Rabbi Weiss: This
is the view that was shared throughout the past hundred years, when the
whole movement of Zionism was created, the concept – the ideology – of
transforming Judaism from spirituality, a religion, into materialism a
nationalistic goal to have a piece of land, all the rabbinical
authorities said this is antithetical with what Judaism is all about –
expressly forbidden by the Torah because we are in exile by God.
Cavuto: So, you shouldn’t have a state? You shouldn’t have a country? You shouldn’t have a government?
We
shouldn’t have a state. We should be living amongst all the nations as
the Jews were doing for two thousand years as loyal citizens, people
who are serving God, emulating God with compassion . . .
Contrary
to what people believe, that it’s a religious conflict, we have been
living for hundreds of years among Muslims and Arab communities without
any UN human rights groups to watch…
Cavuto: Let me ask you this, Rabbi, was life better for the Jews prior to the creation of the Jewish state of Israel?
Weiss: 100%.
In Palestine, we have the testimony of the Jewish community living
there and other lands that they were living in harmony and they pleaded
with the United Nations, in the documents we have, the chief Rabbi of
Jerusalem said we do not want a Jewish state. The Muslim, Christian and
Jewish inhabitants were ignored with the creation of the State . . .
Cavuto:
Neverthless, you might not have had a country per se, but you were not
a stranger to being abused or slaughtered over the millennia,
particularly as recently as fifty sixty years ago?
Weiss:
There is an issue of being killed because of anti-semitism, and then
there’s another issue where you antagonize and you create your
anti-semitism through Zionism . . . in other words, it’s not a free for
all – you knock out your neighbors windows and yell anti-semitism.
Cavuto: I know you are an orthodox Jew, what do traditional Jews think of that position?
Weiss:
[The mainstream Jewish view] is that, true, we shouldn’t be having a
state, but once it’s created the Zionist propaganda that the Arabs want
to throw every Jew into the ocean and there’s a ingrained hate against
the Jews, which they’ve convinced many Jews to believe, this is why
they’re fearful of returning the land . . .
Cavuto:
Well you can’t blame them, right, I mean you have the president of Iran
who says the Holocaust never existed and if he had his druthers he’d
destroy Israel and all the Jews.
Weiss: That’s also patently false. He has a Jewish community in Iran and they haven’t murdered them when they had the opportunity to . . .
Cavuto: So, you don’t take him at his word that he would try to kill Jews?
Weiss:
He would [want] the dismantling of the political state of Israel. In
fact, we went, a whole group of Rabbis this last year to visit Iran,
and we were taken up by the leaders, we met with the vice president, he
[Ahmedinejad] was in Venezuela at the time, we met with religious
leaders, all of them stated unequivocally that don’t have a conflict
with [Jews]
Cavuto: So as long as Israel exists, Rabbi, you think – just itching for trouble
Weiss: Jews
are suffering, Palestinians and Lea are suffering . . . we pray for the
speedy and peaceful dismantlment of the Jewish state.
Cavuto: It’s interesting Rabbi, you don’t hear that view often.
No, we don’t. This clip needs to get around the world as fast as humanly possible.
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