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AddReply(252014,"aliyah","Nechama M.","settlement","11/26/07","My husband, children, and I made aliyah. We were  worried as we gave up good jobs, a nice house and a rather high standard of living. In Israel we live in an apartment, have one old car, and so-so jobs. But, we did the right thing. Fancy material things like many Jews in America have are not very important. What is important is that we each do our share in keeping Eretz Yisrael Jewish and  not losing it due to the demographic problem. We need more Jews HERE, NOW!!");
AddReply(250630,"THE RING OF AHASHVEROS","SHUVA (Return)","JERUSALEM ","11/21/07","BS\'D\n   S-HALOM uVRACHA,TAMAR       \n\n     JEWS SELDOM LEARN\n       FROM OUR LONG AND\n        BITTER HISTORY!!!\n \n \" THAT WHICH 48 PROPHETS\n   COULD NOT ACCOMPLISH...\n    THE RING OF AHASHVEROS\n    DID\"!\n       \n     UNFORTUNATELY, IT OFTEN\n TAKES VIRULENT JEW-HATRED THAT  MOTIVATES  OUR BRETHREN  TO LEAVE THE\n\'FLESH POTS AND COME HOME TO ERETZ YISRAEL!\n     TRAGICALLY...THE JEW-HATRED IN THE GALUT ITS\nGROWING BY LEAPS AND BOUNDS!\n (See website:www.shuva.net      \n   With love of G-D and Eretz \n                Yisrael      \n            SHIFRA HOFFMAN\nExec.Director SHUVA (Return)\nThe Israel Emergency Aliyah \n    Movement");
AddReply(250229,"Idealism vs. Reality","Chaim","Jerusalem","11/20/07","It is wonderful to be an idealist - and you Tamar Yonah are a great idealist.\nStill - to All the potential Olim - hear ye oh hear!- it is written that \"Eretz Israel Niknet B\'isurim\" i.e.\" Eretz Israel is acquired through suffering\".\nLook what vicissitudes awaited Yaakov before he took possession of  the Land.\nBut -as Tamar pointed out - it is a worthy effort for the Olims sake and  the sake of their future generatioins. So come home ye all.- come home.");
AddReply(250187,"#30: Goldstein and Amir","Steve","Fla.","11/20/07","Can you document this with news articles (anything) that the Jews of Yesha condemn Goldstein and Amir at every opportunity?\n\nI do not disagree with your view, that should there be massive savagery, murder and rape perpetrated against the Jews in Israel -- the kind of which Bush and Olmert will bring on the Jews, should they be \"successful\" at Annapolis -- those who remain will have a different view and will educate our children to ensure that the likes of our Jewish \"ostriches\" never again arise among our people.\n\nWe do indeed have an ostrich problem.  It is not only in Israel but here in America.  Bush has the full support of the Republican party, Republican leaders, alternate conservative media both talk radio and Internet (Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, David Horowitz, Joseph Farah, Daniel Pipes, Michelle Malkin, Newt Gingrich, Robert Spencer, Robert Novak, Mort Zuckerman, Charles, Krauthammer, etc.) to dismantle and destroy Israel.  \n\nMost American Jews and Jewish leaders fully support Bush\'s efforts to destroy Israel\'s security in the vain hope it will bring peace.  We have many ostriches.  Bush has tremendous support in Israel.  Most folks on the right in Israel blame Condoleezza Rice, giving her evil boss a pass.  \n\nWhat do you think of Mr. Bush?  I\'m not sure you\'ve answered this question, have you?\n\nMy guess is, many in Yesha have not taken a definitive stand on Amir and Goldstein.  It isn\'t because they do not believe the Muslims living in Israel are not our sworn enemies or that Yitzhak Rabin did not do unspeakable damage, even crimal harm to Israel; it may simply be that they are not certain these men acted according to divine command.  \n\nPerhaps there is justification for killing a fellow Jew, even a Jewish leader in the example of Phinehas, Aaron\'s son.\n\nI\'m sure you read the reports of the soccer fans cheering Amir and booing Rabin a week or two back.  \n\nDr. Goldstein is a martyr and a hero to many in the Hebron area and other communities in the territories.  \nYou might be painting with a broad brush.  Maybe not.  \n\nDo you have any reports or studies that demonstrate the vast majority in Yesha condmen these two?\n\nIf Olmert should seek to dismantle whole Jewish communities in Yesha and the Jews act as the Jews in Gush Katif acted, I will concede your point.  I supported Gush Katif financially.  I believe they made some terrible mis-steps and wrong decisions.  Had they in some way resisted and made it clear they would resist, thus embarrassing the government, Sharon might have relented.  Perhaps not.   We will will never know.\n\nYou are suggesting, Jews in Yesha take up arms against the IDF and the police, should they come to expel them from their homes.  Am I right?");
