Ali Ataie – What is Religious Zionism
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The speakers discuss the importance of understanding the Bible and its implications for modern day events, as well as the history of settler colonialism and its formation of a independent Jewish state. They criticize the use of "rist" in the new century Christian world and the confusion surrounding it. They also discuss the history of the Bible's use of "will" to describe actions of Muslims, including its use as a excuse for war and political parties. The history of the Bible's use of the word "will" to describe actions of Muslims, as well as its use in political language and its potential consequences are emphasized. The speakers emphasize the importance of learning from one's enemy and acceptance of one's own language.
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Today, I'm looking at the topic of religious
Zionism.
So in my view, it's very important for
us as Muslims to have a more comprehensive
theological
understanding
of what is happening,
vis a vis Palestine.
And when I say a more comprehensive theological,
understanding, I mean from an Islamic standpoint,
a Jewish standpoint,
and a Christian standpoint.
It's time for us to, expand our knowledge
base. Knowledge is power.
In my opinion,
we will not truly understand what's happening
in Palestine right now unless we sharpen
our understandings
of Jewish and Christian theology.
So this is just a fact.
Let
me move my slides here.
But first and foremost, we need to consider
this calamity,
this Museeba, within the framework of the Quran
and Sunnah.
If we're Muslims,
nothing should take precedence over the Quran and
Sunnah.
I shouldn't even have to say that.
Nothing should take precedence over the Quran and
Sunnah. Not Foucault, not Marx, not Mao,
not, liberalism, not nationalism,
not communism, and certainly not some critical theory
or postmodern philosophy.
Allah
commands us
that if we should disagree
about anything
to refer it back to him and his
messenger.
If we believe in Allah in the last
day,
That is the best and most beautiful resolution.
When we as professed Muslims put anything
before Allah and his Messenger, this is when
the fitna happens.
This is when fitna happens. Giving precedence
and priority to anything
over Allah and his messenger
is displeasing to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and
this is when fitna happens. This is the
sunnah of Allah with the believers.
And Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala he says in
the Quran,
And protect yourselves against a fitna
which does not exclusively befall those,
who did injustice
among you
and know that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is
severe in punishment.
So this is the nature of this world,
injustice and oppression,
committed by certain individuals or groups or governments
can lead to the suffering of the masses.
The innocent like the people of Gaza,
they are innocent.
Now what about walataziruwaziratunwuzra'
Uhhra?
And no bearer of burdens bears the burden
of another.
Yes,
According to our teachers, this statement is referring
to the akhirah.
In this world, we suffer the consequences of
our sins.
Sorry. We suffer the consequences of the sins
of those who came
before us. This happens all the time. This
is happening now.
If I, you know, commit murder, na'udhubillah,
and I go to prison
my wife and kids will suffer due to
my sin.
They are innocent of my sin
as far as spiritual accountability
is concerned
but their lives in this dunya will be
turned upside down
because they will inherit the consequences
of my sin.
They will inherit the consequences
of my bad decision.
That's on me, not them. But in this
world, they will suffer.
If political leadership or people in positions of
power or influence or even just individuals make
bad decisions,
innocent people could end up suffering and dying.
This is simply what happens in the dunya.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala warns us in the
Quran,
Believers should not take disbelievers as allies
instead of the believers,
And whoever does so has nothing to do
with
unless it is a precaution of some sort
against their tyranny.
And Allah warns you
about himself.
And Allah warns you about himself.
And to Allah is the final return.
How much have the Palestinians
suffered for the injustices
committed by others?
How much have the people of Gaza in
particular suffered for the injustices committed by others?
They inherited the consequences
of these sinful actions,
the disobedient actions
of non Muslims
and other Muslims.
But here's the reality,
the haqqiqah
in Allaha ida ahabbaqauman
iptalahum.
When Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala loves the people,
he tests them.
This is amazing. The disobedience
of some people
leads to difficult conditions in the world,
okay, through which Allah will demonstrate his love
for another people.
The disobedience of some people
leads to difficult conditions
in the world
through which
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala will demonstrate his love
for other people. Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
is always in charge.
A Man came to the prophet
and said, oh, messenger of God,
which of the people is tried most severely?
Khul al Anbiya, he said the prophets.
The, the prophets, then those nearest to them,
then those nearest to them.
106 years of oppression, 106 years of trials
and tribulations,
that tells me that the Palestinian people are
beloved to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Maybe I'm wrong,
but it seems to me that Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala is giving them the prophetic
treatment that Allah is raising their ranks in
his sight,
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is purifying their souls
in this world, and Insha'Allah they'll have great
stations, high stations,
and the akhirah.
How many non Muslims have we heard of
recently who have been absolutely
smitten and floored,
flabbergasted
by the faith of the Palestinian people?
Also, Muslims have been floored. How many people
have fallen in love with the Palestinian people?
How many people have the Palestinians inspired
to read the Quran?
People are converting to Islam
by seeing the responses of the people of
Gaza
to their tribulations.
They cannot believe what they are seeing, a
man holding his dead little girl in his
arms
saying, Alhamdulillah,
this is the Qadr of Allah.
A woman walking around with blood on her
hands saying, I've lost my children,
La ilaha illallah, Muhammadu Rasool Allah.
Oh, Allah accept them in your presence.
A father
telling his weeping surviving son, they're with Allah.
Am I wrong? They're with Allah, referring to
the rest of his murdered family.
An absolutely overwhelmed hospital staff
taking a short break and reciting salawat upon
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam. A 13 year
old girl trapped under rubble with her parents
and siblings
and asking her rescuers to help them first.
Help my parents and my siblings, she says,
then me.
A 13 year old girl. That's a 13
year old girl. What's a 13 year old
doing in this society?
A little boy, he looked like he was
8 years old, who said that when he
was trapped under the rubble in the darkness
he turned and he saw an angel,
and then turned his face and saw his
rescuers.
I believe
him. Did you hear about this one? This
happened in America.
Some privileged Zionist
college student at Yale University
took to social media.
Do you know why?
The university cafeteria at Yale
removed the word Israeli
from the menu item Israeli couscous.
She was outraged.
What a victim.
Meanwhile in Gaza, doctors in besieged hospitals are
forced to amputate
the limbs of crushed the crushed limbs of
children
without anesthesia.
There was a young boy in Gaza, maybe
10 years old, who was getting his head
stitched up by a doctor. There's a gash
in his head,
maybe 10 years old.
Do you know what he did to suppress
the pain?
He started reciting the Quran.
So this is what we read about in
books,
the stories of the salihin, the stories of
the auliya.
What causes fitna?
Disobedience and disunity.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala demands from us unity.
We're
always asking
when will our conditions
change?
It'll change when we actualize
this verse and take it to heart when
Allah, his Messenger,
and the believers become our only ally. Notice
here wali is in the singular, inna'ma wali
yukumullah.
War Rasuluhu waladhinaamanu.
Singular, to emphasize a unity of purpose, a
unity of conviction.
We will come out of this quagmire only
when our only source of hope
is Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. When we turn
exclusively to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, when we
make Tawba and turn back to the Quran
and Sunnah,
Allah
says,
hold on all of you to the rope
of Allah, which according to the hadith is
the Quran, all of you. And
do not be divided.
And remember the blessing of God upon you
when you were enemies
and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala united your hearts
and you became by means of his niyama
brethren.
And the 'urama mentioned here, the niyama
mentioned here is a reference to the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. By means of the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
you became brethren. So what do we gather
from this ayah?
Adherence to Quran and Sunnah
leads to Ta'alif of the Quluob.
Adherence to Quran and Sunnah leads to unification
of the hearts
and akhawiya binaal mumineen
and brotherhood and sisterhood among the believers, and
then a change in our external conditions
will come.
Our 'izzah is through Islam, nothing else. Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala will not accept anything else
from us.
You think because you were born into a
Muslim family you can just stroll into Jannah,
slide into Jannah on skates.
No. You have to work. You have to
prioritize.
As individual Muslims, we look first to the
state of our own hearts. Our own actions
should concern us a lot more than the
actions of others. We need to ask ourselves
how is our prayer?
Are we praying 5 times a day at
the proper times? Bein al kufri waliman turqus
salah.
The difference between faith and kufr is leaving
the prayer.
One of my teachers said that non praying
Muslims are low hanging fruit
for the Dajjal, the imposter messiah. Who's coming?
We'll see here.
How's our prayer? How's our zakat? How's our
income?
Is it halal? How are we treating people?
Are we physically, verbally,
emotionally, psychologically abusing people?
Are we doing that to our own families?
Are we protecting our tongues, our eyes, our
ears?
Do we attack other Muslims or even Muslim
scholars that we don't see eye to eye
with? Do we have hubul mal, hubulja,
hubul shura,
right, love of of wealth,
love of station or rank,
love of fame?
We have to be honest with ourselves.
Allah
He does not change
the condition of a people until they change
what is within themselves.
And if and if Allah wants some evil
for a people,
there is no turning it back and apart
from him they have no guardian.
This is the Qur'anic perspective
and it is tough on the nafs.
It is tough on the nafs.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala demands so much more
from us. Allah commands a high standard for
us. Inna Allahha katbal ihsaan arakulishay.
Allah demands from us excellence
in all things.
Jannah takes struggle.
Okay so with that said,
what is Zionism? So broadly speaking Zionism is
a modern secular nationalistic movement aimed at reestablishing
a Jewish homeland. It is a movement
to create a Jewish ethno state.
It was born in Europe. European antisemitism
gave birth to Zionism.
So historically
the Jews had a very difficult time in
Christian dominated countries in Europe.
This is just a fact. This is this
is not a controversial statement.
There were pogroms, exiles,
massacres,
blood libels. The plague was blamed on them
at one point.
All of this culminated in the, so called
final solution
to the Jewish problem, the Holocaust, which is
a Greek word meaning a whole burnt offering.
In Hebrew, it's called Hashoah.
The Jewish experience in the Muslim world, however,
was very different historically.
Muslim Spain, Muslim North Africa,
Muslim Palestine,
Generally there was peace, prosperity,
tolerance, brotherhood, trust, not to mention incredible scholarship,
Jewish systematic theology was born in Muslim lands.
Maimonides wrote in Judeo Arabic. His magnum opus
called Dalalatul Hayilin, he wrote in Judeo Arabic,
the Guide for the Perplexed. This is studied
at Al Azhar University.
Sadia Gayon wrote his masterpiece,
the book of beliefs and opinions in Judeo
Arabic. That's Arabic with Hebrew letters. And 135
of the Common Era, in the wake of
the failed Bar Kokhba rebellion,
this is one of these pseudo messianic movements,
the Roman Emperor Hadrian
expelled the Jews from Jerusalem
and renamed the city Aelia Capitolina after his
clan Aelius and his god Jupiter Capitolinus.
The Jews were not permitted to return and
live in the city until the Muslims reopened
that door for them in the 7th century,
the Khalifa Rashidun.
The Muslims called, that city Al Quds al
Sharif,
essentially the holy land. The Quran calls Palestine
literally Al Ardu, Al Ardu Muqaddesa,
the holy land.
The so called father of, Zionism,
Theodore Herzl,
was an ethnically Jewish atheist. I always point
out the irony here, right, that Theodore means
gift of God, and he was an atheist.
Of course he wrote the famous,
treatise Der Judenstaat, the Jewish State in 18/96.
According to Herzl, Jewish assimilation in Christian dominated
Europe was not possible,
just not possible. Jews needed a state of
their own. And so Herzl was seriously considering
Argentina
as being the,
Jewish homeland.
So Herzl, being a, or being the secular
atheist that he was, did not have this
romantic attachment to Palestine.
Uganda was also floating around as a Jewish
homeland or Jewish national state nation state.
Herzl convened the 1st Zionist Congress in 18/97
in Basel, Switzerland.
Now the vast majority of religious Jews before
World War 2
were vehemently anti Zionist.
In the early 19 twenties Rabbi Joseph Chaim
Sonnenfeld
founded an organization in Jerusalem called the Eida
Charedit.
Eida Charedit,
the congregation of the God fearers.
So the Haredim or Haredi Jews
are often referred to as the ultra orthodox
or the strictly orthodox.
I call them the traditional orthodox,
the traditional orthodox. The word Haredi,
comes from the Tanakh, the book of Isaiah,
when God describes the righteous man he says,
Hared al Devari,
the one who trembles at my word.
A Christian group called the Society of Friends
are also called the Quakers for the same
reason. They quake, they tremble
when they hear the word of God.
This actually reminds me of the Qur'anic description
of the righteous, what Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
says, taqshah
eru minhu jurudal ladheyna yakshoonarabuhum.
The skins of those
who fear the Lord tremble
from it, from the Quran, when they hear
the Quran.
Okay, so Sonnenfeld became the chief rabbi of
the Eide Haredit, the Congregation of the God
Feers, the Congregation of the Tremblers
in Jerusalem in the very late 19th century.
This is what Rabbi Sonnenfeld had to say
about Zionism
and Theodore Herzl in 18/98,
1 year after the First Zionist Congress.
With regards to the Zion with regards to
the Zionists, what am I to say? What
am I to speak?
There is a great dismay also here, also
in the Holy Land, that these evil men
who deny the unique one of the world
and his holy Torah have proclaimed with so
much publicity that it is in their power
to hasten redemption for the people of Israel
and gather to disperse from all the ends
of the earth.
They've also asserted their view
that the whole difference in distinction between Israel
and the nations lies in national blood, and
race,
and that the faith and the religion are
superfluous.
Doctor Hertzel comes not from the Lord,
but from the side of pollution.
And here's just 2 very different men.
On the left
you have Rabbi Sonnenfeld,
the founder of the Edoch Haradit,
anti Zionist
rabbi,
a just man.
And on the right you have the father
of Zionism, Theodor Herzl,
ethnically Jewish atheist.
Okay.
And
Sonnenfeld's,
comments was indicative of the general sentiment of
religious Jews at that time. So the first
major problem with Zionism from a traditional orthodox
perspective
is that it changes the very essence of
what it means to be a Jew. So
before Zionism the essence of Jewishness was Torah
observance,
which of course was rooted in the fear
of the Lord. There's a famous verse in
Proverbs
chapter 9 verse 10 where it says, tachilah
hokmah
ri'at Adonai. The the fear of the Lord
is the beginning of wisdom.
Right? I mean, this was the the essence,
the Johar of being a Jew.
The revered medieval
scholar, sage, theologian, and exeget
Rav Sadiya Gaion, he famously said,
Our nation is not a nation except in
its Torahs.
So he was referring to the written Torah,
the Tanakh or Hebrew Bible, Christians call it
the Old Testament,
and the oral Torah, the Talmud,
which is Mishnah and Gemara, I. E. The
tradition,
the Torah and its tradition.
So these 2 are called Torah Min Hashimayim,
the instruction from heaven.
Now obviously as Muslims we don't agree with
much of what is written in the Torah
and the Talmud,
but that is not the point.
We want people to be Muslim obviously,
first and foremost,
but if they're not going to become Muslim
then we should encourage faith communities to at
least adhere
to their long standing
tradition.
These traditions
are tried and tested.
They represent the sum of the contributions
of 1,000 upon 1,000
of brilliant minds.
If you are Jewish,
Zionism is indefensible
according to your long standing tradition.
So according to Rav Saadia Gaion, according to
the statement,
it is only a common faith
that unites the Jews,
Not a common language, not a common culture,
not a common land,
but a common religion,
okay, which is called Judaism.
And at the heart of Judaism
is the Torah and its tradition.
So forsake religion
and you forsake the essence of Jewishness.
Secular Zionism throws the Torah and its tradition
in the garbage
and redefines
a Jew purely along racial lines.
The rabbis point out that the word Jew
in Hebrew, Yehudah,
contains the four letters of the Shem HaMeforash,
the sacred name of God, Yod Hey Vav
Hey. Thus the Yehudim are supposed to be
the people of God,
the people of Hashem.
Zionism as a settler colonial
project was founded by atheists.
