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Gantz: We have no choice but to keep winning
Yoav Zitun
Published: 14.04.13, 19:31
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1. Fight & Win
Get Real ,   UK   (04.14.13)
May the IDF remain strong and prepared to face Israel's enemies.
2. Strange Coincidence
Ariel ben Yochanan ,   Kfar Tapuah, Efraim   (04.14.13)
B"H - Isn't it strange that we are doing the same thing for 65 years, fighting and fighting and fighting and fighting with no peace in sight, yet by fighting and by fighting and by fighting and by fighting we will get peace, according to Ganz? Isn’t this the very description of insanity? Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result every time? Well, maybe after 65 years of fighting (and fighting and fighting and fighting and fighting) it would make sense to look into the matter and change strategy as a nation and accept Torah on ourselves? You see, peace is a Torah quantity that G-d gives, for compliance, or takes away, as a punishment for rebellion. In Dvarim 32:21 it says: "They have provoked My jealousy with a non god, provoked My anger with their vanities. Thus, I will provoke their jealousy with a non people, provoke their anger with a foolish nation". With other words Hashem. our G-d tells us in no uncertain terms not only that it is He who gives us the "palestians", a non-nation to anger us with, but He also tells us the reason of why He is doing this to us: Our idol worshipping. Conclusion: If we stopped idol worshipping the State, the IDF, other secular State institutions, our enemies would dissolve like snow under the Sun. So, why don't we just do that? A possible answer is that 65 years of fighting produced an elite class that owes its livelihood to the war effort. This elite leads the country and peace for them would be the greatest disaster imaginable. It’s not a coincidence that Ganz doesn’t promise us peace, rather more and more fighting: After all, this is what he and his cronies get paid for.
3. Total Israel victory brings permanent peace.
Chaim ,   Israel   (04.14.13)
Why don't Israeli leaders get the obvious message of WW II? What is the obvious message? Total resounding victory brings permanent peace. Europe and Asia are now enjoying permanent peace because the WW II Allies had the courage to resoundingly defeat Germany and Japan; rather than have a "peace process" with them. Do we want peace? Of course. Than we must totally defeat "Palestinian" poseurs and arrange their permanent departure from our land.
4. History shows minority Jews will lose to majority, again
Steve Benassi ,   Silver Bay, MN USA   (04.15.13)
5. 4
(04.15.13)
israel is 75% jewish. arabs are 20%. no demographic issues. and the jewish religious have double the amount of kids lately in the past 7 years while the palestinian and arab woman reduced her kids from 8-10 to 4-5. get the message? no one here is really worried. why should you be?
6. #2 Strange Coincidence.
MR ,   NJ,USA   (04.15.13)
Since when is there a record in Tanach that Hashem asked someone to sacrifice their sanity? Abraham was made promises by G-d after he ran during the night to rescue Lot and his fellow Sodomites from captivity. Because Lot was his nephew. Simple. He lived in the world. And so must we. Life comes before peace. Israel's children, for the most part, have the chance for a good life in Israel, without a peace which may never come until one side is defeated or dies. The enemies of Israel are no more rational, unfortunately, than the one who says Abraham should have stayed home and prayed for Lot, and they will not give up until they are defeated totally. Though G-d decides the outcome, Psalm 127 does not tell the wise, which #2 patently is not, not to guard the city. Only that those who guard do so in vain if G-d does not also guard. Those that lost their lives built a wall of flesh and bone even around crazies like #2. And those like Gantz have taken up that same torch. May we all give them the honor they justly deserve for this. For the risk they take every day of joining the ranks of the dead, so that those with no gratitude can live lives of whatever tranquility their lack of sanity allows them. So may G-d answer their willing sacrifice, which may be of their own flesh, and grant them complete success, health, compassion, Torah and offspring as valorous as themselves.
7. To #2 - avery foolish argument, before the state of
bob k ,   orlando usa   (04.15.13)
Israel existed the Arabs were opposed to a Jewish state. The Arabs have been killing Jews since Islam began. In 1837 there was an earthquake in Safed and the Arabs there blamed the Jews and massacred them. Now the IDF, border patrol and police are there to protect as much as possible the Jews from Arab assailants. No-one in Israel profits from wars, no elite benefits while everyone else suffers. This is delusional thinking on your part. Be realistic.
8. john
john ,   toronto   (04.15.13)
If one does not move to the next step which is peace ,Israel is still learning.I hope for the sake of the people that peace will arrive.
9. profit
john ,   toronto   (04.15.13)
Someone is profiting from wars otherwise it would not be a way of life.It is a crime to profit from wars .
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