the incoming Minister of Internal Security, the Israel Police Force will resemble the Nazi SA</span></span></span></h1><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span><!--more--></span><span><!--more--></span></span></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> "<span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sturmabteilung</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">German) </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">SA</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">; literally “Storm Detachment” was the original </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramilitary" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0645ad; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">paramilitary</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> wing of the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Party" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0645ad; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nazi Party</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. It played a significant role in </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler%27s_rise_to_power" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0645ad; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Adolf Hitler's rise to power</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> in the 1920s and 1930s. Its primary purpose was to provide protection for Nazi rallies and assemblies. It disrupted the meetings of opposing </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">parties. They fought the paramilitary units of the opposing parties, especially the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roter_Frontk%C3%A4mpferbund" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0645ad; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Roter Frontkämpferbund</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> of the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Germany" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0645ad; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Communist Party of Germany</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (KPD) and the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichsbanner_Schwarz-Rot-Gold" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0645ad; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> of the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Democratic_Party_of_Germany" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0645ad; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Social Democratic Party of Germany</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (SPD), and intimidating Romany, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_union" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0645ad; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">trade unionists</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, and especially </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jews" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0645ad; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jews</span></a>:"<span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. (From Wikipedia)</span></span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #2d2d2d; font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Israeli Electorate spoke at the ballot box on the 1st of November 2022. The results gave us a strong indication of what most Israelis want. A right-wing to extreme right-wing government filled with a macabre mix of racist, religious Orthodox extremists of the mould of the Kahanists, Itamar Ben Gvir, Betzalel Smotrich who did not serve in the IDF. They are racists and homophobes of the worst kind as well as fascists. It appears that those who support the ultra-Orthodox parties and their ilk, the Zionist Religious Party of Kahanist fascists that are tainting Judaism with a remarkable racist cover, creating a macabre messianic Judaism which is not true Judaism, but a heartless and merciless mutant faith. They are not a fringe group as once thought but over 12% of the electorate. They are a part of the Netanyahu Coalition. </span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #2d2d2d; font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Israeli Police Force will be there to serve the illegal settlers in occupied territories and will become as lawless as their incoming Minister of Police, who by the way, HAS A CRIMINAL RECORD OF PROVOKING VIOLENCE AGAINST THE MINORITIES. His prize is a cabinet post in the incoming Netanyahu Government.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium; white-space: pre-wrap;">Germany in the 1920s and the early 1930s was a democratic country. The Nazis exploited German democracy and won the elections by destroying the democracy of those days. The Zionist "Religious" Party has used similar brainwashing tactics which appeal to young voters especially.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span>This extremist, right-wing, racist, pseudo-religious trend spells danger for Israel's future. They will not tolerate opposition to their views. Israel's faulty democracy is in danger. These incoming thugs will be Israel's destruction as a democratic state only to be replaced with an Iranian-type regime. The rabbis will become our Ayatollahs with similar views as regards women and those who are progressive and different.</span> </span></span></div></blockquote><p><span id="docs-internal-guid-e59aea8a-7fff-0746-60d6-3d6acbd7f241" style="font-size: x-small;"></span></p>Shimonzkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01409648440578570805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12809255.post-80241121986536851892022-11-29T09:12:00.002+02:002022-11-29T09:12:26.546+02:00Israel of Today Does not Care about Diaspora Jewry<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #2d2d2d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The new right-wing Netanyahu Coalition in the making is moving towards fascism that does not tolerate those who are different in thought and creed. Leftists are branded as traitors. Racist, Messianic Judaism (Betzalel Smotrich, Ben Gvir-style) is in, and true, tolerant Judaism is out. True democracy and this fanatic-heartless Judaism are not compatible. 50% of Israel's electorate voted for this. They use Israel's faulty democracy to push non-democratic and racist apartheid parties into the Knesset. Some members of the Knesset, have a record of criminal offences for sabotage and provoking violence against Arabs by the destruction of their property. They have received legitimacy in the cabinet of Netanyahu to halt his court case and keep this accused criminal out of prison. Israel is moving down the path of pseudo-fascism. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Not </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">much good will come of it.</span></p>Shimonzkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01409648440578570805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12809255.post-90043625918993956782020-12-11T08:28:00.001+02:002020-12-11T08:28:20.447+02:00 An Extreme Right-Wing Break Away From the Likud<p><span style="font-size: medium;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">We do not really have any cause to celebrate another breakaway from the Likud by Gideon Sa'ar. If it was a breakaway that moved towards the left of centre-right with a new approach then we could celebrate. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Gideon Sa'ar is even more right-wing than Netanyahu. At the end of the day, we notice a plethora of right-wing to extreme right-wing parties. These parties are Yamina, Likud, Sa'ar's yet-unnamed new party, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Yisrael Beiteinu</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Party, Jewish Home Party and of course the ultra-Orthodox Parties, Basically all these parties have similar ideologies and do not weaken the right-wing bloc. They may even form a coalition after the upcoming general elections, despite denials of serving under criminal suspect, Netanyahu, who stands a strong chance of being re-elected. </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The credibility of politicians in Israel is erratic and after elections, the ball game changes as well as their promises to their voters as we witnessed in the aftermath of the last elections. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">These upcoming elections will bring no significant changes. It is a right-wing oriented election. The left-wing in Israel will be weakened even further. Basically the Israeli electorate is moving further to the right and the position of the centrist right-wing parties may even make a shift to a right-wing coalition. Even the Joint List, apart from the Hadash faction is certainly not left but Arab nationalist rather than egalitarian for all Israel's citizens. This leaves us with the left-wing Meretz Party that may get 6 seats according to the latest polls. The Labour Party will not have any representation in the Knesset.</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></p>Shimonzkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01409648440578570805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12809255.post-91525902198649365022020-12-04T13:14:00.004+02:002020-12-04T14:24:29.619+02:00Fourth Israeli Elections Coming Up!<span style="font-size: large;">The present squabbling, ineffectual coalition is a total failure. They have
wreaked more destruction on Israel’s health and Covid-19 is on the increase as
well. The economy is in ruins because there is no policy. Israel still does not
have a budget for 2920/21. Most of the decisions made by the appalling Netanyahu
Coalition is not logical as well as confusing to the general public. An example
is the pilot experimentations of opening only 15 shopping malls in the country
instead of all the shopping malls. This has resulted in overcrowding and the
impossibility of social distancing because long queues were created in the
foyers of these malls and who knows how many people are asymptomatic carriers of
Covid-19 standing in these queues. </span><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"> The unemployment rate is high. Small
businesses are bankrupt and much of the population are holding pirate weddings
and parties, inviting many positively tested guests, who spread Covid-19. We
must remember that the lack of discipline and not wearing masks properly or
social distancing is to blame for the increase in Corona infections. It is the
offspring of the unemployed that must bear the responsibility for the upsurge of
new cases in all sectors of the population. There are also insufficient
inspectors ensuring that the Covid-19 prevention laws are enforced. This
pathetic, divisive Netanyahu Coalition always seem to be involved in political
decisions that go against the Ministry of Health decisions. The blame for all
the failures must be laid at the door of a criminal suspect, PM Netanyahu, who
appears to be more involved in his upcoming criminal trial and postponing it
indefinitely. The fourth upcoming election (whenever that will be) will solve
nothing. The results will be the same - the Likud and right-wing will get the
most votes and the accused PM Netanyahu will be given another shot at forming
the next coalition government. So whether we have new elections or not it is a
matter of six of one and half a dozen of the other - there will be no change. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_next_Israeli_legislative_election">Opinion polling for the next Israeli legislative election </a></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">
There is nothing more predictable than the knowledge that the right-wing bloc
will get the most support and we will be back to square one again with a very
similar coalition combo failure as before. It appears that voting for a better
government is an exercise in futility under Israel’s electoral system.
</span></div>Shimonzkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01409648440578570805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12809255.post-4355676214872127682020-11-27T11:55:00.000+02:002020-11-27T11:55:32.864+02:00Meretz Can Only Survive as an egalitarian Jewish-Arab Party<span style="font-size: large;">Meretz and the left will cease to be relevant or survive if they do not change their tactics and form a true united Jewish-Arab Party that embraces Zionists as well as non-Zionists. After all, Zionism today has become the monopoly of the right-wing including the extreme racist right-wing with a large proportion of adherents to orthodox, messianic Judaism (not to be confused with Jews for Jesus).
Apart from Hadash that is left-wing, the Joint List is NOT left-wing. As is mentioned in the article, Ayman Oudeh, is opposed to joining Meretz in the formation of a combined Arab-Jewish Party which is a pity. Now with the possibility of the Joint List fragmenting because of Mansour Abbas making “overtures to Netanyahu”, we are in need of a united Arab-Jewish Party, representing all Israel’s citizens and not being involved with sectorial national interests as appears to be the case with the Joint List at present. Israel’s non-Jewish minorities’ interests and problems will be represented in an egalitarian Jewish-Arab Party on an equal basis.
