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Commentary;

There are a few recent themes which stick out like sore thumbs and which beg comment.

There is the piece by Stewart Weiss, a director of a Jewish Outreach Center in Ra’anana, applying to today the virtues of Civil Disobediance, which date back to anti-slavery abolitionist Henry David Thoreau of 1840s and 1850s America.

Weiss cites Thoreau in asserting;

When the government does not act, then the citizens must step forward and do what is necessary.

In opposition to the United States’ support of slavery, he [Thoreau] refused to pay taxes in 1846. He spent a night in jail and remarked,
“Under a government which imprisons anyone unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.” His subsequent essays on civil disobedience provided an antidote for helpless citizens who feel they lead lives “of quiet desperation.” read more

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Commentary;

Undoubtedly, almost everyone has heard by now about the alleged connection between Ehud Olmert and one Morris Talansky, aka “the laundryman,” a noted Long Island philanthropist and fund-raiser for Israeli charities.

While this blog has chosen not to play pundit and conjecture as to whether this “alleged” scandal will finally be the one to take the “teflon etrog” Ehud Olmert down, the Ynet piece below ought to surely get a lot of working-stiff Yosef Q. Israelis living at or near poverty-level fired up, and not only at Olmert but at the luxury with which senior Israeli politcos, such as President Shimon Peres or Ehud Barak or Bibi Netanyahu too, are treated (in exchange for what?) on someone else’s tab. MB read more

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Commentary;

Or will the man who perfected into a political science teflon and etrogization, which first originated in an obvious way in the Sharon prime ministership with the expulsion of Jews from Gush Katif, once again evade resignation and prosecution by virtue of devastating diplomatic actions and appeasements jeopardizing and endangering both the Jewish people and our land? read more