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[Make sure to read Daniel Greenfield’s contributions in Jamie Glazov’s new book: Barack Obama’s True Legacy: How He Transformed America.]
50 years ago, Israel came as close as it ever did to losing a war. While the Arab Islamic nations can repeatedly lose wars without paying much of a price, Israel can only lose one major war.
That Israel survived the grim days of that October when the sirens sounded, the radios blared unit names and young men rushed from synagogues to cars and then tanks and planes on the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, had little to do with the nation’s government.
The leftists who had ruled the country without interruption until that war (and whose rule would falter a few years later and almost entirely disappear after its disastrous deal with the PLO) had failed badly. Golda Meir and Moshe Dayan, the subjects of enduring personality cults, had brought the country to the brink of destruction. It was not the political or military leaders who salvaged the situation, but young men fighting desperately and heroically in impossible battles.
The Yom Kippur War was not the first time that Israel was outnumbered or overwhelmed by vastly superior numbers of enemy soldiers and tanks, but it was the first time that the men in the field felt like they had been left on their own by generals and politicians and had no plan to win the war. And so they fought all the more desperately knowing that there would be nothing else.
On the hill of Tel Saki, 60 paratroopers and 45 tanks held off 11,000 Syrian soldiers and 900 tanks. On Petroleum Road, a 21-year-old Lieutenant Tzvika Greengold hitchhiked to a base, took command of two damaged tanks and managed to hold off hundreds of enemy tanks and destroyed at least twenty of them. Heroism held the line and turned the tide, but it did little to excuse the disastrous failures that nearly ended the lives of millions and the State of Israel.
Before the Yom Kippur War, Israel had received multiple warnings that an attack was imminent. King Hussein of Jordan had personally flown in to warn Golda that war was coming.
“If we strike first we won’t get help from anybody,” Golda Meir had argued.
Had Israel struck first, it might have been able to neutralize the enemy and not only save thousands of slain soldiers, but the millions that would have been killed had Israel lost.
But Israel would not act without the approval of the Nixon administration. Golda assured Secretary of State Henry Kissinger that they would not strike first, and Kissinger assured the Russians that the Israelis wouldn’t strike first, and the Russians assured the Egyptians and the Syrians, who were preparing to strike first, that they had nothing to worry about.
“We’re in a political situation in which we can’t do what we did in ’67,” Defense Minister Moshe Dayan had replied to those urging him to hit the Egyptians and the Syrians first.
Despite multiple warnings, the country was not ready for war. Its disposition of forces, military doctrines and general readiness were badly out of date. The country’s political and military leaders had forgotten that they had only won through daring attacks and had come to rely on defensive positions like the Purple Line defenses in the Golan Heights or the disastrous Bar Lev Line on the Egyptian border that were structurally and conceptually flawed, and failed badly.
Israel’s old military leaders had come to rely too much on the old heroics of tanks, planes and paratroopers that had performed brilliantly in the Six Day War and had never gotten comfortable with missiles, anti-tank and anti-aircraft weapons. The Egyptians had badly fumbled the use of such Soviet weapons in ‘67, and the veterans of that war failed to respect their potential. The devastating impact of Soviet anti-aircraft fire and anti-tank missiles was an expensive education.
But the deepest failure was that Golda Meir allowed Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to cripple any possible Israeli response. The architect of a disastrous foreign policy that is responsible for many of America’s problems today had wanted Israel to lose a war.
Kissinger had told Egypt’s national security adviser in the spring of the year that, “if you want us to intervene with Israel, you’ll have to create a crisis. We only deal in crisis management. You’ll have to ‘spill some blood.’”
As Kissinger later told Ford, “we didn’t expect the October War”. “But wasn’t it helpful?” Ford suggested. “We couldn’t have done better if we had set the scenario,” Kissinger replied.
The State Department got what it wanted. Israel suffered severe military and morale losses, and was then prevented from benefiting from the fruits of victory when it turned the tables. Israel was cut down to size and went on the road to becoming a client state. Egypt was lured away from the Soviet camp in the first of a series of peace deals to ‘stabilize the region’.