</span>Shimonzkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01409648440578570805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12809255.post-18653479359071617962020-09-19T23:33:00.005+03:002020-09-20T08:31:43.667+03:00Some Reflections on Rosh Hashana 2020<p> <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">The international community as we know has been hit severely by Covid-19. The Coronavirus pandemic originated in Wuhan, China and spread out of control to almost every country on earth. It is a pandemic that does not distinguish between races or religion and nobody is immune from COVID-!9 hence the three main precautions accepted internationally to prevent being infected. </span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-c105bcea-7fff-a143-18be-740f896e6e9a"><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Coronavirus spreads like wildfire in crowds, especially in limited closed spaces. The three main precautions to prevent infections as we are all made to feel aware are:</span></p><ol style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0;"><li dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Wearing masks to cover the nose and mouth.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Social distancing - 2 metres between people to the next.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Personal hygiene.</span></p></li></ol><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Many people do not observe these simple precautions and until a vaccine against COVID-19 is available to the public, we have to adjust our lives within the framework of these precautions to avoid infection. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Israel is now under its second lockdown for 3 weeks which may even be extended after the end of Sukkot (Tabernacles).</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiLoftI-Tq5tJ6Mo7YTP-pqQ2etWEkepdOBhbkm6AbG2lZ3m6OvZb_H5UFK0qhHy3w5PkANVRw5_3lllDa3NK451x9OLvs_wHWAKZRwp6Rk1TMgrgtSj7WFzRuq2YEBbjg9-al/s822/458647.webp" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="537" data-original-width="822" height="261" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiLoftI-Tq5tJ6Mo7YTP-pqQ2etWEkepdOBhbkm6AbG2lZ3m6OvZb_H5UFK0qhHy3w5PkANVRw5_3lllDa3NK451x9OLvs_wHWAKZRwp6Rk1TMgrgtSj7WFzRuq2YEBbjg9-al/w400-h261/458647.webp" width="400" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table></p><div style="background-color: #f7f7f7; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; font-family: FrankRuhlLibre; font-size: 15px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now for the religious aspect, which is also part of the story. I am not a religiously observant person and have strong feelings as to whether God exists or not but if I would be religious, I would have very strong doubts as to God’s existence and questions to ask.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A religious person would accept that the Coronavirus was created and sent by God. If this is the case, maybe God does not want people to pray in their respective houses of worship. Prayer in houses of worship, whether the synagogue, church or mosque or whatever, maybe considered evil in the eyes of God. Perhaps God does not want to hear the prayers of believers in Him. He punishes them by infecting them with Covid-19 if they crowd into a House of Worship. Maybe God wants to curtail the overpopulation on the planet and that we are all equal in His eyes and face the same destiny irrespective of our faith or lack of it. Excuse my use of anthropomorphisms but there does not appear to be any other way of my humble attempt to explain this theory. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Is it possible that God wishes to punish humans for their evil ways? The hypocrisy that seems to exist in all faiths may be a cue to His anger. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The scientists are in a race to achieve the invention of a vaccine against the Coronavirus. Nobody can predict when this will be achieved.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Here in Israel, while we are under lockdown and the threat of the ultra-Orthodox communities to overcrowd the synagogues during the High Holydays thus endangering themselves as well as all Israel’s citizens. Is it possible that they are acting against the Will of the Almighty, who will infect them and others with a vengeance?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>References:</b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><ol style="text-align: left;"><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-c105bcea-7fff-a143-18be-740f896e6e9a"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f42; font-family: ReithSerif, Helvetica, Arial, freesans, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-54201834">Coronavirus: Israel marks Jewish New Year with the second lockdown</a></span></p></span></li><li><h1 class="
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In traditional Pesach (Passover</span> 1<span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">) observance, the famous </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ma Nishtanah</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (The Four Questions) are asked or recited in the traditional fashion. These four questions can really be reduced to one question involving one sentence. Perhaps we can use the term Pesach not as “this night is different from all other nights” but rather this period, including Pesach night, is different from all other periods in our history as Jews including our non-Jewish monotheistic brethren all over the world. Christians will be celebrating Easter and a week later, the month-long Ramadan fast will be observed by Muslims.</span></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-13971f45-7fff-8811-6546-a15e9c492921"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> "Passover - Wikipedia." </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passover" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passover</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">. Accessed 5 Apr. 2020.</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d8338c23-7fff-0e6a-90b7-40c016616407"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> "Haggadah - Wikipedia." </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haggadah" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haggadah</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">. Accessed 5 Apr. 2020.</span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ec1c7034-7fff-a5c1-61a8-f8e7f95a00c8"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><a href="https://www.chabad.org/holidays/passover/pesach_cdo/aid/1751/jewish/What-Is-a-Seder.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline;">https://www.chabad.org/holidays/passover/pesach_cdo/aid/1751/jewish/What-Is-a-Seder.htm</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">. Accessed 5 Apr. 2020.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-74d0aeeb-7fff-51ac-fe03-cc21935b8227"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> 25 Mar. 2020, </span><a href="https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/raabis-approve-the-use-of-zoom-to-celebrate-passover-due-to-coronavirus-622221" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline;">https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/raabis-approve-the-use-of-zoom-to-celebrate-passover-due-to-coronavirus-622221</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">. Accessed 5 Apr. 2020.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
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Shimonzkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01409648440578570805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12809255.post-74699534269673535402019-11-22T16:06:00.001+02:002019-11-22T16:08:13.828+02:00Netanyahu May Be Israel's Enemy Today<br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #2d2d2d;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Netanyahu in his latest unstatesmanlike statement reacting to the <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/netanyahu-charged-bribery-fraud-corruption-israel-election-1.8137771">AG accusations</a> against him proves how arrogant and self-righteous he (Netanyahu) is. He is destroying the courts, the police, the left, the media which he failed to control in his attempts to bribe them to print what he desires. He calls it the free press that has been stifled by the opposition. Democracy to Netanyahu is he and his cronies' control of the press to give favourable coverage for his policies at the taxpayers' expense. In his own defence statement live on TV proves that not only is he his own enemy but also Israel's enemy even worse than Hamas, Hizbollah and Islamic Jihad in his attempts to disrupt the law courts, law enforcement authorities, the media and those, who oppose him politically as well as the Arab citizens of Israel who support the Joint List. He has declared war by demanding that those police investigators who questioned him ought to be investigated. He has also played a part in polarizing Israel's people by his disgraceful behaviour over the years during his reign. His reign is coming to a bitter end and he will scream and kick to prevent that from happening. After his hateful, remorse filled speech his defence lawyers should resign from representing him. He attacks the law enforcement authorities and his status has now changed from suspect to being the accused. He should resign and the sooner the better for Israel.</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-21419134-7fff-a535-4a28-959b8ecbb03c"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The die is cast and PM Netanyahu’s status from suspected criminal to an accused criminal awaiting trial.<a href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/netanyahu-decries-corruption-charges-an-attempted-coup-against-him-1.8161747"> His statement after AG Mandelblit was a disgrace</a> and far from being stately. It echoes Bibi’s narcism and his similarity to his favourite president - Donald Trump. Netanyahu’s attack on those who interrogated him saying that the “investigators ought to be investigated” as he, Netanyahu, has been framed and unjustly accused. The biggest problem is the increased ground support that he appears to be getting from his Likud Party and their massive support that the Likud still receives. Netanyahu ought to do the right thing and resign so that he can prove his innocence he claims. How can he represent Israel’s interests being under the accusation of fraud, bribery and breach of trust in three criminal cases? Netanyahu has chosen the path of war against those professional civil servants who carried out their jobs efficiently after perusing thousands of written statements, recordings and reports of state witnesses over a long time. Basically, Netanyahu has declared war on the courts, police, the press, the left opposition and even the Arab citizens of Israel, whose representatives in the Knesset he views as supporters of terror against Israel and failing to recognize Israel’s right to exist. He lies to the public to whitewash his accusations and viewing himself as the victim of a witch hunt orchestrated by Israel’s law enforcement authorities. The reality of the criminal accusations against him has made him declare war against the legal bodies that he is supposed to defend as prime minister. He is, in reality, the enemy of Israel by his unstatesmanlike behaviour against the state bodies that he should be supporting. He is unfit to be prime minister. He must go even if it means dragging him away by being handcuffed and placed under arrest for promoting sedition against the state. After all the accusations are basically the State of Israel vs PM Benjamin Netanyahu.</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; white-space: normal;">The accused, PM Netanyahu, is on the warpath in his fight against the law enforcement authorities of Israel. He had given a hint of that concerning the suspicions of his criminal involvement in the various cases mentioned ad nauseam over the last 3-4 years if not more. We now view a threatened accused criminal who proclaims his innocence at all costs, smearing everyone in his path that is carrying out their civic duty to society to combat crime in high places. Bibi, of course, with his wife Sara, and good-for-nothing son, Yair, the author of loutish tweets wreaking with racism are being witch-hunted by the courts, police, the left, the evil media that does not publish nice things about him and his family. Bibi views himself as pure as driven snow and above the law. He is now fighting for his political future using every lie that he can to convince his supporters of his innocence. Bibi must resign - the sooner, the better for all of us!</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;">The 17th September 2019 elections have achieved
a deadlock. PM Netanyahu is on the way out. According to nearly final Israeli
election results, the opposition Blue and White party of Benny Gantz edged
ahead of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party </span>1<span style="font-size: large;">. However,
Benny Ganz may not be on the way in. Neither the Likud nor Kahol Lavan parties
with their possible coalitions will make it to the minimum of 61 seats out of
120 Knesset seats. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"></span><img height="298" src="https://nationalpostcom.files.wordpress.com/2019/09/webp.net-resizeimage-2019-09-25t153534.273.jpg?quality=80&strip=all&w=780" width="400" /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span class="img-caption" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Israeli President Reuven Rivlin tasks Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with forming a new government, during a press conference in Jerusalem on September 25, 2019. </span><span class="img-author" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #666666; font-family: "georgia" , "times" , "times new roman"; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP/Getty Images</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;">It appears that it will take weeks of intensive
negotiations between the factions to form a viable coalition which is very
complex and Netanyahu, with his legal problems, may have to be replaced if Ganz
does not succeed in forming a coalition that will have 61 or more seats.