AddReply(250136,"To #29: Only Yigal Amir and Baruch Goldstein FOUGHT","mike","Vienna, VA","11/20/07","And the Jews of Yesha condemn them at every opportunity.  Enough said.\n\nThe wonderful tone of the talkbacks on this blog is evidence enough that the Jews of the Holy Land would rather bury their heads in the sand and pretend that everything will be fine.  I pity them deeply.  When they are all dead, which won\'t be long now, those of us who remain will have to educate our children to ensure that the likes of the ostritches of yesha never again arise among our people.");
AddReply(250109,"Five year olds?","Steve","Fla.","11/20/07","Mike,\n  Your view that all 250,000 Jews living in the territories are (like) five-year-olds who never grew up, seems awfully harsh.\n\nGranted, the Jews in Gush Katif greatly miscalculated.\n\nI did not see five-year olds in Amona resisting Omert\'s police thugs.\n\nI do not see five-year olds in Hebron resisting government expulsions.\n\nSeems to me, there are many Jews in the territories willing to fight for our land.");
AddReply(250081,"All talk","Sara-Leah C.","Jerusalem","11/20/07","I seem to read talkbacks from Mike of Vienna, VA on many blogs, and I ask myself if he is real or even normal. He talks and talks,but never takes action, which , actually, is better in his case. Is he out to destroy our moral, and is he sick in his mind?? Or he is just fantasizing?? I really don\'t know what to make of him. In the meantime, though, we are HERE on the front lines, and he is THERE, in beautiful surburban Vienna, VA.");
AddReply(250066,"How old are you Mike?","Kitty","J-m","11/20/07","You sound like you are about five, in the midst of a temper tantrum, banging your head on the floor and hollaring to high heaven.\n\nBut, you are probably older, although your vocabulary is not much better.\n\nThere you are sitting on your easy chair in Vienna, Virginia and exhorting \'us\' (in Israel) to rebellion.  A case of \"let\'s you and him fight\".\n\nIf you truly believed in what you expound, you would get off your behind and come here and preach, and lecture, and harrangue (that is if your mother will let you).\n\nWe need a leader....will that be you when you grow up?");
AddReply(250058,"Making an impact.","phido","Capo, CA","11/20/07","While it is true that many times we make a positive difference in the lives of others quite by accident, Aliyah would effect future generations.  Lots of hurdles in the way, but I guess making the decision comes first.  One step at a time.  One hurdle just disappeared for me today.");
AddReply(250054,"Calling the congress and the sennate.","Joseph A. Cleary","Sapulpa, Ok.","11/20/07","I saw a email about calling the rep.\'s for each state, I have two sets to call as I have land in Okla. and Texas.\nI sent it as far as I was able, and asked every one to do the same.\nI asked the two different lines that I belong to, to do the same.\nIK\'ll leave more on Tamary.");
AddReply(250042,"This is NOT for Mike in VA!!!","Aryeh in L.A.","Los Angeles","11/20/07","I was born in the U.S.A. and made aliya with my righteous Zionist parents (may they live to 120) at the age of 13. For over 25 years I sprouted in Israel and only recently returned on a temporary basis to the U.S.A. due, in great part, to my 7 year-old daughter\'s difficult medical condition.\n\nI learned in a \"high yeshiva\" (yeshiva gvoha), served in Givati (the Israeli Marines) and completed law school in Israel. I also saw the worst that Israel has to offer as an ex-police captain and then a criminal lawyer.\n\nIsrael has serious problems. Its government is managed by frightened and blind politicians. Its Knesset has dozens of members that care only about their salary and benefits, and couldn\'t care less about their constituents. Its courts  have judges who overall have great integrity and mean well, but unfortunately not many of these judges have ever read the writings of the Rambam or the Vilna Gaon.