ed note–the arch-terrorist Rafael Eitan, one of the key architects of not only Israel’s deliberate attack on the USS LIBERTY but also the singular individual acting as Israel’s handler of arch-spy/traitor Jonathon Pollard once had the following to say concerning what was to take place once the ‘Jews had taken over’ Palestine, to wit–
‘When we Jews have settled the land, all that the Arabs will be able to do about it is to scurry around like drugged cockroaches in a bottle…’
The very same thing can be said about all peoples in all locales where the organized forces of anti-Gentilism control the media, and thus, control the flow and flavor of information and what is discussed at any given moment.
And no better example of this exists than in America, where the media is as much in the hands of the organized forces of anti-Gentilism as the swamp belongs to alligators and water mocassins.
Having said that, the piece below is prima face/proof positive evidence of how an entire people, an ENTIRE WORLD in fact, can be reduced to ‘drugged cockroaches scurrying around’ aimlessly depending on just who controls the discussion. Were the Gentile world right in the head, the piece below would be the topic of ceaseless discussion and particularly within those countries designated as ‘Christian’ and ‘Islamic’, given the fact that contained within this piece one can plainly recognize the seeds of Armageddon/Apocalypse which the ‘children of Israel’ have planted like timebombs, the major damage of which will be experienced by those countries populated by both the followers of Jesus and the followers of Mohammed.
As made plain by our deranged Hebraic follower of Judah-ism, it is Israel’s intention to take over the ENTIRETY of the Middle East, from the Nile to the Euphrates in exact accordance with the teachings of Torah Judah-ism, a fact which the ‘children of Israel’ deny with the LOUDEST AND MOST DRAMATIC demonstrations of feigned outrage whenever it comes up for discussion.
Furthermore, as the reader will plainly see, this next step is not as far into the future as one may think as clearly stated by our deranged follower of Torah Judahism in his own words, to wit–
‘Israel is no longer on a defensive retreat, and soon it will be time to go on the offensive and to proudly assert our connection to our land and our responsibility to its physical and political settlement…’
The reader will also see that the much-hyped ‘bromance’ between POTUS DJT and Netanyahu which the myopic, monoscopic, and one-dimensional ‘thinkers’ across a broad spectrum of ‘anti-Zionist’ commentary was something that was non-existent, as DJT and Netanyahu were adversaries before Trump even got the nomination, and that all of the political instability taking place within the US during Trump’s term as POTUS, culminating with an Israeli-concocted virus set loose in Wuhan China, a stolen election and now the seeds of a civil war, all of these (and more) were the handiwork of a certain King David wannabe named Netanyahu who understood that DJT’s ‘Deal of the Century’ would have locked Israel up indefinitely and prevented her from–in the words of our deranged Hebraic author below–‘going on the offensive and proudly asserting our connection to our land and our responsibility to its physical and political settlement.’
Times of Israel
At first glance, the Torah account of Eretz Yisrael’s borders appears inconsistent and confusing. On the accounts in Genesis 15:18 and Exodus 23:31, it is clear that Hashem grants to the Jewish people the entire region extending from the Euphrates River to the ‘River of Egypt.’
There is significant debate however over exactly which ‘River of Egypt’ it is, whether the Nile or the Shihor River which is now known as Wadi el-Arish.
In Genesis 17:18 and Exodus 6:4, Hashem appears to only grant the Jewish people the land of Canaan, defined in Genesis 10:9, Numbers 34:2-12, and Ezekiel 47:15-20 as a much smaller land, similar to the modern State of Israel with Yehuda and Shomron but extended north to the Litani River and only as south as the Negev.
The distinction between these two borders can be found in their initial accounts, in Genesis 15:18 and 17:18.
In the former account, that of the general region given at the Covenant of the Parts, Hashem uses the word ‘nattati,’ meaning ‘I gave.’ In the latter account, that of the smaller portion given at the Brit Milah, Hashem adds the phrase ‘leahuzat olam,’ meaning ‘as an eternal holding.’
The specific area promised to Avraham at the Brit Milah, later liberated by Joshua and ruled by Am Yisrael until the destruction of the First Temple is an eternal allotment to the Jewish people. The word ahuzat comes from ahuz, meaning grip. This core of Eretz Yisrael is eternally in the hands of Am Yisrael, they just need to recognize it, grip it, and hold on.
The greater region is also ‘given,’ but not all at once.
Deuteronomy 19:8 promises that Hashem will ‘enlarge’ the geographic holdings of the Jewish people until these holdings match the promise to Avraham, and Exodus 23:20 makes clear that this will be a gradual process.
In ancient days this ‘enlarging’ first occurred in the eastward expansion of Kings David and Solomon towards the Euphrates and in modern days the Israeli liberations of the southern Negev and Eilat.
In effect, the Land of Canaan, the heartland of Eretz Yisrael, is an inheritance the Jewish people must recognize that they already possess while the greater region partially and periodically arrives as gifts from Hashem that the Jewish people must actively accept and maintain.
