How Long Will You Refuse to Submit To G-d? Shmos 10:3? All for a pot of lentils? Likud, Shas, UTJ, MGH, Dov Hikind and Feiglin's Fatal Flaw

bs"d

Dear Influential Leaders of  Israeli and American Political Parties and Mainstream Jewish Organizations, amv"sh

(Many ideas I have included here were taken by Rabbi David Hollander z"l who passed away this past week at 95 a long time columnist of the Jewish Press.  Rabbi Hollander always defended, without compromise, the principles of Torah-true Judaism. These ideas come from one of his earliest articles for the Jewish Press published in February 5, 1960 edition, reprinted in this week Jewish Press)

Hashem is all powerful and not the Likud, Shas, UTJ,Democrats or Republicans.

Do we doubt Hashem's Word or His promise that when we abide by His Torah and keep His Mitvoth then Hashem will protect us and bring Peace, Prosperity and Blessings to the World? 

Likud!, Moetzet Gedolei Hatorah!, Young Israel!, OU!, Shas!, UTJ! Dov Hikind!, "How Long Will You Refuse to Submit to G-d?" !!!! Shemos 10:3

How can we blatantly scorn our G-d given birthright by showing a willingness to give away our birthright for a pot of lentils, no different than EISAV . 


What is the modern day pot of lentils? 

It's the promise of others to stop Hamas and Fatah from sending rockets our way.

To quote Rabbi David Hollander "People sometimes erect mountains of rationalizations for their actions, but when you look beneath the surface you find selfish interest."

It is my opinion that Shas and UTJ have a selfish interest called payback money to pay for their educational institutions and large families. Feiglin's selfish interest is that he wants all to unite under him, self promotion rather than to unite under a common Torah message.

Has MGH or Agudath Yisroel of America spoken out against Israeli or American Foreign Policy for a 2 State Solution. Until he is in power, has Feiglin mobilized caring Jews in America to speak out for our entitlement of Israel and against the roadmap or against the policies of the gov't of Israel'?

Rulings by the Gedoilim clearly have permitted giving away parts of  Eretz Yisroel cheapening the Holy Land in the eyes of hundreds of thousands of loyal followers making the Torah not relevant in our day. ..

I was at Manhigut's Yehudi'ts' fundraiser in Kew Garden Hills, Queens.  And that's all it was.  A fundraiser to get Moshe Feiglin to win the Likud primary.  He could have used the same opportunity to mobilize that open minded crowd to speak out forcefully for our exclusive entitlement of Eretz Yisroel. After all Jews of the Diaspora are no less entitled than Jews in Israel to the Holy Land. 

Perhaps Feiglin feels that he can't speak out forcefully since he doesn't have the immunity of a Knesset member.After all, he might be accused of sedition and put into jail and lose his chance in getting a Knesset seat. Dov Hikind has his seat in Congress to worry about.

Effectively who will challenge Likud, Moetzet Gedolei Hatorah, Shas, Young Israel, OU, Dov Hikind etc for disgracefully showing their willingness to sell out Israel for a temporary pot of lentils.

As a result Obama and the United States is now training Egypt with the most sophisticated military equipment and deploying thousands of troops on the Eastern Sinai Gaza border in order to deliver this pot of lentils to Israel.  There is a display of unity among the nations of the world to deliver this pot of lentils to Israel.

There are many chareidim that are subservient to UTJ and to SHAS.  They are in a slumber.   To quote Rabbi Hollander....  "To them comes Moshe Rabbeinu, our educator par excellance,  with his rebuke to them to tell the Nations, "Tell the truth, stop hiding behind fancy claims.  Call a spade a spade.  How long will you refuse to submit to G-d?".

 As for the typical Israeli, secular or religious, have faith in them and give them a choice to vote for authentic Torah.  Torah is universal. Yes it is in Hashem's hand and we must demonstrate our worthiness by voting for Him, for Hashem and the Torah platform.   Likud, Shas or UTJ are limited and are mere political parties in a corrupt political system.  Hashem on the other hand, does not sleep nor slumber the Guardian of Israel.

Yes, We do have much to fear when our country and people are not united behind the Torah platform.  Ichud Leumi had better change their slogan very quickly.  It is arrogant to assume that just because there is a few strong few that we have nothing to fear.  Who if not us carry the sins of the majority of our brothers and sisters within Israel and in the Diaspora that are dragging us off the cliff. Just remember what happened to our holy Gush Katif brothers and sisters that sang with ferver Al Tira Meyhem Ki Hashem Elokecha Imach (Don't fear them, i.e. those that wish to expel us, because G-d is with you)

SHAME, SHAME SHAME on Am Yisroel!  Yes it takes educating but I do not see that Moshe Feiglin is doing any real educating.  Rather I only saw lots of campaigning and he lost to Netanyahu.
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On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Yehoshua Friedman <friedy07@netvision.net.il> wrote:

Robin,

 

I agree that Netanyahu is center-left masquerading as right. I agree that there are leftist candidates in the Likud (Licouldn't). I agree that Ketzeleh and friends are wonderful people whom I would love to see run the country. What I don't see is how you prevent Dan Meridor (no. 17) from being in a high-level ministry. If we would all leave Likud and join NU and NU got 10 seats (I don't believe it), Livni or Barak would be PM. Would that help? Bibi is on record that he wants a coalition with either Kadima or Labor plus Shas. The long-range strategy is for Feiglin and EItam in the Likud (bad cop and good cop) to keep strengthening their positions and eventually lead. Then NU would come in and ask to have influence. This whole thing is in Hashem's hands. If Mitchell and Obama do a really obnoxious thing before the election, maybe the right could gain some positions at the expense of the left, but Bibi would still choose the above over NU even if NU got 15. The real way to solve the problem is to educate the next generation. It won't be solved in the next two weeks.

