THE JEWISH RIGHT TO ERETZ YISRAEL
THE LAND OF ISRAEL
Jews, G-d, & Israel
The Battle For Eretz Yisrael
"UNTO THY SEED HAVE I GIVEN THIS LAND."
Monday, 26 October 2009
Creeping Disinformation: Judea and Samaria 'Not Part of Israel'
Cheshvan 8, 5770, 26 October 09 08:04
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu(Israelnationalnews.com) Day-to-day workers, encouraged by mainstream media and senior business, political and military leaders, often spread misinformation to the public, believing that Judea and Samaria have no legal standing in Israel.
Two recent incidents occurred at a rental car agency and a gas station. A resident of a community in central Israel was shocked to discover that he could not rent a car because he wanted to visit Samaria. Eitan Zinger told Arutz-7 that shortly before he was to sign the papers prior to his to receiving the keys and begin his trip, the Cal Auto rental car agency clerk asked if he intended to travel in Judea and Samaria.
“I expected an answer that so long as I did not drive in areas controlled by the Palestinian Authority [Area A, where Jews are forbidden to enter], there is no problem," he reported. "However, it turned out that Cal Auto has determined new borders for Israel, and the clerk told me that the insurance does not apply outside of the 1949-1967 Armistice Lines," now known as the Green Line.
The clerk, making sure there was no misunderstanding, confidently added, “The trip is only for travel within Israel. Land beyond the Green Line is not part of Israel and you cannot drive there.”
Zinger rented a car from another company that does not try to redefine Israel’s borders, and Cal Auto official Rena Woronkov apologized for the incident, saying that that the clerk misunderstood company policy. She told Arutz-7 that the company will take measures to make sure that other customers do not run into the same problem.
Another case of misinformation occurred in Be’er Sheva, the “capital of the Negev.” A gas station attendant, recently released from the army, asked a customer where he lived. When she heard that the driver is a resident of Judea and Samaria, she replied, “It is illegal to live there. That is what I was told when I was in the army.”
The driver assured the surprised worker that the government actually encouraged people to live in communities in Judea and Samaria.
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Excerpted for the introduction to the second edition (1996) of
Bernard J. Shapiro's classic work
GENESIS 15:17-18:
And it came to pass, that when the sun went down and there was thick darkness, behold a smoking furnace and a Flaming torch that passed between these places. That day the lord made a covenant with Abram, saying:
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DAVID BEN GURION, founding father and first Prime Minister of Israel, had this to say about territorial concessions (Zionist Congress of 1937, Basle, Switzerland): "I say from the point of view of realizing Zionism it is better to have immediately a Jewish state, even if it would only be in a part of the western Land of Israel. I prefer this to a continuation of the British Mandate...in the whole of the western Land of Israel. But before clarifying my reasoning, I have to make a remark about principle. If we were offered a Jewish state in the western Land of Israel in return for our relinquishing our historical right over the whole Land of Israel, then I would postpone the state.
"No Jew has the right to relinguish the right of the Jewish people over the whole Land of Israel. No Jewish body has such authority, not even the whole Jewish people has the authority to waive the right (to the Land of Israel) for future generations for all time."
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A MACCABEAN RESPONSE
Below is the letter from the Jewish leader Simon, the only survivor of the five Maccabee brothers to the Seleucid king Antiochus, whom they had just defeated. Antiochus demanded the return of the 'occupied territories' -- that is territories the Maccabees liberated during their recent war.
Simon writes: "We have neither taken foreign land nor seized foreign property, but only the inheritance of our fathers, which at one time had been unjustly taken by our enemies. Now that we have the opportunity, we are firmly holding the inheritance of our fathers."
Benjamin Netanyahu, leader of the Likud Party in his book A PLACE AMONG THE NATIONS writes the following when told that Judea and Samaria are foreign "occupied" lands:
"This land, where every swing of a spade unearths remnants of the Jewish past and where every village carries the barely altered Hebrew names of old; this land, in which the Jews became a nation and over which they shed more tears than have been shed by any other people in history; this land, the loss of which resulted in an exile of the Jews such as has been suffered by no other people and the spilling of a sea of blood such as has been spilled by no other nation; this land, which never ceased to live as a distant but tangible home in the minds of Jewish children from Toledo in medieval Spain to the Warsaw ghetto in our own century; this land, for which the Jews fought with unsurpassed courage and tenacity in ancient as in modern times -- this is the "foreign land" that world leaders now demand be barred to Jews and that Israel (should) unilaterally forsake.
The answer to such absurd demands must be a resounding NO!"
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