What looked good on paper was actually a disaster for both America and Israel. The United States was saddled with propping up and coddling Egypt’s military dictatorship which can at any moment fall to the Muslim Brotherhood. (This temporarily happened when Obama promoted his Arab Spring leading to a scenario where Islamic terrorists gained possession of high-end U.S. military equipment and a top-ranked regional military. It will likely happen again) Much the same scenario will play out even sooner and on a smaller scale in Jordan. A ‘peace’ deal turning over the Golan to Syria fortunately failed. The PLO deal however created the worst existential threat to the Jewish State by embedding an expanding terrorist state inside its territory.
These deals were based on the idea that Israeli power must be checked to stabilize the region. Israeli power, rather than being seen as a source of strength for Israel and America, was stigmatized as a destabilizing force. Stability required Israeli territorial concessions, no unilateral operations and an end to everything that had made Israel a force to be reckoned with.
Israeli governments accepted the idea that the bold strategic moves that seized the initiative had to be replaced by a balance of terror which slowly escalates conflicts rather than stopping them (and which assigns blame to Israel, rather than the growing capabilities of the terrorists and their allies, for the escalation.)
What has been happening in the last 50 years is a kind of slow-motion military and diplomatic Yom Kippur War in which Israel gradually retreats from territories, relying on defensive positions that can’t hold up and diplomatic agreements that are worthless in the long run.
Even the Abraham Accords, widely hailed and hyped, that brought together Israel and some of America’s smaller Arab oil allies to oppose Iran’s growing power, were once again based on abandoning domestic moves and initiatives to solidly lay claim to parts of the Jewish State.
Kissinger used to sneer that, “Israel has no foreign policy, only a domestic policy.” Now Israel has no domestic policy, only a foreign policy. It has sacrificed its interests to a failed regional and nation-building strategy hatched in Washington D.C. and premised on completely misguided assumptions about Arabs and Muslims, and how their societies work.
50 years after the Yom Kippur War, the generals and soldiers who had come out of the ‘kibbutz’ outposts have resentfully been making way for new soldiers who come from the outposts of the ‘settlements’. Where the Kibbutz was primarily a socialist experiment, the settlement is primarily a religious Zionist one. Its families raise 9 children, not in communal creches, but in homes and around Shabbat tables.
Labor’s twin failures in the Yom Kippur War and the Oslo Accords with the PLO, destroyed its credibility. The majority of Israelis that it had been keeping down, Mizrahi refugees from the Muslim world, religious Jews, Holocaust survivors, Russian immigrants and settlers, helped put the conservative Zionist Likud in power and make Prime Minister Netanyahu the longest serving leader over Ben Gurion. The violent leftist protests against judicial reform are primarily an attack on a new Israeli majority that is not beholden to the failed leftist experiments of the past.
Despite all this, Israel’s military leadership draws on the same incestuous elite which has yet to be tested in any major military conflict. If the Yom Kippur War were to play out again, there is little doubt that most of Israel’s new generation of soldiers would respond just as heroically, as they have through the smaller scale conflicts against Islamic terrorists, but the generals remain a question mark. Unlike the old generals who took the initiative, Israel’s generals, like America’s generals, are focused on averting wars and avoiding any escalation of existing conflicts.
American generals obsessed with avoiding conflict are covering for a state of military unreadiness. Israeli generals fearful of any conflict may be doing the same thing.
The Yom Kippur War showed that the ‘safer bet’ of relying on defenses like the Iron Dome isn’t really safe at all. When your enemies outnumber you and their ruthlessness is endless, playing defense is not a survival option. Israel thrived when it attacked brilliantly and unexpectedly. Under the ‘technological genius’ of defenses like the Iron Dome, Israelis in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv are back to huddling in bomb shelters the way that they did during the old wars.
Ever since Israel was nearly destroyed in the Yom Kippur War because Golda and Dayan had put all their trust in Kissinger, proposals to take out Iran’s nuclear program have repeatedly come up against the objections of Washington D.C. Similarly any effort to seriously deal with Hamas fizzles out in the same way. Fifty years later, Israel still can’t allow itself to strike first.
And yet, just as in the Yom Kippur War, the hour may come when Israeli leaders have to decide whether to strike first without getting permission from D.C. or face the destruction of their nation.
If the Palestinian Muslims get together with other Arab Muslims to annihilate
Israel in a war stance that seems invincible – I hope it is Netanyahu who is in
charge and strikes first to neutralize the enemy. Because the war between
the Muslims and Jews – under the facade of supposed Israeli oppression of
Palestinians – is never-ending unto eternity. The choice for Israel is to always
strategize and fight – maybe using defensive tactics at times too – rather
than to always retreat and risk being crushed under.
