Samson BlindedSamson BlindedRational perspective on the Middle East conflict, peace process, and antiterrorist efforts. By anonymous Israeli politician. Articles
Talk to Hamas
2008-04-21 09:00:00 People hate weak enemies, and so Jews despise Hamas and refuse negotiating with it. But note the two crucial things: Hamas doesn?t attack Jewish targets abroad or proclaim Palestinian statehood. Hamas can easily achieve publicity and political advantage by attacking the Israeli soft targets: Jews, Jewish businesses, and community centers abroad. Protecting them all is impossible. ... More About: Talk
Who knows? We do.
2008-04-18 10:39:00 Jews believe in the peace for various reasons. Some Jews are plainly self-hating, and just want a trouble for the Jewish state. Others are too tired of war, and just want to close their eyes to see the ivory tower of peace and happy relations between Jews, Egyptians, Iranians and whoever else. Some are primitive ...
Jewish peace or Arab peace initiative?
2008-04-16 09:59:00 Why doesn?t Israel accept the Arab peace initiative? It offers Israel normalization with all Arab states (though not Iran) in exchange for returning to the 1967 border, Jerusalem, and a solution to the refugee problem. That?s basically what the Israeli government agreed to; most Israelis accept the solution except partitioning Jerusalem. The differences are mundane: ... More About: Peace , Jewish , Initiative
What stranger should we love?
2008-04-14 11:21:00 There is one statement that drives me mad during almost every lecture. Invariably, someone stands up and says something along these lines, ?I know a little about Judaism , but the one thing I know for sure is that we should love our neighbors and not oppress strangers. That?s the entire Torah.? That?s what they were ... More About: Love
No one wants peace
2008-04-10 17:34:00 "I'm ready to negotiate with the PLO. I believe we should sit with them and tell them, No." Rabbi Meir Kahane Arab countries don't care much about Jews getting a tiny state somewhere in the unruly lands of Palestine - unruly to the extent that even Ibrahim Pasha's army, acting atrociously, hardly enforced a semblance of ... More About: Peace
Nothing is new under the sun
2008-04-08 21:14:00 The Arab position on Israel didn?t change at all. Human mentality doesn?t change. About ninety years ago, a prince of Mecca named Faisal signed an agreement with Zionists recognizing the Jewish right to the land and actually welcomed Jews. His successor recently unveiled Arab peace plan which ostensibly welcomes Jews in the Middle East. Saudi ...
End Gaza
2008-04-06 18:15:00 Gaza's political difference from the West Bank is telling: Palestinian national expression developed in the West Bank, but not in Gaza. The main factor behind that difference is the neighboring countries' attitude: Jordan fueled the West Bank Palestinian nationalism in the hope of sublimating the energies of its own Palestinians away from fighting the monarchy, ... More About: Gaza , Judea , Samaria
UNRWA, a sponsor of terrorism
2008-04-04 08:21:00 The story that awaits a narrator is the UN?s role in transforming Palestinian peasants into terrorists. Humanity, mercy is the practice of subjugating one?s own interests to the more pressing needs of others. The United Nations Works and Relief Agency did not act mercifully, as it actually furthered its bureaucratic and political interests by aiding ... More About: Terrorism , Sponsor
Biblical Anarchy
2008-04-01 17:03:00 I would like to welcome everyone to download Obadiah's new brochures below. They reflect his long-time interest in the biblical anarchy and liberalism (in the original sense of the word). The brochures are compiled from Obadiah's lectures on biblical ethics, anarchism, and anti-Left polemics. These topics are generally untouched in this blog, but I hope ... More About: Biblical , Anarchy
Oddly, we don't want your money
2008-03-31 11:08:00 The US gives Israel no aid. The money euphemistically called aid is anything but that. There are three types of aid: hesed (given of pure goodwill, not owed), tzedakah (owed for moral reasons), and mishpat (owed for legal reasons). None of those categories apply to Israeli-American relations. America possesses neither selfless goodwill, nor moral or ... More About: Money
Be like the terrorists
2008-03-28 09:38:00 The one thing I detest more than liberal ?rabbis? is racist Jews who speak of vile, underhuman Arabs. On the contrary, Arabs are normal, and in many political and moral respects remind us of how the Jews should behave. Take Arab rocket attacks on Israel. Few Jews are so contemptuous of Arabs to imagine them ... More About: Islamic Terrorism , Terrorists
If I'm not for oneself, who will be for me?
2008-03-26 17:03:00 After the millennia of the Exile, Jews are not used to sovereignty. Jews developed a habit of appealing to policeman: to protect their ghetto before, to protect their state now. And so the Israeli lobby bends over backwards to garner international support for sanctions against Iran . Just in case someone has missed it: Iran lives ...
An eye for an eye doctrine
2008-03-24 20:17:00 "An eye for an eye" is arguably the most misunderstood Jewish commandment. Most condemn it as too harsh, some praise it as just, but few cared to actually read it. This commandment applies to the narrow class of situations only rather than to all crimes. It is indeed odd to imagine that ancient Hebrews diligently pulled ...
