Shimon Peres: Israel's High Priest of Hellenism (audio post)

Reflections on Israel's most infamous quisling. Shimon Peres assures the Arab/Islamic world that Israel has no intention of building the third Temple on Har Habayit. Shimon has it all wrong. The Hellenists in our midst may not have such aspirations, but all true religious Jews anxiously await the coming of the Messiah and the eventual rebuilding of the Temple in our times.

Yahadut maintains that the coming of the messiah is the only vehicle for true peace on earth. Peres's version of peace is a recipe for another Holocaust.

Those Damn Turks!

Another example of the loathsome Turks showing their Jew-hatred. Click to read this piece from Jihad Watch. No surprises here. Just another example of "moderate Islam" at work.

Off The Beaten Path: Israel's Wild Places

A stroll at this late hour reminded me why I love the desert. The mystery and serenity of the desert night is like nothing else in nature. I spotted my first striped hyena tonight. I don't even know if it saw me. It was just wandering about on the periphery of town for awhile, until it finally headed out into the desert night and was gone. An incredible sighting. I still have it's distinctive black and white pattern in my mind's eye. That classical hump standing out against the desert night. Somewhere out there, the wild things with fur and teeth still roam about.

Fortunately, Israel still has some wild places left that haven't been raped beyond recognition by the land plowers. Places where Bedouins haven't set up their filthy illegal shanty towns. Thank G-d. We need such places to reflect and think, to get lost, and to try to find ourselves. To test ourselves against the elements and become men, or else die trying. Places where the risk of falling off a cliff (due to wind or personal carelessness) collapsing from dehydration, or stepping on a viper, is very real. Hidden haunts where we can go to sleep under the stars and reflect on the natural beauty of the Holy Land.

Edward Abbey, the great American writer and "voice of the American wilderness" had a love affair with the deserts of the American West. Abbey noted that the desert's hidden charms are lost on most people, who are turned off by the nasty things one finds there. Crawling, creeping, and slithering things like snakes, spiders, and scorpions. (Sometimes bigger isn't better. In the case of scorpions though, the old cliche is true.) That's why deserts are easier to protect. Most people don't want to live there. And if they come to visit it's usually from the air-conditioned confines of an SUV or charter bus, that graciously leaves as fast as it arrived. I recommend his classic work, Desert Solitaire, which is a masterpiece of nature writing.

I believe it was Abbey who defined wilderness as 'any ecosystem that has at least one animal species that can eat you'. I agree. Hiking and camping isn't the same without the concern, (unlikely as it may be) that something with teeth and powerful jaws might clamp down on your neck or skull while you slumber. Here's to the striped hyena and the few remaining leopards that still haunt this country's wild deserts. Live long and prosper. And if you should stumble upon some Bedouin encampment, feel free to treat yourself to a little snack.

Religious Maccabees: Part II (audio)

Reflections on recent displays of "insubordination" from religious soldiers in the IDF.

Insubordination? Or Answering To A Higher Authority

Something is happening. A spark has been kindled in the hearts of certain young Jews. We keep reading about religious soldiers in combat units who have started to protest the expulsion of Jews. First there were the two men who made a provocative protest at their swearing-in-ceremony at the kotel. Recently, four soldiers unfurled a banner condemning expulsions from the roof of their military base. Not surprisingly, the Hellenists in government are terrified at what appears to be a growing phenomenon and they are responding harshly, throwing them out of their units permanently, and throwing them into the brig for a month.

Netanyahu has the gall to speak of "insubordination", and how such actions will be the downfall of the country. The nerve of this quisling! If anything, such individuals restore some sense of morality to an army that has become a demoralized pawn of the Left. Let me tell you about the kind of insanity that what will bring down the country:

• A Prime Minister who has committed treason during two separate terms in office.

• Quisling politicians who exploit the military for political purposes, and use the soldiers of the IDF to commit human rights violations against their own people.

Neyanyahu can trot out a thousand mamlachti Rabbis to condemn these young men. Neither he nor the disgraceful religious pawns of the mixed multitude will ever understand what drives those who answer to the highest authority. They may never serve in combat again, but these soldiers are the true Maccabees.

Am Yisroel Chai!

Dreams Of An Iranian Wasteland

Amalek's Call to "Wipe Israel Out of Existence"

True to form, Netanyahu remains a frightened man. A man who lacks the courage to make difficult decisions. A man who plays the part of a eunuch, when he grovels before the Jew hating bastard, Barack Obama (yemach sh'mo v'zichro), who will surely go down in history as the Neville Chamberlain of the 21st century. Every day that Bibi listens to Obama, Iran gets closer to obtaining the ultimate weaponry of mass destruction and actualizing their genocidal fantasies. Israel doesn't have a choice. Obama's calls for economic sanctions and international diplomacy are impotent tools. Only military intervention can stop Iran.