Somebody else from the Likud may replace Netanyahu, who will not resign without
a fight. Netanyahu proposed leading “a broad unity government” that would
include Likud in alliance with the Kahol-Lavan alliance, which won the most
Knesset seats in the vote and is led by former army chief Benny Ganz </span>2<span style="font-size: large;">. He will
have to be dragged alive, kicking and screaming with his waning magic racist
mantras and balls of rolling sweat pouring down from his brow. Much depends on
his Likud cronies, who appear to be giving Netanyahu overwhelming support and
to date are not prepared to desert him for a new leader or even pass a
resolution to have the Likud primaries voting to replace Netanyahu.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">President Reuven Rivlin faces one of the most,
if not the most difficult challenge in Israel’s history to try and get the
winning party to form a coalition with so many recalcitrant Knesset members,
all pulling in different directions with different demands. The main question
is whether </span><a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/results-arent-even-official-but-already-nightmare-3rd-election-scenario-looms/?utm_source=The+Weekend+Edition&utm_campaign=weekend-edition-2019-09-22&utm_medium=email"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Benny Ganz will go back on his electoral promise not to sit down
and negotiate a unity government with Benjamin Netanyahu </span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">rotating the prime ministerial post with him, even if President
Rivlin may request him to do so. Electoral promises and post-electoral
decisions during negotiations may even be contradictory. Promises made during
election campaigns may not be kept once the negotiations for forming a
coalition government begin.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The formation of a government coalition,
whichever way one views it, is a gargantuan task and the possibility of total
failure is very large. The possibility of a third round of general elections cannot be ruled out if no government can be formed. If this occurs, it
will cost Israel millions of shekels and the results will remain pretty much
the same.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Perhaps it would be a good idea to form a unity
government for one purpose only and that is to pass a law changing the
electoral system to ensure that there is a change in the delimitation of parties
by raising the percentage support they get or to change the system into a
a system similar to the UK that has a </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_representation_constituency"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">constituency representation</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">. </span><a href="https://www.parliament.uk/about/how/elections-and-voting/voting-systems/"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The House of Commons and local councils in England and Wales use
the first-past-the-post system.</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The UK is divided into </span><a href="https://www.parliament.uk/site-information/glossary/constituencies/"><span style="color: #4e9bd7; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-decoration: none;">constituencies</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">. Local
authorities into wards.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">At a general or local election, voters put a cross (X) next to
their preferred candidate on a ballot paper. Ballot papers are counted. The
candidate with the most votes represents the constituency or ward.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The voting system of proportional
representation as at present in Israel will not allow any party to gain an
absolute majority to win an election because of the diverse voting patterns of the electorate and a large number of parties participating. Hence many weeks if not months will be
wasted in trying to form a government coalition. This exercise may be a test of
total futility and the possibility of new futile general elections cannot be
ruled out. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">After much ado in the president’s residence, it
was decided that Netanyahu get first shot at forming a government </span>5<span style="font-size: large;">. His chances
of succeeding are poor and he has a week to do so. Balad (part of the Joint
List) decided to abstain from supporting Netanyahu or Ganz. </span><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-49833050" style="font-size: x-large;">This gave the right-wing block the majority which influences President Rivlin’s decision to give Netanyahu first choice.</a><span style="font-size: large;"> Balad’s expected 3 votes in favour of Ganz were
withdrawn at their request. </span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">After having been given a meaningless, futile mandate by President Rivlin to form a government, Netanyahu thanks the president for the mandate and gives an election propaganda speech about the importance of him forming a government and continuing as PM. He was campaigning for himself and his right-wing cronies to continue leading the country. The bottom line is obvious as well - getting immunity from a criminal trial pending his hearing in a week.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There are reports on <a href="https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5597465,00.html">Y Net</a> that Kahol-Lavan
requested Balad to abstain from voting so that Netanyahu is given the first
option to form a government so that that he will fail and that
Kahol-Lavan will be given second option to form a government assuming that
their chance of succeeding is greater. Both groups, even with their respective
supporters, are unable to win an absolute majority of 61 seats. There is a
definite electoral stalemate. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;">At the end of the day, within a few months,
there will be new elections. If there is no electoral reform or a change in the
electoral system, there will be no change in the results and Israel will face
inconclusive election results after repeat expensive elections that maybe
Israel’s destiny. </span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<li><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span id="docs-internal-guid-80cd094e-7fff-6e90-3d22-37a45778db37"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> 20 Sep. 2019, </span><a href="https://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/israel/2019/september/benny-gantzs-blue-and-white-party-ahead-of-netanyahus-likud-as-final-votes-are-tallied" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/israel/2019/september/benny-gantzs-blue-and-white-party-ahead-of-netanyahus-likud-as-final-votes-are-tallied</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Accessed 22 Sep. 2019.</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-56e608c9-7fff-c59c-6497-30d02025e243"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> 21 Sep. 2019, </span><a href="https://thearabweekly.com/netanyahu-seeks-stay-power-despite-likuds-failure-win-parliamentary-election" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline;">https://thearabweekly.com/netanyahu-seeks-stay-power-despite-likuds-failure-win-parliamentary-election</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">. Accessed 22 Sep. 2019.</span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_2019_Israeli_legislative_election">September 2019 Israeli legislative election</a> </span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Israeli Democracy Institute - <a href="https://en.idi.org.il/israeli-elections-and-parties/elections/2019/">September 2019 Elections</a></span></span></span></li>
<li><a href="https://nationalpost.com/news/world/after-election-deadlock-netanyahu-tapped-by-israels-president-to-assemble-new-government">After election deadlock, Netanyahu tapped by Israel's president to assemble a new government</a></li>
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<br />Shimonzkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01409648440578570805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12809255.post-30106537178800326112019-09-08T13:27:00.000+03:002019-09-19T23:07:44.650+03:00The Upcoming Elections on 17th September 2019<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Israeli General Elections are just around the corner. It is shocking that millions of shekels are being wasted because Netanyahu could not form a coalition. It is also President Reuven Rivlin’s fault as it was incumbent on him to give another Knesset member the chance to form a coalition government. Under the pressure of Netanyahu, in his determination not to lose the elections, the president succumbed to Netanyahu’s desire and new elections, only 5 months after April 9th election, was declared for 17th September. This did go against protocol:</span></span><br />
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After an election, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_Israel" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="President of Israel">President</a>, following consultations with the elected party leaders, chooses the Knesset member most likely to have the ability to form a viable (coalition) government. While this typically is the leader of the party receiving the most seats, it is not required to be so. In the event a party wins 61 or more seats in an election, it can form a viable government without having to form a coalition. However, no party has ever won more than 56 seats in an election; thus, a coalition has always been required.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-mfa_3-1" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_in_Israel#cite_note-mfa-3" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[3]</a></sup> That member has up to 42 days to negotiate with the different parties, and then present his or her government to the Knesset for a <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_of_Confidence" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Motion of Confidence">vote of confidence</a>. If the Knesset approves the proposed government (by a vote of at least 61 members), he or she becomes Prime Minister.</div>
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As the coalitions often prove highly unstable - given the number and diverse views of the political parties involved - parties (or portions thereof) quite commonly leave them. However, so long as the coalition has at least 61 members (and it is free to recruit from parties not originally in the coalition) it is entitled to remain in power. Such a case occurred with the 19th Knesset: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehud_Barak" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Ehud Barak">Ehud Barak</a> and four other members left the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_Party_(Israel)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Labor Party (Israel)">Labor</a> in 2011 to form the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence_(Israeli_political_party)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Independence (Israeli political party)">Independence Party</a>, and continued their alignment with Likud, while the remaining eight Labor members remained with the party, but left the coalition; after all the changes, the Likud coalition retained the support of the minimum 61 members, and so, it remained in power. If a coalition fails a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_of_no_confidence" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Motion of no confidence">motion of no confidence</a>, it ceases to be in power, but only if the motion names a specific replacement to be the prime minister. That individual then has a prescribed amount of time to form a new coalition, and new elections are called if this attempt is not successful (known as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructive_vote_of_no_confidence" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Constructive vote of no confidence">constructive vote of no confidence</a>).<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-11" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_in_Israel#cite_note-11" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[11]</a> <span style="font-size: small;">(Wikipedia)</span></sup></div>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">Netanyahu knows that he has the chance of being granted immunity from prosecution in 3 criminal cases of which he is a criminal suspect should he be reelected as PM.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">This is the most shallow election campaign since Israel’s establishment and is mostly involved in various character assassination of opposition candidates by the right-wing Netanyahu coalition. Netanyahu, during his long rule, must go down in history as the most polarizing prime minister that Israel ever had. The electorate is tired of elections and many are apathetic as a result. His credibility and that of his shenanigans are questionable. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/full-text-the-criminal-allegations-against-netanyahu-as-set-out-by-israels-ag/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">PM Netanyahu is a criminal suspect</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and within a week or two after the elections, he will be granted a hearing by the attorney-general on his suspected crimes. Netanyahu is behaving like a megalomanic cornered rat. He is on the warpath blaming the attorney-general, the press media, the law courts, the police, and, of course, the left. He believes that these institutions and the left are conspiring against him and his beloved wife, Sarah and that twitter “genius” his son, Yair, who tweets such a lot of rubbish without being scolded by his parents for it. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">There are so many important issues at stake and not much mention was made of that by any of the parties standing for election. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">PM Netanyahu is not interested in Israel. He is interested in one personal issue only and that is not to stand trial and being elected as PM is his only chance to gain immunity from prosecution and standing trial. He is dishing out jobs to pals in the Knesset, who are his yes-men/women, including the State-Comptroller. He is also not telling the truth to the Israeli electorate and is a purveyor of “fake news” to increase his support and that of his party. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">There are so many reports in the Israeli media over the elections and there is no point in regurgitating them here. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">We should all bear in mind that a leader of a country who lies to the citizens of whom he is the leader has no respect for the citizens of the country that he leads. Apart from that, it is not in the public’s interest that a candidate to lead the country is a crime suspect. He should have his name cleared from all suspicions before he can be allowed to stand as a candidate for prime minister. Some of Netanyahu's famous lies are accusations of opposition parties, including Israel Beitenu and Kahol/Lavan as "left" who are prepared to sit with Arab parties in a coalition despite their strong denials. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">This is an appeal to all citizens of Israel to vote for sanity, democracy, and the end of the Netanyahu regime of neo-fascists, who are destroying Israel’s democracy and replacing it with a regime that polarises the nation and creates divisions in our society that Israel does not need. We must vote for a government that will abolish the racist Nation-State Law </span>1<span style="font-size: large;">.</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and work towards the equality of all Israel’s citizens, irrespective of race, colour or religion. The present government is eroding the laws of the land for their own benefit and not for the benefit of its citizens. We have an opportunity to vote for a change of government for the better of Israel and all its citizens and this also includes moving to end the occupation and moving towards a true peace between Israel and the Palestinians as difficult as it is to achieve. We must also bear in mind that if we vote for a party that may after the elections be part of a Likud Coalition then we have not achieved anything for a change of government.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Reference:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">1. </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> "BASIC LAW: ISRAEL - THE NATION STATE OF THE JEWISH ...." </span><a href="https://knesset.gov.il/laws/special/eng/BasicLawNationState.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://knesset.gov.il/laws/special/eng/BasicLawNationState.pdf</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Accessed 8 Sep. 2019.</span></div>
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<br />Shimonzkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01409648440578570805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12809255.post-52999152621987466932019-08-04T10:15:00.000+03:002019-08-04T10:28:56.358+03:00Is Israel Becoming an Apartheid State?<br />
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<span style="background: white; color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">How
history repeats itself in different circumstances. According to a Jpost report
of July 21st, 2019 "Labor chairman Amir Peretz </span>1<span style="font-size: large;"> said on Sunday in an
interview with Army Radio that there is no way for the Labor party to run for
the upcoming September 17 elections with Meretz or Former Prime Minister Ehud
Barak's Israel Democratic Party. Peretz's words were made after the Labor party
merged with Orly Levy-Abucassis' Gesher, which sparked waves of criticism among
the leftist parties" </span>2<span style="font-size: large;">. This means that Amir Peretz and Orly Levy-Abekasis
have an agenda of joining a Likud right-wing coalition. Under these conditions,
we must understand that a vote for Labour is a vote for a right-wing coalition.
