Analysis

Friday, March 10th 2023 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023

  Jane Stannus Spectator Australia, Feb. 14, 2023   “… with the support for euthanasia comes the insidious pseudo-religious pressure to take one’s own life as a noble act of self-immolation on the altar of society.”   Two cheers for a brief hiatus in the Canadian stampede towards suicide for all. Earlier this month, David […]

Analysis

Friday, March 10th 2023 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023

  Chris Selley WSJ, Dec. 30, 2023   “Canada, however, is bizarrely obsessed with “equal rights”—and far more deferential than it should be to hopelessly out-of-touch judges who have driven both the legalization and expansion of euthanasia.”   Canada’s Supreme Court held in 2015 that people with “a grievous and irremediable medical condition” had a […]

Analysis

Friday, March 10th 2023 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023

  Maria Cheng AP, Aug. 11, 2022   “Canada prides itself on being liberal and accepting, “but what’s happening with euthanasia suggests there may be a darker side.”   Alan Nichols had a history of depression and other medical issues, but none were life-threatening. When the 61-year-old Canadian was hospitalized in June 2019 over fears […]

Communiqués Isranet Daily Briefing

Thursday, March 9th 2023 / Thursday, March 9th 2023

Citation de la semaine:  “(…) à Pourim, nous nous souvenons de la fois où les Perses ont essayé de nous tuer ; à Pessah, nous nous souvenons de la fois où les Egyptiens ont essayé de nous tuer ; à Hanoukka, nous nous souvenons de la fois où les Grecs ont essayé de nous tuer.  […]

Isranet Daily Briefing

Thursday, March 9th 2023 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023

What the Battle Over Judicial Reform in Israel Is Really About | Opinion:  Caroline Glick, Newsweek, Mar. 2, 2023 Netanyahu’s Judicial Reform Doesn’t Go Far Enough:  Michael B. Mukasey, WSJ, Feb. 26, 2023 ‘Why Do We Need Judicial Reform?’ An Architect Behind the Proposal Explains:  David Isaac, JNS, Mar. 7, 2023 Actions Speak Louder than Chants:  Douglas Altabef, Israel National […]

Analysis

Thursday, March 9th 2023 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023

Douglas Altabef Israel National News, Feb 26, 2023 “It is this take no prisoners attitude that makes the protesters’ professed obsession with the preservation of a liberal democracy seem like an Orwellian projection.”   One need not be a film director nor a dance choreographer to notice that the wave of protests against proposed judicial […]

Analysis

Thursday, March 9th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

Michael B. Mukasey WSJ, Feb. 26, 2023 “in view of the court’s sweeping self-imposed authority, it is difficult at times to describe the current condition as the rule of law.”   Judges and attorneys general throughout the world—I’ve served in both capacities in the U.S.—wield substantial authority. In any sound legal system, such authority is subject […]

Analysis

Thursday, March 9th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

Caroline Glick Newsweek, Mar. 2, 2023 “The Netanyahu government’s program for judicial reform is astounding for its modesty. If passed in full, it will simply realign Israel’s currently unchecked judiciary with the checked judiciaries of the vast majority of Western democracies.”   In Israel as in states throughout the Western world, the political Left is an ecosystem […]

Analysis

Thursday, March 9th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

David Isaac JNS, Mar. 7, 2023 “Contrary to the claims of its opponents, who say that it will strip Israel of its checks and balances, judicial reform will restore the checks and balances that have been stripped away by a court system that has arrogated powers beyond its purview.”   Justice Minister Yariv Levin, in […]

Isranet Daily Briefing

Wednesday, March 8th 2023 / Tuesday, March 7th 2023

                                      WEEKLY QUOTES “International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Grossi just said in Tehran that an Israeli attack on the Iranian nuclear facilities is against the law. Rafael Grossi is a worthy gentleman who said something unworthy. […]

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Tuesday, March 7th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

   SHORT TAKES FOR CONTEXTUAL REFERENCE: Jerusalem Post, Mar.5, J.P. staff, “El Al finds alternative crew after pilots refuse to fly Netanyahu to Italy“— Israel’s national airline, El Al pilots left Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, high and dry after no one volunteered to fly Israel’s couple out to Rome for a state visit to Italy scheduled […]

Isranet Daily Briefing

Monday, March 6th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

DIGGING DEEPER INTO MEGILLAT ESTHER Purim: Mocking Persia’s Dat and Reaccepting the Torah:  Rachel Friedman, The Torah.com, Mar. 3, 2023 — The book of Esther centers on the action and intrigue at the royal court of King Ahasuerus in the Persian capital of Shushan (Susa), repeatedly calling attention to its silliness and eccentricities.[1] Nowhere does the […]