Is a Jew Meshuga for Wanting to Live in Palestine?
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March 8 (Bloomberg) -- If Israelis and Palestinians agreeon one thing, it’s that more settlements in the West Bank willeventually make a two-state solution impossible. Rabbi MenachemFroman, who died on March 4 at age 68, thought differently.
Froman was a proud and early settler, a founder of thehard-line Gush Emunim (“Bloc of the Faithful”), theologicallycommitted to permanent Jewish settlement in what he consideredhistorical Judea and Samaria. But Froman also fully accepted theidea of a Palestinian state there -- in which he and his fellowsettlers would continue to live as minority citizens.