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AddReply(380245,"You\'re right, Velvel, you libeled me, you didn\'t slander me.","sk","USA","01/05/09","\"If you can\'t take disagreement or argument, get out of the kitchen, pal.\"\n\nIf I can\'t take disagreement?  You must be joking!  \n\n\"Don\'t cry foul because I pointed out your mistakes.\"\n\nActually, you did not point out \"mistakes.\"  You simply failed to see that I was running several thought experiments and reaching conclusions based on them.\n\n\"I did NOT slander you.\"\n\nI very clearly located the libelous element, which was your assertion that I take my views of R\' Kahane solely from Vienna Mike.\n\n\"Now gather your tears and face facts.\"\n\nYou should face the fact that you failed to see what my point was.  Why, I don\'t know, as I thought I wrote clearly enough.\n\nAs a PS, if I burst into tears every time someone insulted me here I\'d have been out of hankies years ago.  However, when I respect someone, I do try to be at least somewhat polite, even if I have to swat him for some absurdity.");
AddReply(379840,"Did you understand what Kahane told you?","Bible man.","Spain","01/04/09","Please read the book of  Samuel the prophet when Israel rejected their King who was  Hashem and just as the Leftist Marxist jews in Israel and the diaspora  do today   in wanting to be just like the nations around them and adopt the liberalist laws of the nations instead of the Torah and of the prophets they desire men who are in rebbellion with G-d! Head and shoulders above the people  just like Shaul!Like Barak Livni Olmert and many more Traitors as he was to his own people and spared Agag who had ripped up Jewish women and children, in being politically and socialy correct! you must understand that in Shaul\'s warped thinking being a good Jew that he could not kill thisAmalakite leader because he had a better idea than Hashem did!Now they voted for what they deserved!");
AddReply(378683,"sk, I did not insult you.","Velvel","silver spring","01/02/09","If you can\'t take disagreement or argument, get out of the kitchen, pal.   Don\'t cry foul because I pointed out your mistakes.   I did NOT slander you.    I deal with the content in your posts.   Now gather your tears and face facts.");
AddReply(376941,"To Rob","sk","USA","12/30/08","Robdude, I certainly didn\'t take your gentlemanly TB as an insult.  Beloved Velvel, however, should be ashamed.  He\'s become quite bitchy lately.  Don\'t know why.\n\nI am honored that I could help advance the Medinat Yehuda idea through my advocacy.  If I could help Medinat Israel understand the merit of \"two states for two people\" (to use Mike\'s delightful catchphrase), I think I might be of benefit.");
AddReply(376483,"Dear Sk","Rob","sierra leone/us","12/30/08","I did not intend to insult you bro. I know now that medinat yehuda makes sense, and you are the proof. \n\nIf it was just religious zealots calling for it, I would be suspicious, but you support this idea and have given reasonable arguments in supportas well.\n\nI believe you could really make a difference in the holy land. I expect to see you there someday soon.\n");
AddReply(376253,"To my critics:  beloved Velvel, Rob, Steve, & Smadar.","sk","USA","12/29/08","Velvel, you are now slandering me.  I do not rely only on Mike\'s claims.  I very clearly said that I read _Revolution or Referendum?_, and I have read parts of some of his other books.  I suggest that you review Smadar\'s TB as a model of polite but vigorous disagreement.\n\nTo all:  you make a good point regarding R\' Kahane\'s attitude toward aliyah.  My purpose, though, was, for once, to read R\' Kahane as if he were not a rabbi.  Now, I grant that this reading deliberately omits a key dimension.  And yet, your own reading (and Tamar\'s) omits the scientific dimension entirely.  As the rabbi dimension is the only one that is ever discussed here (except for Mike), my point was, for once, to highlight it.  I ran a \"thought experiment,\" in other words, in response to Tamar\'s personal comments about R\' Kahane.\n\nIn my experience, the typical \"Kahanist\" blogger treats aliyah as a magic wand.  It gives an answer to what ails Israel, and it makes olim feel good.  So, what I did was specify a couple of equations (which the web site made illegible by removing the \"pluses\" between terms in my (23)) to clarify the argument.\n\nIt seems that this clarification had some value, as none of you have asserted that a level of aliyah could be created that would actually restructure the Israeli political system.