Critical

This article “Critical“, reprinted with the kind permission of Reb Akiva M, of:

by Akiva at Mystical Paths

We’re going to delve into a practical analysis briefly. The situation in Israel is critical, though somewhat existential. Surrounded by enemies on all sides who have figured out a way to hit and hurt, Israel is unwilling as well as pressured by the world to avoid taking the steps that would defend herself and/or prevent further attacks.

Instead, she’ll allow herself, or pieces of herself, to be sacrificed so the Western nations can keep their oil suppliers happy and stable (as if Israel has anything to do with their stability).

But, some of her population is bleeding (S’derot and everything south of Ashdod). Some is nationalistic and insists on acting as if land actually matters. Some is national religious, and acts as if settling the Land of Israel actually matters. And some just cares about the Land of Israel.

The rest, which is the ’silent majority’? They’re just going about their lives, and as long as terrorist incidents remain ‘low’ and missile attacks remain outside where 70% of the population lives, hey, out of sight out of mind.

So what to do about those annoying segments that actually care? This isn’t speculation, we’ll define exactly WHAT WAS DONE starting with the Rabin government and continuing through the expulsion of Gush Katif…

1. Minimize the voice. No media reports. No government offices dispatched. Welcome to what’s happening in S’derot. How many rockets this week, how many people hurt this month? I don’t know, no reports IN ISRAEL.

2. Delegitimize. News reports focus on “crazy” settlers, “innocent” palestinians, “blockages to peace”. Every investigative government agency investigates, they’re is always something to find wrong, highlight it.

3. Organize trouble. Take the community trouble makers and let them run free. Have “friends” conveniently hand them trouble making resources. Make sure to have other “friends” nearby who are capturing information (video/audio) to make the evening news.

4. Make the community question itself, make the rest of the nation question the community. Take all the above together and you rob a community of it’s voice, you divide it as some say it’s gone overboard, and you make it considered either crazy, a laughing stock, or dangerous, by the rest of the nation.

This is not speculation, this is the program run several times in the past in Israel. As Jerusalem comes on the table and tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands stand to lose their homes, and murderers are to be brought within range of 90% of the Israeli population, you can be sure such tactics are already in progress.

You’ll note that almost every Israeli commentor found the situation regarding Rabbi Nati to be completely plausible and in line with PAST Israeli internal events. A few Americans wish to believe that such things must be paranoia or a scam of some sort. Those same people, however, probably scream about the lost rights due to the US Patriot Act and other similar security measures the US has taken. Yet when they see the results of such things in action, they fail to grasp it.

Can Israel Resist US Pressure?

Following are excerpts of “Can Israel Resist US Pressure?“
by Ted Belman of Arutz Sheva – IsraelNationalNews.com

The US has made Israel dependent on it.

Recently, we hear that Ehud Olmert offered to cede the Golan Heights to Syria, and I commented that the Golan is safe for now. For now; but ultimately the US will be pressuring Israel to do the deal. As Ami Isseroff points out in “Territorial Integrity: American Middle East policy and what it means for Israel“, it has always been US policy to force Israel to trade land for peace.

To accomplish its goals, the US has made Israel dependent on it for military supply and diplomatic support, in order to gain influence on Israel. Recently, in keeping with this policy, Rice advised Israel that the US would not send extra supplies to Israel, but would keep them in the US.

There are two factors that remain obstacles to US plans, however. The determination of most Israelis to not cede all the land demanded or to divide Jerusalem is one. The other is the Arab rejectionist camp of Iran, Syria, Hizbullah and Hamas – which reject peace with Israel.

The Left’s Mischaracterization of Israel

By Aaron Velasquez.

Israel is us.

The American Right loves Israel. We love Israel because Israel is us. Israel has McDonald’s, night clubs, a middle class, semiconductor plants and nuclear weapons. The Left hates Israel for exactly these same things. Some liberals go one better and equate Israel with Nazi Germany, with Palestinians acting the part of the Jews. As bizarre as this seems to me, it plays well in the emotionally-driven finger-pointing crowd.

Israel is rich, stable and secure, and Palestine is poor and in turmoil. The fallacy is the idea that Israel’s success caused the poverty of the Palestinians. People looking for “root causes” of violence often stop at poverty and assume that the nearest rich people are to blame.

The myth then tells how the poor Palestinians were herded into the ghettos of the West Bank and Gaza and forced to live as animals. Any defensive use of Israel’s military is fuel for the myth of an Israeli “genocide” against the Palestinians, which completes the picture of Israelis as Nazis.

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Syria on Alert ‘Because Hizbullah Revenge Attack is Near’

By Gil Ronen.

(IsraelNN.com) Syria has raised the state of alert of its armed forces because it knows Hizbullah’s revenge attack against Israel for the killing of Imad Mughniyeh is near, according to Israel’s Channel 2 TV.

Soon after Mughniyeh’s death, Israel warned Syria that it would hold it responsible for any revenge attack launched by Hizbullah for the killing of Mughniyeh, its operations officer.

Syria is due to release its official findings Sunday in the probe into Mughniyeh’s death. He was killed in an explosion in Damascus in February.

Interviewed by a Lebanese newspaper, Khaddam said that the head of Syrian intelligence was replaced because the investigation he conducted showed that those who planned the assassination came from within Syria.

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The Psychoanalytic Roots Of Islamic Terrorism

Despite enormous and continuing denial on the part of left and liberal ideologues and the media, we are facing an exceedingly pathological strain of Islamofascist terrorism. So a crucial question must be asked: from a psychological and anthropological point of view, what kind of culture produces human bombs, glorifies mass murderers, and supports humiliation-based revenge?

According to Minnesota based psychoanalyst and Arabist, Dr. Nancy Kobrin, it is a culture in which shame and honor play decisive roles and in which the debasement of women is paramount. In an utterly fascinating and as-yet unpublished book, which I will be introducing, the Sheik’s New Clothes: the Psychoanalytic Roots of Islamic Suicide Terrorism, Kobrin, and her Israeli co-author, counter-terrorism expert Yoram Schweitzer, describe barbarous family and clan dynamics in which children, both boys and girls, are routinely orally and anally raped by male relatives; infant males are sometimes sadistically over-stimulated by being masturbated; boys between the ages of 7-12 are publicly and traumatically circumcised; many girls are clitoridectomized; and women are seen as the source of all shame and dishonor and treated accordingly: very, very badly.

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The Golan Heights Peace Plan

By Moshe Feiglin

There are just five easy steps.

Is there a solution for the military crisis plaguing Israel’s south? Can Israel successfully deal with the Kassam rockets? Or is Ehud Olmert right when he tells us that we just have to get used to it?

Have you ever asked yourself where the safest place in Israel is? Where do you not have to worry about Arabs throwing rocks at your car? Where can you walk around at night without fear of arms or drug smugglers crossing the border? Where don’t missiles fly and where don’t bombs explode? In short, where is the place that you are safest from both external enemies and from internal Arab terror and crime?

That place is the Golan Heights. Without even trying, possibly even by mistake, Israel enjoys real peace there. Any new peace plan must follow the principles that have brought us true peace in the Golan. There are just five easy steps:

1. Encourage Arab emigration
2. Conquest
3. Israeli sovereignty
4. Settlement
5. No peace accords!

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