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WINSTON MID EAST ANALYSIS & COMMENTARY October 11, 2005 Email: gwinston@interaccess.com Please disseminate & re-post. If you publish, send us a copy. Many of our articles appear on Websites at http://www.gamla.org.il/english & freeman.org Outgoing mail is virus-checked. To be removed from this list, please send your Email address. 600 ISRAELI SOLDIERS UNDER PSYCHIATRIC CARE PLUS 7 SUICIDES ...SO FAR! by Emanuel A. Winston, Mid East Analyst & Commentator Israel's Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has left a trail of broken bones, pernicious lies and all the things that indelibly mark a Dictator driven by his own interests . The following is unreported by the Leftist Media: Of the 40,000 soldiers sent in to roust Jews from their homes, 600 are under psychiatric care with 7 having committed suicide so far - according to reliable, confidential sources. For every one who has sought help and committed himself to psychiatric facilities, one may assume there are multiples of those numbers who are brooding, depressed who may yet end up in a psychiatric facility or "G-d forbid" commit suicide for their role in being one of Sharon's storm troopers.
The enclosed report from Arutz Sheva describes the condition of the refugees from Gush Katif and the N. Shomron communities following the August 17 forced expulsion by the Sharon government. To date, ALMOST NOTHING has been done to help the refugees – NO COMPENSATION, NO EMPLOYMENT, NO HOMES, NO SCHOOLS, NO SYNAGOGUES, NO FARMS,……..NOTHING – except one temporary shelter followed by another. It is clear that the government MUST fulfill its obligations to the 10,000 displaced persons, but, WHILE THEY WAIT, MANY ARE PENNILESS. Money is being raised for them through many different organizations. AFSI suggests that you may want to give tax-deductible donations through the CENTRAL FUND OF ISRAEL – earmarked for RACHEL-OPERATION BAND-AID, or to FRIENDS OF GUSH KATIF. Checks may be mailed to AFSI, 1623 Third Ave., Suite 205, New York, NY 10128, and we will send them on to the proper parties. SHARON HELD PERSONALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR EXPELLEES’ PLIGHT By Hillel Fendel Over 10 weeks after the expulsion, and 2/3 of the families evicted from their Gush Katif/Shomron homes have not yet been provided with a temporary solution. Their lawyer holds PM Sharon responsible. Attorney Yitzchak Meron, the head of the Land of Israel Legal Forum that has been representing the Gush Katif expellees on a pro-bono basis, has written a letter to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. Excerpts: "Over 70 days have passed since, at your initiative, some 9,000 people were thrown out of their homes. Almost none of them have attained their permanent [housing] solution. At the earliest, they will reach it two years from now, and others will apparently have a final housing solution in only 3-4 years. "No less severe is the fact that 2/3 of the people still do not even have a temporary solution. As it appears now, a large portion of them will reach this only 3-6 months from now. "The temporary solutions themselves involve great suffering for the residents. They will have to live in very crowded conditions of 10-12 square meters [12-14 square yards] per person. Much of their furniture and belongings do not even fit into the small houses; their belongings will have to remain in containers or warehouses. The people have to buy furniture and equipment that fits their new houses - and it goes without saying that the law provides for no compensation for this." "In short, the State has taken away from thousands of expelled residents their houses that they built with great toil, and these people are now without a home. They live in crowded hotel conditions. Some of them will have to remain this way for months to come. Physical and psychological ramifications of this situation are already noticeable, and experts say they will only get worse. "We warned in advance that the state did not concern itself with providing appropriate housing solutions in advance. We warned of a double uprooting, and now it appears that some people will have to be uprooted three and even four times." Meron contests the claim that the residents themselves did not cooperate sufficiently with the Disengagement Authority, but adds, "In any event, ever since the expulsion, certainly there is no such claim! Yet despite this, everything that has been done has been too late, too little and too slow... "Among the issues that have not been solved and that could be solved by your personal intervention are the families that lived in the area for many years - including young couples who were born there and families who rented privately - but because of various technical definitions, [are not yet receiving compensation]. The uprooted people themselves are not even involved in various negotiations between the government and the locations where caravila communities are planned - and they stand helpless on the sidelines.“ ---------------------------- Report # 12: State of Gush Katif, Northern Gaza and Northern Shomron CommunitiesOctober 24, 2005 Submitted by Toby Klein Greenwald Commissioned by Israel Resource News Agency and the Center for Near East Policy Research [All previous reports available through the search engine www.IsraelBehindTheNews.com] No Treatment for Special Needs Children There are three families currently living in Ir Haemuna who have young children who have special needs, and who received regular treatments, paid for by National Insurance, in Neve Dekalim, the “capital” of Gush Katif, before the disengagement. One of the children, a 5-year-old boy, is recognized as a victim of terror, and receives treatments as a result of a mortar injury he suffered when he was only a year old. Since the families did not know how long they would be in Ir Haemuna, they began to arrange for the children to receive treatment shortly before Rosh Hashana. According to one mother, they were told by the supervisor of the local treatment center five minutes away that she was given an instruction by the Prime Minister’s office to not give treatment to any children from Ir Haemuna. A more senior supervisor, who was also the supervisor of Special Education facilities in Gush Katif before the disengagement, stepped into the picture and met with the families on the eve of Succot, and said she would attempt to solve the problem. The Prime Minister’s office did not respond to our question about the incident. More on Ir Haemuna below. Moshav Katif The members of Moshav Katif have been staying in the Ulpana in Kfar Pines since the disengagement. Dvir Cohen, spokesman for Moshav Katif, says that the possible deal with Kibbutz Hafetz Haim fell through because the Disengagement Authority was not willing to pay for meals and the families of Moshav Katif, none of whom, to the best of his knowledge, have received compensation yet, do not have the funds to pay for food, nor do they have the facilities in the small guest house rooms to cook for themselves. The day after Succot, the Katif community will be moving to the King Saul Hotel in Ashkelon (which means that the elementary school children will have to change schools again). The long term plan is to end up in the Lachish area, but it is not clear where they will be between a short stay about a month in the hotel and when they go to Lachish. Among the possibilities being discussed are being in a high-rise apartment building in Ashkelon, being in the Nechusha area in the Negev. There were originally almost 60 families in Moshav Katif. There are currently about 45 left in the Ulpana. The others have scattered to Ir Haemunah, to parents or friends or other private arrangements. This is one more example of a community that is slowly being broken up. Seven sites of the Gush Katif community were visited over the Succot holiday. Ganei Tal - Yad Binyamin 1 [Photos available] The people from Ganei Tal are still living in cramped conditions in Kibbutz Hafetz Haim, although they are complimentary about how the kibbutz and its guest house has received them. They still have only two washing machines for more than 60 families, and have grown used to taking their laundry with them to family and friends when they go to visit. The caravan site, to which they are due to move some time soon after the Succot holiday, is in the process of being completed. People from Ganei Tal have testified that there were homes that were tested for water-proofedness and found faulty. A “tour” of several of these houses confirmed what has been said about the small sizes of the rooms, and the fact that the living-dining-kitchen area is small and not sufficient for a regular sized family, including their kitchen appliances, and normal sized dining and living room furniture. There were no security rooms in the houses, as is required in new buildings by Israeli law. An outside glance at some of the houses revealed crooked “trisim” (closing blinds), which raises the question if those are freak occurrences or an indication of the general quality of the building materials and/or process. The homes are set very close together and the windows face each other so there is no semblance of privacy. One Ganei Tal resident who toured a sample house, said about it, “Aside from the fact that it’s made out of cardboard, it’s not bad.” Nitzan Residents here are from Neve Dekalim and a number of other Gush Katif communities [Photos available] It had rained for approximately fifteen minutes in Nitzan that day, and there were some streets that were filled with water, where the drainage was faulty, and many muddy areas. MK Uzi Landau visited Nitzan that day, met with local residents and then toured one of the homes. At the same time there was a visit by Nobel Prize winner Professor Yisrael (Robert) Aumann and the head of World Mizrachi, Mr. Kurt Rothschild, who said that World Mizrachi had donated succot to Nitzan and elsewhere. The residents spoke with MK Landau about the debilitating issue of unemployment. Aaron Hazut, who had been the head of the secretariat of the Gan Or community before the disengagement, who is himself a victim of terror, led the discussion from the side of the residents. There are currently 270 families living in Nitzan. Hazut says, “We were not among those who said, ‘ It won’t happen’. We didn’t think it would ‘weaken anyone to plan in advance; we wanted to find a solution.” He then went on to describe to MK Landau the problems that they’ve encountered, in spite of their decision to plan. The main issue raise was unemployment. Hazut said, “The government built a local employment office but the ‘solutions’ they’re suggesting are putting salt in the wounds. There is a real feeling of unkept promises. The homes don’t have the proper infrastructure or security. The employment office doesn’t offer any real solutions. We’re trying to create the solutions ourselves.” According to Hazut, there were originally 420 farmers in Gush Katif, of which 200 actually worked the land themselves. Most of those ended up in Nitzan. He said that 520 families would be located in Nitzan in the end, including others from Neve Dekalim. The farmers claimed that the land they were offered was not developed; they were told to use their compensation money to develop it but then there would have left them nothing to build their businesses with afterwards. They say that the compensation is based on what things were worth six years ago, but everything has gone up since then - the raw materials, gas, solar, etc. They valued their worth according to the old prices but they will have to pay the new prices. (This and other issues were raised before the disengagement by attorneys who brought petitions to the High Court of Justice, but ten out of eleven judges found, in most instances, against the people to be disengaged.) Personal comments by farmers: o So we