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Posted by Joe | February 3, 2009, 12:20 amThis is great to see Pro Active Arab Americans
Posted by Ali | February 3, 2009, 1:41 amThe video equates chanting in Arabic with militance. That’s pretty racist.
Posted by Mehmet | February 3, 2009, 9:05 amKabobers made much about supposed disagreement and disunity within the global Jewish community, and especially the US Jewish community, over Operation Cast Lead. Kabobers were stunned when 95% of Israeli Jews supported the operation, a level of support unheard of among Jews for ANY issue.
Well, the numbers are in on US Jewry:
The survey found that 94% of respondents expressed sympathy for Israel over Hamas; only 1% for Hamas. Additionally, 81% expressed the belief that Hamas was responsible for the escalation of the violence; only 14% held Israel responsible.
Asked whether Israel’s response to Hamas rockets was appropriate or excessive, probably the major theme that has appeared in international critiques of Israel, 79% said it was appropriate, 17% excessive.
That settles the question. There is NO disunity among US Jews on the issue of defending Jews and securing Israel.
The attempts of the pro-Pali community to splinter Jewish opinion by focusing their venom on “Zionist” instead of “Jewish” have failed to materialize, and may have backfired into entrenching support for Israel.
Posted by Anonymous | February 3, 2009, 11:14 am“There is NO disunity among US Jews on the issue of defending Jews and securing Israel.”
Like it matters if there were any form of disunity on the Gaza war. It’s irrelevant whether US Jews support Israel’s actions or not because at the end of the day Israelis will do what they want to do regradless of what Americans-Jews or Gentiles- think. And while it may true that the majority of American Jews are generally supportive of Israel it is equally true that Jews are assimilating more than ever and there is no doubt that this will affect the attitude of younger Jews towards Israel. They will be more likely to support candidates who aren’t necessarily Likudniks, aka Joseph Lieberman. Yeah, that jerk’s humiliation and the groveling he did to President Obama made this Pali girl very happy.
Posted by Jerusalemite | February 3, 2009, 2:05 pmOf course discord matters. And the lack of discord matters. Jews worldwide are united on Israel. The attempts to frame the struggle as “anti-Zionist” instead of “anti-Semitic” have fallen on deaf ears.
As for assimilation, don’t worry your pretty little head. The Jews have survived 2000 years in exile. We grow from strength to strength.
Posted by Anonymous | February 3, 2009, 3:26 pmAnd while you “grow” from strength to strength, you’ll be hated and persecuted wherever you go: an astonishment and a hissing, a horror and a proverb is the best way to describe the past 2,600 years buddy . . . and that’s because you don’t keep God’s promises!
Posted by Steve "Hanna" Khoury | February 3, 2009, 8:13 pmAnd while you “grow” from strength to strength, you’ll be hated and persecuted wherever you go: an astonishment and a hissing, a horror and a proverb is the best way to describe the past 2,600 years buddy . . . and that’s because you don’t keep God’s promises!
Posted by Steve "Hanna" Khoury | February 3, 2009, 8:13 pmAnd while you “grow” from strength to strength, you’ll be hated and persecuted wherever you go: an astonishment and a hissing, a horror and a proverb is the best way to describe the past 2,600 years buddy . . . and that’s because you don’t keep God’s promises!
Posted by Steve "Hanna" Khoury | February 3, 2009, 8:13 pmAnd while you “grow” from strength to strength, you’ll be hated and persecuted wherever you go: an astonishment and a hissing, a horror and a proverb is the best way to describe the past 2,600 years buddy . . . and that’s because you don’t keep God’s promises!
Posted by Steve "Hanna" Khoury | February 3, 2009, 8:13 pmAnd while you “grow” from strength to strength, you’ll be hated and persecuted wherever you go: an astonishment and a hissing, a horror and a proverb is the best way to describe the past 2,600 years buddy . . . and that’s because you don’t keep God’s promises!
Posted by Steve "Hanna" Khoury | February 3, 2009, 8:13 pmAnd while you “grow” from strength to strength, you’ll be hated and persecuted wherever you go: an astonishment and a hissing, a horror and a proverb is the best way to describe the past 2,600 years buddy . . . and that’s because you don’t keep God’s promises!
Posted by Steve "Hanna" Khoury | February 3, 2009, 8:13 pmAnd while you “grow” from strength to strength, you’ll be hated and persecuted wherever you go: an astonishment and a hissing, a horror and a proverb is the best way to describe the past 2,600 years buddy . . . and that’s because you don’t keep God’s promises!
