Posted on 05/07/2017 11:25:12 AM PDT by kindred
"While I did not notice anything on the board behind us at the time, I must say that I am happy to see that repealing the catastrophic Iran nuclear agreement, and moving the American Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, remain important to the administration." — Rabbi Shmuley Boteach
[Charisma News] If you are even sporadically following American politics this week, you likely at some point saw a photo of "America's Rabbi," Shmuley Boteach, with White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon—a photo that has since been declared "The Whiteboard Seen 'Round the World." (Photo Credit: Twitter photo)
You're also probably well aware of the hateful things many liberals are saying about Bannon—vile charges of anti-Semitism that are being repeated on an almost hourly basis by Democrats and their compliant liberal mainstream media allies. Well, Rabbi Shmuley addressed both of those matters, and so much more, in a lengthy article he penned for Breitbart News.
In part, he wrote:
In my religion, defaming someone unfairly is a sin. And there is zero evidence that Steve Bannon has anything but warmth and respect toward the Jewish people. I have my disagreements with Bannon on some important policies. But the level of hate I have witnessed on my Twitter feed over the past few days disappoints and saddens me. We have to learn to live with each other and respect each other's views. Argue, disagree—but not hate.
All of us are responsible. And all of us must make more of an effort at harmony in America so that we can disagree but without the levels of acrimony that are becoming unacceptable.
Yesterday, I invited Bannon to our organization's annual Champions of Jewish Values International Awards Gala, being held on May 21 at New York's Cipriani. The dinner will also feature President Paul Kagame of Rwanda, the only living person to have stopped a genocide, which he did in 1994 after nearly one million Tutsis had been hacked to death by Hutu genocidaires. We are also extremely honored to host Martin Luther King III as a keynote speaker at our gala.
At the White House this week, after thanking Steve for his support of Israel on its 69th birthday, we took a picture, and he allowed me tweet it.
Needless to say, the picture—with the whiteboard of campaign promises and priorities in the background—seems to be the tweet heard around the world.
While I did not notice anything on the board behind us at the time, I must say that I am happy to see that repealing the catastrophic Iran nuclear agreement, and moving the American Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, remain important to the administration.
Many condemned me for the picture, and a steady stream of hate has been channeled, one again, in my direction. That will not deter me from standing up for friends of Israel and my people.
Charisma News
Matthew 21
2Saying unto them, Go into the village over against you, and straightway ye shall find an ass tied, and a colt with her: loose them, and bring them unto me. 3And if any man say ought unto you, ye shall say, The Lord hath need of them; and straightway he will send them. 4All this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, 5Tell ye the daughter of Sion, Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt the foal of an ass. 6And the disciples went, and did as Jesus commanded them, 7And brought the ass, and the colt, and put on them their clothes, and they set him thereon. 8And a very great multitude spread their garments in the way; others cut down branches from the trees, and strawed them in the way.
Trump better stick to Bannon and view with deep suspicion that peace deal with arabs totally not interested in studying civilization let alone Israel.
Just when Maher talks of incest with Ivanka, Trump better not let her and Jared fck it up litterally.
This Bannon-Rabbi show is a coup he needs to be part of, imo, and let go of this liberalism in the dust bin of history of (un)civilization.
Bannon is a good conservative and how the liberals of DC hate him and all patriotic American Conservatives and their Christian allies. America is not diverse, she is becoming perverse because of liberalism and it consequent mental illness and violent behaviors.
I like Scmuley, but why is it that no one blinks when HE says it, but when ANY honky says that the entire world screams HOLOCAUST..?
I like the Shmulester. He did go a bit off on Passion of the Christ, but who among us has not gone batspit crazy now and then.
Thank heavens for the two Bannons!
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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I didn't see anything objectionable on the whiteboard. I suspect Bannon knew it was in the background. Surprised no one complained he used a white board.
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