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Netanyahu, as bad as others
2008-06-16 06:48:00 Shimon Peres is unable to fool anyone in Israel. Right or left, all Israelis know he?s an ugly character. Not so with Netanyahu, about whom many Israelis harbor dangerous delusions. Indeed, Netanyahu was only able to win the elections because he was running against Shimon Peres. As the next prime minister of Israel, Netanyahu is by ...
Life is not paramount
2008-06-15 03:00:00 How did we come to the situation when live Shalit is worse to Israel than dead one? The kid has nothing to do with the problem, but the government created a truly Orwellian dilemma. One more dead Jewish soldier, a corporal, is a regrettable thing, but frankly a passing occurrence. Soldiers die; it is heart-breaking ... More About: Life , Paramount
Doing right by going left
2008-06-11 19:21:00 Many people on the left just happen to be there. They were taught false liberalism and honestly know of no alternative. Let?s talk. We want a state with a firm Jewish majority. Such notion was enunciated by every Zionist ideologue, from Herzl to Weizmann and Ben Gurion to Golda Meir to Rabin and even Shimon ... More About: Left
Faith is contagious
2008-06-10 20:18:00 Many times I?ve seen zealous communists turn religious Jews. Jews are inherently messianic, long for reforming societies for good. Once they saw redemption in communism, but once disappointed in that shining path, some turned to religion. Moshe Sneh, the late leader of Israeli communists, left a surprising testament declaring atheism nonsense. I?m more concerned with ... More About: Faith , Judea
Settlements against cosmopolitanism
2008-06-08 10:30:00 Israel, along with America, ranks the top in terms of social inequality. In America, however, the inequality is fluid: most wealth is not inherited, and the list can change from generation to generation. In Israel, income distribution follows the oligarchic model: about twenty families concentrate half of the wealth. In America, income inequality is ... More About: Judea , Settlements
Honesty cannot be reformed
2008-06-05 10:29:00 Jewish reformism is not bad per se. Orthodox Jews were the biggest reformers in their time: they have substituted rabbinical Judaism for the Temple-based, land-centered religion. The amount and severity of changes introduced by Pharisaic rabbis pales the current reformist attempts. There is, however, a critical difference between the Orthodox and reformist approaches, namely honesty. ... More About: Honesty , Reformed
Obscenity Incorporated
2008-06-03 18:23:00 [This text is offensive to our Christian readers, and we ask them to skip it. It touches on difficult questions, and intended to wake up Jews.] More About: Obscenity , Semitism
Olmert isn't worse
2008-06-01 12:49:00 The witch hunt mentality never dies, and secular Jews launched a witch hunt against Olmert . I don?t include only the atheist Jews among secular, but also the quasi-religious who evicted their God from the real life into synagogues. Just what is Olmert accused of in the current criminal investigation? One, accepting cash campaign contributions. Every political ...
From Orthodoxy to fundamentalism
2008-05-29 09:44:00 The current Judaism is an aberration. Rabbis introduced its most prominent concept, that of the fence around the law, when Jews went into the Exile. The gentile influence suddenly became great, the option of purifying oneself in the Temple was absent, and so the rabbis developed an immense body of legislation to protect against inadvertent ... More About: Fundamentalism , Orthodoxy
The case for Judea
2008-05-27 10:17:00 There is no justification for Jewish nationalism, statehood, and existence other than Judaism. What are the alternatives, anyway? I cannot stand silliness of the ?historical right.? Look into an encyclopedia. Jews were sovereign on this land, in traditional chronology, from David?s conquest of Jerusalem in 1034 to 719 BCE when Assyrians sacked Israel, a total ... More About: Case , Judea
Don't fear peace with Syria
2008-05-24 22:00:00 Olmert doesn't conduct peace negotiations with Syria to dispel the criminal allegations. Political masters of the leftist Attorney General are not interested in peace talks with Syria, an international pariah state. It?s one thing to kick the religious Jew by abandoning Jerusalem and Judea to Palestinians, an insignificant enemy beloved by the world media, and ... More About: Peace , Fear
On anti-Semitism in America
2008-05-23 00:18:00 The one thing I?ve never agreed with Rabbi Kahane about is the danger of anti-Semitism in America . As I?m growing old and still more pessimistic, I move closer to his view. The only reason against the possibility of major pogroms in America is the lack of history of institutional anti-Semitism. That is a serious and valid ... More About: Anti-Semitism , Anti
Government against God
2008-05-20 21:09:00 The Pesach-2008 saw a tremendous hypocrisy contest in Israel. A secular court in the holy city of Jerusalem lifted the punishments imposed on several sellers of leavened bread (hametz) the previous Pesach. In effect, the court made it unpunishable and therefore legal to sell leavened bread on Pesach. The commandment prohibiting leavened bread on Pesach is ... More About: Government
The religion of leftism
2008-05-18 19:04:00 Every law is arbitrary to an extent, and the divine law is no exception. It doesn?t really matter whether the speed limit is 65 or 67 miles per hour. Laws of kosher food are likewise based on a sound principle but arbitrary to a degree: murder of all humans and animals is prohibited, but the ... More About: Religion
Israeli anthem: not for Arabs
2008-05-15 19:45:00 The left is necessarily hypocritical, as its simplified, partisan pronouncements diverge with the world?s complex realities. Russian communists proclaimed international workers? solidarity and fought those same workers; European socialists trumpet workers? rights and then organize in trade unions to exclude foreign labor. American democratic socialists trumpet welfare for all, but provide it to interest groups ... More About: Arabs , Israeli
Not so cruel Iran
