Leftists have a habit of micro-analysis. They analyze only the last steps without seeing them as consequences of earlier decision or the macro picture. They demand that Israel gives back the Golan Heights without realizing that their occupation was not an Israeli offense, the primary wrong, but rather Israel’s way of defending herself, undoing the Syria’s wrong. It’s like complaining of police violently arresting a person while ignoring the fact that he is a wanted criminal.

The left ignores the big picture: they demand that Israel accommodates her Arabs. However, the Arab presence in Israel is only an uncompleted part of the exchange of populations: Israel took Jews from Arab countries, and Arab countries should take Arabs from Israel.

The habit of micro-analysis works against a suffering person or a state. Every step is taken for a blank slate, and good people are precluded from retaliating for past, even recent offenses. Such a restraint provokes aggression. Not only the world would scream at Israel for avenging the 1929 Hebron deaths, but avenging the yesterday’s casualties of rocket attacks in Sderot with today’s military operations in Gaza is deemed wrong. Arabs are lightly admonished for attacking Israel, and then Israel is lambasted for retaliation.

Consider another example. Jews claim the Promised Land from Nile to Euphrates. The League of Nations allocated us a modest strip of that land which included Transjordan. The British stole ¾ of that land to make a kingdom of Jordan for a few Bedouin. Jews swallowed the bitter pill and accepted the partition. But then, acted as if no Arab state had been carved out of the Jewish homeland, the UN carved a Palestinian state from what remained of Israel. After Jews agreed to that, too, the world now demands that Jews effectively give away the rest of our country by allowing Israeli Arabs to breed to majority.

Another instance of micro-analysis is the demand of Arab equality in Israel. Why in Israel? Let’s consider Arab-Jewish equality in the Middle East: Arabs have 22 countries with no Jews whatsoever, so the presence of a single Jewish country without Arabs doesn’t seem like an inequality. Just realize that Israeli Arabs are just a part of the large Arab ethnos. The leftist Supreme Court pressed the micro-analysis even further when it mandated Jewish villages to admit Arab residents; now the Jews cannot escape Arab presence even in secluded locations. On the ultimate micro-level - the family - the issue of equality also persists: no Israeli newspaper would publish “Arabs need not apply” in marriage classifieds for Jewish girls.

The micro-analysis allows leftists to concentrate on soft targets. There is plenty of evil around in this world, and wicked people are non susceptible to moralizing. No leftist ever tried to demand that Arab countries compensate the Jews who fled them around the 1948 for the property they left behind. It is much easier to push the Jews to allow the fourth generation of Arab refugees back in. Micro-analysis thus always benefits the wicked as it suggests the moralizers to switch away from the big picture of the real, hate-filled world onto the pockets of good people who try to isolate themselves from it. Micro-analysis attacks the less-than-ideal attitudes of good people instead of wasting its time on the immense atrocities of the wicked.

The left’s micro-view is their inbuilt characteristic. Leftists are primitive rationalists; their major premise is that every social issue can be analyzed, understood, planned, and solved. In such tremendously complex adaptive systems as societies, the described attitude requires the leftists to decidedly simplify everything. To them, Israel confronts some Palestinians, rather than Jews confront the Muslim avant-garde of the anti-Semitic world. The left dwell on the radically simplified issues stripped of the context because they are unable to apply their trademark analysis-design to the complex world.

And so they destroy the Jewish world of complexities.

Though the lack of security and ideological bankruptcy play their part in emigration, arguably the single most important behind the Jews’ leaving Israel is the economy. Jews made every country of their residence prosperous – and prospered there. Jewish socialists achieved the opposite, they bankrupted both the communist Russia and Israel.

Israel’s military expenses do not explain the failed economy. The IDF costs the state about 10% of the GDP, which is high but not critical. The indirect costs amount to another 10-12% of the GDP. Those include lost GDP from conscripting the youth and reservists, pensions and medical care for casualties, and the cost of land taken by the army bases. There is also an issue of structural distortions in the economy: for example, the army and some ineffective military support companies attract many of the brightest minds which could be better employed elsewhere. There are also incontrollable costs of running Mossad, and large part of the police budget is also military in nature. It is safe to assume that 25-30% of Israeli GDP applies to military sphere. Although this figure is large, it doesn’t explain the two to five times’ personal income difference between Israel and America.

The touted costs of aliyah are questionable. Israel got considerable foreign aid to that end, and new immigrants quickly joined the work force, paying back to the state with taxes and GDP growth.

Israel’s welfare expenses aren’t that high. The controversial subsidies to religious Jews are altogether pale compared to the amount of private donations to them and the government’s subsidies to Arabs.

