Samson BlindedSamson BlindedRational perspective on the Middle East conflict, peace process, and antiterrorist efforts. By anonymous Israeli politician. Articles
Kidnappings and self-respect
2009-01-29 08:06:00 The deterioration of Israel?s self-respect is disheartening. Soon after the state was formed, Israel was forced to deal with the first MIA situation. Sharon then kidnapped several Jordanian officers, and exchanged them for Israeli MIAs. The Shalit debacle goes on for years even though Dughmushes, Hamas ministers, and PIJ members are walking at large, waiting ... More About: Respect
No mean right
2009-01-28 08:55:00 Israeli political spectrum settled down before the elections. In a long-overdue development, the Labor Party is dead, which is nice, really. That political entity had long outlived itself. Its socialist economic policies, though increasingly followed in the West, are discredited in the East, including the Middle East. Labor?s original political platform?settling the land, expelling the ...
If anyone, then Hamas
2009-01-27 10:02:00 What is the Israeli problem with Hamas ? The group?s demands are entirely within reason: if Israel withdrew from Gaza, then open the border crossings. Israel refuses for three reasons. One, irrational, is that the Jewish establishment dislikes the fervently religious group and several leftist politicians are deeply invested with Fatah. Two, the British Gas has ...
Could it happen?
2009-01-25 08:02:00 I?m not a fan of conspiracy theories, but something is wrong with Israel i and Russian relations with America. Israeli rulers dance the American line to an incredible extent. Israel has depended on the Soviet Union and then France to the extent much larger than our current dependence on the US, but never submitted to their minute ...
Proportionality is irrelevant
2009-01-22 08:24:00 Israel?s long-term inaction in face of terrorist attacks defies the criterion of proportionality and restoration of status quo ante bellum: the situation immediately before Israeli attack on Gaza is still unacceptable for Israel. During the days before the operation, Israel has been indeed struck with dozens of projectiles ? but there were no casualties. Inflicting ... More About: Judea , Irrelevant , Samaria
Tell it to President
2009-01-20 08:57:00 The Bush Administration staunchly supported Israel during the Gaza operation, but the help cannot be open-ended. If Israel does nothing for two weeks, cannot decide on invasion, Palestinian civil losses are mounting, outcry against the unbearable situation in Gaza spreads all over the world, the US Administration cannot hold on forever. In other words, America ... More About: President
Our liberty against the Arabs?
2009-01-18 08:43:00 The main problem with disengagement from Gaza was taking away the Israeli secret services? liberty to operate there. The IDF, including Border Police, and Shabak keep tremendous hold on the Palestinian militants in the West Bank, and that was also the case in Gaza. Even the highest-ranking Palestinian officials sometimes squeak when admonished by special ... More About: Liberty , Judea , Samaria , Arabs
One woman?s patriotism is another?s treason
2009-01-15 08:22:00 Patriotism can define Jewishness in Israel, but not in Diaspora: patriots don?t normally live abroad, certainly not voluntarily. Some exceptions are there, but the exceptions? children are not usually patriotic enough to avoid mixing with locals. Israeli education and the political concessions oppose patriotism as Jews learn about Arab rights to this land and see the ... More About: Patriotism , Woman , Treason
At best, they would do nothing
2009-01-11 08:38:00 The Gaza operation underscored significant changes around the Jews. Israeli Arabs were not afraid to riot in response to a war abroad. Even Livni now accepts the need to transfer the fifth column to its own areal. Though the world responded in its usual anti-Semitic manner and applied pressure to end violence only when Israel responded ...
How black do we want to be?
