SOVEREIGNTY A Political Journal / Issue no. 6 / November 2015 Published by Women in Green, the Forum for Sovereignty and Just Peace for Israel

4 To advance legislation in the spirit of Sovereignty A talk with Tourism Minister Yariv Levin

5 Annul the accursed Oslo Accords MK Miki Zohar explains

16 Faith-based Humanism Moti Karpel in a challenging op-ed about our relationship with the Arabs in Israel

Am Yisrael Chai! 2 / SOVEREIGNTY / Political Journal Political Journal / SOVEREIGNTY / 3

Contents

The attack on Netanyahu’s speech stems from political Annexation of Judea and 4 reasons and a lack of understanding Samaria is no longer a An interview with Prof. Moshe Ahrens 5 distant vision Sovereignty will prevent Minister of the Economy the vacuum that would be Naftali Bennett, Looking forward 8 filled by terror MK Yoni Chetboun commits himself to sovereignty

A monster in the ultrasound A Word from the Editors 9 Atty. Dafna Netanyahu

The bloody events that have been besetting us recently published an article in his newspaper, Haaretz, in which have again caused the radical Left to hope of leading the he states that the settlers are victorious over the state of Any territory that would citizens of Israel into the delusional scheme of dividing Tel Aviv in the battle for the Land, in his words, and Letters to the Editor be surrendered to the the Land and establishing a terror state in its heart. As they deserve their victory. “They simply wanted it more, if we have learned nothing over the years of pain and and therefore they won. The settlers exerted themselves 11 Palestinians would become a blood, quite literally, those same radical Leftist leaders more, sacrificed more, invested more and persisted more. are again pushing for separation and segregation, parti- “They succeeded to attain their main objective, which stronghold of terror tion and detachment. was, from the start, to kill any chance of dividing the Titles: ing … the Lovers of Zion must have a say in this con- An interview with MK Col. Moti Yogev But the citizens of Israel carry within themselves a land and having a two-state arrangement. Today there Thank you for your newsletter, Sovereignty. It is very versation as well. Why, every knowledgeable, reasonable healthy and strong spirit and they understand well what are very few people who really think that it is still pos- interesting. After I read it from beginning to end I pass The Response from the Editor of Sovereignty: person knows that the greater the supply, the lower the the ruinous results would be of the ‘two states’ idea, an sible to have two states. Those who mumble about this it on to my family in Tel Aviv and what can I tell you? Within the ever-increasing public that is calling prices must be! And the opposite: the less land that is idea that the radical leftist leadership has advocated since know well that we have missed that train a long time I was surprised to discover that they don’t know that for application of sovereignty there are a number of available, the higher the cost of housing must be. the days of Oslo. The majority among us and among the ago; they still babble about this because this is how they Judea and Samaria are not under Israeli sovereignty. approaches that relate to this important matter that Only building in the heart of the Land, meaning Ju- Listen to what people want something else. gain time and do not suggest anything else”, he wrote. Many people simply don’t know the facts… So please you raise. Among other suggestions, there might be dea and Samaria (as well as the Negev, Galilee and Go- At a meeting of Peace Now, Haim Levinson, a jour- These words show a mood of dejection in the Israeli continue to inform us through your journal, which is so an autonomous structure under Israeli sovereignty, lan) will, necessarily, bring down the cost of housing… the Palestinians nalist from Haaretz, determined, much to the dismay Left, which sees how the vision of two states that they critical to our future, and we will continue to distribute with a political connection to Jordan for the Arab as the supply increases, the cost must decrease! of the listeners, that “the subject of two states is no lon- led has brought about ruin, slaughter and destruction, the issues to the public in Israel. residents of Yosh, arrangements for residency that do Anyone who objects to Jews being in the Negev, the 13 are really saying not include rights of citizenship, and others. ger relevant…it is logistically, physically and technically both for the Jews and the Arabs. He sees how the People Galilee, Judea and Samaria is also to blame for the fact Itamar Marcus presents actual data impossible to turn back the clock.. the numbers are too of Israel are abandoning this sinking ship of the Left’s Dana Almaliah In the issues of Sovereignty, a stage is given to a that the cost of housing is so high (when supply is low, great…the process will not happen”, he said, and men- and is searching for something else. The determined way number of leaders who represent these different ap- prices go up). tioned that the uprooting and expulsion from Gush Ka- that the residents of Judea and Samaria acted against Titles: proaches, among which are Atty. Elyakim Haetzni, tif (the disengagement, in his words) paralyzed the state the demolition orders, determining facts on the ground journalist and authoress Caroline Glick, Uri Elitsur, Uri Hirsch and cost a fortune. with settlements in the field, only reinforces the gloomy Dear Editor, obm, Martin Sherman, Prof. Aryeh Eldad and others. Herzliya “No People surrenders its The journalist Shalom Yerushalmi published a col- atmosphere in the Leftist camp. You write and speak a lot about sovereignty and it is All have expressed themselves in our journal and in umn after the destruction of the Dreinoff buildings in At this time we proudly raise the vision of sovereignty, all so correct and just, but we cannot ignore the burn- the future Sovereignty will continue to grant a stage homeland” which he wrote that “a world war broke out over these the vision of the People of Israel’s full possession of its ing question about the Arab population in Judea and to various opinions which delve into the demograph- 18 Deputy minister Ofir Akunis declares two miserable buildings… if this is what happens for land, providing the People with a true path that will lead Samaria. What would we do with the extra million and ic issue and present various solutions for this. the sake of the shell of two buildings that the Dreinoff it to the moral, ethical and historical truth of Israel’s rule a half Arabs, who would change Israel’s demographics brothers built in West Beit El, is there anyone who can over its land, a truth that will lead ultimately to peace and character? This is the central question that we must or wants to or would dare to uproot the community of and security. find a solution for. The economic aspect of the sovereignty Beit El… would the prime minister or defense minister On the Left there are those who regard the vision ever give orders for such a move? Never. And if we take of sovereignty with a gloomy, dejected and depressing Sincerely, vision Let’s take a fresh look at the Dreinoff buildings and Beit El as an example, what point of view. And this is despite the price in blood that Idan D., Jerusalem The Left talks about the cost of living, attainable hous- Human Rights would happen if they wanted to evacuate Ariel, Kiryat they have brought on the State of Israel with the illu- Arba or the communities of the Jordan Valley? Almost sory vision of dividing the Land and establishing a terror 19 Shimon Cohen six hundred thousand people live over the Green Line state in the heart of it. On the contrary, we will prove Published by Women in Green, the Forum for Sovereignty and Just Peace for Israel today, including in Jerusalem. This act would be like the that the call for sovereignty arises from the spirit of hope Editor-in-chief and interviews: Shimon Cohen Editorial board: Yehudit Katsover, Nadia Matar disengagement times fifty…the Left busies itself with and optimism, a spirit of Zionism and faith, a steadfast- Translation from the original Hebrew Journal: Sally Zahav vain arguments and plans in air-conditioned rooms. ness of Jewish spirit that will replace the despondency SOVEREIGNTY / Political journal Design and concept: Studio Good Graphic design: Eli Weissberg Production: Efrat Itzuvim The settler Right is conducting a battle for every single and the void that the Left’s plan has led to. building, they sweat, get arrested, determine facts on the Responses: [email protected] Fax: 972-2-9309148 Snow updates from Oz veGaon ground and score achievements”. We wish you a pleasant reading experience. www.womeningreen.org www.ribonut.co.il Women in Green, POB 7352, Jerusalem 91072, Israel 20 The radical Leftist journalist Gideon Levi recently Editorial staff of “Sovereignty” 4 / SOVEREIGNTY / Political Journal Political Journal / SOVEREIGNTY / 5 We Must Pass Legislation in the Spirit of Sovereignty as Quickly as Possible

