Tacky?
Jeffrey Goldberg complains about Mitt Romney's Western Wall visit.Today is Tisha b'Av, the ninth of Av, a Jewish day of fasting and mourning. It is on this day that the First and Second Temples were destroyed. The Western Wall, in Jerusalem, is a retaining wall of the Second Temple. It is, especially on this day, a locus of prayer and reflection. It is also, on this particular Tisha b'Av, the location of a very important photo opportunity for an American presidential candidate.Okay, it's not the perfect day for a visit. But he did choose to go at the hottest time of the day when the smallest possible number of people are there. And none of the natives seemed upset about it. In fact, they were kind of excited about it and many of them hung around after their prayer services ended to see.
How vulgar is this?
Very.
P.S. The mourning aspect is limited after mid-day. Romney visited the Kotel after mid-day.
Labels: Campaign 2012, Mitt Romney, Western Wall
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 5:58 PM
7 Comments:
With us they say: "If you want to beat a dog you'll always find a stick".
I wonder what they wold have said if it were Obama doing the same?:)
But this is just impossible.
The Western Wall IS NOT a "retaining wall of the Temple", but a retaining wall of the Temple Mount.
It's a MAJOR difference.
"THE REAL THING" is upstairs...
RaMba"M DID NOT pray at the Wall, but he went upstairs as he wrote...which is NOT forbidden, contrary to what stated by those who base themselves on the opinions of later rabbis who never stepped foot in Erets Israel...
Tsom Qal.
Yup! Ever so tacky! By all means, a man who stands with Israel on a very visible day has just got to be slimed and condemned ... It is, of course, the PERFECT day, and for Israelis to nitpick this visual and undermine it as anything other than fabulous is... well, typical. Like Israel delegitimizing with hostility and turning away from joining the Jewish community huge swaths of a potential team of various streams of Jews. Israeli citizens need some teambuilding seminars... whatever.
As vulgar as Obama's rock and roll show at the Brandenburg Gate?
Not even close.
Sunlight,
Jeffrey Goldberg is not an Israeli, although he did serve in the IDF at one time. As far as I know he's still (solely) a US citizen.
Sunlight,
Jeffrey Goldberg is not an Israeli, although he did serve in the IDF at one time. As far as I know he's still (solely) a US citizen.
[i]With us they say: "If you want to beat a dog you'll always find a stick".
I wonder what they wold have said if it were Obama doing the same?:)[/i]
If you want to eat a dog you'll always find a fork. ;-))
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