Samson BlindedSamson BlindedRational perspective on the Middle East conflict, peace process, and antiterrorist efforts. By anonymous Israeli politician. 
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Stop watering Gaza
2008-08-26 21:31:00 The international law on tendering to the occupied populations? needs is questionable. Even in the recent history, the Allies didn?t supply water in the occupied German territories, but let Germans do the job. In the moral theory of war, an occupying power should not repress or murder civilians, but otherwise is not obligated to assist ... More About: Gaza , Stop , Judea , Samaria
Books and videos by Rabbi Meir Kahane
2008-08-25 20:31:00 There is ftp server at ftp://samsonblinded.org You can download Rabbi Meir Kahane’s videos: Brandeis National Press Club Beverly Video and audio quality is considerably improved over the copies available on YouTube. The files are large, so use a download manager such as FlashGet. This is a very important book by Rabbi Meir Kahane: Uncomfortable Questions for Comfortable Jews A must ... More About: Videos , Books
On Russia, Georgia, and Israel
2008-08-24 08:42:00 The Russia n-Georgia n crisis put Sam Huntington to shame. In his Clash of Civilizations thesis, he asserted that similar cultures are unlikely to clash. To that proposition, he offered a number of tests, including Russia-Ukraine and Russia-Georgia. To Huntington, the fact that Georgia is a uniquely Christian country in Asia makes it Russia?s natural ally. That ... More About: Israel
Jews are Israelis for now
2008-08-21 09:08:00 In the time of the total assimilation of atheist Jews in the Diaspora, God had to have provided us with a solution. Such solution, like it or not, is the Israeli nation. Not in the widest sense of citizenship, which would include Arabs and African Muslims, but including the non-halachic Jews who happen to get into ... More About: Israelis
Let?s dwell alone
2008-08-17 10:24:00 ?Then the LORD your God will turn your captivity, and have compassion upon you, and will return and gather you from all the peoples, where the LORD your God has scattered you? And the LORD your God will bring you into the land which your fathers conquered, and you shall conquer it.? Deuteronomy 30 It is ...
Turn on the light unto the nations
2008-08-14 07:55:00 Jewish atheists and ultra-Orthodox found a common point: the ostensible Jewish purpose of light unto the nations. Atheists love its universalist Christian tint, and haredi take it for confirmation of their superiority. The best thing about this doctrine is its justification for staying in the Exile: in order to bring the light to nations, Jews have ... More About: Nations , Light , Turn
On collective responsibility and Holocaust
2008-08-11 08:27:00 Every time Jews have massively turned away from the commandments, God punished us. Enemies ravaged our lands in antiquity and our ghettos in the Exile. In our times, Jews assimilate into the surrounding nihilist culture rather than foreign worship. Holocaust proved that God punishes nihilism no less severely than strange worship. Not every Jew who died ... More About: Collective , Semitism
Good terrorists need not live
2008-08-07 07:58:00 Recently, an Israeli teacher killed a student. Precisely, Rabbi Bar-On shot a Palestinian student of Bir Zeit University who brandished a knife at him. What really bothered me was a universally gleeful response of Israeli media. The rabbi killed an attacker, good, but it cannot be a matter of joy. There are tremendous issues boiling ... More About: Islamic Terrorism , Live , Terrorists , Good
Good terrorists need not live
2008-08-07 07:58:00 Recently, an Israeli teacher killed a student. Precisely, Rabbi Bar-On shot a Palestinian student of Bir Zeit University who brandished a knife at him. What really bothered me was a universally gleeful response of Israeli media. The rabbi killed an attacker, good, but it cannot be a matter of joy. There are tremendous issues boiling ... More About: Islamic Terrorism , Live , Terrorists , Good
Anti-Arab is not necessarily pro-German
2008-08-04 14:01:00 It is misleading to talk about throwing the Arab s out of Israel. That is a means, not the end. The German policies against Jews were ugly in that they were the end in themselves. Killing for a high idea is one thing and, like it or not, it is generally accepted. Murdering for the murder?s ... More About: Anti
Is leaven prohibited on Pesach?
