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September 3, 2001
Do Jewish "leaders" want us all to be victims?

By Aaron Zelman
Executive Director of J ews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership (J PFO).


If you really want to tell Jewish leaders to stop supporting police-state policies -- especially "gun
control" -- then make sure you read this article and send it to every Jewish person you know in
the world. If you dont share this with others, then youve forfeited your right to complain about
Charlie Schumer, et al!


Are self-anointed Jewish political "leaders" trying to turn America into the kind of hell from
which our people have repeatedly been forced to escape for the last two millennia? Are they
going out of their way to prove the truth of the old Yiddish adage, "Our own Jews will destroy
us"?
And do they aim -- through ignorance or ambition -- to destroy this nation not only for Jews, but
for the other 97 percent of Americans, as well?
Yes. If they have their way, they will.
But it hasnt always been this way. Jews and America have been good for each other.
Jews have enriched this country through achievements in science, law, business, arts, and
culture. Our contributions range from the sublime to the ridiculous. Although we are less than
three percent of the population, we constitute 21 percent of all Nobel Prize winners. Weve kept
America laughing by producing 80 percent of its comedians from Groucho Marx to Jerry
Seinfeld. In every war since the War Between the States, Jews have fought for freedom in
disproportionate numbers, often with great distinction.
America, in turn, has blessed the Jews. Our forebears came here to enjoy the freedom of a nation
whose government -- unlike those from which they fled -- was bound within strict limits. The
Bill of Rights, our chief protector, has stood against the savagery that might otherwise be
perpetrated by prejudiced individuals, institutions, and governments.
But judging by the mewling of many self-anointed leaders youd think the blessings of freedom
counted for nothing. In their minds and in their mouths, its "victim" this and "victim" that.
These "leaders" depict the U.S. as a nation where helplessness, mindless violence, and bigotry
prevail. They tell us we are under siege from extremist organizations and hate groups -- often
choosing "enemies" so unlikely that a knowledgeable person is struck with bemusement. For
example, one of the latest groups defamed by the Anti-Defamation League of the Bnai Brith is
the peaceful but confrontational protest group, the Tyranny Response Team. Founded by a Jew,
Bob Glass, the TRT has fought harmful legislation by wearing yellow Stars of David and
handing out flyers showing victims of genocide. But because the legislation they oppose is "gun
control," which the ADL supports, the ADL assigned "hate group" researchers to investigate
them. ADL representatives then reported to the media that they need to "watch" the group
because of the "kind of people it might attract."
Professional Jewish leaders demand obeisance to a vision of Jews as helpless and passive by
nature -- childlike victims toward whom the entire world, not just the perpetrators of the
Holocaust, owes groveling remorse. They preach that our entire nation is populated by similar
victims whose sufferings give them an unquestionable moral claim -- victims of poverty, disease,
racism, government funding cuts, ignorance, sexism, violence, and a whole host of newly
discovered inequities and inequalities.
And they invariably propose one balm to heal all miseries: government. And more government.
Government unbound, unlimited, unhindered.
In speeches and votes, Jewish legislators cry for an expansion of government power so limitless
it makes the carnivorous alien plant in "Little Shop of Horrors" look like a rose in spring.
Politicians are joined in their socialist cry by other Jewish leaders like Abraham Foxman of the
Anti-Defamation League and Nobel-Prize-winning scholar Elie Wiesel and media voices like Ed
Asner and Barbra Streisand.
In their utopian vision, government is a godlike, all-powerful, all-seeing, all-knowing, force for
good. That is -- for whatever "good" politically powerful groups can impose by force.
One of the "benefits" Jewish leaders want to impose is disarmament. Not trusting ordinary men
and women to own guns, they work toward the day when uniformed soldiers, police, and other
agents of the state will hold a monopoly on the legal use of lethal force.
Have these Jews forgotten their own history?
Have they forgotten that, from Pharoah to Stalin and Hitler, powerful governments have been
their worst tormentors, their slave masters, their ghettoizers, their inquisitors, their slaughterers?
They certainly have forgotten that, throughout history, the "benevolent" government that courts
Jews one day turns on us the next and sends us into exile, suffering, and death. For two
millennia, thats been the reality of Jewish existence.
Do they want Jews to be victims? And worse, do they want us to become, in reality, the nation of
victims that populates their imaginations?

