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AddReply(463326,"The Aliya Bullies are at it again.","","Don\'t Ask","07/13/09","On Guard! Take back these Israelis who have made their permanent home in the Galut.Take them if you dare.The Jerusalem Post had a front page picture taken at 3AM,It was a line of Israelis stretching 3 city blocks in front of US embassy in Tel Aviv for applictions to monthly alotment of US tourist visas.While y\'all are begging for the established North American Jew to make Aliya,y\'all seem only to happy to discharge those sabras who are sick &tired of your high taxes,two months of yearly reserve duty& unending beauracracy  etc etc.Since when do you get to choose which kind of Jew you want for \"loving your fellow Jew\"?\nThe opinion of the Jew you dismiss because he speaks from chutz laararz, that same Jews opinion  your will continue to disregard once he has made Aliya.Been there done that.Fool me once shame on you,fool me twice shame on me!!!");
AddReply(459508,"Vienna mike wants to send...","Eric A","Mevaseret Zion","07/03/09","...people to wars and death and prison in Israel, when he sits in the USA and will watch us from CNN dying, he will eat popcorns and will say : \"they are so brave, i am so proud of them, I will order a pizza now to keep watching the players and encourage them!\"\nMike I am not as intelligent as you are, but a famous french said once \"A stupid who walks goes further than an intelectual who sits\".\nYou sit in the Galut and encourage us from very far, we in Israel are the players, we build and are part of a Jewish country even if not perfect.\n\nYou remind me of the Iranian mollahs who were sending Iranian children dying to war, when they were busy getting rich and enjoying life comfortable.");
AddReply(459487,"Let\'s get real","Paul S.","Toronto, Canada","07/03/09","There is an old Jewish joke that \nsays if you ask two Jews one \nquestion you will get three answers.\nWhenever I tell that line to a Jewish\naudience, I always get a laugh (at\nleast a smile).  When I tell that line\nto a Gentile audience I get a quizzical look.  Then I have to \nexplain it and by the time I\'ve got\nit explained the audience has gone\nto sleep.  Oh well.\nPoint being that Fishman harps on\naliyah as being the be-all and end-\nall of existence but is it?  I mean \nfrom Israel\'s point of view, not the\nindividual\'s.  Through Arutz Sheva\nI was introduced to the blog Samson Blinded by Obadiah Shoher (I know, it\'s not his real name.  Apparently his real identity \nis the worst-kept secret in Israel, but I digress).  Shoher describes\nhis analysis as \"Machiavellian\" \nwhich denotes a cynicism of a high\norder.  When it comes to aliyah \n(immigration to Israel), he states \nthat Israelis love aliyah but hate \nolim (new immigrants).  The reason\nis that Israel wants aliyah but not\nfrom anybody and everybody.  \nShe (Israel) does not want folks \nwho can\'t contribute in a meaningful\nway.  She doesn\'t want the elderly,\nshe doesn\'t want the sick, neither\nphysically nor mentally.  She doesn\'t want the dirt poor or the \nunskilled, nor surprisingly the very\nwealthy, because the latter need \ntoo much pampering.  This is Israel, not the French Riviera or \nthe Hamptons on Long Island.  \nIsrael certainly does not want Jews\nin the Diaspora to have their corpses sent to Israel for burial so\nto be closer to the ge\'ula (redemption).  Why?  Because this\ncosts in resources and she needs\nto be able to bury her own dead. \nSo who does Israel want?  Middle-\nclass families with some money\nbut not too much, with children but\nstill young enough to adapt to \nIsraeli life, where the breadwinners\nhave skills that are in demand in \nthe Israeli market (not everyone \npossesses such skills).  Such folks\nshould want to live in outlying areas\nthat need skilled people, not just \nsettle in big cities that are already\nwell-established and more olim \nwould be superfluous in them.  BUT, Israel cannot afford to be choosy.  She cannot turn away \nfolks who are old, poor, unskilled\nor (sigh) political dissidents (too \nlefty, for a start).  What to do?  \nFace reality, for one thing.  