The tentacles of the Efi Naveh influence-peddling scandals have reached into the highest echelons of the Israeli justice system. I reported previously that chief judge of the Tel Aviv District Court, Eitan Orenstein, traded favors with bar association president Naveh to secure promotion to his current position. The latest target is Supreme Court Justice Yosef […]
Netanyahu Government Falls
Today, Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu decided to topple his own government and call new elections. The ostensible reason was that impending legislation to compel ultra-Orthodox men to serve in the IDF was destined to fail due to opposition from key parties. The real reason for the dissolution is more complicated. First, Netanyahu faces indictment on […]
Bibi’s New Faux Peace Initiative
I would call Bibi’s and Yvet’s latest quasi peace initiative an act of political theater, except that it does an injustice to real drama, which may move humanity to powerful action. This plan announced by Bibi today is more like performing anesthesia on a corpse (the peace process, that is). Israel’s leader dredged up a […]
Wall Street Journal Publishes Israel’s Leading Stone-Cold Arab-Killer
There is little that surprises me these days regarding the callowness of the media towards the Israeli-Arab conflict. But the Wall Street Journal has sunk to a new low with its publication today of an op-ed (Islamic State Understands One Thing: Force) by senior Israeli minister and Bayit Yehudi leader, Naftali Bennett. In his bio at the […]
