tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32118121.post7496974023902740262..comments2024-02-26T18:18:55.644+02:00Comments on Esser Agaroth (2¢): Israel: Rise of the Right (Film Review)Esser Agarothhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12853681733864707489noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32118121.post-31006608437498094032009-07-01T21:57:28.955+03:002009-07-01T21:57:28.955+03:00B"H To Shy Guy
I won't. It is clear that...B"H To Shy Guy<br /><br />I won't. It is clear that the laws governing Lashon Hora can not be applied to public figures on issues of public debate. It also is clear that we are told to do certain things in the Land: to build the Beit HaMigdash, establish a King over ourselves, set up the Sanhedrin and courts of justice in every village. This is the Jewish Torah institutional system and Jews should be doing that. Jews that partecipate in the Hellenistic knesset, either as parties or as candidates or as simple voters are like those Jews who went to Ahasuerus' banquet. It is not allowed to mix un-Jewish things with Jewish things and just because everybody does it doesn't make it either right nor Jewish. You are publicly istagiting me to sin, which is a capital crime. So, I'd be very careful if I were you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32118121.post-14210341409845058912009-07-01T13:34:43.864+03:002009-07-01T13:34:43.864+03:00Ariel Ben Yochanan (Andras Bereny) said...
like t...Ariel Ben Yochanan (Andras Bereny) said...<br /><br /><i>like the followers of Mr. Feiglin who join him in licking the boots of the Likud party.</i><br />-------------------------------<br><br />How will you ask all of us for forgiveness for this public Motzi Shem Rah of yours?<br /><br />So much for hastening Binyan Beit Hamikdash.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32118121.post-43857913095568453812009-07-01T00:54:17.978+03:002009-07-01T00:54:17.978+03:00You make some good points, especially about the mi...You make some good points, especially about the misuse of the right wing label.<br /><br />No one says he's "kosher," just not as bad as the usual tripe.<br /><br />Also, you and I have discussed about how it may be a positive thing that we're portrayed as nuts. Then maybe they'll leave us alone.<br /><br />I do not believe it's avodah zarah to petition the court, a waste of time maybe, but avodah zarah? No.<br /><br />If you want to argue that they are giving credence and legitimacy to the courts by accessing it, you could say that.<br /><br />You and I both know that Itamar did not think he was going to get approval. He wanted to use the system to prove that it wasn't fair.<br /><br />I, too, was disappointed when I heard what you had to say about what really happened at the march, and thought it a bit silly to declare it a victory.Esser Agarothhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12853681733864707489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32118121.post-58412903646335952922009-06-30T16:47:48.556+03:002009-06-30T16:47:48.556+03:00B"H
On "Israel: Rise of the Right” vide...B"H<br /><br />On "Israel: Rise of the Right” video<br /><br />Over and above the instant pleasure of seeing friends and acquaintances, as well as myself, this report does bring to the forth a number of disturbing issues and questions. So, let's look at them one by one separately, not forgetting that in real life they present themselves together, providing a powerful lens that distorts reality.<br /><br />- The author, filmmaker and commentator, Ilan Mizrahi’s ideology is in doubt. Is he a Kahaneist? In the milieu he is perceived as a such, yet his work is co-signed by Al Jazeera, a network that openly supports Israel’s enemies, like Hezbollah. If he is a Kahaneist, is it kosher for him to sell himself and his work to the enemy? On the other hand, if he is not a Kahaneist, how come that he enjoyed and continues to enjoy the status of an “insider”? He says of himself: “I followed Ben-Gvir for 15 years and I earned his trust”. As if he was saying to us “I’m a spy, I successfully infiltrated the organization”.<br /><br />- The film is introduced by a voice, declaring the shift in Israeli politics to the right at the last elections as “dangerous”.<br /><br />- Not only. Un-Jewish terminology like “West Bank”, “Settlements”, Settlers”, “Occupied Palestinian Territory” etc. does creep in to the reporting.<br /><br />- The film is centered around the “Israeli flag march” on Uhm al-Fahm, an Arab village in Israel. This by itself is problematic. As it was important for the organizers to present the march as a “success”, so it was for the secular and “democratic” State and for the Police too: an unnatural and temporary association was established. To lie. My comment on the issue (http://thetorahrevolution.blogspot.com/2009/03/parallel-interests-to-lie.html) was censored by ynet.<br /><br />- Reporting the National Union party’s activity and activists as “Israel’s right” is questionable. There are other people and other groups doing things, like the followers of Mr. Feiglin who join him in licking the boots of the Likud party. At last but not at least there are a good number of those who, like myself, don’t believe in the participation in the state’s “democratic” institutions: no change can come from inside the anti-Torah establishment. As Jews we are told to thrive for and establish our Jewish, Torah institutions in Eretz Israel. The Beit HaMigdash, the King, the Sanhedrin and courts of justice in every village. As Jews that is what we should be doing, instead of participating as parties, candidates and even as voters, in elections. Presenting petitions to the “high court" is outright idol worshipping in my eyes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com