Not to mention that American leaders are now destroying their own country
to implement a digital and global Communist takeover. Israel’s destruction
probably fits right into their plans. The American people are becoming more
and more aware of this and hopefully, the spirit to fight for freedom – already
lit within the ordinary Israeli soldiers and their loved ones – will soon ignite
within us too.
Brilliant analysis, Annie 45!!👏
Stay strong stay safe 💪🏾💪🏾
From your mouth to G-d’s ears!
I’ll give you Jews credit. You’re tough guys. Israel is surrounded by implacable enemies but never loses. It almost lost the Yom Kippur War but managed to pull it out and kick ass.
I hope you had a good Yom Kippur, by the way. 🙂
I’m wondering if Israeli Muslims and Israeli Christians fought for Israel alongside Israeli Jews in the Yom Kippur war?
Because Israel’s true moral legitimacy as a nation is that it protects individual rights and the sanctity of individual life in a part of the world where brutal tribalism is the norm.
“The Arabs are one of the least developed cultures,” Rand argued. “They are typically nomads. Their culture is primitive, and they resent Israel because it’s the sole beachhead of modern science and civilization on their continent….
When you have civilized men fighting savages, you support the civilized men, no matter who they are. Israel is a mixed economy inclined toward socialism. But when it comes to the power of the mind—the development of industry in that wasted desert continent—versus savages who don’t want to use their minds, then if one cares about the future of civilization, don’t wait for the government to do something. Give whatever you can. This is the first time I’ve contributed to a public cause: helping Israel in an emergency.” – Ayn Rand
“Ayn Rand’s Thoughts on Israel”
https://www.atlassociety.org/post/ayn-rands-thoughts-on-israel
Ok, you go right on wondering and wondering and wondering……about…….well……nothing.
The things you occupy your time with do not make the world a better place.
I can guarantee you that the soldiers of the Haganah and the IDF were comprised mostly of Jews, and maybe a few Christians during the initial war for independence and the 6 Day War. However the Jerusalem Post showed that 606 Muslims were voluntarily drafted into the IDF in 2020.
Unlike our woke military Muslims are always a huge security risk. Only America would have a Nidal Hassan working as a psychiatrist in the military, communicating with an American Muslim terrorist in Yemen and then carrying out a mass murder on a U.S. military base. And he hasn’t been executed yet.
If I may paraphrase from a song in Camelot:
“THX sits around and wonders what Muslims always do, and that’s what philosophers, intellectuals and Objectivists do.”
Israeli non Jews are not required by law to join the armed forces. Some choose to do so. We have Druse, Christian and Muslim soldiers. Many of the Muslim young folks who join up have to hide that from their families. But all who join up will tell you that Israel is their home, too and they feel an obligation to protect their homeland . Many who do have reached officer level status and have as much reason to be proud as do jewish Israelis. Contrary to popular bigoted belief, by the way, there are increasing numbers of ultra orthodox young men joining up.
Kissinger used to sneer that, “Israel has no foreign policy, only a domestic policy.”
Now the whole world only has a foreign policy and no domestic policy.
Happy Yom Kippur.
Kissinger is a court Jew. He never understood what Israel is all about.
I was on the Golan 50 years ago. We were sent there to relive soldiers for Yom Kippur. Anybody with eyes could see what was coming and we knew the government sold us out.
I cannot and will ever forget or forgive Labor for their crimes.
Thanks Chief!!!
You’re not the only one. Our government let us down badly.
“[Israel] has sacrificed its interests…”
Yeh, and what’s the name for the moral code of self-sacrifice? It’s called ALTRUISM.
The following applies to Israel as well as America,
“We do need a policy based on long-range principles, i.e., an ideology. But a revision of our foreign policy, from its basic premises on up, is what today’s anti-ideologists dare not contemplate. The worse its results, the louder our public leaders proclaim that our foreign policy is BIPARTISAN.
A proper solution would be to elect statesmen—if such appeared—with a radically different foreign policy, a policy explicitly and proudly dedicated to the defense of America’s rights and national self-interests, repudiating foreign aid and all forms of international self-immolation.” – Ayn Rand
OMG, Israel tried to save itself. Altruism! Altruism! Altruism!
