WhatsappA few weeks ago, hundreds of reserve pilots and other high-ranking soldiers in the IDF reserves basically agreed to endanger the state of Israel if the government does not back down from a political decision to cancel the “reasonableness clause”.
As this headline says straight out:
Instead of accepting the will of the people, in true democratic fashion, these people believe that their opinion is more important, and hence, not only willing to destroy democracy, but endanger all Israeli citizens.
They claim that the government’s planned removal of the “reasonableness” clause that the Supreme Court uses will, as their letter states, “bring about the collapse of Israeli democracy and lead to a direct path to a dictatorship”
What’s even worse? Many of the pilots who threaten to refuse to serve no longer serve!
Check out this tweet by an IDF fighter pilot:
Contrary to how he was presented – Eran Schwartz is not a fighter pilot but a transport pilot. And besides, he hasn’t flown in over a decade, so I didn’t understand what he was threatening that he wouldn’t serve. A psychological war is being waged here by the media, which includes inventing letters of refusal and blackmailing emotions. No questions, no criticism, just the echo of pike. The public and its elected officials must not submit to manipulations.
Even worse than this slick pr campaign of pilots, many doctors in Israel are threatening to strike and not show up to work. Doctors!!!
That is absolute evil. They are seriously intending to endanger people’s lives because of the insanity of the political left.
Unfiftunately, very few doctors have come out publicly against the doctors organization calling for the strike. One brave doctor did go public and he says it straight out
“There are those in the medical association who are willing to take the health of the residents of the state of Israel hostage to their political ambitions”.
This is absolutely insane.
Now, hardly anyone really understands what this “reasonableness” clause is really about. Do you know? So, today, I will tell you what it is all about so you can decide for yourself whether removing it destroys democracy, or, as I believe, the clause itself is anti-democractic, and hence must be removed to strengthen Israeli democracy.
Before I do so, I just want to say thank you for joining me, Avi Abelow, once again for another episode of the Pulse of Israel, where I provide you with the inspiring, politically incorrect truth about Israel, the Jewish people and the freedom-loving world. If you are not yet a subscriber, please just visit PulseofIsrael.com and click to subscribe. And if you like this video and want to help us get it seen by more people, just click on the donate button so we can promote it to be seen by more people.
So, Prime Minister Netanyahu responded to the reservists who are literally willing to endanger all of Israel.
In this article…
Netanyahu is quoted as saying:
“I can’t imagine anything more severe – organizing such a mass violation of the service law. It’s impossible… it’s simply impossible to grasp it! This is a case that harms the body of the state, the security of the state! And it’s not just disabling our capabilities, it’s also what it does to our deterrent power!”
So, what is this reasonabless clause that is causing
No democracy today has a “reasonableness clause”. What is a reasonabless clause? It allows the judges to decide based on their own “reasoning” whether a government decision or appointment is appropriate. No basis on any law, just the reason of the Supreme Court judges.
Let’s look at a sample of decisions that the Israeli Supreme Court made based on this “reasonableness” clause and think for yourself if this makes any sense in a court of law.
Let’s start with a court decision back in the year 2000. The Supreme Court stopped a government plan to solve the housing crisis by freeing up land for building. That was not “reasonable” according to the judges.
In 2002 the High Court of Justice prohibited the government from deporting families of terrorists to the Gaza Strip during the second intifada. That wasn’t reasonable.
In 2003 the Supreme Court revoked the decision of the National Film Council to ban the screening of the film “Jenin Jenin” which was absolute slander about IDF soldiers and the State of Israel.
In 2016 the High Court prohibited the State of Israel from holding on to the bodies of terrorists for the purpose of using them to negotiate the rescue of bodies of IDF soldiers that were being held by terror organizations.
In 2018 the Supreme Court cancelled the Minister of the Interior’s decision to restrict the entry of BDS activist Lara Al-Qassem into Israel
Also in 2018, the court revoked the Minister of Defense’s decision to prohibit the entry of families of terrorists from Judea & Samaria to the alternative Remembrance Day ceremony. They did the same thing this year as well.
Also in 2018 The High Court forced the Minister of Science to appoint to a senior position a professor who supported refusing to serve in the IDF.
In 2021 the Supreme Court forced the Minister of Education to award the Israel Prize to a BDS supporter
None of these decisions were based on any rule of law, just on the “reasoning” of the judges. Instead of elected officials instituting policies and making decisions based on the will of the people, time after time, the progressive values of the Supreme Court justices were forced upon the government thanks to this “reasonableness” clause.
This is what the protestors in Israel are now threatening to endanger the country
Israeli journalist Amit Segal quoted the following episode of a senior Israeli Uiversity professor in his latest column published in the Hebrew Yediot Achronot:
Like all the beautiful and brave institutions, which happily multiply like mushrooms after the rain, the Technion University also joined the anti-government Disruption Day protest this week.
It did so in an evasive and slippery letter that is more characteristic of legal formulations than of scientists who are supposed to continue the legacy of Artosthenes, Pythagoras and Galileo:
“We call on all the men and women of the Technion House to once again express an opinion within the activities planned for Tuesday and to contribute to shaping the common future of society.”
As I recall, on Tuesday only one side showed up for the campaign, unless the Technion called for the police to volunteer. Professor Shahar Kotinsky, one of Israel’s leading academics in the field of computers, sent an extremely harsh letter to Technion President Uri Sivan, parts of which are reproduced here:
“This letter is, as you like to say, a shame. A letter that calls on the entire Technion house to demonstrate, block roads and close the National Highway.
Sorry, it calls for “expressing an opinion as part of the activities planned for Tuesday” as if there is some sort of discussion and not a struggle as part of civil unrest as part of the “National Disruption Day”.
This letter, which is a continuation of several months of activities, is part of our disconnection from a huge public. There is an ignoring and exclusion of other opinions, a thinking that everyone thinks the same and that there is an absolute truth in the controversial issues in Israeli society. You behave like the church and the academy that was subordinate to it in the Middle Ages. There is one truth and the ignorant crowd is irrelevant, a crowd that is also inside the Technion and you trample over it over and over again.
Who can express an opinion that is contrary to the extreme line of the committee of heads of universities? I myself am afraid to write what I am writing here, and I can testify to dozens of other Technion faculty members who think like me and are afraid, just afraid.
This is the exact opposite of science. Just the opposite of academia. Exactly the opposite of everything we claim to lead.
The Technion president’s vote on the ballot is not worth more than the vote of any other citizen. The imposition of our personal opinion on the Technion House is an abuse of the power given to us.
I write these things with great sadness. The damage you cause is enormous. You are leading to a big rift – within the faculty, between the faculty and students, between the academy and the public.
You ignore what a huge part of the Technion thinks and feels. You are trailing behind a handful of extremists who are ready to burn everything here for political capital.
Just as I demand from the government and its leader to take leadership, to do what is right for the country and not to be carried away under pressure and populism, so I demand from our academic leadership, from you, to act for the good of the academy and for the good of the entire Technion house.”
PS – The heigh of irony, is that in a recent protest a number of University administrators and Professors were carrying a huge banner that said “No democracy. No Academics”. The President of the Technion was right in the middle holding that sign, and soon after he was on a University trip in China receiving an award. It seems that according to his “reasonableness”, academic life is fine in a true dictatorship like China, just not in Israel, run by a government he disagrees with.
What this exemplifies is the absolute hypocrisy and blindness of the “protest” movement. Which should lead people to think what is really behind this movement led by a few privileged elites with tons of money to waste on trying to destroy and divide Israeli society???
