IT IS a rather disgusting spectacle. The Israeli Right has won a crushing election victory. (On closer examination, the victory was not quite so crushing. Indeed, there was no victory at all. The crushing victory of Likud was achieved only at the expense of other rightist parties.) The Rightist bloc together has not advanced at … Read more
THIS WEEK I won a dubious distinction: a groundbreaking Supreme Court judgment has been named after me.It is an honor I would have gladly dispensed with. MY NAME appeared at the head of a list of applicants, associations and individuals, which asked the court to cancel a law enacted by the Knesset. Israel has no … Read more
MY FIRST reaction after the election was: “Oh, no! Not a National Unity Government, please! In my first article after the election, I devoted a large part to the danger of a “national unity” government, though at the time the possibility of such a government, based on Likud and the Labor Party, seemed very remote … Read more
I MUST start with a shocking confession: I am not afraid of the Iranian nuclear bomb. I know that this makes me an abnormal person, almost a freak. But what can I do? I am unable to work up fear, like a real Israeli. Try as I may, the Iranian bomb does not make me … Read more
THE 2015 election was a giant step towards the self-destruction of Israel. The decisive majority has voted for an apartheid state between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River, in which democracy will slowly disappear. The decision is not yet final. Israeli democracy has lost a battle. It has not yet lost the war. If … Read more
THE MESSIAH HASN’T COME and Bibi hasn’t gone. That’s the sad outcome. Sad, but not the end of the world. As the American saying goes: “Today is the first day of the rest of your life.” I would say: “Today is the first day of the battle for the next elections!” The battle for the … Read more
ONCE A Soviet citizen went to vote. He was given a sealed envelope and told to put it in the ballot box. “Could I possibly see for whom I am voting?” he asked timidly. “Of course not!” the official answered indignantly, “in the Soviet Union, we respect the secrecy of the ballot!” In Israel, elections … Read more
SUDDENLY IT reminded me of something. I was watching The Speech by Binyamin Netanyahu before the Congress of the United States. Row upon row of men in suits (and the occasional woman), jumping up and down, up and down, applauding wildly, shouting approval. It was the shouting that did it. Where had I heard that … Read more
WINSTON CHURCHILL famously said that democracy is the worst political system, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time. Anyone involved with political life knows that that is British understatement. Churchill also said that the best argument against democracy is a five minute talk with an average voter. How … Read more
ANTI-SEMITISM is on the rise. All over Europe it is raising its ugly head. Jews are in danger everywhere. They must make haste and come home to Israel before it is too late.True? Untrue?Nonsense. PRACTICALLY ALL the alarming incidents which have taken place in Europe recently – especially in Paris and Copenhagen – in which … Read more