The Israelis should have let those innocent Arabs destroy them.
From The Little Red Book: Quotations from Chairman THX:
*I don’t recognize any such absurdity as service to my country. I recognize a moral responsibility to my freedom and liberty and the freedom and liberty of those I love.*
Yeah, more of his strategically vacuous analysis, trying to fit strategy into his ideology.
Maybe the first principle of strategy is the need for secure borders. That is what I missed regarding the EU, I thought it would be obvious to their leaders that they needed secure borders.
Prior to the Six Day War in 1967, the United States wasn’t Israel’s primary arms supplier, France was- a relationship that arose from common interests in the 1950s when Nasser seized the Suez Canal and France was fighting Arabs in Algeria (as opposed to being invaded by them in the working class suburbs of Paris and other major cities). De Gaulle demanded that Israel show “restraint” and absorb an Arab attack (while saddled with “Auschwitz borders” based on 1949 armistice lines). Israel wisely chose to launch a preemptive strike, even though it ended the “special friendship” with France.
During the Yom Kippur War Israel absorbed an attack, and it cost thousands of casualties and more than one year’s GDP. Moreover, what “reward” did Israel reap from showing “restraint”? Almost all African countries severed diplomatic relations with Israel (Japan nearly did so as well), and the Europeans and even the Americans fell over themselves showing obsequiousness toward the Arabs. In less than four years the party that 80% of American Jews supported (and probably 70% still foolishly support) chose an antisemite without subtlety, Peanut Dhimmi Carter, whose only virtue was that his smug hypocrisy and sanctimoniousness was matched by his utter ineptitude. Even the breakthrough in 1977 (after Begin and Likud came to power) when Sadat visited Israel and addressed the Knesset was in fact a reaction against Peanut Dhimmi Carter. Carter had wanted to convene a UN sponsored Conference in Geneva (including the Soviet Union) to impose a dictated “peace” on Israel (much like the one didcted to Czechoslovakia at Munich in 1938). Sadat had no love for Israel, but the last thing he wanted was to bring the Soviets back into the Middle East as powerbrokers, after he had gone to the trouble of expelling them from Egypt in 1972. Peanut Dhimmi Carter hated Israel so much (he had wanted to nominate George Ball, a notorious Israel hater as Secretary of State) that he actually wanted to bestow this gift on the Soviets- renewed power and influence in the Middle East- during the height of the Cold War.
Thanks for the comments on Carter. My wife and me, we both support Israel, argue whether Carter is a good man. You gave me ammunition, that I’ll not use because, I’m married and want to stay that way, ha! ha!
In 1980 he said much the same thing that James Baker said about Jews 12 years later- “F#@k the Jews” and vowed that he’d “make them pay” if re-elected. He was always a sanctimonious fraud- his whole shtik was virtue signaling long before the term was invented. After campaigning for it for decades, he finally won a Nobel Peace Prize (big whoop- so did Yasser Arafat, Barack Hussein Obama and a host of other unworthy candidates). It should also be noted that “Mr. Human Rights” has embraced a rogues gallery of tyrants, butchers and terrorists- Arafat, Robert Mugabe, Hafez Al Assad, Castro, Daniel Ortega, even Kim Il Sung. His immediate successor ended the Cold War on terms favorable to the West, and didn’t natter endlessly about “human rights”- he created the greatest expansion of freedom and defeat for totalitarianism since WW II.
Carter was a Dhimmi softcock big time.
As the National party President of New Zealand said after his inauguration at the time “ America have elected a peanut farmer “ as POTUS..
Not bad from a small country with a proud WW1 & 11 war record.
And he created the ayatollah jelly role by not supporting the Shah and suddenly around 230 vineyards were destroyed along with everything else
Compared to Peanut Dhimmi or Barack Hussein Obama, Jazz Jennings is a raging cauldron of testosterone.
Loved your comments 100%. My only suggestion is not to use “sanctimoniousness” where “sanctimony” will do.
I watched a YouTube video about an Israeli tank that destroyed a ridiculous number of technologically superior Soviet/Syrian tanks. God and the brave troops saved the nation. I wonder, with this rush to globalism, if Israel will be the last nation to submit?
We are the only Jewish country on the planet, and for most of us this is vitally important. Globalism will not easily take hold in Israel, possibly mostly because it will be the religious and right wing Jews who will reject it. Israel has for years been drifting rightward.
