Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "Trump has now attacked terrorists in Nigeria who have been terrorizing Christians and others, kidnapping, murdering, raping.
While I do not fault Trump for wanting to protect Christians in Nigeria from Muslim terrorism,
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I do not want the USA to be acting like the world's police force, and Trump may have exceeded his proper role as US president. The right way to go about things is to force Nigerian leaders to do what they have an obligation to do—to destroy the terrorists and
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protect all their citizens. But there is a history to this: when Christians and others in SE Nigeria, tired of being abused and persecuted, declared independence from Nigeria as the Republic of Biafra, all of the West did what?
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They ignored the problems and opposed Biafra. Perhaps it is time to raise the flag of Biafra again."
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote: "Sun Tzu in “The Art of War, stressed winning quickly, avoiding attrition, and ensuring victory once committed, and defeating the enemy so there is no reason to make war again.
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In Israel’s history, that wisdom seems to have been ignored or not understood. And most often Israel has been stopped from defeating the enemy to the degree that war really ends.
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Israel has never been allowed to finish a war. Sometimes prevented by others from doing so. Sometimes stopped because of a lack of resources. In fact, other countries, namely the USA have stepped in to “help” Israel, which prevented a full victory.
Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "BHARAT, YISRAEL, Magyarország, Suomi.
Some time ago, both Bat Zion Susskind Sacks and I wrote articles explaining why people should use the term in Hebrew, “Yisrael”,
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rather than the term “Israel” which when pronounced comes out like “Izreal”.
But Yisrael is not the only one that worldwide is called something quite different from what one could say is the appropriate name.
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But what if everyone started calling Great Britain, “Albion”. Would the British appreciate that? Or what if everyone would adopt the British names for places in the world like Leghorn, Italy, or the Italian names for places in France and Germany like Parigi and Monaco.
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "Among my reasons for being critical of things that have been said about Trump’s Gaza plans is maybe one of the biggest objections. The plan assumes that the Gaza Strip has to be rebuilt but without any Jewish population.
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The unspoken theory is that peace can come only if Jews are not allowed to be in certain areas. That is a dangerous antisemitic belief, even if it is not the intention for that to be.
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You see, what if Israel would say that peace depends on all Arabs being expelled from any area that is the Jewish homeland. I’m sure the world would scream.
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As long as Erdoğan rules Turkey, puts opposition leaders in prison, and claims sea and land beyond what its neighbors should allow, and
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sponsors and protects the Muslim Brotherhood and its branches such as Hamas, and terrorists in North Africa, and has troops protecting the Muslim Brotherhood government in Libya, Turkey is a serious problem for the entire region.
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So now Israel, Greece, and Cyprus have decided to operate jointly in defense of the region. Greek troops are already in Israel and Cyprus for training and coordination.
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "Shabbat Shalom
Vayigash
Genesis 44:18–47:27
Yehuda (Judah) approaches Yosef (Joseph) to plead for the release of Benjamin, offering himself as a slave to the Egyptian ruler in Benjamin’s place. 1)
Upon witnessing his brothers’ loyalty to one another, Joseph reveals his identity to them. “I am Joseph,” he declares. “Is my father alive?”
The brothers are overcome by shame and remorse, but Yosef comforts them instead of the expected anger they anticipated.
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“It was not you who sent me here,” he says to them, “but HaShem. It has been to save us, and the entire region, from famine.”
The brothers rush back to Canaan with the news. Ya’acov (Jacob) comes to Egypt with his sons and their families—seventy in all—and
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For those who point to Scripture, Zionism is the right of the Jewish people to be sovereign in their Jewish homeland, Eretz Yisrael. Roger Froikin wrote, in part, "Zionism started 4000 years ago, not in the late 19th century, with the promise to Avraham, Yitzchaq, and Ya’acov,
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with Moshe (Moses) 3400 years ago and the trek through Sinai to Eretz Yisrael."
This promise is reiterated multiple times in Genesis, including in Genesis 12:7, Genesis 13:15, Genesis 15:18, and Genesis 17:8.
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The promise is further confirmed to Isaac in Genesis 26:3 and to Jacob in Genesis 28:13 and Genesis 35:12. The covenant is also reaffirmed through Moses, with G-d stating that He would bring the Israelites into the land He swore to their forefathers, described as...
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