THE HOLOCAUST CONFERENCE
The Holocaust conference in Tehran includes members of Jews United Against Zionism, an organization of religious Jews who believe that the creation of the state of Israel goes against Jewish law.
"We don't want to deny the killing of Jews in World War II, but Zionists have given much higher figures for how many people were killed," Rabbi Moshe David Weiss, one of the members attending, told delegates. "They have used the Holocaust as a device to justify their oppression."
According to their website, Jews United Against Zionism believe that Jewish law says that Jews must not use force to create a Jewish state before the coming of the Messiah. Jews, they believe, are forbidden from joining rebellions and should remain loyal citizens and not attempt to leave the exile into which God sent the Jews.
They believe Jews are not allowed to dominate, kill, harm or demean another people and are not allowed to have anything to do with Israel. The group gives four reasons for its beliefs:
According to Jewish scripture, the only time that Jews were permitted to have a state was 2,000 years ago when God was with them, and a state is allowed again only when God returns.
If Jews create a state before this time, God will punish them.
Those who disobey the scripture will cease to be Jews.
The state of Israel is harmful to the Jewish religion.
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Hmph. I heard something like this on TV, I think. Around August. It was about a rabbi who said that the Bible said the Jews did not have an official state. What I don't understand is what he cares what the Bible says. I'm sure the Palestinians would have kindly let the Jews into their country if they hadn't stolen it from them. I think the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is comparable to the Revolutionary War in 1776, with the Palestinians being the American Patriots and the Zionists (meaning anyone anti-Palestine) being Britian. The Americans eventually won the war, but that was with French and Spanish (eventually Iranian and Syrian) help, among others. And the American colonists did it right. My dad told me that the Palestinians were the smartest people in the world. I really want to believe that, but the smartest people in the world would have ceased fire (for now) so they could build a real country, gain a spot on the United Nations, and build a real economy with good trading partners (Israel, Cyprus, Greece, and Egypt), gain standing in places where many of today's ten million original Palestinians live (gain standing in Israel, Jordan, etc.) and only then can they gain the help of countries to take down the wall they are sealed inside (I'll refer to that as the new Berlin Wall, except worse) and eventually gain control of their country, but after that, they have to live side by side as equals with the Jews.
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