Samson BlindedSamson BlindedRational perspective on the Middle East conflict, peace process, and antiterrorist efforts. By anonymous Israeli politician. Articles
Transfer made easy
2009-09-03 09:58:00 Most Jews would love to have a country without Arabs, but have accepted the propaganda that such a transfer would be atrocious and not tolerated by the world. A quarter of the Arabs in what would become Israel fled between 1947 and the spring of 1948, before the war erupted. Another 300,000 Arabs emigrated from ... More About: Transfer , Made , Easy
Transfer made easy
2009-09-03 09:58:00 Most Jews would love to have a country without Arabs, but have accepted the propaganda that such a transfer would be atrocious and not tolerated by the world. A quarter of the Arabs in what would become Israel fled between 1947 and the spring of 1948, before the war erupted. Another 300,000 Arabs emigrated from ... More About: Transfer , Made , Easy
Arab inequality in Israel
2009-08-31 09:34:00 The conflict with Jews stems largely from Arab backwardness. Many Palestinians have lived in refugee camps for four generations rather than emigrating?and they can freely go to many countries?in search of a decent job. Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon, and especially in Gaza ,create enormous political pressure, which the opponents of Israel exploit. Arab backwardness ... More About: Inequality
Arab inequality in Israel
2009-08-31 09:34:00 The conflict with Jews stems largely from Arab backwardness. Many Palestinians have lived in refugee camps for four generations rather than emigrating?and they can freely go to many countries?in search of a decent job. Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon, and especially in Gaza ,create enormous political pressure, which the opponents of Israel exploit. Arab backwardness ... More About: Inequality
PLO, Fatah, and Hamas
2009-08-27 09:15:00 Hamas developed as a grassroots movement. Its emphasis on Islamic charity allowed it deep penetration into Palestinian society, nurtured immense popular goodwill toward Hamas, and recruited true followers. In contrast, Fatah was always a top-down organization?envisaged by a few Palestinian students in Cairo, structured by the Egyptian and Jordanian intelligence services, developed in Kuwait, and ... More About: Hamas
PLO, Fatah, and Hamas
2009-08-27 09:15:00 Hamas developed as a grassroots movement. Its emphasis on Islamic charity allowed it deep penetration into Palestinian society, nurtured immense popular goodwill toward Hamas, and recruited true followers. In contrast, Fatah was always a top-down organization?envisaged by a few Palestinian students in Cairo, structured by the Egyptian and Jordanian intelligence services, developed in Kuwait, and ... More About: Hamas
The limits of unlimited observance
2009-08-24 09:50:00 There is an old joke about a Rabbinate ruling: it is permissible to add sour cream into pork soup. The joke is that once the soup is grossly non-kosher, violating the meat-milk prohibition becomes unimportant. But the joke is wrong. Judaism does not expect its adherents to be perfect. The system of ritual sacrifices, simple and ... More About: Limits , Unlimited
The limits of unlimited observance
2009-08-24 09:50:00 There is an old joke about a Rabbinate ruling: it is permissible to add sour cream into pork soup. The joke is that once the soup is grossly non-kosher, violating the meat-milk prohibition becomes unimportant. But the joke is wrong. Judaism does not expect its adherents to be perfect. The system of ritual sacrifices, simple and ... More About: Limits , Unlimited
Let?s try democracy
2009-08-20 09:30:00 The Knesset is in dire need of reform. Departing from its original practice, the Knesset established an electoral barrier of 2.5 percent. Nothing in political philosophy supports such a restriction, which shuts out minority groups and violates the fundamental principle of ?one citizen, one vote.? The barrier bars small right-wing parties from the Knesset, and ... More About: Democracy
Let?s try democracy
2009-08-20 09:30:00 The Knesset is in dire need of reform. Departing from its original practice, the Knesset established an electoral barrier of 2.5 percent. Nothing in political philosophy supports such a restriction, which shuts out minority groups and violates the fundamental principle of ?one citizen, one vote.? The barrier bars small right-wing parties from the Knesset, and ... More About: Democracy
Genocide by the humble
2009-08-17 09:11:00 The last thing Moses was commanded to do before retiring from this world was to exterminate the Midianites. Hebrew relations with the Midians were uneasy: Moses took a wife from among them and recorded Jewish laws on the advice of his father-in-law, a pagan priest. The Jewish attitude toward the Midian wife, Zipporah, was negative: ... More About: Genocide , Humble
