This document contains a summary of a biblical story and draws parallels to modern geopolitical issues in Israel. [1] It discusses the story of Jephthah and the King of Ammon's false territorial claims against Israel. [2] The document argues that negotiating with lies and false claims, as Jephthah did, will only lead to further aggression. [3] It concludes that Israel must stand firm against falsification of history and assert its right to the land as promised by God.

1. Eliyahu ‫א‬ramer Foundation for the Advancement ‫בס"ד‬
of Jewish ‫א‬nowledge and Education
1700 Michigan Avenue. Miami Beach, FL 33139. Phone: (305) 965 0355. E-mail: elikramerfoundation@gmail.com
August 31st 2011 Rosh Chodesh Ellul 5771
We….., the “Chosen People, the People of the Book, the Children of
Israel, regardless of our affiliation, our background, our race , our
color or our religious belief s, stand together, United as One, in
the face of any danger threatening the very existence of the
Nation of Israel.
We, demand that, whatever resolution might be taken from any
vote at the United Nations, it should guarantee complete secure
borders for the State of Israel.
This means, not only geographically but also realistically, that
until, all countries involve with Israel and surrounding It,
recognize fully the Jewish State in the region and its Right to Exist,
the present boarders must remain the same.
Translated by: Natalie Koenig

2. The price to pay for true intelligence is a “minimum of explanations” Harav Haim Dynovisz
The Torah, which all nations call the Sacred History, offers truth rooted in the past that traverses the present and
moves toward the future. Although its message is ancient, it can build our future because it always sees beyond
our time. The Jewish people are the guardians of this eternal word and possess the keys to its realization, so in
every generation we must conduct ourselves according to the wisdom of the Creator and Master of the World.
King Solomon, the wisest of all men, expressed this truth when he said, "There is nothing new beneath the
sun...What has happened is what will happen." The Torah is the blueprint, the model, and the fundamental
reference for all of history. Today, let us try to understand one of its most important messages and find the
stunning insights it unveils and passes on to us.
At the time of Judge Jephthah , the King of Ammon declared war on Israel, accusing its people of stealing some
of his land and of colonizing and holding territories that belonged to him. Jephthah’s first reaction as Israel’s
leader was to do everything he could to avoid a conflict. Using Israel’s typical, traditional reaction, he sent
messengers to gain a better understanding of the King’s territorial claims. Throughout Israel’s history, she
would never be the first to engage in armed conflict; on the contrary, she always does everything to avoid it.
The King of Ammon told the Jewish messengers, "You stole land from us when you left Egypt. When you came
to the west bank of the Jordan, you conquered and stole a strip of land on the east bank of the Jordan, belonging
to the King and the people of Ammon for all time!"
The King of Ammon even took the trouble to list all the cities and places in Ammon that Israel – hundreds of
years earlier – supposedly stole from his nation when Israel’s people returned to settle on their land. He
presented an accurate map of the borders to try to irrefutably prove Israeli aggression. He told the messengers,
"If you are ready to return the land for peace – land for peace – then we can make a treaty! (This is a typical
peace treaty term to resolve a conflict where Israel is involved: Jews give everything and receive nothing ...
since by definition we are always the only ones to blame.)
Now, think about the King of Ammon’s claim and his accusation against Israel, which he called a land thief.
The average naïve reader will find it so difficult to imagine that this is only a crude lie, an outright falsification
of history, given that the King seems to be serious and ready for war. Above all, he is able to provide all the
necessary details concerning the supposed theft of his lands. Plus, the Bible, a very serious book, wrote all his
claims in verse form. If the King’s statement is only a crude lie, why does the Holy Bible waste its time telling
us such stories, tales of sick bandits and megalomaniacs?
Indeed, even in ancient times, the theory that Israel would “steal land” was already well entrenched in the
consciousness and accusations of the people in the Middle East. Already the idea was entrenched that Israel
conquered and stole the land of Canaan, on the west side of the Jordan, the Canaanites, its putative owners.
It takes only minimal intellectual honesty and knowledge to remove the charge of theft, even in regards to the
Canaanites, since they were the ones who conquered the land and stole it from its rightful owners, the Jews, the
children of Shem! When Noah divided the world between his three children, he gave this land – the Middle East
– to the children of Shem, and he gave Ham the entire African continent. Canaan was the son of' Ham, so his
territory could not be the Middle East. It was situated on the continent of Africa. It was Canaan who came to
conquer this land and exterminate its people. Israel, the descendants of Abraham and of Shem, only reclaimed
its land, territory that Canaan had stolen!

