The Colour Revolution taking place in Israel

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The following links are from the reader, Yucki. This site has done very little research into what is taking place there. So from our perspective, which is to say looking through a pinhole camera from thousands of miles away, it looks like every other nation with a non-communist leader. This means that organized leftists, often funded by the CIA/FBI (COMINTERN) etc, foment violent protests and create the impression of gross injustice in order to create gross injustices which is the intended result of all communist revolution. They did it to Trump in spades. They will do it to Kennedy if he gets close to power at all. They tried it with Orban using ANTIFA, mostly from Germany. They do it to the AfD and watch what happens now that they are winning seats in numbers. Same with Spain now that VOX has a meaningful number of seats. Perhaps too many for a Cordon Sanitaire. The lead two parties appear to be another conservative party followed by the Spanish National Socialists. I wonder how I might abbreviate that in German. And these riots didn’t seem to start till Netanyahu got back in after they Trumped him out of office on whatever they could make up.

Anyway on with the links.

Bibi’s speech: Netanyahu (Again) Urges Opposition to Negotiate, Offers to Suspend Reforms Until November

How Israel’s Jewish and other media lie to you

This article offers a partial guide to cutting through the lies, deceit, and deceptions of what liars and truth-tellers alike call “Journalism.”

1. The Source: Any article on Judaism, Israel, or other Jewish issues that originates from the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) should be assumed ab initio, unless proven otherwise, to be extreme-left-propaganda against normative Orthodox Judaism and against centrist or conservative political perspectives. The same is true for reports and op-eds originating in Forward and often Times of Israel. Also Hebrew publications like Maariv and Yediot Acharonot (Ynet).

Of course, there are exceptions to everything, and even a broken clock is correct twice daily. These publications invariably employ techniques and tactics discussed below. JTA merits extra attention because they send “news” stories to others as a sort-of “Associated Press” news service. When a fine Jewish publication runs a “news” item or op-ed whose leftist or anti-Orthodox bias surprises you, look whether it originated at JTA.

2. Headlines:Compare “100,000 Demonstrate Against Government Efforts to Suppress Court Freedom” with “Thousands at Tel Aviv Demonstration.” Both headlines are assumed accurate. Which seems larger? In this case, the latter demonstration was larger — as many as 200,000 people, possibly 300,000 — but it was for the government’s proposed reform. See?

Try another: Compare “Six Jews and Arabs Killed in West Bank Shootout” with “Israeli Security Forces Kill 2 Hamas Terrorists After 4 Jews Murdered in Terror Attack.” See?

Yes, it is a Coup

As I write, Israel is undergoing a carefully planned, well-financed, coup d’état.

Its leaders, members of Israel’s elite, including two former prime ministers, military officers, high tech entrepreneurs, media, judges and lawyers, supported by an army of useful idiots, will tell you that it is not a coup. They will say that it’s the government that is trying to effect a revolution, to destroy Israel’s democracy and install a dictatorship or even a theocracy.

They are either fools or lying. To begin with, Israel is not a true liberal democracy today, nor has she ever been one, except perhaps for brief periods. For the first 29 years of her existence, she was ruled by a single party, Mapai, the Labor Party. Her first Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion, was a virtual dictator. Later prime ministers were chosen from among the Labor apparatchiks, and some of them were incompetent enough to imperil the existence of the state. The opposition, led by Menachem Begin, was entirely shut out.

In 1977, thanks to public disgust over the Labor government’s failure to prepare for the outbreak of the Yom Kippur War, and the demographic changes in Israel resulting from the immigration of almost a million Jews forced to flee Muslim countries, Begin’s Likud party received enough votes in an election to form a government, and make him prime minister.

But control of the Knesset didn’t translate into control of the country. The elites that controlled government-owned enterprises, the army, the media, the legal system, the labor unions, the educational establishment, and everything else, did not let go. The “new Israelis,” mostly Mizrachi Jews, but soon to include immigrants from the Soviet Union, Ethiopia and other places, were kept out. I remember a song popular around 1980 about a singer who wanted to appear on the (state-controlled) radio, but was turned down because of his Mizrachi accent.* It wasn’t a joke, even at that late date.

