Samson BlindedSamson BlindedRational perspective on the Middle East conflict, peace process, and antiterrorist efforts. By anonymous Israeli politician. Articles
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 ...
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
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
Nothing is new under the sun
2008-04-08 21:14:00 The Arab position on Israel didn?t change at all. Human mentality doesn?t change. About ninety years ago, a prince of Mecca named Faisal signed an agreement with Zionists recognizing the Jewish right to the land and actually welcomed Jews. His successor recently unveiled Arab peace plan which ostensibly welcomes Jews in the Middle East. Saudi ...
End Gaza
2008-04-06 18:15:00 Gaza's political difference from the West Bank is telling: Palestinian national expression developed in the West Bank, but not in Gaza. The main factor behind that difference is the neighboring countries' attitude: Jordan fueled the West Bank Palestinian nationalism in the hope of sublimating the energies of its own Palestinians away from fighting the monarchy, ... More About: Gaza , Judea , Samaria
UNRWA, a sponsor of terrorism
2008-04-04 08:21:00 The story that awaits a narrator is the UN?s role in transforming Palestinian peasants into terrorists. Humanity, mercy is the practice of subjugating one?s own interests to the more pressing needs of others. The United Nations Works and Relief Agency did not act mercifully, as it actually furthered its bureaucratic and political interests by aiding ... More About: Terrorism , Sponsor
Biblical Anarchy
2008-04-01 17:03:00 I would like to welcome everyone to download Obadiah's new brochures below. They reflect his long-time interest in the biblical anarchy and liberalism (in the original sense of the word). The brochures are compiled from Obadiah's lectures on biblical ethics, anarchism, and anti-Left polemics. These topics are generally untouched in this blog, but I hope ... More About: Biblical , Anarchy
Oddly, we don't want your money
2008-03-31 11:08:00 The US gives Israel no aid. The money euphemistically called aid is anything but that. There are three types of aid: hesed (given of pure goodwill, not owed), tzedakah (owed for moral reasons), and mishpat (owed for legal reasons). None of those categories apply to Israeli-American relations. America possesses neither selfless goodwill, nor moral or ... More About: Money
Be like the terrorists
2008-03-28 09:38:00 The one thing I detest more than liberal ?rabbis? is racist Jews who speak of vile, underhuman Arabs. On the contrary, Arabs are normal, and in many political and moral respects remind us of how the Jews should behave. Take Arab rocket attacks on Israel. Few Jews are so contemptuous of Arabs to imagine them ... More About: Islamic Terrorism , Terrorists
If I'm not for oneself, who will be for me?
2008-03-26 17:03:00 After the millennia of the Exile, Jews are not used to sovereignty. Jews developed a habit of appealing to policeman: to protect their ghetto before, to protect their state now. And so the Israeli lobby bends over backwards to garner international support for sanctions against Iran . Just in case someone has missed it: Iran lives ...
An eye for an eye doctrine
2008-03-24 20:17:00 "An eye for an eye" is arguably the most misunderstood Jewish commandment. Most condemn it as too harsh, some praise it as just, but few cared to actually read it. This commandment applies to the narrow class of situations only rather than to all crimes. It is indeed odd to imagine that ancient Hebrews diligently pulled ...
American crisis-lite, very lite
2008-03-22 19:51:00 It is easy to be pessimistic about American economy. The hard part is timing the downturn. The problem is well known from shorting on stock market: many companies are obviously overvalued, but can still rise up enough to wipe out the bear. American economy was always, in a sense, a vampire. It attracted huge foreign investments ... More About: United States , Lite , Crisis
Dr. Baruch Goldstein was murdered 14 years ago
2008-03-20 08:32:00 [Mearat a-Mahpela (The Cave of the Patriarchs) is the burial place of Abraham, Yitzhak, and Jacob. The place was purchased by Abraham and conquered by Jacob. The cave is the second-holiest Jewish site. The insane rulers of Israel gave Arabs most of Mearat a-Mahpela even though Arabs massacred Jewish community in the very same city ... More About: Years
Theology vs democracy
2008-03-18 10:24:00 Israel goes from one restructuring crisis into another. Socialism, successive waves of aliyah, near-bankruptcy in the arms race, ideological changes from mini-state in 1948 to mini-empire in 1967 to defeatism since the 1990s strain government?s credibility and make Jews doubt if the nation has any ideology to sustain statehood. Democracy is a comfortable order for ... More About: Theology
Do the best, do nothing
2008-03-15 19:59:00 Policies are predominantly wrong because any given position in the complex adaptive system has myriad options, and any one option is likely to not be the best option. Complex adaptive systems resist policies but develop through painfully long series of micro-moves. At every stage, situation changes and needs adaptive response. Policies, on the contrary, tend ...
Judenrat and other rats
2008-03-12 16:53:00 I wonder what Jews can seriously defend democracy for Israel. There is a straightforward issue of Arabs constituting 34% among Israel's young, and so wielding decision-making power over all legislative acts which require supermajority voting. Along with ultra-left Jews and some anti-Semitic non-Jews in Israel, the Arabs are close to being the majority. Arabs vote ... More About: Rats
New Russians and Old Israelis
More articles from this author:2008-03-10 12:25:00 Russian Jewish oligarchs seem to embrace Israel. The major reason behind their interest to the Promised Land is its non-extradition statute: Israeli law generally bans rendering a Jew to foreign prosecution. Israel is also notoriously lax on money laundering and foreign tax evasion: police investigate money laundering only when it coincides with a major tax ... More About: Russia , Russians , Israelis 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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