3. The King of Ammon, who certainly never bothered to learn the true history of the region, did not find it too
difficult to say that the traditional accused land thieves – Israel, of course – stole his land, too. Who would
investigate whether his claims were justified, since everyone assumed that Israel could only be a thief!
However, a simple glance in the Torah of Moses shows with great clarity and overriding evidence that all the
cities Ammon claimed as part of his territory were not in Ammon at all. They were never the cities of his
country; instead, they were the cities of another country, of another land, and of another king!
In detail and with great accuracy, the Torah tells us that all the cities and all the places the King of Ammon
claimed as part of his territory were actually cities that belonged to King Sihon of the land of Emor! And how
had these cities become Israel’s property, despite everything? Here again, and in detail, the Torah explains that
Israel had begged King Sihon not to declare war. Despite these entreaties, King Sihon attacked Israel for no
reason, starting a war against Emor that Israel had wanted to avoid at all costs. After Israel’s victory in this
defensive war, Emor’s cities fell into Israel’s possession. In any case, the King of Ammon was the last person
who could claim them as his own because they were never his!
It is not possible! How could someone lie to such an extent when the lie is so huge and the truth so clear? The
King of Ammon wanted to reclaim territories that never belonged to him by accusing Israel of theft when Israel
was the country that had been attacked and assaulted – and had defended itself, thus salvaging land that once
belonged to Egypt, but never once had been Ammon’s! Additionally, as Jephthah says, the King of Ammon was
claiming land that he alleged Israel had stolen 300 years after the Exodus from Egypt!
But if the theft was so obvious, why would the King of Ammon wait 300 years – unless he had to wait long
enough to ensure that no one would remember the true history of the region! For many, many decades, almost
300 years, all nations – even at a time when no records or history books existed – knew that these territories had
never belonged to the King of Ammon and that they had become Israel’s property only after it defeated King
Sihon of Emor, who had attacked Israel despite its pleas, suddenly and without reason.
In our time, despite a wealth of archives and history books, it takes only a few years for nations to accuse Israel
of stealing land, land that never belonged to any of those who claim it, those who in every war have always
been the aggressors, the first to declare all wars since 1948! In a technological era, where everything is visible
and known, how has it become easier to falsify history than it was at the time of our "ancestors, the barbarians"?
Would the "barbarians" of our distant past have been so much more careful than us to preserve a minimal
amount of truth?
In this biblical history, unfortunately, the message is all too clear because it is so typical: our neighbors still
base their claims on a gross, insolent falsification of history. The lie is unbelievably enormous; the falsification
and hypocrisy are on a larger scale and, yet, everyone takes these claims and accusations against Israel
seriously.
Finally, the King of Ammon and his territorial claims against Israel are the model and the biblical reference for
the people who lie, falsify history and reconstruct it according to their phantasms. In their eyes, common sense,
logic, intellectual honesty, respect for historical fact and good faith are no longer relevant when it comes to
Israel. The only prevailing rule is a lie, and the larger it is, the more others accept it.
Take the idea that Jerusalem is the eternal capital of the Palestinian people! Jerusalem is called the "Capital of
Israel" hundreds of times in the book known to all people as the “Holy Bible," and the “Koran” does not
mention Jerusalem even once!
All nations can produce books of their history, testimonies, and archives proving their presence in their
respective lands over the centuries or millennia. The “Sacred History” in the Book of History states, proves, and

