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Protesters try to block rightist MKs from key judicial reform votes Monday
Arutz Sheva ^ | 20/2/23 | Simcha Rothman

Posted on 02/19/2023 10:40:27 PM PST by Eleutheria5

Tens of thousands of protesters are expected to gather in Jerusalem Monday for a mass demonstration against the government’s judicial reform plan.

The protest coincides with a vote by the Knesset on a linchpin bill of the judicial reform plan.

The proposed legislation, which is expected to pass its first reading Monday, would increase the influence of the Knesset and government over the appointment of judges. Currently, just four of the nine members of the judicial selection committee are from the government and Knesset, with the remaining five members being judges and members of the Israel Bar Association.

In addition, the law includes a provision which would explicitly prohibit the Supreme Court from overturning Basic Laws, which the Supreme Court has argued constitute Israel’s de facto constitution.

Opponents of the plan have organized dozens of protests across the country over the past seven weeks, including a major demonstration outside the Knesset last Monday.

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(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; Israel
KEYWORDS: insurrection; israel; j6; judicialreform; knesset; protestors; radicalleft; sorosvsnetanyahu; yairlapid
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Stop those duly elected extreme right-wing extreme extremely extremist fanaticss from undermining our demoncrazy!/s

Kind of like what J6 is alleged to have been, isn't it.

1 posted on 02/19/2023 10:40:27 PM PST by Eleutheria5
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To: Eleutheria5

I only clicked here to find out what “MK” meant.
I left disappointed.


2 posted on 02/19/2023 10:45:35 PM PST by Repeal The 17th (Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
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To: Repeal The 17th

Member of Knesset, the Israeli parliament.


3 posted on 02/19/2023 10:46:34 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David.)
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To: Eleutheria5

We shall see how today plays out since thousands of leftists are expected in Jerusalem to confront the Knesset (Parliament) as the judicial reform plan of Mr. Netanyahu comes to a first vote.


4 posted on 02/19/2023 11:11:25 PM PST by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: Eleutheria5

They learned from the loony left here


5 posted on 02/20/2023 12:48:54 AM PST by Postel
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To: Postel

Well, many of the latter were Jews, so that shouldn’t be a surprise.


6 posted on 02/20/2023 12:51:35 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: FreedomPoster

Ethnicity is irrelevant.


7 posted on 02/20/2023 1:07:16 AM PST by Postel
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To: Eleutheria5; All

MK Tali Gottlieb responded at the beginning of the committee’s discussion on the Judiciary Basic Law for blocking her exit from her home by protesters.

“wild people... you do not come to a person’s house and sit in a display of violence, to tell me I will not leave the house. We are public messengers, we will do our work faithfully, they will not violate our personal security, you will not harm privacy in the name of protest. This is orchestrated and financed, through whom? I do not know”. At 6:10 disturbed anarchists are waiting for me on the third floor, ‘the more they will oppressed, the more we will multiply and soread’ [based on Excodus 1:12] more we will break. We came to do good to the people of Israel and as much as they call here for civil strife and bloodshed, there is a price for that.

If God forbid I lost my temper it could have ended badly... Stop insulting the people. God forbid it will end in blood. Take a breath and do this right. I am calling on the security services to collect information because this surprised everyone today, who ambushed us at the doors of our house, whether from the left or the right, they will not violate our privacy.”

https://www.0404.co.il/?p=867318


8 posted on 02/20/2023 1:07:35 AM PST by Postel
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To: Eleutheria5; All

MK Tali Gottlieb responded at the beginning of the committee’s discussion on the Judiciary Basic Law for blocking her exit from her home by protesters.

“wild people... you do not come to a person’s house and sit in a display of violence, to tell me I will not leave the house. We are public messengers, we will do our work faithfully, they will not violate our personal security, you will not harm privacy in the name of protest. This is orchestrated and financed, through whom? I do not know”. At 6:10 disturbed anarchists are waiting for me on the third floor, ‘the more they will oppressed, the more we will multiply and spread’ [based on Excodus 1:12] . We came to do good to the people of Israel and as much as they call here for civil strife and bloodshed, there is a price for that.

If God forbid I lost my temper it could have ended badly... Stop insulting the people. God forbid it will end in blood. Take a breath and do this right. I am calling on the security services to collect information because this surprised everyone today, who ambushed us at the doors of our house, whether from the left or the right, they will not violate our privacy.”

https://www.0404.co.il/?p=867318


9 posted on 02/20/2023 1:08:55 AM PST by Postel
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To: Postel

It should not be a surprise that Leftist Jews talk to Leftist Jews and share political methods. I am not sure why this is irrelevant.


10 posted on 02/20/2023 1:33:59 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Eleutheria5
...Israel Bar Association...

A powerful lobby, I'm sure.
11 posted on 02/20/2023 3:44:29 AM PST by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: Eleutheria5

“Currently, just four of the nine members of the judicial selection committee are from the government and Knesset, with the remaining five members being judges and members of the Israel Bar Association.”

The judiciary and the bar are acting like a guild that cannot be questioned by anyone outside the guild. Like in the U.S., the bar is predominately leftist or at least leftist supportive, and thus the “protests” they have organized against judicial reform. How dare the elected government question their guild!!!!!


12 posted on 02/20/2023 5:06:51 AM PST by Wuli
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To: FreedomPoster

Do they all meet?

Netanyahu is also a Jew. And so are majority who voted for him: NOT lefty.

I wouldn’t comnect lefty Irish Americans to a political protest in Ireland. Or other examples


13 posted on 02/20/2023 5:24:21 AM PST by Postel
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To: Postel

There are far far worse things than killing some atheist secular humanist communist fanatics. They should be given many opportunities to be martyrs to their evil cause.


14 posted on 02/20/2023 5:31:34 AM PST by robowombat ( ..)
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To: robowombat

The conservatives are under threat from liberals.


15 posted on 02/20/2023 5:32:57 AM PST by Postel
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I understand that. The normals need to give the secular commies some chances to die for their evil cause.


16 posted on 02/20/2023 5:37:17 AM PST by robowombat ( ..)
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To: robowombat

Commie-jihad.


17 posted on 02/20/2023 5:48:44 AM PST by Postel
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To: Eleutheria5

” explicitly prohibit the Supreme Court from overturning Basic Laws, which the Supreme Court has argued constitute Israel’s de facto constitution. “

Maybe we should try something like that, before ours becomes a “defacto Constitution”.
Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and shall not be infringed, come to mind.


18 posted on 02/20/2023 6:29:53 AM PST by Fireone (The only reason our elections are complicated is because the cheaters want it that way.)
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To: Wuli

They disqualify from membership anyone deemed “right-wing,” I think. Not sure, if that’s so. But if it is, that is directly contrary to American legal practice, which has no ideological litmus test. Just all the white shoe firms tend to be more woke.


19 posted on 02/20/2023 7:19:00 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David.)
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To: Postel

My perception is that there is a lot more cross-pollination between Leftist Jews of Israel and the US that of the corresponding Irish Catholics of Ireland and the US. I don’t say that out of ignorance, I have plenty of personal experience and a fair amount of general observation.


20 posted on 02/20/2023 8:37:02 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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