Is there any possibility of getting some hareidi votes besides Habad for NU at the expense of  UTJ?

 

Yehoshua Friedman

Dear RObin

 

I am sorry for my poor English but I hope you will understand my idea, anyway.

 

If we vote LIKUD [FOR FEIGLIN] it will help us to put the best 8 men -including FEIGLIN] in the LIKUD,[places 31-38 in the likud list] so they will prevent NETANYAHU from withdrawals. THEY WILL BE THE GUARDS OF ERETZ-YISRAEL IN THE LIKUD!!

 

shabbat shalom

 

kati

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Robin Ticker [mailto:faigerayzel@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 8:17 AM
To: do4israel
Subject: Fwd: Feiglin's Fatal Flaw

 

bs"d

Dear List, amv"sh

Paul Eidelberg brings some very strong points objecting to Feiglin being part of the Likud party. I too have the premonition that voting for Feiglin or Shas (they too wish to join with Likud) under Likud is a vote for Netanyahu and Netanyahu's politics.  This mean a willingness to negotiate and establish a Palestinian State.  A vote for Feiglin is a vote for Netanyahu and is no way a vote for Feiglin. It seems to me that in the Likud party, Feiglin is an outsider and has no real clout.

Netanyahu's rhetoric is nice but his voting patterns have been a betrayal of our Covenant with Hashem, shows a disregard of the special sanctity the Jewish people have with the Land of Israel and a betrayal to the Jewish Nation. 

This goes way beyond politics.  A vote for Likud is not consistent with a Torah platform.  Only a vote for NU is.

A vote for NU is a vote for what Feiglin really believes in.

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Date: Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 3:48 AM
Subject: Feiglin's Fatal Flaw
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Feiglin's Fatal Flaw

 

Paul Eidelberg

 

Israel National News (INN) asked Moshe Feiglin, leader of the Likud's Jewish Leadership faction, to comment on Benjamin Netanyahu's latest remarks regarding a unity government.  Feiglin said, in part: "Our job is to make sure that within the [Likud] party faction, there are enough nationalist MKs who will prevent Netanyahu from carrying out dangerous moves [like supporting a Palestinian state]."  [The present writer will address this last remark later.]

In contrast, National Union party leader Yaakov "Ketzaleh" Katz said that the way to ensure that the Likud remains "nationalistically-oriented is by voting for a party to the right of it."  Moreover, "If the religious-Zionist voters who are now supporting the Likud would vote for the National Union, then many left-wing Likud candidates will not get into the Knesset - while the National Union could get 10 seats! We must not let Feiglin steal away national-religious votes for people like Dan Meridor … and others." [Katz might have added that Meridor may become Justice Minister if included in a Netanyahu cabinet.  This is tantamount to bringing Aharon Barak into the government!]

 

Now let us consider the central issue of the February 10 election.

 

1)     There is abundant evidence that Netanyahu supports a Palestinian state.  Hence, a vote for the Likud is a vote for an Arab state in Israel's heartland, Judea and Samaria.  The same may be said of Kadima.  But since Kadima's leader Tzipi Livni is to the left of Netanyahu, nationalists will prefer a Likud-led government.

2)     Nevertheless, voters should have certain facts in mind about the Netanyahu-Likud record on the territorial issue, specially the following:

           

a.      During his tenure as Israel's prime minister, Netanyahu failed to abrogate the Oslo or Israel-PLO Agreement even though his own office issued daily reports of the PLO's brazen violations of that agreement.

b.      In the Hebron Memorandum of January 30, 1997, Netanyahu surrendered 80 percent of Hebron to the Palestinian Authority (PA).

c.      In the Wye River Memorandum of October 23, 1998, he agreed, for starters, to surrender approximately 30 percent of Judea and Samaria to the PA.

d.      In 2002, that is, even after the Arafat Terror War broke out in September 2000, Netanyahu and his Likud colleagues (with the exception of Naomi Blumenthal) voted against MK Michael Kleiner's resolution to abrogate Oslo.

e.      As a cabinet minister in the Sharon government, and despite the warnings of Israel's highest defense and intelligence officials, Netanyahu voted for unilateral disengagement from Gaza (which, by the way, doesn't prevent him from boasting now and everywhere that he anticipated the dire consequences of that retreat).

f.        Of the Likud's 40 Knesset Members (two were former Israel B'Aliya MKs that joined the Likud), 23 voted for unilateral disengagement on October 26, 2005. 

           

3) In the January 2003 election, the Likud won by 38 seats to Labor's 19. This large plurality enabled PM Sharon to appoint more Likud MKs to his cabinet vis-à-vis MKs from parties to his right on the Palestinian state issue—parties such as National Union.

