November 04, 2008 .... Change.

With Hezbollah making fresh claims to parts of northern Israel as defined by the border with Lebanon in 1920, the possibility of surrendering the Golan Heights in order to make negotiations with Syria more likely, the possible implications of who may become the US president this November 4th, and the ongoing possibility of Iran gaining a nuclear weapons capability, Israel would seem to be surrounded by existential threats of varying degrees of urgency.

Whilst there is a degree of truth in this, it is more urgent that Israel gets to grips with the most dangerous threat to its existence: The inability to elect politicians capable of forming a proper government with a propose beyond politics as an end in itself for the benefit of politicians, no matter how temporary their time in office, since it is a simple matter to call another election in order to rearrange the deck chairs.

This behaviour is not limited to Israel, of course. The devolved administration in Northern Ireland and the government of Ukraine are contemporary examples. The French and British governments of the inter-World War years are historical examples whose instability significantly contributed to the unopposed rise of Hitler and the Nazis, with the catastrophic consequences for European Jews, which provided the motivation for the creation of Israel, in 1948.

Aside from historical claims going back a couple of thousand years, Israel's right to exist is simply that without the Ottoman Empire or the British forces holding the ring, the land which is now Israel belonged to whichever interested party took it by force. For without an unopposable authority, rights do not exist. Thus, Israel has an entirely legitimate claim to all its territory.

This means that so long as Israel is governed by an unopposable authority dedicated to the defence of Israel, and not dedicated to figuring out pragmatic avenues of capitulation and/or like Shas whose goal is to promote Israel as the poorest western country backed up by sought after OECD propaganda, there is no right of return, nor do neighbouring states have any legitimate claim to any of the territory of Israel.

'Change' is the keyword underpinning the Presidential election in the US this November 4th, and Change must follow the February 2009 Israeli election. That change must be that Israelis are electing politicians to form a proper government for the full duration of the elected term.