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From: Nadia & David Matar [mailto:nmatar@netvision.net.il]
Thank you, Eli
Subject: MUST READ!! Rabbi David Algaze's speech at Central Park, Sunday
Dear friends,
If more and more Rabbis and public figures would speak like Rabbi David
Algaze spoke in Central Park, the Jewish People would be in much better
shape.
Kol Hakavod Rabbi Algaze!
Ruth and Nadia Matar
Women in Green
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Subject: MUST READ!! Rabbi David Algaze's speech at Central Park, Sunday
June 1, 2008
Speech at the Concert in Central Park
June 1st, 2008
Rabbi David Algaze
I HAVE COME TO ASK A QUESTION, A SIMPLE QUESTION, ONE THAT HAS BEEN
FORGOTTEN IN ALL THE TALK ABOUT PEACE IN ISRAEL.
WHO DOES THIS LAND BELONG TO?
WE HAVE AN ANSWER AND IT IS THE ONLY ANSWER. LET US SAY IT OUT LOUD,
LET THE WHOLE WORLD HEAR IT. LET NO ONE, NOT EVEN US, HAVE ANY DOUBT
ABOUT IT:
THIS LAND IS MY LAND, IT'S YOUR LAND IT'S OUR LAND.
IT'S THE LAND OF OUR FATHERS; IT IS THE LAND FOR OUR CHILDREN.
THIS IS THE SIMPLE TRUTH WE ARE BEING ASKED TO FORGET AND IGNORE. BUT
WE WILL NOT FORGET IT, WE WON'T BETRAY OUR LAND. WE SAY TODAY AND
EVERY DAY: "IF I FORGET THEE
JERUSALEM LET MY RIGHT HAND BE PARALYZEDS."
THERE IS A REASON WHY THIS LAND IS CALLED THE PROMISED LAND. AND DO
YOU KNOW WHY? BECAUSE IT IS PROMISED TO OUR FATHERS AND IT IS
PROMISED TO OUR CHILDREN.
HOW CAN WE GIVE IT AWAY? WE DO NOT HAVE THE RIGHT TO GIVE IT AWAY.
G-D SAID TO OUR FATHER ABRAHAM OVER AND OVER AGAIN: THIS IS YOUR
LAND; I HAVE GIVEN IT TO YOU. HOW CAN WE FORGET THIS? IT IS REPORTED
THAT PRESIDENT TRUMAN, THE FIRST U.S. PRESIDENT TO RECOGNIZE AND
SUPPORT THE STATE OF ISRAEL, OFTEN CITED THE VERSE IN DEUTERONOMY
(1:8) "BEHOLD, I HAVE GIVEN THE LAND BEFORE YOU, GO IN AND TAKE
POSSESSION OF THE LAND WHICH THE LORD HAS SWORN UNTO YOUR FATHERS
THROUGH ABRAHAM, THROUGH ISAAC AND THROUGH JACOB."
TRUMAN REMEMBERED, MANY CHRISTIAN PREACHERS REMEMBER, DARE WE BE THE
ONES TO FORGET?
WE CREATED THE WORLD COMMITTEE FOR THE LAND OF ISRAEL JUST TO SPREAD
THAT SIMPLE TRUTH THAT THE LAND OF ISRAEL BELONGS TO THE JEWISH
PEOPLE AND WE WILL NOT PART WITH IT. THIS IS OUR LAND AND WE WILL NOT
BARTER IT AWAY. PERIOD.
THE REBIRTH OF ISRAEL IN ITS LAND IS AN EVENT HARD TO UNDERSTAND. THE
WORLD HAS NEVER SEEN SOMETHING LIKE IT. THE STORY OF OUR RETURN IS
WITHOUT PARALLEL. JEWS NEVER LEFT ISRAEL VOLUNTARILY AND THEY
RETURNED WHEN THEY COULD. WE NEVER ABANDONED THE LAND ENTIRELY
EITHER, THERE WERE JEWS THROUGHOUT HISTORY IN THE LAND. IT IS A
MIRACLE AND AS WITH ALL MIRACLES WE NEED TO BELIEVE IT TO SEE IT.
LET US BE CLEAR: THE JEWS HAVE RETURNED TO OUR LAND.
