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September 1, 2024 10:23 am at 10:23 am #2310532ujmParticipant
The six Israeli Jewish hostages were murdered shortly before located. They were very close to where the Israeli Arab hostage was rescued a few days ago. Which is what alerted the terrorists that the army was nearby and would locate them.
Was it worth for Netanyahu to have not agreed to a cease fire, that would have freed the hostages before they were killed?
September 1, 2024 3:14 pm at 3:14 pm #2310606philosopherParticipantUjm, do you actually believe that Hamas would nicely give back all the hostages, repress their killing instincts and give up their culture of war and death and stop their murderous rampages on Israelis if Israel if pull would out of Gaza?
September 1, 2024 3:14 pm at 3:14 pm #2310617Always_Ask_QuestionsParticipantwhat alerted terrorists? maybe gunfire and bomb explosions? Tzahal was going thru that whole area.
Despite all the passions, the fact is that holding the border is an important issue. Ask yourself – why it may be a “red line” for Hamas? Obviously, because they intend to use the border for re-supply. So, even if you don’t have detailed information Israeli government has, you can conclude that this is an important issue. I am not telling you what the right solution is in the difficult situation, but at minimum this is not some personal preference by Bibi, but a serious security consideration that one needs to consider. Making the issue into a political pressure point against Israeli government is exactly what Hamas and other sonei Yisroel want to happen.
September 1, 2024 3:14 pm at 3:14 pm #2310647lebidik yankelParticipantPerhaps. Indeed, it seems likely that they were killed when it was clear to their captors that they would not play a role in hostage negotiations, but rather were to be freed soon by troops closing in. But lets say that the terrorists would have demanded a price for their lives that ultimately would cause more bloodshed than six lost lives, and Netanyahu would have bowed to pressure and agreed. Is that what any of us want?
I think the real argument here is whether we think that had the government wanted to, they could have both negotiated a deal and also not compromised Israel’s security. The other side is that inasmuch as that has not been the case, why imagine so?
September 1, 2024 8:17 pm at 8:17 pm #2310679Ploni Almoni18Participantujm is an Iranian funded bot
September 1, 2024 8:17 pm at 8:17 pm #2310695Menachem ShmeiParticipantWas it worth for Netanyahu to have not agreed to a cease fire, that would have freed the hostages before they were killed?
Yes, because a ceasefire could mean thousands more Jews killed ch”v, as Hamas has no reason not to repeat what they did on October 7th.
September 1, 2024 8:17 pm at 8:17 pm #2310703ParticipantParticipant“Was it worth for Netanyahu to have not agreed to a cease fire”
Not sure what universe you live on, but Netanyahu never “didn’t agree to a cease fire [sic]”. There never was a cease fire [sic] deal brokered.
September 1, 2024 8:17 pm at 8:17 pm #2310715DaMosheParticipantJoe, you’re woefully ignorant of what was being negotiated.
Hamas wasn’t going to release hostages. One of the main sticking points was that Hamas wanted to release dead bodies, not living hostages, and Israel said no, it must be living people. Hamas refused to give in. So Netanyahu agreeing to a deal would not have helped these people.September 2, 2024 9:28 am at 9:28 am #2310740ujmParticipantWe see how great Zionism and the State of Israel is. The great and powerful IDF protects Jews from our enemies. Whereas all over the world outside our great Zionist homeland paradise, Jews are being slaughtered every day by the dozens, whereas in the State under the protection of the IDF, only six Jews were murdered this week.
Previous terrorist attacks under the IDF’s watch, like 1,200 people on October 7 and other previous terrorists attacks killing Jews in our great and powerful State, were exceptions. But if you count the figures since the holiest date in the calendar, May 14, 1948 when our holy Zionist state was founded, through today, you will see the figures clearly show that Jews are safest in the areas where the IDF controls the “security”, versus other countries where many Jews live in, such as the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Iran, Morocco, France, Russia, and Argentina, where statistics show that since 1948 many many more Jews are maimed, murdered and die in wars than in the Great State of Israel.
