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Ask JTF for Sunday, December 28, 2008.
Daleksfearme:
Shalom Chaim
Do you think that authors such as Richard Dawkins lend an important point of view to debates regarding science and religion? And is it difficult to accept the discoveries of scientific research knowing that the people making the discoveries were very anti religion? For example James Watson and Francis Crick made very negative statements about faith, yet their work on DNA is one of the most important findings ever in biology.
Thank you
eb22:
Shalom Chaim,
Prior to JTF starting the Jews for Palin campaign, was there any other U.S. Presidential or VP Candidate in the last 40 years, who had a realistic chance of winning, who JTF ( or JDL when you were part of the organization ) had a similar type of campaign for?
Basically, other than Sarah Palin, has there been another person with a realistic chance of being elected President or VP who you believe warranted a campaign for them because of their potential to make a positive difference for the United States, Israel, and Western Civilization? It seems like the vast majority of the time, we are choosing between the lesser of the evils.
Thanks as always, eb22
imaknick:
How bad will it be if Caroline Kennedy is our senator? is she worse than clinton? Then again whoever takes the senate will be horrible.
ape:
Chaim, I noticed that some blacks are trying to be more articulate since Obama won. I noticed that even Sharpton is trying to improve the way he speaks. Will Obama have a positive effect on blacks in becoming more articulate?
Secularbeliever:
Dear Chaim,
I have come to the conclusion that right wing Jews lack the ability to rhetorically compete with left wingers, Jew haters and self hating Jews. Slogans such as peace, two state solution, convergence, disengagement are benign words that cover up major evils.
This occurred to me while I attended the Chanukah menorah lighting at the State Capitol in Sacramento, Ca last week which is put on by Chabad. The Israeli general counsel from San Francisco spoke about how strength and courage are needed to achieve peace. He did not spell it out but I assume he was saying that turning Jewish homes (not his) over to murderous Arabs is his idea of strength and courage.
We need to get our words out into the public discourse. Instead of disengagement the expulsion of Jews from Gaza should be referred to as the unmitigated disaster that created 10 thousand Jewish refugees and made the Negev unliveable. The courage of disengagement should be spelled out for what it was. Soldiers on horses trampling Jewish children, policemen molesting Jewish girls, breaking the hand of a talented emergency room physician and cracking the skull of a decorated veteran, both of whom are also MKs, multiple assaults on Madia Natar, invading Jewish homes in the middle of the night, terrorizing children. The two state solution should be countered with the 22 state solution in which Israel lives in peace with 21 existing Arab nations who get to keep over 99% of the mid east and the Palestinian situation is their responsibility rather than the Jews who have less than 1% of the land.
At the end of the ceremony I spoke to the counsel general. I told him that it was nice that the Government of Israel sent someone to the event. He said they would have to be a "horrible goverment" not to. I just told him I could not comment on that.
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