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Prophetic Quotes From Moshe Feiglin

All Feiglin quotes are from an old interview with Dan Rabkin of FrontPageMagazine.com, April 2008 (retrieved via Archive.today):

Two weeks ago the Prime Minister of Israel, Ehud Olmert, came to a hospital in Ashkelon. He came to visit the Jews of Sderot and Ashkelon that had been wounded by the Qassam, Katyusha, and Grad rockets being fired from Gaza. Do you know what he told them? He said “get used to it”; just like that, “get used to it, I don’t have a solution”. Do you understand the meaning of that? Just 63 years after the gates of Auschwitz were opened, Jews are supposed to get used the fact that every once in a while we will get killed just because we are Jews. Now we have a flag, a parliament, the strongest military in the Middle East and we’re supposed to get used to it? Why did we even start all of this? What was the reason that we even established the State of Israel to begin with? We did that because we are not going to “get used to it”. And here comes the Israeli Prime Minister telling his people to “get used to it”.

But you know, he is right, we don’t have a solution. And this isn’t about Olmert personally; the entire state of Israel doesn’t have a solution. Our whole state of mind, our mentality, and our leadership are void of faith. That’s why we have no solution.

During the 2006 war with Lebanon, we had a member of the Knesset, Azmi Bishara, an Israeli Arab, standing on top of Carmel Mountain in Haifa. He had his cell-phone open talking directly with Hezbollah, maybe even (Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan) Nasrallah himself, telling them they missed with their rockets and in what direction to aim the next one to be on target. A Knesset member doing this! He was caught by the Israeli security organizations and what happened? Did we hang him or put him in jail? No. We just opened the gate and let him go to Jordan and we even kept on paying his Knesset salary.

Why and how did Israel and its Jews lose legitimacy?

Moshe Feiglin (in explaining his opposition to the Oslo Accords and the Expulsion): 

What happened when (the late Israeli PM Yitzhak) Rabin shook the hand of the leader of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, the leader of an organization that exists to liberate every piece of land that the Jews have and give it to the Arabs?

Let’s assume somebody comes into your house and tells you that your house is actually his. You are just sitting in your living room and he tells you the whole house is his. By shaking his hand, what signal are you sending? The natural human reaction would be to scream, yell, kick him out, call the police – anything you need to do to get him out of there. You do that so everyone understands this claim is false and you are not accepting it. The minute you shake his hand you lost your house. You have conceded to his claims. Maybe you will come to some sort of compromise on the house itself, but that will only happen if this good guy agrees to it. But you see what has happened? All of a sudden, you became the bad guy and he is now the good guy. And this is exactly the type of situation we got ourselves into in 1993 when Yitzhak Rabkin shook Yasser Arafat’s hand.

But something much worse happened in Gush Katif (Gaza). The Israeli military actually went into Jewish villages in Gush Katif and kicked Jews out. Israel went into the homes of people, who actually believe that this land belongs to the Jews, and kicked them out of their homes and abandoned their synagogues to the Arab mobs and their torches. And this was broadcast to the entire world. Every country had their media present as this was happening. I was there; I saw all the microphones and cameras. There is not anyone in the world that did not see what the Jews were doing to themselves. With these actions, the Jews showed the world that the entire land of Israel did not belong to the Jews, but to the Arabs. And now we are the bad guys and the Arabs are the good guys. And this applies to every single Jew in the world, whether we like it or not, because Israel is the land of the Jewish nation and we are all represented by the state of Israel. The history of the Jewish people, all of us, is being written today in Jerusalem, not in New York or Toronto, but in Israel. And to everyone watching we have become the bad guys.

Everyone agrees that it is not nice that the Palestinians – I mean the Arabs of Gaza, since there is no such thing as “Palestinians” – shoot rockets and missiles at civilians. The world knows it is not nice, but they accept it anyway. You know why Dan? Why does the world stand by and accept that they are killing civilians? They accept it because, after all, it is their land and we took it away from them.

Many nations have had to fight for their rights and killed civilians. The Americans killed thousands of civilians in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The British did the same in Dresden. But everybody understood then and still understands today, who the good guy was and who the bad guy was in those conflicts.

