Posted on 07/23/2012 2:45:57 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
At a panel discussing the life of Israel's first Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion, President Shimon Peres said Monday that Ben-Gurion was a “religious Jew.” Peres said that Ben-Gurion “did not fight against the religious, but against the attempt to turn religion into a bureaucracy. Ben-Gurion saw himself as a religious mam. He was the greatest diplomat of them all, and he had a prophetic vision.
“He did not make a mistake in anything...
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Peres has an excuse in that he is almost 89. Plus, part of the job of a president in a parliamentary democracy seems to involve saying stupid things so the responsible politicians don’t have to. But when I think about it, that sounds like Biden’s job also.
Joe Biden keeps saying things that embarrass Obama. So long as he stays to that script, we’ll take him.
yeah, the pais cutter was religious.
Also an informer (a crime so bad, an extra blessing was added to the “shmoneh Esrei” [18 blessings] against informers, bringing their number up to 19). Also possibly a Nazi collaborator with regards to the Jews of Hungary (since Rudolph Castner had a sudden “accident,” we’ll probably never know), who together with Teddy Kollek saw to it that Eichman’s offer to spare Jews in exchange for trucks and other essential supplies never was heard by either the Jewish Agency or the British. “Religious”?! I might visit his grave if I ever need to take a p@#$ and I’m in the area.
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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Dont forget he had Rabin try to murder Begin in cold blood.
On the worst day of Begin’s life and the best day of Ben Gurion’s, the man was unfit to shine Begin’s shoes or wipe his a@#.
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