sat [with the Disengagement Authority] before the disengagement, and what good came of it? Only bad - the entire Gush fell apart. You [politicians] also only worked on how to prevent it. Even during that period, those MK’s who considered themselves the “rebels”, should have worried about the “day after”. o Personal comment: “They wouldn’t tell someone who lived on a kibbutz for 20 years, ‘Go rent an apartment on the third floor in a city...’” o Another Farmer: We have to fight for everything. o I was a person who was active, busy, doing business, now is doing nothing. We still have to pay our everyday supplies, but there are some people who have no income since June! o We have to buy storage sheds, different furniture…The ministry of agriculture didn’t find solutions for us. My equipment is thrown in Masuot Yitzhak, and parts of it are always being stolen. o They give us 90 meter homes in these kinds of conditions, and then we have to spend tens of thousands of shekels on storage. I look at the newspapers nothing appears there about this. We expect the people “in charge” to help take care of these things, to have a heart. o We brought millions of dollars into the state of Israel through our exports. This [disengagement] is a national crime. And we’re a society who are law-abiding… o There aren’t closets in the homes, someone had to spend NIS 40,000 just on all new closets. We’re still paying mortgages, and being charged $450 for rent. o Farmer: We, who were super-farmers, are now super-unemployed. I grew 90 dunams of cherry tomatoes, exported tons to Europe, employed 60 workers a typical Gush Katif farmer. When I signed up for unemployment, they wanted me to take a job in a carton factory, folding cartons at minimum wage. Some of my Thai workers, that are working somewhere else, hopefully temporarily, are receiving NIS 5,000 a month. I would have received NIS 3,000 a month. We need something to get up for in the morning. o At the most, we’ll receive 60% of what our real worth is, and that’s the best case scenario. They’re offering compensation that will be able to bring us, at best, to 50% of the output we had before. There is no possibility that we’ll reach what we reached before. We’ve already lost one season. Even if I started building right now, I won’t be able to get it off the ground till September, 2006. o The day before the disengagement we sat with the Director of the Ministry of Agriculture and he said, “I’ll do thus and thus…”A month later, when we sat with him, we saw there are no solutions. They offer land far away, or inappropriate…The Minister of Agriculture doesn’t relate to us, or his deputy minister. o They offered us land that is not sandy, not appropriate to our organic produce for which we developed an expertise. We can’t use up all our compensation on developing land. But we can’t just sit at home doing nothing, either. o It takes an average of three years just to “learn” the agricultural land area. They say that it took the farmers from Yamit five years before they were able to produce effectively again [and they had three years in advance to prepare, and much higher level of compensation TKG]. o We had special terms with Agrexco and others; one has to work hard to be accepted into that “club”; now we have to start from scratch. o At first, they came to us with the offer of going to Kibbutz Nahal Oz, to give us 2,000 dunams there. The government was to take care of the infrastructure. The only problem was that the kibbutz didn’t give the land in the end. A visit was made to several families who live in Nitzan. They were obviously trying to make the most of the situation by arranging the homes nicely, but they all commented that they had to spend money on storage sheds, new closets or furniture that fit the small rooms, and other items, such as trisim (blinds). Unlike the caravans in Yad Binyamin, the homes in Nitzan all come without blinds, even though the homes look into each other. One family the Farjun’s - estimated that they had to spend between NIS 25,000 and NIS 30,000 on items that they would not have had to buy, had they stayed in Gush Katif, and that will not be covered by any compensation. On a very troublesome note: They told MK Landau that three teenagers have been hospitalized in the psychiatric ward in Beer Sheva. “It’s a human tragedy,” said one resident. “There is no treatment for the problems of the teenagers. Not to mention how they feel, when they come home and ask, ‘ Abba, what did you do all day?’ And these are youth who, before the disengagement, when professionals were sent to study them, were considered psychologically the strongest among youth.” MK Landau promised to pursue solutions for the various issues. Gan Or - Kibbutz Yavne [Photo of Dorit and Tzvika available] There are five families from the community of Gan Or who have been absorbed into Kibbutz Yavne on the basis of residents, not members, for the next two years. One family we visited, Dorit and Tzvika Fixler, had settled into a little kibbutz home that was 30% the size of their home in Gan Or. Dorit, who worked full time as an art teacher in Gush Katif, had not yet started working, as there already are art teachers in the kibbutz. Tzvika, who, with Dorit, owned a highly successful bio strawberry growing farm that exported extensively to Europe, is now working as a salaried employee for an irrigation company. They do not know what their long term plan will be and, like the other Gan Or people, are exploring a number of possibilities. The families in Kibbutz Yavne from Gan Or, mostly from the field of agriculture, made arrangements in advance, but because there was not a location that could take all of them, Gan Or was one of the communities that did not succeed in remaining together following the disengagement. Elei Sinai Tent City [Photos available] According to spokesperson Edi Amit, families left in the tent city of Elei Sinai are waiting for the government to make them an offer of a communal settlement. The large Bedouin carpets meant to give a “feel of home” were sunk into the mud, as it had rained that day. A sign facing the highway says, “59 days without a home” (on October 19) and another sign, on a makeshift clinic tent, reads, “We treat people with sensitivity and determination”, a reference to the instructions given to the soldiers who removed people from their homes. Shirat Hayam Hotel in Ashkelon Residents from Bdoloch, Morag, Elei Sinai and elsewhere. [Photos available] There are about 40 families left in this hotel. The hotel, at the instructions of the Disengagement Authority, has allowed the people to remain in the hotel rooms but has closed the dining room. We found them, at dinnertime on chol hamoed Succot, sitting around a little table in the lobby, eating meals out of airline-type packets, that have been donated. For the most part, they buy their own food now. Most of them have not yet received any compensation and are unemployed. Other families from those settlements, who had desperately wanted to stay together as communities, are scattered around the country. Rabbi Yishai Bar-Hen, who had been the rabbi of the secular, northern Gazan communities, gave us a tour, and was astounded to discover, in the process, that the hotel had dismantled the synagogue room. He expressed bitterness and anger about what he called “a lack of basic humanity” being shown the Gazan Jews. Another member of the Elei Sinai community fumed as she showed us the what she referred to as a “one-sided” contract that they had been offered by Kibbutz Carmia [contract available in Hebrew], where there already is an area with caravans for the disengaged, and more are due to be built. “The caravans aren’t ready yet,” she says, “but the Disengagement Authority wants us to move anyway.” She pointed out a clause stating that that they could not have “invited guests” in their homes, without permission of the kibbutz, only guests who “happen by”. [We have a copy of the contract.] They will be charged rent (deducted from their compensation, while they are still paying mortgages), almost $500 including expenses as of August 15, even though they will be moving in some time, they hope, in November. The payment is supposed to come from the Disengagement Authority, but the contract states that they will be required to pay, themselves, if the Authority does not. Also, the evacuees, not the Disengagement Authority, are required to have two guarantors sign the contract. The secular Gazans said they were sorry that, whereas religious settlers were given succot as gifts, they were not offered to most of the secular. When asked if it was common practice for secular Jews in Israel to build succot, they replied, “We all did in Gaza.” Atzmona Ir Haemunah (near Netivot) [Photos available] Atmona’s tent city, called in Hebrew “Ir Haemunah” The City of Faith is located on the outskirts of Netivot, a city in the Negev. It is in an abandoned factory compound. There is a reconstructed temporary playground in an empty area across the road, for Atzmona’s many children. Large industrial tents have been set up and separated by plyboard and various materials into separate living quarters. Concrete and rubber sheeting have supplanted the pastoral community of grass and palm trees. Atzmona was the “holy” settlement in Gush Katif, unique in its combination of deeply committed, religious people who were also welcoming and tolerant to outsiders. They allowed no televisions or secular newspapers into the community, and many of the adults were involved in the study or teaching of Torah; others were farmers who ran the largest plant nursery in the Middle East. It also boasted one of Israel’s most famous pre-army study (“mechina”) programs, headed by a rabbi who had been a pilot in the air force. That program has relocated to Yated, a community in the Negev, close to the Egyptian border and within the range of mortars from Gaza, where about 20 of Atzmona’s families including many farmers and the mechina teachers - went after the disengagement. Most of the others about 57 families - have remained here, while they await a community solution. They are not interested in apartments scattered in various cities, or in what they consider the large, impersonal, Nitzan development, which are the only options they’ve been offered so far by the Disengagement Authority. A handful of families have arranged for other living quarters, for now. There are areas in the compound set aside for study, for prayer, and the second floor of the factory has the school. The Ministry of Education refuses to finance either the school or the pre-schools. Bathrooms and showers for the community are metal stalls standing in a row at one end. A slice of life: The “rabbanit” of Atzmona, Meira Netanel, welcomes us in their tent and explains that, “It’s been a hard day. The concrete is not level, and all the rain flowed down to our side and flooded the tents here.” She spent the day picking items up off the wet floor and trying to push the water out of the tent. Two of her daughters were sitting on a small couch, using plastic chairs as desks. There were crayons, books, and a Hebrew version of Monopoly on nearby stools. Shabbat candlesticks stood on a small white tablecloth on a well-worn wooden bureau, and a bamboo bookshelf held food supplies. Meira said they were about to leave for a funeral near Yated. The 83-year-old man known as “ Saba (Grandfather) Tzadok” Raab (brother of the Israeli poet Esther Raab), who became a media star during the disengagement, had passed away that afternoon. He was the oldest person to be expelled from Gush Katif, and was a favorite with the young people of Atzmona. “Saba Tzadok” was shown on Israeli TV when he spoke with the soldiers and officers who came to remove him from his home in Atzmona. He tried to return a medal to an IDF officer, a medal he received from the State of Israel for his personal war efforts against the Nazi’s, who