 

4) A comparable situation will occur in the February 2009 election.  Accordingly, voters who support Feiglin should think strategically: "Although Feiglin urges us to vote Likud, we don't want the Likud to win too large a Knesset plurality—as happened in the 2003 election—because that will allow Netanyahu to stack his cabinet with more Likud MKs vis-à-vis MKs from parties to his right."  

 

5) Therefore, if these "Feiglinites" vote for a party to the right of the Likud—say National Union—they would increase the number of Knesset seats won by that party.  Netanyahu may then have to include MKs from that party in a unity government.  The cabinet would then include NU opponents of a Palestinian state, bolstering "mavericks" from Netanyahu's own party.

 

6) Of course, given a unity government, Netanyahu could appoint enough Kadima (as well as Labor) MKs to his cabinet, to the possible exclusion of National Union.   However, this will depend on the number seats won by these and other parties—and this is speculative.  Besides, I have not forgotten Israeli Beiteinu, which may become the third largest party and complicate Netanyahu's ability to form a unity government supportive of a Palestinian state.

 

7) Speculation aside, there is a fatal flaw in Feiglin's position.  He claims that with more people voting Likud, the Likud will have more MKs opposed to a Palestinian state.  Perhaps, but this overlooks the fact that it will not be new Likud MKs supportive of Feiglin so much as incumbent Likud MKs that Netanyahu will appoint to his cabinet, and their track record on a Palestinian state is not encouraging.  Indeed, by luring more people to vote Likud, Feiglin will enable Netanyahu to appoint more Likud incumbents to the cabinet, hence more MKs who, like Meridor, do not oppose a Palestinian state.

 

This suggests that Feiglin's flaw may be nothing more than a case of tendentiousness, not to say self-promotion.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fwd: A Likud Profile.doc - More Likud Bashing. I wish it wasn't true

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Date: Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 3:29 AM
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A Likud Profile

 

Paul Eidelberg

 

 

The Likud has been consistent in one thing only:  the betrayal of its professed Zionist or nationalist principles.

 

● Thus Begin, who yielded the Sinai and evacuated Yamit.

 

● Thus Shamir, whose "peace plan" led to the recognition of the PLO at Madrid. 

 

● Thus Netanyahu, who withdrew from Hebron and prepared the ground for a Palestinian state at Wye.

 

● Thus Sharon, who adopted Labor's policy of "unilateral disengagement" from Gaza. 

 

● Thus Olmert (of the Likud's offspring Kadima), who would withdraw from Judea and Samaria. 

 

            ● And once again Netanyahu, who will complete this record of perfidy should he form, as he promises, a national unity government with Labor and Kadima after the February 10, 2009 election.

The Likud Party has never possessed the will or the courage to rule in accordance with its professed principles.  I once called the Likud "the right wing of the Labor Party."  Netanyahu made this crystal clear when he said he would exclude rightwing parties should he form the next government.   What right-wing parties?  Clearly, parties opposed to a Palestinian state such as National Union.

 

Actually, Netanyahu has long misled the public about the true character of the Likud.  This he has been able to do because of Israel's system of multi-party cabinet government.  This grotesque system has allowed the Likud to pose as a rightwing party, when, in reality, it is a left-leaning party that has lured right-wingers to its cause, and that cause is nothing less than the burial of Zionism.

 

It is in this light that we should ponder Netanyahu's recruiting  Benny Begin and General Moshe Ya'alon into his party along with Dan Meridor—Meridor, who, if appointed Justice Minister, as rumored, will inject the leftwing ideology of Judge Aharon Barak into the next government.

 

Does any informed person need to be shown that Judge Barak was the foremost enemy of Zionism on the Supreme Court?

 

Suffice to say it was as President of the Supreme Court that Judge Barak ruled that Judea, Samaria, and Gaza constitute "belligerent occupied territory," a ruling that sanctioned the anti-Zionist policy of Likud chairman Ariel Sharon.  This perfidious ruling can be expected to govern Benjamin Netanyahu should he become Israel's next Prime Minister.

 

 

 

Fwd: הסיפור שלנו Our Story - Powerpoint Presentation to promote Yesha and Eli Hertz Who is Humiliating Whom www.mythsandfacts.org ו

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This will be posted on www.shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Pesach <pashra@netvision.net.il>
Date: 2009/1/28
Subject: הסיפור שלנו
To: Pesach <pashra@netvision.net.il>

Please open attached power point presentation in Hebrew from the Yesha Council and their New Land of Israel Campaign!

Check out http://www.jstory.co.il/

New Land of Israel Campaign Earns Praise

Also read this never thought about answer to those that feel sorry for the Palestinians humiliation and harassment at checkpoints.  We have been made to feel so guilty, that Condeleeza Rice succeeded in getting the government of Israel to close many checkpoints in Judea and Samaria in order to enhance freedom of movement for the Palestinians.

Whom is Humiliating Whom by Eli Hertz - a Must Read!


