For now, it is important to understand that nothing will change, because the government grows stronger when Jews die. People support it more. It becomes “unpatriotic” to yell at Netanyahu when his slaves are murdered. People say “it’s not the time.”
People are asking me my positions on various issues. It’s an understandable question. I’ll answer it briefly here, but I want to emphasize in the post exactly why my personal official Knesset platform is so streamlined and it doesn’t address issue by issue. My platform, to reiterate, is that I will vote against any law that expands government size or power, and for any law that shrinks it. The only exception is if I am personally convinced Israel is under existential and imminent military threat, in which case I will vote to mobilize the army even if government spending is increased as a result.
In terms of positions on specific issues, generally, I agree with much of the Zehut Platform, at least its general direction. For example, I am not a supporter of the government school voucher system per se, but I would vote for it if given the choice between the status quo and school vouchers, because vouchers do limit government power somewhat, and leave it with a little bit less than it has now. So I’m for it, relative to the status quo. Though my goal is to get rid of all government education entirely and to fire every single person in the Education Ministry and repeal the Mandatory Education Law.
So issue by issue, whatever question you may have, I will always come down on the side that I believe is less government power.
Rabbi Yosef Shlomo Kahaneman was once asked by a young man if he could go to college in the hope of achieving some Jewish goal (I forget which).
Rabbi Kahaneman answered he could not support him. Imagine a performer extending a rope at a great height and walking across. We cannot encourage him as he starts; his quest is suicidal. But if he manages to get across, he will be honored as a hero. The lesson is clear.
Your story…
I don’t know the accurate details, and it’s just a story. Yes, tight-rope walking is likely included in the Noda Beyehuda’s dispensation of dangerous work for a livelihood. College? Perhaps he saw no way of dissuading the man entirely.
She’s asking for answers to questions that are already answered by a simple googling. At the bottom, she asks specifically where the Charidy money, the nearly half a million raised by Zehut last year, was coming from. That’s a silly question. Donor information is public at Charidy. All donors names and amounts are clearly visible and published.
I searched through this Devash person‘s Feiglin related posts. All of them are negative saturated with authoritarian values. She’s trying to smear Zehut by asking money questions that are clear and public and already answered, presenting them as if she’s being ignored and Zehut refuses to answer.
I have criticized Feiglin before, recently in fact, regarding his position on Syria. I will criticize him, even harshly, when he’s wrong. But that blogger has a vendetta against him, probably because she does not value liberty.
Which I forwarded to Tomer Devorah asking for a response, since she has a reputation for accuracy in accusation, but none came, so here it is.
North Korea lashed out at Israel on Saturday after Israel’s defense minister called the hermit kingdom’s regime a “crazy and radical group,” blamed it of being an ally of Syria’s Assad and the Lebanese group Hezbollah and said growing tensions between the U.S. and Pyongyang have “direct implications” for Israel.
A statement released by the North Korean Foreign Ministry called Avigdor Lieberman’s statement “reckless” and a form of “sordid and wicked behavior” that posed a “grave challenge to the DPRK.”
In response, the North Koreans threatened, “it is the steadfast will and spirit of the service personnel and people of the DPRK to give merciless, thousand-fold punishment to whoever dares hurt the dignity of its supreme leadership.”
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According to foreign reports, North Korea was also involved in helping Syria build a nuclear reactor, which was destroyed in an attack attributed to Israel in 2007.
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Needless to say, Lieberman was attacked by his political opponents:
“Mr. Defense Minister, we have enough enemies in the region let’s focus on them,” Labor lawmaker Shelly Yachimovich tweeted.
Lieberman’s predecessor, Moshe Ya’alon, accused the defense minister of “prattling irresponsibly about North Korea.” Referring to past hawkish remarks made by Lieberman, Ya’alon tweeted: “After bombing the Aswan Dam, ousting Hamas, and taking out Ismail Haniyeh within 48 hours, the minister of talk is prattling irresponsibly about North Korea.”
“And there’s no prime minister to call his prattling and belligerent ministers to order!” he added.
