Kudos for Caroline
Our gallant and gifted political analyst, Caroline Glick, Deputy Managing editor of The Jerusalem Post, has called for a popular uprising against the Olmert government....
Category : A Sovereign Statehood
A Dialogue on Revolution
American: You Israelis never cease to amaze me. Since Oslo you have suffered more than 10,000 casualties—Jewish men, women, and children killed, wounded and maimed...
Democracy and Sexuality in Classical Athens
Although democracy had its origin in classical Athens—what could be more democratic than an assembly whose members are chosen by lot?—the Athenian attitude toward sexuality...
Foundation Poll 2 (2006)
Please answer the following question: What’s preferable: A) toppling the government by a vote of no-confidence, or B) a coup Thank you very much for...
Foundation Poll 1 (2006)
May I ask for five minutes of your time? The Foundation for Constitutional Democracy in Jerusalem is conducting an annual poll concerning Israel’s political institutions....
How Some Nations Empower Their People: Israel Disenfranchises Them—Part II
As indicated in Part I, members of Israel’s Knesset are not individually elected by or accountable to the people in constituency elections. This enables Knesset...
The Sacred Cow of Israel’s Electoral System Updated
Having just received Freedom House’s 800-page volume Freedom in the World 2005, I can now update not only the number of democracies which Freedom House...
The Sacred Cow of Israel’s Electoral System
It seems that many benighted Jews in Israel believe that their system of government descended from Mount Sinai. Their educators have yet to tell them...
The People of Israel Have Been Brainwashed
Various passages of Alexis de Tocqueville’s unfinished work The European Revolution, where he discusses France under Napoleon and Rome under Augustus Caesar, indicate that...
The Hidden Causes of the Lebanese War
THE HIDDEN CAUSES OF THE LEBANESE WAR, THE GOVERNMENT’S INEPTITUDE, AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT A. The Basic and Hidden Cause of the War...