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Zionist Argument: The nations of the world already violated their oath
Claim: Two of the three oaths are for the Jews, and one is for the nations of the world. Since the nations of the world violated their oath and persecuted the Jews too much (i.e. the Holocaust), the Jews are allowed to violate theirs. This claim is based on the Midrash and the Zera Shimshon…
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Zionist Argument: Permission of the Nations
Claim: The oaths do not apply to the State of Israel, since it was founded with the UN’s permission. Facts: 1) One of the oaths is that the Jewish people must not go up to Eretz Yisroel as a wall. There is a disagreement among the commentators as to whether this oath applies to any…
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The Khazar Correspondence and its implications for Jewish statehood
(Based on the English edition of I Will Await Him, p. 466, and the Hebrew Achakeh Lo p. 341.) Q: In the eighth century, the king of the Khazar nation and much of its aristocracy converted to Judaism. Judaism remained the official religion of the nation until it was conquered by the Kievan Rus in…
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