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Rabin's 1974 administration,
watched the process with mount-
ing dismay. He is now Rabbi
Amital's leadership partner in
Meimad.
"Their doctrine," he com-
plained this week, "was to take
one issue — maintaining every
inch of the Land of Israel — and
make all of Judaism revolve
around that issue ... They said
that rolling back settlements was
anti-God ... They did not accept
the democratic decision of the
people of Israel.
"After Yitzhak Rabin's victory
in the 1992 elections, all these
trends were exaggerated. Their
style became violent — total dele-
gitimation of the Government,"
he added.
What, then, was Meimad's al-
ternative?
"We do not accept that there is
a clear halachic position on the
territories," he said. "It's not a
question for the rabbis to decide."
Rather, he said, the key issue
facing Israel is that there is "a
misrepresentation of Jewish val-
ues. The Land of Israel is not the
supreme value. In the hierarchy
of values, the People of Israel
comes first, the Torah of Israel
second, and the Land of Israel
third. What is good for the people
and the state of Israel comes be-
fore Greater Eretz Yisrael.
'What differentiated religious
Zionism from the ultra-Orthodox
was our total, unequivocal iden-
tification with the state of Israel.
We said the state of Israel is
an act of God. We said we would
struggle within the state of Israel
against things we thought were
"The people of
Israel comes first,
the Torah of Israel
second, and the
Land of Israel third."
— Rabbi Yehuda Ben Meir
bad. But we never questioned our
allegiance to the state. Our alle-
giance is unconditional."
So the Rabin assassination has
had a sobering effect. Moderate
religious Zionists are speaking
out. Meimad is back on the road.
But will Rabbi Amital and
Rabbi Ben-Meir re-enter the
Knesset race in 1996? Rabbi Ben-
Meir is cautious.
"The present situation is push-
ing us to run," he said. "But will
that be translated into a political
dividend? We need 40,000 votes
to elect two MKs, the minimum
that would give us any influence.
"We'll undertake polls. We'll
see how much money we can
raise for a campaign. And then
we shall have to decide: Can we
have more impact in the Knes-
set, or as an extra-parliamentary
body, like Gush Emunim
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