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I thought I would just start with a good title in time for Rosh Hashanah. Is Rosh Hashanah coming early this year, or is it simply the same old story as ever that we can never be truly ready for this moment?
 dave_stressed_001 courtesy either: http://www.sxc.hu/ or The Big Problem (BP) Must Be Fixed!- By Aharon Moshe Sanders. Tuesday, July 13, 2010. 6:05am EST
I woke up this morning before 5am which is not a such an amazing thing, however I did have an amazing insight. The way to fix the biggest problem that is plaguing the earth right now! Naturally, like any other cure, to such as horrible problem the likes of which the world has not seen until today, the medicine may not taste good! Without further introduction here it is:
Take the Gold Dome which currently covers the holiest site on earth, the tarnished symbol of the ultimate oppression of intelligent and peace loving people, and drop it down to the bottom of the ocean, to help cover the source of the BP oil spill.
The solution which has been called Top Kill, by the sponsors of our planetary plague sounds like a reasonable one. The other solution that has been proposed called “Junk Shot” also sounded interesting in that it seemed the idea was to propel a bunch of junk (or the gold dome that sits on top of the holiest site on earth) into the hole of the BP pipe.
The idea was that if enough force could be generated to get the junk (I believe the gold dome would work better than old tires and golf balls) somehow inside the open pipe where the oil from 30,000 feet below the oceans floor (which must be exiting from the breach at high pressure) to stop the flow of oil.
My concept differs slightly from our sponsors of Big Problem (BP) in that my proposed solution is more like an umbrella. In other words in its collapsed form (if the gold dome was partially melted into a more of a cylinder shape) the object that will be used to stop the flow, will be pushed through the narrow opening of the BP pipe breach, and once inside the shear force of the BP oil flow, will push this mostly flat but malleable when heated, object against the area of lowest pressure which was just created by the temporary cease of oil flowing at great force from the breach, against the very breach itself.
The partially molten gold dome, could then unfold like an umbrella, and having no where else to go, because of its size would be pushed against the opening of the breach. This could feasibly stop the flow of oil, coming up under high pressure from 30,000 feet under the ocean.
Come back to this site in about an hour where I will explain a different possible solution using the statue of a liberty as a conduit to collect and channel the oil gushing at top force from the belly of the earth.
Believe me as I go to get a cup of coffee, and ready myself to pray to G-d, and learn more eternal wisdom from our Holy Torah, this Big Problem (BP) contains within it the very seeds of the ultimate destruction of life as we know it. The breach must be repaired or alternatively a ready made hollow pipe like structure of great magnitude so that it will sink and stay put under high pressure (The Statue of Liberty) can be put into place by our robotic friends and then the Lady Liberties crown and or torch (better use both) can be fitted with pipe so that a BP oil tankers can be waiting above to collect the offending oil.
The good thing about using such a large hollow object (it is a only a temporary solution of course because the copper will erode while from the salt water over time) is that the pressure of the oil will slow down as it flows into a much larger vessel. Perhaps this might overcome the frozen methane gas problem previously encountered because there will be a great deal of room for expansion.
Oh, and let me know where I can pick up my billion dollar check for solving world’s worst environmental problem.
Aharon Moshe Sanders, July 13, 2010 6:05am
Aharon Moshe Sanders, Tuesday July 13, 2010 5;38am EST
 A view from the Golan Heights, Israel summer 5769 Parsha Pinchas- an analysis for today, By Aharon
Moshe Sanders, July 2, 2010, 20 Tammuz, 5770-AhMbdvd.
Another piece inspired by a response to a Facebook thread. I will take my inspiration from whatever source it comes from. Part of the job that every Jews must do, is the raise the sparks of what is holy, from the very deeply embedded home which they have found on our very fallen earth, and elevate them back, back all the way home to G-d, because this is part of our job, the job that each and every one of us must do.
Thanks for tagging me in this note, I also do a great deal of writing on Torah related topics. Often I may be inspired by other who write in a voice which I am constantly seeking to develop. It takes a great deal of time to write a cogent well thought out piece on the parsha. When I rise to the task 100’s of words come to me talking around the main point that I want and need to make.
The frustrating or difficult thing is “trying to maintain the “party line” the treacherous path of not daring to deviate form the left or the right of of what can be viewed as an incredibly narrow path of orthodoxy. So I ask this question, right here and right now on Facebook? Can this concept that I choose to rename and wholeheartedly embrace as being a “Torah Observant Jew” be indeed so extremely narrow as to preclude any possibility of enabling independent thought, analysis and application of the eternal truths to the life that we are living today, in today’s world?
