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Shalit - deal or no deal? : Comments

By Mishka Góra, published 20/10/2011

Trading 1,027 criminals for one Israeli soldier does little more than guarantee the abduction of more Israeli soldiers.

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Posted by evan jones, Thursday, 20 October 2011 8:30:38 AM
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What planet are you living one, Evan?! I think you’re the one who needs to read up on some facts. Israel has had to accommodate the majority of >800,000 Jewish refugees from Arab countries since 1948. Have a look at the 1948 population of Jews in countries such as Iraq and Egypt as compared to the current population, and you will see that if anyone has been ethnically-cleansed, it is the Jewish population. 1948 population of Jews in the Midde East outside of Israel: > 800,000. Current population: < 8000. Israel has more than 1.5 million Arab residents (>20%) who have full voting rights, most of whom have chosen to become Israeli citizens. This includes Muslim women (who do not have the right to vote in Arab countries), 13 members of parliament, and a Supreme Court judge.
Posted by Lindy, Thursday, 20 October 2011 9:34:25 AM
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The most democratic and prosperous country in the region, population 7 million with 1.5 million Arabs, surrounded by 300 million Muslims who drink up anti-semitism with their mother's milk (MEMRI TV documents this) with a tiny fraction of the land and none of the massive oil reserves - is interested in war?

This ugly prejudice exists because of the complete domination of neo-liberalism in the West. Traditional sources of authority and independence - natural family, marriage, religion, etc loyalties that bind prior to choice - exist outside global neo-liberalism's rule. This is intolerable for the liberal.

It's rule is carried out with its UNIVERSALISTIC and IMPERIAL abstract principles particularly 'equal freedom' a principle abstracted from all living human contexts. Under this imperial rule every culture and group must be MADE equal and but liberalism will rule between and over them. Liberal elites quite obviously find policies that advance their rule enchanting, and present them as examples of leadership and enlightenment.

The Biblical tradition is the most potent threat to liberal rule, and PC is absolutely never extended to Jews or Christians. The market-media-government complex can't help but select and skew a vision of the world that increases their power. The Chairman of the ABC talks about this in The Australian today [20-10-2011].

The destruction of traditional groups and their institutions, disempowering atomisation of the populace, a political class impregnable to popular dissent is the logic of global neo-liberalism and now it is the religion that is the very air we breathe in the West. Liberal media and bureaucratic governments are akin to children unaware of their own political theology, their subjects fideists. Their theology is imposed all the more because it is held uncritically.

Israel knows the One God, a Holy and loving God and will not bow to either of the world religions, Islam nor Neo-liberalism. Their pincer movement of jihad and UN global, bureaucratically enforced equality, as Ms Gora expresses so elegantly, is one of raw power not truth and so there can be only one outcome.
Posted by Martin Ibn Warriq, Thursday, 20 October 2011 10:12:47 AM
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Posted by rexw, Thursday, 20 October 2011 11:36:58 AM
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Deal of the century I reckon, for the Jews that is.

To only have to pay 1000 Arabs for a quality Jewish soldier, I'm amazed even the Arabs would fall for it.
Posted by Hasbeen, Thursday, 20 October 2011 11:51:00 AM
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Posted by Rhys Jones, Thursday, 20 October 2011 12:42:45 PM
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