Samson BlindedSamson BlindedRational perspective on the Middle East conflict, peace process, and antiterrorist efforts. By anonymous Israeli politician. 
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Politics of religion
2009-05-11 09:45:00 I have reservations about the Trinity, but so did many early Christians, and the concept is lacking in the synoptic gospels. When Jews adorn Torah scrolls with silver crowns, I?m not in a position to criticize portraits of God in Christian cathedrals. In the synoptic gospels, Jesus hardly said anything contrary to Judaism . His Sermon on ... More About: Politics , Religion
Yes, we?re chosen
2009-05-08 09:35:00 The Jews’ status as chosen people is politically incorrect. The concept is not racist: unlike the black/white skin-color distinction, anyone can join the chosen people by converting properly. The concept, however, is insulting: any Jew is chosen from birth, automatically, while Gentiles have to undergo a very hard conversion. It is of no sense to ... More About: Judaism
Biography, ideology, and personality
2009-05-05 09:05:00 Osama is not an insurgent leader, but a CEO. A rich kid, he always wanted to prove himself a combatant, but ended up a manager. Osama introduced business concepts to terrorism: seed financing, outsourcing, and franchise. He is not directly engaged in terrorist operations but gives small money to promising aspirants; helps them with inspiration, ... More About: Biography , Osama Bin Laden , Ideology , Personality
Justice, modern and the real one
2009-04-29 11:47:00 Global communication allowed for our increased our knowledge of remote facts, but state propaganda facilitated by the very same global communication increasingly twists those facts. It is astonishing that most Westerners imagine Israel as a liberal democratic state, friendly to Jews and militant toward Arabs. The first was never true; the other two are false ... More About: Justice , Real , Modern
No trust in the government
2009-04-27 11:33:00 The Israeli ruling establishment buys off the opposition or destroys it. Religious parties are bribed with massive subsidies to their electorate, and vote in the government on the par with left-wingers. The real opposition leaders, such as Meir Kahane or Rehavam Zeevi, are assassinated with Arab hands. The establishment routinely resorts to falsifications and provocations ... More About: Government , Trust
World against Jews: Battleground Jerusalem
2009-04-22 11:13:00 Presenting the conflict as Israeli-Palestinian is misleading, a classic case of what mathematicians know as Achilles and the turtle paradox of infinitely small iterations. The conflict is between Jews and the world. European powers evicted Jews from Europe, and allocated us 0.01% of the Middle East. In fact, there were several arrangements, in turn diminishing ... More About: World , Jerusalem , Semitism
What?s so good about peace?
2009-04-20 11:07:00 Peace with Muslims would be great, but Israel would never be able to exist peacefully among the sea of Muslims. It’s a matter of xenophobia, jealousy, Islam ? not of the Israeli quarrel with Palestinian Arabs whom the other Arabs hate, anyway. Israel is a perfect enemy for Muslims: different, strong, acting weak, moralistic. The ... More About: Peace , Good
Can a Jewish state be ethnic-blind?
2009-04-16 11:02:00 Absence of the rule of law surfaces in the highly unequal treatment of Jews and Arabs in Israel. Jews suffer two to three years’ conscription while the Arabs refuse even civil service. Jews pay the highest taxes in the world while Arabs are universally engaged in the black market economy and pay virtually no taxes. ... More About: Jewish , Ethnic , State , Blind
The goodness of evil
2009-04-12 10:58:00 Hebrew word for ?neighbor? is a cognate of ?evil?. That puzzling relationship is the quintessence of social order: communities are created for doing evil to outsiders and defending against the evil attempted by outsiders. Communal action is generally evil. Even defense of goodness is clothed in evil: the Russian army in WWII defeated a great ... More About: Judaism , Evil , Goodness
The Russians have come
2009-04-08 11:49:00 Israel has a Christian problem. Its obvious aspect is the hordes of Orthodox Christians throughout Israel. Besides the obvious displeasure of seeing pork-eating, cross-wearing individuals in the Land of Israel, there is a huge difference between our attitude to American and Russian Christians. Russian Christians killed us; many Russian Christians killed many Jews. That is ... More About: Russians
Bin Laden and Israel
2009-04-05 11:46:00 Osama cannot expand into Israel . His modus operandi is that of a guerrilla group rather than terrorist organization. He is used to operating from safe havens: in Afghanistan, Sudan, Pakistan, Iraq, etc. Such strategy is a product of Al Qaeda?s lack of sophistication: the group lacks serious counter-intelligence capabilities, doesn?t hide itself well, and is ... More About: Osama Bin Laden , Bin Laden , Laden
Osama?s public relations
2009-04-02 11:43:00 Osama scored several PR victories, and Muslim media didn’t miss a chance to trumpet them. Contrary to the Western perception, Muslim media is often quite thoughtful, especially on the background of truly ridiculous “expert analysis” in the outfits like NY Times. Poor societies, whose people are unable to realize themselves in economic sphere, seem to ... More About: Public Relations , Osama Bin Laden , Public , Relations , Osama
Osama, too good to be true. Part 9.
