What are Feeds?
Enemies of the State
December 16, 2006
“Outrageous!” is how the Rabbinic World Congress for Peace describes the actions of several Rabbis this past week in embracing Iranian President Ahmadinejad at the Anti-Israel conference in Iran’s capital of Tehran. Their actions “threaten the very existence of the State of Israel,” exclaimed Rabbi Levin, spokesperson for the Rabbinic World Congress for Peace.
Imagine for a moment a world leader standing in front of 4,000 students and making the statement “The United States must be wiped off the map!” Then after making such a statement he begins to pursue weapons grade nuclear material to pack into his intercontinental ballistic missiles. He then holds a conference denying the United States even the right to exist and calling on his allies to join him in Jihad against the US in an effort to eradicate them from the world. Now imagine for a moment a dozen American religious leaders sitting in the front row of this conference wearing anti-American slogans around their neck and applauding everything being said. At the end of the speech these American religious leaders embrace the speaker and pose for photos as the world looks on in amazement. How would America respond?
Now insert the nation of Israel into the scenario in place of the United States and you have the current situation which exists in the Middle East. Iranian President Ahmadinejad routinely calls for the eradication of the nation of Israel. He is pursuing uranium enrichment and says publicly that he intends to destroy the nation of Israel. He has weekly meetings with Israel’s arch enemies promising funds and weapons and he encourages Israel’s neighbors to engage the “Zionist regime” in “Holy War”.
This past week Iran hosted an Anti-Israel conference in its capital city of Tehran. You would expect such groups as Hamas and Hezbollah to be present at such a conference but would you expect a group of Orthodox Jewish Rabbis to be sitting on the front row? One of the Rabbis wore a slogan around his neck denying Israel the right to exist. Media outlets across the Middle East immediately published photos and videos of the Rabbis shaking hands and embracing the Iranian President. Millions of people across the region claimed victory over the State of Israel because even Jewish Rabbis agreed with their position of denying Israel the right to exist.
Why a group of Orthodox Jewish rabbis would be shaking hands and embracing before the world is a mystery to most. The Rabbis attending the conference were from a small sect of Orthodox Judaism known as Neturei Karta. This particular group has members across the globe, but are concentrated in Brooklyn, New York and headquartered in Jerusalem, Israel. The most adamant Neturei Karta leaders live in the capital city of the nation that they say does not have a right to exist, Jerusalem, Israel. They march along side Palestinian terrorists in parades denouncing the state of Israel, and they repeatedly side with Israel’s enemies in any conflict. Why?
The Neturei Karta sect of Judaism strongly believes that Zionism is the source of all evil in the Middle East. They believe that the only legitimate state of Israel will be established after the coming of the Messiah. They say the current state of Israel was forged only by evil men and not by God. As a result Israel is an evil entity robbing the Palestinian people of their land and possessions and should be dissolved or destroyed.
The Rabbinic World Congress for Peace strongly denounces such beliefs and stands on the premise that God granted Israel the land she currently holds and Israel itself was founded by a direct divine intervention on behalf of the Jewish people. Spokesman Rabbi Levin stated that the presence of Jewish rabbis at an Anti-Israel conference only threatens the very existence of the State of Israel and of the Jewish people themselves. “This is a matter of life and death for the Jewish people”, said Rabbi Levin and these rabbis who attended the conference should be ousted by their own peers.
One elderly Jewish immigrant from Iran stated “it was like a slap in the face” when he saw the photographs of Jewish Rabbis embracing the Iranian President. Enemies of Israel that pray for her destruction abound in every corner of the world, even in some synagogues in Jerusalem.
Imagine for a moment a world leader standing in front of 4,000 students and making the statement “The United States must be wiped off the map!” Then after making such a statement he begins to pursue weapons grade nuclear material to pack into his intercontinental ballistic missiles. He then holds a conference denying the United States even the right to exist and calling on his allies to join him in Jihad against the US in an effort to eradicate them from the world. Now imagine for a moment a dozen American religious leaders sitting in the front row of this conference wearing anti-American slogans around their neck and applauding everything being said. At the end of the speech these American religious leaders embrace the speaker and pose for photos as the world looks on in amazement. How would America respond?
Now insert the nation of Israel into the scenario in place of the United States and you have the current situation which exists in the Middle East. Iranian President Ahmadinejad routinely calls for the eradication of the nation of Israel. He is pursuing uranium enrichment and says publicly that he intends to destroy the nation of Israel. He has weekly meetings with Israel’s arch enemies promising funds and weapons and he encourages Israel’s neighbors to engage the “Zionist regime” in “Holy War”.
This past week Iran hosted an Anti-Israel conference in its capital city of Tehran. You would expect such groups as Hamas and Hezbollah to be present at such a conference but would you expect a group of Orthodox Jewish Rabbis to be sitting on the front row? One of the Rabbis wore a slogan around his neck denying Israel the right to exist. Media outlets across the Middle East immediately published photos and videos of the Rabbis shaking hands and embracing the Iranian President. Millions of people across the region claimed victory over the State of Israel because even Jewish Rabbis agreed with their position of denying Israel the right to exist.
Why a group of Orthodox Jewish rabbis would be shaking hands and embracing before the world is a mystery to most. The Rabbis attending the conference were from a small sect of Orthodox Judaism known as Neturei Karta. This particular group has members across the globe, but are concentrated in Brooklyn, New York and headquartered in Jerusalem, Israel. The most adamant Neturei Karta leaders live in the capital city of the nation that they say does not have a right to exist, Jerusalem, Israel. They march along side Palestinian terrorists in parades denouncing the state of Israel, and they repeatedly side with Israel’s enemies in any conflict. Why?
The Neturei Karta sect of Judaism strongly believes that Zionism is the source of all evil in the Middle East. They believe that the only legitimate state of Israel will be established after the coming of the Messiah. They say the current state of Israel was forged only by evil men and not by God. As a result Israel is an evil entity robbing the Palestinian people of their land and possessions and should be dissolved or destroyed.
The Rabbinic World Congress for Peace strongly denounces such beliefs and stands on the premise that God granted Israel the land she currently holds and Israel itself was founded by a direct divine intervention on behalf of the Jewish people. Spokesman Rabbi Levin stated that the presence of Jewish rabbis at an Anti-Israel conference only threatens the very existence of the State of Israel and of the Jewish people themselves. “This is a matter of life and death for the Jewish people”, said Rabbi Levin and these rabbis who attended the conference should be ousted by their own peers.
One elderly Jewish immigrant from Iran stated “it was like a slap in the face” when he saw the photographs of Jewish Rabbis embracing the Iranian President. Enemies of Israel that pray for her destruction abound in every corner of the world, even in some synagogues in Jerusalem.
