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David Duke says he doesn’t oppose all Jews, only “Jewish Supremacists“. Great, so at least he opposes me!

The Satmar Rebbe, Rabbi Yoel Teitelbaum, once explained he doesn’t tell Chassidic tales because “one cannot educate with lies”. There’s a concise new book on the matter on HebrewBooks, here titled פתי יאמין לכל דבר:

View or Download the PDF / פתח או הורד את הקובץ

Rabbi Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar opposed benefitting from Zionists to the extent that he forbade visiting liberated holy sites. What does he do with the verse יכין וצדיק ילבש, Iyov 27:17? But I digress. The Rebbe also regarded thanking Zionist individuals or thanking God for the results of Zionism as heretical.

But the question must be asked: Rabbi Yoel himself was saved from the Nazis through notorious Zionist Rudolph Kastner. He accepted a seat on the train of rescue, and he and his followers celebrate the “Yom Hatzalah”, or day of personal redemption, ever since.

Kastner was mentioned later but in a different way.

Also, it’s rumored the Rebbe accepted a certificate for immigration to Palestine, which raises other problems (Rabbi Teitelbaum forbade his congregants from accepting these certificates until the Nazis invaded), see “The Rebbe” by Rabbi Dovid Meisels.

Yes, yes, I’m sure there’s a perfectly good answer, but these facts do need to be juxtaposed.

This article is inspired by Rabbi Yitzchak Brand, in this piece.

Shimon Peres was stricken by a stroke. He is one of those mainly responsible for the Oslo Accords and their aftermath. I wonder what Moshe Feiglin will say.

I cannot find a link for the following story:

Peres was heckled during a speech with “Why did you give them guns?” Eventually Peres got sick of hearing the slogan and shot back with “So take the guns back!” To which he was told: “What one fool breaks, a thousand wise men cannot fix”.