\n\nI therefore return to R\' Kahane and wonder, not whether he supported aliyah, but whether his emphasis on it would have remained nearly as high today as it was 30 years ago.  This, too, is a thought experiment.  I include other priorities that I expect he would have had (e.g., his possible concern at Jewish annihilation in Israel; the failure of various efforts at reform; the pogrom at GK).\n\nLet me be clear:  if R\' Kahane would have the same emphasis on aliyah today that he had 30 years ago, I would conclude that his science was in hopeless conflict with his Judaism.  If, however, I insist that there was no such conflict, I would have go believe that aliyah would have receded in importance for him.");
AddReply(375316,"Accept Apology","Barbara Ginsberg","Israel","12/28/08","Dear Tamar,\n\nThank you for writing to me with the  explanation of  how you received the \"Down With Chanukah\" article.\n\nPlease except my apology for the Matter of Ethics comment ");
AddReply(375121,"Shalom Tamar:","American","CHELM","12/27/08","As I have been swamped in Re-building bomb shelters in the far north, I avoid all the blogs except yours when I get to a PC. Yours is not repeatative boring.\n\nI might \'read\' this article wrong but I get the idea to fight for the Jewish observation of G-D.\n\nIn the north, they want the shelter because they know that no matter who is leading this country, they are going to NEED them.  And guns.\n\nWhere I hang out when I need a break, further south, they don\'t care.  The village told me they would get around to pumping out the water.  Guns? Forget it.  They also are not interested in even protesting against the govt. give-aways.  They will be over-run by Arabs or the govt. before they will fight for their lives or Jewish observation of G-D.\n\nI\'m taking my jewish tuk--s back to the US, watch non-religious movies, drink better wine, attend a few Shabbats with various forms of observance and swim and boat a lot.\nWithout looking for a gun since mine are close by.  SHALOM Y\'all !!\nfor a short time.\n\n");
AddReply(375058,"Sk, I somewhat agree with Steve\'s # 24","Rob","sierra leone/usa","12/26/08","Sometimes you need to ignore the tangeble and wing it on faith buddy.\n\nI believe you could make a big difference in Israel, in fact I am certain of it!\n\nPack your bags Bro, :-D");
AddReply(375021,"Pray for these","Melinda Lehan","Smalltown,U.S.","12/26/08","An elderly man slammed his car into a building of kids and their families celebrating Chanukah in Long Island I believe a bunch of them were injured at least 4-6 kids in hospital. Pray for them. I read it online this morning");
AddReply(374993,"There is an appointed time for everything.","Steve","","12/26/08","There is an appointed time for everything. And there is a time for every event under heaven-- \n\nA time to give birth and a time to die; A time to plant and a time to uproot what is planted. \n\nA time to kill and a time to heal; A time to tear down and a time to build up. \n\nA time to weep and a time to laugh; A time to mourn and a time to dance.....\n");
AddReply(374970,"sadly almost all voices of dissent here are partially correct ","yby","","12/26/08","while everyone fails to see the truths of one side or the other. And this has to do with the unity and the undoing of the galut disease which thrives in chutz as well as home, for which there is no remedy other than the Torah and a move to some sort of national concensus on the mitzvot-both individual and national. ");
AddReply(374956,"Response to # 18 Barbara Ginsberg","tamaryonah","","12/26/08","Shalom Barbara,\nI apologize.  I received this from a friend of mine, and I remembered this piece the Rav Kahane wrote many years ago, and decided to re-post it here where many people could read it. I of course gave credit to the author, Rav Kahane.  \n\nPlease understand that I get about 200 emails a day and I have to zip through them quickly. I didn\'t really notice who typed it or that I was supposed to give credit to the typist.  However I am happy to credit you.  A big Kol HaKavod to Barbara Ginsberg!  I also didn\'t know you had an email list or blog either.  Please feel free to post it so we can all know about it.  \nChanukah Sameach! ");
AddReply(374944,"Tear it down and start over","Robert","Indianapolis","12/26/08","Don\'t you wish you could take a giant bulldozer and clean off the Temple and rebuild it the way it is in Ezekial 40 ?. and come back to the rich, and beautiful traditions, and worship ,and customs of Israels splendor? Believe me ,You will !Bless the Holy G-d of Israel , and Happy Chanukah. I do like the eight gift part though?");
