The Foundation for Constitutional Democracy

A mental disorder has crippled Israel. This disorder is rooted in fear, but this fear has yet to be adequately diagnosed.

The idea that fear permeates the Jewish psyche is not new. It is the well-known consequence of two thousand years of statelessness and dispersion, persecution and humiliation, pogroms and holocaust. It is the inevitable result of the world’s perennial and deadly hatred of Jews and Judaism. (more…)

Although Israel’s system of governance is far from being democratic, Israeli politicians have a democratic mentality—the key tendency of which is moral egalitarianism. This egalitarianism prompts them to seek, rather than shun, negotiations with Arab dictatorships in the hope of achieving peace. Little do they understand the moral significance and deadly consequences of such negotiations, and neither do “politically correct” political scientists.

The story begins with certain principles of democracy. (more…)