Anti-Zionist Orthodox Jews Clarify Position on Palestinian Settlements In the Holy Land

News Advisory:

The debate continues between the Zionists, give up the settlements or not.

"The world should be aware that this is not a Jewish problem, this is a Zionist problem only, "said Rabbi Yisroel Weiss, because the State of "Israel" is not a Jewish state but a Zionist state.

Rabbi Weiss continued, "Judaism and Zionism are extreme opposites."

"According to the true Jewish belief, Jews are forbidden to create their own state before the coming of our Messiah. (Talmud, Tractate Kesuboth, p.111)"

"If not for the existence of the State of "Israel", all these problems would not exist and "solutions" would not be necessary."

Orthodox Jewish leaders and laymen have fought Zionism continuously since its inception and up until the present day. Of all the nations who have suffered from Zionism, the Jewish Nation has suffered the most, because the uprooting of ones belief and religion — according to Jewish law is more catastrophic than the loss of life itself.

Accordingly, attempting to leave exile and all the other cardinal crimes associated and committed by Zionism and their "State", such as the theft from, subjugation and oppression of, the Palestinian people, the continuous attempts to uproot the Torah and oppress the Torah-true Jews, etc., are to us religious Torah-true Jews, the worse tragedy.

Orthodox Torah-true Jews are shamed and pained by the terrible crimes that Zionists and their "State" are committing. And the shame is compounded, when this is being done in the name of "Israel", the name that Zionism has appropriated from the Jewish religion.

A counter protest will take place against both factions of Zionism

WHEN: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 at 12 p.m.

WHERE: In Times Square, Broadway between 41st and 42nd Streets, New York City

For more information please contact: Neturei Karta International, http://www.nkusa.org