Israel made herself international scapegoat. Europeans have little to offer the Muslims; Israel is a perfect object for Europeans to show their commitment to Muslims. Strong pro-American Israel is anathema to Europeans. For American presidents, Israel is an easy option to gain reputation of peacemaker or ardent diplomat, or simply divert public attention from their sexual or political misdeeds. Israel is great for everyone to kick around. Jews cling for support, responsive to peace initiatives, eager for foreign money, moralistic, important – and, in the end, would somehow survive even if peace destroys their state. Arabs are different: realistic, brutal, well financed from oil racket, strongly nationalist – not bendable to American or European instructions. Jewish and Arab rulers are similarly corrupt, but Arabs take money and do nothing in return; they make a favor by taking bribes while the Jews repay manifold. The West bribes Israeli politicians with grants to their foundations and simply media attention, Israeli military – with tactically useless hyper-expensive American weapons, Israeli oligarchs – with concessions and access to restricted foreign markets. As Voltaire remarked, if the Jews get their state, they would sell it.

The alternative to the role models of suicidally moralistic or detestably corrupt Jew is the Jew who conquered Canaan. And he is not the thing of the past.

Israelis love the show of fighting corruption. But who benefits from the fight? Mazuz and his masters from the leftist establishment do not care whether Ramon forcibly kissed a girl or Olmert purchased an apartment below the market price. Does anyone prosecute Shimon Peres, the corruptioner par excellence who runs untold number of funds and charities and channels their money into salaries, benefits, and foreign bank accounts? Did any court convictions materialize from the previous witch-hunts, such as of Ariel Sharon?

The outgoing police chief Moshe Karadi told an open secret: Israeli politicians routinely use police investigations to blackmail their opponents. By the time the investigation is quietly abandoned, the victim is smeared irreparably.

The charges are often unsustainable. In Moshe Katsav’s case, it’s his word against the lady’s – no hard evidence whatsoever. Similarly in Ramon’s case. Other instances don’t constitute corruption in any meaningful sense. The touted Greek islands affair where Ariel Sharon helped an oligarch to purchase a Greek island – what harm has it done to Israel? Where’s the criminal damage? Olmert’s apartment, purchased below the market price – so what? Olmert helped a contractor to receive a building permit that the contractor was entitled to, anyway. Olmert benefited from his official position - so what? Where’s the damage to public interest? Olmert’s role in Bank Leumi privatization is deeply entrenched in Israeli public opinion as criminal. Olmert, however, followed the normal practice of structuring tenders for major assets so that a reputable investor rather than the highest bidder wins. Did the changes proposed by Olmert benefit an Australian Jewish billionaire Lowy? Probably. Were they detrimental to Israel? No one has attempted to answer that question. Mazuz also bugs Olmert about political appointments in government agencies. That’s correct: Mazuz, a political appointee, argues against political appointments. The practice of political appointments is standard in Israel; the Likud and Avodah have their almost-formal quotas in the Jewish Agency and other government organizations. Convict every party boss or don’t hunt Olmert on that nonsense.

Politicians aren’t beacons of morality, nor should they be. They are not paid or elected to provide a moral example. People paid to do so, rabbis, also show indecency time and again. Foreign politicians survive charges much worse than those brought against Israeli politicians. Common people try to benefit from their job positions: from labor demands to using office phones for private calls. Such actions are criminal only if they illegally harm employers or trustees, including voters.

Israeli political bosses hunt their colleagues with criminal allegations to win elections or blackmail them into pursuing leftist policies, notably disengagement.

Jewish-born oligarchs act as Putin Russia’s agents of influence in Israel. Putin uprooted nearly all Jewish oligarchs in Russia, but left Lev Livaev with lion’s share of Russian diamonds. His partner, Arkady Gaydamak, was implicated in many high-profile corruption schemes such as Angola’s debts scam, arms sales, etc. Both Livaev and Gaydamak rose meteorically from no ones into oligarchs. In Russia, that means KGB/ FSB hand.

Dealings with Angola, a long-time Russian military client, are FSB’s turf. FSB requested Angola’s embassy in Moscow to issue diplomatic license plates for Gaydamak’s Maybach. Putin tolerates selected Jewish oligarchs in return for them promoting Russian interests in Israel. Livaev plays his part. His media channels in Israel heavily promote Slavic culture and agenda, and praise Russian leaders. Russia demands land plots in Jerusalem. Stalin envisaged Israel as Soviet beachhead in the Middle East and supported Israel in 1948 war when the US embargoed weapons shipments to Palestine. Putin continues that policy.

Russian Jewish mafia is perfect conduit for Russian policy in Israel. They earn and steal in Russia, and return there for safe haven. Huge numbers of Russian Jews resist assimilation into Israeli milieu and call Hebrew “their [Israelis’] language.” Lieberman accentuates and exploits the division.

Gaydamak is not the worst person who aims at Israeli political Olympus; to find someone worse than Peres or Livni is quite impossible. Decent mafiosi could be preferable to sleazy politicos. Besides, Gaydamak stands no chance against the experienced political machinators. The throng of hired consultants and journalists sings Gaydamak victory, but he is no more a political prospect than Chicciollina. Curious voters eager for scandals and star publicity might give his list a few seats. That would only confirm Israeli political establishment as a brothel with everything for sale, but not give Gaydamak any serious power. Prime minister will offer him an invented portfolio, like Lieberman, to do nothing. Gaydamak’s mega-parties underscore cheapness of Israeli cultural and political “elite”, eager to attend them; the disgusting corruption wins Gaydamak no friends. Gaydamak’s social endeavors are a base attempt to buy electorate with welfare giveaways, minor compared to Olmert’s bribes to Haifa region and Sderot. Gaydamak lacks political agenda and substitutes it with generic distribution of money that he imagines will buy him votes; people take aid money but don’t vote for benefactor.

