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AddReply(368630,"Israel and land","Richard","Wareham, Ma.USA","12/05/08","Israel should not give up any more land for peace ... It just won\'t happen that way ... and they should not kick out settlers from Israel\'s land! ");
AddReply(368626,"All captured terrorists should be debriefed and IMMEDIATELY executed.","Chaim","","12/05/08","It is total insanity to keep thousands of murderous terrorists alive. Vast numbers of our murdered and aimed countrymen would still be alive and well had we promptly executed captured terrorists. Moreover, it would send a message to would be terrorists that they faced a very dim future. Captured terrorists should be debriefed, to provide information to prevent other terrorist atrocities, and IMMEDIATELY executed.");
AddReply(367683,"A Question of Tactics","Simcha Yoel Barag","North Palm Beac","12/03/08","Davening and doing mitzvot is all well and good as a traditional Jewish way of combating evil. However I think it is almost universally recognized that such spiritual remedies are often NOT ENOUGH. I am no chacham, but I think Jewish  history abounds with examples of Jews having to resort to physical means to prevent their families from being murdered. The Talmud itself demands that if a Jew sees someone coming to kill him, there is an affirmative duty to rise up and kill the anti-semite first. For all their wonderful and enviable qualities and deeds, apparently the Holtzbergs were unprepared to do this, and that must be a reason why they are dead. Jews who expect to remain alive in Hashem\'s world of nature  must master the natural means to stay alive in places where terrorists are coming to kill them. The ability to use a weapon to kill evil can also be a kiddush Hashem.       ");
AddReply(367667,"Challenge: Redux","Adina","Boston ","12/03/08","I would just like to make an additional point to the fine comments posted... By facing evil with the good....I do not mean to imply weakness as an answer.  The contrary is so....Good must stand up against Evil..\n with the appropriate strength in each generation, and as a Shoah survivor, I know that well.  The State of Israel must protect that precious heritage, while living a\nlife where personal values are paramount. ");
AddReply(367641,"sk, by your comments it\'s obvious you don\'t study Torah","","","12/03/08","");
AddReply(367603,"palestinians","elli","newyork","12/03/08","jordan is palestine and all socalled palestinians should be transferred to Jordan");
AddReply(367440,"Sorry, Rabbi.","sk","USA","12/03/08","You couldn\'t be more right when you say there are no sidelines here.  But then you somehow start talking about volunteering at the shul. In other words, rather than dealing with Amalek directly, you seem to counsel passivity.\n\nHow about something more courageous from our rabbis?  You know perfectly well that Islam is a concentration of evil. Why do you stay on the sidelines rather than proclaim this truth?  Why are rabbis not in the forefront of extirpating Amalek via extirpating Islam?\n\nI don\'t know about you, but I think the effect of Jews davening a bit more, or volunteering a bit more, is just about zero.");
AddReply(367438,"Spare me, One Note Choni.","sk","USA","12/03/08","I couldn\'t imagine anything more foolish than putting all of world Jewry into the clutches of the Israeli government on one side and the Muslims on the other.");
AddReply(367419,"Taking A Stand","Tami","Supply","12/03/08","Excellent article. Very well written. Rabbi Lazer Gurkow\'s article is the voice of reason and comfort in these dark days and reminds us all that no matter how dark things appear the Children of Good will ultimately prevail.\nPeace and blessings.\nTami\n");
AddReply(367320,"Yes, I will try to do more good -- including extra practice with my .38","JP Sutton","NYC","12/02/08","The rules of goodness work only so far as everyone tries to follow them. Our enemies will never understand, much less reciprocate, the laws of simple human decency and goodness. \n\nSo while I will study more and try to perform more mitzvahs, I will also work to improve my self-defense skills on the shooting range. \n\nIf we don\'t accept the responsibility to protect the lives of ourselves, our families, our people, through both goodness where appropriate and strength where that is appropriate, then we do not understand G-d\'s instructions to us. \n\nAnd once that happens we are truly lost.\n\nSpeaking of lost: When will Israel rescue Gilad Schalit? How could Israel have sent the IDF to Entebbe for 100  people, but can\'t send them to rescue one man from Gaza?\n");
