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Love the person despise the deed.  You’re talking about the person Sarah Palin not the actions, which are generally hate based and insincere because right-wing philosophy is the shtick she uses to achieve fame.  The person, Sarah Palin might be lovely but her deeds are awful, and you’ve said that.  Could you write a blog about her contradictions?  Why does such a warm person incite such cold hatred?  Why can’t a warm, Christian person espouse love as her savior Jesus?  How does she reconcile here politics with her religion.  She like you but thinks you’re going to burn in hell along with Einstein.  Where in the bible did Jesus condone hated? This tea-bag thing is a thinly disguised hate group reminiscent of the Nazi party.  Mrs. Palin incites their hatred.  She doesn’t condone tolerance.  You’re attitude is more Christian than the Christians?  So maybe you should be praised for that.  We have to have dialogue with our enemies or we can’t begin to solve problems.  That’s what Reagan did.  “Tear down that wall” has a lot meanings the right doesn’t abide by.

Comment by Jumpy on 4/23/10 at 11:20 am

“If one more person sends me reading material so I can learn all about her, I will scream.  I don’t care.  I have no interest in knowing anything about this woman.”

Well, it’s certainly your right to natter along ignorantly about Nadya Suleman or any other subject you don’t care to “know anything about” before forming your opinion and sticking it out there on the internet.  If you plan to continue publishing intentionally “ignorant” commentary, you might want to consider eliminating your comments section so you don’t get your widdle baby feelings hurt when people respond factually to what you write.

Comment by TheVoiceOfReason on 4/23/10 at 11:23 am

“it’s sad however, when they stop talking about the topic, and attack me”

Sarah Palin could say this too.

Comment by Eric on 4/23/10 at 1:44 pm

“Why is it hard for people to be compassionate?”  I believe it’s because they’ve allowed themselves to be indoctrinated by all the different media’s loudmouth commentators. 
And to Eric:  Sarah Palin ran for vice-president of the U.S.A.  All politicians are attacked by their opposition.

Comment by Mike Brown on 4/23/10 at 4:12 pm

There is a saying “Be careful what you wish for, you just may get it.  This is what happened to Nadya Suleman. She wanted lots and lots of kids.

I have some compassion for Nadya Suleman, however the overwhelming majority of it goes to her children, for they are paying the price of their Mother’s bad decisions.

I sincerely hope that someone at some point gets her the mental health care she so desperately needs.

Comment by Epiceyeroll on 4/23/10 at 4:35 pm

I don’t know how you were hoping for people to contact you with the passages, which talk about anger but this is the first one I was able to find. Proverbs 10:12 Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins. The Bible has alot to say about anger and hatred. It is very clear about hating the sin but loving the sinner. The only way we can do that though is through the grace of God we have access to through Christ’s finished work on the cross and His resurrection. The jealousy/hatred is only a one side-effect of a deeper sin issue in the life of every un-regenerate person. The “good” you are seeing in each person though is also only by the grace of God… it is the work of the Holy Spirit that restrains evil from having the effect it could otherwise be capable of, but also you are seeing the conscience in each person- the law of God written on their heart. Every human being is created in the image of God. The only true peace we will ever have is when we come to see ourselves through the same lens that God sees us through - utterly depraved, and incapable of doing anything good of our own merit. The love God would have us show to others can only be a small reflection to others of the love that has been shown us through such an incredible sacrifice.

I loved reading your article and really appreciated your insight. It would be incredible to talk with you in more depth on this issue.

Comment by Sara L on 4/23/10 at 4:36 pm

Psalm 139:

Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God:  depart from me therefore, ye bloody men.

For they speak against thee wickedly, and thine enemies take thy name in vain.

Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?

I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies.

Proverbs 8:

The fear of the LORD is to hate evil:  pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.