American crisis-lite, very lite
2008-03-22 19:51:00 It is easy to be pessimistic about American economy. The hard part is timing the downturn. The problem is well known from shorting on stock market: many companies are obviously overvalued, but can still rise up enough to wipe out the bear. American economy was always, in a sense, a vampire. It attracted huge foreign investments ... More About: United States , Lite , Crisis
Dr. Baruch Goldstein was murdered 14 years ago
2008-03-20 08:32:00 [Mearat a-Mahpela (The Cave of the Patriarchs) is the burial place of Abraham, Yitzhak, and Jacob. The place was purchased by Abraham and conquered by Jacob. The cave is the second-holiest Jewish site. The insane rulers of Israel gave Arabs most of Mearat a-Mahpela even though Arabs massacred Jewish community in the very same city ... More About: Years
Theology vs democracy
2008-03-18 10:24:00 Israel goes from one restructuring crisis into another. Socialism, successive waves of aliyah, near-bankruptcy in the arms race, ideological changes from mini-state in 1948 to mini-empire in 1967 to defeatism since the 1990s strain government?s credibility and make Jews doubt if the nation has any ideology to sustain statehood. Democracy is a comfortable order for ... More About: Theology
Do the best, do nothing
2008-03-15 19:59:00 Policies are predominantly wrong because any given position in the complex adaptive system has myriad options, and any one option is likely to not be the best option. Complex adaptive systems resist policies but develop through painfully long series of micro-moves. At every stage, situation changes and needs adaptive response. Policies, on the contrary, tend ...
Judenrat and other rats
2008-03-12 16:53:00 I wonder what Jews can seriously defend democracy for Israel. There is a straightforward issue of Arabs constituting 34% among Israel's young, and so wielding decision-making power over all legislative acts which require supermajority voting. Along with ultra-left Jews and some anti-Semitic non-Jews in Israel, the Arabs are close to being the majority. Arabs vote ... More About: Rats
New Russians and Old Israelis
2008-03-10 12:25:00 Russian Jewish oligarchs seem to embrace Israel. The major reason behind their interest to the Promised Land is its non-extradition statute: Israeli law generally bans rendering a Jew to foreign prosecution. Israel is also notoriously lax on money laundering and foreign tax evasion: police investigate money laundering only when it coincides with a major tax ... More About: Russia , Russians , Israelis
The mind game
2008-03-07 20:32:00 The world screamed when Dr. Baruch Goldstein reportedly shot 154 Arab worshipers in the Jewish holy place in Hebron. The Kach Party he belonged to was banned in Israel, America, and elsewhere even though it had no operational link with the incident. Israel engaged in self-flagellation, including a high-level Shamgar Commission inquiry. Google shows 65,000 ... More About: Islamic Terrorism , Mind , Game , The Mind
Through health coverage to serfdom
2008-03-06 09:49:00 The American debate on comprehensive health coverage is instructive both because it illustrates the extremes of welfare society such as also Israel?s and because it shows how socialists take some very questionable propositions for granted. The American health problem is the overregulation of medical profession which led to spiraling costs and cartelized prices. Tooth filling costs ... More About: Health , Coverage
Pikuah Nefesh, misapplied
2008-03-04 10:54:00 And [Moses] said unto them: ‘Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Put you every man his sword upon his thigh, and go to and from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his fellow, and every man his relative.’ And the sons of Levi did according ... More About: Judaism
Back to Judea
2008-03-02 11:02:00 The ancient division of Jewish homeland into Israel and Judea was not incidental, but a built-in feature of the Jewish way of life. For Jews to maintain the principles different from the rest of the world, we must remain separate, ?the people that dwell alone.? Our principles do not run contrary to pagan ethics, but ... More About: Back
Russia cannot rebound
2008-02-29 09:33:00 It took the Russia n Empire three centuries to develop a caste of professional bureaucracy by mass import of foreigners into that profession. By the late nineteenth century, Russia finally replaced most Germans on the government service with natives. Still, provincial bureaucracy was famously corrupt and inefficient. Bolsheviks killed out the tsarist bureaucrats but failed to ...
Wasting the good army
2008-02-26 23:49:00 Half the country screams at draft dodgers. The other half dodges the draft. Naturally, Arabs are not fond of serving in the Israeli army; itâ??s not even about it being a Jewish army, but the primitive people’s dislike for any kind of organization. Palestinian Arabs revolted against Ibrahim Pasha in early nineteenth century over the ... More About: Army , Good , The Good
Israel?s fifth column
2008-02-24 12:06:00 How many Arabs are there in Israel ? The latest publicly available brochure on ethnic distribution from Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics is for the year 2003. It shows 15.6% of Arabs are aged 0-4, and 9.1% of Jews are in the same age group. In 2007, Jews were 5,470,000, and Arabs - 1,449,000. Accordingly, the number ... More About: Column
The fake allies
2008-02-22 09:03:00 America has no business aiding Israel . The attempts to achieve for Israel closer ties with the US are a disservice to Jewish people. American will never-ever pursue Jewish interests as they are irrelevant to US voters and establishment. America embargoed weapons shipments to Israel during the Independence War, threatened intervention on Egypt?s behalf in the ... More About: Fake , Allies
Others are worse than Olmert
2008-02-20 08:38:00 Even venerable Yitzhak Shamir, the former leader of LEHI, finally succumbed to the Left?s and foreign pressure and accepted Palestinian autonomy, a first step toward their independence. Menahem Begin, a no less distinguished former leader of ETZEL, was brought down by the Carter?s pressure, and gave away Sinai. No wonder Rabin the empty man was ... More About: Olmert
Bureaucracy in the small land
2008-02-18 08:22:00 Size worked against Israel. Huge United States provided its early pioneers with vast expanses of empty land to live free. By the time American bureaucracy has established control over the subjects, they grew used to freedom. Israel lacked that immense advantage of space. The early Israeli kibbutzniks were pioneers not inferior to American. The Israelis ... More About: Small , Land , Judea , Bureaucracy
Er?
More articles from this author:2008-02-16 18:36:00 Why leave in Israel rather than in Australia ? besides being unable to obtain a residence permit in Australia? Israel is a Jewish state, while Australia is not. Fine, but what makes Israel Jewish? The state violates even the basic religious precepts such as Shabbat, prohibitions of foreign worship and pork, and the positive commandment ... 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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