WE DID NOT COME AS CONQUERORS. WE DISPLACED NO ONE. THE NATIONS OF
THE WORLD MANDATED THE RETURN. ALTHOUGH THEY HAVE SINCE MANY TIMES
RESCINDED AND DIMINISHED THEIR ASSURANCE, THE RETURN HAS BEEN LEGAL
AND MORAL.
THE LAND WAS A DESERT BEFORE THE JEWS RETURNED. CHURCHILL ONCE
REMARKED THAT THE LAND BELONGED TO THE JEWS BECAUSE THE ARABS
DESTROYED THE LAND, WHEREAS JEWS CREATE THE LAND.
THIS IS A LOVE STORY BETWEEN A PEOPLE AND ITS LAND LIKE NO OTHER. NO
OTHER NATION EVER CREATED A STATE IN THE LAND, AND THE JEWS NEVER
CREATED A NATIONAL HOMELAND OUTSIDE OF IT. THE LAND ONCE FLOWING WITH
MILK AND HONEY, WHEN THE JEWS PARTED, REFUSED TO GIVE ITS FRUITS. THE
BEAUTIFUL LAND BECAME A WASTELAND. WAITING FOR HER CHILDREN.
WE ARE THE CHILDREN OF THE LAND AND THE LAND SMILED UPON US WHEN WE
RETURNED. WOULD ANYONE DESERT HIS OR HER MOTHER? CAN WE THINK OF
LEAVING THE LAND VOLUNTARILY IN THE HANDS OF STRANGERS?
THIS IS OUR LAND, AND WE WILL NOT BETRAY HER.
THE STORY OF GUSH KATIF PROVES THIS. THE LAND THE ARABS CALLED
"ACCURSED," AS SOON AS THE JEWS CAME, BEGAN TO YIELD THE MOST
BEAUTIFUL FRUITS, FLOWERS AND PLANTS. THE TINY PORTION OF LAND IN
GAZA YIELDED AT ONE TIME MOST OF THE AGRICULTURAL EXPORTS OF ISRAEL.
YET, WHEN THE JEWS LEFT, THE LAND BECAME USELESS AGAIN. EVEN THE
INSECTS PARTICIPATED. THE VEGETABLES THAT HAD BEEN ONCE FAMOUSLY
BUG-FREE, BEGAN TO DEVELOP BUGS. THE THRIVING BUSINESSES OF GUSH
KATIF LANGUISHED IN THE HANDS OF THE ARABS. EVEN THE SAME MANAGERS,
WHO HAD WORKED UNDER THE JEWS AND HAD ALL THE EXPERTISE TO MAKE IT
GO, COULD NOT DO IT. WHY? THE LAND DID NOT COOPERATE.
THE LAND WAS LOYAL TO THE JEWS, ARE WE GOING TO BE FAITHFUL TO THE LAND?
THERE IS A NEW CAMPAIGN IN THE JEWISH PEOPLE, A DANGEROUS AND
INEXPLICABLE DEMENTIA. IT IS CALLED "LAND FOR PEACE" IT WAS TRIED IN
OSLO, IT WAS TRIED IN WYE, IT WAS TRIED IN TABA, AND NOTHING WORKED.
THINGS ARE GETTING WORSE. WHEN TIME AFTER TIME A PROBLEM IS NOT
RESOLVED, IS IT NOT REASONABLE TO SUSPECT THAT IT MAY BE
IRRESOLVABLE? AT LEAST IN THE MANNER IT IS PLANNED?
YET THERE IS A CAMPAIGN AFOOT INVOLVING ALL MAJOR JEWISH
ORGANIZATIONS TO GIVE THE LAND AWAY. WHEN WE GIVE AWAY JUDEA AND
SAMARIA, WE ARE GIVING AWAY THE CORE OF OUR LAND, THE HOLY PLACES
WHERE OUR HISTORY EVOLVED. WE ARE GIVING UP ONLY JUDEA? WHAT WOULD
JEWS BE CALLED IF WE GIVE UP JUDEA? AND THOSE INTRUDERS WHO WILL
OCCUPY JUDEA, WOULD THEY NOT HAVE THE RIGHT TO BE CALLED JUDEANS AS
WELL?
WHEN WE GIVE UP THE LAND, WE GIVE UP OUR HISTORY, WE GIVE OUR
IDENTITY AND WE GIVE UP OUR SOUL.
