Hong Kong
Hong Kong, or rather the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), has a total area of 422 square miles on which reside some seven million...
Category : A Sovereign Statehood
Beyond Idolatry
The goal of the Torah is to eliminate all forms of idolatry on the one hand, and to promote the universal recognition of ethical monotheism...
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...
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...
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...
Are There No Men In The Knesset?
The present writer received the following report from Israel National News: “Winograd Panel Member: Why is Olmert Still PM?” Winograd Committee member Professor Yehezkel Dror...
The Same Old National Camp: Going Nowhere
It has been reported that concerned citizens in Beit El recently invited several leaders of the “political right” to a panel discussion on the proper...
Poli. Sci. 101 for MK Yitzhak Levy
Knesset Member Yitzhak Levy wants to raise the number of Knesset members from 120 to 150. As reported in The Jerusalem Post last week (June...
Obama Cloaked by Media
The Jihad Candidate by Rich Carroll Conspiracy theories make for interesting novels when the storyline is not so absurd that it can grasp our attention....