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Saturday, February 18, 2023

Antidemocracy Rioters Disrupt Life in Jerusalem -- The Truth About Judicial Reform

Black day for Israeli democracy and liberty. 

Please get this right. I'm talking about the attempt by the elitist Israeli Left to overthrow the legally elected government. 

Democracy is a numbers game. It means that if you get the most votes, you've won. In Israel, to be more precise, if you can create a coalition of a majority of the 120 Members of Knesset, 61 or more that's a legal government. THAT'S DEMOCRACY! 

If you didn't get enough votes to create a coalition, if you don't have the MKs, you've lost. That's it. Very simple. Try harder next time. Marching and screaming in the streets won't give you the right to rule. If you insist on demonstrating, then you're acting like fascists or worse. I don't know why those demonstrators on Monday took black flags, but it really showed their true color. 

They can scream all they want, but grow up! That won't give them more votes, more MKs. Rule by taking over the streets? That's dystopia, not utopia.

The antidemocracy anti-judicial reform protests on Monday stopped public transportation and inconvenienced, to put it mildly, tens of thousands or more ordinary Israelis like myself. I had been at the Jerusalem Botanical Gardens with the Ayelet Chapter of Amit Women and discovered that bus service to the center of Jerusalem or Ammunition Hill, where I needed to get a bus home to Shiloh, had been stopped. Yes, the buses were stopped because of those demonstrators.

Thank Gd, I found the physical strength to walk, and please remember that in a few months Gd willing I'll be 74, towards the lightrail on King George and Yaffo. I finally caught a bus on King George and took it less than two stops. Why less? That very junction where I needed to transfer from the bus to the lightrail had been taken over by the mobs, and the bus had been forced to stop, and the lightrail stopped, too.


Since the rioters had stopped public transportation, I was forced to keep walking and finally caught a bus at the Buchari Shuk.

It was clear that the demonstrators were having fun, but lots of ordinary Jerusalemites and visitors like myself were inconvenienced and angry. I saw people trying to explain to the rioters that they were interfering with our human rights, but... you can finish the sentence...

These antigovernment demonstrations/riots have been going on since Netanyahu's previous administration, then stopped when he was out of office and now resumed. Now they're harping on the Judicial Reform issue. They claim that the judges need "independence." That's absurd! 

Do you know what they mean by it? They mean that judges should use their "judgement," their personal ideology/philosophy to decide what's right and just. They don't decide according to law. They decide if a law suits their moral, political opinions. That's means that the courts are political, not legally based. Not only that! They get to choose their replacements. It's not the elected Knesset Members who choose judges, it's the judges themselves. That way, although the judges don't hold the opinions of the majority of the citizens, they can perpetuate their ideological power over the citizens and the elected government. 
Does that sound kosher to you?

Who made them god? 

Most of us ordinary Israelis are too busy getting through our busy days to take to the streets, like the elitist Leftists. Also, we did our patriotic duty, voted. There's a coalition that holds the ideology of the majority of Israelis. We definitely need Judicial Reform, so our courts will be based on law, not politics.
Why should the minority have the right utter chutzpah to overrule the majority?

Davka, very much like last week's Torah Portion, Yitro, someone who isn't Israeli explains our situation very well, Mark Levin. Please listen to what he has to say.


12 comments:

joel rich said...

https://ethicsunwrapped.utexas.edu/glossary/veil-of-ignorance

kt
joel

Batya said...

The present situation certainly isn't fair. It's a mafia of the extreme Left and self-perpetuating.

Anonymous said...

Fire them all. Like US air Controllers strike of 1981


The charedim were on target all along after all?
The IDF is basically secularist politics
Traditional or religious soldiers get punished for minute infractions by comparison ?

They have to crack down hard

As they used to term this-
An Altalena moment

Batya said...

Honestly, I don't see this having to do with chareidim.
The Left has gone totally berserk. Most demonstrators just trust slogans and haven't a clue as to the actual issues or laws. They certainly don't know that no other country has such a politically skewed court.
The nastiness, like Avrum Burg and others is a total disgrace. People should be fired and demoted.

HDG, Yerushalayim, E"Y Shlemah said...

...and these are the same people who go on and on about the haredim who disrupt traffic. You know, the Yerushalmi Faction (הפלג הירושלמי) headed by Rav Shmuel Auerbach, z"l, the ones the riot patrols spray skunk "scent" on them whenever they protest. The opposition in our case is far more numerous than the YF is, therefore is more dangerous.

I've known for quite a while that the Left disrupts freely when they have an issue, and get away with it to boot. I wonder how many of the law enforcement personnel are bought and paid for.

We need a level playing field, both sides (allowed to) play by the same rules.

But this might be a sign that the "democratic" paradigm is running thin, and we need to be ready for the Kingdom of Israel.

What do you think, Batya?

I hope everything is OK by you and yours.

Hava

Batya said...

Unless I'm mistaken, the chareidim generally keep their demonstrations in their own neighborhoods. These fascists antidemocracy leftists are disrupting citizens all over the country's. Their chutzpah is really dangerous for the State of Israel. They lost the election. They must accept democracy, if not they are true fascists.

HDG, Yerushalayim, E"Y Shlemah said...

The demonstrations I'm referring to are usually in the Tachana Mercazit; there hasn't been one in several years. Once they even walked on the tracks and blocked a train I was on, and I filmed part of it with my phone (I know, old-fashioned term).

I agree with you on the rest of it. I wish that somehow the antidemocracy leftists would get their comeuppance. They seem to have made themselves like teflon, though.

HDG, Yerushalayim, E"Y Shlemah said...

But G-d will get them in the end. I want to see it when He does.

Anonymous said...

Fascinating take on politics. I wasn't aware that the losing side in an election forfeited its right to protest. Antidemocratic? That's rather rich - pot, meet kettle.

Batya said...

They are demanding that they rule, that their opinions are to be the ruling ones, although they lost. They want to overrule the elections. That's antidemocratic.

Anonymous said...

Thanks for enlightening me. I had no idea that the side that won an election automatically was allowed to pass any legislative ideas without objection from the opposition. Was Stalin your civics teacher in high school?

Batya said...

These aren't simple innocent demonstrations. They're being funded by foreign countries and demand that the government change. Do you know that no other democracy has an INDEPENDENT judicial which replaces itself? Check, for instance how American judges, from local to supreme court are chosen versus the Israeli process. Of course the American backers of these demonstrations haven't read the fine print, because they're not after justice and democracy. They want to control Israel via the courts.