\n\nOn the other hand, Israel is home. Israel is us. The true Israel is founded in faith and Judaism and the unlimited love of Aharon HaCohen, and not - G-d forbid! - in hate and calls for war and violent revolution and the spilling of blood as voiced by Mike in Virginia.\n\nOur sages teach us that King Ahab was a wicked king who stood against everything that our beautiful  Torah teaches us, but he was nonetheless successful against Israel\'s external enemies because at the time there was peace between brothers. In other words, Hashem overlooked his wickedness and did not punish Israel\'s army in the battlefield, because there was unity and brotherhood among the people of the nation.\n\nMike from Virginia: I have nothing to say to you, and it will not help anyway to have any type of discussion with you. You are not following Torah with your outrageous and disgusting rhetoric. You are not a Zionist merely because you express your willingness to come to Israel only when you can fight and kill those whom you see as following the wrong path. Not even Rav Kahane, with all his harsh words against the \"mityavnim\" among us, ever proposed outright revolution, the taking up of arms and - G-d forbid! - killing other Jews because of Gush Katif or Shabbat or the excavation of bones or whatever other burning issue we might hold dear to our heart.\n\nIn sum, Israel needs help. It needs more Torah Jews. It needs more Zionist Jews. It needs more menschen and polite people. It does not need the bloody philosophy of Mike from Virginia. It does not need more darkness, but rather more light. And Jews from all over the world who can be a beacon of light - both to fellow Jews and to the People of the Nations - will never be sorry if they take Tamar\'s advice and return to Israel, the Holy Land, the Land of Our Forefathers, and the Land (despite its problems) That I Love. I pray that I may be able to return, G-d Willing, in not too long a time...\n\nAryeh in L.A.");
AddReply(250035,"humble opinion","marie","usa","11/20/07","Jews belong in Israel..true.\nNot all Jews are in Israel...true.\nSome Jews in Israel do not act like  Jews, for example, like the Olmert types.\nSome Jews in America remember who they are, moreso, than the other type (the Olmert types) living in the Holy Land.\nMaybe what really matters is if the Jew\'s \"soul\" is representing what \"physical\" Israel is suppossed to represent (but currently doesn\'t), because only Hashem knows what is really going on inside all and each of his people.  Maybe that is why the \"righteous\" Jews who are \"physically\" living in Israel today, will be protected..because more will see \"why\" their brothers and sisters chose to leave the west and move to Israel. Right now and sadly enough, we know that...not all of the Jews who are \"physically\" in the land, are really HOME.  So, it seems to me, that we should be praying for \"all\" those lost ones (whether near or far) and (known or unknown via the \"missing tribes\")..to come HOME soon..and we should respect and thank the \"righteous\" Jews already living in the land for giving us even more \"reason\" to do this and all that we can. Because, If Hashem does not protect his rightoues already living in the land, then we are \"all\" without any hope.  We should at least be honest about that.  This is not some \"competition\"..it\'s just the way it is..so we should respect/love the \"messengers\" even though the message can be harsh to us..I think that they are only trying to bring out the \"best\" in \"all\" of us. Furthermore, I think there are those types of Jews who are still in the exile for other complicated reasons,  not just because they can have a nicer home in the west $$.  Also, I think there are those Jews in the exile who are committed to helping others still.  Maybe what really matters is whether such Jews, want/desire to go HOME...and just did not arrive yet.   ");
AddReply(249954,"Good","Steve","Fla.","11/19/07","We cannot both support Israel and Arutz Sheva and not agree on something Rob.");