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Eli E. Hertz <today@mythsandfacts.org>
Date: Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 2:08 AM
Subject: "Time Running Out For A Two-State Solution?" - CBS News, January 25, 2009
To: faigerayzel@gmail.com

"Time Running Out For A Two-State Solution?"
CBS News, January 25, 2009

Bob Simon:
"Palestinians ... when they want to travel from one town to another, they have to submit to humiliating delays at checkpoints and roadblocks. There are more than 600 of them on the West Bank."

Bob: Who is Humiliating Whom?

January 27, 2009 | Eli E. Hertz

Bob, you say Palestinian Arabs feel humiliated and harassed when Israeli authorities search them and their belongings; when they are prevented from traveling freely because of checkpoints, roadblocks, closures and curfews. You say they feel "corralled."

Bob, in Israel, every Israeli is searched numerous times during the course of a single day. Israelis are asked to open their bags and purses for inspection. In most cases, they are subjected to body searches with a metal detector every time they enter a bank or a post office, pick up a bottle of milk at the supermarket, enter a mall or train station, or visit a hospital or medical clinic. Young Israeli men and women are physically frisked in search of suicide belts before they enter crowded nightclubs.

As a matter of routine, Israelis' car trunks are searched every time they enter a well-trafficked parking lot. Daily, their cars pass through roadblocks that cause massive traffic jams when security forces are in hot pursuit of suicide bombers believed to have entered Israel.

Israelis are searched not only when they go out for a cup of coffee or a slice of pizza, but also when they go to the movies or a concert, where the term "dressed to kill" has an entirely different meaning.

These ordinary daily humiliations now extend to similar searches when Israelis go to weddings or Bar Mitzvahs. No one abroad talks about the humiliation Jews in Israel are subjected to, having to write at the bottom of wedding invitations and other life cycle events, "The site will be secured [by armed guards]" - to ensure relatives and friends will attend and share their joyous occasion.

One out of four Israeli children, ages 11 to 15, fear for their lives. One out of three report they fear for the lives of their family members, and more than a third report they have changed their patterns of travel and social lives due to security concerns.

Bob, these ubiquitous security checks do not exist in Arab cities and towns in Israel (or, for that matter, in Judea and Samaria) because those places are not and never have been targets of Palestinian terrorism. In fact, the average Israeli is "humiliated and harassed" by being searched far more times a day than the average Palestinian. Not one human rights group, nor you, has so much as noted this massive intrusion into the rights of privacy and person imposed on Israelis.

To date, no one protests the fact that, since the 1970s, Jewish schoolchildren in Israel are surrounded by perimeter fences, with armed guards at the schoolyard gates, as if their schools were the domiciles of Mafiosi.

Not one Arab village in Israel or the Territories has a perimeter fence around it. Guards are not required at Arabic shops, cafes, restaurants, movie theaters, wedding halls or schools - either in Israel or in the Territories. Palestinians also do not need armed guards to accompany every school trip, youth movement hike or campout. They are not targets of terrorism.

Countless Israelis in sensitive areas within the Green Line - not only in the Territories, but also in Jewish towns, villages and bedroom suburbs - are "ghettoized" behind high fences.

Many Israeli motorists avoid major arteries that pass through Arab areas of Israel, while Arab citizens and Palestinians from the Territories continue to enter Jewish cities and go about their business without peril. Israelis are told, in effect, to disguise themselves when traveling abroad - not to speak Hebrew in public and not to wear garments that reveal their Jewish-Israeli origins. Even Israel's national airline - El Al - has been forced to remove its logo from the tails of its aircraft at certain airports, out of concern for the safety of its passengers. This followed several attempts to down Israeli civilian aircraft with missiles. On the other hand, Arabs who frequent Jewish cities and towns in Israel wear their traditional Arab headgear without fear of being attacked or harassed.

Bob, all this begs the question: Who are the victims and who are the victimizers? Who are the ones being harassed and humiliated? Palestinian Arabs or Israelis?

www.mythsandfacts.org

Fwd: הסיפור שלנו Our Story - Powerpoint Presentation to promote Yesha and Eli Hertz Who is Humiliating Whom www.mythsandfacts.org ו

bs"d

This will be posted on www.shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Pesach <pashra@netvision.net.il>
Date: 2009/1/28
Subject: הסיפור שלנו
To: Pesach <pashra@netvision.net.il>


Attachment to this email is a great powerpoint presentation in Hebrew from the Yesha Council and their New Land of Israel Campaign!

Check out http://www.jstory.co.il/

New Land of Israel Campaign Earns Praise

Also read this never thought about answer to those that feel sorry for the Palestinians humiliation and harassment at checkpoints.  We have been made to feel so guilty, that Condeleeza Rice succeeded in getting the government of Israel to close many checkpoints in Judea and Samaria in order to enhance freedom of movement for the Palestinians.

Whom is Humiliating Whom by Eli Hertz - a Must Read!


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Eli E. Hertz <today@mythsandfacts.org>
Date: Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 2:08 AM
Subject: "Time Running Out For A Two-State Solution?" - CBS News, January 25, 2009
To: faigerayzel@gmail.com

"Time Running Out For A Two-State Solution?"
CBS News, January 25, 2009

Bob Simon:
"Palestinians ... when they want to travel from one town to another, they have to submit to humiliating delays at checkpoints and roadblocks. There are more than 600 of them on the West Bank."

Bob: Who is Humiliating Whom?

