Posted on 08/10/2006 8:58:48 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
No doubt. :)
LOL...we need to send you over there and Drill Olmert for a while.
When they forget this, they get screwed. I read something yesterday on just that point on Arutz:
Whether we like it or not, we are G-d's people, G-d's nation. We don't have a choice in the matter. Some people of other nations become offended by this idea. They assume that, because we are G-d's chosen people, that we have some kind of superiority complex, that we think we are better, or more privileged, or more deserving of reward. The opposite is true. When you are a member of G-d's nation, more is expected of you. You are endowed with an extra serving of responsibility and obligation that is not put upon other people and other nations. We are expected to live with kodesh - holiness and separateness - according to Torah, and we are expected to be strong and forthright in our commitment to living that way. Sure, we have freedom of choice, just like any other person or nation, but if we chose to act like other nations, then G-d will not allow us to prosper.
The most obvious example of this concept is in Samuel (8:7) when the nation of Israel demands that the prophet Samuel appoint them a king like other nations. Samuel is upset by the request and asks G-d for guidance. G-d replies, "...it is not you whom they have rejected, but it is Me whom they have rejected from reigning over them." In other words, the only time the nation of Israel chooses to act like other nations is when Israel has rejected G-d.
My older sister used to say to me, "You must make the right decisions, or someone else will make them for you." Her warning, like the warning G-d gives the nation of Israel, infers that if the correct decisions are not made to accept responsibility in the world, the responsibility to choose will be curtailed. This is a continuation of the idea of kodesh. When Israel chooses to act like a nation obligated to moral responsibility and duty, we are blessed. When Israel acts like other nations, G-d withdraws blessings from us and limits our ability to function as a nation. We can choose to be kodesh, or G-d will chose to make us so.
This is why, when Israel acts to please the other nations and the other peoples of the world, we are cursed by the same people we tried to impress; but when we act in a correct manner, denying the importance of those people and nations around us and turning, instead, to G-d, we are successful and blessed. This is the irony of a Jew's identity in the world. We must be a nation that is not governed by world public opinion, but a nation that is governed by G-d and Torah, responsibility and obligation. The protection of our land, our people, and our way of life is a sacred responsibility - both in peace and war.
Michelle Nevada
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/article.php3?id=6442
No problem at all..
They sure are not happy with the way the doves have tried to run a war...
ok..Fox guy was reporting on the new orders..but the said wait ..another change in course just in..more after the break
LOL,,,that boy's got BIBI to fix him,,,
Now, YOU behave!!
Shall we all pitch in, rent a plane and take them over??? LOL
BTW, my son owns a Cessna, do you think they would fit in that?
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Lol!! Sitting here with my hand scratching my chin, thinking...ah...ah....No.
ok..no more info on the "new info" must of been a mix up..Israeli TV reporting offense now underway
"..another change in course just in..more after the break"
????
Lots of Louisianians end up in Houston...I did for a few years...but fewer of us end up in Utah...long story.
Channel 10 via Fox News:
Israeli offensive is getting underway.
no prob at all, cp...it happens...the fog of debate...LOL. BTW, thanks for the FReepmails, my FRiend
You're certainly welcome. :>)
I couldn't get to sleep last night..so I tuned into Air America for a few minutes...and that Mike Malloy they have in overnight is a piece of work...
He spewed ever peace activist cliche in the world..he still says that the reason the terrorists hate America is because we have bases in Arab countries...and we go out and target their women and children....blech
Hemmer sounds like SHep.
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