2009-03-29 11:38:00 Osama also exploits the falsity of another claim of nation-states: of nationality. From Yugoslavia to India, tribal and religious affiliations surpass nominal nationality, allowing Osama to trumpet persecution of Muslims and the understandable fact that the Christian West is not overwhelmingly concerned about Muslim lives. Secular and ethnic-blind West carved Christian East Timor out of ... More About: Islamic Terrorism , True , Part , Good , Osama
Proportionality is not blind
2009-03-27 14:08:00 The test of proportionality in military response is a misnomer. The real test is minimal sufficiency. Proportionality remains undefined: is it a rocket for a rocket, a kiloton for a kiloton, a body for a body, a percent for a percent of the population? Various measures produce very different results: Gazans fired more rockets at Israel ... More About: Blind
Jewish religious nationalism
2009-03-25 10:27:00 Is there a reason for secular Jews to attach themselves to Jewish people? No reason at all. There is no reason to be Jewish other than being religious. On the contrary, one first becomes religious, and consequentially associates with Jews. And just how one becomes religious? By realizing the improbability of the wondrous human ... More About: Judaism , Religious , Nationalism
War, our style
2009-03-23 13:37:00 “When you go to war against your enemies..” Just as they would have no mercy upon you, you should have no mercy upon them. When the UN launched investigation of the IDF bombing UNRWA installations in Gaza, what should have been Israeli response? None. Let the barbarians investigate anything they like; good for them they learned ... More About: Style , Judaism
The racism is not nice, but unavoidable
2009-03-20 10:21:00 Even among conservative Jews, many detest Rabbi Kahane?s appeals to base feelings of Jewish mobs whom he incited against Arabs. There is no need to presume him wrong. Rabbi Kahane was a political figure; religion was for him a basis for political action. That was precisely the rabbi’s part to do. Most rabbis separate God and ... More About: Racism , Nice
Right-wing minimalism
2009-03-18 13:28:00 Israeli Left is consistent in its nihilism: atheist democracy instead of Judaism, stripping Israel of ideologically sensitive areas lest they become a rallying point for right-wingers, and abandoning security so that Israel would be forced to rely on gentile powers and follow their tune. So, basically, leftists need to do nothing: they achieve their goals ... More About: Right Wing , Right , Wing
Fighting or what?
2009-03-16 08:12:00 Settlers cannot oppose the army and not fight it; they cannot fight the army and depend upon it for protection; they cannot send their children to the army and blame it for treason. These half-hearted efforts are bound to fail. In the Peace House in Hebron, the defenders stocked lamp bulbs filled with paint, small ... More About: Fighting
Osama: patient or indecisive?
