Samson Blinded: A Machiavellian Perspective on the Middle East Conflict, by Obadiah Shoher, abandons moralizing and ideological hubris to view Israeli-Muslim struggle in terms of raw realpolitik. Terrorism is historically normal mode of war. Israel must respect terrorists as efficient warriors - and kill them. Nuclear terrorism is unavoidable, and it will hit America before Israel.

We must learn to tolerate and mitigate its damages. Shoher makes the case that only by shedding liberal idealism the West can win against Islamists. Espousing political rationalism, he deplores both Jewish and Muslim myths, and argues for efficiency and separating politics from moralism.

From the Author

Several reviewers classified this book as hate literature. This cannot be true: hate is irrational while I argue for pure rationality; hate veils itself in morality while my policies are stripped from any notion of moralizing; hate is wasteful while my aim is efficiency. Hate is like any ideology: silly, costly, and going nowhere. We cannot afford to hate enemies; we must act efficiently.

Any political book advocates against someone; discrimination is central for politics. Democrats, for example, want more votes at the expense of Republicans, and legitimately attack them. My recommendations involve threat of reciprocal violence, but international politics is always built around such threat; balance of power is the only proven strategy for maintaining peace.

I do not hate Neo-Nazis. They are just enemies, and must be dealt with rationally. I dislike anti-Semites, but cannot object to their opinions as long as they remain passive. Xenophobia is all too human. I do, however, believe in the biblical choosiness of the Jews. That does not make me a racist, but, on the contrary, makes me to hate many Jewish violations of Or Hara'ayon.

I am liberal - in the traditional sense of the word before leftists usurped it. I dislike irresponsible idealists who in the worst totalitarian manner shut voices of realism, and keep their heads in sand. These totalitarian moralists are bad for us, but catastrophic for the next generation which will suffer the crisis the idealists created - the crisis we still can defuse.

About the Author
Obadiah Shoher is a pen name taken for security reasons, and the author's identity is a closely guarded secret. Shoher was born in the USSR, emigrated, and became a top lawyer before entering politics. He served in several public offices, managed election campaigns, and leads a political party. Shoher wrote dozens of articles and essays on politics, political philosophy, religion, economy, and security matters.

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Samson Blinded: A Machiavellian Perspective on the Middle East Conflict, by Obadiah Shoher, abandons moralizing to view Israeli-Muslim struggle in terms of raw realpolitik.

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Why the name, Samson Blinded? One allusion is to the Samson option, Israel’s nuclear capability. Other parallels are with Samson’s death. He conducted suicide operation millennia before the Jews started to blame Palestinians for the same. After the Philistines blinded him, he allegedly killed 3,000 of them along with himself. Israeli politicians drive her to the same fate. Their policies invite terrorist nuclear attack and annihilation of much of the Middle East in retaliation. I thought that analysts tendentiously ignore this obvious outcome, and was glad recently to read similar opinion of Ralph Peters.

The Samson Blinded dissects honestly the problems which have accumulated since the Jews returned to Palestine.Espousing political rationalism, it deplores both Muslim and Jewish myths and advocates measures which Machiavelli would, I believe, suggest were he writing today.

Addressed principally to Jews, the book may also interest many Americans in the aftermath of the onset of the so-called war on terrorism.Dealing with topics ranging from ethics to history to politics to asymmetrical warfare, it angers Jews and Muslims, Americans and Egyptians, liberals and conservatives, hawks and doves, all alike.

Several authors have honestly expounded the Middle East conflict in general and terrorism specifically, but moral preconceptions stopped them short of articulating the rational consequences of their thought.I argue for efficiency and separating politics from moralism.

This book is only realistic, and I regret that many people misinterpret it as advocacy of fascism or war crimes. I realize, however, that the book is a boon to Zionist conspiracy buffs, and a valuable replacement for the Protocols of the Elders of Zion forgery. Enjoy.

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