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ifreakingloveroyals · 1 month
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6 November 2017 | Queen Letizia of Spain receives the Israeli President's wife, Nechama Rivlin, at the Royal Palace in Madrid, Spain. (c) Carlos Alvarez/Getty Images
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felipeandletizia · 2 months
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Felipe and Letizia retrospective: January 23rd
2004: Private visit to the retrospective of French Impresionist painter Edouard Manet at El Prado Museum in Madrid. (1, 2, 3).
2006: Visited a hospital in Bolivia & Arrived in El Salvador
2008: Inauguration of the new Center for Molecular Biology “Severo Ochoa”& Official pictures released to celebrate Prince Felipe’s 40th birthday
2009: Visited the ‘Aldeas Infantiles SOS Espana’ Centre in San Lorenzo del Escorial.
2012: Funeral of Manuel Fraga Iribarne held in La Almudena Cathedral.
2013: Diplomatic Corps Gala.
2017: National Sports Awards 2015
2018: Arrived in Davos, Switzerland to attend the 48th Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum & Audiences at la Zarzuela.
2019: Audience at la Zarzuela & Opening of FITUR (1, 2, 3)
2020: Meeting with Israeli President Reuven Rivlin at the presidential residence in Jerusalem, ahead of the Fifth World Holocaust Forum& Ceremony at Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Centre in Jerusalem for the 5th World Holocaust Forum to mark 75 years since the liberation of Auschwitz.
2023: Received the credentials of new ambassadors.
F&L Through the Years: 1120/??
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eretzyisrael · 1 year
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Israel and Mexico recently celebrated 70 years of diplomatic relations with initiatives focusing on art and creativity.
For the first time, the two countries decided to issue a joint stamp, featuring a Nopal and a Zabar - a Mexican and an Israeli species of cactus.
The initiative was celebrated with events both in Mexico and in Israel. In Mexico, the ceremony was held at the Postal Palace of Mexico City, with the participation of Israeli Ambassador Zvi Tal, Director General of Mexican Postal Service Rocío Bárcena Molina, the President of the Jewish Community Marcos Shabot and Foreign Ministry’s officials Amparo Anguiano Rodriguez and Enrique Gomez Montiel.
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“In 2022 Mexico and Israel celebrate 70 years of diplomatic relations,” said Ambassador Tal during the event. “Despite the geographical distance between them, these relations have developed over the years through reciprocal high-level visits, the signing of cooperation agreements in the fields of culture, academia and research and a free trade agreement that has led to a significant increase in the economic relations.”
Mexican Ambassador to Israel Mauricio Escanero and Director of the stamp Division at the Israeli Postal Service Shlomit Barzani took part in the event in Israel.
In addition, an exhibition featuring five Israeli artists was inaugurated at the Museo de la Ciudad de Querétaro in central Mexico.
“Plenitude,” (fullness in English) was conceived as a cluster of solo exhibitions created by five artists exploring ideas of space, image and object-making. Artists Nadav Weissman, Keren Anavy, Guy Aon, Bat-Ami Rivlin and Tal Frank explored concepts of familiarity and alienation, product and material, landscape and image, object and mass, as well as function and futility.
“Folding Scenery, is a multi-layer installation of plywood sheets and digital projections snaking along the gallery walls and protruding into its space,” Weissman writes in his website. “Like a cut-and-pasted folded landscape, this jigsaw puzzle of physical and organic parts takes its forms from natural environments and the human body; creating a topographic view of invented territories. The work integrates projections of digital images with organic textures and materials, representing a psychological introspection that may disappear as soon as the light is turned on, as though to remind us of a delicate life lived in a temporary world.” 
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hero-israel · 2 years
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Honestly people who don't criticize their countries are less "patriotic" and more "fanatic"; I really like how you admit that Israel does get a lot wrong but that just shows how when you believe in something, it's not because you're blinded by fanaticism. I feel like thr anti-Israel movement really looks at things as black and white, so there is no criticism of anything other than Israel.
We serve our causes best in truth.
If Tumblr tags were searchable worth a shit I'd be linking you to a lot of my old posts about how racist Ashkenazi doctors covered up the deaths of thousands of Mizrahi children, or about the Kfar Qasim massacre, or how the Beta Israel are so over-policed (often brutally) that President Rivlin had to mass vacate the criminal records of entire generations of them because it was a national disgrace.... how Israeli weapons sales were used in massacres in the former Yugoslavia.... that’s just off the top...
