A Holiday of Resistance

Sultan Knish ^ | Dec 8, 2012 | Daniel Greenfield

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[Pat4ever]

Amazing and very timely reflection! Thank you for sharing the true message of resistance and hope.

[Aevery_Freeman]

Holidays aren't mere parties, they are messages. Knots of time that we tie around the fingers of our lives so that we remember what our ancestors meant us to never forget. That they lived and died for a reason. The party is a celebration, but if we forget what it celebrates, then it becomes a celebration of celebration. A hollow and soulless festival of the self.

...the new slavery of social justice.

Wow, written to Jews but speaks to Christians as well.

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Thank You for this.

I will link it to the “Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem Thread” Today.

Happy Chanukah, My FRiend.

[arasina]

Magnificent. This is the best piece about Chanukah that I’ve ever read. It’s a meaningful and true remembrance of what is being celebrated. Inspiring. Resistance, yes!

[expat1000]

>>Happy Chanukah, My FRiend.

Thank you so much. To you, also, and all FReepers.

[expat1000]

>>Magnificent. This is the best piece about Chanukah that I’ve ever read.

I’ve learned more from Daniel about Judaism than I ever did from the rabbis of my youth.

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There's a reason I asked to be on the ping list for Greenfield's articles.

This one embodies my reason. He's one of the best political and cultural writers and analysts publishing today.

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Happy Chanukah!

Rock of Ages, Let Our Song
Praise Thy Saving Power.
Thou, Amidst the Raging Foes
Wast our Sheltering Tower.
Furious, They Assailed us,
But Thine Arm Availed Us.
And Thy Word Broke Their Sword,
When Our Own Strength Failed Us.





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[GOPJ]

For those liberals who believe that Jewish identity should be limited to donating to help Haiti, agitating for illegal aliens and promoting the environment; Chanukah is a threatening holiday. They have secularized it, dressed it up with teddy bears and toys, trimmed it with the ecology and civil rights of their new faith. Occasionally a Jewish liberal learns the history of it and writes an outraged essay about nationalism and militarism, but mostly they are content to bury it in the same dark cellar that they store the rest of the history of their people and the culture that they left behind.

Holidays aren't mere parties, they are messages. Knots of time that we tie around the fingers of our lives so that we remember what our ancestors meant us to never forget. That they lived and died for a reason. The party is a celebration, but if we forget what it celebrates, then it becomes a celebration of celebration. A hollow and soulless festival of the self. The Maccabees fought because they believed they had something worth fighting for. Not for their possessions, but for their traditions, their families and their G-d. The celebration of Chanukah is not just how we remember them, but how we remember that we are called upon to keep their watch. To take up their banner and carry their sword.

Our liberals do the same with American holidays... "President's Day' - an abomination where we celebrate Jimmah Carter and Slick Willy - is NOT equal to a celebration of Washington's Birthday or Lincoln's greatness. Liberals rob us of our faith, beliefs and courage... for the same slave message Jewish liberals push: 'don't worry - be happy'...

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It takes courage to resist physical oppression -greater to resist cultural oppression-Sultan Knish

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[yldstrk]

It is also a holiday of the one true God, freedom of religion and celebrating the faithfulness of God to His people

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Happy Hannukah
to my FReeper FRiends and their families!

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Thanks, GOPJ; poignant article, and excerpt.

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