Not the most original idea ever

Jesus and Marx

My father says that the Jews have only one obligation to the nations and that is to give them a great moral figure once every 2000 years or so . And since we already gave them Marx we really owe them nothing for the next two millennia

No , my father doesn't think Marx was right or anything
He said great figure not right . And if you'd prefer you can take Freud instead (or you can take them together and leave us alone for the next four millennia)

There is an interesting parallel between early Christianity and modern day Marxism

I'm looking at two developments in early Christianity

If I understand correctly at the beginning when the "nazarenes" were still a Jewish or semi Jewish cult they believed that the end of the world is imminent but as it became clear that the second coming isn't coming they've changed their beliefs to accommodate it transferring the end of days to the far future
at the same time or maybe after that the Christians became rabidly anti Jewish , so much so that it was part of the core belief system

The parallels to modern marxism are obvious

"The Revolution" never happened , at least not the one that was supposed to happen , so Marxism or Socialism or whatever you want to call it is being reworked to fit the situation and at the same time it is becoming rabidly anti jewish

I've stumbled across an old Spengler post form the Asia Times

What the Jews won't tell you (Nov 2003)

It's about the reason for western anti semitism being the Jews immortality as a people and the envy/hate it causes

And I thought about a pithy way of saying it

Every western nation remembers Rome and despairs , The Jews remember Rome and laugh

A Mystery wrapped in an Enigma

The Headline in Allah's site

Help is (not) on the way

which leads to a story from the Washington times about the US presidential race

And here is something Kerry said regarding allies in Iraq

"... But at a town hall meeting yesterday, he [Kerry] said he knows other countries won't trade their soldiers' lives for those of U.S. troops.
... Asked about that statement later, Mr. Kerry said, "When I was referring to that, I was really talking about Germany and France and some of the countries that had been most restrained."
"Other countries are obviously more willing to accept responsibilities," he added, as he took questions from reporters in a school yard in Tipton, Iowa."

And no one thought to ask him "What other countries?"

Assuming the guy isn't just talking I can see only two "other countries" getting involved in Iraq or Afghanistan or the WoT in general

A) Russia

or

B) a Coalition of Arab and/or Muslim countries

And this is scary

Because I can't figure out how it will work out
Not what price they will demand for "helping" and not what shape their help would actually be and not how the people would react to it

UNRWA

The Wrong lens

I've seen this all over the web recently so I'm not going to link to any particular essay

The problem of the west is that it refuses to name the enemy and the enemy is Islam
(or Jihad or Islamic terrorism or whatever ) .
And only by Naming the enemy and understanding its goal , World Conquest , can we
start fighting it .

Nice but Wrong

Here's an Axiom : Ideology is the Rationalization of the Urge

people use ideology as the excuse for doing what they would be doing anyway

Life of course is not that simple . There's a positive feedback going on . You choose an ideology that justifies what you want to do. But then you do things that the ideology you chose commands and you learn to enjoy those things (or you change the ideology ) and so on

What this means is that the people we are fighting are only really interested in killing and dying and that if Islam won today and there would be one single Islamic theocracy from one end of the earth to the other those people ( be they arabs , chechens , Indonesians or whatever ) would just find another excuse to go on killing

Yes , there are reasons why all those sick fucks are Muslims and the roots of their sickness lies with Islamic culture . But that is neither here not there when it comes to fighting them intelligently.

If you assume that they have a cause like a world wide Islamic state or the destruction of the west then you expect them to act in accordance with that goal and to do those things that help or would seem to them to help getting there
OTOH
If you assume (correctly) that all they really want is to kill and die you would expect a somewhat different behavior . Basically to kill whenever they could regardless of consequences

And if that's their goal the only thing you can do is oblige them , preemptively whenever possible

What my mother said


Trying to describe the Beslan Massacre she said :

this is not beastly ... calling this beastly would be an insult to flora [our dog] ...
this is teutonic...

Stating The Obvious (PDF)

( got it from Backspin )

But I don't like it that Funding For Peace Coalition hides behind "concerned citizens"
That's just shifty

After the outbreak of the second Intifada in 2000, European aid to the Palestinians
again rose substantially. More important than the increase itself was the change
in how this aid was distributed. Initially, aid had been awarded largely on a
project-by-project basis. Following the outbreak of renewed violence, European
aid has moved towards direct budgetary support (DBS) for the Palestinian
Authority.

