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AddReply(364391,"Joanna #42","Steve","Fla.","11/23/08","You wrote: \"Now, I do agree that Israel does not have as many Christian friends in America as Hagee and others like to profess (50-70 million Christian supporters? I believe that is an outlandishly false estimate). \n\n\"Please stop being so offensive with these broad generalizations.\"\n\nI am thinking perhaps you are referring to me?  Maybe you could help me understand my offensive generalizations.  Let\'s begin with Pastor John Hagee as an example because he is a good one.\n\nI do not believe Pastor John Hagee is a true friend to Israel.  I have good reason for saying this.  I have personal reasons for saying this.  I have been in contact with John Hagee and at least one other prominent CUFI officer.\n\nI do not believe John Hagee is very well thought of by the savior he professes to worship.  I have reason to believe Pastor Hagee worships other gods, gods of wood and gods of stone -- images of elephants and other graven images.  Pastor Hagee, in my view does not serve the Holy One of Israel or His servant.  I will post this in the article above in case you miss it.\n\nThanks.");
AddReply(363785,"So frustrated","Joanna","USA","11/20/08","As a Christian in America who supports Israel (some family and friends think I worship Israel, although I don\'t), I am so frustrated and so tired of being painted with such a broad brush. I DO NOT support Bush and Rice\'s plans for Israel. I DO NOT think that Bush and Rice are friends of Israel. Israel is more than just a blip on the radar screen for me. I believe that America has been and will continue to be punished for turning its back on Israel.\n\nNow, I do agree that Israel does not have as many Christian friends in America as Hagee and others like to profess (50-70 million Christian supporters? I believe that is an outlandishly false estimate). \n\nPlease stop being so offensive with these broad generalizations.");
AddReply(361320,"Daniel #31","Clear-headed","USA","11/14/08","Hi Daniel,\n\nThanks for the recommendation.  Do you know where I can find this book online?   It sounds intriguing...\n\nBy the way, I enjoyed your song lyrics immensely.  Too funny!");
AddReply(361290,"Will American Christians pray for Obama?","Steve","Fla","11/14/08","One of our local radio talk shows, \"Pulse of the Taxpayer,\" got into the controversial issue of religion again yesterday.  The host tries to avoid the subject but he stumbled into it.  A couple of devout Christians called in stating they will pray for President Barack Obama because their faith requires them to do this.  \n\nOne of the callers said \'every person must be in subjection to the governing authority, for there is no authority except from God, and those which exist are established by God.  Prayers are to be made in behalf of all men (my guess is this would include evil men), for kings and all who are in authority\', etc.\n\nThis led me to wonder whether Adolf Hitler\'s government was also established by God and if it was, perhaps this is the reason many or most of Germany\'s Christians supported and prayed for the Hitler government and its genocide.  Pope Pius XII, I believe, prayed for Hitler.\n\nHistorian Paul Johnson (\"A History of the Jews\") wrote: \"A Jew must always bear witness and protest against evil, especially great public sins of the powerful crying to God for vengeance.\" (page 159)\n\nI think this pretty much accords with the Torah and the prophets.  King David did not pray for his enemies but that God would destroy His enemies.\n\nHow do we square these two ideals.  I believe many American Christians have been praying for George W. Bush. We are constantly apprised of this.  \n\nI, on the other hand, have been praying for God\'s vengeance.\n\nI suppose one can understand the idea of giving a man the benefit of the doubt, until he takes office and begins to do evil.  Perhaps most American Christians will be praying for Obama when he begins to do evil, as they have done for George W. Bush.  They will pray that God might change his heart.\n\nWhen Obama, like Bush, begins attacking Israel, I will pray for God\'s vengeance.\n\n\n\n");
AddReply(361132,"Steve #34 and Ignacio #26","Clear-headed","USA","11/14/08","Steve (and Ignacio),\n\nI’ve been enjoying your dialogue back and forth and I thought I’d chime in with some input of my own.  Hope you two don’t mind!  ;o)\n\nThe Truth is (and many of you religious Jews already know this) that the Scriptural texts which Christians use have been altered -- sometimes perhaps unintentionally, though, there is more historical evidence for the conclusion that some of the early scribes deliberately perverted what was written to fit their own misconceptions.   So what was ultimately passed down to modern Christians is a nauseating mish-mash of Greco-Roman ideas that have no basis in the only Scripture to be written by the Hand of Hashem Himself, the Tablets of the Torah! It was a book written by Dr. Jeffrey Satinover, an American Jew, which ultimately caused me to take a second look at the deliberate placement of every single letter in the Torah…and what damage the future misplacement of those letters could cause in careless translations.  (‘Cracking the Bible Code’ by Dr. Jeffrey Satinover)  It wasn’t long after reading that book that I ditched my NIV translation for something more carefully translated.\n\nLike Ignacio, I can confirm that there are those of us who have come face to face with this Jewish Jesus (Y’shua) who have had to dig deeply and search for years to discern what the NT really says.  I was forced to literally start over in my understanding of the Word after growing up as a Christian and spending decades not truly knowing the One I thought I was worshipping.  A number of years ago during a time of distress in my life, Hashem instructed me to read the Tanakh mostly for several years and give my ‘understanding’ of the NT a rest for a time.  It was a fascinating process because when I did finally return to reading the NT, Hashem had given me a brand new set of spiritual eyeballs to understand it IN CONTEXT for the first time ever.  Once I had a cursory understanding of the Torah, I began to see that everything in the NT is completely synonymous with the commandments.  It provided such an incredible richness and depth to concepts I didn’t grasp before.  But before any of this could take place, my pride in all the knowledge I was just certain I had needed to take a tumble.  