…Instead of telling the world, “Oh yes, we too believe in a state for the alleged ancient Palestinians in Judea and Samaria,” Israel has to say, “Excuse me, but this is the heart of the heart of the Jewish people’s historic homeland, and we are under no moral obligation to surrender our right to visit, for example, the Tomb of Joseph in Shechem without being shot at, attacked, and do so whenever we want and not according to any others religionists’ timetable.” The way if it is now, I think, if you want to make a pilgrimage to Joseph’s Tomb, it must be done under army escort and in the dead of night.

This is intolerable. World antiJewry these days says we have to give back the land we fought and died for, even the land the League of Nations foresaw as Jewish Palestine. And that mean giving back Bet El, where, according to one view, Jacob lay on his back to sleep and saw a ladder to heaven with angels ascending and descending on it.

It means giving back Shilo, where the Ark of the Covenant rested for four centuries. The same Ark that Steven Spielberg made a movie about and tons of money, Raiders of the Lost Ark. Spielberg can make a children’s adventure story about that Ark but you won’t catch him and other Hollywood liberals of Jewish extraction standing up for the right of the Jews today to live at that site where the Ark reposed all those centuries…