Tag Archives: Ariel Sharon

nothing new to report moses

Nothing really novel or new in the Israeli attitude. It goes way back. Over three thousand years ago, the returning scouts whom Moses had dispatched to report on the inhabitants of the Promised Land debriefed as follows: “We were like … Continue reading

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blaming them on inertia

…Can they be blamed for such an attitude? The average Arab is certainly not responsible for these feelings. These are the values on which he has been raised for years. For him or her to defy them would mean challenging … Continue reading

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beginnings without endings

The world lives in fear of the “incident”- In Iran perhaps, or Saudi Arabia, or Egypt? —that will ignite the next great conflict; but if you look back on the Thirty Years War and take it as a template for … Continue reading

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stuck in the in-between space

Clearly, the kind of virulent Arab anti-Semitism, or rather anti-Israel easily spilling, absurdly, into a kind of biological racism is not endemic to the Arab world in the same way that characterized the Jewish experience in Europe from east to … Continue reading

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who cares what other people think…

Some things never change. Way back when David Ben Gurion said something to the effect…”What matters is not what the goyim say, but what the Jews do.” So it was then,  and so, to a great degree, it is today. … Continue reading

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the bulldozer: stop making sense

Ariel Sharon’s Samson Option rant. It definitely falls into the category of “Nice guys finish last.” He’s being interviewed here by Amos Oz who is in the deep left of political ideologies. When the Zionists cleared the swamps, he chose … Continue reading

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divine wrath

Divine wrath: punish them for their sins. Certainly, they are  being kept on a short leash, and for good reason, some of it tied back to American electoral policy, the other a revolution viewed as too big to fail status, … Continue reading

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bitching section: take a number

… and speak loud and clearly into the microphone. However, please be advised that the complaint department is now closed….There is no end to the innocence. Innocence until proven fealty… After all , what could be a bigger insult to … Continue reading

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war: a continuation of policy by other means

A deaf ear to Clausewitz and how not to win a war. He died in 1831, yet we still haven’t grasped the lessons in the post WWII age: Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran? …… In distinguishing between the defensive and the … Continue reading

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existential: down here there’s nothin’ mostly

You often come across the wild as the west type postings on the Web where the Jewish Talmud,- is there another?- is responsible for the downing of the world trade center, The Illuminati, is complicit with the pope’s designs on … Continue reading

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