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   boundaries and borders. We are very mindful of our own sovereignty. We would   
   never tolerate another country, a group of countries, telling us, for   
   instance, Hawaii does not belong to you. Why did you annex Hawaii? Mhm.   
   Puerto Rico is a territory that doesn’t belong to you. You just grabbed it.   
   Right?  We’d say, why don’t you go screw yourself?  In fact, we talk about   
   acquiring Greenland.  Greenland’s never been ours. We don’t have any   
   historical connection to Greenland at all. But it’s a national security   
   issue, isn’t it? Panama has never been ours. But we built the Panama Canal   
   there, right? What about Guam? We won Guam in World War II. Does that belong   
   to us? And I go down the line and I only do this to apply the logic to us and   
   to other countries. Right? That’s why you have movements in this country,   
   mostly radical left wing movements, mostly racist movements that say the   
   United States altogether doesn’t belong to the white Europeans who came here,   
   whether it’s the Vikings or whether it’s Columbus or whatever it is, that   
   there were people who were here before and even before the Native Americans,   
   Indians, people talk about the Aztecs or people related to the Aztecs from   
   Central America.  I don’t have any idea. I don’t really care. This is America   
   and that’s the way it’s going to be, Right?  There’s not a single Arab   
   country that.  Has a claim to Judea or Samaria. None. The Palestinians make a   
   claim to it and their claim is a joke. It’s a lie. Make it a little louder,   
   Mr. Producer.  All right, we’ll be right back.   
      
   Segment 3   
   Some of our history here, ladies and gentlemen. All of ours goes way, way   
   back. This is from Chabad.org Chabad.org when the Israelites settled the land   
   during the days of Joshua, Shiloh was chosen as the site for the tabernacle   
   that traversed the desert for 40 years.  There, the temporary boards that   
   surrounded the structure were replaced with stone walls, giving the building   
   a degree of permanence. The only place that the House of God and the Holy Ark   
   ever enjoyed this degree of stability was in Jerusalem.  It’s evident from   
   several of the biblical narratives that Shiloh served as a national location.   
    Its centrality cannot be overstated.  Here are some.  When the Israelites   
   met to apportion the land for the seven remaining tribes they gathered at   
   Shiloh, it was Shiloh that the Levites came to demand their assigned cities.   
   The tribes of Gad and Reuben departed from Shiloh to their territory on the   
   eastern side of the Jordan. When the Israelites sent a delegation to confront   
   the tribes of Gad and Reuben for establishing a grand altar by the Jordan,   
   the group left from Shiloh.  These and similar events occurred during the   
   early years of the Israelite settlement in the land. Talking about thousands   
   and thousands of years ago, skipping forward several hundred years, Eli.  The   
   high priest, served with distinction in Shiloh as a spiritual leader for the   
   Israelites.  People traveled significant distances to make their pilgrimage   
   to Shiloh, which is how we famously encounter Ekena and Chana. Chana’s   
   heartfelt prayer for offspring at the temple of Shiloh. It’s one of the most   
   famous ever uttered, the son she was finally blessed with, who grew up to   
   become the great prophet Samuel.  Now, those of you who read the Bible, you   
   know who Samuel is, was brought to Shiloh. It’s a child raised there by Eli.   
   It was from the Temple of Shiloh that the Ark of the Covenant was carried   
   into war against the Philistines who captured it. When the word of the Ark’s   
   capture was brought back to Eli in Shiloh, he fell back off his chair and he   
   died. Some claim to have identified the exact spot where Eli would sit and   
   where he met his death. The departure of the Ark from Shelah was highly   
   significant, as it did not return home from around 60 years when David   
   brought it to Jerusalem.  David would become King David.  Even generations   
   after the temple at Shiloh no longer stood, the city continued to be   
   associated with significant historical events. The prophet Achaiah of Shiloh   
   warned that the kingdom ruled by Solomon, that would be King David’s son now   
   King Solomon, would be split into two. He was the key prophet when the king   
   of Israel split from the kingdom of Judah, vociferously condemned the idol   
   worship that was rampant at the time. The book of Jeremiah tells of the   
   murder of a delegation to the Jewish leader of Judea, Gadiah Ben Achaman,   
   after the Babylonian conquest, some of whom were from Shiloh. We also read   
   how Jeremiah, descendant of Eli, greatly lamented the destruction at Shiloh,   
   an event clearly seared in the nation’s memory many hundreds of years later.   
   The tomitic, uh, era Shiloh hosted a house of study, and the Talmudic   
   literature cites the conduct and teachings of the.  Shilonites, the people   
   who lived at Shiloh.  Even centuries after there had been a temple there, the   
   halo of holiness remained. This is how we may understand the report from the   
   illustrious Rabbi Joshua ben Gorsha, a leading 2nd century sage who cited the   
   words of an elder. Once I went to Shiloh, where I smelled the aroma of   
   incense from the temple, which had stood a thousand years earlier, emanating   
   from its walls. This is ancient, ancient history. So what happened to Sheila?   
   One of the most important places in Jewish history.  And where is Shelah, Mr.   
   Producer?  It’s in Samaria, what we Westerners call the West Bank. The west   
   bank of what? The west bank of Jordan. Let me continue. But why are we not   
   told what occurred? What happened to this city? After all, this was a place   
   of immense sacredness for the better part of four centuries. Indeed, the   
   termination of Shiloh led to 60 years in which the Holy Ark of the Covenant   
   lacked a proper home.  The Ark of the Covenant. Those of you who watch   
   movies, you at least know that lacked a proper home. And the Israelites   
   lacked a true national place of worship. The loss of Shelah was massive. Yet   
   we’re left guessing what happened. Shouldn’t we be informed about an event of   
   such magnitude? Perhaps even more difficult to understand is why there’s no   
   day of commemoration or mourning for the loss of the temple at Shiloh. Each   
   year on the 9th of Av, the Jewish people have a fast to observe the   
   destruction of the two holy temples in Jerusalem. The 9th of Av is the   
   saddest day on the Jewish calendar during which Jews sit on the ground and   
   weep, mourn the falling of Jerusalem and the demolition of God’s sanctuary.   
   So what is the day that we mark the destruction of the temple in Shiloh? If   
   they’re standing for an entire 369 years.  There isn’t one. Why there should   
   be.  Be nice if there was a simple answer to how and why this happened. Some   
   take the view that if the Bible doesn’t state that the temple in Shelah was   
   destroyed, it suggests it wasn’t.  So what happened? We know from the book of   
   Samuel, 1 Samuel that the Ark of the Covenant was taken into a decisive, uh,   
   battle and captured by the Philistines. If the ark was removed, it’s   
   reasonable to say the temple was taken apart and re established elsewhere.   
   According to this view, the temple in Shiloh was never destroyed but   
   dismantled. Another view is the temple was destroyed, but not through an act   
   of violence by the Philistines. Rather, as the ark was captured and the   
   temple was defiled, it lost its sanctity. It then became permissible for   
   people to use the materials from the structure for their own mundane   
      
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