WE HAVE COME TO STOP THIS MADNESS. TO SAY TO THEM:
WE ARE TIRED OF EXPULSIONS, WE ARE TIRED OF POGROMS, AND WE ARE TIRED
OF SUICIDE BOMBERS AND INDISCRIMINATE MURDER IN THE STREETS. WE ARE
NOT GOING TO SPEAK OF THE RIGHTS OF OTHERS; WE ARE GOING TO SPEAK OF
OUR LEGITIMATE AND INALIENABLE RIGHTS. WE WILL NOT ENDANGER OUR
PEOPLE WITH FOOLISH DREAMS THAT HAVE BEEN TRIED AND DISCREDITED OVER
AND OVER AGAIN.
THERE IS A SPIRIT OF FEEBLENESS AMONG US. OUR LEADERS HAVE LOST THE
WAY. THEY KNOW THAT THERE IS NO HOPE FOR A PEACEFUL ARAB STATE IN THE
LAND OF ISRAEL. NEVERTHELESS THEY INSIST BECAUSE THEY HAVE FORGOTTEN
THE ESSENTIAL: THIS LAND BELONGS TO US. THEY FAILED AND YET THEY KEEP
TRYING WITHOUT REMORSE AND WITHOUT SHAME.
TO THEM WE TELL THEM: ENOUGH. ENOUGH OSLOS, ENOUGH WYES, ENOUGH
LIFTING OF ROADBLOCKS, ENOUGH RISKING THE LIVES OF OUR INNOCENT
PEOPLE, ENOUGH OF SDEROT, ENOUGH!
IN OUR LONG HISTORY, WE WITNESSED THE DESTRUCTION OF JEWISH
COMMUNITIES BEFORE. BUT THIS TIME IS WORSE, MUCH WORSE. THIS TIME WE
WANT TO HELP THE DESTRUCTION ALONG.
AFTER HITLER, WE VOWED "NEVER AGAIN" BUT TODAY OUR LEADERS, OUR
RABBIS, OUR MAJOR JEWISH ORGANIZATIONS ARE ALLOWING WITH THEIR
ACTIONS AND THEIR SILENCE, THAT WE HEAR "EVER AGAIN."
WE NEED TO RISE AND TELL THEM "NO!"
THE CURRENT GOVERNMENT IN ISRAEL WITH THE AID OF WEAK-MINDED JEWISH
LEADERS IN THE DIASPORA HAS EMBARKED UPON A PROGRAM THAT MAY SIGNAL
THE DESTRUCTION OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL. WITH A BLEND OF HASTE AND
SUBMISSIVENESS, WITH DECEIT AND SELF-DECEPTION, THE PRESENT
LEADERSHIP OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE HAS SUCCEEDED WHERE ITS MOST BITTER
FOES HAVE FAILED. THEY ARE ENDANGERING THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF THE
ZIONIST ENTERPRISE THAT WERE ATTAINED WITH A SACRIFICE AND DEDICATION
UNPARALLELED IN HISTORY. OUR LEADERS ARE PLAGUED WITH AN
IRRESPONSIBLE SHORTSIGHTEDNESS AND ARE RUSHING HEADLONG INTO ACCORDS
WITH PARTNERS THEY KNOW ARE DECEITFUL.
WE PROTEST. THE WORLD COMMITTEE FOR THE LAND OF ISRAEL HAS COME TO
OBJECT AND REFUSE THESE PLANS OF THE DEMENTED AND THE PATHETIC.
WE NEED TO REPUDIATE ANY PLAN THAT INVOLVES BETRAYING OUR LAND. WE
MUST OPPOSE ANY PROGRAM THAT PUTS OUR POPULATION WITHIN THE RANGE OF
THE KASSAM. WE HAVE TO STAND AGAINST ANY SUGGESTION THAT PLACES OUR
CHILDREN AT RISK. WE DID NOT RETURN TO ISRAEL TO RELIVE THE TRAGEDY
OF POLAND AND GERMANY. IF OUR LEADERS ARE TIRED, LET THEM STEP ASIDE.
IF THEY FEEL EXHAUSTED AND DRAINED, LET THEM MAKE ROOM FOR A NEW
GENERATION THAT REMEMBERS THE DREAM OF ABRAHAM AND HAS THE COURAGE TO
FIGHT IN OUR DEFENSE.