January 27, 2009 | Eli E. Hertz

Bob, you say Palestinian Arabs feel humiliated and harassed when Israeli authorities search them and their belongings; when they are prevented from traveling freely because of checkpoints, roadblocks, closures and curfews. You say they feel "corralled."

Bob, in Israel, every Israeli is searched numerous times during the course of a single day. Israelis are asked to open their bags and purses for inspection. In most cases, they are subjected to body searches with a metal detector every time they enter a bank or a post office, pick up a bottle of milk at the supermarket, enter a mall or train station, or visit a hospital or medical clinic. Young Israeli men and women are physically frisked in search of suicide belts before they enter crowded nightclubs.

As a matter of routine, Israelis' car trunks are searched every time they enter a well-trafficked parking lot. Daily, their cars pass through roadblocks that cause massive traffic jams when security forces are in hot pursuit of suicide bombers believed to have entered Israel.

Israelis are searched not only when they go out for a cup of coffee or a slice of pizza, but also when they go to the movies or a concert, where the term "dressed to kill" has an entirely different meaning.

These ordinary daily humiliations now extend to similar searches when Israelis go to weddings or Bar Mitzvahs. No one abroad talks about the humiliation Jews in Israel are subjected to, having to write at the bottom of wedding invitations and other life cycle events, "The site will be secured [by armed guards]" - to ensure relatives and friends will attend and share their joyous occasion.

One out of four Israeli children, ages 11 to 15, fear for their lives. One out of three report they fear for the lives of their family members, and more than a third report they have changed their patterns of travel and social lives due to security concerns.

Bob, these ubiquitous security checks do not exist in Arab cities and towns in Israel (or, for that matter, in Judea and Samaria) because those places are not and never have been targets of Palestinian terrorism. In fact, the average Israeli is "humiliated and harassed" by being searched far more times a day than the average Palestinian. Not one human rights group, nor you, has so much as noted this massive intrusion into the rights of privacy and person imposed on Israelis.

To date, no one protests the fact that, since the 1970s, Jewish schoolchildren in Israel are surrounded by perimeter fences, with armed guards at the schoolyard gates, as if their schools were the domiciles of Mafiosi.

Not one Arab village in Israel or the Territories has a perimeter fence around it. Guards are not required at Arabic shops, cafes, restaurants, movie theaters, wedding halls or schools - either in Israel or in the Territories. Palestinians also do not need armed guards to accompany every school trip, youth movement hike or campout. They are not targets of terrorism.

Countless Israelis in sensitive areas within the Green Line - not only in the Territories, but also in Jewish towns, villages and bedroom suburbs - are "ghettoized" behind high fences.

Many Israeli motorists avoid major arteries that pass through Arab areas of Israel, while Arab citizens and Palestinians from the Territories continue to enter Jewish cities and go about their business without peril. Israelis are told, in effect, to disguise themselves when traveling abroad - not to speak Hebrew in public and not to wear garments that reveal their Jewish-Israeli origins. Even Israel's national airline - El Al - has been forced to remove its logo from the tails of its aircraft at certain airports, out of concern for the safety of its passengers. This followed several attempts to down Israeli civilian aircraft with missiles. On the other hand, Arabs who frequent Jewish cities and towns in Israel wear their traditional Arab headgear without fear of being attacked or harassed.

Bob, all this begs the question: Who are the victims and who are the victimizers? Who are the ones being harassed and humiliated? Palestinian Arabs or Israelis?

www.mythsandfacts.org

Please forward to the Moetzes Gedolei Hatorah. Why the 3 Oaths no longer apply. comments from Chaya Witkin and others

bs"d

Shalom Robin,

I just clicked into your blog and started reading it.

You wrote (in the article Clarification for Congressmen: Israel Wants a Palestinian State but do the Jews or do Bible believers? Mishpacha Magazine "Dear Mr. President" by Rabbi Moshe Grylak Editor in Chief):  "those antizionists that justify their existence based on the 3 oaths actually themselves go against the 3 oaths."

 

It isn't clear if you mean the "3 oaths" that are upon the world: 

   - one is that Am Yisrael shouldn't rebel against the nations of the world,

   - another is that Am Yisrael shouldn't go back to Eretz Yisrael and raise a state "b'choma (as a wall e.g. with force)",

  - and the third - that the goyim shouldn't oppress us "too much".

 

The Shoah is considered by many Gedolei hador to have been "too much".  Being so, the 3 OATHS HAVE BEEN BROKEN BY THE GOYIM, SO AM YISRAEL CAN GO BACK TO ERETZ YISRAEL "B'KOACH (with force)" BECAUSE the Oaths HAVE BEEN BROKEN ALREADY.  The Oaths do NOT exist anymore.

 

In short, the 3 oaths no longer apply because the GOYIM broke the Agreement of the 3 Oaths, so that these Oaths haven't applied for over 60 years since the Shoah.  All this is agreed to also by Rav Meir Kahane, and can be read in great detail in his book "Ohr HaRayon" (in Hebrew - Chapter 26 "Shilosha Hashavuot")

Dear Chaya, amv"sh

Excellent!  Please let me expand on what you wrote addressing oaths one and two and to elaborate on oath three: The points raised in this shemittahrediscovered post 
are further proofs that the 3 oaths do no apply in delegitimatizing the State of Israel.  Here are some points that I believe were sent to me by Joe Gemeiner,Toronto.

