An Open Letter to a Leader in Neturei Karta



> As you know, I recently published an article entitled "I am Ashamed to be
> an Israeli". The article seems to have had a very wide exposure and I
> have received many responses.
>
> Among those I received were a series of email letters from someone
> associated with the wacko Neturei Karta movement, and - if I am not
> mistaken he is actually the guy who runs their anti-Israel web sites. He
> and I have carried on a correspondence of sorts all week. Below I have
> collected the essence of the notes I sent him and compiled them into this
> "Open Letter to a Leader of Neturei Karta".
>
> But first, some background information. Neturei Karta is a small
> sect of ultra-Orthodox "Jewish" religious extremists, best known for
> marching arm in arm with Arafat, endorsing every anti-Israel terrorist and
> anti-Semite on the planet. It wants Israel destroyed and does not care if
> a Second Holocaust must take place in order to achieve this lofty goal,
> because Israel must not be set up at all before the Messiah comes (in
> their opinion) and - more generally - because many Israelis are
> secularists and some eat pork. No one knows how many people the sect has;
> they claim about 50,000 but I suspect the correct number is one zero less.
>
> The Neturei Karta were originally set up as a splinter breakaway
> movement in 1938, mainly by fanatical ultra-Orthodox Hungarian Jews,
> splitting from the more mainstream Agudat Israel party and movement.
> Agudat Israel has made its peace with Israel's existence and has
> participated in the country's affairs, run for and been elected to the
> parliament, and even held cabinet posts. Neturei Karta is Aramaic and
> means "Guardians of the Gate". It is motivated by intense hatred not only
> for secularist Jews but for all Orthodox and observant Jews who happen not
> to share its ideas. It openly calls for Israel to be destroyed and it
> openly supports the worst genocidal anti-Semites on the planet from
> Arafat to Asad - in order to "punish" those evil Jews who refuse to accept
> its religious notions.
>
> Naturally, Neturei Karta has been adopted by all the Bash-Israel
> organizations in the world and is celebrated by them as the only "true"
> representatives of Judaism. Curiously, the people who hail Neturei Karta
> are themselves often leftist secularists who would never consider backing
> religious lunatics from other faiths. The Islamofascists of course also
> love them. The Neturei Karta "Rabbis" are cult figures roughly like Jim
> Jones from the Jonestown story. I guess Jewish Elmer Gantries might also
> be an accurate description.
>
> The most famous image of Neturei Karta may be
> http://www.gravett.org/Israellycool...ves/010995.html
>
> Here is my message to the member of the Neturei Karta with whom I
> conducted the "dialogue" this week:
> "Open Letter to a Leader of Neturei Karta".
>
> Dear Sir:
>
> In the Amida prayer, which Jews recite three times every day,
> there is a section in which the "minim" are denounced. The "minim" refer
> to small treasonous groups of Jews who collaborated with the Roman enemies
> of the Jewish people, and the prayer explicitly mentions that these minim
> were tattlers, snitches, people who served the anti-Semites of their day
> as agents, and worked against Jewish existence and survival. Since then
> of course the segment in the daily prayer is understood to be a curse in
> general upon anti-Semites, and especially Jewish anti-Semites working
> against their own people. Jewish anti-Semitism was not born with the
> modern Israeli Oslo Left.
>
> I mention all this because I can think of no more apt illustration of
> a cult of Minim than the Neturei Karta. Your cult is nothing more than a
> pseudo-Jewish pagan group working against Judaism and for the
> enemies of the Jews.
>
> You claim that you are simply opposed to Israel because it is full of
> pork eaters and people who trample upon Jewish observance. Well, let me
> tell you something. The most secularist pork eater on any kibbutz in
> Israel is halakhically (by Rabbinic law) far more Jewish and far more pure
> than all the
> "Rabbis" in the Neturei Karta cult. And why do I say this? Because, as
> you know, there is a clear halakhic rule that says that living in the Land
> of Israel is itself "shakul" or equivalent to observing all 613 religious
> commandments or mitzvot! All of them! Even the ones reserved for
> priests and even the ones that may only be performed in the Temple and so
> may not be performed today.
>
> There is not a single "Rabbi" in Neturei Karta who performs these 613
> mitzvot. Yet the worst pork eater in Israel is already deemed equivalent
> to one who observes them all, even before he gets started. If he was
> circumcised at 8 days, that already puts him even one more
> mitzvah/commandment ahead of you and your "Rabbis". No, I am not
> suggesting that living in Eretz Yisrael, the Land of Israel, should be
> regarded as a legitimate blanket exemption from all other religious
> precepts. I am simply saying that even someone who observes nothing at
> all in Judaism but lives in Israel is more Jewish and more religiously
> pure than the "Rabbis" of your minim cult.