My reader should have already well imagined, that I have already formed my own personal conclusion which is indeed the ultimate salvation of my neshomah, what remain is my being able to prove my point beyond a shadow of a doubt.
What we have here, is a failure to communicate! Our leaders have not yet figured out what to do! It turns out that amongst the rank and file followers there are many, who have long known the simple answer. They simply have chosen not to act, because of fear. This fear is not the normal fear of failure, this fear is even greater, this is the true fear of success. Often I borrow a brilliant lyricists words, to help lead my reader to the conclusion that I have reached long ago but simply never announced. “You know when your wrong, but you don’t always know when your right”.-Billy Joel
Yes we need Chazal, and are our Mefarshim. We need those who have come before us to help point us in the right direction. However the right direction does not merely end by continuously, endlessly and eternally repeating the words of those who came before us, and ultimately forgetting that all those “stories” that we read in our Holy Torah are actually designed by an; infinitely wise and knowing creator-G-d, to effect a change within the very essence of our souls.
That change is supposed to lead us to action, to lead us to do the very thing that we might possibly fear most. That very thing, when done properly and wisely, in accordance with our precious guidelines which an infinitely wise and all knowing and all loving G-d has provided us with, will help us accomplish the purpose of creation.
When we each do this thing, which I grant you that even now, this thing may seem infinitely dangerous to even attempt. However once we begin, and start to do this thing, we will find that the full power and strength of our Holy and all loving creator is behind us and with us, urging us forward. We will have taken the entire world, one step closer to the ultimate redemption of the entire world, which we as Jews should no longer simply- “Wait for someone or something to show us the way”-[Pink Floyd one "ing" has been dropped and one "you" has been changed to "us"].
The time to act is upon us! The concept of waiting is behind us. If we do not actively choose forward now, we will certainly risk being stuck in the very same rut, which history has relegated to us, from the very beginning of our very long and winding road.
Sometimes the danger of waiting for some sort of solution, to some extremely complex problem, to simply fall down from heaven, can even often be far greater than simply acting with all the information of the complex situation that we are confronted with.
Acting and doing is essential for life, for life goes on with or without us. When the great train of life stops right in front of you, and opens it’s doors, all that is required is that you step on, because the great train of life, has many stops ahead, and many people to pick up along the way to eternity. This train can not simply wait an infinite amount of time while you endlessly run various cause and effect scenarios endlessly within the confines of your G-d given mind. When the time is upon us to act, act with alacrity we must, because even the right cause of action will not work out correctly if it is not done at the proper time.
The proper time is now, because we need to constantly ask ourselves, if not now then when?
The Vav is broken in the covenant of Shalom that G-d gives to Pinchas for his zealous defense of G-d in the matter of Baal Peor.
Because although the act itself that Pinchas correctly chose to do at the time was clearly not “the ideal” cause of action, two people were killed by the spear of Pinchas by his hand. G-d clearly shows us, that there can be times when even such an act is something that could under some circumstances be the proper thing.
G-d clearly praises Pinchas for his deed, and clearly Pichas is rewarded for his correct under the circumstances action. However we the learner of this lesson must realize that the Vav within the very Hebrew word which means both peace and completeness, is not “broken” of disconnected or incomplete for some random reason. One thing we can try to understand is that this covenant of Shalom (peace or completion) is indeed flawed or imperfect in some way.
If this particular situation. were to by some strange twist of fate come up again (for example in some future scenario that was foreseen in the mind of G-d, that we need to understand that there was some kind of flaw that was indeed corrected by the act of Pinchas.
However the very soul or neshomah of Pinchas himself may need to be repaired or corected (tikkun) this minor breach, or disconnect from G-d, must now also be repaired. For G-d does not want to mislead us, and tell us that us that it is indeed okay for one Jew to take the life of another Jew, or anyone for that matter is just any common random encounter.
While this may be my own specific interpretation of the broken Vav in Shalom, that was eternally given to Pinchas, I understand that there are many others, who have written about this very thing. These others may be far more learned in Torah then I. Although I do not know of their explanations, I did indeed attempt to utilize the proper method to try to gain at least a rudimentary understanding of the concept of the “broken or incomplete peace” that Pinchas accomplished was indeed a great thing. G-d tells us that it is great, however it must be noted, that this is not one of those things, that can be taken lightly for Hashem shows us that the covenant of Shalom that was given to Pinchas was diminished, lacking, or disconnected in some way. We can not simply use this as a good example of correct and proper behavior. This may have been the proper action at the time, but it also might be true that never again should such actions be simply believed to be the correct action.
