[Be-Ahavah
U-Be-Emunah – Pinchas 5772 – translated by R. Blumberg]
Rabbenu Ha-Rav Tzvi Yehudah
Kook proclaimed before the Jewish People, and before the entire world: “Over
Judea and Samaria there will be war”, and “[We will halt its relinquishment]
‘with our bodies’” (Le-Hilchot Tzibbur, p. 214, p. 226). When he was asked whether he meant civil war,
he refused to answer. Afterwards he clarified to the Tzahal Commander-in-Chief
that he did not mean civil war, or a war of the settlers against the army.
Here is what he wrote:
“Our devoted Sages
instructed the Jewish People in how to wage war against the nations. Let us
hope that matters will never come to the Jewish People waging war against their
own failed government.”
Thus, what he was referring
to was a situation in which the entire Jewish People are at war with their
government. He wrote to the Defense Minister, “Over Judea and Samaria there
will be an internal war, and when the entire Jewish People rises up against
this government, we will obviously side with the entire Jewish People as G-d’s
word achieves ascendancy over G-d’s
people and inheritance. We will not take the side of the failed government. The
government must serve the people, and not vice versa.”
He further explained to his
students that he was not advancing a practical directive but a proclamation of
educational value. “I said and I wrote that over Judea and Samaria, Jericho and
the Golan, there would be a war. No concessions are imaginable. Such threats,
such utterances, such educational messages, must be repeated with regularity,
thousands of times, to uproot this corruption, this disease, this weakness, at
its source. These lands do not belong to the nations. We did not steal them
from the nations. Rather, thank G-d, we have grown, matured, and returned to
them. Over Judea and Samaria and the Golan and Jericho there will be a war. We
must repeat these threats, these utterances, tomorrow and the day after, relentlessly,
in order to express our position with strength and fortitude. We must remind
the government and the Jewish People that we must not entertain the least
possibility of conceding any part of our Land. We are not the owners of His Land.
It belongs to the entire Jewish People. We are the Jews living on it. We are
the representatives of the entire Jewish People. We must not betray our Land.
We must increase our strength and fortitude to sanctify G-d’s name” (from a
tape recording).
Ha-Rav Tzvi Yehudah’s style
of speech was thus meant to emphasize in the sharpest terms that there is a
terrible and tragic issue at stake.
Ha-Rav Tzvi Yehudah never
gave practical instructions to anyone to go and wage war over Judea and
Samaria.
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As for Migron, there is
good news. We purchased a large part of the area. Hence there is no reason to
destroy it and to move its residents to any alternative location. Of course it was
always ours to begin with, yet now there is not even any legal pretext for
anyone to protest against us. Thus, certainly there is no reason for the
government to do anything so terrible as moving the residents.
Let
us be strong and resolute for the sake of our Land and the towns of our G-d.