THIS IS NOT TO SAY THAT WE DO NOT WANT PEACE. WE SHOULD BE ZEALOUS IN
THE PURSUIT OF PEACE, BUT WE SHOULD BE NO LESS FIERCE IN THE DEFENSE
OF OUR LAND.
WE EXTEND OUR HAND IN PEACE TOWARDS ALL OUR NEIGHBORS. OUR HANDS
CONTAIN NEITHER RANCOR, NOR HATRED NOR WAR.
BUT THEY ALSO CONTAIN NO LAND.
WE OFFER PEACE, A REAL GENUINE PEACE. NEVERTHELESS, OUR PEACE IS NOT
THE PEACE OF BEGGARS. IT DOES NOT GIVE AWAY OUR CHERISHED LAND. WHAT
OTHER NATION IN THE WORLD GIVES AWAY ITS LAND? WE WILL NOT GIVE AWAY
OUR LAND NO MATTER WHO COUNSELS IT OR WHO PROFITS FROM THIS BETRAYAL!
OUR FIRST FATHER ABRAHAM HAD TO UNDERGO TEN TRIALS. THE LAST OF WHICH
WAS TO BURY HIS DEAR WIFE SARA. THE TRIAL WAS THAT ALTHOUGH G-D HAD
PROMISED HIM THE ENTIRE LAND OF ISRAEL, HE DID NOT HAVE EVEN A PLACE
IN WHICH TO BURY SARAH. YET, HE, THE OWNER OF THE ENTIRE LAND, DID
NOT COMPLAIN. HE HAD NO LAND NOW BUT HE STILL KEPT THE HOPE. IT IS
IRONIC THAT OUR FATHER ABRAHAM, WHEN HE DID NOT HAVE THE LAND, KEPT
THE HOPE AND WE WHO POSSESS THE LAND ARE THINKING OF GIVING IT AWAY.
THE WORLD COMMITTEE FOR THE LAND OF ISRAEL CALLS UPON THE JEWS OF THE
WORLD TO RALLY AROUND OUR BEAUTIFUL MOTHER, THE LAND OF ISRAEL. WHEN
ESTABLISHED JEWISH ORGANIZATIONS ARE PATHETICALLY ACCEPTING AND EVEN
CALLING FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF AN ARAB STATE IN THE LAND OF
ISRAEL-- IT IS TIME FOR US TO SAY NO!
IF THEY HAVE BEEN BRAINWASHED OR WORSE, WE WILL NOT ALLOW TO BEING
BRAINWASHED. THE GIVING AWAY OF LAND TO CREATE ANOTHER ARAB STATE,
THIS ONE IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL IS WRONG. IT WAS WRONG WHEN THE ARABS
WANTED IT, IT WAS WRONG WHEN JESSE JACKSON SUGGESTED IT, IT WAS WRONG
WHEN OUR ENEMIES SUGGEST IT AND IT IS STILL WRONG!
HASHEM OZ LE'AMO YITEN, HASHEM YEVARECH ET AMO BASHALOM!
G-D SHOULD GRANT US THE STRENGTH TO STAND UP TO OUR ENEMIES. IF WE
DO, THEN WE WILL MERIT THAT HE BLESSES US WITH LASTING PEACE.
I CALL UPON ALL JEWS AND GOOD PEOPLE EVERYWHERE TO RALLY AROUND ERETZ
ISRAEL, THE LAND OF OUR FOREFATHERS AND OUR GRANDCHILDREN. DO NOT
LEAVE HER, DO NOT BETRAY HER. THIS LAND CAN BECOME THE RALLYING POINT
FOR ALL JEWS, REGARDLESS OF THEIR RELIGIOUS PREFERENCE. LET US ALL BE
BROTHERS AND SISTERS AND IN THE DEFENSE OF OUR LAND, WE WILL BECOME
ONE NATION AGAIN.
WHEN ALL JEWS ARE UNITED, NO FORCE ON EARTH WILL EVER CONQUER US. LET
US UNITE, BROTHERS AND SISTERS, AND LET US HAVE THE HOPE OF ABRAHAM
THAT THIS LAND IS OUR LAND NOW AND FOREVER.
