Jewish Home leader vows to ‘stand as fortified wall’ against ‘historic mistake’ to retreat to 1967 line, divide Jerusalem
ed note–as with all things coming out of the mouth of organized Jewish interests, people need to understand that what is being said is oftentimes at total variance with what it actually means.
The ‘dividing’ of Jerusalem has little/nothing whatsoever to do with Israel’s intransigence vis a ‘vis the creation of a ‘Palestinian’ state. Neither do ‘security concerns’ have anything to do with returning the lands stolen by the Jews in ’67.
It is all about Torah, Greater Israel, and the arrival of the ‘Messianic age’, to wit–
‘On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abraham, saying “To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river Euphrates”…–Genesis, 15:18
‘And God spoke unto us saying, ‘Go to the hill-country and all the places nigh thereunto… in the Arabah, the hill-country and in the Lowland… in the South and by the sea-shore, the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates…Go in therefore and possess the land which the Lord swore unto your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, unto them and to their seed after them…’ Deuteronomy 1:6–8
‘Every place whereon the sole of your foot shall tread shall be yours, from the wilderness, and Lebanon, from the river Euphrates, even unto the hinder sea shall be your border…’ Deuteronomy 11:24
‘…From the wilderness, and this Lebanon, even unto the great river, the Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and unto the Great Sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your border…’Joshua 1:4
‘When the Lord your God brings you into the land he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, he will give you a land with large, flourishing cities you did not build, houses filled with all kinds of good things you did not provide, wells you did not dig, and vineyards and olive groves you did not plant…’–Book of Deuteronomy
This is the ‘fine print’ which people who support Israel (and even those who don’t) don’t seem to ‘get’. The entire ‘Jewish state’ project is not/never was/never will be simply about obtaining some tiny little sliver of land along the eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea that would function as a ‘homeland’ fo’ da po’ lil’ per-scuted Jooz. It is about creating a sprawling Judaic empire located between the Nile and Euphrates rivers from which ‘Judaic ethics’ will be enforced upon the world with a Judaic ‘rod of iron’ as prophecized thousands of years ago and outlined in the Jewish Torah.
Furthermore, due to the ‘personal’ issues surrounding ‘Palestina’–the name given to Judea after being conquered by the Roman Empire–Bennett & co will never, repeat NEVVVVER–concede to the creation of a ‘Palestinian’ state, as the very word itself is/has been/always will be a thorn in the eyes of Jews the world over.
Times of Israel
Education Minister and Jewish Home leader Naftali Bennett vowed to topple the Likud-led government if necessary in order to prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state.
Bennett told Channel 2 in an interview segment aired Thursday that the Jewish Home was “the only party” and he “the only leader who says there won’t be a Palestinian state established here.”
The complete interview will air Saturday evening on the channel’s “Meet the Press” show.
“As long as we are here [in the coalition], a Palestinian state will not be established… and Jerusalem will not be divided,” Bennett said.
Responding to recent promises made by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman to pursue a peace agreement with the Palestinians, Bennett vowed to “stand as a fortified wall against historic mistakes,” making a reference to the Hebrew name of Operation Protective Edge, Israel’s 2014 conflict with Hamas in Gaza.
Bennett noted that Palestinian statehood was not part of the government’s policy guidelines as set down in last year’s coalition talks when Netanyahu sought to form his government after the elections.
“We’re in a government that I insisted not have [the establishment of] a Palestinian state in its guidelines,” he said.
“If we are talking about a return to the 1967 lines and the division of Jerusalem, I won’t just resign from the government, I’ll topple it,” vowed Bennett.
Bennett’s withdrawal of his eight-seat party from the coalition, which has a scant majority of 66 MKs, would effectively topple it.
Likud efforts to bring in the largest opposition party, Zionist Union, into the coalition failed last month, with both sides blaming each other for the break down.
Netanyahu has repeatedly called on the party’s leader, Isaac Herzog, to reconsider and join the government.
According to a Haaretz report on Thursday, Likud efforts were now being refocused on the party’s number two, Tzipi Livni, a strong opponent of Herzog’s negotiations with the Likud.