Posted by Steve "Hanna" Khoury | February 3, 2009, 8:13 pmAnd while you “grow” from strength to strength, you’ll be hated and persecuted wherever you go: an astonishment and a hissing, a horror and a proverb is the best way to describe the past 2,600 years buddy . . . and that’s because you don’t keep God’s promises!
Posted by Steve "Hanna" Khoury | February 3, 2009, 8:13 pmMan… at first I was angry at the guy making that video, who tries to frame it as a Fatah-Hamas thing, when in reality it was a Neutral-Hamas thing. It’s hard to find supporters of Fatah anywhere.
But then those Hamas supporters actually made me angrier than the guy making the video. That was really embarrassing.
Posted by Kamal | February 3, 2009, 10:23 pmEvery Jew is full of mitzvahs as a pomegranate is full of seeds, Steve. As to hatred and persecution, for someone who learns scripture, you should yourself know the answer – “And by Your servants the Prophets it is written as follows: I will cleanse the nations of their wrongdoings, but for the shedding of Jewish blood I will not cleanse them; the Lord dwells in Zion.
And in the Holy Writings it is said: Why should the nations say, “Where is their G-d?” Let there be known among the nations, before our eyes, the retribution of the spilled blood of Your servants. And it is said: For the Avenger of bloodshed is mindful of them; He does not forget the cry of the downtrodden. Further it is said: He will render judgment upon the nations, and they will be filled with corpses; He will crush heads over a vast area. He will drink from the stream on the way; therefore Israel will hold its head high.”
We let G-d take care of our enemies, but I appreciate your concern.
Speaking of obligations, since you seem genuinely interested, you have some as well – the 7 Noahide Laws.
Posted by Anonymous | February 3, 2009, 10:53 pmFirst of all, there is no mention of the word “Jewish” in the Law or in the Old Testament, Mr. Anonymous. There is Israelite, there is My People, there is Israel, there is Children of Israel, but no “Jewish.” The term “Jews” is found in the Old Testament, but mainly post-exle, but also a few times, pre-exile and after Solomon’s death when the Kingdom of Israel Splits in 2 and you have Judah (i.e. Jews) along with Benjamin and some of Simeon forming the Kingdom of Judah in the South and the remaining 10 tribes (including the remainder of Simeon) remaining in the North as the Kingdom of Israel who then get taken by the Assyrians in the 700 BC.
First of all you must understand, that the term “Jew” or “Jewish” today, is not the same term as “Jew” or “Jewish” in the Old Testament. Judah was the son of Jacob and this, the sons of Judah were just 1/12th of all the children of Israel(13 when you count Ephraim and Manasseh as receiving Joseph’s portion and the Levites who didn’t get land, but were the officiators in the Tabernacle and then the Holy Temple in Jerusalem).
So for you to bring into this conversation a Yizkor (“…but for the shedding of Jewish blood I will not cleanse them…”) which your aforementioned website says is “a special memorial prayer recited in the synagogue four times a year” and it not ACTUAL scripture is just fallacy!
Go read your Tanakh my friend. Go read how our ancestors failed to live up to the commandments and promises of God. Go read 1 Kings 9:6 and 7: “But if ye shall turn away from following Me, ye or your children, and not keep My commandments and My statutes which I have set before you, but shall go and serve other gods, and worship them; then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for My name, will I cast out of My sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a by word among all peoples.” That’s just one of MANY examples in the Tanakh of how we failed to live up to our promises, became an unholy and defiled people and were thus kicked out of the holy land by the Lord HIMSELF.
We failed to live up to the promises of God and so we are punished. But God will remember his chosen people, Israel (not the state who happens to have the same name, but those who have entered into promises with him and keep his commandments and do righteousness). There were, are, and always will be Israel.
Remember that in Hebrew, Israel means one “who prevails with God.” In the end, only those individuals who have entered into a covenant with God and who believe on him and do good, are allowed to be called Israel. It is these who will be protected by God and his enemies.
As for your “obligations,” they are yours as well as mine!
Amen for Truth
Posted by Steve "Hanna" Khoury | February 4, 2009, 6:50 amFirst of all, there is no mention of the word “Jewish” in the Law or in the Old Testament, Mr. Anonymous. There is Israelite, there is My People, there is Israel, there is Children of Israel, but no “Jewish.” The term “Jews” is found in the Old Testament, but mainly post-exle, but also a few times, pre-exile and after Solomon’s death when the Kingdom of Israel Splits in 2 and you have Judah (i.e. Jews) along with Benjamin and some of Simeon forming the Kingdom of Judah in the South and the remaining 10 tribes (including the remainder of Simeon) remaining in the North as the Kingdom of Israel who then get taken by the Assyrians in the 700 BC.