I think it was
Ilan Poppe,
the famous Israeli historian,
who once quipped,
very funny,
most
Zionists don't believe
that God exists,
but they do believe that he promised them
Palestine.
So for the Zionists,
the essence of Jewishness
was
Jewish ethnicity,
the Jewish race.
For the Zionists religion was more,
cultural,
not essential.
The law of return in Israel to this
day demonstrates this. If you are an atheist
but Jewish by race you can make Aliyah,
you can immigrate
to Israel,
you can immigrate to Israel as an atheist.
Sam Harris or Bill Maher, if they wanted
to, they can make Aliyah to Israel.
It's race over devotion.
But even here they contradict themselves.
Let's say that both of your parents are
descendants of Aaron,
in other words you're 100% Jewish, a Levite,
a descendant of Kohanim,
but you converted to Islam.
You are not allowed to make Aliyah.
So they want ethnic Jews but not all
ethnic Jews.
Now
after Rabbi Sonnenfeld's death in 1932,
Rabbi Yosef Dushinsky became the chief rabbi of
the Eidek Haredit in Jerusalem.
In
1947, Dushinsky wrote to the newly formed United
Nations and famously said, quote, we express our
definite opposition
to a Jewish state in any part of
Palestine.
So here on the left you have Rabbi
Dushinsky,
and on the right you have very famous
Rav Sadia Gaion.
The Torah is central
to Jewish identity.
Essence
of Judaism
is the fear of the Lord.
Now another very influential Orthodox rabbi
was named Abraham Isaac Kook,
k o o k,
and he was living in Palestine in the
20th century. Kook was one of the major
founders of something called religious Zionism.
This is an actual term. In Hebrew, it's
known as Tzionot Datit.
The followers of religious Zionism are called Dati
Lo'umi,
the national religious.
Okay. The so called national religious
see no contradiction between Zionism
and Orthodox Judaism.
Rabbi Kook in 1920 was declared chief rabbi
of all Palestine during British mandate.
He was the first Ashkenazi
chief rabbi of all of Palestine under British
mandate.
The Charedim
they considered Kook's rabbinate to be
a farce,
fraudulent,
not to mention highly blasphemous for reasons I'll
explain shortly.
Kook founded the famous Merkas Harav in 1924,
the so called universal yeshiva, yeshiva means seminary,
the universal Jewish seminary.
The Merkas Harav became and still is the
most famous pro Zionist
Orthodox yeshiva in the world.
According to their own official website they describe
themselves with the following words:
the mother of zionistic yeshivot,
the very first Zionist Yeshiva,
and the flagship for Datil Umi, the national
religious community.
So they're very proud of themselves.
KUK saw Zionism
as a way, a means,
or we might say a stepping stone
by which God was going to bring about
the Jewish redemption under the Messiah.
Kook's son, Yehuda Kook, presided over the Merkasarov
for 6 decades until his death in 1982.
At the Merkas, thousands of Jews have been
indoctrinated into Kukian Zionism.
So according to Kukian
Zionism, the State of Israel will eventually bring
about the emergence of the Messiah.
The State of Israel constitutes
what's known as the
the beginning of the redemption.
This is how they justified
Israel's legitimacy.
So the nationalist,
secular,
divisive,
ethnic cleansing,
and highly
irreligious state of Israel
is preparing the way for the Messiah.
This is the claim now.
According to Kook, God promised the Holy Land
to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,
so it is the duty of the descendants
of these three men to initiate a return
to the Holy Land, to seize the Holy
Land, to and implement the various mitzvot,
commandments,
that are particular to the Holy Land. And
we'll talk about these mitzvot.
And then, eventually, Moshiach HaMelech ben David, the
the King Messiah, son of David,
will come and rule the world from Jerusalem.
Now after World War 2,
after the Holocaust in particular,
many Orthodox rabbis in Europe began changing their
minds about the Zionist
movement. There was a major shift.
They now started considering the Zionist project, they
started
considering religious Zionism
in light of the holocaust.
And unlike Herzl and other secular Zionists, European
rabbis did have a strong emotional attachment
to Palestine
and so Zionist ideas were eventually appropriated
by the Orthodox community
and given a religiously sanctioned makeover
like what Kuk did. They took lessons from
him.
So to put it bluntly,
Zionism is a hijacking
of Orthodox Judaism.
From the traditional Orthodox sorry, for the traditional
Orthodox,
this was enormously
blasphemous at best
and rank apostasy at worst, and I'll tell
you why in a minute. But here is
on the left Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, the
founder of the National Religious
in Palestine,
and the so called chief rabbi of Palestine.
And on the right, you have
a photograph from the inside of his Merkas
harav.
Today there are 3 major divisions of western
Jews,
okay, European and North American Jewry,
Reform, Conservative
and Modern Orthodox.
And Modern Orthodox is also called Neo Orthodox.
So Modern Orthodoxy is not the same as
traditional Orthodoxy,
there are some differences.
Modern orthodoxy
tries to harmonize
sacred knowledge
with secular knowledge.
This is also called Torah Umaddah.
The Haredi, the traditional orthodox, the Haredim find
this problematic.
Rabbi Samson Hirsch, who died in 18/88,
was one of the main influencers of modern
orthodoxy,
he was the founder of what's known as
the Torah Imdelech Eretz movement,
Torah with the way of the land. Rabbi,
Dovid Weisz, one of the anti Zionist
rabbis of Datura Carta,
he said that Modern Orthodoxy is quote a
euphemism
for compromised
Judaism.
In terms of Zionism, Modern Orthodox Jews tend
to be very devoted and zealous Zionists
whereas traditional Orthodox tend to be either non
Zionist or anti Zionist.
And one of the major influencers of the
worldview of modern Orthodox Jews was none other
than Abraham Isaac Kook.
Now I said earlier that the vast majority
of religious Jews before World War 2
were vehemently anti Zionist. Why were they anti
Zionist?
One major reason as I stated was because
Zionism as conceived of by Herzl shifted the
focus of Jewish identity
from one of religion to ethnicity,
right, we said that.
Another reason
was more theological in nature.
So
before the blasphemy
of religious Jewish Zionism,
for 100 and 100 and 100 of years,
almost 2000 years,
Jews the world over believed
based upon explicit texts in the Tanakh, the
Hebrew Bible, the Old Testament,
that their exile from the Holy Land was
justified.
It was divinely
decreed
due to their disobedience,
Jewish disobedience.
This is the traditional understanding.
In other words the Holy Land,
right, the Promised Land, was given on condition.
So this is extremely important, it was conditional:
Obey God
or else the land will reject you and
God will thrust you out.
This is stated dozens of times in the
Tanakh in various books, Deuteronomy, Jeremiah,
Isaiah,
Ezekiel,
for example,
Jeremiah 16:13, therefore I will cast you out
of this land
and into a land that you do not
know.
Deuteronomy 2863,
you will be uprooted from the land you're
entering to possess.
This is called a waid, a threat.
There are dozens of threats like this from
God in the Tanakh.
Ezekiel 3324-twenty
6, Ezekiel said, then the word of the
Lord came to me saying,
son of man, the people living in those
ruins in the land of Israel are saying
Abraham was only 1 man yet he possessed
the land, but we are many. Surely the
land has been given to us as our
possession.
Therefore say to them,
this is what the Sovereign Lord says,
since you eat meat with the blood still
in it and you look to your idols
and shed blood,
should you then possess the land?
So this is a rhetorical question, 'aretz Tirasu,
should you then possess the land? In other
words because you sinned against God,
God will cause you
to dispossess the land.
It continues,
you rely on your sword,
you do detestable things and each of you
defiles his neighbor's wife. Should you then possess
the land?
So according to traditional Judaism
no one other than God by means of
the Messiah can initiate a return to the
Holy Land.
No one other than God
by means of the Messiah
can re establish a Jewish nation, Kingdom or
homeland.
And the Messiah has yet to come for
the Jews,
they they must wait for the Messiah.
So the Jews are under a 2000 year
divinely mandated
Judaism.
Any attempt to re establish any land through
military means in lieu of the Messiah was
viewed as rebellion
against God. Any land,
even if there's some uninhabited island the size
of a football stadium
in the middle of the Pacific Ocean,
The Jewish people have no right to it
whatsoever according to traditional orthodoxy,
the Hedim,
not these Zionist so called orthodox heretics.
Now the Heredim further cite what's known as
the 3 oaths, the Shado Shavuot.
This is found in the Talmud, it's based
upon a book in the Old Testament called
the Shir Hashirim, the book of, the Song
of Solomon, the Song of Songs also called.
The Cheredim, they charged the national religious
and the Kukian Zionists with breaking these oaths.
The first two oaths relate to the Yehudim,
the Jews,
and the third to the Goyim,
the Gentiles.
So oath number 1, we will not return
en masse to the Holy Land.
In other words Jews cannot make any attempt
to end the exile.
This includes establishing
some temporary Jewish state or kingdom
outside of the Holy Land. The Jews must
continue to live in exile
as long as God wants.
And how do they know when enough is
enough? Well God sends the Messiah.
So remember what Rabbi Yushinski,
what he said to the UN,
we express our definite opposition to a Jewish
state in any part of Palestine.
Oath number 2, we will not rebel against
any nation. In other words Jews must be
loyal citizens of any host nation
if, even if they are oppressing them. The
traditional Orthodox say that if some oppressive Gentile
King is oppressing and humiliating you because you're
Jewish, they say thank God, thank Hashem at
that moment. Thank God that you are being
oppressed
and you are not the oppressor.
Number 3, the nations will not oppress the
Jews excessively.
In other words, they will never it'll never
be too much to handle.
It'll never justify a premature man initiated
ending of exile
and return to the Holy Land.
Nothing justifies ending the exile
without Moshiach,
without the Messiah.
The famous Satmar rabbi Yoel Teitelbaum, the founder
of the highly anti Zionist
Satmar Hasidic dynasty,
he said that the Holocaust was divine punishment
for violating the 3 oaths.
It was God's punishment upon European Jewry for
Zionism. That's his opinion
because violating the 3 oaths is no joke,
according to the rabbi.
According to the Quran, when the Sahaba suffered
a calamity in Museeba at Uhud,
some of them said, Anahada,
how could this be?
Where is this coming from?
What is the answer?
This is from your own selves.
This is Allah's response, that is to say
because of your disobedience. These were Sahaba, the
best generation.
They're much better people than us, Khaydunasqarni.
Now don't get the wrong idea. Obviously,
this does not absolve or exonerate
the mushrikeen
for what they were doing to the Muslims.
No, they were wrongdoers
and oppressors
and persecutors. There's no doubt, this is without
question. But Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala first and
foremost
reproaches the Muslims
for their disobedience.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala sets a high bar
for us.
A kafir will act like a kafir,
but a Muslim
is held at a higher level.
And then the ayah ends by saying, Inal
Allahha Akkulli Shein Qadirimasu'ut, he said surely God
has power over everything including the the giving
of assistance and the withholding of it, and
he punished you for disobeying the direct command
of the prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi sallam.
And notice there were Sahaba who were killed
by the mushrikeen,
okay, who did not obey, who did not
disobey the prophet sallallahu alaihi sallam.
The actions of a few can affect many.
So this is not some repackaged original sin
doctrine.
No.
I'm referring to the consequences
of sin.
You know what's interesting? We find commensurate ideas
in traditional Jewish theology.
This is the sunnah of Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala
with the believers throughout history. Falan tajida
li sunnatillahi
tabdila
And you will not find a change in
the sunnah of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. One
of the most famous anti Zionist rabbis
was named Rabbi Israel
Mayor Kagan.
He was a great holocaust, a jurist. He
died in 1933.
This is what he said,
quote, the Zionists are the dead limbs of
our people which cause the entire body to
rot.
You get that?
The Zionists are the dead limbs of our
people
which cause the entire body to rot. In
other words the Zionists are making trouble
for all of us,
Their fitna is affecting all of us.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala tells us in the
Quran that he warned Bani Israel
not to cause corruption, fasad, in the earth.
And then when they did, Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala says to them baathna alaykum ibadanlana
ulibatsin Shadid.
We sent against you our slaves of great
might, the Babylonians.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala calls the Babylonians his
slaves. Ultimately, everyone and everything
is a slave to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
willingly or unwillingly.
There are good slaves and bad slaves. There
are obedient slaves and disobedient slaves.
There is nothing in the heavens and the
earth except that it approaches
Allah as a servant, a slave.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala punished Bani Israel.
The Bani Israel was the Muslim Ummah at
that time.
The Babylonians,
a kingdom of pagans of Musharikin, destroyed the
temple, they killed countless believers,
and took 1,000 back to Babylon to be
slaves.
They were in captivity for 70 years. Why?
Ma'aseya,
facade,
disobedience,
corruption.
In the Tanakh,
Jeremiah
tried to warn the Jewish leaders about this
but they did not heed heed him.
Here's something interesting,
Genesis 17/20.
Genesis 17/20 in the Torah, the apparent speaker
is God. This is what God says to
Abraham,
As for Ishmael, I have heard thee behold
I have blessed him and will make him
fruitful and will multiply him exceedingly.
Twelve princes shall he beget
and I will make him a great nation.
Okay. So the very famous Spanish rabbi and
Torah commentator named Bahia ben Asher,
Okay. Jewish commentator.
This is what he says in the his
commentary.
Once this prophecy came true, Islam conquered the
civilized world like a whirlwind.
We, the Jewish people, lost our position of
preeminence in the world
due to our sins,
End quote.
In other words, Islam dominates in the world
now at his time
because we, the Jews, he's saying, were sinful.
And here's a picture
of Rabbi Yoel Teitelbaum, founder of the highly
anti Zionist Satmar
Hasidic dynasty.
He died in 1979.
The traditional orthodox,
they also cite a passage in the Torah
to demonstrate the importance of upholding the 3
oaths in our time.
So in the book of Numbers, the 5th
book of the Torah, okay, we're told
that some of the Israelites under Moses,
they wanted to leave the wilderness prematurely
and without God's permission
and enter the Holy Land.
So God decreed 40 years of wandering, of
exile,
and some of the people of Moses wanted
to end that exile immediately and march into
the Holy Land.
Okay, you understand?
Some wanted to end the exile
immediately
and march into the Holy Land.
Okay? So these people said, this is according
to Numbers chapter 14 verses 40 to 42,
the Hebrew says,
Here we are and we will go up
to the place which the Lord has promised.
In other words, we're not gonna wait any
longer,
we're going now.
This is taking too long,
we're going now.
Vayomer Moshe, and Moses said,
Why are you disobeying the Lord's command?
Vehi lo tislah,
this will never ever succeed.
Leaving exile early
and entering
the land and establishing the land without God's
permission
will never ever succeed.
And then he says,
do not go up, do not make Aliyah,
literally.
Chiein Adonai Bikir kavim,
Bikir
Bakim. Do not go up because the Lord
is not with you.
And so anti Zionist rabbis to this day
continue to tell Zionist Jews
that this blasphemous
project of theirs called modern Israel
will never succeed
because the Lord is not with you.
In our terms, there's no Tawfiq from Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Remember what Rabbi Dushinsky,
his predecessor, Rabbi Sonnenfeld said? He said, Doctor.
Hertzel comes not from the Lord, but from
the side of pollution.
Here's another verse.
This is the final sermon of Moses to
the children of Israel.
For I know that after my death you
will utterly corrupt yourselves
and turn aside from the way which I
have commanded you,
and evil will befall you in the latter
days because you will do evil in the
sight of the Lord and provoke him to
anger through the works of your hands. This
is in their book.
They will do evil in the latter days.
So it's very important to draw a distinction
between traditional Judaism
and Zionist Judaism.
Okay? The latter I also refer to as
radical Judaism.
So Zionist Judaism is radical Judaism.
There are many Jews today who describe themselves
as Orthodox.
Okay, if they are Zionist they are radical,
they are interchangeable.
A Zionist is a radical.
Now what does the term radical mean in
the context of religion?
Essentially, something that is rad something that is
radical in a religious context
constitutes a drastic and highly significant
departure
from the normative
tradition.