For Israel, we can only respond to these attacks under the very narrow frame of self-defense. If someone is shooting at us, we can shoot him down, exactly at that moment. But not the guy to his left, the guy to his right, or the women whose skirt he is hiding behind when he shoots at us. Heaven forefend that we should try to limit the amount of fuel or water or electricity with which we supply them. Of course, under such circumstances, there is no way that we can win this war or stop these attacks.

(See my own article here.)

Why did Jew-hatred increase after the pogrom? Perhaps because it was obviously allowed to transpire, and was met with unconscionable timidity. The same thing we saw caused by the Gush Katif expulsion.

Feiglin:

… When these Jews in Gush Katif were pulled from their homes, what happened to the level of anti-Semitism worldwide? It went up of course. Israel did what the world expected of us and anti-Semitism went up. When we defied the world and did what we had to do in 1967, the level of anti-Semitism dropped. Suddenly every Jew on the streets of Toronto and New York was proud to be a Jew. So you see, what happens in Israel immediately affects all Jews worldwide. A proud Israel with real Jewish faith, that knows what it stands for, impacts Jews tremendously.

What to do about Hezbollah’s aggression?

To answer your question about what I would do about Lebanon, we must go into Lebanon like we did a few times before and conquer the territory from which attacks against Israel are being launched. This will send a message to the entire Arabic world: every territory that is being used to attack Israel will be taken away forever. If we don’t do that then we will get attacked again and again because they have nothing to lose. They learn that they can only gain by attacking us so they continue. Losing lives every once in a while doesn’t mean anything to them. They believe in death anyhow. So if we don’t put this kind of a price-tag – a price-tag of lost land, the only language they understand – we will keep defending ourselves to death.

And lastly, Feiglin’s Five-Step Plan for real peace:

… There is only one place in Israel where Jews are safe. Only one area where Jews can live in peace, safe from rockets and bombings. That place is the Golan Heights. Inside the Golan Heights you won’t even get stones thrown at you. The border between Israel and Syria is the quietest, most peaceful border we have. The place is beautiful and safe, like heaven.

How did we achieve this true peace there? Five steps were taken.

Rule number one, the Syrian Arabs that were there were evacuated. None stayed. So the first rule is, encourage the Arabs to leave. The second thing that was done was the land was taken over. After the war in 1967, we took the land over. The third rule is to annex the land. In the Golan Heights we annexed the land and put it under full Israeli sovereignty. The fourth rule is to flourish the land with as many Jewish villages as possible. And the fifth and most important rule is to never sign a peace treaty. We have not signed any peace deals with respect to the Golan Heights and look what we have – true peace. A real, true peace exists there, something that doesn’t exist anywhere else in the country.

Our border with Egypt is very dangerous even though we have a peace deal signed with them. To this day, Egypt fights against us via that border. And we can’t do anything because our hands are tied because of the peace deal we signed.

Remember How Charedi Necons Lied Americans Into the Forever War?

Here’s a blast from the past.

Imperialist neocon Yonoson Rosenblum praises George Bush on the Hamodia fish wrapper for the lesser evil of paganism compared to atheism (as though democratic pols aren’t functional atheists!) and warmongers goyim against the State of Israel’s enemies. “Let’s you and him fight”, says the wimpy wonk.

Funny how he speaks of Mohamedan disregard for life (which camp supports abortion?), pretends the Taliban aren’t “religious”, and pretends America doesn’t target innocents (who bombed Hiroshima!?). Of course, always contorting to the narrow card of establishment elite “respectability”, Rosenblum later on also attacked hatred of Mohamedans per se. No understanding of Blowback, the costs of war and empire, the lies, etc. etc.

Here it is:

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Find a slightly different version of this atrocity here (Rosenblum is not even decent enough to scrub the evidence).

re: The Unknown Jew Who Risked the Electric Chair To Save the Globe From American Nuclear Tyranny

A reader wrote that he appreciates our posts, even when they don’t necessarily have anything to do with Judaism per se, such as this one:

The Unknown Jew Who Risked the Electric Chair To Save the Globe From American Nuclear Tyranny

To repeat myself in a past article:

Ever see an article that doesn’t seem related to Judaism on Hyehudi.org – “Aggregated Articles About Judaism”?

