Kevin McCarthy boots House panel for Lying Schiff, Spy Sleeper Swalwell and Vicious Omar

 

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy confirmed late Monday that he will make good on his pre-midterm pledge to remove three high-profile Democrats — Reps. Adam Schiff, Eric Swalwell and Ilhan Omar — from their House committees.

McCarthy (R-Calif.) told the Associated Press that he would move to strip the trio of their assignments, following through on a vow of payback for Democrats ousting Reps. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) from their panels during the last Congress.

Schiff and Swalwell, both from California, would be removed from the House Intelligence Committee while Minnesota’s Omar would be kicked off the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

McCarthy vowed almost exactly a year ago that he would remove the three Democrats if Republicans won back the House in the 2022 midterm elections and repeated that promise last November after his prediction was realized.

“The Democrats have created a new thing where they’re picking and choosing who could be on committee,” McCarthy said last January. “Never in the history [of Congress] have you had the majority tell the minority who could be on committee, but this new standard, which these Democrats have voted for — if Eric Swalwell cannot get a security clearance in the private sector, there’s no reason why he should be given one to be on Intel or Homeland Security.”

McCarthy has said he fears that Swalwell may be compromised after reports emerged in 2020 that a suspected Chinese spy infiltrated his campaign and got close to the congressman.

“Eric Swalwell cannot get a security clearance in the public sector. Why would we ever give him a security clearance in the secrets to America? So, I will not allow him to be on Intel,” McCarthy told Fox News in November. “You have Adam Schiff, who had lied to the American public time and again. We will not allow him to be on the Intel Committee either.”

Schiff drew Republicans’ ire after he headed up the first impeachment of former President Donald Trump and was a member of the House select committee that examined Trump’s role in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot. 

McCarthy has said he would boot Omar, a member of the progressive “Squad” along with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), from the Foreign Affairs Committee because of her anti-Semitic remarks. 

“I promised you last year that as speaker she will no longer be on Foreign Affairs, and I’m keeping that promise,” he told a crowd at the Republican Jewish Coalition’s 2022 leadership meeting last November. 

Charlie Hebdo doubles down on Khamenei cartoons

 

French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo doubled down on its ridicule of Iran's religious rulers on Tuesday, with fresh cartoons of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei despite protests from Iran and its allies, AFP reported.

"The mullahs aren't happy. The caricatures of their supreme leader... do not seem to have made them laugh," the paper's editor, known as "Riss", writes in the latest edition, which officially hits newsstands on Wednesday.

"Laughing at themselves has never been a strong point of tyrants," he added.

The newspaper was criticized last week after it published caricatures of Khamenei, in support of the months-long protests in Iran, sparked by the death in custody of Mahsa Amini, following her arrest for allegedly violating the country's strict dress code.

Iran blasted France over the "insulting and indecent" cartoons, which appeared in a special edition to mark the anniversary of the deadly 2015 attack on the magazine's Paris offices.

Iran later shut down the Tehran-based French research institute in an act of protest against the cartoons.

The paper was also hit by a cyber attack after publishing cartoons of Khamenei in last week's special edition, which marked the anniversary of the 2015 attack on its Paris offices that left 12 dead.

On Sunday, dozens of Iranians gathered outside the French embassy in Tehran to protest against the cartoons.

The protesters set fire to French flags and chanted, "France, be ashamed!".

American rabbis boycotting Israeli ministers are from extremist left-wing groups

 

Morton Klein

During the holiday of Chanukkah, a little over 300 far-left American Jewish clergy who refuse to accept Israeli democracy trampled on the meaning of the holiday by signing a “call to action” pledging to ban, boycott and protest against the members and democratically-elected officials of Israel’s Religious Zionist parties.

The “call to action” signers also pledged to prevent Religious Zionists from speaking at or participating in events at their congregations and organizations, and to encourage others to also ban the democratically elected members of the Religious Zionists Party.

The “call to action” misstates Religious Zionist parties’ positions, in a misleading effort to portray Religious Zionists as extremists. For instance, the “call to action” falsely states that the Religious Zionist parties support “expelling Arab Israeli citizens who are seen as opposing the government, challenging the democratic Right to freedom of speech.” In fact, Religious Zionists merely supported expelling convicted murderer terrorists!