Comment by David on 4/23/10 at 4:43 pm

The new testament 1John4:19 says: GOd is love and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.”
On my website, 1prophetspeaks.com, you can read articles about God and other subjects, written to Jews and Christians. God inspired me to write a book which you can read for free on the site titled Manual For Transformational Healing; God’s answer to psychiatry. one of the chapters talks about the scriptures and experiences that led me to accept Christ as my saviour. I am Jewish. The book is unique in that it is a Christian perspective of psychiatry, which is rooted in atheism and diagnoses people with spiritual experiences and beliefs as having mental illness. This is not commonly known but needs to be.

Comment by prophetess D on 4/23/10 at 5:36 pm

I’m glad that you do not take it into account that Nadya is half-Palestinian.

Comment by George on 4/23/10 at 6:00 pm

Oh, boo-hoo-hoo.  You are waaaaaaaay too whiney and thin skinned to be on the internet.

Comment by shutup on 4/23/10 at 6:13 pm

Thank you Ilana! You made my day. I like your attitude which is similar to my granddaughter’s attitude. I put it on my Favorites and send it to my granddaughter in Jerusalem. We probably discuss what you wrote when she gets home. I run into many people who are like the ones who write you hate mail and they make me sad. Keep it up Ilana you put a smile on my face.

Comment by Rivka on 4/23/10 at 6:38 pm

I’m with you.  People are so hateful.  Not sure why.. don’t really get it.  I too feel compassion for Nadya.  She may have been misguided but she loves her kids and they seem well cared for.  That’s as much as anyone can expect at this point.

Comment by Caroline on 4/23/10 at 7:05 pm

I can have compassion for the kids, who didn’t ask to be born in to her delusional circus.  But I draw the line at having compassion for their sociopathic mother. Deliberately bringing 14 children in to the world when you have no means to support them, nor a father to help guide them is unconscionable.

Comment by Deana on 4/23/10 at 8:09 pm

Illana and I may be the only two people on this thread who have actually spent time with Sarah Palin. I met her while she was governor when our unit went to Elmendorf to practice training exercises with 19th Fighter Squadron. I didn’t know who she was—only that she was a very popular governor—but she clearly was a very sharp lady who possessed an impressive body of knowledge about air defense and she asked all the right questions.

As a flight leader in the F16 squadron in which I served, an important part of my job was to know the capabilities of the people who flew with me. I’m not easily impressed but then Governor Palin impressed me greatly.

Nothing I have heard her say or that was exposed in the Couric/Gibson has diminished that impression I have of her.

I’m no biblical scholar but neither is “Jumpy”. He conveniently ignores what today
people like him would call hate speech that eminated from the mouth of Jesus. The pharisees were labelled as “a generation of vipers"and declared they “devoured widows.”

Steven called the jews betrayers and murderers; Paul said of Elymas, that he was the son of the devil.

Sarah Palin seems pretty tame by comparison. Unless I missed something she hasn’t stormed into any temples and thrown out people playing Bingo.

Comment by Viper4 on 4/23/10 at 8:26 pm

To Viper4: Sarah Palin “was a very sharp lady…..and asked all the right questions” BUT couldn’t respond to the Katie Couric question “What newspapers do you read?” On another occasion said Africa was a country.  I expect more from someone running for vice-president of the US.

Comment by Mike Brown on 4/23/10 at 10:42 pm

I share your same perspective that people are basically good.  My observation is this:  it’s easier to be fueled by hate into doing things, like writing an angry retort that’s struck an emotional cord.  Rather than taking the time to thoughtfully compose a more diplomatic message that may say something like “hmm, you have an interesting perspective but I differ for these reasons…” or “help me understand how you can view…”.  That begins an engagement of dialog where an exchange of differing views occurs and doesn’t create churn, angst, stress and more general pissed-offness.  The folks who are fueled by hate today, I believe, are basically good people who are reacting from fatigue, anxiety and worst of all, fear.  I’m trying, for myself only, to be vigilant and mindful that compassion and sympathy is probably what they’re in need of.  For my own journey, I’m starting to truly understand that fear is the antithesis of faith.  Fear, anger and anxiety are places that are easier to go to, rather than to summon one’s faith.  It’s a discipline, that given these particularly tough times, is *not* nearly as easy to access within ourselves.

