"We have never been in such danger as we are now,"
Rabbi Elyakim Levanon, the rabbi of the West Bank
Jewish settlement Elon Moreh, told 500 of his
colleagues at a meeting of the Federation for the
People of Israel and Land of Israel in Jerusalem
yesterday. "The government has decided on alien
sovereignty over the Land of Israel, and the earth
is burning beneath our feet. We are defending,
with our bodies, against the great danger every
single moment, and we have no rear lines. I call
upon the great rear line to arise and come to
life, from Metulla to the Negev. The truth must be
reawakened. And meanwhile we shall remain on the
hilltops, as a spearhead with no rear lines."

said that if a Jew eats the fruit of a tree
that a gentile has planted and cultivated in
the Land of Israel, he is obligated to tithe
the fruit. Furthermore, "The houses could today
be the private property of an individual
gentile, but when the messiah comes, we will
ask the gentile to pay rent."

Former Ashkenazi chief rabbi Rabbi Avraham
Shapira said that handing over territories is a
"particularly grave transgression."

The head of the Bnei Akiva yeshivas, Rabbi
Avraham Druckman, asked: "Have we been dazzled?
Have we been taken over by blindness? The road
map is worse than Oslo, and now after more than
1,000 dead and thousands of wounded and
disabled, the eyes of the government have
ceased to see."

Beit El Yeshiva head Rabbi Zalman Melamed said
that at Yitzhar there was "martyrdom for the
sake of the Holy Name. For every outpost that
is evacuated, five new ones will arise."

The federation came out with several statements
following yesterday's meeting.

"The agreement called `the road map' is in
complete contradiction to the wisdom of the
Torah;

"It is the right and indeed the duty of every
rabbi in Israel to rule concretely to all who
ask him what the opinion of the halakha is on
every subject about which he is asked, and the
sages of Israel must express their opinions on
public issues as well;

"No government has the authority to declare the
establishment of an alien state or to abandon
parts of the Land of Israel to aliens, and
everything that is done to this end is null and
void in the name of God, the Lord of Israel,
who has sworn this and in the name of the
entire people of Israel throughout the
generations;

"Everyone who has in his power to prevent
implementation of the road map agreement and
does not prevent it transgress the injunction
`Thou shalt not stand in thy fellow's blood;

"The government is prohibited by a clear and
absolute Torah prohibition from evacuating an
outpost or a settlement. We must act with great
dedication to prevent this and to re-erect any
place that is evacuated, heaven forbid;

"However, it is necessary to act with great
caution and avoid any violence, physical or
verbal, both toward our dear brethren, the
soldiers and the members of the security
forces, and toward our brethren the settlers;

"We call upon the government and the heads of
the army not to put soldiers in a position in
which they have to make a choice between their
loyalty to the values upon which their way of
life is built and military orders."