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	<title>Uncensored News from Israel &#187; religion</title>
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		<title>Judges classified with tax collectors</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 00:16:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rabbi Avraham Yosef, a son of a Shas Party mentor, has issued a halachic decision that Israeli judges are not counted in minyan, a quorum for prayers. He specifically lashed out against semi-religious kippa-wearing Jews who accept positions as secular judges.
Israel&#8217;s justice system is a gross affront to the Torah. The courts rule in accordance [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Rabbi Avraham Yosef, a son of a Shas Party mentor, has issued a halachic decision that Israeli judges are not counted in minyan, a quorum for prayers. He specifically lashed out against semi-religious kippa-wearing Jews who accept positions as secular judges.</p>
<p>Israel&#8217;s justice system is a gross affront to the Torah. The courts rule in accordance with Western law rather than halacha, often against core Jewish values. Observant Jews who join such courts as judges willingly violate halacha in their daily work. Through their kippas, they lend credibility to the essentially anti-Jewish legal system.</p>
<p>Stopping short of declaring Israeli judges to be apostates, Rabbi Avraham classified them below tax collectors, among traitors and informers. Which is the correct definition of those judges&#8217; roles.</p>
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		<title>Torah is racist?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Aug 2010 07:09:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shabak once again arrested Rabbi Yosef Elizur-Hershkowitz from the village of Yizhar, this time for &#8220;possession of racist texts.&#8221; The texts in question are Rabbi Yosef&#8217;s purely halachic work on various subjects related to the killing of Israel&#8217;s enemies.
Though Israeli law explicitly denies that religious texts can be racist, it is a common police practice [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Shabak once again arrested Rabbi Yosef Elizur-Hershkowitz from the village of Yizhar, this time for &#8220;possession of racist texts.&#8221; The texts in question are Rabbi Yosef&#8217;s purely halachic work on various subjects related to the killing of Israel&#8217;s enemies.</p>
<p>Though Israeli law explicitly denies that religious texts can be racist, it is a common police practice since the Kach ban to treat them as such. This only applies to Jewish religion: no Islamic preacher has ever been convicted of racism for calling for the killing of Jews.</p>
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		<title>Abomination is so agreeable</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:53:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the first parade of homosexuals in Jerusalem was being planned four years ago, normal Jews and even Christians and Muslims were up in arms. Many confrontations ensued.
For the next few years, the bestial parade was confined to the outskirts of the holy city.
This year, the perverts marched through the center of town with next [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When the first <a href="http://samsonblinded.org/blog/freedom-from-gays.htm">parade of homosexuals in Jerusalem</a> was being planned four years ago, normal Jews and even Christians and Muslims were up in arms. Many confrontations ensued.</p>
<p>For the next few years, the bestial parade was confined to the outskirts of the holy city.</p>
<p>This year, the perverts marched through the center of town with next to no protests directed at them.</p>
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		<title>Ethiopians more normal than Ministry of Absorption</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 07:48:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Ethiopian government appealed to its Israeli colleagues to stop the immigration of fake Jews from the Falash Mura tribes. The Ethiopians assert, very sensibly, that the process is open-ended and that there will never be shortage of Ethiopians who pose as Jews.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Ethiopian government appealed to its Israeli colleagues to stop the immigration of fake Jews from the Falash Mura tribes. The Ethiopians assert, very sensibly, that the process is open-ended and that there will never be shortage of Ethiopians who pose as Jews.</p>
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		<title>Torah under police investigation</title>
		<link>http://samsonblinded.org/news/torah-under-police-investigation-18707</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 07:31:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine Ukrainian police arresting a rabbi over a book on Jewish religious law. Or Polish anti-Semites demanding censorship of some of the more militant chapters of the Talmud.
