Samson BlindedSamson BlindedRational perspective on the Middle East conflict, peace process, and antiterrorist efforts. By anonymous Israeli politician. Articles
Empire won?t strike back
2007-11-12 00:03:00 Death often comes with pangs and recessions. That?s true for individuals and societies alike. A wonder drug buys terminally ill patients some time, and so do oil revenues for societies. Cultures die. That notion is anathema to nation-states which pose themselves as eternal, but even Rome proved not eternal. Modern Iranians, Italians, and Greeks have ... More About: Russia , Back , Empire , Strike
Our Muslim friends
2007-11-10 19:55:00 Hamas is Israel’s best hope. The Islamic group stands as the bastion protecting Jews from the perils of peace process. Where the treacherous Israeli government is cowed down by the American-Saudi alliance, Hamas stands tall incidentally protecting Israelis from national suicide. Israeli politicians, Jewish barons of the Diaspora, and their foreign friends are ready to ... More About: Friends , Muslim , Hamas
Our black plague
2007-11-08 21:04:00 Condi Rice is a quintessence of leftism. She’s a patently lame scholar (and yes, I’ve read her essays) whose theories border on scam. In her essay on nuclear weapons, she repeatedly cites the Soviet WWII encyclopedia in fifty-something volumes, which even the native Russian speakers find impossible to read through; she obviously relies on secondary ... More About: Black
Governments are worse than media
2007-11-06 23:12:00 From Vietnam to Iraq, media demonstrated its destructiveness to national war effort. Media discredits the government, stigmatizes the military, and broadcasts enemy propaganda speeches. No enemy could dream of a better fifth column that the liberal media. Censorship is an instinctive response, but it would weed out the legitimate critique of governments. Vociferous critics of ... More About: Governments
Blood libel is no libel
2007-11-05 09:46:00 Al Dura is a Palestinian boy allegedly shot by the IDF in the 2000. The IDF has killed many young Arabs both before and after the event, some of them deliberately as in Kfar Qasem. Al Dura?s case was made different by graphic TV footage. It appears likely that al Dura was shot by his ... More About: Blood
The uneasy alliance with our cousins
2007-11-04 10:17:00 Iraqi Kurdistan is Turkey?s West Bank. Historically part of Turkey, it was severed from the Ottoman Empire by Britain, supported later by the US and EU, and now turned into a terrorist nest. Kurds, genetic relatives of Jews, are way more civilized than Arabs. Iraqi Kurdistan is a very safe place by the Middle East?s ... More About: Iraq , Alliance
Who framed Osama?
2007-11-02 12:37:00 The trial of bombing suspects in Spain produced the predictable results: a wholesale acquittal. One explanation is that it is almost impossible to convict terrorist suspects unless they were detected and wiretapped beforehand. They don?t leave many traces, and rarely engage in continuous operations like a gang, but rather act in hit-and-run manner. In this ... More About: Islamic Terrorism , Osama
Honesty as a toy
2007-10-31 22:35:00 Reformists are at least honest. They demand nothing from the flock. ?Jews? can violate every commandment and still be assured of places in Reformist synagogues. Torah is a saga, observance ? voluntary, all Jews ? good; see no evil. Orthodox rabbis are superficially strict: Jews must observe myriad rules, thankfully including the commandments. Really? Orthodoxes ... More About: Right , Honesty
Too bad to be true
2007-10-30 08:43:00 Olmert, by far the best politician around, surprised many by leaking the news of splitting Jerusalem with Arabs. Partitioning the eternal Jewish capital is an extremely unpopular idea among Israeli right and left alike, and Olmert won’t expect that his despised government can drug the partitioning through the Knesset. The heavyweight Sharon hardly pushed through ... More About: True
We?re the Hebrews
2007-10-29 12:03:00 For the Torah to preserve its applicability, the human mentality must not have changed over the three thousands years. Indeed. After the Church was no longer able to censor the books, the Left took its turn and censored everything from Tom Sawyer to hate speech. The three hundred Spartans who died at Thermopiles would have ... More About: Judaism , Hebrews
How Rabin was killed