destroyed his first home in Czechoslovakia. He also lived and fought in Kfar Etzion, that fell in the War of Independence in 1948, with the rest of Gush Etzion, and he sat in a Jordanian prisoners of war camp after that for a year. He lived for 18 years near his son in Atzmona, since the death of his wife, and worked in the Atzmona plant nursery. During the disengagement, he no longer wanted an Israeli medal, hence his attempt to return it. Meira told us that her husband, the rabbi, had visited Saba Tzadok just before Rosh Hashana, and Saba had told him of his joy to at least be living in a new settlement in the Negev, where he would be able to bring a little bit of “tikun”, repair, to the world, following the disengagement. He worked a little bit every day, in spite of his age. When asked what their future plans are, Meira said, “The government is offering us something in the Lachish area [where some other Gush Katif communities would also be] but nothing is finalized yet. There is a secular kibbutz there, with eleven families, of the Hashomer Hatzair [Communist] movement. We’d be perfectly happy for them to stay in the area, but they apparently would want to move, and have asked the government for compensation that it is not willing to pay. So I don’t know how long it will take. We may be here [in the tent city] for months.” Interim possibilities? “Yes, in apartments scattered in various cities. But we want to remain a community.” Her words are confirmed by Yonatan Rom, a member of the Atzmona secretariat, and he adds, “If the government wanted to help us relocate now with the same determination that they expelled us, we’d no longer be living in this tent city.” There is a sign hanging from the “school” balcony, a sheet painted with the words, “It is impossible to stop this faith.” For more information or contact information: Toby Klein Greenwald [email_address] 0523-822104 From abroad: 972-523-822104
Gush Katif Communities: Where Are They Now? 16:41 Oct 30, '05 / 27 Tishrei 5766 By Hillel Fendel 13 families from Morag of the former Gush Katif have moved into houses in southern Judea. 6 Morag families are in Nitzan, the other 20 have scattered - and for the most part, Morag no longer exists. Rabbi Yitzchak Ideles, father of one of the 13 families who have moved to the community of Teneh, northeast of Be'er Sheva, is excited about the new challenge: "Teneh - also known as Omarim by the residents - is about 20 years old, and has some 110 families. It is basically a secular community that is showing signs of awakening to Judaism. They recently built a synagogue, several families have changed their lifestyles - and in general they have welcomed us with open arms. We will, at least for the first stage, be a community within a community, and good things will hopefully result." For Ideles and his family, this was the second expulsion; they were thrown out of the Sinai community of Atzmonah in 1982 to make way for the peace treaty with Egypt. But he looks only forward: "We are the first group to move into houses," he noted, "and the first group to move to a Yesha [Judea and Samaria] location, and we welcome this new challenge." The group is scheduled to remain in Teneh for at least two years. Many of the Morag families spent the first two months since the expulsion in the high school dormitory in Ofrah, north of Jerusalem. Another group of Morag families - six in number - is living at the caravila site of Nitzan, together with some 300 others from various Gush Katif communities. "It cannot be denied that Morag has fallen apart," said one former resident currently living in Nitzan. "We just hope that the six of us, and possibly others, will remain together when our permanent homes are finally built." When will that be? "The truth is, we don't know. We are hoping for a permanent community outside Nitzan, but the government says that at least 200 families must sign up - and so far, there are only 130. So the uncertainty continues..." A succinct update on other Gush Katif communities: * Approximately 40 of 50 Gan-Or families are in Nitzan. * Tel Katifa - currently in Even Shmuel, just south of Kiryat Gat and east of Ashkelon, hoping to move to new caravans in Even Shmuel. * Netzer Hazani - must choose between Avnei Eitan in the Golan and Ein Tzurim (not ready yet) in the south. * Atzmonah - some, joined by others from Gush Katif, are in the Faith City encampment, near Netivot in the western Negev. They are hoping that a caravila site will be ready within 2-3 months in the northern Negev/Lachish region so that they can build a new community there. Other families have made new homes in Yated, in the Halutza Sands area, south of Gaza. * Netzarim - most in Yevul, in Halutzah Sands area, and some in Karnei Shomron, until housing units are ready in the Shomron city of Ariel. * Moshav Katif - many to King Sha'ul Hotel in Ashkelon, some to Yad Binyamin, some to Atzmonah, and some on their own. * Shirat HaYam - waiting for Prime Miniser's approval to move to Maskiyot in the Jordan Valley. * Kfar Darom - still waiting to move into high-rise building in Ashkelon.
LEGAL ACROBATICS: THE PALESTINIAN CLAIM THAT GAZA IS STILL "OCCUPIED" EVEN AFTER ISRAEL WITHDRAWS Dore Gold Jerusalem Issue Brief, August 26, 2005 PER PHASED PLAN OF 74 ---------------------------------- PA TELEVISION: ISRAEL'S DESTRUCTION IS WITHIN REACH The Palestinian Authority's state-run television station broadcast various programs this past week conveying the message that Israel's destruction is attainable. In the days since the IDF began to withdraw completely from Gaza, PA TV broadcast several programs all emphasizing the goal of destroying the Jewish State. ----------------------------------------------------------- Friends, For all those ostriches who view the man in the suit as anything other than the spiritual successor to his unwashed boss, Yasir Arafat, the mass murderer, the recent death of a young bride, her cousin and a fourteen year-old boy should erase any doubt. Under Abbas, the murders continue. The incitement continues. They even brag about it. I wonder what Ms. Rice has to say to this? Naomi _____ PALESTINIAN MEDIA AND OFFICIALS SAY ABBAS'S OWN FATAH KILLED 'SETTLERS' BY MICHAEL WIDLANSKI 16 October 2005 Voice of Palestine Radio, the official voice of Mahmoud Abbas's Palestinian Authority, declared Sunday night that both of today's attacks on Israelis were carried out by members of the Fatah organization headed by PLO leader Abbas. At least three people were murdered and another five wounded-including women and children-- in the two drive-by shooting attacks that took place within minutes of one another: one on a group of civilians at a bus-stop south of Bethlehem, the other on the road between Jerusalem and Nablus. "Both armed attacks were carried out by the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades which are part of the Fatah Movement," asserted Voice of Palestine, which, along with the other Palestinian media stressed that the attacks were on "mustawtaneen"-the Arabic word for settlers. The murders were not condemned by the official Palestinian media or any Palestinian officials who have generally called such previous attacks on "settlers" a legitimate form "resistance" to occupation. Dr. Abbas and his aides also did not condemn the kidnap murder three weeks ago of a Jerusalem man, Sasson Nuriel, who was tortured by Palestinian terrorists from the Hamas organization and then made to read a "confession" that was filmed and distributed on Hamas websites. The attacks have occurred during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan which is often a time set aside not only for penitence but also for jihad, holy war. Indeed, official Mosque addresses as well television and radio shows during recent weeks have been depicting Israelis and Americans as murderers and as victimizers of Muslims, highlighting the need for more "resistance" [muqawwama], "fighting" [kifaah] and "active struggle" [nidaal]. Palestinian leaders have repeatedly promised to curb violence and curtail incitement to violence, but since Dr. Abbas came to power as PLO chairman last December, there has been a general continuation of anti-Israeli and anti-Western propaganda as under the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. Although Abbas has removed some "martyr videos," government-controlled newspaper cartoons and television montage films habitually depict Israelis and Americans as sadists. A cartoon in the Al-Quds newspaper this month shows America turning the Arab world into a human slab of beef with a US government stamp, while staged "documentary films" show Israeli jailers torturing Palestinian prisoners or Israeli soldiers gloating while killing Palestinian women and children. ----------------------------- Abu Mazen accused Israel for this attack because Israel did not make"significant enough concessions"!!!! And he believes his accusations. Well, not that it will help people like Peres, but the rest of us can recognize Criminal Chutzpah when it is in our face. Don Arabs Kill 3, Wound 5 in Gush; One Wounded Near Eli IsraelNationalNews.com , October 16, 2005 / 13 Tishrei 5766 Terrorists from the PA have fired on a hitching post on Route 60 in Gush Etzion in the direction of Kiryat Arba, killing three and wounding five. In a similar attack near Eli, one Jew was wounded. --------------------------------------------
>> "The suicide bomber who carried out the attack was identified as a >> 20-year-old resident of the West Bank town of Qabatiyeh. The bomber's >> name, Hassan Abu Zeid, was announced over a bullhorn in Qabatiyeh, >> residents said. Israel Radio reported he was released about ONE MONTH >> AGO FROM ISRAELI PRISON." (HAARETZ Oct. 26, 05) >> >> THE IDF spokesman announced tonight that ''limited targets'' would be >> hit by the IDF in 'response' to today's terrorist attack in Hadera >> that killed 5 Jews and wounded 30 more. The limited targets >> according to most reliable sources would be 8empty buildings, 5 empty >> fields, and 3 empty parking lots throughout terrorist villages and >> towns in Israel. Since Arik Sharon released today's terrorist only >> one month ago, he may not be tried for war crimes as the statute of >> limitations expired on the 29th day of Prime Minister's participation >> in terrorist activities of terrorists whom he released from Israeli >> jails. Most freed terrorists are now vying against each other as to >> who can go back and kill after Arik Sharon released them. >> >> More details to follow after tomorrow's 5funerals and hospital visits >> of maimed Jews. >> Information sheet re: Roadside slayings of Israelis in Judea & Samaria a. The three Israelis who were shot to death yesterday (Sun. 16/10), including 2 girls who were cousins, died in so-called "drive-by attacks". Drive-by attacks are the most fatal variety of all shooting attacks, for 2 reasons: a. It is easy for the terrorist to approach the victim; and b. It is easy for the terrorist to flee after he has shot his victims. b. Due to the particular danger presented by drive-by attacks, the Israel Defence Forces (IDF), for the duration of the Oslo War which broke out in 2000, have maintained separate roads for the Israeli and Arab populations in Judea and Samaria. These roads were impertinently termed "apartheid roads" by the loony left, despite their being perfectly well aware that the system was not in fact motivated by racism but rather by the need to save lives. The Sharon government and its embassies abroad did not respond to these serious allegations on behalf of the loony left. c. As part of the disengagement plan, and responsive to heavy American pressure to "strengthen Abu Mazen", Israel has once again opened roads which were slated for Israelis only, to Palestinian traffic. At the same time, the roads slated for Palestinians only continue to serve Palestinians only and are forbidden to Israelis. d. Each and every time