T. Belman. It would appear that the postponement of the Judicial Reform was only the first step of the coup. The protests are continuing and now the call to overthrow Netanyahu.
By JOEL B. POLLAK, BREITBART 3.4.23
The Jerusalem Post, once a reliably right-of-center newspaper, published an op-ed on Monday calling for a coup against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — to “rise up against Netanyahu and force him from power.”
The op-ed, written by Alon Ben-Meir, comes a week after Netanyahu paused his controversial judicial reforms to allow more time for negotiations between the government and the opposition. But the opposition has not let up, and continues to hold demonstrations — even invading the offices of a think tank that proposed the reforms.
Ben-Meir accuses Netanyahu of attempting a “de facto coup d’état under the guise of judicial reforms.” (As Breitbart News has noted, most of the reforms parallel existing institutions within the American judiciary.)
Ben-Meir also declares (original emphasis):
It’s time for Israel to rise up against Netanyahu and force him from power
It’s time for the Israelis to rise up – yes, rise up – as admirably as they have against Netanyahu’s sinister scheme to overtake the judiciary, again and again, to force him out of power and spare Israel from his ominously dire behavior. There is no way to make this clearer. The time is overdue for the Netanyahu government to realize that its approach to domestic policies that have torn the country apart and its discord with Israel’s closest ally, the US, is exactly what Israel’s enemies hope and wish for.
In his speech during this past week’s White House-hosted virtual Summit for Democracy, Netanyahu stated that US-Israel relations remain unshakable. That may be so but not as long as he is in power. Netanyahu is simply unfit to be the prime minister of Israel. He is a liar, a schemer and a fraud. If he has an ounce of integrity left in him, he should resign and save the country instead of stopping short of nothing, however evil, to save his skin.
The op-ed also praises President Joe Biden for pressuring Netanyahu by denying him a White House invitation.
Supporters of Netanyahu note that the protest movement is using undemocratic methods, such as blocking roads and refusing to perform military reserve service, not just to stop reforms but to oust the government.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of the new biography, Rhoda: ‘Comrade Kadalie, You Are Out of Order’. He is also the author of the recent e-book, Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.
You may quote me.
@Michael
I find it somewhat ironic that you have been claiming that I am hostile to the American people, yet, it seems, I have a higher opinion of them than do you. Somewhat interesting as that strikes me, I am not certain of the timeline on which the Americans will retake control of their govt, only that it does seem to be an inevitability consequence of their nature and the subjugation which they are being forced to accept. The timeline may be short or it may be quite lengthy, but I do not believe that the Americans will actually learn to be happy with less. In any event, I may be mistaken in this belief, of course, as the consummate optimist as you describe me. Indeed, perhaps you are the better judge of things, with your expectations that the Americans will accept their lot as vassals of the state which once they ruled for themselves. Frankly, I would be quite surprised if that were the truth. Yet, time will tell which of us is the better judge of these things.
Michael, after two days was the feast…….. that is interesting….
Hi, Peloni. You said,
You’re a consumate optimist.
HI, Tanna
DURING PASSOVER! I could not have made this up.
Matt.26
[1] And it came to pass, when Jesus had finished all these sayings, he said unto his disciples,
[2] Ye know that after two days is the feast of the passover, and the Son of man is betrayed to be crucified.
[3] Then assembled together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, unto the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas,
[4] And consulted that they might take Jesus by subtilty, and kill him.
[5] But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar among the people.
As for Peloni, and his gloomy estimation of the US, I wish I could argue with him. Wisconsin voters have just sold their state to the devil (pardon the profanity: Styx uses it continually; and of course, he also professes to be a pagan; but he’s usually dead on target politically):
https://www.bitchute.com/video/yCd2DOBS1yA/
I wish the American voters — especially American Christians, whether they vote or not — would display more conscience intelligence, wisdom or backbone. This is very embarrassing, and it is likely to get worse. (Ditto for Israel and Jewry, by the way).
Matt. 10
[26] Fear them not therefore: for there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known.
[27] What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light: and what ye hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the housetops.
[28] And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
@Peloni
You have a way with words. Thanks for using it in support of my articles and in my positions generally.
@Ted
One thing to note about the strength of the arguments you examine so well in these two essays, is that there is no honest response by those who oppose your views. They employ censorship to silence you, or ad hominem to distract from your analysis, or they simply ignore you thesis and wrap their heads in a flag which too strongly contrasts position they espouse, but in all of it, your arguments are never addressed, not remotely so. This was true even of the great talents of Daniel Greenfield, for whom I have an unending admiration, and so expected more from his response than what I listed above. This stands as a clear testimony to the honest truths which you exposed, and this will only become more evident as time passes and the censorship is breached, the ad hominem is ignored and the values underlying the flag currently being used as a blindfold comes to prove that you were right all along.
