Posted on 01/24/2006 12:59:12 PM PST by Alouette
Professor Israel Aumann says Israel ‘in deep trouble,’ adding that ‘perhaps only national religious Jews, Bnei Akiva yeshivas can salvage situation. ‘I fear the Satmars were right. As God did not build a home here, the Zionists’ work here is for nothing,’ he adds
Nobel Prize Laureate for Economics, Professor Israel Aumann said Tuesday that the Satmars, an anti-Zionist Hasidic sect, were right in saying that an independent Jewish state should not be established before the messiah’s arrival.
Speaking at a Bnei Akiva conference in Ramat-Gan, Aumann reiterated his criticism of the government’s treatment Gush Katif evacuees, referring to it as a national disgrace.
He also slammed decision-makers for continuing to allow Palestinian incitement, as he called it, which “is even worse than terror attacks or Qassams.”
During his keynote speech at the event, Aumann said he believes Israel is “in deep trouble,” adding that “perhaps only the national religious Jews and the Bnei Akiva yeshivas can salvage the situation.”
“I fear the Satmars were right. As God did not build a home here, the Zionists’ work here is for nothing,” he said.
Aumann proceeded to incorporate the game theory he developed into the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, saying Israel’s yearning for immediate peace makes it even harder to achieve.
“If we could say to our neighbors, ‘You have time? So do we. You’re sticking to your goal? So are we.’ I they understand this, peace will be attainable,” he said.
Aumann presented the Cold War era as an example of his theory, claiming that the fact that one side realized any attack would result in nuclear retaliation actually helped preserve the calm.
"If the LORD build not the house, they toil in vain who work upon it. If the LORD guard not the city, useless is the vigilance of its watchmen." --Psalms 127:1
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This guy reminds me of Shockley.
Why doesn't someone ask the good professor if the Lubavitcher Rebbe was right? Maybe all of the territory should be annexed and all negotiation over land should be terminated.
“If we could say to our neighbors, ‘You have time? So do we. You’re sticking to your goal? So are we.’ I they understand this, peace will be attainable,” he said."
Peace does not come when you want peace more than the other side. But this is not the answer the Israeli left, and now maybe even the center, wants.
I am shocked that Kadima without PM Sharon has more support than Likud. Israelis are not facing reality.
The Professor's analysis is an excellent consolidation of religious faith and rational analysis. Another way to put it is that the secular socialists who built Israel were the force that dreamed of the homeland, provided the energy to build the land and defend it and who brought the nation to fruition.
However, as magnificent as their accomplishments were the secular socialists did not produce a sustainable model. If socialist utopian dreams were realistic maybe the Israelis would have become indistinguishable from their neighbors as they also adopted secular socialism and we would have one happy world. Of course the opposite occurred and the secular socialists did not produce people who felt strongly or positive about being Jewish and therefore see no real reason to fight for the Jewish land and are not so sure that the Arabs don't have as much right to the land as they do, and would prefer to just be a colony of the USA or EU and let the big powers take care of things while they practice the opposite of socialism economically. Funny how things turn out.
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