And why did they drop the projects and started to simply throw money at the PLO?

The standard story is that the "hostilities" prevented many of the projects from going on.

You ask me they just dropped the pretense and started funding jew killing directly which what this was all about anyways

But I'm paranoid

What is left unmentioned [by EU officials and NGO's] is that despite the large
injections of financial aid that have already been pumped into the Palestinian
territories over decades, the financial hardships remain. This situation must force
Europeans to ask the simplest of questions. If the money has not gone to those
for whom it was donated, where then has this money gone?

where indeedly?

P . A . R . A . N . O . I . D

The other shoe dropping

The interesting question is what took them so long?
And it's not a joke question
Blaming Israel is a knee jerk reaction and the fact that the sudanese arabs didn't use it immediately when the whole Darfor thing came to the worlds' attention might indicate something
probably that the Khartoum government did try to get the situation under control first and now that it failed it is going back to basics

The Right Analogy
 
 
David Warren writes a very insightful piece about  Jihad as a whole  
 

 
 

 
  
  
 

I have found my anti Chomsky

and I don't mean that fisking site

I mean a credible ( or should that be "credible" ) academic on "our" side who is a match for noam's conspiratorial ( is that a word?) paranoia .

thro Roger L. Simon's site a speech given by Bat Yeor about Eurabia.

And just because she reads like a crazy jewish grandmother doesn't mean she is wrong .

Sailing that egyptian river

Right now I'm living in denial
pretending the attempt to expel the jews from Gaza is not going to happen
maybe the paritz will learn to sing

LGF links to an article in Pakistan Today that says basically that the radical muslims (and isn't it about time we settled on a short and snazzy name for those fucks? nazi and red were so much better) hate the USA and the Jews/Israel because they both stand for freedom ( of the mind first and most of all) and there is nothing totalitarians hate more than free people.
That made me think of Europe and the recent revival of anti-semitism
Might it be that in a Europe that turns to bureaucracy instead of democracy a people that stand for freedom would be hated? that in some way the jews are perceived by the euro-elites as an obstacle to the establishment of an all encompassing and non elected european government ?
It's obvious why the USA being such a big counter example would be hated by people with that "vision" but why the jews? I can't explain it but it is worth noticing that the more "euroholic" a country is ( like France or the Scandinavian countries) the more strident is their anti-semitism while the more euro-skeptic countries ( like the UK or Italy) are much more relaxed in their obligatory Israel bashing.
I'm not saying all the other reasons suggested by so many others (guilt , politics , oil )for the re-emergence of the ancient hate are wrong or unimportant I'm just adding another brick to the wall.

Fighting the last "War"

LGF has this post about a guy who plans to bring several thousand western citizens to azza and J&S to serve as human shields for the terrorists. He apparently tried a similar stunt in Iraq in 2003 .
There are almost 600 comments and I haven't read them all but I think I have an original insight on this. Apart from the deeply ingrained racism that makes someone think that the israeli government or the american government or going to be more worried or careful with the lives of westerners then they are with the lives of arabs , what I see here is anachronism. That guy is living in a peacetime reality where the fight against terrorism is a police matter and civilian casualties are something to be avoided at almost any cost . But this is war . And in war time enemy civilian casualties or even casualties among non enemy civilians who are living in enemy occupied territories is just NOT a major concern.
What makes things even worse from his point of view is that there are no limiting factors here , The cold war is over and no one needs to keep wars limited to avoid MAD so this war ( or these two wars if you want) can escalate at will .
The last war fought like that was WW2 and I don't remember anyone then giving a shit about civilians .
This guy is living in the 50's and 60's and 70's limited , media oriented insurgency/terrorism proxy wars when he should be looking at the early 40's so not only is O'keefe anachronistic he is not anachronistic enough.

A modest suggestion

let's say that some news agency reports that a certain number of innocent arabs ( to take a random ethnicity) has been killed in a military action and it turns out that it wasn't actually so. That in real life a smaller number of armed thugs got killed along with a yet a smaller number of human shields .
So how do you prevent said news agency from rushing to publish the lies without bothering with such a small detail as the truth?
Simple , You make up the difference between the reported number of people killed and the real number of dead by killing the staff of that news agency starting with the local rep and moving up the food chain .That way either they report the facts or they become part of the report.

