21August, 2004

Three Editorials

Three Editorials which will never be published in Israel

“Now the word of the Lord came unto Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, Arise, go to
Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me …

And Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty
days and Nineveh shall be overthrown …

And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the
evil, that he said that he would do …”

From the Book of Jonah

Below, are three editorials, which will never be published in Israel, but could well be
published at the appropriate times in a prominent newspaper in the United States.

Every day that passes makes them increasingly plausible.

In what follows, all of the dates were chosen deliberately.

Daniel Feiglin,
Shavei Shomron, D.N. 44858
dilogsys@inter.net.il

© 21/08/04

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12 April, 2006
Yizkor-‫יזכור‬
In Memoriam

In memory of a valiant little nation that lost its nerve a

minute before its redemption
One month ago, the world in which we lived was shattered. Simultaneous nuclear blasts
of approximately twenty kilotons apiece, effectively leveled the centers of Israel’s three
largest cities, Tel Aviv, Haifa and West Jerusalem. A further string of smaller blasts of
about half a kiloton apiece, wiped out the central populated areas from Gedera in the
south to Hadera, north of what was Tel Aviv. It is now known that the bombs used were
enhanced and modified tactical devices, some 120 of which found their way from the
Ukraine in early 1999, to Pakistan, then to Afghanistan and then via who knows how
many hands, to the perpetrators. One of the “enhancements” involved packaging the
bombs in special cobalt containers, which ensured that anyone close enough to ground
zero, not killed in the main blasts, would suffer a lethal dose of radiation.

No one is certain who did this thing. The known terror groups such as Al Qaida have
been strangely silent, and those claiming responsibility lack credibility. But the results are
clear: Israel suffered over two million casualties from the direct blasts, and during the
following week, around three million more people appear to have either died or become
terminally ill from the radiation effects. The fact that about half a million Palestinians
were wiped out didn’t seem to bother those responsible.

The levels of radioactivity near the centers have all but prevented any kind of aid from
reaching the stricken areas and to make matters worse the neighboring countries have
“occupied” adjacent areas with the supposed interest of rendering aid to the population.
Egypt has occupied the Negev, Jordan has occupied the center of the country and Syria
has taken over the Golan and the Galil areas. Barely a week later we began to see armed
clashes between the occupying powers, so no one could have any doubts as to their real
intentions.

It may be of some relief to know that the Egyptians found the Dimona Nuclear Center a
boiling radioactive slagheap, reminiscent of the Chernobyl disaster. It is equally a relief
to know that the Soreq nuclear installation went up in a string of conventional explosions
releasing a flood of yet to be identified radioactive material. The blasts seem to have been
triggered by the entry of Egyptian troops into the area.

How thoughtful of the Israelis not to leave us with a very nasty problem.

Unfortunately however, the Israeli Air Force is largely unaccounted for, and no one has
any idea to where Israel’s four ocean-going submarines have disappeared. It is thought
that the latter were armed with cruise type missiles with multiple nuclear warheads.

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And what of relief from the international community for any survivors? As usual, the
General Assembly and the Security Council of the United Nations became so ensnared in
the details of their own one sided rhetoric as to render nugatory the chance of any succor
from that direction.

But what happened? Did the Israeli Government with all its intelligence arms have no
inkling of what was going on under its nose? The chances are that it did not. The USA
was caught out on September 11, 2001, mostly out of complacency, misplaced trust and
vested interests. Israel however was maneuvered into divesting herself of Gaza and most
of the West Bank, allowing deployment of international control – which was, as to be
expected, completely impotent against terrorist infiltration and subsequent occupation of
those areas. The supposed humanitarian reasons for removing equally “supposed” Israeli
occupation of those areas are now shown to be as vacuous as the Nationalist Israeli
groups claimed them to be. Most of the West Bank Palestinians are either dead or dying
and population of the Gaza strip is simply dying of thirst and starvation. (The water
pumps supplying Gaza were located in Israel, and in any event, the water supplies they
drew upon are contaminated with radioactive fallout.) There is no doubt that Israel’s
capitulation to the international demands resulted from the strange mix of stupidity and
cupidity that have characterized her international relations since the state was founded in
1948. The moral turpitude and rank cowardice of successive Israeli governments is
completely at odds with the personal valor and resourcefulness of her leaders in the face
of battle. Did Israel lose its nerve because somewhere, it lost its sense of purpose and
direction?

