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A
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Additional
Reporting by Ahmad Maher, IOL Staff
CAIRO,
August 26 (IslamOnline.net) - Trying to make his voice heard after
repeatedly being hushed by the Zionist-controlled media, Rabbi Yisroel
Dovid Weiss asserted in a three-hour live dialogue with IslamOnline.net
audience on Monday, August 25 that there can be no true peace "as long
as Zionism and the state of Israel exist."
"The
tremendous injustice that is being done to the Palestinian people--which
we cannot elaborate on because of the space and time limit-- the subjugation,
expulsion, pain, suffering, etc. of the Palestinians, is all against the
true roots and basics of Judaism," said Rabbi Weiss.
He
asserted that all "Jewish religious people feel and suffer with the
Palestinian suffering no matter what type, Chasidus (ultra Orthodox) or
not."
Asked
how he sees the Israeli government of Ariel Sharon, Weiss said that
Sharon and his cabinet have nothing to do with true Judaism
"because of its heresy and its tremendous cruelty."
"Sharon
and his government and for that matter the whole Zionist entity are
rejected from the Jewish nation and Judaism," said the rabbi, a
leading figure of Neturei Karta, an organization within the Orthodox
Jewish community which is dedicated to representing the hundreds of
thousands of Orthodox Jews around the world.
He
also lashed out at the Israeli policy of bringing the Jewish diaspora
from the four corners of the world to the Palestinian territories,
noting it ran counter to the true Torah "which waits for God's
ruling over the world and the end of this exile, which God Himself will
do without any human intervention."
According
to Weiss, a Talmud instructor, Jews "are forbidden to take any
action to make the end of exile come to pass, especially the Zionists'
way which is through atrocity and evil decrees and subjugation of
another people without right and expulsion of another nation.
"This
is especially abhorrent and against God."
Heretical
Zionism
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Neturei
Karta supporters protest the Zionist entity before the White House
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Weiss
drew a clear line of separation between Judaism and Zionism, regretting
that "Jews have been misled by the tremendous power of the
propaganda machine of Zionism."
"Zionists
have gripped control of the media, and through the media, confused and
integrated the Torah into the Zionist belief. With false interpretations
of verses of the Torah, they have confused the truth of the Torah,"
he stressed.
The
rabbi, a distinguished speaker and lecturer on Zionism, said that the
"forefathers of Zionism were known atheists and heretics and the
whole ideology of Zionism is a heretical ideology and rebellion against
God.
They
created a state which rejected the acceptance of the Torah that the
Jewish nation had accepted on Mount Sinai, and they ignored the whole
Jewish religion."
Weiss
said that Neturei Karta views Palestine as "a
Godliness and a holy land no matter under whose rule it is. It is no
difference under which country or rule Palestine is."
"The
Zionists, on the other hand, come to the issue of Palestine as a
physical military entity and as an issue of materialistic national
entity similar to how other nations reached their power through military
victory," elaborated the expert.
Putting
it in a nutshell, Rabbi Weiss said, "Judaism is a Godliness,
Zionism is materialism. Zionists try to clothe their materialism in the
cloth of religion, but it is false and criminal."
He
also agreed that the Zionist entity and the state of Israel
"according to the Torah" were doomed to perish, noting that
"the explosion of the punishment to this rebellion is expected at
any time.
We
pray that the end of the State of Israel should come about speedily with
God's compassion without any bloodshed or suffering for any human
being."
Intimidation
Weiss
further argued that there is "a vast segment" of Jews all over
the world, and particularly in the U.S., who "are silent in their
opposition" to the Zionist octopus, because of the
"intimidation of Zionism."
He
also said that Neturei Karta exposed this intimidation through its
website. (Click
to see cases of Zionist intimidation.)
"According
to our knowledge, a great percentage of Jews have given up on the whole
Zionist ideology. They simply have a problem of how to become free of
this monster," said the rabbi.
A
majority of religious Israeli parties in the Knesset, according to him,
are forced to join the political scene only to "save Judaism."
"Most
religious schools do not have an Israeli flag hanging over their
building, do not celebrate Israeli Independence Day, and most important,
do not send their children to the Israeli army and do not study modern
Hebrew," Weiss said.
He
continued, "We find the Orthodox Jewish parties and members at the
Knesset joined the Israeli government not because they held the view of
the legitimacy of the Zionist state but rather in opposition to the
Zionist state they were guided by certain Jewish rabbis and leaders to
join the Israeli government to be able to in some way gain rights to the
Orthodox community and to be able to fight Zionism from within the
Zionist state."
Weiss
recalled that one
of the founders of Agudat Israel party, Yitchak Maier Levine, said when
he joined the Knesset, "I am going into a lion's den."
Judaism
and Islam
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"We
are in total opposition to the Zionists' views of the destruction
of Al-Aqsa Mosque," said Rabbi Weiss.
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The
Talmud instructor also tried to dust off the portrait of true Jews that
has always been penciled out by the Zionist media and to stand up to the
never-ending anti-Muslim campaign to tarnish the true image of Islam.
He
touched on the most thorny issue to all Muslims and Jews alike: Al-Aqsa
Mosque or in "Zionist" terminology "The Temple
Mount."
Weiss
made it clear that the Zionists' attempts to pull down the holiest place
is a "tragedy and a cardinal criminal offense."
"We
are in total opposition to the Zionists' views of the destruction of
Al-Aqsa Mosque. Who knows what horrific results could come from this? It
is clearly forbidden according to the Torah and the rabbinical
authorities.
"In
1929 the head Rabbi of Palestine and Jerusalem, Rabbi Yosef Chaim
Sonenfeld of blessed memory, sent a letter to the heads of the Islamic
community in Jerusalem declaring that the Jewish people have no want or
interest to take anything which is under the Islamic ownership. And in
fact he was referring to the Jews praying at the Western wall,"
Weiss explained.
"In
the Jewish religion, there is no bias to the Muslims or their religion,
and we don't know of a bias of the Jews to the Muslims. We know that the
Muslim people and Islam are not in opposition to the Jewish people or
their religion, and vice versa," he acknowledged.
Weiss
hoped that the Muslim community will help his movement to spread their
"message of peace."
"This
will sanctify God's name, bring peace and harmony between the Jews and
the Muslims and will succeed in squashing the concept that the Muslims
are somehow anti-Semitic by clarifying the truth that the conflict is
between the political movement called Zionism, and that it has nothing
to do with Judaism or the Jewish people," he Rabbi Weiss averred.
He
concluded also by hoping that Jews around the world would come to
realize the "true old Jewish traditions and beliefs."
