tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2556022894010597695.post1472756126140436324..comments2023-05-16T07:25:05.645-04:00Comments on Sefer Ha-Bloggadah: The purity of our handsBZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18242965196421853025noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2556022894010597695.post-27749162651179983922009-01-16T16:06:00.000-05:002009-01-16T16:06:00.000-05:00With all respect, this is an inapt analogy. In th...With all respect, this is an inapt analogy. In the midrash, the corrupt state of mind of the community is revealed in the fact that the victim's father himself ignores his own still-faintly-alive son in his concern for the ritual purity of a tool; he's happy about something minor when he should be trying to save his own son's life. If Israel's current Gaza campaign is morally justified (and I believe it is), a vigorous public defense is not acting "as if it's only and all about Public Relations." Those in the American Jewish Community who have argued in various forums in defense of the campaign (and I have done a little of this also) are focusing on lives. That they (we) focus more intently on Jewish lives is appropriate, even when the danger to Jewish lives (from Kassams and Grads) is less than the danger to Palestinian lives.Richard Friedmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02870620899916616752noreply@blogger.com