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Scroll to Mr. Bush Reminds Him of His Historic Role
 
by Hillel Fendel

(IsraelNN.com) A historic document is planned to be submitted to visiting US President George Bush upon his arrival this week, calling upon him to choose to be remembered like Cyrus, and not like Nebuchadnezzar.

Esteemed Mr. George W. Bush, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal (Ezekiel 38:1), leader of the west…

The document, grandly transcribed on parchment and furled into a scroll, is addressed to the the “Leader of the West.” It reminds President Bush to “declare to the world” that he will honor G-d’s word and act “towards settling the Jewish People throughout their entire Land.”

The document was signed by three figures, including the world-renowned Torah scholar, philosopher, social critic and author Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, once termed by Time magazine as a “once-in-a-millennium scholar.”  Rabbi Chaim Richman, representing the Temple Mount movements, and Dr. Gadi Eshel of the New Jewish Congress are also signed upon the proclamation.

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Bush Can Choose His Historic Record

The impressive document includes a detailed reminder to Bush that he has the chance to help G-d’s eternal word be fulfilled, and thus pave the way for world peace, or to take the opposite path.

It begins by saying that Mr. Bush can “make a declaration, as did Cyrus, King of Persia… who, in the year 538 BCE, returned the exiled nations to their lands, recognized the full right of the Jewish people to reestablish their Holy Temple, the “house of prayer for all nations” (Isaiah 56:7), and called upon them to return to their land.”

“And thus,” the manifesto continues, “if you truly desire peace and benevolence, and you would be counted in the company of the truly righteous, we call upon you to declare to all the world:  The Land of Israel was bequeathed to the nation of Israel by the Creator of the world. Neither could I, as a son of my faith, nor the Muslims according to their faith, ever take away even the slightest grain from the Eternal’s gift, which He gave to His people Israel, the eternal people.”

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The Wrong of a Palestinian State

Bush is thus also bidden to declare, “I cannot simultaneously support the establishment of a foreign state for an alien nation in the Land of Israel, and I will not lend my hand to this wrong.”

The proclamation also takes a foreboding tone: “Or – Heaven forbid – you can choose the second option – to willfully aid in the destruction, under the guise of peace!  You certainly know what the G-d of Israel did to Egypt and Assyria and to all Israel’s enemies from time immemorial: Do you imagine that you will be able to save yourself if you have come to implement a plan that intends to steal the land of “the people that survived the sword” (Jeremiah 31:1), and to cut off those who survived the Holocaust, to rob the land that was given to them by the Creator?”

“All of the peace treaties and initiatives which have been based upon the decisions of the government of Israel, indeed the entire Oslo process, and the ‘Disengagement,’ and the establishment of a terrorist state within the Land of Israel known as ‘Palestine’ – regrettably, all of these agreements are the result of a lack of sufficient faith in the Divine promises that the Lord made to the patriarchs of our nation, and all that is written in the Torah of Israel.

Megillat Bush - The Bush Scroll

You can view the scroll here.

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Ezekiel 38:2  Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him, 3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal: 4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:

Ezekiel 39:1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal: 2 And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts, and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel: 3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.

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Note that there is some question whether Mr. Bush can be connected with “Meshech” of the Torah (Bereshit 10, Ezek 38, etc), since this has been historically associated by the Jewish sages to represent areas immediately north of Israel, perhaps near Georgia.  It seems a bit disingenuous to me to identify Mr. Bush as this villain of the Jewish people, and R’ Seinsaltz should address this question to those of us who are familiar with Torah and Nakh.