The Haredi political support for destroying Jewish villages
Haredi MK Moshe Gafni gave an example of his party's past support for damaging the Land of Israel as far back as the late 1970s:
Although haredi parties tend to be in rightwing governments, Rabbi Elazar Menachem Man Shach firmly supported evacuating settlements, United Torah Judaism MK Moshe Gafni reminded yeshiva students in an address this week.Man, what a cowardly disgrace Shach was, and so too is Gafni. Yes, antisemitism by European countries is bad. But to say Islamic antisemitism is less of a problem is taking a naive approach and minimizing the harm they've caused, past and present. Yet it's no shock that a man who led such a mostly insular life would do such a thing, all without even communicating with the people whose lived were damaged by the evacuation and lost their homes. That's absolutely shameful, and for that Shach deserves to be remembered in an archive for the research of traitors. And he did it all under the guise of religion, while distorting the meaning of "pikuach nefesh". Just where it is written that land concessions are perfectly acceptable? Only in his interpretation.
Gafni showed Walla a copy of a letter to then-prime minister Menachem Begin from Shach, the former dean of the Ponevezh Yeshiva and the spiritual head of the non-hassidic haredi (“Lithuanian”) community and the Degel Hatorah Party, who died in 2001.
The letter is dated April 18, 1978, when Begin was negotiating peace with Egypt, which involved returning Sinai to Egypt and evacuating Yamit.
“I want your honor to know that concessions made only for peace are not concessions, and when God will have mercy on us and the time comes, everything will be returned to us,” Shach wrote. “According to Halacha, there is nothing preventing concessions of parts of the Land of Israel for peace, and according to history, we suffered more from European countries than from Arab countries.”
Shach said he understood it is difficult to give up territory in opposition to what one feels, especially if the feeling is religious, “but it is the responsibility of a responsible main who makes decisions relating to life and death to rise above feelings and take actions only according to logic, and this is logic based on the view of the Torah.”
Labels: anti-semitism, dhimmitude, Egypt, haredi corruption, islam, Israel, jihad, Knesset, political corruption