AddReply(374904,"#14 Larry in TA   I appreciated ","satch","UK","12/26/08","your sincerety and wisdom and I hope that truly something will unite the different factions of the Jews into one purpose of mind before moshiach returns.  He just might start banging some heads together while his wrath is destroying your enemies!  History tells that some men in particular were chosen to be warriers.  Not all men are the same but we should utilize the gift that our creator gave Us as individuals to the best of our abilities.   hang strong\'");
AddReply(374888,"To sk","Smadar","Tel Aviv","12/25/08","Dear sk,\nyour scientific approach, \"not based in religion at all\"  excludes an entire dimension and may lead you to misinterpretation.\nR\' Kahane was first and foremost a Rabbi, asides from being a serious academic. A major reason for promoting Aliyah was for him the concept that it is a mitzvah, a religious duty for every Jew to live in Eretz Israel and also an inseparable part of the destiny of the Jewish people, with the long range aim of creating a society based on Torah law.This appears repeatedly throughout his various books (The Jewish Idea, Never Again, Time to Go Home etc.)\nThat, and not the attempt to create statistically significant causes of political change or theoretical models was the real background of his pro-Aliyah stance. There is nothing to be revised about that.\n(And by this there is also no way to excuse oneself from making Aliyah, which is why I picked myself up and came here)\n");
AddReply(374851,"SK # 15: Sorry, you are wrong.  ","Steve","","12/25/08","You wrote: \"As a political scientist, I assure you that aliyah is not a statistically significant cause of change in Israel\'s basic political structure. I cannot believe he would be foolish enough not to have seen this.\"\n\nI am still here in Galut, so I am no different or better than you or Mike.  Only for me, as soon as I am able, I am out of here on my way to Israel to fight battle for our land and for our people!\n\nHow about you and Mike?   Are you with me?\n\nMore importantly and to your central point, Aliyah is not a matter of science.  It is a matter of faith.  Do you any?  I have a scientific background in agriculture; horticulture, botany, etc., from Florida State University and the University of Florida; Gainesville.  I\'ve been in this horticulture business / industry some thirty years now.  \n\nI am even older than Tamar.\n\nMy science background does not have anything to do with faith in God or HaShem and His covenant with our people.\n\nIf you want to be a scientist, fine.  If you want to follow HaShem, come with me.\n");
AddReply(374834,"To Leah (16)","sk","USA","12/25/08","First, read my (15) carefully.\n\nThen, please indictate the extent of the increase in X1 in the following equation that would topple the existing Bolshevik political system of Israel.\n\n(1)  Toppling = B0   B1X1   u\n\nNow, please solve the following:\n\n(2) X1 = B2X2   B3X3   BjXj   e\n\nsuch that X1 can be lifted to the value necessary to create the toppling.");
AddReply(374823,"sk, Rav Kahane had a degree in political science but was also a rabbi","Velvel","silver spring","12/25/08","Your comments are almost ludicrous.   Rabbi Kahane didn\'t exist in a vacuum or some type of intellectual bubble.   He wasn\'t just \"scholarly\" but he was also ethical and moral, the obligation on any Jew, and certainly a  rabbi.   When he urged Jews to make aliyah, it wasn\'t necessarily because he believed even that \"statistically significant\" numbers of Jews would listen to him (I\'m sure he knew full well by some point that in reality most would probably ignore him - in fact, this is implied that he was consciously aware of this by the way he spoke/wrote!  If you can\'t see that, pay closer attention, or read more works than just what mike vienna cites on his webpage).    And it wasn\'t necessarily that because of the #\'s who would listen to him, the overall affect of aliyah would be statistically significant to change the political system or the power structures in place in Israel.   But statistical significance is not the extent to which a rabbi (however learned in political science and law, like R\' Kahane was) lives for.    We believe in moral behavior and the positive spiritual affects of moral behavior.  There is no way around this.   Sk, you cannot \'reread\' Kahane into a secular greek philosopher\'s box.  He was a moral, authentic Jewish rabbi.   And at the end of the day, every Jew that makes aliyah and does the right thing, does indeed count.   