It happened in Israel. Police detained respected rabbi Yitzhak Shapira over his book, Teachings of the King. The book is a scholarly study of Jewish religious laws relating [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Imagine Ukrainian police arresting a rabbi over a book on Jewish religious law. Or Polish anti-Semites demanding censorship of some of the more militant chapters of the Talmud.</p>
<p>It happened in Israel. Police detained respected rabbi Yitzhak Shapira over his book, <em>Teachings of the King</em>. The book is a scholarly study of Jewish religious laws relating to the killing of enemies—who, naturally enough, happen to be non-Jews.</p>
<p>Israeli law exempts religious studies from the definition of racism, but they may still  be considered criminal incitement. Rabbi Kahane was barred from elections even though he submitted to the Supreme Court detailed evidence that every detail of his political platform was strictly based on Jewish religious law.</p>
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		<title>The mourning of fake humility</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 08:22:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jews fast today in memory of the destruction of our two Temples, both of which, according to rabbinical story, were destroyed on the same day. We do not yet know on what date Israeli government will transfer the Temple Mount to the Muslims.
In Gittin 55b-56a, Talmud explains that the Second Temple was lost because of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Jews fast today in memory of the destruction of our two Temples, both of which, according to rabbinical story, were destroyed on the same day. We do not yet know on what date Israeli government will transfer the Temple Mount to the Muslims.</p>
<p>In Gittin 55b-56a, Talmud explains that the Second Temple was lost because of misplaced humility. Rabbi Zechariah refused to authorize the extrajudicial killing of one Bar Kamtza, a Jewish informant for the Romans, and Bar Kamtza incited the Roman governor against Jews.</p>
<p>Some rabbis use the word &#8220;humility&#8221; to suggest, in a politically correct way, that Rabbi Zechariah acted too humbly when he did not protest the other Jews&#8217; mistreatment of Bar Kamtza, which pushed him to become an informant. In their opinion, this is a story of compassion: humility, they reason, is unacceptable when it prevents compassion. Such an explanation turns the story upside down.</p>
<p>Rather, the story illustrates the original rabbinical attitude: those Jews who endanger their nation must be killed on rabbinic orders without concern for the minute legal details defended by Rabbi Zechariah.</p>
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		<title>Supreme Court climbs down from high tree</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 10:32:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Faced with across-the-board criticism for its decision to jail the Emmanuel school parents, the Supreme Court accepted an agreement between the  Sephardim and the Hassidic sect whereby their children will study together&#8230; for the next three days.
Beginning next school year, the Hassidic parents will establish their own school, refuse government financing, and so escape [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Faced with across-the-board criticism for its decision to jail the<a href="http://samsonblinded.org/news/courts-are-terrified-selectively-18196"> Emmanuel school parents</a>, the Supreme Court accepted an agreement between the  Sephardim and the Hassidic sect whereby their children will study together&#8230; for the next three days.</p>
<p>Beginning next school year, the Hassidic parents will establish their own school, refuse government financing, and so escape the atheistic court&#8217;s intrusion into the religious education of their children.</p>
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		<title>Falasha: fake black Jews, again</title>
		<link>http://samsonblinded.org/news/fake-black-jews-again-17921</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 11:12:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The infamous ex-justice of the Supreme Court Shamgar, now a leading advocate for fake Jews from Ethiopia, arranged for the Knesset State Control Committee&#8217;s demand that the government stop sabotaging the &#8220;rescue&#8221; of some 8,000 blacks posing as Jews from Gondar, Ethiopia. In fact, more than a thousand of them entered Israel last year, in [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The infamous ex-justice of the Supreme Court Shamgar, now a leading advocate for fake Jews from Ethiopia, arranged for the Knesset State Control Committee&#8217;s demand that the government stop sabotaging the &#8220;rescue&#8221; of some 8,000 blacks posing as Jews from Gondar, Ethiopia. In fact, more than a thousand of them entered Israel last year, in addition to the tens of thousands who were already here.</p>
<p>Amid much criticism, we would reiterate our position:</p>
<p>Anyone with a cross tattooed on his forehead is not a Jew.<br />
Speaking the Geez language means nothing: the Ethiopian Christian Church also uses it for liturgy.<br />
Falashas read the Torah, true, but they also read the non-canonical books of Ethiopian Christianity.<br />
Falashas practice circumcision, true, but they also practice female excision.<br />
Falashas have monks—a typical Christian habit. In Judaism, permanent nazirites are expressly forbidden.<br />
If anything, Falasha beliefs resemble monastic Christianity, with an emphasis on purity. Fundamentalist quasi-Judaic leanings are typical of the Ethiopian Church.<br />
The Falashas&#8217; opposition to the Church rests on their tribal opposition to the state, whose backbone is the Church.<br />
The Falashas have never tried to establish contact with nearby Yemeni Jews.<br />
Rabbinical confirmations of the Falashas&#8217; Jewishness are completely baseless. What conceivable basis could there be for pronouncing them the  descendants of the Dan tribe or King Solomon? The diversity of their origin myths shows their falsity.</p>
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		<title>For haredim, doubt is a two-way street</title>
		<link>http://samsonblinded.org/news/for-haredim-doubt-is-a-two-way-street-17874</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2010 18:33:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Haredim are among the first to protest any attempts to bury people whose Jewishness is in doubt at Jewish cemeteries. Thus, we would expect doubtful Jewishness to be an obstacle to one&#8217;s desire for a Jewish burial.