But for the most part people find shit like that boring. When they believe in Horror Movie Villain Israel, they think talking about more mundane and finite crimes is a whitewash.
For basically all Israelis, or their immediate parents, the choice was "Israel or death." Not "perfect country or death," not "non-violent country or death." And there are plenty of people out there who are galled and raging that they ever could have chosen Israel.
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Is Rothschild Group Preparing A New Updated ‘Protocols Of Zion’ for World Conquest?
December 12, 2019 By CFT Team — 12 Comments This past September, Israeli President Reuven (Ruvi) Rivlin called on Jews of all ages, affiliations and nationalities to discuss, debate and shape the Declaration of Our Common Destiny, a joint project of Genesis Philanthropy Group (GPG) to allegedly “strengthen the bonds among Jews worldwide”. The introduction of this draft of the Declaration, and…
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mariacallous · 1 year
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The filibuster—the Senate rule that sets a 60-vote threshold to cut off debate allowing a majority of senators to pass a law—has been intensely debated for many years but had become especially controversial in the last Senate where Democrats held exactly 50 seats (with Vice President Kamala Harris able to break the tie by casting the 51st vote). Some progressive Democrats advocated eliminating the filibuster so Democrats could pass legislation to restore the Voting Rights Act, protect abortion rights, and pass robust legislation to reverse climate change by majority rule, but moderate Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) disagreed, arguing that the filibuster makes the Senate more deliberative and bipartisan.
Alice Rivlin, who passed away in May 2019, wrote a plea for greater bipartisanship in her final book, “Divided We Fall: Why Consensus Matters” published in 2022 by Brookings Institution Press. In it she rejects the view that the filibuster rule makes the Senate more deliberative and bipartisan and calls for complete elimination of the filibuster. She came somewhat reluctantly to the conclusion that the filibuster rule is being abused when it is invoked routinely for nearly all legislation, as it has been since the Obama administration. This has had the effect of raising the Senate threshold for passage to a 60-vote supermajority, which is not what the Founding Fathers intended.
The book, which we completed for our mother/mother-in-law, discusses the filibuster in depth, starting with the perspectives of James Madison and Alexander Hamilton who believed strongly that a simple majority should decide most issues in the Senate. Madison and Hamilton, two of the authors of the Constitution, had been part of the Second Continental Congress that laboriously drafted the Articles of Confederation the new Constitution would replace. They did not want to repeat the mistake of supermajority requirements that made the lawmaking process under the Articles so laborious. The Senate they were designing would be deliberative but also functional and based on majority rule. Madison argued against a supermajority in Federalist 58, saying if there were such a requirement, “the fundamental principle of free government would be reversed. It would be no longer the majority that would rule: the power would be transferred to the minority.”
Hamilton issued a similar warning in Federalist 22: “If a pertinacious minority can control the opinion of a majority,” the result would be “tedious delays, continual negotiation,” and “contemptible compromises of the public good.” And when accommodation cannot be reached, Hamilton predicted, “the measures of government must be injuriously suspended, or fatally defeated,” and “kept in a state of inaction” and “weakness” bordering on “anarchy.” Sadly, this prediction now seems prophetic.
The Senate, by design, was supposed to be the more deliberative body, but the filibuster was not designed to enhance deliberation, nor to raise the threshold for action in the Senate to a 60-vote supermajority. It was not designed to force bipartisan cooperation to get anything done. In fact, it was not designed at all. It arose totally by accident.
As Sarah Binder, Brookings scholar and colleague of Alice, told the story in a very accessible 2010 Senate Committee testimony, the filibuster was an unintended consequence of an 1806 Senate rules reform advised by Vice President Aaron Burr. In the reform, the senators inadvertently eliminated the rule to “call the previous question”—in other words, to get back to the business at hand. Although the rule had not yet been used this way in either chamber, the House soon learned to use the previous question rule to cut off debate. It would be decades before the senators realized in 1837 that having eliminated their chamber’s previous question motion, any minority of senators, even a single Senator, could block votes just by refusing to end debate, and the filibuster was born.
James Madison had died one year earlier, so none of the authors of the Federalist Papers were alive to object to the Senate that could be ground to a halt by any minority faction. There were objections over the next 80 years, but any proposal to change the filibuster rule died in a filibuster. This changed in 1917 when, on the eve of America’s involvement in the first World War, President Woodrow Wilson pushed adoption of a new rule allowing two-thirds of senators to cut off debate by invoking “cloture,” and for the first time the Senate was governed by super-majorities. There were 96 senators then, so two-thirds set a threshold of 64 needed to move a vote forward. This number climbed to 66 as Alaska and Hawaii became states, and then the threshold was dropped to three-fifths in 1975, which gives us the current 60 vote threshold. But all of this was less important back then because the filibuster was rarely employed.
