Comments on: State Dept Responds To Chacham Ovadia’s Calls For Death To Abbas & Palestinians

By: AinOhdMilvado

AinOhdMilvado — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:52:23 +0000

YonasonW #16 -
Have you ever heard of the Torah injunction…

Ha’ba le’harge’cha, hashkaiym le’hargo!

Would you say the Torah is “lowering our standards to theirs”?

By: AinOhdMilvado

AinOhdMilvado — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:49:19 +0000

To YonasonW (#13)-
Of course our theology is right and theirs is wrong,
BUT, –
THAT is not the reason why there is a HUGE difference between some imam saying to kill the masses of Jews and what Rav Ovadia shlit”a said.
The difference is very simple…
The individual and the masses the Rav referred to, ARE murderers, WE are not!

By: HaLeiVi

HaLeiVi — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:35:27 +0000

YonasonW, so you are equating killing people with saying, let them die? Believe me, if that were the extent of anti-Semitism we would still be living in Bavel.

By: YonasonW

YonasonW — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 17:44:48 +0000

Your Sister – you eloquently state the case for lowering our standartds to theirs. Mazel Tov

By: Your Sister

Your Sister — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 17:04:58 +0000

Ahh YonasonW, you are ignoring a very real fact of history. The PA has never renounced terrorism. In fact their charter STILL calls for the destruction of Israel. If it is okay for the PA to tacitly call for the death of Jews, why is not Chacham Yosef justified in his remarks?

By: davidatshm

davidatshm — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 16:50:19 +0000

the rabbi is right, and there is nothing wrong with what he said, whoever heard his speech and understand the nature of the hebrew language and phrases we say, will relize that his words were taken out of context, (as if he was inticing jewish jihad against palestinians.)

the rabbis statments are not any worse than the prayers that all jews will be reciting on rosh hashanah night at the meal when we do all the simanim, we all say, ” yehi ratson sheikartu oibeinu vesoneinu vekhol mebakshe raateinu ” which means that we ask and pray that all our enemies and haters and ones that wish us bad, should die and perish and be cut off of life. every jew says this on rosh hashanah with severe intensity,and we all have the same people in mind. maybe the state department should come out and condemn our prayer books too.

long live israel, long live rav ovadia yosef.
death upon all our enemies, haters, and whoever wishes us bad.

By: YonasonW

YonasonW — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 15:36:48 +0000

This is crazy – good people have to get off this boat, and distance themselves from the intolerant fanatics that run our religious right wing.

I mean, is it inherently morally wrong for Muslims or Christian Crusaders to advocate death for masses if “non-believers” or “heathens?” Or is it just that their theology is wrong; that because ours is correct it is morally right for us to do so?

By: A600KiloBear

A600KiloBear — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:14:15 +0000

What would you expect the state department to say if Abbas called for the death of Rav Ovadiah?
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Nothing.

By: AinOhdMilvado

AinOhdMilvado — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 13:32:31 +0000

The Rav’s EMES is a breath of fresh air in the midst American, arab, AND Israeli political SHEKER!!!

By: akuperma

akuperma — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:08:42 +0000

Does this qualify R. Ovadia Yosef as one of the most important rabbanim of all time. He holds no official position (at most, he is the rabbinical advisor of a second tier political party that holds no portfolios pertaining to defense and foreign affairs). Yet both the Israeli and American government feel a need to respond to his statements on politics (which probably reflect a large percentage of Israelis, and are fujlly reciprocated by the Arabs).