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I begin with a quote from Moshe Feiglin (emphasis mine):

I didn’t really want to write about what is happening in Israel’s south. What can I say? “I told you so?” There is nothing taking place now that I have not warned about in tens of articles. What good will come out of writing the same things again? Why should anybody listen now? What can I write? Blame Begin who surrendered the Sinai desert? Rabin and Peres who surrendered Gaza and injected Arafat’s army of terrorists into its streets and alleys? Sharon who destroyed (excuse me, “disengaged” from) Gush Katif?

I hear the “experts” on the radio. The broadcasters are not interviewing those people who tried to warn us. Instead, they interview the ‘synagogue managers’, those people who held senior positions and those who cooperated with the liars. They will go to great lengths to preserve the lie and the mentality that defends it.

“Feiglin! Tell me what we can do!” a senior worker in the Ashkelon municipality shouted to me after a Grad missile landed in her yard.

“First of all, change all the names of the streets, plazas and boulevards here back from ‘Rabin’ to their original names,” I answered her and she, totally shocked, turned around and walked away, not integrating what I had just said to her.

Remember Rabin. It is impossible to get through to a public that is captive to a misconception. From at least the time of Oslo, the Nation of Israel is captive. Instead of freeing itself from the Oslo mentality and the name Rabin that symbolizes it, they changed the names of the Katyusha missiles. Rabin promised they wouldn’t fly from Gaza into Israel. They do, but never fear. In the north, where Rabin never promised we would not be hit by Katyushas, we are still attacked by Katyushas. But in the south, where he scoffed at the thought, we are attacked by Grads.

Personally, I believe in bottom-up solutions a lot more. So I suggest this: pronounce these streets with a soft “V” sound; Ravin, not Rabin. You know, as in the Amora’im Ravin and Ravin bar Rav Ada?

The real solution is to privatize all roads and streets and thoroughfares and let their Jewish owners name them, but until then, let’s defy the state’s secular religion and wipe out the names of our enemies.

And manifold other evils. See here from the Mises Institute.

The current rhetoric of the group known as “Israeli Charedi writers” is that of walls, crenellation, forts, etc. DIY ghetto walls, to keep the barbarians out (Jew or otherwise). By the way, my own, unproven, impression is that this imagery’s usage has increased ever since the lower-level secular writers started pointing this out (like Rabbi Yehoshua Inbal’s Golem historiography theory here).

Jews presently ought to have the kind of confidence in the justice of their cause that drives our enemies to build walls. Go on the offensive. Make not the religious unashamed to do good but the anti-religious ashamed to do bad.

To see the same idea put in rabbinic Hebrew, see this recent post.

Essentially, no one should be allowed to vote about his neighbor’s life. And the more numerous the group, the more unjust (and foolhardy). Nevertheless, religious obligations (preserving life, public prayer, the public Torah reading) can resemble lifeboat situations.

Shulchan Aruch C.M. 163:1 says:

כופין בני העיר זה את זה, (אפילו מעוט כופין את המרובים) (רבינו ירוחם נל”א ח”ו), לעשות חומה, דלתים ובריח לעיר; ולבנות להם בית הכנסת; ולקנות ספר תורה נביאים וכתובים, כדי שיקרא בהם כל מי שירצה, מן הצבור:

הגה – וה”ה לכל צרכי העיר (עיין בא”ח סי’ נ”ה דין שכירות חזן לבני העיר גם סי’ נ”ג שם). וכופין בני העיר זה את זה להכניס אורחים ולחלק להם צדקה וליתן בתוך כיס של צדקה (מרדכי פ”ק דב”ב ותשובת מיימוני ספר קנין סימן נ”ט). וע”ל סימן ד’ וסימן ו’ בני העיר שיש להם דין עם יחיד אם יכולים לדונו, ואם נקראים מוחזקין. דין שכירות למנין, עיין בא”ח סוף סימן נ”ה. ועל הוצאות שהוציאו לבער מסור, כל הדרים בעיר חייבים ליתן לזה (הרא”ש בתשובה כלל ו’ סי’ כ”א כ”ו וכפול לקמן סי’ שפ”ח). כל צרכי צבור שאינן יכולין להשוות עצמו, יש להושיב כל בעלי בתים הנותנים מס ויקבלו עליהם שכל אחד יאמר דעתו לשם שמים, וילכו אחר הרוב. ואם המעוט ימאנו, הרוב יכולין לכוף אותן אפילו בדיני גוים, ולהוציא ממון על זה, והם צריכין לתת חלקם. והמסרב מלומר דעתו על פי החרם, בטלה דעתו ואזלינן בתר רוב הנשארים האומרים דעתן (תשובת מוהר”ם ספר קנין סימן כ”ז והגהת מיי’ פי”א דתפלה). ועיין בי”ד סימן רנ”ו אימת חייב ליתן לכיס של צדקה:

Non-residents (including illegal aliens) don’t get to vote. Taxpayers get to vote, tax consumers do not.

I am reminded of Hans Hoppe’s (now defunct) plan for liberty. Some excerpts (p. 12):

First, as an initial step, and I’m referring now to what should be done on the local level, the first central plank of one’s platform should be: one must attempt to restrict the right to vote on local taxes, in particular on property taxes and regulations, to property and real estate owners. Only property owners must be permitted to vote, and their vote is not equal, but in accordance with the value of the equity owned, and the amount of taxes paid. That is, similar to what Lew Rockwell already explained has happened in some places in California.

Further, all public employees—teachers, judges, policemen—and all welfare recipients, must be excluded from voting on local taxes and local regulation matters. These people are being paid out of taxes and should have no say whatsoever how high these taxes are. With this platform one cannot of course win everywhere; you cannot win in Washington, D.C. with a platform like this, but I dare say that in many locations this can be easily done. The locations have to be small enough and have to have a good number of decent people.

Consequently, local taxes and rates as well as local tax revenue will inevitably decrease. Property values and most local incomes would increase whereas the number and payment of public employees would fall. Now, and this is the most decisive step, the following thing must be done, and always keep in mind that I am talking about very small territorial districts, villages.

In this government funding crisis which breaks out once the right to vote has been taken away from the mob, as a way out of this crisis, all local government assets must be privatized. An inventory of all public buildings, and on the local level that is not that much—schools, fire houses, police stations, courthouses, roads, and so forth—and then property shares or stock should be distributed to the local private property owners in accordance with the total lifetime amount of taxes—property taxes—that these people have paid. After all, it is theirs, they paid for these things.

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Read the rest too.

Here is a clear article about the different ways of enunciating the ‘R’ or ‘reish’ sound, including the infamous Brisker method.