Jefta / Jephtah / Jephthah and Roman Polanski - Who was really at Fault?
Jefta was a "mighty man of valour". (Judges 11:1, Holy
Bible) His operations were based out of Gilead -- the region to the right of the Jordan river and south of the Jabbok River.
THAT NEED FOR SOMETHING ELSE
His father was named "Gilead", and his mother was a prostitute. Oh, Gilead had some children with his Jewish wife (Judges 11:2, Holy Bible), but Jews are looking for something more than that. They need women who are ''blonde and good-looking and different from us. And they are desperate. They are ready to do anything for money.'' (Jacob Golan cited in Michael Specter, Contraband Women, New York Times, January 11, 1998)
Roman Polanski is a mighty Jewish film director (the 2009 version of "mighty man of valour"). (Linda Deutsch, Ernst Abegg, Polanski's arrest could be his path to freedom, AP, 27 Sep 2009) Like Gilead, he had access to Jewish women, but needed something more -- something "'blonde and 
good-looking and different from us." (Golan, supra)
READY TO DO ANYTHING FOR MONEY
And he found a woman who was "ready to do anything for money". Her name was Samantha Gailey, and she was 13 years of age. (Deutsch, supra) "He was arrested for having sex with the girl, whom he had hired as a model for a photo shoot at Jack Nicholson's house". (Deutsch, supra)
You might be thinking, Wait a minute. She was just willing to be a "model" in a private "photo shoot" with this Jew. She didn't agree up front to anal sex with this Jewish legend.
WHEN THE MOTHER CONSENTS
"Women often start their hellish journey by choice. Seeking a better life, they are lured by local advertisements for good jobs in foreign countries at wages they could never imagine at home." (Specter, supra)
In this case, because Samantha was underage, 
her mother made the choice. "Polanski received a new commission for Vogue Hommes to photograph young girls from around the world. One of the models was 13-year-old Samantha Gailey, from Woodland Hills, a Los Angeles suburb. Polanski went to see the girl's mother, who gave her consent for the photo shoots, thrilled that the great Roman Polanski was going to photograph her daughter for Vogue. She even had no objection to the director's request that she not accompany her daughter. There were two sessions, and on both occasions Polanski picked up the girl from her home." (The Tragic Case of Roman Polanski, Spiegel, 7 Oct 2009)
FULL DISCLOSURE
Did the mother know it was a Jew she was renting her daughter's services to? Mr. Polanski has made no secret of this fact: "Polanski, a native of France who was taken to Poland by his parents, escaped Krakow's Jewish ghetto as a child during World War II and lived off the charity of strangers." (Deutsch, supra)
WHAT "MIGHTY MEN OF VALOUR" DREAM OF
Mr. Polanski's professional work was also not a secret: "Polanski was considered one of the most dazzling figures of the new Hollywood. His films seemed to emerge 
from some shadowy realm. In "Rosemary's Baby," he had Mia Farrow tied to a bed and raped by the devil. In "Chinatown," a film about corruption in Los Angeles, Polanski played a gangster who slits open Nicholson's nose. In the film, evil prevails in the end, and when Polanski was later asked what would have happened to the gangster he played, he said: "He would probably be in Mexico, screwing virgins."" (The Tragic Case of Roman Polanski, Spiegel, 7 Oct 2009)
That's mutilation like in the film Antichrist. "Jeers and laughter broke out during scenes ranging from a talking fox to graphically-portrayed sexual mutilation." (Mike Collett-White, Lars von Trier film "Antichrist" shocks Cannes, Reuters, 17 May 2009)
And the mother knew about this, or should have. And she "gave her consent for the photo shoots, thrilled that the great Roman Polanski was going to photograph her daughter for Vogue." (The Tragic Case of Roman Polanski, Spiegel, 7 Oct 2009)
DRUGS, AS USUAL
The Chinatown poster gives it all away -- another tobacco promotion film. The film watchers are encouraged to try the drug. It deadens their senses. And then, the Jewish director moves in to take care of his real business:
"On March 20, 1977, the day of the second session, Polanski and the girl drove to the house of Jack Nicholson at 12850 Mulholland Drive. They were alone. When they arrived, the girl said that she was thirsty, according to the 39-page statement Gailey later made to the district attorney.
Polanski gave her champagne, and she drank it." (The Tragic Case of Roman Polanski, Spiegel, 7 Oct 2009)
But maybe the alcohol wasn't enough?
"Polanski went to the bathroom to get a Quaalude, a drug that was popular at the time and that produces a euphoric feeling and acts as an aphrodisiac. Polanski gave her half a pill, but at first she refused to take it." (The Tragic Case of Roman Polanski, Spiegel, 7 Oct 2009)
At first.