Meretz leader, Nitzan Horowitz, has stated this. It will be a fatal blow to the
left. Labour and Likud have been in coalition numerous times since Israel's
establishment and after these elections, it may occur again.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">If
Labour under Amir Peretz and Orly Levy-Abukasis join the Likud, it will not be
surprising. Orly Levy-Abukasis grew up in the Likud and still holds much of its
ideology. She is the perfect pathway for Labour to enter a Likud coalition after
the elections even if Netanyahu is not indicted. They have kept that option
open. If this occurs, most Labour supporters will have very red faces. After
all, the upcoming elections give the voter a chance to oppose the Likud and
company. Voting for Labour is taking a gamble and may favour Netanyahu. This
will be a happy day for Netanyahu if this happens.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">As
things stand at the moment in this rather sleepy election campaign, the
left-wing is in danger of being written off as a viable legislative force in
the Knesset. Instead of forming a united front against the right-wing coalition
government, they are splintered. As mentioned earlier, Amir Peretz, with his
latest partner, Orly Levy-Abukassis of Gesher, who is apolitical on state
issues and is involved in social issues exclusively with a tendency towards her
Likud upbringing is a massive gamble that could add another nail in the coffin
of the dying Labour Party. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">A vote
for the right-wing is a vote for an apartheid state as Rabbi Rafi Peretz, head
of the Jewish Home Party supports, will be part of this despicable coalition.
Not only is Rabbi Rafi Peretz, Minister of Education, </span><span style="background: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">the
centre of controversy over re-educating the LGBT community to be heterosexual.
He later softened his views on this issue because of the strong opposition to
his support of “conversion treatment”</span>3<span style="font-size: large;"> He is really an Orthodox religious
extremist and all that goes with it. This bigot must be forced to resign from
being Minister of Education. He is a racist and wishes to turn Israel into an
apartheid state by denying Palestinians in the occupied territories the right
to vote. His agenda is to declare the occupied areas as part of Israel and the
Palestinians will be denied representation. He waltzes with Kahanist fascists
of the Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Power Party)</span>4<span style="font-size: large;"> to include them in an extreme, racist
right-wing Zionist religious party - Jewish Home Party and United Right
Alliance, which he heads. He will be negotiating with these Kahanists as the
heat of the upcoming elections increases. This racist demagogue is a dangerous
wolf in sheep's’ clothing. He had failed to include these Kahanists. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">The cat
that has been struggling in the bag of Israel's bigoted leaders has now been
let out of the bag by Rabbi Rafi Peretz, Minister of Education, who clearly
stated his desire that the occupied territories (West Bank) will be part of
Israel and that the Palestinians living there will have no right to vote. He
admitted this in his interview when asked if this is not apartheid. Peretz
didn’t rule out the option that it is. So there you have it straight from one
of the horse's mouth. This bigot will be in charge of educating the next
generation - so it appears if the right-wing under the suspected felon Bibi
Netanyahu forms the next government after the elections. This will give those
who oppose the Israeli right-wing government justification of equating their
rule with apartheid South Africa. This will eventually extend to the rights of
non-Jewish minorities, who are Israeli citizens, being eroded and they will be
second class citizens. The handwriting is on the wall. The recently passed
Nation-State Law will assure that.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">For
those, who are still thinking of supporting Labour under Amir Peretz, will also
get the right-wing extremists such as Bezalel Smotrich, Minister of Transport
and maybe Otzma Yehudit, (if they pass the threshold into the Knesset) the Kahanist fascist party as part of the coalition they do
not want </span>5<span style="font-size: large;">, assuming he forms a coalition with the Likud. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">Perhaps
if the left of centre are prepared to drop their egos and that, of course,
includes members of the Arab Parties, then they could form a strong opposition
to Netanyahu and his right-wing shenanigans and even have a possibility of
forming a new centre-left government. The Arab Parties must drop their strong
nationalist tendencies and work with the left to form a party that represents
the interests of all Israel's citizens irrespective of race, colour or
religion. A true Jewish Arab Party coalition including, the Democratic Camp and Hadash-Ta-al. This means that a common
platform free of over-bloated egos and past individual gripes can be accepted
by all the parties concerned. If this unity of the left is not accepted the
alternative will be a fragmented left opposition. Many of these parties will not get sufficient votes to be elected to
the Knesset and the right with its religious orthodox and ultra-orthodox
parties will be the next government including Kahol-Lavan. This is the choice.
Kahol-Lavan is sitting on the fence and will sway towards the coalition that
has the best chance of forming a government. Avigdor Lieberman leader of Israel
Beiteinu will be the trump card that decides which coalition group will be
given the go-ahead by President Rubi Rivlin to form the next government.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">This
week Ehud Barak (Democratic Israel), Meretz and Stav Shafir (who left the
Labor-Gesher Union) have decided to form a united list known as the Democratic
Camp. It will be left of centre </span>6<span style="font-size: large;">. </span></span><a href="https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/editorial/peretz-it-s-your-turn-now-1.7576337" style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="background: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Tactically,
this is a good move</span></a><span style="background: white; color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> but it might spell the end of the Arab vote
that won Meretz representation in the Knesset after April 9th Elections. It
remains to be seen if Ehud Barak, despite his apology for the loss of life of
13 Arab Israeli demonstrators in 2000 during the Um el Fahm unrest, will not
lose the Arab Israeli vote. </span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Surely if the new Arab Joint List (an agreement on 27th July 2019 has
been reached by Hadash-Ta-al and United Arab List. Balad will probably join at
a later stage.) would join up with the Democratic Camp, it would strengthen the
opposition to a Netanyahu led coalition. After all, their principles of
democracy, abolishing the Nation-State Law, fighting against racism and fascism
as well as equal rights for all Israel's citizens irrespective of race, colour
and religion coincide with the Democratic Camp agenda. Economic improvements
and a peace agreement with the Palestinians that will herald the end to the
occupation and a Two-State Solution is also an essential part of the new
Democratic Camp ideology. The differences between the Joint List and Democratic
Camp can be ironed out. After all, unity is the strength to get the Netanyahu led
coalition out is a goal of both party lists. Unfortunately, the Democratic Camp
and the Joint Arab List will not be running together and this weakens the
left-wing opposition to Netanyahu. </span></span></div>
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Arab vote must not be overlooked. </span><span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Only a true Jewish-Arab Party on the left will
gain more seats than if they run on their own. This Jewish-Arab Party would be
concerned with fighting for true equality between all Israel's citizens, women
rights and freedom of pluralism that we so desperately need in this country and
of course a renewal of meaningful peace negotiations with our Palestinian
neighbours, which appears to be absent in all party platforms<i>.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">We must
also bear in mind that a vote for the Likud and its right-wing future partners
in a right-wing coalition also is a vote for including the right-wing extremist
party, Otzma Yehudit that is Kahanist racist party that was banned from
standing for election in the Knesset by previous Israeli Governments. Under
Netanyahu, this Kahanist party is gaining legitimacy in order to save Netanyahu
from standing trial for suspected crimes. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">Well,
the dye is now cast and the deadline for registration of parties standing in
the elections has been decided on 1st August. The Arab Joint List has
reincarnated, the right-wing of the Likud parties have formed a unity party
leaving the Kahanist, racist extremist Itamar Ben Gvir’s Otzma Yehudit Party
and Moshe Feiglin’s Zehut running on their own. This means that these two
right-wing racist parties may not even pass the threshold to enter the Knesset,
which will be a small blessing. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">Labour-Gesher
Party will not unite with the Democratic Camp in order to keep its option open
of joining a Likud led Coalition after the elections. This is probably the
reason why Amir Peretz and Orly Levy-Abukasis leader of the Gesher Party have
formed a unity party. <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/liberman-calls-for-face-off-with-netanyahu-slams-pms-lies/">Avigdor Lieberman, the holder of the trump card in a possible coalition government of Likud-Kahol\Lavan including Israel Beitenu(Lieberman’s party).</a> Lieberman has made it clear that he supports this move,
excluding the ultra-Orthodox and Messianic religious parties. If Netanyahu
fails to form a government, Lieberman supports the idea that another Likud
elected Knesset member will be given the chance of forming the next government
after the elections. </span></span></div>
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guess is that the results of the 17th Sept General Elections will not be much
different from the results of the 9th April Elections. If we follow trends of Israeli citizens' voting patterns there is a definite trend towards the right with messianic religious fundamentalism on the rise. </span></span></div>
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<br />Shimonzkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01409648440578570805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12809255.post-2619912484044398022019-06-01T10:38:00.000+03:002019-06-01T10:52:07.222+03:00The Decision of Holding New Elections is Absurd and Lacking in Logic<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As expected, Netanyahu has labelled Lieberman as a “leftist” who has joined the Arab opposition. This is such balderdash and typical of Netanyahu, who in his desperation views all his opponents as leftists, traitors, including the media, police force, law courts and the attorney-general, who are out on a witch hunt against him. As has been mentioned many times in the media, Netanyahu is interested in one thing only – not to stand trial for his alleged accusations of bribery, fraud and breach of trust. Calling for new elections is his way of achieving that goal with a little help paradoxically from the Arab Parties as well. Netanyahu is a genius and he knows how to manipulate his supporters with his lies and deceit.</span><img height="289" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/HJpUw5EwLq9I8Ib_9gy3_XJ9d58SE0TGPtoyTaDadzp14T5RJvC9vZOCvrIT5MBYyDbRuO_4yLsIhc42dYFpOxEBn-beFIOUQG96kTBsc0eP4avrBElrCmrHQVGX4eJ6Qwa6g3QQ" style="border: none;" width="218" /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There was a rare unity between Hadash-Taal and the opposition parties at the largely successful demonstration on Saturday night 25</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: super; white-space: pre-wrap;">th</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> May 2019. What happened? They did not join the opposition and voted with the right-wing to dissolve the Knesset. They are not aware that this move will only strengthen Netanyahu and his right-wing toadies even more.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">The mindset of many voters, especially in the periphery, is right-wing and they will not change their allegiance to the Likud and its right-wing parties, including the ultra-Orthodox parties. They have swallowed all Netanyahu’s lies with great enthusiasm and many believe every word of Netanyahu’s mantras. The fact that Netanyahu is accused of breaking the law does not affect their support of Netanyahu, it just strengthens it. These people believe that the witch hunt against Netanyahu is real and they must support him as in their view “Netanyahu is the best prime minister since Israel’s establishment”.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Netanyahu, his right-wing toadies and the ultra-Orthodox Parties will stick by his side once again. He and his party with its macabre mix have incredible support from "Talisman toters and those prostrating themselves in supplication on the tombs of the saints,” to use a quote from the famous Israeli artist, <a href="https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4939021,00.html">Yair Gabuz, in a speech he made at Rabin Square on the eve of Elections in 2015.</a> In the speech, which took place a mere ten days before the elections, Garbuz spoke of "the handful" and said: "We were told that the despicable man who murdered the prime minister came from a handful of delusional people ... We were told that the yellow-shirted, black symbol-ed ‘Kahane was right’ people, and the 'Death to Arabs!' hurlers, were no more than a handful—a mere handful! ... That the wicked price taggers are certainly a handful ... and they told us that the threatening, disparaging racists do not represent Israeli society at all, that they are only a handful!” Unfortunately, these right-wing purveyors of racial hatred have grown immensely since then and this is Netanyahu’s powerhouse of support. Most of these people that he described are very much alive in the religious extreme right-wing parties - neo-fascist fanatics such as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bezalel_Smotrich">Bezalel Smotrich</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itamar_Ben-Gvir">Itamar Ben Gvir</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben-Zion_Gopstein">Benzie Gopstein</a> and the list goes on not to exclude the parasitic ultra-Orthodox parties who contribute nothing to the country but “religious bullshit” and religious extortion, as well as eternal poverty-stricken Torah students, who do not work or serve in the IDF. The last elections on 9th April, they were very much alive with their poisonous pseudo-religious, hateful rhetoric. They will try to be “Netanyahu’s saviours”. They all share one mantra called “denial” of Netanyahu’s suspected criminality. The peripheral towns are where these types are found and they are enough to get Netanyahu in. Their mentors are racist rabbis that bless and curse at will.</span><img height="269" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/_EwzjlCYAb7CUKpSzcdpg8IuIOwojQ_Q3abN-h6LLJPXHrI845QlbYgwzPuHzN0ZJ_DARUHKV5mtbfxTi8DxbUQ9BXf9vqmG8wIDaGcHBZZtYxe1gJ-B8TR0YQ1AbSbjcKWgVXtK" style="border: none;" width="142" /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">The time is now more than ripe for the parties that are left of centre to unite. The last elections have proved that. The Arab Parties are thinking of resuscitating the Joint List in order to win more seats. Perhaps it is time for Meretz to negotiate with the Arab Parties to form an alternative Jewish-Arab List. After all, it was the Arab voters that saved Meretz from losing their Knesset representation. If this is not achieved, Meretz will not be in the next Knesset. An Arab-Jewish Party should be open to all. This new Arab-Jewish Party will gain more support from the Arab communities who show disillusionment with their own representatives resulting in a low voter turnout. Many Arab citizens of Israel with whom I spoke had expressed support for such a move. The emphasis on common Israeli citizenship that embraces all Israel’s citizens irrespective of race, colour or creed will go a long way to achieve a better Israel for its entire people.</span></span><br />
