Letter from the Sovereignty movement to its supporters in Israel and around the world with as background the campaign calling for sovereignty over the Jordan Valley and in honor of the Pessach holiday
Dear Friends,
Our Sovereignty Movement has embarked on a country-wide campaign to promote the process of applying Israeli sovereignty over the Jordan Valley First.
The Children of Israel entered the Land of Israel on the 10th of Nisan, when they crossed the Jordan River and from there, began the mission of conquering the Land, a long mission which has not yet ended. Now too, the first step to true sovereignty must and can be the step towards sovereignty over the Jordan Valley.
The Jordan Valley, which is the eastern border, is threatened by Iran, who is acting subversively with terror and military steps, to overthrow the Jordanian regime, and to actually conquer Jordan, in order to control Israel's longest border. This bears a clear, painful and concerning meaning: The October 7th scenario might actually surprise all of us from the east as well. Faced with such a threat, Israeli sovereign determination is needed immediately.
In recent years, the Jordan Valley has become a serious route for smuggling of weapons and terror funds from Iranian proxies to terror groups among the Arabs of Judea and Samaria, the joint goal and hope being the destruction of the State of Israel and the establishment of a Palestinian state on its ruins. The application of Israeli sovereignty over the Jordan Valley is imperative to put an end to these disastrous hopes.
Security and Middle East experts state that the winning blow to the Arab enemy is not in the death of their people, not in economic sanctions against them and not even in the postponement of their dream of establishing a state in a few years, but rather in the loss of land that in their eyes belongs to them. Application of Israeli Sovereignty over the Jordan Valley would be a significant step in this vital direction, against the background of the Simhat Torah massacre.
Applying Israeli sovereignty over the Jordan Valley would restore Israel to the status of initiator and leader of diplomatic and historic steps and release it from the position of one who is subject to the good graces of others and the considerations and interests of foreign leaders.
And beyond all of this is the main principle that obligates us to hold onto the Jordan Valley as a People that is sovereign over its land. This is the duty of the historical right of the people of Israel to rule over their land by virtue of the ancient biblical promise.
There are those who argue that now is not the time. They claim that Israel is busy in the north and the south and the application of sovereignty over the Jordan Valley would inflame another front. To them, we answer that even if their concern is understandable, Israel has no choice in view of the developments in the Middle East but to act resolutely in the east, which would affect both the north and the south.
Another claim is derived from the night when the Iranian missiles were intercepted. Jordanian cooperation in the coalition that stopped the attack on Israel might be harmed as a result of taking steps of sovereignty, say those who are concerned, and we answer them by reminding them that preventing the establishment of a Palestinian state in Judea and Samaria is not only an Israeli goal, but is also an existential Jordanian interest. The King of Jordan knows that a Palestinian state would constitute a critical destabilizing factor to his throne along with the Palestinian majority among his citizens.
Thus, the implementation of Israeli sovereignty over the Jordan Valley would bring a blessing to the entire region.
These days, just before the holiday of Pesach, the holiday of freedom, we remind everyone of the Exodus from Egypt, a process that our generation is commanded to continue striving towrads, to reach the Land of Israel, to live in it as a free and sovereign people on its land and laws, a People sovereign in its decisions.
We must free ourselves from the exile and not only leave it. We must stand straight, raise our heads and look forward without wrapping the memories of the exile in the addictive and false nostalgia of leeks, garlic and melons (Numbers 11:5). We must leave the smallness of the exile for the greatness of a People in its Land.
In the Land of Israel, we must live a real life; to cope with security, economic, industrial, medical, agricultural and settlement challenges. We can expect challenges along with the successes and coping with them will remind us that in every generation there are those who intend to destroy us and the Almighty rescues us from them. He does not abandon His People and His inheritors.
…And we must continue to walk and we must continue to march and though the road is still long, it is already not as long as it was.
Have a happy holiday of sovereignty! May we hear good news on all fronts.