A history of Jewish heroes
Jews who nowadays crusade for the omni-benevolent, but omni- controlling Nanny State have
forgotten the proud Jewish traditions of self defense, self reliance, and armed opposition to
tyranny. Thankfully, earlier American Jews had a better grasp of their history.[1]
Before the U.S. was a nation, Jews like Asser Levy and Jacob Barsimon demanded their right to
bear arms and patrol with the local militiamen in New Amsterdam colony. They had to overcome
the resistance of Pieter Stuyvesant, the colonys anti-Semitic governor, who didnt trust them
with guns and wanted them to pay a tax so a Christian could bear arms in their stead.
Haym Salomon, friend to Washington and Lafayette, was an American for just 13 years, from his
immigration to his death. But in that time, he was the major financier of the Revolution. He also
gave interest-free loans to Madison, Jefferson, and several generals of the Continental Army --
then died broke when both public and private debtors defaulted on $638,000 owed him.
While most Christian colonists remained neutral or turned Tory, the majority of the Jewish
community supported freedom from oppressive government.
And so it has gone through U.S. history. In the War Between the States, the Union Army had
eight Jewish generals and six Jewish Medal of Honor winners. Confederate Jews fought valiantly
for the states that had respected their individual rights when the North rejected them. Isadore
Busch of St. Louis was one of the most prominent abolitionists in the Midwest, while Judah P.
Benjamin -- the first practicing Jew ever elected to the U.S. Senate -- became Secretary of War,
Attorney General, then Secretary of State in the cabinet of Jefferson Davis. He was known as
"the brains of the Confederacy."
Jews rode with Teddy Roosevelts Rough Riders. In World War I, Sgt. Ben Kaufman was
threatened with a court martial when he refused to stay in a hospital after being wounded in a gas
attack. Shortly after, in the Argonne forest, he charged a German machine gun nest, despite his
shattered right arm hanging at his side. Lobbing grenades with his left hand, he ultimately
captured the machine gun by menacing its crew with an empty pistol. Then he took a German
prisoner and went back to reveal the location of German lines to his commanders.
From Admiral Hyman Rickover, Father of the Nuclear Navy, to the merest grunt slogging ashore
on an embattled beach, Jews have fought and died -- bearing arms.
They preserved the Bill of Rights. The Bill of Rights in turn protected their liberties by binding
government -- the most potentially oppressive, murderous human force on earth -- in the chains
of law.

Jewish law and armed defense
By taking up arms, these heroes followed Jewish law and tradition: A Jew may choose to defend
against aggressors, but when the threat is ominous, a Jew must fight back.
The Talmud, the code of Jewish law, states: "If someone comes to kill you, arise quickly and kill
him."[2] The Sixth Commandment, poorly translated as "Thou shalt not kill," is more properly
translated from the Hebrew as, "You shall not commit murder." It does not forbid the righteous
taking of life. The Book of Exodus (22:1)[3] further confirms this, assuring us that "If a burglar
is caught in the act of breaking in, and is struck and killed, it is not considered an act of murder"
(assuming the intruder is breaking into our home at night, when it is hardest to judge his intent).
In Genesis 14:11-24, Abraham (Abram), rescues his nephew Lot, held captive by four kings, by
arming 318 servants and hunting down, violently attacking, and dispersing Lots royal captors.
Because earlier American Jews followed these traditions of righteous defense, they enjoyed life
and freedom while their cousins died by the millions at the hands of Hitler and suffered under
Stalin.

