Re: Sara Honig on The Reality of Israel's Political System...
- From: jgarbuz <jgarbuz@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 18:38:49 +0000 (UTC)
On Apr 29, 11:24 am, yzk <yaaq...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
YM wrote:
..and it isn't pretty. I and others have been pointing out the
rotteness
and anti-democratic nature of the Israeli political system for some
time
but some people still want to maintain their naive view of things.
Most Israelis now understand..that is why there is a massive drop
in voter turn out and it also explains the medicrity of this
generation
of leaders....people of intergrity don't want to get involved in the
cesspool of Israeli public life and become victims of the Leftist
oligarchy's tyranny.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1177514491430&pagename=JPo...
Some of you out there may say the Honig and us are "extremists", but
the fact is at least half the population feels the country is not a
democracy
and that they are politically disenfrachised. What kind of a country
can have half its population feel that way and be a healthy democracy?
As I pointed out to one of our shul's gabbaim this morning, since I came here to
live, the blessing of "Hashiva shofteinu kevarishonah veyo'atzeinu
kevatehillah...." (Bring back our Judges as it was before, and our advisors as
in the beginning), a blessing one normally glossed over in the States, has taken
on very special meaning for me. When every day, or maybe only every *other* day,
yet another minister is indicted for corruption of one kind or another, one
truly feels the longing for Hashem's setting it all right.
Yaakov K. in Y-m, praying for Hashem to rid us of these crooks, and set things right.<
Why,was there no corruption in the times of the prophets? Half the
Torah is a diatribe against the crooked leadership in the bible. Power
corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. No one is immune.
Doesn't matter if the law is Halacha, or Sharia, or British common
law. Any human being who gets power will be corrupted by it. David and
Solomon were corrupted. The silly iidea amongst ultraorthodox Jews or
Muslims that bringing back ancient tribal law is going to solve the
world's problems is a delusion. The only hope is that as a species we
are able to evolve into a higher form. But political or religous
reform movements are all doomed to failure until the human has
evolved. Times may change, but people don't.
.
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