Britannia Radio

FREEMAN CENTER BROADCAST - September 23, 2012 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ For Zion's sake I will not hold my peace and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest." Isaiah 62. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ FREEMAN CENTER FOR STRATEGIC STUDIESP.O. Box 35661 * Houston, Texas 77235-5661 * E-mail: bernards@sbcglobal.net OUR WEB SITE (URL): < www.freeman.org > THE MACCABEAN ONLINE: URL:http:// www.freeman. org/online. htm Freeman Center Blog http://www. freeman.org/ serendipity / ============ SUPPORT THE FREEMAN CENTER KEEP OUR VOICE STRONG ==================== Ignorance Is Weakness - Know The Truth Self-Inflicted Ignorance Is Suicide The Freeman Center Is A Defense Against Ignorance === To all Freeman Center members and supporters and all Lovers of Zion We wish you a wonderful Shana Tova (Jewish New Year) filled with Joy, Health, Peace, Prosperity, Sweetness, Love and Security in the coming year. May you be forgiven for all your transgressions and receive a good signature in the Book of Life. Hatima Tova. Please remember all our hard work with a tax deductible contribution toward our continued success in 5773. Please contribute to The Freeman Center's essential educational activities.  Mail check to address above or by paypal:http://www.freeman.org/paypal.htm Thank you.....Bernard ---------------------------------- "Lots of bad editorials are better than a beautiful obituary." — An old Israeli saying from the times before "Osloporosis" struck the country. "Pacifism is objectively pro-Fascist. This is elementary common sense." "If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help out that of the other." — George Orwell, Partisan Review, 1942 "He who is merciful to the cruel, will end up being cruel to the merciful." — Kohelet Rabbah  "The strength of the prophets of Israel lay in the fact that they proclaimed the Truth when everything was against it." — Andre Malraux -------------------- "If someone comes to kill you, kill him first.".. Midrash "If someone kills an Israeli or Jew, fault lies not with the killer but with those who allowed the killing. (Israeli government or Jewish 'leadership')"..Rav Meir Kahane X"L "It is normal for Arabs to kill Jews, always was-always will be. The Jews must build a wall of Zionism and take what is rightfully theirs." ....... ...............Ze'ev Jabotinsky X"L "If you give mercy to the wicked, then you will be wicked to the merciful"....Midrash ------------------------------ MUST READ: Israel and the Vulture FIrst Published: THE MACCABEAN - June 1998 http://www.freeman.org/m_online/dec98/beres1.htm The following article was written by Professor Louis Rene Beres only a month after the first Oslo Agreement in 1993. All one has to do is add Obama and Iran to appropriate phrases. His Oslo prediction, after all, has already come true. Prof. Louis René Beres Louis René Beres (Ph.D., Princeton, 1971) is professor of Political Science and International Law at Purdue University. He is the author of many books, monographs, and articles dealing with Israeli security matters, nuclear strategy and nuclear war. He is one of the military analysts of the Freeman Center For Strategic Studies. More articles by Prof. Beres: http://www.freeman.org/m_online/beresa.htm   The following arresting article was written by Professor Louis Rene Beres only a month after the first Oslo Agreement in 1993. Its persistent truth, as Israel faces Iran and the growth of anti-Semitic anti-Zionism, speaks for itself.  A vulture was hacking at my feet. It had already torn my boots and stockings to shreds, now it was hacking at the feet themselves. Again and again it struck at them, then circled several times restlessly round me, then returned to continue its work. A gentleman passed by, looked on for a while, then asked me why I suffered the vulture. "I'm helpless," I said. "When it came and began to attack me, I of course tried to drive it away, even to strangle it, but these animals are very strong, it was about to spring at my face, but I preferred to sacrifice my feet. Now they are almost torn to bits." "Fancy letting yourself be tortured like this!" said the gentleman. "One shot and that's the end of the vulture." "Really?" I said. "And would you do that?" "With pleasure," said the gentleman, "I've only got to go home and get my gun. Could you wait another half hour?" "I'm not sure about that," said I, and stood for a moment rigid with pain. Then I said: "Do try it in any case, please." "Very well," said the gentleman, "I'll be as quick as I can." During this conversation the vulture had been calmly listening, letting its eye rove between me and the gentleman. Now I realized that it had understood everything; it took wing, leaned far back to gain impetus, and then, like a javelin thrower, thrust its beak through my mouth, deep into me. Falling back, I was relieved to feel him drowning irretrievably in my blood, which was filling every depth, flooding every shore. Franz Kafka, The Vulture Even by the standards of Kafka's uncannily prophetic insights, the parable of the Vulture is remarkable. Examined as a lesson for Israel in its protracted struggle