2009-03-15 08:39:00 Osama’s trademark quietness is a mask suitable for a person with low blood pressure. He lost his temper talking to Al Jazirah TV about the possibility of him using nuclear weapons and on other occasions. Edward Giradet described the 1980s Osama as “arrogant Saudi.” Calmness is extremely uncommon among extraverted urban Arabs, and certainly not ... More About: Osama Bin Laden , Osama , Patient
Osama and America
2009-03-13 08:42:00 The “America -first” approach is Osama ’s major sop to Muslim dictatorships. Egyptians, Saudis, Qatari, and others tolerate numerous charities and forefronts channeling money and support to Osama as long as Osama uses this money to employ local terrorists elsewhere. Egyptian security services, for example, extracted declarations from jailed members of EIJ and IG renouncing domestic terrorism. ... More About: Osama Bin Laden
Down with the Queen
2009-03-11 06:12:00 One of the funniest lines I?ve heard was Tony Blair speaking about democratic Israel and secular Palestine. It?s not even the point that an utterly failed prime minister takes it upon himself to lecture the oldest nation on earth. Blair?s own country is a monarchy and non-secular at that. That?s true, in Britain like in ... More About: Queen , The Queen
Facts of Purim
2009-03-09 11:07:00 Like every Jewish historic festival, Purim is a rather blood-thirsty celebration. On Pesach, God made himself known to Israelites specifically by wholesale killing of the Egyptians (Exodus 7:5, 14:17). Jews also were less than politically correct then: the only time the Torah applies the word neighbor to our opponents is when we borrowed jewelry from ... More About: Facts , Judaism
Osama: rich and charitable
2009-03-08 08:36:00 Osama is far from being a selfless saint. His villa in Khartoum was sufficiently luxurious so that he sold it to local magnate on departure. It is rather unlikely that Osama hides in caves now, especially, that he has several wives. The story of him changing his location daily for six years by now is ... More About: Rich , Osama Bin Laden , Osama
Forget giyur
2009-03-05 17:02:00 The debate about simplifying conversion for non-Jewish women is bizarre: there is no such conversion in the first place. The Torah is completely unconcerned about mothers: ?God of your father? is an idiom but not ?of your mother.? Hebrew tribes descended even from slave women, Jacob?s concubines whom he did not bother to marry: they ...
Osama?s fake military leadership
2009-03-04 08:46:00 Osama was not a major player in Russian-Afghan war. There was a fundamental cognitive gap between Afghans and Arabs. Afghans had peasant-gangster mentality. They switched between camps and villages, low-intensity fighting and farming. In a telling example, Afghan mujaheddin besieged Khowst for almost a decade. After the West and the Muslim world started pouring money ... More About: Military , Osama Bin Laden , Leadership , Fake , Osama
Christian friends might not be ours
2009-03-01 08:39:00 The world did not pressure Russia over the immense atrocities against Chechnya, or China ? over Uighurs. The world cares not of Basques, Bretons, Red Indians, and scores of other oppressed minorities. The United States is built on the occupied land. But the entirely insignificant tribe of Palestinian Arabs reaps international attention. The same media ... More About: Christian , Friends , Semitism
Both sides are right
2009-02-26 08:28:00 Terrorism is a war like any other, a reasonable tactics against stronger enemy. In every war, supportive civilians are targeted. Israeli government misrepresents terrorism as evil for a reason: immoral people can be reformed. So we only need to persuade the bad Muslims to abandon their evil ways. Wrong; they are good Muslims. Far from ... More About: Islamic Terrorism , Sides
Submissive unto death
2009-02-22 08:25:00 On the way to their annihilation by Germans, Jews behaved ostensibly puzzlingly: they submitted to Germans. The puzzle dissipates when we realize that others behaved similarly: Russian POWs, assimilated Western European Jews, and Gypsies, for example. Add the image of a criminal convict sentenced to death who quietly accepts the armed men?s right to extinguish ... More About: Death
The anarchy of grassroots violence
More articles from this author:2009-02-19 08:35:00 The left hooligans who attack Jews in Judea and Samaria are not anarchists. Anarchism proclaims the right of people to live in communities as they wish, including the right to live without aliens. Anarchism also rejects state?s jurisdiction over the empty land. A group of Jews settling an empty hill and refusing entrance to Arabs ... More About: Israel , Violence , Grassroots , Anarchy 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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