Samson BlindedSamson BlindedRational perspective on the Middle East conflict, peace process, and antiterrorist efforts. By anonymous Israeli politician. 
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Killing the robbers
2008-12-04 16:32:00 In most areas of Galilee, Arabs constitute a majority. They continuously squat on Israeli public lands and private Jewish farms. Returning to the practice of 1920-40s, Arabs engage in low-level attacks on Jewish farms, stealing equipment and livestock, trampling down Jewish fields, and harassing Jews there. The situation is so bad that many Jewish farmers ... More About: Robbers , Killing
General Jones shoots Israel
2008-12-03 22:23:00 General James Jones , Obama’s choice for National Security Adviser, again revealed his staggering ignorance. The general might be an authority in conventional warfare - though it is unlikely, given his mere few months battlefield experience in Vietnam. General Jones pushes his hallmark solution for the West Bank: IDF moves out and NATO troops move in. ... More About: Israel , General , Shoots
The phoenix of Judaism
2008-11-30 16:24:00 In Holocaust, God did not exterminate only the Jews, but the Judaism of Exile, a religion removed from daily realities. When the Jews went into the Exile, sages instituted a fence around the law, the extra-Biblical body of laws designed to safeguard the commandments. Such a necessity became moot with the establishment of Jewish state. ... More About: Phoenix
God is merciful?
2008-11-27 16:20:00 Rabbinical commentators have long struggled with the paradox of Jews obligated to fear and love God simultaneously. An obvious scholastic explanation is that Jews fear some aspects of God, and love the other. That?s, of course, implausible, impractical, and hinges on polytheism. We observe multiple manifestations of God, but relate to him strictly as One. ... More About: Judaism , Merciful
Freedom of expression against free speech
2008-11-23 08:10:00 Once we step on the sleazy road of questioning moral values, the fall is very fast. Just forty years ago, the American society ? liberal by any standards ? overwhelmingly opposed pornography even in the most discreet settings; recall the legal debate over the Deep Throat, which was only showed in adult movie theaters. Now ... More About: Freedom , Free , Free Speech , Speech , Expression
Love is not divine
2008-11-19 16:05:00 I don?t love God. I accept his existence, recognize his omnipotence, respect him ? but not love. Indeed, I find it obscene that Jews express their love of God shortly after he presided over the unimaginably brutal annihilation of the seven million of us. Our Sabbath praises of the one who watched unmoved ... More About: Love , Judaism , Divine
The punishment of caret
2008-11-16 15:57:00 Rabbis assert that they dispersed justice in Sanhedrin while the Temple stood. It would be odd if the rabbinical Sanhedrin sat in the Temple controlled by Sadducees who derided all the rabbinical concepts. After bar Kochba?s revolt, Jews lost jurisdiction over criminal matters. By some accounts, Jerusalemites lacked the power of capital punishment still a century ... More About: Judaism , Punishment
Good Jews were Bedouin
2008-11-13 15:53:00 Those who speak of the nice Torah law would do well to understand that our religious law is tailored for Bedouin tribes: ruthless, efficient, and sort of honorable. Many of the ancient Hebrews were Bedouin, or else what were they doing for forty years in the Sinai? Not all of them, as their continuous whining ... More About: Jews , Good
Lynch courts in Israel
2008-11-09 08:22:00 The Merkaz ha-Rav shooting and two bulldozer attacks in Jerusalem demonstrated a grave phenomenon of which I have first written a decade ago: lone terrorists. They represent a great threat to society because there is no way to intercept them. In military terms, lone terrorists are negligible, at least so far as they did not ... More About: Israel , Courts
The barbarously socialist economy
2008-11-05 08:43:00 In the Leninist Soviet Union, one line from Karl Marx was exceedingly unpopular: he predicted that socialism would take over the capitalist societies without the need for a revolution, so cherished by Leninists. Sadly, the history vindicates Marx. Socialism signaled the end of many empires. Ancient Rome went down amid distribution of free grain and show ... More About: Economy , United States
Michael Jackson for President
2008-11-02 07:04:00 Whether or not Hussein Obama is elected American president, the fact of him coming close to it is disturbing. Even if Obama fails now as voters take racial issues and common sense into account at the last moment, they are getting used to the idea of being ruled by a demagogue alien. Voting for Obama ... More About: President , Michael Jackson , Michael , Jackson
On moral blindness
2008-10-28 07:14:00 The Acre riots were typical of the confrontations in other mixed Jewish-Arab towns such as Jerusalem, Nazareth, and Lod. While leftist dreamers speak of peaceful coexistence, people on the ground don?t want each other. More specifically, a small percentage of people on each side is strongly anti-another. Democracy is a fiction: mobs are led in whatever ... More About: Moral , Blindness
Our land, occupied by Arabs
2008-10-24 09:35:00 Jews were given a considerable state by the Mandate. It was thought too much, and Britain took ¾ of our country for some Bedouins in Jordan. The rest was also too much for Jews, and the UN halved our country for some Syrian Arabs who call themselves ?Falestinian.? Fine, we developed our patch of land ... More About: Israel , Land
Jewish fundamentalism
2008-10-21 09:48:00 Jewish fundamentalism should be just that, a return to the fundamentals. Not the Reconstructionist creative reworking of the commandments to suit the today?s preferences. Not the Reformist wholesale abrogation of the commandments. Not the rabbinical substitution of wise and arcane for the divine. Karaites were initially close to the mark, but eventually developed a body ... More About: Fundamentalism , Jewish , Judaism
Judaism is reasonable
2008-10-17 09:45:00 Judaism is forthcoming on moral issues, never attempting to change the human mentality. Israeli debate about legalizing prostitution is ridiculous: patriarch Judah used Tamar?s services, taking her for a prostitute. The Torah carefully prohibits Jews to give out their daughters for prostitution, but to have foreign prostitutes. Jews are barred from running after foreign women, ... More About: Judaism
Don?t repair the image
2008-10-14 09:36:00 That audiences are interested predominantly in bad news is a well known phenomenon routinely exploited by mass media. The research is straightforward: people want to hear and disseminate good news, preferably exaggerated, about their close friends and relatives, and bad news, also exaggerated, about everyone else, enemies and neutral subjects alike. People prefer information about ... More About: Image , Repair
Operational madness
2008-10-10 10:08:00 Madness is the only operational approach to foreign relations. The madness in question is a strong determination to achieve one?s ends regardless of costs, by any means, despite any objections. This type of madness can be of a genius such as Bismarck or simpleton such as Putin. The madness consists in their unwillingness to negotiate ... More About: Madness
Exodus. Now from Gaza.
