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Declaration to
President George W. Bush
A document was prepared for US President
George Bush's visit to Israel, January 2008. It calls upon him to
remember that the legacy of all leaders is dependent on G-d's judgment
alone. President Bush should choose to
be remembered like Cyrus, and not like Nebuchadnezzar. The document is
addressed to the the "Leader of the West." It requests of him to honor G-d's word and "declare
to the world" that he will act "towards settling the Jewish People
throughout their entire
Land."
28 Tevet, 5768 - January 6, 2008
In the Name of the LORD, Eternal God
To The Honorable Mr. George W. Bush,
President of the United States of America,
Who comes seeking the presence of the Most High God, to Jerusalem, city
of God, Divinely chosen site of the Holy Temple, eternal capital of our
land, “the joy of the entire earth (Psalms 48:3),” may it be rebuilt and
established speedily and in our days, Amen!
Esteemed Mr. George W. Bush, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal
(Ezekiel 38:1), leader of the west!
Seeking Peace
Upon your arrival in Jerusalem you have the ability to make a
declaration, as did Cyrus, King of Persia – whose memory is honored –
who in the year 538 BCE returned the exiled nations to their lands and
recognized the full right of the Jewish people to reestablish their
Holy Temple, the “house of prayer for all nations” (Isaiah 56:7), and
called upon them to return to their land,
And in the manner of Lord James Balfour of England, who in 1917, called
upon the Jews to reestablish a national homeland in the Land of Israel.
And thus if you truly desire peace and benevolence, and you would be
counted in the company of the truly righteous, we call upon you to
declare to all the world:
The Land of Israel was
bequeathed to the nation of Israel by the Creator of the world. Neither
could I, as a son of my faith, nor the Muslims according to their
faith, ever take away even the slightest grain from the Eternal’s gift,
which He gave to His people Israel, the eternal people. Thus I call
upon all the nations to save themselves from certain doom, to return
and recognize that this land is the exclusive rightful inheritance of
the people of Israel, as is written in the Torah of Israel, which
constitutes the very foundation of our faith, as well as that of Islam;
and is the basis for the decisions of the community of nations. He who
denies this truth endangers all life on earth.
I shall dedicate all my strength
and resources towards settling the Jewish people throughout their
entire land. I shall greatly encourage and empower the Jews all over
the world to rise up to the Land of Israel and to settle it, to
establish God’s sanctuary in Jerusalem, to distance strangers from it
and thus, I believe, I will be making a major contribution towards
world peace.
I cannot simultaneously support
the establishment of a foreign state for an alien nation in the Land of
Israel, and I will not lend my hand to this wrong.
Or – Heaven forbid – you can choose
the second option – to willfully aid in the destruction, under the
guise of peace!
You certainly know what the God of Israel did to Egypt and Assyria and
to all Israel’s enemies from time immemorial: Do you imagine that you
will be able to save yourself if you have come to implement a plan that
intends to steal the land of “the people that survived the sword”
(Jeremiah 31:1), and to cut off those who survived the Holocaust, to
rob the land that was given to them by the Creator?
All of the peace treaties and initiatives which have been based upon
the decisions of the government of Israel, indeed the entire Oslo
process, and the ‘Disengagement,’ and the establishment of a terrorist
state within the
Land of Israel known as ‘Palestine’ – regrettably, all of these
agreements are the result of a lack of sufficient faith in the Divine
promises that the Lord made to the patriarchs of our nation, and all
that is written in the Torah of Israel. Understand this well: the
nations of the world cannot excuse their actions and their decisions on
account of the weakness of Israel and her government. God ordained that
the role of the nations of the world is to strengthen the nation of
Israel. This will benefit all humanity and bring about world peace, as
the
prophets have foretold.
The Bush Legacy
Do you imagine you can escape
from the struggles in Iran, Pakistan,
Saudi Arabia, Syria, Egypt, and Lebanon, by offering up sacrifices of
the Jews who are slaughtered daily by their enemies who speak of peace
but live by the sword?
Upon your arrival in our land we would anticipate that you bring
Jonathan Pollard home with you. Bring him home to Israel. He is an
emissary of the State of Israel, and he acted on behalf of our people.
Authorize his
immediate release while you are yet in Jerusalem, before you return to
the United States. This will be a positive step that will build
confidence.
