The Wall Street Journal reports: Biden Warns Netanyahu an Assault on Rafah Would Cross ‘Red Line’
WASHINGTON—The Biden administration is warning Israel of the risks of attacking the southern Gaza city of Rafah, intensifying efforts to get its Middle East ally to rethink the conduct of the five-month-old war.
The looming operation is a potential showdown between the White House and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, which sees the assault as vital for the defeat of Hamas, the U.S.-designated terror group whose bloody Oct. 7 attack on southern Israel sparked the war.
Rabbi Avraham Y. Kook among others, prompted Jews to purchase land in Rafah (Rafiach), on the border of Egypt (“Letters”, Volume I pages 297 and 323). And he added and urged: “It is proper for us not to skip any opportunity to buy. And it is better to talk many times about some Israeli purchase in the Land of Israel so that someday what we desire will come to our hands than if we only look at definite opportunities, leading to foreigners coming and taking hold of our holy land which is what happened several times, especially in recent times. And the Rock of Israel, whose eyes are on his desired land and the nation of his heritage, will gird us with strength to expand the border of Israel on his land.”
(“Letters”, Volume II, page 61)
These and many other important excerpts on the land of Israel were collected in Hebrew by Rabbi Moshe Zuriel ZT”L.
Rabbi Moshe Kaplan of Machon Meir: Gaza is Eretz Yisrael
Introduction: Deuteronomy (Dvarim) 1:7 as translated by Sefaria states:
Start out and make your way to the hill country of the Amorites and to all their neighbors in the Arabah, the hill country, the Shephelah, the Negeb, the seacoast, the land of the Canaanites, and the Lebanon, as far as the Great River, the river Euphrates.
Sifri on that verse states that the seacoast mentioned in that verse includes Gaza. That is to say it is on the list of the regions that the Torah commands the nation of Israel to possess in accordance with the rules set down in Numbers (Bamidbar) chapter 33.
By pressing on the link you are invited to listen to an 11:36 minute, audio talk by Rabbi Moshe Kaplan on Gaza being part of Eretz Yisrael
original source from: https://meirtv.com/en/eyc104-parshat-yayera-gaza-is-ey-land-for-peace–9396l