The new government has ‘The Levy Report must be tion would have been avoided”. “In order “Annul the accursed already been operating for sev- adopted, and parts of it to provide good and effective answers to eral months and we wanted should be implemented now’ the High Court as early as possible, we to know from the minister of mapped all of the problematic places that Tourism, Minister Yariv Levin, Has Edmond Levy’s Report really been are now under discussion in the High one of the most prominent shelved and abandoned or is there a chance Court, so that we could deal with them champions for the applica- that it will be implemented? and assure that things would be worked Oslo Accords” tion of Israeli law in Judea and Samaria, “I think the Levy Report must be imple- out, so that we would not get to the situa- whether the changes that have occurred in mented. On this topic as well, I had more tion that we got to regarding the Dreinoff the government bring us closer or further than a few discussions with the minister buildings”, says the minister. away from the day in which sovereignty of defense and the prime minister. There According to various publications and will be applied in the area. are many things that are unacceptable, reports in the media, the number of (Jew- MK Miki Zohar is convinced that it is the political and “I see no difference between the present and the primary example is the ordinance ish ) dwelling units that Minister Levin government and the previous one. The re- for disturbing the peace, which should be is talking about comes to approximately proprietary sin of the Oslo Accords that still constrains we mapped all of the ality has not changed from that point of annulled. This is an anti-democratic ordi- 2200. These may all be destroyed if the problematic places that view from that of the previous government nance that has no justification, an ordi- state does not carry out the legal proce- our politicians and even the High Court. or its predecessor”, says Minister Levin. nance the main use of which is to allow en- dures and if it does not respond to the are now under discussion “The battles now are to strengthen the tire orchards to be uprooted with the claim petitions of leftist organizations effectively in the High Court, so that building activity on one hand and on the that their very presence on the ground is a and decisively. Levin does not volunteer other hand, a determined battle must be disturbance, which is an amorphous claim. the precise numbers and says, “The num- we could deal with them waged to change the way Israel presents it- The result is that when there is no legal bers are very high. I hear a lot of numbers. He has been taking his first ternational public sphere that the land be- High Court and assure that things self to the outside world. This is where we process to justify the uprooting, this ordi- There are those who speak of hundreds, steps in parliament in the past longs to the Palestinians. They claim all the “No. I still complain to the High Court would be worked out, so are at this stage”. “We must speak about nance is used. It is rarely used, indeed, but those who speak of thousands and those few months, and it already time that there is this Oslo Accord and in that instead of thinking big, it prefers to sovereignty and raise the subject continu- the very fact that this step can be taken is who speak of three thousand. I think that seems that he has clearer and this agreement, Israel admits that the terri- think small. Why, it is even clear to the that we would not get to ously, but from the point of view of the unacceptable. The Levy Report indicated every building is important and in every more resolute political positions tory belongs to the Palestinians and not to High Court that these are territories of the the situation that we got ability to carry out such a step now, this the need the do away with this practice building there lives at least one family that than some veterans in his party, Israel. This agreement presents an interna- State of Israel and it is clear to them that it to regarding the Dreinoff thing seems difficult now, unfortunately; immediately and I think that there is no might be thrown out of its home for no the Likud, whose ideological faith has erod- tional line that is incorrect. We know that is legitimate to build in them, but it prefers this is the sort of thing that demands pa- reason not to do away with it. I also raised reason and without justification and this ed over the years, some more and some less. it is not correct and the Palestinians know to argue that it is sticking to the agreement. buildings tience and the right moment will come”, this matter time and again with the previ- must be dealt with”. While others of his colleagues in the party that it is not correct. They use these accords It is a sort of affectation. My criticism of says Levin. ous government as well as with the present And if Levin is already speaking about are afraid to express opinions that perhaps to define us as occupiers despite the fact the High Court is that they know that it And what about the parliamentary legis- government, and I hope that we will see an legislative possibilities that touch on mat- might anger the public opinion shapers in that the one who is really occupying here is alright to build there and that it belongs lative action to make the law identical for annulment of this ordinance”. ters of his office, he cannot ignore tour- Israel and editors of certain newspapers is they, because we were here before them”. to the State of Israel and the Jews must be both sides of the Green Line? “We must Levin notes that beyond this clause in ism in Judea and Samaria. “This is another in the country, he, on the contrary, is not What immediate diplomatic implica- there, but since there is a stupid agreement make progress on this subject, and it is the Levy Report there are various compo- topic where I have more influence, fortu- afraid to say exactly what he thinks about tions do you see in the official annulment that they know is very bad, they stick to possible to do so. In my opinion this is nents that have been implemented, and nately. I indeed intend to promote tourism the Oslo Accords and about the need for of the Oslo Accords? it stubbornly, while ignoring the people’s something that is primarily humanitar- regarding this he notes that “Credit must in Judea and Samaria, in marketing and an alternative plan. We went to meet with “When the Oslo Accords are annulled the rights to the property as well as other, ad- ian. People live in communities, and com- be given to the minister of defense for the bringing tourists as well as strengthening Those accursed young MK Miki Zohar (35). concept of illegal building will not exist, ditional rights, as we have already seen”. munities must continue to progress, and stubborn battle that he waged for a very the tourism infrastructure in Judea and You have said more than once that we because when you build in your own land And what about the day after that therefore what is correct for a citizen in significant change in the answers that are Samaria. For now, the ministry’s team for accords that the Rabin must annul the accursed Oslo Accords. it cannot be illegal. Since these accords do agreement has been annulled? one area must be correct in every place. given to the High Court. We have made planning and development is discussing government signed have Is this at all possible since it’s almost as exist it is, in a way, possible, to understand “When we annul the accords we will be Regarding the issue of application of the great progress in this matter. The answers projects that have requested the ministry’s planted the concept if this accord has been grafted into the the High Co urt because they say that as able to begin a different political process. law, it is a correct and just process. We today are much better, but in my opinion help and support, and I certainly think Israeli political DNA? long as there is this agreement, I will behave As of now, Oslo is the source of the Pal- must remember that even now there are we still lag behind in the formalization of that in Judea and Samaria there is great in the international “In my opinion, yes. The process must be in accordance to it. If you change the agree- estinians’ hope, who say that it has already many laws that have already been applied. the plan. We must act much more urgent- potential for tourism and it is also very im- public sphere that the carried out courageously and the People of ment, the status of the territory will change been recognized that it is theirs and the It is impossible to demand citizens to pay ly and the case of the destruction of the portant to bring people there, so that they Israel will have to prepare for it. There must and your actions in the territory will not be only thing left is to put more pressure on taxes but when it comes to getting services Dreinoff buildings in Bet-El a few months will see the reality for what it is, and we land belongs to the be the right kind of diplomatic preparation contrary to the agreement”. Israel in order to get more territory and be and other rights, they are discriminated ago is a good example of this. If they had will invest efforts and resources to make Palestinians and this will have an influence. Those ac- So actually, the diplomats have con- a state within the State of Israel, G-d forbid. against. Therefore in this process, there is done all of the things that were eventually it happen”. cursed accords that the Rabin government strained the High Court and today it is This all stems from those accords. Text Photo definitely a chance to succeed”. done one year before, all of the destruc- signed have planted the concept in the in- no longer possible to complain to the Some claim that embedded in those 6 / SOVEREIGNTY / Political Journal Political Journal / SOVEREIGNTY / 7 ‘Emissaries of the Public need encouragement from the field to only after annulment we cannot of the Oslo Accords will subjugate you be able to realize ourselves politically Shamir’s plan to build and ideologically push the issue of sovereignty’ new cities in Judea and against the will of Samaria and bring a the Jewish People million Jews to Judea and in its land just Avi Roeh, the head of the Yesha Council finds himself chasing after one more Samaria, and when this because it might be occurs, the Palestinians good for the US. building authorization and one more prevention of a demolition, another road will adapt themselves to paving and another disturbing ruling by the High Court, but what about the the situation demand for sovereignty? “He blesses and encourages Women in Green for their Dep. Min. Ofir Akunis at Oz veGaonPhoto Shlomi Shalmoni activism, but at this time he cannot lead the battle”.

