Samson BlindedSamson BlindedRational perspective on the Middle East conflict, peace process, and antiterrorist efforts. By anonymous Israeli politician. Articles
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?
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 ...
Israel is better than nothing
2008-02-14 10:37:00 What?s the point of maintaining an Israel i state? Neturei Karta is right: Jews have even more rights as dhimmi under Muslim jurisdiction. When the country belonged to Arabs, Jews could settle freely in Hebron and any other place. Jewish education was religious or patriotic, whatever the Jews chose. Every Jewish group enjoyed autonomy, low taxes, ...
Fear of God vs fear of Arabs
2008-02-12 11:09:00 In Hebrew, rasha means profane, ungodly, and hamas refers to violence and destruction. The peace process must put even die-hard atheists to shame. Nothing short of a miracle explains that every time Israel is ready to cede Judea and Jerusalem, Palestinians preclude the Jewish defeat. Arafat turned off Barak?s offer which included just everything the ?moderate? ... More About: Judaism , Fear , Arabs
The blood covenant
2008-02-10 12:18:00 There is unmistakable similarity between the Stalinist society laid bare by Koestler in his Darkness at Noon and the post-Zionist Israel. The defining characteristic of Stalinist society was a suppression of common morality now for the sake of attaining high ideals later. The ideals have to be sufficiently abstract so that the people won?t be ... More About: Blood , Covenant
Our land is not Arab land
2008-02-08 10:57:00 Four decades ago, ?Entrance forbidden to dogs and Arab s? was a common sight in Germany. Xenophobia was sublimated from Jews onto Arabs. Every nation has a right to live as it wishes, including the right to live without strangers. Had the Germans evicted Jews in 1939 to Switzerland or even to Palestine, that won?t be ... More About: Land
A nuke for a nuke
2008-02-05 10:13:00 Attacking Iran is not only about stopping its nuclear program, but preventing nuclearization of other rogue regimes who are now waiting to see the outcome of international quarrel with Iran. Destroy Iranian oil refineries, bomb pipelines, stop gasoline deliveries. Iranian economy strained to the extreme. Security build-up for Sistan, Baluchistan, and Kurdistan cost Iran a ... More About: Nuke
Israel cannot blockade Gaza
2008-02-03 10:23:00 The border crisis in Gaza brings out a previously concealed dimension of the Palestinian problem: the problem is not Israel ?s only. Though many condemn Israel for blockading Gaza, Arab Egypt does exactly the same. Gaza is blocked both from Israeli and Egyptian sides. Previously, Egypt blamed Israel?s control of Egypt-Gaza border for the Palestinian troubles. Later, ... More About: Hamas
Terrorism is enemy, no evil
2008-01-31 11:19:00 People embellish their enemies in order to improve their own reputation. Fighting a prominent enemy is a marvelous task. Thus Israelis attribute pan-Islamic qualities and freedom fighters? aspirations to Palestinian peasants, and the Arabs, in turn, mythologize the IDF. Being defeated by the armed-to-the-teeth monster is not that insulting. Israelis, for their part, inflate the ... More About: Terrorism , Evil , Enemy
Israel and America
2008-01-29 09:59:00 As the successive US Administrations employ the Old Europe?s cynical and corrupt approach to politics, their policies are twofold: pro-Israel i and anti-Jewish. US Administrations need Israel the bully to push Muslims into cooperation with America . But since the US politics lost the last shreds of morality, it works against everything that is Jewish in Israel. ...
Vengeance ends wars
2008-01-27 17:22:00 Toward the end of WWII, Russian Army raped just about every woman in Germany. I?ve never had a problem with that. The wholesale rape was not a military measure by any standard; it didn?t serve to crush the German will to fight which was already at the low point by then. The rape was not ... More About: Wars , Vengeance , Ends
The best Jewish charity
2008-01-25 22:17:00 Readers often ask us where to donate in Israel or what is the best Jewish charity around here. First, never-never donate to Joint Distribution Committee, United Jewish Appeal, or your local assimilationist shop ran by the temple administrators. They are neither charities (huge administrative overhead), nor Jewish (cater to anything but the real Jewish interests). It ... More About: Charity
Promised Land is the ultimate minimum
2008-01-24 12:00:00 The Bible promises the nation of Israel a huge country from Nile to Euphrates. Such country was unsustainable and utterly unnecessary for Jews in antiquity. ?From Nile? includes Sinai, but even Egypt didn?t govern the Sinai in the times of old except for a narrow strip. The Promised Land was a technical impossibility and a ... More About: Judaism , Ultimate , Minimum
Judaism is never antiquated
2008-01-22 10:01:00 Jews distinguish between neighbors and others; the latter category includes animals. Ethical norms equally apply to both. Prohibition of murder, for example, equally applies to humans and animals. In that sense, Gentiles are similar to animals: in Judaism , animals are high, not Gentiles are low. The Bible does not ban polygamy, but condemns it. Most vociferously, ... More About: Quat
Rape, then and now
2008-01-20 14:23:00 Jewish tradition is adamant that the forefathers observed the law before it was given to Moses on the Sinai. Why, therefore, Jacob’s sons slaughtered the people of Schem for raping their sister instead of allowing Schem to marry her, as he pleaded? The background is simple: upon coming back to Canaan, Jacob purchased a field ... More About: Rape
Yigal, a victim of wickedness
2008-01-17 12:53:00 Jewish tycoons cannot get respect from Jewish masses that are only jealous at their illicit gains, and seek respect from Gentiles by misrepresenting themselves as Jewish leaders. The tycoons usurp the respect accorded to Jews as a whole, and discredit the Jews as a whole by their unprincipled wickedness. Jewish leaders imagine they can fool ... More About: Victim
Is Shalit worth a thousand terrorists?