Science vs PC

This deserves more than just me smirking
but the implications are just sooooo funny

small arms diplomacy

It's been a fantasy of the local arabs to use unarmed masses as a "peacefull" weapon against the jews. Like " If thousands of people started marching on jerusalem what would the jews do? kill them?" . the problem with that kind of oublic fantasy is that everyone , including the jews, is aware of it so that when someone tried to "live the dream" in rafiah the jews gave a very positive answer to the rethorical question.

I'm disgusted with myself

looking at the scenes now playing from aza I realized that when they killed a woman and her four daughters I felt absolutely no rage at all .
How numb have I become that more than a weak later and only after 6 soldiers were killed and their body parts snatched as trophies did I realize what the arabs did to Mrs Chatuel and her family.

Peace thro Deportation

a bad sign

I've just finished a book called "Red Thunder" by John Varley
Varley is one of my favorite writers and by his standards the book is a piece of crap .Either he lost it or he wanted some quick cash and didn't mind alienating his fans.
But that's not the problem
the thing is that somewhere towards the end of the book the word "zionists" is used as a possible group of baddies . It is put there to PC balance "palestinians" but still it scares me that someone would use it in that meaning so casually and without any obvious malice . For me that lack of malice means that he doesn't connect the word with any real people or if he does he sees them as no different from the arabs which means that moral equivalence has claimed another unsuspecting victim and one whose talent I admired.

Arabs beyond parody

From Palestinian Media Watch via IMRA

PA Imam whishes Shahada for Arafat

Night of the Living Dead on israeli TV

Every political corpse from labor politicians to rony milo for fucks sake have been conjured up on all three channels to explain why the likud vote is immoral ,wrong , un-democratic , immaterial and totally out of touch with what the people want. Strangely enough not one channel was able to find even one commentator with a dissenting opinion.

Night of the Living Dead on israeli TV

Every political corpse from labor politicians to rony milo for fucks sake have been conjured up to explain why the likud vote is immoral ,wrong , un-democratic , immaterial and totaly out of touch with what the people want.
I guess if by "the people" you mean the shiekh munis settlers ....

The Lesson of '73.

I think that the israeli public (especially the politicians) believes that Israel is indestructible and that no matter how stupid a policy we adopt it would always be possible to pay a blood price and extricate ourselves from the consequences .
This was the result of the yom kipur war where the best efforts of the arabs combined with the worst efforts of the israeli government and IDF high command and still ended up in jewish victory. I don't necessarily disagree with this attitude I just don't like paying blood prices for goals I disapprove of.

I'm not going to say anything about the planned expulsion of the jews from the gaza strip because I don't have anything wise to say about that . It's an action which I can not understand and because of that it makes me feel powerless . How can you communicate with the insane when there isn't any method in their insanity?

A little bit of bar-b-que
the body of a spanish policeman killed by arab terrorists is mutilated

this is preaching to the choir but I just love the language of that article

"Police do not know who committed the crime, and an investigation is under way."
Can anyone give them a clue? And while at it give it to CNN too.
"The suspected terrorists set off a bomb during the raid "
Suspected are they? Innocent until proven and all that?
what's the net abbreviation for bitter laughter ?

Is the current loll in terrorism in Israel the result of Syria and Iran and all their proxies being too involved in staging the fight in Iraq to spend any resources on Israel?


If that is true there should be a surge in attacks in Israel as soon as one or both decide that the fight in Iraq is lost . That would probably happen sometimes next week.

An interesting implication is that Iraq and/or Syria cannot fight a two front terror campaign
Could they be even weaker than I thought they are?

