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Outgoing U.S. Ambassador says Washington concerned by speed of judicial reform, claims most Israelis welcome American interference regarding overhaul and domestic policy.

By Lauren Marcus, World Israel News

The Biden administration is actively trying to save Israel from “going off the rails” and highly concerned about the impact of potential reforms to its judicial system, outgoing U.S. Ambassador to Israel Ron Nides told the Wall Street Journal in a recent interview.

Despite backlash over comments from Washington regarding judicial reform, Nides claimed that the majority of Israeli citizens welcome American interference regarding Israeli law and other domestic policies.

“I think most Israelis want the United States to be in their business,” Nides told the Journal. “With that sometimes comes a modicum of a price, which is articulating when we think things are going off the rails.”

Nides, who said in a February podcast interview that he devotes “60 percent of his time to helping Palestinians,” has long expressed his reservations around the judicial overhaul and the inclusion of Religious Zionism lawmakers Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir as ministers in the coalition.

“One of the messages I sent to the prime minister was to tap the brakes, slow down” regarding the judicial overhaul, Nides said. “Try to get consensus.”

The ambassador could not specifically name which aspects of the reforms Washington finds troubling, but added that the Biden administration is concerned that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is “rushing things through that ultimately could have huge implications, at least perception-wise, about what makes Israel great.”

Speaking about his accomplishments for the Palestinians, Nides said that “I do think I can look back and say that I’ve done things that have made life just a little bit easier and better for the average Palestinian.”

During his tenure as ambassador, the U.S. successfully pressured Israel to expand the operation hours of the Allenby Bridge border crossing between Jordan and PA-controlled enclaves in Judea and Samaria, as well as pushed a pilot program which will see Palestinians able to utilize Ben-Gurion Airport, as part of a nascent visa-waiver agreement between the U.S. and Israel.

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The legislation would bar “reasonableness” as a legal justification for judges to reverse decisions made by the Cabinet, ministers and other elected officials.

By JNS

The Knesset overnight Monday passed along partisan lines a bill to restrict the use of the “reasonableness” standard by the Supreme Court.

The bill was advanced by a vote of 64-56.

MK Simcha Rothman, chairman of the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee said Sunday he would immediately prepare the bill for the two additional plenum votes necessary for it to become law.

The goal of the coalition is to pass the bill before the end of the summer session on July 29.

The legislation would bar “reasonableness” as a legal justification for judges to reverse decisions made by the Cabinet, ministers and “other elected officials as set by law.”

Critics say the standard is legally vague and has been used by the court to encroach upon the government’s authority. Opponents say the bill will erode Israel’s system of checks and balances and lead to an abuse of power.

The initiative “isn’t the end of democracy, but rather will strengthen democracy,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday in defense of the legislation.

“The rights of the courts and Israeli citizens will not be harmed in any way. The court will continue to monitor the legality of government decisions and appointments. [We] will be required to act in good faith and with proportionality, fairness and equality,” he added.

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said that the move would “enable an elected government to implement its policy according to the law. Unlike the opposition, which behaves irresponsibly and spreads incitement, we in the coalition act responsibly,” he said.

“We will continue to advance, with determination, necessary changes to the judicial system, as we promised the public before [last November’s] election and in accordance with the mandate we received from the people,” Smotrich continued.

Opposition leader Yair Lapid accused the government of “losing all restraint.”

“Canceling the judicial test of reasonableness [according to the bill] they have submitted to the Knesset confirms one thing: The law does not apply to them,” said Lapid.

“They can fire all the gatekeepers, from the attorney general on down, and switch them out for obedient puppets who will not interfere when they corrupt the country,” he added.

On Sunday, Lapid urged the Histadrut labor federation to declare another general strike, following its decision to partially shut down the country on March 27.

Organizers of protests against the reforms have planned a “day of disruption” on Tuesday, which will include “demonstrations, marches and convoys.”

Activists also intend to demonstrate at Ben-Gurion Airport. Police say they will prevent a repeat of the protest on July 3, when thousands of demonstrators tried to block traffic to the airport and succeeded in snarling movement, including at the arrival halls.

Cabinet ministers on Sunday assailed Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara for allowing, in their view, protesters to run rampant in a bid to paralyze the country.

“There can be no effective protest without disturbing the public order,” Baharav-Miara said at the weekly Cabinet meeting in Jerusalem.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded by saying, “That’s a shocking sentence. Are you saying that besieging a barbershop from inches away is legitimate?” he asked, in a reference to his wife’s experience on March 1, when she had to be rescued by hundreds of police after being trapped in a hair salon for hours by anti-judicial reform protesters in Tel Aviv.

