Today's subject is somewhat embarrassing. I want to address the question: Why are they stripping?
By ?they? - I mean the Leftists. Why do they feel the need to expose their private parts when they demonstrate against US President Bush throughout the world? I have participated in many demonstrations by supporters of Eretz Israel, and no one who took part felt such a need. But amongst the Leftists, this has been accepted practice since the days of Woodstock in the Sixties. This is not something new. So what's the connection between Saddam Hussein and stripping?
The basic idea of the Left, one that has become strengthened by the post-modernist approach, is that absolute truth does not exist. There are merely different ways of looking at things. Some people think that Saddam is evil and Bush is good, but perhaps the opposite is true. We shall never know, because there is no such thing as good and evil.
Consequently there is no reason to fight for anything. As John Lennon said in one of the most powerful songs of the 20th Century, "We thought that there was no Heaven or Hell - nothing worth dying or killing for." Millions of people were murdered because of this song.
This approach formed the breeding ground for the dictatorial regimes that slaughtered millions of people in the 20th Century. I have neither exaggerated the numbers, nor the gravity of the guilt. The hammer of world evil needs the anvil of the Left in order to function. Hitler would not have come to power without the Leftist pacifist movements in Europe and the US. Pol Pot would not have slaughtered millions of his own countrymen were it not for Jane Fonda, who helped cause the US forces to leave Vietnam. They prepared the anvil. People would not be blown up in buses in Israel if it were not for the Beilins and Yael Dayans, who brought the terrorists here through precisely the same approach. By the way, Jane Fonda visited Israel not long ago, and just like Beilin and Dayan, who are not sorry for a moment for bringing terrorists here and giving them rifles, Fonda not only fails to acknowledge her direct responsibility for the slaughter of millions, but even continues to call for the continuation of the same approach.
But what is the connection between all this and stripping?
Not to fight against evil means joining it. To say that war is always evil is an immoral statement that advances the cause of evil. There is nothing more moral than a justified war. Those who say that war is in itself immoral are casting off one of the foundations of morality. It's only a short step from there to casting off the basic moral foundations of all civilized people who assume them naturally. "Make love not war" - they propose that we descend to the moral level of monkeys.
In fact, they are not stripping against war - they are opposing war in order to strip. But I think that the issue is now clear.
We shall continue to participate in demonstrations while fully dressed.
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Moshe Feiglin is head of the Manhigut Yehudit faction in the Likud party and a former prime ministerial candidate. The forgoing article was based on Mr. Feiglin?s radio program on Arutz Sheva (in Hebrew).
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By ?they? - I mean the Leftists. Why do they feel the need to expose their private parts when they demonstrate against US President Bush throughout the world? I have participated in many demonstrations by supporters of Eretz Israel, and no one who took part felt such a need. But amongst the Leftists, this has been accepted practice since the days of Woodstock in the Sixties. This is not something new. So what's the connection between Saddam Hussein and stripping?
The basic idea of the Left, one that has become strengthened by the post-modernist approach, is that absolute truth does not exist. There are merely different ways of looking at things. Some people think that Saddam is evil and Bush is good, but perhaps the opposite is true. We shall never know, because there is no such thing as good and evil.
Consequently there is no reason to fight for anything. As John Lennon said in one of the most powerful songs of the 20th Century, "We thought that there was no Heaven or Hell - nothing worth dying or killing for." Millions of people were murdered because of this song.
This approach formed the breeding ground for the dictatorial regimes that slaughtered millions of people in the 20th Century. I have neither exaggerated the numbers, nor the gravity of the guilt. The hammer of world evil needs the anvil of the Left in order to function. Hitler would not have come to power without the Leftist pacifist movements in Europe and the US. Pol Pot would not have slaughtered millions of his own countrymen were it not for Jane Fonda, who helped cause the US forces to leave Vietnam. They prepared the anvil. People would not be blown up in buses in Israel if it were not for the Beilins and Yael Dayans, who brought the terrorists here through precisely the same approach. By the way, Jane Fonda visited Israel not long ago, and just like Beilin and Dayan, who are not sorry for a moment for bringing terrorists here and giving them rifles, Fonda not only fails to acknowledge her direct responsibility for the slaughter of millions, but even continues to call for the continuation of the same approach.
But what is the connection between all this and stripping?
Not to fight against evil means joining it. To say that war is always evil is an immoral statement that advances the cause of evil. There is nothing more moral than a justified war. Those who say that war is in itself immoral are casting off one of the foundations of morality. It's only a short step from there to casting off the basic moral foundations of all civilized people who assume them naturally. "Make love not war" - they propose that we descend to the moral level of monkeys.
In fact, they are not stripping against war - they are opposing war in order to strip. But I think that the issue is now clear.
We shall continue to participate in demonstrations while fully dressed.
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Moshe Feiglin is head of the Manhigut Yehudit faction in the Likud party and a former prime ministerial candidate. The forgoing article was based on Mr. Feiglin?s radio program on Arutz Sheva (in Hebrew).
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