Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu said this morning (Friday) that he is making his way to the funeral. Reflects on what Omar Bar-Lev said in condemning “settler violence” and those who explain “Arab violence” in incidental events of family conflict. ”
The rabbi attacked the Minister of Internal Security, “Omar Bar-Lev is the Minister of Internal Security. He should know that in the last year the Arabs threw about 200 Molotov cocktails, and the Jews did not throw even a single bottle. He should know that the Arabs murdered Kay in Jerusalem and murdered Yehuda Guetta Apple. Murdered a Jew by beatings in Lod and burned a Jew living in Acre along with dozens of mobile shops and synagogues. This is not a family quarrel, nor a neighborhood dispute, this is an Arab murder that exists in both Syria and Lebanon.
“The Cruelty of the Cruel Arabs”
He is the minister and he knows, he is just looking for justification for any Arab murder, and explains to us that all graffiti of Jews and uprooting an olive tree is a hate crime that requires the recruitment of hundreds of police officers. “We must first remind him of the words of the great leader of the labor movement – Berl Katzenelson, who recognized the righteousness of the way of the people of Israel and the wickedness of the cruel Arabs.”
The rabbi wrote of Berl Katzenelson: “He understood that there was no struggle between two just peoples fighting for the same land and said in the context of the riots of the Arabs.” Dealing with animal burglars. They knew they had no power against the animal burglars, but for no moment did they lack the knowledge of their righteousness. The sad and shameful thing in his torment, we, is that some of our generation lack the living feeling of our absolute righteousness. “
He did not at all understand Jews of the Bar Lev type who understand and justify the Arabs and always condemn the Jews. “Are there in the nations whose sons have come to such a distortion, mental and spiritual, that everything he does with them, all his creation and all his torments are despicable and hated, and everything his enemy does, every robbery and every murder and every rape fills their hearts with a feeling of admiration and addiction?” How can one so admire the “Palestinian Nazis, who managed to concentrate here in Israel the zoological anti-Semitism of Europe with the lust of the dagger in the East.”
He understood that there would be no peace with a people who encouraged his sons to be martyrs and kill. Even if we really want to, there will be no peace with them. “Covenant, agreement, friendship, brotherhood, solidarity are some of the things that need, at least, two.
He therefore thought the solution was to move the Arabs to Syria and Iraq. “The issue of population transfer has provoked a debate among us: allowed or forbidden. My conscience is completely quiet about it, well since far from a close enemy, they will not lose by transferring them, and we certainly will not. This is the best solution … but it never occurred to me that the transfer “outside the Land of Israel” means to the vicinity of Nablus. I believed and still believe that they will move to Syria and Iraq. “
He recognized that this land belonged solely to us. This is what he said to the British who forbade it and settled in the Land of Israel, “The land was not given to us by your grace and not by your deceit. You will deceive it from us. You will not be able to us.
Berl Katzenelson’s action and actions were also based on the fact that he understood in his mind and felt in his soul that his son fulfilled God’s promise to our ancestor Abraham, “You will give this land,” that the land of Israel was given to the people of Israel.
Berl had no doubt and fear that there might be more legitimacy on the ground. Only out of certainty of divine promise can there be clarity in the righteousness of the way. ”