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Israel Cannot Tolerate a Nuclear-Armed Iran

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  May 14, 2012   By Prof. Paul Eidelberg President, Israel-American Research Institute   Israel Cannot Tolerate a Nuclear-Armed Iran 1) Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad threat “death to America” and “death to Israel” must be taken seriously. 2) A nuclear-armed Iran would control the oil resources of Saudi Arabia, hence all the oil flowing through [...]

May 14th, 2012 | Posted in Opinion | Read More »

Approval Voting

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  May 7, 2012   By Prof. Paul Eidelberg President, Israel-American Research Institute   Approval Voting Most political scientists deplore Israel’s parliamentary electoral system of Proportional Representation (PR). This system is the result of making the entire country a single electoral district. PR produces not only an absurd multiplicity of parties, but also a cabinet [...]

May 7th, 2012 | Posted in Opinion | Read More »

Unconventional Thinking: Israel’s Bogeyman vs. Israel’s Salvation

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  April 29, 2012   By Prof. Paul Eidelberg President, Israel-American Research Institute   Unconventional Thinking: Israel’s Bogeyman vs. Israel’s Salvation I. Israel’s Bogeyman Israel’s bogeyman, “theocracy,” surfaces whenever people react to proposals affecting the relationship between religion and state. Most people—including academicians—harbor a superficial understanding of the term. They think “theocracy” means the “rule [...]

April 29th, 2012 | Posted in Opinion | Read More »

Politics and Religion: America and Israel

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  April 3, 2012   By Prof. Paul Eidelberg President, Israel-American Research Institute   Politics and Religion: America and Israel Unlike the modern State of Israel, whose founding was largely secular, the American founding was largely religious. Not only were American universities, such as Harvard and Yale, established by clergymen, but several state constitutions provided [...]

April 3rd, 2012 | Posted in Opinion | Read More »

To Negotiate as a Jewish State

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  January 9, 2012   By Prof. Paul Eidelberg President, Israel-American Research Institute   To Negotiate as a Jewish State Many Jews, even among the religious, harbor the fear that if the government of Israel were to act distinctively Jewish, it would irritate the nations and arouse their hostility. But such antipathy toward Israel already [...]

January 9th, 2012 | Posted in Opinion | Read More »

Judicially Sanctioned Crime

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  December 28, 2011   By Prof. Paul Eidelberg President, Israel-American Research Institute   Judicially Sanctioned Crime In her article, “Netanyahu’s misleading lesson in governance” (Jerusalem Post, December 27, 2011), Caroline Glick faults the Prime Minister for failing to support a bill that would curb the Court’s tendency to inject its notorious left-wing bias into [...]

December 28th, 2011 | Posted in Opinion | Read More »

The Truth

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  December 18, 2011   By Prof. Paul Eidelberg President, Israel-American Research Institute   The Truth Please read the Jerusalem Post ad below, and ponder what is missing before reading my response. The ad begins as follows:   This is our second letter sent to you recently. Our previous letter dealt with the incitement to [...]

December 18th, 2011 | Posted in Opinion | Read More »

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