How things have changed
Jews have benefited so greatly from Americas limited government that the epithet "statist Jew"
should be as unbelievable as "kosher ham."
Jews have fought so well that when modern Jews sneer at arms and those who bear them they
dishonor the memory of their own ancestors. What would Judah Maccabee -- the brilliant warrior
who captured Jerusalem from the Greeks and rededicated the Temple (a man once described as
"Arnold Schwartzenegger wearing a yarmulke")[4] -- think of todays weapon prohibitionists,
who wouldnt have allowed him to bear a sword?
Jews have suffered so grotesquely for their modern inability to defend themselves that their
"leaders" moral repugnance toward firearms constitutes suicidal self hatred.
Nevertheless seriously misguided zealots -- "useful idiots" in communist argot -- continue to lead
the charge to strip all but an elite few Americans of the right to protect themselves and their
loved ones.
Sen. Charles Schumer sponsors or co-sponsors every major victim disarmament bill. Hes
followed closely by Sens. Boxer, Lieberman, Levin, Feingold, and Kohl.
Theres almost no expansion of state power that these and other politically influential Jews dont
consistently support: nationalization of health care; thought-crime laws ("hate speech"); federal
control of education; foreign adventurism; rent control; tax-paid child care; institutional
education for toddlers; federal management of family life; subsidies for business; wage-price
controls; surveillance and databasing of the population; subsidy or censorship of art; draconian
law enforcement; and greater spending on any program that creates more government dependents
or partisans.
But to the drive for citizen disarmament, they bring religious fervor.
Charles Schumer praised prominent anti-gun activist Sarah Brady, telling her at a Congressional
hearing, "You are doing G-ds work."[5]
But who exactly is Chuck Schumers god? Certainly not the G-d of Judeo-Christian teachings --
the G-d who championed righteous self-defense in the name of life. Does Schumer worship the
golden calf? Or perhaps he was referring to Anubis, the Egyptian god of death who conducted
souls into the underworld. Or Set, the Egyptian god of chaos who personified evil. For evil and
death will reign in a world where thugs are armed and disarmed victims bow helpless before
them.
Consider the Religious Action Center of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations (AHC),
a Washington, D.C.-based group that bills itself as the "hub of Jewish social justice and
legislative activity in the nations capital." This group has built an anti-gun curriculum for
children and adults that makes hatred for self-defense a religious issue. Its first goal: "To see the
issue of gun control not only as a political issue, but as a moral obligation."
The AHC adopted a disarmament resolution in 1999 that called for members to make gun-
control one of their highest priorities. That resolution cited "the biblical injunction that we must
not stand idly by the blood of our neighbor." The bible cite is ironic, given that the AHC urges
policies that ensure that good people will have no means to defend their neighbors from bloody-
minded thugs.
In ignorance of Jewish law, Rosanne Selfon, vice president of Women of Reform Judaism,
joined the 2000 Million Mom March, telling the media. "We have a moral obligation that
emanates from Torah and G-d." Ms. Selfon should brush up on authentic Jewish teachings by
consulting Rabbi R. Mermelstein via his online "Ask the Rabbi" column.[6]
Rabbi Eric M. Lankin, executive director for the New Jersey Region of the United Synagogue of
Conservative Judaism, cites the Jewish tradition of actively doing good and bettering the world
as the reason why gun-control "resonates with the Jewish community."
Indeed, Jewish tradition says, "Destroy a life, you destroy the world; save a life and you save the
world." Yet these leaders, in the name of religion, would turn the world over to destroyers and
render life savers powerless to protect their neighbors, friends, families, or nations.
Some Jewish religious leaders make sincere and thoughtful, though tragically wrong, arguments.
Others often sound as though theyre merely parroting clichs theyve heard on TV -- "gun
violence," "for the children," and the well-debunked canard "43 times more likely to be killed by
a gun in your own home." But its not until you enter the realm of the secular Jewish leadership
that you encounter the most unthinking prejudices.
Several years ago, Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership compiled evidence that
demonstrated how, in nation after nation, gun-control laws have preceded mass slaughters of
civilian populations. When JPFO presented these findings to Elie Wiesel, a survivor of both
Auschwitz and Buchenwald, he refused even to consider its evidence. Wiesel, who has said, "To
remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all," wrote a two-sentence response: "I received
your recent letter linking gun control laws with genocide in the twentieth century. Sorry, but I
am for gun control. "Under Abraham Foxman, the Anti-Defamation League of Bnai Brith has
departed from its mission of defense against bigotry. Adopting a political party-line agenda, the
ADL itself spews bigotry against gun owners. The ADL calls for tolerance, but turns around and
smears those who oppose its disarmament goals as "extremists," "paranoiacs," "bigots," "gun-
nuts," and "haters." Thus the Anti-Defamation League becomes the Defamation League.
And the toll of freedom-hating Jewish "leaders" goes on.

