Posted on 04/19/2002 4:57:04 PM PDT by anotherview
The author of this article is nuts!
I assume that you are speaking of the Pharisees, and the High Priest who persecuted the early Christians. However, you must remember that the earliest Christians were all Jews themselves, and the Christian movement was seen as a renegade segment.
I assume that you are speaking of the Pharisees, and the High Priest who persecuted the early Christians.
Yes.
However, you must remember that the earliest Christians were all Jews themselves, and the Christian movement was seen as a renegade segment.
They weren't all Jews, though most were in the beginning. But while the Religious Jews were persecuting Christianity it was rapidly spreading to the gentile population.
Let's see . . . uh . . . The Imperial valley of California comes to mind.
. . . The Central valley of California
. . . the entire Mid-West
. . . Much of New England
. . . much of the South-East
. . . 5% of Nevada . . .IDEA!!!!!
ALL ISRAELI'S . . . ATTENTION!!! . . . PLEASE COME SETTLE THE OTHER 95% OF NEVADA
AND MAKE IT BLOOM TOO.
PLEASE!!!
False. Thousands of documents have been published. The Vatican has opened more of its archives from this period than many other governments.
FIghter: Rabbi Waldman is a pompous, bigot who would rather pronounce a sweeping indictment of millions of Christians
Millions of Christians have not participated in the Crusades. The anti-Jewish edicts are well documented: they started right in the IV century.
Your statement, therefore, is false and name-calling unfounded.
through lies and distortions Which?
that ironically would make Dr. Goebbels proud. Pretty low on the part of an F16Fighter --- if you are indeed one.
You take one statement of one Rabbi, which indeed may contain errors, and equate it with the person who spent his life, 24-7, fine-tuning the Nazi propaganda machine.
I doubt very much you would compare Falwell to Hitler if you found that Falwell misspoke on something. I am sure that if a non-Christian made such a comparison, you would feel offended. Why do you do onto others that which you would not want to be done onto yourself?
It is interesting to observe also how much fervor this letter elicited on this thread: this is just one Rabbi, not even prominent, who happens to have written a letter to our president. You know ---- just like a lot of schoolchildren do. Even if you disagree with some words he said -- what's the big deal? Why not to leave it at what it is: that you think this Rabbi is wrong? When writing this letter, he does not represent even those 20 people he may have in his congregation; most certainly he is not speaking for the Jews as a people or Israel as a state.
I am sorry you hang out with terrible people who led you to believe such a terrible thing. In the rest of the world, people do extend and receive gifts and help.
Israel has negotiable issues with the Palestinians while the US has none with the Afghan people.or
Israel has no negotiable issues with the known terrorists just like the US has none with Osama bin Laden.THat is, put people and people in both places, or persons and persons.
I know you did not have such intentions at all, but this confounding is precisely what the Palestinian propaganda tries to sell. By making the ever so slight substitutions of entities involved and criteria for comparison, to make our war look different from that of the Israelis. Again, this coincidence appears to be coincidental; I do not mean to say that such was your intention.
I liked also your point about blurred lines between civilians and terrorists. Not only the nature of terrorism makes the line blurred, but specific actions of the Palestinians. Specifically, we hear a lot about Israelis blocking ambulances and hindering their immediate access to the wounded. What we do not hear from the press is that the Palestinians have used, several times, ambulances for ambush. If this happened in New Yourk, our National GUard would be doing the same thing at checkpoints as the Israelis do.
Similarly, some suicide --- homicide is indeed better --- bombers have dresseed themselves as Orthodox Jews. I heard (but could not verify) of the cases where they have used attire of Christian clergy for their own means. Now, when Israelis are suspicios, it looks (and reported) as disrespect to the clergy. Unfortunately it is this deliberate "blurring" of lines by Palestinians that cases much of it as well. Rgards, TQ.
As I had always believed but G. Will said better than I could, "There would be no Desert Storm had it not been for the Israeli raid on the Iraqi nuclear installations ten years earlier."
It was a short act, not a war, so it was quicly forgotten. BUt the Isralis plains, in a daring raid, flew to Iraq and destroyed the Iraqi nuclear facilities. What would we do in 1991 if Iraq still had them? Absolutely nothing. ANd only G-d knows what we would have on our hands as a result. In the very least, $5-per-gallon gasoline, which would destroy the world economy. Instead, we had an unparalleled prosperity and expansion in the 1990s.
Israel also pays back in what we do not see: how many wars that damage our, Western interests would have occured if it were not for the deterrence that the presence and strength of Israel provides?
Are you a victim of public education?
Propaganda is propaganda, whether it is one word, one sentence, or ONE paragraph from the lips of Joseph Goebeels OR Rabbi Waldman.
If you don't appreciate my pronouncement, then help yourself to more kool-ade -- you're a quart low.
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