Justice Minister Declares War on High Court over Judicial Appointments Committee

Justice Minister Yariv Levin officially announced on Saturday night that he would advance at least one of the key items in his judicial reform: changing the committee’s composition to select judges.

According to Article 4 of Basic Law: The Judiciary, the committee is composed of nine members distributed as follows:

• The Justice Minister who chairs the committee, and another minister who is chosen by the government.
• Two MKs elected by the Knesset.
• Two members of the Bar Association elected in a secret ballot by the National Council of the Bar.
• The President of the Supreme Court.
• Two additional Supreme Court judges, chosen according to seniority.

Appointing a Supreme Court justice requires the support of seven members of the committee. This means that the court judges and members of the bar have an automatic veto right as things stand today. That is why Justice Minister Levin has been reluctant to assemble the committee to decide the replacement of retired Court President Esther Hayut last year.

Jen Psaki caught quietly revealing DemonRat Strategy to Take Out all Trumps Nominees!

 Jen Psaki says the quiet part out loud that if there’s enough pressure on one nominee and they back out or don’t get confirmed, it opens the door for that to happen to others.

They already took Matt Gaetz.

They’re trying to take Pete Hegseth.

If they’re successful, they will come for Tulsi, RFK Jr., etc.

Don’t give an inch. Senate Republicans need to confirm every nominee and stand strong while the media, Democrats, and RINOs try to sow division in our party and destroy the agenda we elected Trump to do.

Iranian Principal Tries leading students with Chants "Down with Israel" See What Happens!

 

In Iran a school principal tried to lead students in chants of “Down with Israel” and “Down with America,” only for the students to boldly respond with “Down with Palestine.”

Iranian Regime Opponents Name a Street After Netanyahu in Tehran  

Israel refusing Hamas’ demand to release terrorist mastermind Marwan Barghouti in exchange for hostages

 

srael is refusing Hamas demands to release a high-profile terror mastermind in exchange for hostages, according to reports.

Hamas terrorists have demanded the release of Marwan Barghouti, the former leader of the late Yasser Arafat’s Fatah party, since August, presumably to help the group maintain power in the Gaza strip, the Jerusalem Post reported.

Barghouti is serving five life sentences for his role in the murder of five Israelis in 2000 during the second Palestinian intifada, which raged until 2005.

He was also a leader in the first Intifada, from 1987-1993.

While Israel at one point considered releasing Barghouti, it is now objecting to granting him and other Palestinian prisoners their freedom, the Jerusalem Post reported.

“Israel has a vision of alternative lists of Palestinian prisoners, including people who were recently arrested,” reports quoted the source as saying.

Israel has also requested that some Palestinian prisoners be sent abroad instead of to the West Bank or Gaza, “which may be accepted by the mediators as a compromise to end this new obstacle,” the official said.

Talks continued in Cairo Saturday between Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi and US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan and US Middle East envoy Brett McGurk, el-Sissi’s office said.

Sullivan on Thursday said Israel has “negotiated hard to defend and justify its position in this negotiation.” Hamas, however, “has been deeply intransigent,” the Times of Israel reported.

Separately, President-elect Donald Trump’s designated Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, met with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman this week, the first time a member of the incoming administration has met with the Saudi Arabian leader since the election.

Trump aims to seal a “mega-deal” with Saudi Arabia, including a historic peace agreement between Israel and Saudi Arabia and progress toward ending the Israel-Hamas war, Axios reported.

“I want a long lasting peace,” Trump told Time magazine in his Person of the Year interview this week.

“I’m not saying that’s a very likely scenario,” Trump added.

“I want a peace where we don’t have an October 7 in another three years.”

Under pressure from Trump, Hamas has agreed to two key concessions: Allowing Israeli forces to stay in the Gaza Strip temporarily after fighting ends and finally providing a complete list of hostages, including Americans, who will be released, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Yet rockets continued to be fired at Israel in the early morning hours Saturday, this time from nearby humanitarian aid warehouses in Gaza, the Israel Defense Forces said on X.

