Freedom of Choice

Reuters News Service–Talks that produced a draft deal presented on Wednesday to Iran and three world powers by the U.N. nuclear agency prove that Tehran is vulnerable to international pressure, a senior Israeli defense official said.

Such statements are essentially inflammatory and very bad for diplomacy which relies on the good intentions of both parties. By insisting that force is the determining power Israel is denying Iran the right to make a forthright choice–forced into a choice is not the same a making a choice.

The laws of the Torah/Teaching proscribe is different punishment for the pickpocket and the armed robber; the armed robber must return what he took and they pay double as a fine, but he pickpocket is beaten then fined many times the worth of what he stole because deception is worse then violence.

It says in the Torah that all the ways of the Torah are ways of peace; the Torah is also known as Torat Emet/Truth. Deception in the guise of subtle intimidation is a provocation. The more that Israel provokes their enemies the more Israel appears to be the tip of the sword of Rome entering into the Middle East; all the Middle East is Holy Land because it is the land where Avraham dwelt father to the Arab and Jewish People.

The divisiveness of Rome is at play in the government of Israel.

The Test of Torture

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) concluded in 2007 that US methods to extract information from prisoners at secret CIA jails as part of the "war on terror" amounted to torture.

The Torah teaches the most important element of a leader is to be a Dugma Chai/Living Example; the Talmud-Book of Law relates stories of Rabbis rebuking one another because their actions watched by their students will establish conduct for generations.

The law, no matter how specific, relies upon the moral application overseen by leaders whose integrity is beyond reproach. Arrogance is an unsavory practice.

The Cabala teaches that Moshe who received the Torah from God fell on his face before the word Emet/Truth; the Talmud-Book of Law asks, if Moshe could not stand up to truth than how can we trust the word of Moshe? The answer is simple, the only way to receive truth is through humility and that is why Moshe fell to the ground.