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Ask JTF for Sunday, December 12, 2010.
Jorje15:
Dear Chaim,
What are your thoughts on Yemen? Do you have an African action story for this week?
Meerkat:
shalom
Kahane-Was-Right BT:
Dear Chaim, there is an Arab on youtube named "Obaid Karki" - Are you aware of this person?
He is now a youtube "partner" whose videos get promoted by zootube. About 2 years ago he made a video response directed at you, in response to your video "Foreign Aid Is Destroying U.S. & Israel." I was wondering if you wouldn't mind responding to some choice comments from his video, which I will then try to publish as a video on youtube zootube? I will preface this by saying that he starts his own video by saying that he likes you. The following are his comments which I would like you to respond to, one by one:
1. "And [because of the 3 billion American foreign aid program] you focused your solutions... your furies, that the Jews are not able to develop their arms and weapons - For whom? For what? What for, you wanna build weapons?"
2. "You know, all the arm industry and the stuff what they doing, you just easily outsource any superpower - Russia, or England, or France, or America - to protect you, with a quarter, with a fraction of the price of the army today you are using in Israel. We do the same, every country in the world do the same, just outsource their protection. Like Japan, like Korea. Why you want to get stuck with an army?"
(He's asking why Israel should have its own army).
3. "And when you make these Super... Arms, and destruction machinery, where you gonna test them? Where you going to test them? Entire Israel is size of one of UAE emirates... very small. And already polluted. You don't have electricity, you don't have water, you don't have... Anything! You have only yourself, like Japan, and that's what I admire in you. So why don't you think about something revolutionary, more productive, more peaceful."
Thank you Chaim, that is part 1 of his comments, I will continue in the next Ask JTF program with more quotes. I can't wait to hear your responses. Kol Tov
I am storing Obaid's video url here so I can easily access it later when I publish my video.
דוד בן זאב אריה:
Shalom Chaim
1.Today is the 5th Yartzit of HaRav Binyamin Ze'ev Kahane ZT'L HY"D. Unlike his father HaRav Meir Kahane ZT"L HY'D Rav Binyamin Kahane wasn't a warrior in the same way he was a true Torah Genius and his weapon of choice was his pen. In that way we are left with an even bigger void in his loss. Could you please share a story or a thought on his life that we can take away.
2. What do you think of Yiddish??? It is a Germanic Language and sounds like German to me. I believe that Hebrew is the Language of today and Yiddish is the language of yesterday. Outside of Beni Brack, Meah Shaarim and Brooklyn Yiddish is not widely spoken. Where I live the Students at Chabad want to start a Yiddish club I don't understand it. I want to teach Hebrew but no one is interested. Your Thoughts??
Thanks
David Ben Ze'ev Aryeh
Secularbeliever:
Shalom Chaim.
I have two very unrelated questions. Please answer as you see fit, I understand time constraints.
1) I was at services last Shabbat and we had the Torah reading about Joseph. I could not help seeing a parallel between Joseph's brothers selling him into slavery and the left wing Jews destroying and abandoning the homes of their fellow Jews in Gush Katif and G-d forbid, if allowed all of Judea and Samaria. In Joseph's case his brothers had to come to him for help during the famine. Is it possible we will see a similar ending to the liberal Jews. To some extent that has happened. Jews in Judea and Samaria are a major portion of the backbone of the IDF. If G-d forbid Israel was hit by weapons of mass destruction many Jews from the coastal areas might need refuge in Yesha.
2) Do you have any opinion on Congressman Paul Ryan? I was very impressed by his discussion of the Health Care Bill, especially the way he brutally dissected it in front of Obama.
I have never heard his position on Israel, has he stated one? Perhaps he could be a good Vice President for Huckabee. His credentials on fiscal and budget issues are certainly impressive.
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