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How Charedi Politicians Are Born and Stillborn

Charedi politicians; where do they come from? Not all of them had money, not all of them were bench-warmers in Yeshiva, not all of them had connections.

It appears many of them started out managing a Gemach (money or item loans), as a Gabbai of a Shul, as a Gabbai of a Rebbe (with variations), etc.

So if you know a young member of a Charedi party, with a flair for organizing and managing and the will to power, I would recommend starting the opposition research early. This can be used simply for convincing them to stay away from politics. Play the long game.

A word to my wise readers…

Personal Religious Tolerance Is an Oxymoron

To government “religious tolerance” makes sense; the regime claims it will limit its attacks in some way. But in terms of a personal program of action, I fail to understand the term in any way but as an anti-religious subterfuge.

Those who support the notion suggest one say to himself as follows: I will observe Sabbath for it seems moral, but I will not circumcise my newborn son for that seems immoral although the only reason for doing either is a desire to perform God’s will.

If you believe religion in and of itself is a viable option, then explain this: How can anyone conceivably decide to pick and choose which of God’s words he wishes to retain based on his understanding?

What type of religion is this where man is himself the real arbiter of what’s acceptable?!

(The above, edited, was once sent as a letter to an organization promoting “religious tolerance”.)

Neturei Karta: Not Liars but Lunatics

(This is mean, but they deserve it.)

You know about Hitler’s “Big Lie” theory?

But it remained for the Jews, with their unqualified capacity for falsehood… to impute responsibility for the downfall precisely to…

All this was inspired by the principle—which is quite true within itself—that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods.

It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation. For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying.

Well, it applies to the Yerushalmi branch of Neturei Karta (and numerous schismatics). The Neturei Karta are far beyond the endemic dishonesty among all devoted anti-Zionists. But such people are as rare as the percentage of psychopaths in the population.

This puzzled me until a friend explained: They are fabulists (The quality of being fantastical, fanciful, whimsical). They got their fabulism from the Arabs, along with the Arab mode of dancing, chords, the Darbukah drum, Arabic expressions, style of dress, and so on.

They aren’t liars; they’re insane!