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Dear Gail: Wow. What a very powerful statement! Inspirational! Thanks. Best regards, Walter

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Robert, why do you say that?

Block, Walter E. and Alan Futerman. 2021. The Classical Liberal Case for Israel. With commentary by Benjamin Netanyahu. Springer Publishing Company;

https://rd.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-16-3953-1;

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Biden is horrid. And not for the first time.

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Dear Gail. Brilliant. The only "problem" I have with what you say is that you shouldn't confine your comments to a note for me and this group. I urge you to write up this material more formally and get it published. Best regards, Walter

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Dear Vincent: I have one "problem" with what you wrote: so few people will see it. I think you should consider publishing these insightful remarks of yours. I think I'm more of a fan of Kahane than you are. Best regards, Walter

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We're on the same wavelength

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I agree with Gail

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Dear Vincent: In my essay, I did acknowledge that Kahane had many and serious flaws, which I didn't mention. You certainly touched on some of them. Where you and I disagree is that you see him as pretty much all bad: I also see much good in him. Certainly, it is problematic that his Kach party was banned, while the Arab parties, whose members wish to end Israel, is allowed in government. Best regards, Walter

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Bravo Walter! Israel has been infected with the disease of the “ Great Reset” Kleptocorporate multinational monopolistic, megalomaniacal, Malthusian globalist tyranny thinly disguised as comity, peace, equality and belonging to something greater than oneself. Collective mass psychosis cheering on surveillance, asset forfeiture, eradication of family, human connection, national sovereignty, independent thought, free speech, civil liberties, medical freedom, bodily autonomy, competition, education, historical truths, civics, the arts, science, empirical math, peace, representative elected government, achievement by virtue of work ethic,home ownership, freedom to worship or not, decimating normalcy, equal Justice, erasing history, , male/female dynamic and recognition of the natural order of all things living.

Israel has always had inner disagreement, but never so perverse as forfeiting the right to exist… until now. The devolution began during Obama’s reign. It became global. A contagion of self loathing and suicidal ignominy. The abject and inexplicable hatred targeting Republicans, Muslim Reformists, fellow Jews who didn’t worship at the altar of leftism… basically anybody who advocated for Israel and protested BDS, the scourge of true antisemitism, the Iran Deal, Arab Spring, Libyan invasion, the ouster of Mubarak in favor of Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood, the Iraq and Afghanistan invasions, nation building, propping up Iran’s terror proxy Qatar, advocating borders, national sovereignty, decries globalism, NATO buildup, constant provocation targeting Russia,, criticism of kapos Soros, Kissinger, Zelenskyy, Bourla, Bancel, Hotez, Schiff and the “ new” ADL, a literal branch of CAIR.

Never imagined the day Ayaan Hirsi-Al,Rudy Giuliani,Asra Nomani, Mike Flynn,Tulsi Gabbard,Larry Elder,Bernie Marcus,Nigel Farage,Pat Moynihan, Dov Hikind,Brandon Straka, Ric Grenell, Pasternak,Drs Salk, Sabin, Risch, Zelenko,Ladapo,Makary, Battacharaya, Jasser,Yeadon,Cole,Hatfill,McCollough,Malone,Kuldorff,Ebright, Mercola, Mikovits,Levitt,Atlas,Gold,Shiva , Ionnides,,Montagnier…personalities Tammy Bruce, Steve Hilton, Gutfeld,Tyrus, Leo Terrell ,Harris Faulkner, Dave Webb, Mark Levin, Ami Horowitz, David Horowitz, David Harsanyl, Mark Steyn, Bret Weinstein,Caitlyn Jenner, Schellenberger, Jordan Peterson, Jamal Altamini, Raheem Kassam, Lee Zeldin, Jon Voight, Seinfeld, Neil Oliver, Martina Navratilova, Charles Barkley, Bill Maher, Enes Freedom, Gene Simmons, Eric Clapton, Ian Cheong, Dave Rubin, Dan Greenfield, Jon Solomon, Jonathan Turley, Glenn Beck, David Marcus, Joel Pollock, Richard Pollock, Andrew Pollack, Dave Reaboi and historical figures- Pasternak, Tolstoy,Disraeli,Hammerstein, Billy Wilder,Paul Robeson,MLK, Rushdie,,etc are all “ Racist, White Supremacists, Nazis, misogynists, antisemites, homophobes, xenophobes,transphobes,,…