this road-opening step takes place, the result is a fatal road attack . For example, the terror attack 4 months ago resulting in the death of two teenagers at Bet Haggai, happened under exactly the same circumstances. All commanders in the IDF are aware of the fact that opening roads serving Israelis, to Palestian traffic, will eventually cause a fatal road attack (dead Israelis). When Israelis resident in Judea and Samaria (repeatedly) raise this point with IDF commanders, the commanders never make any attempt to deny the undeniable. e. These predictable "patterns of death", intended to serve international peace (sic) diplomacy, have occured dozens of times in the past few years. They occur as follows: I. Due to "negotiations", "progress", "confidence-building measures" and other code-words, Israel opens Israeli roads to Palestinians as described above. II. Often, non-fatal road attacks are the first indication that something is wrong -- such as the event when Israeli idealogue Moshe Feiglin's 18 year old daughter was sprayed with bullets and miraculously survived. That attack, which was relatively well publicized, is the exception which proves the following rule: non-fatal attacks (on Israelis in Judea and Samaria are extremely common and are not treated as newsworthy. Therefore, the Israeli roads are not closed to Palestinian traffic in the aftermath of attacks, unless the attacks are fatal. III. Eventually then, or immediately, a fatal road attack occurs. At this point the road is closed. IV. The period of time for which the road is closed depends on whether pro-Israel elements scream louder than the loony left, or vice versa. If the pro-Israel elements in Israel and abroad scream loudest, the roads remain closed -- at least for a while. If the loony left screams louder, the roads re-open to Palestinian traffic almost immediately -- back to step I. And on. And on. f. The allegation that Palestinians cannot live with roads being closed to them, is nonsense . Just as Israelis had circumventing roads built for them during the Oslo years, Palestinians had circumventing roads built for them, during the forthcoming Oslo war (waged by Palestinians against Israelis). It is true that the Palestinian roads are very poor in quality, due to the total lack of concern that the so-called Palestinian Authority demonstrates toward its own people. However, the Sharon government has not dared to publicly demand that these roads be improved for Palestinians by Palestinians. Sharon's government has preferred to order Israeli roads to be opened -- for the Palestinian public. And if that causes some Israelis to lose their lives -- so be it. g. The allegation that Palestinians are discriminated against due to the separate road system , being forced to travel long circuitous routes rather than cutting through Israeli roads, is absolutely baseless -- because the Israelis are also forced to travel equally long circuitous routes of their own, rather than cutting through Palestinian roads. Note that both populations did actually share roads in harmony and mutual satisfaction, for 25 years (1967 - 1992) until peace broke out in 1992 (Oslo) and ruined everything. h. Palestinian and loony left sources imply that the small price of having a few Jews shot to death is well worth it , compared to what happens when the roads are blocked to Palestinians -- which calamity results in "60% of Palestinian births at roadblocks terminating in death", to paraphrase a recent UN allegation. This too is nonsense . First, the UN allegations are based on what is optimistically termed "data" supplied by the corrupt and hostile Palestinian Authority. There is no reason to feel any confidence that this "data" is reliable in any way at all. However, assuming it is partly reliable, there is also no reason for the Palestinian women in question to be heading for Israeli hospitals. They should have been heading for Palestinian hospitals, in which case the entire roadblock issue would not have arisen. WHY were they not willing to go to Palestinian hospitals? Again -- because Abu Mazen, the Physicians for Human Rights, the European Union and others are all busy burning money for political causes and have absolutely no time or inclination to set up decent hospitals for their own people. Conclusion: Instead of allowing the IDF to be blamed, Israel should be pointing its finger at the people who are really selling out the Palestinian babies: the Palestinian leaders and their diplomacy-crazy cohorts in Israel, Europe and the United States. ----------------------------------------------------- Hebron/Arutz 7 Commentary Tears of anger and tears of mourning by David Wilder The Jewish Community of Hebron Succot, October 19, 2005 When I received information about the shooting at the Gush Etzion junction last week, my first thought was, 'where is my daughter?' Ophira was in Jerusalem and frequently comes home to Hebron, 'tramping' or hitching in Americanese, from the Gush Etzion intersection. I tried calling her cell phone, but she didn't answer. I tried a few other numbers; they too didn't help. But few minutes later she called me back, asking what I wanted. "Where are you?" I asked, and she informed me that she was still in Jerusalem. After work she had spent some time with her best friend, Ortal, who lives in the southern Hebron Hills community, Carmel. What did I want? I told her that I'd received a beeper message about a terror shooting at Gush Etzion and wanted to know where she was. That was the end of the conversation. From my end. But she started making phone calls too, trying to find out who might have been there when the shooting started. A little while later she called me back. "Do you have any names?" I had heard names of a group of people, but wasn't yet sure who were the wounded and who were the killed. So I didn't respond. "Why?" "Because Ortal told me that her sister was injured. Do you know any more?" When she told me her sister's name, I knew that she was one of those hurt, and had a suspicion that she had been killed. But I wasn't 100% sure, so I didn't say anything. Ophira found her way to the Egged 160 bus and started home. By the time she arrived, I knew, and she knew, that Ortal's older sister, 23 year old Kinneret Mandel, was dead, the victim of terrorist bullets. Standing next to Kinneret at the intersection was her newly-married cousin, Matat Adler-Rosenfeld. Matat was married to my son-in-law's cousin. She was also a victim, killed less than three months after her wedding. Matat had been in the army and served in Netzarim when my son was there also. She was a 'tattzpanit' – a lookout, and knew the roads and paths in and out of Netzarim and Gush Katif like the back of her hand. When she concluded her service she assisted in getting hundreds of people into Gush Katif and Netzarim, protesting the planned expulsion. She was even arrested and jailed for her efforts. When my son called to ask if I had details of the attack I told him, 'yes, one of the critically wounded is a friend of yours, who you studied with. He has a bullet in the stomach. And one of those killed, I think you knew her too – Matat." "What," he exclaimed, "Matat was killed, she's dead?" My daughter Ophira got off the bus in Kiryat Arba. I drove up to get her. She got into the car and started crying. I think she cried all night. When we got home, she went into her room and wailed. It was a dreadful sound. A little while later I drove her out to Carmel, where Kinneret and Matat both lived. Kinneret had just finished her degree after four years of study. She lived at home with her family. Matat lived in a caravan home, right next to her cousin, Kinneret's sister, Ortal. Kinneret's husband is an officer in the IDF. I asked Ophira, "why did she live here, her parents don't live here and most of the time her husband's in the army?" "Because she wanted to live close to Hebron, close to Ma'arat HaMachpela, the Tomb of the Patriarchs and Matriarchs." I went with Ophira to Kinneret's home. The living room was full of people. Kinneret's mother Rivka hugged Ophira and they cried together. A few minutes later her friend Ortal came into the room, and the scene was repeated. Ortal, Kinneret's sister, is eight months pregnant. Her husband too is a soldier. I stood there, looking at the people, Kinneret's father and brother, still in shock, not really believing what had happened. Her father, sitting on the couch, talking to no one in particular, said, "you never really think it can happen to you." A little while later Ortal asked me to upload some pictures of her murdered sister from her camera into the computer, and burn them onto a disc, to send out to the news media. I didn't remember ever having met Kinneret, but asked my daughter, "do you remember, when I photographed Ortal before her wedding…" and Ophira jumped, "Kinneret was there too." And now, sitting here in the office, looking at those pictures – outside Ma'arat HaMachpela, Ortal, in a wedding dress, together with her sister, both looking so radiant, and knowing that Kinneret will never have her own wedding day, what can I say, it's so sad. Kinneret Mandel and Matat Adler-Rosenfeld were buried side by side in Jerusalem's Har HaMenuchot cemetery. Thousands attended, despite the fact that the Succot holiday was to begin only a few hours later. Usually, according to Jewish law and tradition, the deceased person's immediate family sit 'shiva' after the funeral, that is, they stay at home for a week, sit on the floor, and mourn their loved one. It could be considered to be a period of adjustment, trying to get used to the fact that someone important in your life is missing. However, Jewish holidays supersede mourning traditions, and 'shiva' is cancelled should it collide with a festival. Being that the Succot holiday began only hours after the girls' funeral, the families were able to sit 'shiva' for only a short time, a couple of hours at most. This too, is a tragedy. The Succot holiday is usually extremely festive. Here in Hebron, thousands upon thousands of visitors flock to Ma'arat HaMachpela and tour the Jewish neighborhoods in the city. Jews in Israel and around the world spend the week living in 'Succot' that is, simple booth-like structures, four walls of thin wood or some kind of other material, with a roof of branches. This holiday is known as 'zman simchatanu' or, in English, 'our time of joy.' However, our sages teach us that should it rain during Succot, we are in trouble. The example they give is of a servant who comes to pour a drink for his master, but instead of accepting the cup, the master throws water in the servant's face. In other words, suring Succot, we desire to perform the mitzvah (precept) of sitting in the Succah, but instead, G-d pours water on our heads. This is considered to be a very ominous occurrence. Today, the second day of the seven day Succot holiday, it rained in Israel, from all the way up north, through to the south. Here in Hebron it poured too. As the sages taught, having the glass of water thrown into our faces. Maybe G-d is trying to tell us something. Almost 10,000 Jews, refugees from Gush Katif and the northern Shomron, are still homeless, almost forgotten, abandoned by their country, their leaders, their people. And the enemy, he who has killed, continues to kill, due to 'easing of restrictions,' allowing them to 'live better lives.' So what is it? Is He giving us a warning, telling us, 'your prayers on Rosh HaShana and Yom Kippur, the New Year and the Day of Atonement, they weren't enough. Words, supplication, they are fine, but deeds speak louder than words.' Or perhaps, G-d is sending down some of His tears, tears for Kinneret, tears for Matat, tears for their families, tears for their unborn children, tears for people abandoned by their own brethren. Or perhaps, both, tears of anger and tears of mourning? Left to Right: Ophira, Ortal and Kinneret
