Rabbi Weiss: This is the view that was shared throughout
the past hundred years, when the whole movement of Zionism was created, the
concept – the ideology – of transforming Judaism from spirituality,
a religion, into materialism a nationalistic goal to have a piece of land,
all the rabbinical authorities said this is antithetical with what Judaism
is all about – expressly forbidden by the Torah because we are in exile
by God.
Cavuto: So, you shouldn’t have a state? You shouldn’t
have a country? You shouldn’t have a government?
Weiss: We shouldn’t have a state. We should be living
amongst all the nations as the Jews were doing for two thousand years as loyal
citizens, people who are serving God, emulating God with compassion . . .
Contrary to what people believe, that it’s a religious conflict, we
have been living for hundreds of years among Muslims and Arab communities
without any UN human rights groups to watch…
Cavuto: Let me ask you this, Rabbi, was life better for
the Jews prior to the creation of the Jewish state of Israel?
Weiss: 100%. In Palestine, we have the testimony of the
Jewish community living there and other lands that they were living in harmony
and they pleaded with the United Nations, in the documents we have, the chief
Rabbi of Jerusalem said we do not want a Jewish state. The Muslim, Christian
and Jewish inhabitants were ignored with the creation of the State . . .
Cavuto: Neverthless, you might not have had a country per
se, but you were not a stranger to being abused or slaughtered over the millennia,
particularly as recently as fifty sixty years ago?
Weiss: There is an issue of being killed because of anti-semitism,
and then there’s another issue where you antagonize and you create your
anti-semitism through Zionism . . . in other words, it’s not a free
for all – you knock out your neighbors windows and yell anti-semitism.
Cavuto: I know you are an orthodox Jew, what do traditional
Jews think of that position?
Weiss: [The mainstream Jewish view] is that, true, we shouldn’t
be having a state, but once it’s created the Zionist propaganda that
the Arabs want to throw every Jew into the ocean and there’s a ingrained
hate against the Jews, which they’ve convinced many Jews to believe,
this is why they’re fearful of returning the land . . .
Cavuto: Well you can’t blame them, right, I mean you
have the president of Iran who says the Holocaust never existed and if he
had his druthers he’d destroy Israel and all the Jews.
Weiss: That’s also patently false. He has a Jewish
community in Iran and they haven’t murdered them when they had the opportunity
to . . .
Cavuto: So, you don’t take him at his word that he
would try to kill Jews?
Weiss: He would [want] the dismantling of the political
state of Israel. In fact, we went, a whole group of Rabbis this last year
to visit Iran, and we were taken up by the leaders, we met with the vice president,
he [Ahmedinejad] was in Venezuela at the time, we met with religious leaders,
all of them stated unequivocally that don’t have a conflict with [Jews]
Cavuto: So as long as Israel exists, Rabbi, you think –
just itching for trouble
Weiss: Jews are suffering, Palestinians and Lea are suffering
. . . we pray for the speedy and peaceful dismantlment of the Jewish state.
Cavuto: It’s interesting Rabbi, you don’t hear
that view often.
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