Unfortunately, if Israel attacks Iran, it will be a precise surgical strike that will leave the general populace of savages unharmed. While such an operation might end Iran's nuclear aspirations, the average citizen will go unpunished. Pity. Iran deserves to be turned into a wasteland of charred corpses. Don't let the PC types cloud the reality. Both the "fundamentalists" and the "reformists" of Iran hate us. The Israeli Air Force should give them a dazzling and deadly show of fire and blood, one which will make Hiroshima and Nagasaki look like a Fourth of July fireworks display.

One day soon, (please G-d) the Jewish people will recognize that they are insane. They will seek help for their collective sickness.

In this type of climate, the time will be ripe for true leaders who fear The Almighty to take the reigns. Havlagah will end. The IDF will be freed from it's tethers.

Instead of using the armed forces to beat up and harass good Jews, we will see the glorious manifestation of Kiddush Hashem (sanctification of G-d's name) in the form of true Jewish vengeance against our enemies. All of our enemies, not just the scurrying maggots of Iran.

Please G-d, may we see it in our times!

More P.C.B.S.- How Not To Offend Muslims

The moral relativist's guide to not offending Muslims:

Rule #1. Abandon your reason (all of it), and stop thinking about the perceived pandemic of Islamic terror that appears to be destroying the world.

Rule #2. If you're white, acknowledge that you're a racist. Once you accept the fact that you're the bad guy, everything changes. If you're aren't white, identify with Islam, otherwise you're a self-loathing "Sambo".

Rule #3. Read any book by John Esposito and Karen Armstrong. They know so much about Islam that they don't even have to do any research or cite their sources. Never question their findings.

The following guidelines will give you a better understanding of Islam. After all, a million left-wing, long-haired, tenured college professors can't be wrong. Muslims are our friends. Obama really seems to like them:

• Islam is a moderate religion of love and peace. Say it a hundred times. Then say it another hundred times. Tell it to your latte drinking, hackey-sack kicking, cannabis appreciating friends. Make them say it a hundred times. Stone them if they refuse.

• Five extremists have hijacked a beautiful religion. It only looks like billions of Muslims want to kill us. The silent majority is afraid of these five extremists. That's why they don't say anything.

• Jihad really means to love one's neighbor and to offer him gifts of exotic floral arrangements and fruit. Extremists have hijacked the term and distorted it beyond recognition. Calls to "slay the infidels" that are found throughout the Koran are only metaphorical. They refer to the Islamic requirement to slaughter the enemy within.

• Wife beating in Islam is an affectionate expression of "heavy-petting".

• Suicide bombers are frustrated. Try to understand them before condemning them. Calling them "self-igniting freedom-fighting militants" is a good way to restore the balance of fairness.

• Muslims are sensitive and gentle. Our coarse "non-Islamic"values offend them, particularly our manner of breathing (which is inherently racist) and our use of double ply toilet paper.

• Claiming that a Muslim-American Major in the U.S. army who slaughters thirteen of his fellow soldiers on an American military base is a terrorist, is catering to a racist mind-set. As any good liberal knows, only white skinheads can engage in terrorism. It's George Bush's fault that Major Hassan slowly and methodically snapped.

• Antisemitism in Islam is misunderstood. Jews were always tolerated as beloved donkeys in Islamic countries. Unfortunately, sometimes donkeys have to be beaten and "put down".

• Islam's obsession with denying the Holocaust is a myth. Muslims revere the Holocaust and would like to contribute to another one in the future.

• Female genital mutilation is a clever way of protecting woman from themselves. When you look at it that way, you'd be crazy not to mutilate them.

Ketzaleh: "Bring In The Thai Workers!" (audio)

Two "lady-boys" from Bangkok, catching some sun in Eilat.

While not a supporter of "Ketzaleh" (Yaakov Katz) or Ichud Leumi for that matter, I acknowledge that the MK has done a lot of good things for the Jewish people throughout his life. His contributions alone during the Yom Kippur War, when he was seriously wounded and nearly died, makes him a genuine hero. Nevertheless, as a G-d fearing Jew, the MK needs to be called out like the rest of them when he takes a position that is contrary to the Torah. These are my reflections on Ketzaleh's recent call for the government to grant more visas to Thai workers.

Memo to the MK: Avodah Ivrit!