Eye on the Enemy: ’’Israeli’’ Expert: Assad’s Regime Shall Not Fall

The Hannibal Protocol stipulates that "ISRAELI" army soldiers must prevent the abduction of a living soldier at any cost including opening fire at the abductors' vehicle. The protocol takes into consideration the fact that the captive soldier may be killed, with the guiding principle being that a dead soldier is better than a kidnapped soldier.

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"Israeli" Expert: Assad's Regime Shall Not Fall

"Israeli" Tv

Dr. Yehuda Balanga, an "Israeli" expert and scholar on Mideast affairs, said "reality indicates that we won't witness the fall of Bashar al-Assad anytime soon, for his regime is stable in terms of the support showed in the streets of Damascus and Aleppo, where pro-regime demonstrations are taking place. He is succeeding in having huge supportive demonstrations; therefore, the regime is far from falling.

In an interview with our channel, Balanga added that the so-called phenomenon of "Syrian officers' desertion" won't have any consequences, as it has been ongoing since a longtime, but it is too early to say that the Syrian army would collapse. "It is important to understand that these officers have no leading position in the army, and the Syrian army is far from collapsing."

Regarding the sanction, Balanga said that they are not major, "major sanctions should be imposed by the Security Council based on a regulation that's accepted by the Russians, and nothing related to this issue is achieved. Indeed, the AL, with its sanctions and its announced regulation, has lead to nowhere."
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Northern Farmers: We Won't be Military Sites Against Hizbullah

Haredim news site

Farmers of the north, specifically in Galilee, have threatened to go on a strike in the north next Sunday, if the "Israeli" government cancelled the Law of Galilee, which gives preference to them.

Under the title, do not lose the north, the farmers intend to hold an emergency meeting on Thursday, with the participation of officials in the northern settlements, to protest against the intention of the Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to cancel the law of the Galilee, which is devoted to support agriculture in the north, and instead use the budgets allocated to it for financing Trachtenberg committee recommendations for education. If the law was abolished, farmers are planning to go on a general strike in the north, including the educational institutions.

If the proposal is not immediately removed from the government's agenda, the heads of Moshavim and Kibbutzim are willing to fully cripple the labor market at the villages and schools in every area of the north and organize huge protests with the participation of children from the government compound in al-Quds (Jerusalem) and take serious tough steps.
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White House chief of staff: A religious Jew

Haredim news site

White House chief of staff, bill Daley stepped down after one-year tenure. This issue is a serious blow to the current U.S. president Barak Obama, who is currently preparing to compete for his second term in the White House.
Daley's resignation is described as the most powerful shock the white house ever had during Obama's term, for the latter's' advisors have "promoted" for this resignation amid drama.

New York Times reported that Daley filed his resignation last week and promised he would stay at his office until January 24th, but he left his office this evening without any prior notice. Daley will be replaced by Jack Lew, the White House's budget director. Lew is Jewish, and his son attends a religious school in al-Quds (Jerusalmen), according to unconfirmed information.

In Washington, Lew is considered to have close ties with members of the Knesset, unlike the "Daley" and He in negotiating the debt ceiling talks with Republicans last summer.

Daley handed over day-to-day White House management duties to another Obama aide, Pete Rouse, setting the stage for his resignation two months later.
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"Israel": Returning to the polls

Sefi Rachlevsky - Haaretz

Sometimes, numbers say it all. In the 1999 elections, some 3.3 million citizens voted. A similar number voted in 2009. But in the meantime, about 1 million eligible voters had been added to the rolls. Had the 80 percent participation rate that prevailed in "Israel" until 1999 been maintained, another 800,000 people would have voted; instead, they stayed away. Those absent voters are now about to shake up "Israel".

The 800 thousand missing voters aren't evenly divided. Not all of them oppose the right, but the vast majority does. The ultra-orthodox, the settlers, the non-Haredi religious, and the former Soviet Union immigrants - populations from which the right draws its power - maintained their participation rates. The drop of votes was mainly limited to two groups: the Arabs, whose participation rate declined from 80% to 50% and non-religious Jews, both young and not-so-young, who stayed away from the polls in despair.