For the next half century filibusters were reserved for rare times when a minority of senators believed the majority was making a grave mistake, often on the wrong side of history as when Southern Democratic senators like Richard Russell of Georgia and Strom Thurmond of North Carolina (who switched his party affiliation to Republican in 1964) used the filibuster several times in efforts to block passage of civil rights legislation. Through the end of 1970, there was no two-year span of a Congress where as many as ten cloture motions were filed in the Senate.
There were 24 Senate cloture motions filed in the 92nd Congress (1971-1972), an average of one per month. And more routine use of filibusters started in this millennium. When 252 cloture motions were filed in the 113th Congress (2013-2014), it was undeniable that the parliamentary tactic was being abused. As Alice noted, the filibuster has become in practice something it was never intended to be, and it has not been through most of American history: a de facto threshold of a 60-vote supermajority needed to pass legislation through the Senate.
Another Brookings colleague of Alice, Molly Reynolds, wrote a book examining the at least 161 times the Senate has written “Exceptions to the Rule” for filibusters between 1969 and 2014. These include Congressional Budgets, Reconciliation Bills, and “fast-track” processes for trade bills and military base closings. More recently, and quite contentiously, Senate Democrats eliminated the filibuster for presidential executive appointments and lower-level court nominations in 2013. Senate Republicans eliminated the filibuster for Supreme Court nominations in 2017.
Even if it was not part of the original design, there was a time it could be argued that, in practice, the filibuster encouraged bipartisan cooperation. Laws could be modified to avoid engendering enough opposition to sustain a filibuster from the other party. But as Alice writes, when the filibuster becomes nearly universally employed to raise the threshold for every bill to a 60-vote supermajority, the net effect is to diminish bipartisan cooperation. Alice saw the filibuster in its modern usage as a weapon of hyper-partisan warfare, not a tool to end it.
“Divided We Fall: Why Consensus Matters” outlines some partial measures senators could take such as suspending the filibuster for specific legislation, limiting the types or number of filibusters that can be mounted, or returning to the practice of “talking filibusters,” requiring senators to hold the floor and talk as they did before the 1970s. These half measures would be an improvement, especially as part of bipartisan negotiations that helped reduce partisan polarization and increase cooperation on legislation. But we should not kid ourselves, both parties have weakened the filibuster when they took control of the Senate in recent years, and both must assume the other party will end it the next time they take power. The Senate should eliminate the filibuster now because it would reduce partisan gridlock and allow the Senate to address America’s immediate and long-term problems.
Elimination of the filibuster would not bring in an unfettered opportunity to pass legislation without compromise, because the principal exception to the filibuster rule—the reconciliation process defined in the budget law—has proven to be a challenging road that also requires many compromises. Both parties have experienced frustrating struggles, and in some cases failures, to reach the 51-vote majority threshold to pass partisan bills under reconciliation. There are many examples including the Democrats’ struggles to pass Obamacare and the Republicans’ failure to repeal it. But Alice believed that eliminating the filibuster would allow the Senate to get more done, pass more partisan and bipartisan bills, and return the Senate to simple majority rule as the Founding Fathers intended.
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I beg you all: do whatever you can to stop this terrible thing happening before our eyes. We are dealing with a civil war for no reason. Stop this insanity. Please stop. We are one country.
Israeli President Rivlin responding to rioting in Jewish-Arab cities. 
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beyondthecusp · 5 years
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Reflections on the Latest Israeli Elections
Reflections on the Latest Israeli Elections
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  Israel went to the polls again on September 17, and voted a near identical result to the April elections leading to a better than average chance that no government will be able to be formed. So many of the reviews we have come across have interpreted this completely wrong. Most are claiming that the Israeli democracy is illogical and defective. Nothing could be further from the truth. Those who…
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reesellaneous · 5 years
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Baby Archie received a gift from the President of Israel and his wife before she died
https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Rivlin-family-presents-special-gift-to-Prince-Harry-and-Meghan-Markles-newborn-591955
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thejewishlink · 3 years
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President Rivlin Remarks
President Rivlin spoke just now on the IDF communications network, conveying the wishes of the Israeli people to all IDF soldiers standing guard on land, sea and air during a visit to an Iron Dome battery.   President Rivlin: “Today, you won’t be sitting around the holiday table with your families, but the whole Israeli people is with you. You make it possible for us, all of us, to enjoy a…
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ifreakingloveroyals · 8 months
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Through the Years → Felipe VI of Spain (2,119/∞) 6 November 2017 | King Felipe VI of Spain and Queen Letizia of Spain receive Israeli President Reuven Rivlin and wife Nechama Rivlin at the Royal Palace in Madrid, Spain. (Photo by Carlos Alvarez/Getty Images)
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felipeandletizia · 5 months
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Felipe and Letizia retrospective: November 6th
2003: Official engagement lunch, photocall and press conference at la Zarzuela (1, 2, 3, 4) .
