Re should Walz be fired... Early on in the Biden administration, when he fled Afghanistan, leaving behind 180 billion in military equipment and 13 needlessly dead American service men and women, who was fired over that? Ans: No one.
This 'Signalgate' bs is just that. And despite Goldberg and Boasberg making much ado about it, is not going to bring down the government. Sorry boys.
“Signalgate” is what in basketball is viewed as “no blood no foul “ because the missions against the Hoighis were by no means compromised and we are looking at what looks to be an email mistake at worst .Every administration has internal debates on issues of foreign policy and national security issues and this administration is no different
The Carlson isolationists are making a lot of noise but have zero impact on policy . However Witkoff has also shown himself to be out of his league with respect to his comments about Hamas and Quatar and should not be a special envoy on Middle East East related issues .
I harken back to the kerfuffle made about Hillary Clinton's private server. Either politicians and government officials can use private phones, services, laptops for official, secret purposes or they cannot. If anything this incident shows a ridiculous disregard for secure government.
Moyshe Cohen’s article, “Israel’s Deep State Is Worse Than America’s”
is an excellent account of how the Left in Israel, (and in the US now), has constructed a judicial activist cordon to instruct the duly elected government by the people from performing their legal duties.
But just what measures can be taken in going about tearing down that wall, to free up the elected governments from its stranglehold still is not in sight.
The author calls upon the “international solidarity among nations—and citizens—who value representative government over rule by unaccountable institutions” to do - what exactly?
The people orchestrating this flagrant usurpation of power don’t give a hoot about the international community, and many, if not most in that international community are guilty of doing the very same things in their own respective countries.
These acts by these judges and their co-conspirators - including their Allie’s in the mainstream media, amount to an attempt at a judicial coup of the duly elected government.
The only way I can see getting them to back down is a unified and muscular effort from the voters demanding it to end.
I don’t know what that would look like but something needs to happen to send a clear message, and a chill down the spine of these rogue judges, that they are totally off the reservation when it comes to the will of the people.
The alternatives to doing nothing and letting it continue are to dreadful even to imagine.
Re: Israel's so-called "Deep State." Israel cannot and should not be compared to the democratic system of checks and balances in the USA. It also is only partially a "Common Law" state. American law, Turkish law, and even the Talmud often form the basis for judicial rulings and legislation. It is absurd of Netanyahu, who has been Prime Minister for nearly 20 years to claim that he is subject to Deep State shenanigans. He has been running the state for decades. His party received only one-quarter of the public's vote in 2022, and his legislative partners have narrow, sectoral interests. With the authoritarian and racist Ben Gvir and Smotrich and the anti-Zionist ultra-Orthodox pulling Bibi's strings, the coalition is in no way representative of a majority of Israelis. The current Israeli parliamentary system lacks the necessary checks and balances that make a democracy. Just because someone wins 50.1 percent of the vote - which Netanyahu didn't - does not mean s/he can do whatever they wish and ignore the interests and ideas of the minority. I'm not saying that the opposition to Netanyahu is better. What we get with this situation and in this climate is one administration passing legislation and the next one wiping it out, which whipsaws the public and entrenches divisions and polarization. The trend of, "I win and you lost, and therefore I can do what I wish and to hell with you" has always played a role in Israeli politics, but the nearly even split between the two blocs (I won't deign to call them Left and Right, because that ideological binary is false and misleading) means that neither side has the right to claim it is acting in the national interest. In Israel in recent years, the permanent government bureaucracy and the courts have been the only check on untrammeled political horse trading, dealmaking and payoffs. I get it that such checks and balances make it difficult to get things done. That's the way it's supposed to be. That's democracy. It's not supposed to be smooth sailing. The interests and needs of minorities must come into play. Those who want to ram things through based on a narrow political agenda - left or right - are not serving, understanding, or practicing democracy. Democratic governing does not end the day after Election Day. That's when bargaining, compromise, and listening must begin. That's democracy.
The Vance/Gabbard insiders seem to adhere to the Obama/Biden policy of appeasement with Iran, go light on the Houthis, and put the focus and assets towards China. Trump decides and clearly the Walz/Rubio/Huckabee/Stefanik Hegseth/Miller crew align more closely with Trump's view, which is to avoid war but go tough on Iran and on China. It isn't either/or with Trump.
With regard to the firing of bar, it does seem that court has decided to stand down for now. There were protest in Israel, but it seems the Kaplan force quickly called them off. I generally have no problem with the court being the domestic sovereign. This state of affairs exists in America as well.
