The short interregnum of civi...
The short interregnum of civil society built on the ruins of the Bastille came to its end with the establishment of the Jews as the new Priestly caste. The alternative Church of our society, the Jews, survived in abeyance for hundreds of years. As long as the Christian Church attended to the discourse, the Jews plainly had no chance to compete; but when its power was broken by liberty-seekers, the alternative arrangement came forward.
For me, in my youth, who liste...
For me, in my youth, who listened with rapture by the fire about the exploits of Meir Gar Zion, Gadi Manela and Arik Sharon, who walked in high red boots on the stones of Samaria and believed that my machine gun was saving the people of Israel from a new Holocaust, it was a revelation to understand on the ruins of Sataf, that the army defends not the right of Jews to return to the Holy Land from the evil Arabs, but the right of Mrs. Richter to hand over to me a captured Arab house, the rights of the Moroccans of En Karem and Musrara who hate me to seized mansions, the rights of the kibbutzniks of Tsova not to let me pass on the road. The army protects the interests of new landowners who received their lands during the great redistribution of 1948.
I love to go into the desert w...
I love to go into the desert without a flask - so that, dying of thirst, I can barely reach the spring, fall down to it and drink to my heart's content. This is how all life seems to me - a desert, and in it are springs. I go through life without a flask, and maybe one day I won't reach the source - the source of water, the source of money, the source of love. With this fatal uncertainty you pay for freedom from the burden. But when you succumb to the temptation to stay at the source, you remember about others that have not yet been explored - and move on.
If residents of settlements in...
If residents of settlements in the West Bank had bought their land from local residents, rather than confiscating it for nothing, there would probably not have been an acute conflict between settlers and peasants. The settlers who received free land from the Israeli state did not always understand that the land was taken away from the peasants; and when they understood, they created their own ideology, according to which the Palestinian land is ownerless. If they had to pay for the land, they could buy what the peasants were willing to sell, and they would value what they bought more.
In Israel, taxes go to defense...
In Israel, taxes go to defense, debt repayment, and money for those close to power. Help for children, illness, and old age is so small, as if the basic tax was 4%, and not 40%. If there is a country where people have no reason to pay taxes and support the state, it is Israel. The Israelis understand this and try not to pay.
The people instinctively did n...
The people instinctively did not like the strengthening of the power of the state, and the right managed to play on this. Under the banner of limiting taxes and state power, Ronald Reagan won in America, and Margaret Thatcher won in England. After this, it turned out that the right wants to limit taxes by reducing the useful functions of the state. Under Reagan, spending on education fell, but fantastic sums were funneled into the military-industrial complex to create a space weapons system. So, the Social Democrats contributed to the strengthening of the state, and the right used the new power of the apparatus for traditional ideas: maintaining 'law and order' and developing the military-industrial complex. Twice in recent decades, the two leading political trends in the West have led voters: first the social democrats, who alleviated the situation of the poor through the hands of the state and gave power to the bureaucracy, and then the right, which cut everything except military and police spending and inflated it to infinity.
Rising taxes and the developme...
Rising taxes and the development of the social assistance system gave officials real power, and created a smokescreen covering the answer to the question: where does the money go? The humanists, social democrats and laborists of the sixties and seventies betrayed humanity to the state when they assigned welfare functions to the bureaucracy, instead of demanding the transfer of these functions to the self-acting organization of the population - the communes.
There are no good tourists at ...
There are no good tourists at all. Every real traveler dreams that Cook's office and its smaller brothers will go bankrupt, and that bank clerks will go on vacation to the nearest seaside and not spoil the view of distant exotic countries. Tourists lead to an increase in prices, to the emergence of restaurants and hotels - rip-offs, they corrupt the natives, communicate only with each other and practically do not allow the traveler to meet interesting local residents. How good it was to travel before the First World War, when the European traveler - a great rarity - was welcomed by leaders, sultans and pashas. Now, instead, you have to bargain with taxi drivers, hotels and restaurants.
I love to go into the desert w...
I love to go into the desert without a flask, so that, dying of thirst, I can barely reach the spring, fall down to it and drink to my heart's content. This is how all life seems to me: a desert with springs in it. I go through life without a flask, and maybe one day I won't reach the source - the source of water, the source of money, the source of love. With this fatal uncertainty you pay for freedom from the burden. But when you succumb to the temptation to stay at the source, you remember about others that have not yet been explored - and you move on.
The blindness of Winston Churc...
The blindness of Winston Churchill turned him into a Zionist dupe and trapped him into triggering WWII, with its millions of victims. It is to be regretted that some right-wingers are following his path by supporting Zionism and pushing for WWIII.
Stalin's Russia treated Jews ...
Stalin's Russia treated Jews as equals - not as superiors like the US. If Jewish nationalism were treated in England and the US as it was in Moscow in the days of Stalin, the citizens of Baghdad and Teheran, Basra and Ramallah would be able to sleep peacefully in their own homes.
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