Ehud Barak's Dodo Bolshevism

One of the more amusing developments in pre-election Israel is the sudden adoption of the slogan "piggish capitalism."   Most of Israel's chattering classes still dream of seeing a bolshevik system of state planning of the economy imposed upon what is already a Scandinavian style welfare state in Israel.

Above, the dodo bird, the new Labor Party join-mascot, alongside the lemming.

Things escalated when airhead Shelly Yachimovitz, a backbencher from the Labor Party, started tossing out comments about how "piggish capitalism" was what had to be suppressed.   Shelly, whose qualifications for sitting in the Knesset were that she had hosted a chat show on a state-owned radio station, claimed that the crashing stock markets prove that capitalism is dead and that the new enlightened era of bolshevik planning will rescue the planet.  Never mind that capitalism is the only system capable of generating any wealth at all that ordinary people can have at risk in the stock market in the first place.  It was a bit amusing, but the only paper that told off Silly Shelly was Haaretz, whose business section is the most free-market medium in Israel.

Now Ehud Barak, the fella who single-handedly rained 4000 Katyusha rockets down on northern Israel when he ordered the cowardly unilateral capitulation to the Hezbollah in 2000, has picked up the nonsense term from Little Shelly.  Barak yesterday also spoke out against piggish capitalism, although in the news report in the English Haaretz they prettify what Barak said and call it "greedy capitalism" of the "Right" (see this). 

So now Barak, who is heading the Israeli Labor Party, is getting about 10% of the support of the public in pre-election polls.   He is trying to save his McClellenist backside by pouting against "Piggish Capitalism."  In other words, Barak is now the national champion of Dodo Bolshevism. You may recall that the Dodo bird became extinct because it was too stupid to respond or defend itself when it was being stalked by other animals seeking to devour it.   

A Blogger's View on the USA Economic Meltdown

Here is an interesting view on the economic meltdown in the USA. The blogger says that America's end is near, and explains that it has to do with aliyah and Kaballah. [Hat tip to Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu]

Everyone knows about the American Dream... Mansions with Lincoln Expeditions and SUVs in the four-car garage, right next to the ATVs and jet skis. The dream of children who go to the most elite schools and wear designer clothing. For a lot of Americans, that’s where the dream lies: in large-screen televisions and elite schools, in built-in swimming pools and first-class plane tickets.

Masechet Brachot [3b] says:
A handful cannot satisfy a lion, nor can a pit be filled up with its own earth.

In other words, the American dream has become a nightmare.

The logic reason behind American economy collapse is very simple...

Avenge Kacha!

Never mind the Alamo. Remember Kacha!

Kacha’s death must be avenged! The blood of Kacha’s dead body demands an accounting, for she is a-maulderin' in her grave. The murderers must be apprehended. Kacha is the latest martyr.

Even though she was, well, a dog.

The valiant and heroic Kacha was a dog in the West Bank “settlement” of Churshah, really a small outpost consisting of a few Jews and their pets. A group of leftist “anarchists,” better known as anarcho-fascists, entered the village with some Arab thugs and they murdered poor Kacha in cold blood. Those leftists, as opposed to Kacha, were the REAL sons of bitches.

The story is reported in detail at http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/127971

The leftist terrorists and their Arab accomplices burned property in Churshah and commited the anti-canine atrocity, murdering Kacha and stealing a second dog.

Now this is a wonderful opportunity for all those Jewish animal rights nuts all over the United States. Many of them have been trying to get the main kosher slaughtering company in Iowa in the US shut down because the animalists claim that the self-esteem and the human rights of the cows and chickens there are not being probably respected by the evil kosher food corporation. A whole movement of “kosher certification in the name of justice” now operates in the US, whereby a company gets a kosher certificate only if it complies with fashionable leftist PC fads, including of course animal rights. My guess is a nice pig slaughtering company that recycled and used ethanol could get a “hachsher tzedek” certificate from these clowns.

So will these same animal rightists now speak out about the atrocity committed by the anarcho-fascists? Will they demand that Kacha’s legacy be preserved and her murderers punished? Will they endorse establishing a new memorial settlement some place in Samaria named after Kacha? Commemorating Kacha’s very own Masada-like heroism and Maccabee-like valor?

What about the other liberal-keftist animal rights nuts in the US? Will Rabbi Moonbeam (Michael Lerner) and Rabbi Woodstock (Arthur Waskow) write new Tikkun articles commemorating Kacha? Will the Reform synagogue’s leftist SWAT team, the misnamed Religious Action Center, take a brave stand for Kacha’s rights? Will the Jews for Obama ask Barack Hussein to speak out against this atrocity?

Stay tuned!