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Jews are not Black
2007-08-17 10:52:00
Ancient Jews were undoubtedly of the Middle Eastern origin. Genetic studies indicate modern Israelis close to Kurds, consistent with Abraham?s origin from Ur. Several biblical accounts of the “utter destruction” of Amalek conform to the archeologists? view that Jews slowly infiltrated Canaan rather than conquered it with lightning speed. Genetics shows the resulting affinity between ...
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Make the right, right
2007-08-16 11:17:00
Moderation is relative. Fringes are designated by extreme actions. In order to move Israeli political center to the right, the right fringe itself has to be extended. Demonstrations and passive defense of illegal outposts are the most right-wing actions today. The right seek to limit the concessions while the left pushes for across-the-border concessions. No ...
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Leaving the Jewish dream
2007-08-15 10:56:00
Jewish state is being winded down. Jews shocked the world with valor in 1948, military prowess in 1967, and might in 1973. At that time, Israel reached its highest point ? zealous, holding on to Judea, Samaria, and the Sinai, and possessing huge military advantage over the Arab enemies. Those things came to pass. Sinai, the ...
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Iraq: cut or be cut
2007-08-14 10:52:00
Americans negotiate with Iran over Iraq ?s fate. Iran needs influence on the Shiite Iraq ? whether by supporting guerrillas or political process, is irrelevant. Iranian and American tactical vision for Iraq coincides: a relatively peaceful state governed by majority. For America, that means democracy; for Iraq ? Shia dominance. Iran traditionally supports Kurdish separatists in ...

Wrong but legitimate
2007-08-13 10:16:00
Laws are legitimate so long as people freely accept them. When the laws become oppressive, people revolt. Laws cement communities. People can reduce the number of laws but must obey the existing laws. People generally observe legitimate laws even when there?s no threat of punishment. Legi t imate laws can be arbitrary to a degree (65 rather ...
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The world is not Pythagorean
2007-08-12 12:33:00
Adam was right to taste the apple. His was a pure rational analysis, not free will: the talking serpents are credible. Moses likewise believed a talking burning bush (not that Bush). Humans are automata. Decision-making is series of electric impulses in our brains. All fleeting influences are reflected in physical processes: serotonin levels, voltage, etc. Humans, ...
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Oil is power
2007-08-10 12:18:00
Russia creates a Third world opposition to the West, a giant peripheral conflict. Western hemisphere is burning from Brazil to Mexico. Socialist regimes spring to power like thirty years ago. Western and Eastern Europe are addicted to Russia?s gas pipeline. Way smarter and more aggressive than Saudis, Russians use their energy reserves as empire-building tool ...
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Apartheid can save Jerusalem
2007-08-09 11:57:00
Israel?s only alternative to being a garrison state is deep interconnection with Arabs, particularly economic. Situation now is crucially different from the 1948. Arabs bullied a new kid on the block, found him strong, and accepted. Likewise, America fought Russia in Siberia in the 1918-1925 war, but then switched to cooperation. Arabs were reluctant to ...
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Fair murder
2007-08-08 08:49:00
Torah generally prohibits murder, though allows killing of enemies. To kill an enemy while defending oneself or the dear ones is reasonable: the aggressor?s life is taken to avoid extinguishing one?s own life. Torah, however, permits and even encourages taking enemies? lives in expansionist war. Proper expansionist wars defend core values of Jews, their spiritual ...
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From words to action
2007-08-07 13:08:00
Alexander the Great conquered the world. Rome imposed pax Romana. Russia cut the window on Europe. British empire spawned continents. Napoleon liberated Europe. Europeans pioneered America. Jews restored their ancient state. The verbs convey the sense of approval. The described campaigns are great and admired. But all of them were conducted against the wishes of local ...
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Peace the Russian style
2007-08-06 16:52:00
To imagine that national mentality changes in decades is superficial. Russia n people have traditionally supported imperialist government. In recent times, popular support for the 1905, 1914, the Cold and Chechen wars was very high. Majority of Russians support the authoritarian Putin against democrats. Russians are not some barbarians and understand the value of freedom; they ...
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The bloodletting
2007-08-03 08:48:00
For the past century, Jewish nation is being annihilated. Starting with the Ukrainian genocide around 1920, through the Holocaust and into the total assimilation in the Diaspora, the Jewish nation is ruthlessly, systematically annihilated. The Jews experienced the destruction of similar magnitude during Babylon?s conquest, the bubonic plague genocide in the 14th-century Europe, and possibly several ...

International solidarity of thieves and oil racketeers
2007-08-02 10:27:00
Chinese support for Syria?s demands for return of the Golan Heights illustrates a major shift in China?s policy. Traditionally isolationist, China increasingly embarks on global approach. In the world of competing empires, trade is intertwined with politics. Trade balance, oil deliveries, arms sales, and similar high-ticket notions exist in the framework of intergovernmental relations. Huge ...