2008-07-31 21:26:00 It never ceases to amaze me how few people read the Torah - as opposed to glancing through it. We?ve seen a great squabble in the Knesset over the sale of leavened bread on Pesach . Everyone firmly believes that leaven is prohibited on Pesach. Really? Then how comes that wine is allowed? Wine is the ultimate ...
Choose India
2008-07-29 21:06:00 Medieval Arabs developed decent science. Then Europeans did likewise, but they grew lazy, and Americans and Japanese took their turn. Now the India ns (certain castes) are creative, numerous, and relatively hardworking. Many of them emigrate, some return, many stay home. China cannot rise much because Confucian culture lacks creativity, only emphasizes diligent work. India is ... More About: Choose
Faith, nukes, and the Promised Land?s borders
2008-07-27 19:07:00 Faith doesn’t require us to test God as Jews did at Meribah, though with relative success. Rather, we should expect that at some point God offers us an opportunity which we must seize. Leftists believe in reforming societies on grand scale; we, the true liberals, must be on lookout for mini-opportunities to further the goals ... More About: Faith , Land , Borders , Nukes
Revenge is better when nuclear
2008-07-24 18:49:00 ?Then the moon [the White One] shall be confounded, and the sun [the Hot One] ashamed; for the LORD of hosts will reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem.? Isaiah 24:23 Many people misunderstand the commandment that children are not responsible for their parents? guilt, and vice versa. If taken at the face value, the commandment ... More About: Nuclear , Judaism , Revenge
Do something about Gaza
2008-07-22 18:21:00 Israel employs a classic strategy against Gaza . Beaufre?s third option, it was practiced successfully by the USSR: military, economic, and diplomatic pressure combined with a threat of force. Why doesn?t it work here? Very simply, because Israel actually employs none of the above. The efforts at isolating Hamas diplomatically failed. The terrorist group enjoys formal relations ... More About: Judea , Samaria
Religion is rational
2008-07-20 16:45:00 Many right-wing Jews, who are now deeply religious, started as atheists. I?m not even talking of those Russian Jews who have a typically Slavic urge for a higher idea. Zealous communists before, they became equally zealous believers now. Jewish patriots seek a firm ground for their ideology, thus Avraham Stern embraced Judaism . Those who didn?t, left ... More About: Religion , Rational
Destroy Gaza legally
2008-07-17 15:46:00 The legal theory of war allows Israel a free hand in Gaza . Civilians are safe from attack if they abide by the terms of surrender; otherwise, the attacker is only obliged to avoid the tactically unnecessary harm to civilians. If a territory has originally surrendered but later guerillas launched a full-scale offensive, the surrender no ... More About: Judea , Samaria
Trade Olmert even for Ovadia Yosef
2008-07-15 12:59:00 Size does matter. It is okay to have a house for your family only, not for strangers. It is acceptable to enforce basic shared values in a gated community. It is, however, immoral to impose values or exclude strangers from a huge country like Germany, and even there it would have been tolerable if Germans ... More About: Trade , Right , Olmert
The Hebrew they don?t teach you in Hebrew school
2008-07-13 10:38:00 The biggest problem facing a teacher of Hebrew is to circumvent a politically incorrect conclusion by his students: this is not a natural language. Take one example, the root cells. Read on, it?s simpler than it sounds. In the Biblical Hebrew, almost all words are composed of three-letter roots. There are some two-letter roots where the ... More About: School
The single-state option
2008-07-10 08:11:00 A chimp-like Libyan dictator offered an alternative to the Saudi peace plan: a single Jewish-Palestinian state. Gaddafi?s very appearance assured rejection of his offer, as no one contemplates rewarding his talk with more than a sugar piece or a tasty banana suitable for monkeys. This time, however, the absurd offer is entirely acceptable to Israel. ... More About: State , Single
Efficient charity
