The Foundation for Constitutional Democracy

Edited transcript of the Eidelberg Report, Israel National Radio, October 8, 2007.

A Primer on Diplomacy

Back in 1978, while negotiations were going on between Israel and Egypt, I published a “Primer on Diplomacy” in the hope it would somehow influence Israel’s ruling elites. Of course it did not—otherwise Israel would not be going to Annapolis. Nevertheless, just as Bogart said, “Sing it again, Sam,” I’m obliged to voice the same message to Israeli diplomats today:

A study of autocratic regimes reveals that their methods of negotiating with democracies differ significantly with those they employ with other autocracies. Contrary to appearances, authoritarian politicians are not necessarily less politicians. Of course, they are less amenable to compromise with democratic politicians, but only because they usually don’t have to! Their “stall and threaten” technique when dealing with democracies works well for them; it does not work well when dealing with fellow dictators, and is seldom used for that reason.

Hence it is not only the character of dictatorships, but the cunning of dictators that produces the kind of negotiating tactics we always seem to experience; his tactics depend not only on his system of government, but on the tendencies of our own. (more…)

Edited transcript of the Eidelberg Report, Israel National Radio, October 1, 2007.

Even before Anwar Sadat arrived in Jerusalem on November 19, 1977, I warned the government that it was letting the fox into the chicken coop. The day before Prime Minister Begin left for the September 1978 Camp David Summit with Sadat and President Jimmy Carter, I warned him face-to-face that Sadat was pursuing a peace-and-war strategy.

In December 1978, three months before Begin signed the March 1979 Israel-Egyptian peace treaty in Washington, the Hebrew version of my book Sadat’s Strategy appeared. The book contained an essay on the almost unknown subject of “martial versus democratic diplomacy.” Two weeks before the treaty was signed, I was in the US lecturing around the country warning people about Sadat’s strategy. A few months ago, Daniel Pipes, who supported that treaty, admitted it was a failure: Egypt was not really committed to peace. (more…)

Friends:

Extreme situations, such as that now confronting Israel, require extreme measures. This is why I wrote “The IDF: A Politician’s Army.” Israel faces the threat of Total Annihilation from Iran, or piecemeal destruction from Hamas and Fatah, either one of which may obtain more lethal weapons.

Israel’s present government is utterly incapable of dealing with this threat. (more…)

Why has Prime Minister Ehud Olmert “suddenly” opened up backdoor channels to Syria offering to surrender the Golan Heights to that terrorist state?

The Bush administration let it be known, however, that it does not want Israel to negotiate with Syria. This is a cover-up. (more…)

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s willingness to surrender the strategically important Golan Heights to Syria is the most recent example of the Left’s contempt for Jewish public opinion. The present writer recalls various polls taken before the June 1992 election, when overwhelming public majorities of 80 to 90 percent opposed any withdrawal from the Golan Heights.

In that election, the Labor Party’s official platform proclaimed: “Israel sees in the Golan Heights an area of great importance for its security, its safety and the ensuring of its water resources, even in times of peace. (more…)

Whereas Prime Minister Olmert is willing to yield the Golan Heights to Syria, a despotic regime;

Whereas the Golan Height belongs as a matter of right to the Jewish People;

Whereas surrendering the Golan Heights would violate the inalienable right of its Jewish inhabitants; (more…)

Dear Friends:

We’d like you to know that various “copy-cat” organizations have sprung up since the Foundation received tax-exempt status from the IRS in 1996. These other organizations, however, have back-tracked on the decisive issue of making members of the Knesset individually elected by and accountable to the voters in constituency or regional elections.

One of these organizations, which has met with Israel’s president as well as with MKs, seems to have succumbed to the Establishment. (more…)

Tom Carew of Dublin, Ireland replies to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) which calls upon Israel to let Palestinians return to “their” land. He writes:

I await the call for the “return” of 7.5 million Muslims who left India in 1947 [10 times the number of Arabs who left Israel in 1947-1949]. They would include the Pakistan President—born in Delhi. (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? But what can be more preposterous than the Jews who have been in charge of Israel’s Government, especially during the last thirty years? (more…)

The Law vs. Aharon Barak: A full-page advertisement with this title was published on October 22, 2004 in The Jerusalem Post, in Makor Rishon and in the International Edition of The Jerusalem Post.

