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it could be a line or a stanza or even the whole song but write out the lyrics and if possible give your reason why you think it is ?

In the 1970s and 1980s, the Israeli government declared that it would never ever negotiate with the PLO. They are terrorists. They have a charter that calls for the destruction of Israel. Arafat is a monster, a second Hitler. So, never, never, never.

In the end, after much bloodshed, Israel and the PLO recognized each other and the Oslo agreement was signed.

Now we are hearing the same tune again. Terrorists. Murderers. The Hamas charter calls for the destruction of Israel. We shall never never never negotiate with them.

will the tone change.will Hamas state that it is ready for negotiations .In the end, will everybody agree that a peace, in which Hamas is a partner, is better than a peace with Fatah alone.

On April 9, 1948, a Jewish militia entered the Palestinian village of Deir Yassin and killed over 100 villagers.

Soon after, a mental hospital was built on the ruins. The first patients to be committed were Holocaust survivors.

A legend says that to this day, the survivors have been communicating with the ghosts of the village.

We were supposed to be a light unto the nations," Mr. Burg

concluded. "In this we have failed." Instead, he wrote, Israel is

constructed with "scaffolding of corruption" and "foundations of oppression and injustice."

because many of its adherents are lax in practice or even anti-religious .

The strongest social statement in israel is that we live normal lives even though we're surrounded by crap . We love and suffer and live just like normal people in this place. That's our biggest political demonstration/statement." perhaps this is the meaning of post modern zionism

To Rabbi Avraham Yitzhak Hacohen Kook the State of Israel represented the herald of the Messiah beginning of redemption, and the work of the Lord.

Rabbi Tzvi Yehuda ha-Cohen Kook,son and successor

carried his father idea even farther in advocating that Israeli military and political decisions be made on the basis of the impending messianic age.

Leibowitz writes that Zionism as an aspiration to political-national independence is a legitimate Jewish aspiration;but it must not be given a religious aura.The category of holiness is inapplicable to the state.Only God is holy and only His imperatives absolute.

which of those 2 points of view do u lean toward ?both were orthodox jews too?is there another way of looking at these different points of view

the State of Israel represented the herald of the Messiah beginning of redemption, and the work of the Lord.

Rabbi Tzvi Yehuda ha-Cohen Kook,son and successor

carried his father idea even farther in advocating that Israeli military and political decisions be made on the basis of the impending messianic age.

Leibowitz writes that Zionism as an aspiration to political-national independence is a legitimate Jewish aspiration;but it must not be given a religious aura.The category of holiness is inapplicable to the state.Only God is holy and only His imperatives absolute.

which of those 2 points of view do u lean toward ?both were orthodox jews too?is there another way of looking at this dichotomy?

"Kabbalah, in its entirety, is a collection of pagan superstitions which have penetrated into the world of Jewish faith, and which cannot be reconciled with '…the Lord our God, the Lord is One.' The Zohar (the most fundamental Kabbalistic work) was fabricated and written by a certain Moshe DeLeon in Spain in the late thirteenth century… hence, the idea that the Zohar is a 'holy' Tannaic work is nothing but foolishness. The Tannaic Sage, Rabbi Shimon bar Yohai (who lived about nineteen hundred years ago) had no connection with the Zohar whatsoever!" Yeshayahu Leibowitz

We are torn to shreds: at one extreme, some leave the House of Israel to venture among foreign peoples, devoting to them the service of their hearts and spirits and offering their strength to strangers; while, at the other extreme, the pious sit in their gloomy caverns, obeying and preserving what G-d had commanded them. And the enlightened, standing between, are men of two faces: half Western–in their daily life and thoughts; and half Jews–in their synagogues.

-Micah Berdichevski

Ideologies are not immortal, and I strongly doubt whether traditional Judaism will survive in its present form, although it certainly is desirable that something should remain, and reasonable to assume that it will. How much, is uncertain. My views, in any case, are far from the church conception of Judaism. If you ask me today whether—in the light of all the events of the last fifty years—I believe that the Jewish future lies in the traditional Orthodox framework, my answer is no . . . I think there will be a crisis of birth or a crisis of extinction; time will tell . . .

I do not know what form will crystallize here, whether there will be some synthesis of the conservative forces and the forces of change. The situation may be much more dangerous than we think, but I do not believe a new faith will emerge. I see something today that I did not see fifty years ago: the threat of death, of oblivion, unfolding here. As for the Diaspora—I see no productive forces that will manifest any

Being a Jew means belonging to the Jewish people, its historical and cultural tradition (which has been religious in the past, but could be non-religious henceforth). This people was now throwing off its chains—both cultural and physical—and regaining its sovereignty. Zionism is the movement to liberate and revive the Jewish people.

" the very existence of the Jewish people hangs on their having received the Torah at Mount Sinai and that Jewish existence is totally dependent upon the covenantal relationship forged there. If Israel abandons the Torah, they deserve to be punished, perhaps brutally. One can see this in many prophetic passages, perhaps the most striking being Ezekiel 20:31-37. this “covenant” was embodied in Orthodox practice. Israel is a Nation of Torah, nothing more, nothing less. Hence, one who abandons, or chooses not to adopt, Orthodox practice is, in effect, endangering and even destroying the Jewish people. They are “Jewish” anti-Semites.

"The new Zionism which has been called political differs from the old, religious, messianic variety in that it disavows all mysticism, no longer identifies with messianism."

The road to peace is a very long road that has many milestones. If indeed the summit ended in failure it is our duty to ensure that it is not the last summit, and to leave the door open for dialogue, because the alternative is war.”

"You can't sit in Manhattan and be a Zionist just because you like oranges, falafel and come here once a year to argue in Jerusalem about 'Where is Zionism going?' There is only one answer: Zionism is going on here," wrote Israeli poet and essayist Yonatan Geffen. "Zionism as I see it exists only in its practical form. And as a person who likes shoes isn't a shoemaker, so a Jew who likes Israel isn't a Zionist.''

if the answer is yes .....why arent you making aliyah?