Sunday, January 28, 2007
Prof. Aumann: Post-Zionism Greater Threat Than Nukes
1. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=120408
Prof. Aumann: Post-Zionism Greater Threat Than Nukes
Sunday, January 28, 2007 / 9 Shevat 5767
Nobel Prize Laureate Prof. Israel (Robert) J. Aumann addressed the
Herzliya Conference last week. Speaking after Prime Minister Ehud Olmert,
Aumann said that post-Zionism "will be the end of us."
Prof. Aumann, of the Center for the Study of Rationality at Jerusalem's
Hebrew University, began his address by addressing the Iranian threat, but
shifted his focus midway to what he said poses an even more serious threat
to the Jewish nation: post-Zionism.
Having outlined the threat of Iranian nuclear attack, and the greater
threat of Iranian proliferation of nuclear weapons among Islamic terror
groups, Aumann continued:
"And now a few words about a third threat, which is perhaps the greatest
of all. It does not come from Iran, nor from terrorist groups, nor from
any external source. It comes from within us. 'We have met the enemy, and
it is us.' Esteemed ladies and gentlemen, your humble servant makes his
living from game theory - among other things, very serious games: games of
life and death and of existence and annihilation.
"The name of the game in game theory is motivation, incentives. Earlier,
we discussed the motivations of those standing on the opposite side.
Motivating ourselves is the most important thing, and the thing we are
losing the most. Without motivation, we will not endure. What are we doing
here? Why are we here? What are we aspiring to here? We are here because
we are Jewish, we are Zionist, because of our ancient bond to this land;
we aspire to realize our 2,000-year-old hope of becoming a free nation in
our land, the Land of Zion and Jerusalem. Without this profound
understanding, we will not endure. We will simply no longer be here;
post-Zionism will finish us off."
The Nobel Prize Laureate, who was an outspoken opponent of the
Disengagement, then addressed the prime minister: .About half a year ago
in Petra, Jordan, the prime minister said that we are tired. He was right.
He was elected by the nation, and he expresses the sentiments of the
nation. We are like a mountain-climber that gets caught in a snowstorm;
the night falls, he is cold and tired, and he wants to sleep. If he falls
asleep, he will freeze to death. We are in terminal danger because we are
tired. I will allow myself to say a few unpopular, unfashionable words:
our panicked longing for peace is working against us. It brings us farther
away from peace, and endangers our very existence. I think it was
Churchill who said, .If you want peace, prepare for war.. The preparation
includes material preparation, a fantastic army, effective tools of war,
but above all, we are talking about spiritual preparation, about spiritual
readiness to go to war.
.Roadmaps, capitulation, gestures, disengagements, convergences,
deportations, and so forth do not bring peace. On the contrary, they bring
war, just as we saw last summer. These things send a clear signal to our
'cousins' [the Arabs -ed.] that we are tired, that we no longer have
spiritual strength, that we have no time, that we are calling for a
time-out. They only whet their appetites. It only encourages them to
pressure us more, to demand more, and not to give up on anything. These
things stem from simple theoretical considerations and also from straight
thinking. But it's not just theory: it has been proven and re-proven in
the field over thousands of years. I returned today from a trip to India,
where we heard about historical stories that illustrate the same.
Capitulations bring about war; determination and readiness bring about
peace.
.Ladies and gentlemen, we must tell our 'cousins' that we are staying
here. We are not moving. We have time; we have patience; we have stamina.
Understand this and internalize it. And we must not simply say it to our
cousins but feel it within ourselves. This and only this will bring peace.
We can really live in peace and unity and cooperation with our cousins.
But only after they understand and internalize that the Zionist state will
be here forever. Thank you very much..
2. Another frivolous libel SLAPP suit by a jihadnik against a Zionist:
http://www.spme.net/cgi-bin/articles.cgi?ID=1705
3. Nobel Prize Fame Theory Expert Views the Iranian Nuclear Threat
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 21:58:22 -0500
Prof. Israel (Robert) J. Aumann, Nobel Prize Laureate; Center for the
Study of Rationality, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
First of all, I would like to thank the conference organizers for inviting
me to speak at this important and central event. I was asked to speak
about the existential dangers threatening the State of Israel. One danger
known to all of us stems from Iran 's nuclear armament program, which
threatens to erase the State of Israel from the map. We cannot
underestimate the importance of this danger. However, in my humble
opinion, it is less threatening than it appears at first glance. Iran is
a nation like all nations; it has an address.we know who it is and where
it is. If the rumors are true.that the State of Israel has according
deterrence capability, and no less importantly, means of delivering
weapons, then there is indeed a danger, but it is a limited one. The
rulers of Iran are often called lunatics, but there is no evidence that
this is the case. Iran 's rulers act very rationally. They have goals
that indeed oppose our goals, but these are their goals, and they advance
them very effectively. The destruction of central Iranian cities is not
one of their goals. We certainly need to stand guard, but the fear of
Iran 's direct use of nuclear weapons against Israel seems minimal. I
allow myself to speak freely because I don't know anything that's
happening in the field.perhaps less than anyone in this hall.
