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Ask JTF for Sunday, June 6, 2010

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ProJewGreekChristian:
Shalom Mr. Ben Pesach,

What is your take on Ross Barnett and George Wallace, former governors of Mississippi and Alabama respectively? They were at the heart of fighting for the White, Jim Crow South. They seem good but some right-wing, seemingly good southerners have a tendency to harbor severe cases of Nazi Jew-hatred. Do you know if such is the case with these two gentlemen?


(By the way, I love this emoticon:   :dance:)

Thank you sir,

Paul

Abben:
Hello Chaim I hope you are having a good week now onto my question.

Do you think the BP oil spill is a sign from GD that we need to get off muslim oil?

Secularbeliever:
Shalom Chaim,

I want to discuss the issue of leadership.  Most history is written as a reflection of leaders.  I consider that backwards.  I think leaders emerge as a result of the popular psychology which creates the need for their leadership.  A strong leader like Rabbi Kahane emerged not only because of his own strengths which were clearly unique, (as shown by the undisputed fact that nobody has equalled him since) but because there was a void in the Jewish community among those who were sick of the fact that Jews had become synonomous (sp?) with cowardice, that liberal Jews (almost all Jewish leaders are and were Liberals) refused to face up to Black anti Semites, and to oppose Soviet persecution of Jews.  So from my point of view the success of JDL was not totally a result of Kahane's charisma and strength but of the need for its actions and a desire among many Jews for it.  It is not coincidence that the 1990s produced a show like Seinfeld where the characters did nothing and a President who could be considered successful while literally masturbating in the White House.  They were easy times where people did not want or need much.

Today clearly there is a horrendous void of leadership, (corrupt weak politicians are not leaders) among Jews and the west in general despite very dangerous circumstances.  I am very encouraged by some recent developments.  The 18 year old kid in Los Angeles who marched with the Israeli flag by himself among Arab Muslim Nazis was quite impressive.  When asked if he was part of a group he said "Just Judaism and Israel".  Similarly in Israel there have been recent cases of settlers firing weapons back at Arab Nazi rock throwers and no condemnation or punishment.  There is no central leader telling them to do this.  The Hilltop Youth, as best I understand, do not have a central structured leadership.  All these cases are Jews stepping up and saying nobody is taking the lead so I will.  Sometimes leadership comes from above and sometimes from below.  Hopefully someone will emerge to lead the Jews, to fill the void, in doing what needs to be done.  Whether it is you or someone else is somewhat secondary but somebody needs to.

MasterWolf1:
Hello Brother Chaim,

This year for the state of NY, we  have a race for Govoner between awful and awful.  On one side is Andrew Cuomo the son of Mario Cuomo and a disgrace holding an Italian name, his father was as left as can possibly can get and he is no better. The apple didn't fall far from the tree.  On the other side is Rick Lazio.  Who is I guess the best this state can find as far as a Republican which goes to show we really have now a one party of Repocrats.  Who do we back in this one? And why we keep getting stuck with awful vs. awful?

Trace:
Shalom Chaim,

I have been thinking about this lately. I used to support Irish organizations which fought against the UK government, because I believed very strongly in Ireland being independent. Then I learned that most of the Irish Catholic militant groups seem to be pro-Arab and I've heard that some of them even trained with Arab terrorists. I have since found that, in fact, it is the Ulster Orangemen of Northern Ireland who are overwhelmingly pro-Israel, and these Protestants have been vocal in support of Israel during the latest incident. I started to see things a different way after this. The Irish may be a small minority, but the Protestants in Northern Ireland are actually a minority within a minority. Since they have been there for many hundreds of years, I see no reason why these so called Orangemen in Ulster should be bullied around by groups like the IRA and have their historic territory threatened. I'm not against the Catholic majority in Ireland by any means but I object to those of them who desire the expulsion of the Protestants. I think that a peaceful solution can be reached over time. The situation is not at all comparable to Israel and the Arabs, or India and Pakistan, because in those situations, there are Muslims involved and there is no way for decent people to co-exist with Muslims.

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