The State of Israel and the "Rule of Law"
The State of Israel and the "Rule of Law"
In the State of Israel, Judaism is no longer the official religion, and Israel is no longer the Jewish State. The powers-that-be in the State of Israel (the government, media, Supreme Court, academia...) now worship at the Temple of the Rule of Law.
"We will not allow any law-breaker, even if he is a member of Knesset ... to harm the state of Israel as a state of law," Bar-On told Army Radio.
"We restrained ourselves... for a long time. That's finished. The era of restraint has come to an end. From now on, this will be a nation of law, which enforces the law."
"What is more traumatic than a country losing its ability to enforce the law, to carry out the decisions of a sovereign government in Israel?" The result of failure to act against law-breakers, he said, would be "anarchy... No one in the State of Israel will be above the law." (Unless you happen to be an Arab living in Jerusalem)
Yet, it would be unfair to view these actions of the government of the State of Israel out of context, after all, there have been numerous ruling powers who controlled this tiny strip of land who also believed in the utmost importance of enforcing the "rule of law" when it came to the Jews of the Land of Israel:
* In the name of enforcing the "rule of law", the Greeks, in 199 B.C.E, began putting to death any Jew in the Land of Israel who was caught keeping the Sabbath, circumcising their son, or studying Torah.
* In the name of enforcing the "rule of law", the Roman Emperor Hadrian, in the year 135, forbade - under penalty of death - Jews from studying Torah, observing the Sabbath, circumcising their children, meeting in a synagogue, attending a Jewish court, eating unleavened bread of Passover...
* In the name of enforcing the "rule of law", the British issued a White Paper in 1939, which severely restricted Jewish immigration to Palestine (which could have saved hundreds of thousands of Jews during the Shoah), the ability of Jews to purchase land in the Land of Israel, and decreed that Palestine - which had been given to the British as a mandate in order to create a Jewish national home for the Jewish People in the Land of Israel - was not to a Jewish State, but a state of its citizens. Those Jews who broke these laws were either flogged, hung, thrown into prison or deported to detention camps in Cyprus.
For nearly 2,000 years Jews throughout the world prayed for a return to the Land of Israel and to reestablish Jewish sovereignty there. They did not pray for a return to the Land of Israel out of a desire to live in a country that was guided by the "rule of law" or to live in the "only democracy in the Middle East", but to return home to the Land of Israel where they could live proudly, as Jews, in their ancient and eternal homeland; to live in a place where no Jew would be discriminated against for living as an openly proud Jew and where no Jew would need to live in fear.
Cabinet Minister Roni Bar-On asked: "What is more traumatic than a country losing its ability to enforce the law, to carry out the decisions of a sovereign government in Israel?"
The answer, of course, is that in the State of Israel it is much more traumatic that there is a government that has forgotten that it represents the Jewish People and State; a government that is made up of individuals who have forgotten where they, as Jews, have come from, and why it is that we have a Jewish State; a government that has adopted the anti-Jewish practices of its predecessors who used the facade of upholding the "rule of law" to try and crush the Jewish spirit.
Yet, like the regimes that came before them, the current government of Israel will ultimately be relegated to the dustbin of history, while the Jewish spirit will continue to endure and flourish throughout the Land of Israel.
Cross Posted at Israel Perspectives
Posted by Ze'ev Orenstein at February 2, 2006 08:03 AM
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Roy C.Hudson
said:
Sir.
The Rule Of Law has neen set up to work against the Jew,s, the Home Land
and the Word of God, The Rule of Law has been Brought Back in this time to be
A Global Rule of Law. The EU, and The World Religions of this time is Pushing
It off on to the People to stop them from Preaching the true word of God. This
is 100% aginst the JEW First, and also to the God called Preachers, and teachers
on the word of God, I hit on this subject in one of my articles on this Website.
The Rule Of Law that My President Mr. G.W.Bush and the Past Five "5" Presidents
has been pushing so Hard. The Rule of Law Tops the Constitution of the USA.Our
Constitution of the USA, is only of the USA, no place else on the Globe,!!!
Same as in Isreal, or any other Nation. When The EU gets there's re-worked, it
Not like our Constitution, it is a Treaty Type, that can be changed or Broken
Where they want to make the Change or Break it. The Rule of Law goes over the top
of all Nations. to the Jew First, and then to all the Heathen Nations. The Jews
Can't compromise the word of God to Please The Heathen Governments. MR. G.W.Bush
Is not a Leader of the True word of God with the Rule of God, We the USA is the last
Nation to get on Board with the Fight against Isreal. How Many People do you know
that can tell you the Five main parts of the Rule of Law that rules over Freedom
of your Thoughts, Mind, and Speech. Your own personal way of life,Good or Dad.!!
Democracy was a Great thing when it was a working part of Life. Now it is one small
Step from Total Dictatorship with, and by the Rule Of Law. For Israel and the Jea's
First, and then to the Person that wants to think straight, as with a Sane mental
condition, Giving the High Ground over to the Enemy to Please Mr. G W Bush, the EU
Russia, and the UN, is unreasonable.!! They now have Israel fighting there own Kid's.
