Golda Shrugged

In his “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid” Cursedian Jimmy Carter relates he met with Golda Meir in 1973 and asked the following:

‘I said that I had long taught lessons from the Hebrew Scriptures and that a common historical pattern was that Israel was punished whenever the leaders turned away from devout worship of God.  I asked if she was concerned about the secular nature of her Labor government.’

Bam! Right in the teeth. The old sinner’s answer was a silent shrug.
Now, Carter contrasts Golda with the later Menachem Begin whose religion helped him get votes, but one could still ask the same question about the State as a whole, considering its roots.
Anyway, he’s right about “punishment”. But no more, as it says many times: אך אתך לא אעשה כלה ויסרתיך למשפט ונקה לא אנקך. Rabbi Yitzchak Brand says much more on this.
Here is another related post on Golda.
(By the way, it’s not apartheid.)

Why Did the Hamas Invaders Take SO MUCH Time?!

As we said before:

Hamas Invaders Were Told in Advance: TAKE YOUR SWEET TIME!

This alone indicates the Shabbos-Goy enemy was enabled by a traitor on the Israeli side. Although maybe using only this fact violates the “Affirming the Consequent” Fallacy.

Chananya Weissman eloquently argues —

The Mishna in Avoda Zara 70B states as follows:

בולשת שנכנסה לעיר בשעת שלום חביות פתוחות אסורות סתומות מותרות בשעת מלחמה אלו ואלו מותרות לפי שאין פנאי לנסך

If a [gentile] military force entered a city in peacetime, open wine barrels are forbidden [because we assume they poured the wine for idolatrous libations]; sealed barrels are permitted. During war, these and those are permitted, for there is no spare time to pour libations.

If there is no time during an invasion to splash some wine, there is certainly no time to take selfies, make videos, torture people to death, mutilate them, take smoking breaks, sit down for meals in people’s homes after murdering them, and walk around at a leisurely pace over many hours – when you know there are military bases with Apache helicopters within earshot and anyone can take a bus from anywhere in the country and arrive during all that time.

But Daniel Greenfield points out (at the end of his piece) that the attackers were on a fearless drug-fueled craze (Captogon), and so weren’t acting entirely rationally. I never tried that drug, and I don’t think he did, either.

(Wait, were they all drugged? Were they all told they had time? What about the Aza “civilians”?)

I think there is sufficient proof of Israeli treachery toward the Jews, either way. A real “Stab-in-the-back”! The question is why did it take “Our” side so long? Who told the evil Israeli “soldiers” and media to stand down, to wait, to say and do nothing?

Judging by how much food and weapons the attackers brought along, the traitors may have double-crossed Hamas, as well. Small comfort…

Rabbi Alt – The Way of War

The Way of War

It says מגן אם יראה ורמח בארבעים אלף ישראל, was even a shield or a spear seen among 40,000 in Israel.[1] The Tanna Dvei Eliyahu[2] comments that 40,000 from the Jewish people go out to war and there is amongst them one pair of Torah scholars, it is like they are holding a shield and a double-edged sword. R’ Asher Weiss explains that aמגן , shield is a defensive weapon while a רמח, spear is an offensive weapon. An army invests in offense and defense in order to be victorious. Corresponding to this is the Milchamta Shel Torah. In Torah the one asking the question is the one on the offensive and the one answering is on the defense. In this way the Milchamta Shel Torah provides strength to the soldiers.

 

Milchamta Shel Torah can also remove war. Through engaging in Torah which is like fighting, as in fact it is called Milchamta Shel Torah, other fighting (wars and the like) can be removed, thereby increasing peace in the world. This explains the dictum that Torah scholars increase peace in the world since through the Machlokes of Torah, there can be more peace in the world.[3]

 

[1] Shoftim 5:8.

[2] Chapter 10.

[3] Drashos Chassam Sofer, p. 806.

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Become a Cynic in One Easy Step!

Are you ready?

OK.

Here goes:

Check the footnotes.

What? That’s it?!

That’s it.

Is that what first made you into a cynic?

Yes. I started doing that with Torah books.

Is this true in other disciplines?

I suspect so. The great Thomas [Just the facts, ma’am!] Sowell says checking footnotes made him into a cynic (minute 16:33-17:26 here).

As he says:

“That will turn you into a cynic in a very short time.”

(Sowell is speaking about Piketty’s book, but it sounds like he means it in a general way.)

Wait, what will I discover?

Try it for yourself!

P.S., Rabbi Reuven Chaim Klein writes in: I can confirm that your עצה works.