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Jews must fight evil
Donniel Hartman
Published: 12.03.12, 22:21
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1. i got the solution
cristian ,   argentina   (03.12.12)
everyone wants war,everyone wants destruction,everyone wants to kill,everyone hates,everyone wants death,everyone wants an eye for an eye a tooth for a tooth,why once and for all do not put a nuclear bomb and we all die!!!!!!!!!
2. tikkun olam?, another hasbarah coward
observer ,   Egypt   (03.12.12)
3. Rabbi I can speak for the military efficacy
Gee ,   Zikron Yaakov   (03.12.12)
As a retired Lt. Col and veteran of many actions taking out the enemy leadership ALWAYS improves the military efficacy. The replacement is always undertrained and unsure of themselves. Keeping hitting the chain of command changes the balance of power and allows us to dictate the battle. Not taking them out lets them pick and choose the location and time of the next war crime.
4. To Rabbi Doniel Hartman
Luiz Haddad ,   Niteroi, Brazil   (03.13.12)
Dear Rabbi. I liked very much your words. As a Christian, true friend of Israel, like many others in my country, I understand that the Jewish State needs to defend hersellf, firmly, against awful enemies. But I think, like you, that intelligence, today, is more important than pure military deeds. Israel will prevail, under God's protection and under her good principles.
5. We're not fighting evil by trucking in supplies to the enemy
Devorah   (03.13.12)
For once, can we take a stand and destroy it?
6. @ Gee , from Zikron Yaakov
Immortal_Rabinowitz ,   Always, Everywhere   (03.13.12)
Thank you
7. Fighting Evil
Dave In Arizona ,   USA   (03.13.12)
If you cannot understand that terrorist leaders must be killed before they kill you, just wait awhile and then explain to your family why it's an immoral act while they sit Shiva for you.
8. dealing with the Hamas
deborah lurya ,   irvine CA   (03.13.12)
i see no arrogance in desiring to abolish completely and without any hesitation our enemy. They have stated in their charters, in their leader's speeches publicly that they want to destroy us. So what is so as you say arrogant about wanting to defeat them once and for all. They desire our complete end. First, survival, we must overcome our enemy, then we can fulfill our higher missions as Jews,and as commanded by Torah and G-d.
9. evil
hhitle ,   my usa   (03.13.12)
evil should fight evil
10. Ocupation IS evil.
LOL   (03.13.12)
11. Rabbi, these people may be evil in your eyes
Bill   (03.13.12)
but as natives of the region they also have legitimate grievances against the state of Israel, and the millions of European immigrants who have poured into the land. These are grievances which the entire world recognizes.
12. Well-reasoned statement
rivkah f. ,   jerusalem   (03.13.12)
Targeted killings of terrorist leaders & operatives are effective. New leaders take time to emerge. We left Gaza but their aggression continues; Hamas & Islamic Jihad seek our destruction & elimination. The rockets are designed to cause panic & despair. We must kill the terrorists. But just as we rode the buses in Jerusalem, our fellow citizens in the south go into the shelters now. We will prevail!!
13. Can evil be fought with evil? That seems
Edithann ,   USA   (03.13.12)
to be the newest excuse to keep killing innocent Palestinians who want their homes back.. You guys are very funny....you give yourselves cart blanc to do what you want, knowing it's morally wrong...and no one questions.... TATA
14. Fighting evil?
graczek ,   Maryland, USA   (03.13.12)
If Jews are sincere in fighting evil, they must dismantle their illegal state that usurps the Holy Land. This usurpation, which culminated May 15, 1948, is the focal source of all evil in the Middle East.
15. why the discussion
israel israeli ,   tel aviv   (03.13.12)
Only in Israel could you have such a pathetic discussion. When the US occupation of Afghanistan foundered no one started philosophizing. Instead, Nobel Peace Prize winner Obama gave the order and the CIA started massive use of drone attacks on anything that moved, regardless of collateral damage. That is how normal people act.
16. That's quite the equivalent of saying: Satan must fight evil
Marwan ,   Tel Aviv, Palestine   (03.13.12)
17. Gee
michaelpielet ,   israel   (03.13.12)
Gee I am with you. Let us make the arabs happy. Let these murdering devils be killed for their cause.