By normative I mean what the scriptures
clearly say in their most apparent meaning,
And by tradition I mean something that is
widely known and long standing.
Okay?
In recent years in the academy, we've seen
the rise, the rapid rise, of something called
radical hermeneutics.
So these are interpretations of the Bible and
Quran
that fly into the face of centuries long
established theological
and moral orthodoxy.
Interpretations of sacred texts that arrogantly
dismiss
the work of thousands of scholars
over 100 and 100 of years,
scholars who were grounded in the foundational principles
of the respective faith traditions.
And not only are these radical hermeneuts
dismissive of traditional scholarship
but they're also dismissive and
insulting
of the scholars themselves
whom they often vilify
and insult.
But
long before the
social constructionists
and gender theorists
and militant feminists
got their hands on the Quran and Bible,
in this case the Bible, the Zionists got
there first. Today
there are also hundreds of thousands of traditional
Orthodox Jews who vehemently oppose Zionism
on both theological and moral grounds. So they
accuse Zionists of hijacking Judaism.
Their motto is, Yehudi Lozioni, a Jew is
not a Zionist.
And so they actually anathematize
Zionist Jews, they make took fear of them.
They believe that there's a fundamental incompatibility
between Judaism and Zionism.
Rather than the modern state of Israel being
a Jewish state they call it,
sorry, being
a Jewish nation they call it an abomination.
One such organization is called Natura Carta International.
Their leaders are aligned with the Muslim community
on the issue of Palestine. They even attend
major Muslim conventions and events.
There is also Satmar. There is Shomer, Emunim.
Do we agree with everything that anti Zionist
Jews say? No of course not, they're Jews
and we're Muslims.
We have differences and those differences matter.
But you can look up some of these,
courageous rabbis
because they are truly courageous.
Rabbi Dovid Weisz, Rabbi Elhanan Beck, Rabbi Aviad
Neiger, Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro, Rabbi David
Mievaser.
So Laysusawahamin
Ahlul Kitab,
it's very important
they are not all the same We don't
lump everyone in the same category
because Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala Himself, He doesn't
do that in the Quran.
Okay? Yeah. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says in
Surat Al Maidah,
You will find the most severe among mankind
in enmity towards the believers, I. E. The
Muslims, to be Jews and the adulterers.
But Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala also says,
And of the people of Moses is a
community that guides by truth and acts with
justice.
This is why with the with this issue
of Ahlul Kitab,
the Quran requires tadabur,
a deeply reflective
and penetrating
intellectual engagement.
Right. Ibn Hisham, he said the Quran is
like a Jumla Wahida. It's like a single
statement.
We have to look at the Quran holistically
and be very careful about blanket statements. The
Quran is nuanced, we must be nuanced.
The Quran is wise, we must be wise.
Okay.
So just a quick review here and then
we can maybe have a short
break with a q and a session and
then take a longer break later,
this is what happened essentially.
Essentially, Zionist ideas were adopted and appropriated by
many Ashkenazic
Orthodox Jewish leaders
starting in the early 20th century,
and these ideas continue to grow in popularity
among their segments after World War 2.
These Zionist ideas
were dangled in front of their noses
until they finally succumbed to them.
They did not have the istikamah
that was required of them by their own
long standing tradition
to resist the temptation.
And so Zionism became something of a radical
reform movement within Jewish orthodoxy
among the Ashkenazim,
European Jewry.
According to non Zionist traditional Jews known as
the Haredim or the Haredi,
both
secular Zionists
and religious Zionists
stake highly radical positions.
They violate
long standing
established
principles of Judaism,
the consequences of which, by the way, are
identical,
the ethnic cleansing and genocide of Palestinians,
and we'll see that.
The secular Zionists violated
centuries long understandings
of what it meant to be a Jew.
What is a Jew? For secular Zionists the
essence of Jewishness is to be of the
Jewish
race. That's it.
Religion is not central, is not essential, the
Torah is not essential,
God
is not essential.
If you have Jewish blood from your mother's
side, even if you are an atheist,
come make Aliyah to Israel
and contribute to the displacement of Palestinians. Come
move into this kibbutz
in the West Bank and terrorize
the indigenous Palestinians.
So
those are the secular Zionists.
Okay. What is the radical position of the
religious Zionists?
People like Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook
and his Mirkaz Horav and his son Yehuda
Kook.
What a bunch of kooks.
For these religious Zionists,
the Zionist movement
constitutes what's known as Hadkalat Hage Ullah, the
beginning of the Redemption. That is to say
Zionism
is a means by which God will bring
about the Jewish redemption under the Messiah.
This is the great blasphemy.
Therefore
for the religious
Jewish Zionists a Jew may no longer remain
diasporic.
He can now reject this idea
of a divinely decreed indefinite exile.
What's the result of that?
Come make Aliyah to Israel and contribute to
the displacement of the Palestinians.
Come move into these kibbutz in the West
Bank and terrorize the indigenous Palestinians.
Same result.
But it gets even worse.
Again, according to radical Jewish Zionists, God promised
the Holy Land to the sons of Jacob.
And so it is a duty of his
descendants to seize the Holy Land and to
implement the various mitzvot or commandments in the
Torah that are particular to the Holy Land,
and then eventually the Messiah will come and
rule from Jerusalem,
the Davidic King Messiah.
What mitzvoth am I talking about? What commandments
am I talking about?
The mitzvah to commit herem,
from the river to the sea.
What is herem?
Genocide
and ethnic cleansing. I'll come back to this
idea. Very, very important. The mitzvah to exterminate
Amalek,
whom both Benzie Liberman
and Benjamin Netanyahu
explicitly identified
as the Palestinians.
Wholesale genocide
of men, women, children and animals.
These are the radical Jews.
I'll come back to this later insha'Allah, this
is very very important.
So here you have
anti Zionist Orthodox Jews
at a protest.
You see them, the Palestinian flag.
Judaism rejects Zionism.
Yehudih lo zioni, a Jew who is not
a Zionist.
And here you have anti Zionist rabbis.
On the left there, you have Rabbi Dobed
Weis of Natura Carta International,
quite outspoken.
On the top right, that's Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro.
He's a sottammer,
rabbi Hasidic rabbi, student of Teitelbaum,
and below him Elkanan Beykh, who's also from
Natura Carta International.
Okay.
A brief history.
So at this point I want to give
you some
very brief
by the way, any questions at this point?
Yes.
So at what what point,
the Zionist movement at as we mentioned that,
from the
non religious Zionists and religious Zionists,
their
aim
got march with
the evangelist
Christians.
That's Very good question. I'm coming to that.
It's a big topic. Christian Zionism.
Big topic.
The vast, vast, vast majority of Zionists are
not Jewish.
They're Christian.
And my contention is, just like I'm making
for Judaism, if Christians would follow their tradition,
even though I don't believe in their tradition,
I think their tradition is wrong because I'm
Muslim.
Right? But if they would follow their tradition,
they would not be Zionist,
And they would not give 1,000,000,000 of dollars
a year every year
to the state of Israel. But we'll come
to this, inshallah. Very important point.
Yes.
The irony
that you're probably gonna go to go to
with the Dz'al is that they're thinking they're
bringing the Messiah
and they're actually
bringing the Dz'al. That was I know that's
something that you're probably gonna write down. But
so Oh, okay. So but my question was
the Ashkenazi
Jew and I believe the other one would
be the Sephardic.
So I don't understand how
Ashkenazi Jews are considered real Jews when it
was like a mass conversion.
How was that accepted? I know it was,
like, a king or a leader, but can
you just briefly talk about how that's now
if you trace your lineage
as an Ashkenazi
Jew, like, you know what I mean? How
did that become that you're actually
a bona fide Jew?
Yeah. It's an interesting question.
It's a controversial issue.
Some consider this to be anti Semitic,
but there's something there's some basis for it
in in ancient Jewish writings, actually, the Sefer
Khazari by Judah Halevi,
that the kingdom of Hazaria, which is a
kingdom that was sort of between
the Black and Caspian seas in the 7th
century, 6th century, maybe a little bit longer,
later than that, 8th century,
that the entire kingdom en masse converted to
Judaism. So they're not actually descendants,
they're not actually Semites.
Right?
So so that's that's interesting.
Theodor Herzl,
who
is an Ashkenazi Jew, if he cannot trace
his lineage
back to Abraham and he doesn't believe in
God, then how is he Jewish?
It's a very interesting question.
You know? Some would say, no. It's, that's
anti Semitic.
Obviously, the Ashkenazim,
at some point, they're descendants of of Abraham,
but
I think that remains to be proven.
Yeah.
But one can certainly convert to Judaism.
Right? You can convert to Judaism, and you
can make Aliyah to Israel. But if you're
an atheist
and you're an Ashkenazi,
then
what's really tying you to Judaism? That's that's
the question.
Yes.
I have one more question. So
could you please
define
for us, secular people,
anti Semitic
term itself?
The the term the language that we know
of, which are Semitic language is
Hebrew,
Aramaic,
and
in Arabic.
Right?
Yes. But then,
what how do you be able to define
that
antisemitic? If if you're like, you know, right
now,
the definition of this term seems to be
changing so much so
that it encapsulate how
were you wanted to say something,
and it's just getting broader day by day.
Yeah. So this is a very good question.
Okay. This is one of the FAQs I
was gonna tackle at the end of the
presentation, but we'll take it now.
So a question that
you might get if you
are critical of Israel is, are you anti
Semitic?
Right? So here I would ask a question,
ask the person who's saying this, where does
the word Semitic come from?
What is the etiology? What is the etymology
of the word Semite? And they'll have 99%
of the time they have no idea what
you're what what the answer is.
So Semite comes from Sam
or Shem, the son of Noah.
Okay. So who are the Semites? Well, Jews
and Arabs.
That's number 1. Okay. So Israelites and Ishmaelites
are Semites. Now as Muslims, we believe in
prophets.
Right? And there's a group of prophets called
the.
Right? These are the 5 most exalted human
beings.
4 out of 5 of them are Semites.
And these are the most beloved human beings
to Muslims.
So how can I be an anti Semite?
So
what they really mean is,
are you anti Jewish?
Okay? So but here we need to clarify.
How are you using the word Jewish?
As an ethnicity
or religion?
If as an ethnicity,
no, that's stupid.
Hating people for something they had no control
over
is stupid,
and I am not stupid.
Okay, they'll say. Are you anti Judaism?
So here again, we need to clarify.
Am I anti traditional
orthodox Judaism?
No. Traditional Jewish orthodoxy is a respectable religion
that
believes and reveres the God of Abraham and
enjoins,
people to righteousness.
Am I anti radical Judaism?
Yes.
Why?
Because radical Judaism has incorporated Zionism.
And Zionism is a violent and murderous ideology,
as well as blasphemy
from both traditional Jewish and Christian perspectives, and
we'll see that.
So at this point, they might say anti
Zionism
is anti Semitism.
So you should respond.
So all of these 100 of 1000
of anti Zionist
Jews,
are they all self hating Jews?
Why do they hate themselves?
That's it. Just let them answer this question.
Okay? K. Anti Zionism is anti Semitism.
There are 1,000 and thousands
of Jews that are anti Zionists. Why do
they hate themselves?
That's it.
Are you saying that these are not real
Jews?
That seems a little anti semitic, don't you?
Don't you think so?
So we need to we need to clarify.
What do you mean? Don't get don't let
people get away with ambiguities.
Let them clarify.
Okay. Let's continue then. We'll take more questions
later, inshallah.
They're very good questions.
Okay.
Okay.
Now obviously, I'm going to leave leave out
a lot of the historical
events.
But it's important for us to get a
little bit into it. I'm certainly no expert
in the history of Palestine or the history
of the politics of Palestine, but I'll do
my best, inshallah to Allah. With our limitations,
we ask Allah for his barakah and tawfiq.
So let's start in 1917.
In 1917, the British Empire
under General Edmund Allenby,
a staunch British
Zionist,
conquered Palestine from the Ottomans
and promised to give it to the Jews
to be their homeland.
This is called the Balfour Declaration. Most people
have heard of this.
They wanted to create a, quote, national home
for the Jewish people, to quote it exactly.
Arthur Balfour was the foreign secretary under prime
minister David Lloyd George.
Balfour, by the way, was highly anti Jewish,
and this is news for a lot of
people.
Balfour did not want Jews to live in
England.
In fact, many British Jews outright denounced his
declaration
because they saw it as a means of
ethnically cleansing the Jews living in Britain.
The British did what they did for strategic
and imperialistic reasons.
So they already controlled the Suez Canal, but
they also wanted to control the shortest,
land route to India,
which was from Haifa to Basra,
Haifa in Palestine to Basra in Iraq, the
shortest route from the Mediterranean
to the Persian Gulf.
And here they built roads, they built an
oil pipeline,
an air bases, and so Zionism was a
useful tool for Britain to carry out its
imperialistic
aspirations.
Nonetheless, Jews from all over Europe began pouring
into Palestine,
British mandate Palestine,
which obviously caused tensions between the indigenous Arabs
and Jews
and the newly arrived European Jews.
Of course, the vast majority of the population
were Arabs, and the land was called Palestine.
In the 19 twenties thirties, various Jewish militia
groups sprang up in Palestine,
groups like Haganah and Irgun.
These groups were terrorist groups.
Even the New York Post and even Winston
Churchill called them terrorists. Churchill
himself, in my opinion, was a terrorist. I
mean, how many hundreds of thousands, millions
of innocent civilians did he carpet bomb
in in in Hamburg, in Dresden?
Absolutely disgraceful.
Now these groups, Haganan Irgun,
would commit political violence,
atrocities,
murder, massacre,
and absolutely terrorized the Palestinians. And at some
point in the late thirties,
British interest in establishing a Jewish state began
to wane.
It was no longer in their strategic interest.
It was the eve of World War 2.
The British assumed that they would be fighting
in the so called Middle East,
and so they did not want to further
agitate the Arabs.
And so the British began to restrict
Jewish immigration
into Palestine.
This was after the Arab revolt of 1936
to 39.
The British articulated this in the famous white
paper presented to parliament in 1939.
So the white paper said that in 10
years,
an independent Palestinian state would be established
with an Arab majority
and the future and that future Jewish immigration
had to be according to Palestinian Palestinian consent.
Irgun did not like that.
Not one bit.
So what did they do?
They blew up the King David Hotel in
1946. That was the headquarters of the British.
They killed Muslim, Jew, Christian, men, women, children,
91 killed, about 50 injured, a terrorist attack.
Here's some interesting facts. Menachem Begin,
the former prime minister of Israel, was a
former head of the Irgun.
And Ariel Sharon, another former prime minister, was
once a member of the Haganah.
And the Haganah, after 1948, became the IDF,
Israeli Defense Force. So think about that. That's
like the KKK becoming the American police and
military.
Many of them did, by the way.
Did you know this? August 8, 1925,
30,000 hooded Klansmen
marched down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, DC. 30,000.
1925. Those were just the men in DC.
Imagine the total membership
in the entire
country. These people didn't just dissolve into thin
air.
Another interesting fact, very little known fact, here's
a coin.
You see that?
That was struck in 1934 in Germany.
A star of David on one side and
a *
on the other.
The Zionists and Nazis were actually working together
in Germany.
During the beginning of the 3rd Reich,
Hitler is the chancellor of Germany in 1934.
Why? They shared a common goal. They both
wanted Jews to leave Europe.
In this case, Germany.
The Nazis were Zionists.
You know, like, how we say today, Zionism
and Nazism
are two sides of the same coin?
Literally,
two sides
of the same coin.
Achoo.
In October 1953,
the IDF led by Ariel Sharon attacked the
village of Qibyah in the West Bank and
massacred 69 civilians,
mostly women and children.
The attack was condemned by the US State
Department and the UN Security Council.
Now backing up a little bit,
June 1919, article 22 of the Covenant of
the League of Nations.
This declared that the Arab areas that had
been part of the Ottoman Empire
and were now made mandates under European powers,
these would eventually be made into independent nations
and receive self determination.