Oslo accords is the key to a calm secu- ality is a translation of the situation that it and if not, the alliance might suffer, and rity situation, because the security ap- will not pay for them to engage in terror. then we will seek cooperation with other paratuses of the Palestinian Authority And what about the international countries, but this is not the goal. The goal Head of the Council for Ju- So what happened? Did this surprise neglected the subject of new communities maintain a certain level of quiet, and if scene? Will they be willing to accept is to maintain the connection with the US dea, Samaria and Gaza (Yesha) you? You had not prepared for it? because we are on the defensive and are en- we annul everything, all the guns will be the Israelis folding up and shelving the as long as we can maintain the Jewish and Avi Roeh, as part of this job, “It is not as if we woke up suddenly and gaged in maintaining the ability to build turned upon us. Oslo Accords after all the business on the Zionist position that is right for the Jewish and as part of his role as head discovered this, but in recent years there in existing communities. In the past we “It will not be news to anyone here when White House lawn, the ceremonies and People in its land”. of the Benjamin Council, is in have been more and more delays in arrang- worked to establish new communities and I say that on the subject of security, we are the applause? Will the Europeans accept And what about the Palestinian Au- high demand regarding a great number ing things. In the areas of planning, expro- this is not dealt with either. There are more the ones in control of security ourselves; we it? Will the Americans accept it? thority? of municipal and administrative matters priation of land for roads is prevented, elec- than a few subjects and priorities that must dictate the security agenda and the pace of “It depends on who will be in the Ameri- “The right way to relate to it is as if it were concerning the residents, the courts, gov- tricity is allowed to be brought only into be decided, and the goal as of now is to progress in this matter. Our enemies will can leadership. If it is Barack Obama then a municipal authority – without the right ernment offices and many other bodies. At organized sites and other things; in the past reinforce the existing communities”. continue to harm us and we must continue clearly he will not accept it, but if it is to vote in Israeli parliamentary elections, times it seems, ironically, that the emphasis it was different. Now, every step and every “Sovereignty is an important process that to cope with it and harm them in return someone else in the American leadership, even if they are interested in this, and even on the vision of Israeli sovereignty in Ju- authorization takes twice the time; every- can provide answers in many directions, when necessary and be aggressive when nec- who would be a better partner, I have a feel- if they do not feel part of the State of Israel, dea and Samaria is not heard in the Yesha thing passes through legal advisers and is but we are not there, unfortunately”, says essary. In any case, we will have to prepare ing that he would accept it. Nevertheless, it but want to be an independent authority, Council. Roeh does not deny this percep- subject to control and supervision. Admin- Roeh, who thinks that many politicians for every eventuality in Judea and Samaria, could definitely be possible that there will and this is acceptable to me. They can be tion and at the same time, praises the orga- istrative advisers must go over everything fear that the High Court will restrict and as well as from Gaza and from Hizb’Allah be diplomatic problems and that we will an independent authority without weapons nizations that do choose to set this vision and check the legality, and these things stop every step of the process. “There have and other sources, as we have already seen”. have to consider relationships with other and they will choose their representatives to as an objective. take time. On one hand, the legal adviser already been incidents of things being It is not going to be easy countries who want to be our partners their local Palestinian government. It will The call arising from “I cannot say that this engages us in our has an increasing number of subjects that raised in the past that were subsequently “No doubt that there will be an interme- be a local Palestinian government and the the people in the field daily work plans or even in meetings with he must take care of and on the other hand, stopped by the High Court”. diate phase that will be problematic from text text text text head of this authority will work with Is- for the application of government or administrative figures”, he we must submit more requests for autho- Contrary to the politicians and the mis- the day that the Oslo Accords are annulled rael and we will help them to manage their admits, immediately at the beginning of a rization from him for things that, in the givings that might motivate them, Roeh and it may be that there will be losses to text text text text budget, as long as they do not use these sovereignty is good conversation on the council and the vision past, only required the authorization of the blesses every hasbara activity related to the Jewish People, but a new reality will text text text text monies for terror”. and correct because of sovereignty. “There are more than a few Settlement Division”. sovereignty. “The call arising from the be created which is better for our grand- text text text text In your party they do not address the other things that we are engaged in at this Nevertheless, Roeh notes that while he people in the field for the application of children and great grandchildren, because issue of an alternative for the Oslo Ac- it raises something time, and there is never a dull moment – and his people find it difficult to “shoot sovereignty is good and correct because it only after annulment of the Oslo Accords text text text text cords and at most, they engage in mini- authentic, and I also demolitions, the High Court, this or that in all directions”, as he defines it, and deal raises something authentic, and I also sup- will you be able to realize Shamir’s plan to text text text text mizing the damage as much as possible support this terror attack. We try to think about more with solutions to practical problems that port this. I came to Women in Green’s vigil build new cities in Judea and Samaria and “And what goes on in the other parties? In strategic matters”. impair the development of communities, at the prime minister’s residence in order bring a million Jews to Judea and Samaria, text text text text HaBayit HaYehudi and the haredi parties An obvious example of one of these stra- as well as the implementation of the vision to strengthen Yehudit Katsover’s and Nadia and when this occurs, the Palestinians will text text text text how much do they address an alternative tegic matters is “the subject of infrastruc- of sovereignty, he sees the matter of sov- Matar’s call, but in the current reality I can- adapt themselves to the situation”. text text text text for Oslo? There are not many who dare to tures that are going to interfere with the ereignty as something that is in the hands not lead this battle. At this time, we must And how will we cope? How will we speak of it. They are anxious and afraid of development of communities – main roads, of the representatives in the halls of gov- work for immediate results in the current maintain the quiet security situation in text text text text the international reaction. Today, I am not electricity at the edge of its capacity, water, ernment. “It is an objective for the elected battles. The Jewish population in Judea and text text text text text such a new reality? part of the leadership of the State of Israel etc. The Jewish population in Judea and Sa- representatives of the public who deal with Samaria has become a normalized popula- text text text text text “In Judea and Samaria there are dozens of no less than the United States, like Russia but only a member of parliament in the Li- maria has grown and increased quite a bit these great things and decide how, how tion that is not willing to have to cope with text text text text text local Palestinian authorities. We cannot ig- and China and other countries, which to- kud and I am very proud of this, but when and therefore all of the infrastructures are much, etc. These representatives need the difficulties; rather, it demands, rightly, rea- nore this, but we will dry out any local au- day we reject because we are committed to later, with G-d’s help, I will be part of the no longer suitable; and by the way, this is so public’s encouragement and backing in or- sonable living conditions and is not willing text text text text text thority economically that deals with terror the USA. Don’t misunderstand me – it is leadership of the state and the government for the Arabs as well. There are many more der to lead the vision. Without this backing to be stuck for forty minutes in a traffic text text text text text and make it so that there will be no desire good for us that the US is our best part- and I will be one of the decision makers, I vehicles on the roads than before, the water from the field, they would feel weak”. jam on the way home. That is why activi- to live there. On the other hand, any Pal- ner, but we cannot subjugate ourselves po- will lead and push in the direction of an- and electricity infrastructure that has the ‘We have also neglected to develop new ties such as those of Women in Green are text text text text text estinian authority that rids itself of terror litically and ideologically against the will of nulling the Oslo Accords and implement- capability to handle a certain amount that communities’ important; it is important that every group text text text text text will receive economic preference, economic the Jewish People in its land just because ing the Shamir Plan of ’92. It will not be was suitable for twenty and thirty years ago Roeh admits to neglecting another sub- focus on doing activities in the area that text text text text text cooperation that will raise the standard of it might be good for the US. The United a short process, but it is possible to realize is no longer good enough for the new re- ject as a result of dealing with the crises of it thinks is not sufficiently dealt with and living of the residents there and integrate States must accept our opinions. If it ac- it”. Prof. Eliav Shochetman photo: Flash 90 quirements. We have come to the edge of the hour – the matter of the demand to I personally will come to strengthen it in text text text text text them into the Israeli labor market. This re- cepts us the alliance between us will remain, capacity”. establish new communities. “We have also every place that I can”. 8 / SOVEREIGNTY / Political Journal Political Journal / SOVEREIGNTY / 9

‘The only occupation there ever was in Judea and Samaria was the Arab occupation’

The head of the Legal Forum for the Land of Israel seeks to put a stop to the discussion about security issues and begin a discussion about values and legal issues where Israel holds strong cards. “International law is on our side”.

The head of the Legal Forum seems as if it could have been “At first, all of these statements also ap- Auschwitz and preferred to get half rather right to settle in Judea, Samaria and Jeru- Israel speaks about two states and when for the Land of Israel, Attorney written by HaBayit HaYehudi’ plied to the eastern part of the Land of than be left with nothing. Contrary to the salem is based in international law on the they speak of a road map leading to a Pal- Yossi Fuchs, decisively states Israel. Later, in 1922, the decision was Jewish community, the Arab leadership same right that they have to settle in Tel estinian state because then the claim can that the cards that Israel holds Again and again, Atty. Fuchs calls on taken that these things would only apply refused to accept the partition “and there- Aviv and in Haifa”. be made that Israel is willing to recognize a regarding international law are Israel’s diplomatic echelon to stop the dis- to the territory west of the Jordan River. fore this resolution is invalid. All serious Reinforcement for Prof. Rostow’s opin- Palestinian state, and this is a fatal mistake”. stronger than any others. Judea course centering on security and begin a This decision was taken unanimously by jurists know that this resolution is invalid”, ion is presented by Professor Julius Stone In light of such a reality, says Fuchs, and Samaria, according to international discourse centering on values and also a the League of Nations. Fifty two member he states and again stresses what he said at of Sidney University, who also taught at since the governments of Israel have made law, belong exclusively to Israel and history legal discourse, where, he is convinced, Is- states of the League of Nations accepted the start: “the partition plan was the tail- Harvard, is considered one of the leading such declarations about the Palestinians’ teaches us that the only ones who have per- rael has the upper hand. We only need to these things. The United States was not wind for establishing the state, but it is not experts in international law and has writ- right to an independent state, we can ex- the partition plan petrated an illegal occupation of this area say these things clearly and unhesitatingly. then a member, and had observer status the legal infrastructure for establishing the ten 27 books on these subjects. Prof. Stone pect significant difficulties in the effort to are the Jordanians. To adequately explain things, we must be only, but this decision was confirmed by state. This infrastructure, as stated, begins wrote a confirmation of the opinion, ac- change political direction. Nevertheless, he was the tailwind for Nevertheless, Fuchs casts a fair amount familiar with some historical details that both houses of Congress. The significance with the San Remo Conference and is con- cording to which there is no occupation, does not despair and reminds us that since establishing the state, of the blame on Israeli governments over are beyond any doubt, and Fuchs explains: of this is that according to American law, firmed by the UN Charter”. since these territories were not legally held the borders of that Palestinian state are not but it is not the legal the generations for instilling in the inter- “We must understand that contrary to the settlements are absolutely legal”. Fuchs continues his historical overview, by any other sovereign before the State dealt with, Israeli leaders can still say that it national consciousness the need for a Pales- the common misperception, the basis in Fuchs progresses through the pages of which anchors Israel’s legal status in Judea of Israel. Rather, they had been occupied refers to a Palestinian state in Jordan. infrastructure for tinian state, which is nothing but a recent international law for the establishment of history to the decision that accompanied and Samaria: “When the state was declared, by Jordan and Egypt. He states that the “I salute Netanyahu for his position on establishing the state. contrivance. the State of Israel is not the UN Council’s the establishment of the UN, the deci- the Arabs began a war against the Jewish resolution of the League of Nations is still the issue of the Iranian nuclear project This infrastructure, as “The blunder began with the end of the resolution of November 29. The actual sion in clause eighty of the UN Charter in population. Jordan, whose international binding today. and his willingness to confront the entire Six Day War. With the glow of victory, in background goes back to 1920, when the which it is stated that all of the agreements border crosses the Jordan River line in the world on this subject. If he had taken as stated, begins with the Levi Eshkol’s and Moshe Dayan’s first press San Remo Conference convened, where and covenants that had been accepted by same resolution of partition of the 1920s, ‘Declarations made by the strong a position regarding the Land as San Remo Conference conferences, the messages to the world the Land of Israel was divided anew be- the League of Nations would be enshrined extended beyond its international border governments of Israel did the he did regarding the Iranian nuclear is- were not that we had liberated areas of the tween the British and the French after the and ratified by the UN as well. in ’48 and illegally conquered Judea and Arabs’ work for them’ sue, he would have swept everyone along and is confirmed by the homeland that belongs to us and had been fall of the Ottoman Empire. The parts that When he comes to the proposal for par- Samaria and Eastern Jerusalem. The entire with him. The problem is that he adopted The world is undergoing UN Charter. held in enemy hands, but that after all, we are relevant to us are the western and east- tition, Atty. Fuchs makes a meaningful se- world, aside from Britain and Pakistan, So how does it happen that despite all of the mainstream Israeli terminology, such a process where had defended ourselves and we were now ern parts of the Land of Israel, which were mantic comment: the decision, which was saw Jordan as an occupier. these things, which are clear and accepted, that when they abandon the path of ter- holding territories as a bargaining chip. We given to Britain as a trust. Anyone who has rejected by the Arabs, says that ‘Palestine’ “This means”, Fuchs stresses, is that it the world says something different today? ror, we will establish two states here. It may international law is had a historic public relations opportunity investigated this has seen that the clauses of will be partitioned into a Jewish state and is Jordan who was the occupier here be- The world is undergoing a process where be that he takes this approach as political being politicized, and at that time and did not take advantage of the Mandate manifesto, which was signed an Arab state. The significance of this is tween ’48 and ’67. In the Six Day War we international law is being politicized, and lip service because of the battle over the it is the governments it”, says Fuchs, who sees the act of transfer- at the conference, seem as if they could that the term “Palestine” does not denote returned the area to its legal owners. This it is the governments of Israel over the gen- Iranian nuclear project, but in the long ring the Temple Mount into the hands of have been written by someone from Ha- in any way that it belongs to the Arabs, but is the reason that we dispatched a letter to erations that have done this ‘good work’ for term view a withdrawal from Judea and of Israel over the the WAQF as the first practical evidence of Bayit HaYehudi. Among other things, it rather relates to nothing more than a name UN General Secretary in which we stated them. Instead of claiming that we are real- Samaria would endanger Israel’s existence generations that have Israel’s weakness, “not only because of the is written that this territory is designated of a certain territory, a name that, inciden- that his determination that the settlements izing our rights on the Land, we speak of more than an Iranian nuclear bomb. The done this ‘good work’ words of Uri Zvi Greenberg, which is that for the establishment of a national home tally, was invented by the Romans when are not legal is simply lies and deceit”. security. The Palestinians speak of justice bomb is an international issue; nuclear whoever controls the Temple Mount con- for the People of Israel. It also speaks of they wanted to demean the Jewish people Leading jurists in international law agree and we speak about terror and when you war would mean a third world war, but a for them. Instead of trols the Land of Israel, but also because of the right of ‘close Jewish settlement’. There by naming the land for the Philistines. with this view. One example is Professor continue to speak only about self-defense, situation that would bring Hamastan near claiming that we are the practical message to those around us is not even one word about the national Eugene Rostow, who passed away 15 years the world tells you that the simplest solu- to Rosh Ha’ayin and Ben Gurion Airport – if we can’t manage to control this Mount, rights of the Arab people in the British part Jordan – the only illegal ago. “He was the American under-secre- tion is to give them back their land and would represent a real existential threat for realizing our rights on that reality will pertain to the rest of the of the Mandate. The Arabs received the occupier tary of state, who wrote the text for Resolu- you will have quiet”. us and the world would not bat an eye over the Land, we speak of territory. We seem to say that actually, the entire territory west of Saudi Arabia, Syria, tion 242 of the UN Security Council, the He sharpens his words regarding the what would happen to us”. security. territory is not ours and we are only con- etc. and no one thought of giving them And back to the partition plan – At- resolution on which the Arabs stake their problematic way that the governments of cerned with the security issue”. rights in the Land of Israel as well. Obvi- torney Fuchs mentions that the Jewish claim demanding full Israeli withdrawal. Israel have conducted themselves by say- ously, no one spoke the about a Palestinian population agreed to it, since at that time Later he was dean of the College of Law ing that even though this is the reality in ‘The text of the Mandate people, which did not exist”. they had just been rescued from the fires of at Yale University. He stated that “the Jews’ international law, a problem arises when 10 / SOVEREIGNTY / Political Journal Political Journal / SOVEREIGNTY / 11