Not so in the Barzilai case. The bones in question are almost certainly pagan because historically Jews did not [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Haredim are among the first to protest any attempts to bury people whose Jewishness is in doubt at <a href="http://samsonblinded.org/news/is-it-a-problem-to-be-jewish-16861">Jewish cemeteries</a>. Thus, we would expect doubtful Jewishness to be an obstacle to one&#8217;s desire for a Jewish burial.</p>
<p>Not so in <a href="http://samsonblinded.org/news/100-mil-for-bones-16994">the Barzilai case</a>. The bones in question are almost certainly pagan because historically Jews did not live in that arid area before the UN forced us to. Yet, hundreds of Eda Heredit members staged a Jewish funeral ceremony for the relocated bones.</p>
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		<title>Haredim want Arab rights</title>
		<link>http://samsonblinded.org/news/haredim-want-arab-rights-17628</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 08:30:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hundreds of haredim clashed with police in Beit Shemesh over an attempted autopsy, which is generally forbidden in halacha.
Far from imposing its religious rules on society, a self-contained religious community wants to be left alone to effectively enjoy administrative autonomy. It is hard to envisage a moral or political rationale for the police to continually [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hundreds of haredim clashed with police in Beit Shemesh over an attempted autopsy, which is generally forbidden in halacha.</p>
<p>Far from imposing its religious rules on society, a self-contained religious community wants to be left alone to effectively enjoy administrative autonomy. It is hard to envisage a moral or political rationale for the police to continually intrude into their internal matters.</p>
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		<title>Jewish minor arrested on political charges</title>
		<link>http://samsonblinded.org/news/jewish-minor-arrested-on-political-charges-2-17431</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 12:37:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Police detained a 14-year-old haredi boy for burning an Israeli flag near Kikar Shabbat in Jerusalem. Haredim decry Israel as an apostate entity removed from Jewish values.
Any Arab or ultra-leftist can burn Israel&#8217;s flag with impunity.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Police detained a 14-year-old haredi boy for burning an Israeli flag near Kikar Shabbat in Jerusalem. Haredim decry Israel as an apostate entity removed from Jewish values.</p>
<p>Any Arab or ultra-leftist can burn Israel&#8217;s flag with impunity.</p>
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		<title>Jews desecrate Joshua&#8217;s memory</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 09:01:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some 5,000 Jews prayed at the tomb of Joshua bin Nun, the conqueror of the Promised Land.
The questionable practice of praying at graves aside, the Jews committed a mammoth abomination by allowing themselves to hide under the IDF&#8217;s protection and suffering a hail of Arab stones during the prayer.
Joshua led the Jewish mob in exterminating [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Some 5,000 Jews prayed at the tomb of Joshua bin Nun, the conqueror of the Promised Land.</p>
<p>The questionable practice of praying at graves aside, the Jews committed a mammoth abomination by allowing themselves to hide under the IDF&#8217;s protection and suffering a hail of Arab stones during the prayer.</p>
<p>Joshua led the Jewish mob in exterminating the natives of Canaan. He &#8220;left nothing that breathes.&#8221; The Gibeonites, the only surviving tribe, tricked Joshua into accepting them as slaves rather than killing them all.</p>
<p>Jews cannot pray at Joshua&#8217;s tomb, yet we refuse to carry out the very policies for which we praise him. The 5,000-strong crowd could have settled forever the problem with the Arab village whose residents were stoning them with impunity.</p>
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		<title>Judaism for sale</title>
		<link>http://samsonblinded.org/news/judaism-for-sale-17263</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 17:07:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lieberman&#8217;s Minister of Tourism demanded that the state invests in the tomb of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, a famous kabbalist. The government thus seeks to profit from a form of Judaism it rejects in daily affairs of the state.