So this happened to every other Arab state
under European mandate except Palestine.
This happened to Iraq, to Syria, to Lebanon,
Jordan.
The Palestinians never received self determination, as doctor
Rashid Khalidi said. The Palestinians
were denied what under article 22 was allowed
to every other Arab state under European mandate.
So settler colonialism
is a type of conquest.
Okay. Okay. And I highly recommend doctor Rashid
Khalidi's book. It's called the 100 Years War
on Palestine.
It's a new book, a history of
settler
colonial conquest and resistance, 1917
to 2017.
So inherent within European settler colonialism
is the dispossession of the indigenous population,
either through genocide, like in America or Canada,
or ethnic cleansing, that is to say forced
expulsion.
Here's a quote from Khalidi, ethnic cleansing is
inherent in Zionism.
Inherent.
Herzl was no exception to this. He wanted
to drive away the Arabs.
Herzl was European to his core.
The Balfour Declaration never even mentioned the Palestinians
because that's the point. They are not a
people according to the Zionists.
A land without a people, they say.
Completely false history.
When we look back at the Islamic conquest,
we see something very different.
The indigenous were allowed to live in their
homes and practice their religions and customs.
These Zoroastrians
survived in Iran.
The Christians survive in North Africa to this
day.
There are millions of them.
If they convert, they convert. If not, they
pay a tribute tax if they can afford
it, and they are guaranteed protection for the
Muslim polity.
Genocide and ethnic cleansing are against the principles
of Islamic conquest.
We have this concept of Ahlul Kitab.
In 1947,
the British just kind of threw their hands
up and left Palestine.
They left Palestine to the United Nations.
It's a UN problem now.
So the UN partitioned Palestine. Now in 1947,
the Jews constituted about 1 third of the
population. Most of them, the vast majority,
newly arrived.
Yet they were offered 60 sorry, 56%
of Palestine.
The Arabs, who were the majority and had
lived there for generations, were offered 44%.
Neither group found this favorable.
So even though the Zionists,
Israelis,
publicly agreed with the partition plan,
they did not want an Arab majority within
greater Israel.
They wanted a Jewish ethno state.
An Arab majority totally contradicts this.
So here's Balfour on the right, and here's
the partition.
Now David Ben Gurion was quoted as saying
David Ben Gurion, the first ever prime minister
of Israel,
quote, after the formation of a large army
in the wake of the establishment of the
state, we will abolish partition
and expand to the whole of Palestine, end
quote.
So Israel's agreement was largely tactical.
They always had it in their minds to
expand
and take the whole of historical Palestine,
from the river to the sea.
Now starting in March 1948,
these Israeli militia groups, these terrorist factions,
they put something into effect called Plan Dalet.
And I highly recommend reading about this in
a book by Ilan Poppe. So it's a
book called
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
by Ilan Pape. What did Plan Bawlette do?
It displaced 750,000
Palestinians.
It forced them to leave Palestine
or forced them into Gaza, which, of course,
became a huge open air concentration camp.
Ghiorra Island. Right? So Ghiorra Island, e I
l a n d, is a retired major
general of the IDF.
Eiland is also a former head of the
Israeli National Security Council.
In
2004, he called Gaza a concentration camp.
So here we have a top security official
in the Israeli government refer to Gaza
as a concentration camp.
And this was before the blockade.
David Cameron, the former prime minister of UK,
he called Gaza an open air prison.
Prison doesn't really cut it. People in prison
are usually treated like human beings.
According to Finkelstein, in 2003,
the respected professor at Hebrew University, Baruch Kimberling,
described Gaza as, quote, the largest concentration camp
ever.
Now in 2023, according to Finkelstein, Gaza is,
quote, a death camp.
So in Plan Daulet in 1948,
500 villages were destroyed,
and there were many reports of multiple massacres,
dozens upon dozens indiscriminate killing of men, women,
and children.
For example, at Deir Yassin at Haifa at
Jaffa,
Israel declared itself a state on May 14,
1948. This is called the Nakba.
And then the UN formally recognized Israel on
May 11, 1949.
And the Palestinian territories until this day continue
to be under occupation and continue to shrink.
The Palestinians continue to live as second class
citizens in their own country, and second class
is a big understatement. So in the occupied
territories,
Gaza, East Jerusalem, West Bank, it is nothing
short of apartheid. And this is according to
B'Tselem, a Israeli human rights organization, Amnesty International.
Palestinians have no rights in the occupied territories.
They're treated like animals. They're called animals.
Just a few weeks ago, the IDF were
passing out assault rifles to Israeli settlers in
the West Bank like it was candy.
Now something happened in 1954
that I think we should be aware of.
We should not forget these moments in history.
This is something that's thrown down the rabbit
hole of history.
It's called the Lavan affair,
named after the former
Israeli defense minister,
Finhas Lavan.
What is a Lavan affair? So this was
an attempted false flag operation,
code named Operation Susanna,
carried out by Israeli spies in Egypt in
1954.
So these Zionist Israeli agents in Egypt planted
bombs
in busy civilian areas
in Cairo
and Alexandria,
where Americans and the British would often visit,
like movie theatres and libraries.
The plan was to commit terrorism by killing
civilians, especially Americans,
and then blame Egyptian Muslims
in order to cause tensions between Egypt
and the West.
The plan fell apart, and the Zionist spies
were caught and then confessed
the Lavan affair.
Very interesting.
Moving ahead to the 1967 war. So Israel,
through, quote, a preemptive strike, took control of
the West Bank, Gaza, the Old City of
Jerusalem, the Golan Heights, and the Sinai Peninsula.
They gave back part of the Golan Heights
and the Sinai but continued to occupy Gaza,
the West Bank, and East Jerusalem. According to
international law, it is illegal to acquire
a territory by
war. So the UN passed resolution 242 in
1967 calling for Israel to withdraw from the
occupied territories immediately. That was 56 years ago.
Israel has yet to comply.
In the midst of the war, on June
8,
7, Israel attacked the USS Liberty,
an unarmed American naval ship in international waters
flying the American flag.
It was a coordinated attack from the air
and sea.
The Liberty was identified by Israeli pilots as
being American. There is no doubt about this.
This was not mistaken identity. There are recordings.
Despite clearly identifying the ship as American by
reading out the ship's whole number and seeing
the American flag, Israeli pilots fired at the
ship from above,
and Israeli missile boats fired torpedoes from below.
34 American sailors were killed, another 174 injured.
That's more than 2 thirds of the total
number of sailors on the ship.
The American government tried to cover this up.
They tried to hide this event from the
press and the American public.
To this day, survivors and relatives
meet once a year to read the names
of the deceased
and try to understand why their greatest ally
in the Middle East intentionally
and callously attacked them.
The most likely reason was is that the
USS Liberty
was a spy ship.
And as a spy ship, it was listening
in on Israel's war plans. Israel didn't like
that, so they tried to massacre everyone on
the ship.
Okay. Continuing then.
So we're looking at the brief history.
So we talked about the USS Liberty attack
on June 8, 1967.
So let's see here.
Throughout the seventies and eighties, Israel continued to
build settlements in occupied territories in September 1982.
Defense minister Ariel Sharon ordered the massacre of
about 3,000
Palestinian refugees and Lebanese civilians at the refugee
camps of Sabra and Shatila
in Beirut,
Lebanon.
There was torture, mutilation, and * over 3
days. The UN called this, quote, an act
of genocide.
The Israeli military, along with their ally, an
extreme right wing Christian militia group called the
Falange, were held responsible.
Sharon resigned, but then became prime minister 9
years later. Strange how that happens.
In 1993,
the famous Oslo Accords were held. Now here,
Zionist apologists will say, oh, Palestinians were offered
a state in 1993 during the Oslo Accords,
yet they rejected it. Right?
So the Oslo Accords was
a a a sham,
and I'll tell you why.
The the stated goal of the Oslo Accords
was to create an autonomous
Palestinian state where Palestinians had self determination.
This was a sham. According to the Oslo
Accords, the occupied West Bank would be turned
into 3 areas.
Okay. So you had area a or zone
a,
zone b, and zone c. So area a
would be given to the Palestinians. The pali
Palestinians would have civil and security control over
area a.
Area a was 18%
of the West Bank.
Area b would be, 22% of the West
Bank. In area b, the Palestinians would have
civil control, but Israel would control,
the security.
In both areas, a and b, Israel could
still conduct their raids whenever they wanted.
So even in area a, where the Palestinians
were in so called
full control, this control could be overridden whenever
Israel wanted.
Area c was 60% of the West Bank.
Area c was under full Israeli control. So
in reality, all three areas
would be under Israeli control.
This was the so called autonomous Palestinian state.
This was where the Palestinians were were supposed
to have so called self determination. No. It
was a a sham. It was an on
job horse and pony show.
What about the
Palestinian refugees?
Did they have the right to return? What
about East Jerusalem?
Nothing.
In the 30 years since the Oslo meetings,
the number of Israeli settlers in the West
Bank
has gone from 100,000
to half a1000000.
On November 8, 1995, the Israeli prime minister
who signed the Oslo Accords, at least the
first sort of round of the accords, Yitzhak
Rabin,
was assassinated
by an Israeli terrorist
and Jewish radical named Yigal Amir.
Now Amir justified his action religiously.
He appealed to something called the din rodif,
the law of the pursuer.
So this is a law mentioned in Sanhedrin
73 a in the Talmud,
but it's based upon the Torah, Leviticus 1916.
It says, do not stand idly by
the blood of your neighbor.
In other words, if you see a person
pursuing to kill another person,
you're responsible to put yourself in harm's way
and prevent the pursuer from committing murder.
And if necessary, you may have to kill
the pursuer, the roedeph.
You must intervene to save a life even
if it means taking a life.
You cannot stand idly by.
So the rabbis, they mention Moses, peace be
upon him, he intervened when the Egyptian taskmaster
was beating the Hebrew slave. Moses intervened and
ended up killing
the Egyptian,
but that was okay because the rodef,
the Egyptian, would have killed the slave.
So in Amir's mind, Yitzhak Rabin was endangering
Jewish lives by recognizing a so called Palestinian
state.
And so his defense in court was that
Rabin was a rodef.
Right? His defense was rejected.
Interestingly, Zionist Orthodox Jewish professor
Jeffrey Alderman argued that since the Gazans voted
Hamas in,
every Gazan is a Rodev.
It must be killed.
Same logic apparently as Bin Laden.
Every American is fair game.
The difference is 70% of Gazans are either
refugees or children of refugees
who held an election while living inside the
world's largest concentration camp.
And 50% of Gazans are children who never
voted for anyone.
According to the Zionist
orthodox rabbi Yosef Mizrahi,
all Palestinian children are rotfim,
he says.
Because when they get older, they're just all
gonna be terrorists anyway, so Israel might as
well kill them now.
That's his logic. This guy's on the Internet.
He's on YouTube.
And you have this absolute psychopath, rabbi Manus
Friedman,
who says very similar things. He has over
400,000
followers on his channel.
The Camp David Summit in 2 1000, Bill
Clinton, Ehud Barak, Yasser Arafat, again, a sham
horse and pony show. No Palestinian autonomy. No
Palestinian self determination.
Hillary Clinton is, of course, making her rounds
now. Right? Going on The View. The Palestinians
were offered a state in 1947, 1993, 2000.
The Palestinians are constantly rejecting a 2 state
solution.
So this is a major Zionist talking point.
According to Norman Finkelstein,
who is an expert in Gaza Palestinian history,
every year for decades, the UN votes on
a general assembly resolution.
That resolution is called the peaceful settlement of
the question of Palestine. This happens every single
year.
The peaceful settlement on the of the question
of Palestine.
The this resolution would give the Palestinians a
state
on the June 1967 borders,
and the agreement will be based upon international
law.
Every year, the whole world votes in favor,
including Palestine,
and only America and Israel
and a few island small island nations vote
against it.
Israel does not want a 2 state solution.
On February 25, 1994, an Israeli terrorist and
Jewish radical named Bolich Goldstein
massacred 29 Palestinians who were worshiping at Masjid
Ibrahim alayhis salam in Hebron and Al Khalil
in the occupied West Bank. This happened at
Salatul Fajr at in Ramadan.
29 adults and children were murdered and another
130
injured.
This is called the Cave of the Patriarchs
massacre.
Goldstein was born in Brooklyn and moved to
Israel in 1983 after becoming radicalized.
He was a member of a radical Jewish
movement called the Kach party
founded in 1971 by Rabbi Mer Kahana.
This party was banned, in Israel in 1994
and declared a terrorist organization.
Goldstein was a student of Kahana.
Kahana wrote a book called They Must Go.
He also coined the phrase never again. So
Kahana exploited
the holocaust as an excuse
to advocate for another holocaust, essentially.
Kahana was assassinated in 1990.
Now the majority of Israelis today condemn Goldstein
for being the terrorist that he was, but
a minority of Jewish radicals praise him. They
continue to make annual pilgrimages to his gravesite
to this day.
Right? Someone who killed prostrating children.
The eulogy on his tomb reads,
the revered doctor Barak Koppel Goldstein,
son of Israel.
He gave his soul for the sake of
the people of Israel, the Torah, and the
land.
His hands are clean
and his heart good.
So, essentially, Goldstein was a suicide bomber, but
with an automatic weapon. I mean, he knew
they would kill him on the spot.
Distribingly, Goldstein's ideology has recently made a major
comeback.
So kahanism is gaining popularity
right now in so called Israel.
There is a far right party in Israel
called the Otsma Yehudit.
It literally means Jewish power.
In 2022, the leader of this party, Itamar
Ben Gavir,
who is literally a convicted terrorist,
became minister of national security under Netanyahu.
He's a devoted kahanist.
Then Gavir used used to have a picture
of of Baruch Goldstein hanging in his living
room.
This is confirmed.
Goldstein is his hero.
So Goldstein's
ideology is now the mainstream of the Israeli
government.
So these people want to incite a religious
war, a religious holocaust of Arabs in Palestine.
So how do these kahanists justify these actions
religiously or scripturally?
So it's one thing to say that Jews
can end the exile and return to the
holy land. It's another thing to say that
they can kill with impunity
the Arabs that live there. I'll come back
to this, Inshallah.
So here he is, Baruch Goldstein,
the terrorist.
This is his grave
on the right,
frequently visited.
Here's mayor Kahana,
his teacher,
founder of the Koch party, the Kahannas party,
teacher of Goldstein, author of They Must
Go, coined the phrase never again.
And, of course, here is Ben Gavir, the
current minister of national security under Netanyahu
and devoted Kahanist.
Of course, right behind him, you see, otsma
yahudit,
Jewish power.
Okay.
Maybe take 1 or 2 questions at this
point before we move to Christian Zionism.
I had a quick question about, like,
utts.
Yeah.
The temple. Yes. I'll get to that inshallah.
So the the short answer is
that based on
their interpretation
of the Hebrew Bible,
there are indications that the temple will be
rebuilt,
a third time.
So
and the one who will rebuild it will
be the messiah.
Right? So this is something that they're anticipating
greatly.
But I'll get to this, John. Okay. Let's
just take one online viewer and, good. A
question from our line is, are there any
Quranic prophecies about the Jewish state of Israel?
Quranic prophecies about the Jewish state of Israel.
Nothing, no, nothing comes to mind. I mean,
maybe someone can
sort of derive a meaning from an ayah,
that might indicate something like that, but
there's nothing clear as far as I know.
Aloha.
So these Jews that oppose the state of
Israel, these orthodox Jews who are still active
today,
If they think that Israel should never have
existed, what is their proposed solution now?
Their proposed solution is to dissolve the state
of Israel,
and go back to how it was,
before Zionism,
where basically it's
Palestinian land.
And in Palestine, you had,
Muslims, Jews, and Christians
living together,
in peace and prosperity.
The problem for them is this nationalistic secular
state of Israel
that has met a mess of things.
Right? That has caused nothing but war and
destruction and animosity.
And now people think that
it's just common knowledge. Now, unfortunately,
people just think Arabs and Jews have always
hated each other because of these because of
modern politics. It's just not the case whatsoever.