According to international law Judea and Samaria are not “occupied territories”, as evidenced by several international agreements that have recognized the Jewish People’s right to possess and settle the land.

The primary international legal documents that assumed, either expressly or implicitly, that Judea and Samaria are Jewish territories, being an indivisible part of the Jewish National Home, are: (more…)

by Dr. Steve Carol ©

The Golan Heights is a semi-mountainous escarpment of some 451 square miles, ranging in height from 400 to 3,000 feet. It rises steeply from the eastern and northern shores of the Sea of Galilee, runs the length of the Huleh Valley, and overlooks the coastal plains of the Galilee and northern Israel. There is a Jewish connection to the Golan as it is dotted with ancient Jewish villages and synagogues.

In 1948, Syria joined with other Arab states in an aggressive attack against the newly re-established State of Israel. (more…)

On May 10, 1940, Churchill became England’s Prime Minister. Three days later, in a speech to the House of Commons, Churchill declared: “You ask what is our policy? I will say: It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us: to wage war against a monstrous tyranny …. That is our policy. You ask: What is our aim? I can answer in one word: Victory—victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.” (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…)

The Davidson Press is proud to announce the publication of Professor Paul Eidelberg’s provocative and revolutionary booklet, The Myth of Israeli Democracy: Toward a Truly Jewish Israel.

This collection of ten brief ground breaking essays might be a called the “Jewish Federalist Papers.” The booklet challenges the wisdom and justice of American and Israeli statesmen who advocate the establishment of an Arab Palestinian state in the heartland of the Jewish people. (more…)

If there is any illegal outpost in the Land of Israel—Arabs aside—it’s the outpost occupied by the Knesset.

The mere fact that the government designates as “illegal” an outpost occupied by Jews means that the government itself is illegal, since the Land of Israel is the God-given and eternal possession of the Jewish People.

Thus, when Chief Justice Aharon Barak had the audacity to rule that Judea, Samaria, and Gaza constitute “belligerent occupied territory,” this only means that the Supreme Court building over which he presides is “belligerent occupied territory.” (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…)

Prof. Paul Eidelberg & Prof. Israel Hanukoglu

1. You all know that Sharon has become the Left’s prime minister.
2. You remember how Mafdal and Ichud HaLeumi said they could do more good by staying in the government than by resigning. Look what happened: (more…)

I’m dismayed by the wailings of religious Cassandras. Any sensitive person will deplore if not cry over the tragedy that has befallen the Jews of Gush Katif. Indeed, I for one regard Sharon’s expulsion of these Jews from their homes as the greatest desecration of the God of Israel—a desecration broadcast throughout the world. (more…)

A Message from David Ben-Gurion to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and his judicial collaborator Chief Justice Aharon Barak,

“No Jew is at liberty to surrender the right of the Jewish Nation and the Land of Israel to exist. No Jewish body is sanctioned to do so. No Jew alive today has the authority to yield any piece of land whatsoever. This right is preserved by the Jewish People throughout the generations and cannot be forfeited under any circumstance. Even if at some given time there will be those who declare that they are relinquishing this right, they have neither the power nor the jurisdiction to negate it for future generations to come. The Jewish Nation is neither obligated by nor responsible for any waiver such as this. Our right to this land, in its entirety, is steadfast, inalienable and eternal. And until the coming of the Great Redemption, we shall never yield this historic right.”
Speech to the 21st Zionist Congress Basel 1937 (more…)

Make no mistake: The State of Israel is disintegrating.

While we must do everything possible to prevent the expulsion of Jews from Gaza and Northern Samaria, we must not be totally preoccupied with this immediate and urgent problem. A small group of persons is needed to think ahead and to think in larger and more positive terms, otherwise we shall limp from crisis to crisis until the nation utterly collapses.

Be cautious about certain persons now vying for leadership of the Likud. (more…)