Comments on: A Possible Deal Between UTJ & Shas

By: gabs911

gabs911 — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 02:27:37 +0000

Its sad that the two camps are this divided. If it were up to me Id make rav elyashiv and hacham ovadia yossef study a minimum of once a week (some type of seder) to encourage a rapprochement between the two “religious camps…” thats my dream.

By: red

red — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:29:28 +0000

Akuperma,you are some historian.

By: stan the man

stan the man — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:03:04 +0000

DEALS & more deals that’s what politics in Israel is all about. Leshem shamayim is a different ballgame althogether.
Degel and Agudah can not agree on Porush running and this crack bt them will hurt the election for mayor and bring in Nir instead. BTW they should keep Uri who is the best guy for the job and took care of the Jerusalem defeicit.

By: sayitlikeitis

sayitlikeitis — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:01:35 +0000

I am ready to make a kiddush and recite “Shehichianu” when and if this happens.

had they been better at politics they would have prevented the hilonim from taking over Eretz Yisrael*******AND IF THEY WOULD HAVE COME IN LARGE ###’s to reside in E”Y, the entire landscape would be different. What a loss for klal yisroel!!!

By: saythatagain

saythatagain — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:11:33 +0000

Hashem yeshmor, if degel and utj split . . . anyone who remebers what life was like during elections when there were two different parties gets a stomach ache from hearing about a possible split. Maybe everyone (all three parties) could get togther. What’s the difference if the man running chinuch atzma wears a shtreimel or not, maybe they each could have a rep and shas to. At the end it all boils down to money.
If agudah and utj would stay out of the BS elections Abutbul has a good chance of winning. many chiloni shepradim like him a lot. I don’t understan why agudah has to mix in the first place, they have no chance of winning only of causing abutbul to loose.

By: akuperma

akuperma — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:12:12 +0000

A united Hareidi party would be a “major” party eqiuvalent to Labor, Likud or Kadima, able to take a leadership role in addressing the future of the Jewish people in Eretz Yisrael. The current frum parties are “minor” parties, equivalent to Meretz or Gil (Pensioners), and are limited to grubbing for leftovers from the major parties.

The last time the Hareidim were a “major” political force was in the 1920s (prior to De Haan’s death), and had they been better at politics they would have prevented the hilonim from taking over Eretz Yisrael (and probably have prevented the holocaust, since fear of the zionists was a major factor in Britian blocking Jews from leaving Europe)