In that time of brokenness in my life, a tremendous transformation took place.\n\nYou wrote that there are things in the NT “wholly inconsistent” with the Torah.  What translation did you read?  I’d be interested to hear your thoughts on some specific examples you’ve found.  It’s a viewpoint I don’t share, though most Christians would wholeheartedly agree with you.  I find it almost humorous that most Jews and Christians I know share the same belief about the NT  -- that it is inconsistent with the Torah and actually does away with keeping the commandments.  I once would have agreed, but since being given new eyes and doing years of careful study on my own, I am now quite certain there is plenty of evidence to the contrary.  Paul, who was really Shaul, was renamed by the early ‘church fathers’ and his words were twisted, distorted, and improperly translated until the letters he wrote bear little resemblance to the actual Truths he was hoping to convey. He was, I now believe, a deeply spiritual Jew and he retained his distinct Hebraic identity and his Torah-faithfulness until the day of his death.\n\nYou’re right Steve.  “The Jews have few friends within Christendom today.  Most American Christians give Israel mere lip service.”  The time of Jacob’s trouble is coming, though, and the pride or indifference that SOME Christians hold toward Israel will fall as hard times begin to plague them too.  It is in their own wilderness that they will wake up to the reality that they are blind, unwise, and mostly out of touch with the God of Israel – He is hiding His face from their numerous idols, the Tanakh says.  The prophets say that at this time they will begin to seek out the Jews for wisdom and understanding and Israel will be at the forefront of the nations.  \n\nRegarding the other “Christians” who don’t repent, your reference to Hitler’s era is completely appropriate.  Many of these will be so shocked by the events about to unfold around the world that any faith they thought they had will be uprooted on the spot, and the Scripture says they will betray their own flesh and blood.  Because I love the Torah, I understand I could be among those who will be betrayed and I walk carefully as a result of that.  We can’t all be lumped in the same category – the way some “Christians” live bears little resemblance to the true faith found in Torah.  Yet, some of us do carefully walk according to Torah as best as we know how having grown up in gentile homes.  It’s really not quite fair to judge us equally because the spiritual fruit of our lives is not the same.\n\nAs for why so many American Christians support the globalists’ plan to divide Israel, most recently espoused by Bush and Condi Rice?  Having once been eager to be called a Christian myself, I can share some insight into the minds of many of them.  First of all, for many egocentric Western Christians, Israel is not even a blip on the radar.  They don’t have a clue that Israel has anything to do with anything.  In their mindset Israel is an ancient entity and yes, they can mentally acknowledge that Jesus was a Jew, but that is about as far as the association with Jewishness goes.  They understand that Israel is the homeland for the Jews, but they are too blinded by their idols to see that they have stake in all this too because the Jews are their own brethren.\n\nThe “Christians” who have bought the “2-state solution” lie are generally those who don’t spend much time reading the Bible for themselves.  As has been common in the catholic church for centuries, even evangelical Christians rely by-and-large on their leaders to tell them what is in the Bible, so most don’t know much of it for themselves. Some I know have NEVER cracked the books of Vayikra (Lev.), Bemidbar (Numbers), or Devarim (Deut.).  Because their resident false prophets (who have claimed apostle status for themselves) all proclaimed that Mr. Bush is, in fact, a Christian nothing he says or does seems to prove otherwise in the minds of people who imbibe every word from their pastors and prophets.  Of course, the evidence of Bush’s lack of acquaintance with “the LORD” is staggering, and one need only compare some of his behaviors and speeches against the standard of righteousness found in the Torah to see it.\n\nAs for American Christians…do you have regular contact with any of them?  Are you a praying man?  I encourage you to pray for them, and then turn the tables on them when they try to proselytize you.  Ask them the hard questions about the Torah and the land of Israel and gently show them what the Tanakh actually says.  Ask them how they Biblically justify a world view that is so out-of-kilter with the Torah, and show them from the Word where their conclusions are incorrect.  They won’t be able to answer your questions without twisting the Scriptures out of context.  Graciously hold them accountable for that, and point out how they are misusing the Word.   If they love the Truth, and if you are respectful but firm in how you approach them, then they will likely begin to search for the answers they couldn’t provide to you.  Who knows if they won’t turn out to be a person like I now am, repentant over their former blindness and desiring to know the Torah for themselves!\n\nThere are those, of course, who think they are going to be “raptured” before the muck hits the fan and that they will be whisked off to Heaven while the Jews stay behind to be converted.  Just one more reason, in their minds, that they don’t need to know what’s happening in Israel right now or in the future.  No wonder the Jewish people hate Christian proselytization so much.  I’m sick at the thought of just having to type such drivel.  It’s a damning doctrine all the way through, especially so since it is the Jewish people who have been entrusted with preserving the mysteries of the Torah.  It’s sad for me to see that American Christians tend to be a superstitious, terrified lot -- most can’t bear the thought of the suffering that might come with the Tribulation/ Time of Jacob’s Trouble.  What else would we expect?  That’s what comes of not being grounded in the Torah.  That kind of terror is also based in what the US gov’t has done to its own people for decades now – lies, propaganda media, illegal taxation without representation, hidden Socialist agendas, and the routine use of electromagnetic mind persuasion technology such as HAARP to enslave the people with unseen chains.  Who is more enslaved than the people who falsely believe they are free, especially more so when they believe they have been set free by ‘Jesus’ and don’t even understand His own words?  (a paraphrase of Goethe)\n");
