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Tuesday, June 23, 2009

ROSH CHODESH TAMMUZ: TWO DAYS AND TWO 'TWO'S AND THEN A LITTLE NETANYAHU AND OBAMA TO SEASON TWO ISSUES

IT IS UNCANNY THAT THIS MONTH OF TAMMUZ COMMENCES WITH THE SAME THEMES OF HISTORY REPEATING NOW AS GAVE US THE HISTORY OF THE BAIS HAMIKDASH IN ANCIENT TIMES. BABYLON, PERSIA, AND ANCIENT ROME MAY NOW BE THOUGHT OF AS IRAQ, IRAN, AND THE U.S.A. ISRAEL IS CAUGHT BETWEEN THEM ALL. AS TIME COMPELS US TOWARDS THE "THREE WEEKS", TOWARDS FASTING, TOWARDS WEEPING, TOWARDS REMEMBERING, TOWARDS THE READING OF KINOT, LET US NOT FORGET GILAD SHALIT AND ASK OURSELVES, AMIDST ALL THE INTERNATIONAL POSTURING AND POSITIONING, AMIDST ALL THE PROPAGANDA AND THE DEAL MAKING, AMIDST ALL THE RESTRUCTURING AND THE REAL ESTATE TRANSFERENCES: "WHY IS GILAD SHALIT STILL CAPTIVE IN GAZA? WHY HASN'T THE WORLD BECOME OUTRAGED IN HIS BEHALF? WHY HASN'T THE EXISTING OUTRAGE TRANSLATED INTO HIS FREEDOM?"

PERHAPS THERE IS A SOLUTION OF A BIBLICAL NATURE, A LESSON FROM SHLOMO HAMELECH: MAY THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY PROPOSE THAT GILAD SHALIT BE SPLIT IN HALF; THEN, HALF GIVEN TO ISRAEL, AND HALF TO HAMAS....

BIBI HAS SECURED HIMSELF A SEAT AT THE INTERNATIONAL TABLE BY CONCEDING PUBLICLY TO THE "TWO-STATE SOLUTION", THERE ARE THOSE, WHO IN MAJORITY, MAY HAVE CONCEDED PRIVATELY, IF NOT PUBLICLY, THAT A TWO-STATE SOLUTION IS INEVITABLE, AND THAT ISRAEL IS TOO WEAK TO SUCCESSFULLY INCORPORATE ONE STATE [INCLUSIVE OF JUDEA-SAMARIA AND THE GOLAN AND SHEVA FARMS AND EVEN YERUSHALAYIM]; AT THIS NO ONE CAN BE SURPRISED. SHARON GIVING AWAY GAZA -- NOW, THAT WAS A SURPRISE! SHARON STILL IN A COMA -- NOW, THAT IS A METAPHOR FOR MUCH OF ISRAEL AND FOR AMERICAN JEWS! BUT, MAKE NO MISTAKE, "CONDITIONS" SUCH AS A DEMILITARIZED "PALESTINIAN" [ARAB PALESTINIAN ONLY] STATE THAT MUST RECOGNIZE ISRAEL" ARE MERELY USELESS ADJECTIVES TO THE SUBJECT AND PREDICATE OF THE STIPULATION, "ISRAEL ACCEPTS TWO-STATE SOLUTION." THERE IS NO "HASHEM ECHAD" TO BE FOUND IN THIS.

OBAMA HAS SECURED HIMSELF AT THE INTERNATIONAL TABLE BY CALLING FOR INCREASING PRESSURE ON IRAN BASED ON ALLEGED IMPROPRIETIES OF THE RECENT ELECTIONS AND ON THE SOMEWHAT VIOLENT CRACKDOWN BY IRAN'S REVOLUTIONARY GUARD ON DISSIDENTS. SOME CRITICIZE HIS "RESTRAINT" WHILE OTHERS CRITICIZE HIS "BOWING TO PRESSURE" BY SHARPENING HIS RHETORIC. AT PRESENT THE FORCE OF INTERNATIONAL "WIND" SERVES THE PURPOSE OF A PROPAGANDA VICTORY FOR THE WEST IN THAT THE MEDIA IS NOW FOCUSED ON REAL AND ALLEGED HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES IN IRAN, AND NOT AT ABU GHRAIB OR GUANTANAMO [PRAISE THE LORD FOR THIS APPARENT FAVOR]. BUT, IF THIS IRAN STREET DEBACLE BECOMES MORE THAN A MEANS TO THE EQUALIZATION OF "EAST V. WEST" WITH REGARDS TO ACCUSATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS, THEN THE WORLD COULD BE LOOKING AT WW3, CREATED BY REAL ELEMENTS, BUT. FANNED BY THE MEDIA BILLOWS, THEN SPARKED OF BY AN AS YET UNDISCLOSED "EVENT" AS CATALYST. THERE WOULD BE NO "HASHEM ECHAD" IN AN IRANIAN CIVIL WAR, EITHER.

DEAR LORD, MAY THESE CURRENT EVENTS IN IRAN BY THE MEANS BY WHICH UNDERSTANDING BE REACHED BETWEEN "EAST AND WEST", MAY THERE BE NO CIVIL WAR IN IRAN, MAY GILAD SHALIT BE SENT HOME "NEFESH ECHAD, GOOF ECHAD", AND MAY ISRAEL BE RECOGNIZED AS IT SHOULD BE, "AHM ECHAD, ARETZ ECHAD".

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