Israel

A collection of 43 posts

Israel Featured

The Israeli Ambassador’s letter is just plain wrong

Gilad Erdan’s letter is demeaning of Israel. Its central pathos is the assertion that Israel has the right to defend itself. No other country makes an issue of its right to defend itself, because it is nothing less than its right to exist. Yet again, Israel draws its own existence into question.

Humanity/inhumanity Featured

75 years of drawing jihad warfare away from the rest of us

One of my first Jewish friends told me a joke. What's the smallest book in the world? Great Arab Victories. What's the biggest book in the world? Great Arab Victory Speeches. Forty-two years later, on the brink of a nuclear Shoah, that joke doesn't seem so funny anymore.

Israel Featured

Israel is Fighting the World’s War

Memorial Day in Israel has important lessons for all of us.

Jihad Featured

‘Death to Israel’ – The Iranian Plan to Attack Israel

The Iranians expect Arabs in the Galilee and Negev to carry out actions against the IDF, such as blocking roads, damaging bridges, spilling oil on roads, blocking intersections, damaging high voltage lines and attacking Jewish settlements (“May 2021 on steroids”).

Atheism/religion Featured

Atheists, Israel and Intellectual Honesty: Answer to Amir Schnabel

While Benjamin Netanyahu dabbled in the delusion of an accord amongst “Abrahamic” faiths, Israeli atheists were hard at work tossing the anti-Bibi/anti-religion/anti-Zionist word salad, instead of doing something constructive to stop Iran from initiating the next Shoah.

Totalitarianism Featured

One year of Western escalation submission in Ukraine: what lessons?

The power of nuclear weapons lies not in their use, but in their possession, provided you maintain escalation dominance. Conceding escalation dominance reduces you to one of two states: ineffective nuclear weapons; or nuclear war. Unless you are a nihilist, your nuclear weapons become useless.

Israel Featured

De-demonising the settlers

“It’s a shame to invest in a place that, at the end of the day, won’t be part of Israel.” With these amazingly callous words, the Bennett-Lapid government’s Transportation Minister, Merav Michaeli, answered an audience member’s question of why she had frozen transport projects in Judea and Samaria.

Holocaust Remembrance Day Featured

Yom HaShoah 2023 series - 2

For three nights, in commemoration of Yom HaShoah on 27 January, Murtadd to Human is publishing a series of articles that draws attention to the rising anti-Semitism around the world. Our second article is my critique of Dion J. Pierre's report on anti-Semitism in Palestinian textbooks.

Holocaust Remembrance Day Featured

Yom HaShoah 2023 series - 1

For the next three nights, in commemoration of Yom HaShoah on 27 January, Murtadd to Human is publishing a series of articles that draws attention to the rising anti-Semitism around the world. We open the series with an article by my friend Andrzej Koraszewski, commenting on an article of mine.

Israel

Misguiding the Perplexed - Part 2

Had Salman Rushdie been Jewish, we would have welcomed him as an absolutely standard member of the Jewish community. It didn’t even register on the Richter scale in terms of Jewish challenge

Propaganda Featured

Misguiding the Perplexed - Part 1

Rabbi Pinchas Taylor deliberately constructs a wall of vague generalisations and misleading obfuscations behind which to hide the horrors of Islam, thereby offering Islam a place from which to ambush his sedated congregation.

Jihad Featured

Every agora wasted on a terrorist could ease life for a citizen

The only people who will be upset at this terrorist's self-rejected citizenship being revoked are the Jews whose co-existence fantasies are fed by such “citizens of Israel.” Other citizens of Israel, such as those in Judea and Samaria struggling to find a house, might feel otherwise.

Israel Featured

Israel Diaries #5

Yes, you see it, too: it’s a menorah! This hit me before I saw it referred to as such elsewhere. You can imagine where my head went with this: Hanukkah > Festival of Lights > Diwali > Hinduism > Saraswati > Knowledge of the self > reflexive/reciprocal > Hitpa’el!

Editorials Featured

Finally, Israel gets an Israeli government

"Some of these people sitting here see the Temple Mount as the major issue of Israel. What will happen if they decide to go and visit the Temple mount?"

Jihad

Shireen Abu Akleh and Grant Wahl: Another lesson that will not be learnt

Israel has nothing to do with it. Muslims hate you because their religion obliges them to hate you. It is just a matter of the extent to which they may wish to defy, or can get away with defying, that obligation.

Ukraine Featured

Onward pregnant soldiers

If the IDF is deterred from bombing terrorists for fear of killing civilians, the terrorists are protected and they all declare victory. If the IDF bombs the terrorists, then “Women and children get caught up in the violence,” and the dead terrorists and civilians go straight to Heaven as "martyrs."

Editorials

Netanyahu gives substance to "Never again," again.

The enemy is not only at the gates. It is in the hearts of Jews and it is in the Knesset. Thankfully, Benjamin Netanyahu knows this, and he is not a timid man. Those who will join him in his new government are not timid either. There is hope.

Jihad Featured

"Will Nupur Sharma ever lead a normal life? Should moderate Muslims speak up?" - A commentary - Part 1

Is there anyone on earth apart from Muslims, with whom something as natural as friendship goes hand-in-hand with life-threatening risk? Sure, between Josef Stalin and Adolf Hitler, between Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin. But what kind of friendship is it when you have to watch you back all the time?

Israel

Israel diaries #4

I don't believe in miracles, but this one came damn close.

Israel Featured

Israel: the worst thing that ever happened to Islam

These countries are finally setting up national markets, with the attendant liberalising transformation. Arab states have an enormous task on their hands: restructure society away from Islam and towards freedom, i.e., modernise, and the key is Israel. It is a complete repudiation of Hassan al-Banna.

Israel

Israel: the best thing that ever happened to Muslims

We cannot attract capital or move forward, with the existence of extremist ideology in Saudi Arabia. If you want millions of jobs, economic growth, and better income, then you must uproot this project… Any person who espouses an extremist ideology, even if not a terrorist, is still a criminal.

Jihad

They sit in the Knesset. It's coexistence. Mazel tov!

Many lack the cognitive tools to deal with a religious problem. Because they don’t understand religion, they disconnected from the religious mindset. They refuse to believe that there could be religious reasoning behind what’s happening in the Middle East.

Totalitarianism

1948 and the Nazis of the Nile*

We were sitting over a book by Anjuli Pandavar, a South African born former Muslim, who writes about the struggle of man against Muslim in every Muslim and Muslim against man in every man brought up in Islamic culture.

Editorials

Editorial

Murtadd to Human

Israel

Israel Diaries #3

"If you just disassemble your army you'll have peace! The Palestinians will not attack a defenceless country! No one will! No one is that cruel!" Tell that to Hitler who attacked as soon as the USSR turned its back. People who haven't experienced war are too naive when it comes to our situation.