The bad news started coming to my doorstep about three weeks ago. On Thursday afternoon, a young lady knocked on our door asking for charity. She was staying at the girls high school in Ma’alé Levoná after being ejected from her home in Ramat Migron the day before. I did not know where her family is staying, or what they were to do, but I did what I could to help her out. It was a pitiable sum of money – but it was a good part of what we had at the moment.
The next night, eating Sabbath dinner at a neighor’s house, my wife was complaining about the pains she was enduring because a bus driver had stopped so fast that she fell and suffered from whiplash, and our hostess wanted to help put things in perspective for her by getting her to see that things could be worse. She told us of a neighbor of ours – let’s call him Barry – who was driving home past Sínjil, the Arab village at very the bottom of Levoná, the hill/mountain where we live. Arabs threw rocks through his windshield, spraying him with shattered glass, and they threw another rock through the back windshield, injuring his wife, Lee. He managed to bring the car to a halt, and then to drive up the hill home – where an ambulance promptly took the two of them to a hospital in Jerusalem. This was similar to rock throwing incidents that had occurred over the last couple of months or so, hundreds of them, at Shiló, Elí, Shuafát, Ma’alé Adumím, and other places as well. But this time, we knew the victims. Had it been me and had I Barry’s pistol, I would have also stopped the car – and fired at the Arab attackers, attempting to kill them if I could. But it wasn’t me. I sat and listened to our hostess, and kept my anger to myself.
This may sound like a lot of news, a lot of events occurring here – as though there were a great deal to write about. Truth be told though, overall, not too much has happened newswise in the last twenty years since this interview with the late Rabbi Meir Kahane, z”l, hy”d. Note that this C-Span interview was in February, 1989. If you watch it, and change a few names, you will see the same problems facing the region then as face the region today. An Arab state in Judea and Samaria would be a dagger in the heart of our country. That was true in February 1989, and it is true today as well.
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— go to most recent comments1 - Christine
Wow, Ruvy, I am sorry to hear that you and your people have to endure so much turmoil in your Country. Seems like it is an never-ending ordeal and I wish it would end. What are the solutions to peace in Israel?
2 - Heloise
Ruvy, yesterday I asked myself a question and then blogged the answer.Here's the question "Will the Jewish Messiah be Jewish?"
In looking for answers I found this jewish belief instead "national revelation." So I changed what I was going to write to write about that belief.
I was unaware of it. But now it puts lots of jewish history in clear perspective.
In a sense it is a belief that there may be no specific messiah, Jewish or otherwise but that the people will be the "messiah" and this will be revealed nationally.
It is a national revelation because well then no one can be deceived. Everyone will know the same thing at the same time. There is no room for individual knowing.
I am not telling you this per se Ruvy just stating a gist of it for others who may be unaware as I was. It's deep and so are the problems of Arabs and Jews. I think that they will either live together or die together.
Heloise
3 - Ruvy
What are the solutions to peace in Israel?
Christine,
The answers to your question are on page 5 of this article. All the things my friend Lowell wrote about are drawn from Jewish Prophecy. What I left out of quote above were the sources of the Prophecy. And it will all happen - and is all beginning to happen, even as I write this now on a cloudy Wednesday morning in the Samarian mountains.
What you need to grasp, and grasp clearly, is that at present, Israel is in the hands of a traitorous régime that does not serve the interests of its citizens, but the interests of its puppet masters in Europe and Washington.
The value for us of your sitting president, who for you is a disastrous incompetent, is that he has ripped the mask of "friendship" from the relationship between Israel and the States. The relationship is clearly now revealed to be one of bully (the States) and the bullied (the people of Israel), with big-ego and big-checkbook American Jews serving as a judenrat, a puppet council (think J-Street) in the States, and with corrupted flunkies serving as a judenrat (think Netanyahu and Barak) here.
The IDF, one the pride of our people, is under the command of traitorous goons who hate G-d and the Torah, while most of the rank and file are restive and angry, believers in the country, in G-d, and its mission for mankind, who feel like my son and his girl-friend, that they have no other country. This restive underclass in the IDF, both the draftees and the reservists, are the hope of the country. In time, they will rid us of the traitors at the top.
