Why Israel Needs A Constitution
[Based partly on a paper presented at the American Political Science Association annual conference in Washington, DC on August 31, 1997, and partly on the...
Author : LanoitYarco
Must The State Perish For Israel To Live?
In his Epistle to Yemen, Maimonides tells us how the nations have tried to destroy Israel. He prefaces his analysis by saying “God has made...
Professor Ruth Gavison on Judge Barak
Readers unfamiliar with the style of speech typical of the Israeli judicial system might think that the views expressed by Prof. Ruth Gavison in this...
Policy Papers – Jewish National Agenda
A Jewish National Agenda Professor Paul Eidelberg A. Parliamentary Electoral Reform As indicated in the previous article, statesmanship requires (1) well-educated statesmen, (2) a well-disposed...
Anyone For God?
Countless Jews and even gentiles are appalled and dumbfounded by Israel’s government. They cannot understand how any Israeli government, backed by an undefeated army, could...
Cruel Mercy
I must confess to being infuriated by Israel’s Government. I am sickened by the leaders of this Government. How they self-righteously proclaim, to an uncaring...
Small Parties In Israel
Small parties are commonplace in Israel. They multiply as a result of Israel’s system of proportional representation with an electoral threshold of 1.5%, by far...
Toward a Bloodless Revolution
Violent revolution would have erupted in any country had its people suffered what the Jews in Israel have suffered since Oslo 1993: deceit, betrayal, bloodshed,...
The Foundation for Constitutional Democracy » Should Israel Establish A Sanhedrin?
Various people want to reestablish the Sanhedrin. With all due respect to the many fine rabbis in Israel, can we find 71 judges who meet...
Netanyahu’s Myth of Reciprocity
Back in February 1997, when Benjamin Natanyahu was Israel’’’s prime minister, I wrote an article in The Jewish Press bearing the above title. Well, here...