First of all you must understand, that the term “Jew” or “Jewish” today, is not the same term as “Jew” or “Jewish” in the Old Testament. Judah was the son of Jacob and this, the sons of Judah were just 1/12th of all the children of Israel(13 when you count Ephraim and Manasseh as receiving Joseph’s portion and the Levites who didn’t get land, but were the officiators in the Tabernacle and then the Holy Temple in Jerusalem).
So for you to bring into this conversation a Yizkor (“…but for the shedding of Jewish blood I will not cleanse them…”) which your aforementioned website says is “a special memorial prayer recited in the synagogue four times a year” and it not ACTUAL scripture is just fallacy!
Go read your Tanakh my friend. Go read how our ancestors failed to live up to the commandments and promises of God. Go read 1 Kings 9:6 and 7: “But if ye shall turn away from following Me, ye or your children, and not keep My commandments and My statutes which I have set before you, but shall go and serve other gods, and worship them; then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for My name, will I cast out of My sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a by word among all peoples.” That’s just one of MANY examples in the Tanakh of how we failed to live up to our promises, became an unholy and defiled people and were thus kicked out of the holy land by the Lord HIMSELF.
We failed to live up to the promises of God and so we are punished. But God will remember his chosen people, Israel (not the state who happens to have the same name, but those who have entered into promises with him and keep his commandments and do righteousness). There were, are, and always will be Israel.
Remember that in Hebrew, Israel means one “who prevails with God.” In the end, only those individuals who have entered into a covenant with God and who believe on him and do good, are allowed to be called Israel. It is these who will be protected by God and his enemies.
As for your “obligations,” they are yours as well as mine!
Amen for Truth
Posted by Steve "Hanna" Khoury | February 4, 2009, 6:50 amFirst of all, there is no mention of the word “Jewish” in the Law or in the Old Testament, Mr. Anonymous. There is Israelite, there is My People, there is Israel, there is Children of Israel, but no “Jewish.” The term “Jews” is found in the Old Testament, but mainly post-exle, but also a few times, pre-exile and after Solomon’s death when the Kingdom of Israel Splits in 2 and you have Judah (i.e. Jews) along with Benjamin and some of Simeon forming the Kingdom of Judah in the South and the remaining 10 tribes (including the remainder of Simeon) remaining in the North as the Kingdom of Israel who then get taken by the Assyrians in the 700 BC.
First of all you must understand, that the term “Jew” or “Jewish” today, is not the same term as “Jew” or “Jewish” in the Old Testament. Judah was the son of Jacob and this, the sons of Judah were just 1/12th of all the children of Israel(13 when you count Ephraim and Manasseh as receiving Joseph’s portion and the Levites who didn’t get land, but were the officiators in the Tabernacle and then the Holy Temple in Jerusalem).
So for you to bring into this conversation a Yizkor (“…but for the shedding of Jewish blood I will not cleanse them…”) which your aforementioned website says is “a special memorial prayer recited in the synagogue four times a year” and it not ACTUAL scripture is just fallacy!
Go read your Tanakh my friend. Go read how our ancestors failed to live up to the commandments and promises of God. Go read 1 Kings 9:6 and 7: “But if ye shall turn away from following Me, ye or your children, and not keep My commandments and My statutes which I have set before you, but shall go and serve other gods, and worship them; then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for My name, will I cast out of My sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a by word among all peoples.” That’s just one of MANY examples in the Tanakh of how we failed to live up to our promises, became an unholy and defiled people and were thus kicked out of the holy land by the Lord HIMSELF.
We failed to live up to the promises of God and so we are punished. But God will remember his chosen people, Israel (not the state who happens to have the same name, but those who have entered into promises with him and keep his commandments and do righteousness). There were, are, and always will be Israel.
Remember that in Hebrew, Israel means one “who prevails with God.” In the end, only those individuals who have entered into a covenant with God and who believe on him and do good, are allowed to be called Israel. It is these who will be protected by God and his enemies.
As for your “obligations,” they are yours as well as mine!
Amen for Truth
Posted by Steve "Hanna" Khoury | February 4, 2009, 6:50 amFirst of all, there is no mention of the word “Jewish” in the Law or in the Old Testament, Mr. Anonymous. There is Israelite, there is My People, there is Israel, there is Children of Israel, but no “Jewish.” The term “Jews” is found in the Old Testament, but mainly post-exle, but also a few times, pre-exile and after Solomon’s death when the Kingdom of Israel Splits in 2 and you have Judah (i.e. Jews) along with Benjamin and some of Simeon forming the Kingdom of Judah in the South and the remaining 10 tribes (including the remainder of Simeon) remaining in the North as the Kingdom of Israel who then get taken by the Assyrians in the 700 BC.
