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Shliach Takes Issue With UN

Rabbi Levi Shemtov, Shliach in Washington, DC urged Jews not to despair about the "darkness" cast by the recent United Nations vote against Israel. Full Story

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Aaron
December 26, 2016 10:53 pm

BS”D
# 5 you seem ingnorant of the process and are telling others to calm down, the US only abstained you say, that is equivalent to a votecin favor bc the structure is that one no vote by the US of A would be enough to kill the resolution

To #5
December 26, 2016 6:24 pm

You are the one who does not sound calm, here.
Israel is only building on it’s own land that the Jihadists you obviously support, are trying to steal from them, along with the land they have already spent hundreds of years, stealing from the Jews.
When a new condo complex or shopping mall is built in Florida, do you accuse America of “unchecked expansion”?
Or how about when Egypt builds in the Sinai Desert, do you call that “unchecked expansion”?
Or do you only single out Israel, for your attacks, just because they are building on Jewish land?

Kalman Mitzvah Tank
December 26, 2016 5:56 pm

Thank for standing on the largest platform and standing firm by stating the Rebbe’s position in the face of anti Israel President!

to #5
December 26, 2016 5:14 pm

Use your distorted form of logic when it’s your existence that’s at stake, we’ll do what we have to do.

to 5
December 26, 2016 5:13 pm

By abstaining it meant it would go through. It all depended on the US all these years and everyone knew it. If the US wouldn’t have wanted it to go through they would’ve vetoed like all the other years. The fact that they abstained meant they wanted it to go through. All the haters of Israel were waiting for that day. Do some research before you post

Excerpt from my email to Fox News
December 26, 2016 5:12 pm

… Claiming via your headline news that the speech by a Rabbi in Washington ‘trashes’ Obama’s UN move and quoting the Washington Examiner’s depiction of this Rabbi’s direct, sincere and peaceful speech as hostile and manipulative does you no credit. Did you actually listen to the entire video? There was no ‘trashing’ or ‘ripping’ of anybody. This was a much needed message of hope. Using a news source that distorts the speech into a ploy to use the Menorah lighting as a forum for political trashing is a distortion of the truth. The UN move that seeks to endanger the… Read more »

Media Spin
December 26, 2016 4:18 pm

I commend Rabbi Levi Shemtov for his courageous and graceful remarks. I am deeply disturbed with how the MSM has spun his respectful, spiritual criticism into “trashing” Obama and “charging Obama as a criminal.” The media distortion has turned Rabbi Shemtov’s comments into fake news.

calm down...
December 26, 2016 3:58 pm

The US abstained – didn’t ratify, didn’t veto – just abstained. The vote was 14 – 0 against Israel’s unchecked expansion. If Israel is so sure that its actions are beyond reproach, are justified as existentially imperative, then why all the outrage? Do what you have to do to exist. I believe the outrage belies an underlying sense that maybe this [unchecked expansion] is NOT the best course to follow.

Kol Hakavod!!
December 26, 2016 3:46 pm

We are proud of you!!!

Hello- The Light is Torah - (Ner Havaya Torah Ohr)
December 26, 2016 10:40 am

The Rebbe was telling the PM to use as proof in the UN, all the places where it says in the Bible that the God gives the land to the Jews!! Mr. Netanyahu muffed it and didn’t mention even ONCE this vital point. I hope that Rabbi Shem Tov mentioned that “light” means Torah. Lighting a candle in the UN means reminding the UN that there is a Biblical source for why Jews are on the Land.
Raanan

Meir
December 26, 2016 9:51 am

BS”D Well said

This is a big Kiddush H-sh-m
December 26, 2016 9:32 am

Rabbi Levi Shemtov, made a very public Kiddush H-sh-m in the Rebbe’s name, with this statement.
It has been posted on Glenn Becks’ website, the Blaze (and possibly other popular websites), where most of the readers side with and support Israel (at least they do, when it’s Israel VS the Radical Islamics. In any case the Blaze is less liberal (there aren’t any truly conservative ones, Rachmona Letzlon), then most other ‘news’ websites).
Kol HaKavod Rabbi Shemtov.
May H-sh-m grant you the strength and ability to spread the Rebbe’s teachings, and make kiddushim H-sh-m all over the world.

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