Samson BlindedSamson BlindedRational perspective on the Middle East conflict, peace process, and antiterrorist efforts. By anonymous Israeli politician. Articles
Relatively good
2007-10-02 08:30:00 The phrase ?and it was good? concludes every act of Creation. Everything is good ? including the evil, also a created thing. Everything stems from the divine goodness. Why do we fight, then? Why not accept the good intentions of Arabs who breed to dominate the Land of Israel? One answer is that for Jews ... More About: Good
Jews are owners
2007-10-01 10:54:00 Leftists are not necessarily selfless philanthropists. Just like other people, they sue in court those who infringe on their property and they refuse to open their houses for free use by the needy. Yet the leftists demand that Israel gives the land away to Arabs and allows Arab migrant workers into Israel. Leftists routinely defend ... More About: Jews , Owners
Don?t rush to save lives
2007-09-30 11:08:00 Many readers accuse me of not valuing life. That?s a meaningless over-generalization. Humans respect animal life but kill animals to eat and survive. Societies respect human lives but execute criminals to discourage others. Societies endanger their members? lives in myriad occupations from firefighting to defense. Car and even horse traffic endangers lives in order to ... More About: Lives , Rush , Save
How wide a graveyard should be?
2007-09-28 09:47:00 Those advocating return to the 1967 borders forget why Israeli tanks crossed the borders. Palestinian state bordering Jerusalem means a continuing terror in Jewish capital. Palestinian state in Judea and Samaria reduces strategic depth of the Jewish state to 8 miles (yes, that’s the Road Map). In the south, Palestinian state spells the end to ... More About: Graveyard , Wide
View from here
2007-09-26 09:57:00 Leftists made racism an R-word, but should it be such? A girl who wants a specifically Jewish husband ? is she a racist in any meaningful sense? How about a girl who doesn?t want to marry an Arab, however nice and educated he is? But no mainstream newspaper would accept an announcement, ?Looking for a ... More About: View
Don?t buy Reformism
2007-09-25 10:56:00 Reformist Judaism is religious leftism. The Reformism follows the basic precept of leftism: that everything can be comprehended and changed at will. Communists changed societies, Reformists ? the religion. Societies are complex, religion is subtle, but otherwise the approach of communists and the reformists is similar: destroy the finely tuned system ? societal or religious ...
Peace isn?t worth ceasefire
2007-09-24 11:09:00 Israel?s political ?elite? does not want peace. Had it been otherwise, why delay forming the Palestinian state? Israel derives no benefit from occupying the lands settled by Arabs and spends tremendously in lives and money. Israel can retreat behind the borders her government accepts, and deals with Palestine as a state. Other Muslims will not ... More About: Peace , Worth , Wort
Permissive unto death
2007-09-21 10:51:00 I love Canada and Netherlands. They are nice tolerant countries. It’s hard to explain to their tolerant Jews why should we rid Israel of Arabs and deviants. It’s like talking to people from another planet. Isn’t a tolerant all-permissiveness a better policy? No. Permissiveness knows no boundaries. That’s especially a problem when tolerance is coupled with formal justice and moral subjectivism. Justices ask, Why not? and cannot find rational answer; irrational answers are not codified. Tolerance started with accepting other religions and not ostracizing homosexuals. The sphere of tolerance was continuously expanded. Tolerating all religions, why not tolerate Islam? Tolerating homosexuality, why not accept gay unions? Soon their countries are flooded with Muslim immigrants and the cornerstone institute of family is undermined by same-sex marriages. Judges will find no reason to prohibit polygamy and the only reason I’ve heard against bestiality is animal ... More About: Death , Missi
Security vs establishment
2007-09-18 18:45:00 The historic role of Jewish Defense League consisted in shuttering Jewish barons? attitude that Jews should keep low profile while oppressed. Self-appointed Jewish leaders needed unquestioned consent of masses to negotiate with Gentile authorities on their behalf. Independent Jewish action, whether uprising in Warsaw ghetto or JDL?s bombing of Soviet offices in America, discredited the ... More About: Security , Establishment
Soft defeat
