Samson BlindedSamson BlindedRational perspective on the Middle East conflict, peace process, and antiterrorist efforts. By anonymous Israeli politician. 
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Israel, the last chance of Jews
2009-09-21 09:58:00 Jews have known many exterminations. Eight out of the twelve tribes perished, and the two Samaritan tribes are almost extinguished. European Jews were almost annihilated during the crusades, the black plague, and on, and on. If the divine logic exists, we fail to understand it: the observant, religiously zealous Jewish communities were murdered for ... More About: Israel , Chance , Jews
Goldstone report: the rebuttal
2009-09-18 15:29:00 The Goldstone report?s title, Human rights in Palestine and other occupied Arab territories, reveals its leanings. Since Gaza is also a part of Palestine, ?other occupied Arab territories? can only refer to Israel proper. The UN commission was composed of professional human rights advocates, none of whom were experienced in military or anti-terrorism realities. To cover ... More About: Report , Rebuttal
Learn to hate
2009-09-17 09:19:00 We were afraid to hate in the Exile; Christianity, and later leftism, made hate unfashionable. Read Byalik on the Kishinev massacre, and learn to hate. Jews have a penchant for analyzing their enemies and trying to find a good reason for the enmity. Instead, do like all normal people do: hate those who hate you. Do ... More About: Hate , Learn
Affluence is not panacea
2009-09-14 09:25:00 Several groups recently voiced an interest in developing Palestine economically. Jewish right-wingers imagine they can hold onto the territories by postponing the solution, and talk about the Palestinian economy rather than the state. Jewish centrists of Netanyahu?s ilk feel American pressure and know they must do something about the Palestinians, yet they are unable to ... More About: Gaza , Judea , Samaria
Affluence is not panacea
2009-09-14 09:25:00 Several groups recently voiced an interest in developing Palestine economically. Jewish right-wingers imagine they can hold onto the territories by postponing the solution, and talk about the Palestinian economy rather than the state. Jewish centrists of Netanyahu?s ilk feel American pressure and know they must do something about the Palestinians, yet they are unable to ... More About: Gaza , Judea , Samaria
On Muslims and dinosaurs
2009-09-10 12:23:00 Recent centuries have amounted to evolutionary flux. Humans have grown sufficiently strong to fully control the planet’s life and extinguish entire species, from buffalo to mosquitoes. Both harmful and valuable animals are being exterminated, though for opposite reasons. Within decades, tigers, elephants, and monkeys might only be seen in zoos. The destruction of old forests ... More About: Islam , Muslims , Dinosaurs
On Muslims and dinosaurs
2009-09-10 12:23:00 Recent centuries have amounted to evolutionary flux. Humans have grown sufficiently strong to fully control the planet’s life and extinguish entire species, from buffalo to mosquitoes. Both harmful and valuable animals are being exterminated, though for opposite reasons. Within decades, tigers, elephants, and monkeys might only be seen in zoos. The destruction of old forests ... More About: Islam , Muslims , Dinosaurs
Dead end may be pleasant
2009-09-07 09:17:00 ?Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, to you have I given it? -Joshua 1:3 Abbas’ cannot push his Arabs to any concessions required for the peace deal, and so he makes unrealistic demands on Israel to make her responsible for failure of the talks. He cannot even sell the Arabs the best ... More About: Dead , Dead End
Dead end may be pleasant
2009-09-07 09:17:00 ?Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, to you have I given it? -Joshua 1:3 Abbas’ cannot push his Arabs to any concessions required for the peace deal, and so he makes unrealistic demands on Israel to make her responsible for failure of the talks. He cannot even sell the Arabs the best ... More About: Dead , Dead End
Transfer made easy
2009-09-03 09:58:00 Most Jews would love to have a country without Arabs, but have accepted the propaganda that such a transfer would be atrocious and not tolerated by the world. A quarter of the Arabs in what would become Israel fled between 1947 and the spring of 1948, before the war erupted. Another 300,000 Arabs emigrated from ... More About: Transfer , Made , Easy