Rabbi David Algaze
From: Nadia & David Matar [mailto:nmatar@netvision.net.il]
Thank you, Eli
Subject: MUST READ!! Rabbi David Algaze's speech at Central Park, Sunday
Dear friends,
If more and more Rabbis and public figures would speak like Rabbi David
Algaze spoke in Central Park, the Jewish People would be in much better
shape.
Kol Hakavod Rabbi Algaze!
Ruth and Nadia Matar
Women in Green
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Subject: MUST READ!! Rabbi David Algaze's speech at Central Park, Sunday
June 1, 2008
Speech at the Concert in Central Park
June 1st, 2008
Rabbi David Algaze
I HAVE COME TO ASK A QUESTION, A SIMPLE QUESTION, ONE THAT HAS BEEN
FORGOTTEN IN ALL THE TALK ABOUT PEACE IN ISRAEL.
WHO DOES THIS LAND BELONG TO?
WE HAVE AN ANSWER AND IT IS THE ONLY ANSWER. LET US SAY IT OUT LOUD,
LET THE WHOLE WORLD HEAR IT. LET NO ONE, NOT EVEN US, HAVE ANY DOUBT
ABOUT IT:
THIS LAND IS MY LAND, IT'S YOUR LAND IT'S OUR LAND.
IT'S THE LAND OF OUR FATHERS; IT IS THE LAND FOR OUR CHILDREN.
THIS IS THE SIMPLE TRUTH WE ARE BEING ASKED TO FORGET AND IGNORE. BUT
WE WILL NOT FORGET IT, WE WON'T BETRAY OUR LAND. WE SAY TODAY AND
EVERY DAY: "IF I FORGET THEE
JERUSALEM LET MY RIGHT HAND BE PARALYZEDS."
THERE IS A REASON WHY THIS LAND IS CALLED THE PROMISED LAND. AND DO
YOU KNOW WHY? BECAUSE IT IS PROMISED TO OUR FATHERS AND IT IS
PROMISED TO OUR CHILDREN.
HOW CAN WE GIVE IT AWAY? WE DO NOT HAVE THE RIGHT TO GIVE IT AWAY.
G-D SAID TO OUR FATHER ABRAHAM OVER AND OVER AGAIN: THIS IS YOUR
LAND; I HAVE GIVEN IT TO YOU. HOW CAN WE FORGET THIS? IT IS REPORTED
THAT PRESIDENT TRUMAN, THE FIRST U.S. PRESIDENT TO RECOGNIZE AND
SUPPORT THE STATE OF ISRAEL, OFTEN CITED THE VERSE IN DEUTERONOMY
(1:8) "BEHOLD, I HAVE GIVEN THE LAND BEFORE YOU, GO IN AND TAKE
POSSESSION OF THE LAND WHICH THE LORD HAS SWORN UNTO YOUR FATHERS
THROUGH ABRAHAM, THROUGH ISAAC AND THROUGH JACOB."
TRUMAN REMEMBERED, MANY CHRISTIAN PREACHERS REMEMBER, DARE WE BE THE
ONES TO FORGET?
WE CREATED THE WORLD COMMITTEE FOR THE LAND OF ISRAEL JUST TO SPREAD
THAT SIMPLE TRUTH THAT THE LAND OF ISRAEL BELONGS TO THE JEWISH
PEOPLE AND WE WILL NOT PART WITH IT. THIS IS OUR LAND AND WE WILL NOT
BARTER IT AWAY. PERIOD.
THE REBIRTH OF ISRAEL IN ITS LAND IS AN EVENT HARD TO UNDERSTAND. THE
WORLD HAS NEVER SEEN SOMETHING LIKE IT. THE STORY OF OUR RETURN IS
WITHOUT PARALLEL. JEWS NEVER LEFT ISRAEL VOLUNTARILY AND THEY
RETURNED WHEN THEY COULD. WE NEVER ABANDONED THE LAND ENTIRELY
EITHER, THERE WERE JEWS THROUGHOUT HISTORY IN THE LAND. IT IS A
MIRACLE AND AS WITH ALL MIRACLES WE NEED TO BELIEVE IT TO SEE IT.
LET US BE CLEAR: THE JEWS HAVE RETURNED TO OUR LAND.