>
> When you march in anti-Israel demonstrations alongside anti-Semites
> (the Durban conference comes to mind), when you endorse Arafat and his
> stormtroopers and serve as their public relations agents, when you support
> terrorists and excuse mass murders of Jews, you are acting as followers of
> the Evil Bil'am, not as sons of Jacob.
>
> You say you want Israel destroyed because it was not set up properly,
> because the Messiah has not yet come? Do you really think that Israel can
> be destroyed without there also occurring a Second Holocaust? Don't you
> realize this is the unavoidable consequence of what you are proposing, and
> what the people you are supporting seek?
>
> Let me tell you something. A ketuba marriage contract signed on the
> Sabbath is still a valid one and must be respected, even though signing it
> on the Sabbath is a prohibited violation of the day. A Cohen or priest
> who marries a divorcee has sinned because such a marriage is prohibited by
> the Torah, but the marriage must be acknowledged and even accepted and
> honored. It stands. Whether or not Israel was created properly or at the
> correct time, the fact that it exists changes how Jews must behave and
> requires a certain amount of responsibility and "arevut ze l'ze" or mutual
> support and defense, even from the most smug, self-righteous pretenders at
> religiosity.
>
> Whatever you think about the erection of Israel, you have no right to
> endorse those seeking to destroy it and its population through violence,
> people seeking genocide of Jews. And if you DO endorse such people and
> march with them, you are nothing more than a disciple of the Evil Bil'am.
> You are a collaborator with Haman. You are worse than Dotan and Aviram.
>
> Had you lived in Shushan in Persia in the days of Queen Esther and her
> Uncle Mordecai, you would have been marching arm in arm with Haman. After
> all, those Persian Jews also included many who no doubt violated the
> Sabbath and other religious principles. The Neturei Karta would have
> supported Haman as a way to "punish" them. How many Rabbis of Rabbi
> Akiva's generation served as PR agents for the Romans, to justify their
> murdering Jews? How many said the murders were justified because - after
> all - so many Jews were not properly observing mitzvot? In Elijah's
> generation all except a few thousand Jews were acting as pagans. Strange,
> but I do not recall Elijah justifying anti-Semites murdering them.
> Indeed, Elijah endorsed the very worst pagan of all, King Ahab, when the
> King went on the war path to kill anti-Semites. Of course, if Neturei
> Karta Minim had been around in those days, they would all be in Syria
> helping the evil Ben-Haddad murder the Jews.
>
> The Neturei Karta "Rabbis" are not recognized as Torah Authorities
> by any Torah Authority outside the cult. No Sephardic Rabbis, no
> Ashkenazim, no Misnagdim, no Chassidim. No one recognizes Neturei Karta
> as a legitimate movement of Judaism. In essence, these Rabbis - like
> me - see Neturei Karta as a pathetic minim cult. Can you name a single
Rabbi
> outside Neturei Karta who endorses the view of your own "Rabbis"? Of
> course you cannot.
>
> So you think collaborating with the worst anti-Semites on the planet
> who openly endorse genocide of Jews is better than collaborating with
> misguided radical secularists who need to be pulled back to the traditions
> of Israel? You believe that when a Jew sins he ceases to be a Jew. I
> wonder which books you are reading as replacements for the Torah. This
> is the level of the "logical reasoning" they are teaching these days in
> Neturei Karta ashrams? (I hesitate to call them yeshivos).
>
> You insist the Zionists are the Devil, not the Palestinians. And of
> course, if the Palestinians are not the Devil, why should anyone think the
> Germans were? Since you defend the Palestinian right to murder my family,
> and as it happens we do not eat pork, then what is wrong with the Germans
> murdering lots of Jews? Why don't you guys march around in your pro-PLO
> parades with swastikas and put one on your web site? And if someone
> happens NOT to keep the religious precepts of Judaism, what gives you the
> right to act as Public Relations man for the people who seeking to murder
> such sinners?
>
> The Neturei Karta cultists are inverted Bil'amim. The Evil Bil'am was
> ordered to curse Israel, yet ended up blessing the Tents of Jacob. You
> are the reverse. You are ordered by the Torah to bless Israel but you
> curse the Jewish people. You have no concept of Jewish solidarity because
> you are not Jews, you are a pseudo-Jewish minim cult.
>
> I really think you need to grow up or see a good shrink. So should
> your "Rabbis".
>
> ******
> For more information, see:
> http://www.nkusa.org/ (Note the translator link into Arabic)
>
> http://www.netureikartauk.org/
>
> http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/Judaism/nk.html

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