by Caroline Glick, GATESTONE • March 7, 2023
- The Movement for Quality Government (MQG) in Israel is the far-left organization at the epicenter of the Israeli left’s war against the Netanyahu government. MQG began its current campaign of delegitimization, subversion and demonization immediately after the Netanyahu government was sworn into office on December 29. The next day, MQG petitioned the Supreme Court to prevent Shas leader Aryeh Deri from serving as a minister in the government.
- There was no legal basis for the petition. But that didn’t bother the lawyers at MQG.
- Like MQG, the Supreme Court justices didn’t bother giving a legal basis for their decision…. The justices said Deri’s appointment was “unreasonable,” and with a stroke of a pen, the court retroactively disenfranchised Shas voters.
- Building on its success, late last month MQG submitted a new petition asking the justices to oust Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
- Never mind that the justices have a conflict of interest since it is their powers the government’s proposed reforms would check. Never mind that in a bid to prevent politicized judges and prosecutors from overturning the will of the voters, the law explicitly permits prime ministers to serve not only while standing trial, but even if convicted. And never mind that the charges against Netanyahu have fallen apart in Jerusalem District Court.
- Someone is paying tens of millions of shekels to rent buses to transport scores of thousands of people to rallies, buy them flags, print banners and signs, rent stages and sound systems, and finance ad campaigns in every newspaper and on billboards across the country.
- Whoever is footing the bill, the front group for all of it is MQG.
- MQG’s only named donor on its annual reports is the U.S. State Department.
- Since MQG’s primary activity is subverting democracy in Israel by waging lawfare and sowing chaos in a bid to block democratically elected right-wing governments from fulfilling their pledges to voters, it’s fairly clear that when MQG refers to “democracy education,” it doesn’t mean majority rule.
- Since its first day in office the Biden administration has demonized its political opponents as “semi-fascists” and threats to democracy. Biden governs without regard for his political opponents, and at least in the case of his open borders policy, in contravention of federal law.
- Perhaps Biden is driven by jealousy. Two-thirds of Israelis support judicial and legal reform. Two-thirds of Americans disapprove of Biden’s handling of immigration and inflation. A large majority of Americans disapprove of Biden’s handling of the economy, foreign policy and crime issues. Biden could only dream of having as broad a consensus of support for his policies as Netanyahu has for his.
During a visits to Israel last month, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken took the unprecedented step of lecturing Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in front of television cameras about how democracy works, as if Netanyahu were a tin pot despot rather than the leader of the Middle East’s only democracy, the U.S.’s most powerful ally in the region.
The Movement for Quality Government (MQG) in Israel is the far-left organization at the epicenter of the Israeli left’s war against the Netanyahu government. MQG began its current campaign of delegitimization, subversion and demonization immediately after the Netanyahu government was sworn into office on December 29. The next day, MQG petitioned the Supreme Court to prevent Shas leader Aryeh Deri from serving as a minister in the government.
There was no legal basis for the petition. But that didn’t bother the lawyers at MQG.
In its petition, MQG claimed that the terms of a plea deal Deri reached with the State Prosecution last year on tax reporting errors barred him from serving as a minister. Never mind that nothing in the plea deal stipulated anything of the sort or that 400,000 Israeli voters cast their ballots for Shas with the full expectation that Deri would serve as a senior minister.
Unfortunately, this article is a mess. It needs to be edited to be presentable.
That aside, the content explains a lot about the current demonstrations and the situation in Israel. If, as Caroline says, 2/3 of Israelis want the justice reform, how do so many people take to the streets? The answer must be that they are being encouraged to do so, either by direct payment or by incitement.
If anyone knows where I can get a Hebrew version of the article, please let me know. I have a couple of people who would benefit from a little more insight than they are currently getting.