Analysis
Thursday, May 18th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023
Philip Klein National Review, Apr. 27, 2023 “The conflict between being an open and liberal state and an explicitly Jewish one has led to clashes on immigration, transportation, social welfare, and army service, among many other topics.” Spending Passover in Israel feels like cheating. For a Jew in America, the experience of going eight days without […]
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Micah Halpern Jerusalem Post, May 2, 2023 “There is a reason for this stark disparity between the message and the reality. It is not simply a misread of the political agenda. It is a time-honored strategy of how to motivate and how to raise money for “the cause.” On Tuesday April 25, when the […]
Elliot Abrams Council on Foreign Affairs, May 9, 2023 ”Their claim that Israel, because it is a Jewish state, “fosters a form of ethnic nationalism” is akin to their claim about apartheid: they don’t quite have the courage of their convictions and do not say what their article logically leads to—the belief that Zionism is […]
Isranet Daily Briefing
Thursday, March 30th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023
UNDERSTANDING BARAK’S VISION Aharon Barak’s Revolution: Hillel Neuer, Azure on Line, Winter 5758/1998, no. 3 — In recent years, the state of Israel has undergone a constitutional revolution that has remarkably escaped the notice of most Israelis. With the 1992 passage of Basic Law: Human Dignity and Liberty, and Basic Law: Freedom of Occupation, the power of the […]
Saturday, March 25th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023
March 20, 2023 Doris Strub Epstein “The Palestinian culture of violence is fed and nourished by UNRWA.” The latest Palestinian shooting in Huwara concerned an ex-Marine, David Stern while driving his car with his wife and three children in the backseat. Despite being shot in the head, he managed to kill the terrorist. Miraculously, […]
Monday, March 20th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023
Israel’s Judicial Reckoning: Evelyn Gordon, Mosaic Magazine, Mar. 6, 2023 Israel Needs Judicial Reform—But How?: Editorial Board, WSJ, Mar. 12, 2023 The Urgent Need for Israeli Electoral Reform: Melanie Phillips, Substack, Mar. 10, 2023 Israel’s Soul Is Poisoned by False Doomsday Discourse – Opinion: David M. Weinberg, Jerusalem Post, Mar. 8, 2023 _______________________________________________________________ LISTEN: Liberalism […]
Editorial Board WSJ, Mar. 12, 2023 “Shrewd thinkers on Israel’s right understand that compromise is needed to lower the stakes, regain the public’s confidence and pass something durable. The opposition, however, sees Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu standing on a ledge and has no desire to let him off lightly.” Opposition to Israeli judicial reform […]
David M. Weinberg Jerusalem Post, Mar. 8, 2023 “… opposition to public policy reforms must be debated on their merits, without semi-automatic screeching about intolerance, repression, dictatorship, thought police, and the crushing of democratic norms.” Have you heard of a country that is “drowning in a sea of sensed betrayal?” That is “awash in […]
Evelyn Gordon Mosaic Magazine, Mar. 6, 2023 “Right now, both sides believe they can win. The government has the votes to pass its own plan as is; the opposition believes that the protests and pressure will force the government to fold.” Anyone reading the press out of Israel these days would probably […]
Melanie Phillips Substack, Mar. 10, 2023 “… the problem is the system itself, which forces an ultimate zero-sum choice between two potential evils: overreach by judicial oligarchs or overreach by political oligarchs.” Democracy is currently being undermined in many parts of the free world. In Israel, the threat is deeper and wider than either […]
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 […]
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 […]
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