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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>Who cares for peace?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Israel and the Muslims should have finished their active conflict long ago out of exhaustion and sheer boredom. Two pieces of desert, the Negev and the Sinai, along with marshes nearby, on the outskirts of the Arab world, are of no importance to Muslims. Jerusalem isn&#8217;t a fashionable religious destination like Mecca. Muslims are ok [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Israeli Supreme Court is traceable to Nazis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Zionists were originally a pretty tough folk, not incomparable to South African Boers. Economically leftist, they were ultra-right in political matters. Kibbutzniks had common property, and the Histadrut code of ethics prohibited such “excesses” as owning paintings, but Jewish workers and peasants knew that they had to conquer the country and take it from the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://samsonblinded.org/blog/israeli-supreme-court-is-traceable-to-nazis.htm</link>
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		<title>Death toll is natural</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The death of a human being—whether a soldier or a child—is a regrettable event. To try to minimize the death toll in wars is futile. Journalists and armchair activists can afford enlightened neutrality, but soldiers have to hate their enemy. No American soldier could schizophrenically respect the Iraqis but hate the Iraqi guerrillas, or save [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://samsonblinded.org/blog/death-toll-is-natural.htm</link>
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		<title>From Jewish militancy to Judaism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jews cannot survive in an open society. Judaism isn’t very hard, but it’s hard to be different—even a little bit different. It is still harder to proclaim your difference to your Gentile neighbors. It is inconvenient to be different. People need strength, and attachments  to a strong mob. The Gentile mob is larger and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://samsonblinded.org/blog/from-jewish-militancy-to-judaism.htm</link>
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		<title>Cleansing for peace</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Three decades of negotiations is no way to make peace. Peace is achieved through victorious devastation. 
	The Ancient Greeks did not try to show the Persians who was more civilized, liberal, and tolerant. The Greeks were not afraid to sink to the level of their despised enemies. War is no time for poetry or taking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good army need not fight</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Israeli army is heading into major trouble. The army was never great in the first place. Jews suffered unreasonable losses in 1948, fought only on par with the Egyptians in the War of Attrition, prevailed by sheer divine grace in 1967, and were lucky in 1973 that the Egyptians were not trained for the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://samsonblinded.org/blog/good-army-need-not-fight.htm</link>
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		<title>Not every tribe needs a state</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Politics is shaped by natural forces of public sentiment. The Intifada did not start on Arafat&#8217;s orders, nor was he able to quell it. Likewise, Israeli public opposition to a Palestinian state is not a product of government propaganda. As Lincoln remarked, &#8220;You cannot fool all the people all the time.&#8221; After a short-term effect, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://samsonblinded.org/blog/not-every-tribe-needs-a-state.htm</link>
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		<title>Facts of Purim</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Like every Jewish historical festival, Purim is a rather bloodthirsty celebration.
On Pesach, God made himself known to the Israelites specifically by the wholesale killing of the Egyptians (Exodus 7:5, 14:17). Jews also were less than politically correct then: the only time the Torah applies the word neighbor to our opponents is when we borrowed jewelry [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://samsonblinded.org/blog/facts-of-purim.htm</link>
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		<title>War 3500 years later</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;So Joshua smote all the land&#8230; he utterly destroyed all that breathed&#8221; Joshua 10:40
	As a Jewish nationalist, I was always interested in the Bible’s historical descriptions. As a man of common sense, I account for priestly Sadducean and modern archeological views that much of the chronicled events amount to saga rather than an impeccable rendering [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://samsonblinded.org/blog/war-3500-years-later.htm</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since when did a reasonable claim become an argument in international relations? Did France heed German rights to Alsace and Lorraine? Did Britain consider Northern Ireland’s right to self-determination? Did Russia accept the Chechen people’s sovereignty over the land they settled? Did the Arabs concede to a few Jews who fled the Holocaust a small [...]]]></description>
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