{"id":812,"date":"2006-02-21T15:49:25","date_gmt":"2006-02-21T13:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/21\/will-israel-cut-thru-the-malfeasance-or-nonfeasance-insensitivity-selfishishness-greed-self-interest-running-rampant\/"},"modified":"2006-02-21T15:51:54","modified_gmt":"2006-02-21T13:51:54","slug":"will-israel-cut-thru-the-malfeasance-or-nonfeasance-insensitivity-selfishishness-greed-self-interest-running-rampant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/21\/will-israel-cut-thru-the-malfeasance-or-nonfeasance-insensitivity-selfishishness-greed-self-interest-running-rampant\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Israel Cut Thru the Malfeasance or Nonfeasance, Insensitivity, Selfishishness, Greed, Self-interest Running Rampant?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretzdaily.com\/hasen\/spages\/685119.html\"><strong>Ex-IDF Officer Alleges Police Brutality Against Girls at Amona<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>This story is related to the above story;<\/strong>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.israelnn.com\/news.php3?id=98900\"><strong>IDF Reserve Duty Colonel Reports He Too Was Beaten in Amona<\/strong><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ynetnews.com\/articles\/0,7340,L-3218889,00.html\"><strong>Kadima&#8217;s Israel<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/sharon.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/OlmertDapper.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/servlet\/Satellite?cid=1139395428361&#038;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull\"><strong>Omri&#8217;s Lessons<\/strong><\/a>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/OmriGuilty.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Excerpts;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;<em>The conviction and sentencing of Omri Sharon<\/em>, the ailing prime minister&#8217;s son and one of the most influential people in Israeli politics for the past three years, <em>is likely to become a legal, political and cultural landmark in Israeli history.<\/em>&#8220;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;The felony for which Omri Sharon has been convicted, illegal campaign financing, along with charges of perjury and fraud to which he confessed previously in a plea bargain, should have rendered his 18-month jail sentence a foregone conclusion, especially since more than half of the sentence was suspended.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Yet <em>the sentence has caught many by surprise, itself being a testament to the fact that political malfeasance in recent years has not become only common, but also tolerated, whether in the moral or practical sense.<\/em>&#8220;<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Morally, <em>some have accepted Omri Sharon&#8217;s own excuse for his misdeeds, following the argument that the campaign-financing laws which he violated were &#8216;impossible to respect.&#8217;<\/em>  However, this would seem to be an argument for changing the law rather than violating it, and is <em>hardly an excuse for perjury.<\/em>&#8220;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Commentary;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>There is a definite thread through each of these news and editorial pieces which will be evident as they are read.  Malfeasance or nonfeasance, insensitivity, selfishishness, self-interest, lack of any Jewish attribute of the nation&#8217;s leaders, and where this shortfall leads.  Is this the kind of leadership which we seek for the immediate future of Israel?  Is this the type of leadership which affords it&#8217;s constituency any feelings of security, sense of wellbeing, etc., either on a national level, or on a personal home level?  <em>Such leadership has seized carte blanche by way of it&#8217;s bureauracy, by way of it&#8217;s engrained control of every institution in Israel, to steal outright from it&#8217;s citizens at legalized gunpoint;<\/em><\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.israelnationalnews.com\/news.php3?id=88040\"><strong><em>of personal property<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iris.org.il\/brutality\/brutality.htm\"><strong><em>of physical health<\/em><\/strong><\/a> <strong><em>and wellbeing free from physical abuse,<\/em> of<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/07\/more-accounts-of-police-sex-molestation-in-amona-police-riot-or-yassamnik-what-do-you-tell-your-family\/\"> <strong><em>violation of sexual chastity<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, <strong><em>violation of one&#8217;s independent thought and more.<\/em> <\/strong> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Will the people stand for much more?  Or are they too dumbed-down and brainwashed to even know?   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