WE DID NOT COME AS CONQUERORS. WE DISPLACED NO ONE. THE NATIONS OF
THE WORLD MANDATED THE RETURN. ALTHOUGH THEY HAVE SINCE MANY TIMES
RESCINDED AND DIMINISHED THEIR ASSURANCE, THE RETURN HAS BEEN LEGAL
AND MORAL.
THE LAND WAS A DESERT BEFORE THE JEWS RETURNED. CHURCHILL ONCE
REMARKED THAT THE LAND BELONGED TO THE JEWS BECAUSE THE ARABS
DESTROYED THE LAND, WHEREAS JEWS CREATE THE LAND.
THIS IS A LOVE STORY BETWEEN A PEOPLE AND ITS LAND LIKE NO OTHER. NO
OTHER NATION EVER CREATED A STATE IN THE LAND, AND THE JEWS NEVER
CREATED A NATIONAL HOMELAND OUTSIDE OF IT. THE LAND ONCE FLOWING WITH
MILK AND HONEY, WHEN THE JEWS PARTED, REFUSED TO GIVE ITS FRUITS. THE
BEAUTIFUL LAND BECAME A WASTELAND. WAITING FOR HER CHILDREN.
WE ARE THE CHILDREN OF THE LAND AND THE LAND SMILED UPON US WHEN WE
RETURNED. WOULD ANYONE DESERT HIS OR HER MOTHER? CAN WE THINK OF
LEAVING THE LAND VOLUNTARILY IN THE HANDS OF STRANGERS?
THIS IS OUR LAND, AND WE WILL NOT BETRAY HER.
THE STORY OF GUSH KATIF PROVES THIS. THE LAND THE ARABS CALLED
"ACCURSED," AS SOON AS THE JEWS CAME, BEGAN TO YIELD THE MOST
BEAUTIFUL FRUITS, FLOWERS AND PLANTS. THE TINY PORTION OF LAND IN
GAZA YIELDED AT ONE TIME MOST OF THE AGRICULTURAL EXPORTS OF ISRAEL.
YET, WHEN THE JEWS LEFT, THE LAND BECAME USELESS AGAIN. EVEN THE
INSECTS PARTICIPATED. THE VEGETABLES THAT HAD BEEN ONCE FAMOUSLY
BUG-FREE, BEGAN TO DEVELOP BUGS. THE THRIVING BUSINESSES OF GUSH
KATIF LANGUISHED IN THE HANDS OF THE ARABS. EVEN THE SAME MANAGERS,
WHO HAD WORKED UNDER THE JEWS AND HAD ALL THE EXPERTISE TO MAKE IT
GO, COULD NOT DO IT. WHY? THE LAND DID NOT COOPERATE.
THE LAND WAS LOYAL TO THE JEWS, ARE WE GOING TO BE FAITHFUL TO THE LAND?
THERE IS A NEW CAMPAIGN IN THE JEWISH PEOPLE, A DANGEROUS AND
INEXPLICABLE DEMENTIA. IT IS CALLED "LAND FOR PEACE" IT WAS TRIED IN
OSLO, IT WAS TRIED IN WYE, IT WAS TRIED IN TABA, AND NOTHING WORKED.
THINGS ARE GETTING WORSE. WHEN TIME AFTER TIME A PROBLEM IS NOT
RESOLVED, IS IT NOT REASONABLE TO SUSPECT THAT IT MAY BE
IRRESOLVABLE? AT LEAST IN THE MANNER IT IS PLANNED?
YET THERE IS A CAMPAIGN AFOOT INVOLVING ALL MAJOR JEWISH
ORGANIZATIONS TO GIVE THE LAND AWAY. WHEN WE GIVE AWAY JUDEA AND
SAMARIA, WE ARE GIVING AWAY THE CORE OF OUR LAND, THE HOLY PLACES
WHERE OUR HISTORY EVOLVED. WE ARE GIVING UP ONLY JUDEA? WHAT WOULD
JEWS BE CALLED IF WE GIVE UP JUDEA? AND THOSE INTRUDERS WHO WILL
OCCUPY JUDEA, WOULD THEY NOT HAVE THE RIGHT TO BE CALLED JUDEANS AS
WELL?
WHEN WE GIVE UP THE LAND, WE GIVE UP OUR HISTORY, WE GIVE OUR
IDENTITY AND WE GIVE UP OUR SOUL.
