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	<title>Samson Blinded</title>
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	<description>A Machiavellian Perspective on the Middle East Conflict</description>
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		<title>Assimilation is death</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	The assimilation of American Jews is irreversible, and there is no point in expending great resources to counter it. Even if the intermarriage rate were to be brought down miraculously to 30% from the current figure of 70-95% among atheists, in three generations the number of Jews would decrease by two-thirds.
	The goal now is to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://samsonblinded.org/blog/assimilation-is-death.htm</link>
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		<title>Fashionable outcasts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	In important aspects, Israeli Arabs are similar to American blacks. For decades, the establishment kept the blacks prominent with its human rights agenda. Political advertising is advertising like any other, and the blacks became popular, fashionable. They proved themselves resilient by coming all the way from being pariahs to supercitizens accorded greater-than-average rights. Mass rallies [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://samsonblinded.org/blog/fashionable-outcasts.htm</link>
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		<title>House of lies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Nation states have abandoned all pretense of representing their publics, or even any ideology. Lenin violated a fundamental Marxian precept that a society should pass through a stage of developed capitalism before jumping into socialism. Later he abandoned his own goal of communism for that very reason—Russia hadn&#8217;t yet passed through developed capitalism. In the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://samsonblinded.org/blog/house-of-lies.htm</link>
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		<title>Israeli religious future</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Orthodox and Haredi Jews make up a growing proportion of Israeli Jewish society. With the birth rate among them two and four times, respectively, the national average, their share of the population is poised to triple within a single generation. The relative increase will probably continue for two or three generations until the birth rate [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://samsonblinded.org/blog/israeli-religious-future.htm</link>
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		<title>Palestine should be allowed militancy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Netanyahu’s demand for a demilitarized Palestinian state spells trouble for Israel. The demand paints Israel as an unreasonable bully: surely, no state can be demilitarized. Germany and Japan accepted great limits on their armaments in return for American protection, but no one is going to sign a defense treaty with Palestine—both no one wishes to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://samsonblinded.org/blog/palestine-should-be-allowed-militancy.htm</link>
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		<title>How honest is Quartet?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Why does Israel need a mediator, either to deal with the Quartet or in negotiations with terrorist organizations? Because her leaders are cowardly. Often a mediator is employed because parties are willing to accept an offer coming from a neutral person rbut would reject the same offer from the other side. This is hardly the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://samsonblinded.org/blog/how-honest-is-quartet.htm</link>
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		<title>A state is Jewish, so what?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[         For Israel to demand that the Palestinians recognize our state as Jewish is counterproductive. It supposedly erects a major hurdle before the PLO, which it staunchly refuses to overcome. Recognizing Israel as a Jewish state is actually insignificant to Palestinians. They have acceded to a non-Islamic [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://samsonblinded.org/blog/a-state-is-jewish-so-what.htm</link>
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		<title>Schizophrenia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Good Jews suffer from split identity: they are good, but also Jews. Despite striving for proper Jewish objectives they retain camaraderie with their supposedly fellow Jews, who viciously sabotage those objectives, whether of their own volition or on the orders of others. Settlers depend on soldiers for protection and cannot wholeheartedly fight eviction. Though IDF [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://samsonblinded.org/blog/schizophrenia.htm</link>
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		<title>Peaceful eviction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Settlers are closing their eyes to the uncomfortable realization that their villages are doomed. After Egypt wrested from Israel a 100 percent solution and Syria secured the Israeli government’s agreement to a 100 percent solution (the Golan Heights and the Kineret waterline beyond the international border), a Palestinian leader cannot frame himself as a loser [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://samsonblinded.org/blog/peaceful-eviction.htm</link>
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		<title>Israel&#8217;s Goldstone report: not so good</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Israel&#8217;s legal system is extremely tilted against the army. Direct oversight of military prosecution by the pro-Oslo Supreme Court ensures indictment for the slightest transgressions. After the Supreme Court orders the Military Attorney General to indict, a lower court has no practical choice but to convict.
Military prosecution can be ordered by the Military Attorney General, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://samsonblinded.org/blog/israels-goldstone-report-not-so-good.htm</link>
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