Arabs Burning First Temple Pillars

A group of Jews that ascended the Temple Mount Sunday were shocked to see that ancient beams of wood that had apparently been used during the period of the Holy Temple were being used as firewood by Arabs on the Mount, and off it. Archaeologists have dated the wood as far back as the First Temple period, and appear to be among the celebrated “Cedars of Lebanon” mentioned in the Tanach.

“What was the reason for defense minister Moshe Dayan to return control of the Temple Mount to the Moslem authorities? They had just won a war!”

1. He was a dumbass.
2. He had delusions of the possibility of piece in our times.
3. He was a dumbass.

Wow! I always thought Dayan was one of the heroes of the Israeli independence... Didn't he start GADNA to train youngsters in military tactics? I've wonder if it was his secular upbringing as a kibbutznik that caused him to give up the Temple Mount...

I love reading your posts, but you always seem to have such strong feelings against the very people that I admire: Netanyahu, Dayan... I'm almost afraid to ask you, what do you think about Yoni Netanyahu? A hero, a new "maccabee", a fool? P.S. I am reading Entebbe by Iddo Netanyahu, not an easy book to read, but very interesting.

He died a hero. Heroism is a strange matter, though. I’d say that in 1948, Menachem Begin was a hero comparable to America’s George Washington. But in 1978, he was a dumbass who gave up the Sinai for promises. Moshe Dayan may have had his heroic moments, too. But in 1967, he was a dumbass. The problem with yester-year’s heroes is that the heroes live on to make expensive mistakes, banking on the stores of capital they acquired with their erstwhile heroism. As such, Yoni Netanyahu’s reputation is unasailable, because he died and went to the good place. His brother Bibi gets to be the dumbass, banking on his last name and the eloquent noises that come out of his face, belied by his actions.

My chief complaint against him is Ehud Barak and the destruction that he regularly and deliberately causes. I see it outside my window. The brave, good-hearted pioneers of Hill 18 (Mitzpe Avihai) were evacuated in the middle of the night. The ruins of their homes are still there. They are living with relatives until they can rebuild. I see it in Hevron, where the rightful purchasers of Bet Shalom and Bet Hamachpela can’t live in the homes they paid for, and the broker for the latter sale waits in a PA jail cell for a death sentence to be carried out against him. Meanwhile, the European numbskulls of the TIPH (The International Presence In Hebron) patrol in blue uniforms of the same cut as the SA brown uniforms, forever on the lookout for any violation of the rights of the poor ickle Palestinians, and studiously oblivious to the real human rights violations taking place under their noses.

Fair enough, a dead hero is a hero for eternity, I see that. As for the destruction caused by Barak, I don't blame only him but the international community who puts so much pressure on the Israeli government.

Earlier this morning someone posted a very revealing article, Gaza, Judea and Samaria: Prison or Paradise? I have also seen the pictures of malls and shopping centers in Gaza City. The world should, at the very least, get out of Israel's way in settling affairs with the Palestinians. But then, it's not supposed to happen, see Psalm 83. They have said, “Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more.” (Ps 83:4) . That's why the peace of Jerusalem is always in my prayers.

Barak isn’t reluctantly yielding to international pressure. He’s cheerfully collaborating with it. Bibi could simply boot him out the door, but he gives very close to cart blanche to do what he wants, and everyone cheers when he puts the most miniscule damper on his former commander’s absolute power in Judah and Samaria, instead of throw him bodily out the door, as he should. They are in cahoots. Bibi only pretends to be right wing at election time. Mridor and Begin don’t even do that, all capitalizing on the names of their dead forbears. So in conclusion, the only good hero is a dead hero;-(, and even then, those that bear their name are their shame.

Yes, that psalm is uncannily apt for our times.

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