The Foundation for Constitutional Democracy

In his February 15, 2007 Paper, “The Illusion of ‘Peace in Exchange for Territories,’” Dr. Mordechai Kedar of the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies concludes: “The Arab demand for a return of all Palestinian refugees to pre-1967 Israel remains the core of the Israel-Palestinian conflict, and this demand disguises Arab intentions to destroy Israel.”

Dr. Kedar’s conclusion substantiates two articles of mine: “The Futility of Negotiating with Muslims” and “Organized Lying,” both written earlier this month. Let me clarify what is at stake here. (more…)

I have long argued that negotiating with Muslims is an exercise in futility, and that the concept of “conflict resolution” purveyed by political science departments in the United States, Europe, and Israel is utterly foreign to Islamic mentality.

Gregory M. Davis reaches the same conclusion in a book subtitled Islam’s War Against the World (2006). He analyzes the three sources of Islam—the Koran, the Sira (the life of Mohammad), and the Hadith (traditions of Muhammad)—and demonstrates that the conflict between Islam and the West is irreconcilable.

The same conclusion appeared in a February 5, 2007 Front Page Magazine interview of Bill Warner, director of the Center for the Study of Political Islam. (more…)

The establishment of a Palestinian state is almost a fait accompli. Such a state dooms the Jewish State of Israel.

In January 1988, the month after the eruption of the first intifada, the present writer saw that the national unity government led by Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir (Likud) and Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin (Labor) lacked the courage to quell the insurrection. On that issue alone, the government had forfeited its legitimacy, a precondition of which is the ability to protect the lives and liberty of its people.

The craven character of the government was symptomatic of a terminal disease: the government would emasculate the IDF, demoralize the people, until Israel utterly succumbed to her implacable enemies and the insidious designs of the Saudi-oriented American State Department or former American officials on the Saudi payroll.

I therefore urged the establishment of a “Government in Exile” (more…)

Earlier today I wrote an all-too-brief account about five ingredients of national security:

1. Wise and courageous leadership.
2. A system of government that facilitates leadership.
3. National morale.
4. Knowledge of the enemy.
5. Military power.

I said little about “knowledge of the enemy,” namely, Islam. (more…)