Recently the hologram made a highly touted speech (the mass media virtually herded all the cattle into the electronic coliseum to watch and listen) in which the Koran was given pride of place, the Talmud second and the “Holy Bible” third: the Torah or Books of Moses were eclipsed. Implicit message: the Torah derives and is later than the Talmud and those other texts. Moreover, the suffering of the Jews dates to the holocaust and thus the suffering people sustained by the UN, the “Palestinians” should understand their equals. That is, the Jews are equivalent to a virtual people whose history as a nation began in the 1940s and they have some texts from 1500 years ago. When they get out of their heartland there will be peace and justice for everyone. This is the age of reason. Read the rest of this entry » In the remarkable, daunting, and hurried times in which we live, and which our parents and grandparents already lived and were startled by “the new”, the world must go “forward” and the past forgotten. We are told repeatedly that progress is a necessity, and that progress means conditioning ourselves to think, feel, and act in new and “better” ways, to adopt values and habits, constraints on our freedoms, and intrusions into our privacy that are not only different from what we once held permissible but the opposite of what we had been taught, and believed, often still do believe and feel, is good and true. Esau, he is progress… Read the rest of this entry » “We will of course be careful in formulating a peace treaty. Our legal experts will craft the proper paragraphs to secure our rights under any contingency. We will touch our glasses with UN diplomat Jarring or whoever will replace him. And then will begin the retreat. In return for promises and securities we will rid ourselves of Judea and Samaria… But the Arabs will not be the same Arabs they were before the retreat, and the Jews will not be the same Jews.” (S.B. Bet Zvi, Zot Ha’Aretz, May 30, 1969) Read the rest of this entry » The children of Israel know that seventy years is a sign of exile’s duration, and that today, such is progress, exile can be within the land: just as there were client regimes of Babylon and Egypt in late First Temple times, so new Empires and puppets now. Today also the nation of Israel must choose whether to continue to endure a client regime that demolishes Jewish dwellings and defends itself only with ‘permission a la Shushan,’ permission of a foreign king or to be a free people in the land, the only way a Jew can be a Jew. But few today grasp the resonance of yashar and shaleim, as Jacob was when he returned to Shechem. Read the rest of this entry »
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