* As clear as the sun shines in the morning, Israel from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River was given to the Jewish people world wide in 3 legally- binding international treaties - the 1920 San Remo Conference treaty, the  Mandate for Palestine1922,  and The British American covenant regarding Palestine 1924 -  all of which stated unambiguously that Palestine would be reconstituted as a "National homeland for the Jewish people worldwide" based on the recognition of the " Jewish historical ties to that land." Even for the ethically deaf and blind world it's a pretty simple mission to understand.

Fwd: Feiglin's Fatal Flaw

bs"d

Dear List, amv"sh

Paul Eidelberg brings some very strong points objecting to Feiglin being part of the Likud party. I too have the premonition that voting for Feiglin or Shas (they too wish to join with Likud) under Likud is a vote for Netanyahu and Netanyahu's politics.  This mean a willingness to negotiate and establish a Palestinian State.  A vote for Feiglin is a vote for Netanyahu and is no way a vote for Feiglin. It seems to me that in the Likud party, Feiglin is an outsider and has no real clout.

Netanyahu's rhetoric is nice but his voting patterns have been a betrayal of our Covenant with Hashem, shows a disregard of the special sanctity the Jewish people have with the Land of Israel and a betrayal to the Jewish Nation. 

This goes way beyond politics.  A vote for Likud is not consistent with a Torah platform.  Only a vote for NU is.

A vote for NU is a vote for what Feiglin really believes in.

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From: <eidelberg@foundation1.org>
Date: Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 3:48 AM
Subject: Feiglin's Fatal Flaw
To: list@foundation1.org

Feiglin's Fatal Flaw

 

Paul Eidelberg

 

Israel National News (INN) asked Moshe Feiglin, leader of the Likud's Jewish Leadership faction, to comment on Benjamin Netanyahu's latest remarks regarding a unity government.  Feiglin said, in part: "Our job is to make sure that within the [Likud] party faction, there are enough nationalist MKs who will prevent Netanyahu from carrying out dangerous moves [like supporting a Palestinian state]."  [The present writer will address this last remark later.]

In contrast, National Union party leader Yaakov "Ketzaleh" Katz said that the way to ensure that the Likud remains "nationalistically-oriented is by voting for a party to the right of it."  Moreover, "If the religious-Zionist voters who are now supporting the Likud would vote for the National Union, then many left-wing Likud candidates will not get into the Knesset - while the National Union could get 10 seats! We must not let Feiglin steal away national-religious votes for people like Dan Meridor … and others." [Katz might have added that Meridor may become Justice Minister if included in a Netanyahu cabinet.  This is tantamount to bringing Aharon Barak into the government!]

 

Now let us consider the central issue of the February 10 election.

 

1)     There is abundant evidence that Netanyahu supports a Palestinian state.  Hence, a vote for the Likud is a vote for an Arab state in Israel's heartland, Judea and Samaria.  The same may be said of Kadima.  But since Kadima's leader Tzipi Livni is to the left of Netanyahu, nationalists will prefer a Likud-led government.

2)     Nevertheless, voters should have certain facts in mind about the Netanyahu-Likud record on the territorial issue, specially the following:

           

a.      During his tenure as Israel's prime minister, Netanyahu failed to abrogate the Oslo or Israel-PLO Agreement even though his own office issued daily reports of the PLO's brazen violations of that agreement.

b.      In the Hebron Memorandum of January 30, 1997, Netanyahu surrendered 80 percent of Hebron to the Palestinian Authority (PA).

c.      In the Wye River Memorandum of October 23, 1998, he agreed, for starters, to surrender approximately 30 percent of Judea and Samaria to the PA.

d.      In 2002, that is, even after the Arafat Terror War broke out in September 2000, Netanyahu and his Likud colleagues (with the exception of Naomi Blumenthal) voted against MK Michael Kleiner's resolution to abrogate Oslo.

e.      As a cabinet minister in the Sharon government, and despite the warnings of Israel's highest defense and intelligence officials, Netanyahu voted for unilateral disengagement from Gaza (which, by the way, doesn't prevent him from boasting now and everywhere that he anticipated the dire consequences of that retreat).

f.        Of the Likud's 40 Knesset Members (two were former Israel B'Aliya MKs that joined the Likud), 23 voted for unilateral disengagement on October 26, 2005. 

           

3) In the January 2003 election, the Likud won by 38 seats to Labor's 19. This large plurality enabled PM Sharon to appoint more Likud MKs to his cabinet vis-à-vis MKs from parties to his right on the Palestinian state issue—parties such as National Union.

 

4) A comparable situation will occur in the February 2009 election.  Accordingly, voters who support Feiglin should think strategically: "Although Feiglin urges us to vote Likud, we don't want the Likud to win too large a Knesset plurality—as happened in the 2003 election—because that will allow Netanyahu to stack his cabinet with more Likud MKs vis-à-vis MKs from parties to his right."  

