Comments on: Time to Run http://www.crossingtheyarden.com/2010/01/time-to-run/ In Israel, biking is a sport and politics is a religion. They have it backwards. Sun, 05 Feb 2012 02:23:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: dr http://www.crossingtheyarden.com/2010/01/time-to-run/comment-page-1/#comment-281 dr Tue, 05 Jan 2010 07:14:04 +0000 http://www.crossingtheyarden.com/?p=583#comment-281 You say: "Every day, Israelis turn dreams into reality." "Every day you can read about breakthroughs in high tech, agriculture, medicine, you name it. From innovative start-ups to Nobel Prize winners (I mean the ones awarded for actual accomplishments), we produce more than our share by far." Well look at the price paid by the Palestinians for all these accomplishments-they live in a prison and all efforts to create that 2 state solution seem to go nowhere. The Palestianians have lost and continue to lose their land, crops and homes to settlements. The Palestianians are abused , attacked and terorized by settlers with no protection from the Isreali police and the IDF. Germany achieved many scientific and engineering marvels and look at the price paid by the peoples of the world during WWI and WWII by the German war machine and aggession. You say:
“Every day, Israelis turn dreams into reality.”
“Every day you can read about breakthroughs in high tech, agriculture, medicine, you name it. From innovative start-ups to Nobel Prize winners (I mean the ones awarded for actual accomplishments), we produce more than our share by far.”
Well look at the price paid by the Palestinians for all these accomplishments-they live in a prison and all efforts to create that 2 state solution seem to go nowhere. The Palestianians have lost and continue to lose their land, crops and homes to settlements. The Palestianians are abused , attacked and terorized by settlers with no protection from the Isreali police and the IDF.

Germany achieved many scientific and engineering marvels and look at the price paid by the peoples of the world during WWI and WWII by the German war machine and aggession.

]]> By: steven wolisky http://www.crossingtheyarden.com/2010/01/time-to-run/comment-page-1/#comment-280 steven wolisky Tue, 05 Jan 2010 03:28:11 +0000 http://www.crossingtheyarden.com/?p=583#comment-280 good luck to you, yarden the gemara says that every 4 amot that you walk (or run) in israel is a mitzvah. i don't know exactly how many, but there must be thousands of amot in 42.2 km. that's lots of mitzvot. i have been lucky enough to have run the tverya marathon 4 times over the last 10 years, but i am stuck in galut (monsey) this time. i often think of how fortunate we are to live at this time of jewish history, as you said. our ancestors davened for two thousands years to return to yerushalayim under jewish rule. only in the last 42 years have we really been able to do so. what a zechut we have. hatzlacha raba and kol tov steve wolinsky steve wolinsky good luck to you, yarden
the gemara says that every 4 amot that you walk (or run) in israel is a mitzvah. i don’t know exactly how many, but there must be thousands of amot in 42.2 km. that’s lots of mitzvot.
i have been lucky enough to have run the tverya marathon 4 times over the last 10 years, but i am stuck in galut (monsey) this time.
i often think of how fortunate we are to live at this time of jewish history, as you said. our ancestors davened for two thousands years to return to yerushalayim under jewish rule. only in the last 42 years have we really been able to do so. what a zechut we have.
hatzlacha raba and kol tov
steve wolinsky

steve wolinsky

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