How do you sleep at night Eli Yishai? How do you sleep at night Meir Porush? If only you realized how truly powerful you are; how you could do so much good for all of klal Yisrael; not just those who look like you, dress like you and speak like you but for all. Yet you only care about your constituents; making sure the yeshivas are full and that there are handouts for those who have large families and have no desire to support them. After all, that's what keeps you in power isn't it? So what if you are playing the game of Mr. 3% prime minister and all of those faithless incompetents that have come before them. Your mission is to put more torah scholars on the streets, regardless of cost to country or human life of those who do not vote for you. Your job is do this while alienating the secular Jews that you could draw closer while you hunker down in your shtetel or dhimi mindset and wait for Mashiach to knock on the door. It really makes me wonder if you tell the truth to your revered scholars Rav Ovadia and Rav Elyashav because in my heart I cannot believe if they truly knew what was going on outside the walls of their homes, be it in Bnei Brak, Jerusalem or elsewhere, that they would sanction this. Truly a band of the powerfully pathetic.
From one shomer Torah U'Mizvot Jew to another I ask you Eli and Meir how can you stand this? I can see your rationalization on Sderot, after all it's not Jerusalem. And even leading rabbinic figures at the OU can support your position as they freely admit it is not their place to mix in as they only care about Jerusalem anyway. But now, eight Yeshiva boys lie dead, their blood screaming from the ground for justice. Their families will not sleep well for a very long time. How do you sleep Eli and Meir? You and your cronies sit in a corrupt, Godless government of thugs, shysters and blatant incompetents. You are complicit in murder, you are no better than the savage that slaughtered these boys and so you are indeed murderers Eli and Meir. You feign outrage shake your fist and then do nothing. In Rome, men would fall on their swords for allowing this to happen. Where are your swords? You have taken the Torah and corrupted it in the most vile way running after money to put more rabbis on the streets. Do we really need more rabbis on the streets of Israel today if this is the cost? No, Eli and Meir, you are no better than idol worshippers and murderers no matter how many pages of gemara and zohar you learn every day because of your twisting of the Torah. Nothing will change the fact that you enabled what happened today and what has been happening in Gaza all this time, going back to having been bought and paid for by Sharon for the disengagement.
Nothing will change Eli and Meir. Nothing will change until the chillul Hashem of the so-called religious parties in government propping up a kleptocracy such as this is swept out along with the trash that is currently the "ruling elite". Nothing will change until the people realize that they can and must have leadership that is faith-based and cares about ALL the people of Eretz Yisrael. Leadership that restores Jewish pride and Jewish justice. That truly believes that the Jews belong in Eretz Yisrael. That this is our land, God given, not the land of some mythical made-up Arab people. That lets the army do what it is supposed to do regardless of what CNN or the New York Times says. That when all is said and done, we have no real "friends" in the world; that we are destined to be a people apart and not part of so called "western" culture. Go Eli and Meir. Leave the government now with you perks and your bloated salaries and your Volvos and go beg forgiveness from the people of Sderot and the families of these beautiful murdered boys and at their graves. Olmert Livni and Barak won't. Neither will Peres or Beilin or Avineri or Bibi or the others who have brought death and destruction down on Eretz Yisrael and Am Yisrael. Repent and perhaps your day of reckoning will not be as severe of the others. Do the teshuva you need to do, for all of us. Be powerful, not pathetic.
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Hi Jason - good points. I have some questions. I wonder whether Shas (or should that be $ha$?) goes for the money despite the corruption involved because of the "wrong foot" problem that occurred when our wonderful government started "helping" the Sephardim who trekked here through the Arabian desert with very little to their name -- by taking their Torahs and making them give up their Sephardic ways? It seems that since then they feel no one will look out for them except themselves. How will M"Y communicate to them that they will be treated respectfully and given the opportunity to flourish on their own terms under M"Y's leadership?
It's awful that, as you point out, people are dying (even their own voters) while Shas is operating on a misguided priority system. I agree with you that they are guilty as charged, but I wonder whether we are not just pushing them in deeper. They seem to dig their heels in anytime people chastise them, and still they go on, Olmert-like. They also seem like the young man whose parents pay him to stay away from them for one reason or another (I knew someone like that at one time. He was pretty pathetic and not all that powerful. But he managed within those parameters.).
One thing I know - Sephardic Jews need to see that someone really cares about them, respects them and their traditions, won't consign them en masse to run-down "development" towns, and will help them look for business opportunities and train for better employment (or any employment, whichever is the case). I hope Manhigut Yehudit will learn how to communicate this effectively. So far, this is a weakness in our program.
And did you post your article somewhere in Ivrit? :)
Todah rabah...
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