The good terrorists - by Caroline Glick The Jerusalem Post - October 27, 2005 ...After Wednesday's bombing, the Iranian-sponsored Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility. As is their habit, the terrorists claimed that the massacre of Israeli civilians was their response to the IDF's killing of their terror commander Luai Sa'adi in Tulkarm earlier this week. But then something interesting occurred. In Gaza City, masked Fatah and Islamic Jihad terrorists held a joint press conference where they claimed joint responsibility for the bombing. A Fatah spokesman further announced that any attack against Islamic Jihad will be viewed as an attack against Fatah as well. Disturbingly, no Israeli newspaper other than The Jerusalem Post reported on the press conference. And that isn't all. Like the government, the Israeli media also ignored the fact - reported again exclusively by the Post's Khaled Abu Toameh - that in the same IDF raid where Sa'adi was killed, Majed al-Ashkar, a senior Fatah terror commander, was also killed. The Israeli Hebrew-speaking public has not been informed that the two had spent the past several months establishing joint Fatah-Islamic Jihad cells throughout Judea and Samaria and Gaza. FOR HIS part, Abbas, whom the Sharon-Peres government and the Bush administration uphold as Israel's partner in peace and the fight against terrorism, has been making some interesting moves. Abbas has told the Americans and the Israelis that he is working to end Fatah terrorism by integrating the Aksa Martyrs Brigades into the Palestinian security forces. But on Wednesday night, Channel 2's reporter in Gaza interviewed three such "former" terrorists as they stood in position outside the ruins of the community of Neveh Dekalim. The flag flying from the top of their tent was that of the Aksa Martyr Brigades. One man was in uniform and the other two were wearing civilian clothes. All were brandishing the same AK-47 rifles they received as terrorists. All claimed that they are still part of the Aksa Brigades. As one Palestinian source noted to the Post, the fact that Fatah and Islamic Jihad terrorists are now operating in the same cells raises the prospect that Islamic Jihad operatives will infiltrate the Palestinian security services by claiming to be Fatah terrorists. As members of the security forces, these murderers will receive training at the hands of Russian security personnel who are now operating in Gaza.... 10-31 Is the choice Abbas or the abyss? By Jonathan Tobin Strategy on Palestinians a mockery of president's stands on democracy and terror http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | In any descent into folly, there is a tipping point. Before that happens, there's a chance to reverse course and avert disaster. But after the crucial moment arrives, failure is inevitable, and the only question is just how badly things will actually turn out. No, I'm not talking about the Bush administration's Iraq policy, its hurricane recovery efforts or the fallout from the Valerie Plame leak case. Rather, the really bad mistake Washington is about to commit is one that has generated no outrage from the press or worries about declining poll numbers. Ironically, it was at Bush's meetings with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas last week - an event that provided a respite from bad press - at which the greatest administration blunder of the month occurred: Bush gave Abbas the green light to allow Hamas terrorists to keep their arms and run in next January's Palestinian elections. Not only does this contradict Bush's own challenge to the world that it must choose between terror and democracy; it also gives the lie to the administration's position on what is acceptable in the efforts to establish a government in Iraq. TERROR AND POLITICS DON'T MIX Some of the administration's defenders will claim that excluding Hamas or any other Islamist movement would undermine democracy. But nothing could be further from the truth. A political party in a democracy does not need an army, let alone a terrorist wing. Excluding armed gangs from the status of genuine democratic parties is simple common sense. How, we must ask Bush, can an election be considered fair when the contending parties can intimidate voters and the media at will? Of course, would it be fair to exclude Hamas while including Fatah, which has its own "armed wing" - the Al Aksa Martyrs Brigade - that murdered three Israeli teenagers in cold blood the day before the Washington meeting? But to even ask such questions is to ponder issues that the administration is unwilling to face. The Bush team's approach to the Israel-Arab conflict has boiled down to a simple prayer that somehow Mahmoud Abbas can transform Palestinian politics and culture from one of terrorism and war to one of peace.
2. GENERAL YA'ALON, THE OUTGOING CHAIRMAN OF ISRAEL's JOINT C-o-S BLASTS "DISENGAGEMENT" (Ha'aretz, June 3, 2005). Ya'alon cautions that "Disengagement" would be a tailwind to Palestinian terrorism, bringing Kassam missiles and homicide bombing to Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Kfar Saba and other major cities. He warns that the Soft Belly of Israel would become a regular target for Palestinian terrorism. 3. General Ya'alon determines that "Disengagement" has been perceived by the Palestinians as a cut & run, emboldening terrorists: "The Palestinians believe that they are advancing their goal... while Israel retreats." 4. General Ya'alon claims that "Israel's military re-engagement [since 2002/3] with Palestinian cities has tilted the battle on terrorism in favor of Israel, has reduced the number of casualties, has bolstered Israel's steadfastness, has contributed to economic recovery and has acquired international legitimacy... Until the inception of "Disengagement" the Palestinians reassessed their position on terrorism, concluding that violence yields no rewards." But, then came the plan of "Disengagement", which has adrenalized Palestinian terrorism. 5. General Ya'alon insists that "Disengagement" would demolish recent Israeli achievements in its war on terrorism, and would produce a wave of terrorism, which would dwarf the one that has plagued Israel since the conclusion of the 1993 Oslo Accord. 6. GENERAL YA'ALON CONTENDS THAT A PALESTINIAN STATE WOULD BE A LETHAL THREAT TO THE JEWISH STATE, would exacerbate terrorism and would be a catalyst to a horrific war. 7. General Ya'alon concludes that ABU MAZEN HAS NOT ACCEPTED ISRAEL'S RIGHT TO EXIST. "Abu Mazen has not given away the claim of return... which stands for the destruction of the Jewish State.“ ----------------------------------- IDF Chief-of-Staff Heard First of Expulsion Over the Internet 16:17 Jun 29, '05 / 22 Sivan 5765 Former IDF Chief-of-Staff Moshe Yaalon has confirmed that he first heard about Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s plan to expel Jewish residents from Gaza and northern Samaria over the Internet. At a meeting of the Knesset Government Audit Committee yesterday, Yaalon said that the IDF did not participate in most of the discussions that formulated the expulsion plan. Yaalon, whose tenure as Chief of Staff ended last month - probably because of his objections to the expulsion plan - also said that the Americans knew about the plan before he did. “The first time I was asked about a plan to evacuate one or two communities was in the summer of 2003,” Yaalon said. "I was asked to express my opinion in that regard, and I gave my opinion in relation to varying circumstances, [mentioning] the possibility of intensified terrorism, etc.” Yaalon added that the first time he actually heard of the government’s intention to implement the plan was in a conversation initiated by Defense Minister Sha'ul Mofaz. “That update came after the Herzliya conference, in February 2004, after the plan had already been presented to the Americans and the Egyptians,” said Mofaz. Mofaz told the committee: “The first consultation with the Prime Minister was on February 12, 2004. The entire security establishment participated and opinions were heard regarding the plan. The first evaluation of the developing situation was on August 30, 2004. I understood that [the decision] was final, and was asked to analyze the situation on the level of dangers and possibilities. I thought that it was wrong to do it that way and expressed my opposition to the process.” The committee meeting was called to discuss the allegations of the new book “Boomerang” by journalists Raviv Drucker and Ofer Shelah. The book indicates that the Sharon’s promotion of the expulsion plan was linked to police investigations into alleged corruption by Sharon and his family. "Boomerang" also showed that Sharon and his confidantes bypassed the normal decision-making and analysis channels in the government as the disengagemetn process was decided upon. "There [was] no contact with those elements who were supposed to help Sharon decide about the plan, figure out what Israel would get in return, and help Israel get the best deal it could," the book states.
Ben-Aharon quoted Meir Har-Tzion, who is a close friend of Sharon and a founding member with Sharon of the famous counter-terror Paratrooper Unit 101 in the 1950’s
6- In September, 25,000 Israeli Arabs called for the violent overthrow of the Israeli government & the death of the Police Minister and he did nothing. The next day 100,000 settlers had a rally in which they repeatedly urged their followers to use non-violent means of opposition to Disengagement and the government decries that the settlers are preparing the atmosphere for murder.
by David Bedein Jun 12, '05 / 5 Sivan 5765 Waking up to a New Existential Reality: Living in the Only Place in the World Where There are no Human Rights or Civil Liberties for Jews.by Law. David Bedein, Bureau Chief, Israel Resource News Agency This morning, I came to my office at the press center in Jerusalem at 9:45 a.m. and was greeted with two new dissonant realities within minutes. An official letter from the Israel Government Lands Authority authorizing our family's purchase of a home in the city of Efrat, 14 kilometers south of Jerusalem, a city of almost 1800 families, set o expand to 5,000 families, according to the municipal plans that were approved by the government of Israel more than a quarter century ago. After twenty years of rental, we finally own our home. Well, there was not much time for sentimentality of owning a home in the state of Israel. Only minutes after opening the letter, the second reality hit like a ton of bricks. 10:00 a.m. news cast on the Voice of Israel Government Radio News reported that the Israel High Court of Justice had declared that the Israel Government Disengagement Plan, while violating human rights and civil liberties, was legal because Israeli human rights and civil liberties law simply do not apply to Israeli taxpayers and Israeli law abiding citizens who live in Judea, Samaria and Gaza - since Israel has not yet annexed these areas. And Efrat is smack in the middle of Judea. The Israel High Court of Justice therefore declared that Israeli citizens who live in Judea and Samaria have no human rights and no civil liberties. Hence, the silence of organizations such as the Israel Association for Civil Liberties and the Anti Defamation League > In other words, the only place in the world where Jews have no "de jure" human rights and civil liberties would be in Judea, Samaria and Gaza.
...5. Organize a vigil outside of the Peres Center. The Peres Center for Peace maintains an investment of more than $100 million in a special development fund for the Palestinian Authority (January 1998), and another $64 million that has been allocated for the Palestinian communications company known as Pal-Tel (June 1999). In other words, Peres maintains a private financial stake in the PA. Remind the world of that conflict of interest, as Peres prepares to assume the reigns of power.