Here’s a general rule for reading Hyehudi:

Ask yourself if many of the most famous and scholarly rabbis today would agree with a certain message. If they wouldn’t, well then that’s what I mean to wonder about. And if the said rabbis haven’t expressed an opinion either way, then I mean they really ought to do so.

Even for the minute number of filler, or “padding” articles, my goal is to render the rest of the site more appealing and get new readers for the more meaty articles.
To illustrate, here is the Jewish connection of just this article:
  1. If a Jew were to ask a Torah question about a similar case of breaking monopoly, I think he should be told to do the same as our protagonist.
  2. My cynical view of the US tyrannizing the world if only it could is meant as a critique of blind, stupid Pollyanish views of the US, so common among Jews.
  3. How come you never read any Torah scholar lambasting nukes? Why not?!
  4. Look at this one Jew. Even distant Jews should at least not drift too far; Jews are ‘awesome’!
  5. Even the so-called exceptional USA could have been (even worse) a monster, so we should go slow on Iggros Moshe‘s “Medinah shel Chessed”-induced patriotism.
  6. An inter alia reminder of Hiroshima (we have elsewhere shown to be gratuitous), which undercuts the US claim of morality, let alone unique morality. And “When they fall we rise“.
  7. Hiroshima should awaken Jews to leave a State blithely capable of such things.
  8. Hiroshima should inoculate Jews against the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s feelings about the US.
  9. If a duly state-miseducated\programmed American Jew can walk away from a random article quoting Wikipedia suddenly thinking Soviet spies can be heroic (!), what other firmly-held convictions might you be wrong about (Temple Mount, Mechiras Chametz, etc.)?
  10. The article is meant to condition the reader to deep revulsion of mainstream, “Charedi” neocon rags (with numerous Jewish side-benefits).
  11. A reminder world peace is usually a good thing in Judaism, pace the necocons.
  12. Even if other interpretations of this are possible, how come you never heard any of this fascinating story? And what does that tell you about your, if not Jewish at least Jew-ish, education supposedly including all chief highlights (thereby encouraging independent study of Jewish history, etc.)?
  13. Another dig at some Jews’ acceptance of the USG’s world-monopoly-aspiring Russia-Ukraine narrative.
  14. This anecdote further illustrates the simple meaning of Mishlei here.
  15. I think counterfactual thinking (“the bomb might have been dropped on China…”) is essential to Torah study, as demonstrated eleswhere.


Enough to make my point yet?

Note: Feel free to evade all the above and read Hyehudi purely for pleasure (as some people read the Torah itself as a novel) so long as you don’t attribute to this writer the “starving artist” foolishness of spending hours writing this site for free\zip\nada\gratis\gornisht, merely to amuse the bored.

The Many Excuses of Harry Truman for Nuking Japan

Harry Truman and the Atomic Bomb

08/08/2022 Ralph Raico

The most spectacular episode of Harry Truman’s presidency will never be forgotten but will be forever linked to his name: the atomic bombings of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, and of Nagasaki three days later. Probably around two hundred thousand persons were killed in the attacks and through radiation poisoning; the vast majority were civilians, including several thousand Korean workers. Twelve US Navy fliers incarcerated in a Hiroshima jail were also among the dead.1

Great controversy has always surrounded the bombings. One thing Truman insisted on from the start was that the decision to use the bombs, and the responsibility it entailed, was his. Over the years, he gave different, and contradictory, grounds for his decision. Sometimes he implied that he had acted simply out of revenge. To a clergyman who criticized him, Truman responded testily,

Nobody is more disturbed over the use of Atomic bombs than I am but I was greatly disturbed over the unwarranted attack by the Japanese on Pearl Harbor and their murder of our prisoners of war. The only language they seem to understand is the one we have been using to bombard them.2

Such reasoning will not impress anyone who fails to see how the brutality of the Japanese military could justify deadly retaliation against innocent men, women, and children. Truman doubtless was aware of this, so from time to time he advanced other pretexts. On August 9, 1945, he stated, “The world will note that the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a military base. That was because we wished in this first attack to avoid, insofar as possible, the killing of civilians.”3

This, however, is absurd. Pearl Harbor was a military base. Hiroshima was a city, inhabited by some three hundred thousand people, which contained military elements. In any case, since the harbor was mined and the US Navy and Air Force were in control of the waters around Japan, whatever troops were stationed in Hiroshima had been effectively neutralized.