Israeli fighter jets launched airstrikes there, targeting weapons depots and terror operatives, the IDF added.

Israel also blasted a drone at a vehicle in southern Lebanon, killing a Hezbollah operative, according to reports.

Trump Says He knows the Source of the Drones over New Jersey

President-elect Trump ridiculed former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie by sharing a meme suggesting his Republican critic’s appetite is behind the sudden spike in drone sightings across the East Coast. 

Trump posted on Truth Social what appeared to be an AI-generated image of Christie, with five drones hovering behind him, holding red McDonalds bags as the former Garden State honcho prepares to wolf down more than a half-dozen hamburgers.

“We now know the source of the drones over New Jersey,” wrote a social media user purporting to be the image’s creator. 

In less than a month, there have been roughly 1000 drone sightings in New Jersey alone, according to state officials, although there have been reports from across the nation about the sudden appearance of mysterious flying objects in the airspace.

The feds, however, have said the drones sightings are actually just misidentified aircraft like helicopters or Cessna planes, and pose no danger to people on the ground.

Christie, a former Trump ally turned critic, in recent years has blamed the incoming president for everything from the spike in antisemitism and Islamophobia to “creating” Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro.

 

Biden’s final days in the Oval Office offer a perfect metaphor for everything that was wrong with his tenure

 

By Michael Goodwin

“‘This is the way the world ends,” T.S. Eliot famously wrote.

“Not with a bang but a whimper.”

He might have been talking about Joe Biden’s presidency.

As he prepares to slink out the door, Biden’s final days in the Oval Office offer a perfect metaphor for everything that was wrong with his tenure.

He pardoned his convicted-criminal son after vowing not to and his mass commutations included one for a judge convicted of taking kickbacks to send juveniles to for-profit detention facilities.

The judge was in Scranton, Pa., meaning Biden even betrayed distraught parents in his hometown.

How’s that for a legacy?

His most recent dereliction fits another pattern.

Just as he paid no attention to raging inflation, the open border and the decline of America’s global standing, Biden has gone missing as swarms of drones spark fears among millions of Americans on the East Coast.

Biden has said nothing, Vice President Kamala Harris has disappeared since losing the election and the White House offers only bland assurances that there’s nothing to worry about.

But asked who is behind the noisy, bright and large drone presence expanding night after night, the administration says it doesn’t know.

In other words, we don’t know and we don’t really care, but trust us anyway.

Sorry, it’s too late in the game for that, especially when drones forced the White Plains airport to close runways Friday night.

Even the usually somnolent Gov. Hochul stirred to demand answers.

Syrian Druze Clans Ask To Be Annexed To Israel

 Residents of six Druze villages in southern Syria held an emergency council meeting over the weekend in the wake of the fall of the Assad regime.

In a video of the meeting that circulated on social media, the head sheikh says that it is far better for them to be annexed to the Israeli Ramat Hagolan than to live under the rebels, and the audience yells their agreement.

Senior Druze officials are adamantly opposed to allowing the Islamist rebels, many of whom have extremist views against non-Muslims, to enter their villages.

High Court Judge Visits Oct 7 Terrorists To Ensure They Have Winter Clothes, Toilet Paper. Justice Reform Now!!

 Israeli Supreme Court Justice Ruth Ronen made a surprise visit to the Ofer high-security prison facility to examine the conditions of detention for the security prisoners held there. The judge requested to visit the wing where “illegal combatants from Gaza,” who were captured after October 7th, are incarcerated. The wing includes members of the Nukhba terrorist unit who attacked Israeli villages and indiscriminately murdered residents.

According to a report by Kan 11, during her visit Justice Ronen inquired whether the prisoners had winter clothes, toilet paper, and whether they were allowed to receive paper and pen to enable them to petition judicial authorities to appeal their conditions of imprisonment.

