What Democracy?
It’s Yom Rishon. That’s Hebrew for “first day.” In English-speaking countries it’s called “Sunday,” or by those who know about pagan origin of these things, the “Day of the Sun.” Here in Israel the “first day” means the “first day.” Yom Rishon is a work day. Most things are closed on the sixth day (“Friday”) for two reasons. One, the Jews are preparing for the Shabbat (Sabbath), and two, the Muslims have taken the sixth day as their “sabbath” so as to be different than Jews or Christians. Anyway, I was going to write last night, after the end of Shabbat, but it became late and my mind was fuzzy.
It was a hard year for those of us who love Israel, because our supposed “democracy” has failed. Underneath the everyday workings of the Israeli society there is a mourning going on that will last much longer than a year. It is like the mourning one goes through when he or she loses a limb or other part of their body. Israel has lost some of its jewels and tens of thousands of Jews have been thrust into refugee status by their own government. By their own government! Sounds like what the Arab countries did to their own people to garner power as the “saviors” of the poor “Palestinian” people.
So what Jewish leader was the first Jew in history to make Jews into refugees? Why, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon – someone who not only helped to form this country, but was responsible for the building of many of the communities he destroyed. Now Olmert, the Sharon wannabe, says he eventually will do the same thing. Believe it or not, they are not insane. Just controlled like a puppet by thoseto whom oil is more precious than people.
The Israeli-type parliamentary government apparently doesn’t have enough checks-and-balances to keep crazy men like Sharon and Olmert from becoming dictators. And not benevolent dictators, either. Corrupt dictators in the model of Sadaam Hussein. One who is out only for saving his personal behind and that of his sons. Sharon went from being a pro-Zionist “mad dog” General to being the patsy for George Bush and the world-wide oil monopoly. Oh sure, George Bush did a good job of making us all think that his attachment to the oil industry and his friendship with the Saudi prince was incidental to his being President. But after he was elected the second time, and had nothing to lose, his true colors shone through. At first we questioned who was the puppet master pulling the strings of both George Bush and Ariel Sharon, and then we realized that the Arabs were pulling Bush’s strings, and Bush was pulling Sharon’s.
Yes, I know this is one of those conspiracy theories. But as they say, you’re not paranoid if someone is really after you. Conspiracy theories can be really conspiracy fact, and in this case it is looking more and more like we were duped. I was duped twice. Once for voting for Bush, and the second time for thinking I am moving to a democracy. A socialist one to be sure, but what I didn’t realize is that there is no connection between what the public wants and what the government officials do. That may be the most important character of a democracy, but in Israel it has been forgotten. Politicians here, even more than in the U.S. are only out for themselves. For power. For money. So what is the solution? Well, the first solution is to inhabit G-d’s land. Why is that first? Because the Bush/Sharon/Olmert debacle has convinced the Muslim terrorists that they have won. Yup, they think that the murder and mayhem they have been bringing to the world has succeeded in making the U.S. force Israel to give them land. Of course the Saudi princes and other Arab leaders know that it is actually the oil.
We need to show the world that we haven’t given up on Israel, and that we intend to bring so many people here that they will not be able to continue to win. How much land do they want? They want it all. In the near future I mean that they want all of Israel. They want to kill or remove all of the Jews, and make the entirety of G-d’s gift to Israel into an Arab Muslim state called Palestine. It’s not enough that they have been systematically destroying and removing evidence of the Holy Temples from the “Temple Mount.” They want all of Israel, and they want all of Jerusalem. And then they will continue their conquest of the rest of the world. Another conspiracy theory? No, their holy book and their clerics and their teaching and their statements say that the end result of their plan is to make the entire planet one Muslim state. And to do it they will convert or kill everyone. As they have been quoted as saying, “first the Saturday people and then the Sunday people.”
Shavuah Tov (Have a good week)