However, unfortunately, there is a different danger in Iran 's nuclear
armament.more tangible and more threatening, although more indirect. This
danger is hidden in the possibility that nuclear technology will be
transferred from Iran to terrorist groups such as Al Qa'ida or
others.groups whose identities are indistinct, who have no address. Even
these groups are not insane; they act consistently, rationally, and
sophisticated in order to achieve their goals. But because they have no
address, direct deterrence policy is not effective in their case. Thus,
if they succeed in obtaining nuclear weapons, it is unclear how we will be
able to deter them from using it against us.
These groups, or some of them, are very close in their goals and ideology
to Iran . Therefore, this is a great danger in the transfer of nuclear
technology and the necessary materials from Iran to these groups. One
possibility is that such a transfer would be intended and approved by the
Iranian authorities. Another possibility, which is more likely, is that
the transfer will not be intended or planned; this is a case of
infiltration of radical terrorist elements into the Iranian nuclear system
or of a lack of sufficient caution of the Iranian authorities or of a leak
or of deliberate smuggling in the lower echelons of the Iranian
system.leaks and smuggling that are unauthorized and even unknown to the
higher echelons. If such a transfer occurs in one of these two ways, then
we will in fact be in substantial trouble. We will not be able to
directly prevent these groups to execute their schemes.
Therefore, we must act indirectly by offering appropriate incentives. In
my opinion, there are two ways to do this. One is to create strong and
tangible motivation for the government of Iran to prevent at all costs the
transfer of nuclear technology and materials to groups that do not
function under its auspices. The second and less effective way is to give
strong and tangible motivation to these terrorist groups we have mentioned
not to use nuclear weapons against Israel , even if they have obtained
such weapons. As we have said, this type of deterrence is not easy
because these groups have no address, but they have goals and they have an
ideological identity, and it is possible to create adequate incentives on
this backdrop. We mentioned two existential threats facing the State of
Israel.the direct nuclear threat and the indirect nuclear threat.
As we have said, the second danger is greater, and now a few words about a
third threat, which is perhaps the greatest of all. It does not come from
Iran , nor from terrorist groups, nor from any external source. It comes
from within us. "We have met the enemy, and it is us." Esteemed ladies
and gentlemen, your humble servant makes his living from game theory.among
other things, very serious games: games of life and death and of
existence and annihilation. The name of the game in game theory is
motivation, incentives. Earlier, we discussed the motivations of those
standing on the opposite side. Motivating ourselves is the most important
thing, and the thing we are losing the most. Without motivation, we will
not endure. What are we doing here? Why are we here? What are we
aspiring to here? We are here because we are Jewish, we are Zionist,
because of our ancient bond to this land; we aspire to realize our
2000-year-old hope of becoming a free nation in our land, the Land of Zion
and Jerusalem . Without this profound understanding, we will not endure.
We will simply no longer be here; Post-Zionism will finish us off.
About half a year ago in Petra , Jordan , the prime minister said that we
are tired. He was right. He was elected by the nation, and he expresses
the sentiments of the nation. We are like a mountain-climber that gets
caught in a snowstorm; the night falls, he is cold and tired, and he wants
to sleep. If he falls asleep, he will freeze to death. We are in terminal
danger because we are tired. I will allow myself to say a few unpopular,
unfashionable words: our panicked lunging for peace is working against us.
It brings us farther away from peace, and endangers our very existence. I
think it was Churchill who said, "If you want peace, prepare for war."
The preparation includes material preparation, a fantastic army, effective
tools of war, but above all, we are talking about spiritual preparation,
about spiritual readiness to go to war.
4. The Jimmy Carter treason page:
http://www.somebodyhelpme.info/carter/carter.html
5.
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=62926c33-df00-4608-b817-7a
46d55d7da4
Sunday > January 28 > 2007
How not to handle a genteel racist
Dalhousie Non-debate: White supremacist invited, disinvited, roughed up
and in the end, glorified
Joseph Brean
National Post
6. Jew-baiting at Stanford:
Online Edition Exclusive: Israel's Defeat on Campus
by Daniel Kaganovich and Jeremy England
(http://www.stanfordreview.org/Tellfriend/index.php)
Print Article _ (http://www.stanfordreview.org/cjprint/printpage.php)
(Article forgets to mention Abu Beinin)
7. The Silence of the Left:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/article.php3?id=6877
8. What makes an Anti-Semite, by Prof. Dina Porat:
http://www.spme.net/cgi-bin/articles.cgi?ID=1722
