This Summer Visit a Mediterranean Paradise Like Gibraltar, Malta, or Gaza. Huh? - 5/19/18

The RDL Podcast with Rabbi Daniel Lapin

Blaze Podcast Network

Religion, Philosophy, Judaism, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.8 • 842 Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2018

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Three Mediterranean oceanfront countries with similar population densities, similar limited access, similar lack of natural resources. Yet, Malta and Gibraltar are thriving, happy places that attract throngs of tourists while Gaza is a dangerous and oppressive hell hole. Why? (Clue: It has nothing to do with Israel) Should countries that start wars and then lose them also lose territory? How helpful is the United Nations? When groups of people succeed or when they fail, the causes are seldom external. It is nearly always due to internal culture. Kids who succeed at school usually do so because they come from a family culture that esteems education. Whether young people grow into productive citizens building successful, independent lives or whether they become indolent, pleasure-seeking parasites depends only on culture. Why have Biblically-based countries and cultures been more successful than the rest? Is the victim always virtuous or can you sometimes blame the victim? Why are the Arabs in Abu Dhabi, Qatar, and Dubai more successful than those in Gaza and the West Bank? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Blaze Radio Network
0:02.5	On Demand.
0:06.8	The more the world changes, the more we find comfort in the things that never change.
0:12.8	This is Rabbi Daniel Abbin, on demand.
0:15.6	On the Blaze Radio Network.
0:52.0	Welcome, all you happy warriors, and what a privilege it is for me to have the opportunity every week to share ideas together with you on this terrific podcast format. Now, I do miss not having the callers that were such a distinguishing characteristic of my terrestrial radio shows on KSFO in San Francisco and KVI I I, in Seattle, and in some other places.
1:16.3	But I do believe that the technology already exists for callers to become a part of the podcast.
1:26.2	I would like to get a little up on that and incorporate it,
1:32.3	perhaps in part of the show, speak with callers. I would like to try that. So I'll be exploring
1:41.1	the technology on that. If any of you have insights or knowledge on how that happens,
1:49.3	I am looking for help in that area.
1:52.2	So contact me through the website at rabbi-Danielappen.com,
1:57.6	and we'll be able to get in touch and we'll be able to explore that. But for now, let us move ahead
2:05.6	and let me say that I am preparing this show just before the biblical festival of Chavuot, or Pentecost, in the year 2018.
2:23.8	And so Pentecost falls on Saturday night the 19th of May, 2018.
2:33.5	And I am preparing the show. Now, being as it's a week in which much has happened,
2:43.6	there was the dedication of the embassy in Jerusalem. There was tragically another school shooting
2:50.7	this time in Texas, So there's been a lot
2:52.8	going on in this week. Also, the riots
2:56.0	in Gaza that
2:58.5	resulted in 50
3:00.7	members of the
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