September 2, 2024 9:28 am at 9:28 am #2310759SQUARE_ROOTParticipantUJM and HaKatan and the entire Neturei Karta
are De Facto allies of Hamas and Hezbollah and Iran,
whether they realize or not,
and whether they admit it or not.I have already explained why this is true many times,
right here in this Coffee Room,
and I will not waste my time by explaining it again.After 120 years, their status as ALLIES of the genocidal terrorist
bloodthirsty enemies of the Jewish People will be held against them,
and they will be in very big trouble,
even will all their piety and Talmudic scholarship.Additionally, UJM and HaKatan and the entire Neturei Karta
are guilty of promoting a provably-false version of
Jewish History, in which anti-Semitism and anti-Jewish
persecutions never really existed, until “THE ZIONISTS” appeared.Repeatedly promoting this provably-false version of Jewish History
will cause them to be included in the category of liars,
which the Talmud teaches will be punished in Olam HaBa,This provably-false version of Jewish History, in which anti-Semitism and
anti-Jewish persecutions never really existed, until “THE ZIONISTS” appeared,
was invented by people who did NOT KNOW the history of Jews in Arab lands
and did NOT KNOW the history of Islam, did not know the history of the
Middle East, did NOT KNOW much about Jewish History in general,
because their ancestors did NOT live in Muslim lands,
and because they believed in studying ONLY Talmud and nothing else,
and because they believed that studying Jewish History
is Bittul Torah, which is a sinful waste of time.September 2, 2024 9:28 am at 9:28 am #2310780Sam KleinParticipantAgreeing to a cease fire will just cause more terrorism Chas VShalom showing these terrorists that terror rules and pays off best and always wins. This is something serious that you can’t let terrorists win or it will just cause more years of terrorism Chas VShalom
September 2, 2024 3:15 pm at 3:15 pm #2310899smerelParticipantI don’t even get question. How does the tragic brutal murder of these hostages change the equation and situation any more than the tragic killing of Israeli soldiers does? It is true that if Israel does not give in to Hamas’s demands more of the hostages may be murdered R’L. It is true that Israel had the option to give in to whatever Hamas wanted long ago and save some more hostages. Therefore what? It was even a lot more clear before the Israeli response to October 7th started that there would be Israeli causalities fighting Hamas. Every single neutral miliary analyst back then gave us a MUCH higher estimate of what the casualty amount would be. They also told us that Israel would accomplish far less in fighting Hamas than it did. But with the exception of the pro Hamas crowd everyone agreed that it made sense for Israel to respond despite the inevitably of Israeli soldiers getting killed fighting Hamas R’L. It was understood that not doing so will cause even more casualties R’L over the long term. How does the murder of six hostages change that equation in the slightest?
September 2, 2024 3:15 pm at 3:15 pm #2310916GadolHadofiParticipantJoseph,
You’re a vile piece of stinking human excrement. You never gave a damn about the hostages and repeatedly mocked all efforts to free them. You and your twisted NK besties had the happiest Simchas Torah ever, celebrating the Hamas butchery of October 7th.
You’ve always hated anyone who doesn’t look and think like you do. Go slither back into the filthy sewer you oozed out of.
September 3, 2024 9:57 am at 9:57 am #2311072philosopherParticipantUjm, did you forget you are still in golus? The assimilated Jews in Europe also thought they were safe…until the Holocauset happened. You think that just because within the span of years from the Holocaust until now most of the Jews who died were from Israel and we are safe in the US…that is very naive.
September 3, 2024 11:01 am at 11:01 am #2311204GadolHadofiParticipantphilosopher,
Joseph, like his hate-filled NK buddies, believes that Zionism is directly responsible for every evil, including anti-Semitism, war, terrorism, COVID, hemorrhroids, the Holocaust, pogroms, Chmielnicki, the Inquisition, Blood Libels, the Crusades and even the Churban. They feel that all Jews should move to the new Jerusalem of Brooklyn and celebrate when those in Israel are killed.
September 3, 2024 6:52 pm at 6:52 pm #2311221jdf007ParticipantI believe killing hostages is a crime, war crime, and against international laws and norms no matter what anyone believes.
You have a small politically motivated group that will scream “Bibi”, while even the terrorists would’ve gone to the international courts if you did the same thing, instead of making it political nonsense.
So, what are you going to do about it? Cry “Bibi”?September 3, 2024 6:52 pm at 6:52 pm #2311300SQUARE_ROOTParticipantIf you believe that radical Muslims like Hamas and Hezbollah
can be trusted to negotiate honestly. or negotiate with honor,
or negotiate in good faith, then you DO NOT UNDERSTAND
the religious beliefs of radical Muslims, which teach that
negotiations with non-Muslims need not be honest,
and need not be sincere, and need not be complied with.Any treaty that Muslims make with non-Muslims,
can be broken and violated at any time,
if it benefits Islam or Muslims.
THIS IS WHAT ISLAM TEACHES!! THIS IS WHAT ISLAM TEACHES!!Hamas has intentionally broken 100% of the cease-fire
agreements that they made, over past 20 years.Since Hamas has proven themselves to be completely dishonest,
and completely dishonorable, and completely untrustworthy,
there is no logical reason to criticize Israel’s government
for its flaws with negotiating cease-fires with Hamas.September 4, 2024 8:34 am at 8:34 am #2311384Always_Ask_QuestionsParticipantIt looked at the beginning that the murder of hostages was done by retreating terrorists who could not move hostages and did not want to leave them. But it appears now that they also pre-planned using the murder for propaganda purposes. Hopefully, Israeli public will understand this process and that their emotions are being manipulated by terrorists.
September 4, 2024 8:34 am at 8:34 am #2311386philosopherParticipantGadolhadofi, your comment is hysterical 😀 the anti-Zionists blaming, among other things, hemorrhroids on Zionism 😂. But the truth is not too far from that. Anti-Zionists seriously blame the Holocaust on Zionism. That is absolutely disgusting, it’s a deliberate perversion of history. The blaming of terrorism on Zionism is disgustingas well. The Fakestenian terrorists EXCUSE is Zionism just like all the haters who have have killed Jews throughout history always had one excuse or another why they were “justified” to murder and persecute Jews.