Top Journalist Confesses: Media Pushed Disengagement/ arutz-7@list.israelnationalnews.com <mailto:arutz-7@list.israelnationalnews.com> 3/11/05 Politics/Gov´t Respected Israeli journalist Nahum Barnea admits that most of the Israeli media has acted more like the &quot;guard dog&quot; of the disengagement plan than that of democracy. Writing in the most recent edition of the monthly media publication &quot;The Seventh Eye,&quot; Barnea stated that Israeli journalists made a mistake that must now be acknowledged. &quot;There is no argument that the tone in the Israeli media is pro-disengagement,&quot; Barnea wrote. &quot;Were the media just supportive, or also enlisted [in its favor]?&quot; He added that had the Prime Minister presented a program to strengthen Jewish communities instead of dismantling them, the media would have treated him &quot;with cruelty.&quot; Barnea noted that only certain newspapers have published articles against the Prime Minister. He noted that the &quot;right-wing&quot; media, mainly the B'Sheva and Makor Rishon weeklies and the daily HaTzofeh, correctly have emphasized that Sharon promised he would accept the results of last year's Likud party referendum on whether to accept the disengagement plan. &quot;Two-thirds of the party members voted against it in a party referendum, but Sharon ignored the results,&quot; Barnea wrote. &quot;Even Ben-Gurion, whom Sharon admires, would not have dared to act that way towards his party. When he [Ben-Gurion] lost in a party vote, he obeyed it while gritting his teeth.&quot; Israel's media treated Sharon with &quot;kid gloves&quot; although he acted pretentiously, Barnea confessed. &quot;We were the guard dog of disengagement more than we were the guard dog of democracy. Our duty is to report, expose, criticize, educate and influence.&quot; The media's conscription in the disengagement program was &quot;a mistake&quot; and the media should admit it now and not later, Barnea concluded.
Disengagement Plan Formulated to Escape Sharon Corruption Probe 19:53 Jun 16, '05 / 9 Sivan 5765 Two veteran journalists, based on talks with persons very close to the Prime Minister, say that the Disengagement Plan was hatched up simply to avoid Sharon's indictment in the Greek Island scandal. Journalists Raviv Drucker of Channel Ten TV and Ofer Shelach of Yediot Acharonot newspaper appeared on Nissim Mishal's Channel Two television program last night and summarized the results of their research. The main findings: The evacuation plan was born because Sharon was sure that then-State Prosecutor Edna Arbel would indict him. The decisions on the disengagement plan were made by marginalizing the army people, and without the participation of the ministers and the Cabinet. Sharon proposed to one of the army's top generals that he be a &quot;plant&quot; and report to him on the goings-on in the General Staff. Click here to view the 7-minute Channel Two TV segment - in Hebrew (or right click and select &quot;Save Target As...&quot; to download) Drucker and Shelach said that Sharon's fear of State Prosecutor Arbel was a determining factor in making this plan. &quot;If not for the interrogations, this historic decision would not have been made,&quot; they said. &quot;This can be seen by the timetable of events in February 2004&quot; - the appointment of Gen. Eiland to begin working on the plan, the appointment of Meni Mazuz as Attorney General, a summons to Sharon for police interrogation, the rumors that Arbel was about to indict him, and finally the meeting of the Farm Forum [Sharon, his sons and one or two others very close to the Prime Minister]. This Farm Forum &quot;did not state it outright,&quot; Drucker said, &quot;but it was in the air that something had to be done, that there had to be some major diplomatic process that would swallow up everything and would change the public agenda [away from the corruption headlines against Sharon] - and they came up with this plan.&quot; In answer to a question, Shelach said, &quot;The people who are closest to Sharon told us absolutely that if it wasn't for those police interrogations, this decision [to quit Gaza] would not have been made. This can be seen by the timetable of events...&quot; Drucker and Shelach further found that top Sharon-aide Dov Weisglass (pictured) led the way in preparing the disengagement plan, particularly in a private meeting with Condoleeza Rice in December 2003, and that those in the army and government who could have helped improve the plan for Israel were left out of the decision-making loop. &quot;[National Security Advisor] Giora Eiland was in the midst of preparing a plan as to how Israel could get some benefit from its withdrawal,&quot; they said, &quot;when suddenly he was presented with this new [unilateral] plan - and even now he objects to the plan [as it now stands].&quot; Narrator Nissim Mishal noted that the image of Prime Minister Sharon as depicted in the new book, entitled Boomerang, does not jibe with the common perception of him as strong and determined. &quot;Instead,&quot; he said, &quot;your book portrays him as one who is scared of police interrogations and led along by the Farm Forum and [top Sharon-aide] Duby Weisglass.&quot; Raviv Drucker responded, &quot;We too were surprised by what we found. One government minister told us, 'This is the weakest Prime Minister I have seen, and I have seen many Prime Ministers.' The point is that Sharon is very strong at enforcing his decisions, but is weak at making decisions; he has no spine of his own today, and the best example of this is Duby Weisglass and the disengagement plan... &quot;Sharon wanted only to survive politically. Weisglass led the whole plan. In October 2003, before the plan had started, Weisglass asked staffers in the Prime Minister's Bureau for data on Gaza because he said he felt we had to withdraw from Gaza. Sharon did not yet agree then - but he would come around later. At that time, Weisglass also started spreading hints to other people that if Sharon didn't agree to this plan, he would end up leaving the political arena as an 'insignificant old man.' Weisglass also started pressuring [Defense Minister Sha'ul] Mofaz at this time. But more than anything - Weisglass felt that he had the right key to persuade Sharon.&quot; Drucker's colleague Ofer Shelach continued: &quot;When Sharon arrived in office, he didn't know what to do; he was great in tactics, but had no strategy - not on the personal level, and not on the diplomatic-international level. He just doesn't know what to do. Don't forget: after two years in office, he finds himself - the great terror-fighter Arik Sharon - with the highest amount of terror victims ever. And Weisglass - together with the Farm Forum, but mainly Weisglass - takes advantage of this to lead Sharon [by the nose]... &quot;In December '03, after Sharon's Herzliya speech introducing the disengagement concept but when this plan was still very vague - in fact, Sharon was still asking the Defense Minister and the Chief of Staff what they thought about taking down just one or two communities - Weisglass goes to Washington all by himself - without his Military Secretary Moshe Kaplinsky or National Security Advisor Giora Eiland, who usually accompany him - and speaks to then-U.S. National Security Advisor Condoleeza Rice privately. Very senior army officials told us that this was the trip in which Weisglass made the following offer: In the first stage, we would quit Gaza, in the second stage there would be a deep withdrawal from Judea and Samaria, and in the third stage we'd even be willing to talk about the '67 lines. &quot;The important thing to note is that from that moment, there is no contact with those elements who were supposed to help Sharon decide about the plan, figure out what Israel would get in return, and help Israel get the best deal it could. And from that moment, the plan essentially rolls along on its own.&quot; Shelach and Drucker revealed that Sharon sought out a top IDF general to be a mole in the IDF General Staff. The authors refused to divulge the name of the general whom Sharon asked to be his &quot;plant.&quot; They said, &quot;The general himself told us that Sharon asked him to agree to report back to him on the goings-on in the General Staff... All along, Sharon was unhappy with the army, and always tried to form direct channels of communication [in this way]...&quot; They said that many top officers, such as former Chief of Staff Mofaz, Intelligence Chief Ze'evi-Farkash, and others, were originally very much against the disengagement plan. &quot;Several months before Sharon's adoption of the Disengagement Plan, there was a deliberation amidst the top brass of the IDF in the presence of the Chief of Staff. Many options were presented. One of the options was unilateral disengagement from Gaza. There was unanimous agreement regarding the idea: absolutely no. Mofaz said at the beginning, 'Whoever supports a unilateral retreat, apparently wasn't here for the last two and a half years,' and Farkash said it would be a catastrophe, and the head of IDF Research said it would be the worst thing... but after several months, when they saw that Sharon was so strongly in favor, they amazingly all fell in line and backed it...&quot; &quot;We have a very biting claim,&quot; Drucker concluded. &quot;In the past four and a half years, there were many opportunities to end or change the course of the intifada, but because of the way decisions were made, these chances were missed, and the bottom line - it's terrible to say - is that there were many people who were killed [by terrorists during the Oslo War] in vain.&quot;
