When I made aliya back in 1991 Israel a 3rd world country. Its a tiny country about the size of the State of New Jersey. It utterly amazes me the evil eye placed upon Jewish self rule in this land. The made up horror stories from people who never stepped even a toe of theirs in this land. The in-gathering of exiles from all lands and cultures perhaps best explains why ‘2 Jews 3 opinions’ aptly describes Israeli politics. As an atheist … praise God LOL … really do not like puke democracy.
Having come from the Confederate States and lived through the fact that the damned Yankees won the Civil War, most of my siblings have accepted that disgrace. Hence, they like the Yidden who live in the two poles of the US – New York City and the State of Lost Angeles. Those Yidden more power to them, my daughter lives in New Jersey and I traveled for the first time in my life to join her New York wedding and felt like a fish out of water the whole experience. My wifes’ mother lives in Chicago – she visits her mother while i remain in Israel. Last visit my youngest daughter travelled and visited family in Yankee lands and then in Austin Texas – they really enjoy g’lut.
Having grown up in a Texas city where the closest shul 400 miles distant, from day one had to fight to keep my Jewish identity and religion has nothing to do with it. Religion just a stop gap for exiled Yidden living in foreign lands. Really admire Herzl and his political Zionism, it has tremendously shaped my identity. Jabotinsky led the Revisionist Zionist movement. The Irgun, founded in 1931 by members who split from the Haganah; ideologically aligned with Revisionist Zionism and later led by Menachem Begin who took command in 1943.
Yitzhak Shamir joined the Irgun, then broke away with Avraham Stern to form Lehi, also known as the Stern Gang. During World War II, Lehi continued fighting British rule in Palestine. After Stern – killed by British soldiers in 1942, Shamir became one of Lehi’s leaders. First Intifada began in December 1987. Yitzhak Shamir succeeded M. Begin, during hist second term as prime minister (1986–1992). As a student of Soviet Foreign Policy at Texas A&M wrote a paper back in 1980 which predicted how the USSR would collapse consequent to military spending on a permanent basis. The collapse of the USSR in 1991 – the year I came to Israel saw me in fine spirits.
The rise of Bibi as the leader of Likud began in 1982, when Ambassador Moshe Arens appointed him deputy chief of mission. Shamir later submitted Netanyahu’s appointment as Israel’s ambassador to the UN in 1984. The First Intifada based itself upon Ghandi’s and M L King’s passive resistance. But it also involved stone-throwing, Molotov cocktails, and attacks, and its grassroots organizing distinctly different from Arafat’s rape of the Oslo Accords 2nd Intafada which introduced terrorist bombings of school buses and Sbarro’s Pizza in Jerusalem, killed 15 Issraelis; the Pesach massacre the Park Hotel in Netanya carried out by a Hamas bomber which killed 30 people Seder night.
That event compares in horror but not in scope to the trauma of Oct 7th 2023. The UN quickly condemned Israel in both actions from building the fence/wall to the current Gaza war. Bibi broke and resigned from the Sharon governments unilateral withdrawal from Gaza. Israelis stood on the brink of Civil War under corrupt Olmert. Netanyahu’s resignation forced Sharon to leave Likud and form Kadima. On January 4, 2006 Sharon suffered a major stroke which shocked the nation. Olmert replaced Sharon, his incompetent and incapable leadership both in the Gaza withdrawal and in the 2nd Lebanon war, a disgrace comparable to the coward Chamberlain’s White Paper betrayal.
My niche – research. Hopefully my political writings will encourage Israelis to prioritize as our self-determination establishment of Tribal Yichus through imposing a 100% forced population transfer of all Gazans to Syria and Iraq – nations who remain at war with the Jewish state since 1948. Meir Kahane’s son (later assassinated) gave me s’micha, we then attempted to re-establish the small Sanhedrin Courts and Great Sanhedrin in Jerusalem, but my influence failed to persuade my peers to the fundamental differences between a Constitutional Republic which mandates a Capital Crimes common law (משנה תורה) court system which has the Written Torah Constitutional mandate of Legislative review of any and all statute laws passed by Tribal governments; that such an idea radically differs from assimilated Rambam “Mishna Torah” and the Karo code written prior to the imposed ghetto gulags which lasted some three Centuries.
My rabbinic peers sitting on both a small Sanhedrin and later the Greet Sanhedrin studied g’lut codes rather than the common law Mishnaic Model. They laughed at my comparison – made to the Mishna and Herzl’s Jewish State – that both faced the future and not the past; attempts to compare the later Gemara commentary on the Mishna to the warp weft threads of a loom fell on deaf ears. Rabbis mocked attempts to show how פרדס inductive logic radically differed from Greek syllogism deductive logic; that דרוש ופשט affixed to the Aggada threads while רמז וסוד affixed to the halachic threads; that the famous codes replaced Judicial common law courtroom rulings with religious statute law beliefs. Despite their validation that the T’NaCH, Talmud, Midrashim & Siddur establish the classic cultural identities of the Jewish people throughout the 2000+ years of g’lut which culminated with the Shoah and the rise of the Jewish State.