It is important to note that this land is not some foreign object or asset that Israel must conquer, but rather an eternal part of Israel. Am–the people of Israel, and Eretz, the land of Israel, are two sides of the same coin.
As Rav Avraham Yitzhak haKohen Kook wrote in Orot–
‘Eretz Yisrael is not an external thing, an external national asset, only a means to an end of general unity or a strengthening of the physical or even spiritual. Eretz Yisrael is an essential unit of the nation, attached to it with a living bond, entwined with its existence in eternal uniqueness…’
If Am Yisrael were a person, Eretz Yisrael would not be merely their house or their clothes, but one of their limbs, as Psalms 137:5 writes, ‘if I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.’
Sephardic golden-age scholar Yehuda haLevi likens Am Yisrael to specific grape seeds and Eretz Yisrael as the only soil in which those seeds will grow, both being equally necessary and important together in creating wine.
Eretz and Am Yisrael are parts of an indivisible whole, the former not merely an object for the latter’s admiration or direction of prayer, but an area which requires real responsibility from the Jewish people.
Just as a man must engage his arm in wrapping tefillin he must also engage Eretz Yisrael for its physical and political settlement. The Ramban Maimonades famously ruled that it is an eternal mitzvah for a Jew to live in Eretz Yisrael, pursue the downfall and expulsion of occupying political powers and to enact complete Jewish sovereignty in the land.
In recent times, citing the crescendo of antisemitism, the pogroms, the Holocaust, and of various expulsions, the global acceptance of a Jewish state and the necessary condition of a Jewish state for the safety of the Jews of Eretz Yisrael, most rabbis today rule that for all Jews throughout history, but especially today, the importance of physical and political settlement in the whole of Eretz Yisrael is of the utmost importance.
With this in mind, one can understand why Rav Zvi Yehuda Kook, the rosh yeshiva (dean) of Mercaz haRav, did not celebrate on the day of the UN Partition Plan’s passage. In one of his rabbinic discourses to his students, the younger Rav Kook said the following–
‘In those first hours, I could not make peace with what was done, with the horrible news, that Hashem’s words from the prophecy in the Twelve Prophets: ‘My land was divided’ was coming true. Where is our Hebron? Are we forgetting it? And where is our Shechem? Are we forgetting it? And where is our Jericho? Are we forgetting it? And where is our east side of the Jordan? Where is every lump and chunk? Every bit and piece of the four cubits of God’s land? Is it up to us to give up any millimeter of it? God forbid! In the state of shock that took over my body, completely bruised and torn to pieces – I could not rejoice then…’
Just weeks after this speech, Israel launched and quickly won the preemptive Six Day War, liberating Yehuda and Shomron, including Hebron, Shchem, Jericho, as well as the Golan (which is entirely located on the East Bank), unified Yerushalyim, Gaza, and the Sinai.
Immediately after the great victory, however, Israel began its retreat. Israeli flags on Har haBayit were removed and control was given to the Jordanian waqf. Israeli acceptance of UN Resolution 242 treated these areas liberated not as indivisible parts of Yisrael but as bartering pieces for global toleration. None of these areas were integrated into Israeli sovereignty and instead were placed under military rule.
In the face of this mounting retreat, students at Rav Zvi Yehuda Kook’s Mercaz haRav yeshiva began to go on the offensive. Calling themselves ‘Gush Emunim’ (bloc of the faithful), the students began to organize young religious youth to build settlements in empty land in the West Bank, Gaza, Sinai, and Golan. Although they had widespread support from religious people who recognized the importance of yishuv haaretz, nationalists who wanted to see the secure expansion of the state, and older Labour Zionists who recognized their zeal for Jewish work ethic and connection with the land, they were a thorn in the side of the political establishment, namely Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Transportation Minister Shimon Peres, in their quest to utilize Eretz Yisrael as trading assets.
This, seemingly, would change with the election of Likud’s Menachem Begin in 1977. After all, as the longtime head of the opposition, Begin was a staunch supporter of Gush Emunim and their activities. While Begin would allow settlement to strengthen at first, his governorship would see the greatest retreat and betrayal of the land at the time, the expulsion of Jews from Sinai. The Sinai expulsion would set the government precedent that Jewish land, and, by extension, Jews themselves, were not inherently valuable but instead chess pieces to be moved on the whim of international political powers.
A decade after the Sinai was returned to the Egyptians, Yitzhak Rabin, back in the premiership, shook hands with mass-murder of Jews Yasser Arafat on the White House lawn, splitting Eretz Yisrael between Jewish and foreign political control with the Oslo Accords.
In doing so, Eretz Yisrael, the right hand of the Jewish people, was cut off and sold for what ended up being nothing except more violence and bloodshed. Freedom of movement within Eretz Yisrael was destroyed and the divide between its inhabitants only deepened. Inexplicably, Ariel Sharon, a Likudnik who ran on a platform of territorial unity, flip-flopped into an expulsion of Jews from Gaza a decade later, a move that yielded similar results on a larger scale.
