Novel solution
Thursday I gave my talk at AACI on "Who wrote the Bible?" based on the book of the same name by Richard E. Friedman. I'm glad to say there was no disruption, the person who threatened to do so did not show up. There was a large audience of supporters, and the talk went over very well. I wrote a review of this book on 3rd March, 2007, that is in my archived blog files, upon which my talk was based. If anyone wants the written version please write to me and I'll be glad to send it. For all those who would like to access my blog called Isblog and read earlier entries, the address is: www.commentfromisraelblog.blogspot.com this can be saved as a favorite and then retrieved at leisure. Anyway, after preparing for this lecture for weeks, I can now relax and get back to my usual lazy routine.
Last week, in conversation with my friend Eddie Bielowsky, we were as usual solving the Israel-Palestine conflict. Eddie is a cynical realist and we agreed that Israel cannot kill all the Palestinians, it's not considered nice (only Balkan and African nations can get away with this nowadays). Neither can we expel/transfer them because that contravenes some human rights Geneva convention or other. Then Eddie came up with a novel inisight that could really solve the conflict, with or without Annapolis. The idea is to convert all the Arabs to Jews, and then they can be transferred. No-one objects to Jews being transferred, least of all the Israel Govt., nor the US, EU or UN. Since the solution being proposed by the powers that be, the Quartet, includes the abolition of all Jewish settlements, requiring transfer of all Jewish settlers, then no-one could object to this solution.
The Israeli Govt., to international acclaim, withdrew all settlers and forces from Gaza and transferred ca. 8,000 Jews, and everyone thought that was great, even though the situation after that became worse and Hamas moved their rocket launchers into the areas that Israel evacuated. Now they bombard us on a daily basis (25 rockets in the past few days) and the IDF does nothing because of the so-called "restraint" policy of Defense Minister Ehud Barak, which in reality is no policy at all. Tomorrow the so-called ceasefire is due to expire, but in fact there has been no ceasefire on the Arab side for weeks.
So let's get the Rabbis to come up with a process/ritual that will transform all Muslims in Gaza and in Israel into Jews. Since apostasy it is an offense punishable by death for Muslims, that means that we can leave them for their fellow Muslims to kill, or we can transfer them out of Gaza/Israel without any respercussions. So give out the good word, mass conversions instead of military response, who could be against that?
Last week, in conversation with my friend Eddie Bielowsky, we were as usual solving the Israel-Palestine conflict. Eddie is a cynical realist and we agreed that Israel cannot kill all the Palestinians, it's not considered nice (only Balkan and African nations can get away with this nowadays). Neither can we expel/transfer them because that contravenes some human rights Geneva convention or other. Then Eddie came up with a novel inisight that could really solve the conflict, with or without Annapolis. The idea is to convert all the Arabs to Jews, and then they can be transferred. No-one objects to Jews being transferred, least of all the Israel Govt., nor the US, EU or UN. Since the solution being proposed by the powers that be, the Quartet, includes the abolition of all Jewish settlements, requiring transfer of all Jewish settlers, then no-one could object to this solution.
The Israeli Govt., to international acclaim, withdrew all settlers and forces from Gaza and transferred ca. 8,000 Jews, and everyone thought that was great, even though the situation after that became worse and Hamas moved their rocket launchers into the areas that Israel evacuated. Now they bombard us on a daily basis (25 rockets in the past few days) and the IDF does nothing because of the so-called "restraint" policy of Defense Minister Ehud Barak, which in reality is no policy at all. Tomorrow the so-called ceasefire is due to expire, but in fact there has been no ceasefire on the Arab side for weeks.
So let's get the Rabbis to come up with a process/ritual that will transform all Muslims in Gaza and in Israel into Jews. Since apostasy it is an offense punishable by death for Muslims, that means that we can leave them for their fellow Muslims to kill, or we can transfer them out of Gaza/Israel without any respercussions. So give out the good word, mass conversions instead of military response, who could be against that?
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