NYTimes: More than 60.000 Israelis

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A devotee friend, Gosh Thakur das, just touring through India - Varanasi, Vrindavan, Kathmandu, Mayapur, Jagannatha Puri, e-mailed yesterday, everywhere you go you meet people from Israel.

In search for the roots of their spirituality, more than 60.000 Israelis visit every year India, the land of the divine bliss. As Rabbi Daniel Lapin

President, Toward Tradition, brings it clearly to the point - what is our worst enemy? Rabbi Daniel Lapin says, our worst enemy is within us, our anarthas , bad qualities that keep us bound up in materialism, not these so called enemies outside of us. Throughout India's history India had never started a war, although a superpower with more than 1 Million soldiers.

Or as President Bush said on his last visit in India: India is a land of peace!

Rabbi Daniel Lapin:

 

http://www.towardtradition.org/our_worst_enemy.htm

"This excerpt from Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf shows how that evil megalomaniac roused his nation to hurl an avalanche of destruction at the Jewish people:

'Was there any form of filth or profligacy, particularly in cultural life, without at least one Jew involved in it? What had to be reckoned heavily against the Jews in my eyes was when I became acquainted with their activity in the press, art, literature, and the theater….It sufficed to look at a billboard, to study the names behind the horrible trash they advertised….Is this why the Jews are called the “chosen people”? The fact that nine tenths of all literary filth, artistic trash, and theatrical idiocy can be set to the account of a people, constituting hardly one hundredth of all the country’s inhabitants, could simply not be talked away; it was the plain truth.' (Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler, Chapter II)

It does not excuse Hitler or his Nazi thugs for us to acknowledge that this maniacal, master propagandist focused on a reality that resonated with the educated, and cultured Germans of his day. Not once in Mein Kampf did that monster charge Jews with being complicit in the killing of Christ two thousand years earlier. He knew that long-ago event, shrouded in mystery and theological profundity, would never goad enlightened people to murder. Instead, he drew attention to the obvious and inescapable; that which every German knew to be true."