Samson BlindedSamson BlindedRational perspective on the Middle East conflict, peace process, and antiterrorist efforts. By anonymous Israeli politician. 
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Jerusalem in Palestinian mentality
2009-07-23 10:07:00 Outsiders often erroneously equate media pronouncements with public sentiment. Media, however, are removed from the people in Arab countries no less than in the West. Jihadist rhetoric on Hamas TV amuses Gazans, but hardly draws volunteers. On the other hand, the relatively peaceful rhetoric of Jordanian newspapers doesn?t square with the common Jordanians? extreme animosity ... More About: Jerusalem , Palestinian
Emergence of a Palestinian people
2009-07-20 09:28:00 When foreigners think about Palestinian s, the first image that comes to mind is not a cultural event, but the confrontation with Israel. Palestinian nationalism is actually a common sense of the Jewish threat. Palestinian nationalism developed as a protective attitude in the face of Jewish pressure. Jews, as rarely happens in the history of statehood, ... More About: People
Israeli Palestinians: from terror to security
2009-07-16 09:14:00 A very small part of the Israeli Arab population is actively involved in terrorism, but not many are required. A handful of terrorists can disrupt the life of a small state. So far, the immense intelligence networks of Israeli security services intercept almost all the terrorists’ attempts, but the entire network will go down as ... More About: Security , Terror , Palestinians
The Judenrat of Sderot
2009-07-13 09:18:00 The government?s restraint regarding the attacks on Sderot is a continuation of Zionist Judenrat attitude. During the Arab pogroms of the 1930s, Zionist leadership adopted a policy of restraint, and a passive defense of settlements. Such tactics allowed the Arabs to regroup and store weapons in the unchallenged safety of their villages, and left Jewish ...
Many things are rotten in Iran
2009-07-12 12:48:00 The West pays too much attention to Ahmadinejad?s rhetoric. In Iran ’s hierarchy, he is nobody. Ahmadinejad is formally powerless: the Council of Guardians has veto power even over the parliament?s decisions, and much more over the president?s. The supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, makes all foreign policy and national security decisions. Iran?s president is also powerless ... More About: Things , Rotten
Israel?s nuclear strategy
2009-07-09 09:43:00 What?s the moral reasoning behind the restraint on using nuclear weapons? The preference given to conventional warfare means societies are okay with their soldiers dying at a slow rate over considerable time rather than quickly. Societies shield civilians who vote to send soldiers to war from nuclear retaliation. In monarchic wars, soldiers were subject to ... More About: Israel , Nuclear , Strategy
Why bomb Iran?
2009-07-07 09:59:00 Israelis make too much fuss of Joe Biden?s interview where he stated that Israel, as a sovereign nation, is entitled to take any course of action against Iran . Biden?s statement is nonsense: sure, a sovereign nation cannot attack another country. Neither it necessarily changes the US position: vice president is unable to say that Israel ... More About: Bomb
Political violence: useful, legal, and justified
2009-07-06 09:27:00 Various organizations defend the human rights of the Palestinians. Curiously, political philosophers don?t know whether natural rights exist at all, let alone their range. The Declaration of Human Rights reflects an ultra-left understanding of them. European states employ many workarounds to circumvent the Declaration. Electoral barriers and districted elections violating proportional representation are just some ... More About: Political , Legal , Violence , Justified
Real militant Judaism
2009-07-02 09:29:00 It is unnecessary to insist that God revealed the entire Torah word-for-word. Good enough if we accept the divine origin of the commandments and agree that priests considerably adapted the law to changing circumstances, just like the Talmudic rabbis did a thousand years later. We cannot stop working on the Sabbath: power stations, police, air ... More About: Judaism , Real
Peace doesn?t come through withdrawal
