ZionostWarrior
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(Motzaei Shabbat, 11th of Iyar 5770)
A Neozionist Manifesto
PREAMBLE. Zionism is not a new creation, but an ancient and renewed
one. Jewish nationalism has its beginnings in antiquity, when the
ancestors of most of the enemies of the Jewish nation were still
nothing more than an assortment of tribes without cohesion. Even
though the outward expressions of Zionism were halted for centuries,
still the yearning of the nation of Israel for a life of sovereignty
in the Land of Israel never vanished from them. Zionism is divided
into three parts according to period:
1. Paleozionism, which is the Jewish nationalism beginning from our
patriarchs Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, peace be upon them, through
Moses, Joshua and the Shoftim until the end of the conquests in the
days of David the King of Israel, and ending with the Hasmoneans. It
rests upon the promise of the Holy One, Blessed Is He, of the Land of
Israel to the nation of Israel, and not upon past sufferings such as
the period of slavery in Egypt.
2. Mesozionism, which is the renewal of Jewish nationalism inspired by
the nationalist movements in Europe, and whose carrying out in
practice began with the Aliyah of 5642 (1882 CE) from both Yemen and
Russia. However, that Zionism had among its principles the idea that
the nation of Israel was to be a nation like all other nations,
thereby forcing itself to cleave to the fashions of the nations, such
as today’s political fashion of the obligation to be a multicultural
state, as well as to insane laws of warfare that are of no use against
an enemy totally lacking in morality. Also, it based its arguments
upon past sufferings, which made it vulnerable to the arguments of the
fictional nation that presented itself as a dispossessed indigenous
people (see following).
3. Neozionism, which comes out of the recognition of Jews—both secular
and religious—that the preservation of Jewish nationalism is in
contradiction to the perverse political ideas of our period. It does
not rely on past sufferings as does Mesozionism, nor on the argument
that the Jewish nation needs a sanctuary, but on the simple and
ancient truth that the Land of Israel belongs to the nation of Israel,
in that only the nation of Israel has a special and rooted connection
to the Land of Israel*.
This document brings forth the summaries of Neozionism, starting from
its ideological doctrine and ending with its practical ramifications.
From the time the Jews recognize the rightness of the Zionist way,
they will take the steps necessary to defend their state from any foe,
both external and internal, and will not take heed as to what the non-
Jews say about that. These are the sections of Neozionism:
1. We argue with perfect conviction that the nation of Israel, the
Jewish nation, has the right to a sovereign state in all the areas of
Greater Israel, and that they have the right to inhabit it everywhere
without asking permission of any other nation.
2. We argue that every nation, provided that it be real and not
fictitious, has the right to a state with definite borders in which
its members alone are citizens and all others are non-citizens. He who
wishes to be a citizen shall move to his nation-state, or become a
citizen if and only if the guest nation permits it.
3. We categorically reject the idea of multiculturalism or
multinationalism, in that it has been a total failure wherever tried.
No two nations can reside under one political framework. We have
learned from reality that this situation turns the lives of the
nations to a hell on earth in the best case, and ends in genocide (G-d
forbid) in the worst.
4. The Jewish nation has a special and rooted connection to the Land
of Israel, whereas the members of all other nations found in the Land
of Israel are here only because of the fortuitous travels of jackboots
or forced population exchanges. The Arabs in the Land of Israel differ
from the Arabs in Iraq to the same extent that they differ from the
Arabs in Morocco, and not because of any uniqueness of theirs in the
Land of Israel.
5. The Arab nation is indigenous to the Arabian Peninsula, and there
it has the right to a sovereign state of its own; every inheritance
that the Arab nation has outside the Arabian Peninsula must be
regarded as a courtesy. Therefore we consider any Arab grievance
concerning dispossession in the Land of Israel as null and void by
nature.
6. From the moment the Ottoman Empire passed away from the world, and
in light of the fact that the British rule was set as temporary a
priori, the only political entity having a legitimate claim to
sovereignty upon the Land of Israel is the State of Israel.
7. We categorically deny the existence of any “Palestinian nation,”
deeming it to be a blatant lie, a fiction, a fraud and an illusion
whose entire purpose is the concealment of the fact of the patently
unjust struggle of the Arab nation—possessor of many states and vast
areas—against the right of the Jewish nation to one sovereign state in
the whole world. The “Palestinian nation” has no historical,
linguistic, ethnic or cultural existence, and anyone who speaks of the
“Palestinian nation” or of the “Israel–Palestine conflict” gives aid,
knowingly or unknowingly, to anti-Zionist propaganda.
8. The definition of a Jew: whose mother is Jewish or who has
undergone halachic (Orthodox) conversion.
9. Israel is the State of the Jews, and only a Jew can be a citizen of
it. Anyone who belongs to another nation is a citizen of his nation-
state, as said in section 2.