AddReply(249938,"Thats better Steve!","Rob","usa","11/19/07","Gosh, when you put it that way, we actually agree!\n");
AddReply(249922,"To #10: I will come to fight.  I will not come to die like a sheep","mike","Vienna, VA","11/19/07","Yes, if there is an armed resistance I will come to join it.  If there is a revolution, I will come to support it.  And, if the worst happens and volunteers are needed to face off with rifles and molotov cocktails against Arab tanks in the streets of Tel Aviv, I will come to do that, too.  But I WILL NOT come to sit limply by while rodfim rape Jewish women and children, beat and murder Jews, destroy homes and schuls and hand land to Moslems.  Nor will I come to be betrayed and pursued by blind lemmings who aid rodfim out of a perverted ahavat Israel, thus aiding in their own extermination.\n\nWhen Kahane stood in front of a flag of Medinat Yehudah and called for secession, they did not even have the brains to listen.  Only the Shabak listened.  This does not surprise me in the least, given the blind naivete of the population of Yesha.  Sometimes I think that all 250,000 of them are five-year-olds who never grew up.");
AddReply(249917,"Rob: How am I trying to \"fix\" you?","Steve","Fla.","11/19/07","");
AddReply(249915,"Rob: Aren\'t you making an astonishing leap?","Steve","Fla.","11/19/07","How do you determine that my criticism of Mr. Bush and his policies toward Israel to be \"bad mouthing\" America?  \n\nI\'ve got much to be thankful for, though I realize this is not my permanent home.  America has allowed me and my family liberty of expression, to live in a safe environment, to receive a fine education and to operate a small agricultural business here in central Florida.\n\nThe point is, George W. Bush has done enormous damage to Israel, to her security and to the land of Israel, in my opinion.  This is not simply my opinion.  Many share this view.\n\nConsequently, my personal faith indicates it does not bode well for this nation in the long term.  Perhaps you do not agree with this.\n\nIf you were to accuse me of faulting the head of my party, you might be on solid ground, though I prefer to think of it as criticism; or justified condemnation. \n\nLincoln wrote: \"To sin by silence when they know they should protest, makes cowards of men.\"\n\nThe origin of the term \"bad mouth\" is rooted in the idea of cursing someone or something.  I do not believe I have intentionally cursed any elected official. Otherwise I would apologize to him or her.  \n\nPlease be specific. What have I written that you consider bad-mouthing the U.S.?  Perhaps I need to reconsider a particular position.\n\nYou seem to be inferring without any basis, that I am a disloyal American citizen, not knowing anything about me, what I have done in and for my community.  \n\nI find your accusation unmerited.");
AddReply(249906,"Steve","Rob","usa","11/19/07","No Steve, I am not an active participant in the republican party, nor have I ever been so you\'re one up on me there. but We do usually vote republican.\n\nI just have a problem with you badmouthing America.\n\nI want you to know I fly Israeli colors(proudly) next to Old Glory here at the Shop, service truck has personal plate giving tribute to A7, and we have been in a few fisty cuff\'s round these parts on behalf of the Jewish nation and people, so stop trying to \"fix\" me Steve, aint a damn thing wrong ;-)\n");
AddReply(249898,"the real you , Make aliyah","Teresa","Warrenton","11/19/07"," Make aliyah, what a wonderful dream. I often wonder how many people are there who wants to go home, but are just afraid.. After all Israel in a hot box of political scrambeling, with fears and even threats of annihilation, but I ask how many were taken from Israel to the death camps, Auschwitz, Sobibor, Treblinka?    how many were taken to their deaths from other \"safe\" countrys?.\n No where is it safe anymore. NO where can one feel out of danger except in G-d\'s arms.  There is no place He love more than His nation Israel. the Apple of His Eye, the apple is the iris, that part of the eye which reflects what you are looking at,  what a wonderful thought that G-d is watching over you . What a privileged distinction. Where on earth can one feel any safer in these end times than knowing G-d is watching over you and you are in His lovein arms.\nyour friend, Teresa");