If we understand that our Torah was given to us by our creator G-d, a kind and loving creator. We should also understand that the ways of the Torah are ways of peace, and it’s path is pleasant.
Let us all do our individual parts, as we play at our individual parts in this great drama that our eternal Creator has written for us. Let us not get caught in some endless loop of thought or inaction in an theoretically endlessly complex situation. Let us all move forward, and do the thing which we believe in our hearts and souls is the correct thing to do. However let us not act rashly, or do something which can cause us even greater harm than not acting. If our issues or matters are complex, it is a great thing to be able to consult with others and verify that our actions may be the right answer fo us. However the ultimate responsibility is with us, and in the end we must all answer for our actions.
Second sign off:
Aharon Moshe Sanders, July 2, 2010, 7;37Am, 27 Tammuz (after the breach) and my humble attempt to do my small part to repair that breach.
It is always my hope that my words will inspire others to learn their own truth and to help us all to make a better connection with G-d, so that we can continue to reveal His purpose and honor and help bring about Moshiach and the rebuilding of the Holy Temple, speedily in our day.
Amein, Amein, Amein,
AhMbdvd, 27 Tammuz 5770
Aharon Moshe Sanders, on Parsha Pinchas, only the details of the Parsha have been left out because they can be read in any correct translation or even in the original Hebrew words of our Holy Torah.
One time the silence won a huge victory, I did not make a nedder (take an oath)-then, never again! By Aharon Moshe Sanders, June 28, 2010 Parshas Pinchas
Never Again Shall The Silence Prevail Over The Lies!
Strong words right?
When I was a mere child of five, I lived by a certain code, it went like this:
Sticks and Stones may break my bones; but names will never hurt me.
When I was an undergrad learning at Santa Monica College, I got more than my share of all that a California Community College could give, at a price that everyone could afford. Yes the 80’s were good to me!
A random person came up to me as I was standing in front of the Student Government Office of Santa Monica College and looked me straight in the eye, and told me about his goal of German unification. I stood there and listened quietly as he told me his well crafted lie, that the Holocaust never happened. While I, the proud child of a small family of Jews who survived the Holocaust in Poland, in hiding, remained in hiding and said nothing. It was then, that the silence had is moment of victory over the truth. I simply listened, walked away, shaking my head thinking:
Sticks and Stones may break my bones; but names will never hurt me.
A silent mantra that I could say over and over again in my head. A little childhood chant that kids all over the US would say anytime someone calls them names.
Just yesterday, I met with my mother and her sister Elizabeth and her grandson. While I was with my daughter, three generations of proud Holocaust survivor who were not taught by my grandfather, the Patriarch of the Family, to have a victim mentality but rather we were given the tradition of being proud and victorious survivors! Not that there were not some losses, and fear, and hunger while this family, my family, survived the Nazi’s reign of terror in Poland. Yes, we were taught to be proud, because we (they), survived!
Now, as I told you earlier, I was sitting at a small table in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. While my family and daughter were looking for some kosher snacks, a fellow approached me and asked:
Are you not afraid to wear your Kippah right here in public? I looked at him and wondered and thought, is he an orthodox Jew who is being more Yeshivish than I because he knows the proper Halacha (Jewish Law) regarding not wearing a kippah (yarmulke head covering worn by orthodox Jewish males) when one is having a snack at a local snack bar that does not have a kosher hecksher.
However my questioning eyes, did not find this in him, and I responded or course not, where are you from?
He told me he as from Norway and had witnessed what nearly amounted to a public lynching when Jews were carrying an Israeli flag at some sort of rally in Onslaw Norway. He showed me on his arm that the bearer of the Israeli flag was attacked with the very flag he carried and he was badly beaten and bloodied.
Thinking that this was another visceral response to the recent Flotilla multi-media extravaganza anti Israel propaganda action, asked him if this was a response to the Flotilla incident. He said no, this happened several months ago. He then went on to tell of the extreme antisemitism that apparently has been raging all over Europe for some time. I was shocked, but not into silence as i was back in the day at Santa Monica College.
As my family members came back from foraging for food in the at the Metropolitan Museum of Art snack bar, the man bid me farewell, and think he said Hatzlacha (be strong) as he pointed to my Kippah. I told my family this story although I did not get the reaction that I expected.
I am not sure if my daughter was listening when I told that I was planning on writing about this interaction on my web site. Indeed I do remember writing about the incident at Santa Monica College on one of my older websites back in the day of world wide web I.
