stuart goldbarg http://www.jta.org/user/profile/47098 en-us zsilberman@washingtonjewishweek.com Copyright 2012 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 1. Palin didn't get much government experience before she quit. 2. She was governor of a state that exists only because Big Government in Washington bought the place. Alaskan Big Government keeps itself afloat through the enormous Socialistic tax burden it heaps on oil companies, that we pay for when we buy gas. Palin distributed oil revenues as Welfare to every Alaskan. If there is any state in the Union that deserves the title of Socialist Welfare State, it is Palin's Alaska. If she ever gets to Washington there'll be a lot more of her tax, tax, welfare, welfare. Now wonder we called herthe red state governor. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Why are you providing space for porn ? You should be ashamed of yourselves. Those images are of prostituted young women enslaved by traffickers, and they are used to ensnare and impoverish pathetic losers. Shame on on you. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Why does JTA allow ads for porn in it's web site ? I found the ad below under the article about the arrest of the Jordanian convoy suspect : " Discussions About this Article Elsewhere Trackback URL: http://www.jta.org/trackback/1010186/ youporn search engine experience From youporn search engine · 01/15/10 01:54 AM [...] The institute holds controlling interest in Times Publishing which owns the newspaper, Congressional Quarterly and other magazines. Improvement,establishment As he told a well-wisher in town the other day, "I hope we get out on the water, do some fun stuff." Bush did "fun stuff" for the duration of his five-day Independence Day holiday here. Improvement,establishment [...] " A click on the item brought me to a porn market. I thought this service existed to talk about Jewish topics not to help oppressors of women and human traffickers sell images of their victims to perverted and pathetic peepers. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 What's a Judeo-Christian ? 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 JTA is not giving out false information. The story is only reporting that some veterans say it is illegal. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 BTW, in answer to Mr. Brownstein's Q, Jews sit in the Parliaments of both Turkey and Iran. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 The REAL point is that it would be up to the settlers and the PA, not you buttinskies, Iran, Bill Kristol, the UN, the Kartei dingbats, J Street, or the State of Israel. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 A few Israelis MAY have committed war crimes. We can wait for the trial results, and I expect a trial. The important thing to remember is that accuations blaming all Israelis, or even all Zionists an assertion of collective guilt, a hateful act, and in American law, a precursor to, if not an actual element of a hate crime. JTA should probably refer posters who make such hateful remarks to the USDoJ, so that that organization can more effectively deal with the perps when the need arrises. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Mr Kolsky, The police of New York always had firearms. Perhaps, you are thinking of London. Mrs Mavrikos, There are only 2 types of Jews. Those who wish to divide Jews, and those who don't. It seems to me that almost all of the Jews who post here are of the first type. Everyone else, While I think Mr. Cohen is incorrect, he isn't an enemy, and to write that he is, is to take on the part of Acher and the kapos. Be ashamed. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Mr Glasser, It was not LIFE or LOOK magazine that predicted the end of Judaism in America by 2000, but rather a comment made by an Orthodox rabbi, who predicted that we'd all either go to Israel, or stay in the US and become soul-less suburbanites. I believe that it was in TIME magazine. I remember thinking, "what an idiot", which is about what I think of Uzi Silber's silly article. He and Margolis might start talking with the young Israeli Shapardim and the 'Russians', because the majority of them are definitely not headed in the Orthodox direction. The Conservative move3ment is the only one in the progressive movement that is in trouble. As a devout Jew, who travels regulary between Israel and the rest of the world, I don't remember ever seeing any bar to Jews living in the diaspora. That's nonsense. As a ReformaDox, I don't remember seeing anything in Talmud that says Jews to be Orthodox to be Jews. Most of the shabbat liturgy and prayers were composed AFTER Talmud, so the streamlining of Judish observance by Conservatives, Reformers, Liberals, Reconstruction, and Renewal cannot be a violation of Talmud. 250 years ago, the Vilna Gaon excommunicated Chassids, so obviously, Chassids aren't Orthodox. The rabbis of Spain, Italy, and France excommunicated Moshe ben Maimon, so obviously he wasn't a Jew. For thousands of years Jews, like Acher and toiday's Orthodox have aided the Nations in isolating and killing off other Jews. Don't forget, the kapos in the camps were all Orthodox big shots. It is the insulting arrogance of Orthodox pontificators that keeps me from claiming to be Orthodox. We Jews are called to be the light of the world, and since Orthodoxy utterly fails in that Mitzvah, Orthodoxy can no longer claim to be Kosher. Therefore I will deny being Orthodox, because I am Kosher. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 You have convinced me that sanctions don't work, but do it anyway, because it is the right thing to do. A blockade will help, too. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Will, You are wrong. Reform Jews don't feel the need to follow Talmud. The Mitzvot are Mitzvot to the Reformers, too. To Reformers, Torah does not condemn people like David and Jonathan, it only condemns sodomy. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 It amazes me that people think Jews invaded the Levant from Europe. Jews have lived in what is now Israel and the West Bank nonstop for at least 3,250 years. In the mid 1800s the Ottomans entrusted the governance of the the (Old) city of Jerusalem to the Congregation Beth El (Kehillat Bet El). In 1948, the Arab legion forced all of the Jews out of the West Bank and and Old City. Where were these gentile bleeding hearts when the Arabs moved into the houses taken from Jews and held for 18 years before they were recaptured? Regarding the '67 war, I remember it well. It began with Syrian war planes flying into Israeli airspace and shooting at Israeli aircraft. I remember the Syrian government boasting before it attacked that they would now throw the Jews into the sea. These were not the actions of peaceloving people. They were assaults, as the word is used in law, threats accompanied by a display of the means to carry out the threat. Syria assaulted Israel, and soon Egypt, Lebanon, and Jordan announced that they would join the Syrians attack. These were not the acts of innocent victims. Soon, Algeria and Lybia announced that it they would send troops, and Iraq sent a squadron of fighter jets, which landed at an Israeli held airfield. If the Arabs were victims of anything, it was their own machismo and stupidity. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Ari H, We part company on King. When did he becoma a journalist, let alone a respected one? Incidently, Marilyn or whatever his name is, packs a lot of misinformation into a very tiny space. How can such nonsense be accomplished? The answer is German engineering. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Mr. Blaustein, Yes, this is slow reaction is the result of the precipitous launch of the 2nd Iraq Failure, with the Bush Admin's fraudulent intelligence providing a faulty casus belli. Crying wolf when there is no wolf makes it very difficult to respond when there finally may be a wolf. I also agree that the Iraq disaster was intended to cut Iraqi output and raise the price of oil. Another purpose was to make Bush look like a war hero before the '04 election. To my eyes, this underground factory near Qom looks like a real wolf. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Oddly, polls of the British people indicate that Israel is more popular today than at any time since they began polling on the matter. The language of the report, the world's language, fails to discriminate between a few war crimes violations perpetrated by a few individuals, and the sort of massive, intentional, murderous crime wave perpetrated by governments in Sudan, Serbia, Rwanda, Germany, Italy, Rumania, and Japan in wartime, or the genocide practised by North Korea, China, Indonesia, and Brazil in peacetime. To say that the entire State of Israel is guilty of war crimes for the atrocious acts of a handful of soldiers, suggesting in the minds of madmen like TD and neo-nazis like David that Jews are as bad as, or worse than Hitler, is a travesty. It is time to reinvent the language we use around war crimes, because this report, written as it is, is ridiculous. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Of course the Turks don't do anything for the terrorists. That's because the Greeks gave the PFLP, Black SepteThat aqnd the fact that most Turks despise Arabs 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 No one mentions that a British Judge sided with Barack. Good. Barack is tied with Livni for being the best pol in Israel. Where are all those screwballs who were blithering about British anti-Semitism when the suit was filed ? 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Which half ? Your Right Wing ? Your enormous colon ? Half Jewish - what a stupid concept. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Most schizophrenics are male. They are running out of schizophrenics. Maybe they can borrow some from North Korea or Venezuela. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Mr Disgusting seems to think that being a non-Pal, and entering the West Bank is a crime worthy of the death penalty. What a nice,sweet, kind, gentileman you are. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Of course this noisome bureaucrat, who blames others for his own failures was opposed by Jews - and no doubt, that helped. However, I suspect that the over-riding concern of the electors was the fact that he is a noisome bureaucrat, who blames others for his own failures. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Mr Madearis, Thanks again for your info on the defectors. Very interesting. I don't remember any one saying that you were wrong on Iran's nuclear programs. Many people just wanted proof, some data on place, structures, etc. It's out now, and no one that I know of is surprised, possibly because people like you kept talking it up. The hard part is what to do about it and when. It was ethical to give the Iranians a last chance to man up. President Obama did this and they metaphorically spit in his face. Now that the entire world knowsthe truth, and the most powerful nations on the planet are angry with Iran, they have an opportunity to be contrite and mend their ways. I wouldn't bet a penny against a gold brick that they will. For some reason, they are not able to think this through to the logical conclusion. That leaves only the Chernobyl-like nuclear accident that might turn not only the nuclear project, but also the city of Qom into radioactive vapor. But, who will arrange for this accident? And, when? 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Lambert, How can you "guarantee" that anyone won't shoot anyone else? How do you KNOW it is a phony news story? These seem like pretty wild claims, unless you really have inside info. Please, show us your credentials. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Relax, no one in the Obama White House respects Brzezinski. When the Soviet Union collapsed, Brzezinski, as one of Reagan's "expert advisors on foreign policy", claimed that it was just a clever commie trick to catch us off guard. How can any supposed expert on foreign affairs be SO wrong? 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 The Administration offered a last opportunity for Iran to come clean, and become respectable. That was the ethical thing to do. It is no surprise that Iran spit in his face. The Iranians think they can bully us like they did in 1980. They held the embassy hostages then, today they hold nothing over our heads. This signals the beginning of a very tough time for Iran's good old boys. For the first time, it looks as if Russia will join Western nations in tightening restrictions on trade with Iran. Russia did this to Iraq in the Spring of '03. We haven't yet seen where China will land, but I think if it wants to sell junk in the US, it had better play ball with the Obama Administration. The most important thing forAmerica to do is replace the internal combustion engine as the means for motive power, because every gallon of gas sold means money in the pockets of terrorists and bloodthirsty oil dictators. We should have started a program to replace the internal combustion engine during the first failed Gulf War. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 What made Rigg think that they were Jews? And what is a part Jew ? Someone who worshipsG!D on Shabbat, and Mammon after Havdallah? It's nice to see Obama's pals disinvesting in the friends of Iran. To bad for Halliburton. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 He could ask the Brazilian Ambassador to pick up some ear plugs at Walgreen's, but that wouldn't clear up his hallucinations. Of course, he knew they were mercenaries, because they wore Honduran Army uniforms, and he knew they were Israelis, because they outsmarted him. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Mr. Medearis, I put his ms elsewhere, in the hope that you will see one of them. I am in receipt of you message. Thank you very much for filling me in on the defectors. I have no reason to want to know what people, especially communications people did for a living, if you know what I mean. I had an friend Army Intel in Viet Nam, another in Addis Ababa, and another in Naval Intel, all listening in on conversations. I don't know or care what they heard, I'm just glad they heard it. I thank them and you. Regarding Bucher, my Navy Intel friend once mentioned that he was a brave and very unlucky guy. He said it as if he knew the man. It was not my place to ask. Regarding the Chicoms, as a boy I met several men who had been guests of Mao during the Korean War. As a man, I was a friend of another man, a Catholic priest, who devoted the best years of his life to caring for the torture victims of red Chinese prison camps. I have no respect for Chicoms. L'shana Tova, and Shabbat Shalom to you, sir. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Mr. Disgusted, After you put Ferdinand and Isabella, the PFLP, all the Czars, Hamas, St John Chrysostom, al Aksa Martyrs brigade, Joseph Stalin, H'zbollah, Richard the Lionheart, Black September, St. Bernard, al Qaeda, Martin Luther, Stasi, the KKK, St Louis the Jew Killer, Jeffrey Dahmer, and Popes Urban II, Paul IV on trial for all their inhumane, murderous, and cannabalistic behavior, maybe we'll think about putting that rascal Olmert on trial for ordering the Israeli military to the stop the genocidal attacks of Gaza. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Mr. Medearis, I am in receipt of you message. Thank you very much for filling me in on the defectors. I have no reason to want to know what people, especially communications people did for a living, if you know what I mean. I had an friend Army Intel in Viet Nam, another in Addis Ababa, and another in Naval Intel, all listening in on conversations. I don't know or care what they heard, I'm just glad they heard it. I thank them and you. Regarding Bucher, my Navy Intel friend once mentioned that he was a brave and very unlucky guy. He said it as if he knew the man. It was not my place to ask. Regarding the Chicoms, as a boy I met several men who had been guests of Mao during the Korean War. As a man, I was a friend of another man, a Catholic priest, who devoted the best years of his life to caring for the torture victims of red Chinese prison camps. L'shana Tova, and Shabbat Shalom to you, sir. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Suicide bombers are not resisters. They are just victims of nasty old men who enjoy killing people. Remember Osama bin Ladin and Zawahiri chuckling about the non-pilots on 9/11, who thought they were working on a garden variety sky-jacking ? What could be a better practical joke thah recruiting people to steal a plane, and have them incinerated instead. Very amusing - if you're a criminal sadist. 2 things have slowed the suicide bombing. 1. The defensive barrier, 2. The Pals started running out of schizophrenics. Perhaps Ms Walker thinks resistance is the nexus of sadism and psychoses, in which case all she needs is sadism to become a resister. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Seeing Russian pimps make money off young, prostituted Israeli, sex slaves is not likely to get my heart beating fast for the Promised Land. Lukas belongs behind bars for life, and his string of boys deserve freedom and proper medical and psychological treatment. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Fewer than 4% of Palestinians believe President Obama is on their side. Obama has to make some effort, give an opportunity, because each election and each new Administration ought to promote a rethinking of ideas and attitudes, saying "l'shana tova !" and meaning it. As soon as Fatah stonewalls again, which sould have occurred by now, we will be back to the same old drill. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 I figure at any moment now, one of the usual suspects who to wallow in past wrongs and hatred, will remind us of the long history of virile anti-Semitism of cherished by the Domingan people. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Mr. Edwards, Do you suppose that 'Jan' is just plainold mad-as-a-hatter Tamar/Pierre/Lewis/etc? I do. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Cantor is Jewish when it's convenient. Like when it is time to raise campaign $$ in NY, FL, IL, and CA. Then he's mishpocha. When it comes to Jews who lost their health insurance, when the republican depression hit and they lost their jobs, it's a different story. For them, it's tough luck, and survival of the fattest. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Netiv Ha'avot is in the West Bank on the outskirts of the El'azar portion of Gush Etzion. it is 500 metres, roughly 1,600 feet or .31 miles from El'azar on landed deeded to a Palestinian. If it were actually in El'azar, I woud not have said Netiv Ha'avot is outside Israel. The Israeli government said in 2008 that it would deal with these anarchists, and stop their building, but so far nothing has been done. You don't suppose these anarchists pay taxes to Israel, do you ? Maybe, if they would condescend to be a real part of Israel, pay taxes (serve in the IDF, etc) besides just demanding our protection, the dole, and free hospital care, then Israelis might feel more generous toward these selfish bastards. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 By the way, when did Israelis agree to take advice from Greek Orthodox Americans? Greeks have harbored and aiding Black September, PFLP, Fatah, and Red Army Faction murderers of Israelis and Diaspora Jews since the right wing Generals' coup in 1967. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Ms Mavrikos, The Israeli government contends that Netiv Ha'avot is outsdide Israel. Are people supposed to believe you have more authority than the government in Jerusalem ? The real wackjobs are the ones who flip my country the bird, move out, intentionally putying themselves at risk, and then expect me to shell out money to save their worthless asses, paying their hospital bills and giving them IDF protection. For a 'conservative' Ms Mavriko, you sure are liberal with oither people's money. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 1. There is no sense in talking when no one has anything of value to say. 2. Shalit and Pollard won't be the first Israelis threw under the bus, just ask his first 3 wives. 3. There will be a one state solution when Memelsteins fly. First, how are you going to resolve the differences between Gaza and the West Bank? Second, how are you possibly going to prevent a Pal Republic of the West Bank from invading and conquering the Hashemites? Even Palestinians can't stand the thought of a single Palestine. As long as Palestinians hate one another, there will neve even be a 2 state solution. A 3 to 5 state resolution is much more plausible. If you cannot get the Pals to make peace with each other after 61 years of futile bloodshed and idiotic policy failures, how the hell do you expect Israelis to accept this tired ideological fairy tale? 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Why not call it call it The Shining Hotel? Or, the Bates Motel? Holocaust Hotel ? The Killing Fields Hotel ? 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 It disturbs me that some settlers don't want to build in Israel. If they prefer to live as religious anarchists in the West Bank, that 's fine with me. However, if that is their choice, and let them live with the consequences without my financial backing. I do not see why the Israeli government and taxpayers must protect them. I also don't understand what prevents the government from taking these peoples credentials and (at least temporarily) suspending their citizenship. That is, if they even have Israeli citizenship. If the people don't like Israel and Israelis, then let their precious anarchy protect them. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 To paraphrase Nero, the world will be losing a great stand up comic. Good luck to you, Ms Mavrikos. Happy hunting. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Whereas, I spell it yod hay vav hay precisely because it is in English. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 I think that in the context of the song, El Shaddai (G!D as provider) or Adonai (G!D as protector) would better translate yud hay vav hay than HaShem does. IMO. Perhaps, I am a nit-picker, laboring over distinctions that no longer make differences to Jews. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Mx. Cappiello, Also, as he satirized Quebecoise Jews, isn't Mr. Richler himself part of that long history of anti-Semitism you allege ? For instance, when Duddy Kravitz' practical joke results in the death of Mrs. McPherson, and her husband the teacher who always opposed caning in the school begins to beat his students, doesn't Richler his Jewish protagonist into the source of evil ? 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 I never saw a crucifix in a Quebecoise taxi. I also remember the "riot" when Netanyahu spoke. A few guys pushing a few other guys. Some riot. Hockey games are more violent. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 It is too bad that some of us are happy to have this inveterate liar on our side. Beck's lack of integrity makes him a tar baby; hug him and you will be tarred. His most recent egregious lie was to say on air that the anti-health care reform protest in Washington was attended by 2.2 million people, and that he got the number from a remote sensing count done by a major university, the name of which escaped him. He promised to find the name of that major university and let us know. We are still waiting. In fact aerial videos of the event prove that Beck inflated the number of attendees anywhere from 30 to 70 fold. IOW, the crowd was only 1.4% - 3% of what Beck claimed. Now that is a prodigious lie. Murdoch wants Romney in the White House, and Beck is Murdoch's tool for making Mormons acceptable to Baptists and Pentacostals. Regarding Moyers never having gone to Israel and being an enemy of Israel, that is a lie. I have seen 2 of his shows about Israel that he made in Israel. Both of them were very simpathetic to the Jewish people, the State of Israel, and Israeli security. You must be mistaking him for Pat Buchanan or George Will. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 It seems that Fayyad endorses political, but not religious, pluralism. He wants a "blanket freeze". But, wasn't that hotel owned by Jews who were driven out in 1947 ? 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Failure to denounce criminals is not and has never been a cause for expelling people from the US. There is a vast difference between being silent and making threats, Treating silent people as though they are guilty of assault is not only beyond the law, it is illegal. Visiting punishment on communities for the actions of individuals is what the Nazis did to Lidice, and something Jews should avoid, if they intend to be a "light to the nations." 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 I hope they go after the porn theaters, rather than the kosher restaurants. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Mr. Edwards, There is no valid evidence that LBJ was complicit in the murder of JFK - unless you know something I don't - which is very possible. I never consider alleged motives, because one has to be a mind reader to ascertain what makes people tick. If you have something other than motive, I'd like to know. Mr. Madearis, Your mentioned above that 2 NSA men, Martin and some over traitor, absconded to the Soviets. This is a new one on me. Would you please write a post about these guys and what they did at NSA? 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 It's nice to see B'nai B'rith standing up for America against the meeting hall thugs and the shrieking Christian bible thumpers. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Israel could fall in 20 years if gas and oil remain the source of motive energy. Every gallon of gasoline and rock derived diesel oil that we burn puts money in the pockets of Israel's enemies. The worse your vehicle's mileage, the more you are undermine G!D's Promised Land. Demanding and using either E85 compatable hybrids or veg diesel fuel, is the best thing that any Diaspora Jew can do for Israel. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Kristol was a convert from Judaism, who worshipped money and power. Why does JTA pay attention to people who trade glatt for gold ? 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 IDF : If Achmedinajad wants to throw rockets at us from anywhere, we will give him a nose job. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 After nearly 30 years of discriminating and murdering on the basis of religion and politics, violating human and civil rights, Iran deserves to have its story told. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 The Saudi Ambasador could 'sweeten the pot' by offering to give back our cities, including Medina, that they took through conquest and ethnic cleansing. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 As war crimes go, the dust up in Gaza was pretty pallid and puny. There is something inadequate about the language we use, when the Rape of Nanking, the roundup and slaughter of the educated Poles, the Bataan Death March, the mass live burial of 10,000 Korean miners,, the annihilation of Lidice, the Shoahthe Hamburg Firestorm, and the Bombing of Hiroshima are equated with the tiny Cast Lead operation. A few Israeli soldiers lost control. This is very different from waging a criminal war with the intention of annihilating an entire city, class, or people. Since we are the ones who are the butt of this abuse of the language, we ought to be able to invent diction that fits the actual facts, such as, Germany Japan, Italy, and Rumania waged a criminal war of genocide 50,000,000 people, mostly innocent civilians; a 300,000 died as the Allies commited a few war crimes, mostly innocent civilians, and a few IDF soldiers lost control and ?massacred? 80 Palestinians, half of them civilians. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Pedophile ? steve adams must think Muhammad was a Satmar. HAHAHAAHA. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 The board has been polluted most by the admission of the confessed neo-nazi/holocaust denier : "Dr" P. I seems to me that Mr. Roberts and Ari H are the most respectful and reasonable people who have posted here in the last month or 2. Of course, I admit that I am at fault for being combative and nasty, too. If the board is to be of any further use, the likes of Digusting and Dog, on the one side, and Tamar/Mussa and Alawai on the other should be banned for their intemperance, lies, and dispicable attacks. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Mr. Edwards, Sorry, you're wrong: 1. Bignews Butinski proved his worthlessness in both the Carter and the Reagan Administrations, not just Carter's. 2. You forgot Carter's Sec'y of State, Cyrus Vance, who was pro-Israel, and anti-Brzezinski. 3. Brzezinski being what Nazis would call a sub-human Slav, was inelligible to be a Nazi. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 There's real ethnic cleansing in the Tibet, South Ossetia, Chechnya, Uiguristan, Abkhazia, Kinshasa Congo, Kenya, Brazilian Amazonia, Sudan, Taliban held Afghanistan, and Myanmar, and the UN fusses about a few square miles, and a people who repeatedy rejected generous settlements. This is the same UN whose worthless "peace keepers" stepped out of the way when Syria attacked Israel in '67, and when Egypt attacked in '73, both attacks without provocation and inviolation of the UN Carter. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Ms Shepherd, Since 5/8 of Americans side with Israel, it is impossible for "hundreds of millions" of Anglos to oppose us. Next time, show your math. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 That man will schtup any old damn thing. That old woman will schtup any bulge around. OY !!! The thought of those 2 sluts spawning makes me want to vomit. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Mr. Rowe, A more careful reading of Mr. Edwards' post will prove that he expects Ha Shem will destroy Israel's enemies. That is not the same as proposing extermination. Example : I expect the Autumn leaves to fall. That does not mean that I will participate in the leaf fall in any way, or even that I want it the leaves to fall. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Buchanan's thesis is that Hitler didn't want war; he only wanted to liberate the Germans of Danzig from the Polish imperialists. As evidence of Hitler's peaceable nature, Buchanan points to Hitler's offer to hack a chunk off of Slovakia as reimbursement for ceding Danzig. All of Buchanan's double-speak comes from Goebbel's September, 1939 disinformation blitz. Buchanan fails to examine the following 15 pertinent and damning examples that demonstrate Hitler did not want peace, but rather gloried in war, pillage, and bloodshed : 1. Why, if Hitler only wanted Danzig, did he also annex Warsaw, Crakow, and the rest of western Poland? 2. Why, if Hitler only wanted Danzig, did he not force Poland to cede Danzig as part of a peace agreement in November, 1939, and then march his troops back to Germany? 3. Why, if Hitler only wanted Danzig, did he authorize the immediate round up and murder of Poles who had any post-secondary education, or who held any positions of leadership? 4. Why, if Hitler wanted peace, did he claim the right to dismember the sovereign nation of Slovakia? 5. Why, if Hitler wanted peace, did he write in Mein Kampf in 1927 that he meant to seize the East (the Slav and Balt Republics) for Germans? Why did he frequently speak throughout the 1930s of "Lebensraum"? 6. Why, if Hitler wanted peace, did he intrude in the Spanish Civil War, and indiscriminately bomb civilian targets, and British and French ships? 7. Why, if Hitler wanted peace, did he approve and support the Italian invasion and enslavement of Ethiopia on Oct 3, 1935? 8. Why, if Hitler wanted peace, did he approve of and support Japan's Invasion of China on July 7, 1937, and their Rape of Nanking beginning on December 9, 1937? 9. Why, if Hitler wanted peace, did he begin to survey and build hidden ammunition and fuel dumps across the Libyan desert as early as 1936? 10. Why, if Hitler wanted peace, did German government records captured in 1945 show that he began to plan his invasion of Poland in 1935, immediately after destroying Ernst Roehm and the SA to consolidate power? 11. Why, if Hitler wanted peace, did he not abide by his treaty obligations to France and Britain following the Munich agreement? 12. Why, if Hitler wanted peace in the 16 years before his invasion of Poland, did he continually promote through his glorification of violence, the militarization of German society ? 13. Why, if Hitler wanted peace, did he launch gratuitous sneak attacks on Denmark and the neutral Netherlands? 14. Why, if Hitler wanted peace, did he launch a gratuitous sneak attack against his own ally, Stalin? 15. Why, if Hitler wanted peace (and after he had told Japan that did not want them to attack the US) did he declare war on the US? Buchanan never thought of all this before he made a damn fool of himself. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 What I'm saying, Will, is that Uzi is a liar. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 I've been all over northern Europe, and to Sweden several times. I never noticed anti-Semitism there any more than in Sacramento, St Louis, or Savanah. Back in the '60s Swedes used Greeks for dirtiest jobs, and were scared to death of them. I was warned once not to go to Stockholm, because "it's full of Greeks, and they kill people with razors." Well, I couldn't tell my boss that I wouldn't go because of some Greeks, could I. When I got to Stockholm, I found no violence whatsoever. Now, the Greeks are gone. Turks and North Africans do the dirty work and the Swedes tell the same tales about them. It's still just bogeyman stories. Malmo is asleep every night by 9 pm. Btw, Aftonbladet used to be the best newspaper in the country. It is a shame to see it has become like one of Rupert Murdoch's rags, all fear-mongering and gossip, with very little news. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Mussa = Lashon Hara 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 This is a good thing, reason for Canadians to celebrate. Greyson should stay away from all non-Hamas film festivals. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 May the Holy One turn Mussa black at Havdallah. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Mr. Gurman, don't make an exception for Mussa, she's like the kapos that worked for the Nazis in the ghettos and death camps, always playing holier than thou while condemning Jews. May Mussa'a computers die. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Mussa/Lawrence/Shaul/Tamar/Pierre hates Jews. Today she smears the Conservatives; tomorrow she'll smear some Sephardi Orthodox; the day after that she'll smear Reform & Reconstruction; then she'll smear some Ashkenaz Orthodox. So far I haven't seen her write dirty lies about Tats, but how often does JTA run a Tat story, giving her a opening. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Senator Kennedy stood up for the oppressed Jews in Soviet Russia, something that the Bushes, Cheney, Nixon, Gingrich, Grassley, Hastert, Boehner, Frist, Buchanan, McLaughlin, McCain, and Quayle all refused to do. Like Schindler, Kennedy made mistakes; he drank too much, and chased skirts. But, he was still a better friend to the downtrodden Jews of Russia than any Republican ever was. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Mughrabi's defense was weak. Perhaps Khaddafy threw him under the bus. If I had been given a say in the matter, the guy would stay in Scotland until King Arthur's return. Also, the comments about Posada Carriles and Bosch are perfectly legitimate. The men who bombed British and French planes and ships headed for Cuba deserve life sentences, too. Real life sentences. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 While it is possible that Syria employed Lybia to do it's dirty work the evidence from the beginning of the investigation pointeed to Syria/Iran. While Lybia might have done some work for Syria, it was inconceivable at the time (and still is) that violently ultra-Sunni Lybia could work w/violently ultra-Shi'a Iran. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 "200+ A bombs"? Why not 2,000 or 2,000,000? Ms Haman, YAFOS. It's good for the crops, but in political discussions it stinks. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 So, 50% of Israelis think that President Obama is unbiased or on their side. 93 % of Pals don't think he's on their side. The ridiculous charges that Jew-hating Republican and Likud Jews spread about Obama is laughable. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Mavrikos attacks the CCAR, but gives a pass to Agudath. Apparently, promiscuity and abortion are just fine with her as long as they are Orthodox promiscuity and abortion. Typical Republican double think. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Very funny, Arkady. Anyone with a bit of education knows that the US is still working off the Bush/Cheney budget. All of the deficits until the end of next January accrue to the Bush record. You Reds are a stitch. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Mussa/Tamar/Lawrence/Shaul/Pierre and her right wing heroes bullied FDR to prevent not Jew and other non-aryans from immigratring. Now, she and her holocaust denier pal, "dr" Pluss don't want Jews or dark-skinned folks coming into the US. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Ukraine & JTA describe investing in the stock market as gambling. Mussa/Tamar/Pierre/Lawrence etc. seems to agree. She insinuates that Shuval deals with the commies; no doubt her copy of the Protcols tells her that Capitalism and Communism are all the same. On top of that she sides with the Ukies against an Orthodox Jew, I guess demonstrating that she's with the Commies, too. What a champion screwball! 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Mr. Madearis, It appears that the requirement that the Huntington refrain from publishing was meant to prevent outsiders from discovering the truth about the dead sea scrolls. The official translation and interpretation team had been perpetrating a hoax for more than 40 years. Incidentally, Dr. John M. Allegro published his translation of the Copper Scroll nearly 50 years ago, and was slandered by the priests on the translation team for doing an honest job. The priests maintained that the scroll was a "Jewish fable." Dr. Allegro wrote correctly, that the Copper Scroll was a list of Temple treasures, and suffered a hate campaign as a result . 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Mr. Edwards, 1. I don't remember reading about Turks attacking and killing Jews since the return. 2. The 'return' is a misnomer, for Jews have always lived in what is now Israel, going back to the days of Joshua. By calling it a 'return' Jews have inadvertently helped to bolster Pal propaganda claims that there were no Jews in the land before the "European colonization." 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 There's an easy way for Iran to avoid pre-emptive strikes. Ayatollah Khameini could just throw open Iran's nuclear program to the international inspectors, and eliminate the weapons program. It would save money and increase the respect, now at low ebb, that the world has for Iran, besides guaranteeing that they won't be clobbered by another nuclear power. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 I guess Mussa has been up in front of a lot of Judges, and that they didn't find for her. "Dr" Pluss, goyim means nations. Btw, we are all well aware that you neo-Nazi bigots have no respect fot the 1st Amendment, besides distaining the rule of law and truth. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Mr. Bright, Circumcision is not required? You mean girls, right? 