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Another futile law won’t influence negotiations

admin — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:00:41 +0000

The Knesset has adopted a law recognizing Jews who have fled Arab countries as refugees. Nice words, but unfortunately the Palestinians do not care about them. There is no chance that the Palestinians would formally forfeit their right of return to Israel, or their property claims, in exchange for Sephardi Jews doing likewise.

Knesset: It was no crime to fight disengagement

admin — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 19:08:58 +0000

The Knesset has overwhelmingly passed a bill which clears the criminal records of the Gush Katif protesters.

Sharon made mere disagreement with his disengagement plan a criminal offense, but most criminal records were accrued in real riots.

Arabs and Meretz opposed the bill.

Netanyahu continues mega-bribery

admin — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 07:06:29 +0000

Having created the largest government ever, with 30 good-for-nothing ministers, Netanyahu continues down that path. He guaranteed two new ministries and several deputy ministries to Kadima MKs who are ready to leave their party.

Netanyahu fears defections from Likud—whose many MKs are dissatisfied with his cowardly policies— and has to split Kadima, which could otherwise vote his government out.

Meanwhile, Kadima is trying to bring the Labor Party dissidents to its Knesset faction.

An electoral system in which people vote for long party lists populated by largely unknown candidates who then enjoy independence in the Knesset invites corruption.

Coalition lacks guts

admin — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:41:53 +0000

Likud, Labor, and Kadima MKs voted against a bill that would ban visits to terrorist prisoners until Hamas provides access to Shalit.

Unwilling to jeopardize the government’s cozy relations with Hamas and offend those parties’ Arab voters, the MK’s explained their shameful action by claiming that the ban violates Israel’s international obligations.

Lie. These international obligations are unenforceable, and have never been reciprocated by Hezbollah or Hamas. Moreover, the obligations apply only to POWs; Israel sentences Palestinian guerrillas as common criminals. They are not citizens of any state, and Israel’s treatment of its criminals is an internal affair. Yigal Amir, sentenced for the same offense as most terrorists, has been held in solitary confinement and denied visits for most of his incarceration.

Haredim save fur coats

admin — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:16:19 +0000

The Knesset has postponed—and effectively withdrawn—a bill supported by animal rights groups which would ban fur imports from Asia. Female fur lovers were saved by ultra-Orthodox legislators whose constituency needs fur for traditional hats.

Sephardi refugees: Legalese instead of Torah

admin — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:20:43 +0000

In preliminary reading, the Knesset approved a draft which would recognize Sephardi Jewish emigrants from Muslim countries as refugees. Theoretically, this bill might allow Israel to treat the Palestinian exodus in 1947-48 as an exchange of population.

Nonsense. The Palestinians fled Israel before the Jews left the Muslim countries, so Israel will be guilty of provoking the “exchange.” The Jews fled third countries rather than Palestine, so there is no exchange.

The Torah’s solution is straightforward: the Arabs must be expelled, no exchange is necessary.

The bill is a sweet pill to Israel’s Sephardic voters, giving them a faint hope of restitution for their abandoned property.

Knesset clings to legalisms

admin — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:54:29 +0000

The Knesset is discussing changes to the law which refuses Palestinian claims of property damage during military actions.

As the law stands, pro-Arab Israeli courts recognize as military actions only situations in which soldiers’ lives are in danger. Based on that ultra-liberal interpretation, Palestinians have filed hundreds of lawsuits in Israel against the state.

The changed law would recognize any operation in the West Bank as inherently dangerous, thus closing the loophole for Palestinian suits.

The proper approach would be to announce a state of war with the Palestinians and damage their property as much as is necessary to stop the terrorists.

One MK standing

admin — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 11:15:34 +0000

IDF arrested MK Ben Ari for trying to stop policemen from dragging four children from the settlement of Yitzhar. The teens were hurling stones at the Arabs. No Arabs were arrested for hurling stones at Jews.

