http://samsonblinded.org/blog A Machiavellian Perspective on the Middle East Conflict Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:08:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It is unnecessary to insist that God revealed the entire Torah word-for-word. Good enough if we accept the divine origin of the commandments and agree that priests considerably adapted the law to changing circumstances, just like the Talmudic rabbis did a thousand years later. We cannot stop working on the ... http://samsonblinded.org/blog/real-militant-judaism.htm Arabs will not decrease violence to allow Israel an honorary withdrawal from the West Bank. Just like the Jewish fighters haunted the British in Palestine in 1947, Arabs will continue killing Jews even if Israel evacuates Gaza and the West Bank. Diplomats cannot understand why Arabs keep on killing Jews ... http://samsonblinded.org/blog/peace-doesnt-come-through-withdrawal.htm Arabs, rather than Jews, have proved the biggest obstacle to Palestinian statehood. Jordan looked forward to annexing the West Bank, Egypt wanted the Negev, Lebanon had designs on the Galilee, and Syria wanted everything. Nobody cared about Palestinian Arabs. Jordan, seeking to annex the West Bank, even banned the word ... http://samsonblinded.org/blog/palestines-real-enemies-other-arabs.htm The 1947 partition of Palestine left the Jewish state with a 40 percent Arab population. Miraculously, the Arabs took off. Their flight started almost a year before the conscious Jewish policy of expelling the fifth column. Unlike in the previous periods of civil unrest, Arabs fled the country rather than ... http://samsonblinded.org/blog/the-miracle-of-fleeing-arabs.htm Palestinians didn't define themselves as such until the 1960s. The original Palestinian nationalists of 1920s-40s, such as Istiqlal—the most radical party—spoke of Syro-Palestinian identity or Greater Syria. Syria, however, was under French occupation while Palestine was under the British. The British, accordingly, resisted Syro-Palestinian nationalism and evicted its proponents first ... http://samsonblinded.org/blog/from-west-berlin-to-the-west-bank.htm Where venerable Yitzhak Shamir, the former commander of LEHI terrorist group, caved in to American pressure, Netanyahu stood no chance - especially since he had already surrendered during his prior term as prime minister. Netanyahu raised two demands for accepting a Palestinian state. One is that it either be demilitarized or ... http://samsonblinded.org/blog/netanyahu-surrendered.htm The Jordan River makes for a cultural barrier, but not an ethnic one. An almost impassible waterway a century ago, the Jordan River marked the boundary of civilization. East of Jordan lay barbarous Arabia, but the West Bank showed a degree of civilization, first owing to the influence of the ... http://samsonblinded.org/blog/palestinians-in-jordan.htm The catastrophe is unfolding so slowly, draped in so many speeches, that few note it. Distracted by myriad events, people don’t see the terrible picture which unfolds just before their eyes: The end. By leftists. For the entire history, things were allowed to run their course. Time and again, great leaders ... http://samsonblinded.org/blog/and-many-false-prophets-will-arise%e2%80%a6.htm Even today, the West Bank is thinly populated: about 60 percent of its territory is settled by a mere 1 percent of the Palestinian Arab population. In the early nineteenth century, Palestinian Arabs lived predominantly in the hills except for minor communities in Jaffo, Akko, and Jerusalem. When the citrus ... http://samsonblinded.org/blog/how-palestinian-is-this-land.htm Nationhood is irrelevant to statehood. Russians are closer to Ukrainians than Tatars, but Russians form a state with Tatars rather than Ukrainians. Spaniards are closer to Portuguese than to Basques, but form a state with Basques separate from Portuguese. African tribes are not nations, but the withdrawing colonial powers allotted ... http://samsonblinded.org/blog/the-palestinian-no-nation.htm