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MK Arieh Eldad (photo: Knesset)
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| By israelinsider staff and partners April 16, 2007 |
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Knesset Member Arieh Eldad (National Union/ National Religious Party) discusses Christian support for Israel and the effects of the disengagement in Part Two of an interview with Pajamas Media. In this section, Eldad calls Christian supporters of Israel "allies" in the clash of civilizations instigated by Islam. He then compares Israel's disengagement to an animal that eats itself, as depicted in a famous painting called Autumn Cannibalism by Salvador Dali.
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Click here to view the video of the second part of a three-part interview with Dr. Arieh Eldad conducted by Pajamas Media.
See Part One: MK Eldad: Two-state solution is bankrupt, only state for Palestinians is Jordan
See Part Three: MK Eldad: Iran has rationale of suicide bomber
The transcript of Part Two of the interview appears below.
PART TWO: Moral Clarity
Christian Support for Israel
People who know their bible, as we say, really read that the land of Israel belongs to the people of Israel. Some of the support that we get from the Christian community comes from that point of view. The other part comes from the feeling that there is a global war, a clash of civilizations between the Muslim imperialistic tendency to take over the world with the Christians and the Jews and everybody who is not Muslim. This is where we and the Christians are allies in the same frontier.
The Land of Israel
This is the land of Israel. This is the land of the Jewish people. If we do not have a right in Hebron and in Jerusalem and in Shiloh where the first Temple was created, we do not have a right in Tel Aviv and Haifa as well.
The Scar of Disengagement
There was a very famous painting by Salvador Dali. In 1936 he painted a creature that eats himself and he called it Autumn Cannibalism. That is what happened in Israel during the disengagement. The Israeli army... for political reasons, really, pure political reasons, no existential threat, not in the real interest of the State of Israel, now we know it's a total failure, it contributed a lot to the eruption of terrorism since then... the Israeli army uprooted ten thousand settlers from their homes, places they were living for thirty-five years, three generations, synagogues were burning. No other explanation other than a kind of creature that starts eating himself.
It was a terrible lesson for the Jewish people to see our own soldiers, our own brothers and sisters, are doing it to us. It is a crisis that the State of Israel is not going to overcome for many generations. We can repair it, we can try to put the fragments together, but as a physician I know sometimes a fracture heals but you always see the internal scar on the x-ray.
New Leadership for Israel
When I left the emergency room in my hospital, I understood that there is a cure to the Israeli disease, but it's not within the framework of a hospital, but I should do preventive medicine in the field of politics.
I am there. I am there to stay and there to become a leader of this group of people who are still Zionists, who believe in the goals of the Jewish people. I hope I will be able to lead them. |
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