2008-05-13 13:55:00 Those who decry executions in Iran forget that those are mostly the Torah?s sentences: execution for adultery and homosexuality, tit-for-tat corporal punishment, etc. Though some may dispute the Torah?s corpus delicti, its punishments are eminently sensible. The Torah doesn?t condemn criminals to decades in jail at public expense: fines, flogging, execution, and possibly banishment are ... More About: Cruel
The dwarfs' world
2008-05-11 21:20:00 Leftists have a habit of micro-analysis. They analyze only the last steps without seeing them as consequences of earlier decision or the macro picture. They demand that Israel gives back the Golan Heights without realizing that their occupation was not an Israeli offense, the primary wrong, but rather Israel?s way of defending herself, undoing the ... More About: World
Make the economy Jewish
2008-05-09 13:20:00 Though the lack of security and ideological bankruptcy play their part in emigration, arguably the single most important behind the Jews? leaving Israel is the economy. Jews made every country of their residence prosperous ? and prospered there. Jewish socialists achieved the opposite, they bankrupted both the communist Russia and Israel. Israel?s military expenses do ... More About: Economy , Make
Peace, luckily, is not forever
2008-05-07 22:19:00 The peace treaty with the Palestinians doesn?t seem close, unless the Bush-Rice duo orchestrates a major political assault on Israeli government. Even so, Palestinian state exists de facto: with president, parliament, and even many countries? embassies. Does anyone protest the media calling Abbas Palestinian president? Olmert negotiates the borders of Israel which include the settlement blocs. ... More About: Peace , Forever
Never again, and again, and again
2008-05-05 11:35:00 The Final Solution wasn?t a German invention, but a collaborative effort by the Christian world. Christian Russia thought about some kind of Final Solution in the nineteenth century. Russian government was receptive to Zionist leaders because they offered to rid Russia of Jews. Russian government prompted waves of pogroms. In the early twentieth century in Ukraine, ... More About: Semitism
It doesn't take a Netanyahu
2008-05-02 13:53:00 The crisis of Israel i education is due to libertarianism. The teachers? low pay certainly drives some of the best cadres away from education, but that is not the major problem: the best teachers rarely find high-paid jobs in the commercial sector, anyway. Rather, universal disrespect to teachers is the problem. Children are taught to disrespect ...
Have them go
2008-04-30 13:23:00 Israeli rulers are racists. They agree to the Palestinian state because they don?t want Arabs from the territories to inundate Israel, dismantling its Jewish identity. The inevitability of the Arab demographic threat to Jewish state, however, is a scapegoat. For one, Israel is not a state of Jews even now. Arabs already constitute 34% among her ...
Clearing for peace
2008-04-27 11:43:00 The Arabs believe we took their land. No amount of propaganda would change the fact that their dunes have become our gardens. ?Their? is more important than ?dunes.? On the contrary, Israeli education, available to Arabs, emphasize the nobility of nationalism, perseverance, and national liberation struggle on Jewish example; Arabs readily apply the example to ... More About: Peace , Clearing
Where is peace?
2008-04-25 11:40:00 Giving the Palestinians all areas they want won?t bring peace. Palestinians control all those areas now. Except during the riots, Israeli police don?t show up in the Arab-occupied areas. Even Arab villages inside Israel are off-limits to police and court officers: the police enter the Arab places like Lod in armored vehicles only; that?s in ... More About: Peace
Jerusalem: first, not the last
2008-04-23 11:39:00 Israeli conservatives act like ostriches: Olmert soothes their conscience by promising to relegate the Jerusalem issue to the last stage in peace talks with Palestinians. It?s not even important that Olmert lies and, as Palestinians never fail to announce, negotiate Jerusalem now. Leaving the core issues for the last stage in negotiations is fundamentally wrong. Would ...
Talk to Hamas
2008-04-21 09:00:00 People hate weak enemies, and so Jews despise Hamas and refuse negotiating with it. But note the two crucial things: Hamas doesn?t attack Jewish targets abroad or proclaim Palestinian statehood. Hamas can easily achieve publicity and political advantage by attacking the Israeli soft targets: Jews, Jewish businesses, and community centers abroad. Protecting them all is impossible. ... More About: Talk
Who knows? We do.
2008-04-18 10:39:00 Jews believe in the peace for various reasons. Some Jews are plainly self-hating, and just want a trouble for the Jewish state. Others are too tired of war, and just want to close their eyes to see the ivory tower of peace and happy relations between Jews, Egyptians, Iranians and whoever else. Some are primitive ...
Jewish peace or Arab peace initiative?
2008-04-16 09:59:00 Why doesn?t Israel accept the Arab peace initiative? It offers Israel normalization with all Arab states (though not Iran) in exchange for returning to the 1967 border, Jerusalem, and a solution to the refugee problem. That?s basically what the Israeli government agreed to; most Israelis accept the solution except partitioning Jerusalem. The differences are mundane: ... More About: Peace , Jewish , Initiative
What stranger should we love?
2008-04-14 11:21:00 There is one statement that drives me mad during almost every lecture. Invariably, someone stands up and says something along these lines, ?I know a little about Judaism , but the one thing I know for sure is that we should love our neighbors and not oppress strangers. That?s the entire Torah.? That?s what they were ... More About: Love
No one wants peace
More articles from this author:2008-04-10 17:34:00 "I'm ready to negotiate with the PLO. I believe we should sit with them and tell them, No." Rabbi Meir Kahane Arab countries don't care much about Jews getting a tiny state somewhere in the unruly lands of Palestine - unruly to the extent that even Ibrahim Pasha's army, acting atrociously, hardly enforced a semblance of ... More About: Peace 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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