Parries → Another end of times 

Religious nutters talk despicably about how the end is always nigh but now that we have nuclear proliferation and a genocidal regime very near to having the bomb and missiles on which to place it, it does seem conceivable that we are in the golden age before the radioactive darkness descends.

And once again the Jewish people is smack in the middle of it. Anti-Semites speak of us as being the Judas but to me a more disturbing comparison is to Jonah. There’s a scene in Master & Commander when the scientist is outraged by the drowning of the Jonah character but the more experienced captain, the Russell Crowe character, is quite blase about it and accepts the verdict. Our mere wish to live is the catalyst that could bring about a nuclear exchange, the biggest disaster to visit earth.

What a position. But in this case it does no good to consider backing down and sacrificing one’s own existence for the larger good (not that we are considering such a thing) because it is merely homicidal tendencies among those others that is driving the thing, so if you’re no longer there for them to wish to murder it’ll be someone else. And even if Israel had a will to self-immolation (which I don’t believe we do) the stated ethos of our nationstate—“never again”—would shake us out of it.

Indeed, perhaps with the recent reported training exercises over Crete, the strike on the Iranian regime’s machinery of genocide has already begun.

When will the Arab nation realize that they have been blessed with not one but two natural resources, oil and Jews? If they made but one small twist in the mind they could be putting both to work for them. As it is, by pitting one against the other they merely squander both. To be sure, they fear Jews, they fear that if they leave the Jews alone to thrive in their midst the Jews will become their masters. But Israel is thriving anyway, and it is becoming increasingly obvious that Israel presents less of a threat to Araby than Iran. Just as Israelis embrace pleasures of Arab culture, so Arabs could embrace just a bit of the Jewish way of pro-activity, and just a bit of that could inoculate them against being dominated. Yes, they can continue their childish pretence that Israel isn’t there and refuse to talk to us and try to eradicate us, but with Israel defensible and smack dab in the middle of the Levant it is destiny that the Semites intermingle again. Whichever Arab nationstate embraces this wholeheartedly will reap untold benefits. And in trying to tame the Israeli beast that they have embraced they will be surprised at the depth of their own innate tastes and talents and the Arab Muslim reformation we’ve been waiting for will tumble out from events quite quickly.