AddReply(249895,"Dont be sorry Bro","Rob","usa","11/19/07","Yeah you do a good job of dealing with tragety, I\'d expect nothing less from you ;-)\n\n");
AddReply(249875,"I agree with Steve, sorry Rob bro-","jew","in israel","11/19/07","Steve is right, Israel can never go in and clean up the problem,  some secretary of state is always flown in to \'ease tensions in the region\' and stops Israel from completing her job. Today, our politicians who slobber over america don\'t even expect to think and act independently. As for Israel being a place that takes bribes, my experience is not more than any other country, and certainly a lot better than others. And about being blown up in the streets here, our hatzala -rescue- crews do a much better job evacuating people to safety then your homeland security ever did.  Sorry  Rob bro-, but I gotta agree with Steve on this one. ");
AddReply(249852,"PS: Rob","Steve","Fla.","11/19/07","You wrote: \"we don\'t allow our taxpaying citizens to be blown up in the streets.......\"\n\nThe reason Israel\'s leaders do not properly protect her citizens is because they have allowed Israel to become a pathetic vassal of the U.S.  \n\nBush demands restraint; Ariel Sharon and now Ehud Olmert restrain Israel\'s military.  \n\nBecause of Bush administration pressure, Olmert allows rockets to fall on Sderot and other parts of the Negev community, virtually unimpeded.  Because of Bush pressure, Olmert hands Iran and Hezbollah a victory, August 2006.\n\nEhud Olmert does little more than bend down and polish George W. Bush\'s Texas boots.  What kind of self-respecting leaders behave this way?");
AddReply(249850,"Rob, thanks.","Steve","Fla.","11/19/07","Rob, I don\'t watch the news on television; I cut my cable years back.  The Internet, books (very little talk radio) are my eye to the world.\n\nYou must not have read my statement, \"the direction this leftist movement, (it) is leading Israel toward national suicide and disaster.\"  No question, Israel has a morally corrupt government bureaucracy.  Israelis (many, though not all) have absorbed American / western culture; many Jews in Israel worship western idols, so to speak.  I\'ve been to Tel Aviv.\n\nI am a conservative.  I don\'t like socialism.  There is a battle for the soul of the Jewish nation in Israel.  I have been politically active here in the Republican party for a number of years.  Have you been active in a political party Rob?  It was an eye-opener.\n\nIn my view, largely because of Mr. Bush\'s failed, immoral policies in the Middle East, the Republican party and thus this nation are in steep decline.  I believe as the years go by this will become more evident.\n\nI am not an overly religious Jew.  I believe in God (if you will); the God of our fathers.  In our Bible, the prophets called Him the God of Israel.  I do not believe God is finished with Israel by a long-shot.  \n\nI cannot say the same for America.  \n\nAmerica, under Bush\'s watch, has turned decisively against Israel and the land of Israel.  Bush has invested much political capital to dismember Israel in order to establish his \'vision\' of a Palestinian terrorist state in the Holy Land.\n\nThis does not bode well for America\'s \"long-term\" future in my opinion.");
AddReply(249827,"Steve","Rob","usa","11/19/07","I do not see much difference between Israel and the US presently.\n\nBoth morally and spiritually, you ought to stop watching the news and get out more.\n\nSteve, you say you run a business? well just wait until you try to do biz in the state of Israel. unless of course you bring enough bribe money with you. Israeli government is far more corrupt, we dont allow our taxpaying citizens to be blown up in the streets.......");