In an export-oriented economy such as the Israel’s domestic supply and demand are irrelevant. American software developers which outsource much job to Israel have a demand for any realistic number of employees so long as they ask for somewhat lower wages and benefits than their US counterparts. Israelis are much more efficient than, say, Indians, and don’t need to peg their wage requirements to Bangalore. Why, then, the Israelis who work for American corporations receive so low wages? Because the traditional level of wages in Israel, depressed by the decades of socialist rule, is quite low.

Israel needs to break away from her socialist legacy, and develop a free market economy which would make it unfeasible for Jews to emigrate. A few measures are obvious.

The government’s regulatory powers and agencies need not be reformed, but abolished altogether. It is better that Israel goes through a short “Wild West” stage than continues fighting the bureaucracy indefinitely. Insurance companies and liability bonds should take the place of preemptive regulation. Anyone should be able to open a business without any permits as long as he purchases liability insurance.

In order to end the spiraling real estate prices, zoning must be abolished. Anyone should be able to build on his land whatever he wishes. That would legalize the massive Arab illegal construction, but Arabs are not prosecuted for it, anyway.

All the state enterprises except perhaps the military should be privatized. Monopoly and licensing have to be abolished. Trade unions must be recognized for whatever they are: illegal cartels, prosecuted, and dismantled. Nepotism in the few remaining state enterprises should be made a criminal offense.

Banking and corporate law should be streamlined along the Swiss model to make Israeli jurisdiction internationally competitive. Israel can withdraw from unnecessarily tough money-laundering pacts: we have no problem with Columbia’s drug kings or Russian corrupt oligarchs.

Military expenses must reduced by relying on nuclear deterrent. Female conscription should be abolished. Males should be conscripted for six months except in those army branches which require extensive training. Even those branches should try the most condensed courses and conduct training on weekends instead of draining the economy of hyper-productive young Jews.

The compound tax rate, which includes customs duties, should be capped at 30%, and gradually decreased to 15%. Currently, the government adjusts the tax rate to provide for all its desired expenses; on the contrary, the tax rate should be fixed, and the government has to decide which of the programs to abandon.

Welfare should be reduced to the biblical minimum: society provides food for those who positively cannot provide for themselves. The poor can also be offered campus housing and basic medicine. Needy cannot be choosy. Many Jewish charity organizations would add to the state’s basic welfare, but Arabs would be left to their own. Jewish state won’t take care of them except for the very basic aid; recently expired food would do.

All schools and universities should be privatized. First of all, that would reduce the spell of ultra-left Ministry of Education. The government should only set basic rules of education, such as learning math even in yeshivas, and let the schools set their own schedules and parents choose the appropriate schools. The current curriculum is wasteful, students waste their time in schools, most courses lack the real-life relevance. Instead of paying taxes which finance the school system, parents should get long-term tuition loans – here is the trick – repayable by their children. That way, parents would not hesitate to bring up more children, and the children will eventually pay for their own education. In the legal doctrine, parents are entitled to make decisions on their children’s behalf; taking out a tuition loan is just such a decision. The Jewish state now spends tremendously on educating the Arabs who constitute a third of Israel’s young; with tuition loans, that would no longer be the case.

Israel, on one hand, needs to increase family subsidies, but on the other hand, doesn’t want to subsidize Arab families. The solution is tax subsidies: perpetual income tax reductions for working parents. Most Arabs officially lack substantial employment and won’t be able to claim subsidies.

Social security should almost cease. Every person is responsible for saving for his own retirement. If he didn’t, the government can provide him with the minimum charity (food, campus shelter, basic medical aid). Israel can also enforce the biblical commandment that obligates children to provide for their parents. In such a scenario, Jews would love to bear more children, who will be their retirement security.

The peace treaty with the Palestinians doesn’t seem close, unless the Bush-Rice duo orchestrates a major political assault on Israeli government. Even so, Palestinian state exists de facto: with president, parliament, and even many countries’ embassies. Does anyone protest the media calling Abbas Palestinian president?

Olmert negotiates the borders of Israel which include the settlement blocs. He is anxious to avoid the Gush Katif-type evacuation trouble. As long as the settlements remain inside Israel, most settlers won’t protest giving up Judea and Samaria.

The government might leave the faraway and militant places like Kfar Tapuah alone, not evicting the settlers. They will be allowed to remain there just as any Israeli stay abroad, and left to the Palestinians to harass, intercept en route, and make their life untenable.