AddReply(361128,"Steve #34","Ignacio","RI","11/14/08","Here is my email.\nignaciovaldes@ymail.com\n\nthanks for talking,\nIgnacio");
AddReply(361027,"I am in the diasporas and love israel","Torres, Juan","durango","11/13/08","i love to think about jacobs people who are in his land building homes and families for the future when the messiah comes to bring the rest of us home there this is things i was taught from the bible that he will come and find us who are not doing jewish things all the time and dont know how to do these things at all but a few things about food and the sabbath days are known to some of us and we have arabbi near here who helps us to understand the jewish things that we should all know about.\n\ni wish the people who are the ministers of the leaders would resist to give away the land of jacob becuae it belongs to them and maybe some belongs to me some day  i would not give the land to arab enemies who are killing jacobs tribes they are doing what god told them to live and build in this land and have childran and teach them about the bible of jacob and to love each other because they are brothers in the  certain tribes fromthe same father\n\nif i can not make it to live withn the people of jacob i will alway ask for the god of jacob to bless and care for these jewish people in the holy land and pray for them to me safe in there house always god bless jacobs people aroung the earth always. thank you");
AddReply(361026,"Charismatic cult hero memorialized","Steve","Fla.","11/13/08","Why now?\n\nhttp://www.cnn.com/2008/US/11/13/jonestown.jim.jones/index.html");
AddReply(360910,"Tamar, can you attend this summit?","Steve","Fla.","11/13/08","Facing Jihad: A Lawmakers\' Summit\nDecember 14-15, 2008 • Jerusalem, Israel\n\n\nhttp://jihadwatch.org/\n\n\"....I\'m heading down this morning in the Maxwell to the David Horowitz Freedom Center\'s Restoration Weekend. Speakers there will include notable anti-jihadists such as Caroline Glick, Yaron Brook, Melanie Phillips, Daniel Pipes, and Frank Gaffney, and I will be speaking as well. \n\nThen next week I\'m back in the Maxwell again, heading to the great cities of the Great Satan, Washington and New York, for activities related to the official release of my new book Stealth Jihad. Soon after that it\'s off to Chicago and then in mid-December to the Facing Jihad summit in Jerusalem. I am not sure how I\'m going to get the Maxwell over to Jerusalem. Have they finished the bridge yet?\n\nPosted by Robert Spencer\n\nhttp://facingjihad.com/");
AddReply(360877,"Ignacio #27","Steve","Fla.","11/13/08","Maybe you have a Jewish soul.  Who knows?  I\'d be happy to discuss these things via e-mail.  From my limited reading in the NT, the primary reason Christians have no use for God\'s law (the Torah) by and large is is because of Paul\'s writings.  More than any other writer, Paul created an unbridgeable  separation between the new church he established and the Jews. \n\nThough there are things consistent with Torah in the gospels, there are things -- marriage, divorce, Sabbath, loving your enemies, etc. -- wholly inconsistent as well and that is the rub.\n\nI will agree with you, most Christians have a false notion of Jesus, though this is not the proper place to discuss this.  Rabbi Joseph Telushkin (\"Jewish Literacy\") wrote \"Were Jesus to return today, most Jews believe he undoubtedly would feel more at home in a synagogue than a church.  An increasing number of Jewish scholars believe that Christianity\'s real founder was another first-century Jew, Paul.\"\n\nI believe this is one of the fundamental reasons the vast majority of American Christians are supportive of President Bush\'s efforts to destroy Israel.  Paul\'s writings are antithetical to the God of Israel, to His people and His law, in my view.  That is why most Christians were silent throughout Hitler\'s genocide against the Jews.  The Jews have few friends within Christendom today.  Most American Christians give Israel mere lip service.");
AddReply(360857,"LOVE SONGS TO THE LORD","WINDSONG","lONDON","11/13/08","WHEN in doubt stick to the original text, love is stronger than death and many waters cannot quell LOVE from Song of Songs 8 and that is God speaking to His Creation and those who have His Spirit dwelling within. And those who have lived it have found it to be true.\n2 COMMENTS, IF Obamas campaign proves to be funded by islamic enemies, is his election valid, and are you aware that in UK if we try to bring muslims to penitence and faith, and some do, they fear God, they need to instructed on the chaste attitude of Godly men to women - This takes a man of God and some fasting and prayer to remove this unclean spirit at the root. So please pass on this to your Yeshiva in Jaffa, the Lord sees motive and I pray the Leaders will discerrn deceitful spirits from sincere seekers. Lord I remind you of your promise that before we call you will answer and I ask you to anoint Tamar with wisdom and your perfect timing and protect her young under your wings. Psalm 91 FOR YOU ALONE ARE MIGHTY AND HOLY THROUGH YSRAEL AND HA OLAM!");
AddReply(360804,"To Daniel Pinner # 17 - Brilliant!  I was really laughing!  ,,,and to the others,,,","tamaryonah","","11/13/08","And thanks to the others who also contributed lyrics.  I am always so impressed with your creativity.  You all are sooo talented, I bow my head.  (smile)  Thanks so much!");
AddReply(360802,"To Ignacio (and anyone else who may be interested):","Daniel Pinner","Kfar Tapuach","11/13/08","Your personal story and background sound very interesting. Can I recommend you a book? \"Torah for Gentiles - Messianic implications of the Bnei Noah Laws\" by Elisheva Barre. I came across this book just a few days ago, and it is a fascinating insight into the whole subject.");
AddReply(360776,"none","max c baca","Concho AZ","11/13/08"," Tamar May what you say be truth. I can not prove what I wish. ie: that is that I am a jewish. Iam to poor to prove other wise but If I live long enough I will send you money. I believe in Israel. Max C Baca");
AddReply(360758,"Heres anuther rendition, Tamar, probably...","Charley Horse","","11/13/08","not as good as the previous entries:\n\nOOOhhhh, be kind to your fine Arab friends\n\nFrom whom Olmert, Livni, Barak and Peres won\'t defend yoouuu\n\nThey just want to stab you in the back, and at least kidnap your motheeer...\n\n(to the tune of \'Be Kind to Your Fine Feathered Friends\')\n\nOpps, wrong song...I\'m leaving now...\n\nYou go gal!");