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Back to ghettos
2007-08-01 10:28:00
Israel?s government long abandoned the concept of Jewishness and consciously molds Israeli nation. The Newspeak is readily available: State of Israel instead of the Land of Israel and the West Bank instead of Judea and Samaria. Israel-born secular youth identifies less with Jewish people and more with Israeli nation; polls show opposition to government spending ...
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Any values here?
2007-07-31 11:39:00
“I don’t care about Arafat. Mind you, Arafat has some terrible people around him, like [Tanzim leader Marwan] Barghouti,” Hosni Mubarak told Newsweek in 2001. Israel mulls releasing Barghouti and already released scores of Tanzim fighters. Israel occupied the West Bank in 1967 in response to much lesser Arab terrorism than happens now when Israel relinquishes ...
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Our friend, friend of our enemies
2007-07-30 12:05:00
American $20 billion arms sale to Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and the sheikhdoms represent a meeting point between corporate greed of military-industrial complex and yet mistaken approach to the Iranian nuclear crisis. Faced with a similar crisis in Cuba, Kennedy started mobilization of the US army even at risk of confronting the Soviets. Bush, already entangled ...
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Illegal sentencing, illegal release
2007-07-29 12:00:00
Totalitarian states rarely lack legal systems. More often, they employ ad hoc law, bending rules to suit the fleeting needs of the rulers. Ad hoc laws break societies, for they make society?s functioning unpredictable. Imagine if a stone sometimes falls to the ground and other times floats in the air, sometimes bread is given free ...
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Peres doesn?t bring peace. Nukes do.
2007-07-27 12:15:00
IDF?s lamentations about shortage of funds and recruits highlight gross mismanagement in Israeli army. Originally a lean, daring, highly professional army, today?s IDF combines the worst traits of American and Russian militaries: it demands expensive cannons and cheap cannon fodder. Politicized, bureaucratized, and addicted to hyper-expensive untested American military toys, IDF seeks to overcome institutional ...
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The Temple of our nation
2007-07-26 10:23:00
The Temp le : To rebuild or not to rebuild? The arguments pro are political; the arguments contra ? religious. The book of Leviticus details many doubtful rites for the Temple observance. It was impossible for all Jews to gather in the Temple thrice annually for the major festivals: the journey was too long. Visiting the Temple to ...
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Cowards mourn
2007-07-25 08:31:00
The Ninth of Av mourning is an apotheosis of Jewish hypocrisy. Jews, victorious in six wars against the Arabs, keep praying at the Wailing Wall. Actually, not. It is the Arabs who pray nearby while the victorious Jews wail at the wall. Jews even welcome tourists to see how assiduously the Jews wail. Tourists are ...
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Only in fairy tales the life is fair
2007-07-24 08:41:00
A recent scandal over the Education Ministry approving a textbook for Israeli Arabs which mentions the War of Independence as a catastrophe, highlights the problem of fairness. The textbook, as the Education Minister claimed correctly, fairly presents both Jewish and Arab sides of the event. The leftist minister failed to understand a critical thing: we ...
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Our resented guardians
2007-07-23 13:40:00
In the liberal, effete world murder becomes increasingly unfashionable. People afraid of violence refuse to launch it against enemies. Personal fear leads to the policy of timidity. Cowardice is rationalized by liberalism and non-violence. In public perception, soldiers descend from the guardians of freedom to the bottom of society. Like janitors, they deal with necessary ...
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Left and Right are Jews for Arabs
2007-07-22 16:08:00
There is a saying mistakenly attributed to Churchill: ?If you’re not Liberal when you’re 25, you have no heart. If you’re not Conservative when you’re 35, you have no brain.” Israeli traditional left ? not the Peace Now defeatist bunch, but tough kibbutzniks ready to fight and kill for their country ? was never liberal ...
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We can deal with it
2007-07-20 07:57:00
Shelling of Sderot highlights an interesting problem nation-states try to forget: absence of large-scale security. Historically, border areas are a trouble zone. Peace agreements were rare; nations mostly coexisted on ad hoc basis, uneasily. Border skirmishes were common. On positive side, borders in constant flux reflected the real-time balance of power. Neighboring states fought the conflicts on small scale, mostly in border areas. Peace agreements changed that situation. Parties adhering to peace promise refrained from exploiting their current military advantages. Discontent and power disparity grew. When the wars finally erupted, they tend to be total. Peace treaties, like other barriers to natural course of events, suppressed many minor problems until they become one big problem. Total wars replaced continuous skirmishes. Nation-states hate to admit that peace treaties do not bring peace. States are built on the promise of safety for their citizens. City-states amalgamated into...
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Hot peace
2007-07-19 09:49:00
Olmert and Assad perform an odd dance around the fire of peace. Both sides intermittently hint at their readiness to reach a peace deal and renounce media reports of back-channel talks, offer peace and beef up their border contingents, publicize their peace efforts and refuse open negotiations. Both accuse each other of torpedoing peace talks. Wherever Olmert offers negotiations, Assad refuses them, and vice versa. It’s easy to sign a peace deal with Syria: take a pen and sign the agreement. The sides’ positions are clear: Syria demands the Golan Heights and Israel (Lieberman included) agreed to relinquish them. Demilitarization of the Golan Heights is a no-issue: the place is in fact demilitarized for the last forty years. Syria’s support for Hezbollah has nothing to do with the peace deal: Hezbollah has no designs on Israel. Hezbollah evicted Israel from Lebanon and rested, except for isolated border incidents which always happen between the hostile states. Hezbollah’s m...