Check out the link. It's a comparison of the Matrix to Judaism on Aish.com http://www.aish.com/seminars/matrix/default.asp I think it's great Now get some sleep -------------------------------------------------------------------- You mean this Girl. [email_address] http://arutzsheva.com/article.php3?id=5679 I like it but, My brother has a point that I agree with. He wrote: &quot;Or maybe the flaws are in the prayers and the Diaspora Jews who penned them long ago...&quot; So now the Anshei Knesset HaGedola are &quot;Galut Jews&quot;. In that case, I'm happy to be counted in their company. mw Shabbat Shalom Shlomo Walfish [email_address] Aish Orchestras and Singers www.aishorchestra.com 718-261-AISH-office 718-228-8881-fax ----------------------------------------------------- From: Rob Muchnick <rmuchnick@TheMetroGroup.com> Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 22:28:15 -0400 To: 'Shlomo Walfish' <shlomo@aishorchestra.com> Subject: RE: An Open Letter to American (Orthodox) Jewry Hey, Where did you find this letter? I'd like to contact this guy. Thanks, Rob -----Original Message----- From: Shlomo Walfish [ mailto:shlomo@aishorchestra.com] Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 2:52 PM To: shlomo@aishorchestra.com Subject: An Open Letter to American (Orthodox) Jewry An Open Letter to American (Orthodox) Jewry by Orit Oct 26, '05 / 23 Tishrei 5766 First, I'd like to thank you, America, for being a wonderful host to me after the terrible Disengagement. It was nice to spend time with my family in sunny Los Angeles, relax with manicures and pedicures, and zone out to the latest TV shows. I was able to gather new strength, gain new perspectives, and clarify my mission to go back to Israel and change a country. However, it was less fun to go to sh ul o n the High Holidays at my folks' Modern Orthodox synagogue. Services were terribly boring. But what really annoyed me was that no one talked about Gush Katif. The sermons that I heard (or didn't fall asleep to) mentioned Katrina a lot, but rabbis were eerily silent on the topic of the Disengagement. I find this a little disturbing, because all throughout the holidays we pray for the joy and peace of Israel; yet, while thousands of Israelis are in a state of suffering, uncertainty and confusion, no one seems to care, even though the liturgy expresses otherwise. It was also interesting that on the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, when we're supposed to reflect rigorously on the state of our soul, no one really talked about the fate-altering Disengagement. This certainly should have been a hot topic on the Day of Atonement, but again, it was easily evaded, if it was even on anyone's minds. And still, we prayed - all day - for righteousness, honesty and peace of mind - personal and national. But, in America at least, Judaism is not about the Jewish people anymore. Judaism is about having a nice life and wearing nice outfits to sh ul, where you can network with equally smart, successful and well-dressed people. It's about saying morning and evening prayers because it feels holy and idealistic, and, hey, everyone wants to feel good about themselves. For many American Jews, Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur seemed all about how to continue living a nice, suburban life. The Torah might as well be a Tony Robbins self-help book, because it outlines great techniques for living, sprinkled with a few historic traditions and ethical codes. I realized, during my nice stay with you, that you say you care, but deep down, I don't think you really do. You say you love Israel and that you are Zionists, but I don't think you really are. You see, Judaism is not about nationalism to you. Judaism is not about a people living free, independent and strong in their homeland; it's about having a nice house, a good pa rnasa, and a way of life that's safe and comfortable. That's why many of you (and there are exceptions), didn't really like talking about the Disengagement. That's why some of you were even happy that it occurred, and that America was appeased, because God forbid, your generous host - your real nation -- would be mad at you otherwise. As soon as you have to take a stand or interrupt your lifestyle, you retreat to your prayer books and everyday say words like: &quot;Blessed are You, Ha Shem, Who redeems Israel, Who gathers the dispersed of Israel, Who loves righteousness and judgment, Who breaks His enemies and humbles wanton sinners, Who builds Jerusalem, Who sprouts the rays of redemption, Who restores His Presence to Zion.&quot; These are supposed to be your values, but are they? Do you mean these prayers? Do you want these blessings? No, you do not. Because if you did, you'd be taking a lot more risks for Israel than you are now. You'd seriously consider - and what a thought! - fulfilling the mi tzvah o f living in the country. You'd save some money, pick-up your family, and take part in realizing your prayers - the ingathering of the exiles, the building of Jerusalem, the restoration of Zion - no matter how difficult it will be. Or maybe the flaws are in the prayers and the Diaspora Jews who penned them long ago, because it's easy to absolve all responsibility to Ha Shem a nd just say, &quot;Ha Shem r estores Zion, Ha Shem b reaks His enemies, I don't have to do a thing!&quot; But Ha Shem o nce said, through his prophet Isaiah, &quot;Of what are your great many sacrifices to me? I am full of the burnt-offerings and the fat of fed beasts.&quot; Prayers are considered the modern-day substitute for animal sacrifices, and Ha Shem's sick of them. He doesn't want your new moon and Sh abbat i nvocations - Ha Shem c alls them &quot;iniquity.&quot; He says that you can pray all you want, but he won't answer them. Ha Shem w ants us to do what's right and to seek justice - thus says Isaiah. But Torah is not about doing what's right anymore, is it? It's about making enough money to send kids to Jewish day schools, so that one day, they could also have a big house and two cars in the same neighborhood and send their kids to the same school and sh ul, and so on and so forth, forever. And when Israel is at war with her neighbors, and her people are dying, they'll continue to send their kids to Jewish day schools, and say the same prayers in the same sh ul, and maybe they'll send some money to Israel, but they'll be glad they are in their beloved America. When Judaism is too difficult, why put yourself on the line? Why risk your life or your lifestyle? Why shed blood? After all, it's only a religion. And I wouldn't want you to risk your life for a religion. But it's not a religion we're talking about. It's about a nation - the Jewish nation and its people - me, you, your spouse, your kids, your parents. It's about fighting for what is right and pursing justice. But that doesn't seem to be too important these days. So, farewell America. I had a good time. You're a good friend, you can be there for me in difficult times, but I have to catch a plane and start finding myself some justice. Shabbat Shalom Shlomo Walfish [email_address] Aish Orchestras and Singers www.aishorchestra.com 718-261-AISH-office 718-228-8881-fax -----------------------------------------------------
It just so happens that the one person killed in Tel Aviv was the head pork importer in Israel. Statistics from Moshe Saperstein, resident and spokesman of Gush Katif 4/5/05
The Policeman told me that we should always plan events on Jewish holidays, as the weather is always perfect. He asked me what happened this year. I said that G-d must be very upset with us. 1967 WE MADE OUR MISTAKE BY TAKING THE FLAG DOWN IN 2 HOURS AND THEN IN 10 DAYS OFFERING THE LAND “BACK” ----------------------- Katrina – Bush/ Rice - Israel must do more Israel must restrain itself in the interests of peace Israel must slice itself in half by connecting arab states Israel may not expand Ma’ale Adumim Israel may not sell weapons to China/ Venezuela/ India or anyone else we don’t want to US canceled truck mounted laser project Indonesia, Malaysia – Tsunami - after the president of Malaysia said that the Jews control the world and how can 5M Jews beat 1.5B Muslims Pakistan – Musharraf said that Israel will be recognized after it makes a Pal state, and that you have to understand the mind of a terrorist, and the root cause which is Israel (existing)
This is from Psalms 102....translation: Psalms Chapter 102 1 A Prayer of the afflicted, when he fainteth (or “enwrappeth”), and poureth out his complaint before the LORD. 2 O LORD, hear my prayer, and let my cry come unto Thee. 3 Hide not Thy face from me in the day of my distress; {N} incline Thine ear unto me; in the day when I call answer me speedily. 4 For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as a hearth. 5 My heart is smitten like grass, and withered; for I forget to eat my bread. 6 By reason of the voice of my sighing my bones cleave to my flesh. 7 I am like a pelican of the wilderness; I am become as an owl of the waste places. 8 I watch, and am become like a sparrow that is alone upon the housetop. 9 Mine enemies taunt me all the day; they that are mad against me do curse by me. 10 For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping, 11 Because of Thine indignation and Thy wrath; for Thou hast taken me up, and cast me away. 12 My days are like a lengthening shadow; and I am withered like grass. 13 But Thou, O LORD, sittest enthroned for ever; and Thy name is unto all generations. 14 Thou wilt arise, and have compassion upon Zion; for it is time to be gracious unto her, for the appointed time is come. 15 For Thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and love her dust. 16 So the nations will fear the name of the LORD, and all the kings of the earth Thy glory; 17 When the LORD hath built up Zion, when He hath appeared in His glory; 18 When He hath regarded the prayer of the destitute, and hath not despised their prayer. 19 This shall be written for the generation to come; and a people which shall be created shall praise the LORD. 20 For He hath looked down from the height of His sanctuary; from heaven did the LORD behold the earth; 21 To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death; 22 That men may tell of the name of the LORD in Zion, and His praise in Jerusalem; 23 When the peoples are gathered together, and the kingdoms, to serve the LORD. 24 He weakened my strength in the way; He shortened my days. 25 I say: 'O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days, Thou whose years endure throughout all generations. 26 Of old Thou didst lay the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the work of Thy hands. 27 They shall perish, but Thou shalt endure; {N} yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt Thou change them, and they shall pass away; 28 But Thou art the selfsame, and Thy years shall have no end. 29 The children of Thy servants shall dwell securely, and their seed shall be established before Thee.' {P}
We would be wise to remember what British politician Adrian Hilton wrote: “In a true democracy, it is the people who decide which powers to lend to their leaders. In a false democracy, it is the leaders who decide which freedoms to lend to the people” ( The Principality and Power of Europe ).