Even if we were to accept Arab rhetoric as Gospel truth, none of Israel’s sins warranted
genocide.

How strange, is the unholy silence of the Holy See, for the second time in living memory.

How strange, is the silence of all those human rights groups, which apparently regard the
murder of over five million human beings, because of their race or nationality, as being
less important than the preservation of an endangered species of penguins. And indeed,
the Jewish people are now very much an “endangered species”. If you should care to ask,
“So what?” then, for a start have a look at the number of Jewish Nobel Prize laureates
compared with any other identifiable group on this planet. And remember also, that the
total worldwide Jewish population has never exceeded about 18 millions.

One month ago, the world in which we lived shattered. The world never understood,
indeed never wanted to understand that Hitler’s Holocaust was not just a Jewish tragedy.
This latest atrocity may prove to be even more a general human tragedy than just a
Jewish one.

The Jews of the world lost their dream of more than 2000 years a minute before its
fulfillment.

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But, what of us who live? We the living, have lost our humanity. And again, should you
care to ask, “So what?” then, listen carefully to the rolling drums of Jihad from the East,
financed and nurtured by the industries of the West. We have sown a storm, and we will
yet reap a hurricane.

The Last Kaddish

A month has passed, and it is a matter of record that most of the known Jewish
communities have simply dropped out of sight, as if swallowed up by the earth. Here and
there, you can still talk to some of the better-known Jewish leadership. But their words
ring hollow; they represent ghosts.

When the clash between East and West has passed, and after we have paid for our
inhumanity in full, perhaps it will be an Eternal Jew, who will come cautiously out of
hiding, to dig our graves, perhaps shed a tear that none of us deserve, and declaim,

Yitgadal ve-yitkadash Shemei Rabba!

Magnified and sanctified be His Great Name!

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22 September, 2007
Nemesis

A moment of sanity in a time of madness

Eighteen months ago the world witnessed an act of madness resulting in the destruction
of the state of Israel, and the near disappearance of most of the worldwide major Jewish
communities. The response of the world was silence, whether out of indifference,
disbelief, or maybe even numbness. And then once again madness struck. The Pope’s last
Easter address at St Peter’s Square was cut short barely seconds after he began to speak –
by a Lau missile, which smashed into the podium killing the Pontiff, and seven of his
immediate entourage. Rather unsurprisingly and within minutes, several extremist Islamic
groups both on the air and over the Internet were claiming “credit” for the murder. The
missile launcher was found, free of fingerprints and any identifying marks. The operator
was not.

But that was just the beginning. A month later, in May, cardinals from all over the world,
entered into Conclave to elect a new heir to St. Peter’ throne. After several inconclusive
rounds of voting followed by the traditional plume of black smoke from the Sistine
Chapel, the world was suddenly treated to a great white cloud, not of a plume emerging
from the Chapel, but one in the shape of a mushroom. A nuclear blast of about 70
kilotons wiped the Vatican City off the map, along with the immediate surrounding
suburbs.

Once again, terrorist groups of all sorts – Islamic, Maoist and the like, were quick to jump
on the bandwagon, but their joy was short lived. Exactly 24 hours later, two more
explosions occurred. One of about 150 kiloton yield, turned the center of Mecca into a
radio active crater 700 meters across and about 30 meters deep – leaving no trace of the
Kabbah stone, Islam’s holiest shrine. As if to add insult to injury, the device appears to
have been cased in Cobalt 60, ensuring that the site would remain radioactive for years to
come. The second bomb, somewhat smaller, pulverized the center of Medina, Islam’s
second most holy place.

This time the shock led to silence from the Islamic states and extremist groups, and then a
day or so later, a spate of ludicrous accusations against US sponsored Zionist Jewish
renegades and the like. If such rhetoric was ridiculous enough when Israel and the world
wide Jewish communities existed, it was now palpable nonsense, reflecting sadly on the
sanity of those who persist in repeating it.

But still that was not the end. As if to put paid to the Jewish-Zionist ogre theories for all
time, another week later saw a fourth device, of about 150 kiloton blast the already
stricken city of Jerusalem, this time reducing the Old City to rubble but leaving standing
one row of charred stones – the massive foundation blocks of the Wailing Wall on the
edge of a crater that was once the Temple Mount.

