An Urgent Letter to Opponents of Kadima
All of us are disgusted with the Kadima government headed by that “tired-of-being-courageous” Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. We shudder at the prospect of his most...
Author : LanoitYarco
A Brief Political Glossary for Israelis and Immigrants
A. Democracy: Two Types “Normative” or classical democracy: based on the idea of man’s creation in the holy image of God. This provides democracy’s basic...
Of Men and Apes
The Descent of Man is the ambiguous title of Darwin’s sequel to The Origin of the Species. Of course, it was not ambiguous to Darwin,...
Must the State Perish for Israel to Survive?
In his “Epistle to Yemen,” Maimonides tells us how the nations have tried to destroy Israel. He explains: “[Because of Israel’s unique and divinely inspired...
The Koran
In my July 21, 2008 report on Arutz-7, I said that the Torah makes nonsense of the Koran. Omitted was the following statement of Abraham...
Needed: A Jewish State in Israel
The socialists who founded modern Israel were committed not to a Jewish state so much as to a secular democratic state. The economic goals of...
Toward Respectable Political Parties
The classic definition of party was set forth by that great 18th century philosopher-statesman Edmund Burke: “Party is a body of men united, for promoting...
Arab and Israeli Statecraft
Arab rulers, for example, Syrian dictator Bashir Assad, have learned from Anwar Sadat how to get territorial and other strategic resources from Israel for nothing....
The Dearth of Leadership and Water
Virtually everyone in Israel is aware of the dearth of leadership in this country as well as its dearth of water; but very few see...
Why People Think Israel is a Democracy
Edited transcript of the Eidelberg Report, Israel National Radio, July 7, 2008. For most people, the mere fact that Israel has periodic, multiparty elections convinces...