I had confided to you that Avidya is caused by the ego’s nonperception of oneness. There is more. This separation is inharmonious. The Ego (who obscurely knows himself to be the Lord), falls into relativity, unable to realize himself. The result is discord with oneself and others, weakness, obscuration, the quest for passion, wasted energy, and further death and disintegration. Thus addictions are a quest for wholeness, in a lesser manner we daily play with smaller addictions, expecting to find wholeness from titillation and a little tingling of the nerves (ha, ha, if you know what I mean).

No coincidence that often the same word is used to define total opposites. As such, alcohol, a most depraving poison, in Latin is “spiritus”, the same lofty definition that for the substance of the Lord. Thus, Jung, 3 months before his death, defined the winning formula against alcohol addiction as, in Latin: “spiritus contra spiritum”.

I also consider Ron Paul “cool”—when it comes to economics. He is, by far, the most economically knowledgeable elected official in either house of the U.S. Congress. Unfortunately, he is a total idiot regarding foreign policy matters. Paul is also similar to the great libertarian theorist, Murray Rothbard. The latter gentleman got so goofy that he adored Che Guevara and the Cuban revolution.

For Europeans what gets them is the idea of territorial integrity and no change in borders due to war or maybe even no changes at all like the Helsinki agreement said. Hammond and Rand McNally show the 1949-1967 borders a sthe borders of Israel, therefore that is what the borders are by them.

The Europeans also seem to have bought the concept that they are illegal, but that is a great distortion of the Geneva Convention protocols of 1949. They had in mind FORCED transfer of population. And in addition of course there is I think the fact that Israel never signed on to that (I’m not sure) and that this is actually territory that belongs to no state at the present time.

When you say something is illegal, saying that the illegality should be removed – ALL of it – is a powerful point, and it is easy enough to ignore practical issues.

The United States has never, not even Obama here, said the settlements were illegal, but merely “obstacvles to peace” because of the ideda that territory or some of it would eventually be given away, and if you have Jews living on it, you can’t give it away.

You can’t give it away of course because no Jews’ life let alone property and civil rights, would be safe.

The argument about the settlements also carries some weight in the United states because of the argument that the settlements cause problems for the Arabs. But the only reason they cause problems are because of the attacks!

I actually don’t think this is a big issue of conflict between Israel asnd the United States. Israel doesn’t do what the United States would prefer – but nothing will change. What’s bad is the thinking by the United States government – the thinking about what you need to do to get peace – the thinking about the urgency of it – that it affects other things – that it is the reason some Arab states do not co-operate in thuis or that – that’s really bad. And then there are things the united States might do because of faulty thinking – that’s also bad and what the United Sta tes does NOT do.

You also fail to mention how many Jewish settlers in Judea, Samaria and Gaza were murdered by Arabs in the last 20 years. I implore you to read Aaron Klein’s book. In it you will read of the heinous murder of Hillel Lieberman, a Brooklyn born rabbi who moved to Israel and was murdered by Arabs on Shabbos while attempting to protect the Torahs, siddurim and other religious articles in Joseph’s Tomb in Schechem after the Arabs rampaged through it (September 2000)destroying everything in site.

You can also read of Jewish settlers who have had their children murdered. On March 26, 2001, 10 month old Shalhevet Pass was murdered by a Palestinian sniper’s bullet as she sat in her stroller in Hebron. Shalhevet’s father, Yitzchak Pass, who was pushing the stroller, was also wounded by the same bullet.

And let’s not forget the April 2009 murder of 16 year old Shlomo Nativ by an axe wielding Palestinian terrorist at the settlement of Bat Ayin.

You also fail to mention the Arabs who steal entire flocks of goat and sheep owned by Jewish settlers in such Samarian settlements as Yitzhar, Tapuach and Elon Moreh.

You speak of “land grabbing” by settlers and the State of Israel, but you fail to remember that no Arabs are displaced when Jews build settlements and that any settlement illegally built by Jews is demolished within days. Just ask the courageous hilltop youth who have tried.

You also don’t mention the horrific brutality perpetrated against Jewish protestors by Israeli border police and IDF soldiers against protestors at the settlement of Amona in February of 2006 when the Supreme Court of Israel gave the go ahead for government forces to demolish nine homes there. As you recall, hundreds were hospitalized in the riots that ensued.

You say that you’ll be happy to introduce Dr. Chesler to the “right people” who have “objective evidence of the realities in our troubled land”. I suggest that you try to be objective as well and realize that that the “realities” that you speak of have another side to them.

It does look insumountable. No matter what the Israeli government decides they end up in a weaker position with either Western governments or their Muslim Arab neighbours.

Yes, them dark-skinned folks are certainly planning an “endlösung” of the white folks. Palestinians need “lebensraum” in Judea, and are finally learning (like Hezbollah) the “schwerpunkt” tactics of the IDF.

Judenrein.

Appeasement.

Not much changes in human affairs.