4 - Ruvy
That should have been "The IDF, once the pride of our country...." in the previous comment
5 - Ruvy
Dear Heloise,
I was unaware of it. But now it puts lots of jewish history in clear perspective.
In a sense it is a belief that there may be no specific messiah, Jewish or otherwise but that the people will be the "messiah" and this will be revealed nationally. It is a national revelation because well then no one can be deceived. Everyone will know the same thing at the same time. There is no room for individual knowing.
Sources, please? Sites to visit, perhaps?
6 - Mark
See The Kuzari dialogues -- work of Rabbi Yehuda Halevi... soon to be a major motion picture, Mass Murder at Mount Sinai
7 - Mark
(though I don't remember anything about 'no specific messiah' in that work you'll find the argument for shared experience)
8 - Al Barger
Brother Ruvy, as an American, I'm very frustrated with the candy ass way we deal with our jihadist enemies - which are not nearly as bad a threat to us as what you continually deal with. So I am also exasperated with your government from a distance.
A lot of this seems to come from the largely admirable Jewish traits of self-examination and self-doubt. The willingness to look for how you may be in the wrong, seeking empathy and to love thine enemies and the reluctance to hurt others are great things - in measured doses.
Not being much of a believer, and certainly not of the Jewish religion, I'm not counting on a Messiah to come save you.
But what I AM counting on is basic mammalian psychology. Thinking of it in terms of something like Maslow's hierarchy of needs, a basic lower rung necessity of survival will eventually overwhelm the higher levels of seeking (largely misdirected ideas of) self-actualization as a sensitive and loving moral peacemaker or whatever exactly dumb shit keeps your people so restrained from giving your enemies the crushing blows that they so richly deserve.
At some point, the necessity of vigorous self-defense becomes an absolutely existentially unavoidable point that the biggest pussy liberal secularists will not be able to avoid. Pure direct immediate survival necessity will at some point flatly overwhelm any stupid faux-morality that is enabling the current tolerance for people busy killing you.
But the longer it waits, the more confident your enemies have become in their abilities to restrain you through international politics or through delusional notions of their own military superiority, and the worse their attacks on you become - the worse the eventual and inevitable corrective bloodbath of Muslim/Arab shitheads will be.
As an American, I apologize profusely for the absolutely treacherous and disloyal behavior of the Obama administration in particular - though I might be inclined to be somewhat less harsh about Americans or American government in general than you understandably are. Give or take Britain, Israel has been our most loyal friend in the world. You deserve much better from US.
On the other hand, I strongly suspect that Obama will be a one term presidential failure - Jimmy Carter writ large, and that a lot of the stupidest left wing dumbasses will be swept out of power in the next couple of years.
Moreover, when you eventually open up on your enemies - starting with Iranian nuclear facilities - there'll be a lot of ground level support from American citizens that will at least substantially minimize whatever stupid treacherous responses the governmental leadership might be inclined to make. Or so I hope and pray, at least.
Much love from the American heartland.
9 - Silas Kain
Big Brother Al Barger, my cuddly teddy bear, I still love you. I agree, Obama is destined to be a one term President. He has about a year to get his act together. If the results of the midterm elections in 2010 are less than stellar, I fear that the Mormon will be our next President. And if that happens, I'm applying for political asylum in any Eastern European nation who'll have me.
10 - Ruvy
Brother Al,
I can't ask for much more in the line of support from an American than you offer. To the degree that your own beliefs allow, you track my views. Of course, you see me as harsh on America - but you must realize that I am even harsher on the puppets who ruin this nation, people the Hebrew media call "leaders" as they prattle on and on about that non-existent entity dimokrátia yisraelít - Israeli democracy. Elsewhere, David Hornik complained about how it is fashionable to bash Israel. This is the essence of my response, one that was abnormally restrained:
Mike, commenting earlier, hit the nail on the head on this comment thread. It is worth repeating his sage words.
When Israel acts as dhimmi to the rest of the world, begging for its acceptance, the world loses its respect for Israel, just like in any relationship where the dominant one has no respect for the submissive one who always seeks the approval of the dominant one.
