From an article from the Jewish Insider called “Rabbi Sacks: Empower Religious Leaders To Stop Continuing Violence in Israel”:

[Muslim] Religious leaders should step in to lead the way to calm tensions in the Middle East amid the recent wave of terror attacks in Israel and the violence in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, former Chief Rabbi of the UK, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks said on Tuesday.

“There has to be religious voices saying: ‘Guys, you think you’re injuring the enemy, but actually you’re injuring yourselves. And the end result of your violence will be your own children lose that little sliver of hope they might once have had for a free and dignified future,’” Rabbi Sacks said during an appearance on HuffPost Live to discuss his new book “Not in G-d’s Name,” which highlights the challenges of confronting religious violence in the modern world.

This is utter and complete garbage, and worse, extremely dangerous. This is the horrible thinking by Jews in the West that’s getting Jews butchered by Muslim terrorists every single day. It’s just a bunch of fluffy bunny happy rainbow crap… wishful thinking taken to the extreme with no basis in reality at all.

I guess I would expect this nonsense from an interview with the ultra-leftist Huffington Post, which is one of the most anti-Semitic and anti-Israel “news” sites. Furthermore, stop calling them “Palestinians”. There is no such thing as a Palestinian. It’s a propaganda war intended to destroy the Jewish people and Israel.

Let’s break this down and take an honest look.

Okay, so first off, which Muslim Imams are you going to convince to preach “peace”? Honestly, I just don’t see a huge line of Muslim Imams in Israel or the Middle East just running up begging to give a sermon on how it’s bad to stab, mow over with your cars, or butcher all the Jews and infidels.

Maybe this guy who just last week told Muslims in Israel to stab Jews and “cut them into body parts”?

I mean, honestly, is Sacks serious?

The former Chief Rabbi explained that this “dangerous, uncertain and unpredictable moment” of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is “a supreme example why where violence has advanced no cause, had improved no one’s life, and has made it worse for Palestinians and Israelis. This is blind madness. And the end result must be that we have to protest and to do something, not in the name of secular politics only.”

Is it really unpredictable? I don’t think so. I predict that more Arab Muslims are going to stab Jews. It’s not rocket science here.

Oh! I see… you “convince” them by telling them they are injuring themselves and how dangerous it is. Oh, surely, that will work, right? Let’s take a look at this target audience a moment and reflect on that.

If you told these Iranian suicide bomber women how dangerous those explosive bomb belts are and how they could injure themselves, I bet they would promote peace!

Oh but that’s in Iran! Okay, so let’s look at Israel.

Just a few days ago, this Arab Muslim woman detonated a bomb when police pulled her car over. I bet if she had only known how dangerous that bomb was and that she could injure herself, she would have wanted peace!

Oh but wait, you could tell them it’s dangerous for their children! Right? I mean, that’s what he’s saying. So here we have a picture of some nice Muslims in Israel with their children.

I mean, surely if you told them all those bombs and weapons intended to kill Jews were actually dangerous, they would start thinking about peace! Or would they?

It doesn’t seem like Islam is really concerned with safety for the kids – especially all those little girls who have their clitorises cut off with broken glass or a tin can like this girl.

Or this one with the drill surgery.

Rabbi Sacks knows if you just got the word out on how dangerous all that is, that it would turn into a giant chorus of “Kumbaya, my lord” with all those Jews who the Arab Muslims claim descended from apes and pigs and vowed to annihilate.

Okay, the female circumcision genitalia mutilation thing, let’s put that aside for now.

Ya, Islam isn’t looking real great on understanding that injuring yourself or your own children isn’t a good idea. I don’t think telling them this will help any.

If it did, then maybe these kids at Hamas training camp in Israel would have been spared when they set off all those bombs that killed 50 of them.

Here’s some more pictures of Arab Muslim kids having some “good clean fun” at summer camp. Better tell them how dangerous it is!

How nice. They are giving a Nazi salute. I bet deep inside they just want peace with the Jews.

Oh wait… sorry! This one above is from the United States on a college campus during “Israel Apartheid” week. Let’s go back to Israel again.

Yeah, I don’t think telling them anything is going to make any difference at all… not even from an Imam – even if you could even get them to say anything peaceful at all.

Have you ever noticed that every single country in the world that is predominately Muslim is overflowing with violence and is run by an evil, murderous dictator? Coincidence? Probably not.

