October 1, 1948: Israel’s Greatest Miscalculation

Earlier this week Israel’s friend the United States, led by a man who arguably is Israel’s favorite American President of all time, issued a report that criticized Israel’s religious freedoms. The report was critical of the Orthodox Chief Rabbinate owning civil functions such as marriage, divorce and Jewish burials as well as poor bureaucratic treatment of non-Jewish spouses of Jewish Israeli citizens. It should be an alarm that within a year of America moving her Embassy to Jerusalem and officially recognizing the Israeli Golan as sovereign land, America is raising the alarm.

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Israel’s Ambidextrous Enemy

srael is in trouble internally, and it is a result of the perceived Right-Left polarization of the electorate. It is almost a crime to be labeled a Leftist, and yet few actually understand what the terms mean. During the past 15 years I have witnessed elections successively deteriorate on quality-of-life issues. Has anyone stopped to ask why no politician is talking about an income tax and fee rate over 50% and a VAT of 17%?

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