Panel for Israeli Sovereignty over Judea and Samaria

MK Miki Zohar MK Bezalel Smotrich For a summary and Likud HaBayit HaYehudi The Younger Generation “I told the heads of the “Annexation and applica- recording of the panel councils of Judea and Samaria in tion of Israeli law in Judea and the vigil tent at the prime min- Samaria are the only answer to ister’s residence that the time has operational terror as well as the come to annul the Oslo Accords, political terror that Abu Mazen is Thinking Ahead the time has come to engage in is conducting. ‘The Left was massive building in Judea and correct’ – the political freeze is Samaria and to announce to the bad and the strategy of playing Palestinians that there is no in- for time is a mistake. The panel was held at the Oz veGaon Nature tention to establish a Palestinian …we must decide if it is ours state here. They are invited to live or not and then we must apply Reserve on Friday, October 2015 ,9 with us here in peace, but it must Israeli law and normalize Judea www.inn.co.il/News/News.aspx/307482 be clear that this land is ours” and Samaria”.

Yisrael Zaira founder MK Shuli Mualem- of Jewish Head and Refaeli HaBayit economic entrepreneur HaYehudi “Anyone who wants to talk about “It is our privilege today that Jew- sovereignty must talk about a process ish history, of which we are part, where tens of thousands of families has placed us in this place where the are sent to Judea and Samaria in or- State of Israel exists. My grandpar- der to create an irreversible reality… ents from Morocco shed tears over We must explain to the People of such a reality and to be this close to Israel that this is not only the alterna- Jerusalem. Now we must add the tive solution to the housing crisis but next level at our threshold, which is that this is also important land to the the application of sovereignty over People of Israel”. all territories of Judea and Samaria”.

Yaron Rosenthal principal of Kfar Sarah Haetzni Etzion Field School Cohen one of the “The process of sovereignty includes less popu- heads of My Israel lar elements within it. Even Uri Elitsur and Hanan “The solution of ‘two states Porat said that they agreed to the idea of giving for two peoples’ is no longer citizenship to the Arab population because they relevant. Now what? There is understood that if we want to stay here, we must no vacuum. The Israeli public present a solution that is viable for the 20th centu- likes simple solutions. We are in ry. The PA’s greatest battle is against normalization, the Facebook era. In the social because this would shatter their dream. The thing network generation we must be that distanced us from having sovereignty and very sharp and accurate in our went right under the Right’s radar is the separation messaging. To appeal to logic fence. When they built it the Right was silent”. and emotion at the same time”.

Moshe Savil Orli Goldklang Yair Buchnik Eretz Liat Kirschenbaum Deputy Head of the Deputy Editor of Makor (Youth Sovereignty head of the Gush Gush Etzion Council Rishon, Panel Moderator Organization) Etzion Youth Council “The settlement project is flourishing “As long as 30 years ago, Uri Elit- “Just as they told us for twenty “There has been a dramatic but because of the lack of sovereignty its sur, obm, tried to promote and speak years that there should be two change: settlement has de- residents are class B citizens. For example, of the Right’s alternative. He used to states here, today we must make veloped in this place during Oz veGaon – a place where there is no say that the entire Israeli discourse was heard the voice that says that this the forty years that we have doubt regarding its ownership and the au- on the left side of the map and what land is ours and that we must ap- been here. Despite this, the thorizations that it was given before the we needed to do was to move the dis- ply sovereignty. We have begun an “Gush” is identified in Israeli tourism site was established – but without course to the Right side of the map Internet campaign that many have consciousness as a center of authorizations of the military we could and present solutions. This is what we joined via the social networks. We conflict. In order for a change not move the process forward” are doing today at this panel by pre- want one state with sovereignty to occur, sovereignty must be senting the Sovereignty plan. over all of Judea and Samaria”. applied”. 12 / SOVEREIGNTY / Political Journal Political Journal / SOVEREIGNTY / 13