One step leads to another
In nine major genocides of the twentieth century, at least 74 million people were slaughtered by
their own governments.
1915 - 1917 Ottoman Turkey, 1 - 1.5 million Armenians murdered.
1929 - 1945 Soviet Union, 20 million people opponents (or perceived opponents) of
Stalin murdered.
1933 - 1945 Nazi-occupied Europe, 20 million Jews, Gypsies, disabled people,
homosexuals and political opponents of Hitler murdered.
1927-1949 Nationalist China, 10 million political opponents, army conscripts and others
murdered.
1949 - 1976 Communist China, 20 million political opponents, rural people or "enemies
of the state" murdered.
1960 - 1981 Guatemala, 100,000 Mayan Indians Murdered.
1971 - 1979 Uganda, 300,000 Christians and political rivals of Idi Amin murdered.
1975 - 1979 Cambodia, 1 million educated people murdered.
1994 Rwanda, 800,000 Tutsi people murdered.
Each mass murder was preceded by enactment of gun-control laws. Each murdered population
was first disarmed. Leaders of each murderous government were looking for an unpopular group
on which to pin the blame for persistent problems. The newly published book Death By Gun
Control [7] by Aaron Zelman and Richard W. Stevens has the details.
What will happen if the U.S. allows itself to fall into that vicious spiral?
Dont believe "It cant happen here." It can. When powerful people, seeking to impose perfect
solutions from above, find that every road to Utopia fails, theyre all too willing to take the path
that lies over the bodies of the dead or the enslaved.
Efforts to legislate sweeping, top-down solutions to human problems always fail, and for two
good reasons. First, not all human problems can be solved. Second, any attempt to impose
universal, one-size-fits-all solutions from above not only fails but generates a new set of "crises"
and abuses.
Try to halt violence by restricting gun ownership and you wont halt violence. But you will
create entire classes of new criminals -- people who make paperwork errors, violate technical
specifications of law, or rebel against the new restrictions. And youll create new bureaus, new
enforcement arms, new prisons to punish them. Youll make hordes of lawyers and bureaucrats
very happy. Organized criminals will be grateful to the naive moral crusaders ("useful idiots") as
they profit by selling an illegal product. And ordinary street criminals will bless fools,
legislators, and "leaders" for making their job so much safer.
Look around the world. In the UK, criminal use of handguns increased 40 percent in the three
years after that country decreed a near-total ban on those weapons. Between March 1999 and
March 2000 alone, crimes committed in Britain with handguns rose by nearly one-third.[8]
These are handguns that, according to the law of wishful thinking, dont exist. A similar ban
enacted in Australia resulted in a 3.2 percent increase in homicides, 8.6 percent more assaults
(especially on the elderly), and an astonishing 45 percent increase in burglaries, with the
undefended elderly once again the prime victims.[9]
"Gun-control" advocates scoff when we call their aim "victim disarmament." But unlike their
"gun control" -- which controls nothing except law-abiding people -- victim disarmament is an
accurate term. Deadly reality demonstrates that when the Schumers of the world say they want
our guns, what theyre really saying is, "We dont care if some woman gets raped. We dont care
if old folks are helpless in their own homes. We dont care if children die from pitchfork-
wielding madmen because weve prevented children from accessing guns. We just care about
having control."
If your goal is gang violence and the deaths of women, the elderly, and the helpless, get in line
behind Chuck Schumer, Abraham Foxman, and the god Anubis on the road to death.
Todays "reasonable gun-control" becomes tomorrows catastrophic failure. But the answer, for
those who love control, is never to say, "That didnt work; lets get rid of it." Instead, when one
restriction on firearms possession doesnt miraculously end all violence, proponents cry for
another and yet another. The result is an endless escalation. True believers demand ever-greater
harshness in enforcement and seethe with ever-greater desire to punish those who break the
burgeoning laws. Sometimes, as their desperation mounts, they merely strike out against
conveniently identified "troublemakers."
Jewish leaders forget that, once this kind of mindless spiral of blame and punishment seizes a
society, the Jews often become its victims.
I say to you self-enthroned Jewish "leaders," you dont lead me, as you lead your followers down
this path to destruction. You dont represent me in any way, nor do you represent many fine Jews
who value all of the Bill of Rights for all citizens.
But Im afraid someday Ill have to pay -- as both a Jew and a freedom-loving American -- for
your folly, you Jews who have sight but no vision.
Now I ask Jewish leaders:
Why, if guns are so evil that their mere possession drives otherwise peaceful people to violence,
do you want police and military forces to be better armed than you? Have you forgotten the
glowing deaths heads, the silver lightning, the sleek black boots and tailored uniforms of the
Nazis who rousted your parents and grandparents from hiding and drove them like farm animals
to slaughter?
Have you forgotten one of Americas open secrets -- that until recently the upper echelons of the
U.S. military were virulently anti-Semitic? That while Jews were dying in Europe U.S. Army
officers and intelligence agents were (as Joseph Bendersky documented in The Jewish Threat)
convinced that Jews were dangerous, subversive, and malign?
And these are the people to whom you want to grant a monopoly on the use of armed force?
If your vigilance fails and a genuine hate group really does take over America, how will you
fight them, once youve disarmed yourself and your countrymen?

