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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>Nukes against liberals</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	In order to impart their artificial identity to the people, nation-states embrace cultural homogeneity. They need to destroy traditional values so that people accept new ones. In doing so, states, essentially totalitarian institutions, enlist their opposite, the liberals.
	Liberals break cultural values under the guise of encouraging tolerance to deviations. Civil unions offer homosexuals excellent tolerance: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://samsonblinded.org/blog/nukes-against-liberals.htm</link>
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		<title>Peace is not just</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Justice exists on the domestic level only. We can only single out criminals and other offenders of peace in our own society, because police enjoy sweeping powers domestically but none internationally. On the national level, offenses go unpunished—and Israel talks to Fatah terrorists. The difference is simple: a society can afford to root out its [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://samsonblinded.org/blog/peace-is-not-just.htm</link>
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		<title>Tit-for-tat is not merely retaliation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Confidence-building looks good on paper. The assumption that both sides want to end the conflict but are reluctant to do so is mistaken. In real life, they want to win the conflict rather than end it. Hope dies last, and neither party loses the hope to prevail, especially when the confidence-building measures fan the hope.
 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://samsonblinded.org/blog/tit-for-tat-is-not-merely-retaliation.htm</link>
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		<title>Editorials are good, too</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	The Torah bears obvious traces of the developing Jewish law. For example, between Exodus and Leviticus, “an eye for an eye” was expanded from pregnant women to everyone and apparently substituted with compensation. 
	They say, “If the Torah is not divine letter-for-letter, then how we know what to do?” How did the Hebrews know before [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://samsonblinded.org/blog/editorials-are-good-too.htm</link>
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		<title>Afghani playground for liberals</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Afghanistan served as a playground for liberal morale. If one read the American newspapers in those days, the liberation of Afghani women seemed almost to have been the reason for the war. And what was that liberation? Removing the veil. Never mind that many women welcomed the veil as a safety measure against male harassment. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://samsonblinded.org/blog/afghani-playground-for-liberals.htm</link>
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		<title>Afghanistan: moral and military aspects</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The American invasion of Afghanistan was all the more bizarre since the Russians fled it just a few years ago. American politicians and military men universally predicted the Soviet failure, but rushed to fail on their own. The NATO contingent in Afghanistan is pathetically small—one-fifth of the number of Soviet troops who served there—and the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://samsonblinded.org/blog/afghanistan-moral-and-military-aspects.htm</link>
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		<title>American puppet won&#8217;t last</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The American choice of Karzai for Afghanistan&#8217;s ruler is strikingly reminiscent of Shah Shuja, whom the British attempted to install there in the nineteenth century.  The Afghanis, a proud bunch, cannot accept rule by a weak exile, essentially a puppet. The choice of weak Karzai is especially odd for a country immersed in a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://samsonblinded.org/blog/american-puppet-wont-last.htm</link>
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		<title>America and Taliban</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The story of American support for the mujahedeen must be instructive for Israelis. With rare exceptions, Afghani mujahedeen militias are a remarkably murderous bunch. While generally refraining from alienating the neighboring population, they often engage in grisly atrocities against less supportive segments. American officials never did so much as scold the Northern Alliance publicly for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://samsonblinded.org/blog/america-and-taliban.htm</link>
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		<title>American failure in Afghanistan &#8211; the origin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The American involvement in Afghanistan had little to do with fighting terrorists. Al Qaeda had no responsibility for 9/11: always eager to appropriate other terrorists’ laurels, Osama has only announced that he knew about the attack a few days in advance. It is unimaginable that Obama risked his dream of a caliphate and that the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://samsonblinded.org/blog/american-failure-in-afghanistan-the-origin.htm</link>
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		<title>Jewishness is paternal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The basic laws of Judaism apply to foreigners who live among us: the Torah obligates them to fast on Yom Kippur, refrain from work on Sabbath, and destroy leaven on Pesach. Likewise, they must not blaspheme. Thus, an Egyptian foreigner was liable under Jewish law because his offense had been gross, he lived among us, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://samsonblinded.org/blog/jewishness-is-paternal.htm</link>
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