Quote: The Lubavitcher Rebbe: The Israeli Government is arming her enemy!!

’It is unheard of anywhere to give weapons to those before whom you are afraid and are shaking with fear, begging them to make peace and at the same time giving them weapons!

In the past they were warned: “Don’t do it!”

You are giving your weapons to the one who says every day: “If you continue to give us weapons - we will remain silent;  and should you not giving weapons - we will consider what to do!

                                                                               From a public talk September 10, 1980

The Lubavitcher Rebbe: “The surest path to success is to be on the ‘offensive’ not only on the ‘defensive’. Don't wait for the other side to strike first”.

The Rebbe: Much success in your very important position for all those living in the Holy Land. Good tidings.  

The Rebbe

Mr. Savir: I request your blessing for our work to bring Jews to Israel and to support us and that they support our peace effort. I hope the Prime Minister will succeed and there will be ‘peace upon Israel’.  

The Rebbe: We need not only ‘peace upon Israel,’ but the appropriate strength to protect everything, not only ‘defense’ which is obvious, but the surest path to success is to be on the ‘offensive’ - not to wait for the other side to strike first.  

Mr. Savir: We need peace, we need security and we need Jews to support us.

The Rebbe: Remind Prime Minister Shamir from time-to-time that he was the only one who opposed the Camp David Accords.

Mr. Savir: Yes.

The Rebbe: They chose to connect this shameful accord with the name of King David…

Mr. Savir: Now the government has a new plan, to make elections for the Arabs in the territories. And with much patience and perseverance we shall succeed.

The Rebbe: This issue is so steeped in controversy that I don’t believe the government has already reached a decision what Israel’s final position on this should be.

Mr. Savir: Yes, there is disagreement, and conflict weakens but it is possible to succeed step- by-step...We have agreed to the United States’ proposal. Now we are waiting for the Arab response.

The Rebbe: In that case there will be success, because the Arabs will not agree, and that will nullify any Israeli plans to make concessions.

Mr. Savir: We want to live in peace and safety; we need only to convince the Americans that this is so.

The Rebbe: The Americans ultimately have no freedom of choice, because they are dependent on G-d’s choice. On the other hand regarding the conduct of Israel, G-d places the freedom of choice in the hands of the Jewish People, including making a choice which is against the Divine Will. He believes strongly in the Jewish People that ultimately they will choose in the path which is 100% in accordance with our Holy Torah. Then the Torah, the People and the Land will all be complete.  

           Interview with Mr. Uri Savir Israeli Ambassador to the United States Nov.26, 1989

How are we to safeguard the Land of Israel? Former MK Rehavam Ze'evi (רחבעם זאבי הי"ד‎) with the Lubavitcher Rebbe

The Rebbe: I have read a lot about you in the newspapers over the course of many years.

Rehavam Zeevi: I have visited your honor several times. If your honor will agree to guide me, what are we to do to safeguard the Land of Israel, perhaps by something we have not done until now.

Former MK Rehavam Zeevi Hy"d

The Rebbe: To spread Judaism; something which has not been done until now in the Land of Israel; in spite of the wonder that they have not been active transforming ‘inhabitants’ of Eretz Israel to be ‘the sons’ of Eretz Israel, not just a physical habitation, but also a spiritual habitation, to the point whereby all who see the inhabitants will recognize that they were born and educated in the Land whose name is the ‘Land of Israel’, an Eternal Inheritance for an Eternal Nation, seen as such every single day. 

This need not be difficult to achieve because one does not have to create something new but only to reveal that which pre-exists within every Jewish man and woman of Israel, even within children; on the contrary, within children this is in an even purer form without any political opposition or side issues.

Rehavam Zeevi: What is there for me to do in the Knesset that I have not yet done? 

The Rebbe: To announce at every opportune moment that the meaning of ‘Eretz Israel’ is not just an area of land called ‘Eretz Israel’, but rather, all those who reside upon this Land be filled with Jewishness, [which G-d] placed within every Jew - to be recognized upon all those that reside there, whether in a city or upon the Land, that Judaism is the natural way of living, as is the natural air of this Land.  

Rehavam Zeevi: Thank you.

The Rebbe: Blessing and success.

The Rebbe asks Mr. Netanyahu to do all he can to bring Moshiach!

P.M. Netanyahu visits the Rebbe, June 26, 1988

The Rebbe: Much success. I hav’ent seen you in a long time..Blessing and success, a double portion of blessing.

Mr. Netanyahu: I came to ask for your blessing and help..

The Rebbe: In everything.

Mr. Netanyahu: In all areas both personal and political.

The Rebbe: Since we last met many things have progressed. What hasn’t changed however is that Moshiach still hasn’t come; so do something to hasten his coming.

Mr. Netanyahu: We’re doing we’re doing…..

The Rebbe: Apparently it’s not enough, since many hours have already passed today and he’s still not here ….But there are still a few hours left in the day, so try still for today.

Mr. Netanyahu: Yes.

The Rebbe: Good tidings - with joy and happiness. You know that Chassidim are careful to do everything with joy.

Mr. Netanyahu: Yes.

The Rebbe: Good tidings, much success.
                                                                                                           

A message from the Story of Purim: A Jew aspiring to a high station should not forgo his own Jewish lifestyle or values!

  There are those who imagine that in order to receive honors from gentile nations one must live their lifestyles and ape their mode of dress; for should he not do so, he will be scoffed at, and not be accepted in their social circles, unable to achieve the goals he needs from them.  For this we have guidance from Mordechai the Tzaddik as we read in the Book of Esther. 

Tomb of Mordechai and Esther today in Shushan, Iran

How did Mordechai reach his high station ultimately to achieve the role of second in command to the King of Persia? By his conduct of not lowering himself or bowing down. Even before telling us of his humble station that he sat by the gateway of the king, the book of Esther first describes Mordechai as a Jew - one who denies the idol worship [of the times] and seen as such by all with whom he came into contact. 

More: what brought about his meteoric rise from the gates of the king to occupy the most powerful position in the kingdom second only to King Achasverosh?  By his conduct which ran diametrically contrary to the custom of the country.  At a time when all ministers bowed down to Haman [as commanded by the king himself], Mordechai refuses to do so! 

Thereafter there came about the most amazing results; not only did his refusal to bow down not reduce his stature in the eyes of Achashverosh, but to the contrary. Initially the intense hatred for the Jewish people by Achashverosh was equal to that of Haman. Yet, immediately when Queen Esther informed the King that it was Mordechai who stood at the head of the Jewish Nation, King Achashverosh saw Mordechai as a man who could be trusted, in whose hands he could place the affairs of the Kingdom, a man of truth standing by his values regardless of adverse circumstance, fearful of no one. 

When however a gentile perceives that a Jew is running after him, the gentile loses all value and respect for him saying: “since this Jew has cheated on his own personal Jewishness, he will also cheat on me…..”.   

                                                                                                Public talk, Purim 1969