operation to return to Kfar Etzion under tion? This is not how Zionism works. We the leadership of Rav Hanan Porat. “The have never asked for authorization from ascension to Kfar Etzion was done in Elul, the official institutions, instead, we first three months after the war and we believed established facts on the ground and after- The First Steps that it was a very important operation but ward we asked for authorization. If we had we could not be satisfied with the renewal not done it this way, Ginosar and Hanita of a kibbutz, since we felt that we should would not have been established’. This sur- return and rebuild our ancient cities and prised us. We were taught to act according we thought that the best place would be to legal custom . Hevron”, says Rav Waldman and imme- Before Pesach a group of friends decided of a Renewed Hevron diately hastens to clarify that whenever he to go up to Hevron. There were, indeed, expresses himself in the plural it is not ac- no houses for sale or rent but they found curate. “It is important to know that the out about the Park Hotel, at the northern great engine, the initiator, the activist and entrance to Hevron. “It was an old aban- In an interview with the Sovereignty Journal, Rav Eliezer Waldman talks the operator day and night with great faith doned hotel. The owner of the hotel, Ka- and energy of activity and organization wasme, was happy for the opportunity to about his friendship with Rav Moshe Levinger, ZTZ”L, and their part in the was Rav Levinger. Without him this entire earn a little money. We signed a contract reality would not have been created.” to rent the hotel for a week with an option establishment of the Jewish community in Hevron; of the first days of settlement “We acted in the beginning in three to renew for a month, and later with an fronts - first to sign families up who would option for a year, because at that point we and of the lesson in Zionism that they learned from Yigal Alon. be willing to move to Hevron. The second did not know what the future would be”. from the veteran representative of the front was the effort to rent or buy houses “We told him that we did not need his settlement enterprise. “We went according in Hevron. The third front was dealing workers and that we would manage with- to the classic Zionist way, as Alon said ‘es- with the government, to obtain govern- out them. Our wives came and koshered tablished facts on the ground’, the furthest A few months after the death The posters in B’nei B’rak and us and said that we should compose some mental authorization for the operation. the hotel. The rumor was passed by word furrow of the plow is where the border will of Rav Moshe Levinger ZTZ”L, Jerusalem were infuriating text and that he and other rabbis would Actually, the only front that we succeeded of mouth that we were about to organize be. The borders were not determined at who was the founder of the Jew- sign on it. We composed the text on the in was in signing up families. On the oth- the first Pesach in Hevron since 1929. the beginning”, he reminds us, and is con- ish settlement in Hevron and The next steps came with the Six Day Wednesday before the war, but before we er two fronts we did not succeed at that Many signed up to participate for the vinced that in the matter of sovereignty as the engine behind the general War, which broke out a short time after had a chance to deliver the text to the me- time. Even if there were Arabs who were Seder. About one hundred people took well, the government and the state leader- drive of settlement activity in the famous speech of Rav Tzvi Yehuda on dia the war broke out”, recalls Rav Wald- willing to rent houses, they were subjected part. During the holiday itself there was ship will join the voices that will arise from Judea and Samaria, we conversed with his the eve of Independence Day, 1967, when man. to terror so they changed their minds. In no more space in the rooms and the men the field. ‘Are you crazy? You partner in revolution, the head of Nir Ye- the Rav’s cried out ‘Where is our Hevron? the government as well, the government slept in the hallways on mattresses”, con- Rav Waldman relates to the transforma- want governmental shiva in Kiryat Arba, Rav Eliezer Waldman, Where is our Nablus? Have we forgotten We also have the privilege of of Levy Eshcol, they were not willing to tinues Rav Waldman, who, together with tion in consciousness brought about by about the days when they learned from the them?’ The day after Independence Day, taking part in the process of give authorization. They did not say no ex- his wife, were one of three families which, Women in Green regarding the demand authorization? This Mapainiks* how to ensure ownership of a Nasser, the president of Egypt, announced redemption pressly, but rather that it was not the right it was decided, would remain living at the for sovereignty over all parts of the Land is not how Zionism territory. to the whole world that he was about to time, and so forth”. hotel. The other families were the Levinger of Israel, “I want to bless and express admi- “We both learned in the Mercaz HaRav throw the Jews into the sea; he mobilized The war ended and the return of the family and the Amiram family. ration for the Women in Green movement, works. We have never Yeshiva beginning in the year 1958, and his army and gave the order to remove the people to its historic cradle inspired the A practical lesson in Zionism The night of the Seder itself “was won- which speaks clearly about the matter of asked for authorization after a short period we began to learn UN soldiers who were on the border of entire people with a new spirit; in the from Yigal Alon derful. We invited Rav Drukman to con- sovereignty and says that the Land is ours. from the official together as a study-partners”, relates Rav the Negev and Sinai and in Israel they be- Mercaz Harav Yeshiva the spiritual excite- duct the Seder. We danced all the way to As long as these words are not heard in the Waldman about the initial link with the gan mobilization and preparations. Three ment was tremendous. “Our role was clear In parallel with waiting for the first au- the Cave of the Patriarchs and this is how government, because of various misgivings, institutions, instead, person who eventually became linked by weeks of tension began, which raised our to us. The Almighty had opened the heart thorization by the government, the cadre the Jewish community in Hevron was re- various pressures and weak faith, at least we first established family as well, when he suggested Miriam, expectation and the awareness that the of the Land of Israel so that we could build of pioneers continued their efforts to lo- newed. It began with three families stay- we will clearly say words about the truth facts on the ground a relative, to Rav Levinger as a partner in Almighty had opened before us the gates Jewish life in it, so that we could settle in cate houses for rent. During this period, ing there, and today there are already more and the life of the Land of Israel” matrimony, and then one year after their of Judea, Samaria, Gaza and the Golan these areas. The issue of settlement burned notes Rav Waldman, a wide-ranging awak- than ten thousand people in Kiryat Arba- Rav Waldman says that the vision of and afterward we wedding, Rav Levinger suggested his rela- Heights was what joined us together”. within us. ening began in Israel for a Greater Israel. Hevron. It seems that Yigal Alon was right. Israeli sovereignty over all of the Land is asked for authorization. tive to Rav Waldman. During the three weeks of preparations It was with this feeling that the friends Public figures of the Right and Left joined We were in the Park Hotel for a full month not only a matter concerning the People The deep ties between the two, ties that and the tension before the war, while the went forth for the first time in a settlement together under this banner, among them while the government deliberated over our of Israel but a matter concerning the en- If we had not done it led to the momentum in the settlement entire people was mobilized, the three operation in the heart of the Land with the Eliezer Livne, Natan Alterman, Moshe matter. Yigal Alon supported us in the uni- tire world and all of the nations. “We are this way, Ginosar and movement, began as a spirit that reverber- – Rav Levinger, Rav Waldman and Rav first action being the mobilization for the Shamir, Yisrael Eldad, Geula Cohen and ty government together with MAFDAL meant to bring a blessing to all families of Hanita would not have ated between the walls of the study house Drukman – were not mobilized since they with them, representatives of Rav Nerya’s ministers. Begin led the demand that, in a the earth. This is what is said to our fa- under the leadership of their rabbi, Rav served in the military rabbinate and at this religious group, Rav Levinger, Rav Wald- vote by the government, there would be no ther Abraham in the Almighty’s first words been established’ Tzvi Yehuda Kook, ZT”L. “There was time mobilization of rabbis and rabbis who man and others. “This was an awakening objection to recognizing us, and therefore to him: ‘In thee, all families of the Earth spiritual tension that was brimming with taught in yeshiva had not yet begun. “Dur- that indicated the immediate existence of he proposed that the wording would not will be blessed’. We can bring this blessing expectation of additional steps that would ing those days we saw posters in Jerusalem a vision that we learned about in the study include recognition of the renewal of the from this Land in its entirety only when be taken by the Almighty toward redemp- and in B’nei B’rak and announcements in house. In ‘Lights’ and in the Natziv’s epis- Jewish community in Hevron, but instead, it is under our control and when Jewish tion. We were taught to see the entire Zi- the haredi newspapers which called on the The Almighty had tle we learned that in the future, interest in it would be for the renewal of the yeshiva life flourishes within it. The nations must onist process, from the beginning, as the People of Israel to repent, since we were opened the heart the Land of Israel would unite the various that was destroyed in the riots of 1929. To know that they will not have a blessing, deeds of the Almighty which would arouse faced with great danger to our existence. shades of the People of Israel, proving the the leftist ministers, they explained that also those around us and those that think the People of Israel in the diaspora to re- We, Rav Drukman and I, thought about of the Land of divine dimension of the events as well as a yeshiva is easy to move from place to of themselves as great powers, except from demption, national responsibility, rebel- this, and we said that this should not be Israel so that we their importance, and now – the events are place, and therefore there was no reason to the People of Israel, and therefore they lion against exile and immigration to the the message, not a message of fear. Clearly, could build Jewish being realized”. vote against it. Thus, a great renewal came must know that it is a privilege for them Land of Israel, and therefore we felt that it was good and important to repent, but “Regarding the delayed authorization, about in the history of the settlement en- to help the People of Israel to settle in the entire process from the beginning had not out of fear. The message should have life in it, so that our friend from the left-leaning part of the terprise – at first, a community would be- the Land of Israel. The prophet describes a divine dimension. Therefore, we cer- been the strengthening of security for the we could settle in movement suggested to us to meet with gin with a yeshiva, and not the opposite”. how the nations will carry Israel on their tainly saw the settlement and the estab- People of Israel and the expectation of re- the minister of labor, Yigal Alon, who shoulders. The process is gradual and it is lishment of the State of Israel, everything, demption in order to uplift the spirit and these areas. was known as an activist, and ask him for He Admires and blesses the important to establish facts - the reality “It is important to know that the as the deeds of the Almighty toward the the sense of security“. advice. We took the suggestion, went to leaders of the demand for of millions of Jews who will live in every great engine, the initiator, the activist redemption of Israel. Beyond the fact that “The next day Rav Levinger came to us Alon and presented him with our wish for sovereignty area of the Land of Israel. We are doing and the operator day and night with we were living the experience of Israel’s in- from Nehalim and he also thought the governmental authorization. We were sur- this and the Almighty has been helping us great faith and energy of activity and dependence as the glory of the Almighty, same thing. We went to Rav Tzvi Yehuda prised by his answer. He told us ‘Are you It is difficult for Rav Waldman to for- with miracles in recent decades”. organization was Rav Levinger we still expected additional steps”. and told him these things. He agreed with crazy? You want governmental authoriza- get the lesson that the new settlers learned 14 / SOVEREIGNTY / Political Journal Political Journal / SOVEREIGNTY / 15