It was also reported that Justice Ronen has recently been deliberating on several petitions filed by terrorists regarding their detention conditions. The visit to the security prison may have stemmed from her desire to closely monitor the policy of the minister in charge, Itamar Ben-Gvir, who has significantly tightened the conditions of detention in high-security prisoner wings.

The visit sparked significant criticism, as social media influencers asked when the judge had visited high-security Jewish prisoners in the hands of the Shin Bet or in prison facilities and checked on their conditions of detention. Others asked whether she had met with families of victims of these terrorists.

Ronen came under fire recently for the early release of a terrorist who had planned to perpetrate an attack – simply because he exhibited “normative” behavior. Ronen also ruled in November that a terrorist who had planned to assassinate Itamar Ben-Gvir and kidnap soldiers should receive two bedcovers at his request.

ABC News Chickens Out Wants to Settle with Trump Over Stephanopoulos Lies and BS

  ABC News has agreed to pay $15 million toward Donald Trump’s presidential library to settle a defamation lawsuit over anchor George Stephanopoulos’ inaccurate on-air assertion that the president-elect had been found civilly liable for raping writer E. Jean Carroll.

As part of the settlement made public Saturday, ABC News posted an editor’s note to its website expressing regret over Stephanopoulos’ statements during a March 10 segment on his “This Week” program. The network will also pay $1 million in legal fees to the law firm of Trump’s attorney, Alejandro Brito.

The settlement agreement describes ABC’s presidential library payment as a “charitable contribution,” with the money earmarked for a non-profit organization that is being established in connection with the yet-to-be built library.

“We are pleased that the parties have reached an agreement to dismiss the lawsuit on the terms in the court filing,” ABC News spokesperson Jeannie Kedas said.

A Trump spokesperson declined comment.

Drones shut down runways of NY airport, causing Hochul to demand feds step in: ‘Gone too far’

 

The mysterious drones that have been plaguing the skies over the Northeast shut down the runways of Stewart International Airport Friday night, prompting Gov. Hochul to demand the feds step in.

“This has gone too far,” Hochul said in a terse statement Saturday, in which she noted the runway of the Orange County facility was shut down for an hour because of the unidentified aircraft.

Stewart Airport services both commercial and military flights and is adjacent to a New York Air National Guard base, where the 105th Airlift Wing is stationed.

The unidentified drones — which have been hovering over New Jersey for nearly a month and have been seen in Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts — were also recently spotted flying over LaGuardia International Airport and Newark Liberty International Airport.

The runways were closed at 9:40 p.m. “following a report from the FAA about a drone sighting at the airport,” according to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which operates Stewart.

The runways were reopened at 10:45 p.m., “and there were no impacts to flight operations during the closure,” the spokesperson told The Post.

The Biden Administration should give federal law enforcement support to the region “to ensure the safety of our critical infrastructure and our people,” Hochul demanded, adding she “directed the New York State Intelligence Center to actively investigate drone sightings” back in mid-November.

She also urged the state police “to coordinate with federal law enforcement to address this issue.”

While “those efforts are ongoing,” Hochul said it is time for Congress to take action.

“In order to allow state law enforcement to work on this issue, I am now calling on Congress to pass the Counter-UAS Authority Security, Safety, and Reauthorization Act, first introduced back in June by Rep. Mark Green (R-TN).

“This bill would reform legal authorities to counter-UAS and strengthen the FAA’s oversight of drones, and would extend counter-UAS activities to select state and local law enforcement agencies,” she wrote in her statement. Counter-UAS stands for “counter unmanned aircraft system.”

“Extending these powers to New York State and our peers is essential. Until those powers are granted to state and local officials, the Biden Administration must step in by directing additional federal law enforcement to New York and the surrounding region to ensure the safety of our critical infrastructure and our people.”

Drone sightings have also been reported across the five boroughs as well as on Long Island.

Most of the sightings have occurred in New Jersey, where scores of drones have been spotted by Coast Guard sailors and local cops.