Analysis
Wednesday, November 6th 2024
John Podhoretz Commentary Magazine, November 2024 “The fact that under any proper understanding of moral responsibility, Hamas is to blame for every bullet fired, every meal missed, and every death recorded since October 7 is just too simplistic for the wonderful complexity of your preferred worldview.” Do you consider yourself cosmopolitan, sophisticated, properly skeptical […]
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Friday, August 25th 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023
Antonio García Martínez Tablet, Aug. 23, 2023 “If we lose, then all of Israel will be like Jerusalem.” I’m jet lagged and jostled, in the back of a Maserati SUV driven maniacally by a guy named “Shay” on Israel’s Highway 1 between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Next to me, also crammed between shrink-wrapped cases […]
Isranet Daily Briefing
Thursday, August 3rd 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023
Statement by PM Netanyahu: Prime Minister’s Office, July 25, 2023 — “Dear citizens of Israel, I would like to begin with the most moving scene that I have witnessed in the past 24 hours. Last night, masses of Israelis came to demonstrate in favor of the reform and against the reform. On one side of […]
Dov Lieber WSJ, July 28, 2023 “… right-wing governments that have been in power since the late 1970s have never been able to fully carry out their vision because the Supreme Court has repeatedly struck down major legislative priorities.” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition scored a major victory this week when it passed the first part […]
Alex Traiman JNS, July 24, 2023 “… prior to the formation of the current government, several opposition leaders, including Yair Lapid, Avigdor Lieberman and Gideon Sa’ar, have all spoken out in favor of judicial reform.” Amid the largest and most well-funded protest movement in Israel’s history, the democratically elected governing coalition passed the first reform in […]
Shayndi Raice WSJ, July 26, 2023 “Legal scholars say petitioners would have to prove several things in order for the court to strike down the law. Opponents would have to prove that the law undermines the core values of Israel as a Jewish and democratic state. They could also try to prove that there were […]
Jeff Seidel Israel Hayom, July 28, 2023 “With a deep-rooted historical and emotional connection to Israel, should American Jews have a say in what happens in the Jewish state? Perhaps they should, given the implications of Israeli policy for Jews worldwide. However, since they don’t directly bear the consequences of these policies, maybe their involvement […]
Monday, July 24th 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023
Bad Timing ‘Judicial Rift Parallels Tisha B’Av,’ Former US Amb. Friedman Warns: Lahav Harkov, Jerusalem Post, July 23, 2023 –– The heated debate over the government’s judicial reform plan parallels tragic events in the Jewish people’s past, former US ambassador to Israel David Friedman said on Sunday, pointing out that the fast of Tisha B’Av is this […]
Israel Kasnett JNS, July 17, 2023 “… the Supreme Court has invented new legal grounds to review the reasonableness of government actions and even to disqualify government appointments.” Israel’s Supreme Court is either under attack or undergoing necessary reform, depending on who you ask. While there is talk of shelving the larger judicial reform package […]
Michael Starr Jerusalem Post, July 23, 2023 “… when the reform acts as a trigger for all the other aspects of the government’s agenda, it’s difficult to address the actual reform debate.” The protests against the government’s judicial reform have been confusing from the beginning, with several complicated legal provisions at the crux of the debate. […]
Ruth Marks Eglash Jewish Insider, July 19, 2023 “With little to no constructive dialogue between supporters and opponents of the Netanyahu government’s designs for the judiciary, it’s difficult to identify any immediate path to ending this zero-sum game, which will continue to threaten Israel’s internal cohesion and cast the issue of America’s friendship for […]
Monday, July 24th 2023 / Friday, November 3rd 2023
Prof. Yoav Dotan Israel Hayom, July 9, 2023 “… the bill currently on the Knesset docket gives blanket exemption to all government decisions, even those made by a single minister. In fact, everything can be defined as a ministerial decision.” The proposed legislation to trim the scope of the reasonableness standard in court decisions could put […]
Friday, April 14th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023
YHWH Battles the Egyptians with a Fiery Cloud: Dr. David Ben-Gad HaCohen, The Torah.com, Apr. 7, 2023 — After the Israelites leave Egypt, the travel east to the border of the wilderness. שמות יג:כ וַיִּסְעוּ מִסֻּכֹּת וַיַּחֲנוּ בְאֵתָם בִּקְצֵה הַמִּדְבָּר.. Exod 13:20 They set out from Sukkot, and encamped at Etham, at the edge of the wilderness… […]
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