Our Lady of Sorrow: The Collected Essays from the Holy Land (Paperback)

by Israel Shamir (Author)

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Story of Our Lady statue in Bethlehem destroyed by the Jewish Army and its universal meaning. Ideas are not less important than material things; oil does not provide the whole explanation of the war in the Middle East, faith is not dead and can't die as long as mankind exists. Even the belief in the Market forces is just another faith, an old established cult of Mammon. Faith is not only a personal affair; religion still matters, probably more than we think.

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• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: BookSurge Publishing (June 8, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1419608355
• ISBN-13: 978-1419608353
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,395,514 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful writings on the Holy Land, September 13, 2005

By	P. BENNETT (Glendale, AZ USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Stories about the Holy Land, from an Ex-Jew who noticed the wisdom of Jesus and converted to Christian. Surely anyone can see the moral superiority of the New Testament (over the old). It was an improvement. Islam was a further refinement. If you are still reading, perhaps you are ready for Shamir: "...the Wall is the utmost manifestation of the Jewish spirit ... is eruv, a symbolic Wall to separate them fro non-Jews ... built by the sweat of impoverished Palestinian workers, guarded by Russians, paid for by Americans to jail their brothers ... the Holy Land has become a high security prison for all its dwellers, Jews and non-Jews alike ... The Jewish state is enactment of the paranoid Jewish fear and loathing of strangers, while the Cabal policies of Pentagon are another manifestation of the same fear and loathing on global scale."

Shamir is a fantastic writer, and he cuts to the real meat of the matter. Don't be afraid of being called a racist for being a goy who dares to read about internal Jewish policies (openly debated and reported in Israel). I don't believe in the concept of "race" in the least bit - however, when there is a Jewish State for Jews Only and all others may be deported at the whim of a Jew...I think they have earned the right to be criticized, and yes - even be talked about as Jews.

"Jewish Spirit" - as coined by Shamir - is a spirit that can descend on any of us. Any time an American decides that the Iraqi dead are not worth counting... Racism in any form, really. But we all can escape from this spirit with Paul's message: We are ALL brothers. Shamir calls the Master-Slave Society as "Jewish" only because it is a large part of the Torah and other writings of the Rabbis. We are all guilty of it on some level.