First of all you must understand, that the term “Jew” or “Jewish” today, is not the same term as “Jew” or “Jewish” in the Old Testament. Judah was the son of Jacob and this, the sons of Judah were just 1/12th of all the children of Israel(13 when you count Ephraim and Manasseh as receiving Joseph’s portion and the Levites who didn’t get land, but were the officiators in the Tabernacle and then the Holy Temple in Jerusalem).
So for you to bring into this conversation a Yizkor (“…but for the shedding of Jewish blood I will not cleanse them…”) which your aforementioned website says is “a special memorial prayer recited in the synagogue four times a year” and it not ACTUAL scripture is just fallacy!
Go read your Tanakh my friend. Go read how our ancestors failed to live up to the commandments and promises of God. Go read 1 Kings 9:6 and 7: “But if ye shall turn away from following Me, ye or your children, and not keep My commandments and My statutes which I have set before you, but shall go and serve other gods, and worship them; then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for My name, will I cast out of My sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a by word among all peoples.” That’s just one of MANY examples in the Tanakh of how we failed to live up to our promises, became an unholy and defiled people and were thus kicked out of the holy land by the Lord HIMSELF.
We failed to live up to the promises of God and so we are punished. But God will remember his chosen people, Israel (not the state who happens to have the same name, but those who have entered into promises with him and keep his commandments and do righteousness). There were, are, and always will be Israel.
Remember that in Hebrew, Israel means one “who prevails with God.” In the end, only those individuals who have entered into a covenant with God and who believe on him and do good, are allowed to be called Israel. It is these who will be protected by God and his enemies.
As for your “obligations,” they are yours as well as mine!
Amen for Truth
Posted by Steve "Hanna" Khoury | February 4, 2009, 6:50 amFirst of all, there is no mention of the word “Jewish” in the Law or in the Old Testament, Mr. Anonymous. There is Israelite, there is My People, there is Israel, there is Children of Israel, but no “Jewish.” The term “Jews” is found in the Old Testament, but mainly post-exle, but also a few times, pre-exile and after Solomon’s death when the Kingdom of Israel Splits in 2 and you have Judah (i.e. Jews) along with Benjamin and some of Simeon forming the Kingdom of Judah in the South and the remaining 10 tribes (including the remainder of Simeon) remaining in the North as the Kingdom of Israel who then get taken by the Assyrians in the 700 BC.
First of all you must understand, that the term “Jew” or “Jewish” today, is not the same term as “Jew” or “Jewish” in the Old Testament. Judah was the son of Jacob and this, the sons of Judah were just 1/12th of all the children of Israel(13 when you count Ephraim and Manasseh as receiving Joseph’s portion and the Levites who didn’t get land, but were the officiators in the Tabernacle and then the Holy Temple in Jerusalem).
So for you to bring into this conversation a Yizkor (“…but for the shedding of Jewish blood I will not cleanse them…”) which your aforementioned website says is “a special memorial prayer recited in the synagogue four times a year” and it not ACTUAL scripture is just fallacy!
Go read your Tanakh my friend. Go read how our ancestors failed to live up to the commandments and promises of God. Go read 1 Kings 9:6 and 7: “But if ye shall turn away from following Me, ye or your children, and not keep My commandments and My statutes which I have set before you, but shall go and serve other gods, and worship them; then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for My name, will I cast out of My sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a by word among all peoples.” That’s just one of MANY examples in the Tanakh of how we failed to live up to our promises, became an unholy and defiled people and were thus kicked out of the holy land by the Lord HIMSELF.
We failed to live up to the promises of God and so we are punished. But God will remember his chosen people, Israel (not the state who happens to have the same name, but those who have entered into promises with him and keep his commandments and do righteousness). There were, are, and always will be Israel.
Remember that in Hebrew, Israel means one “who prevails with God.” In the end, only those individuals who have entered into a covenant with God and who believe on him and do good, are allowed to be called Israel. It is these who will be protected by God and his enemies.
As for your “obligations,” they are yours as well as mine!
Amen for Truth
Posted by Steve "Hanna" Khoury | February 4, 2009, 6:50 amFirst of all, there is no mention of the word “Jewish” in the Law or in the Old Testament, Mr. Anonymous. There is Israelite, there is My People, there is Israel, there is Children of Israel, but no “Jewish.” The term “Jews” is found in the Old Testament, but mainly post-exle, but also a few times, pre-exile and after Solomon’s death when the Kingdom of Israel Splits in 2 and you have Judah (i.e. Jews) along with Benjamin and some of Simeon forming the Kingdom of Judah in the South and the remaining 10 tribes (including the remainder of Simeon) remaining in the North as the Kingdom of Israel who then get taken by the Assyrians in the 700 BC.