And every child they have, mitzvah they do, etc etc.  Rabbi Kahane was in the business of telling people to do the right thing, whether popular or not, whether scientifically proven or not.   \n\n But for a person to think \'mass aliyah\' is going to suddenly appear out of the forrest and save their political quandary in Israel, is downright delusional.    It would be an insult to Rabbi Kahane (and a misunderstanding of the history) to assume he thought that that would happen.   Whether it\'s by you or his hopeful religious followers at A7.   It is by now plain as day that there is not a mass aliyah on its way, and that aliyah doesn\'t have much impact on the political problems which must be dealt with.      \n\nStill, it would be wise for the datim to develop a kiruv movement in the states similar to the haredi model, only to preach true Jewish religious nationalism (coupled with aliyah) as opposed to the haredi kiruv which stresses galuth Judaism as practiced and lived in galuth (with aliyah \"optional\" and Jewish nationalism downplayed and stifled).   But even while doing this, it should not be believed that this in itself is sufficient and nothing else needs to be done.   It is not a panacea, but still the more Jews that go to Israel, the better.    It seems those you criticize are the one extreme that think its a panacea, while you are the opposite extreme, where you have no concept of the value of the mitzvah or any concept of incremental contribution to a greater cause other than instantaneous tangible results.  And you actually discourage aliyah.  Between their complacency and your discouraging mitzvoth, I would say I\'m not sure which is worse, but it is quite apparent which is worse unless I\'m missing something.");
AddReply(374816,"Larry stop your slander.","Velvel","silver spring","12/25/08","Larry how many times have we been through this?   Again and again I have to request to you to cease slandering me.   As a real JEW, I know that your lashon hara is a real sin.   A really serious, real sin.     Of course \"your zionism\" doesn\'t recognize sinful vs. moral behavior.   Because zionism is not a theology.   It\'s a piece of Judaism hijacked and separated from morality and the rest of the Torah.    At least that\'s what you call \"zionism.\"   And then you have the audacity to call ME a \'fake zionist\' or whatever other ignorant terms you cook up.   \n\nAnd you also have a habit of lashing out against the religious posters here, that they shouldn\'t be so harsh on people who forsake the Torah and Hashem.    It is the irony of ironies that in your \"oversensitivity,\" you don\'t bother to even consider that you have consistently slandered me for about a year on this website.  Because you are nonreligious that gives you a right to behave like an animal towards a religious guy like me?   H Y P O C R I T E.");
AddReply(374807,"Sorry, Tamar, you do not get off so easily","Mike","Vienna, VA","12/25/08","Last I checked, the pen is mightier than the sword?  Or have you forgoten?\n\nJose Marti participated in exactly ONE battle.  Yet his death in that battle was an incalculable loss to the Cubans.  Luckily for them, Marti died, but his words lived on.\n\nYou do not need to die, nor even get arrested.  But you MUST speak.");
AddReply(374775,"Down with Chanuka","Dan Klein","walla Walla, WA USA","12/25/08","Bah! Humug.");
AddReply(374773,"A Matter of Ethics"," Barbara Ginsberg","Maale Adumim","12/25/08","Wonderful article by Rabbi Kahane that I typed and distributed vai email , plus posted on my blog.  I would appreciate if you would not be taking the credit for what I did.   \nBarbara Ginsberg");
AddReply(374769,"The Rav Kahane I knew, in his own words","Mike","Vienna, VA","12/25/08","\"...Once again, before it is too late, let us cease our impotent efforts at self-delusion, our avoidance of the terribly difficult, terrible reality\n\nIt cannot continue. The process by which a magnificent-Divine!