A Coming American Mass Aliyah

"Ron Unz pointed out that “a substantial fraction of our population has been reduced to a 21st century version of the drunken, ignorant, exploited, indebted, impoverished, and immiserated Slavic peasantry of the Jewish-dominated Pale of Settlement,” and though the peons are becoming increasingly enraged, they’re only aiming their ire at at trumped up, media hyped targets and scapegoats, but what do you expect from a population that’s ever more relentlessly brainwashed?"  Quoted from . 

More than ever, I feel that Israel must be prepared to receive a sudden mass emigration of American Jews. Poland too was - in the Middle Ages - a Goldene Medine. 

American Mistery

P.B., a veteran of Greg Cochran's blog, commented:

Then I was recruited on an emergency basis to teach an Oracle class at another private college. The scheduled Oracle guy had taken off. One of the students obviously had Down’s Syndrome. I question him. He had been enrolled in several classes and had always gotten good grades. He got it into his defective brain that he should be a Data Base Administrator. Impossible of course – he was seriously retarded. His company sent him to college and paid all tuition and expenses if he got a ‘B’ or better.

So when he turned in his final exam completely blank – I had a problem. Here was this handicapped guy who was going to be hit with a substantial set of payments if I gave him the ‘F’ he deserved.

I wasn’t tough enough. I gave him a ‘B’ just had a whole series of instructors before me.

I answered:

• J says:

  July 30, 2018 at 10:18 pm

  So when he turned in his final exam completely blank … Your charity was misplaced. You condemned that unlucky fellow to a life of suffering. He goes back to his employer and will be promoted to Administrator, a job he will not be able to perform. When dismissed, he may sue the company for “racism” or whatever you call it.

  What I wanted to say is that it is a mystery how, with such bleeding-heart computer science teachers, America was able to send manned missions to the Moon. Today, America is engaged in a life-or-death duel with Asian monsters like North Korea, and with covert intelligence-operations-minded Russia. Will it be able to cope with handicapped Administrators? I am convinced PB's generosity could never happen in China or Russia. In Israel, I am sorry to say, we follow America. Except that here, every once a while, we hit the hard wall of reality and are forced to return to our senses.

Identity Politics in Egypt

The Cairo Zoo thought it a good idea to paint black stripes on regular asses and to pass them as authentic zebras. The public and even the burros themselves were convinced they were zebras. Till a visitor noticed that these "zebras" had ink blots on their faces and their stripes were unlike born zebras. 

The Curious Case of the Sadistic Bodyguard

French President Macron's permanent companion is his bodyguard Benallah, who (pic) was recorded volunteering to brutally beat young street demonstrators. Sadism is a desirable feature in a bodyguard, but this could never happen to the bodyguards of the American President. The worst they did was drunken partying with prostitutes, but that is only expectable from young fellows in a foreign country. But then, Macron exceeded himself in the defense of Benallah, taking all the presumed blame on himself and ... "then came that curious denial that he was not Benalla's lover. It was not the first time Macron, who is married to his former teacher, a woman 20 years his senior, has had to protest that he is not homosexual."

Of course he is, not that I care. Arafat's bodyguards also served as his harem. 

Shlomo Zand writes in HaAretz

History teacher Shlomo Zand examines the long term perspectives of Israel and finds that the relations with the natives (sic) will define the future. Israel's dilemma, Zand dixit, is between separation (he calls it in its Africaner name) so to avoid assimilation, or transfer, which is feasible only within the framework of war.

Zand prognosis lacks imagination. As a historian, he knows what happened in the past and in other places, and his thinking is limited by this framework. Moreover, his terms of reference are restricted to the history of the last hundred years, as is the other ten thousand years of history were irrelevant. When the Normans moved in mass to the British Isles, did they establish apartheid or native reserves? No. When the Arabs occupied Greek-speaking Sicily, or when the Vandals displaced the Arabs, or many other examples of one people settling in land that other people considers its own. Reality is not limited by the past hundred years, and I for one can imagine and describe several other scenarios. Of course they are implausible for limited historians and journalists, but they are always surprised by the events.

Not all my impressions of Zand are negative. He is objective, considers only facts and not some marginal leader's declarations or bombastic articles in Yiddish papers of the last century (circulation: one hundred fifty) like the despicable Ilan Pappe.  I also understand the circumspection of Zand when analyzing the future: he wants to be considered a serious historian with plausible outcomes. Certainly, to consider historical processes before the invention of journalism or to imagine events for which there are no recent precedents, would be almost science fiction. Yet, in my humble opinion, history is bunk and any future will certainly be different from the past, very different. 

