“I believe in American Exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism. I’m enormously proud of my country and its role and history in the world.” —the 44th President of the United States American Exceptionalism is a unique concept which applies to no other nation-state.
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I-ARI (the Hebrew word “ari” means lion) is a non-profit educational institution. As the word “renaissance” implies, both Israel and America—at least their governments—have departed from the seminal ideas that made Israel and America the most inspiring and greatest nations on earth. This abandonment has produced a spiritual vacuum in the West, a vacuum being
What did Abraham Lincoln mean by our “ancient faith”? He meant the teachings of the American Declaration of Independence. The core teaching of the Declaration is that man’s rights to Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness derive from the “Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God.” But this teaching actually goes back to Abraham,
Welcome to the Israel-America Renaissance Institute (I-ARI). We here offer a paper on diplomacy unmatched by any other think tank. If you think we are boasting, read on. Since President Barack Obama desperately wants to negotiate with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and since Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu desperately wants to negotiate with Palestinian Authority
America needs a fresh understanding of the foundational documents, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. What follows is only a preface. Contrary to what Americans have been taught in colleges and universities, the Declaration of Independence is indebted more to the ethics and rationalism of the Jews than to the ethically neutral rationalism of