Faced with what seems to be a behind one political plan. There is a lot of Our policy is If, in the past, it treacherous political swamp that agreement among the politicians of the Likud becoming was acceptable to produces only outrageous and and to the right of the Likud on the principles, dangerous political mosquitos but I was surprised to discover that I could more and more speak only about such as the Oslo Accords and the not unify everyone under one idea. Each one accepted both in ‘two states’, it is ‘two-state’ idea, a group of Ameri- has his own areas of emphasis and nuance. It can public figures, for the most part immi- was difficult for me to formulate a common Israel and in the now “allowed” to grants from the US, have decided to mobilize policy”. world. In Israel speak in political American for the task of draining the political swamp And opposing you is the Left, which man- the evidence is discourse of one and introducing new and fresh ideas that will ages to present a unified front for the pro- be able to empower not only the Israeli Right motion of its political concept despite the apparent in the state and about but also American diplomats and politicians fact that there are many internal disagree- result of all the leaving the as well. Here in Israel it may be that this initia- ments, subtleties and nuances on their side recent elections. current situation Politics tive has not won enough resonance in the gen- as well. eral public, but in a discussion with Ruthie Li- “It may be that this is the reason that they today there is an to remain as is. eberman, who is the head of the ‘YES ISRAEL’ managed to pass the Oslo Accords, which led absolute Rightist Politicians are initiative, it becomes clear that the process is to a disaster. They did it together by joining catching on not only among Israeli diplomats forces. There were a few bulldozers there who majority. willing to say this Changes but also among their parallels across the ocean. achieved the required count and others fell aloud in the world. The whole idea began about five years ago, into line after them. Nevertheless, I still think she says. “The idea was to change the conven- that on the Right there is enough similarity tional discourse on the international level as among the various concepts so that it is pos- well as in Israel, to thinking out of the box that sible to come to an operational plan that most has been freezing us and has not allowed us to of the camp will be able to stand behind. It Course arrive at a solution or any sort of diplomatic does, indeed, require discipline, mobilization progress. We did not come with one formu- and political capability but it is possible and it Members of Congress have a has stated in the past, of a similar spirit, political consensus that had been imbed- people involved in the initiative that she lated and unified suggestion; rather, we began is also happening. Connection to the American and it is so also for Cruz, Rubio and others. ded in Israel during the Oslo years, it is leads have reliable research and facts that to introduce concepts and ideas to redirect the When Lieberman says that things are hap- people, who Identify with “This battle will occur in another year their intention to promote and encourage allow us to act decisively and fearlessly. listeners, the public as well as leaders, to think pening and progressing it is difficult to miss the Israeli Right and a half and even now the candidates say the rise and strengthening of Rightist ini- To critics of her political plan, which de- otherwise, to think differently”. the confidence in her voice. Hundreds of these things and some of them are wait- tiatives in the Israeli field, “initiatives that pends on Jordanian agreement to establish Lieberman is convinced that it is the Left’s discussions and meetings with members of ing for the right time. We must act in the will change the rules of the game”, accord- a Palestinian state within its territory, Li- text here missing continual brandishing the idea of dividing Congress and diplomats in the US, as well as And what about American politics? Can American field to encourage them and for ing to the definition of Lieberman, who is eberman answers: “I am not responsible for the Land into two states and turning this idea with Israeli politicians, lead her to one conclu- the beginnings of an identifiable change of this we need more and more people from not willing to submit to the gloomy mood the Jordanians and cannot determine what into total agreement, that is, ironically, what is sion: “Our policy is becoming more and more direction be detected there as well? Lieber- here”, she says and emphasizes that most of of some on the Right, who are disappoint- they will do, but I can state what we will stopping the process. The diplomats in Israel accepted both in Israel and in the world. In man is convinced that this is so. “Even if those activists working on her project are ed about the diplomatic-political discourse do. We will not commit suicide because and the US have a fixation, and it is this fixa- Israel the evidence is apparent in the result of what we are doing is not really ‘the Oslo Jews who hold American citizenship, a fact as it is expressed in the media. someone thinks that it is possible to force tion that she and her people seek to change, all the recent elections. The Right votes Right of the Right’, we are creating here the basis that does away with the claims of foreign “Our Israeli street is much stronger and upon us something that cannot be forced step by step. and today there is an absolute Rightist major- on which discussions will be held and are political interference in internal matters of more faithful than we give ourselves credit upon the Jordanians. Even if there is some She proves the extent of this political fixa- ity. being held of a different concept, which the U.S. “We are active American citizens for. We tend to remember the failures and difficulty in the political proposal, I still am tion, ironically by those American members will change the discourse. If, in the past, who also understand the American inter- downfalls but if we remember what we not willing to accept on myself something of Congress and diplomats who do not be- it was acceptable to speak only about ‘two est in the Middle East and are presenting have succeeded in doing until now, except that endangers me and is against my ethi- lieve in the idea of establishing a Palestinian states’, it is now “allowed” to speak in a new, fresh and effective approach for the for the disaster of Gush Katif and northern cal principles, principles that begin with state and see it as a security disaster as well political discourse of one state and about American politician and diplomat”. Samaria, we will reach the clear conclusion the passages of the Bible and end with the as an historic injustice. Lieberman describes leaving the current situation to remain as Even during this discussion, Lieberman that we are making progress. We see this in generals on the mountains. If someone is how, despite their official world view, when is. Politicians are willing to say this aloud calls for more and more volunteers, espe- the number of politicians that we can turn going to be forced, then they should force they come to proposing a law of the type that in the world. cially Jews who hold American citizenship, to today with these concepts. Correct, as our neighbors and not us”. would affect the Middle East, somehow a few Lieberman further clarifies that the to connect with her initiative, to act among we said, there are, on the Right, arguments How do you explain the reality in sentences about the aspiration for two states structure of American politics, which sends communities in the U.S. and with mem- about the nuances, but many more people which the leaders of the Right, who as a step toward peace in this area manage to members of Congress to the voter every bers of Congress and American candidates agree about the main principles. If more speak with determination, then change seep into the words explaining the proposed two years, creates a continuity of discourse to strengthen an infrastructure that will be and more people join this discourse we will their opinions when they get to high po- law. “I explain to them that this expression is between the mood of the American street suitable to change the American discourse. create something much more serious and sitions, and in this context we can name not consistent with the biblical right of the Historical and his constituents. The result is that the An integral part of the activism includes meaningful than some law that the Left the Likud princes like Olmert, Meridor, Jewish People to the Land of Israel, which they Jewish sites are people’s spirit, which is more conservative visiting in Israel and briefing members has passed by trickery, even if it is a law Livni, Sharon and others. Perhaps nev- speak about so much. I also tell them that the and more Republican, is expressed in the of Congress and influential figures in the that has influenced our lives”. ertheless there is something at the top idea that there is only one legitimate policy combined with strengthening of this aspect of American U.S. The people of YES ISRAEL and their And when the discussion with her turns that changes their positions? position is contrary to the values of freedom their itinerary and politics. “With the help that we receive visitors hold visits in the cradle of the Jew- to pragmatic matters, to the questions that “I have not been in their position and of expression, which they also speak about”. there, in the Cave from the field, from the voters, we iden- ish People’s homeland. Historical Jewish again and again are hurled at the Right, therefore I am not sure that I can answer, And perhaps the reason for this is that tify these leaders and work with them. The sites are combined with their itinerary for example, the question of demograph- but one of our tasks is to encourage leaders while the Left presents a clear stand, the of the Patriarchs, in result is that the influence returns to our and there, in the Cave of the Patriarchs, ics and the practical feasibility to lead a who can stand up to these pressures. In or- Right is busy putting out the fires that the Samaria and in the government. Our representatives are very in Samaria and in the Old City in Jeru- vision that is not dividing the land, Lieber- der to strengthen the public infrastructure Left has ignited and does not formulate the Old City in Jerusalem impressed when the Americans preach salem the visitors hear and say sharp and man is not deterred. She clarifies that in for the leadership, we are creating connec- suggestion for a realistic political plan of its to us about our historical, biblical rights clear statements about their commitment order to discuss every single matter, it is tions between people who think as we do own? the visitors hear and and about our right to hold this territory. to the historical commandment that links important to place at the front, the experts and you would be surprised, it is not so “Correct. It would have been fitting and say sharp and clear When visitors or hosts from the U.S. say the People of Israel with its Land. who have dedicated their work and invest- difficult to do. There are very many people proper for the Right to have something posi- such statements it very much strengthens ed time in investigating this problem, to with whom we can work and they are in tive to suggest and not only to criticize. Those statements about our politicians”. know the true data and present a suitable key political positions. These are people on the Left have succeeded to conceal many their commitment Lieberman also finds additional evi- Except for the Calamity of solution. One of the examples that Lieber- who determine policy and the more we internal arguments in order to pass this ter- to the historical dence of the turn-around that is occurring the loss of Gush Katif, we are man speaks of is the demographer Yoram give them the true sense of belonging to rible thing (the Oslo Accords) by a majority in American politics in the stands held by continuing to make Progress Ettinger, who leads an Israeli American the group, the more tools we give them to of a single vote. I am convinced that we are commandment that at least six of the leading Republican can- team in investigating the truth and expos- speak in different, positive terms so that much more unified than they are, regarding links the People of didates for the presidency of the U.S. in ev- ing the lies behind the demographic data questions of this sort will disappear. The the number of people, as well as their quality Israel with its Land. ery matter relating to Israel. In this context The people of the YES ISRAEL initiative that are offered in an attempt to instill a ideology exists and the right people exist and ideas, but in addition to this, what has she mentions not only Mike Huckabee but are also looking ahead. Following the con- discouraged outlook in the Israeli public. as well”. been holding us back all these years is the dif- also Bush, who, were it not for his advisers, solidation of the infrastructure for a new According to her, in other matters as well, ficulty of unifying the people of the Right would have repeated the opinions that he political discourse and the shattering of the centering on the political discourse, the 16 / SOVEREIGNTY / Political Journal Political Journal / SOVEREIGNTY / 17