Aharon Moshe Sanders
June 28, 2010 7:05AM EST
PS: The amazing thing that happened this shabbos was about reading group of us reading about the covenant of the Bris being given to Pinchas as a result of his zealous action in support of Hashem bringing an end to the plague, while there also was a bris (circumcision) in shul Moshe Aharon ben Pinchas. The opening paragraph we read at a circumcision (bris) relates to the action taken of Pichas as a zealot for Hashem that we read in the same Parsha, and then proceeded to the ritual of the bris all on the same shabbos, right here in Passaic NJ at PTI.
Did you mean: Parshat Balak?
By Aharon Moshe Sanders, June 24, 2010 6:40AM EST
Very often on this site I spend what seem be an inordinate amount of time, fighting the red lines of my WYSIWYG editor. For example why did this thing where I create my writings for this web site (usually live, in one take) decide to underline in red Parsha Balak (About 154,000 results (0.25 seconds) while our dear friends at Google seem to place their seal of approval upon Parshat Balak ( About 51,200 results (0.15 seconds).
Being one who believes in the scientific method as part of my core system of beliefs, I tried this little experiment again, and got the same results, and you too at home can also try this for yourselves.
Could it be that the majority opinion is alway wrong?
Our blessed friends at Google always see fit to ask me: “Did you mean: Parshat Balak?” despite the obvious fact that about 154,000 agree with my search engine submission, while about 51,200 agree with the alternate phrase Parshat Balak.
The proof of how the minority opinion is always believed above the majority opinion, is that Google never questions the hapless search engine user who types in Parshat Balak, because the question, “Did you mean Parsha Balak” never gets asked, by our blessed friends at Google, each and every time Parshat Balak gets placed in our ever present Google box.
Therefore, if degree of accuracy, is proven by the lack of questioning, is the new gold standard by which explanations of our Holy Torah are judged. Then there is little doubt in my mind, that often the current belief, does not always encompass the entire truth. For our Torah is being given to us eternally by an eternal creator. This Torah can and must grow as our world grows. Indeed we believe in the unlimited and infinite nature of Hashem and likewise our Holy Torah is as His creation is also unlimited and infinite as well and can and must continuously, as our ability to understand it’s deep nuances and inner meanings also grow as a result of our unrelenting toil in our ability to understand the meaning and essence of our Holy Torah.
Perhaps I should digress from my extended digression now and explain that the reason, that my particular writings on the parsha do not necessarily agree with the majority opinion, or even upon the more common and known opinions of the mefarshim or chazal. Others who are more learned and wiser than I might indeed view this as an obvious flaw, I however do not. My personal belief is, that although I may be unique in my perspective, that I am not necessarily wrong.
Welcome to my world of the anti-dogmatic.
For my small but devoted following; translation the random handful of people who accidentally surf into this website, I leave you with this thought as I take a required and union negotiated break (my eyes and brain are tired).
Dogma is the established belief or doctrine held by a religion, ideology or any kind of organization: it is authoritative and not to be disputed,
Above definition courtesy of Wikipedia.org Dogma
Also presented for your reading pleasure (While I take my break here) is a blog I stumbled upon about 10 minutes and 180 words back:
Aharon Moshe Sanders, An introduction with the intent to return, a partial explanation regarding the problem with dogma, Parsha Balak. June 24, 2010 6:45AM, with comments from one other writer, quoted, expressed and attributed below.
Excerpt from site linked below by- Reuben Posner, Fellow at Hillel’s Joseph Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Learning from “Parshat Balak 2005- I Can See Clearly Now” “Parshat Balak is one of the richest and strangest Torah portions of the entire cycle of weekly readings…Why would God condone Balaam’s trip in one instant and then condemn it the next?…
Maimonides, a medieval Jewish philosopher, suggests that the entire incident was a prophetic vision, and none of it really happened.
“Nachmanides… suggests that the donkey did in fact talk to Balaam to remind him and future readers that God can control even a human’s most basic functions…and if God can give speech to a donkey then God can take speech away from humans.”
“The Sforno… suggests that the story is really about paying attention to signs. The behavior of the donkey should have been a sign to Balaam that what he was about to do was not good in the eyes of God.”
The author, Reuben Posner, of the above cited work, as part of his summation concludes: “Balaam and his donkey is about two very important things. First and foremost, it is about the power and importance of words. Words have the ability to build up or break down, to heal or to hurt, to bless or to curse.”
For the rest of this well developed and carefully thought out an well written essay on Parsha Balak please visit:
Hillel.org Reuben Posner, Balak 2005 I Can See Clearly Now
Continue reading He Who Blessed is Blessed Parsha Balak
 How much for that Red Cow over there, has it ever had a yoke on it- .BurntBiscuitRanch.com The true and most important meaning of Parsha Chukas is not specifically about what has long puzzled scholars of Torah regarding some enigmatic qualities of the offering of the Red Cow. Rather it is about the nedderim that had been made to Hashem with his attribute of kindness and mercy which Israel in the Parsha makes a nedder (vow) (Numbers 21:2) about and which Yiftach in (Judeges 11:1-11:40) takes a vow to gain a victory in war.
