Devils in Israel

Readers of this column know better than I do the dangers Israel faces on many fronts. It is the internal foes that now present the gravest threat in some time. It is political forces that intend to pave the way for a military destruction of the Jewish state.

For some time, decades in fact, leftist politicians in Israel have imperiled their own country by seeking to appease the Arabs. From Yossi Beilin to Shimon Peres to now Yair Lapid, each has made dangerous compromises that defy explanation. Are they dupes, or part of some sinister plot? Until recently I would have chalked that last one up to conspiracy thinking, but now with globalists at the highest levels of American government harming our country in ways once thought unthinkable, I’m not so sure.

Once Lapid lost the elections to Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud coalition (unquestionably strengthened in the last election with a healthy majority in the Knesset, he set out to undermine the incoming government.

Netanyahu’s attempt at “judicial reform” has met withering resistance. It’s so obvious the country needs to overhaul the corrupt system that allows leftist judges to effectively run things, one wonders why anyone would oppose it.

Oh, they say Netanyahu is doing this to erase his own corruption trial. Honestly, I’m sure he wishes he could. The “Trumped-up” charges (a more apt label I can hardly imagine) are identical to those efforts to remove a wildly popular former president in America. Netanyahu’s many enemies intend to see him gone one way or another.

He was forced to freeze judicial reform efforts due to protests around the country (although friends over there tell me media reports are vastly exaggerated). Now word comes that those efforts will resume after Passover.

Another particularly troubling effort from the Left involves opposition to incoming minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, a strong right-wing Zionist intent on dismantling terrorist infrastructures.

Ben-Gvir, National Security Minister, is opposed by Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara over his desire to establish a National Guard that would take on violent enemies of the state.

Of course she does.

According to the Jerusalem Post:

“Baharav-Miara reportedly contended that there is a legal impediment in advancing the law, according to the National Security Ministry legal adviser. N12 reported that the legal difficulties were over the overlapping of duties between such a National Guard and the Israel Police.

“The ministry’s legal adviser also note that the proposal required establishing the National Guard’s legal status, its ability to indict and direct suspects into the judicial system, procedure for rights and duties for the officers, as well as a legal consulting arm. It was suggested that a committee be formed with the defense minister and other security officials to oversee these matters.”

I believe Gen-Gvir understands what’s going on:

“National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir attacked Baharav-Miara for her opposition to the National Guard plan, which he argued was needed to restore order in the streets. Ben-Gvir said that Baharav-Miara didn’t understand her role as attorney-general.”

You see, part of the violent opposition to the Netanyahu government is not just terrorists. It involves the opposition whipped-up by people like Lapid, whose hatred and jealousy of Netanyahu apparently knows no bounds.

“’Almost two years have passed since the [Operation] Guardian of the Walls events where we saw how the police didn’t succeed in responding quickly and smoothly, in those days it was clear why there is a need for a National Guard to deal with exactly the same problems,’ said Ben-Gvir. ‘There is no one to take care of the security in the Arab sector which is plagued by murders. Our wonderful police officers do as much as they can to provide security and service to citizens, but they are overloaded with work and unable to get to everything, every police officer who goes on duty has dozens of tasks, it’s crazy. That’s why we need the National Guard.’”

He says that national police leadership, because of ego, doesn’t want this new enforcement arm. Ben Gvir’s National Guard would go after illegal weapons shipments, crime wars, and “agricultural terrorism.” All areas left to fester in the past.

As Netanyahu continues to grapple with threats to his premiership, his ministers are also engaged in political combat with their peers. It’s hard to watch Israelis undermining their own country.

All the more reason for the good guys to win. The next months will be pivotal.

Jim1fletcher@yahoo.com

The Iranian Fangs on Israel’s Northern Border

On March 9, Iranian Foreign Minister Amir Hossein Abdollahian visited Syria, meeting with Bashar Assad. The trip was ostensibly to tour earthquake damage. A few days later, Esmail Ghaani, the commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps’ (IRGC) Qods Force, also visited various sites.

It was at this same time that Hamas political bureau member Khalil al-Haya was also in Syria, noting that even after Hamas left that country in 2013, Iran had continued to supply the PLO with whatever necessary to fight Israel.

These are but just a few examples that we cannot take our eyes off the monster in the region, Iran, the terror state that emerged from, among other things, the utterly failed policies of Jimmy Carter. We’re all still paying for that catastrophe.

Iran has also been providing financial support in Turkey and Syria, no doubt only to seek support from people dependent on outside sources to cope. I don’t think the mullahs actually care about people; they simply want to provide a counterweight to Israel, or to anyone decent. In this way, they are the same as cynical politicians that provide free stuff to people they intend to keep compliant and reliant on the ruling class.

Amir Hossein Abdollahian and Bashar al-Assad held a meeting where they discussed regional and international developments. Abdollahian noted the need to lift the economic sanctions imposed by the West on Syria and condemned Israel’s attacks. He said the “Zionist regime” was trying to deflect public opinion from Israel’s problematic internal situation.

Iran is involved in many things in the Middle East. By the way, even the Saudis—deathly afraid of Tehran—are figuring out ways to accommodate the mullahs. And Iran is also tightening the noose around the “Zionists” in various ways. For example:

“Ali Shamkhani, secretary of Iran’s Supreme Council for National Security, arrived in Baghdad for a visit. While there he signed an agreement to secure the Iranian-Iraqi border. The agreement was also signed by Qasim al-Araji, the Iraqi national security advisor, in the presence of Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shaya al-Sudani. The Iranian media reported that the agreement would lead to the reduction of bilateral tensions and management of unwanted security crises caused by the hostile activities of “anti- revolutionary organizations in Kurdistan.” Meeting with the Iraqi prime minister, Shamkhani said Iran supported a strong, cohesive, united Iraq, and called for the complete removal of every factor creating tension and internal and external crisis in the border region. He also called for joint economic projects, including a railroad between Shalamcheh in western Iran and Basra. The Iraqi prime minister noted his country’s determination to implement agreements signed by the two countries, especially economic agreements, and said signing the security agreement indicated that the leaderships of both countries did not distinguish between the security of the two countries.”

All this comes, mind you, as American diplomats (and the regime in the White House) express outrage at Israel for seeking to roll-back certain aspects of an agreement not to rebuild communities in northern Samaria, after the 2005 pullout from Gaza. In fact, the Biden Regime is not hiding its loathing of Benjamin Netanyahu.

Let us continue to pray that God protects His People in this firestorm of hell unleashed by evil forces in Israel’s neighborhood.

Jim1fletcher@yahoo.com