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They say a picture is worth a thousand words, the rabbi asserts rather subduedly. But starting this summer, he adds bitterly, a picture taken in Lebanon gave a thousand lies! And with that, he launches into a caustic denunciation of what he perceives as the media's extreme bias against Israel, listing numerous cases where journalists unhesitatingly bought the Arab line. Speaking without notes, this youngish, bespectacled man slips from attacking the press to a general tirade defending the invasion of Lebanon...
...predictable themes come spilling out: why it was regrettable, but necessary; how the death of even one innocent civilian is a catastrophe; how Israeli soldiers went to great personal risks to protect civilian life; what a double standard the world judges Israel by. There is no applause when the rabbi finishes: this is a synagogue. But the audience plainly approves, for their feelings about the issue have been eloquently expressed...
...peace-keeping force in Lebanon. Begin also called for young Jews in France to guard their neighborhoods if the police did not. But his plea was rejected by the religious leaders of the 700,000-member Jewish community in France, the fourth largest in the world. Said Chief Rabbi of France René Samuel Sirat: "The sole responsibility of protecting the lives and property of Jews rests with the state and the police...
...believe that there is a divine plan that gives reason to my son's senseless death, I would no longer have any use for God. Rabbi Kushner has given me the only basis for any rational understanding or acceptance of this tragedy. There surely has to be a randomness at work in this world. A good and loving God cannot be the one who orchestrates senseless traffic accidents, air crashes, terminal cancer and wars...
...Rabbi Kushner has missed the point. God is in control, and everything does happen for the best. Why else would the personal tragedy have had such a positive result, that is, a book that has comforted so many others in their grief...