2009-06-29 09:26:00 Arabs will not decrease violence to allow Israel an honorary withdrawal from the West Bank. Just like the Jewish fighters haunted the British in Palestine in 1947, Arabs will continue killing Jews even if Israel evacuates Gaza and the West Bank. Diplomats cannot understand why Arabs keep on killing Jews even in the face of ... More About: Peace , Withdrawal
Palestine?s real enemies: other Arabs
2009-06-25 09:08:00 Arabs, rather than Jews, have proved the biggest obstacle to Palestinian statehood. Jordan looked forward to annexing the West Bank, Egypt wanted the Negev, Lebanon had designs on the Galilee, and Syria wanted everything. Nobody cared about Palestinian Arabs. Jordan, seeking to annex the West Bank, even banned the word ?Palestinian.? Later, Jordanian (the Black ... More About: Palestine , Enemies , Real , Arabs
The miracle of fleeing Arabs
2009-06-22 09:43:00 The 1947 partition of Palestine left the Jewish state with a 40 percent Arab population. Miraculously, the Arabs took off. Their flight started almost a year before the conscious Jewish policy of expelling the fifth column. Unlike in the previous periods of civil unrest, Arabs fled the country rather than temporarily moving into the hills. ... More About: Miracle
From West Berlin to the West Bank
2009-06-18 09:28:00 Palestinians didn’t define themselves as such until the 1960s. The original Palestinian nationalists of 1920s-40s, such as Istiqlal?the most radical party?spoke of Syro-Palestinian identity or Greater Syria. Syria, however, was under French occupation while Palestine was under the British. The British, accordingly, resisted Syro-Palestinian nationalism and evicted its proponents first to Syria, and then arranged ... More About: Berlin , West , Bank , West Bank
Netanyahu surrendered
2009-06-16 10:56:00 Where venerable Yitzhak Shamir, the former commander of LEHI terrorist group, caved in to American pressure, Netanyahu stood no chance - especially since he had already surrendered during his prior term as prime minister. Netanyahu raised two demands for accepting a Palestinian state. One is that it either be demilitarized or Israel receive international security guarantees. ...
Palestinians in Jordan
2009-06-15 09:10:00 The Jordan River makes for a cultural barrier, but not an ethnic one. An almost impassible waterway a century ago, the Jordan River marked the boundary of civilization. East of Jordan lay barbarous Arabia, but the West Bank showed a degree of civilization, first owing to the influence of the Ottomans and, since the late ... More About: Palestinians
And many false prophets will arise?
2009-06-13 22:02:00 The catastrophe is unfolding so slowly, draped in so many speeches, that few note it. Distracted by myriad events, people don?t see the terrible picture which unfolds just before their eyes: The end. By leftists. For the entire history, things were allowed to run their course. Time and again, great leaders intervened and caused ripples on ...
How Palestinian is this land?
2009-06-11 09:58:00 Even today, the West Bank is thinly populated: about 60 percent of its territory is settled by a mere 1 percent of the Palestinian Arab population. In the early nineteenth century, Palestinian Arabs lived predominantly in the hills except for minor communities in Jaffo, Akko, and Jerusalem. When the citrus boom started, Palestinians began acquiring ... More About: Land
The Palestinian no-nation
2009-06-08 09:44:00 Nationhood is irrelevant to statehood. Russians are closer to Ukrainians than Tatars, but Russians form a state with Tatars rather than Ukrainians. Spaniards are closer to Portuguese than to Basques, but form a state with Basques separate from Portuguese. African tribes are not nations, but the withdrawing colonial powers allotted the tribal entities statehood. States ... More About: Nation , Palestinian
On honest reconstructionism
2009-06-04 09:59:00 I dislike many, perhaps most of the halachic Jewish rules, yet, for the most part I observe them. That doesn?t make me a hypocrite but a responsible citizen of the Jewish nation, respectful of the other Jews? opinion. Let?s say, everyone drives 65 miles an hour and I feel that?s absurd. I can safely drive twice ... More About: Honest
A club of club-wielding Jews
2009-06-01 09:00:00 Absence of riches is not poverty, and absence of arrogance is not humility. One need not be humble in order to avoid arrogance. Self-respect is a positive attitude. Rabbis emphasized humility for a reason: stiff-necked Jews could be extinguished. Given the weakness of Jews compared to the imperial powers and the host nations of the Diaspora, ... More About: Judaism , Club