AddReply(249814,"Question for Mike, Va.","Steve","Fla.","11/19/07","Mike, I have a certain sympathy for your point of view.  That having been said, I fully intend to make Aliyah.  For me, it is a moral, not to mention a Biblical, obligation to not die in this spiritual and moral wasteland called America.  I believe every Jew in Diaspora should determine that at some point in time, Aliyah is a necessity.\n\nI also believe, this defeatist leftist movement in Israel will not endure.  Ultimately those who are willing to fight for all of our land; those who believe there will never be peace between the Muslim jihadist inhabitants and the Jews within our land, will one day hold sway in Israel.  I must believe this because the direction this leftist movement is leading Israel toward national suicide and disaster.  Perhaps this is providential.\n\nMy question to you is, when you see the tide beginning to change in Israel as I believe it will, are you going to make plans to immigrate and help those on the right lead the nation?  Or are you going to find other reasons why you need to stay here in Galut with the fleshpots America offers her Jewish guests?  Will you stay with the material and cultural gods of this great world power?  Or will you join me?");
AddReply(249764,"Material things","Chava","settlement","11/19/07","Dear Tamar, This is an excellent article. I, too, made aliyah and traded a big, beautiful house and two late model cars for a kind of small apartment and an old car in Israel, but---it was the best thing I ever did in my life!! My kids are proud religious Israeli Jews, and now we have grandchildren too. My kids and their kids are all Jews---more than I can say for many of my relatives\' and friends\' families. Material things like many Jews in the Golden Galut have are just not important.");
AddReply(249738,"enough","kitty","j-m","11/19/07","Many years ago some of us here hosted a group of professional religious Jews who were debating aliya.\n\nOn motzei shabbat, they, and their hosts, had a melava malka in my apartment.\n\nWe were speaking to them about our experiences in aliya and asking what the y thought.\n\nTo this day I will not forget the woman who said how much she wnated to come but, you see, she said, as she looked around my living/dining room, we just bought a new dining room set and it wouldn\'t fit into any of the apartments I have seen here.\n\nTamar, you wrote an article on \"enough\".....well, I have \"enough\".  My big diningroom set lies in the home of someone, who remembers who, in S. California. and we make due with a table that can open up when needed and lies cllosed, as a game table, when not needed.\n\nI cannot tell you what material things we left behind and today I walk down the street and no one points at me and says, \"That woman left behind a buffet, a China cabinet, two tremendous bedroom bureaus, a large freezer, 3 cars, etc.\"\n\nWe decided to make aliyah the day, 30 years ago, I walked into our two story entry way with the balcony from whence our 4 bedrooms, three baths, could be entered....from our full size diningroom, kitchen w/bar and dinette, living room, recreation room, three car garage, wet bar, fireplace....need I go on.....we traded it in for an apartment the size of our 3 car garage.  But, I have never felt the emptyness I felt that day, so long ago when I opened the door to my beautiful Southern California material filled home.\n\nAs for our Judah Maccabee.....may I remind him that his heroes did their bet here in Israel.  Judah Maccabee, Bar Kochba, Trumpeldor.....they all did their defense of Israel, here in Israel....not the safety of Vienna, Va.\n\nPut your muscle where your mouth is or call yourself, not Judah Maccabee, but Mr. Hypocrite.");
AddReply(249730,"Israel","Liora","settlement","11/19/07","Beautiful article, Tamar!!You always write exactly the way I feel. At the General Assembly (for Jews) in Tennessee a week ago, it was said that the American community is not only assimilating out of Judaism, but is also aging. In a couple of decades, except for the Orthodox, there will be very few Jewish children. The future of the Jewish People is here in Israel!! Another thing, I agree with you about the Hebrew language. I see Arabs and foreign workers here speaking Hebrew, and the painful truth is that the majority of the Jews in the Galut do not know Hebrew. How sad. Also, when our kids got married we sent out invitations in Hebrew only. To the ones that went to the States, we put in a small handwritten translation in English to those who do not know Hebrew, but on the invitation itself, only Hebrew. I think that this is an important point to make: that all Jews should know Hebrew!");
