During a recent interview, Israeli Minister of the Economy and Jewish Home leader Naftali Bennett said that people need to understand that the Jews have been in Israel longer than both the U.S. and Great Britain have been in their homelands and that “we are not going anywhere.”
Appearing on British TV BBC, the show HardTalk with Stephen Sackur, Bennet was asked about whether or not circumstances will ever allow him to recognize a two-state solution.
“Israel has been our home for roughly 3,800 years,” he answered. “Archaeology shows it—-the Bible shows it, and I think it would be a profound mistake to divide our country.”
“I think we are trying this approach, and it is not working. We’ve tried it for the past 20 years, and evidently we’re bashing our heads again and again. Because every time we vacate a piece of land, within days it turns into a launch pad of missiles onto us. Three times already we handed land over to the Arabs and within days they starting shooting missiles at us.”
When asked By Sackur whether he ideologically believes that “all of the land between the Mediterranean and the Jordan River belongs to Israel?” Bennett said, “First of all, it does belong to us. This land has been ours for thousands of years. I just yesterday gave a coin that’s 2,200 years old to Martin Schultz as a gift—-and it’s got Hebrew on it.
We’ve been in this land way longer than America has been in American land, and for that matter longer than the British have in the British land. I do recognize that in our land there are two million Palestinians. They’ve got aspirations—-they’re not going anywhere, but we’re not going anywhere. So we’ve got to figure out how to live together, how to work it out.”
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yasher koach! very clear!
You asked to be corrected if you are wrong, so I make 1 point.
Although the Rebbe didnt actually send individual people to settle all over E.Y. he very clearly and strongly said in a sicha that the Yidden must settle all over E.Y. as a security measure and it’s obvious why.
This is a MUST SEE!!!
If you speak the truth with conviction nobody can dispute it or deny it it becomes a great force
Great job minister in spite of your interviewers obtuseness. Typical of liberals the interviewer is unwilling and incapable of seeing another point of view. Savage was right, Liberalism is a dangerous mental disorder.
Too many are so ignorant it’s sad.
it’s to bad the rest of the Israeli government dos’nt think like that
i meant 29 not 28
number 29 said it as it is.it is essential that we view the situation only and only the way that the Rebbe says to.am yisroel chai.
Thank you for the insightful explanation and important, clear distinctions made
number 29 said it as it is.it is essential that we view the situation only and only the way that the Rebbe says to.am yisroel chai.
It is only important that the Arabs must be controlled to prevent them from killing Jews!
There are six million Jews in Israel! Regardless of who is or is not occupied, you must realize that six million Jews are not leaving Israel or going back to the ’49 armistice lines without a fight! If the Arabs insist on resisting because they feel that they are the aggrieved party and they are honor bound to resist, then the inevitable result will be war with hundreds of thousands and potentially millions dead, mostly Arabs! The future is already written, unless the Arabs somehow miraculously accept living with the Jewish State of Israel from the Jordan River to the… Read more »
In fact in 1922 All of Palestine including what is today known as Jordan was allocated for the Jews including Jerusalem! It was only after Arab protests that Britain reduced the Jewish portion to about 25% of the original intended Palestine which placed the Jews in control of all the land west of the Jordan River! It was only after the Arabs protested again that the British reduced the Jewish portion even further and the West Bank for Arabs was born! Another fact is that most of all the land was not owned by Arabs or Jews! Most of the… Read more »
Not only is it the Rebbe’s Shita, its Common sense. the Problem is common sense ain’t so common any more
Mr Bennett recently gave a talk in front of a
an audience of 700 at Levi Wolf’s
Central Synagogue in Sydney and was
personally given the book on Shlaimus
Ho’oretz called “When Silence is a Sin ”
Published by SIE
( sold out )
Bennett made some statements
that night such as ” whenever we talk with
the Arabs, losses of Jewish life R”L
follow immediately ”
revealing that he agrees BH with the
Rebbes oft stated view
He did good in sticking to his guns.
The problem is anyone European watching the interview would conclude that he is a nut, as debating these tv show hosts is difficult and they expertly portray to the viewer their view and make their opponent seem like a fool.
It takes great skill and knowledge of their tactics to not fall for their traps, which the Israelis do not understand at all. This is the problem in Europe at the moment.
Many Lubavitchers applaud people like Bennet and Natanyahu on their verbal “championship” and seem to think that Chabad is Zionist. The Rebbe was very clear that his view was tri-twined: Toras Yisroel, Am Yisroel and Eretz Yisrael. His emphasis was that Eretz Yisroel belongs to Am Yisroel because it says so in Toras Yisroel. Simply so. The Rebbe was against giving land for peace due to the Halachic perspective of endangering Jews by bringing the enemy closer to our borders. He did not believe that the Arabs had any true intent of putting down their arms. There is a fundamental… Read more »
In theory, yes. But he demonstrates an anti-Chareidi/anti-Chassidic party line, which is not good for us here in EY. I’m not talking about IDF, it’s more a matter of ideology.
the interviewer is extremely annoying, Bennet did very well G-d bless him
all we need to do is take away all the medical and technological miracles Israel has invented from all those that think we are bad…..Let them rot w.o it.
This interviewer is a blind anti Jew and anti Israel .. he is incapable of seeing the truth.
Anti semitic rhetoric. I would punch the guy in the face if he kept on interrupting my sentence!
the “other guy” is not blind at all-he has a very different vision and agenda and it is not our best interest…yes that’s aggravating.
but still on the defensive….what id really love to see is a coherent, logical israeli who goes on the offensive and makes the these journalists look like the idiots they are ( at least when it comes to this topic)
that despite all that he believes/says he wont say clearly that he will stop (or how he will) stop this deal from happening.
What if in a referendum the public supports a deal, if i remember correctly the majority of the public supported gAZA disengagement…
He was amazing, but I wanted to punch the other guy. So blind. So incredibly blind, made me so aggravated.
he had the final word and when the bbc guy shook hands with him,he was admitting defeat!
lets see him ‘walk the walk’
and actually make a difference when it counts in stopping any of these concessions
Clear lesson is? don’t be intimidated by the Medea and people with clear agendas stick to the(sometimes very painful)truth and ultimately you will prevail and be respected!
Why should the Arabs recognize ‘Israel’ as a Jewish state when it’s not.
So great to listen to that. And the BBC guy was annoying, had no manners.
I want to know what they were saying at the end when the music played
ye hes got it
that english guy(interviewer) is awful he cant prove anything he says
needs to be viewed by as many people as possible
kol hakovode to mr bennet
first time ever politician not afraid and says the truth
this has to get a billion likes on face book and you tube hits
BH
we need a prime minister like mr. bennett
very proud of him, kol tov
It’s good he stuck to his guns ppl need to see things in a practical fashion not just by the numbers.
Bennett U ROCK!!!!!
bennet is an intelligent, practical, realistic, down to earth Jew. say it as it is! that is how we get respect! the fact that the goy interviewing bennet kept on interrupting bennets sentences proofs his weakness. when someone truly has what to say, he lets the other person finish talking.
maybe the book called “ein kol vain oneh” should be mailed to bennet. the books speaks about the rebbes approach of shleimus haoretz.
l’ehayim!
moshiach now!!
say the truth strongly and politely and no one can win you!
Well said
but why are they freeing terrorists