ISRAEL LOOKING TO ITS OWN FUTURE......

Following my last blog , describing how ineffective the U.N. has become with the years, mostly because of the obstinacy of some of the world's powers, and their selfishness regarding their tight interests, as well the protection and ambitions of their leaders.... One other example was always Israel, defying any and all U.N resolutions, and today as unrest engulfs the country, a controversial figure from the religious far right (Itamar Ben-Gvir) Israel's minister of chaos helps Benjamin Netanyahu hold on to power, the extreme right zealots with Netanyahu are aiming to establish a theocratic fascist dictatorship.   

On this past Tuesday, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights called on Israel to suspend two draft judicial reform bills for fear of their impact on human rights and the independence of the judiciary.

"Given the level of popular and political concern, I call on the Israeli government to suspend the proposed legislative amendments and to open a broader space for discussion and reflection," The Austrian high commissioner Volker Turk said, after the Israeli parliament approved, on Tuesday, the first reading of two bills related to controversial judicial reform. 

"These issues at the heart of the rule of law deserve the utmost attention in order to ensure that any change enhances, rather than diminishes, the ability of the judiciary - and other branches of government - to protect the rights of all residents of Israel," he added in a statement.

Judicial reform is considered a basic program in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government coalition, which includes ultra-Orthodox and far-right Jewish parties, and assumed power in late December 2022. However, a large part of public opinion moved against this project, and about two months ago, Saturday evening became the date for the weekly demonstration against the project' proposed law.

On Monday, tens of thousands of people demonstrated in Jerusalem in the vicinity of Parliament against the vote, before which discussions were suspended, amid a boycott of a number of opposition deputies who wrapped themselves in the Israeli flag, shouting "shame", and were temporarily excluded from the session.

"Changes that touch the core of a country's long-established constituent structure and that affect well-established institutional guarantees should only be made after broad consultations and with a broad and public political consensus," Volker Turk continued.

He considered that judicial reform "will greatly undermine the ability of the judiciary to protect individual rights and uphold the rule of law as a means of effective institutional oversight of the executive and legislative branches."

He added, “I am afraid that these amendments, if approved, will weaken the protection of the rights of all persons, especially the most vulnerable communities and groups who are least able to defend their rights through representation in the executive and legislative branches of government,” especially Arab Israelis, asylum seekers, and LGBT people.

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THE UNITED NATIONS.... PEACE, DIGNITY, AND EQUALITY ON A HEALTHY PLANET.

As the world's only truly universal global organization, the U.N. was supposed to become the foremost forum  to address issues that transcend national boundaries and cannot be resolved by any one country alone. The veto power offered initially to five victorious nations, was abused throughout the years and decades by all forces, and mostly so, by the U.S. and its Western allies, especially when dealing with American, European adventures, and of course invariably in the case of Israel and its aggressions, occupations, annexations and blatant apartheid and brutality tactics vis-a vis its minorities and under occupation population. 

These policies led to a weakened institution, not respected nor valued or obeyed. Only partially appreciated by the poor, when financial aid was donated. The year 2022 was particularly detrimental to the U.N. as international relations were turned upside down, and are still going. Nations in all continents are changing, they are rebelling and opposing the classical colonial powers, even if they are the superpowers, the world is not yet the multipolar that China and Russia are trying to bring about, but sure signs of division, non obeying and non compliance, and more independent political views are de rigueur. 

The Russian invasion of its neighbor is surely a setback to this new worldwide approach, but so was Israel's behavior for the past seven decades. And the world is dividing itself into new camps everyday. Iran, Turkey, India, Brazil and many Arab nations as well as many African and Asian ones, are all considering themselves free of a certain Western dominance and ideology. This reorientation of the world is so visible in all aspects of governance and institutions and applications. 

The biggest looser in this situation is the U.N., it was an old institution, created after world war two, and run totally by the U.S., Western powers, and the Soviet Union. Today these forces clash and are all trying to exclude the other inconvenient side, by reinterpreting history and the nature of the U.N. instead of the message of peace and international cooperation, most leaders are what they are, humans, and for many of their own selfish reasons, are using force, hegemony and brutality to enforce their personal agendas. 

Above all, the functioning of the U.N. is annulled by putting aside the executive board of the security council. Initially the organization was founded, to recognize the equality between all states, and giving the veto power to few to prevent wider conflicts within the general assembly. But then slowly the consensus and the win-win atmosphere dissipated. we pretend to be surprised at the noncondemning of Russia over Ukraine, but we were not surprised at the same when the U.S. the U.K. and some of our European allies had our share of wars in Afghanistan, Kosovo, Iraq, Libya and Syria. Again not to mention the total silence over Israel's invasions, annexations, transfer of population and colonialism. The U.N. became a total absolute ineffective assembly and organization.