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Shimonzkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01409648440578570805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12809255.post-31579281166077941372019-05-08T22:46:00.000+03:002019-05-08T22:46:24.909+03:00Israel's Independence Day Celebrations<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>Israel has only one day annually that is celebrated without any religious constraints or “mitzvot”. This is a day that secular and religious Israelis celebrate as well as those who identify with Israel and its people. </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Israeli Arab Citizens do not celebrate. There are no flags or symbols of celebration in their villages. It is a great pity that the two peoples - Jewish and Arab Israeli citizens are divided in their respective narratives causing the Israeli Arab sector not to celebrate Israel’s independence. Here in Israel, we have failed to achieve a common loyalty in Israel for all its citizens - Jew and Arab alike. It could have been achieved but Israel has failed to be the state of all its citizens for a number of reasons. The most striking, perhaps, is the non-inclusive character of Israel’s Jewish majority. An example of this is the non-inclusive wording of Israel’s National Anthem “</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatikvah"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Hatikva</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">” - The Hope. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The wording of Hatikva could be modified to include Israel’s non-Jewish minority symbols of culture without changing the wording of Jewish desires and hopes. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Apart from the national anthem, there are other symbols of Arab Israeli culture that could be included and thus make them feel part of Israel's people rather than estranging them with all kinds of declarative laws that estranges them from Israel.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> This could go a long way in promoting a common patriotism that is all-inclusive. This could also be done through education from an early age as well as encouraging the establishment of integrated Jewish-Arab schools, where education in unity among all Israel’s peoples could be achieved.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Arab and Jewish Israelis could learn each other's languages as well as secular subjects to equip them for their future. Arabic and Hebrew should both have equal status. Both Arab and Jewish Israelis should have the same standard of education and go to the same schools from kindergarten age until matric. In most western democracies, pupils of all faiths attend the same schools. When it comes to religious instruction, religious leaders of different faiths instruct the pupils in their respective faiths. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Israel’s 71 years of independence should be a nation-wide non-political affair that is inclusive of all Israel's citizens. However, with the passing of the racist Nation-State Law last year, resulting in the grading of Israel's Arab Citizens as second class citizens that will estrange 20% of Israel's citizens even more. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Another upsetting development is the attempt to politicise the law courts that have been impartial since Israel's establishment. The outgoing Minister of Justice, Ayelet Shaked, had her agenda in interfering with the court system </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It is a great pity that this year’s Independence Day celebrations will have a right-wing political slant to it which will, unfortunately, spoil its non-political nature. Ayelet Shaked will be replaced by Yariv Levin - a Netanyahu appointee, who intends to weaken the courts and make them subservient to the incoming right-wing coalition. Legislation will be passed to ensure that the court cannot overrule government decisions even if their legality is in question. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">Independence of the law courts will be compromised. Israel is going down a path that threatens democracy if the Netanyahu Government succeeds in appointing conservative judges to the bench. The opposition is weak and will whimper impotently against the incoming ruling government anti-democratic bills.</span></span></div>
Shimonzkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01409648440578570805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12809255.post-13247016426253593932019-05-02T18:34:00.000+03:002019-05-02T22:37:10.059+03:00Holocaust Remembrance Day has been Defiled!<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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It is a direction of</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: large; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> realpolitik </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">played out by PM Netanyahu towards the far-right, neo-fascist leaders that are ruling Austria, Hungary, Brazil, Poland and the Interior Minister of Italy </span>1<span style="font-size: large;">.</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> The list will continue to grow as many European countries move towards the neo-fascist right. It appears that Netanyahu is cultivating friendships with these far right, neo-fascist leaders, whose record of anti-Semitism is a blemish on their respective characters </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-no-alliances-with-extremists-president-rivlin-warns-on-holocaust-remembrance-day-1.7189320" style="font-size: x-large; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This is what President Reuben Rivlin had hinted in his speech.</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> It was obvious that this remark was directed at Netanyahu.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"Today, Europe is once again pursued by the ghosts of the past. Ideas of superiority, national purity, xenophobia, blatant </span><a href="https://www.haaretz.com/misc/tags/TAG-anti-semitism-1.5598882" style="font-size: x-large; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">anti-Semitism</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> from left and right are hovering over Europe," Rivlin said.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "arial"; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> He spoke</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> of rising anti-Semitism in conjunction with the anti-Israel sentiment, Rivlin said one cannot hate Israel and love Jews nor hate Jews and love Israel. Rivlin went on to warn of warming ties between Israel and right-wing leaders who have not recognized their nation's responsibility in "the crimes of the Holocaust." </span></div>
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<a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/netanyahus-negotiating-with-neo-fascists-for-a-consensus-view-of-the-holocaust" style="font-size: x-large; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If we view the various right-wing neo-fascist leaders that Netanyahu has been courting over the past few years it is quite disgusting.</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;"> It is finding a consensus on re-writing the history of the Holocaust to suit the views of the neo-fascist leaders, whose friendship Netanyahu has been cultivating </span>4<span style="font-size: large;">.</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div>
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<li><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span id="docs-internal-guid-86b3954c-7fff-865f-4f89-364c42f4bec9" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> "Israel's Netanyahu Embraces European Leaders With Controversial ...." 17 Dec. 2018, </span><a href="https://www.npr.org/2018/12/17/676017667/israels-netanyahu-embraces-european-leaders-with-controversial-views-on-holocaus" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline;">https://www.npr.org/2018/12/17/676017667/israels-netanyahu-embraces-european-leaders-with-controversial-views-on-holocaus</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">. Accessed 2 May. 2019.</span></span></b></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-13017d22-7fff-cc25-44d1-27b5a1d9e145"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> "Israel's Netanyahu Embraces European Leaders With Controversial ...." 17 Dec. 2018, </span><a href="https://www.npr.org/2018/12/17/676017667/israels-netanyahu-embraces-european-leaders-with-controversial-views-on-holocaus" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline;">https://www.npr.org/2018/12/17/676017667/israels-netanyahu-embraces-european-leaders-with-controversial-views-on-holocaus</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">. Accessed 2 May. 2019.</span></span></span></span></b></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-74524436-7fff-09a1-ca02-d69897653135"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> 11 Mar. 2019, </span><a href="https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5476970,00.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline;">https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5476970,00.html</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">. Accessed 2 May. 2019.</span></span></span></span></span></b></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-027bbe50-7fff-66ed-1e36-5ce7d5508272"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> "Netanyahu's flirtation with the far right, by Dominique Vidal (Le Monde ...." 12 Oct. 2018, </span><a href="https://mondediplo.com/outsidein/netanyahu-s-flirtation-with-the-far-right" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline;">https://mondediplo.com/outsidein/netanyahu-s-flirtation-with-the-far-right</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">. Accessed 2 May. 2019.</span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-77a1ff2b-7fff-bed2-f657-9d414e5324e0"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> "70 Years After WWII, Israeli Holocaust Survivors Suffer - Breaking ...." 11 Apr. 2018, </span><a href="https://www.breakingisraelnews.com/105691/70-years-after-wwii-israeli-holocaust-survivors-suffer/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline;">https://www.breakingisraelnews.com/105691/70-years-after-wwii-israeli-holocaust-survivors-suffer/</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">. Accessed 2 May. 2019.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a63b4eec-7fff-1f18-f288-b8d94efe308f"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> "Tens of thousands of Israeli Holocaust survivors are living in abject ...." 27 Jan. 2016, </span><a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/12122754/Tens-of-thousands-of-Israeli-Holocaust-survivors-are-living-in-abject-poverty.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline;">https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/12122754/Tens-of-thousands-of-Israeli-Holocaust-survivors-are-living-in-abject-poverty.html</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">. Accessed 2 May. 2019.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></li>