I’m not particularly good at quoting Bible passages, but one that I do remember is Paul’s Epistles, Corinthians 13 where he says that of Faith, Hope and Love, Love is the greatest.  I know, I know, you asked about hate, but I’m flipping the coin

You have a tough job that takes courage - which you do with exemplary authenticity.  Your faith is an inspiration to all of us.

Comment by bella on 4/23/10 at 11:40 pm

“God is Love.” - Letter of the apostle John.

If this article is representative, Ilana, I think you are a lovely person, much too good for George Clooney ...

Comment by Peter on 4/24/10 at 7:15 am

I can see why people on the left HATE Sarah Palin. The believe things about her that are simply not true. I can’t even count the lies I read browsing through this comment section alone.

They call that blind hatred.

This nation is very ill with it too.

Comment by Sharon on 4/24/10 at 9:17 am

They say Hitler could act very charming and loved animals. He was able to deceive an entire nation about the evil that lurked within him. Many people can “present” very well while at their core is something else. I’m not out looking for evil in people but I sure do not want to be deceived either.
I know you are looking for scriptures about just peace and love and forgiveness and compassion but that is not the only purpose of the Bible. It is also to exhort and instruct and to make people wise. Posters can throw out scriptures endlessly.Satan even used scripture against Jesus. Here are just a few about Deception:
(Be wise as serpents and harmless as doves.)
Here are some references from both Old and New Testament. I will give the references here (kind of like links) if anyone wishes to look them up rather than write the entire passages here.
Be not deceived….Mark 13:5-10 Jesus said to them: “Watch out that no one deceives you.
   
The heart is deceitfully wicked… Jerimiah 17:9 ( OT-Old Testament)
Deceivers are to be rejected:  Titus 1 10-13 (NT- New Testament)
Deception for Gain: Acts 5 1-4 (NT)
Self deception-perilous: Revelations 3 14,17 (NT)
Warnings against: 2 Thessalonians 2 1-4 (NT)

Comment by Barb on 4/24/10 at 10:14 am

You wrote “…After the Sarah Palin blogs, I felt sad.  It was so upsetting to me that in America, a country with so much hate in its history, hate was still so pervasive.  Now, after the Nadya Suleman blog, I am not only sad, but also disgusted.  It is hard to keep the faith, when hate is pelted at you…”

A small percentage of a large number of people with messages of hate can seem overwhelming.  Keep the faith in knowing that the much, much larger proportion of us, though we may not write to you, are also keeping the faith with you.

After I was “directed” to your first Palin blog, I became a daily reader of your blog—yes, I read your blogs daily, and reread some on weekends.  I like the person you are.  You are so caring but so intense—I don’t know how you do that—know that I count myself among those who beam comfort your way each day.

Comment by Kimo on 4/24/10 at 3:25 pm

Mike Brown, Show me one video where the words are coming out of Sarah Palin’s mouth that Africa was a country. As governor she had dealings in several states in Africa.  Stop believing all the lies that were put out there about her.  Tell me, did you have a problem when Joe Biden was interviewed by Katie Couric and said “When the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt got on the television and didn’t just talk about the, you know, the princes of greed?” Two problems, Roosevelt was not POTUS and there also was no TV at the time. Maybe Katie Couric didn’t have a clue either.  Did you have a prolem with Obama claming there were 60 states?  I can show you hundred of videos with the words coming out of their mouths.  Show me one video of Sarah Palin saying Africa was a country.

Stop believing all the lies and search for the truth because the truth can’t be found coming from the corrupt MSM.

The MSM is not longer the watch dogs for the American people.  They are the attack dogs and liars for the WH.