Nothing would change when the government signs peace accords with Palestinians. As long as most settlers are not evicted, the status quo won’t be changed. Almost no Jews venture into Schem or Ramallah, anyway. The West Bank Palestinians won’t start shelling Tel Aviv a la Shderot, as they know that would provoke massive retaliation; Jews hesitate attacking Iran but would have no qualms about invading a weak Palestinian state.

Bringing massive numbers of Jews into the territories to stem the evacuation is not an option. Once the border is demarcated and legalized, it would be plainly illegal for them to cross the state border, and few takers would appear. Crossing the state border beyond the official checkpoint is not merely an act of politically inspired civil disobedience but a clear-cut crime.

Moreover, the “front line” of the possible government action in Judea and Samaria is long. Jewish conservative activists failed defending Gush Katif, where the confrontation line was minuscule. The army can also wait out the protestors: tens of thousands of people cannot hold vigils for more than a few days, as they need to work for living. The army, on the contrary, can stay there for months, waiting for the human wave to dissolve.

Israel can be as well located in Uganda. The beaches of Tel Aviv are a part of the Promised Land, but so are Jordan, Iraq, and Lebanon. The seashore was settled by Philistines, then heavily gentilized, controlled by the Romans. Jews have very little historical connection with the seashore. On the contrary, the very area Israel abandons to the Palestinian state – Judea and Samaria – is the core Jewish land. Hebron was King David’s seat of power, Schem conquered by Jacob; the ancient Jewish state was located specifically in the area that Jews are giving away now. Ignore the uninhabitable Negev Desert, Galilee and the Little Triangle near Lod settled by Arabs, and Israel is reduced to a tiny beach strip 14 by 80 miles; even there, Arabs constitute 34% among the young. Jewish population shrinks to the Tel Aviv – Netanya strip of the beach and the Haifa enclave.

But haredi’s influence increases with their numbers, especially as they are a uniquely coherent and zealous group. As conscription becomes increasingly unfashionable among atheist Israelis, haredi might become the major force in the army. As secular Jews emigrate, haredi will become a majority or at least the largest voting bloc.
Jews lean to the right as they see that every peaceful measure fails with Arabs from Palestine to Iran, and Arab enemies grow stronger.

Even if Olmert gives up Judea, another leader can take it back.

The Final Solution wasn’t a German invention, but a collaborative effort by the Christian world.

Christian Russia thought about some kind of Final Solution in the nineteenth century. Russian government was receptive to Zionist leaders because they offered to rid Russia of Jews. Russian government prompted waves of pogroms. In the early twentieth century in Ukraine, government forces annihilated the Jews in the numbers only superseded in Holocaust.

Then came Stalin. He was deeply anti-Semitic but allowed Jews into the most visible – and hated – positions in communist hierarchy. Stalin committed a strategic disaster by partitioning Poland with Germany: absence of that buffer state in June 1941 allowed Germans to extinguish the Russian army in a matter of days. The only reason for partitioning Poland was to pass Jewish towns into the German hands. Indeed, Germany and Russia carved Poland specifically the way that major Jewish population centers fell to Germans. Russians supported the Nazi Germany until the very day it launched the offensive against the Soviet Union; Germany thrived on Russian iron, grain, and many other products.

The Russian government knew about the Germans’ annihilating the Jews in the conquered Soviet Union from the day one, from the burning of Jews in Byalostok, but didn’t warn the Jews to flee for their lives – which they still had enough time to do, even on foot. Ukrainian, Latvian, Estonian, Lithuanian, Russian, and Byelorussian populations assisted the Germans into hunting down, rounding, and massacring Jews. Most European Christian nations showed similar zeal in helping the Germans to finish Jews off. Evidently on Stalin’s orders, the Soviet Army avoided bombing death camps during the massive bombing raids into the German-occupied Eastern Europe. Primo Levi testifies to daily bombings of “work” camps around Auschwitz, but not a bomb touched the death camp itself.

Immediately after the WWII, when some Jews appeared to be saved, Russians envisaged a new solution: the Jewish state. Stalin’s support for establishing Israel is only intelligible as a means of annihilating the Jews. Stalin didn’t mean Israel as a socialist beachhead in the Middle East: despite the fact the many Israeli Jews were socialists, their leadership deeply resented anti-Semitic Russia, and except the fringe communists, few Jews supported closer ties with the Stalinist state. Stalin had much better bet with post-colonialist Muslim countries: Egypt, Syria, and Iraq. It would be absurd for Russia to support Israel against the wishes of Arabs who possessed both human and territorial mass. The pattern of Russian arms sales to Israel in the War of Independence confirms that Stalin meant Israel as a deathtrap for Jews: Russia only supplied Israel (through Czechoslovakia) outdated light weapons, primitive artillery, and some useless trophy aircraft with no spare parts (defending Tel Aviv in March 1948, 3 out of 4 Messerschmitt-109 aircraft was downed in the first raid). That was enough to prolong the war with Arabs and make it bitter, but hardly enough to win it.

