Thirty years hae passed since the Zionist
state was established. It is a coincidence that there has not been one
single day of peace, nor is there any outlook for peace? To religious
Jews this is not a suprise. All the great Rabbis of the past generations
declared Zionism would lead to the gravest catastrophe ever wrought upon
the Jewish people. We quote a few.
78 years ago Rabbi Shulem Dov Ber Schneerson
zt"l, the Lubavitcher Rebbe wrote, that even if the Zionists
were Torah observant, we must still oppose the concept the concept of
a state, for we hae been foresworn by the establishment of a state, which
can only come intobeing with the Divine revealation of Moshiach. Rabbi
Schneerson zt"l continues, if the Zionists do succeed, G-D forbid,
to establish a state in the Holy Land, they will defile it with their
evil ways and delay the coming of Moshiach. To our sorrow and all of these
predictions have come true.
Tens of thousands of immigrant children have been forcibly
torn from their religious roots. Jew or non-Jew, all of us who believe
in religious freedom are aghast at what was perpetrated in the immigrant
settlements of the oriental Jews in the Zionist state, against a youth
whose innocence and pure religious sentiment was a poetic joy to behold!
The Holy Land is being defiled by laws enacted by the
Zionist state which encourage murder (abortion) and promiscuity (women's
conscription to the army), just to name two.
The Holy of Holies, the Temple Mount in Jerusalem has
also not been spared. For two thousand years no Jew dared violate the
prohibition of treading upon this sacred spot, until the Zionist state
turned it into a tourist attraction and encouraged hundreds of thousands
of Jews to defy a commandment of the Torah punishable by KOREIS (death).
We tremble when we become aware of the meaning of `the land spew out that
which is offensive to it.' We tremble because this has already been fulfilled
several times in Jewish History.
No less a crime is the abrogation by the Zionist state
of the right to speak in the name of the Jewish people
.
The great sage Rabbi Elchonon Wasserman
zt'l, said: it is a false premise and a denial of the entire Torah that
one can be a Jew without Torah and Mitzvohs.
Moreover the saintly Chofetz Chaim declared
that we are not allowed to honor individuals in this category or be associated
with them een to further worthy causes.
78 years ago the illustrous Rabbi of Karlin, Rabbi
Dovid Friedman zt'l, in a public letter characterized the
adherents of the of Zionism as latter day followers of the false messiah
Shabsie Tzvi.
With regard to peace, the authoratative Jewish position
was declared by the late chief Rabbi of the Holy Land, Rabbi
Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld zt'l, as follows; The Jews do not
want to enroach upon the rest of the inhabitants of the Holy Land. The
Jews do not want, in any way, to take that which isn't theirs. And they
certainly do not want to contest the rights of other inhabitants to the
places held by them.
His sucessor, Rabbi Yosef Tzvi Duschinsky
zt"l, stated before the United Nations Special Comm. on Palestine
July 16,'47 to avoid further bloodshed and strife the United Nations should
not help establish a state under the dominion of the Zionists, and that
in any event the Holy Cirty of Jerusalem should be excluded from all states
and be declared an international city of peace and brotherhood.
There is still the hope and aspiration of the orthodox
Jewish community.
In conclusion we wish to reiterate:
1. The essence of the Jewish people is their belief in Torah and Mitzvohs.
2. Zionism is diametrically opposed to the Torah. Anyone who believes that Judaism and Torah are divisable cannot represent or speak in the name of the Jewish people.
3. The Torah forbids us to have any national aspirations and definitely not a state before the advent of Moshiach. This would be even if the state would accept and follow the laws of the Torah-which it does not-and would not cause any bloodshed-which it does.
4. it naturally follows that the leaders of the Zionist state and Zionist organizations even though they may gie the mistaken appearance of being observant, cannot and do not speak in the name of the Jewish people. This day of independence rather than being a day of rejoicing is a day of mourning.
On this day we echo the underlying words of our late leader Rabbi Amrom Blau zt"l, proclaining that it is the duty of every right thinking individual in the world to do all within his power to end the continuing bloodbath.