AddReply(249702,"Making dreams come true","Daniel Pinner","Kfar Tapuach","11/19/07","Beautiful, Tamar! And sometimes dreams come true. When Ya\'akov was on his out of Eretz Yisra\'el, he merely dreamed of angels. On his way back, 20 years later, \"Ya\'akov went on his way, and angels of God encountered him\" (Genesis 32:2) - he saw real angels while he was awake. When you come to Israel, even the loftiest and most exalted spiritual dreams can come true.");
AddReply(249701,"What Happened To The Real You?","alberto gorin","arnhem Netherlands","11/19/07","see am as edd we both basic have no job.am a service community worker\nso can hardly go to government\nand say have job take me in.\ngotta have a futhere here gotta have a good job\nor be abbel to find one\n\nmark levin is a proud jew proud american.mi dream is allways ben the U.S\nstil is.\n\nmi parents both ben to israel in 60ts.stil have mi cousin\nbelieve have 2 jobs.\n\nwhat can i say.your going to\nisrael national radio like hammer come to israel\nthats nice if you can make it\n\nlong time i wrote to Nefesh B Nefesh i know what they thinking.\n\neurope wil fal.al qeada in france england radical muslim\nnazzies.europe wil fal\nmi geuss ile be under some\nbeside\ngot 2 old parents both can t fly\nso fair\n\nam stuck here \n");
AddReply(249694,"Critical mass","Ellen","Brooklyn","11/19/07","Mike, one little fact(or) is that when a critical mass of Jews lives in Israel, i.e., more Jews in the land than out of it, the spiritual nature of the world will shift.  You\'re just looking at the logic of it, but it\'s not logical in the end.\n");
AddReply(249687,"Wrong, Avee","mike","Vienna, VA","11/19/07","Yitzhak had his own power base.  You do too.  The difference is that you won\'t use yours.  I have said it before and I will say it again.  When there is an armed resistance raising the flag of Medinat Yehudah, I will gladly come join it.  In other words, buddy, stop reading Bereshit and start reading Maccabees.  Kapish?");
AddReply(249681,"according to Mike...","avee","jerusalem","11/19/07","according to Mike, Yaakov should have stayed with Lavan, because the Holyland had Esau in it, where Esau sought to kill him. Also, people in Israel stole his father\'s water-wells and there were famine problems there off and on, and his daughter Dina would be kidnapped and raped by the lousy inhabitants there who had no problem doing such things.  So according to Mike and his thinking, Yaakov should never have come to Israel, because israel had Esau there, but what Mike is doing is living in a land that is RUN by Esau in America.  what an insane way to think. Good thing he wasn\'t around to tell Yaakov to not listen to Hashem.");
AddReply(249655,"Come \"home\" to the death camp!","mike","Vienna, VA","11/19/07","Join those who sit limply by while a foreign army occupies their homeland, rapes their chldren, beats them with clubs, demolishes their homes and their schuls and gives their land to murderers who salivate at the thought of murdering a Jew!  \n\nOh, by the way, Tamar, NO ONE IN THEIR RIGHT MIND EVER THOUGHT HIMSELF A \"PROUD RUSSIAN\".  The Russians reminded us what we were on a daily basis and we reminded ourselves.  It was not difficult to distinguish ourselves from the filthy, drunken halfwit swine that surrounded us and called us names on a daily basis.  America is much harder, because here the goyim pretend to be our \"friends\" and some of them even have redeeming qualities and the appearance of humanity.\n\nOh, all those who call me a mozi shem ra and claim that I am out to \"undermine everything about Israel\", WAKE UP AND SMELL THE GUNPOWDER!  Your own government is trying to murder you and you sit and do nothing!  All your arguments come down to depending on miracles, making aliyah and singing kumbaya together while hoping that the pogromschiks will not come this time.  While you play your silly games, the Israelis are preparing another round of pogroms.  Shoot the messenger all you want, blind lemmings!  The Israelis are coming for you!  \n\nNow I know exactly how Kassandra felt.");

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