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Winding the army down
2007-07-18 11:53:00
Israeli prime ministers typically come from the military establishment. That helps a lot during military crises, but distorts Israeli politics. The mindsets of army commanders and politicians are drastically different: short, daring actions versus prolonged, patient, indecisive intriguing. Rabin, Barak, and Sharon tried to achieve peace in one step. Yitzhak Shamir, used to patient guerrilla war rather than large-scale military operations, acted patiently in politics. Netanyahu, a business consultant, tried to rule the country according to university textbooks: liberalizing economy, not denunciating Oslo accords. Olmert, with lawyer background, enjoys maneuvering rather than forcing through a solution. He will not push for evacuation of settlements or press Israeli public to abandon the Golan Heights. Olmert is the safest prime minister for Israel now. The age of generals-cum-prime ministers draws to the end. Israel’s leftist policies devastated the army. Breaking legs of Palestin...
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Democracy is very Islamic. Unfortunately.
2007-07-17 09:09:00
American government erroneously urges democratizing Muslim societies. In those undeveloped societies, Islamists are the only opposition to corrupt regimes, and free elections invariably bring Islamists to power. Civilized countries like Iran eventually develop semi-secular alternatives to mullahs, while Palestinian peasants can only replace Islamists with a civil war between gangs. Democracy is a simple, self-evident form of government. Where it didn’t develop, it was for a reason. It is astonishingly arrogant on the part of US administration to imagine that in Iraq, Ukraine, Lebanon, or Palestine locals didn’t know about democracy but now, when taught, will embrace it. Most societies, especially poor, discontent, and fragile do not need democracy. Take Turkey where the popular approval ratings of America sunk to mere 2%. Would it be better off if democratic elections in Turkey bring Islamists to power? Is there a freedom to sell oneself into slavery? Who needs democratic electi...
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A good, good, good war
2007-07-16 18:19:00
The US prompted an Iran-Iraq war to counter Khomeini a year after he came to power. With the elite Iraqi forces busy at the home front fighting insurgents, several hundred thousands of Egyptians entered Iraq. Saddam gave them the rights equal to citizens’ and drew many Egyptians into the army at $600+ wages. Tens of thousands of Egyptians died in Iran-Iraq war. The US implores Syria and Iran’s cooperation over the Iraqi war, though it is Egypt that exerts the largest influence on Iraq. Iran floods Iraq with Shiites to create demographic pressure and tip the elections. Saudis, afraid of Saddam, influenced Bush to overthrow him. Now Saudis aid Sunni militia on par with Iran’s aid to Shiites. A Shiite Iraq is Saudi’s nightmare because it will energize latent Shia majority in the Saudi oil regions. Iran staged many provocations in Saudi Arabia like sending huge numbers of pilgrims to Mecca to bug the Sunnis. Iran aims to bring down Saudi monarchy in favor of the Iranian-style d...
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Some Judaism makes sense
2007-07-15 13:52:00
A mass Jewish religion is non-existent in our time. Orthodox, and especially ultra-Orthodox Judaism long crossed the border into absurdity. A religion which seriously requires its followers to tear toilet paper in advance of religious holiday and expects the twenty-first century women to wear headscarves, lost touch with reality. Conservative Judaism never evolved into a religious teaching. Since its inception in mid-nineteenth century, it was a social movement designed to prevent Orthodox Jews from sliding into Reformism. While Conservative Judaism asserts the Torah was revealed to Jews non-verbally, Reformists believe that Jews were inspired to write down the Torah; that difference is trifle. Conservative Judaism held originally a sound potential: it postulated that Jewish religious interpretation (halacha) must evolve as it always did; Orthodox rabbis insisted that a thousand-year old interpretations apply today, even though the rabbis of the old continuously adapted Jewish law ...
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Buy the Left
2007-07-13 11:09:00
Osama bin Laden introduced a wonderful concept into modern politics: seed money. Al Qaeda gives small money, support, and training to many groups, and some of them bear rich fruits. The concept of seed money allowed Osama to build a large following with moderate funds. Israel can do likewise, financing responsible charity NGOs in Africa, human rights groups’ operations in Muslim countries, global warming anti-oil pseudo-scientists, academics who develop ridiculous political treatises, and grassroots movements many of them merely need a hundred computers. Even a small state like Israel has resources incomparably larger to the financing available to NGOs, and can buy them off. If the money runs short, run a Ponzi scheme for Saudi princeling investors. Israel cannot afford a simple equal-handedness of leftists. When human rights watchdogs criticize both Israel and Hamas, Hamas doesn’t care. Westerners also discount the criticism of terrorists and barbarians, and only hear condemna...
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