Like Mixing Oil and Water

8 Kislev 5785

To paraphrase a famous quotation:  If someone comes to you and claims he is a Zionist believe him.  If someone comes and tells you he is a Religious Jew, believe him, but if someone comes and claims he is a Religious Zionist, don't believe it.  It's not possible.  You can be one or the other, but not both at the same time.

Following are selected quotes taken from the book The Empty Wagon by Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro.  

[NOTE: Some of these quotes could be considered as "hate speech" and I would agree; however, they are being quoted here from the historical record in order to inform and educate the public about where "hate speech" leads.]

"The Zionists do not want to shmad the Jews in order to create a state.  They want to create a state in order to shmad the Jews."  Rav Chaim Soloveichik, zt"l

"I have no doubt that I am a Zionist, because the Jewish people is a very nasty people, and its neighbors hate it and they are right."  Vladimir Jabotinsky, one of the founding fathers of Zionism....

"Those loathsome Jews [are] vomited out by any healthy collective and state - not because they are Jews, but because of their Jewish repulsiveness."  Uri Zvi Greenberg

Zionism was not created to deal with anti-Semitism - it was created to deal with Judaism. 

Why did the Zionists think the Jews were nasty and loathsome?  The Zionists were secular, gentilized Jews who harbored vastly different ideas of what is honorable and beautiful, and conversely what is shameful and ugly, than did the Torah Jews.  The Zionists were Jews who had adopted the values of Esav...and in so doing, had come to loathe the values and lifestyle of Yaakov's progeny - the traditional Torah Jews - as shameful.

...the Zionists didn't just want to be safe from the gentiles or have equal rights with the gentiles; they wanted to be like the gentiles.

One of the reasons the Jews were shameful was that they did not have their own nationality like the gentiles had.

"Oh, what a pitiable figure we cut!" complained Leo Pinsker, for "we do not count as a nation among the other nations."  (The Zionist Ideology)

...In April 2010, Israeli radio talk show host Gabi Gazit referred to chareidim as "parasites", "leeches," and "worms."  Said Gazit:

They are parasites of the worst kind, and as far as I am concerned - if it was realistic - I would pack them up in one package and send them to their brothers in the dark courtyards of Brooklyn, Queens, and all the other places they should live in ... They should live there ... Let us run a modern, moral country without their distorted lifestyles.

". . . modern, moral country"?  "Distorted lifestyles"?  Compared to what and to whom?  The slide downward among the religious zionist public is clear to be seen.  They found sherit leumi - national service - for their women to be a nice compromise between actual IDF service and not serving the State at all.  Anyone can see where that has lead . . .

Note the praise from the foremost Judeo-Chr*stian, National Religious website Israel365:  Religious Women Enlisting in the IDF: A Milestone in Israeli Society’s Military Integration.  

A Cultural Shift 

The Shlav Bet program is part of a broader trend in Israel toward integrating religious women into the IDF.  While the Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) population remains largely exempt from military service—due to both ideological and practical concerns—there is increasing participation from national-religious and Orthodox women. In 2019, the Israeli Supreme Court ruled that the Education Ministry must create pre-army programs for national-religious girls, paving the way for higher enlistment numbers.  Furthermore, in 2022, the IDF introduced a female-only company catering to religious women, providing a more accommodating environment for those wishing to serve in the military.

The growing participation of religious women in the military is also aided by initiatives such as Ohr Torah Stone’s “Maaminot BeMadim” (“Believers in Uniform”), launched in August 2023. This program provides Torah-observant women with the spiritual, halachic, and practical support necessary to navigate the complexities of military service while maintaining religious observance.

What possible commonality can the religious Jew who loves the Torah, and cling to it, find with the likes of the Zionists who hate the Torah and want only to destroy it forever?  And more importantly, what possible value could any Torah-loving Jew see in attempting to mix the two?  The result is akin to mixing matter and anti-matter...

The combined mass of the matter and antimatter is transformed entirely into energy in a reaction so energetic that "explosion" doesn't do it justice. Scientists call it an "annihilation."  (Source)

Continuing to quote Rabbi Shapiro's book...

...the question the Zionists asked themselves when creating Zionism was "How can we best expunge Judaism from the Jewish people and become normal like the goyim?"  

...The Zionists never cared much about Jewishness.  All they ever wanted was to get Hashem and the Torah out of the way so that the Jews could become "normal" people, like the goyim. 

Zionism was not an ideology; it was a social engineering project.

...Zionism was not created as a stand-alone ideal but as a cure specifically for the "disease" of Jewishness.  It is more dangerous than other heresies because, as opposed to all other heresies, it was custom-tailored to destroy Jewish identity.  It was designed to uproot very specific beliefs and behaviors of the Jewish people.  ...Zionism was manufactured to be the antitoxin to the poison of Judaism.

[The goals of Zionism as explained by Yosef Chaim Brenner (1881-1921)...]

We want their [gentile] culture in our own streets, in our own land, in our people - and that which we would do if we were assimilated with them we want to do amongst ourselves in our own way.

Most of all we want to be vital and alive, without the yoke of Torah and mitzvos and without the lies and beliefs of religion.

Compare this to Gabi Gazit's 2010 statement quoted above. Is this not what they still want to do?  

The Zionist Israelis want it all for themselves so they can live like Americans or Europeans without the permission of the Americans or the Europeans, and they are increasingly unwilling to continue to tolerate the Jews they hate so much, those who are a constant reminder of their ignominious origins.  That's why they have imported so many non-Jews as a counter-balance.

The point should be well taken by now, so let's move on to the Unholy Mixture, as I think of it - Religious Zionism, an oxymoron if ever there was one.

To be continued, iy"H...