September 8, 2024 9:35 am at 9:35 am #2312419ujmParticipantsmerel: That’s a fair answer to the question in the OP. You are saying that it is worth sacrificing the lives of the hostages in order to destroy Hamas.
philosopher: The State of Israel is part of golus. Jews aren’t safe there either (not that you need anyone to tell you that; you can simply read the news.) The problem lies when Zionists falsely claim that their State is the answer to golus and that their State is a safetynet for Jews around the world, when it is exactly the opposite.
And is it Gedolei Yisroel zt’l such as Rav Avigdor Miller zt’l, Rav Yitzchok Hunter zt’l, the Satmar Rebbe zt’l and many others who publicly stated that the Zionists bear guilt for the Holocaust.
Yes, the anti-Jewish terrorism *is* a result of Zionism. Prior to Zionism, which began around 1898 when Chief Zionist Theodore Herzl ym’s called to take over Palestine and thereby riled up the Arabic world, the Arab/Muslim world prior to Zionism (note that 1898 is an earlier date than the Zionists establishing their state in ’48) was much more Jewish-friendly and far less violent than the Christian/European world. Sure there were sporadic incidents of Arab/Muslim violence against Jews over the centuries; after all we are in Golus and there is NOWHERE to escape antisemitism until Moshia cubes. But the Arab/Muslim violence in 1,000 years leading up to the Balfour Declaration in 1917 was nothing even remotely close in quantity to the regular cycles of murder and genocide initiated against us Jews by the Christians in Europe, with their regularly scheduled blood libels, expulsions, Inquisitions, Crusades, Ghettos, annual Christmas-eve call to violence by their priests and bishops (hence Nitul Nacht), and, of course leading up to last but very much not least, their murder of six million Jews in the Holocaust in just this concluding century that our own grandfathers and grandmothers experienced and told all of us about.
No, the Arabs and Muslims didn’t even come close to out -competing the Christians and Europeans. Our Jewish brothers and sisters living under Arab and Muslim rule did much much much better (until Zionism existed) than us Jews living under Christian and European rule.
September 8, 2024 11:36 am at 11:36 am #2312598GadolHadofiParticipantJoseph,
So once again, this thread was never really about the hostages, for whom you could care less, but to beat your scrawny, heartless chest about the evils of Zionism.
You’re repulsive.
September 8, 2024 12:12 pm at 12:12 pm #2312614ujmParticipantDofi; Your comments are viewed the same as how we Jews look at Nazi’s critique of Jews.
September 8, 2024 12:13 pm at 12:13 pm #2312612Chaim87ParticipantThere are so many variables that complicate this discussion.
Firstly, what is the after game? I get it that the goal is lets say to stay in Gaza for another year or two. But there will be a time just like Lebanon when we tends will leave. Who controls the place then? And who says they will be better? Will it be a ” new group” who pretends to be peaceful (maybe the PA) and that will force Israel to allow more freedom but then when it turns around CVS they are even worse? Or keeping Hamas there but having a good excuse to box them in more is perhaps the option which may be the ceasefire option?
Secondly, the prisoner exchange. We like to say this was all Sinwar YMS brains. But was it also not Deif and mashal YMS?, Sure letting out prisioners can result in senior experienced operatives to turn around and kill us. But in reality there are just so many rutheless palestianins drinking the jihad kool-aid that if it’s not these animals its them.
Of course meanwhile hostages are suffering a holocaust and there is no viable way to free them by force rather CVS Hamas will kill them if we get to close
And what if we make a deal and go back in after our fellow brothers come home? The world will scream and we won’t be able to grab all the freed prisoners that have blood on their hands but we can get a nice amount.
I am not suggesting that this approach of standing frim with no ceasefire is wrong. From a torah perspective we have the mahram M rutenberg. Although R Michoel Ber Z’l did negotiate with nazis. I heard R Asher Weiss couldn’t pasken either way when asked. Ultimately I just don’t think its a simple as everyone makes itSeptember 8, 2024 12:14 pm at 12:14 pm #2312621philosopherParticipantUjm, there are almost no Zionists today except for the religious right-wingers. The secular are not Zionists anymore. No one said we are not in golus anymore. If someone feels safer Israel, kol hakavod to them, but you feel more secure in the US which is an illusion just like the Jews who felt safe in Germany before the Holocaust.
Bring me a source that Rav aHutner and Rav Avigdor Miller said that the Zionists bear guilt for the Holocauset.
Yes, overall the Muslims were better to the Jews however they still murdered Jews and stole Jewish children, especially girls. They forced tens of thousands of Jews to convert to Islam which so many did because they still served One God under Islam so it was not like converting to Christianity which is pure a”z. If the scores of Jews in the Arabian lands who converted to Islam would refuse to be converted like the Ashkenazim refused to be converted to Christianity, and therefore killed, many more Jews would die at the hands of the Muslims.
It’s utterly ridiculous, and only the due to brainwashing, to think that Zionism is to blame for current Muslim violence. In the last decade, Muslims have killed hundreds of thousands of their own Muslim people, they killed Yazidis, Christians, and other minorities, they have displaced millions of people, but sure, if not for Zionism they wouldn’t hurt Jews…what planet are you living on to believe that?!