Remember our forefather Abraham, who pursued the world’s four greatest
kings in order to redeem his nephew from captivity. We cannot forget
the deeds of our patriarchs, whose example guides us through every
generation.
We are the loyal representatives of the Jewish people, the New Jewish
Congress, and its court of law, the Sanhedrin, as well as the Temple
and Temple Mount movements, but we merely reiterate herein what is
public knowledge.
No government in Israel and no representative of the Jewish people has
the power or right to alter, by even the slightest degree, our covenant
with God and the words of our holy Torah, which are everlasting, as
expressed by the prophets of Israel and even by the wicked prophet
Balaam: “Then he looked on Amalek, and uttered his oracle, saying:
‘First among the nations was Amalek, but its end is to perish for ever’
(Numbers 24:20). Thus any desire, plan or agreement that challenges the
eternal sovereignty and active possession of the nation of Israel over
her entire land is utterly worthless, and has no basis in reality.
Therefore it behooves you to declare: “I, George Bush, Commander in
Chief of the armies of the United States of America, will instruct all
of my troops to protect the Divine rights of the nation of Israel, and
remove from her any threat.”
Before you is a choice: You can merit to eternal life, or be inscribed
for eternal disgrace. Your fate and that of all those with you hangs in
the balance of the destiny of our land. “and you shall choose life!”
(Deut. 30:19).
In Sincere Supplication - In the name of the Jewish people
Rabbi A Even Yisrael Steinzaltz
The Sanhedrin
Dr. Gadi Eshel
The New Jewish Congress
Rabbi Chaim Richman
The Holy Temple and Temple Mount Movements
Biblical Verses for Meditation
These verses testify to the eternal promise and the
inexorable link between the Land of Israel and the Jewish people.
Genesis
12 (1) Now the Lord said to Abram,
'Go from your country and your
kindred and your father's house to the Land that I will show you. (2) I
will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your
name great, so that you will be a blessing. (3) I will bless those who
bless you, and the one who curses you I will curse: and in you all the
families of the earth shall be blessed.'
13 (15) For all the Land that you
see I will give to you and your
offspring for ever.
15 (7) The He said to him, 'I am
the Lord who brought you from Ur
of the Chaldeans, to give you this land to possess.'
21 (12) But God said to Abraham,
'Do not be distressed because of the
boy and because of your slave woman; whatever Sarah says to you, do as
she tells you, for it is through Isaac that offspring shall be named
after you.
28 (13) And the Lord stood beside
him and said, 'I am the Lord, the God
of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac; the Land on which you lie
I will give to you and to your offspring.
35 (12) 'The Land that I gave to
Abraham and Isaac I will give to you,
and I will give the Land to your offspring after you.'
50 (24) Then Joseph said to his
brothers. 'I am about to die: but God
will surely come to you, and bring you up out of this land to the Land
that he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.'
Exodus
6 (8) "I will bring you into the
Land that I swore to give to Abraham,
Isaac, and Jacob; I will give it to you for a possession. I
am the Lord."
32 (13) Remember Abraham, Isaac,
and Israel, your servants. How
You swore to them by Your Own Self, saying to them, "I will multiply
your descendants like the stars of heaven. And all this Land that
I have promised I will give to your descendants. And they shall
inherit it for ever."
Numbers
14 (8) If the Lord is pleased with
us, He will bring us into this Land
and give it to us, a Land that flows with milk and honey.
34 (1) The Lord spoke to Moses,
saying: (2) Command the Israelites, and
say to them: When you enter the land of Canaan (This the Land that
shall fall to you for an inheritance. The land of Canaan, defined by
its boundaries). (3) Your south sector shall extend from the wilderness
of Zin along the side of Edom. Your southern boundary shall be
from the end of the Dead Sea on the East: (4) Your boundary shall turn
south of the ascent of Akrabbim, and cross to Zin, and its outer limit
shall be south of Kadesh-Barnea: Then it shall go on to Hazar-Addar,
and cross to Azmon: (5) The boundary shall turn from Azmon to the Wadi
of Egypt. And its termination shall be at the sea.
(6) For the western boundary, you
shall have the Great Sea and its
coast; this shall be your western boundary.
(7) This shall be your northern
boundary: From the Great Sea you shall
mark out your line to Mount Hor: (8) Form Mount Hor you shall mark it
out to Lebo-Hamath. And the outer limit of the boundary shall be at
Zedad; (9) Then the boundary shall extend to Ziphron. And its end shall
be at Hazar-Enan: This shall be your northern boundary.