“ Do we not understand the nightmare that is hidden in the words &quot;specially trained for evacuation&quot; and &quot;forced evacuation&quot;? “ It is not out of compassion that Sharon decided to establish a special unit of some 2,000 soldiers to carry out the mission of removing the Jews from their homes. Israeli newspapers shared with their readers the information that this &quot;special unit will carry out the forceful evacuation of settlers. The unit's soldiers will be specially trained for the operation. It will function as a wing of the police force, and will train only for the mission of evacuation.&quot;
mms://msmedia.a7.org/arutz7/heb-perm/alimut-shotrim.wmv A gang of policemen cruelly beating a road-blocking protestor last Wednesday night was caught on an Arutz-7 video camera. On Wednesday night, June 29, Arutz-7's Russian-language site's director Tuvia Lerner set out for the Gush Dan-Tel Aviv area, with the aim of covering the scheduled anti-disengagement road-blocking protests set for that night. At one point, he was standing at the main thoroughfare in Ramat Gan, Jabotinsky Blvd., when he saw what he later described as a &quot;cruel, shocking and pre-meditated attack by policemen.&quot; Lerner said that despite attempts by the police to hide it by standing tightly around, he managed to film it on an amateur digital camera. Lerner's video testimony can be seen here. Arutz-7 spoke both with the demonstrator (see below) and Lerner. Lerner's story: &quot;I heard someone call out, 'Photographer!' When I turned around, I saw a demonstrator lying on the road, with three Yasamnikim [special unit policemen used for missions that require extra force - ed.] sitting on him, bending his arms, and putting handcuffs on him. There is no doubt that a man in this position is totally neutralized and cannot endanger anyone. I should note that I had passed that part of the road a few times before that and there was no violence at all by demonstrators. &quot;I saw the policemen surrounding this demonstrator. It seemed very strange to me. I pointed my camera towards them and towards what they were doing to him. The policeman who was wearing an ID tag with the name Eliran Avraham tried to prevent me from taking the pictures. He pushed me and kept on turning my camera away and threatened to arrest me. His behavior just intensified my suspicions. &quot;Through the screen of my camera I saw the officer, wearing a name tag with the name Eran Naim, go behind the demonstrator, go on top of him, and stick his full hand towards his face. He stuck his fingers into the man's nostrils and pulled upwards and backwards in a fast and professional way, and tore his whole face, including a blow at his eyes . &quot;I realized that I had incriminating material in my camera. I saw how nervous/angry the policeman Eliran Avraham was, in his fear that I might have managed to catch the act on my camera despite the wall of policemen blocking it, and he continued to threaten to arrest me. That's why I did not photograph the officer Eran Naim when he walked aside to wipe off his hands that were filled with the blood of the demonstrator. I didn't want to take a chance on losing the material that I already had. &quot;The policemen immediately picked up the wounded demonstrator and arrested him, while he was dripping blood. His head, nose and eyes were almost totally covered with blood. &quot;Afterwards, I disappeared from the scene so that the policemen would think that I had already given in the material to my editors, and then I came back to take more pictures. &quot;There were many other press photographers on the scene. No one else filmed this very hard scene. But what worries me more than anything is that I gave the material to the three main television channels - Channel 1 (Israel Broadcasting Authority), Channel Two and Channel Ten - and none of them showed real interest in receiving it. This, despite the fact that I had already done all the 'dirty work' and found the demonstrator, who has still not yet recovered. He is suffering from pain and psychological anguish. &quot;Despite the fact that both he and I agreed to be interviewed, some of the reporters told me, off the record, that it was a waste of effort because their editors would not approve it. &quot;This showed me that the watchdogs of democracy had turned into etrog-preservers.&quot; The reference to etrogim applies to a recent remark by leading television commentator Amnon Abramovitch, who said that the media in Israel must protect Ariel Sharon &quot;like an etrog&quot; - the citron used and carefully sheltered by observant Jews on the Sukkot holiday - presumably, so that he not suffer a political downfall before he succeeds in carrying out the expulsion plan. Lerner reported that he later spoke with the victimized demonstrator. The latter said that after he was brought to the police station, he was taken into a room while in handcuffs, and there he was beaten by three policemen - one of whom was Eliran Avraham. A Gush Dan Police spokesman contacted by Arutz-7 said, &quot;We have received the material you sent, and you will receive a response.&quot; The demonstator, named Akiva, told Arutz-7 what happened from his point of view. His story (paraphrased): &quot;I was on the scene of the road-blocking, and I heard the police near me say they wanted to arrest me. Suddenly, four or five Yassamnikim surrounded and grabbed me - each one with his own job: One choked me, one bent my arms, one poked his fingers very strongly into my nose up and down - on two different occasions - and it felt as if he was trying to push my nose into my skull. It hurt terribly. And another one poked my eyes very strongly. They handcuffed me and dragged me to the truck, and then to the police station. I asked for medical assistance, they said OK, but didn't give me. After about two hours, they wanted to give me water to wash off the blood, but I said I didn't want them to wash it off until a doctor sees me. &quot;A few of us [arrestees] were there together, and we were talking, and the policemen said to be quiet. I said that they can't take away our right to speak. One guy looked at me as if he was about to kill me and said, 'Is that so?' or something like that. He then took me into a side room where there was a bunch of policemen and they all started beating me up. Punches to the head, kicks, everything, while at the same time, one of them was trying to put handcuffs on me. When they finished, they sat me on a chair, with my hands handcuffed behind me, and one guy started slapping and punching me in my face and head with all his strength. I of course couldn't defend myself. It was just like one long terrible painful hurt; I couldn't feel each individual punch... &quot;I don't know why, but I still didn't shut up; when he finished, I said, 'I'll see you in Machash [the Complaints Against Policemen Department]. He looked at me again and started beating me up again - and then a third time. He even gored me with his head against my head one time.&quot; Later, Akiva related, &quot;I refused to identify myself, or be photographed, as is my right, and they put me in a room for a couple of minutes with one of the Yassamnikim from before - maybe to scare me or something. He said two things that I think are very important. First he said, 'You guys work on the issue of justice - but sometimes it's not such a good idea; sometimes you have be smart, not right.' And then he said, 'What you got today is nothing compared to what often goes on here.'&quot; ... They finally photographed me, and then, at 1 AM, just let me go, just like that.&quot; Akiva said he plans to file a complaint with the police department, as well as a civil suit.
Senior Police Commander On Film - Calls to Beat Disengagement Opponents Without Mercy 09:07 Jul 22, '05 / 15 Tammuz 5765 (IsraelNN.com) Channel 10 TV on Friday night will air its video footage depicting Negev police commander Brigadier-General Miso Shacham. Speaking to the area border police commander, Shacham is recorded instructing his forces to beat anyone who breaks away from the Kfar Maimon group, seeking to enter Gush Katif. He called for the indiscriminate use of the water cannon, giving him authority to do so without hesitation or approval, as well as telling him to use batons and &quot;hit them hard, blows to the lower extremities to teach them a lesson&quot;. The documented footage includes a fair share of vulgarities and explicit instructions to inflict pain on those persons apprehended trying to enter Gush Katif. Learning of the footage and the Channel 10 program, Shacham explained his statements were made in a closed conversation with a senior officer following a number of days without sleep, expressing remorse for his harsh words. Israel Police officials have requested the tape from Channel 10 to review the conversation as well as the context in which the remarks were made.
Every country where the western Palestinian Arabs have influence, they try to dominate or wreck. (1) They could have enjoyed peace and prosperity in Israel, but tried to destroy the country; (2) Failing that, masses of them received citizenship in Jordan. Violating their agreement, they set up roadblocks, intimidated native Jordanians, and started to usurp power. The King had to send the army against them; (3) Fleeing largely to Lebanon, they were given refuge. Instead, they engaged in rape, extortion, usurpation of jobs, used the country as a base for committing terrorism against Israel, and set off a religious civil war; (4) When Iraq invaded Kuwait, the Palestinian Arabs guided the enemy to key points and prominent officials to liquidate, and jhelped torture Kuwaitis. Upon being liberated by the Coalition, Kuwait, and then S. Arabia, expelled several hundred thousand ! whom it had given jobs to in the oil industry; (5) Given rule of the P.A., Arafat turned it into the corrupt dictatorship and center of jihad we know of it today. What does Abu Mazen propose? He proposes that millions of such Arabs be sent into Israel. The purpose is to destroy the Jewish state. It also would ruin it.
The Planned Ethnic Cleansing and It’s Consequences – by Arieh Stav Thus, by means of elimination, there is only one plausible explanation, which MK Zvi Hendel pithily characterized: &quot;The depth of the evacuation equals the depth of the investigation&quot;. Below is the account, which Hendel, who was then Deputy Education Minister, claims to have received from one of the participants. &quot;The Depth of the Evacuation Equals the Depth of the Investigation&quot; In late 2003, distressing information reached Dov Weisglas, esq., Sharon's attorney and chief of staff: The contents of the revised indictment against Dudi Appel in the Greek Island matter. The revised indictment stated that Gilad Sharon had received an astronomical salary for relatively marginal consultancy services in the mega-deal in which the contractor sought to purchase the Greek Island of Petrocolus for the purpose of building one of the largest vacation sites! in the world there. In paying that salary to Gilad Sharon, Appel apparently sought to obtain assistance from the Prime Minister himself in consummating the deal. Weisglas was distraught. He understood perfectly the connotation of &quot;bribery&quot; the legal term for the deal described above. He shared his concerns with the &quot;farm forum&quot;, the Prime Minister's support group, which would regularly meet on the farm: His sons, Omri and Gilad, Weisglas, public relations consultant Eyal Arad and others. Weisglas was determined: &quot;If the indictment includes the section about bribery, we are in a lot of trouble. We must take a drastic step to stop this course of action&quot;. The question was what is that &quot;significant step&quot;, which would be able to stop the indictment snowball. &quot;Look, Arik&quot;, Weisglas said, &quot;You have no choice. There are many precedents in the world when a leader of a nation undertakes a significant national enterprise, investigations against him are closed. That is your chance&quot;. For a moment, a proposal was raised to go to war, however that was immediately rejected. It was clear that the Left would not forgive Sharon, with his problematic past in that area, for going to war. &quot;We need a political initiative&quot;, Weisglas said. Then Eyal Arad said: &quot;Arik, go for a total evacuation of the Gaza Strip. The Right will support you on that issue because they have already become accustomed to the idea. Everyone hates Gaza and no one will oppose an action of that sort. It will extract you from the legal muddle. It is the easiest step to market to the public. Come on, go for it&quot;. Sharon disagreed. &quot;Have you gone mad?&quot; he asked those present, &quot;The settlement there is a strategic asset. I truly believe that. It was but a few months ago that I explained that to Mizna&quot;. The discussion ended with no decision. Time passed, the apparent bribery story gained momentum in the media . The &quot;farm forum&quot; sought a different step, which would! be dramatic enough to dissuade the Attorney General from pursuing his plan to indict, but found none. Three weeks later, the &quot;farm forum&quot; reconvened. This time it was the turn of Gilad, Sharon's &quot;right-wing&quot; son who was considered to be the smart one in the family, to be the primary speaker. &quot;Father&quot;, he said to him, &quot;We have no choice. Nothing else can save us. We must go for an evacuation of the Gaza Strip&quot;. This time, the father agreed with his son. Shortly thereafter, on February 2, 2004, Sharon announced his &quot;disengagement plan&quot;. It goes without saying that his action was successful. From that date on, the Greek Island matter disappeared from the public agenda and Sharon became a media darling and a cultural hero of the extreme Left. As there is no other plausible explanation for the phenomenon of a man who in one fell swoop tramples everything in which he believed, which is, not coincidentally, the essence of Zionism there is no avoiding the conclusion that Sharon sold out the Land of Israel for personal gain. Quisling and Petain would be blushing in shame.
