tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8030144.post284743082568082737..comments2023-10-29T11:50:25.742+02:00Comments on My Obiter Dicta: Another Graduate....Jeffrey R. Woolfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11315625918870195028noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8030144.post-32088239438724783742008-05-30T22:10:00.000+03:002008-05-30T22:10:00.000+03:00Not sure how to contact you :-/HelloI have linked ...Not sure how to contact you :-/<BR/><BR/><BR/>Hello<BR/>I have linked to your website at http://www.tzipiyah.com<BR/><BR/>I would really appreciate a return favor : - )Danhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17338318181126488692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8030144.post-68766961495552968462008-05-14T16:38:00.000+03:002008-05-14T16:38:00.000+03:00It would be fitting to point out that after return...It would be fitting to point out that after returning from a trip to the Middle East, Roosevelt infamously told Congress that he had learned more about the Arab/Jewish problem in one conversation with Ibn Saud (who had told him something about throwing the Jews in the sea) than he would have learned in a dozen exchanged letters.<BR/><BR/>One senses that he didn't mean "learn" in a neutral sense. I can't help but wonder if the West had a golden opportunity at that time to smack the Saudis down and prevent the whole mess of the last number of decades. Something like, "Listen, Abdul. There's a war on, and we're going to win it. So here's the deal. We come in, we take your oil, and if you're lucky, we pay you for it. Otherwise shut up and behave."<BR/><BR/>They could have said that. Unfortunately, the great Roosevelt had an antipathy toward Jews and his aides had an Arabism and diplomacy that probably blinded them.Nachumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11292162031685942549noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8030144.post-40637014350028777992008-05-13T15:34:00.000+03:002008-05-13T15:34:00.000+03:00i admire benny's intellectual honesty.i admire benny's intellectual honesty.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8030144.post-60038049442799187912008-05-13T09:24:00.000+03:002008-05-13T09:24:00.000+03:00yes, let's welcome another aboard. But what about ...yes, let's welcome another aboard. <BR/>But what about people realizing the reality of "lev melachim v'sarim b'yad Hashem"? We need to recognize the reality that even with all the misguidance we receive and mistakes we see in the actions of gedolim (and, of course, the government) we are still very much responsible for our own actions and the state of Jewry ba'aretz and chu"l. Perhaps we should be rectifying our own behavior instead of spending so much time lambasting gedolim and others (both in terms of lashon hara/motzi shem ra as well as the simple waste of time and energy)?<BR/> I know it's always easier to blame our tzaaros on others, on the leaders, etc. but the neviim time and again always came back to rebuke bnei yisrael for their own actions just the same. it's time we learn this lesson and build a better future by changing OURSELVES and G-d willing, may we merit to see the redemption in our time.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com