Why?
Why is the Shoah, the Holocaust, glorified above the memories of the heroic deeds of Jews?
Why not glorify the memories of unflinching heroes: the Maccabees, and the bold young men
and women of the ghettos of Warsaw and Vilna who took a stand for life, not death?
Why do Jewish leaders ignore the indisputable fact that Jews who took up arms against Hitler
survived in larger numbers than their passive brethren?
Why do they ignore accounts like that of Harold Werner, a Polish Jew who took to the woods
with other partisans rather than submit to the ghettos and camps? In Fighting Back, Werner told
not only how he and his fellows bedeviled Hitler, but how, as Hitlers minions retreated, Jewish
partisans used arms to protect other Jews from beatings and murders by anti-Semitic civilians.
Is it mere ignorance of history when Jewish leaders disregard these facts? Is it slavish,
propagandistic devotion to police state policies? Or is it a death wish?
Is it some macabre sense of irony that causes them only to remember passive death on Holocaust
Remembrance Day -- when the very date was chosen because it fell within the weeks of the
Warsaw Ghetto rebellion, an act of courageous self- and community-defense that should live in
our memory for millennia?
Most Jews in America are just like most other Americans. They mow their lawns. They pay their
taxes. And many of them send money to groups like the ADL, telling themselves, "Its all taken
care of. The experts know what theyre doing."
In their passivity, they make the same mistake ghetto Jews made when relying on the wisdom of
the Judenrat, the Jewish Councils, who in the name of "reason" and civility, betrayed them to
Hitler and the death camps.
Some Socialist-leaning, anti-gun leaders may be passionate but wrong-headed; a few may be
venal, with their main goal to keep the golden goose laying eggs. Many worship power and value
"connections" and the ability to "get things done in Washington."
Their desire to curry favor with political establishment is reminiscent of Jews of the Weimar
Republic, who believed themselves to be assimilated ("more German than Jewish," so the saying
went), but found out how tragically theyd deceived themselves when Hitler came to power.
Most members of Europes Community Jewish Councils (called Jewish Federations in the U.S.)
never learned -- even after they had been shut into ghettos, even after theyd helped select
thousands of fellow Jews to be marched to death camps -- that appeasers, in the end, share the
same fate as those whom they betray.
American Jewish leaders are naive if they believe they can evade the consequences of history.
They are evil if they knowingly lead us all toward that familiar fate.
How can professional victims like Elie Weisel walk through death camps, yet deny the need for
self defense?
History shows that the biggest murderer of Jews and of other minorities has not been hate groups
but governments that have become drunk with power.
If you believe "It cant happen here," ask the survivors of the Branch Dravidian church whose
family members were gassed and cremated. Ask members of the Bonus Army, peacefully
protesting veterans of World War I who, in 1932, were gassed and burned out of their
Washington, D.C., tent city by a military force led by those all-American heroes Douglas
MacArthur, Dwight Eisenhower, and George S. Patton. Ask the students at Kent State, the WTO
protestors in Seattle, or the veterans of WWII who had to form an independent army and
recapture their Tennessee county by force of arms from a brutal and corrupt government in 1946.
Ask the Japanese Americans who were forced into what the New York Times accurately called
concentration camps, their possessions looted, their lands stolen.
Even as they cry remembrance, Jewish leaders have forgotten these things -- just as they have
forgotten the underlying causes of Hitlers Holocaust.
As Dr. Sarah B. Thompson wrote in "Raging Against Self Defense,"[10] many who hate guns
and believe they can end violence by banning a tool are suffering a kind of mental instability.
They project their own fears and aggressions onto others. They imagine threats from inanimate
objects, disregarding the intentions of the possessors of those objects. Despite clear evidence to
the contrary, they deny that criminals will still get arms and menace innocent people, no matter
how many laws are passed. They identify themselves as victims and boil with unstated rage
against anyone they imagine has the strength to victimize them. The same amorphous anxiety
that gives an edge to the humor of Jewish comedians shows itself in Jewish leaders desperate
fear of guns. They feel threatened, and its easy to point to firearms and say, "If those just go
away, Ill feel better."
When that false hope of inner peace and security fails, as it inevitably will, what -- or who -- will
political zealots turn on next?

