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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR APRIL 13, 2022: STILL HERE, ALIVE AND THRIVING


READERS OF THE JERUSALEM POST HAVE THEIR SAY.

By LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Published: APRIL 12, 2022 20:54

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The vitriolic anti-religious diatribe of Uri Regev (“Religion & state – no
longer under the rug,” April 12) caused my digestive system to threaten to
regurgitate the breakfast I had just eaten. His denial of the cohesive value of
our Jewish traditions and customs is inexcusable, particularly for one who calls
himself “rabbi.” I would venture to assume that at least one of his
grandparents, if not all of them, were religious and steadfast in their clinging
to those very same values and that it is only because of them that the writer is
still nominally Jewish and that we have a Jewish country today to call our own.
Yet, in his infinite wisdom, he rebels against his forebears and rejects our
traditions.



How refreshing is it, therefore, when we recall last week’s defiant statement of
MK Idit Silman, as she bravely faced up to the decadent leadership of our
country in an attempt to remind the people of Israel who we are, why we are here
and what it is that distinguishes us from other peoples and has ensured our
existence as a people since the times of Jacob of old.



May I remind the “rabbi” that the Greeks created an empire, it prospered and
collapsed; the Romans flourished, ruled, innovated and disintegrated; Persia of
yesteryear was an enormous hegemony but it too disappeared into the ravages of
time. (Let us hope it does again.) But the Jewish people, or that which remains
of it after the scourges of the Inquisition, the Shoah, the pogroms of Russia
and, yes, Ukraine, is still here, alive and thriving as an independent state
protective of the Jews of the world.







Silman brings home to us what it is that has so dictated the fluctuations and
realities of our fate and history. We are what we are because of our Jewish
values, principles and religion (even if there are those who do not practice)
and the customs to which our parents and grandparents so steadfastly adhered,
and which are based on those values and principles. Silman is not just revolting
against the boorish foolishness of our health minister, with regard to his
directives to the hospitals to allow the introduction of hametz on Passover, she
is trying to bring to order this convoluted conglomerate of unlike-minded
ministers, some of whose personal lifestyle is as far as one can be from Jewish
principles of healthy, family-based social structure. And since she now sees how
hopeless a task this is, she has stood up with tremendous courage and has said:
no more, enough is enough. 



Rabbi Regev’s followers of denial, rejection and dilution will disintegrate as
did the Greeks, Romans, et al (There is never a third-generation Reform Jew.),
but the descendants of Silman will continue to exist as they have for many
generations.



LAURENCE BECKER



Jerusalem




HIGH-STRUNG OPERA

Some say that allowing hametz (leavened products) in the state-run hospitals or
in the IDF is another step in the dismantling of the Jewish State of Israel
(“Hametz in the army - dismantling a Jewish Israel,” April 12). Others say that
it is a fundamental human right to eat whatever I want, whenever I want,
wherever I want. 




There can be no compromise between these opposites. On the sidelines (for
awhile) is the fundamental question of whether Israel will become a  theocracy
organized along halachic law or a western-style democracy organized along
liberal values. The jury is still out, which explains both the fury and the fear
on both sides. Again, there can be no compromise between these opposing
fundamental values. One thing is for sure: neither side wants a police state
where visitors sneaking in a pita to a hospital on Passover are arrested or a
Bedouin or Druze or a secular Jew serving in the IDF are caught snacking on a
leavened-based sandwich and are thrown into an army jail.



In the meantime Israel is a high-strung, twelve act, opera. Almost everybody is
suffering from the endless arguments and discord and we are only in the first
act. So be it.



YIGAL HOROWITZ



Beersheba




MODERN MIDDLE EAST HISTORIAN

Israel has made a wonderful out of left field choice of Noa Tishby as special
envoy for combating antisemitism and the delegitimization of Israel (“Lapid
names Noa Tishby as antisemitism envoy,” April 12).



Only last year she established her gravitas as a modern Middle East historian
with her book Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth.



She also is an established film and television actress and producer as well as
an IDF veteran. Her credentials and yes, her appearance and articulateness,
should enable her to present Israel’s history and achievements throughout the
Diaspora including American universities and colleges in a unique and persuasive
way.


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Kudos to the Israeli government for moving outside the box in this crucial
battle for hearts and minds.



RICHARD SHERMAN



Margate, Florida




FRONT PAGE HEADLINES

I would like to refer to the article “Reichman University students compete in
Oxford’s intellectual property contest,” which appeared hidden away on page five
on April 11, and to stipulate or hope that one day similar articles will be
printed as front page headlines in your newspaper, instead of terrorism acts,
wars of destruction, pandemics, etc. in our crazy upside-down world.



Two students represented Israel among 30 teams from all around the world at the
Oxford University International Intellectual Property Law debate competition.
They were the only women’s team but also of interest, was that one student is an
Israeli Jew and the other an Israeli Arab. That alone should wake up or shake up
Amnesty International to the realization of their slandering antisemitism and
their constant claims of Israel being an apartheid state.