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The total destruction of the centers of Christianity, Islam and Judaism will provide
endless editorial material for journalists, student of political science and theologians
alike. Whatever they will say or write will never really plumb the depth of what has
happened.

Within the space of a further four months the world changed again. The Catholic Church,
as a monolithic central body has ceased to exist. All the cardinals bar several over 80
years old and a few who were not in Rome for health reasons are dead. For the first time
in 2000 years the Apostolic succession has been broken. Archbishops all over the world
have already assumed local authority. Where shock, desertion or sheer indifference has
not destroyed the Catholic Church, a new decentralized leadership is beginning to
emerge, hopefully capable of responding to both the spiritual and material needs of the
populations it serves, maybe offering an infusion of new hope and faith. Perhaps the time
has come for the shattered Roman Church to make peace and common cause with the
other Christian denominations for the good of us all.

The Moslem world is also in chaos. The very idea that anyone, be it believer or infidel
could strike at the very heart of Islam totally destroying it, has not yet been grasped.
Local centers are sprouting all over the Islamic world, lead typically by charismatic
personalities each claiming to be the true reincarnation or heir to the Prophet Mohammed.
Some of them even claim to have pieces or all of the Kabbah stone, spirited to them by
miracle, a second before the blast. Unlike the changes in the Christian world, these
developments can only be troubling. Mystic movements fuelled by the fanaticism and
terror of Islamic extremism, are all too well known. Now, add to that, the disenchantment
of millions of Moslem believers left devoid of faith and ready to embrace any alternative,
which may fill the gap. We have here a recipe for chaos and war, which dwarf the most
terrible end-of-time prophecies of the Book of Revelations.

Five months have passed since the Vatican and Mecca were destroyed. No one has the
faintest idea as to the identity of the real perpetrators. There are just theories. Common to
most of them are all sorts of conspiracy theories ultimately blaming the Israelis. It is true
that the four Israeli nuclear-armed submarines and a good part of her air force remain
unaccounted for to this day, but there is not a shred of tangible evidence connecting them
to what happened. And further, this time no one has come forward to claim responsibility.

Nevertheless, nuclear weapons are deployed and detonated by people, not by some
avenging Old Testament Deity. The choice of targets demonstrates that the people behind
these four atomic blasts wanted to make a point. With apologies to William Shakespeare,
were they saying, “A plague on all your houses”? Were they saying, that the day of
centralized religions and the politics deriving from them have come and gone? Perhaps
they were trying to tell us that in order to survive as a species, man would need to find
another way to relate to himself and to his God or gods.

In our view, the people – human beings like all of us, who committed these acts, were no
less evil than the evil (as perceived by them) that they destroyed. Unlike “conventional
terrorists” they did not threaten, extort or kidnap. They simply acted in a way as if to say,

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“You will pay attention and take heed”. If these people in making their point, are
prepared do so in such a manner, one can only tremble at what lesson they may chose to
inflict next, if their point is not taken.

Let us take a moment of sanity in a time of madness. Would it hurt to pay attention and
take heed? It is paradoxical that maybe some good may yet come out from all this evil.

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20 May, 2008
Nemesis (2)

Revenge or cleansing?
One week ago, the world suffered yet another round – the third, of nuclear explosions.
The nuclear and rocketry development centers of Iran, Pakistan and North Korea were
destroyed in near simultaneous ground blasts estimated to be about 150 kilotons each.
But this time there may be a clue as to who was behind them and why. Within minutes of
the attacks, the major news centers of the world were deluged with a spate of electronic
mail all carrying the same message. In essence it claimed that during 2003-2004, three
Dolphin class submarines of the defunct state of Israel, had been converted from diesel-
electric power to nuclear power. They were stripped of all armaments other than multiple
warhead cruise type missiles capable of delivering 150-kiloton nuclear blasts. They were
manned by small elite crews, whom in addition to their normal operational duties, were
also trained for a doomsday role. The message went on to explain that each stage of the
doomsday operation would proceed if world did not take suitable steps after the previous
one. No explanation of “suitable steps” was offered. There was no indication as to how a
decision to proceed would be made or by whom. The last part of the message was most
troubling: It said, “The world is now largely free of rogue states having nuclear weapons
and the ability to use them. This is your last chance to display the determination required
to ensure that events like 13 March 2006 (the destruction of the state of Israel – ed.), will
never happen again. In any event, this is the last time we say to you all - Shalom”.