Unbridled aliyah sounds good, but\nit needs to be encouraged among \nthose that will help the country \ndevelop and quietly discourage \nthose whose presence would do \nlittle to help.  Who decides?  \nSmart people (not I, nor Fishman)\nwho know who (and what\'s) needed.\nI\'m sure Fishman wouldn\'t want lots\nof N. American secular Jews \ncoming to Israel bringing their \nculture and values with them.  He \nwants Jews who share his values \nand outlook.  Fair enough.  Sometimes quality is more important than quantity.  \nLet me just say this about Shoher.\nHe is the most cynical man I have\never read.  I doff my chapeau to his\ncynicism, which reaches heights I \ncan only hope to aspire to.  That\nbeing said, he recites truths that many fear to speak or write.  He \nshakes us out of our complacency\nand makes us think.  Do I want \neveryone to be like him?  No.  But\nmany could learn something from \nhim.  As for Fishman, I\'ve locked\nhorns with him before, but when he\nhas a point I will be fair enough to \nsay it.  Do we need aliyah?  Yes.\nDo we need \"quality\" aliyah?  Yes.\nShould he (or I) decide on who \ncomes and who doesn\'t?  No.  Let\nthe chips fall where they may.  In\ntime some \"dissidents\" will turn \naround and embrace the land, some\npoor (not all, sadly) will become \nprosperous and some elderly will\ncontribute in ways that are surprising.  Some wayward youth\nwill be forever delinquent and incorrigible, and the corpses from\nchu\"l (the Diaspora, for short) will\ncontinue to unload from the airport\nand the seaports.  We will bury \nthem, and grunt about it, but we\'ll do the right thing.  As David ben \nGurion once said (I\'m paraphrasing)\n\"when we have Jewish criminals\narrested by Jewish policemen, \nbrought before a Jewish magistrate\nand jailed in a jailhouse staffed with\nJewish guards and a Jewish warden, only then will we have a\ncountry\".   In the meantime, let\'s \ntry to get along, shall we?\n");
AddReply(459477,"vienna mike I hope they lock you up and throw away the key","yby","","07/03/09","I have never once sensed an ounce of yiddishkeit from you so I highly doubt you are the product of a Jewish mother and a Jewish father. Talking @@@@ from the galut is easy, doing something is a lot harder. The truth hurts doesnt\' it?");
AddReply(459447,"to #11 Vienna Mike:","dd","","07/03/09","You make some very good points. But, the \"mesiras nefesh\"  of hamas is not true mesiras nefesh. That is something only we Jews have. Their version is based on hatred of us; ours is based on our love of HaShem.");
AddReply(459382,"you are doing great job bringing back jews!","ilana","toronto","07/03/09","");
AddReply(459323,"Vienna Mike sits and complains","Eric A","Mevasseret Zion IL","07/03/09","How dare you criticize people who live in Israel of not loving the Land when you love it so much you sit in your Galut!\nYou are a hypocrite, you only love your USA and being in a Christian land! You don\'t love Israel land otherwise you would move here hypocrite.");
AddReply(459321,"To #8: The truth hurts doesn\'t it?","anonymous","Vienna, VA","07/03/09","Yes, the author of these words is imprisoned by survellance and police investigation and trumped-up charges and, soon enough, he will be imprisoned by walls and guards.  But what does this have to do with the fact that Halacha and true love for the Land both compel each and every true Jew in the Holy Land to drop everything this instant and to go forth to slay Amalek and his allies?  When the Jewish People exercise sovereignty in the Land and the Jewish People are attacked in the Land, it is the individual obligation of every Jew to drop everything and go forth to milchemet mizvah, even the bride from her chuppah and the groom from his wedding chamber!  \n\nSimilarly, according to Sharia, whenever the Umma is attacked within Dar al Islam, it is the obligation of every Moslem to drop everything and go forth to jihad.\n\nTell me, o mushroom, WHO fulfills their obligations?  Where is the Jewish Hamas?  Where are the Jewish suicide bombers?  WHERE?!\n\nI am not ashamed to be a Jew when I see and hear the likes of Netanyahu (y\"sh) and Yariv Oppenheimer(y\"sh).  The yapping erev rav are of no consequence.  Every nation has such animals in its midst.  There is no shame in it.\n\nIt is when I see the pure mesirus nefesh of Hamas and al-Qaeda that I hang my head in shame.  And so should you!  These sons of slaves and worshippers of Satan have the bitachon and emuna to trust in their god and fight even with rusty RPGs against ultramodern fighter jets and tanks, but the Jews, sons of kings and  worshippers of Adonai Tsevaot HaKadosh Baruch Hu, Master and Creator of the Universe and all things known and unknown, wave pathetic orange ribbons and surrender pieces of their Divine heritage!  \n\nBe ashamed!");