-dream of 1900 years is turned, daily into a growing nightmare, cannot continue. For if we persist in this way the Jewish State faces the horror of horrors-awesome national tragedy. It cannot continue, and it will not, and the only question is: Will the process of disintegration and collapse be prevented by unthinkable revolution or by national referendum? \"\n\nAnd while we are at it, let\'s quote the Martyr Rebbe\'s heroic son:\n\n\"...My suggestion is as follows: Based upon the facts that I have outlined above, all the settlements on the mountain-ridge running north-south along the length of Judea and Samaria must conjoin with each other, forming a united leadership. This will immediately broadcast an unequivocal message to the IDF: “Just as you abandoned the Tomb of Joseph in Shechem - so, too, please abandon us. Abandon the entire mountain range whereon we live”. This must be stated politely, calmly and rationally. “Clearly, you do not want to be here. You obviously do not understand what you are doing here. You have no overall aims whatsoever, beyond the idiotic aim of ‘enforcing order’. There is no purpose at all, under these circumstances, in forcing you to remain here. We who live here are ready and willing to take full responsibility for this area upon ourselves. Just allow us this responsibility. As we all know, the government fully intended in any event to abandon virtually all this region to the Arabs, if only Arafat would have deigned to agree to their designs. So please, hand over this land to us. By the grace of God, here in these mountains we have wonderful youth and highly-trained military personnel whose morale is high; they will gladly accept this responsibility upon themselves. Ultimately they will take to their duties enthusiastically and, what is more important, with the faith in the God Who gave us this land. Just leave us the arms (and even if not, we will nevertheless succeed…), and HaShem will be our strength”....\"\n\nTamar, and all the rest, do not have a leg to stand on.  I have no need to repeat the truth to all of you yet again.  None are so blind as those who WILL NOT see.  For those readers who are new to the argument, here is a summary of the origins of the Medinat Yehudah movement:\n\nhttp://virtualjudah.wordpress.com/whose-idea-was-it-anyway/");
AddReply(374601,"for \"Vienna Mike\"","Leah","Maaleh Adumim","12/25/08","I think that if Rabbi Kahane were alive today, he would be shocked by the continuous rants of \"Vienna Mike\" telling Jews to go to war against other Jews.  the situtation at the time of the Hasmoneans was completely different than today.  at that time Eretz Yisrael was completely subjugated to the Greek empire.  despite our imagined dependence on the US today, the situation today is *nothing* like it was then.  the US cannot make rulings preventing us from observing mizvot such as Shabbat, kashrut, or brit-milah, or forcing us to worship idols, as the Greeks did.\n\nI agree with Tamar, if Rabbi Kahane were alive today, he would be telling \"Vienna Mike\" and other Jews in galut to make aliyah and then change Israel from within - by *voting*!!!!  and not by warring against other Jews.\n\nwhile there is a small and vocal minority of extreme leftists in Israel, who are like the Hellenists, and who are in control of the media and courts - and they use this to blackmail even rightwing leaders to carry out their agenda - most of the people in Israel are not like that, they are faithful to Israel and they are \"traditional\" in observance of mitzvot (even though they call themselves \"secular\").  but this \"silent majority\" of Israelis are misled by the \"mainstream\" media which is extreme leftist and destroys our morale to defend ourselves.\n\na large influx of nationalist Jews, especially shomrei-mitzvot, could change this.  but of course it is easier to sit in Vienna VA and other comfy places in the US and complain about the Jews in Israel.");
AddReply(374583,"Tamar, sis, I think you err regarding Mike & Kahane.","sk","USA","12/25/08","(BTW, one of my TBs was not posted.  I blame Fishy.)\n\nBut on to my point in this TB.  You will notice that almost the only rabbi that I actually refer respectfully to with the R\' is R\' Kahane.  There is a reason, and it has nothing to do with his title.\n\nI have never personally seen or spoken to R\' Kahane.  But I have read _Revolution or Referendum?_, and I am a trained political scientist.  So my take on him is not based in religion at all, but in science.\n\nYou seem to think of him as an activist rabbi; I think of him as a political scientist of real stature.  This means that I expect that he revised his theoretical models in light of evidence.  In other words, just as Mike has persuaded me with his general theoretical orientation (if not every specific), I also strongly suspect that R\' Kahane persuaded himself based on the same evidence.\n\nAs a political scientist, I assure you that aliyah is not a statistically significant cause of change in Israel\'s basic political structure.  I cannot believe he would be foolish enough not to have seen this.\n\nIncidentally, one reason I have no interest in reading any biographies of him written by family members is that I treat him as a serious academic.");