in the world” (Rav Kook, Midot Hare’iya, Yehuda Kook, To the Paths of Israel, I, pg. being “religious”; we must aspire to achieve text here text here pg. 94). 17). If someone needs to hate foreigners in the greatness of the perfect Israeli, to be “Love of Israel obligates us to love all order to express his sense of identity or to Israelis in the fullest sense of the word. text here text here mankind, and if it promotes hatred toward sustain his Israeli nationalism – whether he “To love every man” is, perhaps, difficult, text here text here any part of humanity it means that we be religious or secular – “it is an indica- but the ability to honor him at least, even text here text here have not yet purified the corruption from tion that his soul has not been purified of if he is an Arab who lives near us and is our soul” (Rav Kook, Orot, pg. 149). If its corruption”; it is a sign that his love of hostile to us for the time being, this love text here text here one’s Israeli nationalism causes him to hate Israel is distorted. is a necessary condition of our Israeli-ness. text here text here someone, regardless of whom, it means The Arabs are our enemies; we fight As people who are commanded to honor that he does not understand the existential with them over the Land of Israel. This every person, whoever he is, we are com- text here text here Faith depth of Israeli nationhood. war must be waged with strength, hero- manded also to recognize his quality and text here text here Human dignity and human rights, ically, aggressively, resolutely, with full to believe in him: The Arab will respect us text here text here which every person deserves, including our confidence in the justice of our cause, with – and accept our sovereignty – if we will Arab neighbors, and even those who live dedication and with complete faith. Not be honorable, if we are a sort of “Israel in text here text here in our land (on condition that he accepts out of contempt for the enemy (in every whom I will display My splendor” (Isaiah our sovereignty over it and does not rebel sense) and not out of hatred. Hatred is a 49:3), if we realize our Israeli character in with Humanism against it), are not primarily required by weakness that comes from not being able its complete form. the Arabs. We owe it primarily to ourselves. to build devotion to Israeli nationalism on We owe it to the Master of the universe. its positive content. If dishonor or hatred toward the Arabs Our ability to rule the population that should appear within us, it does not come exists in our land – which, it seems, is our Moti Karpel from a desire to cling to the Land of Israel, lot, whether we want it or not – depends to Israeli nationhood, its Torah or any oth- on our ability to truly respect them. And er of its ideals, but the contrary – it comes this ability depends on our return to the from abandoning them. Our clinging to idea of “You have chosen us” and to an au- Although it may seem para- Samaria the day after the Six Day War. If social disparity causes him to search for thentic Israeli ethical quality. doxical, the root of the problem we had just done that, if we had only had a better socio-economic course – usually that bothers the fair-minded the resolve to do so, the Arab residents somewhere in the range between capital- You are Called Man Israeli Left so much is specifi- would have accepted it naturally, and ism and socialism – it is the same with the The root of the cally in repudiating the concept would have acquiesced to our possession of matter that we are addressing now. The The complete Israeli vision is not con- problem is indeed of “You have chosen us”. Our the land. But the problems of identity and radical, post-Zionist Israeli Left suggests fined to creating a “religious” person; our complex relations with the Ar- foreign ideology that “we imported” with a “state of all its citizens”. The Israeli Left If someone needs objective is to define the Israeli person, Israeli society’s abs, is a symptom and a result of forgetting our return from the diaspora, prevented us that is still Zionist still suggests partition to hate foreigners in the original sense of the term. Him of failure to apply ourselves. Our return to ourselves, to our from doing this. The “vacuum” that was and the establishment of a “Palestinian in order to whom it is said “Israel whom I will exalt” sovereignty of the identity and our historical Israeli culture – created – the vague, temporary and un- state”. It is certain that only with full po- and “you are called man”; that which re- to the awareness of “You have chosen us” stable situation of “not swallowing and not litical self-determination will you be able express his sense ceives kingship from the heavens, truly, State of Israel in the – is a necessary condition in order to re- spitting out” – had to become filled with to create a situation where the Arab would of identity or to magnanimously. The Israeli ideal that we territories of Judea pair the situation, and it includes both the pretenses of a “Palestinian nationalism” have full human rights and be treated in a sustain his Israeli are trying to realize – whether we know it obligation to assert our possession of the and aspirations that were antithetical to an humane, proper and appropriate manner. or not – is to create an exemplary, moral and Samaria the day entire Land as well as the return to under- independent state - led to rebellion against On the Right there are those who suggest nationalism it is society that actually values its life, its very after the Six Day standing our role among the nations, from us and caused an inevitable and unneces- exiling the Arabs, thus solving the problem a sign that his existence, and is an affirmation of life. War. If we had just which will come an understanding of our sary frustration and suffering for both sides. altogether. Others suggest applying Israeli If someone is not connected to the tradi- relationship to every person, whoever he is. In this sense, the “Palestinians” are victims sovereignty over all territories of Judea and love of Israel is tion of Israel, or does not live its ideals, he done that, the Arab “Instead of dealing with who we are and of our own confusion about our identity. Samaria while granting full citizenship to distorted cannot believe “that there is such an ani- residents would what we want from ourselves, we are busy But even if the conquest of ’67 was re- the Arab residents, or instead, a status of mal”. He also cannot imagine a situation have accepted it with the bloody and painful matter of our ally a liberation – as we believe – it still “permanent residency”. In any case, these in which the Arabs of Judea and Samaria relations with the Palestinians”, said the obligates Israeli society to exhibit an ex- are attempts to find a political, technical, would accept our sovereignty willingly and naturally, and would author Haim Be’er in an interview for the emplary level of morality and uncommon formalized, bureaucratic solution. acquiesce to it. But that is not what the have acquiesced to Shabbat section of Makor Rishon (June 13, magnanimity. Only the demonstration of But according to authentic Israeli tra- sages thought (Mishpatim Raba, parasha 2014). “I also feel terrible about our atti- these traits could have created a resonance dition, a political solution by itself is not 32, letter A) and Rav Kook afterward: “If our possession of tude towards others in this battle, which of esteem and true respect toward us on likely to repair the damage and its absence the idea of “a nation like any other nation”, it had not been for the sin of the golden the land. has continued for more than a hundred the part of the Arabs of Judea and Samaria, is not seen as the root of the problem. to secular European nationhood, is the rea- calf, the nations that were living in the years, but the dramatic question is not how which would have been a positive thing Just as the solution for poverty among son for the failure in the relationship. Land of Israel would have accepted Israel we relate to the Palestinian individual… since they would have come to terms with humanity will not come through innova- An integral part of European nationhood and thanked them, because the name of but what we want from ourselves”, he said. the situation and accept our dominion. tive and sophisticated economic methods, is xenophobia; since it has no independent the Almighty was upon them and would If we want to relate to what really both- Needless to say, Israeli society did not rise but through improving man himself – his internal content, it requires foreigners, en- have awakened in them a fear of heaven,

ers the secular, fair-minded Israeli Left to such a level, and as a result, the Arab ideas, his ethics, his persona, his attributes emies, “others”, in order to create national and no sort of war would have been waged, text here – not the provocative, post-Zionist one, population in Judea and Samaria rose up and his nature – it is the same with this solidarity and national “togetherness”. To- and the influence would have come in the who is consumed with self-hatred – then against it. matter that is before us. According to the day, Europe rightly eschews its own na- ways of peace as in the days of the Messiah” the words of Haim Be’er are a good start- authentic Israeli concept, repairing the tional ethos; it recognizes its shallowness (Orot, The War, 4). If the Arabs of Judea and Samaria can ing point. We should listen to him. Technical Solutions flaws in human society depends, first of all, and the disaster that it has brought upon Whoever believes in the Israeli ideal and live with human dignity, sustain them- Israeli society should, perhaps, not feel on the ethical improvement of man. He itself. lives it, knows how sufficient is the essence selves with dignity and be treated properly, “terrible about our attitude toward the Today, twenty years after the Oslo Ac- sees the tendency to search for technical Our nationalism, on the contrary, is an of this wonderful quality of humanity – it will not be achieved through their own text here text here other”, but should at least be bothered by cords and everything that has developed as solutions as an attempt to escape from the ideal that is full of content. It does not need “you are called man” - in order to project independent sovereignty – see what is hap- text here text here the way we relate to the Arab who lives a result, especially after Operation Protec- true challenge. the hatred of foreigners to sustain itself. in its environs the message of spontaneous pening in the new Middle East – and it in Judea and Samaria and who does not tive Edge, when the unrealistic idea of “two On the contrary, it is entirely intended for appreciation and awe for its moral power. does not depend essentially on (only) po- text here text here rebel against us. Even if the Arab popula- states” began to fall from the agenda, the Love toward all of Humanity the improvement of all of humanity. The He also knows with certainty how in the litical solutions. It depends on the inter- text here text here tion that lives in the area is not a distinct question becomes even more acute: How revival of Israeli nationhood in the Land future, it will arouse in the nations of the nal ethical rehabilitation of the Israeli, a text here text here people - and this is what we believe - they can we continue to rule the Arab popula- “The love for humanity must live in ev- of Israel is not a particular national matter earth, an acceptance of our sovereignty, out rehabilitation that will come from recog- still are people. Unfortunately, not all of us tion of Judea and Samaria? ery heart and soul, love for each and every but a necessary phase in the improvement of wholehearted and true willingness. nizing ourselves, from the true, imperative, text here text here relate to them in this way. In the intolerable situation that has person, and love for all the nations, a de- of all of humanity. “Our nationhood is This challenge, of bringing the shape of mature, responsible return to “You have text here text here The root of the problem is indeed Israeli been created, the tendency of the West- sire for their elevation as well as spiritual cosmopolitan-nationhood and the nation- the perfect Israeli form to fruition primar- chosen us” – not the empty, arrogant kind text here text here society’s failure to apply sovereignty of the ern mind is to search for political solu- and material rebirth; and hatred must be hood and the cosmopolitanism are a uni- ily falls to us, “the religious people”. We – through our Torah. We have no problem State of Israel in the territories of Judea and tions to the matter. Just as the matter of directed only toward evil and corruption fication of the greater nation…” (Rav Tzvi cannot continue to be satisfied with just with Arabs, just with ourselves. text here text here text here text here 18 / SOVEREIGNTY / Political Journal Political Journal / SOVEREIGNTY / 19 ‘He who does not know the Land

does not Desire it’ The Almighty had opened the heart Each month, Gen. (Res.) Uzi Dayan takes buses loaded with tourists for of the Land of an introductory trip to the primal scenes of the cradle of the Jewish People’s Israel so that we could build Jewish homeland. ‘Don’t be ignorant. Come out to the field and then you will feel life in it, so that solidarity with it’, he says to his listeners from the Right and Left and explains his we could settle in these areas. philosophy of security regarding Judea and Samaria and the Jordan Valley.