On other occasions, Truman claimed that Hiroshima was bombed because it was an industrial center. But, as noted in the US Strategic Bombing Survey, “all major factories in Hiroshima were on the periphery of the city — and escaped serious damage.”4 The target was the center of the city. That Truman realized the kind of victims the bombs consumed is evident from his comment to his cabinet on August 10, explaining his reluctance to drop a third bomb: “The thought of wiping out another 100,000 people was too horrible,” he said; he didn’t like the idea of killing “all those kids.”5 Wiping out another one hundred thousand people … all those kids.

Moreover, the notion that Hiroshima was a major military or industrial center is implausible on the face of it. The city had remained untouched through years of devastating air attacks on the Japanese home islands, and never figured in Bomber Command’s list of the 33 primary targets.6

Thus, the rationale for the atomic bombings has come to rest on a single colossal fabrication, which has gained surprising currency — that they were necessary in order to save a half-million or more American lives. These, supposedly, are the lives that would have been lost in the planned invasion of Kyushu in December, then in the all-out invasion of Honshu the next year, if that had been needed. But the worst-case scenario for a full-scale invasion of the Japanese home islands was forty-six thousand American lives lost.7 The ridiculously inflated figure of a half-million for the potential death toll — nearly twice the total of US dead in all theaters in the Second World War — is now routinely repeated in high-school and college textbooks and bandied about by ignorant commentators. Unsurprisingly the prize for sheer fatuousness on this score goes to President George H.W. Bush, who claimed in 1991 that dropping the bomb “spared millions of American lives.”8

“The rationale for the atomic bombings has come to rest on a single colossal fabrication — that they were necessary in order to save a half-million or more American lives.”

Still, Truman’s multiple deceptions and self-deceptions are understandable, considering the horror he unleashed. It is equally understandable that the US occupation authorities censored reports from the shattered cities and did not permit films and photographs of the thousands of corpses and the frightfully mutilated survivors to reach the public.9 Otherwise, Americans — and the rest of the world — might have drawn disturbing comparisons to scenes then coming to light from the Nazi concentration camps.

The bombings were condemned as barbaric and unnecessary by high American military officers, including Eisenhower and MacArthur.10 The view of Admiral William D. Leahy, Truman’s own chief of staff, was typical:

the use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. … My own feeling was that in being the first to use it, we had adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages. I was not taught to make wars in that fashion, and wars cannot be won by destroying women and children.11

Continue reading…

From Mises.org, here.

‘Teatime Before Tanks’ Is No Praise!

War is a chivalrous killing “sport”, per Maurice Samuel’s brilliant “You Gentiles“, so it can have formal “rules” and unneeded breaks.

Even the vicious, nationalistic WWII included a break on Yom Eidam for a game of… football among the “enemy” sides. Or a cease in shooting to listen to opera singing. Mima nafshach?!

I assume, if it was all about moral causes, wars would be more businesslike, and less “sportlike”.

As for Jewish war against non-Jews, the Yalkut Devarim 20:923 says:

אתם קרבים היום למלחמה על אויביכם ולא על אחיכם, לא יהודה על שמעון ולא שמעון על בנימין שאם תפלו בידם ירחמו עליכם כמה שנאמר ויקומו האנשים אשר נקבו בשמות ויחזיקו בשביה וכל מערומיהם הלבישו וגו’, על אויביכם אתם הולכים שאם תפלו בידם אין מרחמין עליכם.

(Goy-on-Goy war is generally prohibited, although kibush works as a kinyan.)

Disclaimer: These are just initial thoughts on the matter.