First of all you must understand, that the term “Jew” or “Jewish” today, is not the same term as “Jew” or “Jewish” in the Old Testament. Judah was the son of Jacob and this, the sons of Judah were just 1/12th of all the children of Israel(13 when you count Ephraim and Manasseh as receiving Joseph’s portion and the Levites who didn’t get land, but were the officiators in the Tabernacle and then the Holy Temple in Jerusalem).
So for you to bring into this conversation a Yizkor (“…but for the shedding of Jewish blood I will not cleanse them…”) which your aforementioned website says is “a special memorial prayer recited in the synagogue four times a year” and it not ACTUAL scripture is just fallacy!
Go read your Tanakh my friend. Go read how our ancestors failed to live up to the commandments and promises of God. Go read 1 Kings 9:6 and 7: “But if ye shall turn away from following Me, ye or your children, and not keep My commandments and My statutes which I have set before you, but shall go and serve other gods, and worship them; then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for My name, will I cast out of My sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a by word among all peoples.” That’s just one of MANY examples in the Tanakh of how we failed to live up to our promises, became an unholy and defiled people and were thus kicked out of the holy land by the Lord HIMSELF.
We failed to live up to the promises of God and so we are punished. But God will remember his chosen people, Israel (not the state who happens to have the same name, but those who have entered into promises with him and keep his commandments and do righteousness). There were, are, and always will be Israel.
Remember that in Hebrew, Israel means one “who prevails with God.” In the end, only those individuals who have entered into a covenant with God and who believe on him and do good, are allowed to be called Israel. It is these who will be protected by God and his enemies.
As for your “obligations,” they are yours as well as mine!
Amen for Truth
Posted by Steve "Hanna" Khoury | February 4, 2009, 6:50 amFirst of all, there is no mention of the word “Jewish” in the Law or in the Old Testament, Mr. Anonymous. There is Israelite, there is My People, there is Israel, there is Children of Israel, but no “Jewish.” The term “Jews” is found in the Old Testament, but mainly post-exle, but also a few times, pre-exile and after Solomon’s death when the Kingdom of Israel Splits in 2 and you have Judah (i.e. Jews) along with Benjamin and some of Simeon forming the Kingdom of Judah in the South and the remaining 10 tribes (including the remainder of Simeon) remaining in the North as the Kingdom of Israel who then get taken by the Assyrians in the 700 BC.
First of all you must understand, that the term “Jew” or “Jewish” today, is not the same term as “Jew” or “Jewish” in the Old Testament. Judah was the son of Jacob and this, the sons of Judah were just 1/12th of all the children of Israel(13 when you count Ephraim and Manasseh as receiving Joseph’s portion and the Levites who didn’t get land, but were the officiators in the Tabernacle and then the Holy Temple in Jerusalem).
So for you to bring into this conversation a Yizkor (“…but for the shedding of Jewish blood I will not cleanse them…”) which your aforementioned website says is “a special memorial prayer recited in the synagogue four times a year” and it not ACTUAL scripture is just fallacy!
Go read your Tanakh my friend. Go read how our ancestors failed to live up to the commandments and promises of God. Go read 1 Kings 9:6 and 7: “But if ye shall turn away from following Me, ye or your children, and not keep My commandments and My statutes which I have set before you, but shall go and serve other gods, and worship them; then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for My name, will I cast out of My sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a by word among all peoples.” That’s just one of MANY examples in the Tanakh of how we failed to live up to our promises, became an unholy and defiled people and were thus kicked out of the holy land by the Lord HIMSELF.
We failed to live up to the promises of God and so we are punished. But God will remember his chosen people, Israel (not the state who happens to have the same name, but those who have entered into promises with him and keep his commandments and do righteousness). There were, are, and always will be Israel.
Remember that in Hebrew, Israel means one “who prevails with God.” In the end, only those individuals who have entered into a covenant with God and who believe on him and do good, are allowed to be called Israel. It is these who will be protected by God and his enemies.
As for your “obligations,” they are yours as well as mine!
Amen for Truth
Posted by Steve "Hanna" Khoury | February 4, 2009, 6:50 amFirst of all, there is no mention of the word “Jewish” in the Law or in the Old Testament, Mr. Anonymous. There is Israelite, there is My People, there is Israel, there is Children of Israel, but no “Jewish.” The term “Jews” is found in the Old Testament, but mainly post-exle, but also a few times, pre-exile and after Solomon’s death when the Kingdom of Israel Splits in 2 and you have Judah (i.e. Jews) along with Benjamin and some of Simeon forming the Kingdom of Judah in the South and the remaining 10 tribes (including the remainder of Simeon) remaining in the North as the Kingdom of Israel who then get taken by the Assyrians in the 700 BC.
