What About Rabbis Who Say It's Ok to Give Away Land?

Rav Zalman Baruch Melamed answers the question: How should one relate to great Torah scholars who rule that parts of the Land of Israel may be given over to autonomous gentile rule?

Appreciating the Land and the Holy Temple

Just as the Jewish people never forgot their land and has now returned to it, they will, in the same respect, never forget the Holy Temple and will return to it as well - God willing, speedily in our days

Where Things Stand

1. New Heights 2. A Purely Religious Obligation 3. All Eyes on Jerusalem 4. A Yom Kippur Motif 5. The World Awaits 6. Between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur

Eretz Yisrael and the Torah Are One and the Same

We must fight for the entirety of the Land and the entirety of Torah as one, for they are one and the same. The abandonment of the Land weakens Torah observance and the abandonment of Torah weakens our hold on the Land.

The Holiness of the Land of Israel and Jerusalem

Tu Bishvat - The Bond Between the Jewish People and Eretz Yisrael

On Tu BiShvat we affirm that the connection between Am Yisrael and Eretz Yisrael is absolute and eternal, a Divine connection, and that nobody and nothing can separate the People of Israel from their land.