Again, read history. Look at Christian Europe.
The Jews had a horrible time living in
Christian Europe, and it would flee to Muslim
countries.
So this is their proposed their proposed solution.
The state of Israel must be dissolved.
It is there is no tofiech in it.
This will never succeed, as the Torah says,
book of Numbers chapter 14.
We have more questions, but do you wanna
continue, or do you wanna Let's continue. Yeah.
There's a lot to do. We'll get more
to the questions, inshallah.
Now, at this point, I wanna turn to
the topic of Christian Zionism. Okay? So these
two words, Christian, Zionist, they should never be
in opposition.
It's an oxymoron.
It's jumbo shrimp.
It's 4 sided triangle.
The whole concept of Christian Zionism is absolutely
just mind boggling to me. I'll tell you
why it boggles the mind. Now first of
all, we know that Theodor Herzl himself met
with pope Pius the tenth
in 190 4 and asked for the pope's
support for Zionism,
and the pope said absolutely not. That was
in 1904.
So part and parcel to the Zionist project
that the sister was asking about, from a
Jewish religious standpoint, is the construction of the
3rd temple on the so called Temple Mount
in Jerusalem.
Okay. Of course, the first temple was built
by Solomon to Ilman, alayhis salaam, around 1000
BCE. It was destroyed by Babylonians 586
BCE under Debuchadnezzar.
The second temple was built around 5 15
BCE,
and it was destroyed, in 70 of the
common era by the Romans under general Titus.
Now Jewish scientists want to build the 3rd
temple.
Now it is clearly, unambiguously,
unequivocally against the teachings of the New Testament
for a Christian to support the construction of
a third temple in Jerusalem.
For a Christian to do this is to
commit clear cut blasphemy according to the New
Testament.
Okay.
And yet there are 1,000,000 upon 1,000,000 of
Christian Zionists all around the world.
They donate 1,000,000 of dollars to the Temple
Institute in Jerusalem.
In fact, the vast majority of Zionists are
not Jewish. They're Christian, mostly Protestant. It's just
a fact. There's only 15,000,000 world there's only
15,000,000 Jews worldwide.
One of the largest and most influential Christian
Zionist organizations in the world is called CUFI,
c u f I, Christians United for Israel,
led by a loud mouth preacher from Texas
named John Hagee.
Why is it blasphemy? Why is CUFI Kufr?
Before I get to that, here's an interesting
piece of trivia.
Up until a few years ago, the executive
director of CUFI was David Brog,
the cousin of former Israeli prime minister Ehud
Barak.
So the executive director of Christians
United for Israel
was Jewish,
a cousin of the Israeli prime minister.
You can't make this stuff up.
Now, in the New Testament,
Jesus himself is the new temple.
Okay? And the gospel of John begins with
something called the prologue, the hymn to the
logos.
So in the beginning was the Word, and
the Word was with God, and the Word
was God. It continues, and the Word became
flesh and dwelt amongst us. And here's the
Greek, kai halaga, sarx agenata, kai eskenosin,
and hermin.
The word became flesh, and eskenosin,
this verb, comes from the noun skeni, which
means a tent or a canopy.
You see, in the Old Testament, the presence
of God it's called the kavod in Hebrew,
or shechinah, the presence of
God, was said to have dwelled in the
tent of meeting. This is called the mishkan
in Hebrew, the tabernacle in the wilderness,
okay, at the time of Moses and Joshua.
This indwelling was figurative. It wasn't literal.
This tent was the prototype of the first
temple that would be built by Solomon 400
years later. So the temple honorifically
is called Beth El Beitullah, the house of
God.
Again, in this, you know, figurative sense, the
temple housed God's spirit, as it were, in
this figurative sense. But what did John say
in the prologue, and the word became flesh
and tented himself
among us? In other words, Jesus is the
new mishkan
that houses the kavod, the presence of God.
In the very next chapter, John chapter 2,
we read that the Jews said to Jesus,
what sign can you give us?
And Jesus said again, this is the Johannan
Jesus, the New Testament Jesus. This is not
Esai El Asinah. Okay? This is the Jesus
of Christian scripture.
He said, destroy this temple and I'll raise
it up in 3 days. And the Jews
said, it took 46 years to build this
temple. You're going to raise it up in
3 days? And then John, the author says,
ah, but he spoke the temple of his
body.
Okay? The Hebrew word for temple, heikal, also
means body.
The new testament Jesus is saying that he
is the new temple.
For Christians to support the construction of a
third temple in in Jerusalem
is to deny the New Testament Jesus. Jesus
replaces the temple
according to the New Testament.
Jesus never uttered the New Testament Jesus never
uttered a single word about a third temple.
But time and again, he emphatically predicts the
destruction
of the second temple.
So now we have Christian so now we
have Zionist Jews rebelling against God's decree of
exile,
and we have Zionist Christians
rebelling against Jesus' pronouncement
that he is the new temple.
So I call this double Kufr theology.
Okay? For Jews to end the exile and
break break the three oaths is Kufr
according to traditional Judaism. That's one Kufr.
For Christians to support the construction
of the 3rd temple
when Jesus is a new temple
is Kufur according to traditional Christianity. That's the
second Kufur. Double Kufur theology.
The modern Israelis, they placed a sign near
the temple mount that says the divine presence,
the Shekhinah,
never moves from the western wall.
I don't know if anyone has ever gone.
I'll never go because I'm an Iranian citizen.
They'll never let me in. 1 of my
professors in grad school was a Franciscan friar.
And a Catholic priest, white guy, Franciscan friar.
He landed at Tel Aviv, and he was
asked, do you know any Iranians?
This is what the
the airport security asked him. And he said,
yes. Write down their names and numbers. He
said, no. Get out of here.
You're not coming into Israel.
The divine presence never moves from the western
wall.
Okay? No Christian on earth, if he wants
to follow the teachings of the New Testament,
can ever support such a statement. It is
clear heresy.
It is rank blasphemy.
Here's a quote actually from the Christian from
the catechism of the Catholic church. Christ is
the true temple of God, the place where
his glory dwells.
Kufi
is Kufir.
Here's pastor John Heagy,
founder and chairman of Christians United For Israel.
He's based out of Texas.
If you ever heard him speak, you just
wanna
it's like you wanna run out of the
room
after 10 seconds.
Okay. So Christian Zionism is a betrayal
of the new testament Jesus. So Zionism is
a betrayal of the old testament teaching,
and Zionism is a betrayal of the New
Testament teaching.
Here's another thing. John, in his gospel,
he moved the day of the crucifixion up
one day.
So in the synoptic gospels, Matthew, Mark, and
Luke, Jesus is crucified on the day of
Passover,
but John moved it to the previous day,
which is the day of the preparation of
the Passover. So there's a clear contradiction in
the gospels. Certainly, Jesus wasn't crucified once.
This is an irreconcilable
contradiction. From our perspective, he wasn't even sorry.
Certainly, Jesus wasn't crucified twice. From our perspective,
he wasn't even crucified once, but that's another
topic.
But but why? Why did John move up
the day of the crucifixion?
Why? Because this was when the lambs in
the temple were being slaughtered.
Now only in the gospel of John do
we find that a Roman centurion
impaled the side of the crucified Jesus,
from which came forth blood and water, says
John.
So what's the significance of that? Well, on
that very day, at that very moment,
the lambs were being slaughtered for the Passover
in the temple. The kohanim, the priests, they
would open a side gate and they would
wash the blood out with water.
Blood and water would gush forth from the
side of the temple.
So you see what John is doing in
his gospel. He is depicting Jesus as both
sacrificial lamb and temple. Jesus is the new
temple.
Now I don't agree with this Christology, obviously.
Right? However, if Christians would just follow these
teachings
found in their own books,
then they would have no reason to morally,
theologically,
financially, and militarily
support the modern state of Israel, and the
world would be a much better place.
Christian Zionism is utter blasphemy according to the
New Testament.
This is what we have to help our
Christian friends, neighbors, and family members to realize.
In 1 John 2/22,
the author says, New Testament,
who is the liar?
But he who denies that Jesus is the
Christ, Hutas estin antichristas.
This is the antichrist.
The one who denies that Jesus is the
messiah is the antichrist.
This is a New Testament.
This is not my opinion. This is not
the Quran. This is not some hadith.
This is a New Testament. I'll tell you
a true story, Kind of a funny story.
I tell this story a lot. Let me
say it again.
Okay? My wife gets annoyed at me when
I tell stories over again. It's kind of
a funny story, but also a bit disconcerting.
It was 6 o'clock in the morning.
During my
PhD studying days, had the Quran in the
bible on a table at Pete's Coffee,
6 o'clock in the morning. There's a long
line behind me. There's a man standing behind
me who looks over my shoulder and he
says,
nice books. I said, thank you. One of
those books is from God and one is
from Satan.
So
it's too early in the morning for this.
And I said, okay. Well, which one's from
God? And he pointed to the bible. I
said, okay. The Quran is from Satan. Oh,
yes.
And I said, well, why do you say
that? Well, he says he he said to
me, the Bible teaches that anyone who opposes
Israel will be accursed.
So he's referring to Genesis chapter 12 verse
3, and I'll come back to that verse.
Okay.
So he said, you know, these Palestinians in
Israel,
they're all antichrists.
So I said, the Palestinians are antichrists? He
said, yes.
So I said, does the Bible say that
the Palestinians are antichrists? Christ? Does it use
that word?
He said, no. But it says that whoever
opposes Israel will be accursed.
So I said, well, the new testament does
mention the antichrist.
Let's read 1st John 222.
Alright. So I read this verse to him.
Who is the liar, but he who denies
that Jesus is the Christ?
This
is the antichrist. So I said, you know
these Palestinians, they're Muslims and Christians.
You know who they believe Jesus was. Right?
You know who they believe the the messiah
is? Jesus. But you know who doesn't.
And he became enraged.
Right? And he he was gonna, like, attack
me.
Right?
And then his wife kind of grabbed him,
I had my coffee ready to spill on
his face.
Too early in the morning.
But why did he say that? Whoever, you
know, whoever,
whoever,
opposes Israel is accursed. I'll come back to
this idea. Very important idea.
There's a reverend Palestinian Christian pastor and professor
living in Bethlehem right now in occupied West
Bank. His name is
Reverend Doctor Munther Isaac.
Right? This is a quote from him.
Palestinian Christian living in Bethlehem. They? Who's they?
Christian Zionists.
You're not talking about Muslims.
You're not talking about, you know, Hindus.
They, Christian Zionists, turned the good news, Injil,
into our worst nightmare.
According to the clear teachings of the New
Testament, the Jews are no longer the chosen
people exclusively.
The new testament advances something called replacement theology,
covenantal
supersessionism.
Okay?
Supersessionism
is this idea that the Christian church has
been super sorry. The Christian church has superseded
the nation of Israel
as God's covenant people.
Of course, this is not a total replacement
because Jews can still believe in Jesus.
Right? Now Christian Zionists love to quote this,
Genesis 12:3,
where God says to Abraham,
and I will bless you that and I
will bless them that bless you, and curse
him that curses you. Okay? Genesis 12:3.
So they take this to mean that they
must bless Abraham and his chosen seed, the
Israelites,
or else god will curse them.
In their minds, it follows them that if
they don't bless and support the modern state
of Israel,
then god won't bless them.
This is what they say. Where are they
getting this from? I'll tell you later. History
is fascinating.
You know what's really interesting? In order for
a Christian to immigrate to Israel,
he must renounce Christianity.
Israel will gladly accept Christian money with a
huge smile.
But in order for a Christian to move
to Israel,
the Christian has to admit
that Jesus was a false prophet and a
pseudo messiah.
But this is what Christian Zionists say.
We have a religious duty to love and
support Israel. This is totally contradictory to the
New Testament. Just read the letters of Paul
of Tarsus.
13 of the 27 books of the New
Testament are explicitly attributed to Paul, and Paul
is a supersessionist to his very core. Listen
to what Paul says in Galatians 3 16
about God's covenant with Abraham in Genesis.
Now if you know anything about me,
you know that I don't necessarily agree with
Paul, to put it mildly.
But this is what he says. And Christians
are supposed to believe in Paul,
not John Nelson Darby, not CI Scofield, and
certainly not John Hagee.
Paul says, quote, the promises were spoken to
Abraham and his seed. And here the Christian
Zionist says amen.
But Paul continues.
Scripture does not say, and to seeds,
meaning many people,
but and to your seed, meaning one person
who is Christ.
According to Paul,
God in Genesis
was only referring to Jesus Christ as being
Abraham's seed. Only
Jesus and the Christians who believe in him
are blessed.
Not the disbelieving Israelites,
and certainly not the modern,
genocidal,
blasphemous state of Israel.
Not Tel Aviv
that hosts the largest pride parade
in the world
a 100 miles away from Sodom and Gomorrah
and who spitefully used the rainbow
as a symbol of their degeneracy.
Of course, the rainbow was a sign of
God's covenant
with humanity in Genesis chapter 9.
Paul goes on to say,
there is neither Jew nor Greek, there is
neither bond nor free, there is neither male
nor female, for you are all one in
Christ Jesus.
If you belong to Christ,
then you are Abraham's seed
and heirs according to the promise. Galatians
chapter 3 verse 28 to 29. That's called
a conditional statement.
In Greek, it says,
a. A is called a conditional particle.
Conditional particle.
If if
you belong to Christ,
then
you are Abraham's seed and heirs to the
promise.
Prodasis, apodasis. If clause, then clause.
Christians are the new chosen people according to
the new testament.
You are only chosen and blessed if you
believe in Jesus.
Of course, that's what he's saying. He's a
Christian.
And in Galatians, Paul makes this very interesting
claim
that Gentiles who believe in Jesus, so Greeks
and Romans
who believe in Jesus, are now the children
of Sarah
somehow,
the free woman, as he says.
While Jews, who are actually descendants of Isaac,
but did not accept Jesus,
are now children of the bronze woman Hagar.
Right? Look. I don't agree with Paul, but
this is the teaching of the New Testament.
1st Peter 29, he says, but you, he's
talking to Christians, are a chosen people, a
royal priesthood,
a holy nation, God's special possession, that you
may declare the praises of him, etcetera, etcetera.
Here. Look here.
1st Thessalonians 214 and 15.
Paul is writing to his Christian congregation at
Thessalonica.
Listen what Paul says.
For you, brothers and sisters, became imitators of
God's churches in Judea, which are now in
Christ Jesus. You suffered from your own people
the same things those churches suffered from the
Jews, who both killed the Lord Jesus and
the prophets and drove us out and displease
God and oppose all mankind.
That is Paul.
That is not the Quran.
That is not the Hadith.
What does Paul say about the Jews? They
killed the Lord Jesus and their own prophets.
They please not God and oppose all mankind.
I'm sure that Christian apologists can defend these
things.
But why is it that we never hear
these defenses?
We are always on the defensive.
Explain the verse of the sword, explain the
so called wife beating verse, explain polygamy, explain
jihad, explain this, explain that, we're always on
the back foot. We need to rethink our
strategic engagement
with the public discourse. It's time for us
to ask some questions, don't you think?
We need to start asking questions. We've answered
I've asked I've answered a jihad question for
20 years. I'm done.
If you don't know it by now, then
god help you. But I have a few
questions,
There's more questions to come.
I'll mention one more. In Romans 6 and
Hebrews 10,
Paul says that Jesus' sacrifice for sin was
the be all end all. So Jesus is
the ultimate temple,
the ultimate high priest, and the ultimate sacrifice.
This is New Testament Christianity,
yet Christian Zionists fully support
the 3rd temple where sin sacrifices will return
one day
according to the Jewish messianism.
How can followers
of the New Testament Jesus and Paul of
Tarsus support this and call themselves bible believing
Christians?
They can't. Christian Zionism is indefensible
from a biblical perspective.
We need to ask the Christian Zionists,
are the Jews who wrote the Talmud still
chosen and beloved by God?
It's a simple question.
