Jonathan Pollard: "We must change our mentality. We fear G-d alone, no one else.”

Am Yisrael Needs Jonathan's Strong Voice Advocacy to Counter Adversity

In the Oz veGaon Nature Preserve in Gush Etzion south of Jerusalem, the third Sovereignty Youth conference, entitled “My Land,” opened on Thursday.

In it, the initiative to expand the municipal borders of Jerusalem was launched, the “Greater Jerusalem” initiative, which seeks to transform Jerusalem into a metropolis that will include Mevaseret Zion, Gush Etzion, Maale Adumim, and some of the communities in the Binyamin region.

The event began with a reception of the hundreds of youths participating in the conference, who arrived from throughout the country, in honor of Jonathan and Esther Pollard, who were honored with the planting of a tree in the preserve accompanied by the singing of “The children will return to their borders” (Jeremiah 31:16).

The conference itself opened with the speech of the head of the Gush Etzion Regional Council, Shlomo Ne’eman, who recounted to Pollard his own past as one who grew up in a country of Prisoners of Zion.

He addressed the young men and women participating in the conference: “The mission of Sovereignty is the value of the rule of the people over its land and removal of all question marks regarding the future of our land. Not to ask how or when and under which government, because you, the youth, will be the future government. Here the ministers of the future are sitting, you, who are devoted to the mission in order to realize it and emerge victorious.”

Jonathan Pollard addressed the conference, and thanked the heads of the Sovereignty Movement, Yehudit Katsover and Nadia Matar for their activity.

He addressed the issue of sovereignty and Jerusalem’s significance for the Jewish people. “For thousands of years there has been no question why we are here. The answer is: Because we received this land from G-d, not from the United States, not from the British, not from the United Nations, but from G-d. There is no need for us to explain our belief that this land is ours. No one will tell us where to live. The days of the ghetto have ended. We are a free Jewish people. The American President will not tell us where we are permitted to live and where we are prohibited to live.”

Pollard raised the matter of the Dance of the Flags: “They do not want Jews marching to the Western Wall; where will it end? Our security officials have no problem seeing Arabs with Palestinian flags on the Temple Mount. Think about it; the Temple Mount. And that is OK? They are in our capital with Hamas flags. We must change our mentality. We fear G-d alone, no one else.”

“In the next government we have a new Prime Minister, Naftali Bennett. I am certain that it is a surprise for him as well as for those who voted for him. He must take action to defend our honor in the future,” Pollard said, and called to protest and demand from the government ministers to restore Israeli control over the four communities that were uprooted in northern Samaria in 2005.

He also called for construction in all the territories of Area C, which we can demand from the new government. “We must be conscious of the need to expand Jerusalem, because we are not concerned only with Jerusalem flourishing. Our objective is to ensure a Jewish majority and to prevent the isolation of the city. The objective of the Biden Administration is to isolate Jerusalem. Do not let their calming statements convince you. They are not our friends.”

The heads of the Sovereignty Movement, Yehudit Katsover and Nadia Matar, told of the special women’s prayer that took place approximately ten years ago with Esther Pollard in the Cave of Machpela, a prayer that was composed especially on behalf of Jonathan Pollard. At its conclusion, Katsover and Matar promised Esther that when her husband arrives in Israel they would hold a special reception in his honor. They have fulfilled that promise of theirs with the special reception of the Sovereignty Youth.

The two emphasized the importance of expanding the borders of Jerusalem in all directions in order to make clear to the people in Israel and to the entire world the centrality of the city in the life of the Jewish people, especially in light of the threats to Israel’s wellbeing under the pretext of Arab defense of Jerusalem.

THIS IS OUR LAND . . . GOD Gave It To Us!

 Jonathan Pollard addressed the Jerusalem Day celebration at the Mercaz HaRav yeshiva in Jerusalem Monday night.

Pollard told listeners that, "since 1948, we've been making every effort to prove to the world that Jerusalem is our capital."