Tucker Carlson, Lara Logan, Sharyl Attkisson, Nan Hayward,James O’Keefe,Tom Fitton, Chris Farrell, David Schoen, Barry Goldwater, Viktor Orban, Jair Bolsinaro, King Hussein, Attaturk, Reza Pahlavi… So NOT racist or antisemitic

Now the hatred has extended to include once icons, Matt Taibbi, Glenn Greenwald, Kim Iverson, Naomi Wolf,Assange, Snowden, Russell Brand, Charles Ortleb, Kary Mullis, the founder of Greenpeace, Gandhi, Dalai Lama, Bertrand Russell, Hesse, Huxley, Orwell, Vonnegut, Mathieson, Bradbury, Rod Serling, Chris Carter, Nabakov, Jim Morrison, Hendrix, Janis Joplin, the Gershwins , Gene Wilder, Gilda Radner, Seymour Hersh,…

Who do they advocate? Linda Sarsour, the Squad, Tamika Mallory, Noem Chomsky, Soros, Klaus Schwab, Bill Gates, Fauci, Kapernick,Alice Waters, Ellison, Jeffries, Soros,Harari, Samantha Powers, Blinken, Clyburn, Benny Thompson, Kinzinger, Cheney, Abbas, Sullivan, Tedros,Mugabe, Marx, Angela Davis, Kerry, Iibrim Kendrick, Patrice Cullers, Angela Davis,Lula, Trudeau,Macron, Zelensky,Sharpton ,Steyer, Bernie , Gupta,Mayorkas, Hotez,Brennan,Comey,Mueller, Avril Haines, Larry Fink, Mark Elias , Merrick Garland,Vindman, Disney, Jamie Dimon,BLM, Randi Weingarten, Gina Raimondo, Bloomberg,, Xi, Antifa, CAIR, , Zuck, Thomas Friedman, Jen Rubin, Tim Kaine, Chris Murphy, Valerie Jarrett, Fiona Hill… essentially, whoever hates them most.

For the record, though I agree with much of Lew Rockwell’s ideology, he has a peculiar habit of singling out Israel and Jews . It isn’t my imagination. Albeit he publishes many pieces written by Jews and is a Mises Institute enthusiast, he always “ circles back” to the blame game.

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May 1, 2023·edited May 1, 2023

Back in the 1980s I listened to Meir Kahane speak at UC Berkeley. The man had flaws in the same sense that Adolf Hitler had flaws--his ideological stance as expressed in the speech was that Israel should become a theocratic state that subjects the entire population to Jewish religious law, and that all non-Jews remaining in Israel (Moslems, Christians, Samaritans, Druze, etc.; including millions of Arabs residing in the territories to be annexed, which happened to include parts of Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Syria, and even Iraq) should be forced into exile.

In terms of turning such an ideology into action, Kahane was well-known for founding a terrorist organization in the U.S. and plotting a bombing campaign against Soviet diplomatic missions (Kahane was convicted of manufacturing explosives for this campaign), and then moving to Israel where he was accused of plotting to carry on similar violent activities against Palestinians. To the extent Kach Party insiders were plotting to initiate violence, banning their party was undoubtedly the correct libertarian thing to do.

He later slightly moderated his call for ethnic cleansing by acknowledging that Jewish religious law does permit non-Jewish resident aliens in Israel, subject to their acceptance of a special subset of such religious laws that apply to resident aliens and to their loss of civil rights as non-Israelis. The title of the book Kahane wrote while in an Israeli jail, _They Must Go_, is probably a more accurate reflection of his true feelings though, even if his theology obliged him to concede that the Lord had endorsed a more tolerant policy.

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Seems like you've been hacked Dr Block

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