As Israel continues to precise revenge for Hamas’s Oct. 7 incursion by killing over 20,000 Gazans, the Jewish state and its navy proceed to search out help amongst a majority of its inhabitants.
Over 65% of Israelis supported a floor offensive within the besieged Palestinian territory, whereas almost 57% thought the quantity of firepower utilized in Gaza was “too little,” in accordance with two completely different polls carried out by the Maariv newspaper and the Tel Aviv University, respectively.
However, one Jewish group has firmly aligned itself with the Palestinian trigger, calling for an instantaneous finish to the violence in Gaza and opposing Israeli actions typically throughout Palestinian territories.
“Our Jewish identity demands, requires, obligates to be in solidarity with the Palestinian cause,” stated Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss, a spokesperson for the anti-Zionist Jewish group, Neturei Karta.
Despite being a minority amongst Haredi Jews, sometimes called Orthodox Jews, the almost century-old Neturei Karta has had, through the years, a small albeit vocal presence at pro-Palestinian rallies the world over, and notably within the United States.
While pro-Palestinian camps have embraced Neturei Karta members for his or her activism, different Jewish and Zionist teams in Israel and past have focused them.
Regardless, Neturei Karta continues to voice its opposition of the State of Israel, its violent techniques and the wholesale persecution of Palestinians in besieged Gaza and different occupied territories.
When requested about how the group balances its loyalty to the Jewish identification and solidarity with the Palestinian trigger, Rabbi Weiss instructed Daily Sabah in an unique interview that “because we are Jewish, we support and we sympathize and stand in solidarity with the Palestinian cause.”
“Balancing means it is two contradictory things and you try to balance that it should somehow work out for both … like the two-state solution that people are trying to work with two contradictory ideas, but that’s a fallacy,” he stated, pointing to the truth that Muslims and Jews have lived peacefully, side-by-side for tons of of years in Jerusalem and Palestine.
“And that is … the concept of showing gratitude, which we must show.”
Weiss then referred to how the Torah tells to not kill and steal whereas forbidding Jews “to make our own nationalism, our own state, our own sovereignty because we’re in the decree of exile of God.”
“We are forbidden to steal, and we are, as I say, to show gratitude, and we are not to take the land from the Palestinians,” he added, thus accentuating the purpose that the Jewish identification calls for to be in peace and solidarity with the Palestinian individuals.
‘Following the Torah’
In reply to how Neturei Karta interprets the identical non secular texts and traditions which are usually used to justify the Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands, the rabbi accused the Zionists of misconstruing the Torah to perform their purpose of occupation and having the sympathy and help of the Jews.
He additionally accused them of falsehood, propaganda and inciting hate for Palestinians amongst Jewish individuals to help their occupation.
“God gave them the land, and that the Palestinian people are anti-Semitic and hate the Jews, that it’s a religious conflict. All of this is repugnant, repulsive, and totally not true,” stated Weiss.
Speaking of Israelis and Jews he stated that “they have been misled, they’ve been fooled, conned by the Zionists.”
He denied that Palestinians had been anti-Semites and posed nice hazard to the Jews by saying, “This is repugnant. The Palestinians want to live in peace.” He underlined Israeli expansionism and violence as the basis trigger behind anti-Semitism.
“Every minute of it in this mass slaughter that’s happening in Gaza is beyond, beyond the crime and everything, but the cause of exacerbating anti-Semitism.”
“Everybody can see with their open eyes how Zionism is the cause, at the end of the day that brought the Oct. 7 mass slaughter,” he stated.
Israel has since launched an indiscriminate navy marketing campaign on Gaza, killing hundreds of Palestinians and displacing over 1.4 million individuals within the besieged territory.
Against occupation
Asked whether or not Israel was utilizing the Oct. 7 Hamas incursion as an excuse to ahead its occupation, Rabbi Weiss stated: “Obviously they are strengthening their occupation. There’s no question what they’re doing, the slaughter and total mass murder of the people of Gaza.”
“What they’re doing is mass murder. It’s unacceptable. It’s against God. Its occupation is a revolt, a rebellion against God,” he added, calling Zionism a most cancers for Jews.
Weiss stated that members of Neturei Karta cry and damage with the individuals of Palestine and Gaza.
“We should cry and feel and suffer for the people of Palestine, especially because this occupation and this oppression is being done in the name of our religion, Judaism, which is in truth, totally contradictory,” he added.
“Our religion is totally contradictory, and opposes entirely Zionism in the State of Israel, and the murder, it’s all unjust, it is a Nakba (Catastrophe).”
Despite usually being focused by different Jewish teams, leaders and communities, notably those that adhere to Zionism, Neturei Karta members are decided to protest the continued Israeli violence in Gaza and defend the Palestinian trigger in any respect prices.
Defending Palestinian rights
“We do go out for demonstrations constantly, even without Palestinian people, we go to the United Nations and other places, we’re always demonstrating throughout the years, since the beginning of Zionism,” the rabbi stated underlining the truth that the motion was born in Jerusalem again in 1938.
“This last two and a half months since Oct. 7, we have been (protesting) daily tirelessly, every single day. We are out on the streets, on radio and television and talk shows, and (using) every means possible to tell the world that they should support and save the people of Gaza and the people of Palestine.”
“We try to do our best and we try to be in contact with the people of Gaza and Palestine, to comfort them and give them courage to show that we are together with them in their struggle,” Weiss added.
Asked about how he envisioned a peaceable and simply resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian battle, the Neturei Karta spokesperson stated that “the solution is, of course, the removal entirely of the occupation of the Zionist State of Israel,” which he deemed a rebel towards God.
“We of course pray to the Almighty that he should bring … a speedy and peaceful total end to the occupation of Palestine in its entirety and of course the mass slaughter in Gaza.”
“At the same time, we’re urging everybody, do not be intimidated, do not be silenced. It’s not anti-Semitic to speak against this occupation, against the Zionists,” Weiss stated, calling Israel “the personification of anti-Semitism.”
“They cause bloodshed and suffering, so we know that at the end of the day it will end. We know at the end of the day this state will end. We know at the end of the day that there will be a free Palestine,” stated Weiss.
Source: www.dailysabah.com