Murdering Jews is not “freedom of speech.”

Beit Shemesh Rabbanim Warn the residents against riding the Buses Without Paying

 

*Beit Shemesh News*

Guys, you get this?

For whom did the rabbanim of Beit Shemesh issue this psak?

Think about this for a moment!

Is this psak directed at the Arabs?

The Arabs by in large do not live in Beit Shemesh and Arab workers have their own transportation. And as a rule, Arabs do not read the Kol Koras of the gedoilim. 

Is this directed at the children and students that ride the buses to school?

Students taking public transportation pay "bubkis" to travel and are issued RavKavs!

The elderly that are 60 and over, pay half fare, so in Beit Shemesh a one-way trip anywhere locally would be about 4.50 shekels that on today's conversion rate, would be $1.30.  Anyone over 75 pays zero!

The Dati Leumi guys have cars and those that do take transportation, hardly use the "inter-city" buses, they use the buses going out of Beit Shemesh to other cities and there the buses have inspectors all the time.

No one reading this post really thinks that a "Dati-Leumi" is riding for free, not even the gedoilim that signed the Kol Korah, and the Dati-Leumi crowd wouldn't be found dead reading these Kol Koras! 

So again, to whom was this Kol Korah addressed to?

                                                                                

It was addressed to Shomrei Torah Umitzvois, who put on Rabbeinu Taam Tefillin and eat only from the Eida Hachreidis.... use the "mehadrin" eirav, who would not drink even a glass of water that has the Rabbanut Hashgacha, and would never eat "heter mechira" G-d forbid 

..... so, there you have it!

Yup, these are the guys that are stealing money multiple times a day! 

The Gedoilim of the city of Beit Shemesh wrote the following in a halachic ruling:  

"Warning against Not Paying the fare on public transportation"

A special halachic ruling from the  gedoilim and dayanim of Beit Shemesh warn the city's residents that not paying the fare on public transportation is theft! 

'Even though they made recent changes to public transportation, the ruling remains in effect. Know that there is a prohibition against stealing while traveling without payment,' 

*בית שמש חדשות*

*גדולי רבני העיר בית שמש בפסק הלכה: להזהיר מן הגזל בתחבורה הציבורית*

פסק הלכה מיוחד מבית מדרשם של גדולי רבני ופוסקי ההלכה בעיר שמש מתריע בפני תושבי העיר להיזהר מעוון גזל בנסיעה ללא תשלום בתחבורה הציבורית.

'גם לאחר כל השינויים שנעשו לאחרונה בתחבורה הציבורית לא נשתנה הדבר, שיש איסור גזל בנסיעה בלי תשלום' כותבים רבני העיר בית שמש במכתבם.

Will there be a "Pidyan Shvyum" Campaign for the two Chareidim that Shoved a Flaming Garbage Bin into a mother of 11?

 

The Jerusalem District Attorney’s Office on Monday submitted an indictment against a 22-year-old Chareidie man and a Yeshiva Bochur of about 16 years old, residents of Elad and Jerusalem, for their alleged involvement in seriously injuring Mirel Duzlovosky, a mother of 11, at a protest, almost four weeks ago.

According to the indictment, the defendant and others decided to set fire to a garbage dumpster and block the street with it. After setting it on fire, they began pushing it in order to move from its place toward the center of the road.

However, the burning dumpster slipped from their grasp, rolled down the road and the corner of it struck Duzlovosky, who was passing by, on her chest with great force She collapsed on the sidewalk and the defendants fled the scene.

Duzlovoksy was evacuated to Shaarei Tzedek Hospital in serious condition and admitted to the intensive care unit, sedated and ventilated. She is still hospitalized but b’chasdei Hashem, she has been released from the ICU to a general ward.

The indictment charged the defendants with the crimes of causing serious injury under aggravating circumstances, arson, endangering roads and obstructing a police officer in the performance of his duties.

Classified Documents Found by Biden ... Are the DemonRats about to dump him?

 

I guess the the DemonRats don’t want Biden to run for a second term.
They are sacrificing him before he gets a chance to start..