September 8, 2024 4:07 pm at 4:07 pm #2312651Always_Ask_QuestionsParticipantAs some say here, situation is not that simple. Keep in mind that Israeli government has more information than CR posters. If they need certain conditions, they are most likely basing them on specific information they have. Do they have perfect information and doing perfect analysis, not necessarily, as evident by the posture they had a year ago. If you are so smart, you should have complained on Sep 7, 2023. If not, give the decision-makers some benefit of the doubt and do not participate in political actions that makes their work harder even if you are “following your feelings”.
September 8, 2024 4:09 pm at 4:09 pm #2312697GadolHadofiParticipantJoseph,
You define “we Jews” as yourself and your NK buddies, who are this generation’s devoted acolytes of Joseph Goebbels.
September 8, 2024 4:10 pm at 4:10 pm #23127032scentsParticipantujm.
“Was it worth for Netanyahu to have not agreed to a cease fire, that would have freed the hostages before they were killed?”
There was no ceasefire that the terrorists agreed to, other than a complete stop to the fighting, and the IDF should back out. Anything else that was deemed reasonable was rejected, per the neutral negotiators.
Yet, it’s absurd to accuse anyone else other than the terrorists who intentionally murdered innocent civilians. If we are going to blame others, why not on those who put restrictions on the Israelis and did not let them move in, get the job done quickly, at any price to the Palestinians, and move on? This is the should be the consequence of instigating war and killing civilians for no reason. Denying Israel to respond aggressively and limiting their response emboldens terrorists and allows them to operate.
September 8, 2024 4:10 pm at 4:10 pm #2312705ujmParticipantphilosopher: I’ve provided numerous quotes from Rav Hunter and Rav Miller on this site, in the Coffee Room, well over ten years ago. You can easily find them with an easy search. But to be helpful I’ll reprint on this thread a couple of quotes from them, for your benefit.
Virtually the entire secular Israeli society self-identifies as Zionists. Your attempting to redefine who is oumr isn’t a Zionists, even though those millions of Israeli folks themselves identify as Zionists, is simply not credible.
And, of course, we are in Golus. That is equally true whether we live in America, Australia or in Israel. That will unfortunately remain the case until the coming of Moshiach. The problem is that Zionists think Golus is over. You can right over here on this site see how many dozens and dozens of times many posters here who identify as Zionists refer to Chutz l’aarerz as “Golus” and Israel they refer to as outside of Golus. I did not say America is safer. I disputed the Zionists frequent false assertions that their State of Israel is some sort of safe haven for Jews and is, despite all evidence to the contrary, safer for Jews than living in Australia, Canada, America, England, France, Russia, Argentina, Cuba, Morocco or even Iran. It is just as likely, if not more likely, that the Jews in Israel may need to flee the Zionist State of Israel to other countries than vice versa. The Brisker Rosh Yeshiva said exactly this just a year or two ago, as widely reported here and elsewhere.
September 8, 2024 4:10 pm at 4:10 pm #2312706ujmParticipantRabbi Yitchok Hutner Z”L:
Sadly, even in our own circles, the mold for shaping public opinion lies in the hands of the State of Israel. An appropriate example of this dangerous process of selectively “rewriting” history may be found in the extraordinary purging from the public record of all evidence of the culpability of the forerunners of the State in the tragedy of European Jewry, and the sub-situation in is place of factors inconsequential to the calamity which ultimately occurred.
To cover its own contribution to the final catastrophic events, those of the State in a position to influence public opinion circulated the notorious canard that Gedolei Yisroel were responsible for the destruction of many communities because they did not urge immigration. This charge is, of course, a gross distortion of the truth, and need not be granted more dignity than it deserves by issuing a formal refutation. However, at the same time as the State made certain to include this charge as historical fact in every account of the war years, it successfully sought to omit any mention of its own contribution to the impending tragedy. While the State omitted in its own version of history is the second of the above-mentioned new directions in recent Jewish history. It is that phenomenon which we must now examine.
September 8, 2024 4:10 pm at 4:10 pm #2312707ujmParticipantRabbi Avigdor Miller, zt’l:
754. The Zionst leaders together with the Reform “rabbis” aided substantially in the destruction of the European Jews.
In July 1938 President Roosevelt convened the Evian Conference to consider the problem of Jewish refugees. At that time a German offer was made to release Jews at $250 per person. The Jewish Agency, headed by Golda Meir, decided to ignore the offer.
At this conference, the delegation from the Jewish Agency made no effort to influence the United States or any of the 32 other participating nations to open their gates to admit German Jews.
755. When a shipload of Jewish refugees on the Danube river were refused permission to disembark anywhere, Henry Montor the leader of the United Jewish Appeal explained that they could not be allowed to sail the Holy Land because “Palestine cannot be flooded with old people or with undesirables”. (Feb. 1, 1940).
768. Rabbi Weismandl sent urgent and impassioned appeals for small funds to stave off the deportation of thousands. The assimilationists and Zionists of Switzerland and other neutral countries and of the rich countries and of the rich communities overseas refused his request. The Reform “rabbis” and the disloyal, to whom the public Jewish funds were entrusted, scorned the messages which Rabbi Weissmandl smuggled out at the risk of his life, and they allowed the masses of Slovakian and Hungarian Jews to be transported to the German killing-centers.
