Comments on: Reform’s Yoffie Says Hagee is Treif

By: Richard Silverstein

Richard Silverstein — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 05:42:28 +0000

I know a friend when I see one.

YOu remind me of the way Milton describes Satan in Paradise Lost. Satan is a friend in that great work too. A powerful, compelling figure. Your best pal. Except when he’s not. You, my friend, are woefully deluded.

By: Menachem

Menachem — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 05:16:24 +0000

I love John Hagee. When he speaks of Israel to his congregation there is an outpouring of love for the Jewish people, and that is very gratifying to me as a Jew. It feels like an enormous vindication for all the hatred we have suffered. He has a lot more ahavat yisrael than some Jews I have met. I feel he deserves support from the Jewish community. You might assume I am politically naive. I am not. I know how the world works and I know a friend when I see one.

By: shona

shona — Fri, 16 May 2008 18:08:47 +0000

Here are Hagee’s own words from a recent sermon.
Let each Jew decide for themselves whether we should take money from this guy.
how is God going to bring them back to the land? The answer is fishers and hunters.

The answer is given in Jeremiah 16, verse 15 and following. God says in Jeremiah 16 – “Behold I will bring them the Jewish people again unto their land that I gave unto their fathers” – that would be Abraham, Isaac and Jacob – “Behold I will send for many fishers and after will I send for many hunters. And they the hunters shall hunt them” – that will be the Jews – “from every mountain and from every hill and from out of the holes of the rocks.” If that doesn’t describe what Hitler did in the Holocaust… you can’t see that.

So think about this – I will send fishers and I will send hunters. A fisher is someone who entices you with a bait. How many of you know who Theodore Hertzel was? How many of you don’t have a clue who he was? WOO… Sweet God!

Theodore Hertzel is the father of Zionism. He was a Jew that at the turn of the 19th century said – “this land is our land, God wants us to live there”. So he went to the Jews of Europe and said, “I want you to come and join me in the land of Israel”. So few went, Hertzel went into depression. Those who came founded Israel; those who did not went through the hell of the Holocaust.

Then god sent a hunter. A hunter is someone who comes with a gun and he forces you. Hitler was a hunter.

And the Bible says – Jeremiah righty? – “they shall hunt them from every mountain and from every hill and out of the holes of the rocks”, meaning: there’s no place to hide.

By: bar_kochba132

bar_kochba132 — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:23:49 +0000

Yes, Steve, the world needs more enlightened atheists like Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot.

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:37:54 +0000

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Hagee is a nice individual, but not the ideal Enlightened man.
Yoffie is also a nice individual, but similarly under the influence of a religion.
The truth is hidden in atheism.
Let us have some decency in public life, and international relationships by adhering to secular only principles.
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By: Richard Silverstein

Richard Silverstein — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 04:45:26 +0000

The sarcasm and name calling is your specialty as well as apparently the iron clamp Big Brother silencer.

My blog, little brother. Follow the rules or you don’t get to be snotty. Look up the comment rules in the sidebar & you’ll find out which ones you broke. Gratuitous insult is just one of ‘em. If you’d stuck to arguments instead of insults you would’ve been just fine. I don’t havve problems w. those who argue against my pt of view–only w. those holier than thou who think they’re God’s gift to Israel & see it as their role in life to point out the errors of the ways of Jewish heathen like myself, & do so in a snarky, mean-spirited way. I’ve only got so much time to write my blog & respond to comments & I don’t want to be wasting it w. the likes of you.

And as for “turning off untidy debate” there are nearly 7,000 comments here most written by people who disagree w. me. I didn’t turn off their debate. Only yrs.

By: Solomon123

Solomon123 — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 20:17:55 +0000

I wonder if you could even find any strong sarcasm… more like observations you don’t want to address. The sarcasm and name calling is your specialty as well as apparently the iron clamp Big Brother silencer. Any uncomfortalbe untidy debate, simple just turn it off and either tar and feather, or attribute some quality that was non-existent…. pretty sad you are buddy

By: tangentlama

tangentlama — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 20:17:43 +0000

I agree with what you said here, so eloquently, Ruth: “ I think that it is naive to take their money and aid and think that our children or grandchildren are not going to pay for our opportunism.”