Comment by Truth on 4/25/10 at 9:17 am

Truth:  I believe if you check YouTube you’ll find videos of Sarah Palin making both errors I cited.  You’ll definitely find the “newspapers” one.  Please, just settle down and accept the fact that Sarah Palin is neither U.S vice-presidential or presidential material.

Comment by Mike Brown on 4/25/10 at 11:15 am

Mike Brown,  I didn’t ask about the newspaper because I watched the selected bits and pieces that Couric aired. The newspaper thing was no big deal to me because anybody in there right mind knows Sarah Palin reads newspapers and should have answered the question. She has learned from that mistake.  I asked about Africa.  There is no video because Sarah Palin never said it. If Sarah Palin is not VP or POTUS materail that is find. All I ask is that you stop lying about Sarah Palin.  The Africa thing is a lie.

Comment by Truth on 4/25/10 at 12:55 pm

Truth:  I’m going to drop this dialogue.  You just believe what you choose to.  I’ll believe what I saw.

Comment by Mike Brown on 4/25/10 at 3:01 pm

Has anyone taken the time to read all these comments?  If some of them weren’t so sad and pathetic, they could almost be considered funny.  I wrote a blog about how unfortunate it is that people can generate so much hate from people who don’t know them, and the comments made my point even clearer.  i am not going to edit, or censor anyones words.  That is not what I am about.  Should the Jewish Journal feel the need to remove something, I will leave it to them, and support their choices. I will only say, it’s great that my work inspires such strong opinions, and sad that those opinions are so personal, and not on topic.  Thank you for reading, thank you for writing, and if you’re dolling out prayers, keep me, and all those who clearly need help, in yours.

Best,

Ilana Angel
Keeping The Faith

Comment by Ilana Angel on 4/25/10 at 4:50 pm

good for you.when people berate others usually they have their own problems.many many men commonly and sadly father knowingly, wrecklessly or on purpose yet abandon financial, emotional and physical responsibility for one child, often many many more from one or more women. this is a common pattern throughout the world where women are left to be single moms or children are abandoned to 3rd parties often feeling the pain of abandonment a lifetime. one woman, who as most women controversially do, post the pill and the modern technology took control of her fertility, had the courage to choose to have her kids despite the risks because she could not choose which lives to end and has determinedly held onto them, keeping them together as a family,and working hard to care for them as best she can, whilst also looking to obtain finances,has however incurred the wrath of what seems like millions of american women, and men in a way that no pedophile, murderer, abuser or terrorist has despite their terrible deeds.why so much hostility? jails, wars,mental health facilities cost more to the so called tax payer in one area alone than any reported costs for this miraculous event. none of the other multiple birth families have been attacked like this but given all the sponsorship and tv deals to make their lives easy. people who dare to express concern about her kids who are better looked after than many including only children left in childcare by highflying parents or abandoned and neglected by druggie or otherwise desperate parents.this woman whatever her personal story is trying her best.the people who insult and disrespect her, whilst claiming sympathy for her kids are actually causing harm, insult and disrespect to the children who do not need to one day read the abuse about them, their family and their mother who they must honour for all the good and blessings she brings to their lives.interestingly nobody says a word about their apparently absentee father who has a duty to them, irrespective of the implications for himself or any other family members.it is sad that any antihate comments are as you find attacked by hate, but that says more about those expressing hate than those choose to hate.it is irresponsible and insulting to be negative about this family, especially for the sake of the children and their future peace and wellbeing.its unsepakable,misplaced hate that such commentators wish to destroy beautiful, precious and innocent lives and totally despicable.

Comment by eli on 4/26/10 at 3:23 pm

The word “Hate” in the Bible often means something different than what we think today. You need to go back to the Hebrew language to get the proper perspective on what is written in English and other languages. One of the stories in the Bible where God commands Israel to kill everyone including the animals is mostly misunderstood! The reason for that command is because that particular nation at that time were Nephilim, which means their blood was mixed with DNA of fallen Angels including the animals. Same reason for Noah’s flood.