2008-10-05 10:28:00 The thing that worries me most about Palestinians is their similarity to early Zionists. Palestinian terrorists are patriotic, yet not a part of their traditional communities. Like left-wing Zionists, they consciously develop a ?new Palestinian? outlook and mentality: no longer a suffering peasant whose highest praise is endurance in the face of oppression, the terrorists ... More About: Gaza , Judea , Samaria , Exodus
Israel?s best ally: America or Russia?
2008-10-02 11:02:00 It is always dangerous to rely on a protecting empire: Jews tried that with Assyria, Rome, and Persia. Fortunately, Israel need not rely on anyone: her arsenal of nuclear bombs, if wielded wildly enough, would force everyone from Tehran to Washington to behave in our region to our liking. No one would like the mad Jews ... More About: America , Russia , Ally
America, where swindlers meet liberals
2008-09-28 10:05:00 The idea behind state intervention into the otherwise free market economy is leveling crises. But there is another side: market participants come to expect the crises to be leveled, and swing the market unreservedly. This is especially true for huge companies: they are implicitly assured of the government support, lest they fail, layoff many employees, ... More About: America , Liberals , United States , Meet
The Russians are coming
2008-09-25 09:32:00 When the Russia n FM asked his British counterpart rhetorically, ?Who the f*ck are you to lecture me?? he knew what he is doing. Lavrov?s response cuts down to the core of Russian diplomatic mentality exemplified in the Soviet-era joke about Diplomatic Corps students drafting a response to the hypothetical protest from an African country about ... More About: Russians
Liability for selling weapons
2008-09-24 10:48:00 Russia assisted India with its nuclear program to kick Pakistan for its support of anti-Soviet forces in Afghanistan. Russia considered retaliating against Israel for supplying arms to Georgia with SAM deliveries to Syria. Syria offered Russia to retaliate for the US ABM deployment in Poland with the Russian one in Syria. Israel bombed Syrian nuclear ... More About: Selling , Weapons
Just do it
2008-09-21 10:43:00 Much of our friends? apparently anti-Israeli behavior is provoked by Israeli vacillation. It?s not only the problem that everyone detests perpetually vacillating people. Encouraging a vacillating nation creates a hazard for oneself. The Israeli government tries to shift the burden of decision-making regarding Iran on the US Administration. But why would the Americans approve of the ...
A peace which guarantees war
2008-09-17 09:21:00 When Israeli judges were the Judges of Israel, there was a judge named Yiphtah. One day, an Ammonite king sent him a very reasonable message: give me the land back. And he was right, the king: Jews indeed took this land from Ammonites. By any international standard, the land was Ammonites?. Their offer was the ... More About: Peace
Obama against Jewishness
2008-09-14 08:41:00 Jewish support for Hussein Obama is of the same stock as Zionist complacency to Holocaust; here is no comparison between Obama and the Germans. Mainstream Zionist leadership benefited from Holocaust on several counts. The catastrophe proved their wisdom: since Herzl, Zionists spoke of the threat to European Jews and urged them to move to Palestine, to ... More About: Israel
Oily politics
2008-09-11 08:51:00 When the US invaded Iraq, many were screaming of the war for oil. I was among the very few voices who said that one of the invasion?s goals was increasing rather than decreasing the oil prices. Saddam?s biggest guilt was him steadily increasing Iraqi oil production. As the increasing production sent oil price below $10 ... More About: Politics , United States
To our friends from the left
2008-09-07 08:44:00 Most American Jews are leftist because leftism tells them what they want to hear: there is no biblical God, Torah is man-made, and all people are brothers. Ask your reformist rabbi if he believes in God and watch him evading the answer with stories of universal mind and spirit which is in men. He cannot ... More About: Friends , Left
Israel?s real threats
2008-09-04 11:38:00 The biggest threat to Israel i Jewish existence is neither religious, nor military: a Palestinian terrorist threat is negligible, and our nuclear option deters Arab states. The biggest threats are three: strategic, political, and economic. On the strategic level, Israelis lose hope. They should be told honestly and clearly that they must not lose hope for ... More About: Real , Threats
Arabs are good. When far away.
2008-09-01 11:56:00 The two recent terrorist attacks in Jerusalem were perpetrated by Israeli Arabs : employed, relatively affluent, moderate residents of Israel. Olmert declared that the security barrier doesn?t stop the attacks by Israeli Arabs. Several important rabbis imposed ban on hiring Arabs because of the danger to Jews. An Arab woman sues a human resources company in ... More About: Good
Criminals on the bench
More articles from this author:2008-08-29 18:23:00 Justice Minister Friedmann?s efforts at reforming the Supreme Court are not the usual bureaucratic squabble but the most important political shift since the right-wing Likud came to power in 1977. Having lost their decades-long monopoly on power, leftists activated the back-channel control over Israel: the court and police system. During the MAPAI Party rule, only ... More About: Bench , Criminals 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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