Tag: Constitution

Both Kulanu and Habayit Hayehudi expressed their fierce objections to the bill, as did Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit, who warned that the new legislation would rattle Israel's already frail constitutional standards.

President Trump, and a phone call.

An American, Israel, Indian connection?

Clinton supporters want the Electoral College Electors to vote for Clinton and not Trump.

Erdogan lectured Biden on how Gulen is operating a global terrorist network from his little home in Pennsylvania, and repeated his demand that the US immediately detain Gulen, so he won't give media interviews.

Turkish lawmakers endorsed a 3-month state of emergency declared by the government July 20.

Homeland Committee chairman McCaul is “worried about our ability to combat this threat abroad, but also here at home."

“How then, can anyone say that, the practice of Islam is protected by the U.S. Constitution?”

And the State Dept. can't help itself. They just have to preach.

Egyptians gave landslide support for a proposed new constitution after two days of voting, but the Muslim Brotherhood boycotted the balloting, which was accompanied...

Muslim Brothers are out for good, but Sharia law stays.

The left understands that it is working against natural emotions of loyalty and loss, and so it uses deception.

I was especially disturbed in the troubling times leading to the Disengagement expulsions when so-called Torah observant rabbis said that a Knesset vote could over-ride the Jewish connection to the Land of Israel.

When a drafter of Israel's Constitution says there is a problem because too many IDF commanders are religious, we need to worry about what kind of Constitution he is drafting.

Our president is supposed to bind himself to constitutional meanings.

Let's face it, people here don't vote for representatives. Party bosses and power players do.

Egyptians want an Islamic state.

The democratic opposition—like its counterparts in Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, and Iran—has learned that the United States will not help them.

What happens, then, if the regime doesn’t give in and the army doesn’t stop the demonstrations?

The constitution, as important as it may be, is not a cure for the genetic illnesses of the states of the Middle East.

Egypt's draft constitution enshrines Sharia rule without rubbing people’s faces in it.

A Maryland congressman apologized for referring to the Holocaust as he discussed his opposition to federal involvement in providing student loans.

Egyptian president Morsi made several sweeping decisions on Sunday afternoon, announced by the presidential spokesperson in a televised statement. Al Ahram reported that, to start, Morsi cancelled the addendum to the constitutional declaration, issued by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) on June 17. The addendum stipulated that the head of the SCAF, Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, was to remain minister of defense until a new constitution was drafted. Not any more.

If there is an Islamist president and parliament who pass laws that correspond only to Sharia and who appoint Islamist judges and al-Azhar shaykhs then Egypt will be a Sharia state. No doubt though the Constitution will be interpreted by many Western observers of proof that the Brotherhood and Salafists have moderated.

The Third Jewish Commonwealth has accomplished remarkable growth and productivity in its first six decades, and inspires the world with its resourcefulness. Yet as a young country, Israel has much room for improvement. Here are the Top 12 most pressing issues facing the reborn nation today: