Quotation for Ketubot 221:10
עולא הוה רגיל דהוה סליק לארץ ישראל נח נפשיה בחוץ לארץ אתו אמרו ליה לרבי אלעזר אמר אנת עולא (עמוס ז, יז) על אדמה טמאה תמות אמרו לו ארונו בא אמר להם אינו דומה קולטתו מחיים לקולטתו לאחר מיתה
Ulla would frequently go up to the land of Israel. He died outside the Land. People came and reported this to R. Elazar. He exclaimed, “You Ulla, “should you die in an unclean land!” (Amos 7:17). They said to him, “His coffin has arrived.” He said to them, “His absorption [in the land] when dead is not the same as his absorption when alive.”
Gray Matter IV
Needless to say, anti-Zionist Jews who argue that the Talmud’s call not to retake Eretz Yisrael by force (Ketubot 111a) applies in our times certainly would argue that Halachah does not obligate us to expel nochri residents of Eretz Yisrael. In fact, they would argue that it is forbidden to expel nochrim from Eretz Yisrael, as this would constitute taking the land by force. We shall show, however, that even poskim of the Religious Zionist community agree that under current circumstances, there is no such obligation and there may even be a prohibition to do so.
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Gray Matter IV
Needless to say, anti-Zionist Jews who argue that the Talmud’s call not to retake Eretz Yisrael by force (Ketubot 111a) applies in our times certainly would argue that Halachah does not obligate us to expel nochri residents of Eretz Yisrael. In fact, they would argue that it is forbidden to expel nochrim from Eretz Yisrael, as this would constitute taking the land by force. We shall show, however, that even poskim of the Religious Zionist community agree that under current circumstances, there is no such obligation and there may even be a prohibition to do so.
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