Along with all of his public Europe, Israelis would pay thousands of was camped, where Barak ben Avinoam and that the area will not be based only on and the area, to protect Israel’s security, he we must say each roles, Gen. (res.) Uzi Dayan, shekels for a flight to go and visit it. Here, was, how Mount Zamora got its name and Has the UN done farmers, but also on industry. There must asks, “Where has a multi-national force former deputy chief of staff because of the decision that ‘it is under much, much more. We did not study the anything throughout be somewhere to sleep in this area, a de- ever succeeded? Only in places where there morning a prayer of and current director general of dispute’ people do not come. Come and Bible as a sacred book but we knew what the entire civil war cent hotel, and a place to drink coffee. A is already peace. Has the UN done any- thanks for not having the Israeli Lottery, spends time See. Afterward decide what your opinion was in it. hotel at the site of Kasr al Yehud would thing throughout the entire civil war that been tempted with the guiding tours in the cradle of is, but come”. I tell the public that they don’t need that began in Syria? In bring more than a million visitors per year. began in Syria? In Sinai there is a multi-na- the Jewish People’s homeland. Historical Dayan makes a connection between to be anthropologists specializing in the Sinai there is a multi- There is already a suitable infrastructure tional force with Marines; have they fought “genius” idea of giving locations in Judea and Samaria and the the Cave of the Patriarchs and the Temple Land of Israel. Come and get an impres- national force with there. Ma’ale Efraim must be enlarged so with even one terrorist? This is not the role up the Golan Heights Jordan Valley, as well as meetings with the Mount, where he also brings tourists, of- sion of the area and then formulate your that it takes on the dimensions of Ariel. of these forces. Just as we do not want our through Erdogan’s Why, if the Cave of the residents, attract hundreds of participants ficial guests from abroad. He finds it dif- opinion. Very many years ago there was an Marines; have they Recently we held a meeting on this subject sons to fight foreign wars in Africa or any in each of Dayan’s tours. ficult to understand how the People of argument among HaShomer Hazair (the fought with even one with Shlomo Lalaush from Ma’ale Efraim, other place in the world, we don’t need and “fair” arbitration. Patriarchs was in Europe, “The sense of belonging begins in the Israel are satisfied with a visit to the exter- Young Guard). Hazan, one of the leaders David Elhiani, head of the Jordan Valley don’t want to ask foreigners to fight our Israelis would pay people’s hearts, and when people are not nal supporting wall of the Temple Mount of the movement, told the young people terrorist? Council and Rav Eli Sadan”. familiar with their land they do not feel and do not visit the upper compound. there ‘We wanted to bring up a generation Dayan is aware that his statements re- thousands of shekels connected to it”, he says, explaining the “The story is the Temple and the Temple of apikursim (heretics) and we brought up garding the necessity to leave the Jordan for a flight to go and principle that guides him as he leads the Mount, and we bring visitors and school a generation of amaratzim (people lack- Valley under Israeli sovereignty leads to visit it. Here, because tours. “The word ‘lada’at,’ ‘to know’, has a children to the wall whose function was to ing Torah knowledge)’. They weren’t even lose its importance. The distance between many obvious and complex political and broad range of interpretation in Judaism, support the enormous blocks that Herod insulted because they did not understand the Jordan Valley and the Mediterranean diplomatic conclusions, but he focuses of the decision that ‘it from ‘to understand’ to intimate relations set up in order to build the Temple upon what apikursim were or what amaratzim Sea is 40 miles. This is undoubtedly the on the level of principles, as he defines it. is under dispute’ people between a man and his wife. This is how it. Does it make sense that instead of go- were. There can be discussions and there very minimum needed to maintain secu- Dayan rejects the proponents of the vari- do not come. Come and it is as well, when speaking of the Land. If ing up we are satisfied with the support- can be disagreements, but not to know is rity. The second reason is our obligation ous peace agreements. Only a negligible you do not know your land, your connec- ing wall, even with all of its importance? catastrophic”. to defend the eastern front. For years, they minority believes and entertains the idea See. Afterward decide tion with it is very weak”. Should we be satisfied only with that wall told us that there is no eastern front but of the Saudi Initiative, he says, and adds: what your opinion is, but that they allowed us to approach, when No foreign soldier will fight today it is clear to everyone that nothing “Nobody thinks that the Palestinian-Israeli It is not logical for the state they did not allow the Jews to come any for us is clear regarding what we can expect to conflict is the heart of the Middle East’s come”. not to bring its important closer throughout the generations? In the occur in Jordan and Iraq”. problems anymore. It must also be said to visitors to the Temple Mount Cave of the Patriarchs they found a solu- A significant number of Dayan’s tours “More than this”, Dayan adds, “we can- anyone who talks about the Arab Initia- tion to Jewish prayer, but in the Temple pass through the Jordan Valley. He relates not fight terror without having control tive that it is not at all clear which Arab In each tour, Dayan sees from ten to Mount they did not find a solution that to the security importance of the holdings over the envelope and the Valley allows for countries are suggesting the idea. Why, all twenty percent of new faces. The popula- would allow members of other faiths to in the Jordan Valley by virtue of his po- this control, which will allow us fight ter- of the Arab countries are falling apart… tion, he explains, comes from throughout pray, especially Jews? So there are certain sition as former deputy chief of staff and ror effectively”. But even the few who do think so must the Land, some in groups and some as in- rabbis who do not allow Jews to go up to notes that this matter, contrary to what Also with these words, which focus on understand that from the security point of dividuals. When he brings tourists to the the Temple Mount and I respect that, but people think, is very simple and its main security aspects, he takes care to stress the view, in order to have a defensible border, Cave of the Patriarchs in Hevron, Dayan the state does not take its most important importance is to maintain defensible bor- importance of Israel’s borders based both it must be on the Jordan River. Anyone passes between the buses and throws out guests to the place? It is not logical to me ders for the State of Israel, and this, he ex- on nationalism and faith as the more sig- who insists on denying this statement is wars, especially when it is clear that they It must also be said the question ‘who has never been to Hev- that they exclude this place”. plains, can only be attained on the border nificant and important basis for the obliga- actually talking about the formula that has also do not want to do it. Why, they are ron?’… “Most times, he explains, about of the Jordan River. tion to hold on to the Jordan Valley. Day- failed in every case, the formula of land the first force that disappears and flees the to anyone who talks sixty percent raise their hands. They have It is possible to talk with “In the North, we have a reasonable an emphasizes the obligation of settling for peace, meaning that an agreement will first moment a problem arises, and I un- about the Arab never been to Hevron and this surprises apostates. With ignorant border, and we must say each morning the Valley as a leading national principle. lead to peace, but this has not happened in derstand this”. “Israel’s most important se- Initiative that it is me, but then I ask them ‘who has never people there is nothing to a prayer of thanks for not having been There are only five thousand Jews in this any place in the Middle East”, he says and curity asset is defensible borders, especially been to Manhattan?’ and here, there has talk about tempted with the “genius” idea of giving area as of today, he notes. “At this time recommends that we not point out the Si- during this present period of uncertainty”. not at all clear which never been a tour where there were more up the Golan Heights through Erdogan’s there is less than two thirds of the popula- nai precedent because “Sinai has remained And Dayan concludes, commending to us Arab countries are than ten participants who raised their Dayan speaks almost longingly about his “fair” arbitration. In the South, we have a tion that there was in Gush Katif living in demilitarized and this demilitarization is words that he heard from his grandmother hand. Here, in front of you, is the oldest days as a boy in Emek Yizrael, where, he reasonable border because Sinai is a de- the Valley. Therefore, as of today, a decade what is responsible for keeping the peace. – ‘Don’t rely on the words of experts. Re- suggesting the idea. building in the world that still fulfills its says, studies were conducted in the field militarized zone, and in the East we have after that national disaster that we brought Here, there is nothing to demilitarize”. member that Noah’s ark was built by an Why, all of the Arab original function and people don’t come with Bible in hand. For us, the Bible was the Jordan Valley. We need strategic depth upon ourselves, the disaster of the expul- Of those who rely on a multi-national amateur and the Titanic was built by ex- countries are falling to it. It is not connected to a political view. both history and our deed of ownership and even with all of the technological and sion from Gush Katif, we must take care force and technological means that would perts…’ text here Why, if the Cave of the Patriarchs was in to the land. We know where Sisra’s army rocket sophistication, territory does not that there will be ten times as many people, be scattered throughout the Jordan Valley apart מודעה