In his hypocritical efforts to promote Rabbi bar Yochai, the minister is unlikely to recall his famous [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Lieberman&#8217;s Minister of Tourism demanded that the state invests in the tomb of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, a famous kabbalist. The government thus seeks to profit from a form of Judaism it rejects in daily affairs of the state.</p>
<p>In his hypocritical efforts to promote Rabbi bar Yochai, the minister is unlikely to recall his famous opinion about gentiles.</p>
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		<title>Privacy for hametz, not for Arabs</title>
		<link>http://samsonblinded.org/news/privacy-for-hametz-not-for-arabs-17186</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 14:13:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After Lieberman blocked the amended Matzot Festival law, which would have banned sale of hametz in public during Pesach, Israeli towns are again full of leavened bread.
A Jerusalem court encouraged the sale of hametz during Pesach by saying that the previous law, which banned public sale of hametz, did not ban its sale in private [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>After Lieberman blocked the amended Matzot Festival law, which would have banned sale of hametz in public during Pesach, Israeli towns are again full of <a href="http://samsonblinded.org/blog/is-leaven-prohibited-on-pesach.htm">leavened bread</a>.</p>
<p>A Jerusalem court encouraged the sale of hametz during Pesach by saying that the previous law, which banned public sale of hametz, did not ban its sale in private establishments.</p>
<p>But if privately owned restaurants are not public establishments, why does the same court bar their owners from overtly refusing to hire Arabs? Just as a private person may refuse to marry an Arab, so a private restaurant may refuse to hire him.</p>
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		<title>Born in sin: homosexuals doom their children</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 10:42:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of homosexuals petitioned the High Court to allow them to hire a surrogate mother.
Since the rabbis accepted a while ago that a child inherits his surrogate mother&#8217;s nationality, we have not the slightest problem with homosexuals of Jewish descent hiring foreign females.
But allowing homosexuals to hire renegade Jewish women for their abominations would [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A couple of homosexuals petitioned the High Court to allow them to hire a surrogate mother.</p>
<p>Since the rabbis accepted a while ago that a <a href="http://samsonblinded.org/news/israel-got-300000-more-non-jews-15530">child inherits his surrogate mother</a>&#8217;s nationality, we have not the slightest problem with homosexuals of Jewish descent <a href="http://samsonblinded.org/news/homosexuals-paid-to-breed-non-jews-9366">hiring foreign females</a>.</p>
<p>But allowing homosexuals to hire renegade Jewish women for their abominations would produce children who are condemned to bastard status.</p>
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		<title>Police save sacrificial goat</title>
		<link>http://samsonblinded.org/news/police-save-sacrificial-goat-17144</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 12:26:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Noam Federman, a very decent person and a conservative activist, was arrested while traveling to Jerusalem for Pesach. One of the passengers is his car was&#8230; a goat.
Federman had planned to ritually slaughter the goat on the Temple Mount—or, as he politely put it, at Hurva synagogue in the Jewish Quarter.
Federman&#8217;s act is religiously impeccable. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://samsonblinded.org/news/federman-indicted-for-defending-his-farm-4491">Noam Federman</a>, a very decent person and a conservative activist, was arrested while traveling to Jerusalem for Pesach. One of the passengers is his car was&#8230; a goat.</p>
<p>Federman had planned to ritually slaughter the goat on the Temple Mount—or, as he politely put it, at <a href="http://samsonblinded.org/news/stoning-israeli-police-is-no-crime-16916">Hurva synagogue</a> in the Jewish Quarter.</p>
<p>Federman&#8217;s act is religiously impeccable. Pesach slaughter is not a sacrifice, which is arguably banned in the Torah when there is no Temple. The Talmud bans Pesach slaughter until the time of the messiah—with no meaningful scriptural basis—but Federman was going to slaughter a goat rather than a sheep, thus this is technically not a Pesach issue.</p>
<p>Unlike Abraham in the case of Isaac, police did not count on divine intervention; they detained Federman and delivered the goat to the Ministry of Agriculture, lest Muslims see Federman and revolt.</p>
<p>Well, Muslims will keep rioting whatever Federman does.</p>
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		<title>Reb Volpe could have said more</title>
		<link>http://samsonblinded.org/news/reb-volpe-could-have-said-more-17133</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 10:25:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Baruch Marzel and Rabbi Dov Wolpe succeeded in placing banners on hundreds of Egged buses in Jerusalem with outright incitement.