Pollard lay the blame for the world community refusing to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital in the Israeli government's allowing the opening of foreign embassies on their doing so in the city.

Jonathan Pollard said the Jewish people didn't receive the Land of Israel from the League of Nations, the UN, or US, but that it was given to them by G-d.

Regarding Jerusalem, Pollard stated that the holy city was "not won during a battle in the June of 1967, after which we threw away the victory that G-d gave us" but the rightful inheritance of the Jewish nation.

"The enemy is within our gates," he said stating that whether it's the PA, Hamas, or 'Woke' Biden administration, it's the oldest hatred known to man - that of anti-Semitism that led to the murder of a yeshiva student last week and today's attacks by Hamas in Gaza".

"This is our Land, G-d gave it to us, and if you don't like it, that's OK. We set the rules," he continued, adding, "You may have heard that the US wants to set up a PA embassy in Jerusalem. We can't allow this. If the Americans want to set up a Palestinian embassy in Washington, good luck. That's their business. But not here. Not in Israel. Not in Jerusalem."

Pollard said it was time for Israel to leave the UN, stating that "our presence in the UN is an insult to all our ancestors who gave their lives for this country."

Regarding Arab residents of Jerusalem, Pollard said Israel should give them one week to decide if they want to receive Israeli legal status and that if they don't, they should be stripped of all civil benefits.

JONATHAN POLLARD “The JOSEPH of our time . . ."

JONATHAN POLLARD, THE ‘JOSEPH OF OUR TIME’, DEDICATES TORAH AT JOSEPH’S TOMB: HERE’S THE MESSIANIC IMPLICATIONS 

"The first stage of the Messiah comes from the House of Joseph," Rabbi Berger told Israel365 News. "By preventing Jews from praying at the site, the Arabs are delaying the completion of that aspect of the Messianic process, which is the practical settling of the land of Israel."

The action was deep with spiritual significance with rabbis noting the connection between Pollard’s release, Biblical Jospeh, and the final Redemption of Israel. “I feel a very personal connection to this place and to the righteous Joseph who is buried in it and everything he went through,”  Pollard said at the event. “I am bringing this Torah scroll to Joseph’s Tomb; a Torah scroll written from prison specifically for Joseph’s Tomb, so that in this way, if it is not possible physically then spiritually and mentally we will settle all of our land.” […] 365news

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — For more than 30 years, while in his prison cell, Jonathan Pollard dreamed of returning to Israel. However Pollard also set aside money each month in order to donate a Sefer Torah which would be presented in Israel. The Sefer was written a number of years ago while Pollard was still in jail. On Monday, Rosh Chodesh Iyar, Pollard realized his dream and donated the Sefer Torah to the tomb of Joseph in Shechem.

Pollard entered the Tomb of Joseph in Samaria last night, accompanied by his wife Esther,  the head of the Samaria Council Yossi Dagan and Tzfat chief rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, whose father Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu visited him while he was in jail, as well as activists who fought for his release for many years.

During the event Pollard said that “I feel a deep personal connection to this place, to Yosef Hatzadik who is buried here and to all that he went through. I bring this Sefer Torah to Yosef’s Tomb, a Sefer Torah written while I was in jail specifically for Yosef’s Tomb. When I was in jail, the jailors would humiliate me and ask if I thought I would ever arrive home. I used to ask them, “Do you believe in G-d?” and many would say they did. Then I would ask: “Do you believe that G-d can make miracles?” and they would say: “Sure.” And here I am.

The same thing with this Sefer Torah, I’ll ask if you believe in G-d and you will say yes. I’ll ask if you believe in miracles and you’ll also answer yes. This Sefer Torah will be used by us and by future generations. Therefore we all have to make the same promise, to promise that we will bring this Sefer Torah on a permanent basis to Joseph’s Tomb and will see it being used on a daily basis in our promised land.”