Knesset members are petty thieves

admin — Thu, 07 May 2009 14:48:50 +0000

The Knesset coffee shop is due to be closed by the owners, who cite massive delinquencies. The MKs routinely attempt to bypass the cashier, ask for credit, and refuse to pay their bills. The total delinquency exceeded $100,000.

Big government leaves Knesset to opposition

admin — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 08:13:58 +0000

Netanyahu the liberal has created a mammoth government of thirty ministers. That leaves just thirty-three coalition MKs for the Knesset work. The opposition numbers fifty-one MKs, which assures Livni’s dominance in the Knesset committees and in voting on routine bills when ministers don’t attend the sessions.

Eldad demands indictment of Israeli Defense Minister

admin — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 13:20:23 +0000

MK Aryeh Eldad very reasonably called upon the leftist Attorney General Mazuz to indict Ehud Barak for abetting the enemy at war, after Barak opened the Gaza crossings for food supplies despite the barrage of rocket attacks from Gaza.
Laborites countered with the calls to charge Eldad with incitement. In fact, any normal Jew should go out into the streets and incite against Barak.

The entire government should be indicted for supplying Gaza—officially, “the hostile territory”—with water, fuel, and power.

MKs compete in demagoguery

admin — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 21:14:16 +0000

Netanyahu has announced that if elected PM, he won’t conduct negotiations on the West Bank and Jerusalem. Really? And who signed the Wye River memorandum?
Shas’ Yishai screamed that he only wanted from Livni some money for ill children. That, and a billion for Torah scholars.
Peres called on the MKs to defeat any enemy. Elsewhere, he argues loudly against an Israeli attack on Iran.

With 270,000 Arabs, there will be more bulldozer [attacks] in Jerusalem

admin — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 20:18:18 +0000

said Olmert to the Knesset Security Affairs Committee.

New law bars bad debtors from leaving Israel

admin — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 18:42:41 +0000

and annuls their driving license. The draconian law applies to debtors who owe just $150 for a year.
There is no seventh-year debt release anymore.

Knesset does not trust itself

admin — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 18:24:36 +0000

The Knesset continues deliberations over a Basic Law which would require national referendum to cede any part of Israeli land. If approved, it would be funny to see Israeli Arabs voting on ceding the Golan Heights to Syria.
The law would realistically apply only to the Goland Heights and not Judea and Samaria which are legally occupied rather than a part of Israel.

Israel accepts responsibility for Palestinian refugees

admin — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:56:01 +0000

The Knesset forms a commission for rehabilitating Palestinian refugees in the West Bank, Lebanon, and elsewhere. Though technically meant to resettle the fourth-generation descendants of refugees, the commission establishes a dangerous precedent of Israel agreeing to deal with the refugee issue – something which we had vehemently denied for decades.
An Arab-led UNRWA almost forcibly keeps the Palestinians in refugee camps to heat up the problem instead of helping them to resettle and move on with their lives.

Government opposed taking away terrorists’ citizenship

admin — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:48:28 +0000

After the Jerusalem terrorist attack, Kadima and Avodah parties agreed to the bill they have opposed just a day ago. Edelstein’s (Likud) bill would strip members of Palestinian terrorist organizations of Israeli citizenship. Kadima, Avodah initially opposed the bill in order to avoid alienating their Arab voters.
The bill violates human rights, as no one can be stripped of his citizenship.

Danny Yatom quits politics for diamonds

admin — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:54:23 +0000

Ex-Mossad chief Danny Yatom should not have been in politics in the first place for the clear conflict of interests: at Mossad, he knew the information which, as an MK, he had a duty to tell the public.

Danny Yatom is Lev Levaev’s partner in the Angola diamond business. Danny Yatom uses his Mossad contacts for personal gain. In Angola, Levaev also cooperates with Russian KGB/ FSB.

Danny Yatom claims he left the Knesset due to its deteriorating morals. Sure, a Mossad chief is himself a beacon of morality.