I mean, here are the Arab Muslims in Israel who ripped a Jew apart on live television. They are waiving the entrails of the Jewish victim they tore apart alive and are screaming “Allah akbar”.

You want to tell me that you could talk sanely to these barbaric animals? Let’s be honest here. Let’s stop mirroring our own compassion, dignity, mercy, and sanity on people who are not like us… at all. You can’t say these beasts have your same aspirations in life. That’s a huge problem.

Here’s a good example. How many Jewish or Christian “terrorists” have there been in the last decade? Now ask yourself, how many Muslim terrorists are there? To overlook that is foolish insanity. And Is it just Islam? Or is it that Islam fits their barbaric lust for violence and their cruelty?

You can’t change who people are. People can only change themselves if they decide to.

The Talmud teaches us that those who are kind to the cruel, will eventually be cruel to the kind. Just think about that.

Rabbi Sacks replied: “I don’t think enough use has been made of the potential of religious leaders, in and beyond the Middle East, to create a serious track to diplomacy – of the kind that brought peace to Northern Ireland and reconciliation in South Africa.”

“Religious leaders can be peacemakers if they are empowered to do so,” he asserted. “But what happens is that religious leaders sit down together and they all decide that peace is a lovely thing, and they issue declarations, and that doesn’t mesh with any political process whatsoever. So given that we are dealing with religiously-driven hatreds right now, I think you’re going to have to empower religious leaders, and we’ve simply not used that in the Middle East, remotely, as far as it could be done.”

Oh! We need to “empower” them! Yay, leftist buzzwords to the rescue! Let’s see what empowered actually means in the dictionary.

1. give (someone) the authority or power to do something

Wait… don’t they already have the authority or power to say whatever they want? You don’t think if they gave a sermon on peace that every human in the West would put that stuff on television with heaps of praise? I don’t think just by using leftist buzzwords like “empower” is going to stop Arab Muslim terrorist Nazis from stabbing Jews and proclaiming that “Hitler didn’t finish the job” like they say on Arab television and even recently in France.

If you could even find an Imam that would give a peaceful lecture, the other Muslims would probably torture and kill him. Like these Arab Muslims did in Israel:

And you think the Muslim Arabs want “diplomacy”? Seriously? And that their children might have a “free and dignified future”? They don’t want freedom. They want Sharia law!

But since you are in Britain, sure you know about these freedom loving Muslims here:

So much for freedom! And how about diplomacy?

And they had total freedom and democracy when the Arab Muslims overwhelmingly voted the terrorist organization Hamas into power. What’s interesting though, is that the West didn’t really honor their vote and democracy – and, instead, chooses to deal with the PLO/Fatah’s (which means conquest in Arabic) Abbas instead of who they actually voted into power. Let’s look at “moderate” Fatah:

So “moderate” with their official Nazi salutes. Maybe that was just a bad day and they were grumpy because their camels didn’t start that morning. Let’s see another picture of the PLO/Fatah:

I’m pretty sure these Nazi salutes are about killing Jews.

This is the “peace partner”? See, fluffy bunny happy rainbow wishful thinking about the Muslim Arabs in Israel doesn’t work and never has.

And that whole “telling them about freedom and diplomacy” isn’t really compatible with Islam. Here’s an idea, Rabbi Sacks. Just read the Koran. Just go see what that says for yourself.

The Koran contains at least 109 verses that call Muslims to war with nonbelievers for the sake of Islamic rule.  Some are quite graphic, with commands to chop off heads and fingers and kill infidels wherever they may be hiding.  Muslims who do not join the fight are called ‘hypocrites’ and warned that Allah will send them to Hell if they do not join the slaughter.

Koran (5:33) – “The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His messenger and strive to make mischief in the land is only this, that they should be murdered or crucified or their hands and their feet should be cut off on opposite sides or they should be imprisoned; this shall be as a disgrace for them in this world, and in the hereafter they shall have a grievous chastisement”

And here’s a giant list of many more verses from the “religion of peace”.

Oh, and let’s not forget Sacks examples:

Rabbi Sacks replied: “I don’t think enough use has been made of the potential of religious leaders, in and beyond the Middle East, to create a serious track to diplomacy – of the kind that brought peace to Northern Ireland and reconciliation in South Africa.”