Are these Jews still the apple of God's
eye
who cursed and slandered Jesus and his mother,
Mary, in the Talmud?
Read Jesus in the Talmud by Peter Schafer,
published by Princeton University.
Actually, don't read it.
It'll make your skin crawl.
You have to take my word for it.
Ben Shapiro was on Joe Rogan,
and Joe Rogan said to him, so who
Jesus was like a prophet according to you?
He said, no. Not a prophet.
Just another Jewish guy who tried to start
a rebellion
against the Romans, and he was killed for
his trouble.
So when he said that, a lot of
Muslims and Christians were offended.
It is offensive. You know, Jesus was just
another failed insurrectionist
who died a criminal's death. But let me
tell you this. What Shapiro said was the
g rated version
of what his tongue would teach us about
Jesus and Mary.
However,
for the sake of balancing my comments here,
okay, and I'm not defending the Talmud,
obviously,
But we have to put its comments in
about Jesus into context.
The rabbis who wrote these things
were reacting to the new testament Jesus
as well as the as well as the
Jesus of Christian faith.
Okay? Not the historical Jesus of Nazareth and
not the real Isa alaihis salam. So this
is really important. The new testament Jesus,
the Jesus of Christian faith claimed to be
God.
That is absolute
blasphemy
from a Jewish perspective.
It is the height of Kufur,
numbers 23/19.
Lo'ish Elvichazeb.
God is not a man that he should
lie. In other words, any man who claims
to be God is a liar.
So the Talmudic rabbis felt compelled
to offer a sharp critique.
But rather than using more academic and historical
arguments, they opted for extremely depraved
ad hominem attacks.
Covenantal supersessionism
was also the teachings of Christians throughout the
centuries.
Read John Chrysostom,
Augustine of Hippo,
John Calvin, Martin Luther, the early church fathers
from the east and the west, as well
as pioneers
of the Protestant Reformation, were all advocates of
replacement theology
to a certain extent.
Martin Luther, the spearhead of the Protestant Reformation,
wrote a treatise called On the Jews and
Their Lies,
And you'll be shocked to your core what
he says about the Jews. You won't believe
your eyes.
Luther went way far to end off the
deep end.
Right?
Despite Luther being the main force of the
Protestant
movement,
most Christians are absolutely right to reject
his hateful anti Jewish rants.
However, most Protestants are absolutely wrong
to reject Luther's main contention
that the Jews who disbelieve in Jesus as
the Messiah are no longer chosen by God.
Why are they wrong? Because this is the
clear cut teaching of the New Testament.
So here's the bottom line.
Zionism is kufur according to the New Testament.
And according to traditional Christianity,
it is kufur.
In the gospel of John, Jesus tells the
Jews, it says, no longer scribes and Pharisees,
the Jews.
It says,
the Jews. He tells the Jews that if
they were truly Abraham's seed,
they would do the works of Abraham.
In other words, the true seed of Abraham
are those who follow Abraham.
Then he says to them, no. You are
children of your father, the devil,
because you seek to kill me. Abraham did
not do this.
That's the New Testament Jesus.
The Jews who disbelieve in Jesus are the
seed of Satan according to the New Testament
Jesus. It's not Quran, not Hadith.
It was New Testament passages like this that
prompted the Talmudic rabbis to say what they
said.
Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees,
says the New Testament Jesus. This is the
teaching of the New Testament.
I don't agree with this teaching, and I
do not believe that the historical Jesus ever
taught these things.
But why is it that we almost never
hear Christians defending these things?
We have to ask a question.
Are you embarrassed?
Are you afraid?
Do you consider these teachings indefensible?
Perhaps Jesus was being hyperbolic here.
Do you consider these things anti Semitic?
If so, why do you continue to believe
in them?
I was on a panel once, and a
Christian next to me was asked this question,
and he said, yes. In the New Testament
gospels, there is vitriolic antisemitism.
There's a pastor of a church
who believes in the New Testament.
Well, if he believes that there is vitriolic
anti Semitism in the New Testament,
yet he believes in the New Testament, then
guess what? He's ipso facto, an antisemite.
Is that the answer he wants to give?
Give me something else. Give me something.
Nothing.
Fear.
Here.
There's Martin Luther,
the pioneer of the Protestant Reformation.
This is one of the more mild quotes
from his book on the Jews and their
lives.
The Council of Florence, the 17th ecumenical church
council, is very clear that the Old Testament
sacrifices,
that is to say, the ceremonial law of
the Israelites, is dead and deadly.
That's the phrase used by Catholic theologians.
In other words, the sacrifices are done with.
They're dead. They're abrogated. And
it is deadly to the salvation of Christians
if they bring back those sacrifices
because it is tantamount to denying what Jesus
did.
It is to deny that Jesus was the
ultimate sacrifice. So you see what Zionism does.
It takes the promise that God made with
Abraham in Genesis chapter 12 and it skips
the entire New Testament
and applies it to the modern, murderous nation
state of Israel.
Blasphemy.
Total blasphemy.
Obviously, I don't believe that Jesus was the
ultimate sacrifice.
I think this is a gravely mistaken theology.
But Pauline, new testament believing Christians are supposed
to believe that. And if they truly did,
they would not support Zionism.
It's bad theology, but at least they wouldn't
be war hawking for Israel.
At least they wouldn't have innocent blood on
their hands.
Our new speaker of the house in America,
Mike Johnson, who identifies as an evangelical Christian
Zionist,
recently said that America has a religious duty
to support Israel.
Blasphemy.
Blasphemy, according to the New Testament,
Christian Zionist is an oxymoron.
Okay? It's like open secret. You understand?
Original copy.
Living dead.
What's another one?
Jumbo shrimp. Jumbo shrimp. Yes, we saw that.
Jumbo shrimp. Yeah.
Buddhist rabbi.
What?
Christian Zionist.
Now how did the Christians get to this
point?
Now before I get to the brief history,
it's important to touch upon the geopolitical implications
of Christian Zionism.
Millions upon millions of Christian Zionists supported the
war on Iraq
for theological reasons, because it was in Israel's
best interest.
What is Israel's best interest? Well, it's laid
out in something called the Yinnon Plan. You
see that?
Written in 1982
by Oded Yinnon,
former Israeli foreign minister.
It is in Israel's best interest to destabilize
and weaken the Arab nations that support Israel,
what they call greater Israel. What is greater
Israel? From the Nile in Egypt
to the Euphrates in Iraq.
Read the yinon plan. It's all there. Of
course, the American public was sold a pack
of lies about WMDs,
total lies, blood libel,
absolutely disgraceful.
We had these Christian Zionist leaders and preachers
on television with millions of followers
stoking hatred for Arabs, hatred for Muslims,
offering these half witted and ridiculous
futuristic interpretations
of biblical verses
which they claimed were referring to Iraq and
Saddam Hussein,
Babylon the great,
the mother of harlots,
All for the glory and protection of Israel.
War hawking for Israel
by means of bad theology.
War hawking for Israel by means of bad
theology. This is a murderous ideology. Christian Zionism
is a murderous ideology. Who said that? Doctor
Steven Sizer,
bible believing Christian. He wrote a book called
Christian Zionism, Roadmap to Armageddon.
That's exactly what it is. It's a road
map to Armageddon.
How did Zionism become so popular among American
Protestants?
Well, in 18/31, an Anglican preacher named John
Nelson Darby
was one of the primary organizers of a
nondenominational
Christian movement called the Plymouth Brethren.
Okay. This is what happens when church tradition
is ignored.
Interestingly,
interesting historical tidbit, the parents of Alastair Crowley
were devoted members of the Plymouth Brethren at
one point, even Crowley himself as a child.
If you don't know who that is, look
it up.
Darby is considered to be the father of
something called
modern dispensationalism.
Okay?
Modern dispensationalism.
Here he is.
Donaldson Darby.
Okay. What is modern dispensationalism?
Basically, it's this notion, okay,
that there will be a future restoration
of the earthly nation of Israel.
But this also includes this idea
that the Mosaic covenant
and the Christian covenant, the Christic covenant,
are 2 valid
coexisting
covenants.
Both they are both valid
covenants.
It's called dual covenant theology.
In other words, Christians do not need to
convert Jews.
Jews already have a valid covenant.
Jews are still the chosen people,
irrespective of their belief in Jesus.
You see? This is radical.
Think about the theological implications of this for
Christianity.
This implies that Christ came only for the
Gentiles,
not the Jews.
That's the implication
and actually directly contradicts the New Testament Jesus.
I was not sent but unto the lost
sheep of the house of Israel.
Also, Christ is not the savior for all,
only for the Gentiles.
So John 316, for god so loved the
world, should really say, for god so loved
the Gentiles
that he gave his only begotten son, because
the Jews don't need him, at least not
yet.
So according to Darby, let's get into his
dispensational doctrine.
Okay? History, sacred history, is divided into 7
dispensations,
7 periods of time that demonstrate how God
deals with humanity.
He calls these innocence, this is from creation
to the fall,
conscience, number 2, conscience, from the fall to
the flood, civil government, from the flood to
Abraham,
promise from Abraham to Moses,
number 5, the law of Moses,
from Moses to the cross. Okay, number 5,
From Moses to the cross. Number 6,
he calls grace,
right, from the cross to the rapture.
I'll talk about the rapture, also known as
the church age, grace is also known as
the church age, it goes from the cross
to the rapture.
Okay. Finally, number 7, the kingdom,
the millennium,
when Christ will rule from Jerusalem after his
second coming.
This is described in Revelation chapter 20 verses
1 through 4. Now what is this last
dispensation?
The kingdom. So the kingdom, also known as
the millennium, is the literal
1000 year future reign of Christ from Jerusalem,
that Christ will rule the reconstituted
physical ethnic Jewish state of Israel.
So national Israel will be restored according to
Darby.
According to Darby, the Old Testament prophesizes
not so much the church age, but really
the kingdom, the millennium,
where Jesus rules the national Jewish state of
Israel.
So according to Darbian eschatology,
the rapture will occur. Okay? And this is
based on 1st Thessalonians chapter 4. What is
the rapture? The church, the believers, and Jesus
are sort of removed from the earth.
They're taken up.
Right? So if you're Christian, you don't wanna
be left behind.
Right? You ever heard of the book series
left behind?
Then there's going to be a horrible 7
year period known as the tribulation.
This is apparently described in Matthew and in
Revelation. So this is a time of massive
and widespread evil upon the earth.
During the tribulation, the antichrist emerges,
who will sit in the temple, the third
temple.
This is what Paul says.
And he will declare himself god.
Now this is unique in Darby such that
Christians will be gone before the tribulation.
Right? They're going to be raptured before the
tribulation. This is called pre trib
eschatology.
The rapture is pre trib.
Okay? So there's pre trib,
mid trib,
and post trib eschatology. In other words, the
rapture is either before, in the middle of,
or after the tribulation.
Okay? So for Darby, Christians will experience none
of the evils of the tribulation.
Then the
parousia or the second coming occurs, the second
coming of Jesus.
Then the earthly then sorry. Then the kingdom
or the millennium will manifest.
So the second coming is pre millennial.
The second coming is prior to the kingdom.
Okay? There was an opinion among Protestants that
the second coming was postmillennial,
that the kingdom would manifest by god's grace
be before the second coming,
of Jesus, which which meant basically that the
whole world was about to sort of repent
and accept Christ
through Christian
evangelizing,
and then the world would become and then
the world would sort of welcome Jesus with
open arms. This was very popular up until
the 20th century and then World War 1,
World War 2, etcetera. Now almost no one
takes this position. No one takes the position
that the that the second coming is post
Mill.
Okay? For most Christians
now,
like Catholics,
okay,
for Catholics,
the kingdom is already here.
Okay? So the kingdom of God
and the church age
are essentially,
synonymous.
Okay. So Christ is ruling over it right
now.
So they take this language of the millennium
to be symbolic.
It's not a literal
1000 year earthly reign. It's a spiritual reality,
and we are in it right now.
Now the book of Revelation
states, however, that Satan will be bound
during the millennium. So how is Satan bound
right now? Well, Satan is bound in the
sense that he cannot prevent people from receiving
the gospel. This is a position of the
Catholics. This is called amillennialism.
Amillennialism.
So, again, essentially a Catholic position. Also, there's
no rapture in the Protestant sense.
So when Christ comes back, he will not
rule for a 1000 years. He'll come back
and judge humanity, judge the nations immediately.
The righteous will then be taken body and
soul into heaven. We can call that a
rapture, if you will. And the evil ones,
including Satan and his demons, will go to
*. The book of Revelation calls it the
lake of fire. So that's that's most Christians
Catholic Christians.
Okay. Back to Darby. So Darby advanced
a pre trib,
pre mil
dispensational
eschatology.
Again, what does that mean? That means the
rapture will occur before the tribulation,
and the second coming of Jesus will occur
before the millennium,
the literal 1000 year kingdom period.
Darby was also a dual covenant
dispensationalist.
What does that mean?
Again, the Mosaic covenant
and the Christic covenant
are 2 valid,
coexisting
covenants.
They're both valid.
Okay? When Jesus returns to rule over national
Israel,
all of Israel will believe in him.
There's going to be a reversal.
Almost all of them disbelieved him the first
time. The second time, they'll all believe in
him.
Now this is really important.
Okay.
Darby was famous for saying that the Bible
must be rightly divided.
What he meant was that much of the
New Testament does not actually apply to Christians,
but actually
only to Jews.
So remember that the 5th dispensation
goes from Moses
to the cross. Right? The 5th dispensation is
called the law of Moses.
It starts with Moses and ends at the
cross. In other words, from Moses to the
crucifixion,
salvation is through adherence
to the law of Moses.
So according to Darby,
the earthly teachings of Jesus
found primarily in the synoptic gospels, Matthew, Mark,
and Luke,
were advancing the Mosaic covenant
because Jesus lived during the 5th dispensation.
You see, Jesus had not yet been crucified.
But in Paul's letters
after the crucifixion,
Paul was teaching the new covenant
in the 6th dispensation.
So there are 2 gospels.
This was Darby's teaching. There are basically 2
versions of the gospel, one for Jews,
which is essentially a reinforcement
of the Mosaic covenant,
and one gospel for Gentiles,
which is what Paul wrote about, salvation through
belief in the death and resurrection of Jesus.
In other words, Jesus was teaching both dispensations.
1 while he was alive in Galilee and
Judea
and one through his so called apostle to
the Gentiles,
Paul, after his resurrection.
Both covenants are valid
side by side.
So in Matthew, for example,
Jesus says,
follow the commandments and you shall enter the
life.
Right?
Follow the Mosaic Mitzvoth.
That's the Mosaic covenant
of the 5th dispensation.
But Paul says,
if you confess with your mouth Jesus is
Lord and believe in your heart that God
raised him from the dead, you will be
saved.
Romans 10:9.
That's the Christic covenant
in the 6th dispensation.
Is that
a bit clear,
what's happening
here? Now I think Darby
was actually onto something.
I agree with Darby
that Jesus and Paul were teaching 2 different
gospels.
Right? I've been saying this for years.
But it is not because there are, in
fact,
2 different Gospels
or two versions of the gospels.
It's because Paul's gospel is a false gospel,
a pseudo gospel.
This is why Paul's enemies, according to his
own letters, were Jerusalem based apostles
and men from James, as he says. James,
of course, was a brother of Jesus, the
successor of Jesus, the leader of the Nazarenes
for over 30 years.
Paul was an unauthorized,
freelance, self proclaimed apostle of Jesus,
or as the Ebionites used to call him,
the apostate
Paul.
So Darby
rightly,
correctly
saw that Jesus and Paul were teaching 2
different things.
But Darby, as a Christian,
he had to somehow reconcile this contradiction,
you see.
As a Christian, Darby believed that the new
testament,
the gospels, and all the Pauline corpus
were true and totally accurate.
That is the real problem.
Right?
The Quran says their alterations or fabrications in
their own books have deluded them about their
own religion.
When you have fabrications in your text, you're
gonna try to reconcile things and it's gonna
lead you more into.