AddReply(367283,"Another part of the Bible...","Phillip Slepian","New Jersey, USA","12/02/08","As Velvel points out, the Torah is full of examples in which good deeds and kindness are required, but not by themselves. When Israel came to its land, Hashem did not command us to do mitzvot while He wiped out the evil peoples there; He commanded Israel to raise and train an army, and go to war against them! Of course, Torah observance was necessary to insure the success of the military effort, but ACTION by Klal Israel was indeed required. Evil cannot be appeased or \"mitva\'d\" away. Every good person must prepare to fight, with violence, against the evil  Jihad. If it has not affected your home yet, it will. Kahane was right!");
AddReply(367274,"Rabbi Eliezer - Taking a stand starts with","Gary","Monterey, CA","12/02/08","the good things that you have listed.  But, it goes beyond that.  Taking a stand includes that which surrounds you on a daily basis.  This list is just a few that Conservatives must fight against:\n1) Abortion\n2) Gay Marriage\n3) Porn of any kind\n4) Adultery, fornication and homosexual sins.\n5) Child molestation and rape\n6) Pride and greed\n7) Nationalistic responsibilities - never give away and part of the Holy Land.\n8) The return of Biblical Judaism as laid out by Moses to Joshua.  No more Disapora Judaism.\n9) Remove all Palestinians and Arabs from Israel to Jordan or any other Islamic nation that will take them.\n10)  Invite G-d back into Israel with proper sacrifices and temple (tabernacle) worship and praise.");
AddReply(367268,"# 6 Choni To eliminate the Disapora means","Gary","Monterey, CA","12/02/08","to remove the Palestinians from the Holy Land.  Until that happens, not all Conservative Jews will relocate to Israel.");
AddReply(367218,"Good and evil","Choni Davidowitz","","12/02/08","Exile is evil; Eretz Yisrael is good.\nLiquidate the Diaspora or else the Diaspora will liquidate the Jew.");
AddReply(367167,"Shine a light on evil?","Fivish","London","12/02/08","If you shine a light on evil it will simply find it easier to find its target! Acts of kindness are not the answer. Its akin to doing nothing! No, evil must be destroyed by force as it was in Biblical times. The source of the evil is known, it must be elliminated. The high priests and politicians of Islam must be made afraid to show their faces or preach their hatred.\nThe Nazi\'s were destroyed, it can be so for Islam too.");
AddReply(367135,"Slaughtering terrorists is very good and just by Biblical standards.","Velvel","silver spring","12/02/08","They have declared war.  Chesed for fellows is one, but not the only way to respond.   I stress the word fellow.   \n\nA muslim/terrorist is in no way a fellow.   And we all know this by now.");
AddReply(367102,"no idea","Meira Yolanda","Jerusalem IL","12/02/08","RAbbi, I have to disagree with your statement that the \"forces of evil... had no idea how gentle the souls were\" Evil knows exactly what it is doing and they knew exactly how gentle these folks were. They were counting on it to accomplish their nefarious purposes.  I do not suggest we become that hardened G-d forbid, but we, the bearers of light and goodness need to honestly face the reality that there is terrible evil out there and it it aimed directly at us. Evil hates goodness and cannot bear to be in its presence. It rages and rebels at the very idea of kindness and gentleness. It seeks to destroy the light because with it, the evil which seeks to overtake us is exposed. EVil is very real in this World and it takes strength to overcomes it. Spiritual strength, of which an important component is wisdom. ");
AddReply(367028,"The Challenge","Adina","Boston","12/02/08","Rabbi Gurkow is so right!   I have \nhave lived my three score and ten, \nand if I\'ve learned a single value\nin my life that I hold to be most\nimportant...it is the need to show\nin deed the caring for others.  I\nhave seen that \"magic\" work miracles, against the evil that we \nas human beings see again and again\nin each generation.  That is the\nlesson we are mandated to teach our\nchildren, and that is the lesson\nthat we must carry on...as long G-d gives us. ");
AddReply(367021,"á\"ä b\"H inyan: standing up for good","Esther Sarah Evans","Yerushalayim","12/02/08","b\"H\nThanks very much for your Wort in favour of standing up for good and bringing light in the face of this act of terrorism aimed davka at smashing our spirit on the Rosh Chodesh of Kislev, the month of light, and dashing the hopes, robbing the warmth of parents davka on the eve of a little child\'s birthday - and together with torture, unspeakable cruelty. Would that our government would see the light and turn from staging pogroms against our own people, making our land Judenrein - and recognize finally that they must answer to the one and only source of Tikvah here - HaKodesh Baruch Hu. Not recognizing that they cannot bring solutions themselves, our leaders are acting like husbands of weak character, who for lack of strength in facing challenges by recognizing their limits and asking for HaShem\'s help, let out their frustration by beating their wives and children. Let\'s pray for them");

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