The parades of folly
To take the ranks given to you by the Israel Defense Forces and use them for a political-ideological purpose is the most blatant violation of the people's trust, democracy and statehood
There are two places where everyone is equal in this country.
at the ballot box and at the military cemetery.
There dwell together sorrow and glory, Capricorn and Zvi, Dedo and Yoni, and the rest of the fallen.
Everyone has the same white rectangle, not a milk tooth, not a laughing tooth.
The group of armored officers, who went up to Jerusalem and Mount Herzl yesterday, are demonstrating the greatest danger so far in their activity against the government's initiative to reform the justice system.
She does not recognize that basic equality.
The organized use of the soldier's identity and ranks in the parade symbolizes a military coup.
This is not an actual military coup, but the possibility is presented.
Because the ranks were awarded to the champions, sub-champions and sub-champions on behalf of the national state body in which the people place their greatest trust.
Israel Defense Forces.
To take the ranks and use them for an ideological political purpose is the most blatant violation of the people's trust and democracy.
Three of the prominent ones on the list, sub-champions Hillel Kobrinsky, Roi Alkabats and Gadi Meiri, are Yesh Atid activists.
They appropriate both the fallen and the democracy while marching, and for the sake of their honor there is no need to mention the nature of the regime that came to power in such patterns.
When I saw the list of other majors and senior officers, I tried to remember who was not on the list.
Uri Or is not on the list, Kahalani is not on the list, Yossi Ben Hanan is missing.
General Gershon HaCohen is not on the list, and with him the other members of the "Bitakhonists", Sami Turgeman is not found, Yom Tov Samya.
General Yitzhak Barik did not sign.
The organization indicates a very worrying deterioration in the consciousness-moral fabric of the armor group, which is in general a continuation of other senior officers who preceded them in unprecedented organized political performances.
For example, the ridiculous reality show of five chiefs of staff in Sde Boker a few months ago. The rude statements of Bogi Ya'alon, who calls the elected government a "criminal government", seeking to transform Israel from a democracy to a dictatorship.
When I spoke with a former senior officer in the armor, he said that in his opinion these acts are grounds for depriving those officers of their ranks.
The blatant use of rank and the accompanying prestige, for the purpose of an effort to overthrow the legal regime, can justify such a severe step.
The problem is that there is no force in Israel capable of such action.
The bright spot is that the common soldiers think differently from the generals.
The gap between them is a source of concern.
Prime Minister Netanyahu is now faced with a similar challenge to the one that the former Palmach officers posed to Ben-Gurion in his first year as a state, and years later. General Shaika Gabish was drafted into the armor in his prime for this foolishness parade. He should remember very well the threat of his fellow Palmach." strangleholds on the Ben-Gurion government in 1948-1949.
Hostage economy
The way in which Karnit Flug, Eugene Kendall and the former CEOs operate plays into the hands of alienating enemies and friends, who strive to destabilize Israel
The effort to transfer economic and financial assets out of Israel is reminiscent of the robbery of Spain's gold reserves by Stalin and his agents during the civil war in the 1930s.
Almost the entire gold reserve was removed from the cellars of the Republic and transferred to a ship that sailed to the USSR. The Soviets held the gold as a financial guarantee. The ruling class in Israel is trying to hold the economy hostage in its fight against the democratic government.
The story in Israel is that the statements of those called economists or retired senior officials are later reflected in the wording of documents like that of J.
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Morgan: "The local markets in Israel predict an increase in risks as a result of geopolitical tensions, in addition to investor concerns regarding the plan to reform the judicial system."
You should pay attention to the phrase "investor concerns".
These are the same economic and political factors that came out with negative announcements and predictions about Israel.
In the end, say the people of J.
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Morgan, "The legal reform can have medium-term consequences for investments and growth, which are difficult to quantify."
Again: "difficult to quantify".
Yair Lapid, photo: Oren Ben Hakon
One can imagine Yair Lapid asking with wide eyes: "What do you think is Israeli?"
Asaf Rapaport, one of the founders of WIZ, answers him: take the investments out of the country and leave only a current account for salaries and rent.
