The Brisker Rav said, “Two things are certain: 1) Zionism is idolatry, and 2) every Jew living in Eretz Yisroel stumbles in Zionism.”
(Uvdos Vehanhagos Leveis Brisk, v. 4 p. 197)
Rav Samson Raphael Hirsch on idolatry
If a man follows after any being as God except God, he necessarily sinks to a lower level. As soon as a man thinks of any being as independent and as belonging only to itself, it must appear to him as tyrannical, intent only on self-aggrandizement and producing only for self-gratification. Hence the man who reveres such beings as gods must of necessity regard unbridled violence and self-indulgence not as something bestial and so beneath man but as something Divine and so above man, and purse them as such. Nay, more; when the law of Unity has vanished form his conception of the world and the universe breaks apart for him into isolated deities which serve only themselves, he will soon count himself among the gods, and, recognizing no law in his own life either, he will break out into all kinds of excess and abandon himself to arrogance and dissoluteness.
Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch, Horeb, 12
And where are we now in the state of Israel?
Israeli Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu late on Monday called for the bombing of Gaza food warehouses and for starving Palestinians in Gaza.
"There is no problem in bombing Hamas' food reserves," the extremist minister told the Israeli Channel 7 during an interview.
In a recent interview with Israel's Channel 14, Moshe Saada, a Likud MP, called to completely starve Gaza and expel its population to other countries.
He says that they are putting the Jewish soldiers of the IDF in the position of deciding whether to commit war crimes.
And then there are the hundreds of killed soldiers and 16,000 crippled.
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