The election before this calamity, Ariel Sharon did say something very profound: ‘the fate of Netzarim [a large Jewish settlement in Gaza] is the fate of Tel-Aviv.’ If Israel does not have a claim to Netzarim, it does not have a claim to Tel-Aviv. Eretz Yisrael is not a thing to be chopped up, divided, or sold, but an indivisible unit of the Jewish people. Denying this fact is a threat to the entirety of Eretz Yisrael, the State of Israel, and the Jewish people.
Israel must assert that she is one people with one state in one land, and that Eretz Yisrael is one land for one state for one people. The Jewish people cannot continue to reject their mission and duties to Hashem, their land, and each other and expect the world to pick up the slack. The world will only recognize the Jewish people when the Jewish people recognize themselves, which means recognizing the wholeness of Eretz Yisrael and the unique responsibility the Jewish people have to its physical and political settlement.
While the hemorrhaging appears to have ceased following the Gaza calamity, the tide has yet to fully shift, although, there are very encouraging signs.
Since the Sharon Plan, no serious land-division plot has been suggested in the Knesset. Bibi Netanyahu, perhaps still the most influential man in Israeli politics, went from publicly touting the ‘two-state solution’ in 2009 and temporarily banning Jewish construction in the West Bank at Barack Obama’s behest in 2010 to proudly running behind a one-Israel plan in 2015 and publicly embarrassing the Trump administration in 2019 by refusing to verbally endorse Palestinian statehood on the White House lawn.
To this end, Netanyahu put his weight behind one-Israel and has taken Likud, along with the rival spin-offs New Hope and Yamina, with him, at least in rhetoric. Additionally, the Haredim, who expressed only lukewarm opinions on previous territorial retreats, have become increasingly nationalist, with their political representation reflecting that trend. Today, Israel is no longer on a defensive retreat, and soon it will be time to go on the offensive and to proudly assert our connection to our land and our responsibility to its physical and political settlement.
If it is not already happening behind the scenes, Israel must be aggressively pursuing the return of the Sinai from Egypt. The expulsion of Jews from Sinai was the beginning of Israel’s territorial retreat and must be reversed for no greater reason than as a symbolic rejection of this mentality. The Sinai is among the lands promised by Hashem and was delivered to the Jewish people in 1956.
Even when the United States forced Israel to withdraw, Hashem again granted Sinai to Israel in 1967, and when Begin expelled the Jews from Sinai, he rejected the Jewish duty to Eretz Yisrael and to Hashem. Reacquiring the Sinai, or at least the northeast portion of it, just as our father Avraham acquired Machpelah, will serve as a national declaration of recommitment to Hashem and to the land he has promised and delivered to us.
Gaza and the West Bank must be fully integrated back into Israel. The situation of gray areas, walls, and security checkpoints is a blight on the entire Jewish people. Eretz Yisrael is one land for one people, and the political reality must reflect that.
Furthermore, the Litani River is the northern border of Israel’s biblical heartland and should not have been ceded back to Lebanon by the Israeli government. The Litani flows southeast from Mt. Hermon, the northernmost point of Israel’s current borders, into the Mediterranean. Israel first liberated this land in 1978’s Operation Litani, in response to PLO attacks from the area.
However, after retreating at the behest of the UN, Israel returned in 1982’s Operation Peace in the Galilee, moving as far north as Beirut, over 100 km (62 miles) north of Israel’s current borders along the Mediterranean coast, and instead of absorbing the land and its inhabitants into Israel, the Begin administration tried in vain to control the area with puppet governments and military occupations, eventually retreating south of the Litani in 1985 and to the pre-1982 line in 2000.
If Israel has no claim to the Litani and the lands south of it, then it has no claim to Tel-Aviv, and certainly no claim to Eilat. What is now called southern Lebanon is the heartland of Eretz Yisrael and must be liberated.
It was a core message of the younger Rav Kook that Israel should not fear in the face of conflict. It is necessary to remember that Hashem is ba’al milchamot (the master of war) and He uses conflict of all degrees to force people to make the choice between life and death.
It is necessary to remember that Hashem has given us the region between the Nile and Euphrates and intends to grant it to us periodically over time. Conflict foisted upon us should not be looked at as a strain or a misfortune but as an opportunity to demonstrate our convictions for our nation, our land, and our Torah, to fulfill our national duties.
Never forget, the word ‘shalom’ (peace) comes from the root ‘shalem’ (complete). There will be no ‘shalom’ until Eretz Yisrael is ‘shalem’. Peace in the entire world is dependent upon the completion of the land, formally and substantively, and with the leadership of Israel under the moral guidance of Torah.
Eretz Yisrael must be completed, without walls, checkpoints, foreign borders and armies cutting through her, and under the sole sovereignty of the Jewish people.