Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was educated in America. His father taught here. Netanyahu expresses admiration for The Federalist Papers, which he considers to be a landmark in constitutional thinking and an inspiration and guide for how to set up…
One of the early scenes in the movie 1776 shows John Adams despairing for America’s freedom from British oppression. He sings, “Is anybody there? Does anybody care?” That scene came to mind when the latest news broke about Iran’s hell-for-leather…
Equity is a roguish thing; for law we have a measure, know what to trust to; equity is according to the conscience of him that is chancellor; and as that is larger or narrower, so is the equity. It is…
The Knesset (Israel’s parliament) just passed the first reading of the new government’s long-overdue bill to reform Israel’s Extreme Leftist Judiciary Gone Wild. The bill now goes to committee and then needs to pass two more readings to become law….
Political foes of Israel’s old/new Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seem to be borrowing a page from the American left’s playbook. They’ve mounted a worldwide campaign to portray him as a threat to democracy. Much as the threat and then the…
Like a dog returning to its own vomit, the supercilious elites of our so-called international community maintain a rather curious fixation. Like clockwork, these elites always find a way of singling out for opprobrium one tiny nation-state that is no…
Unarguably, the war in Ukraine is the result of the machinations of Vladimir Putin, who has been the clear leader of Russia for nearly 23 years. Yet, as one who had a rather unique (for an American) association with Putin…
It turns out that, sometimes, the fifth time is a charm. With the final ballots now counted in Israel’s fifth national election in four years, the results are officially in: Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu, already the longest-serving prime minister in the…
Over the past three years, Israel has had more elections for its head of government than any other country. It’s democracy on steroids. A country of just over seven million Jews (74 percent of the total), two million Arabs (21…
There often is an eerie similarity between the politics of America and Israel. That is because: 1. Both countries are model Western democracies. 2. In both countries, the voters trend towards traditional values but compromise, accepting what they are offered….
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