The Foundation for Constitutional Democracy

Dear Friends:

I have asked for this before: Perhaps Yoram Ettinger—or someone with his help—can write an article setting for the extent to which the U.S. is dependent on Israel in

1. avionics
2. high tech
3. medicine
4. intelligence
5. jobs
6. science
7. agriculture
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In honor of Yonatan Netanyahu

“Character of the Happy Warrior”
by William Wordsworth

Who is the happy Warrior? Who is he

That every man in arms should wish to be?

–It is the generous Spirit, who, when brought

Among the tasks of real life, hath wrought

Upon the plan that pleased his boyish thought:

Whose high endeavours are an inward light

That makes the path before him always bright; (more…)

If “Israel” is defined as a Jewish state, then those who deny Israel’s right to exist include Jews as well as Gentiles.

The Jews are leftwing secularists who want to transform Israel into “a state of its citizens.” They control not only the mass media, but also the all-powerful Supreme Court, whose most significant rulings violate the abiding beliefs and values of the Jewish people. This means that the Supreme Court (led by its cunning president, Aharon Barak) denies Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state—appearances to the contrary notwithstanding.

But what about those who assert Israel’s right to exist? (more…)

[Edited transcript of the Eidelberg Report,” Israel National Radio, July 3, 2006. The author is a former officer in the United States Air Force. He received a doctorate in political science at the University of Chicago.]

I don’t know if Entebbe’s fallen hero, Yonaton Netanyahu, read Sun Tzu, one of the greatest masters of war, but he understood one of Sun Tsu’s basic principles, “Know your enemy.” His letters agree with my conclusions about Israel’s ruling elites: they don’t know Israel’s enemy.

They never have, else they would never have negotiated with Arab despots. Consider the despots of the Palestinian Authority. They have been waging war against Israel for 13 years, have murdered and wounded more than 6,000 Jews—mostly civilians. Yet Israel’s rulers timidly refrain from declaring and waging serious war against these cruelest of enemies. This is the ultimate reason why Cpl. Gilad Shalit is in the hands of the enemy. (more…)