It’s a Torah commandment to ‘drive out’ the Ishmaelites

Choni Davidowitz, Johannesburg

The Torah states clearly: “And you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you… But if you do not drive them out, then those… (who are allowed) to remain will be like thorns in your sides and pins in your eyes and will torment you in the land in which you dwell. (Numbers 33;52-55).

The Biblical commentators are explicit. “And you shall drive out the inhabitants, and you shall inherit the land, and be able to exist in it. And if you do not, you will not be able to exist in it” (Rashi).

“When you shall eliminate the inhabitants of the land, then you shall be privileged to inherit the land and pass it down to your children. But if you do not eliminate them, even though you will conquer the land, you will not be privileged to hand it down to your children. (Sforno)

For 50 years, since the miraculous victory of the Six Day War, when Israel regained sovereignty over all of Israel after 2 000 years, its leaders have consistently failed to expel the enemy. An Infinite number of articles, opinions, “peace treaties”, have been put forward to bring peace to the Jewish state. Yet, the only solution has been overlooked.

While it is widely accepted that no human ruler has the right to decree that an entire population be exiled, G-d has revealed that the presence of hostile Ishmaelites is incompatible with the Nation of Israel in the same land.

How many thousands of Jewish men, woman and children, have been killed and injured by “Palestinians” who were allowed to remain after being defeated in war?

Let us hope that with the current unrest now unfolding in Jerusalem, G-d is creating circumstances whereby the leaders of Israel will fulfil the Torah commandment to “drive them out”. Only then will Israeli citizens live securely in their land, and allow future generations of Jews to inherit a land free of hostile Arabs.