And after this girl had the drugs in the system, Polanski's real work was easy:
"Polanski kissed her vagina. The girl said no, told him to stop, but he continued his advances and eventually penetrated her. He asked her whether she was taking the pill and when she had last had her period. "I said, 'I don't know. A week or two. I'm not sure,'" Gailey said.
Eventually Polanski had anal sex with her, the girl testified.
STRONG DRUGS = WEAK RESISTANCE
"Did you resist at that time?" the district attorney asked.
"A little bit, but not really"" (The Tragic Case of Roman Polanski, Spiegel, 7 Oct 2009)
"Women often start their hellish journey by choice. Seeking a better life, they are lured by local advertisements for good jobs in foreign countries at wages they could never imagine at home." (Specter, supra)
The pay for photo shoots for Jewish magazines like Vogue is higher than pay for babysitting jobs. And little Samantha chose to be a model for "the great Roman Polanski". The mother knew than Polanski needed to get her daughter "alone". And the rest is history. (The Tragic Case of Roman Polanski, Spiegel, 7 Oct 2009)
VERY GREAT SLAUGHTER
Jefta led a Jewish army into action against the poeple of Ammon. "he smote them from Aroer, even till thou come to Minnith, even twenty cities, and unto the plain of the vineyards, with a very great slaughter." (Judges 11, Holy Bible) After the great slaughter, Jefta "came to Mizpeh unto his house, and, behold, his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances: and she was his only child; beside her he had neither son nor daughter." (Judges 11, Holy Bible) And to celebrate his success in battle, Jefta burnt his own daughter alive. (Judges 11:39, Holy Bible) Note in the picture at right that he had her hands tied as he placed her on the pile of wood.
Hands tied? There isn't much resistance when drugs are involved - alcohol, quaaludes. The sorts of weapons Mr. Polanski knew how to use. (per The Tragic Case of Roman Polanski, Spiegel, 7 Oct 2009)
AND THEN IT WAS TIME TO TAKE A JOURNEY TO EXORCISE HIS DEMONS
Jewish director Lars von Triers work is characterized by "galskapen, en reise som kanskje også innebærer en eksorsisme av regissørens egne demoner" (Anne Hof, - Ikke la deg skremme!, NRK, 6 Jun 2009) Insanity, a journey that perhaps can involve exorcism of the director's own demons.
After burning his own daughter, Jefta needed to take a journey to exorcise his own demons.
ZERO TOLERANCE FOR FREEDOM OF SPEECH / EPHRAIM JEWS SLAUGHTERED
It seems the Jews in Ephraim had insulted the Jews in Gilead:
And the Jews in Gilead said, "No problem. We love you fellow Jews anyway"?
Not quite.
SEVERE PUNISHMENT FOR MASSIVE DISHONESTY
"And the Gileadites took the passages of Jordan before the Ephraimites: and it was so, that when those Ephraimites which were escaped said, Let me go over; that the men of Gilead said unto him, Art thou an Ephraimite? If he said, Nay;
Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand" (Judges 12:5,6, Holy Bible)
Apparently they let the honest Jews go. But 42 000 of the Jews from Ephraim were liars, who were punished on the spot for their lies.
“The discussion so far should have made it clear that, whatever the Law of Return or halakhic law says, to be Jewish is primarily a matter of feeling, of emotional commitment.” (Raphael Patai, The Jewish Mind, 1996, Wayne State University Press, p 23) Emotional commitment to those core values. The values acted out in the life and works of Jefta, Lars von Trier, and Roman Polanski.
"Polanski was considered one of the most dazzling figures of the new Hollywood. His films seemed to emerge from some shadowy realm. In "Rosemary's Baby," he had Mia Farrow tied to a bed and raped by the devil." (The Tragic Case of Roman Polanski, Spiegel, 7 Oct 2009)
This "shadowy realm" is not heaven. It has nothing to do with what is good. Instead, these people dream and scheme for a world where "evil prevails in the end". (as per The Tragic Case of Roman Polanski, Spiegel, 7 Oct 2009)
And the resistance to the moves?
"A little bit, but not really" (The Tragic Case of Roman Polanski, Spiegel, 7 Oct 2009)
Because the warnings are out there. From history and contemporary films. "The warning flags were just pushed aside". (Marcy Gordon, Madoff scandal, SEC role under scrutiny, AP, 6 Jan 2009)
Jefta's daughter knew her father was a Jew. She knew Jefta was involved in a great slaughter. So she put some distance between herself and her father? Oh, no, she ran to meet him with "with timbrels and with dances". (Judges 11:34, Holy Bible)
Samantha Gailey's mother was elated that the great Jewish artist would have a "private session" with her daughter as a "model".
And that's why "mighty men of valour" like Jefta and Roman Polanski, not to mention the tobacco, cosmetics, and film industries, succeed again and again.
And there was a "very great slaughter." (Judges 11:33, Holy Bible)