2006: Inauguration of the Cycle of Conferences of the 150th Anniversary of the birth of Don Marcelino Menéndez Pelayo & Visit to the family of Paquito Fernandez Ochoa to pay his respects upon the passing of the skier
2010: Received Pope Benedict XVI in Santiago de Compostela & Open-air mass celebrated by Pope Benedict XVI
2013: “Francisco Cerecedo Awards 2013”.
2017: Official welcome to Israeli President Reuven Rivlin and wife Nechama Rivlin at the Royal Palace in Madrid; Lunch offered to Israeli President and First Lady & Gala dinner offered to Israeli President and First Lady.
2018: Inaugurated the exhibit “Cartas al Rey. La mediación humanitaria de Alfonso XIII en la Gran Guerra” (Letters to the King:  The humanitarian mediation of Alfonso XIII during the Great War) at the Royal Palace in Madrid;Meeting with the Delegate Commission of the Princess of Girona Foundation & Meeting with  Sergey Viktorovich Lavrov, Foreign Minister of Russia.
2019: International Congress on “Gender Equality in the field of security”
2022: Private visit to BioCultura
F&L Through the Years: 1080/??
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coochiequeens · 3 years
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“In his decision, Rivlin wrote that the abuse that Frishkin endured was substantial in his view, and that he attached the highest importance to raising awareness for the problem of violence against women. He added that in any future request that Frishkin files, he would consider the professional opinion of the prison service regarding her case.”
He’s aware she endured substantial abuse and that she has a 20 year old daughter she wants to reunite with but he still needs more to release her. 
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girlactionfigure · 4 years
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adamshanelawes · 3 years
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To President Joe Biden and the President Of Israel Reuven Ruvi Rivlin - ראובן רובי ריבלין and The Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu - בנימין נתניהו (Part 1 Of 2): When Joe Biden was the Vice President Of The United States Of America I was shown a premonition of Israel completely destroying Palestine in an act of war, which made me cry in sadness for the death of so many Palestinians, and also cry with happiness for the expansion of Israel and Israel necessarily and rightfully getting back the rest of their home land. So I then asked God for another option (there are actually two Gods who created our earth and our universe, and one is a male God and one is a female God and I recently saw that it was initially truthfully written that way in the Jewish Tanakh but later wrongfully altered and falsified). And after I saw that premonition when Joe Biden was the Vice President Of The United States Of America, I asked for another option, and I was shown that the only place where Palestine can exist is on the edge of Israel, Syria and Lebanon. And there Palestine was shown to me as a peaceful co-existing state trading and at peace with the State Of Israel, and it is benevolently built and initially funded by the State Of Israel. I then spent a number of years on my own trying to work out how to practically do this but I was unable to. So then I spent one night practically working with the State Of Israel and I found a necessary practical way to make this happen. Which is for the State Of Israel to begin building new homes for Palestinians in the only above mentioned place where the State Of Palestine can exist. And then relocating the right Palestinian people there using the right Palestinian, who I was shown to be the future leader of the State Of Palestine, and that he is not connected at all to the criminal terrorist organisation Hamas or the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas who is illegally covertly working with Hamas against the State Of Israel and all of Israel's allies, including the United States Of America. Thank-You From Adam Shane Lawes.
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Israeli President Reuven Rivlin speaks to family of Indian caregiver killed in rocket attack from Gaza
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin speaks to family of Indian caregiver killed in rocket attack from Gaza
Image Source : AP Israeli President Reuven Rivlin Israeli President Reuven Rivlin on Wednesday spoke to the family of the Indian caregiver who was killed on May 11 in a rocket attack by Palestinian militants from Gaza, and conveyed his condolences. Soumya Santosh, 30, who hailed from Kerala’s Idukki district, worked as a caregiver attending to an old woman at a house in the southern Israeli…
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