The hatred in the world today is part of the reason we are being judged and suffering with all the problems we face. Yahshua showed all that follow Him how to live and let live. Shalom,  Efrayim(Wahoo,Ne.)

Comment by Efrayim on 4/26/10 at 10:14 pm

Biblical references to “Hatred”
Hatred: A Strong Aversion
Divine Hatred: Proverbs 6: 16-19
There are six things the LORD HATES-no seven:
Haughtiness, LYING, MURDERING, Plotting Evil, Eagerness to do wrong, A false Witness,
sowing DISCORD among brothers.
Proverbs 28:26
A (man) who ROBS his parents and says “What’s wrong with that?” is no better than a MURDERER.
A Commendable Hatred: Revelations 2:1-6
There is this about you that is good: You HATE the DEEDS of the licentious Nicolatians, JUST AS I DO.
HATRED OF THE LIGHT BY SINNERS: John 3:20
They hated the heavenly Light because they wanted to sin in darkness. They stayed away from the Light for fear their sins would be EXPOSED and they would be punished.

Comment by Barbara on 4/27/10 at 10:23 am

You say “Suleman was being honest” in her Oprah appearance. Not everyone perceives her performance as honest. She IS trying to save her bacon though and revamp her image she has created.She has not honored her parents in any of this and has robbed them.

Comment by Barbara on 4/27/10 at 10:28 am

“She has not honored her parents in any of this and has robbed them”

Rubbish. Her divorced parents have in one way at least, not honoured themselves and their own name in disgracing their only child in the media with claims that are allegedly untrue or merely personal opinion.Love covers a multitude of sins, they havent but have made money out of exposing their daughter and her imperfections to the hatred of the already baying mob out there at a time of her life and of her childrens that is the most vulnerable and at emotional and physical risk including death threats.Honour? It is amazing she is even allowing her kids to be exposed to her mothers hostility after such bublic betrayal. If they had behaved with more respect for their own grandchildren and their own child, whatever her perceived imperfections, the public would not have been given free licence to destroy their own family with untold consequences for their won grandchildren exposed to the unwarranted hate campaign against their mother.Wittingly or not, they have actively sanctioned it and could have done with good pr advice for safety reasons alone.The grandmother’s videos and interviews, has doubtless stirred up discord, who knows perhaps even amongst impressionable siblings at a difficult time of adjustment as in any family with new borns.Their daughter has been reportedly financially dependent to some extent on them but so are many adult children across the economic classes, often pushing parents to the edge with childcare demands (free, at all hours without tax or other benefits), housing needs (moving back home, using for free parental holiday homes or property) and poor finances (loans, debts and allowances) in times of crisis (such as this recession, divorce such as when Gloria Allred moved back home after her marriage failed) or just as a lifestyle of pooling resources,service and time to support one another. Women routinely are robbed of their years, marriage and even career by the needs of ageing and sick parents dependent on them for free 24hour care.This may be a kind of robbery but most would do it gladly despite the costs because the idea of family life is that the generations pull together especially in crisis or hardship and especially put on a united front to outsiders rather than expose one member to attack by betrayal, verbal abuse and disloyalty as these parents have.It is not a question of honesty, Oprah is mass tv, nobody, not even Oprah is ‘honest’ as everything must be pr over personal once someone becomes a public personality.It is good a victim of hate may put over her side, she has a responsiblity to help change public opionion for her childrens future and the happiness of her and her family.Western woman is now measured not on the number of children she cares for but on her earning record, even though one clearly impacts the other and she has had to choose for a while as most women have to unless they juggle as she is trying to.Many ageing parents without any grandchildren or the possibility of any would be delighted by the blessing of 14 from an only child.That is not robbing them, children are a blessing from God and many descendents also, it is a great gift to them.What a beautiful lasting honour to their name are these 14 grandchildren? She is trying to be financially independent and deserves to achieve this for the sake of her parents who have supported her, her children who need her support and herself.People should allow her to turn this situation round, to raise funds from work, sponsorship and other deals for such families and to have the freedom to do so without being stoned by hypocrites.She did not invent fertility treatment, sperm donation, children out of wedlock, dependency on ageing parents, or any of the controversy around her life, its already out there in a modern society without which she could not have done it.However people judge, Only God is well placed to judge ALL his people.