AddReply(360756,"donation process","anon","","11/13/08","To Anon:  your request was sent into managment.  Thank you.");
AddReply(360696,"Steve  #26","Ignacio","RI","11/13/08"," I have been told that those who claim to be Jews and are messianic, that they are not welcome in Israel.\n\nI am not what most people would consider a christian anymore. My family and I believe that the Torah is supposed to be kept and taught. We are now keeping the Holy days as well which flies in the face of christianity. While I still believe that his death was for all of our sins, I don\'t buy into the idea that you have to be one of his followers in order to be forgiven, he did it to forgive our sin period. We can argue over the sacrifice and as to whether or not it was needed, but the bottom line for me is that if you are a follower of HaShem and keep His commands then that is enough.\n\nI was raised christian and even at one time was a Baptist minister, but to many things about chrstianity bothered me. Simple no brainer things such as not keeping Shabbat had me scratching my head and asking people senior to me questions that they couldn\'t answer. Why was the Torah disregarded as being irrelevant, pick your subject and I was troubled by it. So I started to study on my own and I resigned and have left the ministry. My conclusions on Jesus are by far different then main stream chrstianity and quite frankly I think that he has been misunderstood by everyone.\n\nAs far as I am concerned if you have G-d and are faithful to Him I don\'t see that you need to be converted to christianity. Abraham believed G-d and it was enough.\n\nTo answer your question on ancestry\nmy mothers family were Polish Jews and my fathers family were Cuban Jews. I didn\'t know any of this until this past year after literally years of research.\n\nMy whole point is simply that if we are to return, it should be accepted that some of us ,at least for now, see some things diffrently then you but it doesn\'t change our love for G-d and Israel and as I stated earlier I have no desire to \"convert\" you or your kids, I need to learn from you because, according to scripture, G-d is with you.\n\nIf you would like to discuss this more perhaps we can do it via email, as I have said I have much to learn.\n\n");
AddReply(360649,"Ignacio #25","Steve","Fla.","11/12/08","You said you are hated because you are \"messianic.\"   There are quite a few Christians living in Israel.  Are they hated?  I don\'t think so.\n\nJews are troubled when Christians proselytize, especially our children.\n\nYou wrote: \"Not all of us believe in converting Jewish people because you have G-d and the Torah we can\'t add anything to that.\"\n\nI agree with you, we can\'t add anything to that.\n\nIf you are a Christian, how can you not believe in proselytizing the Jews since many Christians I know believe it incumbent on them or a mitzvah to persuade me to convert?  They tell me I am incomplete without the Christian savior.  Don\'t you believe this?\n\nMay I ask, were you born Jewish?  Did you convert to Christianity or were you born in a Christian family?  ");
AddReply(360571,"To # 22 and anyone else...","Ignacio","RI","11/12/08","Funny , I never said anything about changing anything Jewish.\nWhy would I want to change the people who have Torah and HaShem?\n\nI also might point out that the only defense that you are ever going to have is that which comes from HaShem. You can\'t depend on your government any more then we can here, and it sounds like many of the people there don\'t believe anyhow.\n\nYou are very correct in that you need Jewish people there who fear G-d and worship Him and you need a government that will call on His name as well, but your own scriptures state that you are to allow  anyone who loves the G-d of Israel to be a part of His people yet you would deny me that right because I believe differently then you do. If you are so convinced that I am wrong and are not worthy to even to defend the land of Israel, then rather then get nasty with me,why don\'t you show me where I am wrong in a gentle way and let HaShem do the rest?\n\nYou want to see Aliyah? Go out and be a light to the nations, ALL nations. Get your government and the people ,ALL the people, to cry out to G-d and then you will see a deliverance and a return unlike anything you can imagine. \n\nThis is what the prophets wrote about and this will be the only way that it happens.");
AddReply(360545,"Why won\'t I move so I can be the first?","Mike","Vienna, VA","11/12/08","The heroic Yigal Amir was the first.  And your attitudes, which mimic the attitudes of the Lemmings of Yosh, are an excellent illustration why he is condemned instead of extolled by the very people whom he tried to defend.  \n\nAs for the IDF, they are kapos.  There is no such thing as a \"decent\" kapo.  The IDF is the IDF.  The Yassam is the Yassam.  These criminals can claim that they did not know or that they just followed orders.  But we all know the validity of such arguments.  \n\nA new oleh cannot hide or move freely.  When those who can blend in finally comprehend that there are no Jews in the IDF and act accordingly, THEN a new oleh might be useful.  In the meantime, I will continue speaking the Truth wherever I cannot be censored, thank you very much.");
AddReply(360473,"Yitzi #19","Steve","Fla.","11/12/08","I have difficulty accepting that a Jew who obeys immoral, anti-Torah orders is a decent person.  To me, he or she is not a decent or a moral person.\n\nHow can self-professing moral or religious Jews be tricked into obeying these orders?  Wasn\'t this the defense at the Nuremberg trials?  \"I was only following orders.\"\n\nHow can Jews forcibly expel thousands of law-abiding, peaceful Jews from our land like we saw in Gush Katif, Gaza at the direction of Ariel Sharon, August 2005?  How can any Jew in good conscience do this?\n\n\"Those who destroy Jewish homes will be barred from the world to come, Rabbi Ya\'acov Yosef, the eldest son of Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, said on Tuesday during a surprise visit to the Federman Farm outpost on the outskirts of Kiryat Arba.\"\n\nNov 4, 2008 11:22 | Updated Nov 4, 2008 23:35 \n\'No part in World to Come for uprooters\' \n \nI\'m not sure what will be their fate.  I do not know why faithful Jews should welcome into the Holy Land, Jews who forcibly expel fellow Jews from our God-given land.  \n\nThere are also Jews that, in the name of \"democracy,\" support Jewish soldiers who expel Jews from their homes.  These are collaborators and are also guilty in my view.");