(10) You shall mark out your
eastern boundary from Hazar-Enan to
Shepham: (11) And the boundary shall continue down from Shepham to
Riblah on the east side of Ain: And the boundary shall go don, and
reach the eastern slope of the sea of Chinnereth; (12) And the boundary
shall go do to the Jordan, and its end shall be at the Dead Sea. This
shall be your land with its boundaries all around.
Deuteronomy
1 (8) See, I have set the Land
before you; go in and take possession of
the Land that I swore to your ancestors, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to
Jacob, to give to them and to their descendants after them.'
4 (1) So now, Israel, give heed to
the statutes and ordinances that I
am teaching you to observe, so that you may live to enter and occupy
the Land that the Lord, the God of your ancestors, is giving you.
10 (11) The Lord said to me, 'Get
up, go on your journey at the head of
the people, that they may go in and occupy the Land that I swore to
their ancestors to give them.'
11 (22) If you will diligently
observe this entire commandment that I
am commanding you, loving the Lord your God, walking in all His ways,
and holding fast to Him, (23) then the Lord will drive out all these
nations from before you, and you will dispossess nations larger and
mightier than yourselves. (24) Every place on which you set foot
shall be yours; your territory shall extend from the wilderness to the
Lebanon and from the River. The River Euphrates to the Western Sea.
(25) No one will be able to stand against you: The Lord your God will
put the fear and dread of you on all the land on which you set foot, as
he promised you.
26 (1) When you have come into the
Land that the Lord your God is
giving you as an inheritance to posses, and you possess it, and settle
in it. (2) You shall take some of the first of all the fruit of the
ground, which you harvest from the Land that the Lord your God is
giving you, and you shall put it in a basket and go to the Place that
the Lord your God will choose as a dwelling for His name. (3) You shall
go to the Priest who is in office at that time, and say to him, 'Today
I declare to the Lord your God that I have come into the Land that the
Lord wore to our ancestors to give us.'
30 (3) Then the Lord your God will
restore your fortunes and have
compassion on you. Gathering you again from all the peoples among whom
the Lord your God has scattered you. (4) Even if you are exiled to the
ends of the world, from there the Lord your God will gather you, and
from there he will bring you back. (5) The Lord your God will bring you
into the Land that your ancestors possessed, and you will possess it:
He will make you more prosperous and numerous than your ancestors.
34 (4) The Lord said to him, 'This
is the Land of which I swore to
Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, "I will give it to your
descendants";
Joshua
1 (1) After the death of Moses the
servant of the Lord, the Lord spoke
to Joshua, son of Nun, Moses' assistant, saying, (2) 'My servant Moses
is dead. Now proceed to cross the Jordan, you and all this people, into
the Land that I am giving to them, to the Israelites. (3) Every place
that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have give to you, as I
promised to Moses.(4) From the wilderness and the Lebanon as far as the
Great River, the river Euphrates. All the land of the Hittites,
to the Great Sea in the west shall be your territory. (5) No one shall
be able to stand against you all the days of your life. As I was with
Moses, so I will be with you: I will not fail you or forsake you. (6)
Be strong and courageous; for you shall put this people in possession of
the Land that I swore to their ancestors to give them.
(10) Then Joshua command the
officers of the people. (11) Pass through
the camp, and command the people "Prepare your provisions; for in three
days you are to cross over the Jordan, to go in to take possession of
the Land that the Lord your God gives you to posses."'
22 (43) Thus the Lord gave to
Israel and the Land that He swore to
their ancestors that He would give them; and having taken possession of
it, they settled there. (44) And the Lord gave them rest on every
side just as He had sworn to their ancestors; not one of all their
enemies had withstood them, for the Lord had given all their enemies
into their hands. (45) Not one of all the good promises that the Lord
had made to the House of Israel had failed; all came to pass.
Judges
2 (1) Now the angle of the Lord
went up from Gilgal to Bochim, and
said, 'I brought you up from Egypt, and brought you into the Land that
I had promised to your ancestors. I said, "I will never break My
covenant with you."
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original English parchment (pdf)
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pictures of Rav Steinsaltz signing 1, 2, 3 (courtesy Temple Institute)
Click here for a plain English translation (pdf)
Click here for the original Hebrew version
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