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Flawed policies come from a flawed election system of proportional representation and endless coalition government. Israel turns out to be a democratically elected despotism. In fact its policies cast doubt on whether Israel is a Jewish State or not. A Prime Minister who changes this system can become truly great. But it means ditching Israel's democratic reputation. The Likud Party make it worse when, dependent on Arab votes, they let insurrection slide.

Despotism and brainwashed Israelis

Various passages of Alexis de Tocqueville’s unfinished work The European Revolution, where he discusses France under Napoleon and Rome under Augustus Caesar, indicate that Israel, especially...

Sar Kenan, Gateway to Canaan, ancient gateway into Israel from the north. Abraham came through this gate. The Canaanites came later. (Iran, take heed.) To deny that is the height of chutzpah and against Providence. The secular Zionism of the present Republic of Israel misses the real significance of this artifact.

World news10 years ago

Abraham and the impossible

The Torah tells us that Abraham was extremely old and that Sarah was beyond child-bearing age. Indeed, the Talmud says she had no womb! Rabbi Akiva...

Senator Robert Menendez, who enjoys the protection of a sycophantic media

Legislative10 years ago

Americans, not Islamists

Several weeks ago I sent Senator Menendez of New Jersey a letter asking him why he was supporting Obama’s importation of potentially dangerous Muslims. In that...

Seal of the Islamic State, the face of Islam today. Islam is not religion but politics pretending to be religion. This is the secret of Islamic imperialism. Is Obama their secret ally, fostering Muslim sedition? This is why we need security. And mere word-mongers and pussy cats cannot fight this effectively.

Guest Columns10 years ago

Islam properly understood

The dictionary defines a “tautology” as “needless repetition of the same sense in different words: REDUNDANCY.” The term “radical Islam” is a tautology. Islam is itself, by...

Guest Columns10 years ago

Anti-Semitism and anti-Americanism

Innumerable volumes have been written on anti-Semitism – meaning hatred of Jews and Judaism. It really started more than 3,000 years ago after the Sinai Revelation....

The Damascus Road. An apt illustration of how "Let's pretend" is a dangerous game to play in diplomacy in the region.

World news10 years ago

Disengagement and disaster

When I was in Washington in April 2005, a full-page ad by the Anti-Defamation League appeared in the Washington Jewish Week. It said: “Mr. Sharon, American...

Shimon Peres and Palestinian figure (and PLO founder) Yasser Arafat on stage together in 2001. Peres is only one in a long line of cynical Israeli Prime Ministers. And possibly deluded ones, thinking peace is even possible between Israel and Islam.

Guest Columns11 years ago

Perils of repetition

The Emergency Council Meeting was about to be brought to order even though several of the highest tenured of the 30 person Board appeared reticent to...

The Constitution, which sets forth the principle of rule of law, defines what is unconstitutional, and guarantees freedom of speech and other liberties of a Constitutional republic, and also describes the impeachment power. (How many know of the Jewish roots of this document?) Hypocrisy threatens Constitutional government. Could Israel use a constitution like this? More to the point: would a Convention of States save it, or destroy it? (Example: civil asset forfeiture violates the Constitution.) Quick fixes like Regulation Freedom Amendments weaken it. Furthermore: the Constitution provides for removing, and punishing, a judge who commits treason in his rulings. Furthermore, opponents who engage in lawfare against an elected President risk breaking the Constitution.

Constitution11 years ago

What constitution?

If you have spent any time in the patriot movement, chances are you have heard someone say “that’s not according to the constitution” in reaction to...

Israel, Judea and Samaria (occupied territories?), and Gaza. All these are the real Jewish and Israeli birthright, from the beginning. A God-given birthright, as Trump should recognize.. Which now-in-force international law and treaties recognize, going back to the San Remo Resolution. Even UN Resolution 242 couldn't change that. Disengagement from any of them spells disaster. A two-state solution violates this birthright. (As a candidate for ambassador clearly understands.) Why won't the Likud Party protect this birthright? Why do some accuse champions of Judea-Samaria of having crypto-Nazi tendencies? What can dispel the confusion on this point? And will The New York Times correct their own record in this regard? Or does a generation of the unteachable prevent a properly sober discussion? And now a new battle cry sounds: no taxation without annexation. Where is the proper statecraft Israel needs? Note: Israel is also a safer place for Christians than any other country in the Middle East.

World news11 years ago

Harkabi, Netanyahu’s mentor

Yehoshaphat Harkabi literally wrote the book on Arab attitudes toward Israel and the Jews. But he utterly failed to understand his own observations. Benjamin Netanyahu seems...

A measure of Western civilization at its height: colonial possessions and trade routes in 1910

Human Interest11 years ago

Western civilization to die?

The term Western civilization was very much the creation of American intellectuals at the beginning of the 20th century. The term denoted the world outlook that...