Do Gaza and the West Bank really belong to Israel?

Is there an ideological basis in the Torah for the encroaching settlements in the West Bank? Is there a valid scriptural basis for the unfolding plans of Religious Zionists to “cleanse” Gaza of ethnic Palestinians?

This is something I answer in a new chapter of the third edition of my book, and to answer the question I employ the same ancient scribal hermeneutical methods to read the Torah as were used to write it. These are not well known. Like many other bits and pieces of information belonging to the oral tradition, some scribal methods were forgotten after they were no longer used, a bit like the knowledge of how to use the rotary telephone today is unknown to at least three generations.

During antiquity the Sages prohibited discussion and teaching of the Merkabah, and as a consequence the knowledge of gematria and other scribal methods of interpretation devolved into mere parlor games and were largely forgotten… but in ancient times gematria was a form of ancient mathematics that biblical scribes embedded into their literature to give their writings some valuable extra context on matters such as Creation, the Exodus, the Laws of the Torah, and God’s special relationship with ancient Israel and Christianity.

Obviously not everything was forgotten. The design of the Merkabah was handed along and it became the Tree of Life. Knowledge of it was preserved and elaborated upon in Kabbalah. But the specific practice of writing mathematics that was embedded into literature, recording math and spoken language at the same time, a unique practice to ancient Israel, this was lost. A design or system of correspondences can survive for centuries but specific practices are far more vulnerable, and can be easily forgotten when they are no longer used. I am sure that within your own experience you have known older people who use seemingly odd ways of calculating that are no longer taught in school. When knowledge is lost to oral tradition and is not formally recorded, it is difficult to recover such knowledge. The rhetoric mathematics of the Bible took over a decade to decipher, and knowledge of it is still being disseminated to the public. It was not available when Religious Zionists were reading the Bible and making ambitious plans for ‘Greater Israel’. So before modern Israel is indelibly stained by the deadly fruits of those ambitions, I will ask one last time: reconsider the Torah! Reread!! Recalculate!!! Recount!!!! For there is no true ideological basis for the expansionist plans of Religious Zionism in the Hebrew Bible.

So far as I know, no Religious Zionist has ever done the work of the Chariot, Ma’aseh Merkabah, so their understanding of Torah lacks any spiritual or religious authority, and their claims are merely their own uninformed opinions. For the most part, Religious Zionism today represent the racists in Israel. These are far right nationalists who hide their hatred of the stranger and their xenophobia behind the holy book, and use Judaism as a paper shield. The fact that they are Jewish is the least pertinent quality about them.

The main claim of religious Zionists to a Greater Israel is derived from Genesis 15:18:

ביום ההוא כרת יהוה את אברם ברית לאמר לזרעך נתתי את הארץ הזאת מנהר מצרים עד הנהר הגדל נהר פרת

In the day that YHWH made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your seed I have given the earth, from the river of Egypt to the great river Perath.”

Most readers tend to overlook how the ancients conceptualized the rivers Nile and Euphrates. These were not merely mundane rivers for the ancients. The heads of these rivers began in heaven and flowed out of Eden and out of the Milky Way (the River of Fire) to irrigate the entire earth below.

Rav Kahana also explains, “The source of all water in the world is the Euphrates. The halachic ramification of this statement is consistent with a statement of Rav Yehuda, for Rav Yehuda says that Rav says: One who makes a vow forbidding him the water of the Euphrates is forbidden to drink from any water in the world.” – Bekharot 55a, The William Davidson Talmud.

It is because the waters of these great rivers watered the whole earth, that the covenant gives the descendants of Abraham a spiritual mandate for the whole earth, as inherited by Solomon – but only if they obey the laws of God and are therefore without sin. Today Jews are found all over the earth in fulfillment of the spiritual covenant, but as Israel has taken up arms to prevent Palestinians from having a homeland of their own, this has become less true. Jews have become more fearfully concentrated in Israel and expelled from Arab nations that once welcomed them. And the cause? A misinterpretation of the Torah by religious Zionists that has made Israel the very opposite of an entity that leads by her example. In her error she is no longer a light to the nations, but an encroaching darkness that spreads out to mislead the world into sin and damnation.