10. Every Jew, from the very fact that he or she is a Jew, and
regardless of his or her place of birth, is a native of (indigenous
to) the Land of Israel, and has the right to make aliyah to the Land
of Israel to inhabit it whenever he or she desires, and is a citizen
of it from the moment of his or her residing in it.
11. The non-Jew who resides in the State of Israel, if he does not
express ideas to the effect that the land belongs to him, has the
status of ger toshav and must not be harmed in any way whatsoever. But
the non-Jew who thinks and says that the land belongs to him ceases to
be a ger toshav and becomes an enemy, and his judgment is this only:
to be expelled from the Land of Israel.
12. We reject the argument that ethnic cleansing is tantamount to
genocide. On the contrary, we argue that ethnic cleansing is one of
the means of averting genocide.
13. We permit a variety of political views in our midst as long as
they do not differ with the basic assumption that Israel is the nation-
state of the nation of Israel. Any movement that differs with this,
whether it represents another nation’s imperialism (for example: Arab
imperialism, also known as Islam) or calls for the abolition of
nationhood altogether (for example: Marxism), has no permission to
exist in the State of Israel.
14. Based upon the experience of thousands of years, we reject any
reliance on other nations for our security. We contend that weaponry
must be obtained only by means of a deal (payment and nothing else)
and not by charitable gifts, for it is the way of charity to turn into
extortion when the charitable non-Jew is replaced by a merciless one.
15. Neither do we rely even upon a gift that seems to have no strings
attached, for it is impossible to know where a trap would be set for
us. For example, aid money could become a tool to pressure the State
of the Jews to acquiesce to missionaries in it working to rob Jews of
their inheritance of the world to come (G-d forbid).
16. The loyalty of a Jew is to his brothers and sisters, not to the
spirit of the time. Any Jew who aids a non-Jew on a Jew’s expense has
jettisoned himself from the collective of Israel.
17. We contend that the State of Israel has value only as a sovereign
framework in which the nation of Israel is free of any subjugation to
other nations. It has no value in its own right, and its value issues
only from its fulfillment of that purpose.
18. While the believers among us trust in HaShem for Israel to be
everlasting, and those who do not believe have other reasons to trust
so, still all of us Neozionists have in common our trust in ourselves
and not in any nation apart from us. Let that be for us a source of
energy to be as one and remove any threat from the nation of Israel.
Amen ken yehi ratzon.
* The argument given in the first Rashi (“He hath declared to His
people the power of His works” and so forth) is superb too, but there
is reason to fear making it, because of the danger that the Accuser
could bring it before the Holy One, Blessed Is He, in order that He
might withdraw mercy from us.
(Motzaei Shabbat, 11th of Iyar 5770)
A Neozionist Manifesto
PREAMBLE. Zionism is not a new creation, but an ancient and renewed
one. Jewish nationalism has its beginnings in antiquity, when the
ancestors of most of the enemies of the Jewish nation were still
nothing more than an assortment of tribes without cohesion. Even
though the outward expressions of Zionism were halted for centuries,
still the yearning of the nation of Israel for a life of sovereignty
in the Land of Israel never vanished from them. Zionism is divided
into three parts according to period:
1. Paleozionism, which is the Jewish nationalism beginning from our
patriarchs Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, peace be upon them, through
Moses, Joshua and the Shoftim until the end of the conquests in the
days of David the King of Israel, and ending with the Hasmoneans. It
rests upon the promise of the Holy One, Blessed Is He, of the Land of
Israel to the nation of Israel, and not upon past sufferings such as
the period of slavery in Egypt.
2. Mesozionism, which is the renewal of Jewish nationalism inspired by
the nationalist movements in Europe, and whose carrying out in
practice began with the Aliyah of 5642 (1882 CE) from both Yemen and
Russia. However, that Zionism had among its principles the idea that
the nation of Israel was to be a nation like all other nations,
thereby forcing itself to cleave to the fashions of the nations, such
as today’s political fashion of the obligation to be a multicultural
state, as well as to insane laws of warfare that are of no use against
an enemy totally lacking in morality. Also, it based its arguments
upon past sufferings, which made it vulnerable to the arguments of the
fictional nation that presented itself as a dispossessed indigenous
people (see following).
3. Neozionism, which comes out of the recognition of Jews—both secular
and religious—that the preservation of Jewish nationalism is in
contradiction to the perverse political ideas of our period. It does
not rely on past sufferings as does Mesozionism, nor on the argument
that the Jewish nation needs a sanctuary, but on the simple and
ancient truth that the Land of Israel belongs to the nation of Israel,
in that only the nation of Israel has a special and rooted connection
to the Land of Israel*.
This document brings forth the summaries of Neozionism, starting from
its ideological doctrine and ending with its practical ramifications.
From the time the Jews recognize the rightness of the Zionist way,
they will take the steps necessary to defend their state from any foe,
both external and internal, and will not take heed as to what the non-
Jews say about that. These are the sections of Neozionism:
1. We argue with perfect conviction that the nation of Israel, the
Jewish nation, has the right to a sovereign state in all the areas of
Greater Israel, and that they have the right to inhabit it everywhere
without asking permission of any other nation.
