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From: teitz@aecom.UUCP (Eliyahu Teitz)
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Subject: Re: Re: Christmas {report} card ( Israel )
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Date: Tue, 25-Dec-84 12:40:31 EST
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> [Come on, Mr. Golem, I know your there..]
> 
> >     The Jewish nation had survived for 2000 years without a country of their
> >  own and I dare say they could have survived another 2000. Of course having
> >  the state is very nice, but looking at it now, it has hardly been a religious
> >  blessing. I really don't know if such an occurence should be celebrated.
> > 				Eliyahu Teitz.
> 
> 	NONSENSE!   Were not the few delivered from the hands of the many
> when the "state" was established?  Don't you think that this was/is a blessing?
> I think it is and should be celebrated.  I see a similarities between the events
> that led to the festival of Hanukah and the establishment of Israel.  Anyone
> else agree?
> Happy Hanukah,
> David S. Green     {ihnp4}!mhuxi!dsg   201-564-4468

   The same except that Channuka celebrated our spiritual freedom and was
 a religious victory mainly and a physical one secondly. The Greeks were
 not interested in our deaths only in our renouncing Judaism. 
   The setting up of a state in Israel had nothing to do with religion,
 and that's all I've been saying all along.

		Eliyahu Teitz.