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<br />Shimonzkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01409648440578570805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12809255.post-4765201026748611832019-04-13T15:00:00.001+03:002019-04-13T21:58:39.074+03:00Is Israel on the Road to a Fascism?<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #2a2e2e; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The left-wing, as in apartheid South Africa, is viewed as treacherous. In apartheid South Africa they were arrested under the 90-day and 180-day detention laws without recourse to lawyers and their newspapers were banned. When they were released from detention, they were placed under house arrest or received banning orders forbidding them to leave the district where they reside. </span><a href="http://overcomingapartheid.msu.edu/sidebar.php?id=65-258-1" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Between 1948 and 1991, the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">apartheid</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> government </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">banned</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> more than 1,600 men and women. </span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Banned</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> persons endured severe restrictions on their movement, political activities, and associations intended to silence their opposition to the government's </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">apartheid</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> policies and stop their political activity.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #2a2e2e; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> They also had to report to the nearest police station twice a day. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">If Israel becomes “a non-democratic Jewish apartheid state” then those who support a democratic Israel, according to Israel’s Declaration of Independence, would be justified to carry out a selective BDS programme to prevent this from happening. This BDS programme should be directed at the incoming Netanyahu Government Coalition and its right-wing institutions including the illegal settlements in the occupied territories, the parasitic ultra-Orthodox and right-wing religious parties. The tactics should be similar to the BDS applied to apartheid South Africa. While the fascist takeover becomes consolidated even though the majority of Israel’s electorate voted for it, it will be a disaster, racist and totalitarian. In this case, the majority is not always right (excuse the pun). Those who wish to donate to Israel should donate to NGOs devoted to maintaining Israel’s democracy and human rights programmes such as Peace Now </span>5</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial"; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, B’tzelem </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">6</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial"; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, Breaking the Silence </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">7</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial"; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and New Israel Fund </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">8</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial"; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> "Israel's 'racist' Nation-State Law condemned in Westminster – Middle ...." 27 Feb. 2019, </span><a href="https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20190227-israels-racist-nation-state-law-condemned-in-westminster/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20190227-israels-racist-nation-state-law-condemned-in-westminster/</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Accessed 12 Apr. 2019.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-68c252c8-7fff-8ca9-580f-8b497701a8c2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> "Minority Arabs in Israel object to cameras at polling centres - Reuters." 9 Apr. 2019, </span><a href="https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-israel-election-cameras/minority-arabs-in-israel-object-to-cameras-at-polling-centres-idUKKCN1RL1LH" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline;">https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-israel-election-cameras/minority-arabs-in-israel-object-to-cameras-at-polling-centres-idUKKCN1RL1LH</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">. Accessed 12 Apr. 2019.</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-5bfbf97f-7fff-cc06-e69f-0eb5b10a8644"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> "Statistics on Administrative Detention | B'Tselem." 3 Apr. 2019, </span><a href="https://www.btselem.org/administrative_detention/statistics" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline;">https://www.btselem.org/administrative_detention/statistics</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">. Accessed 13 Apr. 2019.</span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-596fe5f2-7fff-2872-7088-46c75566dfb1"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> "What is swart gevaar - Definition of swart gevaar Word finder." </span><a href="https://findwords.info/term/swart%20gevaar" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline;">https://findwords.info/term/swart%20gevaar</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">. Accessed 12 Apr. 2019.</span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-287a7d67-7fff-6b16-3ad5-b2888775fab8"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> "Peace Now: Home Page." </span><a href="http://peacenow.org.il/en" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline;">http://peacenow.org.il/en</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">. Accessed 12 Apr. 2019.</span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b6c7ae9f-7fff-acd4-f2c2-084b557d7a09"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> "B'Tselem." </span><a href="https://www.btselem.org/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline;">https://www.btselem.org/</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">. Accessed 12 Apr. 2019.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b6c7ae9f-7fff-acd4-f2c2-084b557d7a09"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-6a8024b5-7fff-44fd-6149-936a2d3878d0"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> "Breaking the Silence." </span><a href="https://www.breakingthesilence.org.il/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.breakingthesilence.org.il/</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Accessed 13 Apr. 2019.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-46fd7040-7fff-96cd-0d55-1a6ff33d1cda"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> "Home - New Israel Fund (NIF)." </span><a href="https://www.nif.org/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline;">https://www.nif.org/</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">. Accessed 12 Apr. 2019.</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-f31c5b80-7fff-f2a8-23ff-be7c2de59877"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> "Embrace the stranger in our midst | The Times of Israel." 28 Mar. 2012, </span><a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/accept-the-strangers-in-our-midst/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline;">https://www.timesofisrael.com/accept-the-strangers-in-our-midst/</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">. Accessed 12 Apr. 2019.</span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-e5babfaa-7fff-4fc4-6e17-4cb108191fb6"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> "The Moral Imperative of the Stranger | ReformJudaism.org." 25 Feb. 2017, </span><a href="https://reformjudaism.org/learning/torah-study/mishpatim/moral-imperative-stranger" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline;">https://reformjudaism.org/learning/torah-study/mishpatim/moral-imperative-stranger</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">. Accessed 12 Apr. 2019.</span></span></span></span></span></li>
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Shimonzkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01409648440578570805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12809255.post-14096641459727784712019-03-02T22:21:00.000+02:002019-03-02T22:21:48.746+02:00The Indictment of PM Benjamin Netanyahu<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/topic/polls/" style="font-size: x-large; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A recent poll by the Israeli website The Times of Israel</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;"> predicted that Mr Netanyahu's Likud would lose four parliamentary seats if the prime minister was indicted, while Mr Gantz's coalition, known as the Blue and White Party, could gain enough seats to take the premiership </span>2<span style="font-size: large;">.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">According to the various case indictments (Case 1000, 2000 and 4000), it appears that he was involved in gaining control of the press so that he would be portrayed in a very positive light thus ensuring that his rule would remain indefinite with the support of the masses. As for case 1000, this could be referred to as his creature comfort case with expensive cigars and loads of pink champaign, which the attorney-general viewed as a breach of trust and fraud case. Case 4000 is the most serious of the lot where he was indicted for corruption 1. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">His methods of achieving this were based on fear-mongering. He delegitimized the Arab Parties by saying that they wish to destroy Israel and that the left relies on their support to prevent a right-wing coalition from being formed after the election by forming a left-wing bloc.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">A leader of a country who has been elected by the voters of that country and lies to the public has no respect for the citizens of the country that voted him/her into power. He only has respect for himself. This is the impression we get from PM Netanyahu. He has been prime minister for close on 13 years if we take his first term into consideration. He uses Israel as one of his possessions and that of his immediate family.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">By Netanyahu's behaviour, he has crossed the Rubicon so much so that he has been served an indictment by the AG and his status has changed from being an innocent, law-abiding leader to a criminal suspect. Now that he has this new status, he blames everybody but himself for his created predicament. He views himself as a victim of a national witch-hunt orchestrated by the left, the media, the courts and the police, even the AG, who he had appointed, the ex-Police Commissioner, Ronnie Alsheich (also one of his appointees). So where does the left come into the picture? All is a figment of his paranoiac imagination. He is behaving like a cornered rat. He knew that the Sword of Damocles was hanging over his head about an upcoming indictment against him so he brought the General Elections forward in order to stymy the receiving of the indictment against him. This would allow him time to win the elections and hopefully receive a majority in the Knesset to pass a law – an Israeli version of the French Law to grant immunity from receiving an indictment and that charges against him would be dropped. He also used this harangue of his to rabble rouse his supporters in voting for him.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> General Elections were due to be held sometime in November 2019. If he would have waited until then, the indictment would have been served months before the scheduled election date.</span></span></div>
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<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1e1e; font-family: "helmet" , "freesans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-47415550">Netanyahu charges: Is Israel PM in more trouble now than ever before?</a></span></li>
<li>28 Feb. 2019, <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/02/28/benjamin-netanyahu-indicted-corruption-charges-israeli-attorney/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/02/28/benjamin-netanyahu-indicted-corruption-charges-israeli-attorney/</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Accessed 2 Mar. 2019.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-e0514149-7fff-9071-1bac-a210f37abedc"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">28 Feb. 2019, </span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/28/benjamin-netanyahu-corruption-charges-decision-expected-today" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline;">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/28/benjamin-netanyahu-corruption-charges-decision-expected-today</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">. Accessed 2 Mar. 2019.</span></span></span></li>
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<br />Shimonzkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01409648440578570805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12809255.post-58635908283525285182019-02-23T16:51:00.002+02:002019-02-24T10:58:24.403+02:00The Left's Dilemma in Israel's Upcoming Elections<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<b><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It would be a natural choice for those on the left in Israel’s upcoming elections to vote for Meretz</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">.</span>1<span style="font-size: large;"> In fact, there really is a dilemma, especially now with the suspected felon, PM Benjamin Netanyahu, granting legitimacy to Otzma Yehudit </span>2</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, a </span></b><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">Otzma Yehudit a Kahanist party</span></span></b><b><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (Jewish Fascist and a racist party consisting of ghastly thugs) to be part of the new Likud Coalition if they win.</span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">There are other considerations that one has to take into account before one decides to vote for Meretz. The main consideration is to replace Netanyahu and his right to extreme right-wing extremists that are presently ruling the country. Meretz, unfortunately, is on the borderline of having any seats in the new Knesset. According to the latest<a href="https://www.jpost.com/Jerusalem-Report/The-2019-elections-The-numbers-tell-the-story-581249"> Israel polls of 21st Feb</a>, Meretz will win 4 Knesset seats, which is the minimum. In future polls, Meretz may even drop below 3.25% and not have any representation at all. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Another part of the left’s dilemma is the possibility of the new government being unable to form a ruling coalition. This could happen to the Blue and White Party as well as the Likud and their allies. The result could very well be a grand coalition of both opposing groups at the end of the day. After the elections, there is a clean slate and history does have a habit of repeating itself. </span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1984/09/05/world/israeli-talks-seem-to-reach-accord.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It has happened before in Israel’s political history.