"Correct answer," answers the Bank Hapoalim presenter
Because this is Hungary.
This is Poland.
This is Turkey.
Dr. Karnit Flug, the former governor and today the vice president of the Israel Democracy Institute, who is known to specialize in democracy, made an effort to draw parallels to these three countries. She presented this in a press interview as the weakening of institutions, which caused those countries to perform poorly in direct investments, compared to other countries. "When investors are not sure In the defense of the rule of law... they disapprove of investments," Flug said.
One can imagine Yair Lapid asking, bowing his head between his shoulders and rolling his eyes: "What do you think is Israeli?"
Asaf Rapaport, one of the founders of the cyber company WIZ, answered: take your investments out of the country and leave only a current account for salaries and rent.
"Correct answer," says the Bank Hapoalim presenter.
The legal departments in the big companies live in symbiosis with the legal advisors of the Ministry of Finance mainly.
To this day, we still remember the legal advisor at the treasury, Yamima Mazuz (who left 15 years ago), who was the terror of the business world in Israel.
If anyone is looking for reasons why Israel is ranked so low in the difficulty of doing business index, this is one of the reasons.
In the organized campaign of the symbiotes - people of economics and politics, there is some pathetic attempt to take revenge on Prime Minister Netanyahu.
He broke the peace formula for a prosperous economy.
proved the opposite.
Now they come and say: this is a war on the rich, you will lose your economy.
See a special article on the subject by Arlozorov's granddaughter in "The Marker".
By the way, the economics novelist Daniel Kahneman mobilized against Israel already seven years ago, when he joined the call of Alon Lial and other leftists, who begged the European Union to harm Israel beyond the Green Line and any body that has activities in the territories.
The problem of Karnit Flug, Eugene Kendall and the former CEOs, is that the way they operate plays into the hands of alienating enemies and friends, who strive to destabilize Israel. This is the time for waiting and moderation in managing the internal debate.
The straw on the roof of Iran
Even if it was not carried out by Israel, the strike on the summit in Isfahan was intended to undermine and provoke thought among the Iranians: the military option exists
For months, nuclear experts have been warning that Iran is accumulating enough uranium enriched to 60 percent to produce two, three, maybe four nuclear bombs.
But there is a difference between the assessments of outside experts and the firm determinations of official officials.
About two weeks ago, the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Raphael Grossi, announced that these are really the figures, and that Iran can take this amount and enrich it according to its decision, whenever it chooses, to a level suitable for nuclear weapons. In Israel, security experts talked about the fact that this turns Iran into a Nuclear threshold. The question is when the enrichment capacity (which already exists) will converge with the capacity to develop and assemble a military nuclear facility, which is apparently lagging behind. Abroad, there was an interpretation that from Israel's point of view it was something like if not now, when. That is, this year.
IAEA chief Grossi said his words in a meeting with diplomats on January 25. "You remember there was this matter of breaking forward, and Mr. Netanyahu presented blueprints at the UN and placed lines - well, that's already the distant past," Grossi said in response to a diplomat's question Argentinian.
"They have 70 kg of uranium enriched to 60 percent.
The amount already exists.
That doesn't mean they have nuclear weapons.
So they are not yet in a situation that (meets the criteria) for the proliferation of nuclear weapons."
Three days later, the powerful operation was carried out at a facility for the development of weapons, missiles or drones, in Isfahan. The Americans were quick to remove responsibility from themselves and directed the public's inquiries to Israel. In other words, they gave confirmation that there was a good reason to attribute the operation to Israel, to the Mossad. In any case, this is a very quick response To the turning point that Grossi pointed out. The IAEA's official dramatic disclosure probably legitimized a military operation with an important strategic effect.
The question now is where this leads, given a faster timetable than previously thought.
Kenneth Timmerman, who has been monitoring Iran's nuclear development for many years, wrote earlier this week that he now sees a higher chance that Israel will attack the nuclear facilities.
In the past he tended to think that the chances of this were low.
In Israel there is a coalescence of hawkish forces at the political-security top.
