Congratulations! ?The only democracy in the Middle East? has been done away with ? and by its democratically elected legislature!
Unbeknownst to the people of this country, and thanks to Israel?s ?free? media, a coup d?etat was virtually executed in Israel last month. The Knesset adopted the first reading of a law authorizing the Supreme Court to veto any law passed by the Knesset itself. Israel is about to become the only country in the democratic world where the Judicial branch of government has been given dictatorial powers. Judicial despotism has thus been legalized by Israel?s democratically Legislature. Nowhere else in the democratic world have legislators manifested such stupidity as to willfully subordinate themselves to an unelected oligarchy.
It thus becomes totally meaningless which parties or which individuals sit in the Knesset, because whatever law they may enact, it can be nullified by the Supreme Court, dominated, by the way, by its President, Aharon Barak, who almost certainly was behind this coup d?etat. By passing this law, the MK?s have made themselves unnecessary ? a useless financial burden on the country. Indeed, why do we need these 120 well-paid public officials who also waste a lot of money on all kind of secretaries, parliamentary assistants, offices, cars, hotel rooms, and even face-lifts for their wives? We may as well dismantle the Knesset as an obsolete and useless institution and save the people?s money.
But ponder this: the same secularists who never tire of warning us about theocracy are preparing Israel for a Courtocracy. This Courtocracy, moreover, is dominated by ultra-secularists; it is anti-Zionist and, therefore, anti-Jewish.
Now, it should be emphasized that investing the Supreme Court with the power to veto legislation ? clearly the singular most destructive law ever initiated by the Knesset ? was introduced by the Likud and Labor together. This could not have been done without Prime Minister Sharon?s approval. But this proves Prof. Paul Eidelberg?s thesis that Ariel Sharon is Labor?s surrogate prime minister. It also proves Eidelberg?s other point, that Sharon is Israel?s most dangerous prime minister. He is swiftly and cunningly executing ? with hardly any protest on the part of the people ? Shimon Peres? and Azmi Bishara?s goal of transforming Israel into a ?state of its citizens.? This has been clear-cut goal of Supreme Court President Aharon Barak. Add Sharon?s commitment to a Palestinian state on Jewish land and Israel?s demise is clearly on the horizon.
Under Sharon?s leadership, the so-called ?Right? has joined forces with the Left, both in the government and in the Knesset, and is now actualizing the leftist dream: to de-Judaize Israel, which can only be done by a left-wing dictatorship; all under the facade of law.
As we know from history, the only way to overthrow a dictatorship is not by demonstrations but by a revolutionary movement. We had better grasp quickly what has happened here, and start thinking what we are going to do about it. Yamin Israel?s lonely voice calling for urgent institutional reform has not been heard or heeded. For years, we have been calling for the establishment of a United Jewish Front to counter ?the enemy within.? It is not too late to organize such a front, if only extra-parliamentary nationalist groups put aside organizational egotism and address the clear and present danger confronting Israel ? a judicial despotism of such magnitude that it overshadows the danger of a Palestinian state.
Time is running out. Time is closing in on the present State of Israel. Either we unite or perish.
Unbeknownst to the people of this country, and thanks to Israel?s ?free? media, a coup d?etat was virtually executed in Israel last month. The Knesset adopted the first reading of a law authorizing the Supreme Court to veto any law passed by the Knesset itself. Israel is about to become the only country in the democratic world where the Judicial branch of government has been given dictatorial powers. Judicial despotism has thus been legalized by Israel?s democratically Legislature. Nowhere else in the democratic world have legislators manifested such stupidity as to willfully subordinate themselves to an unelected oligarchy.
It thus becomes totally meaningless which parties or which individuals sit in the Knesset, because whatever law they may enact, it can be nullified by the Supreme Court, dominated, by the way, by its President, Aharon Barak, who almost certainly was behind this coup d?etat. By passing this law, the MK?s have made themselves unnecessary ? a useless financial burden on the country. Indeed, why do we need these 120 well-paid public officials who also waste a lot of money on all kind of secretaries, parliamentary assistants, offices, cars, hotel rooms, and even face-lifts for their wives? We may as well dismantle the Knesset as an obsolete and useless institution and save the people?s money.
But ponder this: the same secularists who never tire of warning us about theocracy are preparing Israel for a Courtocracy. This Courtocracy, moreover, is dominated by ultra-secularists; it is anti-Zionist and, therefore, anti-Jewish.
Now, it should be emphasized that investing the Supreme Court with the power to veto legislation ? clearly the singular most destructive law ever initiated by the Knesset ? was introduced by the Likud and Labor together. This could not have been done without Prime Minister Sharon?s approval. But this proves Prof. Paul Eidelberg?s thesis that Ariel Sharon is Labor?s surrogate prime minister. It also proves Eidelberg?s other point, that Sharon is Israel?s most dangerous prime minister. He is swiftly and cunningly executing ? with hardly any protest on the part of the people ? Shimon Peres? and Azmi Bishara?s goal of transforming Israel into a ?state of its citizens.? This has been clear-cut goal of Supreme Court President Aharon Barak. Add Sharon?s commitment to a Palestinian state on Jewish land and Israel?s demise is clearly on the horizon.
Under Sharon?s leadership, the so-called ?Right? has joined forces with the Left, both in the government and in the Knesset, and is now actualizing the leftist dream: to de-Judaize Israel, which can only be done by a left-wing dictatorship; all under the facade of law.
As we know from history, the only way to overthrow a dictatorship is not by demonstrations but by a revolutionary movement. We had better grasp quickly what has happened here, and start thinking what we are going to do about it. Yamin Israel?s lonely voice calling for urgent institutional reform has not been heard or heeded. For years, we have been calling for the establishment of a United Jewish Front to counter ?the enemy within.? It is not too late to organize such a front, if only extra-parliamentary nationalist groups put aside organizational egotism and address the clear and present danger confronting Israel ? a judicial despotism of such magnitude that it overshadows the danger of a Palestinian state.
Time is running out. Time is closing in on the present State of Israel. Either we unite or perish.