The Justice Department is reviewing a batch of potentially classified documents found in the Washington office space of President Joe Biden’s former institute, the White House said Monday.

Special counsel to the president Richard Sauber said “a small number of documents with classified markings” were discovered as Biden’s personal attorneys were clearing out the offices of the Penn Biden Center, where the president kept an office after he left the vice presidency in 2017 until shortly before he launched his 2020 presidential campaign in 2019. The documents were found on Nov. 2, 2022.

Sauber said the attorneys immediately alerted the White House Counsel’s office, who notified the National Archives and Records Administration — which took custody of the documents the next day.

“Since that discovery, the President’s personal attorneys have cooperated with the Archives and the Department of Justice in a process to ensure that any Obama-Biden Administration records are appropriately in the possession of the Archives,” Sauber said.

A person who is familiar with the matter but not authorized to discuss it publicly said Attorney General Merrick Garland asked U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois John Lausch to review the matter after the Archives referred the issue to the department. John Lausch was appointed to his post by former President Donald Trump.

Why Alan Dershowitz the "Defender of Jeffrey Epstein" Is Unhappy

 

Alan Dershowitz with a Justice Minister he could appreciate Tzipi Livni

By

David Israel

Justice Minister Yariv Levin’s reform, which he announced last Thursday and threw about 40% of Israelis (give or take) into a panic, is now being broken down into detailed moves that, little by little, are designed to rearrange the powers of the Supreme Court, Amit Segal reported Sunday night on News 12.

Needless to say, Supreme Court President Esther Hayut is unhappy. And Prof. Alan Dershowitz, that great defender of Israel, is also irate. More on that after we do the numbers.

Let’s start with the most explosive item, for now, the selection of new judges:

• The committee for selecting judges will be increased from nine to 11 members
• It will have 3 ministers––one more than today, 2 coalition MKs, one opposition MK, 3 judges, and 2 representatives of the public, appointed by the government
• There will be no representation for the Lawyers’ guild
• The MKs will be the chairs of the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committees (coalition), and the State Audit Committee (opposition)

Do the math: appointing a new justice of the Supreme Court will require 7 votes – exactly the number of votes controlled by the government: 5 elected officials and 2 government-picked representatives of the public.

The new process effectively removes the justices’ virtual veto power they enjoyed with the support of the lawyers’ association. It means the government should be able to choose its candidates – assuming that the public representatives would play along.

As Israel’s demographics continue to favor the right, it stands to reason that even within the current Netanyahu government the balance between activist- and conservative justices could be restored, and, come the next term, the court would be majority-conservative.

On its face, at least. Because Supreme Court judges are not one-dimensional individuals and could surprise us every once in a while.

Bet Shemesh Chareidim with Palestinian Flags Visit "Jenin" to give the Murderers of Jews "chizuk"

 

ו

*בית שמש חדשות*

*מלווים בדגלי הטרור אש"ף: קיצונים מרמת בית שמש ב' נסעו לבקר בג'נין*

משלחת מטעם הקנאים הקיצונים "נטורי קרתא" הגיעו הבוקר למחנה הפליטים ג'נין מלווים בדגלי אש"ף לאות הזדהות עם מחבלי הטרור הפלסטינים.

תושבים הופתעו לזהות את הקיצונים במשלחת כתושבי רמת בית שמש ב', שנסעו לבקר בג'נין.

*Beit Shemesh News*

Accompanied by PLO terror flags: Extremists from Ramat Beit Shemesh B went to visit Jenin

A delegation from the extreme fanatics "Naturi Karta" arrived at the Jenin refugee camp this morning accompanied by PLO flags as a sign of solidarity with the Palestinian terrorists.

Residents who saw the photos were surprised to recognize them as residents of Ramat Beit Shemesh Bet , who had gone to visit Jenin.

‘Disturbing and irresponsible’: Lapid enlisting US Jewish groups to sabotage Netanyahu

                                

Former Prime Minister Yair Lapid is planning to travel to the U.S. to enlist the help of Diaspora Jewish organizations to hamstring the new right-wing government, Hebrew language media outlets reported on Thursday.

