Bird,

The more you follow the news here, the more it looks like a cartoon off a bizarro's print machine in a deformed universe. The masks fall and the traitors in Jerusalem are being shown for whom and what they are. While Olmert calls Mahmoud Abbas "Mr. President" and waves a PLO flag, the Sha'ar haNegev regional council, responsible for the administration of S'derot and surrounding communities, prepares evacuation plans...

Thinking inside the box? Throw this box into the fire and burn it!!

Shavua Tov,
Reuven

BoP,

Looks like I'm the only one who reads what you write about my neck of the woods. Well, it's my neck and not anyone else's, so that you even give a damn ands write an article about it is kindness on your part.

These are the links to the two stories I mentioned earlier. Olmert recognizes the PA flag and In Face of Kassams, Battered Town Councils Prepare to Evacuate.

This link to Manhigut Yehudit (Jewish Leadership) gives you an idea of the kind of ideology that I find attractive, and should give you a small ray of hope. I take a different point of view in terms of peace and making peace, but that is not important.

The following article is by Moshe Feiglin, the head of Manhigut Yehudit. It does not yet have a link that I could find.

The Suicide Solution

By Moshe Feiglin
6 Tevet, 5767 (Dec 28)


When the Nazis came into power, many of the assimilated Jewish intellectuals in Germany committed suicide. Their cultural world was the German world. When they realized that there was no room for Jews in their world, the only option they saw was death. The national process that Israel's elites are leading is becoming eerily reminiscent of the same psychosis.

If you listen to former Mosad Chief Donny Yatom or to a wide range of intellectuals and public opinion makers, you will conclude that all the rapid escapes, disengagements, peace pacts and restraints that the Oslo people have wrought upon us have been a dizzying success whose conclusion is clear: We must retreat from the Golan Heights and drive its Jewish residents out of their homes, we must continue to supply the good terrorists with weapons so that they can fight the bad terrorists, and, of course, we must release all the bad terrorists in Israeli jails so that they can join forces with the good terrorists. Even Gilad Shalit's father spoke this week in favor of a terrorist release prior to his son's release. We do not accuse all of these people of stupidity or wickedness. Something much deeper is triggering their solutions.

The hard core Leftists control all the State's power hubs that are not up for election -- culture, security, justice and economy. As far as they are concerned, if it is impossible to make peace -- in other words, if it is impossible for Israel to be a normal nation accepted by its neighbors -- there is no reason for the State to exist. The most basic Zionist ethos calls for normalization of the Jewish nation. The powers that be -- the Left -- have no intention of surrendering that vision. They will continue to grab at every last straw -- as ridiculous or dangerous as it may be -- in a desperate attempt to realize their vision.

It is important to understand that Israel's defense policy derives from Leftist Messianism. When Yossi Beilin, Shimon Peres and other Oslo criminals illegally met with terrorists, opening Israel's floodgates to the largest terror organization in the world, it wasn't because they were stupid or suffered from political/security myopia. They were simply clinging to the last straw they could find in their attempt to be accepted to the family of nations. As far as they are concerned, any "window of opportunity" is worth the risk, for if we do not make peace with our would-be murderers, we will remain a nation apart from all other nations. In other words, we will remain alone -- with only our Jewish identity.

Israel's government is reminiscent of those assimilated Jews who, when forced by the Nazis to accept their identity, preferred to commit suicide rather than face the truth. Israel's government will continue to cling to its suicidal policies in an effort to maintain its control over the nation against all odds -- marching stridently toward the unfeasible vision of negation of its Jewish identity and national assimilation.

The current leadership mindset will never come up with a solution for the Kassams because having a solution means fighting, winning and defeating the other side. Obviously, it doesn't have a clue how to deal with the Iranian nuclear threat.

Clearly, the solution is outside the parameters of Israel's Western-based ideology. It exists on the plane of Jewish identity that will elect Jewish leadership to express our Jewish values and destiny.