2. We argue that every nation, provided that it be real and not
fictitious, has the right to a state with definite borders in which
its members alone are citizens and all others are non-citizens. He who
wishes to be a citizen shall move to his nation-state, or become a
citizen if and only if the guest nation permits it.
3. We categorically reject the idea of multiculturalism or
multinationalism, in that it has been a total failure wherever tried.
No two nations can reside under one political framework. We have
learned from reality that this situation turns the lives of the
nations to a hell on earth in the best case, and ends in genocide (G-d
forbid) in the worst.
4. The Jewish nation has a special and rooted connection to the Land
of Israel, whereas the members of all other nations found in the Land
of Israel are here only because of the fortuitous travels of jackboots
or forced population exchanges. The Arabs in the Land of Israel differ
from the Arabs in Iraq to the same extent that they differ from the
Arabs in Morocco, and not because of any uniqueness of theirs in the
Land of Israel.
5. The Arab nation is indigenous to the Arabian Peninsula, and there
it has the right to a sovereign state of its own; every inheritance
that the Arab nation has outside the Arabian Peninsula must be
regarded as a courtesy. Therefore we consider any Arab grievance
concerning dispossession in the Land of Israel as null and void by
nature.
6. From the moment the Ottoman Empire passed away from the world, and
in light of the fact that the British rule was set as temporary a
priori, the only political entity having a legitimate claim to
sovereignty upon the Land of Israel is the State of Israel.
7. We categorically deny the existence of any “Palestinian nation,”
deeming it to be a blatant lie, a fiction, a fraud and an illusion
whose entire purpose is the concealment of the fact of the patently
unjust struggle of the Arab nation—possessor of many states and vast
areas—against the right of the Jewish nation to one sovereign state in
the whole world. The “Palestinian nation” has no historical,
linguistic, ethnic or cultural existence, and anyone who speaks of the
“Palestinian nation” or of the “Israel–Palestine conflict” gives aid,
knowingly or unknowingly, to anti-Zionist propaganda.
8. The definition of a Jew: whose mother is Jewish or who has
undergone halachic (Orthodox) conversion.
9. Israel is the State of the Jews, and only a Jew can be a citizen of
it. Anyone who belongs to another nation is a citizen of his nation-
state, as said in section 2.
10. Every Jew, from the very fact that he or she is a Jew, and
regardless of his or her place of birth, is a native of (indigenous
to) the Land of Israel, and has the right to make aliyah to the Land
of Israel to inhabit it whenever he or she desires, and is a citizen
of it from the moment of his or her residing in it.
11. The non-Jew who resides in the State of Israel, if he does not
express ideas to the effect that the land belongs to him, has the
status of ger toshav and must not be harmed in any way whatsoever. But
the non-Jew who thinks and says that the land belongs to him ceases to
be a ger toshav and becomes an enemy, and his judgment is this only:
to be expelled from the Land of Israel.
12. We reject the argument that ethnic cleansing is tantamount to
genocide. On the contrary, we argue that ethnic cleansing is one of
the means of averting genocide.
13. We permit a variety of political views in our midst as long as
they do not differ with the basic assumption that Israel is the nation-
state of the nation of Israel. Any movement that differs with this,
whether it represents another nation’s imperialism (for example: Arab
imperialism, also known as Islam) or calls for the abolition of
nationhood altogether (for example: Marxism), has no permission to
exist in the State of Israel.
14. Based upon the experience of thousands of years, we reject any
reliance on other nations for our security. We contend that weaponry
must be obtained only by means of a deal (payment and nothing else)
and not by charitable gifts, for it is the way of charity to turn into
extortion when the charitable non-Jew is replaced by a merciless one.
15. Neither do we rely even upon a gift that seems to have no strings
attached, for it is impossible to know where a trap would be set for
us. For example, aid money could become a tool to pressure the State
of the Jews to acquiesce to missionaries in it working to rob Jews of
their inheritance of the world to come (G-d forbid).
16. The loyalty of a Jew is to his brothers and sisters, not to the
spirit of the time. Any Jew who aids a non-Jew on a Jew’s expense has
jettisoned himself from the collective of Israel.
17. We contend that the State of Israel has value only as a sovereign
framework in which the nation of Israel is free of any subjugation to
other nations. It has no value in its own right, and its value issues
only from its fulfillment of that purpose.
18. While the believers among us trust in HaShem for Israel to be
everlasting, and those who do not believe have other reasons to trust
so, still all of us Neozionists have in common our trust in ourselves
and not in any nation apart from us. Let that be for us a source of
energy to be as one and remove any threat from the nation of Israel.
Amen ken yehi ratzon.
* The argument given in the first Rashi (“He hath declared to His
people the power of His works” and so forth) is superb too, but there
is reason to fear making it, because of the danger that the Accuser
could bring it before the Holy One, Blessed Is He, in order that He
might withdraw mercy from us.