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2023-03-29 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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Roundup: The Biden war against Bibi continues after 100,000 Israelis protest for reforms
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Biden: Israel ‘cannot continue down this road’; no Netanyahu invite in ‘near term’
[IsraelTimes] President tells PM to ‘walk away’ from current overhaul law, says he’s very concerned for democracy; Netanyahu retorts: Won’t bow to overseas pressure, even from ‘best of friends’
Thousands march in Tel Aviv despite PM halting judicial overhaul process
[IsraelTimes] With coalition and opposition set to meet in Jerusalem for compromise talks, protesters call for bills to be completely thrown out rather than suspended
Likud files police complaint against TV writer-producer for incitement against PM
[IsraelTimes] Giora Chamizer said Netanyahu would end up like ‘every dictator in our history’; complaints also filed against protesters who allegedly burned photos of premier
3 pro-gov’t protesters accused of violent plot; cops arrest suspect in attack on Arab
[IsraelTimes] Men brought knives, firearm to rally, spoke in video of assaulting opponents; separately, 17-year-old nabbed on suspicion of being part of ‘serious’ assault on cab driver
Reservists end refusal threat, pilots resume training flights, but keeping ‘eye open’
[IsraelTimes] Brothers in Arms group says it believes in actions, not words, and is ready to renew measures ‘in a short time’ if judicial overhaul renewed without broad support
Coalition, opposition wrap up judicial overhaul talks with Herzog after 90 minutes
[IsraelTimes] Spokesman for president says talks between delegations of Likud, Yesh Atid and National Unity held in a ‘good atmosphere,’ and negotiations will continue tomorrow
US envoy Nides says claims that US is funding protests in Israel are ‘absurd’
[IsraelTimes] US Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides says it is "absurd" to claim that the United States was pushing and funding anti-government protests in Israel.
"That’s absurd, absurd... we’ve had nothing to do with these protests, this is a democracy, people are coming out and speaking both for and against reform," Nides says in an interview with Channel 12 news filmed earlier today, calling a far-right claim that the CIA has been involved, "absolutely ridiculous."
Nides says "we applaud" Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to halt the overhaul legislation for talks, and "we are anxious to see how President Herzog’s team comes together and negotiates some compromise that we hope we all can embrace."
He declines to confirm that the US was exerting heavy pressure on Netanyahu to pause the legislation, saying only that "friends talk to each other all the time."
Nides says that there is "still more work to do" in order to finalize Israel’s entry into the US Visa Waiver Program, but that "we are going to get this done on behalf of the Israeli people... my hope is by September."
Asked when Netanyahu will be visiting Washington and meeting US President Joe The Big Guy Biden
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, Nides says "he will obviously be coming at some point, and hopefully somewhat soon."
IDF chief says in debate on overhaul, military picks side of ‘protecting country’
[IsraelTimes] Military chief Herzi Halevi says that amid the controversy in Israel over the government’s judicial overhaul, the Israel Defense Forces has picked the side of "protecting the country.""In recent days quite a few people have been telling me: ’Choose which side of history you want to be on.’ They are, by the way, on both sides of the dispute," Halevi says at an awards ceremony for outstanding soldiers.
"And this is my answer: ’I chose,’ because we chose. As soon as we put on a uniform, as conscripts, as career soldiers, and in the reserves, we chose to be on the side that protects the country," he says. "We chose to be the ones who enable life here, prosperity, and yes, also the right to be divided."
"This is our courage, to be the defenders of this country on the outside even when it is difficult within us, to stand up and forge a path forward for it, through all the difficulties," he adds.
‘We are the Majority’: Over a Hundred Thousand Israelis Rally in Support of Netanyahu’s ‘Paused’ Judicial Reform
[LegalInsurrection] Hours after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced his decision to freeze the planned judicial reform temporarily, more than a hundred thousand Israelis rallied in Jerusalem to support the government’s push to overhaul the judiciary.
The Israeli news website Arutz Sheva reported Monday night:
Over a hundred thousand supporters of the judicial reforms demonstrated outside the Knesset in Jerusalem Monday evening to call on the government to stand firm in passing the reforms and not to freeze the legislation.
The pro-reform demonstrators chanted “Our voice isn’t less important than a pilot’s,” We know exactly who we voted for” and “A minority of elites cannot bring the country to this point. We are one nation.”
On Monday evening, Prime Minister Netanyahu halted the judicial reform amid calls for a general strike by left-wing groups.
“There is an extremist minority that is prepared to tear our country to pieces. It is using violence and incitement, it is threatening to harm elected officials, it is stoking civil war, and it is calling for refusal to serve, which is a terrible crime,” Netanyahu said.
“Therefore, out of national responsibility, out of a desire to prevent a rift in the nation, I have decided to suspend the second and third readings of the law in the current Knesset session in order to allow time to try and reach that broad consensus, ahead of legislation in the next Knesset session,” the prime minister concluded. (Read the full text of the speech here.)
Here is an informative Twitter thread by Avi Woolf on the much-maligned judicial reform (courtesy David Gerstman):
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