Israel IS a puppet of the U.S. Whatever the U.S. says, Israel has to do. U.S. contributes sooo much foreign aid to them that it's ridiculous.
Do you ever watch a single video Chaim makes?
The amount US gives to Israel is actually pretty small. Not ridiculous. Check out how much they give to arab states. Do those states behave as puppets? Not a chance.
You think Israel can just defy the U.S. whenever it wants?
It can defy but chooses not to. The current leadership is too afraid and too weak to do it.
But let's look at history. Israel HAS defied the US in the past and they are still around today. The world didn't end.
They defied them before the current "relationship" existed, and they have defied them during the current "relationship."
The US reacts with indignation and condemnation, then it blows over. Israel is a sovereign state, there is only so much the US can force it to behave along US interests. Same is true of all other non-US countries the US tries to influence.
So what do you have to say about this history?
Also, the modern-day land of Israel is only a tiny piece of what was given to the Jews.
What exactly is a "modern-day land of Israel?" There is only one Land of Israel, that is Biblical. You are again conflating the modern-day JEWISH STATE (in its current formulation) with the Land of Israel - two different things and different concepts. The land of Israel is the piece of land G-d promised to Abraham Isaac and Jacob, no matter if there are 10 Jews there, a million Jews and a Jewish country, or just space aliens and an alien state. It's still the same land, it still has the same significance you cannot ignore or deny. The Torah speaks of it constantly!
If Israel were in control of the world, it would never have given away so much land.
Why would Israel be "in control of the world" and what bearing does that have on anything I said? They obviously do not "control the world." So what?
Hell, if the U.S. told Israel, at any point in time, that they would help preserve all of the land, do you think any of the Arabs would have had a chance against Israel? Suppose the U.S. helped Israel destroy all of its enemies, do you really think Israel would have as little land as it does now?
So if the US doesn't help Israel fight its own wars, that means Israel is a puppet of the US? Not much logic in that claim. There are many wars throughout the world that the US does not intervene in or does not pick sides and then fight to the extermination of the other side.
According to your argument we should respect the entire land regardless of the people in it.
I got some news for you. Some of the Jews who live in Israel are worse than some of the Gentiles in the surrounding Arab countries. Does that mean I should consider those lands holy?
You do realize that land is something that you walk on, right? It's on the ground made up of earth, dirt, mountains, valleys, trees, etc. So of what relevance are the people treading on it? It's still the land G-d promised to us as an inheritance.
Are you aware that when the Jews were about to enter the land, there were other peoples there? And these other peoples weren't such savory characters? And part of the reason G-d was removing them was because of their idol worship? And this didn't make the land less special because unsavory characters were roaming around on it.
So by all means, consider the lands holy. But the people on them, if they are doing evil deeds, may not be so holy. Still doesn't change that the land (I'm talking about earth, stuff you walk on and live in, NOT PEOPLE) is special and given to us. This is precisely your mistake. You are negating the holiness of the land of Israel and the special significance of this place on the globe due to your distaste for the behaviors of people living there. That is a variation on the theme of the sin of the spies who negated the land due to the fear of the giants roaming there.
The current regime controls the people. The land is holy, of course, because Hashem said so, but the Jewish lives everywhere are just as precious.
Your point? Life is precious, but Jewish existence in antartica (or mexico, or the US) is irrelevant by a thousand-fold compared to Jewish existence in our ancient homeland. And if Jews are behaving badly in Israel, that's all the more dangerous because of how central and important eretz Yisrael is to the future of the Jewish people. Much more relevant and important than the discussion about the brooklyn eruv.
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