There are two categories of ‘those who betray Jews to gentiles’: one who betrays a fellow Jew to the gentiles so that they may kill or beat him; and one who gives his fellow Jew’s money to the gentiles or to a person who takes property and is, therefore, considered like a gentile. [Rambam, Hilchot Teshuvah 3:6, 12] (1) 

The above lines may bring to mind the expulsions of Jews from Gush Katif, the north Shomron towns and the pogrom at Amona. To those with longer memories or to students of history they will recall the Saison and the collaboration and complicity of the official “Zionists” (who still give a bad name to that austere term) with the British and their geopolitics of abetting the shoah. Near at hand, “one who betrays a fellow Jew to the gentiles so that they may beat and kill him” connotes the rocket barrages from Gaza since 2001, the undeclared “wars of attrition” that the Labor and now Kadima-Likud rulers of Israel never allow it to win or even suppress for very long. It also highlights their subservience to foreign kingdoms, especially America and Britain that to scholars like Rambam was a primary sign of the ruin of Judaism and harsh events that precede the restoration of royalty and integrity to Israel (Melachim 1:1, 5:1-5, 11-12; Hilchot Kokhavim 10:4-6; Hilchot Teshuvah 9:2; geula b’ita)[2]. “The normal pattern of the world” cannot pertain until Israel is sovereign and Torah complete ( “the oppression of the gentile kingdoms prevents Israel from fulfilling the mitzvoth properly” ibid). (more…)