Monday, March 16, 2009

On the new government...

a friend asked my feelings, here is what I had to say:

My candid feeling is that this recent election is just a reordering of seats on the titanic.

My practical opinion on the matter is that Bibi’s program of a bottom up/economic focus on the “Palestinian” issues is the only plan in town that has a chance of shifting our paradigm away from the futile top down negotiating strategy that has struggled in vain to bring us to a final status agreement leaving much death and destruction in its path.

However, though Bibi’s notion is superior to Livni’s “negotiating the valley from the summit” (in secrecy no less, and throwing caution to the wind), it is merely a superior hypothesis that will be tested and indeed will fail in the long run.

Issues to consider:

How tough will the Obama administration be on Bibi?

Will Kadima choose to undermine Bibi through formal and/or informal channels?

Will sectoral interests within the multi party cabinet undermine progress?

Will Bibi does bolster the economy?

What will his policy on Iran actually translate into?

How will Bibi deal with the notion of talks with Syria and concessions on the Golan Heights?

There are other important questions to consider, but these are the most basic.

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Good old googely eyes!



I imagine Bibi viewing him in very much the same way as Dr. Frankenstein eyed his monster!

Gotta love him!

Friday, February 13, 2009

Just a rant against the peace process and the Arabs...

It continues to astound me.

Peace, peace, peace and more talk about peace…

People who want peace act peacefully. If the Arabs want peace then it would not matter who the Israeli prime minister is or whomever their leader is, if they want peace then it will emerge from within them as individuals, communities, and population as a whole before it encounters us. As Baruch Spinoza said:

"Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice."


If they want peace then justice and good faith first have to emerge from within their homes and society before anyone has to sit down at a negotiation table! As Herbert Clark Hoover wrote:

"Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men."


Additionally, the very notion of talking with those who continue to arm themselves and fight against us is as absurd, as William R. Inge put it:

"It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion."


The fact that the Arabs voted Hamas into power “democratically” no less, is only evidence that what exists within their hearts is hope for our doom and that within their minds lay the plans for our end. I say that since they have chosen that path that we take no mercy and give them their own just desserts, hard and fast, as Henry Louis Mencken stated:

"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard."


Since they have decided to act toy around with democracy and made clear what is in their hearts, minds and intentions, and that they have chosen this plan in unison I say: lets give them what they deserve good and hard! Not waste our time and vital energy on more bullshit!

I mean, come on, isn’t this an issue of basic intelligence? Are not the actions and agendas of people like Livni more evidence of the distorted nature of the Israeli psyche?!

Yet our leadership continues to wage both war, wield politics, and design peace like true intellectual pygmies. I suppose it is as the Turkish proverb goes:

"If a man would live in peace he should be blind, deaf, and dumb."


Finally, I fear that Joseph de Maistre was correct in that he wote:

"Every country has the government it deserves."


I fear that if that is the case fortune will favor the Arabs more than it favors us in the long run.

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Who to vote for…

The only legitimate choice is Likud.

Surprised that the Frankness is going mainstream? Don’t be.

During the disengagement we all witnessed the failure of parties like the NRP and National Union to really do anything significant to stop the process or seriously impede it. They either had neither the ability nor the will to do so. Either way their entire Raison d'être became void.

The most important issue now is simply preventing Livni and Barak from attaining any significant position of leadership. Ideally, a Livni loss would result in the dissolution of the Kadima party, and whereas that would not be justice enough for the 10,000 people expelled from their homes in Gush Katif, trying to cause said dissolution through our voting power would be the least we could do. In other words, if by voting for Bibi we can destroy Kadima then that’s a worthwhile cause in my eyes.

Beyond that, I see that for now, in light of the smaller parties failures we have to try and affect the country from within the most powerful vehicle for change that we have at our disposal to do so. At the moment that is the Likud. Bibi has not earned my trust, but there are a few people in the top ten slots on the list who certainly have. I am going to give people like Benny begin and Moshe Ya’alon a chance. BTW, this isn’t Frank pulling a Feiglin, because unlike him, I actually want you to vote only for the Likud party this time around and no other.

As for other parties I have supported in the past. I have supported and have been a proponent of other more fringe yet ideologically true parties in the past. I have witnessed that my support for them, while having been worthwhile, has not paid off for this country in the long run. This has to do with their inability to attain positions of true relevance either due to bad decision-making by way of poor partnerships or the inability to separate ideology from the game of politics and thereby losing the ability to actually reach a national platform.

Do not be deluded though. I am not certain that Bibi wont fail us all, but right now he presents the best chance for affecting a shift from the land for peace paradigm that this country has been operating upon for the last 15 years. My hope is that his program of economic development for the Arabs and a bottom up strategy will result in a paradigm shift for many of this country’s voters and show them that there are other directions to move in beyond the mantra’s of the media and the left. Hopefully shifting them more rightward through time.

