Abu Juwairiya
Junior Member
1.) 'I tell you explicitly that the Torah forbids us to surrender even one inch
of our liberated land. There are no conquests here and we are not
occupying foreign lands; we are returning to our home, to the inheritance
of our ancestors. There is no Arab land here, only the inheritance
of our God-and the more the world gets used to this thought the better
it will be for them and for all of us' By prominent Rabbi Zvi Yehudah
Kook ('Year by Year', 1968)
The same Rabbi added further-
'We find ourselves here by virtue of the legacy of our ancestors, the basis
of the Bible and history, and no one can change this fact. What does it
resemble? A man left his house and others came and invaded it. This is
exactly what happened to us. Some argue that there are Arab lands here.
It is all a lie and a fraud! There are absolutely no Arab lands here . ...'
2.) 'For Rabbi [Shlomo] Aviner and his followers, then, the first Arabs to settle in the
Holy Land were thieves, and the crime has been bequeathed from father
to son down to the present generation. Perhaps he is referring to
collective ownership of the land and not to the ownership by each
individual Arab of his own small plot. But he says that all the title deeds
for land recorded in government registers have "no juridical and moral"
force.' Source: One Nation Under Israel by Andrew Hurley, 1999 (Rabbi Shlomo Aviner is the current Rabbi of the Ateret Kohanim Yeshiva)
3.) 'If Jews see the Arabs' residence in the land of Israel as making them
criminals, the conclusion that they should be expelled is quick to follow.
Knesset member Rabbi Me;r Kahane has given widespread publicity to
this idea, but he did not invent it. It is based on ancient sources, and first
and foremost the biblical verse "You shall dispossess all the inhabitants
of the land" (Numbers 33:53) and the interpretations of it given by
classical commentators. The eleventh-century scholar Rashi, for example,
explained: "You shall drive out the land and you shall dispossess it
of its inhabitants, and then you will dwell in it, i.e., you will be able to
remain in it [if you dispossess it of its inhabitants], but if not, you will
not be able to remain in it." Thus the biblical verse was interpreted not
as a commandment directed to the Jews in the past, when they came out
of Egypt, but as a standing order binding for the future.' (Source:
'From Expulsion to Annihilation' Subtitle in the Book 'Israel's Fateful Hour' By
Yehoshafat Harkabi)
4) 'It is forbidden for gentiles to live in Jerusalem. I, for example, favor
upholding the halakhic prohibition on a gentile's living in Jerusalem. If
we would uphold this halakha as we should, we would have to expel all
non-Jews from Jerusalem and purify it absolutely' By
Rabbi Eliezer Waldenberg, winner of the 1976 Israel
Prize (given for outstanding achievement) [Cited in 'The Zionist Dream revisited, P 117)
5) 'Anyone who looks through the code of Maimonides, which is the pillar
of halakha in the Jewish world, and searches for the concept "thou shalt
not murder" or the concept "holy blood" with regard to the killing of a
non-Jew will search in vain, because he will not find it .... It follows
from Maimonides' words that a Jew who killed a non-Jew was exempt
from human judgment, and has not violated the prohibition on murder.
As Maimonides writes in the Laws of Murderers: "A Jew who killed a
resident alien is not sentenced to death by a court of law' (By
Rabbi Yisrael Ariel in a collection of articles in the 1980s referring to Palestinians)
6) 'According to Dr Nisan, Jews are permitted to discriminate against foreigners in a way
that Jews would angrily denounce were it done to them. What is
permissible to us is forbidden to others.'
(Source "A New Approach to Israeli-Arab Peace"
published in Kivvunim 24 (August 1984), an official publication of the
World Zionist Organization. The author is Mordechai Nisan, a lecturer
on the Middle East at Hebrew University in Jerusalem)
of our liberated land. There are no conquests here and we are not
occupying foreign lands; we are returning to our home, to the inheritance
of our ancestors. There is no Arab land here, only the inheritance
of our God-and the more the world gets used to this thought the better
it will be for them and for all of us' By prominent Rabbi Zvi Yehudah
Kook ('Year by Year', 1968)
The same Rabbi added further-
'We find ourselves here by virtue of the legacy of our ancestors, the basis
of the Bible and history, and no one can change this fact. What does it
resemble? A man left his house and others came and invaded it. This is
exactly what happened to us. Some argue that there are Arab lands here.
It is all a lie and a fraud! There are absolutely no Arab lands here . ...'
2.) 'For Rabbi [Shlomo] Aviner and his followers, then, the first Arabs to settle in the
Holy Land were thieves, and the crime has been bequeathed from father
to son down to the present generation. Perhaps he is referring to
collective ownership of the land and not to the ownership by each
individual Arab of his own small plot. But he says that all the title deeds
for land recorded in government registers have "no juridical and moral"
force.' Source: One Nation Under Israel by Andrew Hurley, 1999 (Rabbi Shlomo Aviner is the current Rabbi of the Ateret Kohanim Yeshiva)
3.) 'If Jews see the Arabs' residence in the land of Israel as making them
criminals, the conclusion that they should be expelled is quick to follow.
Knesset member Rabbi Me;r Kahane has given widespread publicity to
this idea, but he did not invent it. It is based on ancient sources, and first
and foremost the biblical verse "You shall dispossess all the inhabitants
of the land" (Numbers 33:53) and the interpretations of it given by
classical commentators. The eleventh-century scholar Rashi, for example,
explained: "You shall drive out the land and you shall dispossess it
of its inhabitants, and then you will dwell in it, i.e., you will be able to
remain in it [if you dispossess it of its inhabitants], but if not, you will
not be able to remain in it." Thus the biblical verse was interpreted not
as a commandment directed to the Jews in the past, when they came out
of Egypt, but as a standing order binding for the future.' (Source:
'From Expulsion to Annihilation' Subtitle in the Book 'Israel's Fateful Hour' By
Yehoshafat Harkabi)
4) 'It is forbidden for gentiles to live in Jerusalem. I, for example, favor
upholding the halakhic prohibition on a gentile's living in Jerusalem. If
we would uphold this halakha as we should, we would have to expel all
non-Jews from Jerusalem and purify it absolutely' By
Rabbi Eliezer Waldenberg, winner of the 1976 Israel
Prize (given for outstanding achievement) [Cited in 'The Zionist Dream revisited, P 117)
5) 'Anyone who looks through the code of Maimonides, which is the pillar
of halakha in the Jewish world, and searches for the concept "thou shalt
not murder" or the concept "holy blood" with regard to the killing of a
non-Jew will search in vain, because he will not find it .... It follows
from Maimonides' words that a Jew who killed a non-Jew was exempt
from human judgment, and has not violated the prohibition on murder.
As Maimonides writes in the Laws of Murderers: "A Jew who killed a
resident alien is not sentenced to death by a court of law' (By
Rabbi Yisrael Ariel in a collection of articles in the 1980s referring to Palestinians)
6) 'According to Dr Nisan, Jews are permitted to discriminate against foreigners in a way
that Jews would angrily denounce were it done to them. What is
permissible to us is forbidden to others.'
(Source "A New Approach to Israeli-Arab Peace"
published in Kivvunim 24 (August 1984), an official publication of the
World Zionist Organization. The author is Mordechai Nisan, a lecturer
on the Middle East at Hebrew University in Jerusalem)