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Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. -C.S. Lewis

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I think we were meant to be but we did it wrong.

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A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

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Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

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Will the West now adopt Israel’s anti-terror strategies? | Times of Israel

In his article at the Times of Israel, David Horovits writes:

As bombers and gunmen targeted our buses and our shopping malls and our hotels and our colleges and our restaurants, we did two things that France, the US and the rest of the free world will have to do if they want to defeat this latest, particularly despicable Islamist terror iteration: We learned how to reduce our vulnerability to terrorism, and we tackled the killers in their centers of operation. Short-sightedly, hypocritically, and abidingly, the international community, including most of the Western world, barely understood the need for the former strategy, and castigated us for the latter.

We made it harder for terrorists to kill us by doing what those CNN experts are saying is impossible: yes, protecting all our cafes, and restaurants, and shopping malls, and hotel entrances, and buses, and every other public place where our citizens gather, with barriers and metal detectors and security guards; all these years later, suicide bombers still can’t just walk into our theaters and concert halls. We bolstered our intelligence-gathering in the viciously hostile Palestinian territories, notably including the West Bank cities from which we had withdrawn years before in the vain quest for peaceful coexistence. And to the ongoing fury of misguided critics everywhere, we built a security barrier — a mix of fences and sections of wall — so that Palestinian suicide bombers could not just drive into Israel and blow us up. We became a nation of domestic security analysts, gauging where to shop and whether or not to take the bus as we sought to minimize our exposure to the killers. And we toughed it out.

I was there during that time. I lived in Israel for 16 years. During that time I was one of the people called to go and bring the fight to the terrorists in the west bank. We went into those terrorist-controlled parts of the different cities and we made sure no more suicide bombers can come out of there.

Israel is secure inside, by being intelligent and by being better than its enemies. In the middle east, nice words don’t work. It’s a old testament world there. It’s an eye for an eye.

Learn. Instead of being a asshole antisemite, get your facts right and learn how to keep your country safe.

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