It’s sad but unfortunately the Likud and Bibi’s new plan is the only mechanism we have to change things at this moment. We cannot simply shout our slogans and propaganda and hope it will be enough. Many of this country’s citizens are operating on distorted psyches and that been brainwashed through time that things like military solutions and expulsion of Arabs are simply not only impossible but also wrong. I consider Bibi’s new program a start in a new direction, if there is any success to be had through it.


Bottom line: Vote Likud.

Monday, February 02, 2009

Barak calls for Palestinian tunnel linking Gaza with West Bank (or Ehud Barak begs for man juice yet again)


"I held it like this and then I opened wide like this..."

Will someone please do this man a favor and shove a dick in his mouth already?!?!?!?!

There is only one a reason a man would incessantly ramble on and on with this insane bullshit for so many years on end; he clearly is waiting for someone to shove a big fat dick in his mouth!

He is waiting for it! He wants it so bad that he is practically begging for it!

Wont someone please give this knob goblin some cock?!?!?!?

How insane does he have to be, really?!

I mean there have to be easier ways than this for a former prime minister to find a pole to smoke, right?!?!

But then again, maybe I've got it all wrong; maybe by "tunnel" he means he wants something else entirely.

Frankly, I just don’t know.

Thursday, January 01, 2009

the arab spin...

I hate these fuckin' people!

Is the world still going for this stuff or are most people out there (I mean in the non-Jewish world) just sick and tired of this "palestinian" bullshit at this point???


On The War... (that might not have been if not for the disengagement) (or, Thanks Sharon, Olmert, and Livni for that disengagement thing!)

I begin with a quote:

"...for in such dangerous things as war, the errors which proceed from a spirit of benevolence are the worst.”
--General Carl von Clausewitz (1780-1831)

a skeptical prelude to further comments:

I have no trust in Olmert, Livini, or Barak. They will foul this up. I just can’t believe that the 3 of those knuckle heads working together wont fuck things up. They are still the same assholes that they have always been and people really don’t change. When it’s over we will all be wondering why they did it the way they did and hate them even more for it. I am sure of this. If I am wrong then I will be happy to be proven as such, but I think we all know the truth here. As happy as any of us might have been with some of the tough talk so far we’re all just waiting for the other shoe to drop…which it most certainly will, wreaking of the same old shit that we have been stepping in until now. All we have to tide us over is the hope that they will finally get it right...

Further comments:

I really have nothing insightful to offer here, probably the same thing everyone else is thinking right now.

During the week after that the Tadiyeh had expired there were calls from right to left for action. The center to left was most interesting. Even groups as extremely deluded as Meretz were calling for action…and that left me incredibly suspicious.

I cannot remember a single call to arms by Meretz ever. The fact that they were pushing the issue only proved to me that the left is so desperately afraid of Bibi as prime minister that they were willing to go so far as to engage the enemy in battle to out maneuver him politically by proving that the Left (primarily Kadima) can be as tough as he allegedly can be.

This was especially prudent vis-à-vis Bibi’s apparent strategy of attempting to present himself and the Likud as an similar yet somehow superior alternative to Kadima.

I was disgusted to consider that Kadima would consider what would result in another half assed attempt at war in order to score points against Bibi.

Nevertheless when the bombs first dropped I was really excited. We have been taking it for a long time and it felt great to up our stats. This is why I made Aliyah.

I was initially under the assumption that the commitment to the engagement on our side would be put to the test and fold pathetically when the time came to decide whether to commit ground troops or not. If we really want a victory on the ground in terms of intelligence, prisoners, and deterrence, we would need to commit ground forces before the air bombardment had become completely exhausted.

I also definitely figured that once the UN voted on a resolution or some country offered or tried to broker a ceasefire that Livni or Olmert could spin to their advantage then they would end the engagement stopping short of accomplishing anything truly significant and try and spin a victory here in the press, like they did in Lebanon with UN Security Council Resolution 1701.

So far though we are committing ground forces and are not accepting any ceasefire, and it seems that this operation is going to dig in deep.

In a way this really makes me wonder what would have happened in Lebanon if it were during an election period. Left always turns right during a campaign, and I think that this is probably the biggest lesson to learn here.

I am sure that Olmert wants this to be his own Operation Defensive Shield and that we can only hope that Olmert is very consumed with a real victory in the south, after the debacle in the north.

It was an especially nice Chanukah present I have to say. Even if I didnt like the people who gave it to me.

Finally, after having served during the Lebanon war, I made the decision to seriously avoid serving politically driven wars called by incompetent leadership, as I believe all of us should refuse to do. After all, we are not to act as sheep lead to the slaughter, not in the Diaspora and not here. I say this as a soldier who swore on the Tanach to protect this country and who will never cease to do so.

This time, if they call, I'll be there.

Enjoy the Frankness!