Rabbi Yakoov Shapiro explains Netanyahu, Zionists, Jews and the difference between the two

A couple years ago, the Pope went to visit Netanyahu, and—and Netanyahu's bragging to the Pope, "This is where Jesus lived in this land, and he spoke Hebrew here."

So the Pope corrected him.

The Pope said, "No, Aramaic."

And the Pope was right, so Netanyahu says, "Yeah, yeah but he understood Hebrew."

Well, you know, maybe he did, but Hebrew was never the national language of the Jewish people.

It was a holy language, just like the land of Israel was a holy land.

Oh, by the way, if you see the clip and you don't know which of the two people talking is Netanyahu and which is the Pope, the Pope's the one wearing the yarmulke.

Even if we were to pretend that the Jewish people have a capital, that would have nothing to do with whether Jerusalem should be the capital of Israel, because Israel's not the Jewish people.

Israel has nothing to do with the old Jewish Commonwealth.

It's a country that was created in 1948.

People think that Israel is some kind of continuation of the Jewish governments, but it's not.

It's a completely different form of government, completely different values, completely different ideology, and completely different people.

These are not religious Jews that are running the country.

These are atheists.

And yet the Israeli prime ministers from Ben-Gurion all the way up to Netanyahu use the Bible as an excuse for ownership of the land.

Ben-Gurion says, "The mandate is not our Bible, but the Bible is our mandate."

This is a man that didn't believe the Bible was given by God.

He didn't believe God ever spoke to prophets.

He didn't believe it at all.

Neither does Benjamin Netanyahu.

There is nothing holy in the Bible that Netanyahu cares about.

The only thing he cares about is his land.

Restorationist Protestants—we call them evangelical Christians today—they existed hundreds of years before any Jewish Zionist was ever born.

And because the evangelicals, the Restorationists, had great influence in Britain, and Britain had the mandate, the Zionists very, very much adopted the Christian evangelical interpretation of the Bible, and that's what they use today.

You'll find that Benjamin Netanyahu sometimes even espouses Christian evangelical interpretations of the Bible over the Jewish ones.

A number of years ago, Netanyahu spoke in the side of the Auschwitz concentration camp, and he mentioned a prophecy in the book of Yechezkel about how the prophets saw dried bones rising from the ground and growing flesh and becoming live again.

And Netanyahu says that that prophecy is fulfilled with the state of Israel, because the Jews were dried bones, and now they grew flesh, and they're—they're real people again.

This interpretation is not found anywhere in any Jewish source, because in Judaism, this is impossible.

But for over a century, this has been a Christian evangelical interpretation.

The Zionists, when they talk about the Bible, they're not talking about the Judaic version of Judaism and Jewishness.

They're talking really about the Christian evangelical version.

Netanyahu has no right to claim that his state is mine.

I was born in America. My father was born in Poland.

My mother's family's from England.

We have nothing to do with Israel. We're Jews.

And Israel is not my nation-state in the slightest.

This is a unilateral claim of the Israelis, of the Zionists, and it's an assault on my religion.

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