According to numbers provided by the Attorney General’s Office, only six indictments were handed down out of 572 arrests made at protests. Those six were for assaulting police officers.

The coalition’s decision to push ahead with judicial reform legislation came after compromise talks hosted by President Isaac Herzog stalled last month. (Legislation had been frozen since March to give the talks a chance to succeed.)

On Sunday, Herzog continued to insist an agreement was “attainable.” He said the decision of the sides to reject talks was “a blunder of historic proportions.”

Speaking during a state memorial for Zionist visionary Theodor Herzl, Herzog noted that Jews around the world are now observing a three-week period of mourning leading up to the anniversary of Jerusalem’s destruction by the Romans in 70 C.E. These days “demand of us to behave with dignity and responsibility, in issues that directly impact the unity of Israel, and the cohesion of Israeli society,” he said.

In June, Yesh Atid Party leader Lapid and National Unity Party head Benny Gantz announced that they were suspending the reform negotiations.

The move came after Yesh Atid lawmaker Karine Elharrar was voted onto the Judicial Selection Committee, satisfying a key opposition demand during talks over the initiative.

“Once Netanyahu was a fraud and strong. Today he’s a fraud and weak,” said Lapid at the time.

On Sunday, both Lapid and Gantz called for the resumption of talks, a sentiment echoed by Economy Minister Nir Barkat of Likud, who nonetheless noted that “it was the opposition that left the room” in the first place.

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The Midwest Medical Examiner’s Office in Ramsey, Minnesota, has identified Brandon Lee Buschman, a 34-year-old man from Babbitt, Minnesota, as an individual that was found in a chest freezer in the basement of an unoccupied home in Biwabik, Minnesota.

On June 26, police discovered Buschman’s body inside an older model freezer with a latching mechanism located on the outside. Furthermore, the home hadn’t been occupied since February, and the freezer wasn’t powered when Buschman’s body was discovered.

Although the autopsy conducted by the Midwest Medical Examiner’s Office displayed no signs of trauma or injury, investigators still believed that Buschman was in the house hiding due to the active arrest warrant issued for him.

In addition, several people in the area familiar with Buschman’s situation reported seeing him running from the top of the house, potentially due to a police presence. What crime exactly Buschman was wanted for has yet to be specified.

Tragically, Buschman’s decision to hide in the chest freezer cost him his life. The older model of the freezer could not be opened from the inside, trapping Buschman with no way of escape. This serves as a sobering reminder that when in desperate situations, seeking help and being aware of the risks associated with certain decisions is vital.

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The president and senior administration officials were resolute that the same weapons now being sent to Kyiv constituted a war crime.

By JNS

Parsing U.S. President Joe Biden’s view on the sorts of munitions that break up into individual canisters when dropped from an aircraft could induce a cluster headache.

On Feb. 28, 2022, then White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said that if Russia had used cluster bombs, “it would potentially be a war crime.”

A few days later, Linda Greenfield-Thomas, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, told the General Assembly that cluster munitions are “exceptionally lethal weaponry” which “has no place on the battlefield.”

In June 1982, Joe Biden, then a U.S. senator from Delaware, said that if Israel used cluster bombs against Palestine Liberation Organization terror targets in Lebanon, “they clearly are in violation and we should respond” by “cutting off the ability to get access to that kind of weaponry in the future,” the wire United Press International reported.

Then, last Friday, the Biden administration decided to send cluster bombs to Kyiv, leading the Washington Post to report on “Biden’s complicated history on cluster munitions.” Writing in Breitbart, Joel B. Pollak called it “flip-flopping.”

“The major issue with them is that the weapons can leave unexploded submunitions on the ground long after a conflict, endangering friendly troops and civilians,” the Post reported. “The Washington Post reports that Biden will bypass a U.S. law prohibiting cluster munitions with a failure rate of more than 1%.”

During a July 7 press briefing at the White House, Jake Sullivan, national security advisor, commented on Washington providing cluster bombs to Kyiv.

“We base our security assistance decision on Ukraine’s needs on the ground, and Ukraine needs artillery to sustain its offensive and defensive operations,” he stated. “We have provided Ukraine with a historic amount of unitary artillery rounds, and we are ramping up domestic production of these rounds. We’ve already seen substantial increases in production, but this process will continue to take time, and it will be critical to provide Ukraine with a bridge of supplies while our domestic production is ramped up. We will not leave Ukraine defenseless at any point in this conflict, period.”

He added that since the start of the war, Russia has used cluster munitions “with high dud or failure rates of between 30% and 40%.” The ones Washington would provide would have failure or dud rates “not higher than 2.5%,” he said.