The challenge
Jews have a reputation for being intelligent. But its stupid to destroy the Bill of Rights, the one
document that has created a historic haven for Jews when all the rest of the world has been
against us. If the guardian of the Bill of Rights -- the uninfringed right of individuals to keep and
bear arms -- is destroyed, how will we defend ourselves when tyrants come to take our freedom
of speech, religion, or trial-by-jury or our protections against self-incrimination, unwarranted
searches, or cruel and unusual punishment?
I challenge true Jewish leaders to promote Bill of Rights Day on December 15 instead of giving
all their energy to the self- perpetuating Holocaust industry. Promote that special day and mean
it. Learn the significance of every amendment and support every shining one of our 10
protectors.
Pursue justice -- by getting off the backs of peaceful people. Put restrictions only on those who
do harm.
Promote self-reliance instead of perennial victimhood. Support the right of all Americans to
make our own decisions, including the decision to buy, own, and use firearms responsibly.
"Choose life," as our traditions bid us, by living peacefully but developing the skill to protect
your family, friends, neighbors, and nation from those who choose death and destruction. You
cant choose life by throwing Holocaust literature at those who wish you evil.
When you cry, "Never again!" tell me how youll enforce that cry. Because make no mistake,
there are people who will be happy to push us all into gas chambers again. And if we dont stop
them, then our disarmed and demoralized neighbors certainly wont -- especially not if they
perceive that we were instrumental in disarming them and destroying their liberties.
I challenge you, Jewish leaders, to do whats best for all America. Warmly embrace all of the
Bill of Rights for all citizens, In the long run, thats whats best for Jews and Judaism -- and for
the world.


NOTES
[1] For more information on Jews in the U.S. from colonial days onward, read A History of the
Jews in America by Howard M. Sachar (Vintage Books, 1992).
[2] Tractate Barachot, pages 58A and 62B.
[3] In some translations, this passage appears as Exodus 22:2.
[4] "Judah Maccabee!" http://aish.com/a/chanukah60/judahmaccabee.asp. (Sorry, links appears
to have expired).
[5] By tradition, most religious Jews do not spell out or speak the name of the Almighty outside
of religious settings. Therefore, we use "G-d" in this article to designate the G-d of the scriptures,
but we spell out references to a pagan "god" or "gods.".
[6] "Ask the Rabbi" is no longer on the JPFO web site.
[7] Death by Gun Control, Aaron Zelman and Richard W. Stevens, Mazel Freedom Press, 2001;
distributed by Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership.
[8] Gunter, Lorne. "Gun Laws Spur More Crime." Edmonton Journal, February 17, 2001.
[9] Dougherty, Jon E. "Crime Up Down Under." WorldNetDaily, Friday, March 3, 2000,
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=15304.
[10] "Raging Against Self Defense: A Psychiatrist Examines the Anti-Gun Mentality" by Sarah
Thompson, M.D. can be read online at http://jpfo.org/filegen-n-z/ragingagainstselfdefense.htm.

Copyright Aaron Zelman 2001. Permission is granted to distribute this article in its entirety, so
long as full copyright information and full contact information is given for JPFO.
May 5th 2008 ......... we received the following comment from a new member ..........

Dear Sir

I just became a member of JPFO, so please take the following critique as coming from a well-
wisher.

In the article titled "Do Jewish leaders want us all to be victims?" Mr. Zelman mentions
numerous cases of Jewish use of force to defend themselves and others. He starts with the
Maccabees, mentions Abraham and goes forward in history from there. The only case he fails to
mention is the state of Israel. Isnt this a good example of Jewish self reliance and self defense?
It is true that Israel has fairly strict gun laws, but, as opposed to other places, most of the
population is armed just by virtue of serving in the army reserves. Having grown up there, served
in the IDF and having carried a concealed gun (with a permit) I was somewhat aggravated by
this omission. It is not too late to correct this.

Some of our Jewish "leaders", especially those on the left, are preaching "peaceful" behavior for
Israel. Meaning: appease the Arabs and stop using force to defend yourself. This is the same
victim mentality that drives those people to try and disarm all of us. They will trust the
government to protect us and the UN to protect Israel - same approach with similar results.

Regards
N.K, Ph.D.
Las Vegas, NV.
The JPFO Liberty Crew
Protecting you by creating solutions to destroy "gun control"
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