First of all you must understand, that the term “Jew” or “Jewish” today, is not the same term as “Jew” or “Jewish” in the Old Testament. Judah was the son of Jacob and this, the sons of Judah were just 1/12th of all the children of Israel(13 when you count Ephraim and Manasseh as receiving Joseph’s portion and the Levites who didn’t get land, but were the officiators in the Tabernacle and then the Holy Temple in Jerusalem).
So for you to bring into this conversation a Yizkor (“…but for the shedding of Jewish blood I will not cleanse them…”) which your aforementioned website says is “a special memorial prayer recited in the synagogue four times a year” and it not ACTUAL scripture is just fallacy!
Go read your Tanakh my friend. Go read how our ancestors failed to live up to the commandments and promises of God. Go read 1 Kings 9:6 and 7: “But if ye shall turn away from following Me, ye or your children, and not keep My commandments and My statutes which I have set before you, but shall go and serve other gods, and worship them; then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for My name, will I cast out of My sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a by word among all peoples.” That’s just one of MANY examples in the Tanakh of how we failed to live up to our promises, became an unholy and defiled people and were thus kicked out of the holy land by the Lord HIMSELF.
We failed to live up to the promises of God and so we are punished. But God will remember his chosen people, Israel (not the state who happens to have the same name, but those who have entered into promises with him and keep his commandments and do righteousness). There were, are, and always will be Israel.
Remember that in Hebrew, Israel means one “who prevails with God.” In the end, only those individuals who have entered into a covenant with God and who believe on him and do good, are allowed to be called Israel. It is these who will be protected by God and his enemies.
As for your “obligations,” they are yours as well as mine!
Amen for Truth
Posted by Steve "Hanna" Khoury | February 4, 2009, 6:50 am“The attempts to frame the struggle as “anti-Zionist” instead of “anti-Semitic” have fallen on deaf ears.”
So you’re admitting that many try to cast any criticism of Israel as anti-Semitic. Well you are mistaken if you think that conflating anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism is in the interest of Israel and the Jewish people. This attitude will only devalue the accusation of anti-Semitism, and make people even more wary of its constant use. This also points to a broader issue of whether or not critics of Israel’s occupation and mass murder are in fact anti-Semitic or not. The fact is that most Arabs and Muslims could care less that Israelis are Jews, we do not believe that there is some inherent, cosmic evil in Jews the way Europeans and the Catholic church did, and we don’t idolize Jews the way Evangelical Christians do (Pat Robertson even went so far as to once say that he was “jealous” of Jews). In short, that Israelis are Jews really isn’t the problem here, and though Jewish-Muslim history has its share of conflicts and isn’t as rosy as some like to portray it, it nevertheless remains true that nothing resembling the Holocaust ever happened in the Middle East and it never would happen. Why? Because we are not anti-Semites in the true European sense of the term and we never have been. So ignorant far-right wingers like you can accuse us of anti-Semitism all you want, it won’t matter, not only because its not true but also because we just don’t care. And assimilation is very much a threat to Jewish identity in a way that it never was before, just ask Abraham Foxman.
Posted by Jerusalemite | February 4, 2009, 9:47 amSteve "Hanna" Khoury & Jerusalemite:
VERY WELL SAID!
Posted by Anonymous | February 4, 2009, 10:35 am“”you’ll be hated and persecuted wherever you go: an astonishment and a hissing, a horror and a proverb is the best way to describe the past 2,600 years buddy . . . and that’s because you don’t keep God’s promises!”"
Haha… WOW.
Not even keeping up any pretenses of avoiding anti-Semitism, are we?
If anyone is still so foolish as to believe there’s a “god” somewhere out there who gives a shit what we do, reading Steve’s inane ramblings should be enough to disabuse you of that notion.
Posted by Joe | February 4, 2009, 7:03 pmAnti-Semitic??? Are you kiddin’g me Joe? Those are the words of the Tanakh, the Jewish Old Testament! They were writings that the prophets specifically used to refer to how the House of Israel was to be considered among all nations after it was scattered among all nations. It’s not Anti-Semitic, unless you consider Israelite Prophets (obviously Semitic) being Anti-Semitic of their own people. I didn’t write it, except to show what Jeremiah, Zachariah, Isaiah and others of the Prophets have said. But honestly Joe, has that not been the case these past 2,600 years? Wherever the Jews have gone, they’ve been hated and persecuted and the object of ridicule and rejection??? And that’s been the case ever since Nebuchadnezzar took over Jerusalem in 587 BC during the reign of King Zedekiah, destroyed the Temple, took the Kingdom of Judah to Babylon and put them captivity.
