The Foundation for Constitutional Democracy

The so-called National Union and the (anything but) National Religious Party, which propped up the Sharon government and thereby doomed Gush Katif, are desperate.

Realizing that most of their potential voters prefer a truly nationalist party, the pious leaders of NU/NRP are displaying mendacious placards saying that Baruch Marzel’s Jewish National Alliance—Hazit—is pulling out of the race.
To scotch this lie, Hazit is suing NU/NRP for one million shekels for damages.

I urge would-be NU/NRP voters to reconsider. (more…)

Does higher education, especially the social sciences, contribute to crime? The fact that higher education today is “value-free” or “ethically neutral” gives the answer to this question.

Like the humanities, the social sciences propagate moral relativism. Even before they go to college, youth are taught that there are no universally valid or objective standards by which to determine whether the way of life of one individual is intrinsically preferable to that of another. Notions of “good” and “bad” are said to be “subjective,” dependent on one’s like or dislikes. This kind of teaching—unmentioned by commentators on the murder and mayhem occurring in America schools—cannot but undermine moral inhibitions and contribute to crime.

To be sure, there are other causal factors. (more…)

Although a coup d’état may only involve a radical change of those who control the State, it often produces a basic changes in the character and purpose of the State. Before examining coup d’états that have occurred in Israel, some preliminary remarks are necessary.

The concept of the sovereign State, which goes back to Machiavelli, is foreign to the Torah, which recognizes only the sovereignty of God. The paramount instrument of the State is of course its government, its political and judicial institutions and bureaucracy. The State has taken the place of people. The State has also taken the place of God. The worship of the State is everywhere, including Israel. Here, even religious Jews genuflect to the sovereign State. (more…)

The mantra, “Don’t waste your vote on a small party,” misleads even intelligent people. They would like to vote for a small party—say X—but fear it will not break the electoral threshold, hence, that they will be “wasting their votes.” Let’s examine the situation in Israel, where the distribution of seats in the Knesset is based on Proportional Representation.

1) The 2003 election had a voter turn out of 3,148,000—69% of the eligible voters. It looks like the voter turnout may not be much higher despite the increase in population. An awful lot of people—apathetic or alienated—are going to stay home.

2) So let’s assume a turnout of 3,200,000. (more…)

● Do you know of any party—secular or religious—that categorically rejects the surrender of any part of the Land of Israel to non-Jews?

● Do you know of any party—secular or religious—that categorically rejects the idea that Jews can lawfully divest themselves of Jewish land by means of a national referendum? (more…)

All fundamental issues ultimately involve the G-d question. This obviously applies to the issue of “disengagement,” a euphemism for Israel’s withdrawal from Jewish land, the expulsion of countless Jews from their homes, the destruction of their schools and synagogues, and the turning over of this land, with its farms and factories, to the genocidal enemies of the Jewish people.

All this was done under the Evacuation Law. This utterly immoral as well as senseless law manifests a simple fact: in Israel the laws of the State take precedence over the laws of God. What a travesty, for the Jews were the first people in history that refused to worship the State. (more…)

A war is being waged against Judaism. The war is being fought on many fronts and by different enemies. But the most dangerous enemy by far is the government of Israel, sanctified by one or another religious party.

Israel’s government employs many weapons in its war against Judaism. For example, the Sharon government demonized and brutalized religious opponents of the Gaza withdrawal/ expulsion policy. The same government also diminished the funding for religious education. As for public education, its curriculum has produced generations ignorant of Judaism and Jewish history. (more…)

Vicious rumors are being circulated that the Jewish National Alliance (Hazit) will pull out of the race if polls indicate it will not break the threshold.

These rumors—disseminated by parties competing for the votes of the nationalist camp—are utterly false. (more…)

Dear NU/NRP Voters:

As you well know, we are approaching a momentous election, the outcome of which may affect Israel’s territorial integrity and survival as a Jewish state.

You all know that National Union (NU) and the National Religious Party (NRP) signed the Sharon government’s March 2003 guidelines, which committed the signatories to the Oslo Agreement and all agreements related thereto. By so doing, NU and NRP doomed Gush Katif. (more…)

Countless Jews complain about the ineptitude of Israeli governments, whether headed by the Likud, its rubbish, Kadima, or by the Labor Party. Hence the present writer, having made an exhaustive study of Israel and its Jewish politicians, and having examined the agendas of America’s leading Zionist organizations, hereby confidently offers the only possible solution to Israel’s decrepit and perilous state of affairs. I propose that the people of Israel hire Gentiles to run their Government!