AddReply(374582,"Mike/Tamar & Suspended Zionism","Larry","TA","12/25/08","Mike, you have shown your hatred for the Jewish people clearly. I have read some of Kahane\'s works. Once I condemned him out of ignorance (I know, you will call me an \'ignorant Hellenist fool\' but that is okay); now I agree with much of what he said and wrote. Tamar is right - totally right. Kahane was a Zionist. True, his vision of Eretz Yisrael, or the state that would sit on its land, was very different than the vision of Peres, Olmert, Netanyahu or Liberman. But I ask, what exactly is the spirit of the Maccabees? I was a little bothered by Tamar\'s piece with the severed head: it reminded me of Arabia. I have long thought that what made us different was that we had a unique vision, a desire for Tikun Olam, Or Lagoyim, and that Zionists, religious or not, believed in this mission. They believe that we are, on the one hand, a people that dwells apart. Or perhaps we are a people to be dwelt apart, because it is as clear to me as to Kahane that we don\'t belong in the Golah. We don\'t belong and we don\'t \'belong.\' \n\nI\'m speaking of the group, realizing that individuals\' lives take their own courses and that many reasons may make someone spend much or all of his life in Golah. I\'m talking about the Jewish people, as a people. When I read you or Velvel, sometimes SK, I get this strange feeling. It is not a Neturei Karta feeling, but something both better and worse simultaneously. I would call this philosophy of yours Suspended Zionism. It hangs over the earth, extremely embittered and without hope really, convinced that as bad as the Gentiles might treat us, there is nothing worse than being ruled by \'evil Jews.\' \n\nOr perhaps it is just as AB Yehoshua wrote, and I quoted him a few times, that Jews just prefer to live among Gentiles until it becomes impossible. Large numbers of Jews prefer the company/hospitality of non-Jews because it actually feels psychologically safer than living in proximity to and conflict with fellow Jews.\n\nI think he is right about that. Zionists, particularly religious Zionists, usually react the way a knee reacts when the reflex hammer taps it on hearing this theory, but I think Yehoshau is dead-on.\n\nYour Zionism, Velvel\'s Zionism is Hobby Zionism. I practiced it too, not out of will, after I returned to the US from Israel some years back. First I distanced myself, immersed myself in other things, then was drawn back during the Intifada, then was repelled by the governments\' failure to stop the slaughter of Israelis. I spent and wasted lots of energy on thughts, articles, posts, conversations, letters. In the end all that sort of washed through me...\n\nWhat amazes me with people is that everybody always has the truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth. I find myself somewhere between Likud and Marzel; yet I still have hope for some reunion and reconciliation of Israeli Jews, who will after decide Israel\'s political course - unless all power is given away to others by default. I don\'t believe in civil war as a positive value, and I think a lot of the yearning of religious right-wingers for the Torah-Haredi-Maccabean or whatever past is part nostalgia, part grief and anger over all our suffering, part genuine belief. I believe that more Torah needs to be part of Israel, more true Jewish values. Yet I recoil at times from the POV that you and some of your Eretz Yisrael based enemies claim as to what are \'Jewish values.\'\n\nYou guys \'know\' what they are, just as my former pals from Mapan \'knew\' what they were. And believe me, they did frame their politics in Jewish terms. And Kibbutzniks DO believe that day to day socialism is authentic Judaism, as the ultimate expression of Jews living with Jews, day to day, furrow by furrow. So in the end Liad, Meira or Rachel will \'define\' Jewish values for me, a softie in their eyes, just as friends from Gan Shmuel, Maabarot, Evron or Shomrat would do - for them. \n\nThe religious assume that only rabbis can define this for us. So fine, let\'s get all the top rabbis together and convene a national conference. But you won\'t be in it, and the secular Jews won\'t be invited; and so on. I was in Jerusalem in April, great time all through the city, walked the length and breadth of it. On the way back up Jaffa Road a haredi guy was on his cellphone with his mother, talking Hebrew. She was pestering him about something or other, he didn\'t want to talk, and he said clearly: \"Ima, I can\'t talk about this now, I am in a place of goyim.