AddReply(360472,"#6- u dont get it","","","11/12/08","defend yo own country-we dont need defenders. We need jews with jewish ideals and jewish religion to be building a jewish state.\nwe r doing fine defending ourselves");
AddReply(360350,"Marty Robbins Re-Visited","MrvnYahu","PsychoVille","11/12/08","Hey Tamar,\n\nYour revision of Marty Robbins song El Paso was great!\n\nI especially liked the part where you said, \n\n\"My challenge was answered in less than a heartbeat, I punched Hamas-nik\' down flat on the floor.”\n\nYee Haw!\n\nI mean Shalom :)\n");
AddReply(360344,"The end of Tamar\'s song","Clear-headed","Big City, USA","11/12/08","Thanks, Steve, for you advice.  I often appreciate your fascinating additions to Tamar\'s blog.  I do know that Jews can also be those who are converted, not just those of clear biological lineage, but I didn\'t make that clear in my prior post.\n\nTruthfully, I am not looking to become a Jew, Orthodox or not.  I have a significant and beautiful heritage as one who has been grafted into the congregation of Israel through the Holy One Himself, and I don\'t desire to replace this with anything else.  I simply want to know the \'standards\', if you will, by which the lawmakers of Israel will judge the legitimacy of the \"lost\" tribes of Israel (and those grafted in) who seek to return to the Land owned by Hashem Himself -- the inheritance promised to all 12 tribes.  I have heard much rabbinical talk about the \"lost\" tribes yet very little about the logistics of actually making this decision.  \n\nCertainly I’ve read the standards for this set forth in the Torah, but I see very little evidence that the lawmakers of Israel wish to observe Torah on this matter.  Under the current unrighteous Israeli gov\'t., even the great multitude that fled Egypt with Moses and the Israelites inthe Exodus would have been denied citizenship in the nation of people which Hashem called out for Himself.  Torah makes it clear that this citizenship opportunity is available to everyone who chooses to align himself with Hashem and His people and to keep Hashem’s commandments.  Those unwilling to keep the commandments are to be considered gentiles who merely live among the Israelites, and they are not to be granted full citizenship status.\n\nNow, here’s my version of the rest of the song, beginning at the original lyrics \"...just as fast as I could from the west texas town of el paso...\"\n\n\nAnd so now here I watch and I wait for my “lost” ten tribes kin\nTo return to our land that is waiting for them.\n\nBack in dispersion their life is distracting;\nTheir true home in Israel they forgot and spurned.\n ‘Been centuries since they’ve called Jews their brethren;\nThe prophets foretold that they’d one day return.\n\nI’ll fight for the land till all my strength is spent;\nI hope the “ten” return sooooooon.\nTruth is we need them – once they have repented –\nWe’re weary and hope for their strengthening boon!\n\nFor the world wants to steal this great treasure -- this Land of my Father;\nNot just the PA but also the UN.\nMy own godless leaders have joined with the heathen;\nThe Holy fight rages without and within.\n\nThe terrors I’ve seen – no words are sufficient --\nThe bombings, explosions, and beatings, and more.\nIf the tide does not turn soon in my Jewish favor\nMy fate will be what Jews have suffered before.\n\nTorah foretells that the time of Jake’s trouble\nBrings harmony to brethren at odds.\nAs we overcome the onslaught of evil,\nThe “ten” and the Jews need the wisdom of G-d!\n\nSo we’ll fight side-by-side for the Land that our Holy One promised;\nWe’ll look to Him for our succor and rest.\nOur love for the Torah, the Land and Messiah --\nThis unity is as good as it gets!\n\nAll twelve tribes together, as one in the Spirit,\nBearing G-d’s strength like the warriors of old.\nThose who know G-d will do mighty and strong deeds,\nJust as the writings of Daniel foretold.\n");
AddReply(360326,"To #4, #5","Yitzi","USA","11/12/08","To #4: If you are a convert, kudos to you, and the term \"Jew\" can be applied to you, as you did join (that\'s assuming a proper conversion).\nIf you are of the 10 Tribes, the term \"jew\" is somewhat of a misnomer, when they start coming back en masse, we may need to reconsider our use of the term.  Until then, the term \"jew\" is simply a bit imprecise, and is meant to include all of Yisrael.\nAs for \"Jew\" not being used until the exile, I think that\'s correct as to in Tanach, but it is no stretch of the imagination that as early as Rechav\'am, the term \"Yehudi\" was used to describe members of Malchus Yehudah.  In Sancheriv\'s time, we see the language being called \"yehudis\" (Jewish).\n\nTo #5: I should hope she would, if they were planning to attack IDF soliders indiscriminately.  Many (probably many) of them are decent people, who needed to be tricked in order to get them to help with destroying the Federman home.  If the person specifically wanted to go find those Yassamniks who yelled anti-semitic things and shoot them in the face, it\'s more questionable (I would be against, it, because it\'s both a violation of Lo Sirtzach and counterproductive).  Similarly if they planned to kill leftist activist judges or politicians who take leftist policies to keep themselves out of jail.  If they meant to ambush Mahmoud Abbas and kill him for being the leader of a terrorist group, that would be yet another thing.\nAnd if you want Jews to start fighting for the land, why don\'t you move so you can be the first?\nPersonally, I doubt violence is the best approach; using democratic means to cut away the power base of the corrupt left (the honest left is too small to be a threat) is probably a better approach.");
AddReply(360304,"Low Voter Turnout!","yvonne","cary","11/12/08","Instead of complaining about voting in other countries, it might be better to do something about the issues at home. Now, as for dying for country, there are Americans who have died for other countries. There are American who are still dying in Afghanistan and the ME  and it is not next door to us. There are those  in the U.S. who stood in person before nazis and german soldiers in the concentrationcamps, jews, and non-jews, saving jews. All that has not much to do with Tennessee, where I lived for two decades, and where everyone is interested in saving one more soul for Jesus. Not saying any6thing bad about Tennesseans. They are trying to save us from ourselves and certain death. As a matter of fact, now that I think of it, you sound a lot like a Tennessean. I applaud your love for Israel, Tamar, but did you vote? Or, are you just writing poetry?");