@drueveni
This is true, but there is a distinct difference to be noted which makes this latest attack by the US upon Israel’s sovereignty an altogether different experience. The methods by which the US toppled Israeli govts in the past were done within the political network, so to speak. They funded the Left, they petitioned the courts, they even applied political pressure from abroad, but they have never before worked to threaten the govt with openly toppling the state’s political, economic and security structures. The US sponsored public brute squad even now stands at the ready to once again threaten political violence and open sedition upon the govt to leverage the will of the globalist masters of the unelected Left against the will of the Israeli people’s chosen govt. Also, this standing mob filled with threats of violence are quite a parallel to the buildup to the Maidan, and this parallel, itself, should not be ignored as being less than an acknowledged threat against the Israeli people as well. All of this is unprecedented in Israel’s history, though not so unprecedented by the US manipulations applied upon nations which have stood as friend and foe alike over the years. The implication of employing these measures stand as a marked escalation by the US, as they threaten not just the govt, but the very survival of the state itself. Consequently, this is all far more concerning than any previous manipulations made by the US while conducting their toppling Israel’s govts.
Don’t forget
The Pot is calling the Kettle Black
which I wrote in Feb 2022
and
Don’t Poke the Bear
which I wrote a month later.
Peloni, you said exactly what I was thinking and so much better than I could ever express. As to the optimist in me, I believe Trump will be back in the white house and if not….. God help us cause the in the wake of the democrat’s comes chaos and destruction,
@Michael
From Lee Smith at Tablet:
Do you believe it possible to characterizing the US as less than a villain for what took place in Serbia in 1999? in Libya in 2011? across the middle east during the American Arab Spring? in Ukraine in 2014? Likewise we could ask about the US determination to split Israel between the Jews and terrorist Fatah, or spliting Kosovo from the Serbs to the terrorist KLA. What of the million victims of the Iraq war while the US has maintained a measured restraint with regards to the Iranians til 2015 when the US deemed that Iran should be supported in her nuclear aims. You say that every nation must play the villain, but I ask you, where is the villain to compare to the damage in property, life and lives which have resulted from the US govt’s unrestrained position of power. Quite simply, there is none. Not in Russia, not in China, and not elsewhere. Do I overstate the damage of the US hegemony over the world, as it uses the captured status of the world’s industrial nations to brew its NWO to suit the goals of those villains in Davos? I would suggest not.
In fact, my views are my own, and you are welcome to add your own, but I do not come to them from a position of hating America or Americans, as I believe quite certainly that it will be the American people who will most likely come to regain control over their roguish govt which currently oppresses them as well. But the first step towards resolving any problem is recognizing the problem exists. American foreign policy has become dedicated towards generating a rogue’s gallery of horrors across the globe to achieve her geopolitical policy goals. Millions lie dead as a consequence, without need, and among them are many Americans as well.
All of this long precedes the installation of the current ‘Biden regime’ which has only extended and accelerated the already ongoing tragedy designed and being executed by the US foreign policy over the past three decades. I would suggest that this is what Trump came to DC to change, and hopefully will successfully do so on his second visit, as ever the optimist I believe this too will be found in our future.
Regardless of the final outcome, however, America has had a long record of having committed villainies across the globe long before the Big Guy came to White House, and I say this because I believe it is a fair description of path of devastation left in her largely unopposed wake over the past thirty years. Believe me when I express that none of this gives me any joy in acknowledging any of this as true. I only do so because recognizing the truth is how we end the devastation from persisting and growing even worse, should the govt ever return back to being controlled by he will of the people.
Miachel, I think you’re on to something about Israel and the USA are mirror images of each other. What is happening over there is happening here. As to the two witnesses, maybe your right its Bibi and Trump. If all this happened 500 or 1000 years ago they would literally already be dead and laying in the street. the good folk in some towns, used to burn witches and once they accused you….. there’s no way to prove them wrong. So best get your flame retardant underwire on cause the flames are coming for the chestnuts. But today evil has a more refined way to destroy people. Josephus records how if you disagreed with the Romans, they just crucified ya. OH….. that’s what they’re doing to Bibi and Trump!