\" He was surrounded by Jews, maybe one Arab over there and a Christian tourist over there, but mostly by Jews, many of them Orthodox. We were goyim to him. It is this expression of \'Jewish values\' that keeps me away from Marzel - a \'leftist\' in your book - and some others. Because their form of ethics and religion involves rigorous classification and labeling, and in that I don\'t have a chance. People like me don\'t count. People who have done a whole lot more than me, but live in \'Hellenistic\' places and don\'t fit the label. Take Ike Aranne, the old guy in Zichron who was the captain of the Exodus and was interviewed in J Post. Ike Aranne, risked his life for love of his people and pride and desire to build the homeland, apparently a goy. So as for me, I will consider every Jew a Jew as long as I am around, and push down my own labeling on my good days, and work for a better government, and pray for the bitter and dislocated souls who could come home and won\'t. And for those who don\'t consider Eretz Yisrael home, I won\'t mourn much, though I\'ll hope they will change their minds.");
AddReply(374579,"Mike, forgive me, but I am old","tamaryonah","","12/25/08","I physically can\'t do what I did when I was younger and was more active. I knew Rabbi Kahane, worked with him and went to demonstrations with him.  I even went to jail with Rabbi Kahane after Yamit, but that was more than twentyfive years ago.  I am almost 50 years old  and I just don\'t have the ability to what I used to do.\n\nAs for what you wrote: \"The Martyr Rabbi DIED for Medinat Yehudah. \" He actually died going to the states to tell people like you to make aliyah to the State of Israel.  Rav Kahane recognized the State of Israel, served in it\'s Knesset and wanted to steer it towards a true Jewish path.  He wanted you to come here so you could fulfill the mitzvah of living here and make it better as well.  \n\nWe\'ve had better and worse governments here.  It just depends who is  in power, and you have that power to come here and help change things by being involved.\n\n\nI don\'t think you will take heed to my words, you are kind of like a broken record, not wiling to come and check things out, just repeating your hatred for Israel. You may even write back something very nasty to me, (sigh) \nbut I am older than you,  i knew Rav Kahane personally, we would talk very honestly and I know he would want you here, for better or worse.  He would never condone anyone telling Jews not to come home and make aliyah. ");
AddReply(374552,"You laud Kahane, yet you do not heed his call for freedom!","Mike","Vienna, VA","12/24/08","The last speech he ever gave was in front of the provisional banner of Medinat Yehudah.  The Martyr Rabbi DIED for Medinat Yehudah.  His son died for Medinat Yehudah!\n\nYet you insult his legacy by supporting the Israeli State that murdered him!");
AddReply(374523,"If you fight for it, it\'s real. If you do not fight for it, it isn\'t.","Eric","USA","12/24/08","");
AddReply(374519,"Feiglin has the most realistic method.","Michael","Galut","12/24/08","Unfortunately, many people in Israel already missed the chance to join Likud and vote for Feiglin, Shmuel Sacket, and for others who they might have thought would have been better members of the Knesset that Netanyahu and those similar to him.");
AddReply(374499,"Too many pagan and worldly","satch","UK","12/24/08","\'things\' are jammed into December conflicting with each other.  The Jew that the western world look to that was mentioned in Micah 5:2 mention Bethelem Ephratah where he will be born. He actually was born near the last of September or the first of October, so why isn\'t his birth acknowledged then?  A supernatural birth, indeed which not many virgins have the opportunity to give birth without a man\'s assistance.  Isaiah 7:14 calls his name \"Immanuel\" meaning \'God with us\' And in Isaiah9:1-2 and 6-7 says that judgement and justice by the L-RD of hosts will perform all this!\nWill the Mexicans/Muslims flood America and the Arab Islam hords take over Israel before this happens?");