2007-09-17 10:28:00 Israel will unlikely end up in nuclear mushroom. Muslims don?t need to go for such trouble. Syria will employ Hezbollah?s tactics, shelling the Golan Heights while protected itself with Russian anti-air and ?tank missiles. Egypt?s Muslim Brotherhood will take revenge on Israel by aiding Hamas. Muslims tried to prevail over Israel military, failed, and pragmatically ... More About: Soft , Feat
Media are too powerful to survive
2007-09-16 14:51:00 The Nazis were unlucky. Had they started the war seven decades later, Germany won?t suffer a crushing defeat. Media would scream over the Allied body count and call for abandoning alliance with Russians who routinely perpetrated war crimes. Fans of ancient Japanese culture would rend their T-shirts protesting strategic bombing of Japan. American pilots would ... More About: Survive
Reverse Darfur
2007-09-14 09:31:00 Sudanese refugees fleeing to Israel present an interesting moral case, besides showing holes in Israeli border security. Biblical obligation of charity extends only toward neighbors. Talmudic sages, however, discussed charity to itinerants and resident aliens. The approach recalls twentieth-century American discussion of fighting evil vs. searching for distant monsters. To decide on the appropriate object ... More About: Darfur
Men aren?t priests, either
2007-09-12 09:23:00 Female rabbis are odd, but not formally prohibited by the Torah. Priest s were only male, but rabbinical functions are entirely different, and priestly restrictions do not apply automatically. Torah precludes females from priestly service, but by the same token the Torah prohibits synagogues as any non-Temple houses of worship. One common reason for priestly and ...
Who cares, why
2007-09-11 14:07:00 People brought up in the rationalist tradition of Enlightenment seek to understand causes. They are fine with failing to comprehend wave-particle dualism, but sure that social systems are comprehensible. They ask the destructive question, Why? Why Jews should not intermarry? Why shouldn?t Raskolnikoff rationally kill the old usurer? Why Muslims fight Israel? The question Why gives ... More About: Ares
Neanderthals were human
2007-09-10 09:38:00 Equality of people is no more proven than inequality. It is socially acceptable to detrimentally generalize about mothers in law or dislike neighbors. It?s okay to discuss varying smartness of various breeds of dogs, or to assert that one person is smarter than another. Leftists decry applying that reasoning to nations for a single reason: ... More About: Human , Neanderthals , Were , Neanderthal
Petty paganism
2007-09-09 11:31:00 Tomorrow, many religious Jews will embark on a series of abominable pagan rites. Their idea is to celebrate Jewish New Year which has nothing to do with autumn in the first place. Jewish new year is commanded in the spring month of Nissan to commemorate Exodus. Rabbis moved Rosh ha-Shanah to autumn for no theological ... More About: Petty , Paganism
Temporary moderate
2007-09-07 16:22:00 Absence of Israel-Egypt war for the last thirty years is unrelated to peace treaty. The Egyptian society changed, and the change began before the 1973 war. Nasser prepared to his wars openly and disregarded casualties; Sadat prepared clandestinely and was so concerned with Egyptian losses that he refused to bomb Israeli troops which drove on ... More About: Rate , Moderate , Temp
Protect the guards
2007-09-06 18:42:00 Israeli leftists already staged many provocations to manipulate Jewish farmers into beating the encroaching Arabs ? and suing the Jews. With the looming eviction from Judea and Samaria, leftists would parade Arabs at night near the settlements to provoke the guards into shooting them. The government would love the security situation to deteriorate so that ... More About: Guards , Prot , The G
Tale of smart mullahs
2007-09-05 05:27:00 America erred in Iraq by seeking democracy rather than traditional consensus. Multi-religious countries such as Lebanon or Iraq cannot afford democracy: when majority rules, minority fights. These countries maintained shaky balance by governing through consensus: liberal in Lebanon, authoritarian in Iraq. The West loves tales of Saddam?s totalitarian regime, but Saddam actually imposed consensus: he ... More About: Iran , Smart , Tale
Shoot to defend
