Basic Laws of Israel

The United States of America is not the only country that has a constitution of rights, there are several other countries that have a similar document. Some of the shared principles in constitutional democracy are; rule of law, separation of powers, representative government, checks and balances, individual rights, freedom of religion, federalism and civilian control of the military. In the U.S. Constitution, many all of these are prevalent and they can all be found in the…

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democratic regime, viewing the case of Israel through the lens of modernization theory as well as Bellin’s requisites for authoritarianism, it is evident that the suppression of women and minorities, as well as the existence of a credible threat provides plausible explanation for a drop in democracy over the time span of 1967-1999. Due to its unique beginning, Israel’s fluctuations in democracy cannot be analyzed without first looking the country’s creation. Israel was officially founded in 1948…

What I think of citizenship will differ from others due to our education and our personal lives. Citizenship means to me, that it is the place to at which the person has spent the longest period at, possibly where they were born, where they most feel comfortable and somewhere they can be treated as equal. Many of those statements aren’t the case for a clear majority of the countries. In the book, Cast Away: True Stories of Survival from Europe’s refugee crisis by Charlotte McDonalds-Gibson, this…

Essene sect is like what was found in the Dead Sea Scrolls. The Jewish Sectarians from both the Damascus and the Rule of the Community rejected Israel’s main religious ideology because these Jews thought they God chose them as the holy remnant of Israel and that the mainstream Jewish religious figures were wicked and impure. Likewise, Josephus’ described an Essene sect that was similar to the Rule of the Community in being celibate and having no women in their community. However, he also…

power which is the power to make law. Second, justice is obedience to laws. Government makes law according to their interests. Law is considered to be just; therefore, someone who breaks law is unjust. Third, justice is the good of another. Since justice is not individual good, it won't make one individually happy. Therefore, unjust man is much happier than the just man. However, Socrates refutes Thrasymachus’s definition of justice by arguing that people who make the law can be foolish and…

between the two groups, which stand on their ideological grounds. The aspects of these groups are assessed on categories of historical, ideological and military keeping in mind the weight and nature of the actions taken. Keywords: Hamas, Hezbollah, Israel, Iran I. Introduction Hezbollah and Hamas share interesting similarities and contrasts. The main difference being Hezbollah a left wing Shia group and the latter being far…

has been compared functionally and ideologically in this article. The aspects of these groups are assessed on categories of historical, ideological and military keeping in mind the weight and nature of the actions taken. Keywords: Hamas, Hezbollah, Israel, Iran I. Introduction Hezbollah and Hamas share interesting similarities and contrasts. The main difference being Hezbollah a left wing Shia group and the latter being far right Sunni;…

Palestinian immigrants. Kanazi’s grandmother was pregnant with his mother when she left Palestine in 1947. Around this time there was a great exodus or “nukba” of indigenous Palestinians, just as the land was being annexed to create the new state of Israel. Kanazi’s father left Haifa after the occupation had already taken place. Born in New York City in 1981, Kanazi has only ever seen his homeland as a visitor, with his country being under occupation for the entirety of his life. Kanazi’s…

Moses to liberate Israel from that servitude. The Pharaoh resists the purposes of God, and God responds by sending plagues on Egypt, the last of which leads to the death of the firstborn and deliverance at the sea. Israel saves itself from this through the Passover and then journeys to Sinai. At Sinai, Israel receives the Ten Commandments and the covenant is established. While Moses is receiving instructions…