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Youth], who have consistently stood against us regarding Judea and Samaria.” In other words, we will
continue to hold onto the “anti-left” outposts, while we lose the lands of the Jewish people of the entire
country.

If the rabbis’ silence continues, and if God-forbid we lose the Jewish people’s control over its lands across
the entire country, it will happen because of a few leading rabbis, who are not truly working in favor of
Eretz Yisrael – but are in fact only fighting “against the leftists,” regardless of where truth, justice, and the
Torah lie. The price we will pay for this severe blindness may be more than we can bear.

A decision is expected this week, with little to no public discourse, by the JNF’s world leadership, and
afterwards in the Knesset. I call on the members of the JNF and the representatives of the Zionist
Movement not to get dragged down and not to give up on the basic foundational principles of Zionism.

The prime minister is trying to pass legislation quickly in order to create facts on the ground. He thinks that
the money that will flow into Israel as a result of privatizing national land and that turning it into real
estate will bring unprecedented economic prosperity. In the short term, he is correct. In order to wrest
control over our country’s land, tremendous amounts of capital will flow our way. This will also be an
easier and less expensive way than fighting against us on the battlefield. The price we will pay in the long
term dangerously undermines our “place under the sun,” which the prime minister and his friends have
fought for, and which the Jewish people obtained by purchase, right, and justice.

Between Bin Laden and Zambia: the Result of Land Privatization
July 6, 2009, Land News
Rich countries from the Persian Gulf have started to purchase land in third world countries over the past
few years. An Israeli expert warns that a reform of Israeli lands could lead to a similar situation.
An old phenomenon has been renewed in the past decade: rich countries, mainly the ones that profit from
oil such as Saudi Arabia and the United Emirates, but also countries such as South Korea and China that
export food, "outsource" their agricultural activity to countries that need capital and have free land. Instead
of buying food in the global market, many countries have, over the past few years, used the high income
from oil sales to establish national foundations to buy or lease agricultural land in other countries, grow the
food there, and send it back to the mother country. Jacques Diouf, Head of the UN’s Food and Agriculture
Organization, called these deals "Neo-Colonialism."
In a discussion held recently in the Knesset Economic Affairs Committee, Professor Yossi Katz, from the
Bar Ilan University Geography Department, said that "there is nothing to prevent that this thing from
coming here." Katz and others warn that there is no reason that this phenomenon would not reach the State
of Israel. This is because a high percentage of the global oil profit is concentrated in the Persian Gulf area.
This allows elements that are hostile to Israel to make a small financial investment, in their terms, to hurt
the State of Israel. One year ago, in March 2008, when the Shekel exchange rate leap occurred, followed by
the decision of the Bank of Israel to interfere in the trade, Sever Plotzker, Yediot Aharonot economics
commentator, claimed that it was the Arab oil princes that were making secret investments to cause the
exchange rate to jump.
Sudan and Zambia
An official source in Sudan, Africa's largest country, also known as the "breadbasket" of the Arab world,
said that Sudan would allocate approximately one-fifth of its agricultural lands to Arab countries, amongst
them the United Emirates. South Korea signed a 6.9 million dunam (6900 sq. km) deal with Sudan.