Posted on 05/27/2018 5:48:15 AM PDT by Texas Fossil
The one you posted is by far the most impressive of those that I have seen so far. Thanks for posting Texas Fossil.
Thank you. When I posted it, I had not seen other examples.
I suspect Franklin Mint was involved in the other two I later saw. This does not look like theirs.
The significance of this is the Relationship of President Donald J. Trump and the state of Israel. He has deep connections there going back to a young age. He and Bibi have known each other a long time.
I did not take your statement as personal. If my response seemed that way, I am sorry.
Defending Israel is a natural impulse with me. I am not Jewish, but feel attached to them in history. And my grandson has some Jewish blood.
There are many U.S. Jews who are Leftist, die hard Democrat and Socialist to the core. I have no reasonable explanation for that and I have tried to understand it.
I once read Hanna Arendt’s “The Origins of Totalitarianism” trying to come to grips with how the Holocaust was allowed to happen. It was one of the most difficult reads I’ve ever experienced. It is a language issue, but also a sentence structure issue. Not sure who translated it.
Long and short of that, I failed to fully understand what I was trying to learn.
The Biblical half-shekel it represents is about 8 grams of silver. Half-shekel was the required per capita contribution to the Temple. (Exodus 30:13)
That would be about $4.25 currently.
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