Posted on 06/17/2003 10:43:43 AM PDT by Tamar1973
The Lubavitch movement is now officially a political opponent of the Sharon government. Many Chabad rabbis have signed a declaration stating that the adoption of the Road Map means that the Sharon government no longer has "the political right to exist." The declaration was read aloud at Chabad gatherings last night all over the world. Yesha representatives led by Elyakim Ha'etzni and Moshe Leshem took part last night in one of these in Bat Yam, near Tel Aviv. All speakers there called on the NRP and National Union to quit the government.
Do you have a direct quote from a Chabad to back that up? Slander is a serious offence in Jewish culture.
That wasn't Lubavitch.
Chokmah, binah, da'at. I wonder what the American version is. It certainly isn't the church in the Bush.
and where will the 61 votes come from???
-excerpt- "But family members of the slain leader, who hold the right-wing Netanyahu partially responsible for the political climate in which Rabin was killed, asked that the prime minister not speak at the ceremony."
http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9605/30/israel.forgot.rabin/index.html
-excerpt- "Before his death, right-wing demonstrations portrayed Rabin as an enemy of the state."
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/books/1998/9812.brook.death.html
-excerpt- "a group of Israelis led by Avigdor Eskin gathered outside the home of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Wrapped in prayer shawls, they intoned the ancient Aramaic chant Pulsa da-Nura ("Lashes of Fire"), a Kabbalistic curse: "I deliver to you, the angels of wrath and ire, Yitzhak, the son of Rosa Rabin, that you may smother him and the specter of him, and cast him into bed, and dry up his wealth, and plague his thoughts, and scatter his mind that he may be steadily diminished until he reaches his death. Put to death the cursed Yitzhak. May [he] be damned, damned, damned!" After Rabin's assassination one month later - as Israel and the world mourned a great statesman - Eskin boasted of his prowess on Israeli television. The curse worked."
http://www-tech.mit.edu/V116/N53/rabin.53w.html
-excerpt-"According to Nomi Hazan, another member of parliament with her, the attacker called the women "traitors" and "murderers," as Rabin's opponents had before he was killed."
You going to address any of this or just keep up with the name calling?
None of this had or has anything to do with Chabad, its philosophy, Rabbis, schools, or people.
You know nothing about what you are talking about and are completely ignorant on the matter. It is you who said "they", linking Chabad with this. It was indeed stupidity.
If the shoe fits.....
Your insinuation that somewhere, somehow there must be some Chabad Rabbi who made a death threat speaks more to your stupidity, arrogance, and an assumption that Chabad is capable of this violence because they have black hats and beards. (no sarcasm- at all)
they gonna advocate Sharon's execution now like they did with Rabin?It might be more accurate to talk about Kach than Lubavitch here. The latter is a religious movement, the former (banned in Israel) a nationalist one dripping with racial and religious bigotry. While many Kach members are Lubavitch followers (as was Baruch Goldstein), the latter may not always be the case...just like all Muslims don't back Hamas.
Nevertheless, Shin Bet is definitely worried about hard core Israeli nationalists posing a potential threat to Sharon and other pro-roadmap Israeli leaders. I think it would be a stretch to call them "anti-Israel" or "anti-Semetic".
-Eric
While many Kach members are Lubavitch followers (as was Baruch Goldstein), the latter may not always be the case.I meant the reverse may not always be the case.
-Eric
The onus is who? Who are you talking about? Do you have the first idea? What do you believe? That all religious people are the same? That you can paint all black hats and beards with a broad brush because you saw pictures in 1994? What exactly did you read? Do you even know what the hell you are taliking about? You make a blanket accusation "they", include all of Chabad in it and tell me you read about it somewere? Where, sir? What article, publication, or writted material have you ever read that says anything remotely about Chabad Rabbis ever supporting attacks on Rabin or any other Israeli government official?
Stupidity was too nice a word.
This is a complete lie.
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