On the Future of Jonathan Pollard as Grand Vizier of Zion...

or... The "Peter Principle" in praxis.

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Many are wondering out loud if Jonathan Pollard has a future as a leader of the Jewish nation.

Others suggest that no mean leadership position deserveth this hero of Israel—that nothing short of the full-blown eschatological appellation of Israel’s end-time commander-in-chief be he: Mashiach ben Yosef!

And while no one likes to be a bubble-popper, we feel the need to discourage that latter contention.

Why?

Very simply, because Jonathan Pollard is a tinkerer.

According to the horse’s own mouth (and that of one of his more frequent interlocutors—the well-manicured and glibly urbane Rav D. bar Chaim), all that’s required to bring about a messianic Jewish revolution is to expand the power base of Itamar ben Gvir and SHMOTRICH in the zionist assembly of 120 and—poof! wow!—we transition to Malchus David.

This, by the way, is why Pollard intends to offer himself as a running mate to the above-mentioned skull-caps before the next round of political circusry begins.

He believes he can make a difference from within.

Moreover, he and his well-manicured rabbi also speak of remaking the IDF, as if that, too, will somehow bring us closer to redemption.

How?

By simply removing the army’s current brahmin leadership and replacing it with a hungrier junior class of inglorious b*st*rds, the required change will thereby be effected.

A tinker here. A soldier there. And the spy will tailor-make a new Jewish reality.

Now, before anyone gets a rash and suggests that we’re being disrespectful toward a man who literally gave his life for the Jewish people, or that we’re unappreciative of the great deeds he did, or the suffering he endured—we’re going to stop you right there.

Every sane Jew recognizes Pollard’s contribution to the life and safety of Jews in Eretz Yisrael and the tremendous price he paid for it.

That’s not the point.

What’s germane is that Pollard, as currently constituted, offers nothing to a nation currently at the beginning of a years-long conflict that will ultimately bring them to redemption.

On the contrary, Pollard’s outlook and vision can only retard that inevitability.

Why?

Because there’s no salvation to be had from any institution of the zionist regime.

None.

Nor can it can’t be tweaked, refined or reformed to the benefit of G-d and the Jewish nation.

It must simply be replaced.

Not so, says Pollard, however. In his view, we just have to elbow and noodge and coerce and convince our way into power, and once there… well, the dominoes will all fall in the right direction.

The Jewish direction.

As if the Knesset guides the destiny of our people.

As if it plays any role at all.

Mashiach will arise from outside the system, friends, and for that reason, won’t be recognized by his brothers—for the most part.

He certainly won’t be voted into the position.

‘PETER’ POLLARD

For all his wonderful thoughts on what should be done to effect a positive, Jewish change at this point, Jonathan Pollard remains a company man. An American company man. Too much a democrat and too mindful of what America thinks or does to bring fresh thinking to the table.

Our trajectory today should be toward disengagement from the system—precisely the opposite of what Pollard and his well-manicured rav are prescribing.

The example of the hilltop youth—and the Peleg Yerushalmi—are instructive in that regard.

To conclude, the “Peter Principle” suggests that ‘a man rises to the level of his incompetence’.

And Pollard appears well on the way to proving the point.

Better he use his talents as a gadfly and agitate from without.

Dean Maughvet