</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial"; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">Baruch Marzel </span>6<span style="font-size: large;">,</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial"; font-size: large; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> another despicable Kahanist is also a member of this Otzma Yehudit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial"; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">They use Israel’s failing democracy in order to destroy what is left of it. They regard it as their democratic right to destroy Israel’s democracy. If they become part of the Israel Government it will be a gift to BDS and will prove to BDS that they (BDS) are correct in their assumption that Israel is on the road to becoming a fascist, apartheid state of the Jews. </span><a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/elor-azaria-released-israel-defence-forces-soldier-convicted-manslaughter-palestinian-a8341581.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Elor Azaria</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial"; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, who was given a light sentence for killing a prone Palestinian terrorist, neutralised by the IDF about three years ago appears to have become their hero.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.davidmargolis.com/article.php?id=14" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There is no question that the Kahane ideology of Otzma Yehudit is fascism</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Check this link and notice how relevant it is even today with the latest Bibi tricks) and if this gains legitimacy in Israel because of Netanyahu’s attempt to win and wriggle out of his legal problems then we have cause to be very concerned about Israel”s future.</span></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"English | מרצ." </span><a href="https://meretz.org.il/en/english/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://meretz.org.il/en/english/</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Accessed 23 Feb. 2019.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-41b56ccc-7fff-c425-4b7f-53ccfd8009a1"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> "Otzma Yehudit - Wikipedia." </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otzma_Yehudit" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otzma_Yehudit</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">. Accessed 23 Feb. 2019.</span></span></span></li>
<li> "Otzma Yehudit's history of racism and provocation - Ynetnews." 21 Feb. 2019, <a href="https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5467651,00.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5467651,00.html</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Accessed 23 Feb. 2019.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-9feaa20a-7fff-ada3-bb92-f39b2636ccd3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> "Lehava | The Times of Israel." </span><a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/topic/lehava/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline;">https://www.timesofisrael.com/topic/lehava/</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">. Accessed 23 Feb. 2019.</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-75288709-7fff-e40a-b401-1221742aceb3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> "Itamar Ben-Gvir - Wikipedia." </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itamar_Ben-Gvir" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itamar_Ben-Gvir</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">. Accessed 23 Feb. 2019.</span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-f1360fca-7fff-1f59-1b04-a08177709d78"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> "Baruch Marzel | The Times of Israel." </span><a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/topic/baruch-marzel/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline;">https://www.timesofisrael.com/topic/baruch-marzel/</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">. Accessed 23 Feb. 2019.</span></span></span></span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-3b9841f9-7fff-68d4-1fcc-0b38f27ca843"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> "AIPAC slams 'racist and reprehensible' extremist party wooed by ...." 22 Feb. 2019, </span><a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/major-us-jewish-groups-slam-racist-and-reprehensible-extremist-israeli-party/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline;">https://www.timesofisrael.com/major-us-jewish-groups-slam-racist-and-reprehensible-extremist-israeli-party/</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">. Accessed 23 Feb. 2019.</span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
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Shimonzkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01409648440578570805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12809255.post-83857012835297641852019-02-09T18:38:00.000+02:002019-02-24T10:59:04.627+02:00The Upcoming Israeli Election Winds<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">The upcoming elections </span>1</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> in Israel are a boring, predictable phenomenon. The majority of Israel’s Jewish Electorate are moving towards the right. The Benny Gantz </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> phenomenon is a distraction that PM “Bibi” Netanyahu does not like. He is determined to label him as “left” and a danger to Israel. Miri Regev, Commissar of Culture, is Bibi’s echo. This boorish, loud-mouthed, woman reiterates all Bibi’s prejudices and lies with gusto. She is also a racist that received a high place on the Likud list for the Knesset. She follows the Stalinist belief that if you tell a lie often enough it becomes the truth. Any cultural project that does not meet her approval does not get subsidized by the state. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Ministry of Culture and Sport appears to be Miri Regev’s private property. She travels around campaigning in her mobile caravan expressing her pet hates for the “leftists” and those, who she views as haters of Israel, which includes in her view, Benny Gantz and others. This, of course, brings her lots of votes from the ignorant racists that are the grassroots of the Likud Party. After the “silent” Benny Gantz gave his speech, the polls </span>3</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> in favour of his new party, Hosen L’ Yisrael, soared but still remains 8 seats below the Likud Party. There is no chance of this party winning the elections as the situation remains at present.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Netanyahu is great at rabble-rousing the crowd with inaccuracies and punch lines that bring his party great numbers of votes. He labels his opponents as left to the extreme left even if this is not true. He is doing this with newbie Benny Gantz, who seems to pose a threat. If King Bibi says that Gantz is going to sell out Israel and has </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/notes/shimon-z-klein/palestinian-officials-call-on-israelis-not-to-elect-an-extremist-government-by-j/10161341399435297/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority’s apparent approval</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. This will be Bibi’s tactic aimed at the ignorant masses to believe him and will come to the polls “in droves” to vote for the Likud and its shenanigans. “If King Bibi says then King Bibi knows and we must not question his credibility”. Those who do are viewed as potential traitors to Israel and must be treated with contempt. The result is that the ignorant, apathetic voters will rally round to support the Likud and Company at the end of the day despite what the polls say. Bibi’s magic is his talent at misleading the voter with untruthful slogans that are racist and appeal to the Islamophobic mindset of the ignorant of which there is no shortage. We saw this after the 2015 General Elections when King Bibi stated that ”the Arabs are coming in droves to vote”. The effect was like magic and the sheep came out of the fold to vote </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">en masse </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">after flooding the parks with barbecue grills of shishlik, kebabs and steaks on Election Day (which is a public holiday)</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> “God Forbid! The Arabs are a threat” was their winning slogan.</span></span></div>
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<li><span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-06a85d03-7fff-08d4-fa98-5f65e3649bb2"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline;"> "2019 Israeli legislative election - Wikipedia." </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Israeli_legislative_election" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Israeli_legislative_election</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline;">. Accessed 7 Feb. 2019.</span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-32b42b14-7fff-5709-e413-f238b660c72d"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> "Benny Gantz - Wikipedia." </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benny_Gantz" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benny_Gantz</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">. Accessed 7 Feb. 2019.</span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a022547a-7fff-d084-9bd5-2e5ebcab63b0"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> "Israel Election 2019-Haaretz.com." </span><a href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/elections" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline;">https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/elections</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">. Accessed 7 Feb. 2019.</span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-95150d85-7fff-1311-721f-cf8390dbfc57"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> "Final text of Jewish nation-state law, approved by ... - The Times of Israel." 19 Jul. 2018, </span><a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/final-text-of-jewish-nation-state-bill-set-to-become-law/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline;">https://www.timesofisrael.com/final-text-of-jewish-nation-state-bill-set-to-become-law/</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">. Accessed 7 Feb. 2019.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
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Shimonzkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01409648440578570805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12809255.post-42251390184518989672019-01-26T18:26:00.002+02:002019-01-26T18:26:42.664+02:00Right-Wing Racist Rabbis who Promote Jewish Terrorism against Palestinians<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It is rather upsetting and tragic, we, Citizens of Israel, should hang our heads in shame that many Orthodox establishment rabbis, including those who brainwash their students in yeshivot in the occupied territories of the righteousness of murdering innocent Palestinians as in the case of the tragic murder of Aisha Rabi, a Palestinian mother of 8 children by stoning as she and her family were travelling in their family car not far from <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/murder-suspects-yeshiva-seen-as-a-radical-outpost-in-a-moderate-settlement/">Pri Haaretz Yeshiva in Rehalim</a> on 13th Oct 2018. <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/1.5088576">The King's Torah</a> is a book that is studied in many of these yeshivot and very often revered by religious extremists. It justifies the killing of non-Jews in certain circumstances with a very wide definition.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2d2d2d; font-family: Bookmania, Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Bookmania, Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Prohibition 'Thou Shalt Not Murder' applies only 'to a Jew who kills a Jew,' write Rabbis Yitzhak Shapira and Yosef Elitzur who wrote The King's Torah.</span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A car belonging to a Palestinian couple is seen after it was involved in a deadly crash reportedly due to stone-throwing by Israeli settlers at the Tapuah Junction in the northern West Bank on October 12, 2018. (Zachariah Sadeh/Rabbis for Human Rights); Aisha Muhammad Talal Rabi (Courtesy)</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It is amazing although not surprising that this 16-year-old Jewish terrorist from the</span><a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/police-raid-settlement-yeshiva-summon-80-teens-in-deadly-jewish-terror-probe/?fbclid=IwAR2si5cjM7I2citwptb8X8WHySBFxBc3fw2AruuhBTuSz894p-PhpQueS4E" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #365899; font-family: Georgia; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pri Haaretz Yeshiva in Rehalim</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> in the “hallowed, occupied Land of the Holy Settlers” threw a 2 kg stone at a Palestinian car and killed an innocent Palestinian mother of 8 children. It is a disgrace that he will be charged with manslaughter and not with murder. The support of senior right-wing rabbis for this terrorist, claiming that there is no such thing as Jewish terror is in itself appalling. The Sixth Commandment “Thou Shalt not Kill” does not apply to them only to killing Jews as mentioned earlier. This despicable rabbinical scum, by their acts and teachings in these awful, hate-filled racist yeshivot, has brainwashed their students to carry out murderous acts against Arabs. They do not teach Judaism in these yeshivot but a macabre, evil mutant form of twisted dogmas that they have no problem in justifying. These self-styled rabbis - the purveyors of racial hatred and strife are no less responsible for this crime and should be viewed as accessories. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It is sad that this racist, hate-filled yeshivot are allowed to exist and the law authorities have no legal power to close them down. These yeshivot are blossoming and the rabbinical mentors responsible for teaching these students are left to their own devices and creating a young generation of Jewish terrorists spurred on by hatred of Arabs. The Price Tag terrorist organization also spawn from these evil institutions. It is no credit to Israel’s reputation that rabbis of this nature hold senior positions and some are even funded by the State as in the case of the Chief Rabbi of Safed (Tzfat) </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/notes/shimon-z-klein/fighters-for-justice-top-israeli-rabbi-defends-jewish-teens-suspected-of-murderi/10161296203815297/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu </span>1</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, who has a history of making racist statements and in this tragic murder even stated that these Jewish terrorists are not terrorists and are “fighters for justice”</span></a>2</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. How low can you go in the name of Judaism and Halacha? If this is the trend in Orthodox Judaism of today, we should not be surprised that many Jews will leave the fold. The list of racist rabbis in Israel is well known. Another mentor of the Bayit Hayehudi and its breakaway Right-Wing Party is leading</span><a href="https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Shin-Bet-arrests-fifth-minor-suspected-of-participation-in-Jewish-terror-576423" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Rabbi Haim Meir Drukman, who denies the existence of Jewish terrorists,</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> He said "I call from the bottom of my heart on the prime minister to order the release of these three boys held by the Shin Bet," </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">By the acts of these two rabbinical examples, they are encouraging and justifying Jewish terror against Palestinians as revenge. Killing an innocent Palestinian mother does not worry them and they are quick to justify it. The government appears indifferent to their statements and no words of condemnation have been heard from that source.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">According to </span><a href="https://www.irac.org/racism" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">IRAC</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, “Racism and extremist language have entered the Israeli mainstream, fueled by racist incitement that is spread by extremist rabbis and the activities of hate groups. IRAC sees racism as one of the greatest threats to Israeli society today and stands at the front-line of the battle. IRAC fights racist incitement by monitoring hate speech and hate crimes and demanding that investigations be launched, and public legitimacy and government funds denied to religious extremists that </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">incite to racism. At the same time, IRAC engages in actions that affirm the reality and highlight best practices of a shared and equal society between Jews and Arabs in Israel”.</span></span><br />
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<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-198929af-7fff-bcfe-c470-5ba71539d943"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> "'Fighters for justice': Top Israeli rabbi defends Jewish teens suspected ...." 23 Jan. 2019, </span><a href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-fighters-for-justice-top-israeli-rabbi-defends-jewish-teens-suspected-of-murder-1.6868574" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-fighters-for-justice-top-israeli-rabbi-defends-jewish-teens-suspected-of-murder-1.6868574</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Accessed 26 Jan. 2019.</span></span></li>
<li><span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-3c68fe39-7fff-6e06-4214-78ac56535c01"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> "Left and Reform push to fire Tzfat Chief Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu - Israel ...." 23 Jan. 2019, </span><a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/258030" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline;">http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/258030</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">. Accessed 26 Jan. 2019.</span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/notes/shimon-z-klein/analysis-waiving-murder-charge-in-killing-of-palestinian-israel-fails-to-deter-n/10161296277795297/">Analysis: Waiving Murder Charge in Killing of Palestinian, Israel Fails to Deter Next Jewish Terrorist By Mordechai Kremnitzer</a></span></span></span></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span><br />Shimonzkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01409648440578570805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12809255.post-1336830380876675462018-12-28T11:48:00.000+02:002018-12-28T11:48:36.359+02:00Predictions for the April 9th 2019 Israeli Elections <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">Many of us are addicted to polls, which are fairly accurate. By calling early elections, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is racing his own indictment.</span>1</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> There is no doubt that the Likud, even with a limping Netanyahu, weighed down by future indictments in three criminal cases ( Case 1000, 2000 and 4000) is destined to receive the most votes. “The voters, I think, understand exactly what we have done for Israel,” Netanyahu told lawmakers from his Likud party on Monday.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The big question is whether he will be indicted before the elections or not. We should bear in mind that a prime minister suspected of felonies and about to receive an indictment should resign and not put himself up as a candidate for reelection let alone becoming prime minister for a fourth term. Apart from that, Netanyahu is doing all in his power to weaken the law courts, police, attacks the press and of course, the left for his predicament. He views it all as a witchhunt against him by his political opponents. </span><a href="https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/editorial/netanyahu-don-t-threaten-1.6787442" style="font-size: x-large; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Netanyahu is putting pressure </span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">on Attorney General Avichai Mendelblit so that he doesn’t dare to think of deciding to indict him, even subject to a hearing, before the election takes place. There are reports in the press that if Netanyahu is</span><a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-says-he-wont-step-down-if-indicted-turns-up-heat-on-ag-report/" style="font-size: x-large; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> indicted before the elections, he will not resign</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span><a href="https://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/Likud-denies-Netanyahu-will-stay-in-office-no-matter-what-575577" style="font-size: x-large; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Jerusalem Post has reported that the matter was not even discussed</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. So who must one believe? The election result will still be the same. The Likud will get the most votes even if Netanyahu is indicted before the elections. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party is expected to receive the most votes in Israel's upcoming election, according to polls published by three main television stations on Tuesday.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span>3</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Thugs even went into the Yarkon Cemetery, Petah Tiqva and <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-calls-for-probe-after-grave-of-attorney-generals-father-defaced/">vandalized the tombstone of Baruch Mandelblit, the father of the Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit. </a>The thugs were not found. Likud election campaigns are not the most gentlemanly on earth. If their "king" is a suspected felon there are thuggish members, who are capable of carrying out acts against opponents.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Israel’s Electorate is swinging to the right and extreme right. Left-wing is a swear word. Netanyahu and his shenanigans have succeeded in ostracising and demonising the left. They will be viewed as enemies by many Israelis. It is a mindset that is becoming more popular in Israel. This will be his legacy even if he does resign because of his legal problems. The present government is the most divisive, hateful and racist government since Israel’s establishment. If only there was some hope of a change for the better but this will not happen. Netanyahu is viewed by many Israelis as the best prime minister that Israel has ever had. The cases against Netanyahu </span>4<span style="font-size: large;"> will<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> probably not affect the mindset of most Israelis, who have no problem in voting for a corrupt prime minister “who has done a lot for Israel and there is nobody worthy of replacing him” in their view.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">Those of us who are left of centre in our ideology have nothing to look forward to after the elections. There will be no change. There is no true left-wing in Israel anymore. They are disunited, fragmented and weak generally. They have no common programme that can attract voters. These splintered left-wing groupings, who view themselves as an alternative to the present coalition have a mammoth task ahead of them in order to remain relevant in Israeli politics. The Zionist Camp views itself as mildly left of centre - God Forbid that they should be viewed as “left” which is close to heresy against the establishment and “favours Israel’s enemies”. The left-wing are walking around with their tails between their legs and have lost pride in their beliefs. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">The upcoming general elections are a foregone conclusion. What is not is whether Netanyahu will or will not be indicted before the elections - that is the question. Netanyahu cannot be beaten easily. He will not give up. He changed his battery of defence lawyers as he knows that there is an indictment against him. He has taken on the best criminal lawyers that money can buy. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A recent development is the decision of former Chief-of-Staff of the IDF, </span><a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/ex-idf-chief-gantz-unveils-new-political-party-ahead-of-april-elections/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Benny Gantz to enter politics and establish a new party called ‘Israel Resilience Party,</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">’ amid reports he will team up with ex-defence minister Moshe Ya’alon. His party manifesto is unclear. However, he is a very popular figure and stands to get a lot of support. It is highly unlikely that he will have much influence on the outcome of the elections</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The government that will be elected will pass a law that prevents the prosecution of a prime minister in office</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">.</span>6<span style="font-size: large;"> This may be the first weird law that will be passed by the future right-wing government that will be elected.</span>7</span></div>
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<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-76ef5874-7fff-36e9-622d-0d9e66ca4b65"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> 26 Dec. 2018, </span><a href="https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2018/12/israel-benjamin-netanyahu-ehud-barak-early-elections-likud.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2018/12/israel-benjamin-netanyahu-ehud-barak-early-elections-likud.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Accessed 27 Dec. 2018.</span></span></li>
<li> 24 Dec. 2018, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-politics/israel-to-hold-early-election-in-april-netanyahu-says-idUSKCN1ON0NP" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-politics/israel-to-hold-early-election-in-april-netanyahu-says-idUSKCN1ON0NP</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Accessed 27 Dec. 2018.</span></li>
<li>26 Dec. 2018, <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/elections/polls-likud-would-win-election-despite-52-of-israelis-not-wanting-netanyahu-as-pm-1.6783579" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/elections/polls-likud-would-win-election-despite-52-of-israelis-not-wanting-netanyahu-as-pm-1.6783579</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Accessed 27 Dec. 2018.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-0d2eedad-7fff-5f78-e536-57e29760a686"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">25 Dec. 2018, </span><a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/the-case-against-netanyahu-is-israel-about-to-reelect-a-corrupt-prime-minister/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline;">https://www.timesofisrael.com/the-case-against-netanyahu-is-israel-about-to-reelect-a-corrupt-prime-minister/</span></a><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">. Accessed 27 Dec. 2018.</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b420d390-7fff-d495-5f39-f64dbc7cf864"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> "Indicting a Sitting Prime Minister: The Israeli Constitutional Framework ...." 2 Mar. 2018, </span><a href="https://www.lawfareblog.com/indicting-sitting-prime-minister-israeli-constitutional-framework" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline;">https://www.lawfareblog.com/indicting-sitting-prime-minister-israeli-constitutional-framework</span></a><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">. Accessed 27 Dec. 2018.</span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-15784a0d-7fff-0e74-c456-8572fbe04fdf"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">"PM curbs bill that could save him from prosecution: 'There'll be no ...." 23 Oct. 2018, </span><a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/pm-curbs-bill-that-could-save-him-from-prosecution-therell-be-no-indictment/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline;">https://www.timesofisrael.com/pm-curbs-bill-that-could-save-him-from-prosecution-therell-be-no-indictment/</span></a><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">. Accessed 27 Dec. 2018.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-6171442c-7fff-467b-f5f5-035ce95455ed"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/notes/shimon-z-klein/analysis-how-netanyahu-plans-to-stay-in-power-and-beat-criminal-charges-by-yossi/10161195312075297/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Analysis: How Netanyahu Plans to Stay in Power and Beat Criminal Charges By Yossi Verter Dec 27, 2018 11:15 AM</span></a></span></span></span></span></span></li>
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