Mr. Hornik, I appeal to you to remember what David ben-Gurion always said: “it doesn’t matter what the goyim think " it matters what we do.” Then note the reaction of this commenter, Rob;
my wife and kids are israeli arabs and we have been living in israel for several years now. israeli jews are the most decent people i’ve met across the world. sure, they are not perfect, but they have time and again gone out of their way to help and befriend us as non-jews/arabs, whatever so many times when they didn’t have to. i don’t believe any of the rubbish propaganda (read: lies) from ignorant people with a thirst for hate that have never met the decent, moral people they smear. i can’t say the same about the israeli arab muslims/palestinians, though, because although they are lovely people in their own right, they are generally drunk with irrational hate which poisons their society to the point i no longer enjoy spending time there. those are the facts.
Let’s not worry about what the goyim overseas say. They didn’t build this country at all " we did. Let’s concentrate on the strengths we have and the assertiveness we need to display.
Let’s start with dropping the term “Palestinian”. The resident Arabs are either tribes here for a long time (like the Cherkessim and the Druze), Jews in Judea who converted to Islam under immense pressure, or Egyptians, Syrians or Iraqis who came here because there was work.
We have to state " time after time after time " that there is no such thing as “Palestine” " because there isn’t. We have to state " time after time after time " that Arabs who wish to live here as Israelis are welcome to do so, and back that up with concrete action.
Then finally, we must make sure that this land is governed by rule of law, and that the rule of law is applied equally. Incitement by Arabs must be punished by arrest and trial " no matter how much violence they threaten; only then can we honestly seek to seriously punish Jews for incitement. Terror by Arabs must be met with the death penalty " swift and sure, so that we are not feeding a hostile Arab prison population. Terror must be treated as rebellion and treason and punished accordingly. Only then can we demand that Jews not act against Arabs here and sentence them severely.
Foreign incitement and espionnage must be dealt with as acts of war; the governments of the violating countries must be warned that espionnage will receive the maximum sentence, and that efforts to weaken the security of this nation will be dealt with as an act of war. Their assets will be seized, their embassies and consulates seized, their property will be seized. The copperators with foreign governments " like Peace Now and their ilk " must be dissolved, and their leaders imprisoned or executed, depending on the level of treason they have committed. Those who would destroy the Israeli polity must lose their chance to continue to destroy this country from within.
This is just a beginning, but with that beginning, perhaps our government can reclaim its sovereignty here. The days of the falafel republic must end.
11 - Ruvy
I'm recommending this item for you to read from my blogging site because it represents a typical viewpoint of Muslims. It's worth reading to see why it is that I insist so strongly that the road to peace in this part of the world lies through religious observance.
12 - Heloise
Here's one reference I used "national revelation." My blog is "Jews Await National Revelation rather than a Messiah" or something like that at the Trough.
I read about 5 articles then wrote a blog about it. I just put this link into the article though. Marty's explanation is good. I am not sure if this only applies to observant Jews and/or Orthodox Jews.
Heloise
13 - Heloise
FYI, Google allows blogs from wordpress, maybe others to be translated instantly. I've had hits from Russian and Japan. Hope they are not hacking. And I can not vouch for the translation. But that is one option if you want people from other tongues to get in on the conversation.
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14 - Ruvy
Thank you for the link, Heloise. I looked at it, and frankly, it sounded like so much nonsense to me, like a Catholic trying to finesse Jews at their own faith.
I've dealt with too much of that in my life, and the minute I see it, I get turned off - that happened here. Thank you nevertheless. Your heart was in the right place.
15 - Al Barger
Brother Ruvy, I am giving thanks for the nation of Israel on this day of thanksgiving. May God bless and preserve you and yours.
And thank you Brother Silas for your warm fuzzies.
16 - Zedd
Ridiculous. People like you keep the rest of us paying our tax dollars to keep you in check. Folks like you are responsible for the instability all over the world. Your opinion is much too important. We've got to waist time sending diplomats to keep your types from completely loosing it and going postal on every living thing on the planet.
Its just an opinion Ruvy. You could be wrong you know.
AND YOU ARE.
17 - Ruvy
Zedd,
I'm not wrong, I'm right. And I'm not alone in my views. But let Joe Farrah explain all this to you. If your are open-minded to even read it (which I doubt).
So far as I'm concerned you can keep your bullshit diplomats home, and keep your Monopoly money. If you were lucky enough to have a government in Israel of real men, instead of wheedling little kikes, you would have very little in the line of terrorism to worry about.
