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instead of dancing around it like Mr. Cohen did. Judaism is religious, Zionism is secular and political. The rest is just rhetoric.
The fact remains that land was set aside by the league of nations for the creation of what we know today as Israel. They are legally there whether anyone likes it or not. They have a right to defend themselves against those who would like to see every Jew in the world dead.
Reality is so much more nuanced and complicated than a simple 10 minute youtube video can explain.
society but only one point of view is being pushed right now globally by the MSM and political toadies which is unfortunate to say the least.
Ayelet Cohen, Conservative, The New Israel Fund, NY: We need to distinguish between religion and geopolitics. Jews have a deep spiritual connection to Eretz Yisrael, beginning in the Torah and continuing through scores of generations of Jewish longing for a homeland. That is different from the political reality of the modern State of Israel and its borders. The Tanakh is our holy text. But it does not give us the exclusive right to a political region. We are not the only people with ancient and sacred ties to that land. Recognizing the Palestiniansā right to self-determination does not negate the political entity of a Jewish homeland in the land of Israel, nor does it undermine our religious connection to the biblical Eretz Israel.
Aaron Potek, Pluralist, Gather DC: Jews donāt own the land of Israel. As God says in Leviticus 25:23: āThe land belongs to Me, for you are strangers and residents with Me.ā Rashiās first commentary on the Torah explains that God gave Israel to the Jews. But this is commonly misunderstood. His point is that God can decide to give the land to anyone. Our presence there is conditional: āAnd you shall observe all My statutes and all My ordinances, and fulfill them; then the Landā¦ will not vomit you out.ā (Leviticus 20:22). The more we act like weāre entitled to the land, the sooner weāll be vomited out.
Mitchell Wohlberg, Orthodox, Beth Tfiloh Congregation: Anyone who takes the Bible seriously ā and that is usually Christians more so than Jews ā must believe that all of Israel ā from the river to the sea ā was given to the Jewish people. The purchase of Hebron by Abraham, of Nablus by Joseph, and of Jerusalem by King David, are recorded in the Bible. Itās hard to understand why Christian Evangelicals take this seriously, but most Jews donāt. The fact is, the Jewish people living today in the land of Israel are the same people, living on the same land, speaking the same language, observing the same religion as the people living in Israel thousands of years ago. It may very well be that for the sake of peace, some of the land may have to be given to the Palestinians. But it should be clear that we are giving them some of our land!
I don't think his explanations can be watered down to mere rhetoric.
Perhaps the intricacies defining Jewish culture bores you?
Any thoughts on the innocent Palestinian men, women and children they slaughtered in 1948 and dumped them in mass graves?
Zionism Rejects Orthodox Judaism