העורך Editor

Short story found here:

My late colleague Gideon Doron once told me the following story: Doron was, c. 1996, briefly head of the policy planning staff of Israel’s Foreign Ministry, under David Levy. He invited his counterpart in the Palestinian Authority to spend a day together so he could show how Israelis live. Gideon showed the Palestinian official his beautiful house in Omer, shopping malls, beaches, cafes, etc. Gideon concluded by telling the fellow, “and you could have all this, if you wanted, by concentrating on building for yourselves instead of trying to destroy us.” The Palestinian official, according to Gideon, was convinced; he went back to Ramallah and started preaching to his colleagues.

A few days later Gideon called the Palestinian official and asked when he was going to reciprocate by inviting him to Ramallah. The PA guy said: you brainwashed me, and I repeated your line to my colleagues, and they told me that if I didn’t shut up, or if I continued to meet with you, I would be fired.

Gideon from this point could not get any PA officials to take his phone calls, so after seven weeks he had no choice but to resign from the Foreign Ministry.

מתוך פורום אוהבי ציון:

Quoting Sefer ניצוצי שמשון פרשת שלח עמ’ קסט-קע:

“[יקום אחד ש]יעשה את התכלת בפועל… ובודאי הגדולים שבדורו לא יסכימו על זה במהרה… והכתוב מרמז שלא תשמעו להם.”

What is important here is not the Kabbalistic speculation but the forthright regard of future unborn “greats” as being the sort of people who would “of course” frivolously oppose the reintroduction of a genuine mitzvah of the Torah, simply in the name of a distorted “conservatism” (no different than in the editor’s own times). And the writer’s expectation appears to be that the reader will immediately concur, needing no proof.

Not to speak of the actual persecution against the Radziners.

Note: I didn’t see the book within, so I’m not clear who exactly transmitted the above thoughts of Rabbi Shimshon of Ostropoli, and how felicitously.

Oops, I thought you were Jewish!

Please forget what you just read here, thanks.

Not to detract from the man himself and his many good deeds, but we should have learned from his example a Kal Vachomer never to found a State.

Think: “Benevolent” rule by bureaucrats officially controlled by a single, faraway purse…

UPDATE: I exchanged the word “Dead” for “Dormant“.