I received a response from my article on the Hegelian Dialectic (HD) wherein I state that the HD is being used by the deep state to fuel both sides of the Israel Gaza War. I reproduce the response below (in cyan text) and with my comments interspersed.
Dr. Hartnett,
I forwarded your article to an orthodox Rabbi friend of mine in Israel to give a response to the horrific things those Rabbis said in the video clips upon which you based your article. I ask you to please read his response with an open mind. Is it possible you are unjustly painting all Israel and Jewry with the colours of it’s most unsavory and ugliest constituents?
Thank you,
Steve Mack
Steve, thanks for your comment here but it would seem to me that you have missed the whole point of the article I wrote. I was saying that both sides were being whipped up in this war. It is a deliberate plan to create the Problem followed by the Reaction so that they might introduce the Solution which they already know.
The rabbi’s comments are in cyan quotes below
“We have our extremist people too. I do not know any of those rabbis. They do not run in my circles and they are not leading rabbis. They are fringe ultra Orthodox groups who are anti-Zionist. They do not support the state of Israel and as you heard in the 2nd video they even support killing Jews who oppose their interpretation of the Torah. You have no need to worry about them because they also refuse to serve in the IDF.
My understanding is that any Israeli can avoid serving in the IDF if they attend a Jewish Yeshiva religious school fulltime learning the Torah/Talmud.
It seems that because this rabbi didn’t like what the rabbis in the 1st video were saying, speaking from their interpretation of Jewish halacha law, that is, some Talmudic commentary of past rabbis. He also probably would not agree with the commentary of two of the most trustworthy Jewish rabbis who ever lived either. Rabbi Yeshua of Nazareth or Rabbi Saul of Tarsus both had a very close connection with the Father in heaven. See Salvation Is For All, Regardless of Race.
“But in the 1st video, there was a 90+ year old soldier who is a veteran of one of our extremist groups, Lechi I think, who, in Israel’s war for independence in 1948 he suffered a severe head injury and had part of his brain removed and is blind in one eye.
So the rabbi here demonises this 90 year old Israeli IDF veteran as an extremist because he doesn’t like what he had to say. That is just an ad hominem attack.
“Neither him nor the other extremist rabbis interviewed on that clip have any authority in the IDF. The antisemite who wrote that article did not cite the chief rabbi of the IDF, who teaches the generally accepted halachic position on the laws of war, and that is that we minimize the civilians killed in war as much as possible.
Why does it matter if those rabbis have any authority in the IDF? If they are commenting on their view of the war, based on halachic law as they understand it, should we not be examining what those laws are? Rabbi Yeshua Himself said that those (at the time oral) halachic laws or traditions from the past rabbis make God’s law null and void. Speaking to the religious leaders, the Pharisees, Rabbi Yeshua said:
8 For, forsaking the commandment of God, you hold the tradition of men [halacha]: immersing of utensils and cups, and many other such like things you do. 9 And He said to them, Do you do well to set aside the commandment of God so that you may keep your tradition [halacha]?… 13 making void the Word of God by your tradition [halacha] which you gave over. And many such like things you do.
Mark 7:8-9, 13
And at great personal risk, our soldiers do try to minimize the number of civilian casualties. Of course, Christians like that writer do not want to mention Hamas’s policy of using their civilians as human shields, which maximizes their civilian casualties.
I didn’t mention human shields used by Hamas but isn’t that just playing with words. Nearly all the people in Gaza are Palestinian Arabs and it was extremely densely populated, so the Palestinians are just there and can’t seem to avoid the bombs. Does that make them shields? It does not seem to me that that necessarily follows.
Everyone agrees that Palestinian civilian casualties is horrible. The question is who is at fault. We say that the Palestinian national movement is at fault. They have created a cult of death there.
I do not argue that Hamas is not evil. They are desperately evil. But this rabbi is falling into the deep state Hegelian dialectic trap. He says the Palestinians are evil, a death cult. Demonise them, dehumanise them! Then it follows that you create a mind set that you can do anything you like to kill them.
What about the Israeli government’s threat to use a nuclear bomb on the Gazans? That sounds like a death cult also.
Amichai Eliyahu, an Israeli Heritage Minister has admitted to the world that Israel has nuclear weapons ready to be used on the Palestinians. The Times of Israel reported that
“Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu said Sunday that one of Israel’s options in the war against Hamas was to drop a nuclear bomb on the Gaza Strip, in comments that were quickly disavowed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who also suspended the minister from cabinet meetings.”
Source
The minister was suspended (not removed) from cabinet meetings not because of his desire to exterminate Palestinians but because he admitted to the world that the Israelis have nuclear weapons.
The Christians who want to say that Israel is at fault I think are doing so, even subconsciously, because it feeds their antisemitic preconceptions of Jews as being evil, devil worshippers, etc.
Here you go, the old antisemitic trope. They try to shut down any criticism of the politics of Israel, the political Zionists, with ‘antisemitism’ claims, as if the arguments are against all Jews as an ethnic group. This is very bad argumentation.
Let’s look at the ‘evil, devil worshippers’ comment. Where did that come from? Could it be from Rabbi Yeshua of Nazareth? Speaking to the religious leaders He said:
43 Why do you not know My speech? It is because you are not able to hear My Word. 44 You are of the devil as father, and the lusts of your father you desire to do. That one was a murderer from the beginning, and he has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own things, because he is a liar, and the father of it. 45 And because I speak the truth, you do not believe Me.
John 8:43-45
“Did you see videos of the 800,000 Palestinians fleeing to the south on the highway, guarded by Israeli tanks to make sure they could get there safely, unmolested by Hamas? And certainly we know that many of those fleeing to the south were not just civilians but Hamas terrorists taking the opportunity to flee to the south. Of course antisemitic Christians never mention that because it would go against their narrative of the evil Jew.
More ‘antisemitic’ sledging. Neither I nor anyone in my OP said anything against Jews as an ethnic group.
Steve, you should ask your rabbi friend how much he loves Rabbi Yeshua of Nazareth! What does the Talmud teach about Him and His mother Mary. And does your rabbi friend read and follow the writings of Rabbi Yeshua. (Then report back to us his response in the Comments section.)
And of course that devout Christian writer of that article never mentioned the atrocities of Oct. 7, just saying that they never beheaded babies.
Quite clearly he did NOT read my article very well. In it I wrote “…like the way the Hamas terrorists murdered a thousand Israelis, mostly civilians, many children“. I never mentioned the date, but that was understood.
So I guess it was okay for them to burn a baby alive in an oven? Or to burn whole families alive? Or to rape women next to the beheaded corpses of their husbands? I can just feel the love of Jesus in all this. (Just to clarify, I mean that sarcastically. I do not believe the Jewish Jesus would have any part of an antisemitic church that these people are a part of).”
No, it is not ok to do those things. But those things and reports of them are a deliberate plan to fuel both sides of this war, which is the point of my article. Both sides are being used as pawns in this where a bigger plan is in play.
Who is the ‘Jewish Jesus’ he is talking about? Is that Rabbi Yeshua (Jesus of Nazareth)? If he means Jesus of Nazareth I agree He would have no part in this, but he would condemn the actions of both Palestinians and Jews. Also more antisemitism thrown out these. Not to mention all the antichristian rhetoric in his response. Who are ‘these people’? I don’t know but it is again ad hominem.
But I suspect the ‘Jewish Jesus’ he mentions is not the same Jesus I know, Creator and Son of God, through whom all things exist. Your rabbi friend needs to accept his own Messiah, Jesus Christ (Isaiah 53). Let His love fill his heart and he will see clearly what Satan is doing in this war.
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