The Weekly Portion

וְאָ֣הַבְתָּ֔ אֵ֖ת יְהֹוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֑יךָ בְּכָל־לְבָֽבְךָ֥ וּבְכָל־נַפְשְׁךָ֖ וּבְכָל־מְאֹדֶֽךָ

This week's chapter contains the command to love God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your resources". 

Now what is the meaning of love with all your resources, or more obscenely, all your money? Rabbi Eliahu Shedmy of Raanana (pic) explains: A Jew, walking in a dark alley, was being held up: "Your money or your life!" No answer. The robber insists: "Your money or your life!!". The Jew: Wait a minute, I have to think!  The idea is to love God more than money. Which is not so obvious at all.

Senator Joe Liberman's Daughter Makes Aliya

The Father was a credible candidate to the US Presidency. If the elite of American Jewry is starting to move to Israel, thousands will follow. Hope so. Pity Bernie Sanders has no Jewish children.


Pic. Addressing new immigrants from the USA at the Ben Gurion Airport.

"We have a strong sense of being a link in the chain of Jewish history, and we feel so privileged to live in a time when we can live in Israel.”

TONY GELBART, chairman and co-founder 

Saudia suspends oil exports

Saudi tankers were attacked as they sailed out of the Gulf, causing Saudia to suspend exports. The price of oil may lift. There is a small scale war going on all over the Middle East, in fact yesterday two missiles fell in the Galil and Israel down one Syrian Sukhoi fighter jet (pic). A soldier was killed by a Gazan sharpshooter, penetrating his ceramic vest. We live in a permanent state of war and we call it peace.

PS 15.30 Kever Benjamin Hour: First thing at the opening of the bourse bought a stock linked to oil. Naphta. At this hour it gained 5%. Foresight. Speculation. 

War Robots in Ariel University

 

The Mechanical Engineering Students's work. Robots. This one below can serve also as a  jack to lift the car. Double useful and practical. 

Too hot

I woke up at 5.00 AM hit by a wave of hot air. We are having a sharav (hamsin, in Arabic) day here in Israel, today it is prognosticated to reach over 40 Centigrades in Kever Benjamin. I am travelling to Ariel University to take an exam.

Back from the Shomron. Temperature 45 Celsius in the shade. Bought 4 kg figs from a Palestinian roadside stall for 40 shekels. Sweet native figs,  not the ameliorated type sold in Kever Benjamin. Pic. Roman fresco of a basket of  figs. 

Take my money, please!

Israeli high-tech companies raised a record $3.2 billion the first half of 2018, which was higher than the annual total capital raised in 2010-2013. Foreign money is flooding Israeli industry, begging to accept their money and do something with it. I'll have to rise my prices, just to appropriate my fair share of the cake. The god Pluto, who is blind and starving as everybody who has read Aristophanes knows, must hade Aliyah to enjoy the Bituach Leumi (Social Security) generosity. 

But that is not what I have in mind. I am wondering if I am wealthy enough to stop buying red wine in Coffix at 20 sheqel  (6 US$) the bottle and progress to something better? Coffix sells a mix of Cabernet Sauvignon and Malbec varieties. Malbec is a spicy, harsh variety, that is the common wine (Vino de Mesa) sold in Argentina. There was no lunch in my time without a "pinguino"  (pic right) of Malbec on the table. Today, applying will power to conquer my natural inclination, I could afford Merlot or even Pinot Noir, but my tastes were set in the proletarian Barrio of Mataderos. What I really would like is a damajuana of Vino Chinche de Rioja (Argentina) (pic left), which was considered undrinkable and very cheap. 

Israel: Zero Financial Risk

Some Asian country lent Israel a quarter billion Euro near zero (0.05%)  interest. I understand the rational of zero or negative interest rate loans to enterprises or to consumers - to stimulate the economy, but this is not the case. Apparently the world has no investment opportunities better than giving the money to Israel to keep it for them. Maybe they have so much reserves that need to diversify.  Probably they are speculating that Israel will have to pay back he debt with overvalued dollars, that is, the dollar will be more valuable in the future, maybe because the Fed will increase the interest rate. Israel could easily buy some lower rated bond, like Turkish bonds paying 15%, bear the risk and make a handful of dollars. Apparently my vision of Israel as a financial center a-la-City of London is on the way to reality. Maybe in fifty years.

Ill,: Frankfort Judengasse. 

Only in Israel: Homosexuals vs. the Religious

From Arutz 7:

"On Sunday evening, an estimated 100,000 Israelis flooded Tel Aviv's Rabin Square to protest what they said was legislation discriminating against the LGBT community.

Demonstrators were angry at the recently-passed Surrogacy Bill over its limited expansion of rights to surrogacy, granting it as a right - including public funding - to single women, but excluding same-sex couples. During the rally, much of the anger was focused at Prime Minister Netanyahu due to his vote against a part of the bill that would have allowed surrogacy to LGBT couples as well.

