Israpundit

When a number of soldiers refused to participate in the evictions of Jews from Hebron The pros and cons of such insubordination were discussed in an article on Netanyahu’s reaction and one written by Aryeh Eldad. Many people took the trouble to comment. I myself called for insubordination or conscientious objection, if you will.

In fact I commented on Mass defection would bring the government to its knees

Personally I believe that when a government becomes illegitimate it should not be followed. Of course it is not always easy to discern when the line from legitimate to illegitimate has been crossed. Is it enough not to have the support of the people. Many argue that once elected, leaders are expected to lead and not follow public opinion. I argue, only to a point.

The issue of keeping or giving away Judea and Samaria is so fundamental to Judaism and Zionism that a government at odds with the people is not legitimate. Fundamental principals are what wars are fought over.

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Daniel Pipes:

A week ago, at “Uniting to Exclude Saudi Arabian Airlines,” I called on Westerners to deny the Saudi flag carrier access to their airports on the basis of an unacceptable passage in the company’s English-language website… But look again; the second paragraph of these “Customs Regulations” is now gone, has quietly vanished. …

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Cross-posted at netwmd.com and IsraPundit

Atheist Chic

By: Steven Plaut, JEWISH PRESS

I suppose I should begin by explaining why I bothered to read the book The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins (Bantam, 2006). Dawkins is Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University, and a zealot with a mission: to wipe out religious belief of all sorts. The God Delusion is his call to arms.

My reading of the book was largely in response to a triple dare made by a friend, Dr. M., a true Zionist Israeli, an outspoken Jewish patriot, and someone who describes himself as a militant agnostic. Dr. M. has long found it incomprehensible – indeed, a downright insult to his intelligence – that a nice educated fella like myself does not share his staunch agnosticism.
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Democracy and Equality

by Prof. MK Arieh Eldad

The complexes of Jewish legislators are beyond me.

The Israeli government decided to establish an administrative unit “to encourage those sectors that do not serve in the Israeli army to volunteer for civilian service.” The government chose its words carefully in the laundered announcement it made. It did not refer, heaven forbid, to “national service,” as thousands of religious Jewish girls have served in Israel for many years. Nor, heaven forbid, to “Arabs,” so as not to offend them. But the laundering did not help the Israeli ministers much.

Israeli Arab leaders hurriedly met and angrily rejected the idea that young Arabs could volunteer for civilian service. And the government had not spoken, heaven forbid, of obligatory service. But even volunteer service, within the framework of the State of Israel, was seen by the Arabs as “a distortion of national identity and a justification for discriminating against the Arab public.”
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American Council for Kosovo documents 8 years of ethnic cleansing against Serbs

© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com

The cross that sat high atop St. Andrew the First-Called in Podujevo was torn down in one of many acts of vandalism designed to terrorize the Christian Serb community
WASHINGTON – United Nations forces moved into Kosovo in 1999 to “stop genocide.”

But, according to a blistering new report from the American Council for Kosovo, U.N. troops have aided and abetted the deliberate, systematic and nearly complete ethnic cleansing of the mostly Christian Serb population by mostly Muslim ethnic Albanians.

“Every facet of the way of life of the Serbs of Kosovo is threatened by the new reality established since June 1999 under KFOR (the NATO Kosovo Force) and the U.N. and therefore the very existence of the Serbs there is threatened,” says the report “Hiding Genocide in Kosovo.”
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