“Rabbi Yitzḥak said: Is it possible for a human being to sit on the throne of the Lord? Concerning whom it is written, “For the Lord your God is a consuming fire” (Deuteronomy 4:24), and it is written, “A stream of fire flowed and burst forth” (Daniel 7:10), and it is written, “His throne was made of sparks of fire” (Daniel 7:9), and you say, “Solomon sat on the throne of the Lord”? Just as the throne of the Holy One, blessed be He, reigns from one end of the earth to the other, so too the throne of Solomon reigned from one end of the earth to the other.” – Shir HaShirim Rabbah 1:1

And note how each time Solomon sinned in the eyes of YHWH, how restricted his sight became, until only a small patch of land (Israel) concerned him as he lost himself to the mundane pleasures of women and wine, and the words of the demonic host he had called to him corrupted him. The notariqon of Genesis 15:18 is 452, which is the gate value of the central palace of Resh. This is the source of the four great rivers that flowed out of Eden. The Palace of Resh is located in the center of the Merkabah, below the House of God and above the earth.

ב ה כ י א א ב ל ל נ א ה ה ה מ מ ע ה ה ה נ פ = 452

If the covenant had referred to earthly mundane “land” in the sense that religious zionists today try and twist it to be, the scribe would have made the gematria or notariqon sum to 670, which is the gate of the lower Heh. A “gate” of a palace is calculated by adding the letters of the paths to which it is connected and the letters of the palaces at the end of the paths. The gematria of Genesis 15:18 is:

יהוה אברם ברית ז הארץ ס – מ + ררר ס פרת = 1752

As per the rules and conventions of this system of rhetoric math, the words for “river” in this verse has the set value of 60 for the letter Samekh, and “great river” is Samekh × 10 which is 600, represented by the 3 letters Resh in the calculation. The word “seed” has the set value of the letter Zayin (7). The word Egypt has the set value of the letter Mem (40) and the subtraction in the verse is indicated by the word עַד which means “unto”.

If we subtract the notariqon of 452 from 1752, we arrive at a final sum of 1300, which is the sum of the notariqon of Revelation 13:18 and the gematria of Revelation 9:11, and the sum of Matthew 13:43 when the notariqon is subtracted from the gematria.

If we read the notariqon of the verses of Genesis 18-19 together, they sum to 480:

ב ה כ י א א ב ל ל נ א ה ה מ מ ע ה ה נ פ א ה ו ה ה ו ה = 480

This is the same result as in Genesis 2:10, which is about the rivers flowing out of Eden:

ש ה פ ה ה א כ א ה א ש ה ו ה ה ט ש ה ו ה ו ה ה ג ה ה א כ א כ ו ה ה ח ה ה ק א ו ה ה פ = 480

480 is the gate of the letter Waw of the Holy Name on the Merkabah and the value of YHW when iterated: י יה יהו יהוה using the reverse cipher. It is the sum of Elohim + heaven + earth in Genesis 1:1. This is a fitting number for a covenant that grants spiritual authority to the whole earth through the work of the Chariot, but the Chariot is not for Israelis who snigger and think of tanks and violence and of everything which is abomination in the eyes of God.

I’m a political Zionist because I take the practical view that 90% of Israeli Jews are now born in Israel and don’t have dual citizenship, and consider it their home. I would see a two state solution as a stepping stone to a United States of Palestine and Israel (USPI) with open borders, maintaining their Jewish/Islamic character, substantial amounts of Jewish people living in Palestine and Palestinian people living in Israel, under rules resembling the rights of people in the EU to live and travel anywhere in the zone. Shared economic zones. A strong and prosperous partnership. IT IS POSSIBLE, but only if Israelis are willing to turn their backs on the lie of religious Zionism and reject Satan and reject the war of the adversary utterly.