The &#8216;criminal&#8217; text reads, &#8220;May the Third Temple be rebuilt speedily and in our days,&#8221; something which every religious Jew prays for. Naturally, the accompanying picture shows no Al Aqsa on the Temple Mount.
We concur but [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Baruch Marzel and Rabbi Dov Wolpe succeeded in placing banners on hundreds of Egged buses in Jerusalem with outright incitement.</p>
<p>The &#8216;criminal&#8217; text reads, &#8220;May the Third Temple be rebuilt speedily and in our days,&#8221; something which every religious Jew prays for. Naturally, the accompanying picture shows no Al Aqsa on the Temple Mount.</p>
<p>We concur but point to the talmudic prohibition of relying on miracles, such as Messiah building the Temple. Instead, we must build it ourselves.</p>
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		<title>A seder in pharaoh&#8217;s house</title>
		<link>http://samsonblinded.org/news/a-seder-in-pharaohs-house-17094</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Mar 2010 10:40:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After blaming Israel for all sins, Obama will host a Pesach dinner in the White House. Previous presidents had the good sense to let Jews run their own rituals. Clinton and Bush issued boilerplate congratulations, but otherwise remained uninvolved.
Hussein, a Christian, is so delusional that he believes his acolytes of Jewish descent who say that [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>After blaming <a href="http://samsonblinded.org/news/obama-jews-out-immediately-17073">Israel for all sins</a>, Obama will host a Pesach dinner in the White House. Previous presidents had the good sense to let Jews run their own rituals. Clinton and Bush issued boilerplate congratulations, but otherwise remained uninvolved.</p>
<p>Hussein, a Christian, is so delusional that he believes his acolytes of Jewish descent who say that his demands on Israel are actually good for Jews.</p>
<p>It is odd for Jews to celebrate Pesach in the Exile instead of moving to the Promised Land, but it takes a special Jewish madness to sit at Pesach with a man who pushes us to abandon Jerusalem.</p>
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		<title>Israel to PLO: Let us celebrate, please</title>
		<link>http://samsonblinded.org/news/israel-to-plo-let-us-celebrate-please-17090</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Mar 2010 10:24:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Israeli army has closed the Palestinian-occupied territories until Tuesday so that Jews can celebrate Pesach without terrorist attacks.
According to Army Radio, Hamas leaders will have to hide in bunkers for some time unless Jewish communities on the Gaza border are allowed to enjoy safe holidays.
What an abomination. Pesach celebrates the transformation of Jews from [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Israeli army has closed the Palestinian-occupied territories until Tuesday so that Jews can celebrate Pesach without terrorist attacks.</p>
<p>According to Army Radio, Hamas leaders will have to hide in bunkers for some time unless Jewish communities on the Gaza border are allowed to enjoy safe holidays.</p>
<p>What an abomination. Pesach celebrates the transformation of Jews from fearful slaves into free people who dwell safely and proudly. We cannot celebrate Pesach and return the next morning to a situation in which Arabs stone, firebomb, and shell us.</p>
<p>The Book of Exodus provides unmistakable guidance for dealing with our enemies.</p>
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		<title>To whom Jerusalem is holy?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Mar 2010 15:23:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Turkish PM Erdogan, as usual, blasted Israeli control over Muslim &#8220;holy&#8221; sites in Jerusalem as unacceptable.
And he is right. Muslims are normal and do not accept other people controlling their sanctums. Jews, on other hand, avoid framing the problem in absolutist religious terms, and so we automatically appear to be prepared to compromise on Hebron, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Turkish PM Erdogan, as usual, blasted Israeli control over Muslim &#8220;holy&#8221; sites in Jerusalem as unacceptable.</p>
<p>And he is right. Muslims are normal and do not accept other people controlling their sanctums. Jews, on other hand, avoid framing the problem in absolutist religious terms, and so we automatically appear to be prepared to compromise on Hebron, Jerusalem, Judea, and Samaria.</p>
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