JERUSALEM (JNS) – At the sold-out International Conservative Conference in Tel Aviv on Wednesday night, The Daily Wire’s editor emeritus Ben Shapiro explained why he has not moved to Israel.
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After being asked the question by journalist Amit Segal, Shapiro told the more than 2,500 attendees that living in the United States is a “point of morality” for him.
“Because the fundamental principles [of the United States] are good, eternally good, and worth upholding, and my fight to do that as Jew is deeply important not just to people who are not Jewish but particularly to Jews,” he said. “So, in other words, my Jewish mission does not conflict with my presence in the United States or my citizenship in the United States or my loyalty to the United States.”
When Segal pushed Shapiro, asking if all Jews should live in the State of Israel, the American Jewish conservative political commentator and columnist said he believed that he is doing good in the United States with his large audience.
“Jews should live where they can be a light to the nations, and for me, as a person with millions and millions of followers in the United States promoting what I think are values that are eternally good, living in the United States is a point of morality for me.”
When moving is an aliyah in ruchnius one could understand the need v’dal. Anyone needed anywhere on the globe for fellow Yidden will be there with Moshiach!
Ben should have told the questioner because he wishes to live in a land of democracy! Israel is not. It is closer to a democracy than Communist society but a democracy it is not. It is a socialist government and currently
Israel’s governmental operation is in total disarray. Simply broken.
Ben should have told the questioner because he wishes to live in a land of democracy! Israel is not. It is closer to a democracy than Communist society but a democracy it is not. It is a socialist government and currently the governmental operation is in total disarray. Simply broken.
Who cares?
The Zionist state is the beginning of the final geula…. But it is just the beginning … The dawn when there is mostly darkness and only a little light shows….. The medina is mostly darkness…… So when Jews who eat the “fish of light” in exile refuse to light up Eretz Yisrael……..they make sure to extend the darkness. Who else is going to light up Eretz Yisrael? Yair Lapid? Evet Liberman??? So instead, they light up Brooklyn, Monsey and Lakewood….. just like they once lit up Rodin, Lublin, and Volezhin. Except now there is nothing left of the Jewish world there….. Just like the Bronx, Newark, etc…… The Jew is vanishing from the USA, and all efforts to expand the exile there are worthless….. Go with the beginning of the geula and uproot the treif medina and establish a true Torah monarchy in Eretz Yisrael…… First step is to make up your mind to leave exile and return home…. To Israel. This step is the hardest….. It all gets easier from there.
It is very amusing to see to which lengths the “modern” allegedly orthodox will go to justify (to themselves as well) their desire to remain zionists from afar.
Aliyah != geulah
He should have said that since 7 years ago he applied to immigrate aa a non sex offender, so his application wasn’t expedited.
This question posed by this “Religious Zionist” (idolater) is absurd.
Zionism’s Big Lie is that their “State” is “The Jewish State”. But their “State” is, of course, a Zionist, not Jewish State. As well, Zionism is anti-Jewish to its core. Its very identity and ideology is to change the Jewish people and religion from Torah-based with Hashem to godless gentile-aping Nationalist land-based.
When you put those two factors together, it is quite obvious that Jews would most likely avoid living in a Zionist “State”.
That’s besides for the active shmad of the Zionists, their hatred of frum Jews, their never-ending wars (which their prior leader whom some Jews so admire – so sad – admitted will always be the Zionist “State”‘s fate) and the rest.
He is a RINOOOO, doesnt matter.