Had the Soviet Union wished Jewish victory, it could have supplied tanks, artillery, and aircraft (Stalin opposed the shipment of meager sixty Spitfire jets through Yugoslavia), or simply send a message to Arab capitals that the hugely respected USSR stands behind the Jewish state. Czechoslovakia also supplied advanced weapons to Arabs (e.g., 8,000 automatic rifles, 200 machine guns, etc in a single shipment to Syria; the Lino affair). Many Soviet Jews (notably Dragunsky, later the official leader of Soviet anti-Semites) volunteered to fight for Israel but were not allowed to go. Overall, Soviet support for Israel was almost non-existent compared to the massive aid extended to Spanish communists fighting Franco, to Angola, and many other insurrections. When Israel survived, Russia began a major anti-Semitic campaign which culminated in the 1953 witch hunt against Jews and wholesale deportation of Jews to the coldest place in Siberia – the very place Germans earmarked for starving the Jews before proceeding to eliminate us in the death camps. Stalin died just days before the scheduled deportation.

Britain prompted the most notorious Arab massacres of Jews: in Jerusalem, Hebron, and Tiberias the British pointedly withdrew their police forces. Jews were massively persecuted, murdered, and extradited to Germans in French- and British-influenced Muslim countries: Iraq, Syria, Tunisia, Egypt, and Morocco. The British refused safe haven in Palestine to the Jews fleeing the Holocaust. Earlier, the British offered Jews to settle in Uganda; likewise, Germans thought of resettling Jews in Mozambique and Russians – in Siberia. (Uganda, a country with no Jews, evolved viciously anti-Semitic; the Entebbe affair took place there.) Later, Britain provided the PLO with safe haven in its protectorate of Kuwait.

Jewish American establishment, an assimilated bunch of court Jews who prosper by selling the souls of their compatriots, pretended to doubt the scale of the German massacre of Jews. They lied. Every Pole around Maidanec or Auschwitz knew what was going on there: they saw the trainloads of Jews entering the death camps and empty trains coming out. Post-war interviews with the Poles confirm their unequivocal knowledge about the massacre. No doubt, that information, among other reports, was passed to Jewish “leaders.” At least from the early 1944, they knew about the extermination of Hungarian Jewry: the Germans made their plans very clear to Zionists who refused so little as to supply trucks, coffee beans, and money to Germans in exchange for the entire Hungarian Jewry. But at least the Jewish barons could claim ignorance.

The US Administration had the benefit of vast intelligence, and certainly knew about the ongoing extermination of Jews, if only from regular Enigma intercepts of German communications which included the exact numbers of massacred Jews. The US refused so little as bombing the death camps. Before the WWII, when the extent of German institutional anti-Semitism was clear, and British and American newspapers ran articles about the immense suffering of Jews, the US refused entry visas to fleeing Jews and deliberately made a comedy out of the Evian conference which meant to find the Jews foreign asylum.

The Americans, British, and Russians maintained radio broadcasts for German-occupied countries, but not a single time any of them mentioned the ongoing extermination of Jews. That silence allowed Germans to keep shipping trainloads of unsuspecting Jews to Auschwitz as late as in autumn of 1944. Had they knew their fate from the authoritative radio, they could flee for their lives, fight for their deaths, or commit suicide for their dignity.

The UN partition plan of 1947 was no boon to Jews, but meant to complete the Final Solution. The Jewish state was broken into three isolated enclaves, interspersed with Arab territory. The three “Jewish” enclaves contained 40% Arab population. Thus the UN Security Council’s Christian members assured the attack on Israel both from without and from within. The Jews were to be annihilated.

Nothing has changed since the Holocaust. In 1967, as the Arab armies were massing at Israel’s borders, as the IDF was digging thousands of graves open for Jewish bodies, as common Israelis thought in the terms of Holocaust – what did the world do? Nothing. Nasser and the Syrians were explicit about their intentions to annihilate all Jews rather than merely dismantle a Zionist state. The world screamed at Israel in disappointment when she preempted and survived.