“Now Israel has no domestic policy, only a foreign policy….” This can only mean disaster, because domestic policy MUST inform foreign policy. Any progressives, even Israeli progressives embracing policies that will destroy Israel’s ability to exist and defend herself should be treated as traitors.
“…but it was the first time that the men in the field felt like they had been left on their own by generals and politicians and had no plan to win the war.” This is inexcusably wicked. If Israel were to have a nationalist domestic policy, unapologetically devoted to Israel’s God, her people and land, then this would not happen. God has never approved of Israeli reliance upon foreign nations for her defense.
Israel sleeps while Iran completes two nuclear bombs. Your citizens argue about simple issues when your neighbor plans to kill as many of you as possible because it’s leaders are true believers that their god has whispered to them it is the right thing to do…wipe Israel off the map at all costs!
From my perspective Bibi is the agent your G-d has given Israel to protect you, yet how many citizens reject him? Have they not recently read your holy books? Or have they forgotten what happens when rejection comes to be? 40 years wandering…
The United States–my nation, does not see the danger, our elected leaders reject the evils within Iran, even with Americans killed by that country’s leaders. Do not count on the present leadership of the USA to stand firm and be ahead of this looming attack by Iran to protect your country and the lives of your citizens.
Joe Biden is gone mentally as his master (Obama) works his hateful magic with his muse Jarrett smiling as billions are released to Iran, ramping up their capabilities toward your country.
Israel is running out of time against Iran’s leaders.
What makes you think israel is asleep.? You dont get all the news because it’s not what US outlets want you to know. A couple of days ago a massive explosion was heard in Iran near the site where the regime is building missiles that are advertised by Iran as being able to hit Israel. The ground apparently shook and scared the locals. Israel has not signified involvement in this incident. But then that’s often the case. Not much detail was given, but I suspect that most Israelis may believe that this attack was from Israel. We don’t ask permission to defend ourselves any more.
More evidence the Kissinger was working for the other side.
“These deals were based on the idea that Israeli power must be checked to stabilize the region. Israeli power, rather than being seen as a source of strength for Israel and America, was stigmatized as a destabilizing force.” And that explains the hostility of the Obama and Biden administrations towards Israel. They believe that Iran would be a force for stability in the Middle East and act as a restraint on Israel and Saudi Arabia. Seriously, they believe this. But, then again, they are absolutely and dangerously delusional.
Spot on.
Alan Dershowitz’s ‘ The Case for Israel’ is brilliantly instructive.
I’ve read critiques of this great work by allegedly Arab academics and they are bloated fact averse critiques at that which miss the enormous amount of points made by Dershowitz by a country mile as we say in England.
We say “by a country mile” here in the States too! At least we used to.
…but they weren’t. I realize in 2023 that the mere mention of God is enough for even conservatives to change the channel, but two decades ago I stood on Tel Saki in the Golan and listened to a veteran of that battle tell tales of the Yom Kippur War. It not only made the hairs on my neck stand up, but had I not been in the presence of a respected war veteran, I would have dropped to my knees and praised God there and then, for only He could have accomplished such a feat.
Outnumbered and outgunned, with Egyptian tanks already being heard making their approach towards the berm, Israelis pulled the headers off a bunch of taxis and attached chains to the bumpers to simulate a division of tanks on approach. Once the Egyptians got close enough to hear, they turned tail and ran.
Miracles still happen in the modern world. One only needs eyes to see them. Happy Yom Kippur!
ISRAEL SURVIVES AGAINST ALL ODDS. INDEED: GOD WILL MAKE JERUSALEM A BURDENSOME STONE FOR ALL PEOPLE WHO TRY TO DESTROY ISRAEL. ZECHARIAH 12;2-3,9. Throughout history God preserved the Israelites despite, oppression, slavery, and threats to their existence. Through Israel He brought the Messiah into the world. One day He will restore Israel to National Glory and spiritual ascendancy when Jesus returns to establish His earthly Kingdom. Isaiah 11; Zechariah 14; Acts 3:19-21; Romans 11:25-27.
The day after Israel declared its independence May 14, 1948, the Arab armies of the neighboring states invaded Israel, determined to strangle the new nation at birth. The attempt ended in dismal failure. The events of June 1967 are the latest chapter in the age-old conflict between the descendants of Isaac and Ishmael.
