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  • Reform rabbi 'snapped' over Bibas family murders, says 2-State Solution is dead

    03/02/2025 12:20:07 AM PST · by Eleutheria5 · 16 replies
    Arutz Sheva ^ | 3/2/25
    A leading Reform rabbi told his congregants during Shabbat services yesterday that the murder of Shiri Bibas and her young children Kfir and Ariel caused him to "snap" and reject the Two-State Solution, the Jewish News Syndicate reported. "Something snapped in me this week," said Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch, the senior rabbi at the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue in New York City. "After 16 months of keeping it together, my heart finally cracked. The plight of the Bibas family struck me so deeply, that I do not even know where to place all of these emotions running rampant inside of me."...
  • Seymour Hersh: 'We've Been Taken Over By A Cult'

    01/26/2005 3:53:39 PM PST · by gopwinsin04 · 74 replies · 2,757+ views
    Demcracy Now ^ | 1/26/05 | Amy Goodman
    As the Senate Judiciary Committee voted today on the nomination of Alberto Gonzales for Attorney General, we hear a speech by investigative reporter Seymour Hersh on torture from Guantanamo to Abu Gharib to Vietnam.Hersh is the author of 'Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Gharib.' He spoke last month at the Wise Free Synagogue in New York.'The amazing thing is that we have been taken over by a cult of eight or nine neo-conservatives that have somehow grapped the government.' 'Just how and why they did it so efficiently, we will have to wait for much later...