{"id":2984,"date":"2007-10-10T16:11:48","date_gmt":"2007-10-10T14:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/10\/shas-aguda-brought-their-current-matzav-upon-themselves-and-upon-the-jews\/"},"modified":"2008-09-01T13:20:01","modified_gmt":"2008-09-01T11:20:01","slug":"shas-aguda-brought-their-current-matzav-upon-themselves-and-upon-the-jews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/10\/shas-aguda-brought-their-current-matzav-upon-themselves-and-upon-the-jews\/","title":{"rendered":"Shas, Aguda Brought Their Current Matzav Upon Themselves and Upon the Jews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>.<br \/>\n<strong>Commentary;<\/p>\n<p>It is a sad statement about principle and integrity, or lack thereof, amongst the so-called Religious party alignments of<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knesset.gov.il\/faction\/eng\/FactionPageCurrent_eng.asp?PG=2\"><strong>Shas<\/strong><\/a> <strong>and<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knesset.gov.il\/faction\/eng\/FactionPageCurrent_eng.asp?PG=8\"><strong>Aguda (United &#8220;Torah Judaism&#8221;)<\/strong><\/a> <strong>when the Pensioners Party of perfiduous<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rafi_Eitan\"><strong>Rafi Eitan<\/strong><\/a> <strong>threatens the regime&#8217;s governing coalition regarding<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.israelnationalnews.com\/News\/News.aspx\/123868\"><strong>pension benefits and the regime&#8217;s attempts to implement division of Jerusalem<\/strong><\/a> <strong>while the &#8220;religious parties&#8221; merely cast verbal stones at each other, each accusing the other of<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.israelnationalnews.com\/News\/Flash.aspx\/134430\"> <strong>&#8220;assasination&#8221;<\/strong><\/a> <strong>and<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ynetnews.com\/articles\/0,7340,L-3458194,00.html\"><strong>&#8220;annihilation&#8221; of Torah.<\/strong><\/a>  <\/p>\n<p><strong>The sad fact is that by<\/strong>  <a href=\"http:\/\/foundation1.org\/wp-en\/2007\/06\/14\/the-peres-shas-nexus-a-commentary-on-the-religious-parties\/\"><strong>either their support for, or their silent, acquiescent complicity in both Oslo and the Expulsion of Jews<\/strong><\/a> <strong>from Jewish land and their total lack of concrete opposition to both, Shas and Aguda have brought their current matzav upon themselves and upon all of Israel. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>It will be interesting to watch whether the Pensioner&#8217;s Party actually walk&#8217;s the walk while talking the talk  and whether they actually begin the process of crumbling the dominoes of Olmert, Ramon, Lieberman and Barak.   MB<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><center><strong><em>Related reports:<\/em><\/strong><\/center><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.israelnationalnews.com\/News\/News.aspx\/123868\"><strong>Pensioners Party Threatens Government Stability, by Nissan Ratzlav-Katz<\/strong> <\/a>  (Israel National News)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.israelnationalnews.com\/News\/Flash.aspx\/134430\"><strong>UTJ Accuses Govt, Shas of &#8216;Budgetary Assassination&#8217;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Excerpts;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Members of Knesset from the hareidi-religious UTJ party expressed anger at the government on Tuesday, accusing the Knesset of attempting a &#8220;budgetary assassination&#8221; of yeshivot.  The proposed 2008 budget revealed on Tuesday allocated NIS 152 million to men&#8217;s Torah learning&#8212;a NIS 499 million cut from the current budget, according to which yeshivot receive NIS 651. &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;MK Gafni harshly criticized the Shas party, saying &#8216;The Shas party, which pretends to be a hareidi-religious party, is a full partner in the trend of annihilation of the Torah world.&#8217;  The Jewish public will not forgive Shas, he said, adding &#8216;Their hand does not tremble as they vote again and again with this destructive coalition.&#8217;&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ynetnews.com\/articles\/0,7340,L-3458194,00.html\"><strong>&#8216;Shas Annihilating Torah World&#8217;, by Neta Sela <\/strong><\/a> (Ynet)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. Commentary; It is a sad statement about principle and integrity, or lack thereof, amongst the so-called Religious party alignments of Shas and Aguda (United &#8220;Torah Judaism&#8221;) when the Pensioners Party of perfiduous Rafi Eitan threatens the regime&#8217;s governing coalition regarding pension benefits and the regime&#8217;s attempts to implement division of Jerusalem while the &#8220;religious [&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-2984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2984","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=2984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}