If you think that’s Anti-Semitic, then that’s your opinion, but I REALLY fail to see your argument. It looks like you don’t read your Tanakh. Try it some day and get informed as to what is really out there. It might actually serve you well. Please don’t take the truth to be hard. It’s just what was written.
Word of God
Posted by Steve "Hanna" Khoury | February 5, 2009, 6:12 amAnti-Semitic??? Are you kiddin’g me Joe? Those are the words of the Tanakh, the Jewish Old Testament! They were writings that the prophets specifically used to refer to how the House of Israel was to be considered among all nations after it was scattered among all nations. It’s not Anti-Semitic, unless you consider Israelite Prophets (obviously Semitic) being Anti-Semitic of their own people. I didn’t write it, except to show what Jeremiah, Zachariah, Isaiah and others of the Prophets have said. But honestly Joe, has that not been the case these past 2,600 years? Wherever the Jews have gone, they’ve been hated and persecuted and the object of ridicule and rejection??? And that’s been the case ever since Nebuchadnezzar took over Jerusalem in 587 BC during the reign of King Zedekiah, destroyed the Temple, took the Kingdom of Judah to Babylon and put them captivity.
If you think that’s Anti-Semitic, then that’s your opinion, but I REALLY fail to see your argument. It looks like you don’t read your Tanakh. Try it some day and get informed as to what is really out there. It might actually serve you well. Please don’t take the truth to be hard. It’s just what was written.
Word of God
Posted by Steve "Hanna" Khoury | February 5, 2009, 6:12 amAnti-Semitic??? Are you kiddin’g me Joe? Those are the words of the Tanakh, the Jewish Old Testament! They were writings that the prophets specifically used to refer to how the House of Israel was to be considered among all nations after it was scattered among all nations. It’s not Anti-Semitic, unless you consider Israelite Prophets (obviously Semitic) being Anti-Semitic of their own people. I didn’t write it, except to show what Jeremiah, Zachariah, Isaiah and others of the Prophets have said. But honestly Joe, has that not been the case these past 2,600 years? Wherever the Jews have gone, they’ve been hated and persecuted and the object of ridicule and rejection??? And that’s been the case ever since Nebuchadnezzar took over Jerusalem in 587 BC during the reign of King Zedekiah, destroyed the Temple, took the Kingdom of Judah to Babylon and put them captivity.
If you think that’s Anti-Semitic, then that’s your opinion, but I REALLY fail to see your argument. It looks like you don’t read your Tanakh. Try it some day and get informed as to what is really out there. It might actually serve you well. Please don’t take the truth to be hard. It’s just what was written.
Word of God
Posted by Steve "Hanna" Khoury | February 5, 2009, 6:12 amAnti-Semitic??? Are you kiddin’g me Joe? Those are the words of the Tanakh, the Jewish Old Testament! They were writings that the prophets specifically used to refer to how the House of Israel was to be considered among all nations after it was scattered among all nations. It’s not Anti-Semitic, unless you consider Israelite Prophets (obviously Semitic) being Anti-Semitic of their own people. I didn’t write it, except to show what Jeremiah, Zachariah, Isaiah and others of the Prophets have said. But honestly Joe, has that not been the case these past 2,600 years? Wherever the Jews have gone, they’ve been hated and persecuted and the object of ridicule and rejection??? And that’s been the case ever since Nebuchadnezzar took over Jerusalem in 587 BC during the reign of King Zedekiah, destroyed the Temple, took the Kingdom of Judah to Babylon and put them captivity.
If you think that’s Anti-Semitic, then that’s your opinion, but I REALLY fail to see your argument. It looks like you don’t read your Tanakh. Try it some day and get informed as to what is really out there. It might actually serve you well. Please don’t take the truth to be hard. It’s just what was written.
Word of God
Posted by Steve "Hanna" Khoury | February 5, 2009, 6:12 amAnti-Semitic??? Are you kiddin’g me Joe? Those are the words of the Tanakh, the Jewish Old Testament! They were writings that the prophets specifically used to refer to how the House of Israel was to be considered among all nations after it was scattered among all nations. It’s not Anti-Semitic, unless you consider Israelite Prophets (obviously Semitic) being Anti-Semitic of their own people. I didn’t write it, except to show what Jeremiah, Zachariah, Isaiah and others of the Prophets have said. But honestly Joe, has that not been the case these past 2,600 years? Wherever the Jews have gone, they’ve been hated and persecuted and the object of ridicule and rejection??? And that’s been the case ever since Nebuchadnezzar took over Jerusalem in 587 BC during the reign of King Zedekiah, destroyed the Temple, took the Kingdom of Judah to Babylon and put them captivity.