This includes Prime Minister Netanyahu, Defense Minister Galant and Speaker of the National Assembly Tzachi Hanegbi. The Israeli ability to attack independently to eliminate the nuclear project is not clear or unknown. Past experience shows that Netanyahu's policy is not one of zabang and gamrano, because there is doubt about "gamrano". He always preferred to deter and roll back the nuclear project. The attack in Esfahan, the ability to act quickly at almost any given moment anywhere, is of deadly and deterrent significance. Like the tanks that former Chief of Staff Kochavi dedicated an entire lecture to.
Isfahan is "the straw on the roof".
A strong blow on the top, designed to undermine and provoke thought among the Iranians.
The Americans demonstrate massive military cooperation with Israel. But in the political sphere, the Biden administration is careful to distinguish itself from Israel. The joint military exercise openly repositions the military option, but the commitment of the American leadership on the issue is questionable.
The newly discovered centrifugal activity at the Purdue facility will probably reach the Security Council.
This is expected to be another turning point, which will receive a strong emphasis from Israel.
Israel during the Netanyahu era conveys messages through military means.
A mistake and her name is Rothman
The people of law, the media and the ruling class in Israel do not like Simcha Rothman because he demonstrates intellectual superiority, of the kind they did not expect
The left and the ruling class, or the hegemony as Avishi ben Haim puts it, have had three mishaps.
One is called Benjamin Netanyahu, the second is called Yariv Levin, and the third is Simcha Rothman.
About a week ago, I heard MK Rothman explain the reform in a lecture held at the Jerusalem Center for Public and State Affairs to foreign journalists and diplomats. "Her condition (Esther Hayut) to talk to me is that the processes in the Knesset stop," he said, which has already been revealed later in the media. "That's enough To show you what is the source of totalitarian power and what is democratic here."
MK Simcha Rothman, photo: Oren Ben Hakon
Rothman was brilliant.
I have no other definition.
As an Israeli, it was not always pleasant to hear openly how distorted the legal system in Israel was, with the Supreme Court at its head.
It was sometimes embarrassing to think that this was a striptease for the eyes of strangers, some of them hostile.
Rothman presented examples from the areas of housing and the economy, security, terrorist-supporting candidates in the Knesset, and immigration policy, in which the High Court of Justice - sometimes with the help of the legal advisor - conducted policies contrary to the government's and determined destinies. He presented serious violations of rights, including torture during investigations (the Netanyahu trial). Not many We are aware that the High Court, when it accepted the petition of the Eastern Arch on the issue of Israeli lands, in 2002, caused a shortage in the apartment market and within a few years (from 2007) the crazy increase in housing prices began.
It wasn't economics, it was the work of the High Court of Justice, which would scrutinize the government's policy. "In Israel, no one understands where the government is located," said Simcha. "Where is the brain located?
Who is the strongest in the country?
The answer: the Supreme Court and the Ombudsman. This is the only country where judges have a veto. We are a country that is run by the Supreme Court."
The incessant petitions of organizations without the right to stand canceled the independence of the court, because in a large part of its activity the one who sets the agenda for the Supreme Court is a party. The "party" of the radical organizations. Through them, the USA or the European Union are able to send long fingers The steering wheel of the State of Israel.
In the audience sat Prof. Irwin Kotler, who previously served as Canada's Minister of Justice (and Attorney General).
Kotler, a friend of Israel, said that reform is necessary and that the use of phrases like "the end of democracy" is not helpful.
But he objected to the comparisons being made in the law of surrogacy to the law of surrogacy of Canada.
He talked about the infiltrators who for him are refugees.
And what was surprising was that Simcha knew how to put him in his place, surgically answered each of Prof. Kotler's arguments and showed familiarity with Canadian legislation before and after the enhancement law.
The legal people in Israel do not like Simcha Rothman, because he simply demonstrates intellectual superiority, there is no other definition for it.
"Parliament - the Knesset - is the only one that can protect the citizens against tyranny, not the court," stated Rothman.
It's unpleasant, but there is plenty of evidence for this, from the High Court decision that trained a Hezbollah terrorist agent to the training of draconian enforcement measures during the disengagement days.
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