Predominately Muslim South Africa is a bastion of peace, right? I mean, look at all the “reconciliation” that happened there!

I don’t know… setting your own people on fire and genocide and slavery don’t seem like “reconciliation” and peace to me. And seeing how South Africa has one of the highest rates of murders, assaults, theft, and rapes of adults, children, elderly and infants in the world, I think his example is about the worst example imaginable.

Need I even go on about South Africa?

Honestly, to buy this utter and complete “politically correct” garbage, you would have to smoke an entire mountain of crack… like this South African guy.

Rabbi Sacks, if you could lay down your ego and leftist bias, you would realize that the ONLY thing that will save Israel is to throw all the Arab Muslim Nazis OUT of Israel! That’s it. That would work. Nothing else will.

Mr. Sacks, here’s an article from the Chabad website for you since you obviously haven’t studied this part of your Torah recently:

Remember: The Answer to Terrorism

Editor’s note: The following was written following the deadly bombings in London and Natanya last summer. Unfortunately, with the current situation in Israel, the discussion is not only relevant, but imperative, as is the involvement and attitude that we as Jews must have.

July 12, 2005, Natanyah: five people murdered. July 7, 2005, London: 52 people murdered. March 11, 2004, Madrid: 191 people murdered. November 15, 2003, Turkey: 62 people murdered. August 5, 2003, Indonesia: 12 people murdered. October 12, 2002, Bali: 202 people murdered. September 11, 2001, New York City: 3,000 people murdered…

They are one and the same

Suicide bombings. Hijackings. Beheadings. Shootings. Stabbings… Planes. Trains. Subways. Buses. Convention Centers. Hotels. Discos. Pizza Parlors…

Al Qaeda. Jihad. Hamas. PLO. Bin Laden. Arafat. Armed Islamic Group. Abu Nidal Organization. Hizballah. Al Aksa Brigade…

Terrorism.

You can call it by any name you want. You can pick virtually any location, anywhere in the world. The details change but the basic facts remain the same. Throughout history, there have been those who have sought to destroy humanity. There have been those who have killed for the sake of killing, whose goal has been to eradicate freedom, peace and harmony. These enemies may span the religious spectrum. They may span the cultural and geographical and racial spectrum. But ultimately, they are one and the same.

When a terrorist attack strikes our country, our community, our home, fear sets in. Why? What is so traumatic about a terror attack? What differentiates terrorism from every other form of death? Why has the US government dedicated billions of dollars and resources to search for and eliminate terror cells throughout the world?

If we look at statistics, in the past 10 years, there have been roughly 8,000 [that number is in the millions now] people throughout the world murdered at the hands of terrorists. Yet in the last year alone, over 38,000 people were killed in the United States just from car accidents.

Logically, if terrorism scares us so much, we should be ten times as scared to get behind the wheel of our car. Driving on the freeway should be a terrifying experience to be avoided at all costs. And yet the majority of us do it, day after day, without a second thought. How many people stop and wonder if perhaps they should take public transportation to avoid the possibility of being killed in a car crash? How many people ensure that their family members never all travel together in the same car, lest they be in a crash?

In the articles published following the recent tragedy in London we read of those who now fear to board another double-decker bus. There are those who won’t take the subway, or fly in an airplane, or travel to popular tourist attractions.

Why? What is the source for this unique fear that the terrorists have put in our hearts?

Terrorists have not succeeded in the mass fatalities as they would like to claim possible. However, they have succeeded in one very important thing. They have accomplished something perhaps even more destructive than killing our bodies. They have managed to erode our sense of security, our hope, and our faith.

Terrorism is not new. And it isn’t going away on its own. But there is something we can, and must, do about it. When we understand the root and essence of terrorism, we also understand how, despite its awful power, we can fight it, each and every one of us, until it is absolutely destroyed.

The negative force of terror has been with us since the dawn of human history. The names and faces and national identities of the terrorists change from place to place and from era to era, but the primordial force that drives them has a single name. It is Amalek.