Lapid, who has close ties to Democratic party veterans including former Rep. Ted Deutch, is reportedly gearing up to mobilize liberal Jewish groups to torpedo reforms to the judicial system and possible annexation of Judea and Samaria, which have been stated as priorities for the new government.

The outgoing premier has made a number of dramatic public statements about the new government, including apologizing to Israel’s first Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion, while speaking at a commemoration for the late statesman.

During a blistering speech in late November at Ben-Gurion’s grave, Lapid charged that the incoming government would destroy the founding principles on which the state of Israel was built.

Lapid has made similar statements to international media outlets, claiming that Netanyahu is planning to destroy Israel’s constitutional basis and that Israeli democracy is teetering on the brink of being lost forever

Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli slammed Lapid on Thursday while speaking at a World Beitar Conference in Jerusalem, saying the former premier’s actions are “disturbing and irresponsible.”

Chikli said that the former premier’s comments about Netanyahu’s right-wing government besmirched Israel’s international reputation and that his behavior was strengthening the anti-Israel (BDS Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions) movement.

Lapid “doesn’t understand that when he tells the whole world that Israel has a dark government, the world doesn’t differentiate between the government and the state. No former prime minister has ever acted this way,” Chikli was quoted as saying in a Jerusalem Post report.

Chikli is now a member of the Likud party, but in 2021 he was the sole member of former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s Yamina party who voted against the formation of the “change government” due to its partnership with the Islamist United Arab List (Ra’am).

Dershowitz is wrong’, says Israeli legal expert about famed attorney’s siding with anti-Netanyahu protesters

 

“It is sad that Dershowitz is choosing to weaponize these biased bodies to promote one side in a domestic Israeli legal argument.”

In an interview Sunday morning with Army Radio, world-renowned attorney Alan Dershowitz weighed in on the side of the opposition, saying that had he been in Israel Saturday night, he would have joined the protests against the new government’s planned judicial reforms, led by Justice Minister Yariv Levin.

Thousands on the far Left demonstrated Saturday night in Tel Aviv, claiming the reforms would bring an end to democracy.

Israel’s democracy is not in danger,” Dershowitz conceded, but the reforms are a threat to “civil liberties” and “minority rights.”

“Indeed, the reforms are designed to improve democracy: majority rule. What’s in danger are civil liberties, minority rights…

“There’s a direct conflict between pure democracy, where the Knesset rules because it represents the majority of people, and the rights of minorities and civil rights, which the [High Court of Justice] of Israel is designed to protect.”

According to the world-renowned attorney, known also for defending the Jewish state, it will be “much harder” to defend Israel in the public arena if the reforms are implemented.

Legal expert Eugene Kontorovich disagrees.

“Professor Dershowitz is wrong about the impact of Israel’s proposed judicial reforms on international investigations,” said Kontorovich, director of International Law at the Jerusalem-based Kohelet Policy Forum, which has advocated judicial reform in Israel for a decade.

“Israel’s assertive judiciary did not stop the International Court of Justice from condemning it in a 2004 decision. The supposed international respect for the Supreme Court has done nothing to stop the International Criminal Court from illegally and absurdly recognizing a ‘State of Palestine/ in all of the West Bank [Judea and Samaria], including in Jerusalem.

“Nothing short of unilateral, complete Israeli withdraw from all these territories would ward off further hostile action from these hostile, politicized bodies,” he said.

“It is sad that Dershowitz is choosing to weaponize these biased bodies to promote one side in a domestic Israeli legal argument.”

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blasted the opposition for leading demonstrations against the reforms, citing then-finance minister Yair Lapid and former justice minister Gideon Sa’ar, main instigators of the protests who already in 2014 had pushed for change in the judicial system.

Dershowitz is a friend of former Israeli Supreme Court president Aharon Barak, a leader in the fight to prevent the implementation of the new reforms.

“Barak is the Justice who effectively created judicial tyranny in Israel.  Current reform efforts to bring Israel’s democracy back into balance is in response to his years of judicial abuse,” tweeted American conservative radio host Mark Levin. Kontorovich shared the “important thread.”

1. Barak is the Justice who effectively created judicial tyranny in Israel. Current reform efforts to bring Israel's democracy back into balance is in response to his years of judicial abuse.

— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) January 8, 2023