Sanctimonious Over Sanctity
The Jewish New Year – Rosh Hashana – begins tonight and lasts for two days. It is one of the Holiest times in the Jewish calendar. We believe on Rosh Hashanah, “all inhabitants of the world pass before G‑d like a flock of sheep,” and it is decreed in the heavenly court “who shall live, and who shall die . . . who shall be impoverished, and who shall be enriched; who shall fall and who shall rise.” Rosh Hashanah serves as the first of the “Ten Days of Repentance” which culminate in Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement.
In short, it is a highly important day for Jews and an opportunity to repent for our sins.
Anti-Israel blogger Richard Silverstein sees the message of day as applying to Israel’s leaders:
http://www.richardsilverstein.com/2012/09/15/happy-new-year/
God demands that we be accountable for our actions and for the times when we’ve missed the mark. He demands that we views ourselves humbly and not grandly. These are all qualities lost on many in Israel’s leadership. The laws of teshuva say that you always have to make allowance for the sinner to repent his misdeeds. It’s hard to imagine this can happen to this crop of political leaders. But let’s remain hopeful shall we?
As I grow older, it seems there is less and less to be joyful and hopeful about in the world. But let’s not lose faith. For there are moments of lucidity and breakthrough. The Arab Spring was one such. One can always hope that such a movement will have a similar impact, if not now then eventually, within Israel itself.
..as opposed to himself, who will be spending this holy of days in synagogue praying and repenting in a hall being videotaped spreading his propaganda.
http://www.richardsilverstein.com/2012/09/14/presidential-campaign-getting-it-wrong-on-iran/
On Monday, September 17th, I’ll be joining Dick Blakney to speak on, Why Both Republicans and Democrats are Wrong on Iran. The event will be at Horizon House, 900 University Street in the Performance Hall at 10AM. We plan on videotaping the talk and I will host it here when I have the file.
We’ll be discussing the latest developments in relations between Israel and Iran; and the harshly partisan tone the debate is adopting in the presidential race. It’s never good when science, religion or issues of war and peace become partisan footballs in political debate. No one makes cool, rational decisions when emotions are boiling over. If Sheldon Adelson and his hundreds of millions have their way, you’ll be forced to decide who to vote for based on whether or not he’s willing to join Bibi in a war against the mullahs.
That’s not good for our Mideast policy, not good for the presidential campaign, not good for anyone.
Come see us on the 17th!
Of course, we already knew Silverstein was ignorant about Rosh Hashanah, but it is still rich that someone lecturing Israeli leaders about G-d’s will would choose to desecrate the day in such a manner.
I mean, it’s not as if Silverstein couldn’t do with the self-improvement.
@rabbifollow I always block assholes.You’re it.
— Tikun Olam (@richards1052) September 15, 2012
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An Australian immigrant to Israel, Aussie Dave has been blogging since early 2003.Filed Under: Aussie Dave
no point in creating a parody about him, he does it himself
nice that i will not have to do teshuva for speaking lashon hora about the freak
may hashem daan that this be the his rosh hashana on earth
“I always block assholes”
Yes if they belong to those who are anti-Israel with your tongue, Silverstein.
A few days ago in comments Richie wanted the 1st Amendment not to apply to people who have something to say about Muslims
[http://www.richardsilverstein.com/2012/09/12/anti-muslim-video-textbook-example-of-how-to-destroy-relations-with-muslim-nations/#comments]
4th comment and dicks reply
Anti-Jihadi Video, Textbook Case for Destroying Relations with Muslim Nations
by Richard Silverstein on September 12, 2012 · 4 comments
in Mideast Peace
While the murder of four U.S. embassy personnel in Libya is a heinous act, the lead-up to the act and what promises to be a grisly response to it offers a textbook example of how NOT to conduct relations between the west and Muslim nations. First, a bunch of lunkhead idiot anti-jihadis (you just gotta believe Pam Geller, David Horowitz and Robert Spencer were involved in some way) made one of the lamest works in the history of agitprop filmmaking. No one took it seriously. Why should they? Lousy production values, wacky extremist views. Who’ll pay attention?
Let me put it to you another way. Ever watch one of Ayman al- Zawahari’s propaganda videos? Lousy production values, wacky extremist views. Does the west pay attention? You bet we do. So if we take serious umbrage at the Islamist lunatics and their statements, why would we think Muslims wouldn’t do the same regarding OUR lunatics?
U.S. intelligence tracks the jihadis precisely and minutely. Does it do the same for anti-jihadis like the ones who produced this film swill? In case you’re still wondering why this is important–if you think it’s important to be warned when al Qaeda is making a major statement why wouldn’t you think it would be important when anti-jihadis are going to foment rioting throughout the Arab world?
Further, if we do our best to sabotage al Qaeda, even when its members aren’t armed or preparing any terror attack, even when they’re American citizens, why shouldn’t we exert even half that diligence to subvert the agenda of these nuts? To be clear, I’m not just talking about Sam Bacile or whatever his real name is. He’s the tip of the iceberg. I include in this fetid stew incendarists like Geller, Horowitz, Pipes, Wilder, Spencer and others.