769. It was because European Jews put their trust in atheistic Zionist leaders that these leaders everywhere became the lackeys of the Nazis in all the Ghettos. They were the machinery, which served efficiently in the task of keeping the Jews docile and of persuading and coercing them to be sent off to their deaths. No Torah leader ever cooperated with the Nazis in the destruction machinery.
September 8, 2024 4:11 pm at 4:11 pm #2312708ujmParticipant* [The Torah] forbids us to strive for the reunion or possession of the land by any but spiritual means
Rabbi S. R. Hirsch* Not via our desire did we leave the land of Israel, and not via our power will we come back to the land of Israel.
Rabbi S.D. Schneerson* [Zionists] want a state in order to make Jews into heretics.
Rav Chaim Soloveichik* The Zionists have attacked the center point of Judaism.
Rav Velvel SoloveichikBefore the Neila prayer on Yom Kippur Rabbi Avraham Yoshe Freund of Mansod said:
“It is not because they are Zionists that they are evildoers. It is because they are evildoers that they are Zionists.”
Rav Aharon Roth said:
“It is a miracle that these evildoers don’t command everyone to put on tefillin. It is possible that were they to do it, G-d forbid, it may be forbidden to put them on.”
The Chazon Ish said:
“If it is hard to understand the whole matter of the Golden Calf, by seeing the matter of the State, one can understand it. The matter of the State is similar to the Golden Calf”
Rav Elchonon Wasserman said:
“It is certain as the sun shines that the Land will vomit the Zionists out, because the Land is the Palace of the King….I don’t say this either to curse or to bless, but because these are things which are written in the Torah and which will take place.”
Rav Chaim Soloveitchik said:
“The Zionists aren’t taking Jews away from Judaism in order to have a State, THEY NEED A STATE IN ORDER TO TAKE JEWS AWAY FROM JUDAISM”
Rav Yechezkel Shraga Halberstam said:
“When a Jew recites ‘Hear O Israel, the Lord your G-d, the Lord is One’ he should have in mind rejecting all idolatry in the world, including Zionism, which is also idolatry.”
Rav Yissachar Dov of Belz said:
” There could be, before the arrival of Mashiach, that the Satan should succeed, and the evildoers should get a State in the Land of Israel. Their state would be a big danger for every Jew in material and spiritual matters.”
The heilige Chofetz Chaim said:
“In my opinion it is clear that the Zionists are from the offspring of Amalek.”
Rav Yitzchak Zev Soloveitchik (Reb Velvel) said:
“How can the little rabbis and heads of yeshivas take upon themselves the determination of things dealing with life and death? It is obvious that the partition will bring with it the anger and hostility of the Arabs and other nations of the world. This whole thing touches on the shedding of blood. HOW DO THEY HAVE THE ARROGANCE TO MAKE JUDGEMENTS DEALING WITH LIFE AND DEATH?
He also said:
“The Agudah is nothing, just money.” Rabbi Moshe Leib Diskin once said: “The rabbis of the generation should gather together and issue a writ of excommunication against the Zionists and eject them from the Jewish People, and make decrees against their bread and wine, and to forbid marrying with them, JUST LIKE OUR SAGES DID WITH THE SAMARITANS.”
Rav Shlomo Zalman Eherenreich said:
“The Zionists brought us to the Holocaust. It is well known that it was possible to redeem Jews from the Nazis with money, and save many hundreds of thousands of Jews in Hungary from the fire. THE ZIONIST LEADERS WHO NOW SIT IN GOVERNMENT PREVENTED IT!”
Rav Shaul Brach of Kashoa said:
“Before thinking up the idea of Zionism, Herzl wanted all Jews to convert to Christianity. When he was laughed at, he developed the second idea which was able to have more effect, since thousands of Jews began to believe they could be Jews without the Torah of Judaism.”
“I am also surprised at the leaders of the Agudah who want thousands of Jews to move to Eretz Israel. How can they ignore the welfare of their children, since there is no other place on earth where there is so much heresy and sectarianism as in the Holy Land in our day.”
September 8, 2024 4:11 pm at 4:11 pm #2312710Menachem ShmeiParticipantYes, overall the Muslims were better to the Jews however they still murdered Jews and stole Jewish children, especially girls.
Philosopher,
This is a very true and important point that the NK always ignore.
Remember the Rambam’s FIERY words about the Muslims after escaping the Almohads:
ידוע לכם שהקב”ה הפילנו במהמרות עונותינו בתוך אומה זו שהיא אומת ישמעאל שרעתם חזקה עלינו והם מתחכמים להרע ולמאוס אותנו כמו שגזר עלינו יתברך ואויבינו פלילים ושלא תעמוד על ישראל אומה יותר אויבת ממנה ולא אומה שהרעה בתכלית הרעה לדלדל אותנו ולהקטין אותנו ולמאוס אותנו כמוהם . . ואנחנו בעודנו סובלים שעבודה וכזביהם ושקרותם למעלה מיכולתנו שאין ביכולת האדם כח לסבול…
“No nation is as wicked as them or hates us as much as them.”Anyone who says that Muslims have historically always treated Jews nicely and peacefully is sadly mistaken.