In particular the Jews have always wanted to be ruled by judges - the existence of the Sanhedrin affirms this. The problem is this government is not ruling based on Law. The Court should use its domestic sovereignty to pen a constitution it likes and place it for election until one passes. They should simultaneously give Netanyahu as prime minister full control over foreign affairs, because judges functionally cannot deal with these issues. Domestic issues should remain the full domain of the court.
If we, the Jews of Israel, wanted the Judges of the Supreme Court to rule us, we would have elected them. We did not elect them. We elected Mr. Netanyahu's Likud and various coalition allies.
We do not consent to end democratic self-rule in regards to domestic affairs. We insist on our ability and right to fully debate all issues and choose our course at the ballot box.
There is no such thing as democracy. It is a complete illusion. There is only law and procedure. The rules of the game dictate the outcome. Who gets to vote? How are the districts subdivided? What are the barriers to election? Democracy is a facade, and that is fine. My goal is to allow jewish communities to thrive. Judicial rule (including halachic courts) and federation in my opinion is the best way to achieve this.
And what is the reason that this arbitrary panel of men and women, drawn entirely from one sector of the nation and expressing the opinions of that sector, ought to rule over the nation entire?
I do not consent to this. My community does not consent to this. We will, if need be, ultimately fight to prevent this. Yes, I mean civil war.
The Supreme Court of Israel is very far from a halachic court. It is a thoroughly secularistic and left-wing institution. Rule by the Supreme Court is simply rule by a committee of left-wing ideologues.
Removing and replacing the entrenched, inbred set of judges is a major challenge even when the government's majority is not razor thin. The system as a whole is unorganized.
Re should Walz be fired... Early on in the Biden administration, when he fled Afghanistan, leaving behind 180 billion in military equipment and 13 needlessly dead American service men and women, who was fired over that? Ans: No one.
This 'Signalgate' bs is just that. And despite Goldberg and Boasberg making much ado about it, is not going to bring down the government. Sorry boys.
Exactly. The Dems are desperate. This is just human error and no one was harmed by it.
“Signalgate” is what in basketball is viewed as “no blood no foul “ because the missions against the Hoighis were by no means compromised and we are looking at what looks to be an email mistake at worst .Every administration has internal debates on issues of foreign policy and national security issues and this administration is no different
The Carlson isolationists are making a lot of noise but have zero impact on policy . However Witkoff has also shown himself to be out of his league with respect to his comments about Hamas and Quatar and should not be a special envoy on Middle East East related issues .
The idea that Democrats want better national security is beyond silly.
For Vance, would there ever be reason enough to take out the Houthis? In any case, it's good to have a range of opinions before Trump makes the call.
Enough !!!....No one is interested in the Signal call. It is in the rear view mirror. F the Jihadist Bullies.
I bet petty martinet lesser judge Boasberg, dreams of being an Israeli supreme. Wow
I harken back to the kerfuffle made about Hillary Clinton's private server. Either politicians and government officials can use private phones, services, laptops for official, secret purposes or they cannot. If anything this incident shows a ridiculous disregard for secure government.
The usual right wing response…nothing to see here, and ‘everyone uses signal for national security messages, so it must be okay’ 🙄
Moyshe Cohen’s article, “Israel’s Deep State Is Worse Than America’s”
is an excellent account of how the Left in Israel, (and in the US now), has constructed a judicial activist cordon to instruct the duly elected government by the people from performing their legal duties.
But just what measures can be taken in going about tearing down that wall, to free up the elected governments from its stranglehold still is not in sight.
The author calls upon the “international solidarity among nations—and citizens—who value representative government over rule by unaccountable institutions” to do - what exactly?
The people orchestrating this flagrant usurpation of power don’t give a hoot about the international community, and many, if not most in that international community are guilty of doing the very same things in their own respective countries.
These acts by these judges and their co-conspirators - including their Allie’s in the mainstream media, amount to an attempt at a judicial coup of the duly elected government.
The only way I can see getting them to back down is a unified and muscular effort from the voters demanding it to end.
I don’t know what that would look like but something needs to happen to send a clear message, and a chill down the spine of these rogue judges, that they are totally off the reservation when it comes to the will of the people.
The alternatives to doing nothing and letting it continue are to dreadful even to imagine.
*instruct = Obstruct
(my edit button not working!)
MAGA, bitches.
