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Rabbi Weiss: Zionism; the root cause of Israel-Gaza War

• May 3, 2023
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Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss was interviewed by George Galloway, an esteemed Member of Parliament of the United Kingdom, on the question of what the root causes of the current conflict between Israel and Gaza are.

The following is a quote from Rabbi Weiss’s answer:

“The root cause is clearly the introduction of a political ideology called Zionism. It’s a nationalist movement masquerading under a religious name—Israel, and the Star of David, and so forth—but it is a totally flawed, material movement led by selfish people who wanted to create their own haven, their own sovereignty, using religion to justify it. That is the root cause of so much hate, strife, bloodshed, and rift between Jews and Muslims.

And, it’s very clear—this is not just an opinion, our history attests to it—that Jews and Muslims lived together in harmony for hundreds and hundreds of years in every Arab and Muslim land, clearly identified as religious Jews among clearly Muslim people. There was no need for human rights groups or the United Nations, whether it was in Yemen, Tunisia, Egypt, Morocco, or Iran—we lived together.”