Medinat Yehuda : Palestine or Judea???
13 Elul 5773
In January 1989, Rabbi Meir Kahane, Hy”d, held a conference about which he said, “We did not declare a state. We declared our intent to declare a state if and when Israel will leave the areas.” [Yehuda, Shomron and Aza – Yesha]
To the government of the State of Israel, he said:
“You will not be able to sign an accord with the Palestinians giving up parts of the Land of Israel – you will not be able to. This is not Sinai, this is not Yamit. Here, we’re not dealing with two or three thousand people. Here, you are speaking of 65,000 settlers who live there, including 100,000 Jews who live right across the border who will pour into the area to ensure that it will not be given up because they know that the day after a Palestinian state arises in Judea and Samaria, the next day, the Palestinians will say, “now to the next.”
It’s clear that while Rabbi Meir Kahane put no faith in the Israeli government, he put a lot of faith in his fellow Jews.
Twenty-four years later, we’re not still talking about 65,000 settlers. We’re talking about 350,000 settlers. And today, we are no longer talking about 100,000 Jews living on the Green Line, but the entire population of 7.5 million who are in rocket range! And even so, still the government is continuing with the same insane and unfeasible policies.
Why? Well, maybe the government knows something today that Rabbi Meir Kahane did not know in 1989. For one thing, no replacement has ever been found for Rabbi Meir Kahane since the US and Israeli governments colluded to silence him permanently in November of 1990.
Second, Rabbi Kahane was speaking in a time before the Madrid Conference and before Oslo took it’s terrible twenty-years of terrorism toll; before the US and Israeli governments colluded to train and arm a Palestinian-Arab army on our doorstep. And before the US Ambassador to the UN suggested quite openly that the US introduce a “massive protection force” to impose a solution on the parties.
Third, Rabbi Kahane did not live to witness the ease with which 8600 Jews were forcibly expelled from Gush Katif, along with the complete and utter destruction of seventeen Jewish communities, including the removal of graves.