 

5) Therefore, if these "Feiglinites" vote for a party to the right of the Likud—say National Union—they would increase the number of Knesset seats won by that party.  Netanyahu may then have to include MKs from that party in a unity government.  The cabinet would then include NU opponents of a Palestinian state, bolstering "mavericks" from Netanyahu's own party.

 

6) Of course, given a unity government, Netanyahu could appoint enough Kadima (as well as Labor) MKs to his cabinet, to the possible exclusion of National Union.   However, this will depend on the number seats won by these and other parties—and this is speculative.  Besides, I have not forgotten Israeli Beiteinu, which may become the third largest party and complicate Netanyahu's ability to form a unity government supportive of a Palestinian state.

 

7) Speculation aside, there is a fatal flaw in Feiglin's position.  He claims that with more people voting Likud, the Likud will have more MKs opposed to a Palestinian state.  Perhaps, but this overlooks the fact that it will not be new Likud MKs supportive of Feiglin so much as incumbent Likud MKs that Netanyahu will appoint to his cabinet, and their track record on a Palestinian state is not encouraging.  Indeed, by luring more people to vote Likud, Feiglin will enable Netanyahu to appoint more Likud incumbents to the cabinet, hence more MKs who, like Meridor, do not oppose a Palestinian state.

 

This suggests that Feiglin's flaw may be nothing more than a case of tendentiousness, not to say self-promotion.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fwd: Petition against missionizing Jews

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From: Yeshayahu Hollander <yeshol@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 3:57 PM
Subject: Petition against missionizing Jews

Shalom Friends,

Please sign a new petition to strengthen the Israeli Law against attempts to convert Jews to Xtianity.

The first Item - whch must be filled in - is the signers full name,

the second may be skipped,

the third - must be filled in - is the city of residence of the signer,

the fourth may be skipped,

and to sign one clicks on the red stamp

 

There are said to be over 100 Xtian groups in Israel, the great majority of which engage in attempts at missionizing.

 

Please forward this to your mailingl list!

 

Yeshayahu Hollander

The link to the petition is:
http://www.atzuma.co.il/petition/meiryad/1

Rabbi Grylak's letter to the President

POINT OF VIEW - Rabbi Moshe Grylak Mishpacha Issue 243
15 Teves  5769
January 21, 2009

Through an impressive, wide-reaching propaganda campaign, they have succeeded in implanting in the minds of many people around the world the false idea that this land was inhabited for generations by a Palestinian nation, and that one day a band of unidentified refugees from Europe came along and expelled this nation from its ancestral land

Dear Mr. President,

I would like to begin by congratulating you on your entry into America's highest office. On this great day in your life, you have become not only the president of the greatest of the world powers, the blessed United States of America, but also the leader of the entire free world. This places tremendous responsibility on your shoulders, a fact of which you are surely aware. And I, a simple Jew from Eretz Yisrael, extend my blessing that the Almighty King of the Universe should help protect you from pride and despair, grant you the wisdom to do what is correct and just, and make you an instrument for carrying out His Will —just as you expressed it in the beautiful, wise words you wrote in the note you hid between the stones of the Western Wall on your visit to Jerusalem.

As you enter your position, I would like to draw your attention to an important truth that apparently, with all due respect, you are not aware of. About a week ago, you made an announcement to the world that I would like to discuss — with your permission, of course. You announced, Mr. President, that you will start working to make peace in the Middle East immediately upon beginning your term as president In your opinion, every president of the United States for the past thirty years has failed at this important task for the simple reason that he neglected the Israel-Arab problem in the early days of his presidency. To your way of thinking, all his beautiful plans were dashed upon the rocks of the absurd reality that prevails in the Middle East, merely because there wasn't enough time to implement them. And you have informed the whole world that this is one of the important tasks you intend to deal with right away.

With all due appreciation for your desire to establish absolute peace between the Arabs and us, I am sorry to say you are bound to fail at this task, just like all your predecessors. Therefore it would be better not even to bother with absolute peace, but rather to put all your efforts into lowering the flames of conflict between us and our bitter enemies via interim arrangements, ceasefire agreements, cooling-off periods, and the like. Not absolute peace — that you'll never achieve. I'm no maven in global politics. I don't have your enormous negotiating talents.  But I do have a deep understanding of our lot here in Eretz Yisrael and an awareness of the  far-reaching roots of this unresolved conflict. And on that basis I can assure you that the peace we all hope for does not depend on any political process whatsoever. Nor does it depend on your sincere determination to do your utmost to achieve this important goal.

Allow me to enumerate my reasons for this categorical statement. First of all, the Arab agenda today is to promote the notion that the "Palestinians" are the ones who were ejected from their homeland. They have rewritten the history of this land in the most astounding way. Through an impressive, wide-reaching propaganda campaign, they have succeeded in implanting in the minds of many people around the world the false idea that this land was inhabited for generations by a Palestinian nation, and that one day a band of unidentified refugees from Europe came along and expelled this nation from its ancestral land.

A year ago, I took part in a conference between a group of Israelis and two Arab-Israeli professors with moderate political views. I asked these professors, "Are you familiar with Jewish history?" and they replied that they had no interest in that topic, because it had nothing to do with our bone of contention, which was this land. Perhaps, they said, there were a few shards of some old synagogue lying about somewhere in the country, but nothing more. This land had always belonged to them, they claimed, and we'd invaded it, just like the Crusaders of medieval times. And these two fellows belong to the "moderate" sector of Israel's Arab population.