AddReply(360299,"The continuation of the lyrics:","Daniel Pinner","Kfar Tapuach","11/12/08","Out through the back of the Tomb I went running,\nRunning for safety as fast as I could;\nFatima\'s screams echoed all over Nablus:\n\"Yahood kalabna - itbach el yahood\".\n\nOver the mountains of Shomron I ran\nA terrible stitch in my si-i-i-i-ide,\nThen in the distance I saw the Yassamniks,\nAs soon as I saw them I knew I was fried.\n\n\'Cos Fatima had told them I\'d shot her and killed her,\nThe Imam was witness that I\'d chopped off her head.\nThey wouldn\'t believe me when I told them \"She\'s lying --\nLook at her close - you can see she ain\'t dead.\"\n\nThey brought me to trial and charged me with murder,\nFatima in court testifi-i-i-i-i-ied:\n\"He shot me seventeen times in my body,\nThen chopped off my head, and that\'s how I died\".\n\nMy lawyer protested that she must be lying,\nThe Imam - he said - was a perjurer too.\nThe judge said \"I\'m shocked at your racist incitement,\nEach word of the holy Imam must be true.\n\nIslam\'s the religion of peace,\" he declared,\nThe Imam looked up with a gri-i-i-i-in,\nHe took up his cue: \"Itbach el-yahood,\nFi\'l ruch, fi\'l dam nafdiki ya Falastin!\"\n\nThe judge was impressed with Imam\'s words of peace,\nHe said I was guilty and sentenced to life.\nFatima grinned as she walked out the court-room,\nBrandishing pistol and hatchet and knife.\n\nSomething is dreadfully wrong for I see\nA light shining bright in the sky-y-y-y-y,\nThough I am trying to follow proceedings,\nI\'m getting dazzled with light in my eye.\n\nI wake up in bed from this horrible nightmare,\nA nightmare of terrors of not long ago -\nWhen Peres and Olmert and Livni still ruled here,\nBefore they joined Rabin and Yasser below.\n\nBut now in the morning I go back to Shechem,\nThe sun shining bright in the sky-y-y-y-y\nIf now I will see any knife-wielding maiden\nJust one last shot, and Fatima -- good-bye!");
AddReply(360272,"To all who posted","tamaryonah","","11/11/08","I appreacite ALL you comments.  Thanks.  \n\nI still haven\'t seen any of you post some new lyrics.  THAT would be fun.");
AddReply(360269,"Larry","Rachel Singer","isReal","11/11/08","But don\'t you get it? \nWe NEED people like you.  Our brethren who live in Tel Aviv, but don\'t toe the leftist propoganda B.S. line.\nWe need you to show the media that it\'s not just the religious who are against giving away land to our enemies!\n\nCome home Larry.  It\'s a huge mitzvah.\n");
AddReply(360257,"To Tamar","Rachel Singer","isReal","11/11/08","Fishman\'s blog: Jewish Genes.\n\nTalkBack Number 9, Number 9, Number 9.\n\nGreat minds think alike!\n  ;-)\n\nTamar responds:\nI went now to read it.  Ahh, well, it was actually my hubby that said it to me (I had also stated that as well on my program), so you and my husband share the great minds.  Me?  I am just a stupid woman who would turn in my neighbors to the government. (wink)  - Steve is right. Sheesh, Mike.  Where DO you come up with these ideas?");
AddReply(360235,"Tamar, #4, Mike #5","Steve","Fla.","11/11/08","Thanks for writing this piece.  I\'ve been asking this question myself the past few days.  Will it be the Obama presidency that HaShem will use or permit me to make Aliyah?  It\'s not from a lack of desire or from a lack of trying that I am still here.  There is really nothing here other than my place of residence and my small business.  G-d-willing, I can sell it and leave.\n\n#4, have you considered seeking out a reputable Orthodox rabbi who can convert you?  Did you know a convert is every much a Jew as one who is born Jewish; who has a Jewish mother?  \n\nMike, I\'ve got to disagree in part with what you\'ve written.  I cannot accept that Hamas jihadists love our land more than the Jews love our land.  Maybe Hamas loves the land in similar fashion to the Canaanites love for the land.  Only G-d gave the land to the Jews.  He did not give it to the Canaanite savages, ancient or modern.\n\nI can accept that Hamas jihadists have a deep-seated hatred for the Jews, because \'prophet\' taught that the \"believer\" is to kill, convert or subjugate the People of the Book; that is you and me.  \n\nMuhammad taught the Jews are an especially despised and loathsome creature.  Muhammad taught that Allah hates the Jews because we greedy, perverse and disobedient.  Faithful Muslims believe we are so perverse, we corrupted the Torah.  In other words our rabbis altered the words in our Torah.  We substitued Isaac for Ishamael, etc.\n\nAllah, and all good Muslims, hate the Jews.  This is clear if you\'ve read your Qur\'an.  I read my Qur\'an.  I\'ve got three of the best translations.  Hamas jihadists loathe the despised Jew. \n\n\"Fight against such of those to whom, the Scriptures were given as believe in neither Allah nor the Last Day, who do not forbid what Allah and His apostle have forbidden, and do not embrace the true Faith. (Qur\'an 9:29) \n\n\"You will find that the most implacable of men in their enmity to the faithful are the Jews....\" Quran 5:82\n\nHamas terrorists are good Muslims.  They love jihad and martyrdom.  Hamas jihadists constantly remind us, \"Just as the Jews love life, we love death.\"   I prefer Hamas jihadists to Fatah jihadists like Abbas because Hamas jihadists are more open and forthright about their intentions to destroy Israel.  They don\'t cloak their goals in phony notions of a \"two state solution.\"   Like Fatah, they want all of \'Palestine\'.  Unlike Fatah jihadists they are open and frank about their goals.\n\nMuhammad taught the believers to seek martyrdom and paradise.  \n\nAny land that Islam occupied at any time since the foundation of Islam (around 610 CE) is considered an Islamic Waqf (endowment)  until the day of resurrection; it is eternally Muslim.\n\nArticle XI, Hamas charter states:\n\n\"The Islamic Resistance Movement believes that the land of Palestine has been an Islamic Waqf throughout the generations and until the Day of Resurrection, no one can renounce it or part of it, or abandon it or part of it. No Arab country nor the aggregate of all Arab countries, and no Arab King or President nor all of them in the aggregate, have that right, nor has that right any organization or the aggregate of all organizations, be they Palestinian or Arab, because Palestine is an Islamic Waqf throughout all generations and to the Day of Resurrection.