Yeah, okay thanks. (Seven days after Yom ha Zikkaron? Hmmm, strange, maybe it's when summer already started in my Hebrew school when I was a kid, that's why I don't remember the date so well.) Do you know if there's a reason they chose that date for Yom Ha Shoah? Like what is the significance of 27 Nissan?
Yeah, I don't really know how anyone could stop wars, I mean indirectly we can avoid electing presidents like Bush who start wars for no reason, but sometimes things blow up between nations that maybe can't be stopped. Maybe the only way to prevent such conflicts is to remember the previous ones and make children enough afraid of the atrocities that happened to be so afraid of conflict that when they grew up they wouldn't ever fight, but I don't know if that is possible. I have really no idea how people can ever stop having wars :(
Yesterday my rabbi gave an interesting speech -- I guess the parasha is about the story of Passover and he was saying -- quoting someone, I believe, how we can never trust Egypt, that Israel can never trust Egypt as an ally. According to him, it is only huge sums of money paid by the US to Egypt every year keeping Egypt from attacking Israel. That seems really extreme to me but perhaps it is true. My friends were all looking at me, wondering if I knew something, but just because I'm American doesn't mean I know! In any event, it's so complicated because on one hand it seems so wrong to say something so blunt as 'never trust Egypt' (or 'never trust Germany,' as I hear more often.) Then again, if we do decide to give these people the benefit of the doubt and trust them maybe they will hurt us again. So although peace and understanding would be ideal I have no idea how it could ever happen :(.
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Date: 2007-01-28 08:56 am (UTC)Yeah, I don't really know how anyone could stop wars, I mean indirectly we can avoid electing presidents like Bush who start wars for no reason, but sometimes things blow up between nations that maybe can't be stopped. Maybe the only way to prevent such conflicts is to remember the previous ones and make children enough afraid of the atrocities that happened to be so afraid of conflict that when they grew up they wouldn't ever fight, but I don't know if that is possible. I have really no idea how people can ever stop having wars :(
Yesterday my rabbi gave an interesting speech -- I guess the parasha is about the story of Passover and he was saying -- quoting someone, I believe, how we can never trust Egypt, that Israel can never trust Egypt as an ally. According to him, it is only huge sums of money paid by the US to Egypt every year keeping Egypt from attacking Israel. That seems really extreme to me but perhaps it is true. My friends were all looking at me, wondering if I knew something, but just because I'm American doesn't mean I know! In any event, it's so complicated because on one hand it seems so wrong to say something so blunt as 'never trust Egypt' (or 'never trust Germany,' as I hear more often.) Then again, if we do decide to give these people the benefit of the doubt and trust them maybe they will hurt us again. So although peace and understanding would be ideal I have no idea how it could ever happen :(.