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Great article!
"Pure geniuses" ... they are also Jewish so what do they think would happen to them as well.... SG MMM 2610
An inspirational, incredible article, the only type that Ms. Rigler produces.
So the claim is that if you wish for the War to end , the killing to end and for a ceasefire to be instituted ; that makes you antisemitic ? Wow that is a HUGE jump in logic which Ido not understand or agree with. These kinds of attitudes expressed publicly is PART of what is driving the student protests and the unprecedented polling about plummeting support for Israel in America and negative attitudes towards jews who are perceived as supporting without condition , the Natanyahu governments military efforts. BY the way to this point , the IDF has successfully SAVED TWO hostages . Negotiating with prisoner for Hostage swaps have successfully returned to their homes , 110 Israeli hostages . Now please tell me how the military efforts have been SO successful.
Author replies: The leaders of Hamas have said that they will repeat October 7 again and again. The goal of the IDF's military efforts is to wipe out Hamas, whose charter calls for the destruction of the State of Israel. To support Hamas is to support that goal. Ted, wouldn't you call a goal of annihilating the 7,000,000 Jews who live in Israel, "anti-Semitic"?
For Israel to withdraw now would not end the war, only set the stage for another massacre. This is not a new war - it is the continuation of the war started nearly 100 years ago. Nor is it a “conflict” - it is a dedicated attempt to erase a people: the Jews. For proof, look up the documented history of the region and read the Palestinian and Hamas charters. All is available online.
If one disagrees with the killing of over 30000 people they are showing care not politics.
Thank you for trolling. Brave and stunning /s
In war, unfortunately, people are killed. Always. The relative numbers of which side has lost more is not an indication of which side is right.
The 30,000 figure was supplied by Hamas, which NEVER is constrained by truth. As a British commentator pointed out, even if you accept the figure of 30,000 Gazan deaths, the IDF has claimed that it has killed 13,000 Hamas and Islamic Jihad fighers. That leaves 17,000 civilians. Hamas includes in its figure ALL Gazans who died in the last 6 months, even of cancer, etc. For a population, of 2.2 million, if you deduct the expected natural death rate, you are left with 1.8 civilians killed for every enemy soldier. Compare that with the American rate of civilians to enemy soldiers killed in Afganistan: more than 3 civilians killed for every enemy soldier.
Are you related to Jimmy? You seem to be taking his line of defaming Israel.
Why are you quoting the numbers claimed by murderers and rapists who burn babies in ovens and dismember bodies? That doesn't show that you care. It shows that you want to defend evil. If you had wanted to oppose evil, you would have protested when Syria killed so many of their own, against the Russian-Ukrainian war when so many tens of thousands were killed - way more that the fake number 30,000, and many other examples of numbers far larger.
It is 100% politics with very little or no caring.
I am humbled and ashamed by this story of R'Yitzchak Mann.Jusf 80 years ago and we've fallen so low.
there should be no sympathy for these outright traitors and defamers of israel. they are not neutral, they are actively working to smear and undermine Israel and the Zionist cause.
That is one miserable looking bunch of kids. They hate themselves for being Jews. They have a choice, as do all of us to do that or to be normal. I would avoid people like that.
jews who back chamas should be treated like our enemies absolutely no mercy bc their worse than chamas everybody understands this, its soooo sampl
Beautiful. Thank you so much for sharing.
I had the good fortune to take Judaic Studies courses taught by Dr. Eliach in college. She was amazing and her Holocaust courses were exceptional. The assigned reading was extraordinary and her classes were exceptional. As to these "Jews" who betray Israel, all I can say is they are about as "Jewish" as a ham sandwich. One day they will have to answer for their betrayal.
This is one example of where our stubbornness and faith sets the best example. Hamas has no idea what we are really made of - a country of these same traits. Those Jews who protest against us will someday realize and come through. I disagree with them but don't hate them. They are still Jews, a part of the family.
You may not hate them, but they hate you!
So what they deserve is your pity because, nebach, at best these are severely misguided, misinformed, self-hating Jews who love the clearly evil enemy. (At worst, they're simply traitors to their own kind -- but since they don't identify as Jews, they're more accurately described as lost souls.)
As Jews, we're not supposed to hate anything except evil.
The conclusion should be obvious.
Powerful. Thank you for reminding us of who we are and what is possible even in our darkest hours as a People.