“So the bottom line is this: We recognize that cluster munitions create a risk of civilian harm from unexploded ordnance. This is why we’ve deferred the decision for as long as we could,” Sullivan said. “But there is also a massive risk of civilian harm if Russian troops and tanks roll over Ukrainian positions and take more Ukrainian territory and subjugate more Ukrainian civilians because Ukraine does not have enough artillery. That is intolerable to us.”

He added that Kyiv would use the weapons to defend the country and its citizenry. “They are motivated to use any weapons system they have in a way that minimizes risks to those citizens,” he said.

In response to a question from a reporter, Sullivan said, “Ukraine has provided written assurances that it is going to use these in a very careful way that is aimed at minimizing any risk to civilians.”

“This is not Ukraine taking these and going and using them in the Middle East or in Southeast Asia or in some faraway land,” he added. “They’re using them on their territory to defend their territory.”

Reporters did not ask about Biden’s or U.S. responses to Israeli use of cluster bombs.

In June 1982, the New York Times reported that there was a “highly emotional confrontation” on Capitol Hill between then Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and members of Congress, with Biden and Begin having the “bitterest exchange.” That appeared to be about a different issue than cluster munitions, however. (Begin referred to Biden only as a “young senator.”)

Even in March 2022, there was some question about what Greenfield-Thomas, the ambassador, meant to say, the Post reported.

The State Department crossed the phrase “which has no place on the battlefield” out on the transcript, adding “which are banned under the Geneva Convention.” An endnote added further, “the use of which directed against civilians is banned under the Geneva Conventions.”

On July 8, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.—who is running for president—questioned Biden’s stance on cluster bombs on Twitter.

“Last year, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki called the use of cluster bombs a ‘war crime.’ Now President Biden plans to send them to Ukraine. Stop the ceaseless escalation! It is time for peace,” he wrote. “Biden was opposed to cluster bombs in 1982 as well, when he opposed their sale to Israel. What happened to his conscience?”

More than 950,000 Twitter users saw the tweet, about 28,500 liked it and more than 6,000 shared it, per Twitter statistics.

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The Hamas-linked Al-Ayyash Battalion took responsibility for the alleged attacks.

By JNS

The Hamas-linked Al-Ayyash Battalion said on Monday it launched two rockets from the Jenin area towards the Jewish community of Shaked in northern Samaria.

There were no immediate reports of injuries.

The Israel Defense Forces subsequently located two rocket launchers and two makeshift projectiles near the village.

Sappers were deployed and the launchers were taken for investigation.

“The rockets did not pose a threat to the residents” of Shaked, said the military.

The Al-Ayyash Battalion previously said it fired several rockets at Israeli villages in the area over the past few months.

On Sunday, an “old improvised rocket” with “no explosives” was found in Moshav Ram-On, according to the Israel Defense Forces.

A security guard in the community, which is situated just within the 1949 Armistice Line and falls under the jurisdiction of the Gilboa Regional Council, located the remnants of the rocket in the moshav’s cemetery.

IDF sappers performed an initial investigation that determined that the rocket did not pose a danger.

Last month, the military said that a “lone wolf” was responsible for two rockets fired from Jenin.

The Al-Ayyash Battalion had shared a video claiming to show the rocket launches. However, the IDF said that there was no connection between the projectiles and an organized terrorist group, despite a report that Hamas’s “military wing” claimed responsibility for them.

Separately, on June 26 it was revealed that the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) had arrested a Palestinian Arab after finding a rocket in an open area in an eastern section of Jerusalem about a month earlier.

Abdel Alhakim Buatna, a resident of Ajjul, north of Ramallah, was arrested on suspicion of intending to fire the rocket at Israelis during this year’s Jerusalem Day flag parade in May.

Last Monday, the IDF launched a major counterterror operation in Jenin, including the entry into the Samaria city of significant ground forces. More than 1,000 IDF troops participated in the campaign, which is believed to be the largest deployment in Judea and Samaria in two decades.

Israeli troops arrested well over 100 terror suspects and, during nearly 48 hours of fighting, located and demolished at least eight weapon storage sites, six bomb-making labs, three “war rooms,” and other terror assets.

The IDF also carried out some 20 drone strikes against various targets.

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Protesters against the judicial reform were dragged out of the Knesset by security guards after they formed a human blockade preventing MKs from entering the plenum to vote on the contentious “reasonableness” bill on Monday evening.

“I fully back and praise the Knesset officer and the Knesset guard who did not let the gang of lawbreakers block the Knesset plenum and removed them quickly, decisively and professionally,” said Knesset Chairman Amir Ohana.

“Now they will be handed over to the Israeli Police and the judicial system for further handling, which I hope will be firm. Knesset members who invited the troublemakers should take a moment to reflect: the Knesset will turn into the Ayalon [highway].”

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