Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: "one of us"

Assaf Wohl e' un religioso nazionalista. In questo articolo riflette
sul caso Teitel, il terrorista di destra arrestato recentemente dallo
Shin Bet. E' un cpaolavoro di lucidita', rigore morale (e si', senso
pratico). Devo ancora leggere qualcosa del genere da parte di chi e'
sempre convinto di avere ragione e di essere nel giusto, nei metodi
come negli obiettivi.  E' una di quelle letture che mi rende
orgoglioso di essere israeliano. Spero che tra qualche decennio la si
renda obbligatoria nelle scuole. So che l'idealismo, l'abnegazione (e,
si', il senso pratico) di questa parte politica merita migliori
risultati e puo' continuare a dare un grande contributo al popolo di
Israele.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3802012,00.html
Yes, he’s one of us
Staunch rightist Assaf Wohl wants rabbis to acknowledge, address
rightist violence
Assaf Wohl
Recently we’ve been hearing lamentations that usually characterize
other sectors emerging from the religious-Zionist camp. The national-
religious discourse is becoming increasingly similar to the ultra-
Orthodox and Arab one: Victimized, self-righteous, emotional,
paranoid, and one that is never able to accept and implement
criticism.
As is the case with societies lacking minimal self-confidence, the
religious-national approach is becoming childish and simplistic.
Everything is painted in black or white, or in the words of Joshua:
"Are you for us or for our enemies?" without any kind of varied
midway.
This may be the reason why the religious Right is unable to address
the phenomenon of murderers who time and again emerge from its ranks.
Immediately after the news of Yaakov Teitel’s arrest, we saw the
conditioned responses of the Pavlovian Right. “Goldring is also a
murderer and he’s a radical leftist” was one such argument, which
would insult any human being, for two reasons. First, Goldring did not
murder his daughter because of nationalistic zealousness that
characterizes rightist murderers. The second issue is even graver:
Does the fact that a leftist committed murder mitigates at all the
fact that again we see a murderer within the rightist camp? Why should
I even care what leftists are doing? Each side should be dealing with
its own problems.
“This man is a psychopath,” muttered some religious rightist leaders.
Indeed. It is quite possible that we are dealing with a psychopath.
Yet he is not “just a psychopath,” but rather, a rightist religious
psychopath. Yes, r-e-l-i-g-i-u-s.
Interestingly enough, this psychopath aimed to murder Arabs, a leftist
professor, Messianic Jews, and perhaps a few homosexuals while he was
at it. What to do all these targets have in common? You don’t know?
Well, let’s hold an experiment.
Condemnations aren’t enough
Enter one of the rightist online forums and write any message,
presenting yourself as a “Messianic Jew,” “leftist professor” or
“Arab.” Don’t forget to bring an umbrella against virtual spitting. At
these forums, there is no room for accepting different views without
hatred, violence, and incitement.
In this context, try to search the name “Nitzan Horowitz” in one of
these forums. The issue is unimportant, as the responses will always
be about the person, rather than about the issue. Repeating the words
you will find there is difficult. In most cases, violence against the
abovementioned sectors is justified and even encouraged by a majority
of users.
And still in this context, I still remember an episode from the high-
school yeshiva I attended. The singing of “Shula, Shula (Aloni), a day
will come and we’ll settle the score” was part of the Shabbat
repertoire at the dining hall. The rabbis present in the room did not
think there was any problem with this tune. This very same reality
takes place today in different formats.
It’s clear to me that none of the rabbis preach for murder. I also do
not believe that there is a rabbi who would approve of murder. Yet the
overall atmosphere is very violent, and the myriad of excuses and
sophisticated word games cannot hide it. As a staunch rightist, these
excuses even insult me. Radical leftists are no better in my view, but
I’m sick and tired of discovering that those who take up arms mostly
come from the camp I cast my vote for.
So on a final note, I have a request for the rabbis and religious
educators. It is not enough to condemn. Please, enter the forums your
students write in. You will no doubt discover that too many “bad
weeds” have taken root in your gardens. If you do not quickly start to
uproot them, we can expect horrific acts that will spread to
additional circles and nearby plots of land.
Perhaps right now you don’t really care that the targets are Arabs,
homosexuals, Messianic Jews, and just regular radical leftists. Yet if
the situation persists, we can expect to get used to phenomena that at
this time do not play a major part in our world. We’ll see a bleeding
Reform Jew, a secular Jew who was stoned because he drove on Shabbat,
and maybe even a “too moderate” rightist being targeted.
And when these bad weeds put you in their sights, as zealots tend to
do, perhaps only then you will stop claiming that the threat is being
exaggerated.

 orgoglioso di essere israeliano.
nessuno ha mai avuto dubbio che tu sia clericofascista.

amaryllide ha scritto:
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Bella fascetta promozionale, Bombacci.
Lo leggero con grande curiosità e interesse.
Tb (bieco illuminista)
-- 
"A vote is like a rifle, it's usefulness depends upon the character of
the user."
~ Theodore Roosevelt

 Lo leggero con grande curiosità e interesse.
merita davvero.
(1) che sarebbe la combinazione di elementi religiosi con il fascismo. E
se fascismo e' disprezzo delle regole democratiche, convinzione di
essere sempre nel giusto, e gioco dello specchietto, questo articolo ne
e' l'esatto contrario.

 e gioco dello specchietto
questo cosa c'entra col fascismo

 questo cosa c'entra col fascismo
Semplice. I fascisti sono generalmente imbecilli.
Tb /bieco illuminista/
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 Semplice. I fascisti sono generalmente imbecilli.
fosse così semplice, non arriverebbero neppure al potere.

 Semplice. I fascisti sono generalmente imbecilli.
O, mancando di idee proprie, sono solo capaci di dire che gli altri sono 
peggio. Un po' come fa Logi, da qualche anno.