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Politics : Israel to U.S. : Now Deal with Syria and Iran -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Cyprian who wrote (15477)	6/8/2007 10:34:34 AM
From: sea_urchin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22250

Cyprian > What do you recommend I should do about it? [Talmudism] Knowing little about Talmudism myself, it's hard for me to recommend anything except to keep away from it. Indeed, I do know that many Jews have broken away from traditional, fundamentalist Jewish teachings and subscribe to a "reformed" or highly watered-down form of Judaism, so if you find Talmudism unacceptable, rest assured so do many others. jewishtribalreview.org >>The 1995 assassination of Israeli prime minister Yitzak Rabin by a zealous Orthodox student, Yigal Amir (whose yeshiva had military training as part of its curriculum), was an event of tragically profound importance to Jews; it brought into ominous focus a very real and very lethal expression of traditional talmudism, underscoring a widening gap between areligious Jews and growing numbers who have revived religious fundamentalism based upon ancient talmudic intolerance, and who now celebrate -- thanks to the creation of the modern state of Israel -- the power to express the angry dreams of their ancestors. Amir publicly professed his act of murder to be a religious deed (Rabin's willingness to surrender occupied land in peace talks with Arabs was understood to be traitorous to Jewish messianism). Even in America, four months before Rabin was assassinated, a Brooklyn rabbi, Abraham Hecht, publicly called for the death of any Israeli public official who ceded land to Arabs in peace agreements with them. [JEWISH WEEK, 3-27-98, p. 20] << As I say frequently, the two-state solution to the Israel/Palestine polemic is impossible and this is probably the most important reason why war must prevail in the Mid East for a very long time.