But maybe the two witnesses in the earth are representative of the two nations God planted in the earth in the birth of Jacob and Esau!? Isaiah(44)? told us who the first witness was. Also, in this chapter there is another group who claim to be Jacob. Who does that sound like? Any who……. the God of Israel will do as he said.
I think Poloni is correct, it’s not all of USA, history shows that every great nation that falls is because of their leaders. As the saying goes. the people get the government they vote for….. I mean they get the government they deserve. Evil has raised it’s ugly head and as that great Jew said, As it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be at the coming of the Son of man.(that’s code for Messiah). It’s time to repent and return to the God of our Fathers.!
EvRe1, I agree with you.
dreuveni, you said,
“@Michael S: Your last paragraphed saved you! I sure you didn’t vote for Biden and maybe not even Obama. Soros cannot be elected anyway but he has his fingers in this business up to his eyebrows.
I am unsure what the “saved” comment means, but I imagine it is something positive. Actually, I thought that last paragraph might need clarification, but I didn’t want to belabor the point.
Some Israpunditers, including Peloni, have repeatedly painted the “US” as the villain in international affairs. That is fine with me, providing it is done in moderation. In my book, every nation has to be a villain at times, when it comes to defending its sovereignty and interests. The US is no exception. In the current situation, though, the United States (plural, as it has always been intended) of America are actually being attacked and undermined by nefarious actors in DC, who got in positions of power through a coup of corruption unprecedented in our history. It would be considerate, if critics of the regime currently oppressing us would call it something like “The Biden Regime”. In every other time, as in the Truman years, the Bush years, etc., there was some connection between the actions of the people and their rulers: this is the natural outcome of a democratic government. In the present case, however, the majority of Americans, and certainly nearly every American I relate to personally, are diametrically opposed to what is going on.
The United States is in the process of losing its sovereignty to globalist predators. In the US, the Progressives have become a totalitarian movement, the FBI behaves like the Gestapo, jailing peaceful protestors without due process. This totalitarian movement believes they have the right to total and complete control. The progressives want total control of Americans, as well as control over Israelis and any other country that dares to want national sovereignty. They continuously blame others for their own crimes. They cannot tolerate Netanyahu or Trump because both these men are loyal to their countries and worked/work tirelessly to improve the lives of the people. The globalist predators have no loyalty to any country or anything, other than their own greed. This is a fight for nationhood, against those who want to destroy the sovereign nations of the US and Israel. The totalitarians are an existential threat to the people of America and to the people of Israel, just as the Iranian regime is, and just as the CCP is. Those demonstrating in the Israeli streets may or may not realize it, but they are the globalists’ storm troopers.
@Peloni: Sorry to say but the US has toppled the Israeli government a number of times already.
@Ted: I agree with you. I think the law-making should go ahead right now.
@Michael S: Your last paragraphed saved you! I sure you didn’t vote for Biden and maybe not even Obama. Soros cannot be elected anyway but he has his fingers in this business up to his eyebrows.
I don’t think this direct assault against PM Netanyahu, which seems (correct me, if I’m wrong) like a pincer move between the High Court and the Israeli press, is unrelated to its mirror image in the US (the attack on President Trump by the courts and the MSM).
Peloni, how is it that you think the US State Department is the source of the attack? It certainly is abetting things in all three countries (US, Israel & Ukraine); but I would think the Security community (NSA & CIA) have their hands closer to the switch. They all seem to coordinate closely with each other, as well as with the opposition leaders (I count Biden in this category), George Soros, Big Tech, Big Pharma and the MIC.
Netanyahu and Trump look like the “Two Witnesses” of Rev. 11:3; but it’s premature to say just yet. My wife and I are certainly praying for them both, that they overcome their current opposition.
PS I deeply resent your blaming the United States for the events unfolding. We did not vote for Biden, nor for Soros, nor for the unelected bureaucrats who are currently trampling us underfoot.
A Likud member said about the negotiations for Judicial reform supposeedly taking place now:
As distinctly different as Israel remains from Ukraine, the threat of a new Maidan within Israel is not to be ignored. Just as Israel has no desire to be ruled by the US, neither did Ukraine, but there is no restraint guarding Isreal from the whims of the US State Dept anymore than there was in 2014 Kiev or in 2011 Tripoli before that. Regime change is the method by which the State Dept has exercised its will across the globe, even within the US itself, to maintain and extend its hegemony over the world. I grow more concerned with each passing day that Israel may be the next govt which the US means to topple as it remolds the world under its ever expanding tyranny, and this Op-Ed in JPOST is but the latest evidence to make my fears grow ever greater.