2008-07-08 05:49:00 Jewish charity is, mathematically speaking, a problem of limited resources. Sure, we would like to cover every need: give excellent healthcare to young and elderly alike, help Jewish mothers, provide free schooling for Jewish children, etc, etc. The problem is, the available funding is limited. So what do we do? First, do the commandment. The Torah ... More About: Charity , Efficient
Nuclear populism
2008-07-06 05:28:00 America?s Muslim allies would love to see Iran bombed. Saudi Arabians fear nuclear Iran not because it would attack Saudis ? Iran has never attacked anyone in the modern history ? but because its growing stature would stir up Saudi Shia population which dwells in the oil field region. Saudi Sunni Wahhabites stole oil from ... More About: Nuclear
Iraq won?t last
2008-07-03 07:14:00 The US efforts in Iraq will definitely fail. Societies do not become liberal democracies overnight, but only through an arduous history of assembling wealth, when they slowly learn to raise hands in voting instead of breaking them. Autocracy is the only chance for stability in Iraq. The autocracy might come from two sources: a strongman ...
Israel and NATO
2008-07-01 06:44:00 For Israel , joining the NATO is a wishful thinking: the alliance has no reason to accept the burden of protecting the Jewish state threatened or at least disliked by every Arab country. Joining the NATO while Israel still remains at war with Syria is legally problematic, as it may draw the alliance into a major ... More About: Europe , Nato
Muslims are not Nazis
2008-06-29 13:57:00 It is most absurd to compare Iran to Nazi Germany. The most important thing about Nazis was their continuance: they developed the long preexistent policies to the logical end. For centuries, German society was anti-Semitic, militarist, disciplined, expansionist, supremacist, and xenophobic. Germans fought among themselves and against other Europeans. Nationalism was deliberately inflated for the ... More About: Muslims
Blood infusion in Judaism
2008-06-26 02:40:00 Jewish ultra-Orthodox concern with blood infusions is in part superfluous. Jews are enjoined against consuming animal blood, ?for its soul is in its blood.? Soul, however, can be only in a single place at a time, and it?s either in the animal or in its blood. The commandment, therefore, only deals with slain animals and ... More About: Judaism , Blood , Infusion
Use Iran against Egypt
2008-06-24 01:13:00 Just everyone is concerned with Iran ?s rising influence in the Middle East. Israel, the United States, Egypt , and Russia protest what they see as Iranian incursion on their turf. Russia and America are in the double binge: Iran acts both in the Middle East and in their backyards, Central Asia and Venezuela, respectively. For Egypt, ...
The light against reason
2008-06-22 10:45:00 In recent years, anti-Semites around the world stepped up their attempts at banning Jewish religious books. A number of criminal complaints has been filed alleging racist incitement, notably in Russia. Rabbis seem to recognize that side of our books, as during the Knesset debate on anti-racism law designed to ban the Kach Party, religious parties ... More About: Judaism , Reason , Light
The usual apocalypse
2008-06-20 01:48:00 Ignorant Jews claim the Holocaust?s uniqueness. By various estimates, it devoured about a third of the world?s Jewry, including many Christianized Jews, whether formally converted or assimilated into the Christian culture. We have experienced similar catastrophes at least thrice: in the Babylonian onslaught, the Judean War and Bar Kochba Revolt, and the century leading to ... More About: Judaism , Apocalypse
Salvation would only come from Hebron
More articles from this author:2008-06-17 23:46:00 Reforming Israel to Jewishness is already impossible: Arabs, hardcore leftists, and unrepented Slavs constitute a majority of voters. The security establishment is stuffed with leftists on the upper and middle levels, so an insurrection has bleak prospects: in a small country like Israel, with pervasive police and totalitarian courts, any conspiracy would be discovered and ... More About: Salvation , Hebron 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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