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 I think Americans should be able to get health care that is as good as the Israeli health care. The US spends a higher % of GDP on health care than any nation but East Timor, despite the fact that 1/6 of the population is uninsured. Despite the enormous sums Americans spend, the outcomes of the US health system rank only #37 in the world - above Slovakia, but below Israel, Cyprus, Costa Rica, Columbia, Morocco, Dominica, Portugal, Malta, and Oman, to name just a few. Clearly, Americans don't get anywhere near as much for their $$ as folks in many other countries do. The Administrative costs for US health care consumers, both directly and for their insurance, are extraordinarily high, except for those people on Medicare, Medicade, and the Vets' Tri care for Life. If Americans could cut the waste fraud and abuse out of their insurance, and cut the malpractice out of their health care services, the US would have a much cheaper and more efficient system. The Republicans sole answer to the question of how to lower health care costs is 'eliminate malpractice lawsuits.' It would be far better if they came up with a plan to eliminate malpractice, rather than take away. phili's right to sue when a surgeon cuts off the wrong leg. However, that seems to be the sum total of the republican's plan : take away the rights of individuals. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 The suggestion that the Fatah Congress was a failure is based on an erroneous assumption that it was intended to accomplish anything more than the annointing of Abbas. It is unthinkable for almost all Jews - and therefore they do not imagine it - that such a convocation would ignore the educational, economic, medical, ad nauseum, needs of the people, to concentrate solely on ratifying obsolete ideas, and selecting new obsolete leadership. In fact, the selection of obsolete leadership was the only agenda item of importance to the Congress, and therefore its only accomplishment. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 The Lebanese putz is a typical right wing fraud. He invents a bogey man to scare all the wimps, hoping they'll trade everything they have for his protection. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 mussa/lawrence/shaul/pierre/leila/etc hates Jews. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 1. The contention that Rush Limbaugh didn't call Dems "Nazi" is completely untrue. Since 1990, Limbaugh has been calling Dems "FemiNazis" and equating pro-choicers with Hitler. 2. Lambert ignores the fact that the leading pro-nazi politicians, propagandists, and organizers in this country were Republicans : Congressmen Ham Fish of NY, Steven Day of IL, John Alexander Republican Minnesota, Philip Bennett of Missouri, Usher Burdick Republican North Dakota, Cliff Clevenger of Ohio, Henry Dworshak of Idaho, Clare Hoffman of Michigan, Bartell Jonlman of Michigan, Burton Wheeler of MI, Harold Knutson of Minnesota, Robert LaFollette of Wisconsin, Paul Shafer of Michigan, William Stratton of Illinois, Jacob Thorkelson of Montana, George Tinkham of Massachusetts, Senators Nye of ND, Shipstead and Lundeen both of MN Socialites Irenee du Pont, Henry Ford, Laura Ingalls, Bert Walker, Gerald Winrod, General Robert E. Wood, George Viereck. Prescott Bush, Charles Lindbergh, G. E. Deatheridge, Joe E. McWilliams, Garland Alderman, Robert Noble, etc, etc, etc. Lambert also ignores the fact that Nazi Germany pumped millions of dollars into the 1936 presidential campaign of Louis Lemke (R-ND) 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Victor, That's pretty tough talk coming from a sissy bedwetter. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 I am surprised that mussa doesn't make nasty remarks about Ros-Lehtinen being a Jew-hating half Jew. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 mussa is a pervert pretending to be a Jew. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Mussa/Shaul/Lawrence/Pierre/etc, etc, are all the same pervert. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 I meant, Jew-hating, sexually perverted, swinish, racist, religious bigot.. Sorry, if I didn't make myself clear the 1st 10 times I've made this request. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Dear JTA, Would you please finally pull the plug on Mussa/Lawrence/Pierre/etc. It is an embarrassment to all Jewry that you continue to host this swinish, racist, religious bigot. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Evans, Israelis "steal" Jerusalem land that they owned before the Arab Legion conquered the city in '48. Jordan expelled all the Jews from Jerusalem and thus "occupied" the Jewish city until n1967. Where was your sympathy for the people who owned that land but were ethnically cleansed in 1948? 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Ari H, Ya, They spout lots of tough talk, now that Sharon can't fight back. But a few years ago, they wet their pants from the rear of him. These daredevils get their newfound bravery from 2 sources. 1. Anonymity. 2. Knowledge that the guy they're abusing is paralyzed, in a coma, or dead. The daredevils also brag that they were 'in the war. No doubt, General Dayan hung upon their every brilliant word. HAHAHAHA 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 It's really funny to see phili post in favor of freedom of religion. Look in the mirror, phili. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 To phili, even Mordechai and Moshe were "These self made leaders NOT JEWISHLEADERS". After all, Mordechai and Moses were not Republicans! THEY didn't talk to Rush Limbaugh. They weren't Bush Crime Family Ranch Hands. Republicans like Burnie Madoff and Jack Abramov are the real Jewish leaders. HAHAHAHAHA 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Perhaps Ben Klein would have prefered the Nazis' favorite candidate for president, Republican Louie Lemke to the man who led the free world to victory over Hitler. Judging from his 8:13 pm post, Klein seems pretty unhappy that America and American Jews overwhelmingly rejected the Nazi candidate. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Michael Hess, Oh we all noticed, have no doubt. It is just that most people merely skip over the psych cases' rants, because replying to them just feeds their megalomania. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Hey, phili, If you kept your nose out of Fingerhut's lap, you wouldn't be disturbed by his orgasms. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Good idea, Gary Katz. Whatever happened to Arafat's promise that people of all faiths would have the same rights in Pal? It certainly hasn't turned out that way so far. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 I didn't see you in the War. The insinuation that a lashon hara like you is some sort of noble war hero is utterly preposterous. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 This is too bad. But, it is not news. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 What, in your juvenile, snickering,weasely, perv way are you implying, phili ? Btw, when you say, "we are not stupid", please don't include yourself among us. We don't. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Ari H, Yes, it is an issue of sovereignty, but only in part. The situation also illuminates the fact that Pals are forbidden to sell to the highest bidder, and that Jews are not allowed to own land in the place where Arafat claimed people of all religions would enjoy the same rights. Clearly, Arafat lied. Again. If the PLA wants that land so badly, let them work hard, make some money, and buy it. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 In the same post phil alawal writes, "Have these sensitive forgot st.Roosevelt who dissallowed Jewish refugees escaping the Holocaust entrance to the USA and turned them back?" and "he intends to follow the example of Winston Churchill and WIN." He too stupid to know that Churchill and Rosevelt BOTH turned Jews back. Hey, phil, you want insensitive, you got it. Suck on that for awhile, you pro-alqaeda republican, you. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 I notice that Phili is yelling again. There is no letter of FDR's in any Holocaust Museum that reejects "any military action" to stop or reduce "the extermination of Jews in concentration camps". What big lies you have. Phili, I wonder why ignore the fact that the Republican party was chock-full of Nazi supporters and subversives. Among the elected Republicans who openly supported Nazism : Reps Thorkelson (R-MT), Fish (R-NY), and Sens Lundeen and Shipsted (both R-MN) and Nye (R-ND), David Reed (R-PA); Among the wealthy Republican socialites and business fuehrers who openly supported Nazism : Henry Ford, Sibley Webster, Charles Payson, Charles Lindbergh, Horace Haase, Laura Ingalls, Gerald L. K. Smith, Gerald Winrod, Wycliffe Draper, Douglas Stuart, Jr., Gen. Robert Wood, Westbrook Pegler, William Regnery, John Foster Dulles, General Art Smith, Irenee du Pont, Grayson Murphy, Robert Clark, Sidney Brooks, Wendall Swint, the Pew family, William Knudsen, Hanford MacNider, and Henry Luce. The names of the heads of GM, Ford, Sears, Dupont, Hearst, Sun Oil, are included in this list. There are about 700 more such names, but I'll save space. On October 22, 1936, the New York Post broke the following story. "Nazi Publicist On G.O.P. Payroll To win votes for Landon and Bleakley, the Republican State Committee is employing on its payroll a staff of propagandists identified with local Nazi organizations, the Post learned today.78" On October 30, 1936, the New York World-Telegram revealed additional ties between Nazi Germany and the Republican Party : "U.S. Nazi Attack on Jews Is Laid to Republicans Anti-Semitic Radio Speeches by Griebl, Others sponsored by G.O.P Fritz Kuhn Among Speakers in Regular Broadcasts over WWRL The Republican Party had been sponsoring radio broadcasts by American Nazis to win German votes, it was disclosed today. One of the recent speakers was Dr. Ignatz T. Griebl a national Nazi leader and pronounced anti-Semitic writer." 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Shaul should learn manners, then history. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 What makes anyone think "Shaul" is a guy? Racist, yes. Perv, yes. Anti-Israel, yes. Anti-Jew, yes. Man, nah. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Thank HaShem that he had already lived a long and eventful life. I shall remember to say kaddish for him. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 In your dreams, Mr. Hovland. Mr. Galindo, I hope that you are very happy being a small minority of a small minority in a shrinking minority. Right wing Jews won't be satisfied until they can all fit together in one Mercedes Benz. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Hicks, Good point. I am not an expert on psychiatric matters. As a lay person, when for a year or more, I see the same person posting hate messages about everyone's race, nationality, and sexual behavior (m & f, hetero or homo), I make the assumption that that particular abusive racist is mad as a hatter. Or stated a different way, she has a psychiatric disorder. Btw, I once worked for Uncle Sam in a hospital, where I periodically came into contact people like Shaul/Pierre/Tamar/Lawrence, and they came out of the Psych ward. So, I make the assumption. Got a problem with that ? Mr. Edwards, immigrant communities usually have such problems. The same problems occured when the Yemeni and Moroccans came to Israel. I knew some really wild and crazy, totally undisciplined Moroccans 20 years ago! However, their kids have grown up sober, social, and industrious. The Ethiopeans will grow out of it, too. Hats of to Blackie ! 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Mr. Marcus, Well, for sure no successful peace plan would unite the West Bank with Gaza. Jordan says it doesn't want the Weswt Bank, and who can blame them ? Egypt is fed up with the Gazans, and I doubt that they would take them in. What Israelis want with the West Bank and Gaza is beyond me. These places have to be seen to be believed. Literacy is falling, as is numeracy, they bleed their merchants to bankruptcy, it's a shambles. Israel would be better off just building the fence and closing the doors. Beside, there is no peace plan "partner". 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Shaul doesn't know IDF from beans. Fraud. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 1. Shau/Pierre/Tamar/Lawrence, by any of her names, has demonstrated beyond any doubt that she is an abusive, deranged, and possibly dangerous racist, who hates Israel and Jews, African Americans, and Africans. She also exhibits a purient interest in other people's sex lives. That she calls Ricki a slut and pig, for no reason, should be proof to anyone that "Shaul" does not belong on the JTA blog. JTA should have blocked any connection to any of her equipment months ago. Shecky, what Ricki write that warrants YOUR abuse of her? Supporting the Falash Mura families does not constitute Lashon Hara. Shame on you. Ginbot, please don't post in all upper case letters. It is the equivalent of yelling at people. Also, do you have information that leads you to believe that real Jews are being held or hidden against their will? 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Parenthetically, the scrolls were captured from Frenchmen who had an exclusive contract with the Jordanian government to keep and study the scrolls. In the extremely unlikely event that the scrolls ever went back to a previous owner, they would not go back to the Pals, who NEVER owned them. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Shaul/Tamar/Pierre/Lawrence calls the late PM Begin a nazi, and then she accuses Will of not making sense. There's something wrong with this picture. Anyway, I hope the Toronto Museum doesn't give credence to the now discredited story that the scrolls were the work of a monastic community living in a monastery at Qumran. That was the story invented by the Roman Catholic priests who intentionally falsified the record, and who for 40 years prevented the world from knowing the true content of the scrolls. Unfortunately, when the scrolls went to Chicago the frauds who were running the the show there perpetuated the priest's lies. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Good man ! If I knew what his business is, I'd buy some. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Mr. Edwards, I saw Hicks refered to in someone's post as being Jewish. I am sure this categorization is incorrect. I believe that in his first post here, Hicks identified himself as a non-Jew. Perhaps, I am wrong, but I believe that was the case. If I am correct, Hicks' comments on a Jewish blog hardly matter. However, it is always instructive to learn what the ignorant, uninformed, and dysinformed think, in order to formulate the language that Israelis and Jews need, in order to keep the conversation from degeneraring into the sort of dysfunctional posturings of FM Lieberman and Arkadys on the one side, versus the dysfunctional posturings of the Arafats and Buchanans. Real and positive language is needed so that people who are stuck in linguistic traps from which they are not able to extricate them selves or their politics get the tools to chart a different future. Clearly, the language of pointing and blaming, of fear and hatred has not managed to make any breakthroughs toward peace in the Middle East in 62 plus years. What is the sense of constantly recapitulating the same blaming and hateful ranting, when no useful conclusion can possibly arise from such talk? I know many Muslims. They are not evil. I don't find the Koran to be any more anti-Jewish than Gospels used by "Christian Zionists", Quakers, or Mother Theresa. The interpretation of the text is all important, and by linguistically making Muslims into devils, we invite, almost shove, them into adopting the least generous interpretation of that book. That least generous interpretation is the Hanbalite interpretation, of which Wahhabism and alqaedaism are the direct descendants. In other words, calling Islam evil today, invites a new generation of Muslims to hate Jews tomorrow. For Jews, there is a negative inward, as well as outward, effect of calling Muslims' religion evil. The words tar the entire people who adhere to Islam as evil. How is this different any from what our enemies have said of us tJews hrough the ages? How useful is it to continually incite 1.6 billion people with intemperate language? I submit that as Muslims outnumber Jews by 800 to 1, which means that it is not good for Jews generally that some of us make all Jews and Judaism the enemy of Muslims by accusing Islam of evil. Finally, it is always illogical to make a sweeping generalization on the basis of a small sample. In the case of humans, it is also unjust and immoral. Condemning all for the deeds of some is what Jonah wrongly desired, as he sat waiting outside of Nineveh. However, the Holy One does not condemn the individual for the crimes of a neighbor, and will not slay a city, even if only one just person lives there. As we Jews are enjoined to become holy, because Adonai, our G!D is Holy, are we not compelled by Judaism to refrain from making accusations against entire peoples, unless we know that every single one of them is guilty? Further, we are enjoined by our Creator and Preserver to not bear false witness. Blanket accusations against people just because they belong to a different nation or religion, are a violation of this Commandment. This Commandment is every bit as sacred as the rest of the 613 injunctions, and I contend that because human lives are at stake whenever inflamatory charges are made, this particular is more dear to Elohim than rules regarding tzitzit, payos, treff, or the hair of the red heifer. Peace be upon you and yours, upon Israel and all the world this erev Shabbat. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Arkady the Savage. He's too afraid to speak up when lunatics from the Church of Jesus Baloney (Wichita, KS) scream crap against Jews in near a Jewish hospital in LA, CA, but he's brave enough to cheer on a terrorist attack against a village. HaShem, please save us from all these bed-wetting, chicken hawk, Rheinhardt Heydrich wannabees. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Hicks: A. Rights Regardless of ethnicity, Israeli citizens may 1. Own land 2. Vote for the candidates of their choice, 3. Form their own political parties, 4. Hold public office, 5. Form their own schools, at public expense. 6. Have access to public communications. B. 'Race' Israel is populated by 1. Semites (primarily Sephardic Jews, Arabs {Muslim, Christian, and Druze}, and Samaritans) 2. Hamites (primarily Ethiopean Jewish refugees) 3. Finno-Uighrians (primarily Turkic Central Asian Jewish refugeess) 4. Indo-Europeans (primarily Central and Eastern European Jewish refugees, Circassian Muslim refugees, Armenian Christian refugees, Cochin Jews, and Iranian Bahai'i refugees) All of the above ethnic groups live together in a relatively prosperous, mobile, and harmonious society. Since no Jews are allowed into Saudi Arabia, and Saudi Arabia does not allow Jews the right of return to their citiy of Medina, clearly Saudi Arabia is a racist 'entity', not Israel. As Palestinian law forbids the sale of land to Palestinian Jews, and forbids Jews to vote, form political parties, form schools, or hold office, the Palestinian 'entity' is racis, not Israel. I am in a very far western time zone. Would someone who comes here early be sure to see that the Hicks gets these points. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Ari wrote to Ari H, "Ari “H": it’s bizarre and somewhat amusing how you negate the democratic system of appointed positions when you don’t like a candidate." Anyone who reads the article should be able to understand that PM Netanyahu doesn't like Lieberman, either. Lieberman has been the FM for a few weeks and his abrasiveness and lack of self control have already put him on the sidelines. So, Ari, when you make nasty cracks about liberals opposing Lieberman, be sure to include Bibi in that category. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Mr. Edwards, If true, it lays the Congressmen who opposed real health care funding, of voting to prevent common people from haaving what Congress has. This is a dangerous campaign problem for the mossbacks and grafters, because the issue of Congeressional privilege can gut incumbents in the Primaries. All the PAC money in the world can't overcome shoestring facebook and twitter campaigns that organize angry citizens to show up, register, and vote. A single payer system such as Medicare is all we need. 50 million Americans, plus all the small businesses and urban counties need single payer badly. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Archie1954, If Israel did not have them, the other countries in the Middle East would still want nukes. It is illogical to suppose that a country as distant from Israel as Iran is, would promulgate policies based on what Israel does or has. For example, Mexico does not base it's military on Canada's weapons. North Korea does not want nuclear weapons because of their alleged threat from the US and Japan. Venezuela does not base it's policies on what Argentina has or does. In fact, the people of Iran have fought wars with the surrounding peoples of Iraq, Arabia, and Afghanistan for thousands of years. It is those people who are most at risk if Iran get nuclear weapons. Nations make their own decisions, and then look for excuses, likely stories, alibis, and plausably deniable baloney. While Iran may use Israel as an excuse to build a nuke, that is just a red herring. Any country that wants nukes puts up strawmen to allay the justified fears of their near neighbors. Iran has to lull their traditional enemies, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, The UAE and other Gulf States, and Afghanistan, into aquiescing to Iran becoming a nuclear power. Israel becomes a plausable reason for distant Iran to build a nuclear weapon. If the Iraqis and Saudis both attack Iran tomorrow morning, they wil claim that they only did so to abort Iran's nuclear threat. Suddenly, everyone would believe a new paradigm that leaves Israel out of the equation. Nations make their own decisions. Israel is not holding a gun to Iran's head and forcing them to build a nuclear weapon. Iran is doing that all on it's own - with North Korean help. When you illogically accuse Israel of being the causal agent of the actions other, especially distant, countries take, you necessarily lay yourself open to the charge of anti-Semitism. It's too bad, but that is the way people will interpret illogical insinuations against Israel of the kind you made. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 blackie, 1. How do you know that Poncho isn't Jewish? 2. In your response to Ari H, you (no doubt inadvertently) used the word liberal, whenthe word illiberal is called for. English is tricky language. Shabbat Shalom 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 "Shaul", aka "Lawrence Rodgers", aka "Tamar" hates Jews. JTA ought to stop taking posts sent from her equipment. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 There isn't a Jew that "Shaul", "Lawrence Rodgers", "Tamar" doesn't hate. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Maybe O'Brien is an orangeman. Calvinists are more famous for being money men than Catholics are. Anyway, couldn't they find a Jewish accountant in Massachusetts? 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 97 Republican votes against Israel. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Mr. Medearis, How do you come by your knowledge of the NOI? Do you work in prisons? 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 "Shaul Levy" doesn't understand that Israeli warships have been moving from the Med to the Red Sea and Arabian Gulf., and that abandoned ammo can easily be turned into IEDs. The amount of ammo abandoned after the Yom Kippur War is enormous. Delusional people tend to miss important things like that. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Mr. Rosen, The French fought Germany in WW II. Their generals stupidly put all of their forces at the Front, leaving no reserves to deal with any German breakthroughs. When the Germans broke through the Front in May 1940, the whole of France was left opent to them. The French Army could only engage in a desperate and unsuccessful attempt to close the gap. See Churchill's memoir, Their Finest Hour. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 The abusive "Shaul Levy" is "Lawrence Rodgers" is "Tamar", and JTA ought to ban any post coming in from her computer. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 "Shaul Levy" is "Lawrence Rodgers" is "Tamar" under yet another name. Take your meds, Tamar. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Shaul, you are hallucinating again. Stop projecting your personal problem on the President and take your meds, Shaul. And, Shabbat Shalom to you. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 hicks, Lawrence Rodgers is one of several monikers used by a mentally ill American woman. A clue left in some of her posts indicate that she is at least a part-time Floridian. Her onetime choice of the moniker 'Tamar' may indicate that she was raped at least once. She often obsesses about Jews' reproduction rate, and people she thinks are bad : all Jews and non-Jews alike. In the 2 years that I have lurked or posted here, she has never to my knowledge said anything complimentary about anyone. Her life must be a living hell. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 1. What kind of cockamamie yeshiva leaves it's Torah lying around where animals (2 and 4 legged) can do damage? This must be some new kind of yeshiva for G!D haters. 2. Lawrence Rodgers really hates Jews. And, just to be an equal opportunity hater, he/she hates everyone else, too. I'm sure he/she is also Tamar and at least one other prodigious hater. Anyway, for both Larwrence and Tamar: rabbis become bolsheviks, bolsheviks become President Obama, President Obama becomes a Muslim, and Muslims become the nazis, and nazis become Polish. America becomes Amerikkka. Converts to Judaism are horrible, converts away from Judaism are a good riddance. Birth control is the invention of Jew-hating Jews. People that worked to save Jewish women (like Margaret Sanger) are anti-Semites, while people who murdered Jewish women (like Eichmann) are anti-Semites. His/hers is one long, tortured, and meaningless intellectual schlep and jive, that only another psychotic could understand. Yet he/she must love it, because he/she keeps coming back sporting new monikers. 3. Leland, Think big. Regarding weaponry, pump shotguns go back to the late 1890s. If I were facing a modern day horde of mean-spirited Pals, I think I'd like to have a more modern tool, such as a NeoStead 2000 or a Pancor Jackhammer. Tools like these put the firepower of a WWII platoon into the hands of a single soldier. At 2,750 ft/sec., the 22" M14 .308 has a flatter trajectory and greater impact than the old Springfield. It is excellent for sniping. I'd load hollow points, of course, presuming that the Pals do not have kevlar or twaron body armor. There are also armor piercing .308 rounds available, just in case the Pals discover body armor while I am on duty. An M320 would be nice to have, especially if the Pals decide to come after dark. They might not be able to see me, but the M320 would see them. Grenade launchers are so festive at night, don't you think? Don't skimp on your defense, Leland. Your life is all you've got, and you'd really be kicking yourself if your position was overrun just because you skimped on the equipment. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Arkady, The only thing that you are really upset about, is that you saw something that upset you, and you did not act or speak up. ou did nothing. The wrong is not change, Arkady. The failure is not America's. The problem is not 78% of Jews. The wrong, the big failure, the insoluable problem, is your cowardice. Nothing good ever happens to cowards. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Tamar (now dba Lawrence Rodgers) apparently is not fit to join the IDF. Too bad, because she/he is meaner than a constipated ss guard. Haredi should remember the stories of Holofernes and Susera, but apparently they don't know very much about Judaism. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Mr Rodgers, Or, is it Tamar? What makes Norman B. Coleman Junior especially Jewish are his regular attendance at church (according to an old Mpls Tribune article, his christmas tree photograph published in the St Paul Pioneer Press, his Catholic wife and kids, and the statement of a supporter quotes in the Trib that he is just as Christian as the rest of us. Coleman's story is that his dad changed the family name to avoid the anti-Jewish prejudice that permeated their town - Brooklyn, NY if you can believe that! If you ask me, Norman Junior is every bit as Jewish as the Pope. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 To our Canadian friends, Pay no heed to 'Laurence Rodgers'. He hates everyone, Obama, Canadians, Arabs, Britons, Jews. However, he never says anything bad about Antarcticans. I wonder, why. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Thanks for the clarification, Ari H. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 The boats could have carried a lot of food and medicine, however, they carried bags of cement. When did cement become a humanitarian need? Its about time that Cyprus stopped allowing shipments to terrorists. Greece and Greek Cyprus have been the terrorists' buddies for 35 years. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 What is the big surprise? These rightwing arschlochen always blame the victims. rightwingers are highly heirarchical in their attitudes, and equate victims with the condemned. For Christians reading this post, please note that Nixon takes the part of Pontius Pilate, washing his hands, while condemning the Light of the World, a title that the Holy One bestowed upon the Jewish people. As for that pompous ass Billy Graham, for 2 generations he sent missionaries to harrass Jews on Campuses everywhere but in Israel and Saudi Arabia. He's just a religious imperialist who worships 3 strange gods. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 I don't see any reason for Israel to violently dispossess these Jews of their homes. However, everyone should understand that these particular Jews no longer live in the State of Israel, but are now part of the Diaspora. If they continue to live in their West Bank enclaves, everyone must understand that they will be under Palestinian jurisdiction eventually. If I were one of these West Bank Jews, I would clear out before that time, but I am not one of them, and I do not presume to boss them around. If they want to recapitulate the experience of old Ahab and the Northern Kingdom, who am I to stand in their way? Parenthetically, this business of ceding a bit of our inheritance to non-Jews began with King Solomon, who gave much of the traditional lands of the tribes of Zebulon and Asher to the King of Tyre. Presumably, some of the anger that led to the rebellion against Solomon grew out of this disinheritance. The Maccabees, too, made a peace treaty with the heir of Antiochus the Damned that ceded most of our ancient inheritance to the Macedonian tyrants. The Maccabean Kingdom was quite small. Again, after Pompey invaded. And again, after the death of Herod the Damned. And it is important to note that excepting King Solomon, in each case the land was already lost to a non-Jew, and thus the loss of the land was not G!D's punishment of our ancestors for giving a bit of land away. In fact, in each case except for King Solomon, the treaty or other alienation of the land was the result of a military or political catastrophe, not the other way around. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Mr. Dworkin, I wouldn't trust anything that the Wall Street Journal prints. Other than that minor point, and the use of the word "Kikes", I am in complete agreement with you. The peace settlement attempts of the past have always been disrupted by the murderers who committed horrific outrages. I believe that when there is finally a real peace treaty, news of it will be sprung on us without warning, to prevent the murderers from derailing it. Parenthetically, what is objectionable about a Jewish State, when there are several Islamic Republics, and a couple of Islamic Monarchies? 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Where are all the usual Likud/Shas charges that Lieberman is a traitor who should be thrownunder the tram - or worse? If a Kadima or Labor Party person had talked like this, I think that the Haredim would be looking for an assassin to do him in. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Mr. Edwards is right, but he only tells a small part ot the tale. The Bush crime family first arranged for the sale of rockets to Ayatollah Khomeini nearly 30 years ago. When this crime was discovered, Bush employee Bud McFarlane tried to commit suicide, like the Nazis. McFarlane went to prison. The convictions of fellow conspiritors Ali North and Admiral Poindexter's were overturned by Republican Judges on technicalities. The Bushes got off scot-free. The rockets in question were the beginning of todays Iranian missile program. Simultaneously, the Bushes armed and trained Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan, against the strong objections of the Northern Alliance, inventing the terrorists that destroyed the World Trade Center and killed more than 2,800 people. The Bushes even went so far as to sell AWACS planes to Saudi Arabia, but US Senate Democrats stopped that insanity. Next, Bush agents, Rumsfeld and Cheney, sold Saddam Hussein our poison gas technology, which that admirer of Hitler (may he feel his guilt eternally) used like a second Nazi Feuhrer in Kurdistan. Poppy Bush referred to Saddam Hussein as "Our best friend in the Middle East," as if Israel was America's enemy. Rumsfeld hugged the genocidal monstrer. The Bush crime family, through their equivalent of Goebbels, Jim Baker, loudly denied that Saddam Hussein was committing genocide with poison gas, which gave Saddam the political cover to commit even more murders. Mr. Will Edwards is right, the Bush/Cheney Administration sold Saudi Arabia $450 million worth of weaponry, some of it quite sophisticated. Worse, they let the defeated Iraqi army go home with its weapons and ammo in 2003, and failed to guard the Iraqi ammo dumps. Apparently, it was more important that the Marines direct traffic and make sure that the Iraqi Post Office was staffed. We couldn't trust Ba'ath members to do these "important" jobs, so they fell on the Marines, while the "unimportant" ammo dumps disappeared into the sheds and garages of terrorist 'insurgents'. When the Bushes finally left office, they were still propping up the government of Iraq, which has sworn to attack and annihilate Israel, and they were getting chummy with Muamar Ghadaffi. What do you call the friends of your enemies? 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Mr. Edwards, I have sometimes harshly disagreed with you. Please, forgive me if I have ever offended you. I know from your writing, that you are both a reasonable, and a deeply religious man. You frequently speak of HaShem, wheras, I frequently speak of El Shaddai. These apellations we choose suggest that we have different experiences of the Holy ONE, you attending principally to the majesty of the Creator, whereas I attend more often to the generosity of our Provident Master. I have no doubt that you are my equal in loving the ONE. This being the case, I open a discussion with you, not of the political, social, or economic matters that JTA specializes in, but the spiritually Jewish matters that inform all of your thinking and mine. Please, consider this as you would 'benching.' You said that you would not sit around debating, while we, your "brethren are being murdered." Thank you. The Jews of Israel sometimes underestimate the value of material and spiritual support that the Diaspora has provided, and continues to provide. Israelis sometimes think that they are on the 'frontline' and that no one else understands, or even has a say in the matter of how HaOlam haBah should reveal itself. All of the care, love, prayers, money, labor , and lives that the Jews of the Diaspora have provided, have allowed the Jewish State of Israel to sprout, grow, and thrive. We all need your material support, your love, and your prayers. * There is violent conflict in the Middle East, yet today few Jews are being murdered. We very often hear that the raids in Lebanon against H'zbullah, and in Gaza against Hamas were failures. If they were failures, we would still see hundreds of grenade tipped rockets raiing down on us every day. In fact, we do not. The numbers are down to a few a year from Lebanon, and to an average varying from one a week to a couple per month from Gaza. The effect of the raids has been to reduce the terrorists' rocket attacks by more than 95%! Still, ANY life lost is as if an entire world had been lost. Talmud teaches us that. In Nevi'im, the story of Jonah teaches us to ask the question, "What if there is only a minyan of righteous people in Nineveh?" Clearly, Jonah wanted Nineveh annihilated. Sometimes Ein Sof does not agree with our merely human wishes, and a future different from the one we desire unfolds. So it was with Jonah, and it may be so with us. Talmud does not say that it is the lives of Jews that are precious, but that all life is precious. This is something that the haters, whose posts we have often seen here, do not understand: all the lives come from the Holy Breath of HaShem, and all shall return to the ONE. Guided by Sefer Jonah, we should ask, "What if there is a minyan of righteous Muslims?" Muslims are not Arabs, and vice versa, but bypassing that common mistake, what if there is a minyan of righteous Muslim Arabs? Do you condemn them, too? And, if you do, does our Holy Creator, Preserver, and Teacher also condemn them? Either way, how do we lovers of what is Righteous and Holy make ourselves at one with the will of the Holy One? We are given the opportunity and the honor, to be The Light to all the Nations. Are we to push the Muslim Arabs out? Do we paint them ALL with the brushes of hate and terrorism? I do not think that it is just to condemn 1.6 billion people because hundreds, or even thousands, show up in front of Salafist and Ayatollahist cameras chanting "Death to the Jews." Shabbat Shalom this Shabbat, to you, Mr. Edwards, to all Israel, to all the world, and to my beloved Yerushalaim. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Mr. Golan, Lest we forget, Winston Churchill sent weapons and ammo to the Jews of Palestine in 1941, and considered sending soon-to-be Major General Orde Wingate to train a Jewish army to defend the Middle East . He didn't send ammo or weapons to the Arabs. Lest we forget, it was British PM Anthony Eden who, together with the French and Israelis, captured Suez from Egypt in 1957. It was Republican US President Dwight Eisenhower who made the British, French, and Israelis give General Nasser his canal again. This pro-Arab action by Eisenhower allowed the Arabs to continue their strangling blockade of shipments to and from Israel through the canal for another 22 years. Aside form all this, does anyone see any good reason for JTA letting a Jew-hater like the alleged 'Dr. Pluss' post on this site? 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 The number and severity of attacks against Jews is down for the fourth year in a row, according to the ADL, who conduct the largest and most detailed audit of anti-Jewish crimes. However, that self-appointed expert on anti-Jewish hate crime, Leland Madearis, says things are getting much worse. I should point out that this is the guy who compared JVets to "crap-eating dogs" a few weeks ago. Now he is oh, so moved by the murder of a Vet by a madman. I put it to all of you out there in the ether: whom are we to believe, the Anti Defamation League or Leland Madearis? 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Mr. Lambert, Speaking of lies, it looks like you're the one telling them. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 I see no reason for JTA to allow anthony cavelli to post his insulting and blatantly anti-Jewish remarks. His post is nothing more or less than an updated blood libel. cavelli's is as much a lie as that perpetrated by mass murderer John of Capistrano that Jews murdered little Simon of Trent to drink his blood. Mr. cavelli, WWII is over. Your side lost. We survived. We will always survive. Get used to it. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Mr. Weston, If 6.5 million Jews came out of the death camps, it is news to everyone. I suspect that your decimal place is one space too far to the right. However, if you maintain that the decimal point corresponds to the numbers you have read, then please tell us in which document you found this extraordinary number ? Further, does this 6.5 million figure mean only Jews, or does it include the some of the 2 plus million non-Jewish Poles, the 3 to 4 million non-Jewish Russians, the 1 million Gypsies, America's and the BritishEmpire's POWs, plus all the Freemasons, the socialists, syndicalists, anarchists, Jehovah's Witnesses and other Pacifists gathered from Brittany to the suburbs of Moscow, from Narvik to Crete, plus all the German, Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, and Estonian folks with mentally illness and birth defects? I knew an old Lutheran man from Iowa, who as a US soldier took part in the little invasion of Europe 65 years ago. He and his unit were captured and sent to a POW death camp, where most of them starved to death. When US 3d Army rescued him, this man had lost more than an inch in height, and had shrunk from 145 pounds to 75 pounds. The point is that all the camps, POW, slave labor, or extermination camps, were all death camps. You may think that your right to be an outspokenly offensive distributor of mistaken information is of paramount importance, however, the rights of the survivors, and the people who love them are just as important, if not more so. The martyrs have a right to tell the story of the horrors that more than12 million experienced, and fewer than half survived, without being called liars by ill-mannered and self-centered ignoramuses. Regarding your ridiculous Ashkenaz statement, even if you were correct, what's our point, except to be an insulting, bumptious, wiseacre? The first Ashkenaz came to the Rhineland as Roman Legion Auxillaries about 1,950 years ago. We know that from the artifacts found at the site of the earliest known synagogue in Northern Europe. The Legionaries received pensions in the form of land grants near the Roman castra where they served. These auxillaries formed the first Ashkenaz community. Whether they intermarried, or took German or Gaulish slaves is inconsequential. These soldiers and their descendants are Semites nonetheless, because Hebrew and Chaldaic (Aramaic) are Semitic languages, the languages the soldiers and their descendants used to pass the knowledge of the Holy One from father and mother to daughter and son for 70 generations. Parenthetically, Mr. Weston, do you know who your father is? 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Those uprroted Muslims have been moved by the Pakistani government that is trying to annihilate the alQaeda monster that it created. This comes in the wake of alQaeda murdering the Benazir Bhutto. Only flakes like bin Ladin would blame the American President for the work of the Pakistanis. As for Ms Madearis' delusional accusation that Obama is weak and inactive, it was Obama who pointed out that the failed Bush team had let bin Ladin go and allowed the Taliban to retake most of Afghanistan. It was Obama who reversed this failed Bush policy, dramatically increased the number of troops in Afghanistan. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Mr Bassini, I think there are many words for treason: Vanunu, Bobby Fisher, or Bob Novak, to name a few. ;o) 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 People who think anti-Jewish hate-mongering is at the highest level since WWII are too young to remember the early 50s: 1. the red scare in America; 2. the "doctors' plot" in the soviet empire, with the commie anti-Jewish purges in east Germany, Poland, Hungary, and Russia; 3. Juan Peron's attacks against Argentinian Jews; 4. the waves of anti-Jewish political attacks across North Africa and Southwest Asia from Morocco to Egypt, from Syria to Yemen to Iraq. By comparison, this period is a piece of cake. Not that the victims are having an easy time, but there are far fewer victims today than there were in the 50s. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 It's about time. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Candidate Berney, Jackie Capiello, poppy bison, and Robert Miller are obiously oblivious to what the President actually said and are condemning him for things that he did not say. In Jewish tradition reporting untruths about some one is called Lashon Hara - the evil tongue - and it is correctly accounted as a sin. david hicks, on the other hand lies about Israel and Jews. For those of you who oppose a 2 state solution, is there any end that YOUR strategies can acheive other than the nuclear annhilation of Israel and 50 plus million other people ? Is this what you interpret G!D to have meant when he told us to choose life ? Please, set aside the mean-spirited name-calling for a bit and tell us where a 1 state solution will take us. Us meaning Israelis. Us also meaning the rest of the residents of the Middle East and the planet. As for you, david hicks, your despicable anti-Semitic rants are noted. Now, please go away and be mean to someone more worthy of your vile attentions. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 I think Jan is Leland, the guy who compared Jewish Vets to "crap-eating dogs." Look, Jan, you don't know a damn thing about me, including my views on abortion, so stop your lies and get some professional help. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Hurray for Ari H ! They rest of you sourpusses wallow in gloom and doom. But, I suppose that is to be expected from the old, sick, washed-up, & unemployable. If you are none of these, what is your excuse for being so bitter, for not enjoying life, when El Shaddai gives you all you need and more, and the beauty of Shabbat fast approaches? Shabbat Shalom to you all. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Bibi will talk to Syria without conditions!!! So, where are all those frothing-at-the-mouth rightwingers who kvetched to high Heaven when President Obama talked to Syria? Are your fingers to blistered from typing out all that hate on the blogs to type out the same hate for Likkud and Netanyahu? Are you all too tired out from making up stuff about Obama to call Netanyahu an appeaser, a traitor, or closet Islamofascist ? Shabbat Shalom 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 I agree with Dave Neil, Batya Devorah, and John Q. Public. Regarding the messages coming from the Mosques, we are beginning to hear the mild voices, but it takes extraordinary courage to stand up for peace and harmony among people who are terriorized by an extremely violent minority in their midst. To support that courage, it is vital that the rest of us keep calm, patient, and adament in our refusal to give up American ideals, laws, or security. Resistance always breeds persistence. If you want to change people's culture, attacking them always fails. Always. EL Shaddai tells us that "It is not by strength nor by power that Life prevails, but G!D's Spirit !" If we stay calm, patient, and tolerant, our healthy and hopeful mindset will prove more attractive than the gloomy, fearful, jealous, hate-filled mindset of the fanatics. If we remain united, just, generous, and vigilant, we cannot lose. We will only lose if we succumb to the tempting words of the haters and become haters ourselves. Hate and fear are the same no matter who bears them. It is important that Americans never again give in to hate and fear, as we have in the past. We must not give in to hate and fear borne by Muslim Fundamentalists, Jewish hate and fear borne by the Will Edwardses, or Christian hatred and fear borne by the "David Ben-Ariels". Haters are all alike. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Funny, it didn't bother you when you accused General Barak of accepting a bribe. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 I would be deeply disappointed if Israel were not spying on Hezbullah. It is the only sensible thing to do, and somebody has to do it, so why not Israel. The unfortunate thing for Lebanon is that their feeble government now works for Hezbullah. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Israel is no more occupied than Canada or the US. Not until after the Canadians go back to China, France, and Scotland, and the Americans go back to Poland, Germany, Mexco, Nigeria, and Italy, would Israelis consider going back to Yemen, Belarus, or Ethiopia. Iow, when hell freezes over and the Arabs give Medina back to the Jews. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 One of these hicks is also too stupid to know that the "#1 pariah state" is northKorea, followed by Myanmar, Zimbabwe, Sudan, Moldova, Libya, Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, & Turkish Cyprus. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 "Moronic, ill educated & insular" sounds like the characteristics of a hick to me. If the RE-action is always so damn disproportionate, why do those ill educated & insular morons continue their terror rocket attacks? The answer is that the ill educated, insular, and moronic Gazans WANT to die and to take a lot of people with them - even their own families. The insular, moronic dunces can't get through the wall anymore to bomb school buses and bar mitzvah parties in suicide attacks, so they attempt murder with primitive grenade-missiles, hoping that the IDF will eventually RE-act, and kill a bunch of 'martyrs'. It's just more Palestinian terrorist murder/suicide on a larger, more impersonal, less logical, more moronic, and insular scale. Of course, there are hicks who are too stupid to get the connection; who are intellectually dazzled by the concept of 'disproportion'. One of these moronic, insular, ill educated hicks ought to get off his quasi-moral high horses, stop the pompous lecturing, and finally let the world know just what would be proportional to lobbing rockets into elementary school yards. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Hundreds protested. Everyone else was busy at work. If it were such a big deal that it would warrant mention there would have been tens of thousands of people. Hundreds? Big deal. You could get a bigger crowd by offering free donuts. Mr. Tzarfati, if you have proof that General Barak took a bribe, ou had better bring it to the authorities. Otherwise, the charge it is just a mean-spirited tomfoolery that you should be ashamed of. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 All the more reason why the dips should do all in their power to steer Iran away from the manufacture of nukes. All the more reason for the Iranians to oust Achmedinejad and the crazy mullahs, and go back to being an ally of Israel, rather than an enemy. Iranian adults who love life and love their children ought to be extremely worried about the path Achmedinajad is taking. When your government recruits and supplies suicide bombers to blow up school buses, it is only a matter of time before it will sacrifice millions of it's own subjects, including all the children. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Is there any PLO money to sieze? 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Why Arty, how very pro-murder of you. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Mr. Marquis, You give very measured and mild response to the inflammatory ranting. Number 1 Pariah State has to be North Korea, followed by Myanmar, Zimbabwe, Sudan, Syria, Laos, Taiwan, Iran, Moldova, Turkish Cyprus, Cuba, Venezuela, Libya, and Belarus - not necessarily in that order, and certainly in the cases of Taiwan and Turkish Cyprus, not at all deserving of pariah status. Israel is a pariah state among all the real pariah states plus the Moslem countries, excepting Turkey, Jordan and Egypt. For China, India, the British Commonwealth nations, the EU, almost all of the countries of the former Soviet Union, the US, Japan, almost all of South America, plus Turkey, Jordan, and Egypt, Israel is not a pariah. Shabbat Shalom ! 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Mr. Singer, I find you post very interesting and it raises a question for me that you, or some other knowledgeable person might be able to answer. You maintain that the words are clear, but to me they MIGHT be slightly fuzzy around the edges. For instance, is the West Bank actually a "disputed territory? I am inclined to think that it is, however, I don't remember if any of the "peace agreements" say that the West Bank is a separate entity from Israel. If Israel signed any agreement calls the West Bank a separate entity, then Ithink the Pope ought not to be faulted. However, if Israel has always maintained that the West Bank is separate, then the Pope has indeed violated the agreement, the very foundation of the relationship. Finally, would you advise Israel to end it's recognition of the Vatican now, on the basis that the Vatican have reneged on a vital point of their pledge to Israel? 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Mr. Ramer, I haven't heard of the incident to which you refer, but I doubt that the annoying Al Sharpton has much clout in the Obama White House, whereas Mr. Buchanan was a speech writer and speech coach for 2 Republican presidents. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Mr. Tzarfati, Jordan has repeatedly said that it does not want the West Bank Palestinians. Frankly, I don't blame them. The 2 state 'solution' does not take into account that Gaza is a totalitarian dictatorship under the Hamas Party. The Hamas party is pledged not only to destroy Israel, but to destroy Fatah, also. Hamas killed hundreds of Fatah 'soldiers' in Gaza in a sneak attack within the last year, even more than the number of IDF soldiers that it murdered in the last 25 years. My point is that Hamas and Fatah cannot be reconciled, and Gaza will be in Hamas' bloody grip for decades. So if there is to be a multi-state solution, it will have to be at least 3 states. I do not see a 3 state solution as acceptable to any of the parties, so the status quo will lumber on for a long time to come. Most worrisome is the projection that the Arab population of Israel, the WB, and Gaza will surpass the Jewish in numbers by 2016 ce. This fact is very troubling to almost every Israeli. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 So, now where do Buchanan's Brownshirts swap lies? 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 This reminds me of when Ronald Reagan couldn't recall selling weapons to anti-Israeli terrorist Iran. Hendren appears to be a member in good standing of the Pat Buchanan/John McLaughlin/Ham Fish Jr./David Duke/Mel Gibson wing of the Republican Party. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Ari is absolutely right. In addition, Iranians and Arabs hate each other, so if 20 million Arabs die in the attack on Israel, it is just icing on Achmedinejad's cake. Regarding Obama, there seems to be a Republican generated delusion that Obama is bent on selling Israel out. No statement that Obama has ever made indicates that he is against Israel. On the contrary, despite the shrunken economy and Republican calls to cut spending, Obama committed the same amount of military aid to Israel. The President also goes along Israel's embargo and isolation of the terrorist Hamas state in Gaza. For those of you who are cynically mouthing the McCain/neocon campaign propaganda, the election is over. You lost. Get over it. For those of you who actually believe, against the mountains of evidence to the contrary, that Obama is out to destroy Israel, medical help is available, so that you can get a life. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 These arrests are used to explain away the disastrous defeat H'zbullah experienced at the hands of the IDF. Presumably the spy stories will bolster H'zbullah's chance to win in the June 7 election. Steve, many Lebanese people hate H'zbullah. The Druze and Sunni minorities are particularly endangered by H'zbullah. Unfortunately, many of the Sh'ia majority don't hate H'zbullah. At least, not yet. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Sorry, Ms Leyhn, The Arabs are the occupiers. We were here first. You folks didn't arrive until after the collapse of the Seleucid Empire, 1,500 years later. By the way, thanks for all the help in getting rid of those filthy Byzantines and Crusaders. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Buchanan is just a typical Republican in the Henry Ford, Sen. Ernest Lundeen, Gen. Robert Wood, Sen. George Norris, Rep. Jacob Thorkelson, Sen. Gerald Nye, Charles Lindbergh, Rep. Hamilton Fish Jr., Richard Nixon, John McLaughlin, Sen. George Allen, Jr., sort of Jew-hating Republican. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Rabbi Lamm's error is so egregious as to make me doubt his sobriety. Even in Israel, the Orthodox are a shrinking minority. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Medearis, you not only attacks vets, you attack the VA and liquor store owners. Wasn't comparing vets to "crap-eating dogs" enough? Do you have to pile hate on hate? What happened at the VA that you hate the doctors? Did they want you to have some in-house therapy? And why on earth are liquor store owners on your list? Mr. Arkady, You can't expect Gov. Schwartzenegger to remove Drake - Schwartzie's an Austrian who has said that he admires Hitler - what else do you expect from his employees? 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Mr. Tzarfati, We didn't lose the last 2 wars there. If we had, rockets would be raining down on Acre. When the H'bullah leader climbed out of the rubble after the last raid, he said, "If I had known, I would never have started this fight." These candid words, recorded in an unstaged moment, also tell of an Israeli victory. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Mr. Tzarfati, He wasn't invited, he announced that he was coming and Netanyahu was too stupid to say, "Stay home." 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 This is too bad. I love Akko. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Mr. Public, Who are you to call anyone ignorant ? You can't even tell the difference between 20 million victims murdered by your precious Chinese reds, and people who don't have medical care. If killing hundreds of thousands of people for their religious beliefs equates to "blatant human rights violations in our society", then you are beyond mere ignorance, you are degenerate. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Mr. Bays, A few corrections are in order. First, you say Jesus was a Jew, as if you do not believe he is alive, which I find very strange coming from an Christian. I say he is dead, and that he was, is, and always will be, a Jew. If you are a Christian, and believe that Jesus lives, honesty demands that you say, "Jesus IS a Jew." Second, if you wish to follow Jesus, you cannot do so as anything but a Jew. When Jesus said, "Follow me", he was not referring to the religion invented by the Romano-Jewoid apostate philosopher, Paul of Tarsus. Third, you say that Jesus died at the behest of the Jews. These 'Jews' were Pilate's council, all Roman citizens, owing their allegiance to Caesar Tiberias, the living 'god' of the Empire. To most Jews of the time, they were no more Jews than are today's Messianic Christians. The 'Jewish' heirarchy was appointed by Pilate, acting as Ceasar's vicar. These Romanized Jews were angry with Jesus for his violent takeover of the Temple, during which, the Gospels say, he whipped the Temple personnel and drove them out. The High Priest and Temple officials were all appointed by Pilate, acting as Caesar's vicar. By driving Caesar's men, Jesus committed an act of rebellion against Caesar's authority, by calling himself the king, Jesus raised his crime from mere riot to usurpation. Only Caesar's vicar, Pilate, had the Imperial authority to pronounce a death sentence. Pilate condemned Jesus to death for claiming to be the king, as recorded in Mark. This claim of kingship the Romans deemed usurpation. In the Empire only Caesar had the authority to make kings. The Gospels record that the indictment for which Jesus was crucified was nailed above his head, "Jesus of Nazareth, king of the Jews." The Gospels do not relate that Jesus was condemned for any religious crime, only the crime of usurpation. There was no indictment regarding a crime against Jews posted on the cross, only the one that named Jesus a usurper. Therefore, you cannot truthfully say that Jesus was killed at the behest of Jews. His crucifixion was the result of his claim to be king, his violent takeover of the Temple during which he drove Caesar's appoited officers out, and his subsequent capture by Roman soldiers. Fourth, neither Tanakh nor the Gospels claim that there are humans in heaven. Only the Christian Book of Revelations places humans in heaven, and they are merely identified as 144,000 Jewish virgins. Apparently, if one is to believe the Christian Bible, there will be no other humans in heaven but 144,000 Jews. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Oh yes, the "Book of Revelations" clearly states that the host of heaven will be comprised of 144,000 Jewish virgins in the apocalypse. It also clearly excludes Christians from heaven by not mentioning them at all. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 They should be called the Rude and Moronic Baptist Church. I had nothing to do with the murder of Jesus. It was a bit before my time, and the Christian Bible says that it was done by order of the Roman prefect, Pontius Pilate. Jesus was, is and always will be a Jew, so I hope these cretins curse are up to cursing their little godling. And, I hope they are prosecuted for hate crimes. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Cuba, Saudi Arabia, russia, and red China, eh? The inclusion of this axis of evil does not bode well for the council. I don't know about Cuba, but russia has been practicing genocide in Chechnya for 106 years, the red Chinese are trying to destroy the Uigur and Tibetan nationsand deny religious freedom, and the Saudis practice slavery, deny religious freedom, and support terrorists. Ouch. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Arkady, You aren't stupid. I always ask the Israel/Zionism haters why they promote ethnic cleansing. After all, Jews have lived in the Promised Land, Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank, for 4,000 years. If the PLA and Hamas are not a racist, apartheidt, and oppressive, why is it illegal for Jews who were born in Hebron, Jericho, or Ramallah to own land there? What about the Jews who were driven by the Arab Legion from their homes in these towns in 1948? Why do certain anti-racist people not support the right of Jews to live where their ancestors lived for 1,500 years before Arabs arrived in the collapse of the Babylonian Empire? Half of the people living in Israel today are descended from the Sephardim and Mizrachim who lived in Ottoman Palestine, and other Moslem countries. Are the Sephardi supposed to move to a Europe, their ancestors left more than 500 years ago? They have a more legitimate right to be in Israel than Whites have to be in America, Australia, South Africa, or New Zealand. Are the Mizrachi supposed to moved to a Europe that no ancestor of theirs ever set foot on? How absurd. No Arkady, you are not stupid. Reena Katz is stupid. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Mr Aronson, Please don't forget that Ike made the cease fire with the north Koreans, and that the lazy President Bush capitulated to north Korea after allowing them to develop their Nuke. The 'moral equivalence' and 'liberal establishment' you write of are straw men. They do not exist except in Republican rhetoric. The Democratic Party is committed to the survival of Israel and the downfall of the terrorists and their sponsors, as is abundantly shown in Afghanistan today. Six years of Republican domination of all the branches of government resulted in the north Koreans developing a Bomb and the spread of nuclear technology to Iran and Syria. It is no good blaming mythical beings for the shortcomings of the Republican Party and it's failed policies, Mr. Aronson. All the sly Republican propaganda about 'liberals' and their thoughts and motives has not made Israel one bit safer. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Mr. Edwards, I would appreciate it if in the future you would comment on what I wrote rather than inventing things that I didn't write. Anyone who does not openly oppose government promotion of pork consumption, but does openly oppose gay marriage, has read Vayikra selectively, and I presume, with a bigot's eye. I noticed that you ducked the question, so I ask it again. Do you oppose the government promotion of pork consumption, or do only some of the commandments in Vayikra motivate you? 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 I wish Mr. Edwards, that you would comment on what I wrote rather than on imagine I wrote. Of course, the dog priests weren't Jewish - WHEN I WRITE "HEATHEN" IT MEANS NOT JEWISH ! Does that clarify things for you? My first point was that the injunctions were against acts not affinities, and the acts they forbade might not have been male on male anal intercourse, but rather the worship of a disgusting cult. Further, I do not need to reread history, thanks, and i know about the ashera fetishes. My second point was that the consumption of pork is also an abomination according to my copy of Vayikra. So do you, or do you not oppose government promoting the consumption of pork. The question is important because while Tanakh does not rank pork eating as 'better than' sodomy, many of us wonder whether you, agudah, and the OU do make such a ranking. And if not, why aren't all of you lobbying the government to stop the promotion of pork consumption ? The answers to these questions will tell the rest of us whether you are really a supporter of HaShem's commandments, or merely a gay-basher. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Mr. Henry, I've been to the Ft Meyers area several times (ot in the last 7 years) and have seen the pickups with the confederate terrorists' "battle flag", the gunracks and chains that you describe. I can't help thinking that their displays are attempts by weak people to look tough. Of course, you and I know that the toughest people don't have to bluster about it or put race-baiting stickers on their vehicles. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Not only do I not believe that you help vets, I don't believe that you are a vet. No real vet would compare "a crap-eating dog" to another vet. Obviously, you can't put together a reasoned argument, so you engage in name-calling. That means you lose not only the argument but the respect of the people who read your posts. It is obvious that your mind is unbalanced. We all hope that you will find the help you need. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Mr. Kass is correct. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 "Ben-Ariel", prove it. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Medearis, Your ignorant buffoonery will get you nowhere. Neither will making up rightwing crap about other people. You are wrong on all counts, as usual. I am not in opposition; on the contrary, the only people who want alQaeda and the Taliban to get the Bomb are alQaeda and the Taliban. Even Iran shudders at the thought of alQaeda getting the Bomb. At this moment, American troops are fighting and dying to destroy the alQaeda/Taliban threat. To lobby the Administration to oppose an enemy with whom it is at war is a laughable redundancy. Surely there is a worthy project that could use the support of the JVets. Regarding my postings, you spend a great deal more time writing here than I do, so you must have a great deal more time on your hands. I presume from your invariably hostile attitude that you are unemployable. Regarding my service, I take care of vets, and I am proud of. You might stop making rightwing crap up about other people and help a vet, yourself. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 This is a fascinating discussion. I think that we could have had more clarity at the beginning, if we had separated "homosexual" from "sodomite". A homosexual has an inate or inborn affinity, whereas a sodomite chooses to engage in a particular set of sex acts. That our tradition has interpreted Vayikra as saying that homosexuality is an abominable, I believe that the origianl meaning, the true and proper meaning is that male on male anal intercourse is abominable. Tanakh also mentions dog priests and calls them abominable. Dog priests were servants of the Semitic fertility goddess, who, for a price, provided sexual gratification. Moses may have seen all male on male sodomy as the heathenish worship of an abomination. However, the ancient inhabitants of Babylon and Ur also practiced female ritual prostitution. At one time in a woman's life she was supposed to rent out her body for the benefit of the Goddess's establishment. While Tanakh also abhored this practice, it did not decree that Jews abstain from hetero-sexual activity, so the dog priest argument may not be as sound as I would like it to be. Interestingly, I see no injunction against sodomy between a man and a woman, although there is in Bereshit a cautionary tale that warns against the 'spilling of seed.' I am curious to know if Mr. Edwards, Agudah, and the Orthodox Union oppose government purchasing pork products to provide food aid in disaster areas, and to feed America's armed services. The last time I looked, people who self-identify as Conservatives, were very pro-pork, whereas HaShem clearly considers porcivores to be abominable. Should we prevent government from aiding pork eaters? Perhaps, we shouldn't even allow them to marry ! 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Mr. Edwards, You can add Ann Coulter, Pat Buchanan, abortions caused by pollution and abandoned landmines, depressions and defeats, the export of technologies and jobs to enemy nations. The list is almost endless. Whether or not republicans can do without Specter is not an important question - who needs him? The big questions are whether the republicans have anything at all of value to add to America's political life, and just how insignificant they intend to become. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Maybe he'll have time to stop by the Dead Sea Scrolls Museum, to see all the documents he tried to keep the rest of the world from learning about. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 It seems a lot like urging the government to continue having National Parks. These vets obviously have a lot of time on their hands. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Oddly, Mr. Edwards opposes same sex marriage on the basis of passages that apply only to males. Presumably, Mr. Edwards has nothing against lesbians, because HaShem does not abominate them in Tanaach. Why should lesbians then be forbidden to wed, when they cannot possibly "lie with a man as with a woman" ? 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 The question is as old as Levittown : can anyone be a Jew out in the suburbs ? Conversely, can any suburbanite be a Jew ? ;o) 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 I agree with Mr. Glaser, All the Glatt Jews who thought they were getting kosher meat from Postville, should sue to get their money back. Also, the rabbinic supervisors who conned Jews by mislabeling the non-Jewish slaughtering at Postville, and took their money, ought to lose everything. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 One sentence in the article is an egregious error. Loew was hardly one of the first rabbis to popularize Kabbalah. Molko did so a century earlier, Rambam, Abraham Abulafia, Ramban, and Moses DeLeon did so 3 centuries earlier, Saadia Gaon did so 7 centuries earlier, and Rabbi Yochanan did so 13 centuries earlier, just to name just a few of the more famous popularizers of Kabbalah who preceded Rabbi Loew. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Mr. Schutz's interpretation of FDR's words is exceedingly bizarre, and unabashedly dishonest. Schutz ignores the fact that Europe's Jews lived dispersed among even more countries than the 8 - 10 into which FDR proposed to move them. Then he lies by claiming that FDR called "for the end of the Jewish people." The President said no such thing. Mr. Dent, I didn't write that the death camps were heavily defended by german AA. I wrote that the continent over which our bombers would have to fly to reach the death camps was bristling with german AA. It was not uncommon for us to lose 1 out of 5 of our bombers to AA, therefore Tedder and Ike chose to send those bombers against german military targets rather than the death camps, which they saw as having no military value. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 If Ashcroft and Bush are not behind this, who is? I believe the Bush administration's legal attacks on AIPAC began when Alberto Gonzales, Bush's personal attorney going back to before Bush's governorship. The case continued under Mukasey. Obviously, if Rosen is correct, and anti-Jewish people are out to get the Jews, then Mukasey allowed it to happen. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 I guess we and the other 6 1/2 billion people on earth missed your warning. Now what are you going to do ? 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 While he's at it , maybe Feltman can get Lebanese/Syrian and Turkish/Syrian peace talks going. Maybe he can broker a peace agreement between Syrian and the Muslim Brotherhood, and Fatah. Let's face it, Syria isn't interested in peace with anyone, because it isn't interested in peace. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 On the other hand, the blood worshippers and the land worshippers on the right are idolators. By definition, idolators can't be Jews. Mr. Winter ascribes motives to the 3 leftwing groups. He wants us to think he can read minds. Ms Leyhn must have lived in a cave all her life if she thought there were laws against lobbyists educating gov officials. As to foreign lobbists, she can't be referring to AIPAC, because it is a home grown All - American organization. If she is referring to AIPAC, she must be demented. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Hats off to Jennifer P ! From Houston to Cleveland and from Phoenix to the Twin Cities there are a millions of Jews, more than enough students who want to attend at Cincinnati. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 I is way past time for JTA to pull the plug on the offensive Tamar/Sallai Levinsohn 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Levinsohn committed 3 lies in just one sentence. She/it should change her/its name to Lashon Hara. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 She may be the only Jewish comedian left. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 You republicans didn't seem to get anything done for Israel through 20 years of reagan and 2 bushes, and now you attack Obama because he hasn't done anything for Israel in 3 1/2 months. Wadda bunch of mealy-mouthed coulters you guys are. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Arkady, You may not have noticed, but this article did not mention either Turkey or the Armenians. But since you changed the topic : A. Armenians were never friendly to Jews. They joined in the perwsecution of Jews in the 5 century ce. The Armenians aren't so pure either when it comes to the Turkish people, either. Tell us about the Armenian ethnic cleansing in Nagorno-Karaback. The Armenians were lucky that Israel allowed a haven for some Armenians to escape Syrian persecution. B. Turks don't need Israelis to know how to fight. Turks crushed the British in Iraq in 1915, and at Gallipoli the next year. They were also the toughest allied units in the Korean War. Turks beat the hell out of the redChinese. C. Jewish intelligence agents of Kurdish extraction are invaluable for the Turks, keeping an eye on 1. Kurdish terrorists, 2. alqaeda recruitment among Kurds, and 3. the Iranian regime's military situation along the Iran-Iraq border, providing invaluable info for the US and Israel. None of this vital work would be possible if Turkey and Israel were not allies. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 All of the above points are valid criticisms. The proposal could work isf Maahaal and the other top leaders of Hamas, and their families, would offer themselves as hostages for the good behavior of the new Palestinian State. I say this knowing that the leaders never submit to martyrdom; martyrdom is always 'saved' for the naive and the schizophrenic. However, as the chance of Hanas leaders offering themselves as hostages is zero, my comment is merely an intellectual game. Still, if Israel were to make a counter-offer including the hostages scheme, the conversation might become an Israeli PR victory, and Israel needs all the PR victories it can get. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Omigosh. I agree with Ms Levinsohn. Just what we need after the republican Afghanistan Fiasco II & the republican Iraq Fiasco II : the republican Iran Fiasco. Look, everytime the newt screams, "BOMB IRAN!!!" he triggers panic buying in the oil market. He probably makes a fortune in the market with every new oil war panic. Before we follow the newt's advise, we should make sure that he is committed to re-imbursing all of us when the price of gas goes past $20 / gallon. Get the newt to escrow the required $TR!LL!ON$, be fore doing anything. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Mr. Matt, You're pretty close. The proposal to ban 20 yearn old singles was made by the son of that pro-holocaust 'rabbi' who said that Ha Shoah was G!D's punishment for the Reform Movement. Never mind that almost all the victims of Ha Shoah were of the Orthodox stream, and that hardly any Reformers were captured, let alone killed. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Of course, that is supposed to read, 'reported' not 'reorted'. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 newsmax, the neo-con propaganda mill, reorted this story 365 times last year. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 That should read 'throngs', not 'rongs'. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Ya, maybe he'll tell the rongs of gathered Pals that HaShoah actually did happen, and that he knows it for a fact because he witnessed it. That would cause a load of trouble. It would also make him a hero among the survivors. Maybe even levinsohn might say a nice word about his action, but I doubt it. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 'What a dunb comment' is right. They did report it. If you're going to make comments, at least stay awake. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 levinsohn probably channeled that vote % through acher. She too, cuts down the shoots. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 ms levinsohn prolly sings 'horst wesel' in the bath. If she bathes. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 republicans have been calling President Obama an appeaser because he is willing to talk without preconditions. Will they be consistent, and now call netanyahu an appeaser, too ? Or will they raise him to sainthood as they did nixon, who made love to cammie China without pre-conditions ? 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 The Spanish Judge probably wasn't around in the 1300s - 1400s. Be practical, for Cries Aches ! If a Spanish Court picks this up, counter-charge theSpanish with War Crime against the Basque separatists. That should wake them up. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 "The only pro-Israel Democratic Club" in LA ??? It seems to me, the republicans of LA are Mel Gibson and James Woods. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Mr. Edwards, I am unfamiliar with the incident of " the British and French chased the Jews out." When and where did this extraordinary event occur ? As far as I knew, the Brtish hadn't chased Jews out of anyplace since the 14th Century, and the French since the 16th Century. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Read Eisenhower's book, Cusade in Europe, or the last 3 volumes of Churchill's History of World War II. Armchair generals who make blithe comments inferring the ease of shutting down germany's 400 death camps through air interdiction insult the memory of our gallant Bomber Command crews, and the good men who sent them. Anyone who thinks that bombing railway lines while being shot at in broad daylight is a piece of cake should try it sometime. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 In fact, the allied did bomb rail lines leading to the death camps, but not with regularity. Targeting tiny targets like rail lines at night would have been totally ineffective. Therefore the lines had to be bombed in the daytime, when the bombers always ran a fearsome gauntlet of german AA fire. The Supreme Headquarters of the Allied Forces in Europe (SHAFE) had a limited supply of trained pilots and bombardiers. Generals Eisenhower and Tedder had to choose between bombing german armaments facories, and the dams and powerplants that ran them and wehrmacht fortifications, bridges, and ammunition dumps, or other valuable targets that would not significantly aid in destroying germany. At the time, our generals thought that the horrific loss of fliers to enemy AA fire made it absolutely necessary to deny the germans their ability to produce ammunition and guns. As a result, the rail lines running to the death camps were only a second priority. Despite the fact that almost all the bombing missions were charged with attacking germany's munitions industry and army, allied bombers affected the nazi plans to kill off Europe's plans, by slowing the flow of victims to the death camps. This however, only meant that Jewish and Romany victims died of exposure and starvation, locked in the boxcars of stalled trains. My questions are : why are a few Jews (and they are few but noisy and annoying) so strongly invested in finding the recuers to have been insufficiently heroic ? Why are these few Jews committed to blaming Roosevelt and Churchill for HaShoah, while letting Eisenhower, Stalin, and the anti-immigration Republicans in Congress entirely off the hook ? 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 It's too bad Ms. Levinsohn hates Jews so much. Surely, she could find something nice to say about one of them. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Didn't Irgun use suicide bombers ? I seem to remember an interview with Menachem Begin in which he mentioned Irgun members walking up to British checkposts with bombs. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Mr. Yehuda, When did norm convert to Judaism ? I am sure that you are decent man, who gives honor to G!D and justice to your fellow creatures, but I am afraid that you are mistaken about norm. When I knew him, norm was a chazer fressende mumzer, who used his benefactor Skip Humphrey then, and stabbed in the back to get ahead. Lately norm claims he's Jewish, even in MN. He used to do that only in fundraisersthat tapped Jews in NYC and Miami. Once on a fishing trip with some of Minnesota's big Goyische machers norm portrayed himself as a normal Goy. At a Knights of Columbus event when he ran for mayor in '93, some anti-Semitic subich asked norm about his religion, because there were "rumors". In front of the camera, norm answered that G!d andreligion aren't important to him. There should still be a video of the event, if you want to contact the MN Knights of Columbus. At least Franken raised his kids to be proud Jews. At least Franken never posed in front of a crappy christmas tree for the newspapers and tv. At least Franken doesn't mistake B'rucha for Brokaw. Franken may be a rude, shallow, and gutter-mouthed prig, but Franken is true to his people Regarding his career as a friend of Israel, norm hardly did a thing during his 1st 4 years as senator, except gripe about Kofi Anan. When Anan's kid was caught with his hand in the cookie jar, norm crowed as though it was party time. But when norm's father was caught schtuping a prostitute in public (in broad daylight & not his first arrest for prostitution !) next to the crappy Savoy pizza joint, norm scolded anyone who crowed over HIS family's shame. Clearly, what was sauce for Kofi was not sauce for the norman. As to norm supporting Israel, if the Saudis offered him some dough, he'd bow to Mecca five times a day, and claim to be the Palestinians best friend. I've known the dirty lying sumbich personally for over 20 years, and norm is the finest politician you can rent. In short, Mr. Yehuda, you are wrong. I am sure that you are a nice guy and a true, standup, Shomer Kasher dude. But, you are wrong. norm is not a Jew. He is a shameless self-promoter and false friend, who worships Mammon and thinks G!d is not important. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 They give hard labor sentences in Sweden. By the time this thug gets out, he'll be able to throw a brick 100 meters. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Maybe some schizophrenic with a bomb belt will put him wise to the difficulties of making peace. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Putting porter goss in charge of the CIA was kind of like putting a klepto in charge of a hardware store. So, why aren't we investigating porter goss's leaks of confidential information ? And while we're talking spy v spy, when are we going to see the guys who made Valerie Plame (arguably our most important spy) ineffective by outing her, and getting every Iranian physicist murdered, who ever stood next to her in a buffet line ? 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Mr. Medearis, Israel gave refuge to Circassian Muslims, the victims of Syrian genocide. They also gave refuge to Bahais and Armenians. I agree that Turkey is a good friend. One reason for it is that the Turks despise Arabs. I don't think despise is too strong a word. Turkey would have been a better friend to the US, if bush41 had kept any of his promises to Turkey after Gulf Fiasco1. When you have to deal with a bush, it is best to believe nothing and stay well away. Also, Turks would have been closer to the West if NATO had done something to prevent the massacres of ethnic Turks in Cyprus in the early 70s. Even if it had just been to reprimand Greece, it would have been something. As it is, Turkey is unlikely to admit to genocide, as long as the West ignores the genocidal extermination of ethnic Turks by Greek nationalists in Salonika and Cyprus. Turkey is a great friend, and we should treat them better. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Mr. Medearis, If your theory were really so, then our maps would show countries like Sverige and Magyar. Eastern Europeans countries' names would be in Cyrillic letters, and Arab and East Asian countries' names would be in their scripts. And israel's name would be in Hebrew. I've never seen a map like that. Maybe you could design the first one. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 It was a tough job, but someone had to do it. If it weren't for the International Cabal of Zionist Anti-racists, perhaps Iran would have gotten away with blaming the starvation in north Korea and Global Warming on Israel. I can't think of a better use for a rubber nose than tossing it at a bigot like Achmedinejad. Hooray for our team !!! 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Not quite, Mr. Edwards. It is illegal to detain a Senator on his way to cast a vote. None of the arrested people are Senators. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 I think Sallai Levinsohn is Tamar. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 norman b. coleman, Junior, raised his kids Catholic. He had a press release made when he switched to the gop, that showed him and his fellow Jewish pals, Jack Kemp, Arne Carlson, and dick cheney all sitting under the coleman, Junior Christmas tree. norm's as Jewish as the Pope, 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Mr. Wolk, In fact, Arkady is so ignorant that he doesn't even know how to spell Jaime. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 There is no evidence that torture (Yes, Norman, even members of the bush cabinet admit it was torture) makes the US secure. Having the torture policy advocated by the republicans, endangers American service personnel. We cannot occupy the moral ground if we act like the kgb or ss, and if we do not occupy the high moral ground, no one else will. Norman's rumors about Obama denying Israel supplies, and placating Syria and Iran are just more republican lies. First the gop said there were no secret prisons, then they said they weren't torturing people, then they changed the stories, and said they had to have a soviet style gulag and 'enhance interrogation' torture. First they said they'd be tough on knorth Korea and Iran, then they rolled over for north Korea and Iran. The said they were rushing help to the victims of hurricane Katrina, but they really weren't. They said that saddam had WMDs. 6 years later, they are still saying it, and the WMDs are still a lie. republicans said that we had to deregulate Wall Street and banking, because regulation would be bad fro the economy. They made a depression in order to prevent a down turn. Now Norman claims that Obama's meetings with the European leaders was a failure. Funny, he looks more successful than any republicans. Let's not forget that republicans haven't won a conflict since the Spanish American War, 111 years ago. The point is, you can never believe what a republican says, because they all lie, all the time. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 If Matt Brooks actually cared for Israel's security, what is he doing hanging around with republicans ? The gop hasn't won a conflict in 111 years, and their last victory was against Spain, a country that had a sail-driven wooden navy. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 That should read, "because they always put the 'need' to avenge slights to their party ABOVE the safety of our country. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 I strongly agree with Mr. Sternlight's first, second, and ninth points. The rest is not of value. Members of the pro-crime Bush Administration who developed the flimsy legal arguments and non sequiturs to excuse torture, outed Representative Harman as retaliation for President Obama allowing us to see the torture memoes and letters. Members of the very same crowd outed Valerie Plame, arguably the most important spy we had, and put at risk every Chinese, Iraqi, and Iranian nuclear physicist she'd ever stood next to in a buffet line, just to get back at Ms Plame's husband. It is vital to American security interests that no republicans ever again get their hands on national security secrets, because they always put the need to avenge slights to their party about the safety of our country. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Hurray for the 36% of the Israeli Arabs who think germany has a special obligation toward Israel becase of HaShoah. It is not good to think of all Arabs or Muslims as the same, or hate filled. Let's hope that next year the poll finds the number is 100%. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Ah, Mr. Edwards, Before you could "systematically annihilate every living thing in those nations", you would need to have the capacity to do so. Getting that capacity is very unlikely. If I had run Israel in the 70s, I would have set in motion a project to place a mini-nuke in the center of potential trouble spots, from Algiers to Lahore. Of course, Damascus and Riyadh would be the first to get their 'neutralizer.' The trigger would be a pulse indicating that Israel had been attacked using atomics, iow, any nuclear attack upon Israel would automatically erase the main cities of the hostile nations. This 'erasure' to use achmedinejad's unhappy metaphor, would not be an act of revenge, but rather a simultaneous destruction of the hostile nations' great cities, through an automatic nuclear booby trap. While I ws never the head of Israel, I hope that someone in charge carried out my idea. I doubt that any one has, or we would have heard about it. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 If it were true, they would be dead already, don't you think ? If there actually is an Israeli spy in Lebanon, it is more than likely that al Alam is just a patsie. I presume that the devastating Israeli raid against Hizbullah a couple of years ago remains an embarrassment to both Lebanon and the Syro-Iranian terrorist 'army'. How comforting it must be for Lebanese politicians to be able to blame an old general for the national embarrassment 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Mr. Nates, I suggest that you find a translator who knows both the English language and your language, to translate your ideas into your posts. Btw, the internment of Americans of Japanese descent occured only In Washgton State, Oregon, and California. It did not happen throughout the United States. The internment was also illegal. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Tamar hates Jews. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 ROFL, Mr. Dent ! 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 The perp is probably Tamar. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Yes, Tamar, it applies to hirsute gals like you. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Tamar never met a Jew he/she didn't hate. Blood-worshipping, false witness-bearing, bigot. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Why not little bush and rumsfeld ? They would make more sense than that semi-literate, doug feith. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Tamar hates both Israelis AND Jews. Wedlund, Yitzak Rabin did exactly as you said one side must. Nothing good came of it. Ariel Sharon id the same, and the only good that came of it was terrorist fought terrorists for turf. Do you have any other bright ideas ? 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Victor, you obviously don't know any Muslims. At dinner at a cosin's house during the 2d Intifada, one guest announced grandly that he'd never do business with a Muslim, because they kill Jews, and will never stop, and "I just don't trust them." This dunce drove up in a big honkin' German Mercedes gashog that got 12 mpg of Muslim-pumped gas. What was more appalling, the fact that he owned a nazi-mobile, or the fact that he didn't know he was putting so much money into the hands of the terrorists' paymasters. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Everyone knew, we just withheld the information from you. It's all a Jewish plot to make you look stupid. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 This is just a PR gimmick on our part, calculated to make Iran look bad in the eyes of the world. Iran stopped inspections before; it isn't about to allow them now. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Until Tamar is able to prove that the US is giving Hizbullah drone tech, I will consider him/her to be a liar. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 This is the Iran's, Syrias, and the Brotherhood's revenge on Egypt. The country will lose a fortune in Sinai pilgrim business over Pesach. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Tamar is the obvious suspect, hates Jews and lives in Florida. There you have it : motive and opportunity. The weapon is all they still have to discover. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Of course it's a prison. Duh. Where else would one keep the likes of Haniyeh. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Like newspapers everywhere, Ha'aretz wants to draw as many eyeballs as possible. News is what newsmen use to stuff the small spaces that are left between all the ads, promos, and paid propaganda. The rates for the ads, promos, and paid propaganda are calculated on the basis of readership numbers. Therefore, whether it's the nashunal unquirer, faux news, or Ha'artetz, the name of the game is splash eye-catching junk on the front page. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Australians and Israelis try to do something kind and decent for a grieving Jewish family and you have to make it into something dirty and racist. Your posts are disgusting. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Tamar = Lashon Hara. You bear false witness in every post you write. Have you no shame ? 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 I'm surprised that Tamar hasn't already written a hate-filled snark about Obama here. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Tamar, Who'd want to invite a mean-spirited old lashon hara like you ? 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Mr. Golan, Saperstien reads Hebrew as well as a native Israeli. Plus, he can read Aramaic fluently. He is a Talmudic scholar, after all. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Tamar, you don't know Rabbi Allen, and I do. He is a fine man and rabbi who loves Jews and hates it when certain Jews give the rest of us bad publicity. He may be misguided on the topic of trafficked aliens, but that doesn't mean that he hates Kasherut. You hate every Rabbi whose name is mentioned here and you never have a good thing to say about any Jew., so knock off the "our rabbis" nonsense. Goyim like you don't have rabbis. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 That is a truly eclectic trinity of heroes. All very able and admirable men. And they're all Jewsh, just like the Christians' trinity ! 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Arkady, Castration is not Jewish. Look in Torah You goyim should stop telling us how to deal with pervs. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Mr. Lakehomer, I applaud your ethical stance. We should be holy, for 'HVH is Holy However, the universe is not only tthe creation of HaShem, El Shaddai creates and supports it daily. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Mr. Hicks, Beginning in 1967, Palestinians began the indiscriminate slaughter of no-Palestinians. First, they stuck Jordanians, then boats, ships, airlines, and airports. They slaughtered unarmed Puerto Rican children and Italian airport employees. When they tried to murder King Hussein, he drove them out. They settled in Lebanon and began to murder the Druze and the Shi'ites in the South. In an alliance with the Sunnis of Lebanon they began the civil war that nearly destroyed the nation. Indiscriminate Palestinian attacks on the Lebanese Christians brought about the Christians' revenge attacks in Sabra and Shatilla. Palestinians danced in the streets when they heard about 9/11, when bombs killed dozens of Turks in Istanbul, and last year when Islamicist terrorists perpetrated their mass murders in Mumbai. If a racist nationalism fuels the Israel-Palestine conflict, surely it is Palestinian racist nationalism and the victim is the rest of the world. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 It looks like Tamar is a follower of Lyndon LaRouche. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Neuroshock, Tamar isn't a Jew. She/he worships blood an land. She/he bears false witness. She/he hates rabbis. In the years that I have read his/her posts here, I have never seen her/him write anything loving of Jews, only hatred. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 That comment got posted as I was writing the last paragraph. Vista does things without warning. My point is that while a chamberlain (and Obama is no chamberlain, except in demented republican and likudista propaganda) might have declined to help defend Czechoslovakia, the Czechs bore the primary responsibility for defending themselves. Likewise, even if some future US government declines to aid the Israelis in a conflict, like Ike and the republican Congress declined to aid Israel in '57, the Israelis shall fight on until the enemy loses confidence, hope, and their armies. Therefore, your chamberlain comparison is not applicable. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Mr. Winter, much of hitler's work in conquering Europe was accomplished by accident or through the stupidity of his opponents, chamberlain included. The myth of nazi invincibility that briefly enthralled germany and the world might never have arisen if Czechoslovakia had resisted the '38 invasion, or if the French had not idiotically placed all of their combat ready divisions at the front line in the Spring of 1940. Had the Czechs decided to fight, they would probably have won at least the first few rounds from germany, enough to embarrass hitler, and bring down the French government and perhaps chamberlain, too. A bloody nose inflicted by Czechoslovakia at the outset of the war would have contradicted the 'german superman' fable, weakening the nazi party, and giving heart to anti-nazi elements in germany and around the world. Photos of the invasion clearly show that german tanks sent to Czechoslovakia had no guns. Thus, the german generals had only unsupported infantry to work with. At that time, the Czechs built the best tanks in the world, and provided chassises and suspensions for the best French and russian tanks. Czechoslovakia also produced both superior quality small arms and heavy guns. The mountainous Czech terrain presented a serious challenge for the germans in their first battle in 20 years, if only the Czechs had decided to make use of it. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 You can add : Sudan, killing a million or more Black people in the last 5 years, Congo (Kinshasa), where more than a million women have been raped in the last decade, and perhaps more than a million murdered, Greece, or 40 years the right wing haven for the most vile and violent terrorist gangs in Europe. Greece aided, abetted, and still harbors Greek Cypriote terrorists, who perpetrated genocide against Turkish Cypriotes, and Serb terrorists who perpetrated genocide against Bosnians, Macedonians, Croats, and Albanians. russia, which after a century of slaughter still practises genocide against the Chechens, recently waged aggressive war against Georgia. russia harrasses Lubavitcher rabbis, kills dissenters and honest news-writers, lets anti-Jewish thugs get away with murder, and shelters the secret police thugs who murdered millions of people in the gulag. India, harboring, aiding, and abetting the genocidal Tamil Tiger terrorist organization whose murderous raids in Sri Lanka dwarf the attack on Mumbai. Tolerates the rape and murder of low caste citizens by upper-crust perverts. red China, continuing genocide against Tibetans, Uighurs, and the Hmong, while arming Sudan, selling nuke technology to pro-terrorist regimes in Iran, Pakistan, Syria, and north Korea. The political party that murdered 10 million Chinese is still in power. Syria, murderer of thousands of Lebanese Christians, Muslims, and Druze. Supplier of weapons and cover to genocidal anti-Jewish terrorist mad-bomber gangs hizbullah and hamas. Also, ultimately responsible, through hamas for more than 1,000 murders of Muslim and Christian Arabs in the West Bank, and another 1,000 in the Gazan Civil War. In the 1970s, Syria murdered 10,000 of its citizens indiscriminately in a crackdown against Muslims. The murderers are still in office. Compared to these, Israel is a paragon of virtue. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Kadima and Labor only lost because Israelis believed the nonsense that the IDF was beaten by Hizbillah in Lebanon. That disinformation was useful to both sides, but Hizbullah stopped their rocket attacks and never restarted them. Likud has not had an idea in 30 years, and unless it gets one soon, it will lose a confidence vote. netanyahu nearly brought about the extinction of likud once before, and this time I think he'll destroy the party for good - if he has time. Labor and Israel Beitenu didn't join the government to help natanyahu out, they joined so that in 6 months they can pull out and bring netanyahu down. Fortunately for Israel, there is much better PM material waiting in the wings. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 The hated Milwaukee brewers are owned by Yids. In fact, by the commissioner's family, so why shouldn't Braun take Yom Kippur off ? If they made him play, every observant Jew in the nation would revile the Brewers and the Seligs. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 I can't believe I'm agreeing with Tamar on all points. As to bibi, he was lousy for Jews. That's the reason they voted him out of office, not because he was an rude and smug skirt-chasing adulterer. If he'd just been Israel's rude answer to Bill Clinton, they would have kept him on for another term. But he was an incompetent boob who offended Israel's allies and roused it's enemies. In the end, even his own party opposed him. likud is lucky to be the second biggest party in Israel. They never done anything to deserve it. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Ya, when Pals talk about their one state solution with Jews, Christians and Muslims all living in harmony, they forget to mention that Jews will not be allowed to own land and that Muslims will not be allowed to sell to the highest bidder. I wonder how they always manage to forget that part. Anyway this crap isn't in the Koran; the clot can't even read. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Hepatitus C, cirrhosis of the liver, raging diabetes, and constipation. Possibly liver or pancreatic cancer. Maybe if he'd gone to a good Jewish doctor.... 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 I second Mr. Stolow. The Qassams and worse are more important than building on hilltops that we will just abandon in a few years. The IDF wants the high ground, but the high ground means air power and optical technology, not bunkers on hilltops. Besides, the IDF can secretely bury hi xplosives under those hills for later use, in the event that they come to be used by any hostile force. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 This must mean the Satmar are bored with schtupping their sisters. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 jan, you can have farrakhan. You twoa are made for each other. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 The bushcrime family lent taxpayers' money to terrorists. Great. How do the idiotic neocons explain this latest snafu? 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 norm is a mumzer. At least Franken's kids got a Jewish education. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 As the Conservative Movement became more 'modern', and the Reform Movement became more traditional, I think they passed each other in the night. The Conservative's reason for coming into existence was that the Reform went way too far. At this point, the Conservatives might as well fold themselves into the Reform Movement. The present situation is sad, because the Conservative Movement educated titantic intellects and moral giants like Rabbi I. I. Efros and Rabbi Abraham Heschel, men of blessed memory. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 The archbishop is just trying to take people's minds of the rape of children by promoting sympathy for the poor downtrodden Catholics. Well, what a stupid way to go about it. Anyone with a brain larger than a pea knows that Catholics were not singled out for extermination. It is idiotic to insinuate that all Gypsies are Catholic. Gypsies belong to different denominations and religions. How does such a moron rise to the level archbishop, I wonder ? 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Yes, Mr. Dent. I think you are absolutely right. There has always been a Jewish people living in the Promised Land since the time of Joshua. Archeology confirms the record in Torah. The records of the Romans, Byzantines, Caliphs, and British alson confirm our residence there. For millennia the diaspora has wept on Tisha B'Av for our lost Temple and home. Every Pesach for 18 centuries, we fervently hoped, "Next year in Jerusalem." We prayed continually for the appearance of our Mashiach, and continually prayed for the well-being of our far flung family. These are small evidences that Jews constituted a nation between ce135 and 1948, but they are actual, intense, and extremely well-documented. The claim that the aggregate of peoples living in the province known since the Roman times as Palestine have always been a single, unified, socio-political unit is nonsense. However, since the expulsion of the Ferengi/crusaders the movement has been toward homogenization. This homogenization process gained speed recently with the emigration of many 'Palestinian' Christians. Still, to say there is a Palestinian people is much like saying that there is a single Lebanese people. Today Palestinians seem to be two distinct peoples who despise each other, and can hardly talk civily to each other - the Gazans and the people of the West Bank. Which of these two groups is the real Palestinian people? If there is a 3 state solution, which one will be called Palestine ? 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 No, Mr. Schutz, I don't forget. The point was exactly that people calling the cartoon 'nazi' have forgotten that russian goose step wearing jack boots too. So do the poles, the red Chinese, teh Argentines, the Chileans, and a host of others. None of these can be considered nazi. The soviets have little to do with it, as russians have been goose stepping since the days when Catherine the Great's husband Tsar Pavel III made goose stepping mandatory for the russian infantry. If you want to win an argument about history, pick on an ignoramus like steve. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 If this figure is true, and we have no reason to doubt it, the IDF has a dramatically better method than anyone else for reducing civilian casualties during urban combats. Arkady may have something, at least regarding the Gazans. There seems to be such social, political, and cultural differences between West Bankers and Gazans that we should be talking about a 3 state solution. In fact, there was a Palestine from the 135 CE to 1948, first a province of successive empires, and then a British Mandate Territory. However, if Arkady had been living in 1948, he'd have said that there is no such thing as Israel. If he had been living in 1776, he'd have said there is no such thing as America. Times change and peoples are invented. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 The cartoon shows no swastika. The goose-stepper could just as well be a russian. It is clearly anti-Israeli. But it is neither anti-Semitic or anti-Jewish. Oliphant has also drawn such cartoons skewering hamas and fatah. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Go Lieberman ! Beat Rabbinate ! Rah Rah Rah ! 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 It's time to take the Chief Rabbinate off the air. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 When choosing ideology over Judaism, Mr Golan takes the prize ! We should never forget that it was those Conservative Republicans Henry Ford, General Wood, Representatives Thorkelson and Fish, Senators Nye, Lundeen, and Prescott Bush, Charles Lindbergh, etc. and all the execs at IBM, who supported Hitler to the hilt. Take this : "Fact - The Arab press is the direct heir to the Nazi propaganda, including the infamous style of anti-Semitic cartoons from the “Stuermer”. " Stuermer may be the template for Jew-hating Arab propaganda, but the nazis copied Conservative Republican Henry Ford. So, we could rephrase Golan's schtick, 'Fact - The Arab press is the direct heir to the Henry Ford's Republican propaganda, distributed by Senator Nye (r-ND) and Representative Fish (r-NY), and the nazis, including the infamous style of anti-Jewish charicatures in "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion." ' 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 The headline doesn't match the story. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Oy, Ms Scott ! So when King Solomon gave all that land to the King of Tyre, he was being unwise ? You'd better tell Isaiah, Hillel, and Maimonides about this, because they think Solomon is even better than King Ahab, who's on your side. I'll bet you think Solomon was really stupid and not even a real Jew. Btw, what are your credentials for discerning who the "real Christians" are ? 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 I doubt that the incidents were more than rare and isolated events such as happen in any battle. However, a real investigation will show whether I am right or not. hamas' sneak attack on PA and Fatah members a couple years ago may have killed as many people as Israel's Gaza raid did. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 There has been no independent investigation, and obviously, most of you don't want one. You must not trust Jews to make good decisions. I say, let the Israeli court decide. Let everyone see all the facts in the open. If there is nothing to hide, there will be nothing to see. And, when did the Jerusalem Post become a judge and jury ? 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Eric, Obama didn't bash Israel, you have him confused with republican Pat Buchanan. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Such ignorance, Tamar. You are comparing apples and orangutans. Larry Craig has several children. Dick Cheney's lesbian daughter , Mary, just had baby. Jim Bakker had kids. In fact, lots of rightwing Republicans 'share their gene pool' even when they are homosexual. Just because rightwing Republican homosexuals like Reps. Mark Foley and Bob Baumann, Roy Cohn and his boyfriends G. David Schine and Sen. Joe McCarthy, and Rush Limbaugh didn't have kids, doesn't mean homosexuals can't have them. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 The guy is obviously a dangerous mental defective. Re Ms Scott's remark about the detainees, if the incompetent Bush administration couldn't build a criminal case against them after 5 years of trying, then there was nothing there to begin with. Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Gonzales, and Tenet should pay for all the costs of feeding, guarding these hundreds of people for the last 5 1/2 years, besides the legal fees. The American taxpayer shouldn't have to bear the burden of Republican incompetence. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Apparently russians think Chassids look like Orangutans. Americans think Japanese look like Orangutans. Japanese think Ainu look like Orangutans. Netanya thinks the Orangutans should be consulted. "Tell me Mrs. Orangutan, who do you think you look like ?" "Paris Hilton." 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 The abusive comments and astrology drivel posted with JTA articles are becoming intolerable. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 This is the same Norm Coleman who raises his kids Catholic, who told a Kof C conclave that his religion doesn't matter to him, and whose picture was in the newspaper showing him with Jack Kemp, Dick Cheney, and other Republican machers beside Norm's Christmas tree. All you stupid NORPAC suckers should send all your money to the Mumzer for Israel. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 This isn't an op-ed, it's a book promo. I wonder how much JTA got to put out this advert. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Why would tamar capitalize 'goyim', when she won't even capitalize Hadassah? 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Inside info about how the Shalit snatch occurred! Tamar must have been there, eh? HAHAHA Tamar's lack of pity reminds me of R. Meir, when the calf tried to hide under his robe. It's easy for you, fat, warm, and comfortable, to decide who shall live and who shall die. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 I have to presume that hamas was only willing to talk to fatah, because Israel gave hamas such a trouncing in gaza. hamas is committed to eternal poverty under the heel of brutal and ignorant clerics. They are like Shas on steroids. Fatah is committed to kleptocracy. No wonder all the Pals all want to be Israelis. The only hope for the Pals in the near future is the 'third force.' 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Mr. Mohlenhoff, I looked into your book of revelations, and not only did I not see a reference to the Moslem shrines, there was no mention of Christian shrines, or even of Christianity. So, if your holy book doesn't support your politics, then what ? 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 By getting the secular newspapers interested in the event, Magid's refusal probably served to promote Halper's lecture. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 racist, phoney doctor, rightwing fascists pretending to be Jews. You were given the guidance, "Be holy, for I your G!d am holy," and you chose to call people nasty names instead. How are you different from the people you villify?" G!dless, rightwing twerps. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Ya, pix would be nice. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 chavez doesn't act like mussolini for no reason. My Q is, does chavez get a thrill from being a bully the way mussolini did? If so, is that all there is, or is the sex better, too, as it was for roehm? Does he collect villas like ceaucescu, and art works like goebbels? Does he roll in money like Uncle Scrooge? Is he a constipated dope fiend like mao and goering were? 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Jackie Mason is a mumzer who hasn't been funny since once second before he gave Ed Sullivan the finger. He had a lame excuse for that, too. Tamar, what I or any other non-African American says doesn't have any effect on Chris Rock or his diction, that's Bill Cosby's and Maya Angelou's job. It's different with Mason. He's my guy and I don't want his rancid, biggoted Ashkenazic ass besmirching my religion anymore. Mason has been giving Jews a black eye for 45 years, and it's time he converted to Catholicism, Shinto, or something. Anything. And cut the macho crap, please. If you weren't anonymous, we might take your tuff guy stuff seriously, but for all we know, you're a wheelchair wuss with a Rambo complex who has unlimited time to play the bully on the puter. Grow up. Get a job. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Ya Tamar, Thank haShem that all those bushcheney goose-steppers in the Justice Department will soon be thrown out on their ears and Kosher food will be once again be safe. We should remember that it was AgriProcessors that was transporting people in cattle cars. No wonder Rubashkin's lawyers thought Iowa looked like nazi - controlled Polands 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00 Richard and Leeann's hate speech is truly republican in its untruthfulness. 1. The majority on the recount panel is composed of judges and officials who were appointed either by republican Governors Arne Carlson or tim (potholes) pawlenty, or by Independence Party Governor Jesse Ventura. Franken's Democrats are in the minority on the recount committee. 2. norm coleman lost voter share because he was a lazy senator, who spent more time pursuing fellow former St. Paulite Kofi Anan than tending to the needs and aspirations of Minnesotans. coleman cheered when Anan's son got into trouble, but then demanded 'understanding' when his own dad was arrested for shagging a prostitute in broad daylight in a pizza parlor parking lot. 2. On Nov. 5th coleman promised that he would not take the process or results of the recount into court. Since that time he has taken the process into court 5 times. republicans always lie like this. 3. At least Franken raised his kids as Jews. You can't say that about coleman. The words for coleman are mamzer, kvetch, and kaker. 2012-02-09T;22:54:00-05:00