Even if we succeed in isolating or kicking out certain parties, many others will not remain in a U.N. which Russia or China would have been excluded or diminished. The U.S. now aided by some allies, is trying to totally eclipse and topple the international tribunal of justice, because of attempts to declare the occupation of the Palestinian territories by Israel "Occupation" And investigating its behavior over their population. But we won't decrease our pressure for a condemnation of the Russian invasion and hegemony. The general assembly is no longer resigned to the Western disorder of the world nor its dual standards. 

And finally, the present U.N. doesn't seem able even to override some intentional vetoes and blockages of the Syrian borders with Turkey to allow humanitarian very needed aid to affected populations of the devastating earthquake that hit the region lately, watching the people dying slowly while the world and its politics are ignoring them is surely a death sentence to the effectiveness of the organization. 

The world is changing rapidly, and the Western populations are tired, pressuring our politicians and leaders to become more realistic, to stop distorting realities in the hope to maintain decades and centuries of wars, adventures, dictatorships and colonialism and hegemony, this game is old and over. 

My, as always, many thanks to all.                           

YES.... BY OUR PRESENT TIMES MANY THINK LIKE THIS .

Dash MacIntyre

EPIPHANY

A Local Pastor Is Furious To Find Out Jesus Was A Libtard

Dash MacIntyre

Local Evangelical pastor Brett Thompson today renounced his Christian faith after reading the New Testament, and realizing Jesus Christ sounds quite a bit like a “libtard.”

“I couldn’t believe it!” said Thompson. “I realized it had been a while since I read from the New Testament because most of my sermons are about judging everyone who is gay, Muslim, feminist, vegan, Black, liberal, Californian, virtue-signaling, trans, racially mixed, Chinese, or college-educated, and for all those it makes much more sense to look into the Old Testament for judgmental inspiration, you know? So I opened the Bible to the New Testament and started reading about Jesus saying to turn the other cheek, and how he literally washed the feet of the poor, and how he talked about rich people being fundamentally sinful, and how we’ll only get into the Kingdom of Heaven if we help the needy, and all that stuff, and my blood just started boiling. I couldn’t believe what I was reading, and it wasn’t long before I was irate! I couldn’t believe all this time I’ve been worshipping a Woke, liberal commie! No one ever told me Jesus was practically Bernie Sanders and Rachel Maddow mixed together with AOC! I had the sudden urge to get out my AR-15s, and start protesting Jesus at the state capitol building!”

Thompson said the discovery shook him to his core.

“That’s just not the Jesus I know in my heart,” he continued. “The Jesus in my heart would never give money to the poor who will just use it for alcohol and drugs. The Jesus in my heart would rather invest that donatable money into the stock market to hopefully get rich quick! Or at the very least start a business to hire those poor people, but never pay them a penny more than the minimum wage so that the humiliation of not making a livable wage will encourage them to pull themselves up by their bootstraps and start their own businesses to pay their own workers only the minimum wage to give back to the beautiful cycle of poverty and exploitation that makes unfettered capitalism the best economic system in the world! That’s what my Christian faith is about, not all this beta male cuck bullshit the New Testament goes on and on about! The Jesus in my heart would have no problem with the money changers in the temple at Jerusalem because they’re probably earning dividends for shareholders. Even if the money changers’ companies are reckless and imperiled at the first sign of an economic downturn, and are existentially dependent on government bailouts because their CEOs worship a corporate and regulatory culture in which obsession with short-term, quarterly shareholder profits, absurd salary bonuses, and stock buybacks have made the kind of decisions necessary for long-term fiscal health and corporate stability both impossible and downright fiducially illegal. The Jesus in my heart understands greed is good!”

Thompson now says he is going to start his own wholly new church.

“I’m going to start a Church of Trump!” Thompson explained. “No libtard sympathy for the poor, downtrodden, or exploited masses for any of my congregants! And my church will be much more relaxed about sexual stuff. I’ve always thought Christianity is a little too puritan and old-fashioned about sex. What’s the good of being involved in a religious cult if there aren’t even orgies? So our patron saint will be Donald Trump. Grabbing by the pussy will be encouraged because what’s good enough for Donald Trump is good enough for us! In my church it will be mandatory for men to get divorces when their wives turn 40. Only hot trophy wives in the Church of Trump! And we’ll take the confessional booth that Catholics do, and put in hookers! And no raising of kids or marital fidelity is required. Only alpha males are allowed in. And bring your guns 

My, as always, many thanks to all....