IN October, 1956, David Ben Gurion was interviewed by CBS. He stated: "In Israel, in order to be a realist, you must believe in miracles."
But the Talmud Yerushalmi tells us that in no way are we to depend on miracles.
It argues that we must not desist from our obligations and must not wait for miraculous intervention from the Supernatural.
How perfectly relevant are both of these views today. We witness hourly miracles.
As one of the terrorists from Gaza was reported to say when asked why they couldn't aim their rockets more effectively: "We do aim them, but their God changes their path in mid-air."
Comment: "Was reported", by whom? We could not find any other sources apart from this one, which makes it an unfounded rumor. Notice that a Muslim would not refer to the Jewish God as "their God" and attribute 'Him' any miracles, since Islam is a monotheistic religion. Therefore, he would have either said "God" (or Allah), in the belief that there is only one God for all religions, or he would have not mentioned the matter at all, not believing that "theirs" was a real God capable of miracles.
Amen! And when our God is not busy doing that, He is ensuring that the high-tech brain power of our "start-up nation" is working overtime to produce yet another Iron Dome battery to help protect our cities and us.
Comment: The Jewish Telegraph, the weekly paper that published this bizarre piece of propaganda, describes itself on its website as 'Britain's only Jewish regional newspaper'. We can only be thankful that, given the articles it publishes, it is released only weekly and is not national in reach.
Indeed, the baseless rumor that a 'terrorist' (there is that word again) has recognized the miraculous powers of the Jewish Tribal God, amounts to a myth or a legend suitable for the Bronze Age. But we live in the year 2014, and a genocide is being committed on the civilians of Gaza because of the political and territorial ambitions of Israel. Fairy tales can only make the situation much worse.