Parsha Chukas Hashem’s Secret Weapon for Peace.
The usual, now mundane take, on the inner meaning of our Holy Torah, asks the question how can the ashes which serve to purify the one upon who it is sprinkled also serve to contaminate the one who is doing the sprinkling? I leave that question to others because I think it takes us too far either to the left or the right of the essential lesson of this Parsha (piece) of our Holy Torah.
It [ Torah ] is a tree of life for those who grasp it, and all who uphold it are blessed. Its ways are pleasant, and all its paths are peace.
So, then why does the Parsha speak of War?
The only Torah which I find worthwhile to write about is the portion of our Holy Torah which I can understand by reading it with a deep and spiritual eye towards trying to unravel the inner message which our loving and caring G-d, has left us.
I seek to understand how several thousand of years of history which our Torah preserves for us can possibly have any significance for us, living in the world today, which is plagued with problems on such a grand scale, so as to theoretically dwarf the eternal truth, which our infinitely kind and loving G-d has provided for us.
The deep and essential meaning which are the secrets which one can obtain, only by critically reading over the versus either in their original Hebrew, or from a faithful English translation.
These essential deep inner truth’s are clothed within a body of stories, which are done in this manner for a threefold purpose for which I will attempt now to discuss only two:
The Torah actually provides us with a key to help solve the problems which G-d in his infinite wisdom foresaw would be upon us.
Had this information been transmitted to us in any way other than the way it has been it still would have seemed incomprehensible to anyone. The method that one needs to use to engage his deepest abilities of analysis is exactly the kind of deep thinking and reasoning that G-d wants us to use, to continuously solve the problems that it appears mankind is eternally plagued with.
These essential truths are written in a code which is not necessarily so difficult to understand, however it is our own stubborn adhesion to old paradigms which continuously forces us to re-live the very troubles and sorrows which we witness that our forefathers have suffered within the narrative of our Holy Torah.
Continue reading Purity of Intent, Parsha Chukas
By Aharon Moshe (Stephen C) Sanders
Or, lets be careful in what we pay attention to, because our attention may be being deliberately diverted. Do I now have your interest?
It [ Torah ] is a tree of life for those who grasp it, and all who uphold it are blessed. Its ways are pleasant, and all its paths are peace.
So, then why does the Parsha speak of War?
The only Torah which I find worthwhile to write about is the portion of our Holy Torah which I can understand by reading it with a deep and spiritual eye towards trying to unravel the inner message which our loving and caring G-d, has left us.
According to the Maharal, left represents material bounty, and multiplication and right represents spiritual wisdom
There is a vast body of literature out there written on so many different ideas that can be developed that attempt to explain, the nuances which may be gleaned to engaging in a serious inquiry into what does the Torah tell us about the pioneers of our faith, who have continued to exist as a specific unique nation of people, sharing strong familial, cultural, religious, and philosophical bonds.
Our Flawed Understanding of Parsha Chukas
The usual, now mundane take, on the inner meaning of our Holy Torah, asks the question how can the ashes which serve to purify the one upon who it is sprinkled also serve to contaminate the one who is doing the sprinkling? I leave that question to others because I think it takes us too far either to the left or the right of the essential lesson of this Parsha (piece) of our Holy Torah.
The question is how can I now make my point with what I feel is rightly, or wrongly is the small window of 15 minutes of your attention
It [ Torah ] is a tree of life for those who grasp it, and all who uphold it are blessed. Its ways are pleasant, and all its paths are peace.
So, then why does the Parsha speak of War?
The only Torah which I find worthwhile to write about is the portion of our Holy Torah which I can understand by reading it with a deep and spiritual eye towards trying to unravel the inner message which our loving and caring G-d, has left us.
I seek to understand how several thousand of years of history which our Torah preserves for us can possibly have any significance for us, living in the world today, which is plagued with problems on such a grand scale, so as to theoretically dwarf the eternal truth, which our infinitely kind and loving G-d has provided for us.
The deep and essential meaning which are the secrets which one can obtain, only by critically reading over the versus either in their original Hebrew, or from a faithful English translation.
These essential deep inner truth’s are clothed within a body of stories, which are done in this manner for a threefold purpose for which I will attempt now to discuss only two:
The Torah actually provides us with a key to help solve the problems which G-d in his infinite wisdom foresaw would be upon us.