18 - Dr. Reason
HEALTH WARNING:- This article is written by the same person who wrote (on the piece called Time To Retire An Old Cop)only a day before...
"If you guys nuke Riyadh and Tehran - one good 5 megaton blast a piece should do it - everyone will sit up and remember never to mess with the Americans. There is a secondary message that will be sent as well - especially to all those Chinese who think they have you over a barrel. The message will be "be nice to the American debtor lest he get mad at you and turn you to nuclear glass".
Why people are still entering into dialogue with a person with such sick and evil views promoting the killing of countless innocent people is beyond me.
19 - Ruvy
"If I don't like what he says, I won't look! I don' wanna see what I don' like cause I don' like it! So there!"
Little girls who stamp their feet in anger argue the way the commenter does in comment #18. If this individual thinks it is evil to survive, then what I have said concerning nuking your enemies (and these people are your enemies) is evil.
This commenter recommends boycott. Had this commenter any guts, he'd recommend killing me that I might no longer speak....
LMAO ROtF....
20 - Dr. Reason
Going against my better judgement I will engage in dialogue with this person as they never fail to show their true colours as a result of people doing that.
You mention survival - I take it that doesn't include the children who would be "turned to nuclear glass" then ????
Don't worry I do have guts and there is nothing brave in what you said in that comment - or does that make a 'little girl who stamps their feet in anger' ?
Yes I recommend a boycott - because if I heard your views in a public place I would feel obliged to respond to your call for violence - then and there.
21 - Dr. Reason
No - I am not going to let this vile view get the better of me. I just want to make sure people who read the above article understand what lies just beneath the surface.
22 - Ruvy
If that comment bothers you, then read this article and debate its merits. I don't think you have the guts to.
23 - Ruvy
And obviously I'm right.
24 - Dr. Reason
just repeating your own words - or dont you have the guts to read them again?
25 - Ruvy
Rather than waste my time in useless dialogue with fools over views that I hold - will not back down from, I am moving forward. The central issue of this article, is the gutlessness of the government of the State of Israel, its descent into a a collection of naddering nabobs of whiny kikes who beg and plead - and thus get only contempt from a world that hates beggars, wheedlers and whiners - especially when they are Jews.
Isi Liebler, wrote an article in the Jerusalem Post recently, asking "why the world hates us?"
Such tiresome things to read! But I did respond to the good Mr. Liebler, a letter reproduced below.
My Dear Mr. Liebler,
You are a good man, with a kind heart, but you cannot afford to deceive yourself that the joke of a régime we have in Israel is any kind of democracy.
In a democracy, a party leader, when he takes a referendum on an issue of nation importance within his party, stands by that referendum. Ariel Sharon did not stand by his party's decision on Gush Qatif. In fact, he eventually bolted his own party, creating a garbage pail where all the most corrupt trash of the Israeli oligarchy could hide hehind his broad hips. And then he promptly had a stroke and died, being dragged back to life so that the leader of the Likud, Bibi Netanyahu could be denied the premiership by an incompetent thief like Ehud Olmert (with the willing cooperation of Menny Mazuz).
Mazuz needn't have bothered. When Moshe Feiglin won a solid position on the Likud list so that he would have a nearly guaranteed set in the Knesset, Bibi changed the rules - illegally - because he is a bully with no guts when it comes to standing up to the goyim. And now he panders to his masters in the United States, just like Sharon and Olmert. This is not a dictatorship - yet. But whatever this system is, it is no democracy.
As to why the world hates us, the answer is simple. Everyone hates the beggar who wheedles and pleads. A nation as strong as this one should continue to stride across the Sinai, should have expelled the Arabs, control Lebanon up to the Litani River, and have already bombed and destroyed the Persian attempts to build a nuclear facility. The world would not like us - they would hate us. But they have always hated us. The appropriate way to treat people who hate you is to deny them all the benefits of your science and medicine and let them stew in their hatred, their ignorance and their stupidity - until they destroy themselves in their evil. We have no obligation to attempt to perfume trash. Let them come to us for spiritual guidance when the time comes. If we are incapable of being strong in the face of hatred - we do not deserve respect and we do not deserve to be sought out for advice.
Shabbat Shalom,