September 9, 2024 12:21 am at 12:21 am #2312757Always_Ask_QuestionsParticipant> circulated the notorious canard that Gedolei Yisroel were responsible for the destruction of many communities because they did not urge immigration. This charge is, of course, a gross distortion of the truth,
Could someone clarify what the Rav meant here by “distortion of truth”? Especially in light of the poster’s further quotes.
September 9, 2024 12:21 am at 12:21 am #2312793philosopherParticipantUjm, what you wrote about Rabbi Hutner zt”l is copy and paste from somewhere? What is the source? You did not bring me a source where it says that he says what you claim he did. Furthermore, I’m not an expert on Rabbi Hutner’s biography, but he was a talmud of Rabbi Kook zt”l who mentored him for years and I can’t believe that he was so anti-Zionist if his mentor was Rav Kook.
What you write Rabbi Avigdor Miller zt”l said about Zionist leaders I can’t confirm nor deny. However, I see nothing that you wrote where he blamed the Zionist movement on the Holocaust, rather he blamed the atheist Zionist leaders for failing to do more to save Jews from the Holocauset. Thats quite different than blaming the Holocaust on Zionism as a movement. (Same as what you claim Rabbi Hutner said) One thing I can tell you as a fact I that I listened to many of Rabbi Miller’s tapes and on one tape someone asked what he says about the State of Israel. He said he cannot comment on that. The questioner repeated his question but Rabbi Miller said he cannot again that answer on that.
Here’s an audio on what he answered on the topic of voting in the Israeli elections which is a similar to what I heard that he is not poskening on the issue of the state of Israel, he is leaving it to other gedolim.
September 9, 2024 12:21 am at 12:21 am #2312906Always_Ask_QuestionsParticipantDiscussions of what happened during the war is missing the boat _literally_ – the boats that were available to at least some who wanted to leave troublesome Europe to almost any other place in the world, including goldene medinah and zionist Palestine. Beltzer Rebbe admitted after the war that he mislead people who relied on him, maybe some others also. In truth, it was not easy to predict the horrors, some like R Elhanan had a premonition. Poland as a whole, both non-Jews and Jews, felt very optimistic based on their victory in 1920 war against USSR, their strong cavalry, their flourishing democracy after a couple of century of being colonized by neighboring empires, and their alliances with major powers. Still, sober analysis could lead people to conclusion that living between Communists and Nazis is not an ideal place. The realities of 20th century were sinking in too slowly. Maybe if Yidden paid more attention to horrors of USSR (dismissed by some as excesses) and Nazi Germany (dismissed as happening to assimilated Jews only), they would react better.
Still, I wonder how many people in CR are descendants from those who left Europe and those who stayed. Show of hands?
September 9, 2024 12:21 am at 12:21 am #2312991ujmParticipantNo one ever said that Muslims have historically always treated Jews nicely and peacefully. This is a strawman.
September 9, 2024 12:21 am at 12:21 am #2312773philosopherParticipantMenachem Shmei, indeed I agree with you here. The Rambam himself wrote how evil they are. He knows the Muslims better than the anti-Zionists and even us Ashkenazim who always repeat that the Jews had it better under the Muslims. Jews also lived in peace under various Christian rulers too. I for one will not argue anymore that Jews suffered less under the Muslims. We see how they treat people today, they are not different today from the barbarism they displayed throughout history.
September 9, 2024 10:37 am at 10:37 am #2313034philosopherParticipantUjm, the strawman argument is that the Muslims became barbarians due to Zionism.
September 9, 2024 10:38 am at 10:38 am #2313036ujmParticipantphilosopher: The quotes from Rav Hunter are verbatim what he said in a speech and was published during his lifetime in Agudas Yisroel’s official publication “Jewish Observer”, in 1979.
Rav Hunter was one of the most fierce anti-Zionists. This is very well known. He learnt by Rabbi Kook for a few years as a young man and even had a picture of him in his Succah for a few years, but he took it down as some of Rabbi Kook’s shittos became better known. Rav Hunter never cited anything from Rabbi Kook in Chaim Berlin, where he was Rosh Yeshiva nor did Rav Hunter ever quote Rabbi Kook in any of his Seforim, including Pachad Yiztchok.
What I quoted above from Rav Avigdor Miller zt’l is his own words, that he published in one of his Seforim. It has sold hundreds of thousands of copies, and you can buy it today in almost any Seforim store.
“<i>The Zionist leaders together with the Reform “rabbis” aided substantially in the destruction of the European Jews.”
In July 1938 President Roosevelt convened the Evian Conference to consider the problem of Jewish refugees. At that time a German offer was made to release Jews at $250 per person. The Jewish Agency, headed by Golda Meir, decided to ignore the offer.
At this conference, the delegation from the Jewish Agency made no effort to influence the United States or any of the 32 other participating nations to open their gates to admit German Jews.
Rabbi Weismandl sent urgent and impassioned appeals for small funds to stave off the deportation of thousands. The assimilationists and Zionists of Switzerland and other neutral countries and of the rich countries and of the rich communities overseas refused his request.
It was because European Jews put their trust in atheistic Zionist leaders that these leaders everywhere became the lackeys of the Nazis in all the Ghettos. They were the machinery, which served efficiently in the task of keeping the Jews docile and of persuading and coercing them to be sent off to their deaths.</i>
Which parts of the above direct verbatim words of Rav Miller zt’l do you not understand that he is laying blame for what occurred to the Jews in the Holocaust directly at the feet of the Zionists? His language could not have been any clearer.