Yossi Dagan said that “like Yosef Hatzadik our brother Jonathan was in a pit because he stood up for his values. Like Yosef Hatzadik your values lead the people of Israel. Your arrival here to dedicate the Sefer Torah is also a statement of our duty towards Yosef Hatzadik, who must be redeemed from his captivity by restoring our control of the tomb and bringing the flag of Israel over the tomb of Yosef.”

UPDATE:
The scribe is Moshe Flumenbaum, the owner of HaSofer on rehov Strauss. While I was in the Mercaz Klita during my first aliyah to Eretz Yisrael, Moshe’s family was also there, and I spent many a Shabbat with them. There were many other families that I knew then who are still in Israel.

So if you need a good Sofer, pay him a visit.

Jonathan Pollard Speaks Publicly

A screenshot of Jonathan Pollard speaking, but JPost cut it off midway for some reason, maybe political (likewise his comment that some of his words were not included in the Israel HaYom article. Does this free man sound political? After all these years, is the govt. afraid of him?)

Former Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard made his first public address recently, during a gathering of the Eretz HaKodesh movement in the town of Psagot, north of Jerusalem.

The event was held in honor of Eretz HaKodesh founder, Rabbi Pesach Lerner, a staunch advocate of efforts to secure Pollard’s release from prison.

Pollard attended the event with his wife, Esther Pollard, and asked to make an address to those in attendance, including Binyamin Regional Council chief Yisrael Gantz, Chairman of the Executive of the World Zionist Organization Yaakov HaGoel, Jewish National Fund Chairman Avraham Duvdevani, and JNF deputy chair Shlomo Deri. 

During his address, Pollard called himself a “soldier” for Israel, and described the difficulties he faced during his lengthy imprisonment.

“When Yaakov HaGoel gave me the flag, it reminded me of my first visit with Ron Dermer in our New York apartment, which was about as big as that table, and I gave him a flag that I had kept for 30 years, an Israeli flag. And if you know anything about American prisons, I had to fight for, physically, fight to keep, because it was the one shred of connection that I had with this land.”

“I told Ron at the time that I felt like a soldier that had kept the regimental flag, in spite of defeat, and was able to pass it on, in purity and honor to my commander which was Bibi.” 

“So now I find myself in Psagot. This is the land that I fought and bled for. I remember very well, I don't know why they decided not to talk about this in the Israel Hayom article, it might have been for political reasons.”

“But I wasn't treated very kindly, my back was broken and my ankles were broken in interrogation, and when they were doing this the only thing I could think of at the time was ‘Thank you’, thank you to Hashem for giving me the opportunity not to surrender to our enemies. Because I understood very well what was at stake in the interrogation.”

“I didn't do anything extraordinary, because each and every one of you individuals, who were living in this land right now exhibit exactly the same kind of decency and bravery and heroic attitude towards life that I tried to emulate the best as I could under those circumstances. I said thank you to Hashem because I didn't know frankly if I was going to give in to stop the torture or to continue with it. And I just decided to continue which got them even angrier.”

“So here we are 36 years later and I am looking at...This is the land, this is it. That all that torture was for. If for nothing else the Goyim understood that there was at least one Jew outside Israel that was comparable to each and every one of you and that's what scared them. Many years later, when my brother, Pesach Lerner was starting ‘Eretz HaKodesh’. I remember talking to a lot of rabbis in Boro Park about joining the movement which was very dangerous.”

“And they gave me the opportunity to talk for a few minutes because what I had gone through and there was a lot of resistance to what Pesach was doing and I tried to remind them that the first Zionist, the very first Zionist was Avraham Avinu in Lech Lecha. And that didn't get him any allies either, unfortunately at the time.”

“We shouldn't be ashamed at all to say loudly and clearly, ‘This is our Land!’ And when you drink this wine, we are drinking 2000 years of blood, sweat and toil. Hoping and praying for our return to this land...and here we are. So I say in conclusion, after 36 years, l'Tiferet Hashem b'Yisrael.”

Source: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/299710