As the Twitter user #thelatempire notes: “Syria war has been the most globally destabilizing event since 9/11.”
So who pushed for this disaster?
9/5/13: US rabbis urge Congress to back Obama on Syria
Missive to lawmakers on Rosh Hashanah eve calls for military action to help save thousands of lives
Leading rabbis covering the religious and political spectrum urged lawmakers in Congress to support President Obama’s plans to strike Syria to stop its use of chemical weapons.
“We write you as descendants of Holocaust survivors and refugees, whose ancestors were gassed to death in concentration camps,” said the letter sent Wednesday, on the eve of Rosh Hashanah. “We write you as a people who have faced persecution for many centuries, and are glad to have found a safe refuge where we can thrive in the United States.”
The 17 signers included Rabbi Eric Yoffie, a past president of the Union for Reform Judaism; Rabbi Yosef Blau, the rosh yeshiva at Yeshiva University; leaders of the Conservative movement; and essayists such as Leon Wieseltier and Rabbi Joseph Telushkin.
They called on Congress “with great urgency to authorize the President to use force in Syria ‘in connection with the use of chemical weapons or other weapons of mass destruction,’ as outlined in his August 31st draft legislation.
“Through this act, Congress has the capacity to save thousands of lives,” the letter said.
The authors noted that the letter was timed for before the Days of Awe between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.
“May this coming year be one of life and creation the world over, in which we cease to witness the deaths of so many innocent human beings,” it said.
Comments posted at Times of Israel website:
* These few rabbis should be ashamed of themselves using the High Holy Days to promote a blatantly political agenda and in the process making a outrageous analogy of the Syrian rebels to the innocent and unarmed Jewish men, women and children who perished in the Holocaust. Thank G-d my rabbi was not among this lot because it would have been the last day in the synagogue for one of us.
* I wonder if these US rabbis understand the Biblical and prophetic ramifications of what US intervention might mean? Isaiah 17 tells of the total destruction of Damascus and also much damage and desolation occurring in Israel. For the US, it’s a lose-lose situation. These things in Isaiah will take place, but, ultimately, Israel will eventually be victorious and overcome because of God, while Israel’s enemies will be destroyed.
* These guys don’t represent me, nor do I believe, the majority of American Jews.
* US Rabbi’s are just as blind as obama’s followers. They have no Idea what they are asking for. Perhaps they should read the book of Isaiah and Daniel perhaps then they will “stand down”.