Had this information been transmitted to us in any way other than the way it has been it still would have seemed incomprehensible to anyone. The method that one needs to use to engage his deepest abilities of analysis is exactly the kind of deep thinking and reasoning that G-d wants us to use, to continuously solve the problems that it appears mankind is eternally plagued with.
These essential truths are written in a code which is not necessarily so difficult to understand, however it is our own stubborn adhesion to old paradigms which continuously forces us to re-live the very troubles and sorrows which we witness that our forefathers have suffered within the narrative of our Holy Torah.
Continue reading Parsha Chukas Hashem’s Secret Weapon for Peace.
 What Role Did Washington Play in the Flotilla Event? Game Theory in the Mid-East. By Stephen C. Sanders, June 14, 2010
The Parsha that we just recently read over Shabbos is the quintessential Parsha about tough love.
In the Parsha of Korach we have a rebellious faction lead by Korach coming to deliberately challenge Moshe’s authority over the people of Israel. The concept of how could Korach lead a rebellion such as this after all the great miracles that G-d has done for the Jewish people has been beaten to death by Rabbis of days gone by, so naturally I will not even bother to discuss these ideas.
I however have always looked at this particular parsha from an entirely different angle. Did we not just learn in the previous parsha that G-d has issued a decree the the newly formed nation of Israel is destined to wonder in the desert for 40 years, and then die there.
When we take into account the decree that was just set upon the Jewish people to wonder in the desert for 40 years, and never move into the land that G-d swore to their ancestors, then we can understand some of the inner motivation of the characters in this drama.
As a matter of fact Chazal (A term used to collectively refer to the massive body of commentary which is universally accepted as authoritative by orthodox Jews) tell us that if there was a ever an auspicious or righteous time for a rebellion, this certainly was the time. The reason of course being that G-d wants us to fight, even against great adversity to accomplish our G-d given purpose.
An essential component of the identification of the Jewish people after G-d enacted great signs and wonders as he pulled out the Jewish nation from within the midst of Egypt, was for the Jewish people to go up, into the land of Israel, conquering the existing nations that were residing there, and to settle the land eternally as the nation of G-d’s chosen people, to live in the land selected by G-d for the Jewish people.
An essential component of the identification of the Jewish people after G-d enacted great signs and wonders as he pulled out the Jewish nation from within the midst of Egypt, was for the Jewish people to go up, into the land of Israel, conquering the existing nations that were residing there, and to settle the land eternally as the nation of G-d’s chosen people, to live in the land selected by G-d for the Jewish people.
G-d entrusted the Jewish people to have this piece of land, known as Israel to be their eternal home. Bringing in issues related “the Biblical borders” and then the 1948 borders, and then the 1967 borders are all nice ideas, however now that Israel has survived numerous attacks designed to destroy it, it must now act in it’s own best interest.
If conditions are ever expected to improve in the land of Israel the author of this post believe the following things or conditions must be enabled or acted upon:
Condition number one of Israel acting in its own best interest, as well as the best interest of the world is very simple and might even sound familiar by now:
1) For The Sake Of World Peace Israel Must No Longer Cede Land to Her Enemies
This is a link to Facebook Group that you can join to support this cause.
Condition number two concerns a long time practice of a policy of appeasement from the nation of Israel, the nation of and for the Jewish People:
2) Never Again Should Israel Endanger Jews to Placate Public Opinion!
Antoher Facebook Group you can join to support the cause.
Finally if Israel is unwilling to learn from the errors of it’s past, it will forever be doomed to repeat them. Game theory clearly shows that if a predictable response to a specific stimulus will always be the normal reaction, then the opponent will always use the very same tactic to gain the desired result.
If acts of aggression on the part of the enemies of Israel will always be met with by some level of concession on the part of Israel, then game theory teaches us that the enemies of Israel will always attempt to obtain the same result using the same technique. The current Flotilla incident proves this to be true beyond a shadow of a doubt.
3) Condition number three Israel must learn from it’s mistakes and always seek to restore the imbalance created by it’s strategic error.
The disengagement from Gush Katif was a horrible experiment gone wrong!
Apparently the buffer zone represented by a living border between Israel and Gaza was quite a significant and important and important stabilizing factor in the delicate peace equation of Israel in relation to Gaza.
Finally if Israel is unwilling to learn from the errors of it’s past, it will forever be doomed to repeat them. Game theory clearly shows that if a predictable response to a specific stimulus will always be the normal reaction, then the opponent will always use the very same tactic to gain the desired result.