2008-01-15 20:51:00 Medieval knights and barons rarely fought the pervasive bandits who besieged their castles. Ransom was a more common outcome. Also, Torah requires the Jews to ransom our compatriots. We, however, proclaim ransom unacceptable. The effect of ransom is shifting the risk from the current victim onto the other innocents. Ransom spares some, but encourages the ... More About: Terrorists , Worth , Thousand
Justice cannot afford niceties
2008-01-13 01:34:00 Most of the commandments are eternal. Some commandments reflect the eternal truths, but must be viewed in the context. Such is the commandment of marrying a rape?s victim to the rapist. There is not much information about the crime rate in ancient Judea, but violent crime was rampant in Roman suburbs and in the feudal ... More About: Justice , Judaism
The oil slums
2008-01-10 01:21:00 Nations are not alike. The differences are often imperceptible, but in the complex adaptive systems minor differences bring major results. Korea developed while Vietnam didn?t. Singapore maintains an advanced economy while Malaysia is a backward, labor-oriented economy. Japan evolved into a technological hub, but neighboring China didn?t. In retrospect, differences can be found in each ... More About: Islam
Do we need even righteous judges?
2008-01-08 01:20:00 In 1947, BBC reported that the vote at the UN was conducted under pressure and that the large audience at hand demonstrated its predominantly Jewish character by applauding the UN resolution’s adoption. The same ?impartial? BBC shapes the world opinion about Israel now. The US soon withdrew its 1947 vote for establishing Israel. Britain conducted its ... More About: Judges
No Boers in the Knesset
2008-01-06 17:10:00 “The range of American policy options in the region is reduced to two alternatives, both disagreeable: Get tough or get out.” Bernard Lewis, National Review The example of South Africa is inapplicable to Israel. African Blacks have a certain snobbish respect for the whites. The Blacks massacre one another but proved reluctant to annihilate whites even ... More About: Knesset
Education against Jewishness
2008-01-04 15:14:00 Responsible people take matters into their own hands and build states ? at whatever cost. Then, they grow irresponsible and lose their countries. Historically, growing irresponsibility was related to affluence: people, safe and economically secure, distance themselves from the issues of statehood. They can afford the politicians? occasional mistakes and don?t bother discharging their main ... More About: Education
Jews need not be perfect
2008-01-03 13:17:00 We’re not that bad. Jews were never perfect. We had many sects with widely divergent views. Jewish apocrypha like the books found in Qumran is removed from the traditional Judaism farther than Christianity. Rabbinical Judaism wildly departed from priestly Judaism of Sadduceans. Judaism of the Torah was never practiced by all Jewish communities: it is ... More About: Perfect
Peace process made real
2008-01-01 01:05:00 It?s all about statistics. The world is superficially concerned about the six million Jewish deaths rather than twenty million Russian in the WWII because the entire Eastern European Jewry has been wiped out, while the Russian nation was only dented. It?s also about savagery. Jews were murdered with unexpected ? historically standard ? cruelty, while Russians ... More About: Peace , Peace Process , Made , Real , Process
Down with Gaza
2007-12-30 01:13:00 What can we do about Gaza ? The peace process tales are all very fine, but realistically there could be no peace there. The most benevolent Jewish policies would make 99% of Gazans content with Israel; still, fifteen thousand discontent radicals can carry out suicide operations in Israel ad nauseum. Near absence of terrorist infiltrations from ... More About: Judea , Samaria
Raising hands or breaking hands?
2007-12-28 19:04:00 Leftists concentrate their efforts on the Avodah party, but conservatives are dispersed among many parties. That situation reflects differences in mindset. Leftists are oriented toward immediate goals, while right-wingers look to high-flown ideals. Leftists join party lists and government coalitions based on the common current agenda; fringe conservatives refuse to join those with slightly different ... More About: Hands , Breaking , Breakin
No problem with children
More articles from this author:2007-12-27 14:19:00 Grown people criticized adolescents throughout the ages as immoral, lazy, money-hungry, etc. The adolescents grew up and similarly criticized their children. Teenagers don?t have our values, but neither had we have those values when were young. Values are a product of extreme indoctrination or long-term personal development. Israeli children are not ardent Zionists like their ... More About: Children , Problem 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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