Comment by Yitzak on 4/27/10 at 1:51 pm

Yitzak-
You are judging Suleman by determining her intentions and heart as much as anyone who “criticizes” or discerns her behavior and actions. You are throwing out names like hypocrite which is the same thing you are being: (sanctimonious, pretentious, deceiving, dishonest, unprincipled) Even if you knew her or met her one time like the author of this blog did that does not give you all the facts or information.
She is the one who opened her life to camera$ from the beginning including subjecting her parents to the scrutiny of the press and public who mostly believe they are all 3 cut from the same cloth. She dragged them into her mess. By your blaming her parents for her self -made situation you are feeding her disease of blaming others. On one hand she claims she had a dysfunctional childhood (causing her to have all these children) yet out of the other side of her mouth she told the Worker’s Comp doctors she had a very happy childhood. (the least of her many “contradictions”) She has been disrespectful of her parents even before she had children. (If you didn’t see her in Fox’s “Unseen Footage”-she told the story of making her mother ride in the trunk of her car and drove around so she rolled around then laughed about it!)
You left out that she didn’t invent adultery. She didn’t invent anything new but availed herself to it without thinking about the future. She has now conceded to this now that her hopes for “Stardumb” have tanked and the offers aren’t rolling in. She was a willing participant who initiated all of this which she brought upon herself not once but over and over across a decade.
She used her parents but according to you “parents want to be used by their children”! (what? so they can then play martyr and moan about it?) Maybe in your circle that is true.  She has used others (Dr. Phil, Joann Killeen, Victor Munoz, anyone she can) I can understand why her parents may have not wanted any more children after having her. You act like she has done them a big favor by birthing 14 children so they can have grandchildren. I don’t know any adults who want to be taken advantage of. He mother provided for the first six! I call that rubbish. There is more to life and living than perpetuating your personal bloodline. They have them now but they certainly can’t enjoy them and I don’t believe she enjoys them either.
But hey-you must have lots of money to contribute to her cause. So please do. Throw all your money down a rat-hole if you wish.

Comment by Barbara on 4/27/10 at 6:37 pm

Mr. Reagan was initially scorned by American Jews and even many so-called conservative intellectuals.

Commentary magazine’s founding editor and one of the recognized founding fathers of the neoconservative movement, Norman Podhoretz, recently recalled in the Wall Street Journal that his early support of Mr. Reagan’s 1980 presidential candidacy was greeted even by his conservative friends with derisive remarks about “this B-movie star.”

Mr. Podhoretz said his support for Mrs. Palin has been similarly ridiculed.

“What does she know—and in this respect, she does resemble Reagan—is that the United States has been a force for good, which is more that Barak Obama, whose IQ is no doubt higher than hers, has yet to learn,” said Mr. Podhoretz.

Comment by ghj on 5/14/10 at 12:13 pm

“Hate evil, you who love the LORD, Who preserves the souls of His godly ones; He delivers them from the hand of the wicked.” Amos 5:15
“You that love the LORD, hate evil: he preserves the souls of his saints; he delivers them out of the hand of the wicked.” Psalm 97:10
“For I the LORD love judgment, I hate robbery for burnt offering; and I will direct their work in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.”
Isaiah 61:8
“And the LORD thy God will put all these curses upon thine enemies, and on them that hate thee, which persecuted thee.” Deuteronomy 30:7
Have a blessed day.

Comment by PW4SP on 5/26/10 at 7:03 am

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