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Rabbi uses National Menorah lighting to trash Obama UN move
Washington Examiner ^ | 25 Dec 16 | Daniel Chaitin

Posted on 12/26/2016 3:12:38 AM PST by SkyPilot

The rabbi in charge of the National Hanukkah Menorah lighting used the ceremony, held Sunday just steps from the White House, to criticize the Obama administration's decision to allow the United Nations to pass a resolution condemning Israeli settlements in the West Bank and portions of Jerusalem as illegal.

Rabbi Levi Shemtov, executive vice president of American Friends of Lubavitch, turned an Obama administration official's speech about "fighting darkness with light" on its head, evoking Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — who has had an antagonistic relationship with President Obama — and urging Jews not to despair about the "darkness" cast by the United Nations vote.

Shemtov spoke after remarks by Adam Szubin, acting treasury undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, and the Obama administration's representative Sunday at the event.

Szubin delivered a short speech focusing mainly on the significance and symbology of candles and light as they pertain to Hanukkah and later helped to light a 30-foot menorah. "Secretary Szubin spoke before of fighting darkness with light," Shemtov said. "I remember those words being spoken to a particular man by the Rebbe [Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson] many many years ago on Simchat Torah," an annual Jewish holiday which marks the conclusion of one reading of the Torah and beginning of another.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: hanukkah; israel; obama; un
May God bring the curse of His wrath upon Obama and his henchmen, and not our nation.

"I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse."

Genesis 12:3


1 posted on 12/26/2016 3:12:39 AM PST by SkyPilot
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To: SkyPilot

Not sure the headline fits the article. The Rabbi’s statements were pretty gentle - he expressly disclaimed harsh rhetoric. Pretty restrained, I would say.

God grant us the ability to get through the last little bit of this barbarian’s hold on power.


2 posted on 12/26/2016 3:45:45 AM PST by JOHN ADAMS
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To: SkyPilot

...like Odungo NEVER EVER used a national stage to degrade,mock, chastise.... a nation, a race,a religion, a political party, a company,etc etc.


3 posted on 12/26/2016 3:56:22 AM PST by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: SkyPilot

Trump will have Israel’s back.


4 posted on 12/26/2016 3:58:55 AM PST by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: Doogle

Cannot wait for Trump to be President.


5 posted on 12/26/2016 4:00:04 AM PST by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: Biggirl

..,.hang in there, the worst is yet to come...
the juvenile POS is not done....


6 posted on 12/26/2016 4:05:21 AM PST by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: Biggirl
I feel Trump will be a great blessing, but Professor Dershowitz was correct in his analysis that I watched him give on TV. This UN resolution is not something that Trump can overturn, and not something he can easily reverse.

It is also not an insignificant resolution. Obama and his evil cabal waited for years to spring this trap upon Israel. Obama and Samantha Power (and others) crafted the verbiage with the assistance of the Muslim Brotherhood and groups like Hamas (as well as the "Palestinian Authority").

This resolution will allow international courts and institutions to punish and attack Israel at every venue. It outlaws Jews from exercising their rights in Jerusalem itself, including their holy Wailing Wall!

And I feel Barry Hussein is not done yet.

War may be coming. We should prepare ourselves for that possibility.


7 posted on 12/26/2016 4:29:14 AM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: SkyPilot

What childish food he eats.


8 posted on 12/26/2016 4:44:18 AM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: SkyPilot

I really doubt that war is coming.

The UN is not as powerful as we think. While Mr. Trump will have a hard time fighting this, the UN is exposing itself as a less than powerful organization.


9 posted on 12/26/2016 5:22:11 AM PST by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: Doogle

I cannot wait for his his hands to be pulled away come January 20, 2017, at high noon.


10 posted on 12/26/2016 5:25:15 AM PST by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: SkyPilot

Hey, the Jews mostly voted for Obama...they own the outcome. Same for the blacks, their neglect is their problem. Elections have consequences...as we are about to witness shortly.


11 posted on 12/26/2016 5:44:59 AM PST by ThePatriotsFlag ( Anything FREELY-GIVEN by the government was TAKEN from someone else.)
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To: Doogle; Biggirl

“..,.hang in there, the worst is yet to come...
the juvenile POS is not done....”


Watch the walking, talking POS recognize a new nation in the midst of Israel. At least Trump can reverse that, but I believe that dozens of nation’s will follow that action within hours, and Trump cannot fix that. Israel will have to do so but expelling all Arabs who refuse to swear an oath of loyalty to Israel.

Obama is, indeed, like a pidgeon on a chessboard (as Putin once suppisedly described him): “The pigeon knocks over all the pieces, craps on the board, then struts around like it won the game.”


12 posted on 12/26/2016 5:49:25 AM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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13 posted on 12/26/2016 6:00:56 AM PST by SJackson (The Pilgrims—Doing the jobs Native Americans wouldn’t do !)
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To: ThePatriotsFlag

Mostly the JINOS did. Most liberal Jews are non-religious or only moderately religious (kinda like liberals of other faiths - even Hillary claims to be a Christian, lol!). I blame it partly on the fact that so many Jews settled in NY when they immigrated. NY is a breeding ground for liberal thought.


14 posted on 12/26/2016 7:59:19 AM PST by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
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To: Ancesthntr

....Yet one has to clean up the “mess” left by such a bird so Mr. Trump and Company will have A LOT TO DO.


15 posted on 12/26/2016 8:24:50 AM PST by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: SkyPilot; Mr. M.J.B.
This UN resolution is not something that Trump can overturn, and not something he can easily reverse.

This US election was not something that Trump could win, and not polls he could easily reverse.

Exodus 10

1. And the Lord said to Moses, Go to Pharaoh; for I have hardened his heart, and the heart of his servants, that I might show these my signs before him:
2. And that you may tell in the ears of your son, and of your grandson, what things I have done in Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them; that you may know that I am the Lord:

Signs rain down from above. The name is Trump. Emblazoned on towers across the globe no less.

Now a signature is a man's name, and what he is known for.

1 Sam 15

28. And Samuel said to him [Saul], The Lord has torn the kingdom of Israel from you this day, and has given it to a neighbor of yours, who is better than you:
29. And also the NETZACH* of Israel will not lie nor change his mind; for he is not a man, that he should change his mind:

*nitzach = "trump" ~ NTC's Hebrew and English Dictionary

The carpetbagger queen NY Senator "from Chappequa" (elevation 330 ft.) had the kingdom torn from her and given to a neighbor of hers from Queens, who is better than she.

"Donald Trump" (דונלד טראמפ) = 330

For he is not a man, that he should change his mind. One US embassy in JerUSAlem, coming up.

What are the odds?

דונלד

16 posted on 12/26/2016 10:24:59 AM PST by Ezekiel (All who mourn(ed!) the destruction of America merit the celebration of her rebirth.)
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