BYE BYE GAZA - Barry Chamish

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yeshivot, meaning a degree from Yeshiva University is no
longer valid etc. etc.
At the same time, Attorney General Mazuz has rescinded a
law validating ownership of lands purchased by Jews in East
Jerusalem before 1900, while opening the sale of public
lands to non-Jews. In short, the land of Israel and its capital
are now up for sale to all enemies of the state. The first goal
is to rid East Jerusalem of Jews, without sentiment.
After the funeral, I joined two Israeli philosophers, Zvi Zweig
and Ohad Kamin, for dinner. Zvi's son Avi met us briefly. He
is a student at Yeshivat Aderet Eliahu in the Old City of
Jerusalem. Last week his yeshiva was attacked by Arabs
who smashed its windows with rocks. The students threw
rocks back and called the police. As Avi tells it, "The police
began beating us with iron rods and ordered us outside. This
was unprovoked. They just started swinging. They arrested
five of us, including two rabbis. It was no different than in
Nazi Germany."
Avi's analogy is more accurate than he knew and Adir would
have understood that. Not a year ago, Adir began a stubborn
transformation. He gave a lecture in Maale Shomron at Ohad
Kamin's bookstore. There he announced that the Gush Katif
surrender will mean the end of Israel. He knew it before his
audience even considered the consequences. When the
lecture ended, I gave Adir a book that has changed both my
and Ohad's perspective on the civil war already taking place
in our land. I speak of Rabbi Marvin Antelman's, To Eliminate
The Opiate, Volume One. Adir absorbed the message
slowly. It was eight months later that I knew he had changed.
Rabbi Antelman's thesis is that the leadership of the Jews
has been taken over by secret followers of the 17th century
false messiah, Shabtai Tzvi, and his later advocate Yaacov
Frank. The tenets of Sabbataianism are anti-Judaism. That
is, the opposite of the laws of the Torah are true. Taken to its
extreme, Do Not Murder means, Do Murder. Since 1785, the