Peace? Fear not
2009-05-30 21:18:00 “Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, to you have I given it” Joshua 1:3 Abbas places unrealistic demands on Israel because he cannot push his Arabs to any concessions. He cannot sell them even the best peace offer as he is no one by now. His presidential term expired, and even ... More About: Peace , Fear
It?s not about ethics
2009-05-28 09:50:00 Psalm 78:4, 7: “?telling to future generation the praises of the Lord?. That they might put their confidence in God? and keep his commandments.” Jews praise God as the ultimate king not to please him, for he cannot be pleased. Continuous praise of God allows sufficient confidence in him that Jews firmly observe the commandments. Praise ... More About: Ethics
Bribery pays
2009-05-26 08:17:00 America ignores friends, bribes enemies insufficiently and mismanages the resulting crises. The country spends tens of billions dollars in a pointless Afghan war which it failed to end promptly on the winning note. Pakistan is America?s closest ? indeed, indispensable - ally in that war. The US recently lost the Central Asian bases after Russians ... More About: North Korea , Bribery , Pays
On the utility of illegal outposts
2009-05-25 09:44:00 Settlements in the territories are legal in terms of Israeli law and illegal in terms of Palestinian law. Current international law also bans settlements on occupied territories, but that idealistic doctrine arose after 1946 and was never tested in legal practice. The UN doesn’t dispute the legality of Russian settlements on the occupied Kuril Islands. ... More About: Utility , Illegal
With Blood and Steel
2009-05-21 09:33:00 “Against them make ready your strength to the utmost of your power, including steeds of war, to strike terror into [the hearts of] the enemies, of God and your enemies” Quran 8:60 Everyone has the occasional moment when he leisurely walks to a coffee shop and sees an old poor man on the street scrambling for ... More About: Blood , Steel
Netanyahu and Obama: The end
2009-05-20 11:13:00 “Bare Your holy arm and hasten the time of salvation. Take retribution against the evil people on behalf of Your servants, For deliverance has been too long delayed; there seems no end to the evil days. Thrust the enemy into the darkness of death, and establish for us the seven Shepherds.” Maoz Tzur song Netanyahu’s meeting with Obama might enter ... More About: Israel
Capture Bin Laden?
2009-05-18 08:25:00 It is unbelievable that the CIA is seriously searching for Osama bin Laden . He cannot hide for thirteen years. The CIA closely works with Afghan mujahedeen, who are Osama’s close friends and would readily betray him to the Americans for a quick profit. Osama’s CFO defected to the Saudis, and his chief buyer, Abu Hajir, ... More About: Osama Bin Laden , Capture , Bin Laden
Netanyahu and Obama
2009-05-16 20:33:00 ?They have healed also the hurt of My people lightly, saying: ‘Peace, peace’, when there is no peace.? Jeremiah 6:14 I?ve never bought the hypothesis that individuals shape the history. They can produce ripples, to be sure, but little more. If not Stalin, Trotsky would have sent Russians into Gulag to form a ?labor army? for ... More About: Israel , Obama
Debating the left
2009-05-14 08:53:00 In our days, leftists are not really left. Traditionally, the right-wingers were conservatives seeking to preserve the time-tested order of things, and the leftists thought to change it for what they think is better. Since Plato, the leftists? major qualification was their belief that immensely complex human societies can be fully understood, therefore redesigned, and ... More About: Left
Facebook and the right of Holocaust denial
More articles from this author:2009-05-11 16:23:00 Liberal Jews are inconsistent. They seek to shut up Facebook ?s Holocaust deniers but resist the Muslim attempts to shut up those who defame their religion. An affront against God is immeasurably more offensive than against any number of his creatures. There is nothing wrong about fooling the opponents with false moralizing. The problem starts when Jews ... More About: Semitism , Holocaust Denial , Denial 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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