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Ask JTF For September 9 Broadcast
Yogy:
Shalom Chaim,
Haaretz editor and board member Danny Rubinstein declared that Israel is an “apartheid state” and that many at Haaretz agree with this claim. This statement was made before a "UN International Conference of Civil Society in Support of Israeli-Palestinian Peace". Afterwards, in a Conservative synagogue from Britain, he was offered the possibility to explain the context of his words in front of the local Jewish community, but he stubbornly stood by his statements.
Question: Is he an idiot, a traitor, or both? How come Haaretz is still the biggest newspaper in Israel? Are most Israelis suicidal?
Dan
Ari:
Hello Dear Chaim,
Hope all is well. First, I would like to wish you and your family a Happy and Healthy New Year. This week I have a question about JTF's main problem which has been raising money. I know one of the reasons we have had a hard time raising money is because many wealthy Liberal Jews are scared of the supposed controversial nature of JTF, which obviously I don't believe by the way. Anyway, I was wondering what you thought of counteracting this by creating a separate wing of JTF under the banner of a new name, one that wouldn't mention any ties to JTF. This sub-organization could seek to raise money for the cause indirectly. We could say we were trying to raise money just for Israel or general Jewish causes and stay clear of any controversial issues whatsoever (race, settlements and Jewish land, politics, etc.). By remaining vague, we might be able to raise more money and then we could use these funds for the actual JTF causes at hand. The self-hating Jews and Liberals just wouldn't know our true intentions. It wouldn't be deception, just a convenient Robin Hood type vagueness. Until next week, G-d willing. All the best.
Ari
RationalThought110:
Shalom Chaim,
I read a couple of weeks ago that Jimmy Carter's friend, national security adviser and influential Democrat, Zbignewi Brzezinski, is supporting Barack Obama for president. In his attempts to bring down Hillary, he's actually stated that being a "First Lady" does not prepare someone to be president nor does it give someone good experience.
I found an article from the USA Today that contains the names of "foreign-policy" advisers.
Brzezinski is an "informal" adviser to Barack. He also has Anthony Lake (former national security adviser to Bill Clinton), Ivo Daadler (Clinton adviser on Europe), Greg Craig (Albright adviser and Clinton White House counsel) and Susan Rice (Clinton adviser and former assistant secretary of state), all former advisers to Bill Clinton.
Hillary's team includes her husband, Richard Holbrooke, Madeleine Albright, Sandy Berger and Strobe Talbott, who is a former deputy secretary of state.
McCain has Kissinger, George Schultz and Lawrence Eagleburger
Giuliani is being counseled by a former State Department foreign policy adviser named Christopher Hill. Giuliani also has Norman Podhoretz who seems to recognize the threat of Iran and Giuliani also has Martin Kramer, who has been very critical of Islam. Kramer is also against the idea of trying to democratize the "Middle East." So Giuliani seems to have a variety of viewpoints.
Steven Schrage, a former State Department international law specialist, is advising Republican Mitt Romney. I'm not sure yet who else Romney has.
Derek Chollet, who was John Edwards' foreign policy adviser when the Democrat served in the Senate, is now a key adviser in Edwards' campaign.
I haven't found information about Fred Thompson yet.
I'm still hoping Duncan Hunter could become competitive enough for a serious challenge for the GOP nomination but especially with so many primaries having been moved up, it will be a long-shot.
Dexter:
Shalom Chaim,
I hope you saw the topic about me and the karatie beliefs, and that now I don't think that the Karaties are right in their way of veiw .
And my question for this week is :
Do you think that all Jews are ethniclly Jewish ?
If you do, why does Ashkenazi Jews and Sfardic Jews are different ?
OdKahaneChai:
Dear Chaim,
Well - last week was my first comment - now I'm back to my inevitable weekly "What do you think of...?" question. So - here goes:
What do you think of the "Bible Code," or the theory that by searching for patterns in the letters of the Torah you can find hidden messages. The people researching it have supposedly found references to the assassination of the traitor Rabin YS"V, 9/11 and many other things. Obviously, all the secrets of the world are hidden in our holy Torah, but is this the way to find them?
Thanks as always,
Eitan
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