Lando 
Posted on 12/13/2004 8:27:28 AM PST by Lando Lincoln
Lando
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Merry Christmas and Shalom
Pray for W and Merry Christmas to Our Troops
Good post. Thanks. I can relate to the Authors idea of Israel being where Americas roots were. It truely is a pioneer Nation.
We live in a great country. Can we keep it?
Thank you for the ping dear Alouette. A great article. And I love the menorah flag!
Happy Hannukah to you!
"Israel is where our American heritage begins. ... As Jews, we do not pray to Jesus, but we stand in admiration that true Christians adhere to His message of love, taken from our Scriptures. We respect your devotion as you respect ours. We honor your faith as you honor ours, even as we pray separately but live equally, in friendship. ... Of course we have our self-haters, bigots and anti-Semites. Openly or in secret, they pray in favor of America’s enemies and promote any cause that would harm or even destroy Israel. But they do not define this country. Let their curses turn into blessings. Give me, instead, those Christian Evangelicals, all 70 million of them, or those 60 million Gentiles who turn Christian but once a week or twice and year. Away with the restrictions and laws that deny Christians their Christianity. ... for these are a reminder to me, a Jew, that I live in this land, this land of mostly Christians that have kept the promise of my ancestor, the prophet Micah, that this house be blessed by the shade of that vine and fig tree, and none shall make us afraid."
WOW! I'm Catholic, not Evangelical Protestant, and I cheer and applaud Mr. Englehard's sentiments!! Big Time! All I can do is echo them and say to my Jewish and Israeli friends an old Southern US saying: God bless y'all real good!
And give me those Jews dedicated to the nation of Israel and especially those in the IDF that valiantly stand in harm's way over a carpetbagger like Noam Chomsky (please pardon the mention of that name) any day of the week.
Nice post.
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Very worth a ping, Merry Christmas ... Shalom
I have been already for several years with the opinion that Israel is very much like the USA.
-Relative to population, Israel is the largest immigrant absorbing nation on earth. These immigrants come in search of democracy, religious freedom or expression, economic opportunity, and quality of life.
(Note: Israel is a Jewish state, and those who search for religious freedom are Jews who cant do that in other countries due to anti-simitism).
-Israel is based on democracy and justice.
-Israel has similar enemies.
-Israel is a pluralistic demoracy.
-Israeli culture is much more American than Europian.
-Similar industry:
Israel has the highest number of start-up companies in absolute terms, after the USA.
Israel has the highest concentration of hi-tech companies outside of Silicon Valley.
Israel is ranked 2 in the world for venture capital funds, behind the USA.
And more and more and more.
:)
May God bless you back with duble amount!
Great article by the way! Thanks
BTTT
Ping. G_d bless our Jewish brothers and sisters.
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AMEN.
Truly. A wonderful article.
A a capella singing group was told by the National Park Service to remove religion from the Xmas performance that they were doing on the Mall in DC.
I third the (e)motion!
More proof of what I first realized overseas... America is the Promised Land to the rest of the world. We're truly blessed to live here.
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