WE HAVE COME TO STOP THIS MADNESS. TO SAY TO THEM:
WE ARE TIRED OF EXPULSIONS, WE ARE TIRED OF POGROMS, AND WE ARE TIRED
OF SUICIDE BOMBERS AND INDISCRIMINATE MURDER IN THE STREETS. WE ARE
NOT GOING TO SPEAK OF THE RIGHTS OF OTHERS; WE ARE GOING TO SPEAK OF
OUR LEGITIMATE AND INALIENABLE RIGHTS. WE WILL NOT ENDANGER OUR
PEOPLE WITH FOOLISH DREAMS THAT HAVE BEEN TRIED AND DISCREDITED OVER
AND OVER AGAIN.
THERE IS A SPIRIT OF FEEBLENESS AMONG US. OUR LEADERS HAVE LOST THE
WAY. THEY KNOW THAT THERE IS NO HOPE FOR A PEACEFUL ARAB STATE IN THE
LAND OF ISRAEL. NEVERTHELESS THEY INSIST BECAUSE THEY HAVE FORGOTTEN
THE ESSENTIAL: THIS LAND BELONGS TO US. THEY FAILED AND YET THEY KEEP
TRYING WITHOUT REMORSE AND WITHOUT SHAME.
TO THEM WE TELL THEM: ENOUGH. ENOUGH OSLOS, ENOUGH WYES, ENOUGH
LIFTING OF ROADBLOCKS, ENOUGH RISKING THE LIVES OF OUR INNOCENT
PEOPLE, ENOUGH OF SDEROT, ENOUGH!
IN OUR LONG HISTORY, WE WITNESSED THE DESTRUCTION OF JEWISH
COMMUNITIES BEFORE. BUT THIS TIME IS WORSE, MUCH WORSE. THIS TIME WE
WANT TO HELP THE DESTRUCTION ALONG.
AFTER HITLER, WE VOWED "NEVER AGAIN" BUT TODAY OUR LEADERS, OUR
RABBIS, OUR MAJOR JEWISH ORGANIZATIONS ARE ALLOWING WITH THEIR
ACTIONS AND THEIR SILENCE, THAT WE HEAR "EVER AGAIN."
WE NEED TO RISE AND TELL THEM "NO!"
THE CURRENT GOVERNMENT IN ISRAEL WITH THE AID OF WEAK-MINDED JEWISH
LEADERS IN THE DIASPORA HAS EMBARKED UPON A PROGRAM THAT MAY SIGNAL
THE DESTRUCTION OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL. WITH A BLEND OF HASTE AND
SUBMISSIVENESS, WITH DECEIT AND SELF-DECEPTION, THE PRESENT
LEADERSHIP OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE HAS SUCCEEDED WHERE ITS MOST BITTER
FOES HAVE FAILED. THEY ARE ENDANGERING THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF THE
ZIONIST ENTERPRISE THAT WERE ATTAINED WITH A SACRIFICE AND DEDICATION
UNPARALLELED IN HISTORY. OUR LEADERS ARE PLAGUED WITH AN
IRRESPONSIBLE SHORTSIGHTEDNESS AND ARE RUSHING HEADLONG INTO ACCORDS
WITH PARTNERS THEY KNOW ARE DECEITFUL.
WE PROTEST. THE WORLD COMMITTEE FOR THE LAND OF ISRAEL HAS COME TO
OBJECT AND REFUSE THESE PLANS OF THE DEMENTED AND THE PATHETIC.
WE NEED TO REPUDIATE ANY PLAN THAT INVOLVES BETRAYING OUR LAND. WE
MUST OPPOSE ANY PROGRAM THAT PUTS OUR POPULATION WITHIN THE RANGE OF
THE KASSAM. WE HAVE TO STAND AGAINST ANY SUGGESTION THAT PLACES OUR
CHILDREN AT RISK. WE DID NOT RETURN TO ISRAEL TO RELIVE THE TRAGEDY
OF POLAND AND GERMANY. IF OUR LEADERS ARE TIRED, LET THEM STEP ASIDE.
IF THEY FEEL EXHAUSTED AND DRAINED, LET THEM MAKE ROOM FOR A NEW
GENERATION THAT REMEMBERS THE DREAM OF ABRAHAM AND HAS THE COURAGE TO
FIGHT IN OUR DEFENSE.
THIS IS NOT TO SAY THAT WE DO NOT WANT PEACE. WE SHOULD BE ZEALOUS IN
THE PURSUIT OF PEACE, BUT WE SHOULD BE NO LESS FIERCE IN THE DEFENSE
OF OUR LAND.
WE EXTEND OUR HAND IN PEACE TOWARDS ALL OUR NEIGHBORS. OUR HANDS
CONTAIN NEITHER RANCOR, NOR HATRED NOR WAR.
BUT THEY ALSO CONTAIN NO LAND.
WE OFFER PEACE, A REAL GENUINE PEACE. NEVERTHELESS, OUR PEACE IS NOT
THE PEACE OF BEGGARS. IT DOES NOT GIVE AWAY OUR CHERISHED LAND. WHAT
OTHER NATION IN THE WORLD GIVES AWAY ITS LAND? WE WILL NOT GIVE AWAY
OUR LAND NO MATTER WHO COUNSELS IT OR WHO PROFITS FROM THIS BETRAYAL!
OUR FIRST FATHER ABRAHAM HAD TO UNDERGO TEN TRIALS. THE LAST OF WHICH
WAS TO BURY HIS DEAR WIFE SARA. THE TRIAL WAS THAT ALTHOUGH G-D HAD
PROMISED HIM THE ENTIRE LAND OF ISRAEL, HE DID NOT HAVE EVEN A PLACE
IN WHICH TO BURY SARAH. YET, HE, THE OWNER OF THE ENTIRE LAND, DID
NOT COMPLAIN. HE HAD NO LAND NOW BUT HE STILL KEPT THE HOPE. IT IS
IRONIC THAT OUR FATHER ABRAHAM, WHEN HE DID NOT HAVE THE LAND, KEPT
THE HOPE AND WE WHO POSSESS THE LAND ARE THINKING OF GIVING IT AWAY.
THE WORLD COMMITTEE FOR THE LAND OF ISRAEL CALLS UPON THE JEWS OF THE
WORLD TO RALLY AROUND OUR BEAUTIFUL MOTHER, THE LAND OF ISRAEL. WHEN
ESTABLISHED JEWISH ORGANIZATIONS ARE PATHETICALLY ACCEPTING AND EVEN
CALLING FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF AN ARAB STATE IN THE LAND OF
ISRAEL-- IT IS TIME FOR US TO SAY NO!
IF THEY HAVE BEEN BRAINWASHED OR WORSE, WE WILL NOT ALLOW TO BEING
BRAINWASHED. THE GIVING AWAY OF LAND TO CREATE ANOTHER ARAB STATE,
THIS ONE IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL IS WRONG. IT WAS WRONG WHEN THE ARABS
WANTED IT, IT WAS WRONG WHEN JESSE JACKSON SUGGESTED IT, IT WAS WRONG
WHEN OUR ENEMIES SUGGEST IT AND IT IS STILL WRONG!
HASHEM OZ LE'AMO YITEN, HASHEM YEVARECH ET AMO BASHALOM!
G-D SHOULD GRANT US THE STRENGTH TO STAND UP TO OUR ENEMIES. IF WE
DO, THEN WE WILL MERIT THAT HE BLESSES US WITH LASTING PEACE.
I CALL UPON ALL JEWS AND GOOD PEOPLE EVERYWHERE TO RALLY AROUND ERETZ
ISRAEL, THE LAND OF OUR FOREFATHERS AND OUR GRANDCHILDREN. DO NOT
LEAVE HER, DO NOT BETRAY HER. THIS LAND CAN BECOME THE RALLYING POINT
FOR ALL JEWS, REGARDLESS OF THEIR RELIGIOUS PREFERENCE. LET US ALL BE
BROTHERS AND SISTERS AND IN THE DEFENSE OF OUR LAND, WE WILL BECOME
ONE NATION AGAIN.
WHEN ALL JEWS ARE UNITED, NO FORCE ON EARTH WILL EVER CONQUER US. LET
US UNITE, BROTHERS AND SISTERS, AND LET US HAVE THE HOPE OF ABRAHAM
THAT THIS LAND IS OUR LAND NOW AND FOREVER.
Rabbi David Algaze
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