But in the upcoming election, a dramatic change is likely to occur. The Arabs are expected to once again vote in large numbers, both to avenge themselves against the government's racism and due to the influence of the recent elections in Arab countries. And young Jews will be motivated by the summer's protests, which encouraged them to be socially active, and by concern over the threat of religious extremism.

In all three of the right's losses since 1977, the same factor played a dominant role: Whenever the threat of religious extremism attains the same prominence as external threats, the right is in trouble. In 1992, Yitzhak Rabin adopted the slogan "Money for the slums, not the settlements." Ehud Barak campaigned in 1999 for what he called "One nation, one draft" and against the attacks on the judiciary by Aryeh Deri, and in 2006, clashes with settlers in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank outpost of Amona helped Ehud Olmert win the premiership.
Now things have gotten even worse. When most first-graders designated as Jewish are sent to Haredi or religious Zionist schools - which are creating gender segregation - the threat becomes immediate. And therefore, so does the longing for change.

That is the reason for the religious right's current legislative frenzy. That's why the assault isn't "only" on substantive liberal democracy, but even on democracy in its narrowest meaning: fair elections. That's why they're assaulting the High Court of Justice, so that it will no longer interfere when legislators disqualify Arab parties like Balad from running, with the goal of getting Arabs to boycott the elections. That's why they're planning to let overseas Jews and "Israeli" expatriates vote. And that's why they concocted the scandalous, anti-constitutional "Lapid Law".

That scandal hasn't disappeared with Yair Lapid's resignation from his television job; if passed, the bill would impose a far longer cooling-off period on journalists than the 100 days demanded of ministry directors general - a cooling-off period that exists nowhere else on earth.

The right to be elected is the heart of democracy, and it should not be infringed upon except in extreme circumstances. Journalistic expression is one of the most political acts known to human society. From Theodor Herzl, to Shelly Yachimovich and Nitzan Horowitz, politics has been enriched by journalists who jumped into the political fray without any downtime. Moreover, journalists and their opinions are as transparent as politics comes.

The desire to keep them away from the Knesset reflects the interests of a narrow guild. It is totally unjustified, and indeed, is way beyond anti-constitutional.
The logic behind this bill is that MKs are entitled to protect their jobs from all rivals by distancing any person who has amassed capital with the public. Ada Yonath would have to wait a decade before entering politics to allow the advantage of her Nobel Prize in chemistry to dissipate. Shlomo Yanai would have to wait a year, until his success in running Teva Pharmaceuticals had been forgotten.

The rich would have to become beggars before entering politics; the wise would have to wait until they grew senile; and the beautiful would wait until their beauty vanished. It's a farce.

In "Israel", elections are always called early. Thus, to exercise his basic right to run for office while still complying with the one-year cooling-off period, a journalist would have to give up his livelihood two years before the official election date, on the assumption that it will probably be advanced. Effectively, journalists' right to run for office would be abolished.
The right wing is correct. Its concern for its continued hold on power is justified. The public's anger is well-founded, because those rising up against "Israel" aren't so-called "wild weeds."

Just this week, one of the two leading Ashkenazi Haredi rabbis, Aharon Leib Shteinman, ruled that "secular people are a 'mixed multitude' that hates Jews." In the Orthodox tradition, the term "mixed multitude" refers to Amalekites - the Jews' traditional enemies - who pretended to be Jews and were responsible for all the disasters that subsequently befell the Jewish people. In theological terms, this expression is every bit as harsh as "Nazi." This is spittle more vile than what a Haredi extremist aimed at an 8-year-old girl in Beit Shemesh.

Shakespeare's Macbeth trusted in prophesy that said his reign would endure until Great Birnam shall move. Faced with this spittle, an entire forest - hundreds of thousands of people who have previously been missing from the polling booths - is starting to move. Lapid's decision to go into politics is part of that change. Instead of hiding behind the disqualified rules, Binyamin Netanyahu should realize that his time in power is about to expire.

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