Why when Israel votes Right, we get Left
Some of you from outside Israel might be wondering how with the Likud in charge, we have a Prime Minister who is falling all over himself to obey the unelected, self-perpetuating 'Supreme Court' by giving away land that is our birthright. Adina Kutnicki tries to explain. Briefly, according to Dr. Martin Sherman (an eminent Israeli political scientist and the founder of The Israeli Institute for Strategic Studies) in "Who really runs Israel?" (Ynet, 4/21/2010), "[a]lthough the right wing consistently wins elections, it never really gets into power. It is a phenomenon that can only be explained by the existence of some influence extraneous to the political system that imposes policy outcomes that diverge radically from those that should be expected from regular operation of political routine."Read the whole thing.
Furthermore, few understand the "unholy alliance" among Israel's civil society (funded and fueled by foreign NGOs), AKA its ruling elites, and their pernicious affect upon Israel's policy outcomes. They operate with impunity inside media, legal, diplomatic, and cultural institutions, mainly schooled by post-/anti-Zionist academics headquartered within social sciences/humanities departments. The above unelected functionaries act as cheerleaders/disseminators for rulings imposed (or about to be) by a predisposed leftist, pro-Arab court system. In turn, pressure is exerted upon the political leadership to execute their dictates. Indeed, Israel's court system has supplanted its legislature.
The toxic mixture of civil society elites servicing unelected Supreme Court justices (they choose their own replacements) led to the following recent -- out of volumes of others -- pro-Arab ruling.
According to Moshe Dann (a Ph.D. historian) in his op-ed "Who makes the law?" at the Jerusalem Post (March 28, 2012):Once again former chief justice Dorit Beinisch and a few of her colleagues have usurped the role and powers of the legislature and sought to create new law. The same tactic of appealing directly to the Supreme Court which does not examine evidence has used in legal disputes over contested areas such as Migron. But in Lessans' case (a dispute over the ownership of dunams in Kedumim, located in the Shomron) the court went beyond deciding on a specific place and issued a discriminatory edict. The justices did not rule on who owns the land since the Arab claimants clearly do not. They ruled on who did not own the land, namely Michael Lessans, because, according to the court, the right to acquire land by chazaka does not apply to Jews. (Holy smokes) This ruling should send shivers down the spine of everyone who respects the rule of law.
There's another key cog in the wheel of pushing the State to the Left and that is the State prosecution system. While we have more than our share of corrupt politicians (that's what happens when politicians are beholden to the party and not to the people - a point Kutnicki raises), we also have a State's Attorney's office that is probably the most politicized prosecutorial arm in the Western World. Many an Israeli politician has obeyed the Left's desires when threatened with prosecution that could end his career. See: Sharon, Ariel.
Labels: government corruption, Israeli Left, Supreme Court
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 12:22 PM
2 Comments:
I agree that the State prosecution system is a major way that Western govts circumvent the vote. But Israel doesn't have it any worse than, say, the U.S. Our "State prosecution system", which also encompasses law enforcement, has done a RICO collusion to arm with guns two sides of a bloody battle in our neighboring country of Mexico, a very popular country among Americans. Then, the very people who did it nearly come to blows at a meeting in the White House... not over the death and destruction that they have caused in Mexico, but over their petty, murderous power.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/barackobama/9309372/War-in-the-White-House-attorney-general-Eric-Holder-and-top-Obama-adviser-David-Axelrod-had-to-be-separated.html
Trying to figure out what this party is... their links show up through Danny Ayalon's facebook feed. Sometimes it looks good, but then they get into the picking and choosing winners and losers, sympathy for some but not others... govt domination. Rather than title searches, etc. But maybe it is just a limited picture that is showing through. For example, I still have never seen a map of the area that they are talking about (5? houses?)... here's the FB link: https://www.facebook.com/beytenuenglish
Here's part of the post that made me wonder about govt qualifying the favored ones (it is a very big problem that has emerged in the U.S., for example): "FM Liberman said. "I ask myself if there was an obligation to decide to evacuate the five buildings. The human consideration should also enter the picture when we discuss the future of the residents. One must understand that these people are the salt of the earth...""
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