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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>What exactly is tzitzit?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Wearing tzitzit is a major commandment, repeated three times in the Torah. Tzitzit is a sign of Jewish royalty, and touching it reminds the Jew of every single commandment. The critical part of tzitzit is a blue thread. Rabbis abrogated this commandment because Jews forgot the secret of blue dye—which was never secret or fixed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t trust such friends</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“[Arab] morale following Jewish [military] successes low with thousands Arabs fleeing the country. Last remaining HOPE is in entry of regular Arab armies, spearheaded by Arab Legion.” Cable from the US consul in Palestine to Secretary of State George Marshall (cited Migdal, Kummerling, The Making of a People, p.146) 
	In 1948, the US revoked its [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://samsonblinded.org/blog/dont-trust-such-friends.htm</link>
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		<title>What happened in the beginning?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hebrew words are made of three-letter roots composed in turn of two-letter root-cells. There is some evidence that every letter of the Hebrew alphabet is a stand-alone root cell with its own meaning.
	Two-letter root cells form three-letter root cells by two major methods. One, combining two two-letter root cells where the second letter of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://samsonblinded.org/blog/what-happened-in-the-beginning.htm</link>
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		<title>I am only my brother&#8217;s keeper</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Imagine a situation in which a group of human rights activists—such as the ones who send humanitarian boats from Cyprus to Gaza—dock a large ship somewhere in Africa. A month before, they announce their intention to save Darfurians and other political refugees. Tens of thousands stream to the port, board the ship, and sail to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://samsonblinded.org/blog/i-am-only-my-brothers-keeper.htm</link>
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		<title>Ultra-Orthodox also must pay</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The proliferation of rabbinical legislation created a rift between Jewishness and productive life. A person who strives to be a good Jew studies Judaism—thousands of volumes of halacha and commentaries, and never has time for secular education. If we only followed the law of the Torah, and perhaps also the Oral Torah, Mishnah, and relegate [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://samsonblinded.org/blog/ultra-orthodox-also-must-pay.htm</link>
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		<title>No more miracles</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Most Orthodox Jews refuse to believe that the past sixty years signify the Redemption and ask for a miracle to prove the point. They lack faith.
	In Egypt, Moses was a fugitive wanted for murder. The return from Midian to Egypt in order to save the Hebrews spelled tremendous danger for him. But when God told [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome strangers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rabbis erect immense hurdles before Gentile spouses of Jews who wish to convert. The required level of observance is close to the ultra-Orthodox standard, and vastly exceeds the practice of 90 percent of Jews. The rabbis also demand strict observance from the Jewish spouse, who is often less disposed toward religion than the Gentile partner. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t wait for punishment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The prophets espoused a curious position: at the end of time, God will punish Jews in order to force them back to his law. That position logically continued their explanation of the first exile as a punishment. They presumed that the punishment aimed at correction, and more punishment leads to more correction. This assumption is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://samsonblinded.org/blog/dont-wait-for-punishment.htm</link>
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		<title>The normality of ethnic cleansing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How about some equality? I’m not talking of Jewish-Arab equality: there are enough Arab politicians to demand it. They only need equality in order to destroy the Jewish state: how is it Jewish if Jews and their haters are equal there?
	Rather, I want Jewish equality with civilized nations. Take the Americans, for example. They fled [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://samsonblinded.org/blog/the-normality-of-ethnic-cleansing.htm</link>
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		<title>Yes, Jews are better</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	It is obscene to present Jews as spotless behind-the-glass moral creatures. God took us for his people despite our many shortcomings. To him, every one of us is immensely more important than all the dead Palestinians or Egyptians. Jewish demands of meat during Exodus or non-kosher restaurants in modern Israel are immeasurably more shocking than [...]]]></description>
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