Please click through to read both articles in full.

 

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11 Replies to “The Colour Revolution taking place in Israel”

  1. The Federalist:
    https://thefederalist.com/2023/07/24/ignore-president-biden-heres-what-is-really-happening-in-israel/

    Ignore President Biden, Here’s What Is Really Happening In Israel

    The system is so insane that not only can the court lord over the legislative branch without explanation, but it can remove ministers and elected officials at will. The attorney general is empowered to bar officials – even the prime minister – from participating in national debates. This is not, by any real standard, “democratic” governance. It is illiberal.…

    [The reforms] have been debated within Israeli politics for decades, with numerous moderate legal voices proposing changes over that time. In many ways, the freak-out reminds me of the American left’s alarmism over tax cuts and net neutrality. It is largely a political effort to undermine Netanyahu.

    The Associated Press, however, stresses that the protests in Israel are a “grassroots” effort as if this imbues a mob with a moral high ground or the authority to dictate government policy. In truth, many of the marches – and threats to shut down Israeli society – are organized by Israel’s biggest and most powerful unions and egged on by foreigners…

    Moreover, for the left, “democracy” can mean hyper-majoritarianism or judicial tyranny. Whatever works. Depends on the day. What am I saying?

    Democrats will argue that limiting judicial supremacy in Israel is an attack on “democracy” while at the same time[*] claiming SCOTUS is engaged in judicial supremacy for showing deference to the Constitution and handing back issues like abortion to voters….

    Of course, if the Israeli Supreme Court was packed with right-wingers instead of left-wingers, American media, the Democratic Party, and the protestors would be on the reform side. None of this has anything to do with governing principles or justice or norms or “democracy.” Like those destroying the American judiciary at home, it’s about power.

    The Israeli right is also about power. I’m not naïve. But right now, the reforms they support are far better aligned with the norms of a functioning “democracy” than the ones in place. That’s something a person reading headlines in the American press might not know.
    ………
    [*]“Biden blasts Supreme Court as not ‘normal’ after affirmative action ruling”
    https://rollcall.com/2023/06/29/biden-blasts-supreme-court-as-not-normal-after-affirmative-action-ruling/

    • Laura Rozen @lrozen
      White House on Israeli governing coalition passing part of judicial overhaul despite massive public protests and lack of domestic consensus: “It is unfortunate that the vote today took place with the slimmest possible majority.”
      https://twitter.com/lrozen/status/1683511481223065600

      Arsen Ostrovsky @Ostrov_A
      So next time President Biden passes an Executive Order or fails to gain Democrats support on piece of legislation, it will be Ok for Israel to issue statement: “It is unfortunate that the vote today took place with the slimmest possible majority.”
      https://twitter.com/Ostrov_A/status/1683518400696287232

    • Dan Williams @DanWilliams·12h
      UK foreign ministry says on Israel judicial overhaul: We urge the Israeli government to build consensus and avoid division, ensuring that a robust system of checks and balances and the independence of Israel’s judiciary are preserved – @Reuters
      https://twitter.com/DanWilliams/status/1683774003528314882

      Arsen Ostrovsky @Ostrov_A
      Hi @ukinisrael.
      Do you think it would have been appropriate for Israel to urge the British government to refrain from Brexit, so as to build consensus and avoid division? Last I recall, that too was pretty divisive time in Britain.
      https://twitter.com/Ostrov_A/status/1683781704769576962

  2. Protest group pays for all-black front-page ads in major Israeli newspapers

    Several Israeli newspapers published an entirely black front page on Tuesday morning, following the passing of the Law to Cancel the Reasonableness Standard on Monday afternoon.

    The pages were paid advertisements by the Israeli Hi-Tech Protest movement, a group containing representatives from hi-tech companies including CEOs, venture capital investors, self-employed entrepreneurs, and regular hi-tech employees.

