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Ask JTF for Sunday, January 30, 2011.

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Dr. Dan:
Shalom chaim,

1. If the milk of an unkosher animal were unkosher and the eggs of an unkosher bird, amphibian, or reptile was unkosher, how is it that honey produced by unkosher insect is kosher?


2. At what point is a person of muslim descent no longer a muslim assuming there is no taqquiya?  

3. What is your experience with people from guyana?

4. Gd forbid it would ever happen in the following situation, but if a Greater Israel did exist and it lost a battle or war against a foreign invader, what would the halacha be in ending the battle?  Do we fight to the death or give up control of lands in order to end the battle?  Hopefully we will never see this day, but there was a time that it happened with the Romans and Babylonians.

And a dvar torah from this week's Parasha

Toda

Dr. dan
 

TruthSpreader:
Dear Chaim, exactly how many people from the Muslim world both Muslim and non-Muslim alike are aware of our movement? This may sound like a crazy question, but are there some Muslims who do agree with us? Don't get me wrong, I know Islam commands all Muslims to hate and destroy all non-Muslim infidels, but in the past, you mentioned you can be born as a Muslim, but reject the teachings of Islam. For example, I have met (virtually) an Armenian Christian from Iran on Facebook who seems to be aware of our movement.

PS: Are you aware of what is happening in Egypt?

Manch:
Shalom Chaim,
I just listened to your answer to my question from the previous ASK JTF show about Israel lack of resources to fight a prolonged war. I would like to thank you for your thoughtful and passionate answer! I wholeheartedly agree with your line of arguments - the human spirit can overcome lack anything! Thank you so much for your excellent & spirited response!

Another major concerns that most Israeli Jews have with Kahanism is that our program will lead to an economic boycotte by our trade partners. Israel's Hi-Tech economy constitutes over 50% of total export. Foreign hi-tech giants set up very impressive R&D facilities in Israel. To add, although Israel has over 3,500 hi-tech startups (second after US), Israeli companies rarely grow big - there are about 5 or so hi-tech companies in Israel with sales over $1B/year. Another aspect worth of consideration is that Russian Jews, who are naturally inclined to be right-wing and very pragmatic, disproportionally contribute over 25% of the Israel's hi-tech workforce. To make things more complicated, it is a trait of the hi-tech market is that technology is very easy to copy, in particular software. And software is what most Israel's companies develop.
 
Any disruption of normal business, much less, the total or partial economic boycotte by EU or US will inevitable lead to mass unemployment, loss of jobs that would be extremely difficult to re-create, tremendous loss of government revenue, mass emigration of most productive people from Israel, collapse in the housing market, etc, etc.

I believe that an average Israeli voter, or our potential supporter, will not be willing to significantly low his/her living standards even in a short term. I thinks that this is a very serious and valid concern that we must address.
Thank you for your response!

Irish Zionist:
Shalom Chaim



Here are the zootube questions.


From: MrTommypops
What are your views on the country Hungary?
(Past and present)

From: Narvik41
Israel had no legal basis to attack the peaceful flotilla because it was in international waters. They also have no legal basis for claiming a right establish a blockade of the Gaza Strip, thus any attempt on its part to enforce compliance is itself an act of aggression against the Palestinian State, whose flag is properly flying on the ship attacked. The criminality of Israeli behaviour was intensified by the use of excessive and disproportionate force.

From: guasto47
YITZHAR (and Bracha) settlements are known for their ideology. Not satisfied to have stolen Palestinian soil to build their homes, they want the olive orchards too, put in lethal danger the Palestinians rightfully tending to their crops. Last July, the settlers burned 3,500 olive trees and threw rocks at villagers. These colonies, like the presence of these settlers is illegal and represent not only an aggression in itself toward Palestinians, but a violation of International Law.

From: staaberelli
I’m not being anti Semitic, I am Semitic because I am a Palestinian. So are the Lebanese and Syrians. Semitic is a race, such as Caucasian or Phoenician. Not a religion. I do not have a problem against Jews. Zionism is the reason for conflict in Palestine not Jew or Muslim. The belief that a piece of land that has been owned by a Palestinian and his family for centuries should be given up to a Russian, or an American because he is Jewish is ludicrous. He's not even Semitic!

Yaakov Mendel:
שלום חיים, איש עם עקרונות

From a political point of view, I think it's not a good idea to tell people that they should support the Kahanists because it’s G-d’s commandment. The reason why I am saying this is because it's a fact that many people do not believe in the Bible. In the West and, more importantly, in Israel, I am afraid that non-religious Jews will resent the Biblical commandment as some kind of obsolete, arbitrary dogma and it seems to me that we cannot afford to alienate their support because they make up the majority of the population. There is a lot of arguments we can use other than religious ones to win them over to our political agenda. Rabbi Meir Kahane loved the Jewish people as a whole, and wanted to save all Jews, religious or not (as long as they were not traitors), with the hope that they would later turn back to the Torah. Of course the ultimate goal of Kahanism is to build a truly Jewish state with Jewish values and an understanding of all the greatness of the Torah, but in the short term I don’t think we can take back Israel and save Israel if we ignore the way non-Torah Jews think.
Do you agree ?

Yaakov Mendel

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