AddReply(374494,"Reading can be enlightening to","les","Ayr","12/24/08","see what standards are revelant to reveal a life or lifestyle.  Everyone, tho some won\'t admit:  has some sort of belief. A gambler will shake the dice he rattles in his hand and blow on them to try and produce a result of numbers that show when they stop rolling,[he believes he can change them] or an Eskimo will carve a tree into images of birds and animal heads he calls a \'totem pole\' [to talk and pray to] whereas civilized and educated men hold confidence in candle sticks containing oil or wax candles that only last for a given time, then burn out. At this time of year others decorate a specific type and size of Spruce [generally], a tree that is laden with tensil and colored lights and decorations  with contraversal meanings as to why?  It also withers and dies after a couple weeks.[unless it\'s an imitation]   As long as the menorah or the tree aren\'t an object of worship: which is forbiden by G-d. Humans are subject to get fixations on things or objects.  G-d says they look to creation\'s more than the Creator.  Men hold  men in high esteem and yet belittle others.  G-d is the ultimate judge in mans words  and deeds. If the Word of G-d is rejected what has man to look to?  History is an example of past mistakes--but we make them over and over.  HaShem is forgiving !... but for how long.  Sin is punished to the third and fourth generations of man but he is still accountable for each and every one.  May we all decide what things are best served to be correct in our thinking in conformaty to G-ds will.  We are accountable for \'idle\' words-- and to look upon another with lust in our heart is equal to rape!  How can we be too careful not to offend the creator who formed us and who will judge us one day.? While the clay can\'t control the potter  we certainly can\'t change the destiny of time and space or the outcome of our existance unless we are in subjection to Him. We were created to praise and glorify Him--and to populate the world.  May we stay \'fixed\' on Him and the messiah who will shame some, praise some, and destroy others at his revealing himself in the near future.  Be ready!");
AddReply(374487,"great article!","Leah","Maaleh Adumim","12/24/08","Rabbi Kahane really told it like it is!\n\nI agree with #6, you should show it to American Reform Jews without telling them who wrote it.  the liberals see the name \"Kahane\" and don\'t even bother to hear the important things that Rabbi Kahane said and wrote!");
AddReply(374462,"Try sending this article out to reform Jews WITHOUT the author\'s name","Jeff","Jerusalem","12/24/08","As soon as people see the name Meir Kahane, their liberal \"open\" minds close tightly shut.  Send it out without the byline so that our people can know what we are truly celebrating.");
AddReply(374403,"Excellent","Irwin Ruff","USA","12/24/08","Excellent piece. Thanks for publishing it in your blog as well as on the air. Do you think you could have it written out in nice calligraphy and sent to Barak?");
AddReply(374383,"We need to take this seriously ba\'aretz as well!","CDG","Yerushalayim","12/24/08","If we in Israel don\'t take the lead, who will? Mike from Vienna? I don\'t think so. Why should we sit back and let our leadership (should be \"follower-ship\") act as though they take orders from chu\"l? If it weren\'t for HaShem\'s more recent victories in our day, there wouldn\'t be so many people insisting on keeping Judaism here; not only that, we wouldn\'t have challah, kosher food of any kind, succot, or candles to light! No Shabbat and Chagim. No calendar, no land, no nothin\'!\n\nSoon, the follower-ship will be celebrating \"Sylvester\"...whose holiday is that?\n\nWhat are we waiting for? Nuremberg II? Antiochus II? Chas v\'chalillah!!!");
AddReply(374359,"One of Rav Kahane\'s ztvk\"l greatest pieces!","yby","","12/24/08","And every Jew should take it to heart especially in the galut.");
AddReply(374356,"George \"Antiochus\" Bush bans Shechitah","Dan","Jerusalem","12/24/08","Let\'s call a spade a spade.\n\nThe raid on the agriprocessors was an effort to shut down shechitah.\nEvery plant in the US employs illegal aliens, what a coincidence, they just raided the kosher slaughterhouse.\n\nThis is an anti-Jewish decree like that of the Greeks. Soon they will also ban studying the Torah because it is not tolerant, it goes against multiculturalism, discriminates against women, etc.");
AddReply(374353,"Kahane","Roger Rubin","Manchester UK","12/24/08","Thanks Tamar, for publicising this article here and on air! I think of it as one of the Rav\'s best, as it really cuts into the issue as tov who we are and what we are trying to do. This is example of true Jewish pride, rich militant action to do what has to be done whether against external or internal enemies.Yet we have turned it into a fairy tale Jewish version of Xmas! I would love to see our so called leaders respond to this article!! No chance of that.....keep up grat work - I love your station!!");

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