On Monday however, LGBT activists started to focus their anger on Deputy Health Minister Yaakov Litzman, who had reportedly forced Netanyahu to oppose sections in the bill assisting same-sex couples to conceive children.

In an interview with Army Radio, prominent homosexual rights activists Gal Achovesky vowed to fight Litzman and threatened to march in the haredi city of Bnei Brak if necessary.

"We are fighting against Litzman," Achovesky said. "Netanyahu himself is not against us - it is the haredim who are causing him to do this."

Achoevsky echoed his sentiments in an interview with the haredi Kikar Hashabbat website. "We are angry at Litzman. There is no reason why they can not do surrogacy, and there is no reason why they should not allow us to have a marriage or a marital union. We're fed up with the religious frenzy," he said.

"It is inconceivable that I can not marry in Israel and that you are sending children to conversion which is illegal in the entire Western world," he added. "If you continue to deny us equality, we will come to you in Bnei Brak, we are citizens of this country and we are sick of being quiet and humiliated.""

Of course, it is political. The secular left wants to sack on powerful minister and the government. I do not know if it is wise for the left to ally with queer buttfuckers. Personally I have nothing against homosexuals having children with the help of the State, but I would not demonstrate. 

The Jewish Nation is a Closed Club

or was in the past and tries to be. But there are strong forces against tribalism and against keeping strangers out.

Free Israel organization's head  Uri Keidar said, "The law in Israel states that one who officiates at a wedding or marries without properly registering with the Rabbinate may be sentenced to up to two years in prison. Until now, this law has not been enforced." Today a Conservative rabbi was arrested because he married a couple without informing the Rabbinate. Big scandal. 

The Rabbinate tries desperately to keep the entrance to the Jewish nation and to Israel semi-closed to non-Jews and it is failing. Thousands of ethnic Russian and Ethiopians infiltrated to Israel with false papers. People marries as they want, with the Rabbinate or without, or they travel to secular countries. The Biblical laws of ethnic purity cannot be sustained. We are trying to be different from liberal America but America is more powerful.

I'd like to preserve the integrity of the tribe, but it is difficult, mainly because most of the members are not interested.  

About the Impossibility of Racism

Today, about one in five newlyweds are intermarried, that is, they are racially diverse couples. Source. Soon there will be no Americans with no close African relatives, and most Americans will have no clearcut racial identity. In that social environment, people guard their language and say nothing that could be interpreted as racist because the next person may be married to an African or have an African parent. Past are the times when Africans (or Irish or Jews or whatever) were a separate, identifiable group that could be slandered freely without danger of personally insulting someone nearby. One probable reason why American media is full of mixed-race images and propaganda is that the creative class itself is heavily mixed and try to justify their condition. And make it popular among the population and moderate the instinctively negative reaction it generates. 

Gender Studies: Aristophanes’ Ecclesiazusae

I spent half a day reading the Assemblywomen by the Ancient Greek pornographer Aristophanes. The play is so obscene that I wonder how the respectable Athenian public did not walked out. May be the exit was many steps afar. One cannot find similar gutter-level jokes in Athenian literature, nor such attack on womankind and sharing (communism). The revolutionary women dress up as men and take over the Assembly (the Government) and declare sexual and economic equality. Old hags have the right to enjoy sex with young men (today, the debate is about the rights of rejected young male virgins to have sexual relations, because they tend to take revenge by killing their proud classmates) and there is a funny fight between an old hag and a pretty girl to get a boy to bed. It is light somewhat obscene satire, of course, but to me reveals the public's rejection of the existing social structure (Athens was then distressed and impoverished by wars)  and a readiness to consider revolutionary changes. One actor even says "We have tried everything, nothing works, let's try this." Yet this play could not be put on scene in the PC puritan environment of today.

It reminds me when I was protesting the ERP (or was it the Montoneros?) policy of blowing up bridges and burning buses used by the working folk of Buenos Aires, turning their life more difficult. "Mao said that the more unbearable the people's life becomes, the more readily they will join the revolution." I was and am too soft for a revolutionary policy. 

Things you dont see anymore

Sacher TortaMont Blanc

Social Revolution in Israel

The rights of homosexuals in Israel have advanced much further than anywhere in the world. Already we have forgotten the fight for legal marriage, that war was won a long time ago. The protests of today demand the right to have children. You may ask - Who is forbidding them to have children? Mother Nature. Just kidding. They are not satisfied with quasi-natural solutions like fake marriage between lesbians and homos, or other arrangements, they are demanding that the State make them a baby. No kidding.