4. attests on thousands of pages that the land of Israel was given to the people of Israel who inhabited it for
centuries. Archaeological excavations show the Jews’ presence in this land for millennia. Where are the history
books of the Palestinians? Where are the archives, testimonies and historical facts that prove their presence in
this land for centuries or millennia? Where have archaeologists found buildings, cities, villages, palaces, and
places of worship capable of proving their presence on this land? Where is the Palestinian Jerusalem, with its
houses, streets, and roads? Why, when scientists dig, do they find only clear, evidence proving Israel’s presence
on this land for millennia, with Jerusalem as its capital?
The answer is obvious and too clear: the history of the "Palestinian people" on this land is one of human
history’s most absurd and grotesque falsifications and inventions!
This lie by far surpasses the falsehoods of the King of Ammon, because in his time Israel had been on the land
only 300 years. We did not yet have today’s accumulation of thousands of pieces of evidence of our presence in
our land. But after 3,500 years of Jewish history – after a story known to all and written in "holy letters in the
Holy Bible" – how can another "people" stand up and say that Israel’s claim to her land never existed and
declare ownership of land that was never theirs? This is unique in the history of mankind. Even the lie itself is
blushing with shame...the colossal lie itself, but not the nations who tell it and support it, who put pressure on
Israel to agree that it was a "thief" and it must "return" the "stolen territories" to the "Palestinian people.” Their
generation has personified, more than any other, the "cult of bad faith."
But let’s continue this wonderful, current Biblical history. So what does Jephthah do? Instead of taking up arms
against the King of Ammon’s to punish his bad faith, instead of scorning him and preparing for war if he dares
to enforce his threat to attack, what does Jephthah do? He sends messengers again to explain, argue, and
maintain peace at all costs. He even goes to the extent of negotiating with the liar, the bearer of bad faith, and in
so doing, he commits a fatal error: For negotiating with "bad faith" gives it credit and strengthens the false
claims. Finally the result is disastrous and it takes Israel exactly where she did not want to end up: at war!
Negotiating and making a peace treaty with the "lie" turns against us, giving falsehood a weapon that it will use
to attack us first!
Jephthah offered peace, offered negotiation (as if there was something to negotiate), held out his hand for
Shalom, and finally got only war. Without knowing it, perhaps he even led the King of Ammon to attack him,
simply because he wanted peace! By negotiating with the lie, one justifies and encourages aggression. Jephthah
is without doubt the biblical model and reference for all the recent "peace treaties" and "Nobel Prizes" which
have resulted in disaster, attacks, wars, and catastrophes in the Middle East!
Madrid and Oslo represent different blockades on the road of lies, a road whose final destination is clear: war.
Who refused the UN partition plan in 1948? Who declared war in 1948? It was the same people who were
prepared to destroy Israel in 1967 and 1973, and who are still prepared today. Who is always the aggressor? The
one who manages to appear right, but who lies, but not Israel – the one who has been assaulted and robbed.
The "Ammon’s" of modern times are helped and strengthened in their crazy lies by the "Jephthah’s" of modern
times: governments who “apologize for existing" and thus reinforce the bad faith of the "Aggressor” who acts
like a victim, despite all it is given. Everything Israel can argue to prove its good faith will not help. The world
already knows that everything we say is true, but that is precisely the problem: they know that only lies can
succeed against Israel.
Only when Jephthah realized that his efforts to negotiate and make peace were feeding the King of Ammon’s
claims, did he finally decide to adopt the only possible attitudes when faced with lies: rigor, firmness and
determination.

5. Only by drawing our ancient history, we can discover the messages that were planted far before our time; the
messages that can help us build our future. People of the Book, guardians of the word of the Living G-d, we
must cry out loud at the UN Security Council with conviction, determination, pride, courage, and confidence.
We must proclaim: This land is ours because the Creator and Master of the world promised it to us and gave it
to us. We have been driven from it and, after it was stolen from us, the Creator and Master of the world brought
us back. Let Israel live forever in its land, the land of eternity!
Dynovisz-
Rav Haim Dynovisz- Jerusalem