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2024-12-15 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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Ex-state attorney: Air Force reservists should stop flying if judicial overhaul revived
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On the other side in the middle of a war. They’ve been protesting one thing or another, paid and trained by Progressive billionaires — and the US State Department, when a Democrat is in the White House — since the turn of the millennium. Thank goodness the opposition is finally repudiating this selfish temper tantrum. [IsraelTimes] Lador argues refusal is ‘legitimate tool’ against attempts to turn Israel into a ‘dictatorship’; president, PM, lawmakers decry rhetoric
Dictatorship. If it were one, Mr. Lador would be cowering quietly in a corner of a prison like Syria’s Sedaynah, losing his ability to speak and think, instead of freely pontificating in a public conference full of noisily small-minded idiots.
Former state attorney Moshe Lador encouraged Israeli Air Force pilots on Saturday to stop volunteering for reserve duty if the government revives its highly contentious judicial overhaul, as Justice Minister Yariv Levin has declared he wishes to do.
Speaking at a current affairs event in Beersheba on Saturday, Lador said that refusing to volunteer for service was a "legitimate tool" to stop the government from turning Israel "from a democracy into a dictatorship."
"Pilots who have completed their compulsory service and now serve on a voluntary basis are not only allowed, but in my opinion, are obligated to say, ’If that’s the country you’re striving for, and are going to create through force and bullying, and are going to be the dictators of, I won’t enter the cockpit and fly this plane because I don’t have to,'" he said.
He added that he didn’t see such a refusal to serve "as political interference at all," but as a legitimate method of stalling an "entirely wrong" process.
Lador was a vocal opponent of the radical reform agenda that sought to shift power away from the courts and attorney general and dilute the judiciary’s role as a check on government power. Levin’s planned overhaul led to massive social and political turmoil, with mass protests held across the country for much of 2023, until war erupted in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
with the October 7 massacre.
At the height of the 2023 protests, hundreds of reservists signed declarations that they would no longer show up for volunteer reserve duty in protest of the government advancing its plans to curtail the judiciary.
Most of them caved following the 10/7 Hamas massacre, realizing there’s no time for Labour Socialist temper tantrums when the country’s existence is at stake. Four of the rest are now up on charges for peeling off from an anti-Netanyahu protest to apply their military skills shooting rockets at Bibi’s private home in the middle of the night. They could have done much worse than just put out an eye with those things, and they had the skills to know it. Condemnations from across the political spectrum follow: Lador’s comments sparked angry condemnations from both the coalition and the opposition, as well as from IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi, who said that the IDF "must remain outside any political controversy," especially during the current fraught period for Israeli national security.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, meanwhile, said Lador’s words deserved condemnation "from all ends of the political spectrum." Advocating for refusal during wartime "crosses a red line that endangers democracy and undermines our future," Netanyahu asserted. He called on Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara to "take immediate action against this dangerous phenomenon," indicating he sought legal action against Lador.
Interior Minister Moshe Arbel also called to probe Lador. Communications Minister Shlomo Khari, for his part, asserted that Lador "wants to bring another October 7 upon us" and suggested he should be arrested and questioned to set an example.
Defense Minister Israel Katz argued that Lador’s rhetoric "harms the security of the state" and that refusal to serve "cannot be accepted under any circumstances."
Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar, formerly a harsh critic of the government’s handling of the war and of the judicial overhaul agenda, decried Lador’s comments, calling them "irresponsible" and deserving of "unequivocal condemnation."
"Saying such things would have been reckless even before October 7," he wrote on X, panning Lador for being "willing to gamble on the very existence of the state."
Across the aisle, former IDF chief of staff and ex-defense minister Benny Gantz, who now heads the opposition’s National Unity party, argued that threatening refusal "takes us back to October 6" and that such behavior ought to remain "out of bounds."
Former prime minister Naftali Bennett also weighed in, saying that "refusal in IDF service is never legitimate."
President Isaac Herzog also issued a sharp rebuke, and warned that while democracy protects the right to protest and free speech, calling for refusal to serve "is out of bounds."
"Anyone who says otherwise harms the security of the State of Israel," he said, appealing to stay away from "the divisive
...politicians call things divisive when when the other side sez something they don't like. Their own statements are never divisive, they're principled ...
and dangerous discourse that preceded October 7."
In recent weeks, as Levin has called for a revival of the contentious legislation frozen by the protests and the war against Hamas
 ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
, Herzog has expressed deep concern over a number of bills that he said would "touch [Israel’s] democratic foundations."
He had previously described Levin’s plans as a danger to Israeli democracy.
The issue of the planned reforms flared up again on Thursday when the High Court of Justice ordered Levin to hold a vote in the Judicial Selection Committee to appoint a new president of the Supreme Court, which he has been refusing to do for over a year due to his desire to appoint a conservative to the position — a move for which he lacks the votes.
Legislation involving changes to the makeup of the committee, which would have given the government deciding power on the panel, was perhaps the most radical and controversial part of Levin’s overhaul agenda, which even he later conceded would have undermined the separation of powers.
Levin reacted furiously to the court’s order on Thursday, accusing the justices of Israel’s top court of turning themselves into "dictatorial rulers" who "trample on the choice of the people." He said it was now critical to decide "once and for all" whether or not to restrain the judiciary.
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