The Foundation for Constitutional Democracy

Israel National Radio: Arutz-7, presents “The Eidelberg Report,” August 8, 2005.

1. Benjamin Netanyahu has resigned from the cabinet. On what grounds? He said that Sharon’s disengagement plan will undermine Israel’s security. Unlike his father, Prof. Benzion Netanyahu, he did not say Sharon’s plan is immoral, a crime. Why not? Isn’t it a crime to expel Jews from their homes and farms? Isn’t it a crime to destroy their schools and synagogues? Isn’t it a crime to tear babies from the arms of their mothers? Isn’t it a crime to move a family with six children from a 200 meter home and squeeze them into a 40 meter prefab? Isn’t it a crime to make survivors of the Holocaust once again displaced persons? Isn’t it a crime to make settlers here and there homeless? Isn’t a crime to give Jewish land to Arab terrorists? Isn’t this crime defined as treason by the Penal Code? (more…)

In his August 7, 2005 975-word letter of resignation from the Government, Benjamin Netanyahu used the first person singular—”I”, “me”, and “my”—no less than 31 times.

If this appears symptomatic of egoism, contrast the following:

On July 25, 1994, President Bill Clinton, King Hussein, and Mr. Rabin offered toasts (of roughly equal length at a White House dinner celebrating the Israel-Jordan Declaration of Principles signed that day. (The toasts were much, much shorter than Bibi’s resignation letter.) In Clinton’s toast, the President used the first person “I” two times. King Hussein used the “I” ten times. Mr. Rabin used the “I” no less than 33 times!

The International Court of Justice is of course no friend of Israel. Nevertheless, if nothing else can be done to topple the Sharon junta, a competent international lawyer—a strong friend of Israel—should be consulted to determine whether a law suit can and should be initiated against PM Sharon charging him with violating the Geneva Convention which prohibits the deportation of any civilians even from so-called “occupied territory.” If PM Sharon is indeed guilty of committing crimes against humanity, he must be brought to the bar of justice and stand trial.

Bearing in mind that the Sharon junta is cutting off food—even baby food—to Gush Katif—it would be crucial and most timely if the media conveyed the message that PM Sharon may charged with violating the Geneva Convention and committing crimes against humanity.

Make no mistake: The State of Israel is disintegrating.

While we must do everything possible to prevent the expulsion of Jews from Gaza and Northern Samaria, we must not be totally preoccupied with this immediate and urgent problem. A small group of persons is needed to think ahead and to think in larger and more positive terms, otherwise we shall limp from crisis to crisis until the nation utterly collapses.

Be cautious about certain persons now vying for leadership of the Likud. (more…)

Soldiers of Israel: I had the privilege of teaching political science to Israeli officers for almost 20 years at Bar-Ilan University. Israeli officers are not tin soldiers; they do not march like Germans to the drum beat of a dictator. They are Jews: they love Justice more than Authority.

Soldiers of Israel: You are being ordered by the Government to expel Jews from their homes in Gush Katif. You will then have to tear babies from the arms of their mothers. You are being ordered to destroy flourishing Jewish communities. You will then be compelled to make many Jews homeless. You will not do this! (more…)

Ben Hecht’s Perfidy has profound lessons for Jews, especially for Jews opposed to Sharon’s expulsion or deportation policy.

Hecht points out that, unlike Jabotinsky, the Zionist leaders of the pre-state period pursued a “selectivity” policy that doomed countless Jews in Europe. For example, in August 1937, Dr. Chaim Weismann, as leader of world Zionism, addressed a Zionist convention in London and baldly declared: “I told the British Royal Commission that the hopes of Europe’s six million Jews were centered on emigration. I was asked, ‘Can you bring six million Jews to Palestine?’ I replied, ‘No’ … The old one’s will pass. They will bear their fate or they will not… They were dust, economic and moral dust in a cruel world….” (more…)

A deranged Jew killed four Arabs in Shfaram. What led to this Arab bloodshed is the Jewish bloodshed that has been going on in Israel since December 1987, i.e., since the first Arab insurrection. Shall we blame only Arab terrorists for creating an atmosphere of murder? Is it not the responsibility of the government of Israel to protect human life, hence, to suppress Arab terrorism? (more…)

This essay will explore the precondition of Jewish leadership and why it is lacking in Israel.

It is a remarkable fact that the Hebrew word anav, usually translated as “humble” or “meek,” is the only adjective used in the Bible of Israel to describe the man Moses. Note that the noun form of anav is anava. The word appears in Numbers 12:3. “Now the man Moses was very humble (anav), above all the men that were on the face of the earth.” Strange that the Torah uses no other adjective to characterize a man so extraordinary as Moses. After all, though supremely humble, Moses has also been called the wisest man that ever lived—and not only by Jews. Yet we find in the Torah not the lofty adjective “wise” but only the lowly anav to characterize mankind’s greatest teacher and law-giver. (more…)