Preposterous you say? (more…)

Remember what was said about Yasser Arafat and the Fatah-led PLO at the end of the 1980s? Something like this: “Once Arafat and the PLO are invested with the responsibility of providing services for the Arabs in the ‘West bank’ and Gaza—like collecting the garbage—they will transcend their terrorist past and become ‘moderates’ (i.e., bourgeois). Israel will then have a ‘negotiating’ partner for peace and for drawing the final borders of the state.”

Well, we are hearing the same drivel today about Hamas. (more…)

[Regardless of your party preference, it’s of crucial importance to encourage Jews to vote in the March 28 election. The reason appears underlined below].

Dear Discontented Voters:

I know: you’re fed up with the system and have decided to boycott the March 28 election. After all, the system compels you to vote for a party list not for an individual candidate that will represent you—your views and interests.

Besides, in the 2003 election, 1,232,000 people—almost 40%—voted for three parties that betrayed them! (more…)

If I were to say that Nadia Matar, co-chair of Women in Green, can pack more political wallop than dozens of gentle-men such as the Elons or the Orlevs or the Eitams or the Bibis—this would be an insult to that heroic woman!

Or if I were to say that Eleonora Shifrin, chairwoman of the Yamin Israel Party, can contribute more to Israel’s well-being than those gentle-men, I would have to apologize to this gallant lady for mentioning her name in the same sentence with these politicians. (more…)

1. Those who support the principles of The Jewish National Alliance—Hazit—but fall for the hoax about “wasting votes on a small party,” actually squander their votes as well as their principles!

2. Consider solid facts: The 925,279 people who voted Likud in the 2003 elections really wasted their votes on this large party, (more…)

[Based on the Eidelberg Report; Israel National Radio; March 6, 2006].

Interviewed by Arutz-7 on March 6, 2003, Dr. Yuval Shteinitz, chairman of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee—and a protégé of Benjamin Netanyahu—stated that we must “destroy the terrorist infrastructures, which include their educational system that inculcates entire generations with hatred and the desire to murder and destroy Israel …”.

Strange that Mr. Netanyahu has yet to make such a statement in his current campaign for Israel’s premiership—despite the ascendancy of Hamas. Why this reticence? After all, he boasts that terrorist attacks diminished during his tenure as Israel prime minister. In fact, he boasts of his stewardship of Israel as if he were the exemplar of statesmanship. Let us therefore check the record, going back to June 1996, when he was officially installed as prime minister. (more…)

In 1959, a Labor Party hawk by the name of Shimon Peres, Director General of the Defense Ministry, was secretly conducting an arms deal with France, then Israel’s major military supplier. By so doing, Peres circumvented and undermined the authority of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Golda Meir.

In 1961, Haim Laskov retired as Israel’s Chief of Staff. Yitzhak Rabin, who served under that outstanding patriot, writes in his memoirs: “Laskov might well have served for another year or more had he not fallen out with … Shimon Peres, which happened to more than one Chief of Staff…” (more…)

I know it may be unseemly to write disparagingly of a comatose man who may be dying. But I am more concerned about the tragedy of his victims—all too conscious of their suffering. And I am revolted by his creation, Kadima, an unelected party of paltry opportunists now in control of the country.

These Lilliputians unashamedly display huge pictures of their erstwhile godfather—still a popular hero. They do so to obscure their own diminutive character and to sanctify their unheroic policy of destroying Jewish communities and turning them over to murderous thugs.

Still, what is the other crime of Ariel Sharon? (more…)

The people of Israel have been disenfranchised. Here is the proof.

Toward the end of 1997, the Netanyahu Government voted unanimously (with two abstentions from the National Religious Party) that there would be no further Israeli retreat from Judea and Samaria until the Palestinian Authority (PA) fully complied with the terms of the Oslo Agreement. Moreover, a five month period was to elapse before any redeployment would be undertaken to test whether the PA was fulfilling its obligations.

On March 10, 1998, however, the Government adopted a four-staged plan in which “The second step will be the fulfillment by the Palestinians of their obligations (more…)

Security

• We alone propose abrogation of the Oslo covenant of death.
• We alone oppose territorial compromise with Hitlerian Arabs.
(more…)

Proportional representation (PR) is widely regarded as the most democratic system of government. If the electoral threshold is low, PR allows almost any distinct group of voters to win seats in a country’s law-making assembly.

Welcome to Israel. The entire country constitutes a single district and parties win Knesset seats in proportion to votes they receive in a national election. David Ben-Gurion opposed PR. Let’s juxtapose his reasoning (in Israel: A Personal History) and the life-and-death issue of “disengagement.” (more…)