Genocide by the humble
2009-08-17 09:11:00 The last thing Moses was commanded to do before retiring from this world was to exterminate the Midianites. Hebrew relations with the Midians were uneasy: Moses took a wife from among them and recorded Jewish laws on the advice of his father-in-law, a pagan priest. The Jewish attitude toward the Midian wife, Zipporah, was negative: ... More About: Genocide , Humble
Arabs are not even black
2009-08-13 09:50:00 Israel’s problem with her Arabs is similar to America’s troubles with blacks forty years ago. A generation of Jewish-American civil rights advocates, Israeli politicians, and American voters was raised on the notion of desegregation. The notion itself is questionable: it is not self-evident, as the US Supreme Court has repeatedly asserted, that ?separate but equal? ... More About: Black
Arabs are not even black
2009-08-13 09:50:00 Israel’s problem with her Arabs is similar to America’s troubles with blacks forty years ago. A generation of Jewish-American civil rights advocates, Israeli politicians, and American voters was raised on the notion of desegregation. The notion itself is questionable: it is not self-evident, as the US Supreme Court has repeatedly asserted, that ?separate but equal? ... More About: Black
Palestinians, use your own brains
2009-08-10 09:38:00 Current border and immigration restrictions are historically unusual. Throughout the ages, people were almost free to move and settle in other states. Such freedom of movement contributed significantly to economic efficiency and the spread of wealth and technologies. In the late nineteenth century, nationalist regimes started introducing visas. Visas are important for new nationalist entities. ... More About: Palestinians , Brains
Palestinians, use your own brains
2009-08-10 09:38:00 Current border and immigration restrictions are historically unusual. Throughout the ages, people were almost free to move and settle in other states. Such freedom of movement contributed significantly to economic efficiency and the spread of wealth and technologies. In the late nineteenth century, nationalist regimes started introducing visas. Visas are important for new nationalist entities. ... More About: Palestinians , Brains
From Dresden to Gaza City
2009-08-06 09:14:00 Israel lost the war with the Palestinians when she switched from military to the police realm. In the military mode, you carpet-bomb your enemies, you burn them with incendiary bombs, you thrash their infrastructure. In short, you hate them en masse and act on that hate. In the police mode, you seek out hostile elements ... More About: Gaza , City , Judea , Samaria
From Dresden to Gaza City
2009-08-06 09:14:00 Israel lost the war with the Palestinians when she switched from military to the police realm. In the military mode, you carpet-bomb your enemies, you burn them with incendiary bombs, you thrash their infrastructure. In short, you hate them en masse and act on that hate. In the police mode, you seek out hostile elements ... More About: Gaza , City , Judea , Samaria
Palestinian national character
2009-08-03 09:43:00 It is ostensibly unscientific to talk of Arabs as treacherous, cowardly, and backward, yet those traits are paramount to understanding the Palestinian s. Treacherous Bedouin serve in the IDF against their Arab and Muslim brothers and routinely assault Israeli Jews. Culturally similar Bedouin in Jordan keep the local Palestinian majority in check. Treacherous Palestinian notables in ... More About: National , Character
Marital habits of Jewish forefathers
2009-07-30 09:23:00 The first head-count of Hebrews in the Sinai shows 603,550 males older than twenty. Empirical demography suggests that at least one-third of the population was younger than twenty. The total number of Hebrew males (excluding Levites) was close to one million. On that background, the firstborns were only 22,273. How come? The average family, it follows, ... More About: Jewish , Habits , Judaism
Jews are proudly useless
2009-07-27 10:12:00 Trying to curry favor with rest of the world, assimilated Jews brag about Jewish achievements that benefited others. That is nonsense. Classical Roman authors disparaged Jews for being useless citizens of the world. Despite the idea that “Plato is nothing but Moses speaking Greek,” realistically Jewish input toward the ancient world?s knowledge in next to ... More About: Useless
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
More articles from this author: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 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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