    The ads read, “A black day for Israeli Democracy” in small white text at the bottom of the page. In the small text at the top was the word “Advertisement.”

    https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/politics-and-diplomacy/article-752355
    Pix:
    https://images.jpost.com/image/upload/c_fill,g_faces:center,h_537,w_822/545960

  3. Theological background: Judaism (all branches) views current events as being as cyclical as the seasons. Per the solilunar calendar, this week is the anniversary of the fall of both Temples (as well as the 1492 Expulsion from Spain etc). Tradition holds that baseless hatred precipitated these catastrophes. This is a particularly inauspicious time of year to tempt Fate with disunity.

    • It’s Chillul Hashem – desecration of G-d’s name. Spiting on the miracle that is the rebirth of the Nation-State of the Jewish people.

      And NOW, in the Three Weeks before Tish’ah B’Av? When we’re supposed to be mindful of our own responsibility for the tragedies in our history?!

      So some will make a show of fasting on Tish’ah B’Av, chant Isaiah’s Lamentations.

      There’s no way to atone for Chillul Hashem. Surrounded by genocidaires, what could they be thinking?

  4. The posts linked by Yucki are disingenuous at best, and deceptive at worst.

    Yes, you have to beware of leftist lies in the Israeli press. You also have to beware of right-wing lies. You can spot a few easily in the posts linked above:

    “Her first Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion, was a virtual dictator.”

    Ben-Gurion resigned his seat as Prime Minister in 1953. Moshe Sharett replaced him for a few years. This is not the behavior of a virtual dictator, is it? I don’t recall Stalin yielding power, nor Franco, Mussolini, etc. Ben-Gurion stepped down again in 1963. Dictator? Come on.

    We can also see the standard technique of the pro-Netanyahu propaganda in recent years: describing the proper function of government in pathological terms, so as to justify radical alterations.

    “For the first 29 years of her existence, she was ruled by a single party, Mapai, the Labor Party…Later prime ministers were chosen from among the Labor apparatchiks…The opposition, led by Menachem Begin, was entirely shut out.”

    The writer overlooks the obvious reason Israel was ruled by Mapai: They had more votes. Israel held free and democratic elections, and continually returned to power the party which had founded it. And why not? They had established the state. They conducted successful wars in 1948, 1956, and 1967. Once they failed (1973), they were voted out. What’s not democratic about this? Begin was not “shut out” by any illegal means. He was a vocal and free opposition (e.g. the question of repayments from Germany), and he simply did not get enough votes.

    Note also the sleight of hand: “Later prime ministers were chosen from among the Labor apparatchiks”. No. Later *candidates* for Prime Minister were chosen that way. They became Prime Minister when they were voted into power by the electorate. And notice how no critical eye is placed upon the opposition party, which returned the SAME MAN (Menahem Begin) for 29 years, until he became Prime Minister, and returned him again in 1981.

    The articles try to paint Israel as seen through the lens of American and European politics – that of the people rebelling against a transnational elite which has more loyalty towards itself than to its people and its country. This is false. Israel does not have such an elite. The suicidal ideology which motivates the elites of Western countries today had its heydey in the 1990s. It died in the bus bombings of the second intifada. The political parties which espoused those ideologies have been wiped from the electoral map. The Labor party and Meretz hardly exist any more. They’ve gone hard left, while voters moved to the center-right. The hard left parties’ power extends to a mere 5% of the vote. They are, however, a useful bugbear.

    The same thing goes for the supposed Ashkenazi/Mizrachi divide. Western audiences are primed to swallow this, because of the White/Black situation in the US, and the White/Immigrant situation in Europe. This is mostly nonsense, because intermarriage rates between the ethnic groups are relatively high. You’ve had Mizrachi presidents, Persian chiefs-of-staff, Mizrachi chiefs of police and speakers of the knesset. Yes, Ashkenazi Jews are overrepresented, but that’s also true in the USA. Mizrachi families who read books, hire tutors for their kids, will see them rise as high as their ability takes them – and often they will intermarry with the supposedly insular upper class. Mizrachi families which buy 78″ TVs instead of books – not so much. These people like to hear that it’s still 1950, and their failures are due to racial bias against them – just like the residents of ghettos in the US like to pretend Jim Crow is personally holding them down.

