Middle East Media and Book Reviews Online Volume 1, Issue 1 | Page 47

2/2/2016

Middle East Media and Book Reviews Online

conquest” of the Land of Israel. Above all was the rabbis’ cancellation of the Three Vows, citing that the Vows are deconstructed by the world
powers’ acceptance of the Jewish state and that the Vows were only against a conquest, not a defensive war as that of 1967 was perceived.
Surprisingly, Israel’s near-defeat at the 1973 war only reinforced this trend either by denial—“this is only a temporary delay” (p. 296), according to
Rabbi Tzvi Yehuda Kook (d. 1982)—or by rejecting any concessions of “God’s offer” of territories to which it might XY