We killed Anwar al-Awlaki even though he was a poster-boy for al Qaeda and not directly involved in terror attacks. We killed an accomplice who merely published an al Qaeda propaganda magazine. Yet what do we do to the anti-jihadi enablers? They jet around the world unheeded. They fund the most vile anti-Muslim propaganda. Horowitz and Pipes even poured huge sums (that he received from billionaire Aubrey Chernick?) into Wilder’s far-right political movement. What are we waiting for? For Wilders to become prime minister of Holland and forcibly exile all of its Muslim citizens? How much hate and violence do you think that might generate in the Muslim world toward us?
These ostensibly non-profit groups pump money into the anti-jihadi equivalent of the Islamist caliphate, all the while making U.S. taxpayers subsidize their fulminations. When will the administration go after those who directly or indirectly foment violence around the world? Do I believe David Horowitz and Daniel Pipes want to foment holy war between the west and Islam? Probably not. But are they unhappy with the results of their labors and those of idiots like “Sam Bacile” when embassies are burned and diplomats murdered? Not on your life. To them it’s the wake up call to the west to finally extirpate the filth of Islam.
You don’t have to directly and knowingly engage in violence to commit a crime. Get the Justice Department and IRS agents off their asses and investigating this mess before you have not two Muslims countries, but twenty gunning for us.
Finally, the weapon and response of choice for this U.S. administration seems to be sending a drone down the throats of any Muslims who hate us. So expect Libya to be swarming with them over the coming weeks and months. Expect also that they will engender the same rage they do in all the other Muslim states where they operate: Yemen, Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, etc.
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Fred Plester September 13, 2012 at 2:10 PM
The actors in the film worked to a different script entirely, then the offensive words were dubbed onto their actions, without their knowledge. Those involved in the production appear to believe that the person behind the film was an Israeli, though there’s also an extremely dangerous rumour that it’s an Egyptian coptic. (That really could brew massacres and it’s probably meant to.)
Am I the only one who thinks the film was made to teach Obama a lesson for not seeing someone’s point of view about Muslims?
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David September 13, 2012 at 7:55 PM
Excellent observation:
Let me put it to you another way. Ever watch one of Ayman al- Zawahari’s propaganda videos? Lousy production values, wacky extremist views. Does the west pay attention? You bet we do. So if we take serious umbrage at the Islamist lunatics and their statements, why would we think Muslims wouldn’t do the same regarding OUR lunatics?
And, based on precisely the type of monitoring you mention, the US has unleashed drones on at least one propagandist for nothing more than offensive movies. The US now finds it a bit difficult to take the outraged, moral high road now.
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editorsteve September 13, 2012 at 8:13 PM
Frankly this post disgusts me. Good, decent, sensitive diplomats died at the hands of a few vicious members of a Muslim minority group and the post blames the US government for not violating the 1st Amendment by censoring the crappy video that was the pretext for an assassination that apparently was long in the making.
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Richard Silverstein September 14, 2012 at 12:01 AM
Frankly, you disgust me. A bunch of Christian Copt yahoos want to foment another holy war between Islam and the west and you want us to stand back and say the First Amendment prevents us from stopping someone who yells Fire in a theater and causes a mass stampede? Sorry this is a tested method of whether speech is permitted or not. This video started a literal fire in Libya that killed four diplomats. The [censored] behind this film belongs in prison & will be there soon since he violated probation by uploading the film to the Internet.
I’m within a hair of moderating you. :::D :::D :::D :::D
Save your disgust for someone who cares. Your response offended me
‘A bunch of Christian Copt yahoos’
Well, well…You really are for minorities, aren’t you?? Everyone knows that the COPTS are the minority in Egypt. And here you are, on the side of the MAJority?
That is not the Jewish way.
The ambassador was helping the Muslim bro’hood take charge of Egypt. He was a radical/Marxist Hillary stooge.
He way ‘gay’ to boot. And don’t tell me you are stupid that you don’t know what they do to ‘gays’ in the Muslim lands.. Here, we may vehemently disagree with the life-style, but we dont HANG and sodomize them.
He lived like a dog, he died like a dog.
Oh, you want this person in prison for burning the Koran?
You DO remember, dont you, that America used to execute Communists?
Did you casually forget the Rosenbergs?
Here you are so quick to hang a person who hates the koran?
Garbage.
He was killed in the same way Obama did Gadaffi. Sodomized, then killed. the laws of cause/effect.
Good post, Mark. Very well done.
This Richard only wants the First Amendment to apply to leftists that are Dhimmi, or straight up Commie.
I advised this putz to try to remember the Rosenbergs and perhaps he should tread a little lighter.
“He demands that we views ourselves humbly and not grandly.”
It’s amazing how little self-awareness Silverstein has.
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