Visitors to enemy states banned from the Knesset

admin — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:42:48 +0000

The new law bars Israeli citizens who visited enemy states (every Muslim state except Egypt, Jordan, Qatar, and Oman) from running for Knesset. The law offers a loophole: the visitors retain their electoral rights if they can prove that they did not provide support to Israel’s enemies.
Shaul Mofaz, Education Minister (Peace Now founder) Yuli Tamir, Haim Ramon, Ami Ayalon opposed the bill in order to raise their own popularity with Israeli Arabs.
The bill, technically an amendment for the Knesset Basic Law, received 52 votes rather than 61 (absolute majority) and stands to be overturned by the Supreme Court.

Knesset acknowledges its corruption

admin — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:16:14 +0000

During a squabble with MK Zeev Elkin, Knesset coalition chief Eli Aflalo shouted at him that the coalition would never vote for Elkin’s bills. It’s beyond comprehension to Aflalo and his likes that bills should be voted on their merits for benefit of the People of Israel.

Eldad suspended for charging Olmert with capital crime

admin — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:31:37 +0000

Aryeh Eldad barred from the Knesset for a day after citing the penal code section 97B: “Anyone who intentionally caused any territory to fall under the authority of a foreign country, is liable to death or life imprisonment.”

Knesset: We will pay the enemies less

admin — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 09:14:36 +0000

Knesset approved in the first reading a bill which refuses compensation to the Arabs of Judea and Samaria who somewhat suffered during the IDF’s antiterrorist operations there.
Israeli judicial system still lacks clear guidance on whether Jews can sue the Fatah Authority and individual Palestinians for terrorist acts against Jews.
Despite several threats, Israel fails to deduct compensations to Jewish victims of Palestinian terrorism from Israel’s monthly payments to Fatah.

Zehava Gal-On screams sexual harassment

admin — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 06:10:37 +0000

An unknown correspondent offered the MK to experience “a string of orgasms,” probably to change her Jew-hating political rhetoric.
Zehava is so ugly that the complaint could be meant to boost her reputation.

Right, ultra-left, Arabs unite to bring down Olmert

admin — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 18:44:44 +0000

At least 52 MKs vouched support for the bill to dissolve the Knesset, out of the 61 required. The Labor Party is deliberating. If it joins the drive, Olmert will kick Barak out of the government until the next elections in a few months. Barak, accordingly, will miss his chance of a lifetime to participate in Olmert’s attack on Iran and probably in the invasion of Gaza.

Mofaz: With me, nothing would change

admin — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 12:44:16 +0000

Olmert’s successor-elect Shaul Mofaz boasts he can form a new government with the current Knesset, if he wins Kadima primaries.
On the other hand, changing this Knesset for equally corrupt next isn’t worth the effort.

Olmert prefers Mofaz to Livni in Kadima

admin — Fri, 30 May 2008 08:31:28 +0000

Kadima Party mulls early primaries to be ready for Olmert’ stepping down in case he is indicted. Though 70% of the party members support Tzipi Livni, Olmert props Mofaz. Kadima stands no chances in the Knesset elections with Mofaz at the helm. Olmert beheads his own party so that he remains the only viable candidate for leading the party’s list. If Mofaz wins the Kadima primaries, all Kadima MKs would resist early elections as a predictable loss.

Stupid law cannot save Golan Heights

admin — Tue, 27 May 2008 21:15:03 +0000

The majority of Knesset members supported a preliminary bill which, if enacted, would require 2/3 of the Knesset votes to cede the Golan Heights to Syria. One wonders what impotent lawyers are those MKs. Of course, a simple majority can always repeal the bill which requires supermajority vote on ceding the Golans. In other words, though the bill requires 80 Knesset members to vote in favor of relinquishing the Golan Heights, it still takes only 61 MK to repeal this bill before voting on the Golan Heights.