Re: Israel's so-called "Deep State." Israel cannot and should not be compared to the democratic system of checks and balances in the USA. It also is only partially a "Common Law" state. American law, Turkish law, and even the Talmud often form the basis for judicial rulings and legislation. It is absurd of Netanyahu, who has been Prime Minister for nearly 20 years to claim that he is subject to Deep State shenanigans. He has been running the state for decades. His party received only one-quarter of the public's vote in 2022, and his legislative partners have narrow, sectoral interests. With the authoritarian and racist Ben Gvir and Smotrich and the anti-Zionist ultra-Orthodox pulling Bibi's strings, the coalition is in no way representative of a majority of Israelis. The current Israeli parliamentary system lacks the necessary checks and balances that make a democracy. Just because someone wins 50.1 percent of the vote - which Netanyahu didn't - does not mean s/he can do whatever they wish and ignore the interests and ideas of the minority. I'm not saying that the opposition to Netanyahu is better. What we get with this situation and in this climate is one administration passing legislation and the next one wiping it out, which whipsaws the public and entrenches divisions and polarization. The trend of, "I win and you lost, and therefore I can do what I wish and to hell with you" has always played a role in Israeli politics, but the nearly even split between the two blocs (I won't deign to call them Left and Right, because that ideological binary is false and misleading) means that neither side has the right to claim it is acting in the national interest. In Israel in recent years, the permanent government bureaucracy and the courts have been the only check on untrammeled political horse trading, dealmaking and payoffs. I get it that such checks and balances make it difficult to get things done. That's the way it's supposed to be. That's democracy. It's not supposed to be smooth sailing. The interests and needs of minorities must come into play. Those who want to ram things through based on a narrow political agenda - left or right - are not serving, understanding, or practicing democracy. Democratic governing does not end the day after Election Day. That's when bargaining, compromise, and listening must begin. That's democracy.
The Vance/Gabbard insiders seem to adhere to the Obama/Biden policy of appeasement with Iran, go light on the Houthis, and put the focus and assets towards China. Trump decides and clearly the Walz/Rubio/Huckabee/Stefanik Hegseth/Miller crew align more closely with Trump's view, which is to avoid war but go tough on Iran and on China. It isn't either/or with Trump.
With regard to the firing of bar, it does seem that court has decided to stand down for now. There were protest in Israel, but it seems the Kaplan force quickly called them off. I generally have no problem with the court being the domestic sovereign. This state of affairs exists in America as well.
In particular the Jews have always wanted to be ruled by judges - the existence of the Sanhedrin affirms this. The problem is this government is not ruling based on Law. The Court should use its domestic sovereignty to pen a constitution it likes and place it for election until one passes. They should simultaneously give Netanyahu as prime minister full control over foreign affairs, because judges functionally cannot deal with these issues. Domestic issues should remain the full domain of the court.
If we, the Jews of Israel, wanted the Judges of the Supreme Court to rule us, we would have elected them. We did not elect them. We elected Mr. Netanyahu's Likud and various coalition allies.
We do not consent to end democratic self-rule in regards to domestic affairs. We insist on our ability and right to fully debate all issues and choose our course at the ballot box.
There is no such thing as democracy. It is a complete illusion. There is only law and procedure. The rules of the game dictate the outcome. Who gets to vote? How are the districts subdivided? What are the barriers to election? Democracy is a facade, and that is fine. My goal is to allow jewish communities to thrive. Judicial rule (including halachic courts) and federation in my opinion is the best way to achieve this.
And what is the reason that this arbitrary panel of men and women, drawn entirely from one sector of the nation and expressing the opinions of that sector, ought to rule over the nation entire?
I do not consent to this. My community does not consent to this. We will, if need be, ultimately fight to prevent this. Yes, I mean civil war.
The Supreme Court of Israel is very far from a halachic court. It is a thoroughly secularistic and left-wing institution. Rule by the Supreme Court is simply rule by a committee of left-wing ideologues.
Their Supreme Court can be trusted to want religion entirely out of the public square. This is reason enough not to give them domestic control.
History is funny. Do not think of a position by the people who occupy it now, but rather how it functions within a system as a whole.
Removing and replacing the entrenched, inbred set of judges is a major challenge even when the government's majority is not razor thin. The system as a whole is unorganized.
“… (1) that no classified information was disclosed; and (2) that Goldberg sucks.
It’s hard to argue with (2) as a general matter.”
Hey, Tablet, are you sure you want to go after the Editor-in-Chief of a magazine?
So: First they came for the liberals but because I wasn’t a liberal … ?
Yup, you know how this ends.