Transfer made easy
2009-09-03 09:58:00 Most Jews would love to have a country without Arabs, but have accepted the propaganda that such a transfer would be atrocious and not tolerated by the world. A quarter of the Arabs in what would become Israel fled between 1947 and the spring of 1948, before the war erupted. Another 300,000 Arabs emigrated from ... More About: Transfer , Made , Easy
Arab inequality in Israel
2009-08-31 09:34:00 The conflict with Jews stems largely from Arab backwardness. Many Palestinians have lived in refugee camps for four generations rather than emigrating?and they can freely go to many countries?in search of a decent job. Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon, and especially in Gaza ,create enormous political pressure, which the opponents of Israel exploit. Arab backwardness ... More About: Inequality
Arab inequality in Israel
2009-08-31 09:34:00 The conflict with Jews stems largely from Arab backwardness. Many Palestinians have lived in refugee camps for four generations rather than emigrating?and they can freely go to many countries?in search of a decent job. Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon, and especially in Gaza ,create enormous political pressure, which the opponents of Israel exploit. Arab backwardness ... More About: Inequality
PLO, Fatah, and Hamas
2009-08-27 09:15:00 Hamas developed as a grassroots movement. Its emphasis on Islamic charity allowed it deep penetration into Palestinian society, nurtured immense popular goodwill toward Hamas, and recruited true followers. In contrast, Fatah was always a top-down organization?envisaged by a few Palestinian students in Cairo, structured by the Egyptian and Jordanian intelligence services, developed in Kuwait, and ... More About: Hamas
PLO, Fatah, and Hamas
2009-08-27 09:15:00 Hamas developed as a grassroots movement. Its emphasis on Islamic charity allowed it deep penetration into Palestinian society, nurtured immense popular goodwill toward Hamas, and recruited true followers. In contrast, Fatah was always a top-down organization?envisaged by a few Palestinian students in Cairo, structured by the Egyptian and Jordanian intelligence services, developed in Kuwait, and ... More About: Hamas
The limits of unlimited observance
2009-08-24 09:50:00 There is an old joke about a Rabbinate ruling: it is permissible to add sour cream into pork soup. The joke is that once the soup is grossly non-kosher, violating the meat-milk prohibition becomes unimportant. But the joke is wrong. Judaism does not expect its adherents to be perfect. The system of ritual sacrifices, simple and ... More About: Limits , Unlimited
The limits of unlimited observance
2009-08-24 09:50:00 There is an old joke about a Rabbinate ruling: it is permissible to add sour cream into pork soup. The joke is that once the soup is grossly non-kosher, violating the meat-milk prohibition becomes unimportant. But the joke is wrong. Judaism does not expect its adherents to be perfect. The system of ritual sacrifices, simple and ... More About: Limits , Unlimited
Let?s try democracy
2009-08-20 09:30:00 The Knesset is in dire need of reform. Departing from its original practice, the Knesset established an electoral barrier of 2.5 percent. Nothing in political philosophy supports such a restriction, which shuts out minority groups and violates the fundamental principle of ?one citizen, one vote.? The barrier bars small right-wing parties from the Knesset, and ... More About: Democracy
Let?s try democracy
2009-08-20 09:30:00 The Knesset is in dire need of reform. Departing from its original practice, the Knesset established an electoral barrier of 2.5 percent. Nothing in political philosophy supports such a restriction, which shuts out minority groups and violates the fundamental principle of ?one citizen, one vote.? The barrier bars small right-wing parties from the Knesset, and ... More About: Democracy
Genocide by the humble
2009-08-17 09:11:00 The last thing Moses was commanded to do before retiring from this world was to exterminate the Midianites. Hebrew relations with the Midians were uneasy: Moses took a wife from among them and recorded Jewish laws on the advice of his father-in-law, a pagan priest. The Jewish attitude toward the Midian wife, Zipporah, was negative: ... More About: Genocide , Humble
Genocide by the humble