In 1973, as the Egyptian army was seemingly poised to enter Tel Aviv in a matter of days, the American Jewish leaders did not lead mass rallies demanding the US intervention: America, after all, fought on behalf of Koreans, Vietnamese, and Kuwaitis. European Jewish leaders did not chain themselves to presidential palaces in their respective capitals to demand the right of overfly for Israeli resupply aircraft: Europe closed its skies to the military supplies desperately procured by the fledging Jewish state. When the world, including Jewish assimilationist organizations, beats its collective chest, “Never again!”, remember that “again” has already happened.

It is incorrect to say that the world learned nothing from Holocaust. It learned a tremendously important thing: murdering millions of Jews is socially acceptable. A handful of Germans were hanged, but most ex-Nazis led respectable lives, worked in government offices. Just years after the Holocaust, Germany opened its embassy in Israel and was welcomed in the community of nations. To talk about the Holocaust to a German is now indecent, as it may offend his sensitive soul. So the nations learned, it is okay to kill Jews.

In 1947, the US originally voted for establishing the Jewish state. When fighting between Arabs and Jews subsequently flared up, the US withdrew its UN vote in favor of Israel, leaving the Jewish state one on one with Arab militias. To add, the US banned American Jews from going to Israel to fight, and embargoed arms shipments to Palestine. That didn’t affect the Arabs who received arms supplies through other ports, notably in Egypt, and from Iraq and Syria. In effect, the arms embargo targeted Israel. The US voted for the UNSC resolution condemning Soviet arms shipments to Israel.

The US reiterated its policy of annihilating Israel in 1956. After Israel, besieged by fedayeen attacks for eight years, cleansed Sinai from the Egyptian militia, the US intervened, ordered Israel to halt, offered military aid to Egypt, and threatened direct intervention on Egypt’s behalf. Eisenhower pressed Israel to withdraw from the Sinai, promising the US would always intervene to keep the Tiran Straits open. He lied; in 1967 America not only refused intervention on Israel’s behalf, but prepared operational plans for landing the US Navy in the Sinai to defend Egypt against the Jewish army. Before the Six-Day War, the US foreign policy was geared toward buying Egypt time to launch an offensive against Israel. The US-led UN withdrew its peacekeeping troops from the Sinai immediately upon Nasser’s demand.

In 1973, the US intervened only to counter the Soviet influence in the Middle East which grew exponentially with Egypt’s early victories and Soviet deployment of nuclear missiles in defense of Egypt. The US aid to Israel came too late to be used in the war. European Christian countries – NATO members - refused the US planes the right of overflight, preventing military supplies from reaching the Jewish state.

The US provides massive aid to the PLO, which is nominally intended for the terrorist Palestinian Authority. America sells advanced weapons to Egypt and Saudi Arabia, fakes nuclear disarmament of North Korea, and uses Israel as a pawn to placate Arabs with the suicidal peace process.

Bush is touted as the US president most favorable to Israel. Roosevelt, too, was very friendly to Jews – yet did nothing to stop the Holocaust. Truman was very favorable to Jews, yet had almost killed the newborn Israel through arms embargo. Decades later, Jews were surprised to discover anti-Semitic remarks in Truman’s diary.

The current peace process is a historically standard Christian policy against the Jews. Locked into a fourteen-mile-wide state, besieged by the US-armed Arabs from without, watched by the fifth column of 34% Arab population from within, the Jewish state is meant by the Quartet to become the Final Solution.

The crisis of Israeli education is due to libertarianism. The teachers’ low pay certainly drives some of the best cadres away from education, but that is not the major problem: the best teachers rarely find high-paid jobs in the commercial sector, anyway. Rather, universal disrespect to teachers is the problem. Children are taught to disrespect teachers: ignore them when they enter the class, call them by name instead of title, and generally behave familiarly toward the teachers. Parents join the subversion of teachers’ prestige: they criticize teachers with their children present, defend children in disputes with teachers, and even demand sanctions against school principals.

Corruption adds to the problem: the Ministry of Education changes textbooks almost every year to provide publishers with windfall profits, but teachers don’t have enough time to familiarize themselves with new books. Ever changing political course also substantially changes the subject. Socialist nihilism allows inducting the teachers with mere three years of professional courses instead of university degree; such teachers usually lack erudition.

The solution to Israeli education problem requires several steps. First, return to the world’s best education, proved by twenty-three centuries of unparalleled success: Jewish religious education from the age of three or five, including reading, massive memorizing, and various types of analysis. Second, divest from at least half of the teachers and bring the best teachers from India, Russia, and other low-wage countries. Three, reduce the school time to reasonable; twelve-year general education is absurd. Four, increase the teachers pay by 30-35% to the society’s average. Five, mandate the show of respect to teachers.