3 down and about 3 million to go
But lets put some spin on it

It's time for a little bit of the obvious truth

The israeli establishment has no interest in stopping arab violence since , just like the arab rulers, the war gives it a carte blanche to do whatever it wants in all areas of life as long as it seems to be active on the arab front. This is what Oslo was all about and this is also what the planned expulsion of the jews from the gaza strip is all about . Whenever it might seem as if the arabs are losing someone on our side would give them a break with lots of money and power and a huge moral boost (not to mention international credibility) thrown in just so the endless war never ends and no politico or the Sir Humphrey's of Israel's establishment ever actually has to do anything except spouting one or another kind of nonsense about "the conflict" (and be paid by public money)

progress !

after 40 years (or 60 depending on how one counts) a US president acknowledged publicly that like maybe the jews have a right to live at least on some parts of their homeland because it would be a bit complicated to take it away from them.
At least as long is it doesn't hamper the arabs from flooding into it

I wonder how many years before the USA actually recognizes Israel de jure and not just de facto
dream on

Things I would love the american public to hear before November comes

About 10 years ago we jews decided to abandon our war against arab terrorism and engage in a multilateral dialogue of peace , understanding , good will and the EU.
You know what happened.

there were two key phrases used by the supporters of the "peace process" at the time .

1) "the PLO would fight HAMAS with no bullshit"
the assumption was that if Israel would give the PLO land and weapons and money and political support then the interests of the PLO would coincide with israeli interests against it's political rivals. That never happened because the interest of the PLO was to prevent HAMAS attacks on them and NOT in preventing attacks against jews.

It seems that Kerry and a lot of the american left think that if the USA would cozy up to the "axis of weasels" and the 'moderate' muslims it could make them turn their power against the islamists who are obviously their enemies too .
It's the same mistake.
The europeans and the arab rulers interest is in preventing attacks against them and NOT in protecting the USA . So if they believe that turning a blind eye to or even aiding attacks against americans would keep the islamists off their back then no amount of diplomatic rhetoric or economic and military aid would change that .

2)"if this doesn't work we can always take Gaza back"
That never happened also. The assumption was that since the state of Israel is stronger than any combination of arab countries and/or groups it could always force its terms or return to its previous position. This didn't happen not because Israel became weaker or the arabs stronger but because the political will was gone. No politician in Israel who is committed to the use of force against the arabs can get more that 10-20% of the vote even thou polls show that at least 60-70% of the israelis don't believe negotiations with the arabs can lead anywhere . people simply don't vote for radicals who offer the public "blood , toil ,sweat and tears" even when they agree with everything the radicals say. (in the USA it took 9/11 to change US policy and even then it was an executive decision and NOT one put to the popular vote)
Since resolving the conflict by force ( nice euphemism? ) is politically impossible and at the same time has proved itself to be the only realistic possibility Israel is locked into an endless cycle of violence.
Please , Please don't go there.
I could be wrong , my analogy might be off or it could be that the whole jewish/arab peace process imploded because of some detail that escaped me and not because of faulty basic assumptions and so it has no bearing on the war on terrorism . but be aware that if you abandon the bush doctrine it will never be possible to return to it even if it turns out to be the right thing after all and you'll find yourselves , like us, locked into endless ritualistic blood letting in the best Aztec tradition.

Learn from our mistakes , Don't repeat them
no matter how fun they sound

Following Fallujah a Victor David Hasnson wrote in his weblog about how sick he is of arab barbarism . One Michael Ledeen responded in LGF saying basically 'have faith , be patient ,we fixed Germany we can do this also but we need to fix not only Iraq but all the rest too' .
A fine sentiment that I agree with.

BUT...
ML says "...I do not think there is anything in their genes or their DNA that makes it impossible for them to achieve a democracy, or maybe better a democracy of sorts." .

And what if there is?

One of my current theories* on democracy is that it is a creation of aggression.
In a society where the majority of people want to the alpha males and are willing to fight for it a voluntary sharing of power between everyone is a stable solution while in a society where the majority are much more submissive the aggressive minority would seize power.

So IF social aggressiveness is genetic and IF my theory about it being a necessary part of what makes democracy stable is true then the problems of the arab world might be solved better by hormonal implants than by any social or legal mechanism .
Good luck with trying that one.

To begin to test this theory you need to look at arabs who were raised by jews as jews ( and also at all the other permutations ) and see what differences there are (if any) between the various groups.




