The Foundation for Constitutional Democracy

The United States Senate and/or the House of Representatives should launch an immediate investigation into President George W. Bush’s report that Iran had shut down its nuclear weapons program in 2003 in response to international pressure.

At issue here is not only the validity of the latest National Intelligence Estimate, but also whether politics or ideology has been influencing the publication of NIE reports.

Norman Podhoretz observes:

… a full two years after Iran supposedly called a halt to its nuclear program, the intelligence community was still as sure as it ever is about anything that Iran was determined to build a nuclear arsenal. Why then should we believe it when it now tells us, and with the same “high confidence,” that Iran had already called a halt to its nuclear-weapons program in 2003? (more…)

Few people in Israel have anything but the most superficial knowledge of representative democracy and its prerequisites. But then, what else should be expected in a country whose ministry of education systematically omits this topic from the public school curriculum and where even universities seem to be black holes on the subject?

It should first be understood that constituency or multi-district elections is a prerequisite of representative democracy. What is not widely known is that representatives divide their constituencies into four distinct groups of voters, each of which they treat differently.

1. 1)  The largest group of voters is the district as a whole, or the Geographic Constituency. (more…)

To: Members of the Knesset—Especially Those Identified with the Nationalist Camp.

1) How many of you are cognizant of certain acts prohibited by the Law of Treason, namely:

• The category of acts which “impair the [territorial] sovereignty” of the State of Israel—section 97(a)—such as the 1993 Oslo Agreement;

• The category of acts which “impair the [territorial] integrity” of the State of Israel—section 97(b)—such as the 2005 evacuation of the Israel Defense Forces from Gaza and the surrendering of this land to Hamas; (more…)

In word and in deed, MK Aryeh Eldad [National Union/NRP] has been perhaps the most outspoken and courageous opponent of Israel’s withdrawal from Judea, Samaria, and Gaza. Many people look to him as a possible leader of the “nationalist camp.”

I place the words “nationalist camp” between inverted commas because there is no such creature. It’s merely an aggregation of individuals and groups which, year after year, have monotonously opposed the policy of “territory for peace.” Alas, these right-minded people not only lack a coherent, comprehensive, and realistic program to save Israel from the deadly consequence of the “peace process.” They also seem to be unaware that a nationalist camp cannot be truly nationalist unless the nation—the Jewish People—is properly represented in the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial institutions of government. The State of Israel has never had such institutions. Here I am merely paraphrasing what David Ben-Gurion wrote in his Memoirs. (more…)

After Ariel Sharon’s landslide victory over Ehud Barak in the February 6, 2001 election, Shimon Peres, anxious to become Israel’s foreign minister, urged his Labor Party’s central committee to join Sharon in a national unity government. He excoriated his opponents saying, “We must listen to the people!”

MK Yossi Beilin responded to Peres by saying, in effect, “Since when have we listened to the people?” He then referred to the people’s opposition to Israel’s withdrawal from the Golan Heights, which did not deter the Labor Party from pursuing that policy. Moreover, he suggested that had the Labor listened to the people, it would not have pursued the Oslo peace process!

Elitism is of the essence of Israeli politics. (more…)

If President George W. Bush were a sincere Christian, 9/11 would have humbled him. Bush might have asked himself: “Why did this tragedy happen on my watch? What did I do or fail to do that brought this devastating blow to the United States?”

Contrary to superficial critics, 9/11 was not the consequence of America’s pro-Israel foreign policy. The Rogers Plan, the Reagan Plan, and the Tenet-Mitchell Plan give the lie to this foolish idea. Long before the Road Map, the US was committed to Israel’s withdrawal from the land it rightly and lawfully regained in the Six Day War. (more…)

1) A thief is one who takes property that does not belong to him—right?

2) But if he gives that property to his country’s enemies, he then becomes a traitor—right?

3) This pretty much defines those Israeli prime ministers who gave, or who express the intention to give, any part of the Land of Israel to Israel’s enemies—right?

4) The same may be said of the supporters of these prime ministers both in the Cabinet and in the Knesset—right? (more…)

The announcement of the New Jewish Congress, which convened in Jerusalem on November 27, 2007, contained one very meaningful and potentially powerful statement: “The Sovereignty of the Jewish Nation over the Jewish State of Eretz-Israel.”

This statement recalls a policy paper I wrote several years ago entitled: “Must the State of Israel Perish for Israel to Survive?” By the “State” I mean, primarily, its political and judicial institutions: the Knesset, the Cabinet, and, above all the Supreme Court. These institutions must “perish,” meaning, they must be replaced by radically different ones. They must be replaced by institutions that do not fragment the nation into an absurd multiplicity of rival parties, that render the people powerless between elections, and that undermine Jewish national identity. The so-called Jewish State of Israel is an institutional catastrophe, as was known to eminent people in Israel in 1951 after the first two elections.

What was not known, and what is not understood to this day, is that very concept of a “Jewish State” is an oxymoron. (more…)

Here is that famous letter written in 1969!

This “letter” (written by Eliezer Whartman) first appeared as an editorial in the summer of ‘69 in the Times of Israel (long defunct).

Some of the sentences do not fit today’s situation perfectly, but the point of the letter, and its passion is as on the mark as it was over 38 years ago.

Who should read this letter? People—nonJews or Jews—who think that Jerusalem does not belong to the Jewish People, and only to the Jewish People.

And what about Jews who love Jerusalem and want to see it and all of Israel in Jewish hands? This letter is wonderful chizuk. Enjoy it! (more…)

by Hillel Fendel
Courtesy of Arutz Sheva

(IsraelNN.com) The New Jewish Congress was launched in Jerusalem on Tuesday—the same day as the Annapolis summit, whose defeatism it seeks to fight.

Organizations, speakers and supporters from across the spectrum of nationalist and religious thought were present at the Renaissance Jerusalem Hotel to take part in the opening sessions.

The plenary session was chaired by Congress co-organizer Prof. Hillel Weiss of Bar Ilan University. Others responsible for organizing the Congress were Katy Cohen and Prof. Arieh Zaritzky, while a fourth co-organizer, Dr. Gadi Eshel, read aloud the Congress charter, entitled: “The Eternal People in an Eternal Covenant in the Land of Israel.” Excerpts: (more…)

Перевод Аркадия Гинзбурга. Translation by Arkadiy Ginzburg.

Иран находится в состоянии войны с Соединёнными Штатами и Израилем в течение тридцати лет – с момента Итранской революции, начатой аятоллой Хомейни в 1979 году. Я осмелюсь предсказать, что эта революция чревата самыми серьёзными последствиями в истории человечества. Иран – это эпицентр международного терроризма. Его конечная цель, однако, состоит в том, чтобы восстановить Персидскую империю и распространить ислам шиитского толка на весь мир. И это не просто фантазия.

Иран сейчас контролирует южный Ирак, включая Басру, из которой Ирак отправляет свою нефть через Ормузский пролив. Весь Ирак достанется Ирану, как только американцы покинут страну. Между тем, Иран оказывает решающее влияние на Сирию. Подчинённая Ирану Хезболла фактически управляет Ливаном. Хамас – это другая иранская марионетка, и Тегеран направляет свои взоры на контролируемую Фатх’ом Палестинскую автономию.

По всеобщему признанию, Иран контролирует мировой поток нефти, проходящий через Персидский залив. Этот народ с населением 70 миллионов человек может вызвать крушение всей мировой экономики. Если экономическая мощь Ирана будет поддержана наличием ядерного оружия, которое находится в процессе разработки, то Иран будет контролировать и Средний Восток, и много чего ещё. (more…)