Shavuot 2011: obscenities as words of Torah

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That's all we need: For a complete goy - a Moabite, on top of all her other problems - to marry Mahlon, who, even though he has fallen low, is still a Jew. By what right did she cleave to Naomi - a healthy woman, after all, who doesn't need a Filipina in constant attendance - so that she could later seduce another wealthy Jewish man, thus enabling her to remain without a permit from the rabbis and without even a pro forma conversion? And how did it happen that "all the people" were happy and supportive, without a single opponent?

After all, even back then, they could have deported her as a foreign agricultural worker who had infiltrated into Israel by means of dubious paperwork.

And they would have left her great-grandson, David, without a chance of even being born, much less later being anointed as Israel's king.

As the holiday approached, I telephoned the Bialik-Rogozin School and asked to speak with Ruthie. She's an 11-year-old girl, a sixth-grader, with Ghanaian parents who work as cleaners. But don't think they - her mother and father - are innocents. For it's not by chance that they named their daughter Ruthie - Ruth, of all things - in order to remind us of, and make us mourn, what we have lost.

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/shavuot-2011-obscenities-as-words-of-torah-1.366422

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snipped from the end of the article, the beginning is Mr Sarid's telling of the Jerusalem Day "Death to Arabs" demonstration

Wow, powerful words. The beauty of religions is made so corrupt when the attention is taken away from the Divine and pointed toward a object, living person, or plot of land.

So what precisely is the point here?

Western civilization owes everything to a woman with her ass in the air (check the position of gleaning)? But that woman did not wear a suicide vest, even though she was a widow without children.

Where do Ruthie's parents work as cleaners? Dubai? Saudi Arabia? Syria? Kuwait? Libya? Were they lost on the refugee boats the Europeans simply watched sink? Perhaps they work in France? Or Italy? Lotta Ruthies. Lotta cleaners.

"Death to Arabs" is a neat rephrasing of the deliberate assault on Israel's borders on the anniversary of its birth. Who sent those Arabs to face those guns? Did you even bother to ask who benefits?

The fun thing about propaganda is how easy it is to prick.

ya know what's really fun? watching someone who obviously did not read the article comment