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Zionism Breaks Four of the Ten Commandments—and Leviticus/Vayikra 19:18 Too
“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house” was never in the Zionist Bible
The atheist father of Zionism, Theodor Herzl, knew that making a Jewish state would call for driving out most of the natives of the land they chose to colonize—he proposed starving them out by denying them work:
”We shall try to spirit the penniless population across the border by procuring employment for it in the transit countries, while denying it employment in our own country.” — Theodor Herzl
Herzl did not care that at the time, the vast majority of religious Jews believed a new Israel should not be built before the Messiah came and almost all ethnic Jews wanted to go to countries like the US rather than Palestine. And he did not in the least care that conquering Palestine would break four of the Ten Commandments:
Sixth Commandment (Exodus/Shemot 20:13): You shall not murder.
Eighth Commandment (Exodus/Shemot 20:13): You shall not steal.
Ninth Commandment (Exodus/Shemot 20:13): You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
Tenth Commandment (Exodus/Shemot 20:14): You shall not covet your neighbor’s house, nor his wife, his man-servant, his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his ass…