{"id":2234,"date":"2007-01-29T11:42:49","date_gmt":"2007-01-29T09:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/29\/regarding-olmerts-use-of-never-again-to-talk-the-talk-you-gotta-walk-the-walk\/"},"modified":"2007-01-30T13:56:33","modified_gmt":"2007-01-30T11:56:33","slug":"regarding-olmerts-use-of-never-again-to-talk-the-talk-you-gotta-walk-the-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/29\/regarding-olmerts-use-of-never-again-to-talk-the-talk-you-gotta-walk-the-walk\/","title":{"rendered":"Regarding Olmert&#8217;s Use of &#8220;Never Again&#8221;: &#8220;To Talk The Talk, You Gotta Walk the Walk&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.israelnationalnews.com\/news.php3?id=120390\"> <strong>Olmert:  &#8216;Never Again&#8217;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/OlmertSmiles.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Full Text;<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Prime Minister Ehud Olmert declared at a Knesset meeting Sunday that Israel would not stand by and allow the world to ignore a threat to the Jewish people.<\/p>\n<p>\u00d6\u00b2&#8220;We won&#8217;t let the world forget again, through indifference and silence, the threat to the Jewish people,\u00d6\u00b2&#8221; he said. Olmert\u00d6\u00b2&#8217;s remarks were made in reference to the growing concern that Iran will complete its nuclear development of a weapon of mass destruction and make good on President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad\u00d6\u00b2&#8217;s vow to wipe the State of Israel off the map. <\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Commentary;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/index.php?s=Olmert+Boasts\"><strong>Prime Minister Olmert is off on another of his boasting tangents,<\/strong><\/a> <strong>in once-again usurping the phrase &#8220;Never Again&#8221; from proud Jews, such as Rav Meir Kahane Z&#8217;l.  Notice the comma, for it&#8217;s unthinkable to mention Olmert in the same breath as a true Tzaddik.  And notice that this is not the first time Olmert has mis-used this phrase which signifies Jewish pride, esteem, self-worth and willingness themselves to fight to insure survival, not depending on third-parties, third nations, or superpowers for &#8220;peace-keeping&#8221; or protection..  <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a short list of a number of instances where Olmert used the phrase recent months;<\/strong>  <a href=\"http:\/\/vitalperspective.typepad.com\/vital_perspective_clarity\/2006\/08\/olmert_declares.html\"><strong>(1),<\/strong><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snopes.com\/politics\/soapbox\/olmert.asp\"><strong> (2),<\/strong><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mfa.gov.il\/MFA\/Government\/Speeches+by+Israeli+leaders\/2006\/Address+by+PM+Olmert+to+the+Mayors+Conference+31-Jul-2006.htm\"><strong>(3),<\/strong><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org\/jsource\/Peace\/Olmert073106.html\"><strong>(4).<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>But this latest utterance by Olmert reminds this author of the mad ravings on American TV prime time of certain &#8220;Pro&#8221; Wrestlers such as &#8220;The Nature Boy&#8221; whose ramblings included gems like; &#8220;To be da man, you got to beat da man&#8221;, &#8220;To talk The talk, you gotta walk the walk&#8221; as these phonies with their ketchup &#8220;blood&#8221; play out their make-believe, scripted dramas before those enthralled with the &#8220;comic-athleticism-mock violence&#8221; as it unfolds on their boop-tubes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/RicFlair.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>But here in Israel, we&#8217;re not dealing with make-believe, ketchup and cauliflour ears, we&#8217;re dealing with reality, national security and survival.<\/p>\n<p>Ehud Olmert has reduced &#8220;Never Again&#8221; from pride and self-initiative to trash talk and the<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/web.israelinsider.com\/views\/8985.htm\"><strong>&#8220;too tired&#8221; dependence on everyone else but the national collective-self<\/strong> <\/a><strong>to insure Israel&#8217;s and Jewish security.  <\/p>\n<p>Olmert, in the crude terms of WWF Wrestling;  &#8220;To talk the talk, you gotta walk the walk.&#8221;    MB <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olmert: &#8216;Never Again&#8217; Full Text; Prime Minister Ehud Olmert declared at a Knesset meeting Sunday that Israel would not stand by and allow the world to ignore a threat to the Jewish people. \u00d6\u00b2&#8220;We won&#8217;t let the world forget again, through indifference and silence, the threat to the Jewish people,\u00d6\u00b2&#8221; he said. Olmert\u00d6\u00b2&#8217;s remarks were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}