May these two young women continue making their families and their country
proud. This is a historic achievement for them and for the Reichman University.
They are the first Israelis to compete in this event and make it past eight
months of a long tough written round.



YONA WISEMAN



Shoresh




OTHERWISE, WE’LL HAVE CHAOS

Regarding your editorial “Common Sense” (April 8), you make reasonable comments
about decency and common sense regarding the issue of kashrut and hametz in
public environments during Passover.



But I submit that decent conduct should never have allowed this to become a
political crisis in the first place. MK Silman withdrew from the coalition over
her objection to the government issuing an order to permit hametz in Israeli
hospitals over Passover. But all the government really did is issue an order to
implement a ruling of the High Court of Justice. 



Government officials, and certainly members of Knesset, must respect the rule of
law. MK Silman’s real gripe is with the court ruling. Her anger at the
Government for issuing an order to follow a court ruling is entirely misplaced.
Government officials, and members of Knesset, cannot arrogate the law unto
themselves. Otherwise, we will have chaos. Most people will find that they are
unhappy with, and may even disagree with, a host of court rulings. But we must
accept them as part of a civil society.



JEFFREY RABIN



Los Angeles




CONSISTENT WITH JEWISH VALUES

Kudos to Richard H. Schwartz for his article “Can climate catastrophe be
averted?” (April 11), in which he discusses how serious climate threats are and
how it is essential that there be a society-wide shift to plant-based diets if
we are to have a chance to avert such a tragedy, so as to leave an
environmentally sustainable world for future generations.



Since, as he also points out, there is now an abundance of plant-based
substitutes that are in many cases indistinguishable from meat and other animal
products, and veganism is the diet most consistent with basic Jewish values and
best for our health and that of our endangered planet, what justification can
any Jew offer for not becoming a vegan, or at least sharply reducing their
consumption of meat and other animal products?



BATZION SHLOMI



Afula




IRRELEVANT IN FOREIGN AFFAIRS

How ironic that Amotz Asa-El’s pretentious lecture on truth relies on dishonesty
through omission (“Truth goes on the offensive,” April 8). For example, he
decries president Trump’s criticism of the media without mentioning that the
Fourth Estate manipulated the last election, hiding from the electorate critical
information regarding Joe Biden’s son’s highly suspect foreign business
dealings. 



Even now, the press shields President Biden from questions regarding his own
involvement and the possibility that he is therefore compromised. Asa-El also
fails to mention that Trump was forced to spend much of his term defending
against spurious allegations of Russian collusion based on a fraudulent Hillary
Clinton-financed dossier gleefully disseminated as “truth” by his opponents. 



Love him or hate him, Trump was a force on the world stage – respected by some,
feared by others, but never trifled with. By contrast, Biden has made the US
irrelevant in foreign affairs. It is no coincidence that Russia, quiet in the
face of Trump, began massing troops at the Ukrainian border months after Biden
took office. 



Biden’s disastrous surrender of Afghanistan was humiliating in the extreme and
hugely destructive to America’s standing in the world. It gave evidence of
American decline that had been unthinkable under the prior administration. Putin
concluded that he could act with impunity, fearing no serious repercussions.



Among his first acts, Biden lifted sanctions on the Russian Nord Stream 2
pipeline, while pursuing policies aimed at destroying the oil and gas industry
that had made America energy-independent. The resulting worldwide increase in
oil prices is funding Putin’s brutal war of aggression. Unbelievably, Biden is
using Russia as an intermediary in his quest to enter an even worse version of
the JCPOA.



We were assured that Biden would be a calming influence following the tumultuous
Trump years. Instead, the country is being led by a president whose cognitive
abilities are deteriorating before our very eyes and an incompetent vice
president who regularly embarrasses herself and America.



Biden’s America is suffering record inflation and gas prices (which Biden
dishonestly blames on Putin), rampant crime, the poisonous effects of Chinese
fentanyl pouring over a non-existent southern border, and divisions in the
social fabric that threaten to tear the country asunder.



Trump is certainly no angel, but neither is he the devil incarnate. Those who
insist on blaming him for everything while giving Biden a free pass should
recall Cassius’s trenchant declaration: “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our
stars, but in ourselves.”



EFRAIM COHEN



Zichron Ya’acov



I’d like to congratulate Amotz  Asa-El on his article. It was a brilliant
explanation of the situation in the Ukraine and the world’s response to it. The
world needs a Churchill who took on Germany’s war machine and the slaughter of
six million Jews, and though it took six long years of bloodshed, truth was the
winner in the end. 



It is my fervent hope that Vladimir Putin meets the same fate, and the sooner
the better,   truth will once again be victorious.



BRENDA GOLDBLUM



Jerusalem





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