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Home World Satanic Verses of the Talmud World Satanic Verses of the Talmud The Talmud is the most racist, hate-mongering, blasphemous book the world has ever known. By Jonas E. Alexis, Senior Editor - January 24, 2022 5597 8 Share JEA: Yehezkel Dror is the founding president of the Jewish People Policy Planning Institute, a professor emeritus of political science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a recipient of the Israel Prize. Dror wrote a stunning article in the Jewish Daily Forward in 2008 which unquestionably put Jewish survival above everything else, including moral principles. Dror asked then: “When the survival of the Jewish people conflicts with the morals of the Jewish people, is existence worthwhile, or even possible?” He then answered his own question: “Physical existence, I would argue, must come first. No matter how moral a society aspires to be, physical existence must take precedent.”[1] If Professor Dror dared to even read Kant’s Critique of Practical Reason before he wrote this mumbo jumbo, then he would have realized that this survival principle doesn’t add up at all because there is no way to universalize it. In other words, why does Dror have the right to apply this principle and not the Palestinians? It pains me to beat up a dead horse here, but it is necessary. We have to bring in Israeli Zionist historian Benny Morris in the conversation. Morris unflinchingly stated: “A Jewish state would not have come into being without the uprooting of 700,000 Palestinians. Therefore, it was necessary to uproot them. There was no choice but to expel that population. It was necessary to cleanse the hinterland and cleanse the border areas and cleanse the main roads. It was necessary to cleanse the villages from which our convoys and our settlements were fired on.”[2] Ethnic cleansing has been Israel’s bloody history, and reputable Israeli historians have written extensively on this very issue.[3] This ethnic cleansing continues to this very day.[4] The Israeli settlements are classic examples. Ze’ev Maoz of the University of California, formerly of Tel-Aviv University, notes in Defending the Holy Land: “Israel has violated the spirit and text of the Oslo Accords by fundamentally changing the status quo through a widespread settlement policy… in 1993 there were about 110,000 settlers in the occupied territories. In 2001 there were 195,000 (Note that the number of settlers increased by 18 percent during the Al Aqsa Intifada). This was an increase of 73 percent under the guise of an agreement wherein Israel committed itself not to change the territorial status quo.”[5] According to Maoz, the settlements were a stumbling block to peace in the Middle East. In fact, “the settlement policy was self-defeating…By building new settlements and authorizing new construction in the existing ones, the Israeli government effectively engaged in a self-defeating process that would tie their hands in the final status agreements.”[6] Now we come to the perennial issue that Professor Dror did not have the moral and intellectual courage to address: the survival of the Palestinians is obviously at stake. Do the Palestinians have the right to defend themselves against Israeli aggression? Do they have the right to fight against concentration camps in places like Gaza? Do they have the right to resist statements by Gilad Sharon saying that Gaza needed to be wiped out completely? If the answer is no, then we have a problem: Dror is operating under a system which we all know is essentially Talmudic. This became very clear when Dror declared in the same article: “When the requirements of existence conflict with other values, therefore, realpolitik should be given priority…Regrettably, human history refutes the idealistic claim that in order to exist for long, a state, society or people has to be moral. Given the foreseeable realities of the 21st century and beyond, harsh choices are unavoidable, with requirements of existence often contradicting other important values.” In other words, ideology is more important than following the moral order. But there is more here. Dror insinuated that people like him only used moral principles when they are not in conflict with the Israeli/Zionist ideology. He stated: “Some might argue that putting existence first may be counter-productive in terms of existence itself, because what may be regarded as immoral action can undermine external and internal support essential for existence. However, the calculus of realpolitik gives primacy to existence, leaving limited room for ethical considerations. The unfortunate reality is that the Jewish people may be faced with tragic choices in which important values have to be sacrificed for even more important ones.” Dror continued to say: “The overall issue is whether the imperative for the Jewish people to exist is a categorical one overriding nearly all other values, or one among many imperatives of similar standing. Given both the history and ...

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