    This is not to say that every Israeli institution is devoid of bias. But for the most part, it is a political bias, though not as dominating as in other western countries. As new researchers and lawyers rise through the ranks – marching through the institutions, as it were – it will slowly get weaker. Or at least, it would have, if not for the current political crisis.

    The people who are marching in protest over the last months are not useful idiots, guided by leftist international masterminds. It is convenient for Netanyahu to paint them as such. It is true, however, that various extreme leftist groups have latched on to this movement. The LGBT crowd, for example, and the Palestinians-first dreamers, and vapid trans-nationalists who think that foreign interference is a solution to this problem. But the rank and file of this movement are the older, secular, Israeli Jews, who have served in the army, and fought in its wars (often they organize themselves according to their reserve units). These are not young students who have been brainwashed by their professors. They are not the government-employed protestors in France, protecting their sinecures, nor the wild youth of Antifa, who think they are saving their country by burning it down, nor the climate activists who glue their hands to concrete roads.

    I would suggest another paradigm for viewing these protests. In every country in the western world, the executive branch of government has been slowly increasing its hold over the populace. We saw what Trudeau did with the trucker protest. Almost every nation locked up its population for weeks a time, and everyone acquiesced. In Israel, the only effective check on the power of the executive branch is the Judicial system. Once the government can appoint judges willy-nilly, and appoint senior civil servants without any judicial review, it will break the last of these restraints.

    In the past, the Israeli system had three branches, which checked and balanced each other. But since the 1980’s, the legislative branch has become a servant of the executive branch. The powers of the executive have grown, and at the same time, the powers assumed by the Judiciary grew to balance it. It is this balance that Netanyahu’s government wishes to destroy. And whatever the disadvantages of the Israeli judicial system, it’s going to be a lot worse once the judges are replaced by political appointees, and convictions and acquittals are bartered like in the Old City market.

    Netanyahu’s coalition contains people who have the levers of power in their hands for the first time. Like all revolutionaries, they think of their arrival as Year Zero. They believe their power is permanent, for religious and demographic reasons. They do not stop for a moment to think what will happen when a politician from the other side will hold this same power in his hands. Nor do they imagine how much more volatile the political elections will become, once the government has no limits on its power.

    • “The articles try to paint Israel as seen through the lens of American and European politics – that of the people rebelling against a transnational elite which has more loyalty towards itself than to its people and its country. This is false. Israel does not have such an elite“…
      More lies. Can you explain that without exception, the left have such a hatred of Judaism and religious Jews that they do everything in their power to hurt them( one issue is the conversion issue). They allow people who have no connection to Israel to settle there, Russian anti semites, east Europeans , sub Saharan Muslim Africans and try to destroy religious communities in Judea and Samaria by sending in the army. They even get together with an Arab MK supporter of Arab terror against Jews, to join their party. These willing kapos are identical to jinos in the Bi Dung regime, like Schiff, who sat next to the Somali while she lied about her antisemitism and he sat there grinning and nodding.
      Not to mention the grotesque horror that is Yuval Hariri…

      • ” the left have such a hatred of Judaism and religious Jews that they do everything in their power to hurt them”

        If you think they do everything in their power to hurt Jews, then why do you support giving them more power? Do you want these people to be able to appoint fifty female reform Jewish Rabbis to all the positions of power in the office for religious affairs? Until a few days ago, you could have appealed to the judiciary. Now you can’t.

        What will happen when the executive can override any Judicial veto with a vote of 61 Knesset members? What if you get a center-left coalition with Meretz and the Arab parties, like you had back in 1992? A coalition held by the short-and-curlies by some Meretz fanatic, like Ben-Gvir seems to be controlling Netanyahu? And he decides to cut off every source of government funding to every Yeshiva, a-la-Henry-VIII? Will you go to the supreme court to ask for a temporary stay of the motion? How, when 61 votes will overturn it? You’ll be lighting bonfires on Ayalon, just like the people you denigrate today. But by then, the police will have lots of new powers, won’t they? Powers you gave them.

        If you really think the left is trying to hurt Judaism by every means at its disposal, then for heaven’s sake, keep these powers out of their hands — by refusing to soil your own with them.