The Israeli State has organized a framework for voluntary womb-mothers paid by the State, that provide infertile couples the possibility to have babies. Lately, the right to enjoy the benefits of the system has been extended to more categories such as elder couples and lesbian couples and others. Now male homosexuals are demonstrating for the right of a government provided and paid for  descendent. The most interesting phenomenon is that private high tech companies are giving a free day to those wishing to attend the protests, and the Histadrut (the Workers Union) has declared a national strike to this effect. The right to have a child in Israel is sacred and the cause of the homosexuals is very popular.

A revolution, soon to come to America. 

Thesmophoriazusae

Aristophanes's play about the festival of Athenian matrons celebrating Demeter and Persephone is a treasure of lyrical poetry. I don't know how faithful is the translation, but the play is enjoyable, even missing  the chorus singing and dancing. An example of the women's chorus praying for Zeus' help:

We hope that they

will win the day

whose words are the best and wisest.

But those who fain

would cheat for gain,

Their solemn oaths forgetting

our ancient laws

and noble cause

and mystic rites upsetting

Who plot for greed

who call the Mede

with secret invitation

I say that these

the gods displease and wrong the Athenian nation.

It is interesting that the drunken women chorus (because the mystic rite was no other than getting drunk in sacred safety) worries about someone betraying the country and calling in the Mede (the Persians). Ancient Greeks were patriotic but, notwithstanding their incessant babble about the essence of goodness, they believed in no God nor in ethical principles, and it was common to betray one's country and help the enemy. But I don't think they ever descended to the depth of impiety of HaAretz columnists that shamelessly glorify Palestinian murderers and call for international intervention against Israel.

I say they certainly displease the gods and wrong the Jewish nation. 

Un Bonheur Eternel

The panhellenic festival on Mount Olympus has evolved into a planetary futbol championship. The French (the new French? 80% Africam 50% Muslim) are the current champions.  I am always amazed anew about the Ancient Greeks that developed the cultural/organizational infrastructure of Western civilization. They had democracy and talked incessantly, which made them intelligent. We have to think seriously about how to avoid declining as they did: first they conquered the world with Alexander, then they depopulated their homeland and at last they diluted into Byzantium, the Eastern Roman Empire. Then came the Turks. And Erdogan. 

Sixty Dead in Northern Britain

From a British Paper: “Approximately 50 pigeons and 10 hens are believed to have perished in the fire."  A massacre. Should be published with a trigger alert for sensitive souls.

Comment: Brits kill and eat 2.2 million chickens per day. And with 70 per cent of all chicken in the UK being home-reared, it also satisfies those who prefer to  buy British.

Israel Quotes Arab Poet: Your Lifes Are In Your Hands

In this moments, Israel is bombing terror infrastructure in Gaza. IDF speaker is broadcasting a message to the people wrapped in a formula they can understand: "Get Out of the Way, if you think your life is worth something." In Arabic it translates like "Your life is in your hands".

And your fast feet, I'd have added.

I don't understand the background image. Psywar. 

Nice Ass

Aristophanes killed Socrates

When Socrates, the witty philosopher/teacher of Athens, was put on trial for poisoning the minds of the youth, he knew that his chances were nil. Five hundred jurors, common people of Athens, had never meet him but all have watched "him" teaching how cheat in a play of Aristophanes.

In those times, theater was the media. Aristophanes had painted him as a teacher of swindling and gaming the rules, and that image had more conviction than the truth. The jury condemned the image of Socrates to death by hemlock, and the real Socrates complied with the law.

It is amazing how modern were the Greeks 2500 years ago. Their civilization decayed and Athens became a miserable hamlet. Western civilization is following the same path.

Left: a vase representing his play "The Birds". Beautiful.

Spartan Delights

Xenophon, a pro-Sparta Athenian, vehemently denies that there was homosexuality in the Spartan army, that the system of pairing adolescent trainees with veteran fighters had no sexual connotation. They ate together and slept together, but that was for socializing the fresh soldier. Xenophon sent his son to be educated in the Spartan army.

I salvaged from the University the complete plays of Aristophanes. In  "Peace" (Greek: Εἰρήνη Eirēnē) a caricature of a Spartan comes to negotiate the end of hostilities. Aristophanes makes him speak in an exaggerated Dorian dialect, and comment a propos of nothing "What a beautiful bottom". Classic Greek comedy is very gross and physical, the Greeks are always shitting, liberating gases and so. And buggering each other. Did they do so in reality?

I don't know. According to American surveys, 10% of the married heterosexual couples use the rear entrance once while, and the percentage grows to 30% among Africans and Hispanos. In this part of the world, the Turks are famous for their love of the "white pig".