18. Israel cannot defeat its enemies.
Michael ,   California, USA   (03.13.12)
Israel must negotiate and learn to live with its enemies side by side. The enemies are too numerous, too large, too persistent. Israel can survive through diplomacy, through forging alliances, through acceptance from other states. There will always be forces capable of defeating an isolated small state, so force is not the mean for long-term survival, only for an immediate defense.
19. @ nr 3 gee
thomas ,   germany   (03.13.12)
i guess ur right about taking out their leaders but each strike u do u risk to harm civilians and when u kill civilians the terrorists expolit it to make their propaganda do they really fire their rockets to kill people in israel ? their rate of killing was misrable even before u got ur new defense system come on the hamas and the other organisations gain power by the wars im not a pacifist but maybe sometimes when they fire rockets from populated areas u coul let em go one day there must be an end to the violence
20. to 13 and 14
A ,   Belgium   (03.13.12)
You are both absolutely correct, and your suggestions should be seriously considered as soon as your illegal settlement of descendents of alien European squatters, thieves and murderers is dismantled and returned to its rightful owners, the Native Americans. Agreed?
21. thomas #19 no downside
Gee ,   Zikron Yaakov   (03.13.12)
According to international law Hamas is responsible for using their civilians as human shields and according to the same international laws - human shields are combatants. As for the propaganda - if we do nothing at all - we are blamed. If we respond in anyway - we are blamed. So it will happen regardless. Might as well do something to earn the critizism. What about our citizens? Do they not have a right to live without fear of attack? No we should send about 10-20 artillery battalions down there and let them each fire 1,000 times for each and every rocket or mortar.
22. # 20...Two wrongs don't make a right and I
Edithann ,   USA   (03.13.12)
thought Jews were supposed to be better than that...but I see you're not.. Comparisons are always the mark of losers.... Using a three hundred year old catastrophe to make a dumb case is even worse when it's 2000 years old and with not proof... TATA
23. @ 21...Gee, you haven't learned anything at all...
Edithann ,   USA   (03.13.12)
But Israel is to blame..and always has been... Repeating the same failed policy over and over and with increasing intensity, which again has failed, is the medical definition of insanity... Have all the doctors left Israel already? TATA
24. Rabbi Hartman ; as I have stated
arne ,   chicago usa   (03.13.12)
in my "talk backs" many times. To focus to much attention on Iran at this time might be a mistake. Gaza is the main event and only disproportional responses to terror can work.Israel, must put them in the dark. They cannot pick and chose when to behave or misbehave.For every rocket launched an important item to them must be eliminated (a bridge a road a power plant etc) Warnings of these happening should be given in advance.I would discontinue any target killings and wait and see what their reaction is.Don't forget we let the 1200 Vanson out , now we have to take responsibility for that "action"
25. michael #18 who are
arne ,   chicago usa   (03.13.12)
they to negociate with? seems your solution to the problem is no solution at all.
26. #14
Eaglebeak ,   Left Coast, USA   (03.13.12)
Without the Jews it wouldn't be the Holy Land. It would be just another crappy muslim territory.
27. #13
Eaglebeak ,   Left Coast, USA   (03.13.12)
I'm glad you find us funny. I hope we continue to amuse you for a long time. I think it's great that you and graczek are so attracted to a Jewish website. Perhaps your continuing association will allow us to rub off on you and make you better people.
28. what do you expect?
(03.13.12)
if you drive people of their land and steal their houses it is reasonable for them to fight back. The local Arabs were resisting the creation of a Jewish state on their land long before Israel was declared a state. Israel should have been created in America or somewhere else. Mr Hartmann , in your heart you must know you are wrong and that no amount of religious mumbo jumbo justifies the creation of Israel in Palestine in the face of overwhelming opposition from the natives.
29. regarding my post #20
A ,   Belgium   (03.13.12)
forgot something VERY important... TATA
30. #16
(03.13.12)
No you have it backwards,but that is because you,and people like you call good evil and evil good. Your actually on satans side,but don't even know it because your blinded by your hatred.
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