AddReply(459307,"get the book \"lights on orot\"","yaakov","","07/03/09","escellent inspiring book translated by Rav samson and tzvi fishman.  ");
AddReply(459220,"puppies in the pound","hanina","","07/02/09","I love how rabbis words get distorted so one Jew uses it to hurt another.\nWe are like puppies in the pound with no real home.\nSome are cute, some too big for their cages, some snarl and some bite.\nOnly the well behaved ones get a ticket out of there.");
AddReply(459187,"hyocrite vienna mike go away","porcini","","07/02/09","you pathetic galut louse");
AddReply(459104,"To #4: Stop shifting the blame, you lying hypocrite!","anonymous","Vienna, VA","07/02/09","How is it that a few hundred thousand Jews in 5708 managed to produce an entity with a Jewish majority even though the Arabs outnumbered them well over three to one, but now the same entity with 6 million Jews is unable to maintain a Jewish majority without begging for impossible mass aliyah from the Diaspora?\n\nIf the Armenian people of Artsakh had your attitude, they would all be dead or sitting in refugee camps in Yerevan right now.  If Yerevan was still Armenian and not Azeri, that is.  And to think that when they fought for the survival of the Armenian People in Nagorno-Karabakh, Israel was their inspiration!  You should be ashamed of yourselves!\n\nIf you people loved the Land, would you tolerate anyone who tries to give it away?  If you thought the Land holy, would you permit it to be taken from you?  Of course not!  \n\nHamas loves the Land as a holy Islamic waqf.  It will NEVER accept even the thought of surrendering a single grain of it to any non-Moslem.  The warriors of Hamas are willing to die, and even send their women and children to die, rather than surrender even a single precious square millimeter of their Holy Waqf.  They kill anyone who even dares to suggest a compromise of any kind, while you quietly acquiesce in \"peace\" processes and \"disengagement\"!  \n\nDo you think that they love their women and children less than you do? Nay!  They love the LAND and HONOR more!\n\nYou are liars and hypocrites.  No honest Jew should have anything to do with you.");
AddReply(459069,"How do you know if you are truly yearning for Israel?","Adam","4 days!!!!","07/02/09","This is my definition:  If knowing that yearning itself has a positive benefit makes you feel better - you\'re not really yearning.  Anyone who really wants to come home to Israel will do so.  ");
AddReply(459039,"Take down my picture Mr. Fishman or I’ll use my Magic Eraser","Mr Clean","Home Pro","07/02/09","");
AddReply(459036,"To Roger, Manchester","Jew","Israel","07/02/09","How can the State of Israel remain a Jewish state if the majority of the world\'s Jews refuse to move here? It may soon (chas v\'chalila) become an Arab state, and the Jews in the Galut will be guilty.");
AddReply(459027,"GOD BLESS AMERICA!","Proud American","Anywhere, USA","07/02/09","America is the GREATEST country in this world, BUD, so stop bad-mouthing it! HAPPY JULY 4TH DAY! ");
AddReply(459024,"Rabbi Kook says it himself.","Roger","Manchester","07/02/09","You don\'t have to live in Israel as long as you identity with what\'s going on there. By and large, I think this is true for the majority of Diaspora Jews.   ");
AddReply(459021,"You have captured it exactly!","RBD","Har Nof","07/02/09","The difference is in being a part of the building of the nation. You feel it here. You live it. It becomes who you are. Not like the private self-centered life in galut.");

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