2009-08-17 09:11:00 The last thing Moses was commanded to do before retiring from this world was to exterminate the Midianites. Hebrew relations with the Midians were uneasy: Moses took a wife from among them and recorded Jewish laws on the advice of his father-in-law, a pagan priest. The Jewish attitude toward the Midian wife, Zipporah, was negative: ... More About: Genocide , Humble
Arabs are not even black
2009-08-13 09:50:00 Israel’s problem with her Arabs is similar to America’s troubles with blacks forty years ago. A generation of Jewish-American civil rights advocates, Israeli politicians, and American voters was raised on the notion of desegregation. The notion itself is questionable: it is not self-evident, as the US Supreme Court has repeatedly asserted, that ?separate but equal? ... More About: Black
Arabs are not even black
2009-08-13 09:50:00 Israel’s problem with her Arabs is similar to America’s troubles with blacks forty years ago. A generation of Jewish-American civil rights advocates, Israeli politicians, and American voters was raised on the notion of desegregation. The notion itself is questionable: it is not self-evident, as the US Supreme Court has repeatedly asserted, that ?separate but equal? ... More About: Black
Palestinians, use your own brains
2009-08-10 09:38:00 Current border and immigration restrictions are historically unusual. Throughout the ages, people were almost free to move and settle in other states. Such freedom of movement contributed significantly to economic efficiency and the spread of wealth and technologies. In the late nineteenth century, nationalist regimes started introducing visas. Visas are important for new nationalist entities. ... More About: Palestinians , Brains
Palestinians, use your own brains
2009-08-10 09:38:00 Current border and immigration restrictions are historically unusual. Throughout the ages, people were almost free to move and settle in other states. Such freedom of movement contributed significantly to economic efficiency and the spread of wealth and technologies. In the late nineteenth century, nationalist regimes started introducing visas. Visas are important for new nationalist entities. ... More About: Palestinians , Brains
From Dresden to Gaza City
2009-08-06 09:14:00 Israel lost the war with the Palestinians when she switched from military to the police realm. In the military mode, you carpet-bomb your enemies, you burn them with incendiary bombs, you thrash their infrastructure. In short, you hate them en masse and act on that hate. In the police mode, you seek out hostile elements ... More About: Gaza , City , Judea , Samaria
From Dresden to Gaza City
2009-08-06 09:14:00 Israel lost the war with the Palestinians when she switched from military to the police realm. In the military mode, you carpet-bomb your enemies, you burn them with incendiary bombs, you thrash their infrastructure. In short, you hate them en masse and act on that hate. In the police mode, you seek out hostile elements ... More About: Gaza , City , Judea , Samaria
Palestinian national character
2009-08-03 09:43:00 It is ostensibly unscientific to talk of Arabs as treacherous, cowardly, and backward, yet those traits are paramount to understanding the Palestinian s. Treacherous Bedouin serve in the IDF against their Arab and Muslim brothers and routinely assault Israeli Jews. Culturally similar Bedouin in Jordan keep the local Palestinian majority in check. Treacherous Palestinian notables in ... More About: National , Character
Marital habits of Jewish forefathers
2009-07-30 09:23:00 The first head-count of Hebrews in the Sinai shows 603,550 males older than twenty. Empirical demography suggests that at least one-third of the population was younger than twenty. The total number of Hebrew males (excluding Levites) was close to one million. On that background, the firstborns were only 22,273. How come? The average family, it follows, ... More About: Jewish , Habits , Judaism
Jews are proudly useless
More articles from this author:2009-07-27 10:12:00 Trying to curry favor with rest of the world, assimilated Jews brag about Jewish achievements that benefited others. That is nonsense. Classical Roman authors disparaged Jews for being useless citizens of the world. Despite the idea that “Plato is nothing but Moses speaking Greek,” realistically Jewish input toward the ancient world?s knowledge in next to ... More About: Useless 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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