If you think that’s Anti-Semitic, then that’s your opinion, but I REALLY fail to see your argument. It looks like you don’t read your Tanakh. Try it some day and get informed as to what is really out there. It might actually serve you well. Please don’t take the truth to be hard. It’s just what was written.
Word of God
Posted by Steve "Hanna" Khoury | February 5, 2009, 6:12 amAnti-Semitic??? Are you kiddin’g me Joe? Those are the words of the Tanakh, the Jewish Old Testament! They were writings that the prophets specifically used to refer to how the House of Israel was to be considered among all nations after it was scattered among all nations. It’s not Anti-Semitic, unless you consider Israelite Prophets (obviously Semitic) being Anti-Semitic of their own people. I didn’t write it, except to show what Jeremiah, Zachariah, Isaiah and others of the Prophets have said. But honestly Joe, has that not been the case these past 2,600 years? Wherever the Jews have gone, they’ve been hated and persecuted and the object of ridicule and rejection??? And that’s been the case ever since Nebuchadnezzar took over Jerusalem in 587 BC during the reign of King Zedekiah, destroyed the Temple, took the Kingdom of Judah to Babylon and put them captivity.
If you think that’s Anti-Semitic, then that’s your opinion, but I REALLY fail to see your argument. It looks like you don’t read your Tanakh. Try it some day and get informed as to what is really out there. It might actually serve you well. Please don’t take the truth to be hard. It’s just what was written.
Word of God
Posted by Steve "Hanna" Khoury | February 5, 2009, 6:12 amAnti-Semitic??? Are you kiddin'g me Joe? Those are the words of the Tanakh, the Jewish Old Testament! They were writings that the prophets specifically used to refer to how the House of Israel was to be considered among all nations after it was scattered among all nations. It's not Anti-Semitic, unless you consider Israelite Prophets (obviously Semitic) being Anti-Semitic of their own people. I didn't write it, except to show what Jeremiah, Zachariah, Isaiah and others of the Prophets have said. But honestly Joe, has that not been the case these past 2,600 years? Wherever the Jews have gone, they've been hated and persecuted and the object of ridicule and rejection??? And that's been the case ever since Nebuchadnezzar took over Jerusalem in 587 BC during the reign of King Zedekiah, destroyed the Temple, took the Kingdom of Judah to Babylon and put them captivity. If you think that's Anti-Semitic, then that's your opinion, but I REALLY fail to see your argument. It looks like you don't read your Tanakh. Try it some day and get informed as to what is really out there. It might actually serve you well. Please don't take the truth to be hard. It's just what was written.Word of God
Posted by Steve "Hanna&qu | February 5, 2009, 2:12 amAnti-Semitic??? Are you kiddin’g me Joe? Those are the words of the Tanakh, the Jewish Old Testament! They were writings that the prophets specifically used to refer to how the House of Israel was to be considered among all nations after it was scattered among all nations. It’s not Anti-Semitic, unless you consider Israelite Prophets (obviously Semitic) being Anti-Semitic of their own people. I didn’t write it, except to show what Jeremiah, Zachariah, Isaiah and others of the Prophets have said. But honestly Joe, has that not been the case these past 2,600 years? Wherever the Jews have gone, they’ve been hated and persecuted and the object of ridicule and rejection??? And that’s been the case ever since Nebuchadnezzar took over Jerusalem in 587 BC during the reign of King Zedekiah, destroyed the Temple, took the Kingdom of Judah to Babylon and put them captivity.
If you think that’s Anti-Semitic, then that’s your opinion, but I REALLY fail to see your argument. It looks like you don’t read your Tanakh. Try it some day and get informed as to what is really out there. It might actually serve you well. Please don’t take the truth to be hard. It’s just what was written.
Word of God
Posted by Steve "Hanna" Khoury | February 5, 2009, 6:12 am“”It’s not Anti-Semitic, unless you consider Israelite Prophets (obviously Semitic) being Anti-Semitic of their own people.”"
Any reason I can’t?
Why on earth would I give a shit about the Tanakh?
Posted by Joe | February 5, 2009, 12:12 pmA goy educating a Jew about his own inheritance. Now I’ve seen everything!
Posted by Anonymous | February 5, 2009, 11:09 pmJoe, let me guess, your parents made you go to Hebrew Sunday school at the local Reform Temple?
Posted by Anonymous | February 5, 2009, 11:10 pm