September 9, 2024 10:39 am at 10:39 am #2313037ujmParticipantphilosopher: Somebody would need to be willfully blind to not see how the Arab/Muslim attitude and relationship with Jews changed after the advent of Zionism (which set forth its goals in 1898 and, especially, after they got official British backing in 1917 with the Balfour Declaration that put the Arab/Muslim world on notice that the Zionists wanted to take over the Holy Land and had serious backing to accomplish doing so.)
Once the Zionists riled up the Arab world, they went from 1,000+ years of mostly peaceful relations with Jews living in the Arab/Muslim lands, and yes it was *mostly* peaceful (despite occasional tragedies) where Jews and the Arabs/Muslims lived side by side. It was the Ottoman Turks who invited in and saved a huge portion of our Jewish brothers and sisters when Christian Spain and Portugal expelled them and forcibly converted hundreds of thousands of Sephardic Jews to Christianity under the threat of torture and death by burning at the stake by the Church-run Inquisition, to the terrorism and murder and expulsion of Jews from the Arab countries after the Zionist got the Balfour Declaration and later prepared to seize the Holy Land by Zionist terrorism against the British soldiers in Palestine.
Unlike in Christian Europe where they were genocidal maniacs against the Jews for almost 2,000 years, with official and public backing by the Pope and Church down to national, regional and local political entities throughout the European continent from the time of the Crusades shortly after Rashi’s life through the Holocaust, which occurred during our own grandparents lives. With expulsions (including by England among other European nations), inquisitions, blood libels, tach v’tat, pograms led by the church and Christian peasent masses and what not occurring every Monday and Thursday for 2,000 years starting from Roman times (Romans are Europeans and that’s where Christianity spread from) when they destroyed our Bais Hamikdash right down to our own times.
September 9, 2024 10:41 am at 10:41 am #2313109Menachem ShmeiParticipantInteresting thought about Muslim vs Christian Jew-hatred:
When large numbers of Jews, along with major Jewish infrastructure, were located in Christian Europe, most of the significant antisemitism came from Christians.
However, after mass migration to Eretz Yisroel, which is surrounded by Muslim nations, Muslims suddenly became the primary source of antisemitism.Perhaps this shift had less to do with Zionism and more to do with the fact that Jews face hatred wherever they are.
September 9, 2024 11:44 am at 11:44 am #2313198ujmParticipantMenachem: That theory doesn’t add up. Large numbers of Jews lived *in* Arab/Muslim countries for over 1,000 years. Yet the “significant antisemitism” started exactly when the Zionists were gaining traction to take over Palestine. Before that relations between the Arabs and the Jews living in their countries were *mostly* peaceful. Unlike our European/Christian hosts.
September 9, 2024 4:18 pm at 4:18 pm #2313242philosopherParticipantUjm, so are you going to blame Muslim barbarism and bloodshed throughout all of history, throughout all the centuries, on Zionism? What about the fact that they killed hundreds of thousands of their own people and other minorities in the last decade? Is that also because of Zionism? All of their “holy wars” that they fight between themselves, the decapitation they do on their own people, the violence, etc. they only do that to other Muslims and other minorities but they wouldn’t dare harm Jews? Yes, I’m sure it was Zionism that made the bloodthirsty, violent, pereh adam kidnap and murder Jews…
September 9, 2024 4:20 pm at 4:20 pm #2313247SQUARE_ROOTParticipantDear UJM,
Your false version of Jewish History has been refuted many times,
both inside and outside this Coffee Room;
but you don’t know when to stop, because you are a
hate-filled, close-minded, stubborn, brainwashed fanatic.You are also a De Facto ALLY of:
Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, Iran & the Islamic State (ISIS).Here we go again:
[1] Mohammed, the founder of Islam,
beheaded more than 800 Jewish men,
and made their widows and orphans into slaves.[2] The Koran, chapter 5, verse 82,
says that Jews and polytheists are THE WORST ENEMIES OF MUSLIMS.
Not just enemies of Muslims, but “THE WORST” enemies of Muslims.[3] The Hadith (one of Islam’s most important holy books)
teaches that The Last Day cannot come until 100% of Jews are DEAD.This means that ALL JEWS MUST DIE,
even those Jews who are non-Zionist, even those Jews who are anti-Zionist,
even women, even teenagers, even children, even toddlers, even babies.The Hadith also teaches that when The Last Day comes,
rocks and trees will miraculously begin to speak, and say:“Muslim! A Jew is hiding behind me! Arise, and slay [kill] him!”
Islam also teaches that Jews are dishonest & wicked & go to Hell.
[4] This is a very small sample of Muslim hate against Jews.