for survival in the Middle East, this cautionary tale is right on the mark. Indeed, it reads as if it were written originally with no other struggle in mind. Consider the scenario. A man is being destroyed, slowly and painfully, by a fierce and predatory bird. Repeatedly, the bird hacks at its victim, immobilizing him systematically and purposefully, piece by piece. The man, of course, has not allowed this process of sequential dismemberment to proceed without defensive reaction. Fearing, above all, for his face, for his very being, he has preferred to "sacrifice my feet." Rather than confront his enemy head on, frontally, with some hope of emerging victorious, he has calculated instead, quite rationally he maintains, the cost-effectiveness of appeasement. In the end, his rational calculations prove altogether erroneous. It is true that our victim does draw some satisfaction from the final mutuality of death - the vulture drowns "irretrievably" in the man's own blood - but it is a satisfaction that is necessarily short-lived. There is more. Before the dreadful demise of both victim and victimizer, a "gentleman" promises aid to the former. The gentleman needs only to return with his "gun;" the man needs only to "wait another half hour." All the while, the vulture, not merely a beast animated by instinct, "understands" the plan against it, and decides, again after "calm" and careful calculation, to launch decisive thrusts. So what if they turn out to be more carnivorous frenzies?   It is now too late to stop the hacking. Events have achieved an unstoppable momentum of their own. What must be done must be done. The "gentleman," of course, never returns. Like the vacant American President Clinton [read Obama, ed.], who now urges Israel onward with a delusionary "peace process," he has other, more urgent, preoccupations. The problem with his promises is not that he is necessarily deceitful or meanspirited (he is, after all, a "gentleman"), but that he is interested only in himself. For too many years, the "vulture" has been hacking away at Israel. From its fragile beginnings, Israel has been heeding one "gentleman" or another. Although the United States has hardly urged the Jewish State to deal with its painfully progressive decomposition by explicitly recognizing the advantages of firing "one shot," the implicit promise is always present: "Negotiate, compromise, yield, beg; there is really no risk involved. There is always the last resort of overwhelming military power."   This promise, whether it refers to American or to Israeli forces, or to both, is of little or no value. Taken too seriously, it will likely lead Israel toward one form or another of the "Samson Option." While enemies of the Jewish State will "drown irretrievably" in the full fury of Israel's most terrible weapons - in the unspeakable lifeblood of a victim that has waited for too long to ensure its survival - this fate will occasion no celebrations in what is left of Jewish Jerusalem.   Faced with the end of the Third Temple Commonwealth, Israel's leaders will curse their enemies and their "gentleman," but it will be an indecipherable curse, a curse heard by no one. It will emerge, of course, that this Oslo "peace process" is an oxymoron, a paradoxical conjunction of terms that could seal the fate of an imperilled ministate - one smaller than some counties in California. For Israel, a long-suffering and increasingly directionless victim, the process may lead to complete and irreversible helplessness.   Sacrificing more and more essential security in the hope that predators will be satisfied, it will learn too late - unless Kafka's revealing parable is understood by the endangered People of Israel - that the lure of carrion only inflames the vulture.   In an unspeakable irony genuinely savored by the insatiable vulture, Israel could even become the Final Solution to the Jewish Question. ============ LOUIS RENE BERES (Ph.D., Princeton, 1971) is Professor of Political Science and International Law at Purdue University. Prof. Beres is the academic advisor to the Freeman Center For Strategic Studies. ----------- REMEMBER? "First They Came for the Jews"  By Pastor Niemoller First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the Communists and I did not speak out because I was not a Communist. Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me. IT IS HAPPENING AGAIN - ------------------------------------------- Freeman Note: Learn how to combat ignorance with the knowledge in Bernard's new book. It is jam packed with history, political, Judaic and military/strategic wisdom. E-book only 3.99 Best URLs for my book: THE BATTLE FOR ERETZ YISRAEL Jews, G-d and Israel --- The perfect Bar/Bat Mitzvah, Confirmation or Graduation Present Barnes and Noble http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-battle-for-eretz-yisrael-bernard-j-shapiro/1106677920?ean=9781462006533&itm=1 Amazon.com http://www.amazon.com/Battle-Eretz-Yisrael-Israel-1992-2011/dp/146200654X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1320154322&sr=1- All my royalties from the sale of my book will go to the Freeman Center For Strategic Studies for important Zionist/educational purposes.