Civil Disobedience Versus Sedition: The Case of Moshe Feiglin and Shmuel Sackett
Prof. Paul Eidelberg On September 2, 1997 a Jerusalem Magistrate Court handed down a verdict of guilty of sedition to Moshe Feiglin and Shmuel Sackett,...
Author : LanoitYarco
Democratizing Islam
Introduction Since September 11, an “Axis of Evil” is said to threaten mankind. It has been given various names: “Islamic fundamentalism,” “Islamism,” “militant Islam,” “Wahhabism,”...
Jewish Roots of American Constitution: The War Against International Terrorism
Although many of the framers of the American Constitution were not devout, their political mentality was shaped in universities whose curriculum was based very much...
Assimilation: Its Basic Causes
“Are American Jews Disappearing?” is the lead article in a recent issue of the magazine New York. One could readily substitute “French” or “English” Jews...
A Petition Against Judicial Despotism In Israel
Israel’s Supreme Court stands accused by eminent citizens of Israel of exceeding its lawful powers and endangering the democratic as well as Jewish character of...
A Record of Judicial Despotism
Before setting forth the record of judicial despotism of Israel’s Supreme Court under its president, judge Aharon Barak, it will be worthwhile to mention a...
Judicial Aspects of Torah Governance
Israel is commonly regarded as the “only democracy in the Middle East,” and so it is compared to its despotic Arab neighbors. But how does...
Co-optation
Co-optation, i.e., admitting “outsiders” into the ruling group or Establishment to prevent their becoming revolutionaries, is a technique recommended by Aristotle and practiced to perfection...
War Models
Nazi Germany never attacked, killed or wounded a single American on the American continent. Yet the U.S. declared war on Germany, bombed its industrial and...
An Untried Policy
Countless Jews are appalled by the Sharon government. They cannot understand how this government, notwithstanding American pressure, can vote for a Palestinian state that will...