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By Joshua Klein
(FEBRUARY 11, 2024 / BREITBART) President of the Union for Reform Judaism Rabbi Rick Jacobs has been persistently wrong on countless issues concerning the Jewish state, according to Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) head Morton Klein, who slammed the Reform leader’s recent calls in support of a Palestinian state — which is widely feared to pose an existential threat to Israel’s existence — comparing the heeding of Jacob’s views on Israel to “hiring a lawyer who’s never won a case.”
In an exclusive statement to Breitbart News on Sunday, Klein, who has led the nation’s oldest pro-Israel group for more than thirty years, accused the Reform movement head of consistently erring on crucial issues.
“Reform Judaism’s President Rabbi Rick Jacobs was wrong about supporting [former PLO leader Yasser] Arafat’s dangerous Oslo Accords [and] was wrong about supporting the dangerous Gaza withdrawal, forcibly throwing out 10,000 Jews from their homes,” he stated.
The failed 1993 Oslo Accords, which gave control over most of the West Bank and Gaza Strip to the Palestinians, were met with Palestinian rejection and years of terror despite promising peace for Israelis. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently referred to the agreements as “the mother of all sins.”
In 2005, Israel completely “disengaged” from Gaza, uprooting thousands of Jews and razing existing Israeli settlements, effectively giving Gazans virtual autonomy over the strip. However, Palestinians largely viewed the move as a retreat under violent pressure, reinforcing groups like Hamas who claimed their tactics were effective. The perception likely influenced Hamas’s electoral victory in early 2006, as they campaigned on having expelled Israel through force.
Post-withdrawal, attacks on Israel persisted, with terrorists firing missiles at and carrying out suicide bombings against civilian population centers within the Jewish state, and culminating in last year’s October 7 massacre — the deadliest attack against Jewish people since the Nazi Holocaust.
The multi-pronged October attack saw some 3,000 terrorists burst into Israel by land, sea, and air and gun down participants at an outdoor music festival while others went door to door hunting for Jewish men, women, and children in local towns who were then subject to torture, rape, execution, immolation, and kidnapping.
The massacre, which drew parallels to scenes from the Nazi-era Holocaust, resulted in more than 1,200 dead inside the Jewish state, over 5,300 more wounded, and at least 241 hostages of all ages taken — of which nearly 130 remain captive.
The vast majority of the victims are civilians and include dozens of American citizens.
According to Klein, Jacobs was also wrong about his previous support and defense of the “antisemitic, Israel-bashing” Black Lives Matter organization, “absurdly” calling the ZOA head a “racist” and urging his removal from Jewish groups simply for “exposing the Black Lives Matters Jew-hating charter,” which refers to Israel as a genocidal apartheid state.
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