Hundreds of years ago, when the Talmud was burned in Europe, Rabbi Meir of Rottenberg wrote the lament entitled, "Shaali Srufah Ba-eish," (Beseech, O Torah Burnt in Fire). The commentators explain that the Gemora, Mishnah and verses of the Torah go up before G-d's throne and pray to Him on behalf of the Torah and its guardians, the Jewish people.

There are Jews in the Holy Land sitting behind bars. Why do they sit? Because in Shulchan Aruch it says that when summer begins, the Beis Din appoints shomrim to make sure there are no violations of modesty. What did the people of Beis Shemesh do? We are all commanded regarding modesty. Did they kill anyone? Did they murder? They fulfilled a holy section of Shulchan Aruch.

When the Brisker Rav was in Europe and all was burning, he had a choice where to escape: America or Palestine. Despite the danger posed by the German army, which at that point had already reached Egypt, he chose to go to Jerusalem, because in Jerusalem there is a small group of Jews who truly fight for the honor of Hashem Yisborach. In a place where the Jews never gave up the fight — that would be the guarantee that he would raise good children and future generations.

In 1945, when the Holocaust ended and six million of our brethren were dead, there arose the question of whether to add a special kinah to the Tisha B'av service to commemorate this destruction. The Chazon Ish, the Brisker Rav and the Satmar Rav all said, "We cannot add such a kinah." But now, since 1948, so many of our Jewish brethren have gone lost through the anti-religious policies of the Zionist government. I saw it myself! I lived through it myself! I am really not a rav, but I think it would be appropriate that we, with the pain of our hearts, should write a new kinah to weep for the 60 years that they have been destroying Jewish souls by leading them to violate the Torah, in that state that was founded for the sole purpose of ripping out the last bit of Judaism left in the world.

About 30 years ago I went to a kibbutz with my friends from Chevroner Yeshiva, to save children who had been abducted by the Zionists. We got caught, and they called the police. While we were waiting for the police, one of the leaders of the kibbutz was sitting there, and I said to him, "When you cut the peyos off the children, what did you think, you were going to make them modern?" He said, "Are you so naïve? We had only one objective - to erase all memory of Judaism from them."

Those Jews who sit there in jail are representing us. If not for them, we would have to close our businesses and Gemoras and go fight for the honor of Heaven. There is no other such place in the world. Once there was a Soviet Union, where the Communist police came and arrested Jews for keeping the Torah. Now we find that nowhere except in the Zionist state, where the police beat religious Jews until blood runs from their heads. Murderers! Gevalt! They beat and kill, and the Torah is burning every day! Gemoras, whole laws from Shulchan Aruch are burnt in that oven in Eretz Yisroel.

These are Jews who are willing to be beaten in order to show their protest. Our obligation to protest can be derived from the famous story of Iyov, Pharaoh's advisor, who kept silent and did not protest against Pharaoh's decrees against the Jews. He was punished with a painful illness. Reb Chaim Brisker asked, what could he have done? The answer is, he could have given a yell, although it might not have helped, just as he cried in pain although it did not make his illness go away. We can yell, "Murderers, you don't represent the Jewish people!"

We could tell stories all day about how the Zionists ruined the Jewish people. But, more importantly, our children must know how we fought and protested against them.

Let me tell one short anecdote. Once I went to a Yemenite Jew, a Jew with a beard and peyos, sitting and learning Rambam. I tried to convince him to send his daughter to a religious school. I argued and argued with him, but he was against it. I said, "You are learning Rambam — the Rambam says that coeducation is forbidden!" He said, "Here in Eretz Yisroel everything is permitted." Do you see what they have done to an ancient community of holy Jews, exiled from the times of the First Temple? In Yemen they all kept Torah and mitzvos, but in this fiery oven, this melting pot, they were able to convince them not to keep it.