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17.11.04, 18:08
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In the West Bank, Ma'ariv reported, Israeli settlers are not worried
about the Arab demographic threat as they nurture the vision of a "mega-
occupation," or expanding the Kingdom of Israel to the borders promised in
the covenant with Arbaham.
The Committee of Rabbis in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza, writes, "Everyone
who has faith in his heart ... will not countenance betrayal of the divine
promise of the Jewish people."
Professor Hillel Weiss, said Ma'ariv, spelled out what this meant: "The
purpose of the armed struggle is to establish a Jewish state in all the
territory that will be captured, from the River Euphrates [in Iraq] to the
Egyptian River [Nile]."
For good measure, Rabbi Haim Steinitz, writing on behalf of the rabbis of
the Beit El settlement, explained, "In general, the Euphrates and the Nile
are the main points of reference, as well as the Mediterranean and the Red
Sea." That takes care of the western border. There is some dispute about the
eastern border. Most West Bank rabbis say the Kingdom of Israel "should rest
on the upper Syrian stretch of the Euphrates. Others, wrote Ma'ariv, "take a
broader view with a border that runs down to the mouth of the Persian Gulf."
One rabbi calls for the military conquest of all Arab countries. Even
this was not enough for Rabbi Zelman Melamed, who wrote: "It is not
impossible that the Jewish people will have the ability to threaten and put
pressure on the entire world to accept our way. But even if we acquire the
power to seize control of the world, that is not the way to realize the
vision of complete redemption."
Rabbi Yitzhak Ginsburg says he knows in the near future the Land of
Israel is about to expand. "It is our duty to force all mankind to accept the
seven Noahide laws, and if not