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Hirschian (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Neturei Karta is a legitimate shitah. Their ideas are firmly rooted in the Toras Moshe.
Kurtlane (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
In general, when someone sees a people or a nation or a country as cosmic evil, there is literally nothing he won't do to destroy it. In this, Neturei Karta are similar to the Nazis. As Moshe Leib-Hirsch said, "We will not accept a Zionist State even if the Arabs do." (In other words, even if there is peace, Leib-Hirsh would start a war to eliminate the 'Satanic state.')
Kurtlane (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Yisroel Dovid Weiss is a regular feature at UC Irvine's yearly Israel-hate week. I met him twice there, and I heard him call for "hopefully peaceful dissolution of the the Zionist state which calls itself 'Israel'" (with implication that if it's not peaceful, that too is acceptable.)
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Kurtlane (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
The leaders of Neturei Karta are Yisroel Dovid Weiss and Moshe Leib-Hirsch. Both regularly joins Arab and other anti-Israel marches. In Nov 2004 Weiss went to Clamart, France to give his regards to dead Arafat. In Dec. 2006 he went to Holocaust deniers' conference in Iran.
Leib-Hirsch for a long time has been a Minister of Jewish Affairs in Arafat's PLO government. He received at least $55,000 in two payments from Arafat in early 2002.
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Kurtlane (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
From June 9, 1995 advertisement Neturei Karta placed in NYT: "All Palestine should be returned to the Palestinians and other occupied lands should be returned to their owners. And the Zionist enterprise should cease to exist. Only then will the misery wrought by Zionism disappear."
No mention is made of misery that would be involved in exterminating 5-6 million Israeli Jews, necessary to reach their "sacred" goal, nor of the usual misery of a people without a country.
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Kurtlane (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Nevertheless, majority of Neturei Karta's members live in Jerusalem, where they enjoy full rights as citizens of a country which they do not recognize and whose name they even refuse to pronounce. There they routinely burn Israeli flags and meet with leaders of Fatah, Hamas, and other terrorist groups. Neturei Karta has been funded by the Palestinian Authority. There are even serious allegations of their smuggling weapons into Israel for terrorists to use.
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Kurtlane (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
and they will be the first to argue and even use violence to try to force each and every Jew to obey their particular dogma. In that they are in line with Muslim fundamentalists.
Neturei Karta is so fanatical, that it broke away from Satmar - another tiny Fundamentalist Orthodox Jewish sect, opposed to Israel's existence on the very same grounds and in compete agreement with the Neturei Karta, but not as fanatical in their pursuit.
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Kurtlane (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
It seems that the very existence of Israel as a real, independent, modern Jewish state personifies to this particular sect all the threats of reality, liberty and modernity. Neturei Karta is thoroughly obsessed with demonization and destruction of Israel, having no bars held and leaving no stone unturned. They claim that Israel's existence is against the will of God, Jewish tradition and scripture, (cont.)
Kurtlane (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
the fundamentalist literalism of Neturei Karta keeps it stuck in the dreams of distant past, waiting for the time when mountains will be leveled with valleys and lambs will lie down with lions - waiting for utopia. Like all such sectarian cults, Neturei Karta can only survive by holding its members in isolation, frightening them away from the real world, the modern world, and in this case in particular from Israel. (cont.)
Kurtlane (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
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Neturei Karta - a tiny Fundamentalist ultraorthodox Jewish sect which sees creation of a Jewish state as a cosmic evil and are fanatically dedicated to its destruction.
The theological foundation for Neturei Karta's vehement desire to wipe out Israel is their claim that true Israel should be built by the Messiah. While practically all other branches of Judaism have accepted Israel as a normal state (some see it as a small step towards the coming of the Messiah, others do not), (cont.) |