Money buys power only to an extent in politics. Candidates need either charisma or support from established party. Gaydamak lacks either. He plays a typical Russian scenario of an oligarch buying his way into parliament. In Russia, that often works because of the voting fraud; in most cases, the “new Russians” fail in elections, mislead by their campaign managers. Those who make it into parliament, do so at extraordinary cost. If Gaydamak seeks parliament protection from police repressions, he should consider that Israeli police go even after the officials much higher than a Knesset member. If Gaydamak seeks political ends, investing in small promising parties is a safer bet. If he seeks political glory, there is none in sight.

Russia floods Israel with non-Jews. Under Putin rule, Russian archives massively forge birth certificates with Jewish roots. Sohnut, an agency that dealt with Jewish immigration and became useless with the end of aliyah, embraces Putin’s forgeries and brings in Israel huge numbers of fake Jews without any attempt to check their obviously forged papers. For a few hundred dollars bribe, Slavs get Jewish birth certificates in faraway Russian cities and add to Putin’s agents of influence in Israel.

With the average time span of Israeli ministers of less than two years and often not even one, who controls the country? The political appointees who shuffle between various government offices are professional in neither field. Their time in offices doesn’t allow them to learn and steer the ministries. Newcomers scrap pet programs of their predecessors to assert their own power. The parties’ nominees assume ministerial positions to get bribes and PR benefits; the rotation signals: you have stolen enough, let me. The real power rests with long-time director-generals and bureaucracy. Even bribes are mostly channeled through bureaucrats; the ministers, ever fearful of the police, take bribes from the close circle only.

Israeli socialism was conducive to forming bureaucratic state. Bureaucracy is empowered with the socialist hands-on economic management, totalitarian regulation, monopolies, and trade unions. Economic win or loss became dependent on connections rather than skills or luck. Bureaucracy is pro-left because the left regulates a lot. Ministers from conservative parties are sabotaged and mostly fail. Bureaucracy cemented an alliance with leftist courts and the security services historically manned by leftist appointees.

Thus the backlash against Jewish settlers and especially Noar Gvaot, the people who moved into the hills of Judea and Samaria to live semi-nomadic lives outside of the Israeli jurisdiction. They set a dangerous precedent of escaping the bureaucratic embrace. Totalitarian states have to control every citizen; when the pressure of government oppression runs sufficiently high, even a small hole allows many to escape and still more to admire them.

Economic deregulation down to free market level will destroy bureaucratic state and its political cover, the leftism. Deregulation should not be confused with privatization which passes ownership to oligarchs but leaves the controls over monopolist enterprises in bureaucracy’s hands. Breaking up monopolists, deregulating industries, and rising commercial competition to government enterprises must precede privatization.

Sohnut, a Jewish Agency for Israel, prides itself with helping Israeli Arabs. Self-proclaimed leaders of British Jews increased (!) the help to Arabs in order to retain the façade of Israeli democracy. That's insane and a breach of trust. The agency is Jewish, Jew-ish, Je-wish. It exists and collects donations for furthering Jewish presence in Israel. The help is urgently needed for Jewish settlers, the Gush Katif evictees, poor Jewish families with young children, people of Sderot who suffer from Arab rocket attacks. There is no imaginable reason for the Jews to help the hostile Arabs. Psychiatrists will identify Jewish aid to Arabs as a clinical case of masochism. Jews could claim an excuse of Galut mentality, madness.

The Jewish barons are right: the unnatural help to Arabs is necessary to preserve Israel a democracy. They did not add, what kind of democracy. The exemplary Greek democracies did not imagine subsidizing resident aliens, much less – tolerating hostile aliens. Pork-eating, Sabbath-flaunting, shiksa-married Jewish "leaders" (who ever had voted for them?) want Israel made in their image. Not a Jewish state, of course. Calling them "leaders" is a defamation of Jews.

Talking of Sderot, the Knesset approved $200 million a year for those "victims of the peace process." The amount, huge for the very poor town of hardly 20,000 people, is intended to shut up the residents, the living proof of the failure of Sharon's disengagement from Gaza. Treacherous Israeli government could do nothing to save the inhabitants of Sderot, and bribes them to die unobtrusively.

All Israelis know how corrupt the establishment is. We know how the big parties distribute government sinecures and jobs in semi-governmental organizations to their supporters. How deeply connected the oligarchs are and how much they influence the politicians they bankroll. That many oligarchs and the politicians they sponsor care more about the opinions of their foreign partners than the needs of the Jewish state. That demagogue politicians cater to mass audiences of welfare recipients whose outlook is hardly Jewish at all.

We know that good people do not come to power. That the road to the Knesset is cobbled with compromises. That political donations have to be repaid many times over. That egomaniac party leaders push out possible competitors and stuff the parties with drones. That ambitious politicians have to form their own parties, fragment the spectrum, form odd coalitions, and wander out on an unpredictable course.

We know that radical, uncompromising politicians cannot attract donations. That donating to anti-establishment parties cuts entrepreneurs out of lucrative government contracts. That the media shy from uncomfortable truths and prefer to keep their idiot audience tranquil and happy.

We know the Jewish barons usurped the communities’ voices. That the people who often got their riches by every imaginable kind of crime, who are Jewish only in public pronouncements, lead the communities and decide on the matter of life, death, and existence.

We know the Jewish state we have longed for for two millennia is deterioratings into an abomination. And we keep silent. A nation of priests, unable to lead itself.