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Titolo: una risposta a Christopher Hitchens

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No Holds Barred: Christopher Hitchens and the killer Jews
Mar. 29, 2009
Shmuley Boteach , THE JERUSALEM POST
This past Shabbat my family and I hosted Rabbi and Mrs. Nachman
Holtzberg, parents of Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg, the head of Chabad in
Mumbai who was brutally murdered with his wife Rivkah. You'd think
that a family that watched their son and daughter-in-law slaughtered
on TV by Islamic terrorists would feel hatred and a desire for
revenge. But what this saintly father asked of our many guests was
simply their participation in rebuilding Chabad of Mumbai so that his
son's selfless work would continue.
What a shame Christopher Hitchens did not join us. It might have
dissuaded him from penning yet another ignorant and slanderous article
about the murderous intent of Orthodox Jews. To read Hitchens these
days is to be transported to an alternate universe where religious
Jews are often terrorists inspired by racist Jewish ideology that is
fomented by their rabbis. Of course, those who live in the real world
and who never read about Orthodox Jews setting off bombs in Bali and
Baghdad might be a trifle confused by Hitchens' regular rants against
Judaism.
You should be. Most of the time he is simply fabricating, like this
famous quote taken from his 2007 book God Is Not Great. "Dr. Baruch
Goldstein... killed 27 worshipers... While serving as a physician in
the Israeli army he had announced that he would not treat non-Jewish
patients, such as Israeli Arabs, especially on the Sabbath. As it
happens, he was obeying rabbinic law in declining to do this, as many
Israeli religious courts have confirmed."
For this particular blood libel against Jewish courts Hitchens relied
on a well-known hoax perpetrated by writer Israel Shahak, which was
exposed as a fraud more than 40 years ago by Lord Immanuel Jakobovitz,
chief rabbi of the British Commonwealth. This is the same Israel
Shahak who once accused Jews of worshipping Satan. When I challenged
Hitchens about his use of a well-known forgery, and when he could not
cite a single other religious court to have ever ruled that a non-
Jewish life could not be saved on the Sabbath, he wrote to me and
agreed to amend the item in the next edition of his book.
He did not.
Now he is at it again, only this time he's outdone himself. Writing in
the March 23 edition of the Slate website, Hitchens argued that the
religious settlers in Israel are preparing for a future where "Torah
verses will also be found that make it permissible to murder secular
Jews as well as Arabs" as they all coalesce together to make the West
bank into an apocalyptic Jewish theocracy.
What makes Hitchens so sure that his vision of Jewish mass-murder is
just around the corner? He cites three proofs. First, Baruch
Goldstein, whom he cites yet again. Second, OC Chaplaincy Corps Brig.-
Gen. Avichai Ronzki who "said that the main reason for a Jewish doctor
to treat a non-Jew on the Sabbath... is to avoid exposing Diaspora
Jews to hatred." And third, the story in Numbers 31 of how Moses
commanded the Jews to slaughter the Midianites. Of the story Hitchens
writes, "The nationalist rabbis who prepare Israeli soldiers for the
mission seem to think that this book might be the world of God, in
which case the only misinterpretation would be the failure to take it
literally."
THE FACT that Hitchens must consistently fall back on Baruch Goldstein
proves the very opposite of the point he is trying to make. Jewish
religious terrorism is rare to nonexistent. He must consistently use
one lone attacker from 15 years ago as an example of Jewish terrorism.
More importantly, Goldstein has become a symbol to Jews everywhere of
evil and is almost universally regarded as an abomination to the
Jewish faith.
By contrast, many of our Muslim brothers and sisters and many clerics
have the tragic habit of elevating suicide bombers to the rank of
religious martyrs. In contrast, any rabbi who was to praise a Jewish
murderer would be fired from his post and banished from his community.
The Torah is clear: "Thou may not murder" (Exodus 20) and "Thou shalt
not take revenge" (Leviticus 19).
Second, no biblical story of massacre, which is a tale and not a law,
could ever be used to override the most central prohibition of the Ten
Commandments and biblical morality. Murder is the single greatest
offense against the Creator of all life, and no Jew would ever use a
biblical narrative of war or slaughter as something to be emulated.
IN OUR TIME Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt, both universally
regarded as moral leaders and outstanding men, ordered the wholesale
slaughter of noncombatants in World War II through the carpet-bombing
of Dresden, Hamburg, Berlin and Tokyo. Harry Truman would take it
further by ordering the atomic holocaust of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
How did men who are today regarded as righteous statesmen order such
atrocities? They were of the opinion that only total war could end
Nazi tyranny and Japanese imperial aggression. They did it in the name
of saving life. Which is of course not to excuse their actions but
rather to understand them in the context of the mitigating
circumstances of the time. I do not know why Moses would have ordered
any such slaughter even in the context of war. But I do know that the
same Bible which relates the story also expressly forbids even the
thought of such bloodshed ever being repeated.
Finally, the Talmud's debate as to whether a non-Jewish life may be
saved on the Sabbath took place at a time when the Jews were subject
to brutal Roman oppression, and the non-Jews in question were cruel
Roman centurions. Should we violate our religion to save the life of
those who oppress us? It is remarkable that even then the rabbis of
the Talmud answered in the affirmative, mipnei darkei hashalom,
because of the ways of peace. But whereas Hitchens quotes a rabbi who
translates this to mean "peace with our non-Jewish neighbors," the
Lubavitcher Rebbe explained it to mean "because all of Judaism is
about love and peace."
How sad that Hitchens, a self-proclaimed truth-teller and child of
George Orwell, has yet again ignored evidence clearly presented to him
in pursuit of preexisting prejudice

נחום
lo sai che non ti vedo sereno? Molti prevedono maretta nei rapporti tra 
sion e usa con obama.
E il tuo idolo liberman pare molto utile al fatto che questo avvenga.

 lo sai che non ti vedo sereno?
oh, benvenuto- Tu devi essere quello che non capisce un cazzo. Ce la
fai a scrivere due righe per conferma?

 oh, benvenuto- Tu devi essere quello che non capisce un cazzo.
lo sceicco ha ragione...decisamente non è sereno..