All the flap in the United Nations and the Security Council over “hunting down and
destroying the Zionist murderers” is pointless. We should assume that three advanced
nuclear powered submarines would be so equipped that their crews would know if they
are being hunted and tracked. How such people having lost all and with nowhere to go,
will react in extremis requires little imagination. Does anyone remember how Samson of
the Bible behaved in his last moments? We would do well to forget about three
submarines, which sooner or later will need to return to a nonexistent port in a
nonexistent country. Instead, as we suggested in our “Nemesis” editorial of 22 September
2007, we should pay attention and take heed. It is now possible to cleanse the world of
the evil of nuclear terror, which has brought us to this point. One way or another, we will
bring about our own destruction if we ignore the opportunity. What difference does it
make to the dead if they were murdered by terror extortionists or by self appointed ex-
Israeli angels of death?

Read the last sentence of the email message again: “ In any event, this is the last time we
say to you all – Shalom”. Think carefully of what it could mean.

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 Postscript: Is it plausible?
Introduction
It is all too easy to dismiss the above scenario as a piece of farfetched political science
fiction. Unfortunately recent worldwide developments in political and financial affairs
(are they that different?) point to the emergence of something very ugly even if it is only
the transformation of the so called open democracies to closed near-totalitarian states all
in the interest of defense against international terror. That of itself is a win to the
terrorists. We don’t need to reach the point of tactical nuclear exchanges.

In the following sections I offer several Internet sites, which I found useful in giving my
scenario a touch of reality.

1. Energy Yield from Nuclear Explosions

The following site contains tables of destructive radius for yield at various heights. If it
becomes inaccessible, I can supply the text.

http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Lab/2742/numbers.htm

2. Israel’s Submarines – A Second Strike Strategy

The amount of detail on this site is quite incredible. See

http://www.israeli-weapons.com/index.html

In particular, go to

http://www.israeli-weapons.com/weapons/naval/dolphin/Dolphin.html

Here is a non-Israeli site with a cutaway diagram:

http://users.skynet.be/RonSubCovers/Dieselsub/U-212%20GE.htm

This is a German site on the same subject:

http://users.otenet.gr/~kostast/212.htm

3. Availability of Tactical Nuclear Weapons to Terror Groups

There is not much of substance on this subject, but a lot of rumors. The story about the
pilfered Ukrainian devices is true, something of the order of 120 tactical devices having
found their way to Pakistan around the New Year of 1998. In February 2004 someone
claiming to speak for al Qaida admitted that the group had acquired tactical nuclear
weapons. The claim was given little cover off the Internet, and seems to have been
quickly “forgotten”. Why? Whose toes were being trod upon?

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4. Israel Doomsday Policy as a Deterrent
It is well known that submarines offer any country having them a second-strike
capability. That is in itself something of a deterrent. I do not know if the Israeli Military
has a contingency plan for doomsday style retaliation as I have described. It would fit
military thinking, but Israeli politics and politicians are so superficial, small-town and
steeped in silly preconceptions, that I doubt it. Perhaps Begin and Ben Gurion may have
been willing to consider such things, but I doubt that any of their successors have had the
mental flexibility, capacity or courage to face such an eventuality. Nevertheless, even if
there were a credible rumor of the existence of such a plan, it would have to give Israel’s
enemies pause for thought.

5. And a little Black Humor …

Below is a radial map of Mecca centered on the Kabba Stone. Notice a large rectangular
building marked W.C. in the northeast quadrant a little to the right of the “Marwan”, the
north south passageway that leads into the Kabbah stone area. Given the relative size of
the block, its purpose, and the size of the population it is expected to service, it should be
a multi-floor reinforced concrete structure.

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The second editorial, “Nemesis” of 22 September 2007 describes the destruction of the
Kabbah stone area:

“… Exactly 24 hours later, two more explosions occurred. One of about 150 kiloton
yield, turned the center of Mecca into a radio active crater 700 meters across and about 30
meters deep – leaving no trace of the Kabbah stone, Islam’s holiest shrine. As if to add
insult to injury, the device appears to have been cased in Cobalt 60, ensuring that the site
would remain radioactive for years to come. The second bomb, somewhat smaller,
pulverized the center of Medina, Islam’s second most holy place.”

The blast strength was calculated to leave the W.C. standing.

Sic transit Gloria Islamia.

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