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Ask JTF for Sunday March 27, 2011
Yaakov Mendel:
Shalom Chaim,
It often puzzles me and dismays me to think of how easily our beloved great leader, Rabbi Meir Kahane, Hashem yinkom damo, was shot dead. Surely he knew he was under immense threat. How come there was not more security around him when he made public appearances ? Was it his own decision, maybe because he thought his fate relied on Hashem alone and it was pointless to try and stay out of harm's way by means of armed bodyguards for example ?
Would you not use adequate security personnel to protect you if, beezrat Hashem, you became a prominent political figure in Israel ?
Thanks as always,
Yaakov
eb22:
Shalom Chaim,
This past Wednesday Night, I attended an event in which Moshe Feiglin and Shmuel Sackett spoke at a Synagogue in Cedarhurst. I was very impressed with what they had to say. Moshe Feiglin's comments and answers to questions reminded me of the messages that Rabbi Kahane had and that you have. The only difference in essence was Moshe Feiglin wasn't as overt in answering a key question, though he strongly implied that he had a similar position.
Interestingly, 2 people in the audience mentioned Rabbi Kahane in a very favorable manner. This was thankfully a consensus right wing audience.
My question is as follows. While I know that you have major doubts that Moshe Feiglin can be successful in becoming Prime Minister of Israel through the Likud Party, I'm interesting in knowing if you are aware of any significant differences in positions that you have, compared to Moshe Feiglin's positions? Basically, position differences on the issues. From my perspective, at least this past Wednesday Night, Moshe Feiglin sounded like a Kahanist.
Thanks as always, eb22.
briann:
Hello Chaim. Do you think Obama wants the 'rebels' to take over Libya, or do you think he is just going along with what he was told to do by the 'coalition' and his staff?
Also, in Egypt, do you think the new Millitary regime (which has now criminalized all protesting) will ultimately resemble Mubarak's regime or something more like the Muslim Brotherhood?
Manch:
Hi Chaim,
thanks for the answer to my comment about Japan. I completely disagree with you on the matter, but do agree with you that issues pertaining to Japan-related issues are not what unites us at JTF. As far as your answer, I wasn't commenting on Japan's behavior of 60 years ago, which was, of course, deplorable and was significantly contributing to the Holocaust, but I am not certain, more so than that of Britain's.
My comment was, however, Japan of today. Besides, I believe that your comments may hurt our movement in the future - even in JTF a lot of people disagree with you, do you really think a lot of people would agree with you outside of JTF. So, why make a very controversial statement on the non-important to our movement issues - this is, politically, very shortsighted and amateurish.
As far as 1.5 Billion Asian who have ill-fillings towards Japanese - do I really care what Malaysian/Indonesian muslims or Chinese or North Korean communist feel? The Chinese and North Korean, NOW, - not 60 years ago, help our mortal enemies in Iran and other Muslim countries with technology which is designed to obliterate Israel.
But even if we are talking about Japanese 60 years ago, and I am not talking about Chiune Sugiharo, of blessed memory, who lost everything, by acting against his own government policies, to save thousands of Jews. Let's take an example of an extremist Kwantun army which often acted against the Japanese government and who was guilty of many war crimes, including the rape of Nankin - no Jews were ill-treated under its control.
The nazis were appalled by Japanese attrocities?! Please, give me break! Here is a real nazi - a colonel and Gestapo chief Josef Meisinger (the 'Butcher of Warsaw') who, in 1941, tried to influence Japanese to exterminate or enslave approximately 18,000–20,000 Jews who had escaped from Austria and Germany and who were living in Japanese-occupied Shanghai. His proposals included the creation of a concentration camp on Chongming Island in the delta of the Yangtze or starvation on freighters off the coast of China. The Japanese admiral who ran Shanghai would not yield to pressure from Meisinger.
Colonel Norihiro Yasue calmed the violent antisemitism of White Russians, who were known to attack, kidnap or murder Russian Jews. Jews entering and residing in Japan, China, and Manchukuo were treated the same as other foreigners and, in one instance, Japanese officials in Harbin ignored a formal complaint by the German consulate which was deeply insulted by one of the Russian-Jewish newspapers' attack on Hitler.
During the six months following the Five Minister's Conference, lax restrictions for entering the International Settlement, such as the requirement for no visa or papers of any kind, allowed 15,000 Jewish refugees to be admitted to the Japanese sector in Shanghai. Japanese policy declared that Jews entering and residing in Japan, China, and Manchukuo would be treated the same as other foreigners.
From 1943, Jews in Shanghai shared a "Designated Area for Stateless Refugees" of 40 blocks along with 100,000 Chinese residents. Most Jews fared as well, often better than other Shanghai residents.
Again, I don't condone Japanese atrocities in WWII, but we are talking about today, and today Japanese are good people, who deserve our simpathy much more than mentioned by you 1.5 Billion modern Asians. You want my sympathy? - Stop helping Iran and other muslimes.
I have to admit - I admire Japanese. I can only wish and hope that Jews would be more like Japanese - we must learn from them. Israel, besides being a much safer an a more pleasant place to live, would have annexed Sinai and there wouldn't be any talk of surrendering our Holly land and you'd be in the cabinet. I can only dream, can't I?
ProJewGreekChristian:
Shalom Mr. ben Pesach,
Just two comments this week, both of which are related to my grandfather:
(1) Chaim, what you said about Italians not deserving the same condemnation as the ancestors of Nazis and (although I like them on an individual level) Japs is so true. If anyone should hate Italians, it’s the Greeks. However, Greeks love Italians; this is because what you said is very true: The vast majority of Italians were not like Mussolini. Example about my grandfather (popou) evidencing this fact: My grandfather was a Greek surgeon and professor at a medical school in Athens when the Italians and Nazi German beasts invaded Hellas. Whereupon learning from his fellow Greeks that the Nazis were going to kill him for refusing to become a Nazi doctor and condemning Nazism to his students, my grandfather fled Greece. Where did he go? ITALY, and therefrom, America. How could he go to Italy? Because the Italians were and are not like the German Nazis. He never hated Italians but never took a liking for Germans, to say the least (go figure).
(2) My father is very pro-Jew / pro-Israel, and when we talk about Israel and the Jews, he frequently mentions my grandfather receiving some b'nai brith award in Jacksonville (where he lived) for I think something like being a friend of the Jews… I always laugh because I can only imagine what you have to say: “well then, he must have been anti-Semitic; they only give to Jew-haters.” lol... I may be wrong about the group, though, but I think you’ve criticized them before…
Your comments, please.
Gd Bless!
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