To give away land for Peace, There will be no peace with the Gentile Nations as they
Have it in there Minds, If they don't Want to Read the Red words of Jesus, ok!!
Read Zechariah, 12-1-9 The USA falls under that one now, Lead by the White House,
and the RULE of Law set up by the EU and the World of compromising Preachers.!!
Roy C. Hudson Feb,2/06. USA..
Posted by: Roy C.Hudson on February 2, 2006 01:28 PM
2.
scott
said:
The Left has overplayed it's hand in Israel. All the Lefty blogs are scared. They're avoiding this whole thing like the plague. The American bloggers are passing too. No Drudge. No Little Green Footballs. No Pajamas Media. No Michelle Malkin. Nobody. Except Debbie Schlussel and it's already three down the page.
This event at Amona is a giant watershed. Olmert must be petrified for surely he sees he has blundered terribly. Netanyahu should be at the next expulsion event. He should offer himself to the black riders and the batons. Maybe the God Fearers in Israel can still make a difference.
My heart is broken over what I now understand is the death throws of Israel. My wife and I have seriously thought of spending our last few decades, God willing, in Israel. Our family has supported Israel since the beginning. Going back now four generations. Our family sends over $100,000.00 each year to Isreal. My wife is of a Reformed temple and I am a Christian. We are Zionists. Zealous Zionists. We have our problems with the blackhat crowd and decry much of their behaviour. We understand that in this warped world ... One Israel from the Mediteranean to the Jordan is not going to happen. We support the plan of the security barrier.
We are also ceasing all our donations. We will not support a police state. The Left, the same Jews that supported Marx and Lennon are destroying Israel. Olmert has decided to turn Israel into a police state. We will no longer visit and have dropped all ideas of living there. If the 'center' minded Jews of Israel go along with Olmert Israel will not be Israel. It will be a tragic dead land. Populated by souless ghouls.
Posted by: scott on February 2, 2006 02:50 PM
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The State of Israel and the "Rule of Law"
All actions undertaken in the State of Israel today must conform with the "rule of law" - or so the government would have you believe.
Today, the government of the State of Israel, in the name of enforcing the "rule of law" destroyed the Jewish community of Amona, brutalized hundreds of Jews who came to defend the right of the Jewish people to a Jewish State throughout Israel, and beat up members of Knesset who dared to oppose its actions.
Kadima's Bar-On: Era of restraint in dealing with protests is over
Yet, it would be unfair to view these actions of the government of the State of Israel out of context, after all, there have been numerous ruling powers who controlled this tiny strip of land who also believed in the utmost importance of enforcing the "rule of law" when it came to the Jews of the Land of Israel:
* In the name of enforcing the "rule of law", the Greeks, in 199 B.C.E, began putting to death any Jew in the Land of Israel who was caught keeping the Sabbath, circumcising their son, or studying Torah.
* In the name of enforcing the "rule of law", the Roman Emperor Hadrian, in the year 135, forbade - under penalty of death - Jews from studying Torah, observing the Sabbath, circumcising their children, meeting in a synagogue, attending a Jewish court, eating unleavened bread of Passover...
* In the name of enforcing the "rule of law", the British issued a White Paper in 1939, which severely restricted Jewish immigration to Palestine (which could have saved hundreds of thousands of Jews during the Shoah), the ability of Jews to purchase land in the Land of Israel, and decreed that Palestine - which had been given to the British as a mandate in order to create a Jewish national home for the Jewish People in the Land of Israel - was not to a Jewish State, but a state of its citizens. Those Jews who broke these laws were either flogged, hung, thrown into prison or deported to detention camps in Cyprus.
For nearly 2,000 years Jews throughout the world prayed for a return to the Land of Israel and to reestablish Jewish sovereignty there. They did not pray for a return to the Land of Israel out of a desire to live in a country that was guided by the "rule of law" or to live in the "only democracy in the Middle East", but to return home to the Land of Israel where they could live proudly, as Jews, in their ancient and eternal homeland; to live in a place where no Jew would be discriminated against for living as an openly proud Jew and where no Jew would need to live in fear.
Cabinet Minister Roni Bar-On asked: "What is more traumatic than a country losing its ability to enforce the law, to carry out the decisions of a sovereign government in Israel?"
The answer, of course, is that in the State of Israel it is much more traumatic that there is a government that has forgotten that it represents the Jewish People and State; a government that is made up of individuals who have forgotten where they, as Jews, have come from, and why it is that we have a Jewish State; a government that has adopted the anti-Jewish practices of its predecessors who used the facade of upholding the "rule of law" to try and crush the Jewish spirit.
Yet, like the regimes that came before them, the current government of Israel will ultimately be relegated to the dustbin of history, while the Jewish spirit will continue to endure and flourish throughout the Land of Israel.
Cross Posted at Israel Perspectives
Posted by Ze'ev Orenstein at February 2, 2006 08:03 AM
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