Extract of a letter from 5740 - Final Part 4 - Continued from last week
...And here is where my request comes in. I do not know what you and the editor and publisher of the B.B.M. think personally, as individuals, about the situation outlined above; nor am I adequately familiar with the position which the B.B.M. has advocated in the past. I do believe, however, that a publication that carries the banner of B'nai B'rith (in the true sense of the term, as noted above), and which is now in its 84th year, has the primary obligation to carry the message of the divine covenant to its numerous readers, many of whom are leading personalities in various Jewish communities—the message of the Torah, Torat Chaim and Torat Emet, namely: that Eretz Yisrael is ours by divine covenant, as indeed is recognized by all who believe in the sanctity of the Bible; and the “facts of life” and "truth" are that Jews are not “occupiers” or “aggressors” in their homeland, but that what has passed into our hands is only a restitution of what is rightfully ours by divine will and grace, not by the “false grace” of the United Nations.
And we cannot afford to be magnanimous and give away any part of our tiny land in response to the threat of force, since the retention of every last inch of it is a matter of vital security for its three and a half million Jews, men, women and children, as well as for our Jewish people as a whole.
To conclude on the timely note of coming from Tisha B'Av and approaching the month of Elul, the month of special divine grace and mercy—may G-d indeed reveal His mercy to the world, and to our Jewish people, and bring us the true and complete Geulah through Mashiach Tzidkeinu, which will also bring about the perfection of the world under the sovereignty of the Almighty. Indeed, every one of us can do much to hasten the realization of this divine promise through an ongoing movement of teshuva—return to the Jewish essence, which is inseparably intertwined with Torah and mitzvot and living Yiddishkeit in the everyday life, as our great Teacher and Guide of all times ruled: “Jews do teshuvah and are redeemed immediately.”
