For decades The Economist has maintained British imperial policy, loving Israel to death. It is apt that its November 24 cover featured the photo of George W. Bush beneath the caption, “Mr. Palestine.” As Daniel Pipes has noted, this title was previously held by Yasser Arafat and, one adds, initially by the Emperor Hadrian. Hillary Clinton pants to inherit the title.

The cover-push does more than illustrate the Anglo-American tango regarding the Jewish people since the Evian Conference of 1938 locked the Jews of Europe into the fate the British knew awaited them. It also clarifies the perennial role of Israel among the nations, the whipping boy and scapegoat whose light the world does not want unless it can steal or pervert it in the primal identity theft.   (more…)

Our culture’s dominant institutions create fragmentation, disease, alienation, illiteracy and poverty. Family Law is to families as abortion is to birth; justice disappears beneath judicial activism in fealty to a gigantic and intrusive State, a process lubricated by the dogma of “relativism” that blends arrogance with power. The practice of medicine yields way to disease management by the insurance and pharmaceutical cartels and government. Education destroys facts, memory and memorization, degrades youth and fosters generic persons to ape lifestyle options that may be inserted into any region: like divorce and welfare it breaks people, molding them to serve the medicating State. A new world nightmare of artifice and rootlessness is largely in place, sacrificing humanity to the goat demons of power-lust (Lev. 17:7). What to do? (more…)

Long before Aristotle designated democracy the corrupt form of a Republic, the least of the three good forms of government, the Five Books of Moses dramatized the power-seeking and corrosive essence of democracy, and its danger to ‘ordinary people’ in the episode of Korach’s challenge to the authority of Moshe and Aaron (Deuteronomy 16 with a further lesson in 17). Since the entire nation was “a kingdom of priests and a holy nation” (Exodus 19:6), and “the entire assembly is holy,” Korach demanded, “why do you exalt yourselves over the congregation of the Eternal One?” (Deut. 161:3) [5]. This challenge reflected a lust for power to which Moshe responded first with humility and grief and then firmness and trust in G-d Who soon demonstrated the error of the rebel.  (more…)

In the age of Machiavelli, whose dominion is completed in the mass media, in the realm of spin and mis-direction, distraction is one of the primary methods of governance. The principle was familiar to the sophists and has always been essential in war, dueling or chess where it is known as a feint. Attract the attention and energies of the opponent by a show of force or intense concern in one area (or issue) while preparing a critical initiative or assault in another theatre. It is akin to the thesis-antithesis-synthesis game by which the outcome is scripted by the State or, in geopolitics by the powers while empty suits draw the attention of the people to a smokescreen debate of empty slogans about ill-defined ‘issues’ filling our minds with irrelevant or invented ‘facts.’

For instance, serious-looking news persons draw us to debate whether jihad exists while our freedoms are eroded and the masters proceed toward “convergence,” an “alliance of civilizations.”  (more…)