2007-10-28 02:34:00 There are many gaps in the story of Rabin’s assassination. But we can reliably fill them from the context. Israeli ruling establishment has a history of political assassinations, including Arlozoroff, the Season, and most likely the Kahanes and Zeevi. Assassinating Rabin won’t be outrageous. The establishment also has a documented history of blatant disregard for ... More About: Killed
Anarchy, autonomy, whatever
2007-10-26 22:23:00 We?re tired. Tired of living in a Jewish state that condemns Jews for shooting Arabs in self-defense and sentences Jews to years in jail for drawing cartoons of Mohammad. Tired of listening to endless rationalizations of the suicidal urge, the peace process, the mantras of peaceful coexistence despite all evidence of implacable hostility of Arabs. ... More About: Anarchy , Judea , Autonomy
Messiah rings many times
2007-10-24 12:49:00 “The sword [dedicated] to the Lord is filled with blood?. for [there is] sacrifice to the Lord in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.” Isaiah 34:6 Most rabbis divested from God. Their God is a subordinate who must be content with whatever attention is paid him. He is not expected to have ... More About: Judaism , Rings , Times , Messiah , Mess
Do, not pray
2007-10-23 12:49:00 Extensive prayers lead Orthodox Jews to place their hopes in God rather than act. They appeal to God hundreds of times a day, thus accepting his direct influence in routine events from defecation to politics. That?s primitive determinism. Sages taught that God made the laws of nature and let the world develop according to those ... More About: Judaism , Pray
As in Judenrat
2007-10-22 18:11:00 Propaganda, both in Israel and Nazi ghettos, brainwashed Jews into the alternative reality where the reality was too painful to accept. Aircraft is useless against terrorists, but the IDF sends fighter jets against Palestinian villages to show the Israelis that even the strongest measures fail. Jews, accordingly, lose hope. Israeli government purposely humiliates Jews promising to ... More About: Juden
Good old violence
2007-10-21 11:17:00 “Just as they are killing us, we have to kill them so there will be a balance of terror?. We will do as they do. If they kill our women and innocent people, we will kill their women and innocent people until they stop.” Osama bin Laden, October 2001. That’s a good advice for Israel ... More About: Violence , Good , Viol
Martyrs didn?t cease
2007-10-19 10:27:00 Lena Bosinova’s self-immolation in protest against the Israeli government evicting Jews from Gaza is a case of sanctification of God’s name. The destruction of Jewish settlements by Israeli government qualifies as idolatry: worship of democracy and submission to foreign sponsors. People die of physical wounds but also of moral wounds, in heart stroke. Some dishonor ... More About: Judaism , Martyrs
Will their faithlessness nullify the faithfulness of God?
2007-10-18 00:02:00 Jews never had a significant triumph throughout our entire history. Military victories amounted to survival, such as when Egyptian chariots drown in Red Sea, Maccabees defied Antiochus? attempt to eliminate Judaism, or in the 1967. Jews survived miraculously while other nations perished. Jewish nation lacks riches; in our time, Muslims, not us got oil. Jews ... More About: Null
Holocaust has receded
2007-10-16 23:42:00 Jewish PR is schizophrenic. Jewish organizations scream of Holo caust , anti-Semitism, and persecution while Israel brags of her military capabilities. Jewish incessant wailing doesn?t persuade anti-Semites who approve of Holocaust or brush it away on par with African tribal wars, but irritates Gentile friends of Jews. Persecutions don?t easily square with our choosiness, and sheepish submission ... More About: Loca
Sacrificial lamb
2007-10-16 14:09:00 A Christian editor sarcastically commented on one of my articles: ?A simple, inexpensive solution: pulverize Jerusalem. Think of the problems that would solve.? After a few seconds of shock, I realized the suggestion as the quintessence of messianic attitude toward Israel. Christians exterminated the Jews for fifteen centuries, and neither mentality nor Christian religion has ... More About: Lamb , Semitism
In for a putsch
2007-10-15 14:01:00 I?d love to see a mid-level IDF commander taking his regiment to the Knesset, shooting all but a half-dozen MK?s, continuing with everyone in the government, deporting the Arabs, and annexing the territories. Sick of the treacherous politicians and unstoppable concessions, most Israelis will concur. That?s unlikely for practical reasons. Leftists stuffed Shabak, Mossad, and ...