I'm using arabs/jews because (apart from my racism) arabs and jews are supposed to be genetically close

*my other theory of democracy is that it is an over abundance of love

Love leads to Respect
Respect leads to Trust
Trust leads to Cooperation
And Cooperation leads to Democracy

The next big* muslim attack is going to be in europe and against a jewish target

here is something I found thro europundits

an analysis of the european situation after Iraq and Yassin

I don't agree that europe can not sit on the side lines . I think they think they can , mostly because they think that the War on Terrorism is an american invention and that the moment the americans grow tired of it and leave it would all go back to business as usual. And partly because they think ( and they are probably right in that) that they have something to offer the arabs , their jews.

What I found interesting was the suggestion of an attack in europe by Hamas in order to put european pressure on Israel. This has two (to me) obvious flows . First the assumption that muslim/arab terrorism has political aims , that it is a kind of diplomacy by force , it's not , or at least that is not its primary purpose (but that deserve an analysis of it's own) . Secondly europe has very little actual power over Israel , most of it is economical power (the EU is Israel's main trading partner ) and I don't think the various EU members would sacrifice money for politics .
But they do have something to offer the arabs and that's more than a million jews living in the EU . If they can make sure that muslim attacks in europe are directed against the jews and not the general population they'll take that deal since in their minds the yankees will go home long before they run out of jews to throw to the muslim wolves.

So as I see it the next succesful big attack would be in europe against a jewish target and it would be successful becuase the various european authorities would "neglect" to pay attention to threats which are specificly directed at jews while concentrating what little powers they have on protecting the population as a whole . Or thats how they'll explain it if anyone ever catches on to that.



* by big I mean more than 50 dead

I know it's slightly dated and probably someone already did it better and in hebrew but I couldn't help myself

wonder what luba would say


first you say fence is bad
then you say I build fence
then you say I don't build fence 'cause America not like
then you say I make agreement make arab state leave jews in place
then you say NO I expel jews no agreement
then you say no agreement ask people in plebiscite
then you say plebiscite not formal
now you say you ask Likud people

and I say you go home not come back here in your life

now that's how you increase immigration

when a politician starts washing dirty laundry in public you know she is trying to cover her ass. Or more likely this is an attempt to wrestle control of Jewish Agency money from the american jews. and fixating on the americans is all wrong it's the jews of europe that need to be evacuated or they'll become hostages.

What , me worry ?
seriously if it comes down to a show down I trust bush

My Five Years Plan for peace in the middle east

It's simple and of course it would have no effect on peace since the arabs would still keep trying to make everyone as miserable as they are but here goes anyway

Give all the arabs in Israel* five years to settle their affairs and get the hell off jewish land . Anyone still remaining after five years would be , to use the current euphemism , "evacuated" by force.

Might not be your traditional "peace plan" but it does have a certain barbaric splendor.



* by Israel I mean both sides of the jordan

Pesakh (Passover for gentiles) is just next week

the last 3 paragraphs have the real story

"....The boy died of his wounds on the way to hospital. Palestinian medics said that soldiers stopped the ambulance transporting the boy to hospital for 15 minutes....Israeli soldiers raided the camp to search for militants planning suicide bombings, but left empty-handed. "

who said we left empty handed ?
the tradition does call for the blood of a christian baby for the Passover bread but in a pinch a 6 year old Arab would do
but I don't see how they could drain ALL the blood in just 15 minutes
but then again I'm not a rabbi

I should have started with a screed but fuck it , I'm not in that kind of mood or mode or whatever

Thinking about Al Andalus , not the current AQ protectorate but the real old one , and it's similarities with modern day Israel .
Not the obvious Clash of Civilizations , arabs vs west (like that has anything to do with jews) , that has been done to death
looking at both the conquest and the reconquest
The reconquest is simple . the defeated and despised indigenous people take back their land from the muslims but the conquest itself is also an interesting parallel where an advanced people ideologically (is that a real word?) driven took a crumbling piece of crap from the degenerate locals and made something out of it.
Historical precedents shouldn't be taken straight but I see two interesting points . One that the reconquest ended only when Spain became arabrein (Hint , Hint) and Two that if the process of jewification of the arabs in Israel is proceeding along the same lines as the process of arabization of the spaniards proceeded in the Cordoba Emirate then Israel would be a very interesting place in about a 100 years
Stick around and find out
I certainly plan to