The Torah teaches us that, “G-d is at war with Amalek for all generations” (Exodus 17:16). “In every generation,” say our Sages, “Amalek rises to destroy us, and each time he clothes himself in a different nation,” (Me’am Loez; Devarim vol.3 p. 977).
Amalek doesn’t just kill us–Amalek makes us doubt

Our first encounter was long ago. Since that time, there have been many others. Yet our mission and commandment remains the same:

“Remember what Amalek did to you on the road, on your way out of Egypt. That he encountered you on the way and cut off those lagging to your rear, when you were tired and exhausted; he did not fear G-d. Therefore… you must obliterate the memory of Amalek from under the heavens. Do not forget.” (Deuteronomy 25:17-19)

Amalek’s danger is not in their ability to kill. Cars kill more. Amalek doesn’t just kill us–Amalek makes us doubt.

Cars do not seek to destroy us. Amalek plans and plots and aims to hurt us, to maim us and to murder us. And every time they do, they make us doubt more.

They make us doubt if we are safe, if we are secure, if we are taken care of. They try to paralyze us and make us think twice before continuing on with our daily lives. They try to show us how vulnerable we are and how nothing is as it appears. They make us doubt the very reality of ourselves, our lives, our G-d.

As the Torah commentaries point out, the numerical value of the Hebrew word amalek equals that of the word safek, “doubt.”

How can we defeat Amalek? We have many weapons with which to fight them. And one crucial defense against the debilitating doubt they sow in our souls.

The Torah gives us three commandments in regards to Amalek. First, we must wage war against the seed of Amalek–we must do everything in our power to destroy them. Second, we must not forget what Amalek has done to us. And third, we are commanded to remember.

It would appear that the second and third are virtually the same thing. Why would the Torah trouble to command us both to remember and to not forget?

The Torah is telling us that, on the one hand, we must never forget the suffering that we endured, never forget what Amalek has done–and can do–to us. This is important, so that we never slacken our efforts to do everything in our power to fight them.

But that alone is not enough. We must also remember–actively focus our minds on the source of our power to defeat Amalek. We must remember that we survived. We must remember that we were not destroyed. That we lived and we continued and we flourished.

Amalek is what brings doubt to our minds. It is what seeks to deprive us of our trust in ourselves, in our fellow man, and ultimately in our Creator. When we lose our faith, we lose everything. It is then that Amalek is able to attack us.

Yet we have something infinitely more powerful than doubt: the power of memory. We have the power to remember, to unearth the indestructible faith that resides in the core of our souls: our faith in our G-d, the G-d of goodness and life.

It is a sad irony that it often takes tragedy to bring us together. Patriotism flourished following September 11. Now our posters read: “Today we are all Britons.” And we are. We feel for one another as we share in the grief and the pain.

We are commanded to remember.

But that is not enough. It is not enough to suffer such tragedy, move on, and continue with day to day life. Because after we are struck, we do not continue in the same way. The doubt sets in and eats away, slowly but surely. We continue, but with a little less courage, a little less security, a little less faith.

So we must remember. We must take the strength and love and unity that rose to the surface under such terrible circumstances and draw on them to build our faith and our trust and our ability to rebuild. We must remember how we united and cared for one another. We must remember the well of faith that burst forth in the midst of tragedy. We must remember that no matter how hard it was, Amalek did not win. They did not succeed. For we survived.

We have the ability and the power to destroy Amalek. There is the Amalek within each and every one of us that seeks to weaken us individually, and there is the Amalek that seeks to universally bring us down. Both must be eradicated. And when they are, it is then that we can be redeemed. For we are taught that in order for Moshiach to come, we must first rid the world of Amalek, of the evil that seeks to destroy us.

There is a famous story which beautifully illustrates the power of faith. The previous Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Schneerson, was imprisoned in Soviet Russia for his religious leadership. At one point when he was interrogated, those questioning him were bothered by his utter lack of fear. They were used to their terrified victims trembling, weeping and begging for mercy. But this rabbi calmly sat and answered their questions. At one point, hoping to jolt him into submission, the interrogator waved a gun in his face. The Rebbe merely smiled and said, “That toy may instill fear in one who has many gods and one world. I have One G-d and two worlds. So your toy doesn’t frighten me.”

Today the wounds are still raw. The pain is still real. The grief is still palpable. We cannot change what has happened. But we can help change what will happen.

Fearing Amalek will not help. Running away from Amalek will not help. Rather, we must not forget that they are our enemy. We must face them and destroy them. And we are able to. We have the power to.

But only if we remember to remember.

Honestly, this post could be a million part series. I’ve just barely scratched the surface. But there is only one reasonable conclusion that can be drawn.

Rabbi Kahane was right!