2007-09-04 08:57:00 The Kassam rocket fire on Sderot offers a twofold lesson about Gush Katif. If Sderot is indefensible against the rocket fire, Gush Katif was even more so. PIJ launches missiles on Sderot over the heads of IDF troops who guard Israeli border with Gaza. PIJ and other guerrillas could shell Gush Katif, located in the ... More About: Shoot
Not true rabbis
2007-09-03 08:42:00 Religious professionals played a huge role in the unification and survival of the Jewish people. Yeshiva students do the immensely important work of preserving Judaism. The current situation is different. Though almost all Jewish males historically studied Tanakh, few of them pursued the religion as a full-time occupation. Judaism, a religion of worldly deeds, emphasizes the ... More About: True , Rabbi
It?s politically correct to be Jewish
2007-09-02 10:50:00 Greece has Jewish and Muslim citizens, but is a staunchly Christian country, with Christian holidays, the cross as a national symbol, and institutional preference given to Christianity. America proudly declares, “In God we trust,” not fearing to offend polytheists. France refused official status to the language of its large and compactly settled Breton minority. Preference should ... More About: Poli , Ally , Politic , Politically Correct
The cruelty of goodness
2007-08-31 08:54:00 Residents of the Bronx are ethnically and linguistically similar to those of Californian suburbs. They share the same history, goals, and enemies. Even so, no reasonable politician would apply to them similar prescriptions. Yet Israel insists on treating Gaza and the West Bank as a single entity. Such an approach won?t work. Palestine drifts into ... More About: Cruelty , Goodness , Judea
Peace is not natural
2007-08-30 09:20:00 Israel humiliated the Palestinians, but then humiliated herself. Both nations are perfect scapegoats for the international community: Palestinian terrorists and their Jewish oppressors. Israel allows a stream of Jew-hatred in the Arab media; Mubarak publicly called Sharon ? a prime minister ? an idiot. Israel shows herself powerless, unable to fight Arab guerrillas though Syria ... More About: Peace , Natural , Natur , Natura , Ural
Socialism is irreformable
2007-08-29 19:03:00 Israel adheres to classical socialist ideology: rational reforming of societies. Despite the evident enmity between Arabs and Zionist Jews, Israeli political establishment imagines that simple steps like propaganda or signing a peace treaty will make the wolves and not exactly sheep - friends. Israel is vehemently atheist, from anti-religious brainwashing in schools to the purposely ... More About: Socialism , Cialis
Giveaway of domains
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Shmita year is about charity, not agriculture
2007-08-24 15:36:00 Palestinian farmers who vote for Hamas and provide logistics to PIJ?s rocket launching squads expect windfall profits from Jews the next year: Shmita, the Sabbatical year when the commandment prohibits sowing. Much of the Orthodox community will refrain from buying food grown in Israel ? and will buy from the Palestinians. As so often, formal ... More About: Charity , Agriculture , Year , Agri , Char
The Golem of clay
2007-08-22 19:10:00 Israel adheres to classical socialist ideology: rational reforming of societies. Despite the evident enmity between Arabs and Zionist Jews, Israeli political establishment imagines that simple steps like propaganda or signing a peace treaty will make the wolves and not exactly sheep friends. Israel is vehemently atheist, from anti-religious brainwashing in schools to the purposely humiliating ... More About: Clay , The Go , The G , Golem
Normal country for normal Jews
2007-08-20 15:29:00 Our real problem is Jews , not Arabs. Palestinian guerrillas are nuisance; they cannot defeat the Jewish state. Jews can. Israel originally attracted only Jews with pioneer mentality who overcame barriers to enter the land. Even the post-WWII aliyah was zealous: Jews who preferred safety, stayed in Europe. Brainwashing in Israeli schools and huge economically motivated ... More About: Country , Normal
Firepower support of religion
More articles from this author:2007-08-19 15:28:00 Biblical arguments for taking over the Land of Israel do not hold. Abraham and Joshua received specific divine instructions to take the land, which implies that the Jews should only settle the land after a revelation. The Bible never deals with return from the second exile; prophesies of return from Babylonian exile are long realized ... More About: Religion , Support 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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