\"\n\nThe same holds true for Al-Andalus or parts of the Iberian peninsula once occupied and ruled by Islam.  There is no reconciliation with this ideology.\n\nIf HaShem wants me to immigrate to Israel soon, I am ready to move to Israel.  I will fight for the land of Israel.  If that means opposing my fellow Jews that want to give our land to the enemy, so be it.  We will fight for our land. \n\nI\'m not sure why you would write, \"were a Jew to fight for the Land on your behalf, you would betray him, condemn him, hound him and finally murder him.\"\n\nWhy do you believe Tamar would do this?  What has she written or said that would indicate such a thing?\n\nWe live in an evil time Mike.  No matter where we are living, it will be increasingly difficult.  I see the election of Barack H. Obama as an especially evil portent for America.  There are still some good people here in the US who are willing to fight for our freedoms.   I believe Mr. Obama will attempt to alter things that we take for granted.  Maybe he will seek to curb speech and the right to own firearms.  We\'ll see.\n\nI do not know what the numbers are and given the economic circumstances and constraints Americans might confront, I\'m not sure how successful those who are willing to fight will be.\n\nIt may not be immediate, but I no longer see G-d\'s blessing on this nation as has been the case in the past.\n\nMr. Bush had a unique opportunity to clearly define the Muslim jihadist enemy after the 9/11 Muslim terror atrocities.  Instead he chose to define Israel as the enemy.\n\nG-d will not bless this nation for this betrayal.  Clearly it is good vs. evil.  Israel is not the evil Bush and Rice have made her out to be.  Bush has brought HaShem\'s judgment on this once great nation, as sure as I live.  G-d\'s judgment is coming.  I believe Barack Hussein Obama is part of this judgment.");
AddReply(360223," Yes, Marty Robbins was a favorite","les","Ayr","11/11/08","of mine and listened to his gunfighter ballads many nights while working out in the field on construction equipement many days back.  Love is a much used word for song writers probably the most used word.  But human lust/love is a give and take kind of love whereas the Agape love that Hashem has is the ultimate kind.  What better love than a man give his life for another?  What will he expect to get back in return? nothing. Land is a most treasured possession and when it is the gift of a supreme being , it should have a value of no other equal.  Not road mapped away by foreigners!    In a family when land is handed down from generation to generation it gains value for who added to it -structures walls,or gates.No\'s # 6 and 7 sound to be very smart men in their ideas. I enjoy listening to words of wisdom as offered by Tamar who always motivates us to thought in desire of what we would wish.  I, at times, feel lower than a muslim worshipping Allah when I make a remark of my faith in the Jewish messiah who says His church will remain and the gates of hell will not prevale against it! [from the repremand I recieve]   I am not a \'religious \' person-- as the bible says to be Holy, [for I Am holy] This would be my destiny.  Religion is what man feels his god would expect from him.  The One G-d of Abraham in love by which we speak, has provided everything we need and also--so many of our wants, as well. I almost care as much for the land of Israel as some Jews who aren\'t interested enough to go there to live and enjoy the beauty and the awareness that this land is ecstatic in a feeling of the presence of the Spirit moving in its borders and the people you talk with in its streets!  No other place on earth has this excitement with me.  I have covered most the earth in my 75 years and look to seeing the \'land\' I love again  if only after I die.  It will never pass away nor will its people for this I Know by the promise of my G-d.");
AddReply(360222,"You\'re Very Devoted","Larry","","11/11/08","Kol hakavod indeed. When I read about suppression of the Rabin assassination conference, when I read of young protestors being beaten and arrested in Kikar Rabin down the street from my apt, my faith in Israel is certainly shaken. As I prepare to return, leaving a vulnerable parent to \'helpers\', I wonder if living in Israel is truly worth it. The police protect violent Arabs more than Jews, and most Israeli Jews do seem to accept this situation. I know many Israelis are strong and patriotic, but most of those are silent. I am not ready to go the route of Vienna Mike, but I doubt what I can do to change things. If the ultimate feeling is \'this is my country and I\'ll live in it\' as Pinner, you, and others say, then fine. But the political reality is pretty depressing. One week before returning, I feel today more like Rob than you. Your message sounds like pie in the sky, and I think Ellen is also saying that too. The divisions in Israel are very painful to watch. Very hard. A country without a compass, and those like me who could help give direction will never have a voice - unless we\'re ready to go to prison, be beaten or perhaps worse.");
AddReply(360218,"Hmmmmm","Rachel Singer","isReal","11/11/08","Tamar, I wrote a TB about the Parsha connection on Fishman\'s blog.  Is that where you got the idea from?      ;-)\n\nTamar repsonds:\nNo Rachel, I didn\'t have a  chance.  What was the tilte of the blog you left it on?  Actually I had written this piece days ago, but wanted to finish the song.  I finally decided to post it already and let you all try and take a stab at it and have fun.  :-)");
AddReply(360209,"kol hakavod","ellen","golan heights","11/11/08","Tamar,\nI think it\'s great that you have so much creative energy and optimism at this time.  Come on, finish the song for us!  But remember the last line is \"Fatima good-bye\" (and we send her packing - not the other way around).\n\nI\'m just looking at this weird Jerusalem election that\'s taking place, and the only lyrics I can recall are...\n\n\"I\'d rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy\"\n");
AddReply(360208,"Not great.","sk","USA","11/11/08","On the positive side, I\'m glad you\'re still blogging.  But on the negative, I\'m surprised, Tamar, that you still haven\'t understood Mike\'s position.\n\nThe whole issue of \"love\" is irrelevant, as we are not commanded to love the \"holy\" state of Israel, but Torah, Jewish land, and Jewish people.  The state acts against all three.  Mike believes (and I agree) that the state will not be reformed into either a real Jewish state or a democratic republic.\n\nThis is a rabid dog, and there\'s absolutely nothing you can do about it.  However, if you had love for your fellow Jew, you certainly would not expect him to live with such a dog and get bitten (and die) as well.");