2009-01-08 08:31:00 The African problem is not Israel?s. A billion Africans would be happy to move into Israel, and the government?s policy toward illegal migrants invites them. About 9,000 Africans crossed illegally into Israel, with more coming daily. The government announced deporting them to Egypt, but failed to do so for the fear of Western media. The ... More About: Black
Peace process started in Holocaust
2009-01-04 08:04:00 The world?s attempts at the peace process can only be understood in historical context. On their own, they are unintelligible. Why, indeed, the countries are so concerned with national rights of a three-million-people no-nation? The West doesn?t support independence for hundreds of liberation movements worldwide even when they clearly involve historically, linguistically, and genetically distinguishable ... More About: Peace , Holocaust , Peace Process , Process
Searching for exit from Gaza
2008-12-30 19:20:00 Israel loses momentum and the best truce deal. After the initial successful attack on Gaza , subsequent operations will be less spectacular and more costly in Jewish lives. In the Gaza operation, brilliant intelligence and tactics confronted strategic ineptitude. In order to reduce civilian losses, IDF warned Gazans to flee and bombed empty shacks, or destroyed ... More About: Searching , Judea , Samaria
Lieberman is quite wrong
2008-12-29 11:53:00 Avigdor Lieberman is a typical secular hawk. That is a curious breed. He is aggressive, but non-religious. Jewish nationalism also means little to him as to everyone else: what is a nationalism of a nation which forgot the last time when it had a state, and which don?t even constitute supermajority in its state now? ... More About: Wrong
IDF operation in Gaza: Israeli election show
2008-12-27 17:36:00 The IDF attack on Gaza stems from the convergence of everyone’s interests. Kadima and Avodah would have lost the elections handsomely if Hamas had continued pounding Israel with rockets at the December rate of dozens a day. A successful campaign in Gaza seriously improves the leftists? chances in the elections. Fatah stood to lose its ... More About: Show , Election , Operation
Check out the unbalanced court
2008-12-25 08:19:00 The classical division of state power into legislative, executive, and judicial branches is theoretical nonsense. During Renaissance, the Westerners imported such division, along with democracy and classical arts, due to their uncritical fascination with all things ancient. The three-branch division was never practiced, and could be. Everyone acquainted with mechanics knows how hard it is ... More About: Check , Court
Russia bids for control over the Middle East
2008-12-23 11:17:00 Russian FM Lavrov announced the upcoming financial support for Palestinians during Abbas’ visit to Moscow. As his presidential term expires on January 9, this seems Abbas’ last official visit - significantly, to Chechnya. Russian support to Palestinians will come largely in military sphere. In Lavrov’s diplomatic speak, Russia supports Abbas’ “security measures.” The only Fatah’s security ... More About: Middle East , The Middle East , East , Russia , Middle
The other peace process
2008-12-21 08:53:00 The concept of land for peace got considerably distorted. What peace is there to have? Originally, the idea was to relinquish the occupied-liberated lands in return for a comprehensive settlement with Arabs. Moshe Dayan said after the 1967 war, ?I?m waiting for a phone call from [Jordan princeling] Hussein.? No call was placed, though ? ... More About: Peace , Peace Process , Process
The Diaspora might not end in aliyah
2008-12-18 20:05:00 Throughout our history, Jews several times largely abandoned Judaism. From the golden calf to widespread paganism of the era of Judges to movie star worship of our days, Jews often lapsed from the religious high stand. Many Jews welcomed the Antiochus? Hellenistic reforms; Jews of the Roman world? Diaspora intermingled with pagans enough that the ...
Gog, Magog, and Arabs
2008-12-14 08:00:00 The speed of technological advance assures that the civilization cannot continue as before. The population becomes increasingly old, but the changes ? the young?s domain ? are more rapid. Welfare states prove that people don?t need to work for living ? even a 35-hour working week assures a great lifestyle. Industrial automation will decrease the ... More About: Islam , Arabs
New Kastners. New Holocaust.
2008-12-11 07:24:00 The Holocaust education among gentiles is counterproductive. The majority of them would not volunteer to murder Jews or press for such murder. If pushed by an anti-Semitic regime, almost all of them would join the murder despite any Holocaust education. The education has no bearing on the minority of hardcore Jew-haters. In fact, Holocaust pictures ... More About: Iran
Welcome to the end of time
2008-12-07 17:43:00 And they of the South shall possess the mount of Esau, and they of the Lowland the Philistines; and they shall possess the field of Ephraim, and the field of Samaria; and Benjamin shall possess Gilead. And saviours shall come up on mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau; and the kingdom shall be ... More About: Time
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
More articles from this author: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 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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