If acts of aggression on the part of the enemies of Israel will always be met with by some level of concession on the part of Israel, then game theory teaches us that the enemies of Israel will always attempt to obtain the same result using the same technique.
The current Flotilla incident proves this to be true. The flotilla event was not simply a method being utilized to bring in humanitarian aid to Gaza. The Flotilla event was a specific action taken against Israel with the specific intention to weaken the blockade.
Therefore if Israel wants the it’s enemies to stop using acts of aggression against Israel then Israel needs to the change the game by changing it’s response. In other words the proper game theory reaction to the recent act of aggression in the Flotilla incident must be accompanied by some loss of privilege for the enemies of Israel.
For example it does seem as if the desired result of the Flotilla event was specifically accomplished that is the weakening of the joint Egypt and Israeli Naval blockade of Gaza has been accomplished, however it also may have cost the enemies a very dear cost. For example the cost to the faction which initiated the event is that the commander in Chief of the US armed forces may no longer be allowed such free reign in matters concerning diplomacy in the Mid-East.
If the people of the United States understand game theory in the Mid-East well enough to understand that it was the US President’s posture as having only lukewarm relations with the nation of Israel as a matter of foreign policy, that allowed and perhaps even advanced the agenda of the Flotilla, and the role that Turkey played in it’s enactment.
If indeed there was some theoretical gain on the part of the US in courting some sort of diplomatic relationship with Turkey, then the US President can not simply blame Israel for it’s deterioration because the US played in role in the action by exhibiting a cooling of a previously strong bond with Israel. It specifically was this cooling off that allowed Turkey to play such a strong role in this Flotilla action. If Turkey felt that it would be met with sanctions from the US for taking such a strong lead in the Flotilla incident, then perhaps it might not have ever opted to do so.
The conclusion of this thesis is that if Israel wants to stop the violence that is currently being used as a weapon against Israel to obtain concessions, then it must stop giving concessions to their enemy as the expected reward for aggression. Alternatively if because of the real politics of the situation it becomes impossible to maintain is current hard line, for example in the Naval Blockade, then it must additionally seek some sort of compensation in the form of some significant and quantifiable penalty for it’s opponent. It is my belief that the penalty may have already been enacted in some sort of subtle way, however it is my belief that this penalty is already affecting the enemies of Israel, and it is us to Israel, to use the momentum of this diplomatic victory with regards to the US and Turkey to it’s best advantage.
Stephen C. (Aharon Moshe) Sanders
June 14, 2010, 5:14Am EST (FrumFind.org) and 5:40Am (TheWritersCafe.org)
 Israel under siege- again! No this is not a musical review site, however if I was capturing a soundtrack in a cinematic view from my life to serve the purpose of self expression it would be this song. The song of course is from Crosby, Stills Nash and Young and most specifically from the Deja Vu, album or in my case cassette tape.
“Déjà Vu is the first album by the rock band Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, and the second by the trio configuration of Crosby, Stills, and Nash. It was released in March of 1970 by Atlantic Records, catalogue SD-7200. It topped the pop album chart for one week and generated three Top 40 singles: “Teach Your Children,” “Our House,” and “Woodstock.”"
From Wikipedia.org-Déjà Vu (album)
Crosby, Stills & Nash – Long Time Gone (1977)
I have had some comments requesting videos, so the above link in is to a you tube video of a different song from Crosby, Stills and Nash. It occurs to me that as of the time of writing this post I do not have “the proper code” as a widget to properly display or embed You Tube videos on this site. I would like to suggest that you open the link in a new window or tab on your browser, by right clicking on the link above and select open in a new tab or window.
The point that I wanted to make right away has to do with when I was a child it just so happened that my small family unit moved around several times to different places in the country. Being a relatively tall kid, it seems the school yard bully (being the school yard bully) always had to pick a fight with me. Me having had this same basic scenario run by me, time and time again naturally sought to develop a code, that I could live by. So here is the little piece of code which I share with my friends who visit this site:
Typically the school yard bully would begin by teasing with me words, I did not respond. Then then he would push, so I would push back. If he slammed my locker shut, so (in gym) I would slam his locker shut. If would push me, I would push back. So far simple, right no particular code, so here is what the code states:
As long as he took the first swing, I felt perfectly justified in hitting back with everything I had. I fought fairly clean, mainly swinging punches at the body or face. It sometimes would happen that my opponent would get the better of me. For example one kid had me in a head lock with one arm and was punching me in the face with the other. Yes, he won that fight, that was in Sequoia Junior High School. I later found he was the school jock from some pretty blonde haired girl who basically only carried a brush to school. News of such things travels fast, she came up to me and said:
I heard you got into a fight with so and so, the blonde girl who only carried a brush said.