AddReply(360165,"Ancient Holy Land Is LOVED ","","","11/11/08","The Land of the Exodus, The Ark, The Temple and all that is history of the Ancient Holy Land is loved. Israel today however is compared to when the division of the northern tribes and Judah occured, and that we can not love. The only sure thing we can verify is our Love for G-d and all of His creation. Chai has value and to deliberately risk life is not living the Tanakh. Gog and Magog may very well be the battle for Judah and Jerusalem? That in deed is the end of days....");
AddReply(360163,"At the risk of offending...","Ignacio","RI","11/11/08"," At the risk of offending everyone. There are those of us here in the US who would go to Israel and defend it however we are hated because we are \"messianic\". Not all of us believe in converting Jewish people because you have G-d and the Torah we can\'t add anything to that. We all wait for Messiah and pray for that day to come soon as well as you do, but if we come to Israel we will be despised and ,from what I understand, kicked out of the country.\nSo I have to ask, what is the point when we are going to be rejected in the first place.\n\nFor the record I fought in Iraq against our enemies and as broken as I am now, I would gladly do it for Israel.\n\nIgnacio\n\n");
AddReply(360162,"How cute.  In the meantime, the Yassamniks are beating more Jewish...","Mike","Vienna, VA","11/11/08","...children with clubs.  Tell me, Tamar, if you knew that your neighbor was planning to go out to plant a bomb and kill Yassamniks, would you call thne Israeli police?  If your neighbor took his rifle and went out to shoot IDF soldiers from ambush, would you run to the Sabak?  If your neighbor\'s son or daughter were trying on a suicide vest in the backyard, getting ready to go blow up an IDF checkpoint or a chiloni bus in North Tel Aviv, would you run to warn the IDF?  Would you go help the same people who beat you with clubs and give your Land to the Moslems?\n\nYou can talk all you want about your \"love\" for the Land, but Hamas loves the Land.  You do not.  Hamas fights and dies for the Land.  You wave orange ribbons and send children to be arrested on your behalf.  Worse, were a Jew to fight for the Land on your behalf, you would betray him, condemn him, hound him and finally murder him.\n\nOne can readily walk into deadly danger for the woman one loves.  But to do so for a woman who seeks to stab you in the back is not nobility, it is tragedy.  Vienna Mike loves Bizet.  But he has no interest in living out the plot of \"Carmen\".  When the Jews are fighting for the Land, you won\'t need to criticize Vienna Mike for \"pounding a keyboard\" in galut.");
AddReply(360158,"Where will WE go?","Clear-headed","Big City, USA","11/11/08","Beautifully spoken Tamar, as usual!   \n\nYes, the Jewish people have a homeland to return to.  But what about those of us who aren\'t descended from the ancient southern Kingdom of Judah (Yehudah) and who aren\'t today called Jews (Yehudim)?  Maybe we\'re descendants of the northern kingdom of Ephraim whom Hosea prophesied would repent of their idolatry and awaken to their hidden heritage in the last days?  Maybe we’re not but we’re simply grafted into the congregation of Israel through our faith that is known by our obedience to the Torah?  \n\nEither way, those of us who aren’t Jewish have no recognized home to return to.  We love the land.  We love the Jewish people.  And we certainly love the Torah enough that we would rather die than violate it!  \n\nHere are some questions:  I know that that many Jews pray for the return of the “lost” tribes.  How will the Jewish people know who the “lost” tribes are?  How will they decide who meets the qualifications to return to the land?  Isn’t it true that the Tanakh account indicates that the term “Jew” wasn’t ever used to describe Israelite people until long after Israel had been divided into 2 kingdoms and Judah was sent into the Babylonian exile?  The first uses of the word Jew that I can find are recorded in the book of Esther, an account of the Babylonian exile.  Only at the end of the exile was the term “Jew” also implied in the book of Ezra. \n\nSo, then does it follow that no one other than the kingdom of Judah’s descendants are today called Jews?  ");
AddReply(360137,"We love HaKadosh Baruch Hu","Sheindel","Petah Tikva","11/11/08","Tamar, I LOVED reading your blog. Thank you for reminding us  how much we love our Land. Jews, just think about it! We love HaShem who gave us this Land and that is the main reason we love living in Eretz Yisroel, a land like no other in the entire world. ");
AddReply(360101,"Those lyrics r hilarious! I didn\'t think anyone else other that me...","Michael Berg","Petach Tikva","11/11/08","has heard that song in the last twenty years.\n\nAlso, I think people should realize that moving to Israel is easier than ever before. Not just in terms of a shorter voyage. Also, their are so many benefits. If you add them up, they\'re over $20,000 in a few years (especially if you are in university, or your children.) However, of course, no one should come to Israel because of monetary benefits. But, it should make it slightly easier to decide. You should know, Israel will help you to live there more than any other country in the world. And, Israel has a great organization that helps out (Nefesh B\'Nefesh.)");
AddReply(360091,"You don\'t get it Tamar..","Rob","usa","11/11/08","It is much more than greed and corruption that drives our leaders, it is a genuine hatred for the dati leumi. these are the same type that were kapo\'s and judenrats.\n\nI think you need to read the book of kings again. this is how we deal with each other. its not some fairy tale, daven for a miracle, hope for the best, etc.\n\nYou have no right to question our love for you and the Land of Israel.\n\nG-d forbid these rats should allow the importation en- mass, of arabs, and the division of Hashems holy city, not to mention the Jewish blood that has already been spilt.\n\nI would actually love to be there, but I am too stubborn, so there ya go!\n\nG-d bless you and family Tamar :-)");

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