The Age of Uncertainty Continues
On Dec. 5, 2016, Evelyn Gordon’s well crafted, “Disorder in the Court” emerged. As an expert commentator and well-known legal affairs reporter, her titled column, serves the purpose in attempts to...
View ArticleManifestation of jealousy
“——an ostensibly democratic electoral system can enable the ruling political party or parties to ignore the concerns of most citizens between elections and thereby make a mockery of democracy. Such is...
View ArticleTrump, Netanyahu and Hatred
” You know, to just be grossly centralistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right? The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islam phobic – you...
View ArticleFrom the Freedom of Our Slavery to What?
On April 2 2023, Memorial Day, Israel Hayom published Alex Trainman’s “A Crisis of Judicial Proportions Explained: Why Is Israel Rocked By Political Turbulence?” His introductory comments is an...
View ArticleA Ship of Fools
“Israelis turned out in the tens of thousands to rally on Saturday evening against a contentious government plan to overhaul the judiciary. This is the 18th consecutive weekend of such protests.”[I24...
View ArticleIn and Out of the News
On May 25, 2023, Israel National News published, “Betrayal” The failure of American Jewish Leadership” by Dr. Alex Grobman. It is a review of a book by Charles Jacobs and Avi Goldwasser’s collection of...
View ArticleHistory Can never be Erased
In his well known September 2000 book, “The Iron Wall, Israel and the Arab World”, Avi Shlaim, hardly, “A right-wing fascist”, surprisingly sings the praise of Ze’ev Jabotinsky. Early on he remarks, “A...
View ArticleIsrael’s Dysfunctional System Is Beyond the Pale
“We will divide up the region. Israel will return most of the West Bank, and the Palestinian flag will fly on public buildings in East Jerusalem.” [Yair Lapid as reported by Der Spiegel, May 8, 2008]...
View ArticleThe Less Understood Issues
“The fact that people throughout Israel do not have their own Knesset representation beholden and accountable to them means that the Knesset doesn’t truly represent the will of the people.”[Jerusalem...
View ArticleIs this what the rebelious opposition wants to retain ?
“If the so-called “champions of democracy” succeeded in obstructing the judicial reforms, democratic rule will be replaced by mob rule and Israel will be tottering on the brink of an Orwellian...
View ArticleLaw and Disorder
“Supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting.” [Sun Tzu] “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality,...
View ArticleJustice Denied or Impaired
“The fundamental basis of nation’s laws was given to Moses on the mount – if we don’t have a proper fundamental moral background, we will finally end up with a totalitarian government, which does not...
View ArticleDemocracy and Justice
“The Torah contains the admonition, ‘You shall not do evil [perversity] in the exercise of justice [legislation, courts, police, government, etc.] Justice is served only by acting justly.” – [Rabbi...
View ArticleDemocracy and Justice
“The Torah contains the admonition, ‘You shall not do evil [perversity] in the exercise of justice [legislation, courts, police, government, etc.] Justice is served only by acting justly.” – [Rabbi...
View ArticleTime to end the Judicial war
In a Jerusalem Post Op-Ed on March 5, 2013, Daniel Tauber raises the question, “Is this Democracy? He was, of cause referring to Israel. His introduction, “If a lawmaker doesn’t face the public before...
View ArticleA Walk Down Memory Lane
“The reason we Jews survive is that the cowards leave us.” [Professor Albert Einstein] April 26, 2016: The Algemeiner published,” The Phenomenon of Jewish Self-Hatred.” by Joseph Puder. He acknowledges...
View ArticleA Civilized World Living With Evil
“I’ve come here to Cairo to seek a new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world, one based on mutual interest and respect and, one based on the truth that America and Islam are...
View ArticleIn the Beginning
“Don’t make the mistake of thinking that the longer you’ve been here the more you understand Iran. Most of our intelligence reporting has been wrong all along and not just since the revolution. Yours...
View ArticleIgnoring History
“Over the years, Gaza has become a symbol to Israelis as a liar of some of the most rabid Jew-haters in the Middle East.” [Fighting Terrorism by Benjamin Netanyahu ] Andrew G Bostom’s, 766 page book,...
View ArticleIran and Terrorism
Why is the Arab world so troubled? Or to quote two Palestinians cited by David Pryce-Jones in “The Closed Circle: An Interpretation of the Arabs”[1989] : “Why have Arab countries failed to cope with...
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