Knesset contemplates a most absurd law

admin — Thu, 22 May 2008 18:33:19 +0000

The bill, passed in the first reading, requires a prime minister under criminal investigation to resign. Such a law makes leftist attorney general of Israel a kingmaker, able to remove any prime minister at whim.

Shas MK: Corruption, nonsense

admin — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:18:33 +0000

Shas Party Knesset Member Benizri refused to resign after being convicted of accepting bribes for influencing government tenders.

Knesset abandons one of the best Jews

admin — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 18:47:24 +0000

Knesset adopted a shameful law retroactively refusing Yigal Amir the right of parole. The law bars anyone who killed a prime minister from being released on parole.
Knesset has no problem with Israeli government releasing thousands of terrorists.

MKs face uncomfortable questions

admin — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 20:36:23 +0000

Israeli Knesset discussed the procedure for appointing the head of the Knesset Committee for State Control. The office gives extensive access to security information. MKs, therefore, are trying to devise a procedure that would bar democratically elected Arab MKs from that office.

Israel is full of imbeciles

admin — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 22:18:51 +0000

According to Israel Radio’s poll, the Knesset elections held today would give Netanyahu 31 seats (he falsely promised in the previous elections to repeal the Oslo Accords but instead gave Arabs Hebron), Olmert – 13 seats (do the voters watch news at all?), Barak – 20 seats (leftists are thrilled by his empty sanctions against Gaza), and Lieberman – 8 seats (can’t wait for his tough talk). Olmert is undoubtedly Israel’s best living politician.

So much scum in the Knesset

admin — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 17:41:42 +0000

Only 54 MKs voted for a bill that requires supermajority voting on the abandoning of Jerusalem to Arabs. The bill passed in the preliminary reading.
23 MKs voted against the bill which would withhold from the “tax” transfers to Palestinian Authority the costs of coping with Palestinian terrorism, such as shelters and damages. Those 23 criminals remain at large.

MKs slam Gaydamak for disrespecting Knesset

admin — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 22:54:02 +0000

In case they didn’t notice, most of the population disrespects them, as well.
Russian mogul Gaydamak derided members of the Knesset State Control Committee for clinging to their jobs while ignoring the country’s interests.

A single MK cares about home front

admin — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 20:22:47 +0000

Knesset commission for state control was supposed to hear today Lindenstrauss’ report on the home front unpreparedness during the 2006 Lebanon war. Out of 15 MK – members of the commission, a single MK (Orlev, MAFDAL) attended the hearing.
An Arab member of the commission was thankfully absent and won’t deliver secret military information to Hezbollah this time.

Knesset shifts to the right

admin — Wed, 16 May 2007 12:33:18 +0000

The Knesset adopts in the first reading a bill that requires referendum if the government decides on transferring Israeli land to foreigners. The bill aims to preserve the Golan Heights which Israel has annexed by leftists and Lieberman agree to give away to Syria. The bill could be passed by the Knesset because no Israeli politician wants a bad fame and responsibility for abandoning the Golan Heights.
Given the government control over the Israeli media, public can be brainwashed into supporting giveaway of the Golan Heights to Syria.

Likud joins Meretz, NRP to oust Olmert

admin — Mon, 07 May 2007 13:49:08 +0000

Conservatives and communists equally accuse Olmert of fighting the Lebanese war instead of seeking unspecified political solutions. Beilin is afraid Olmert will lead Israel to “another war,” in Gaza.
Though Winograd report condemns Olmert for the IDF’s unsatisfactory preparedness, Olmert was elected shortly before the war and cannot bear responsibility. Ariel Sharon neglected the army and fired the capable commanders who opposed the disengagement from Gaza.

Israeli Beitenu “fully cooperates” with the government, cuts NIS 1bn from defense, internal security, pensioners budget

admin — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 07:11:21 +0000

Finance Committee headed by Lieberman’s Stas Misezhnikov approved the cut. Subsidies to kibbutzim and Israeli Arabs are not threatened. Misezhnikov received M.A. in marketing from Tel Aviv University.