Darby's solution was to claim that the new
testament advances
2 covenants,
one for Jews and one for Gentiles.
That's not the right solution.
The right solution is to take Jesus over
Paul
and then compare the Christology of the Quran
with the Christology of the earliest Christians and
become Muslim.
So for Darby,
god, in effect,
put the Jews on a time out.
Go on time out. Go to your room.
He didn't replace them.
He put them on a time out.
When the Christians of the 6th dispensation
are raptured
and Christ returns,
then god will turn his attention back
to his chosen people, Israel,
and Jesus will rule over them as king,
the king they always wanted,
and they will finally believe in him as
the true messiah.
So those old testament passages that describe the
future kingdom will finally be fulfilled.
Okay. So that's Darby in a nutshell. Now
Darby's dispensationalism
eventually found its way across the pond to
America.
Remember, this started off as a very small
group of
poor Christians in England called the Plymouth Brethren.
An American pastor named Clarence Larkin
absolutely fell in love with Darby's doctrines,
and he wrote a famous book called Dispensational
Truth.
This book is very famous for its elaborate
and highly perplexing charts and symbols. So Larkin,
he tried to illustrate
Darby's dispensationalism to make it a bit easier
to follow. At least, that was probably his
intention.
Another American pastor, James Hall Brooks, also fell
in love with Darby.
Brooks was in,
Saint Louis.
Now there was an annual bible conference called
the Niagara Bible Conference,
and Brooks was often the keynote speaker.
Okay.
So it was at this conference where Darbian
dispensationalism
became more and more popular
via James Brooks.
Brooks had a popular preacher friend named Dwight
Moody.
He would later establish the famous Moody Bible
Institute,
which still operates today in Chicago, where Bible
is their middle name, as Bart Ehrman always
says.
Moody also became a Darbian dispensationalist,
and Moody befriended a man named Cyrus Ingersoll
Schofield.
The chief trickster.
Schofield was a morally questionable lawyer
and politician.
He was accused of multiple charges of theft,
bribery,
forgery,
extortion.
He was also a deadbeat husband and father,
a self described alcoholic
turned Christian minister.
So he abandoned his wife and children. Anti
Zionist Christians. Listen to this. Anti Zionist Christians,
they quote 1 Timothy 5:8
when speaking of Scofield. This is what 1st
Timothy 5:8 says. Ready? Anyone who does not
provide for his relatives,
especially his own household,
has denied the faith and is worse than
an infidel.
This is what Paul says in verse 1058.
Schofield, according to the Bible, is worse than
infidel.
Anyway, Scofield became an ordained pastor in Dallas
in 18/83.
In 18/88, he wrote a treatise called rightly
dividing the word of truth.
He also started calling himself CI Scofield,
DD.
That is doctor of divinity, although there is
no record of him ever graduating from seminary.
So it seemed like he gave himself an
honorary doctorate. Right? It's kinda like what Dartmouth
College did for Doctor. Seuss.
You know, Doctor. Seuss was not a real
doctor. CI Scofield at least Doctor. Seuss admitted
he wasn't a real doctor.
In 18 sorry. 19 09,
Scofield wrote his Scofield Study Bible,
published by Oxford.
This Bible, the Schofield Study Bible, had a
massive,
massive impact
on American Protestants and Evangelicals.
It is no
exaggeration
that this Bible turned millions of American protestants
into Christian Zionists.
It changed a generation of preachers.
His bible is essentially the King James translation,
but with a lot of his own strange
commentary.
He didn't change the translation. It's his notes.
Okay?
Oxford,
at at one point, was giving out these
Bibles for free.
What's going on there?
It was his commentary of Genesis 12:3,
God's promise to Abraham that I mentioned earlier
that changed the whole game.
Okay?
And God said to Abraham,
and curse those who curse you. Schofield said,
quote,
wonderfully fulfilled in the history of the dispersion.
It has invariably fared ill with the people
who have persecuted
the Jew
well with those who have protected him, the
future will still more remarkably prove this principle.
After Scofield, it became ubiquitous among protestants and
among protestants
that Christians owe
unconditional
and unquestionable
loyalty to the Jewish people
because they never cease to be chosen.
This is Scofield's commentary.
And so this doggish
Christian loyalty,
this pathetic,
almost
slavish
Christian loyalty
to ethnic Jews
extends to the modern, murderous state of Israel.
Because eventually,
Jesus will rule Israel. That's Jesus' future kingdom.
But as we said, in light of the
New Testament,
the book of Galatians in particular,
this is a grave
misreading of the text of Genesis chapter 12.
According to the New Testament,
the church is a new Israel.
The church is a new Zion,
which can and does include some ethnic Jews,
but belief in Jesus is without question. You
have to believe in Jesus.
The
of being chosen by God is having belief
in Jesus.
According to the new testament,
the last supper,
the pronouncement and initiation of the new covenant
occurred on Mount Zion on holy Thursday.
The descent of the holy spirit on the
day of Pentecost
occurred in that same room about 50 days
later on Mount Zion.
So both the establishment of the new covenant
as well as the proclamation
of the new covenant
happened on Mount Zion in Jerusalem.
So you see what the authors of the
New Testament are saying. The Christian church is
the new Zion.
When Thomas Aquinas wrote his hymns praising Zion,
he was praising the Christian church, not some
future secular Jewish ethnostate.
How did Schofield do it?
In 2005,
Joseph Canfield
wrote a biography about Schofield.
It's called The Incredible Schofield
and His Book.
So according to Canfield, in 1901,
Schofield joined an exclusive
men's only secret society called the Lotus Club.
Canfield suggests that someone highly influential within the
club, he thinks a lawyer named Samuel Untermyer,
basically promoted and financed
Schofield's Bible project.
In other words, Schofield had powerful American Zionists
bankrolling his project.
Schofield was the textbook definition of what's known
as a useful idiot,
someone who is used by powerful people to
do their bidding without really understanding the consequences
of his actions.
In 1948, when Israel became a state, Darbian
dispensationalism
through Scofield exploded even more in popularity among
western protestants. You see, Israel has been restored,
just as Darby said.
This just further vindicated dispensationalism,
and so the Christian Zionists
were saying, we better be nice to Israel
or else god will curse us,
according to Genesis 123.
We better be nice to Israel because it
is Jesus'
future kingdom.
But what did Paul say?
The antichrist
will sit in the 3rd temple in Jerusalem.
The Christ?
The antichrist.
One of Schofield's students was named Louis Schafer.
Schafer founded the Dallas Theological Seminary in 1924.
He was the president of the DTS until
1952.
A famous alumnus of of Dallas Theological Seminary
is a man named Hal Lindsey. He's still
alive. In 1973,
Lindsey wrote a book that would take the
world by storm.
It had the power of 30 Harry Potters.
It was called The Late Great Planet Earth.
Millions upon millions of copies were sold. It
seemed that all of America was reading this
book about end times prophecies in the bible
through the lens of Darbian dispensationalism.
It was even made into a movie narrated
by Orson Welles.
Hal Lindsey, by the way,
the author, he said in 1979
that Jesus will return in 1988.
So there's
a there's a verse in Matthew 24
where Jesus says, this generation
shall not pass away until all these things
be fulfilled.
The present generation will live to see it
all.
Apparently, Jesus was speaking of the restored kingdom.
So one generation is 40 years.
The restored kingdom, 1948,
restoration of national Israel, also called the Nakba,
plus 40
equals 1988.
Never happened.
The new Scofield study Bible, published by Oxford
University Press in 1984,
added the following clarifying comment. Okay. Listen to
this.
For a nation to commit the sin of
anti semitism brings inevitable judgement.
The
new testament Jesus said that the only unforgivable
sin
was blasphemy against the Holy Spirit.
Now in today's Zeitgeist,
we are constantly told that any critique of
Zionism
is anti Semitic.
Right?
So anti Zionism
is a form of anti Semitism. This is
what we're told.
So then Christians who read that note from
Scofield
must only conclude
that anti Zionism
is the unforgivable sin
in the sight of God.
For a nation to commit the sin of
anti Semitism,
a form of which is anti Zionism,
brings inevitable judgement.
You see how they were hoodwinked?
There he is.
I circled the DD.
He's not a doctor.
Mhmm. In his commentary
of Hosea 110,
Scofield wrote I'll give you a few examples.
Okay? He wrote, quote, the expression
my people, ammi in Hebrew,
is used in the Old Testament
exclusively of Israel, the nation.
He's wrong,
demonstrably wrong.
Isaiah 1925. Ready? Baruch ami Mitzrayim,
Blessed be Egypt,
my people.
Whatever that means, it means what it means,
but he's wrong.
In his commentary of on Genesis, Scofield wrote
listen to this one.
The Palestinian covenant gives the conditions under which
Israel, he means he means physical Israel,
entered the land of promise. It is important
to see that the nation has never as
yet taken the land
under the unconditional Abrahamic covenant
nor has it ever possessed the whole land.
Wrong.
Let's read Joshua 2143.
So the lord gave Israel
all the land, Kol Haaretz in Hebrew, Kol
Haaretz,
all the land
that he had sworn to their ancestors and
they took possession of it
and settled there.
What is Scofield doing here? Scofield wants us
to think that this is still an outstanding
promise,
that god has not yet fulfilled his side
of the deal
and has not given this land to Israel
yet.
But he had. He did. And they were
kicked out.
And they must stay in exile.
Scofield said, 2 dispossessions and restorations have been
accomplished.
Israel is now in the 3rd dispersion,
from which she will be restored at the
return of the lord as king.
So according to Scofield, the future kingdom
will be given to the Jews. Okay? According
to Scofield, the future kingdom will be given
to the Jews. But in Matthew,
Jesus says to the Jews, the kingdom of
God shall be taken away from you.
So Christians need to ask themselves,
Scofield
or scripture?
But then the problem becomes, if you go
with scripture, there are problems
with the integrity,
preservation,
and accuracy of the text.
There's another problem. The only solution is become
Muslim, basically, is what I'm trying to say
here. Because if you fall if you wanna
discover the historical Jesus
is very different than what Paul says, you'll
become Muslim naturally. This is what historians say.
Don't take my word for it.
Okay. Any questions? Christian Zionism.
What time is our next break?
It's almost 2.
We can take a couple of questions. Let's
take a couple of questions and then we'll
take a short break and then we'll do
the conclusion, inshallah. We're coming down to the
end. Yes, sir.
So I have, 2 questions.
So it looks like that,
the problem is the
European problems that,
they used to hate Jews.
It came back came down to the
Arab
area. Right?
So it's really ironic that, you know,
the the people of Palestine
in that area,
they're the one that
who accepted them. And now
right? You know? Exactly.
Very ironic. It's very ironic.
The second thing is that, the second question
that maybe you might wanna maybe you can
kinda highlight it.
So
Palestine is, to me, actually, 2 part. Right?
1 from the
the religious point of view, how you you
explained. Right?
2nd part, isn't that also part of the
the resources that,
that was developed and that was found,
in around 19 thirties to, you know, during
the 2nd World War that, you know,
Arab land does have
resources there. So they want to control that
part. So the the 2 things that got
merged,
from the from
the religious point of view, but, again, their
the resources that they have,
that's what the Zionism
that, combined together
that's because, as you know, that we came
to know, like, you know, it is there
in the Internet. Right? And Biden mentioned that
they give Israel $3,000,000,000
every day. If Israel doesn't do that work,
they will create another Israel. Right?
Sort of. I mean, exactly. So my point
is that is that that two things are
green combined from the religious point of view,
and then, you know, they want to capture
that Geopolitics.
Yeah.
Primarily British and the British,
you know, they they were they were Zionists.
They they were Christian, you know,
sentimentalists and dispensationalists.
But the military, primarily, according to doctor Rashid
Khalidi, they were interested in geopolitics. They were
interested in imperialism
and how to control that area, to protect
India, to protect Egypt, things like that.
You're right. It's emerging.
Emerging of religions, a real religious fanaticism
with imperialistic aspirations.
It's like a perfect storm.
And who suffered? Palestinians.
People who let them in. You're right. Hadrian
kicked them out. It was the Muslims in
the 7th century
that let the Jews back into Jerusalem. And
they admit this. This is not some secret.
This is something that's open.
One of my teachers said the Palestinians are
being slaughtered on the altar
for the sins of Europe.
The pascal lamp slaughtered on the altar for
the sins of Europe.
Yes, sir. Assalamu alaikum.
So I'm wondering what,
authority
Darby,
has
to come up with these
theories and then have them be
kind of accepted, but, I mean, are are
they
because because it seems to me it's kind
of the equivalence of leakage to head
for Oh, definitely. And
and
how does that work in the in the
Christian
faith?
Well, that's that's the problem. What I mentioned
earlier is this is what happens when when
tradition is ignored.
So everyone used to be Catholic, and the
Catholic
church has a strong tradition. It's called the
Magisterium. So you're not you're not allowed to
go into the Bible and say, I think
this means that or this. You can't do
that. You know, to be a quote mufassir
of the Bible, you have to have certain,
prerequisite knowledge, just like in our tradition.
Right? Un Jazay Al Kalbi says you need
to to master 12 or 5th 12 to
15 uloom to give your opinion about the
Quran. This is this is a weighty thing.
But with Protestantism,
right, it's this detachment,
this rebellion against church tradition,
and becomes almost, you know, Bible only. Right?
Sola scriptura, only scripture.
So now this gives license to individual Christians
who interpret the Bible how they want.
So Darby is in that milieu. Right?
And so when he comes up with this
and I think it was motivated from a
good place. I actually think that. I think
that he was being honest with the text
and he's saying, look. Jesus and Paul are
saying 2 different things.
I have to admit it.
But it's all the Word of God.
So how do I how do I deal
with this? How do I reconcile this?
And it could have just died with him,
but for some reason, there were American pastors
who heard of him invited him to America,
and it just exploded
during that time.
Did he have a position when he came
to church?
He he was he was a preacher.
He was one of the founders of the
Plymouth Brethren,
whatever that means.
You know?
So no. You know, there's
the Protestants don't have these I mean, there's
something of a structure, but not as rigid
as in the Catholic church, where there's
the laity, and there's a deacon, and there's
a priest, and you have a bishop, an
archbishop, you have a cardinal, the pope. It's
it's there must be hierarchy.
You know?
Let's take a should we take a look?
We have some online questions. We have a
lot of people online. We have more in
the room. How many more would you like
to take? Let's take one online. We'll take
a break. Okay.
Don't anti Zionist Jews believe in the same
thing as the Zionist Jews when the messiah
comes? When all nations go into slavery?
Do anti Zionist Jews believe the same?
Not necessarily, no. So,
if you, for example, if you listen to,
rabbis of the Matura Carter International, like,
Rabbi David
Weiss, He'll say that the temple will be
built by God himself,
and there's going to be a change, a
metaphysical change in the world,
where
where basically
there's going to be sort of peace on
earth in a supernatural sense.
Okay. So there's that opinion. But, yes, there
is also opinion
that at the end of times, when the
messiah comes, he's going to fight the Milchamat
Adonai, which means the the wars of the
Lord. Right?
And generally, rabbis believe, or orthodox believe,
even traditional orthodox, I'm talking about, they believe
in 2 messiahs. This is mentioned in Talmud.
Right? So just as as we we have
things in our hadith of the end of
time, right, that are a bit controversial and
things like that, they're talking about their eschatological
hadith. They have those too.
Right? So they believe in 2 messiahs, a
Josephine messiah,
the Moshiach ben Yosef who's going to come,
he's gonna fight Edom, which means Christianity
Europe, is going to be killed by them,
and then the Moshiach ben David is going
to come, the Davidic Messiah, who's going to
fight the who's going to fight Ishmael, the
Muslims, the Arabs.
Yeah. That's going to happen.
Right? But for the time being,
it is absolutely against
traditional Judaism to reestablish any state without the
coming of the Messiah. They have to wait
for the Messiah.
And the Quran says something interesting.
That about
'Isa alayhi salaam
that there is none of the people that
book that won't believe in him,
prior to his death.