Israel’s former enemies will bow down to the Jewish people because history will be God-centered, not man centered. Isaiah 60:14.
Isaiah’s fascinating portrait of the coming Kingdom displays the magnificence of God. It is God who is lifted up when the Kingdom comes. However, He has chosen to lift up with Him the people of Israel, whom He has chosen, and the Gentiles as well.
This is a long comment, like the twenty five hour Yom Kippur fast:
Israel knows that God’s miracles for us to live and God’s wrath against our enemies to be defeated are why we’re here.
Yom Kippur, ‘a day of atoning’, is the designated day to come clean and admit, as individuals and as a nation, that we’ve strayed.
Don’t we all?
So this is the day we affirm our ‘brit’, our covenant with God, because we know our lives depend on that brit, so that the miracles keep coming and our jealous enemies are defeated. This is in addition to doing all we can as human beings to stave off, with the Israel Defense Forces, the invading armies without and within.
And whatever we do, we know that those supreme efforts are never enough.
Now – about America.
Since the miraculous establishment in 1948 of the modern state of Israel within the land of Israel, (that little bit of land that God has set apart for us as an eternal inheritance), American governments have strayed from the spiritual basis for its own founding and subsequent blessed existence.
Clearly modelled, by the founding fathers in the Declaration of Independence, upon the children of Israel’s exodus from Egypt to the Promised Land, from slavery to freedom, America has been blessed.
America’s policies now reject that model. They reject the inspiration for their existence. They reject the Jewish people and the Jewish homeland. They reject God. They dare God’s wrath. They challenge the miracle of Israel.
Israel exists because God wants her to exist. She may stray, she may be led astray, but it is God’s will that she exists.
But who will atone and restore the vision of America for its survival?
Hear, Hear! Spot on!
after the holocaust it seems that israel hasn’t learnt anything . israel only has lip service . they would be headed for the gas chambers again if it wasn’t for them fighting off ethnic cleansing on a continued basis . oh !! by the way , jimmy carter is a peanut . farmer that is .
I was stationed with the US Army’s 8th Infantry Division in then West Germany during that war and we loaded out waiting for the order to deploy to Israel if they were losing AND the Soviets might have come to save their Arab vassals. We sat around waiting and eventually were told to stand down. Kissinger is a bum and when I read Admiral Zumwalt’s tales of dealing with him I realized the this low rent Machiavelli did this country AND Israel no favors.
The Arabs attacked Israel on Yom Kippur. Was it more disrespectful or cowardly?
Excellent article ! The incestuous brass is more interested in mowing the grass than doing what it takes to fight terror and do not inspire favorable comparisons with the heroes of 1967 and 1973.
In 1973, Kissinger made himself unavailable to be contacted by Israel during the war. He wanted Israel to get a “bloody nose” so he could make a deal favorable to the Arabs. Israel was able to reach Alexander Haig who provided Israel with the new TOW missiles from US east coast supplies along with instructors. The advancing Egyptian vehicles were being destroyed , yet as they looked up they saw it was not done by air power. They turned around. This was another example of Israel battle testing US weapons, which is often followed by improvements the US obtains. After the end of World War 2, Haig was an officer in theater who met Nazis working with the US. He did not like them and favored Israel. The US model of escalation in warfare is a failure. It emphasizes “sending messages” over victory.
I had never heard of Alexander Haig, until he worked for Ronald Reagan. That was my aha moment. The media literally tried to make the man look like a maniac, a little Hitler. Now years later I find out the man was a great help to Israel. This tell you a lot about the people who attack Mr Haig.
Watch the movie “Golda,” featuring an excellent Helen Mirren as Israeli PM, Golda Meir, as well as Liev Schrieber, unrecognizable playing Henry Kissinger in a couple of pivotal scenes.
This film gives the viewer a sense of the immense stress faced by a leader whose country and people are under attack by genocide-aspiring fanatics.
Ehud Barak is a wicked and evil man who has brought Israel on the brink of civil war. This wicked man just recently bragged that he only needed 8% of the population to bring all this unrest in Israel and he’s no better than the American Democrats who use the courts to override the will of the people. One of the reasons the people of Israel elected Netanyahu was in order to take power away from the courts in order to bring that power back to the people. Netanyahu needs to get Israel a constitution written as a powerful tool to take power away from the courts.