Blessed Are The Peacemakers: Rabbi David Yisroel Weiss

by Mariella Konings
November 29, 2007


While the high and mighty held talks behind closed doors in Annapolis (MD) on how to establish peacetalks between Israel en the Palestinians, outside the US Naval Academy the Neturei Karta, or Orthodox Jews United Against Zionism, staged a demonstration tuesday against the state of Israel and for peace with the Palestinian people. Doing so, once again Neturei Karta proved themselves to belong to those who make real hope for the Middle East possible.

For as he was surrounded by a noisy and vocal crowd, the brave Neturei Karta spokesman rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss held a heated plea for peace:

“We pray to God every single day for the speedy and peaceful dismantlement of the state of Israel, then we can once again coexist as we have for hundreds of years. We have all the rabbis who have testified lived in the old state of Jerusalem, in the old state, in the old city of Jerusalem, in the old city, there lived all my (unintelligible). This rabbi lived in the old city of Jerusalem before 1948. He’ll tell you how he lived and coexisted with all the Arab neighbors, how they babysat each other’s children when they went to Yom Kippur, when the women went to Yom Kippur on the fastday the muslim neighbors babysat their children. The most precious objects they gave to them to protect. How can that be if they are our enemies, mortal enemies? Because they are not. It’s not a religious conflict. Thats a zionist ploy of accusing everybody of being anti-semitic. You want peace? You want to have a conference here of peace, step back and look and read the facts. Not the facts that have been misconstrued by the zionist propaganda but the facts that are reality, the facts on the ground; how we have been living for hundreds of years in Yemen, in Morocco, in Tunesia, in Palestine, in Egypt. What Arab land have not Jewish people been living together with Muslims without any human rights groups? Tell me what land the Jews did not live in harmony with the Muslims? In Iran, we have over 25.000 Jews there, thank God. Why? Because this is not a religious conflict. It is purely because of a political movement, a relatively new movement which is antithetical, contradictory to the Jewish religion of thousands of years. Judaism is spirituality, a religion of compassion to emulate God. Zionism was created onehundred years ago by atheists. People who abhorred religion, who wanted to transform Judaism from religion to nationality, to a purely materialistic base, Godless in it’s essence. That is not Judaism and they have no right to use the name of Israel. They have usurped our name, they’ve stolen our symbols and then they have stolen our identity. And they are causing death and destruction, year in and year out. For over fifty years death and bloodshed has not stopped because of your ideological belief called zionism. They sacrifice on their idol, bodies, human beings, hearts, souls. They rend, they destructed houses, they destructed people’s lives. What can we do about this? Let’s step back and think. There is a solution, with God’s help. If you would put away the politics then we can know that we have been living and coexisting together. We must profusely apologize to the Muslims, to the Arabs, what has been done to them. And then we can return and make restitution to what has been done to them. And then we will be able to live in harmony. Not an Israeli state, but one Palestinian state. One state that we have been living for hundreds of years. Bear do and be peace. And you will see that the fifty years have been a nightmare, a mirage and nothing to do... (Responding to people in the crowd:) You are fearmongering, that is what zionism does. It’s panic; throwing oil into a theatre and yelling ‘fire!, fire!’, that is what zionists do. We have been living with the muslims, we have been.. (Responding to people in crowd:) Yes! Ahmedinejad keeps on stating that he does not want to harm the Jews but the zionists go and attack. (Responding to people in the crowd:) Ofcourse you don’t, because you have an agenda. You want to burn for zionism, you want enemies, you want enemies in order to be able to say you are protecting the Jews. We don’t want enemies. We want to live in peace. We have been always been living in peace with the Muslims and we will, with God’s help, continue to live with them in peace. We emplore the participants in this conference: read, step back, study the history thruthfully, and see what the true Jewish voice is of hundreds of thousands of Jews who are still true to their religion, whether they are living in Jerusalem, whether they are living in New York, what do these Jews. In Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, hundreds of thousands of Jews who are the most God-fearing in the community, why are they all opposed to the state of Israel? Why is there not one Israeli flag in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. These are the most God-fearing religious Jews, why don’t they fly the Israeli flag? They have had hospital help, they have had (unintelligible) free of charge to help people, the most greatest, charitable organisations. Why these compassionate people don’t support the state of Israel? (Responding to people in the crowd:) Why not? Why not? Because they are selfhating Jews? Why? Are they fooled? Are they fools? The reason is simply because they fear God. I know why, you don’t know why and I know why: because they are God-fearing and God forbid us to have a state. We are in exile, by godly decree, exile. And we are forbidden to oppressive people, we are forbidden to oppress the Palestinian people and steal their houses. That is what Judaism says. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not kill. We have no right to rule of the land of the Palestine. This is what Judaism says, not what these robbers say. It’s what real Jews say.”


Blessed are the peacemakers, for they speak sense and truth in these times of madness.



Watch the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9OIqy6md9w

Visit the website of Neturei Karta:
http://www.nkusa.org/