Shalom brother Chaim, ma shlomcha?
I have two comments for this week:
1. Unlike last week when i attacked PM Netanyahu, this time i want to explain why im pretty sure Bibi shouldn't be blamed for the tragedy of the murdered soldier (HY"D) on the border with lebbanon last Tuesday.
About two years ago at a conference in Or Yehuda, back when Zipora Shpizer served as foreign minister, she announced - "We have created a change in southern Lebanon", as she refers to Resolution 1701. "Resolution 1701 is good for Israel," as it was stated by PM at the time, Ehud Olmert. "The decision will create a demilitarized area in southern Lebanon" he said, and that's what theyv'e carried out. and now we are witnessing the direct results of the International supervision that took place on any smuggling of weapons to lebbanon (which is resolution 1701), and the result is that Hezbollah is now atleast three times more armed then they were in 2006. Resolution 1701 also "helped" increase the influence of Hezbollah in the Lebanese army lines (as we have witnessed last Tuesday).
Too bad we weren't told a that point, that the Lebanese president today and former commander of the Lebanese army, Michel Suleiman, is a big fan of the Hezbollah member, Imad Mughniyeh and he also consults on a daily basis with Nasrallah. in addition to that, he also state a few months ago that the weapons held by Hezbollah is "a positive factor," and called for unity between the armed forces in his country.
Anyway, the lesson here is not related to the worthless International supervision (that was pretty obvious), the lesson is that these are the results we get when we put these clowns in office time and time again, who apparently have no idea what the hell they're doing. but that's only my opinion.
Your comments please.
2. On last week's ask JTF, you mentioned the former Justice Minister Daniel Friedmann. and I wanna say that I agree with you completely, he was a real threat to the court system in Israel because he wanted to limit some of their authorities that they shoudn't have in the first place.
you also mentioned that if we were in power we would fire the supreme court judges through the knesset, but to me it seems impossible if we don't change our method for appointing judges first.
if im not mistaken, no democratic country in the world recognizes a court system like we have in israel.
As you know, we have an unofficial constitutional court that uses their authority to make decisions in issues that tend to have a political nature, meanwhile the supreme court judges are not chosen by elected officials even though in all democratic countries in the world where a constitutional court system exists, that has the authority to decide in political matters, the judges (in one way or another) represent the political views of all citizens, which is a method that unfortunatly doesn't exist in israel because the court system is not officialy considered constitutional (and of course, this is no coincidence it's intentional).
all the court judges in israel (whether in the supreme court or otherwise) are appointed through the 'commission for judges' in the knesset, where elected officials do have a say in it obviously, but (and that's a big 'but') there is also a representation of three judges and Two representatives from the Office of Lawyers and without their approvale, the ministers and MK's sitting in that commission can't nominate even a single judge that they like.
In other words, the ones controling the commission for judges are the judges themselves, and that is the main reason why we have 13 out of 15 judges in the supreme court (including the chief judge) that are exactly in the image of Aharon Barak.
if we don't change our twisted method for appointing judges, and make an official constitutional court system, then i think it will always remain extremely difficult to appoint decent judges.
your comments please.
Chaim hayakar, toda raba lecha veshavua tov,
Herutnik.