Anti-Semites like to quip that the root cause of Middle East violence is the issue of the occupation of the West Bank.
I agree.
Anti-Semites are right about another thing. It is always the Jews? fault.
The Ramban determined that it is forbidden to allow any part of the Holy Land to lie fallow. In his view, even nature preserves are forbidden, as every square inch of the Holy Land must be lovingly planted and nurtured with trees, flowers and plants. It is similarly an obligation that every square inch of the Holy Land be occupied territory - specifically, occupied by Jews. Jews elicit global disaster by not fulfilling these Divine edicts. Yes, the root cause of violence, and not only in the Middle East, is the premeditated crime of Jews refusing to occupy the West Bank.
It is the Jews? fault. They violated the law.
In 1967, Israel was given His most precious gift. Israeli Jews and Diaspora Jews, who should have a second home in Israel, have had thirty-six years to claim their unclaimed property. Israel intentionally keeps it unoccupied territory by enforcing a Jordanian law that makes it illegal for any Jew to own any land in the West Bank. Worse, when a Jew tried to register land that he bought from an Arab, not only would the Israeli authorities refuse to register ownership in the Jew?s name, but gave copies of the contract directly to the Palestinian Authority, who, under official sanction, executed the Arab seller.
Jews that bought land from Arabs and set up farms were besieged by a thousand soldiers and policemen, beaten up and all structures demolished. Police disguised as soldiers even forcibly removed Jewish widows and orphans in the middle of the night from their farms, triggering flashbacks of the nightmare of every Jew, their entire family being taken away in the middle of the night. This is entirely racist. Only Jews are forcibly removed with no due process and no civil rights. No American or Israeli of the Moslem or Christian faith has ever been evicted from any farm in the West Bank.
It is the Jews? fault.
Jews kept adapting to host cultures to survive and prosper, but in the process lost their core identity. They adopted host culture values and suppressed Jewish values. Rather than asserting their Jewish identity, they redefined Jewish identity to meld with the host culture. Case in point: any Jew true to his heritage would be more than mildly irritated by any suggestion that Jews be precluded from living in the West Bank.
In order to become free men, the enslaved, assimilated Jews of Egypt had to assert their Jewish identity by openly taking one of he gods of Egypt, a sheep, into their houses, tie it to their bedpost for four days, and then slaughter it. To make sure that their neighbors saw what they had done, they had to paint the blood on all sides of the doorpost of the main entrance to their house.
What is today?s litmus test of Jewish identity, equivalent to the challenge to the enslaved Egyptian Jews?
Jews are obligated to openly take a stand that is unpopular by mainstream society. They must demonstrate their love of the Holy Land, enthusiastically accepting the Biblical mandates to exclusively occupy the Land of Israel and settle it. Only by being a settler and by encouraging Arab emigration from within the borders of Biblical Israel can Jews openly fulfill discrete Biblical commandments, which would be a public display of their loyalty to the Almighty rather than to the almighty dollar.
World peace depends on the Jews. Peace will not be secured by fighting on the streets of Baghdad. The only way to stop global terror is for the citizens of the world to ensure the Jews? claim to every part of the Holy Land as an everlasting inheritance, which Jews should so highly value that they would not share. We all have an obligation to sponsor mass Jewish migration into the unoccupied territories. Every time a Jew is removed from his farm, we must sponsor a hundred more Jewish farms to be legally established. If we do not make sure that every last part of the Unoccupied Territories are bought up and occupied by Jews, then it is not only the Jews? fault, and we are all damned.
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Shmuel Neumann, Ph.D., is actively involved in creating communities for English-speaking olim, and in an emigration program for Palestinians. He currently resides in the Shomron.
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Spend Passover with Arutz Sheva at a resort in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv or Kfar Pines (near Hadera). Click here for info.
I agree.
Anti-Semites are right about another thing. It is always the Jews? fault.
The Ramban determined that it is forbidden to allow any part of the Holy Land to lie fallow. In his view, even nature preserves are forbidden, as every square inch of the Holy Land must be lovingly planted and nurtured with trees, flowers and plants. It is similarly an obligation that every square inch of the Holy Land be occupied territory - specifically, occupied by Jews. Jews elicit global disaster by not fulfilling these Divine edicts. Yes, the root cause of violence, and not only in the Middle East, is the premeditated crime of Jews refusing to occupy the West Bank.
It is the Jews? fault. They violated the law.
In 1967, Israel was given His most precious gift. Israeli Jews and Diaspora Jews, who should have a second home in Israel, have had thirty-six years to claim their unclaimed property. Israel intentionally keeps it unoccupied territory by enforcing a Jordanian law that makes it illegal for any Jew to own any land in the West Bank. Worse, when a Jew tried to register land that he bought from an Arab, not only would the Israeli authorities refuse to register ownership in the Jew?s name, but gave copies of the contract directly to the Palestinian Authority, who, under official sanction, executed the Arab seller.
Jews that bought land from Arabs and set up farms were besieged by a thousand soldiers and policemen, beaten up and all structures demolished. Police disguised as soldiers even forcibly removed Jewish widows and orphans in the middle of the night from their farms, triggering flashbacks of the nightmare of every Jew, their entire family being taken away in the middle of the night. This is entirely racist. Only Jews are forcibly removed with no due process and no civil rights. No American or Israeli of the Moslem or Christian faith has ever been evicted from any farm in the West Bank.
It is the Jews? fault.
Jews kept adapting to host cultures to survive and prosper, but in the process lost their core identity. They adopted host culture values and suppressed Jewish values. Rather than asserting their Jewish identity, they redefined Jewish identity to meld with the host culture. Case in point: any Jew true to his heritage would be more than mildly irritated by any suggestion that Jews be precluded from living in the West Bank.
In order to become free men, the enslaved, assimilated Jews of Egypt had to assert their Jewish identity by openly taking one of he gods of Egypt, a sheep, into their houses, tie it to their bedpost for four days, and then slaughter it. To make sure that their neighbors saw what they had done, they had to paint the blood on all sides of the doorpost of the main entrance to their house.
What is today?s litmus test of Jewish identity, equivalent to the challenge to the enslaved Egyptian Jews?
Jews are obligated to openly take a stand that is unpopular by mainstream society. They must demonstrate their love of the Holy Land, enthusiastically accepting the Biblical mandates to exclusively occupy the Land of Israel and settle it. Only by being a settler and by encouraging Arab emigration from within the borders of Biblical Israel can Jews openly fulfill discrete Biblical commandments, which would be a public display of their loyalty to the Almighty rather than to the almighty dollar.
World peace depends on the Jews. Peace will not be secured by fighting on the streets of Baghdad. The only way to stop global terror is for the citizens of the world to ensure the Jews? claim to every part of the Holy Land as an everlasting inheritance, which Jews should so highly value that they would not share. We all have an obligation to sponsor mass Jewish migration into the unoccupied territories. Every time a Jew is removed from his farm, we must sponsor a hundred more Jewish farms to be legally established. If we do not make sure that every last part of the Unoccupied Territories are bought up and occupied by Jews, then it is not only the Jews? fault, and we are all damned.
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Shmuel Neumann, Ph.D., is actively involved in creating communities for English-speaking olim, and in an emigration program for Palestinians. He currently resides in the Shomron.
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Spend Passover with Arutz Sheva at a resort in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv or Kfar Pines (near Hadera). Click here for info.