Yeah, I replied (I was not a big talker back then).
You know he is the school jock.
Oh, (a small smile must have flashed across my face)…
Yeah (responded blonde brush girl).. he’s quarter-back on the football team.
Oh..wow..really!
There were many other fights, and I remember them all. Once push came to shove I never backed down. One time there was this black kid in elementary school named Kevin, that I really did not want to fight, him because really pretty big and strong. He told me to meet him after school to fight, and I never showed up. (There are some more details to that story, but I choose not to share them here and now.) Mainly the thing to know about that fight was that it was not a spontaneous skirmish, he was trying to plan a fight that I simply did not think that I could win.
My code had not been developed to handle situations like that. The usual fights that broke out were in the early few days of the school year when I was the new kid in School that just so happened to be tall.
Yet most of the time the fights were never planned. They started and stopped where ever we happened to be at the moment. The fight I mentioned earlier with the school jock was only semi-planned. The pushing and shoving began in the locker room, and I basically did back to him whatever he did to me. However we were both suiting up for Gym and not yet fully in our shorts and sneakers. We both did not want to continue fighting in the locker room in this state, so it was his idea to take it outside in the open yard where we would be heading for gym.
I got in a few good punches to his face, but he pretty quickly got me in a head lock and must have landed several consecutive punches to my face. The crowd around us was relatively small probably because we had to suit up quickly for our fight and maybe some kids in the locker room were still lagging behind.
I was still trying to figure out how to get out of that head lock when the Gym teacher came and broke it up. I pretty much felt like I had lost that fight, however when the Gym teacher told me to go wash my face at the water fountain, I was quite certain this one would go in the loss column for me. Thankfully there was no blood. No visits to the nurse, no incident reports, no trips to the dean. no phone calls home the fight was over, and everyone knew it.
I won’t go on to tell you that I instantly became popular. I did however have that pretty cool conversation with pretty blonde brush girl. I never got picked first when they were choosing teams, never got to be a captain. When ever we played soccer I always was put into the position of goalie, even though this was not a particularly desired position, I liked it, and had plenty of time to think. I was pretty good at blacking the balls when ever they came my way. Therefore our team often won, and we got more points in gym then the losing team
The real point of this little story, is that school jock never picked a fight with me again because he knew that I would fight back. Of all the fights that I had on those dozen or so different battlefields we call schoolyards, I never did battle with the same guy twice, because that guy knew I would hit him with everything I had, as long as he swung first.
Stephen C. Sanders, June 11, 2010 12:55 Eastern Daylight Saving Time.
 IDF Soldiers on Peaceful Duty, lets keep them that way! The Flotilla Operation was Such an Obvious Tactical Ploy Designed to Incite World Opinion Against Israel By Aharon Moshe Sanders, June 6, 2010
The Flotilla operation was such an obvious tactical ploy designed to incite world opinion against Israel, that it seems hard to believe that so many commentaries are required to get the correct idea across. Yes, the situation in Israel seems to be so incredibly complex, however it is my heartfelt belief that yielding territories to the enemies of Israel in the long run is a policy which not only will not help the peace process but it will actually only serve to create more problems, and widen this already ever widening conflict.
The very deep problem that is clearly being displayed with all the media coverage as well as statements which are being issued even from countries that until now have been thought to be in line with normative ideas regarding the right of nation to preserve it’s borders even if it requires a naval blockade.
My deepest concern and reason for this particular group to exist is that the current world-wide economic crisis, combined with the deep pockets of these Fundamental Militant Islamic Jihadists, which could easily bankroll the development of even an entire nation obtaining this money in much the same way a a politician would finance a muli-million dollar campaign with contributions from wealthy Oil Sheiks who probably have more money than the US has debt!
If it my theory has even a shred of truth in it, then we could at least begin to comprehend, that Gaza is looking to purchase all kinds of “supplies” weapons, or whatever else it might want. The remaining question is what countries is Gaza trying to buy these supplies from? The answer to my own question goes like this:
Which countries are protesting most vehemently regarding Israel’s legitimate actions to maintain it’s naval blockade? Understand which nations will stand to gain the most (financially or otherwise) by having Israel lower it’s guard by pulling back it’s blockade, and then you will have a clear picture as to why so many nations are so quick to jump on the bandwagon in condemning Israel in her actions to defend herself.
Strange days, have found us!
Aharon Moshe (Stephen C.) Sanders
Inspired by a a new group on Facebook where this opinion will be published after being published on this site.
June 6, 2010 1:12 am EST…fixtheworld.us and published here at 1:42AM EST, and then Facebook
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