It is instructive to remember the basic points of discord in the past between the Labor and Likud concerning the peace process. 1) The Misconception: Peres persistently maintained that there is no alternative to an international peace conference with the participation of the United Nations, United States of America, Russia, France, United Kingdom and others. […]
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Peace Process, Economy and Lies
Persistent fallacies sustained for a sufficient time, become accepted as universally truths by the public. When a monopolized media mobilizes for this cause and when the fallacy is based in an apparently related truth, the effect is magnified. The fallacy that the Israeli left favors the peace process with the Arabs more than the right […]
A Stable Democracy Requires Probity(Montesquieu)
Could Sharon be risking the Israeli Democracy?By Dr. Noah NissaniTranslated by Ehud Tokatly www.hopeways.org"There is no great share of probity necessary to support a monarchical or despotic government. … But in a popular state one spring more is necessary, namely, virtue". (Montesquieu, "The Spirit of the Laws", Volume i, Book III, Sec. 3, Hafner Press, […]
Liberal Democracy for a Heterogeneous Society
One frequently repeated argument in support of the Oslo agreement asserts that choice must inevitable be made between: 1) a democratic Jewish state within the 1967 borders, and 2) a state endangered by a possible future Arab majority. In the latter case, they say, the state could not be simultaneously Jewish and democratic. This argument […]
Post Holocaust Adaptation of Jabotinsky Peace Plan
Translated from Hebrew by Ehud Tokatly http://www.hopeways.org/ Historical Background: As Hitler came to power, the holocaust was about to become a reality. However, new hopes of saving European Jewry were kindled when the Jewish Agency and the German Government signed the "Transfer Agreement" for the immigration of German Jewry, with their assets, to Palestine. Before […]