But I do not have all day to do this, so I will stop here,
because “a word to the wise is sufficient”.Sincerely,
SQUARE_ROOT========================
Once full-scale war broke out after the State of Israel
declared its existence on May 14, 1948 [CE]
Reb Shraga Feivel’s [Mendlowitz] thoughts
were never far from Eretz Yisrael.A group of students saw him outside the Mesivta building
one day, talking excitedly with Rabbi Gedaliah Schorr
and gesticulating rapidly with the newspaper held in his hand.“If I were your age,” he [Rabbi Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz]
told the students, “I would take a gun and go to Eretz Yisrael.”SOURCE: Reb Shraga Feivel: the life and times of Rabbi Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz,
the architect of Torah in America (chapter 26, page 338) by Yonoson Rosenblum
for Artscroll / Mesorah, year 2001, based on Aharon Sorasky’s Shelucha DeRachmana,
ISBNs: 157819797X, 9781578197972, 1578197961, 9781578197965========================
In a conversation with the Satmar Rav, shortly after his talk
on the U.N. declaration, Reb Shraga Feivel [Mendlowitz]
was subjected to the sharpest criticism for his “Zionist leanings.”Later he told his family, “I could have answered him [the Satmar Rav]
Chazal for Chazal, Midrash for Midrash, but I did not want to
incur his wrath, for he is a great man and a tzaddik.”He added with a twinkle, “And besides, he has a fiery temper”…
SOURCE: Reb Shraga Feivel: the life and times of Rabbi Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz,
the architect of Torah in America (chapter 26, page 335 to 336) by Yonoson Rosenblum
for Artscroll / Mesorah, year 2001, based on Aharon Sorasky’s Shelucha DeRachmana,
ISBNs: 157819797X, 9781578197972, 1578197961, 9781578197965September 9, 2024 7:29 pm at 7:29 pm #2313321ujmParticipantphilosopher: You keep repeating that same word out mantra. We are in golus. We’ve been in golus for 2,000 long years. *Everywhere* in golus we WILL experience antisemitism and anti-Jewish hatred, including of the violent variety. This will not change until Moshiach comes. Not in America, not in Canada, not in Australia and not in the Zionist “paradise” of the State of Israel, that falsely claims to be a Jewish safetynet, all the while Jews under Zionist sovereignty experience more violence and death than Jews not under Zionist sovereignty.
Yes, there was violence against Jews in the Arab lands throughout our long history. Just as there was everywhere else. But the violence under the Arabs pre-Zionism was far far less than elsewhere that Jews lived in. How many times does this *fact* need repeating?
And anyone who is honest and not willfully blind about Jewish history knows that Arab/Muslim violence against Jews went from occurring infrequently and sporadically pre-Zionism to becoming virtually non-stop, systematic, frequent and extremely violent ever since zionism.
I ask you with the greatest respect to please open your eyes and not allow feelings of pride in the State blind you from these historical and indisputable facts.
September 10, 2024 10:01 am at 10:01 am #2313370philosopherParticipantUjm, you keep repeating the same mantras yourself.
1. Meanwhile you have nothing to remark about the Rambam’s declaration about the Muslims, the violent Muslim rampages on communities that did not accept their religion, the Arab/Muslims have always been violent, period. You have not responded to the fact Muslims committed hundreds of thousands murders of non-Jews in the last decade. Zionism has nothing to do with Arab/Muslim violence, period.
2. I bought you a link of the recording of Rabbi Miller regarding the Israeli elections, he did not say you cant vote, simply said hes leaving up to other Rabbis (many more Rabbis encouraged/encourage voting in the elections than the anti-Zionist rabbis). You wrote what Rabbi Miller and Rabbi Hutner wrote against the atheist Zionist LEADERS, it was not against the Zionist movement. You ignored the fact that Rabbi Hutner learned under Rav Kook so he couldn’t have been an anti-Zionist. I heard Rabbi Miller on a recording say he can’t answer a question about Zionism. I believe when he was younger he was anti-Zionist and in his later years, as the Chareidi communities became more and bigger he did not speak against Zionism.
3. I don’t have pride in the State. I am against the secular “education” the Israeli government provides for Jewish children. I am against the secular government giving citizenship for non-Jews, i was against the Israeli government giving away land “for peace” . I am against a lot of things the Israeli government does. But I’m also against Jews not defending themselves. I support Jews having an army and fighting their enemies.September 10, 2024 10:01 am at 10:01 am #2313423ujmParticipantphilosopher: Are you now sufficiently satisfied to accept that born Rav Yitzchok Hutner zt’l and Rav Avigdor Miller zt’l were not only both fiercely antizionists but that they both placed blame for the death of Jews during the Holocaust directly at the feet at the Zionist reshoyim?
Or do you need additional quotations from these two Gedolei Yisroel zt’l, in addition to their direct verbatim holy words I quoted for you above where they are very clear about this?
September 10, 2024 11:54 am at 11:54 am #2313550GadolHadofiParticipantJoseph,
Do you really think that R. Hutner, zt”l and R. Miller, zt”l are having nachas from your unwavering hatred against Jews and disdain for the hostages?
September 10, 2024 11:57 am at 11:57 am #23137271ParticipantUJM what have you done constructively to help the hostages or the situation in Israel?
September 10, 2024 2:49 pm at 2:49 pm #2313774GadolHadofiParticipant1,
By constantly criticizing other Jews and spewing lengthy posts, Joseph hopes to destroy the Zionists entity, perhaps by boring its supporters into submission. Then, his NK messiah will arrive and maybe free the hostages, if he feels like it.
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