Believe in something
2007-10-14 13:53:00 Some values are non-negotiable. Jews can discuss the prescriptions of Talmud or Shulhan Aruh, the details of mixing milk with meat or turning on electricity on Sabbath, but some basic things must be accepted: for example, pork is prohibited and Jews should not perform exhausting work on Sabbath. Modern rabbis accept all kinds of transgressors. ... More About: Some
Jews vs. emigrants
2007-10-12 13:34:00 Jews stay in Israel for love or money. Socialist oligarchic economy leaves enterprising Jews with fraction of salaries they can enjoy in the US. Israeli government pressures the US into limiting the work visas for Israelis to decrease emigration from Israel. Habits and personal connections keep many Jews from moving out of Israel, but in ... More About: Jews
Many Arabs are worse than one
2007-10-11 13:23:00 Many Jews, myself included, have positive experience with Arab s and even Arab friends. That seems to imply that Arabs are generally good and peaceful relations with them can be established. But recall that anti-Semites dispel criticism with ?I have a Jewish friend? mantra. On the micro-level, an Arab taxi driver or bread seller is decent, ...
The right of insurrection
2007-10-10 11:34:00 Masses are not asses as Alexander Hamilton characterized them. On the contrary, populations are remarkably sensible. Many ostensible aberrations are superficial. Russians supported socialist revolution as the only imaginable alternative to oppressive monarchy, and supported socialism afterwards because propaganda convinced them that capitalism offers less economic opportunities. Once the information barrier was broken in mid-1950s ... More About: Rect
The mortal danger of peace
2007-10-09 11:11:00 What would the Maryland peace show look like? A lone Olmert facing a whole bunch of Arabs; Israel against the Muslim world - the impartial US presides over the show. And America is truly impartial to Jews and Arabs alike, but sensibly cares of its own interests only. Olmert the master politician will look great, ... More About: Peace , Danger , Mortal , Mort
The Orthodox alternative
2007-10-08 09:25:00 24,000 of Rabbi Akiva?s students reportedly joined Bar Kochba?s revolt. Many modern ultra-Orthodoxes (haredim) bravely fight in the Israeli army. Upon the sanction of haredi leaders, they confronted gay parade in Jerusalem. The best thing about haredim is that they don?t look back: not concerned with secular law, democracy, or leftist morals. Even if all ... More About: Alternative , Judaism , The O , Native , Alterna
Our tentative friends
2007-10-07 10:41:00 Our American friends are not only ours. America is also the friend of Wahhabite Saudi Arabia, totalitarian Egypt, the Al Jazeera state of Qatar, Bedouin Jordan, Islamist Kuwait, terrorist Iraq, and just about every other enemy of Israel . Even Russia would be a more reliable and attractive imperial master for Israel than is the US. ... More About: Friends , Tent
Israel and Ukraine
2007-10-05 08:11:00 Economic policies of Ukraine and Israel are painfully similar, directed by incompetent, often-rotating political appointees. Both countries are heavily bureaucratized post-socialist economies. Both Israel and Ukraine emphasize social welfare interpreted as tremendous redistribution. Both depend on agriculture, tourism, military industries, and semi-processed materials. Both built favorable currency exchange through unreasonably large export and foreign investments. ...
Real Exile, fictional mentality
More articles from this author:2007-10-03 08:48:00 Jewish Exile mentality is fiction. Jews of Exile were strong and arrogant. They spitted when passing the churches, traded on dangerous routs, made loans and claimed the debts through magistrates, maintained many synagogues, religious schools, and libraries, and often fought pogrom mobs courageously. Incredibly poor Russian Jews enjoyed their life. Contemporary literature, such as Sholom ... More About: Real , Ality 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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