So according to the Quran, when Isa alaihi
salam comes again,
there's going to be a point where all
Jews and Christians will believe in him as
a true messiah and a true prophet of
God. It may not be immediate,
but eventually, it's gonna get to that point.
So, yes, there's going to be tension. We
all believe in this in this sort of
end of time tension. Yes, it's going to
happen.
But the question is, how do we live
right now? How are we supposed to live
right now? By our tradition.
And if Christians and Jews and Muslims
would just adhere to their long standing normative
tradition, it would make for a much better
world. Even though we don't agree.
Yeah. I don't agree I don't agree Jesus
is a is a the temple. I don't
believe that he died for my sins. I
don't believe that. But that's Christian tradition. And
if Christians would just simply believe that, and
be courageous enough to believe that, they wouldn't
support Zionism.
Okay. So before I get into what I
think is actually happening
right now, sort of, in Palestine theologically,
vis a vis radical Judaism.
I want to make a few comparisons because
comparisons are very helpful. They put things in
the proper perspective,
and they really help me understand things. Right?
So I use the comparison that if I
say that a baseball player gets on base,
40%
of his at bats.
Right?
Someone who doesn't know anything about baseball might
think 40%? That's that's horrible. Like, if I
get a 40% on my math test, I
fail.
But in fact, a 4 100 batting average
is pretty great. Right? So he needs to
compare it to something meaningful. Right? The average
batting average is 260, so now he understands.
So the total number of people killed or
who died, really killed, in all of the
military campaigns of the prophet Muhammad,
Muslim and non Muslim, was about a1000 to
1100,
give or take. And these were men on
the battlefield. Okay?
Now by comparison, the United States of America
dropped 2 bombs on Japan, killing 300,000 civilians
on impact.
So think about that. Just think about the
violence.
It was never the practice of the prophet,
Muhammad, salallahu alaihi, sallam, to target civilians in
wartime, and certainly never women and children.
This is ma'am. This is just known, and
any Muslim who does so is in clear
violation of the teachings of the prophet sallallahu
alaihi sallam
is the role model and exemplar
for the Muslims. On the day of Uhud,
right, he said, Allahumma diqomi fihinhumla yalamu with
blood dripping down his face.
Oh God, guide my people for they don't
know.
When the prophet
conquered Mecca, he said,
You are Azulahu Quresh. Today is a day
of mercy.
The exaltation of the Quraysh.
There's no blemish on you today,
and he declared general
amnesty. This is the prophet, say, salam, in
a position of power.
Years earlier, when he was stoned out of
Ta'if by slaves and children of Bani Fatif,
he refused to curse them.
He prayed for their descendants.
By comparison, there's a story in the Bible,
the old testament, the Tanakh. You might have
heard this. This is mentioned in 2nd Kings
chapter 2.
This is a story that Jews and Christians
believe in.
There's a Hebrew prophet named Elisha
who's leaving Jericho.
I'll just read the NIV translation. And he,
Elisha, was walking along the road. Some boys
came out of the town and jeered at
him.
They said, get out of here, Baldy.
Get out of here, Baldy.
So they made fun of him, his bald
spot.
Now when the prophet Muhammad salallahu alaihi wasalam
was leaving Ta'if, they were insulting him, they
were punching him and kicking him, throwing stones
at him. He was covered in blood.
What did this Hebrew prophet do according to
2nd Kings chapter 2? Again, it's mentioned in
the bible. And every time I mention a
statement,
I have to say, I'm not making this
up. And I'm not saying this
to ridicule anyone's religion. I'm mentioning this in
order to draw an effective comparison.
He turned around, looked at them, and called
down a curse on them in the name
of the lord.
Then 2 bears came out of the woods
and mauled
42 of the boys, 42 boys, mauled to
death by 2 bears.
Imagine the carnage,
the screams,
the the terror,
the violence.
Now after 911, for those of us who
remember, a group of anti Muslim
war mongering profligates
emerged in the public discourse,
and they were paid handsomely by several
neocon think tanks. And they would quote the
so called ayat al saif from the Quran,
chapter 9 verse 5. And they tried to
convince the American people and the entire West,
by extension, that Muslims believe in unmitigated perpetual
warfare against unbelievers
and that the Quran orders all Muslims to
kill every non Muslim on the planet,
men, women, and child.
Because the Quran says, umtulul mushrikeenaheithuwajatumuhum.
Kill the
idolaters
wherever you find them.
And if Muslims deny this, they're lying.
That's called taqiyah,
prudential concealment.
There were popular TV shows where they would
depict, you know, the seemingly normal
and peaceful family, Muslim family next door, who
are really terrorists,
Absolutely despicable.
So this was how these so called wars
of terror against Muslims were justified for the
Western public. 4,700,000
Muslims have been killed in these wars of
terror in the last 20
years. Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, etcetera, 4,700,000
based on a lie,
the ultimate blood libel.
And the Jewish people understand the power of
a blood libel.
In medieval Europe, okay, check this out, The
Christians made up the infamous lie that Jews
kidnap and kill Christian children
and use their blood for magical rituals
and in the making of the unleavened Passover
bread.
You can look up William of Norwich,
Simon of Trent.
Some of these children were even canonized by
the Catholic church.
This was a common blood libel in England,
France, Spain, Germany.
This lie contributed to massive persecution of European
Jewry.
Edward the first eventually expelled the entire Jewish
population of England in 12
90. But it was all a lie.
You know, it's like saying Muslims decapitate babies.
A blood libel.
But I'll come back to that. Back to
Ayatul Saif.
When we look at the context of that
verse in the Quran, its plain and obvious
meaning
becomes clear that the Quran is referring to
the pagan Arabs and the Hejaz
who broke their treaty with the Muslims.
They were given 4 months to leave or
face retaliation from the Muslims.
And if at any point a mushrik asked
for asylum from the Muslims,
he must be granted asylum. This is according
to the passage in Surah Totoaba.
Take him to a place of safety and
recite the Quran to him.
And if he refuses Islam, then take him
to the border of the city and release
him. So 95 has a locative condition. It
applies to the Hejaz, the heartland of Islam,
the cities of Mecca and Medina. There can
be no outward idolatry in these places,
and they could have even stayed if they
stopped worshiping idols.
No killing of the innocent,
no killing of women and children is mentioned,
no destroying buildings and livestock.
And if a handful of ignorant Muslim extremists
invoke this verse as a justification for the
killing of civilians, then they stand condemned.
These mututarifun,
these extremists, have to twist and turn the
Quran and sunnah
to coincide with their deviance.
Show me where the prophet Muhammad salallahu alaihi
salam ordered the killing of women and children.
Nowhere.
Now, there is a war policy mentioned and
explicitly described in the Tanakh Hebrew Bible several
times called kedem.
This is a word that we all have
to know.
Where is this word mentioned?
Exodus, Deuteronomy, Joshua, 1st Samuel, Isaiah. It's all
over the place.
Not once, not twice, not 3 times, not
5 times, not 10 times.
What does kharem mean? According to academic sources,
the strongest and korems, kharem,
to ban, devote, destroy utterly, completely destroy, dedicate
for destruction, exterminate.
The Brown Driver Briggs Hebrew English Lexicon. This
is used in seminaries all over the west.
This is what I used years ago in
Hebrew class. Did you use this one?
Even up until last year, this is what
they're using. Jerem, to exterminate
the massacre of all inhabitants.
In jesenius, it says Hebrew Caldi lexicon to
the Old Testament. This was a long time
ago.
To extirpate.
I looked that one up.
Eradicate,
eliminate,
to destroy utterly.
What's an example of hadam? Deuteronomy 20 16
and 17. So here, god is telling Moses
that the cities that god gave to the
Israelites as an inheritance,
okay, so the promised land, all living things
of these cities must be exterminated.
In the very words of the text,
you shall not you shall save alive
you shall save nothing alive that breathes.
It continues, but you shall utterly destroy them,
namely the Hittites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the
Perizzites, the Hivites, the Jebusites,
as the Lord thy God has commanded thee.
So total extermination
explicitly ordered by the text, explicitly. Genocide
explicitly ordered by the text.
In its plain and obvious meaning, you do
not have to twist and turn it. This
is what it says on the surface.
I mentioned the conquest of Mecca earlier. Right?
But now but I wonder how many viewers
have heard of the conquest of, Jericho.
Here, Joshua chapter 6 verse 21.
This is how it begins.
That's a verb. It's related to the word
herem.
You shall utterly destroy.
Ethkolashadba'ir,
everything in the city.
Men and women.
Both young and old
an ox and sheep and donkey,
lafi kharev,
with the edge of the sword.
Think about this.
Can you possibly imagine this?
Impaling women,
impaling children with swords and spears,
impaling toddlers and babies.
Today they use bombs.
This is called harem.
Here's the point. The wholesale slaughter of innocent
civilians
as a policy of war is sanctioned
by Jewish and Christian texts. Deuteronomy 20, Joshua
6, 1st Samuel 15 are Jewish and Christian
texts.
A Christian apologist might say, no. No. No.
Deuteronomy 20
is not a Christian text. It's a Jewish
text.
Right? It's in the old testament, not the
new testament. This is a tactic.
This is an obfuscation.
Christians claim that there is one god,
okay, and that it is the same god
in both testaments.
They also believe that the Old Testament was
inspired by this one god. Who is this
god? The god of Abraham.
Christians claim that this god is a triune
god.
He's a trinity, father, son, holy spirit.
Trinitarians also believe in the doctrine of perikoresis.
Perikoresis.
This is the intercommunion,
interpenetration
of the 3 persons of the trinity.
It means that they are inseparable in action
and of one mind. In other words, when
they act, they always act together and they
never disagree.
Therefore, God, Father, Son, and Spirit,
ordered herem in the Old Testament, and the
Son here is also known as the logos,
and the logos incarnated into the flesh of
a man named Jesus of Nazareth.
So there is no escaping this.
Here's a book recommendation,
professor Philip Jenkins I didn't mention him on
this line.
Philip Jenkins. It's called Laying Down the Sword,
Why We Can't Ignore the Bible's Violent Verses.
This is a must read. And Jenkins, he's
a Christian. He calls kherem, quote, a mass
human sacrifice.
Now you might ask, but didn't I quote
Deuteronomy earlier to support my contention?
So is the Bible accurate or not? Okay.
Well,
Islam has the answer for the state of
the Bible. The Quran is called the Muhaman,
the overseer,
the supervisor of the Bible. The Quran is
the furkan, the standard of judgment when it
comes to the Bible. And the Quran refers
to the tariff of the biblical text, alteration,
fabrication,
deconsexualization.
The text of the Bible has been corrupted
to a certain significant degree. So here, we
as Muslims, okay, have a major
difference of opinion
with anti Zionist Haredi Jews.
Right? This is a major point of disagreement.
For the Haredi, the text of the Torah
is sound and authentic,
but the Zionists have corrupted the meanings.
Okay. In other words, for the Haredi, there
is tahrif of the mana of the Torah
and not of the nus. In other words,
the text is sound, the meanings, the tafsir
is wrong.
Okay.
For us, the tahrif of the Torah is
both of the nus and the ma'ana. That's
the dominant opinion.
And obviously, if the former is there, if
the text is wrong, the ma'ana will be
corrupted as well.
And this is totally mainstream historical scholarship of
the Bible. It took historical scholars about 1200
years to catch up to the Quran here.
In fact, scriptural alteration of the Torah is
admitted in the Tanakh itself. In Jeremiah, Jeremiah
88,
ready, it says, how can you say, we
are wise and we have the Torah Adonai,
the law of God?
And then in Hebrew it says, hinei l'sheker
asa8
sheker sufrim.
The false pens of the scribes have turned
it, the Torah,
into a lie.
Now, how do modern rabbinical authorities deal with
these kedem passages? This is really important, right?
It's really three ways. So we have the
normative Jewish opinion.
Right? So there are 613
commandments,
mitzvot, in the Torah
from Genesis to Deuteronomy. The first commandment, the
first mitzvah,
is Genesis 128,
get married and produce children.
Okay?
The mitzvah to commit chetem in the holy
land is, one of the 613
mitzvot in the Torah. It's number 528
of 613
according to the numbering of Maimonides.
It says, leave none alive of the 7
nations.
And this is taken directly from Deuteronomy 20
that I quoted earlier.
6 of the 7 nations are mentioned in
the next verse, Deuteronomy 2017, the Hittites, the
Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and
the Jebusites. There's another group called the Girgashites,
as Rashi and others mention,
are also included to be exterminated.
Now Abraham ben Ezra and Rabbi Hezekiah ben
Manoah and many others maintained
that this mitzvah was limited only to the
generation of Moses.
Okay?
So according to the traditional understanding,
khedem of the 7 nations was only for
that time, at that place, and never again.
And the reason is because these groups are
gone.
They no longer exist. So while the 613
Mitzvot are believed to be perennial and perpetual,
right, transhistorical,
there is simply no application of this mitzvah
because these groups are gone.
As Maimonides says,
if even descendants of these groups remain until
today,
mixed among other nations,
as long as their evil culture has gone,
their idolatry, their child sacrifice, or immorality, then
the mitzvah remains
fulfilled, and there is no application.
So this is traditional Judaism.
Now it is important to mention that almost
no critical historians of the bible believe
that such a massive extermination of these nations
ever really took place. Right? These stories are
exaggerations.
They're really intended as scare tactics.
They function to scare the enemies of Israel
as well as to give hope to the
Israelites.
What actually happened to these groups? These groups
migrated, they assimilated, they converted. Yes. There was
wars and battles from time to time, but
this kind of wholesale
genocide? Probably not.
But what matters is belief.
Right?
And the orthodox take these stories literally, they
believe them to be historically
true, as did most eminent,
the most eminent Christian scholars from Augustine to
Aquinas to John Calvin, from the East and
the West.
Okay.
I'm gonna
skip ahead here a little bit.
Okay.
Now another opinion says
that hillem and the Holy Land will happen
one more time
at that place, but only when the messiah
comes.
Okay? So they must wait for the messiah.
They call him Moshiach ben Melech, Moshiach HaMelech
ben David, the king messiah, son of David.
So only the messiah can begin this process
of kibbutzgalut,
the regathering of the Jews from diaspora,
reestablishing
the Jewish state, he'll fight the Milhamad Adonai,
as I mentioned earlier, the wars of the
Lord, etcetera, etcetera.
The third opinion
is a is a position of religious Zionism,
the position of
the Tzionut Datit.
There has been a consistent and sustained sentiment
among religious Zionist Jews that the Palestinians are
the modern day Canaanites.
It's very common sentiment among the religious Zionists.
Therefore, given this notion
of the beginning of the redemption,
it is a religious duty of the government
of Israel to wage a war of extermination
against the Palestinian people.
And this is what we are seeing right
now in all of its horror.
This is radical Judaism.
They are preparing the land for their messiah.
So I encourage people to look up Gush
Emunim, the Coalition of the Faithful. This was
an ultranationalist
orthodox Zionist movement founded in the 19 seventies
in Israel,
founded by students of Yehuda Kook, director of
the Mirkasarov,
and the son of the famous the infamous,
I should say, Rabbi Abraham Kook. In the
minds of these religious Zionists, the Israeli government
has a religious duty to implement mitzvah number
528
and utterly destroy the Palestinians in some form
or fashion.
They believe that the coming of their moshiach
can be hastened through a continued aggression,
conquest, and settlement
of Palestinian Palestinian territories,
and this aggression will culminate in the coming
of their messiah.
As an organization, Gush Emunim
no longer exists, but their ideology has permeated
government officials in Israel.
Gush Emunim also championed what's known as the
Greater Israel Project, Eretz Israel Haslema.
This idea that it is the religious duty
of the Israeli government to fully annex
all Palestinian territories
as these constitute greater Israel.
Mary Kahane and Baruch Goldstein were staunch advocates
of greater Israel.
Uh-huh.
Yes. They I mentioned that earlier as well.
Yeah.
I'll come back to that though in a
minute, Joel.