And so, Mr. President, as long as the Arabs cling to this version of the "truth," they will never compromise and give up their great dream of casting us into the sea, or giving us all to the US as a present. They may retreat tactically for a little while, knowing our military power, but the whole time they'll be waiting to realize their aspirations. And, Mr. President, there is no difference between moderates and zealots other than in the tactics they use to achieve their desired goal of destroying us, G-d forbid.

Since their propaganda is so effective, and so many people are convinced that it is just as they say — that the State of Israel was born in sin — it is only right that you,as president of a country where the Bible is the Book of Books, should refresh your biblical knowledge a bit and familiarize yourself with the historical facts before you sit down to deal with this painful and convoluted subject. The facts are that the "Palestinian nation" is a fiction, a Muslim fiction whose one and only purpose is the conquest of Eretz Yisrael. Mr. President, when  the Palestinian delegates come to the Oval Office, please ask them first off, "What is the origin of your people's name?" The historical fact they would like to conceal is that when the Romans conquered Eretz Yisrael, as part of their act of conquest they gave the land a new name, Provincia Palestina, after the Philistines who lived in the cities along Israel's southern coast. They were a red-haired tribe who came to Eretz Yisrael from Europe and disappeared from the region about 1,600 years before the birth of Mohammed. There is no connection between the Arabs, who originated in the Arabian Peninsula, and the Philistines — no genetic connection, nor a religious one, nor a cultural, historic, or geographical connection. What we have here is Arabs, not Philistines. The Romans might just as well have dubbed this land Provincia Hollandia. Would that turn the Arabs living in this land into Dutchmen?

Before beginning any negotiations, Mr. President, please ask your Palestinian visitors to present some historical documentation — a historical map, or the testimony of an academically recognized historian who will show you where the State of Palestine was located and indicate when in human history this state existed, or when there was ever a country called Palestine. When in human history has there been a "nation" called the Palestinian people? Ask them, please: Who are you? Where do you come from? What is your connection to the land of Israel? Even the Koran refers to this country as the "land of Israel"! There is British documentation from the Mandate period, Turkish documentation from the Ottoman period, documentation from every occupation of Eretz Yisrael, and in none of these historical records is there any mention of a Palestinian people or a Palestinian state.

Mr. President, I could give you a long list of questions that ought to be posed to Mr. Abbas or whoever the delegates might be who come before you. But I must be brief. At any rate, I would suggest that before any negotiations regarding the "legitimate rights" of the Palestinian entity, you at least read a book by Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain. In his travel journal, Innocents Abroad, he devotes many chapters to his tour of the Holy Land in 1867. He says not a word about any Palestinians dwelling in flourishing towns or villages. No. He saw nothing but a wasteland, a place of swamps, cholera, malaria, and barren deserts. "We did not see a soul during the entire journey," Twain writes. "Everywhere we went there was no tree or shrub." I would also recommend From Time Immemorial by Joan Peters, in particular the chapter that discusses the Palestinian fiction and its inventors. Ask your "Palestinian" guests about it.

This doesn't mean we have no obligation to allow the masses of Arabs residing in Eretz Yisrael to live respectably. But as long as we're sitting down to talk with them about "legitimate rights" to the land itself, there can be no peace, and no amount of political talent will change that.

However, Mr. President, there is a deeper truth, a more fundamental reason peace will not come to this land through human efforts: The fight over this land is not a struggle for rights on the political or military plane. Perhaps some sort of solution may be found on this plane. But you must understand that what is unfolding in this country is not a war between Israelis and Palestinians, but the continuation of the ancient struggle between Yitzchak and Yishmael. Palestinians and Israelis are merely the facade of something truer and deeper. It is a war that neither you nor anyone else can settle. It is a spiritual, mystical war that depends upon the Redemption of Israel, and through it the Redemption of all humanity. Maybe one of your Jewish advisers has access to the source material and can provide you with the data on this subject: its essence, how it will end, and what can be done to end it.

I will end as I began, with my best wishes that you merit the blessing of the Master of the Universe in themomentous task that Providence has placed on your shoulders.


FOOD FOR THOUGHT

Without
HaKadosh Baruch
Hu, one can't
even cross the
threshold of one's
house.
With Him, one
can split the sea
(Rabbi Mordechai
Melchovitz)

Jonathan Pollard - Have every stone really been left unturned?

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 I strongly disagree that Pollards team left every stone unturned.

The Pollard campaign have consistently and stubbornly refused to speak out for our entitlement of all of Eretz Yisroel and against a Palestinian State and neither have they expressed strong disapproval of American and Israeli financial (USAID) and political support for "moderate" Fatah whose ideology is not that different than Hamas.

I would not put the total blame on a political leader in Israel such as Livni who failed to ask Bush for clemency.   There is a reason she and her fellow politicians didn't speak out.  They don't want to admit that their current policies in promoting a Palestinian State is supporting terror threatening Israel just like it did in the past when Jonathan Pollard attempted single handedly to do something about it.

The problem goes much deeper than simplyLivni's betrayal of Jonathan Pollard.  It is about American Foreign Policy who is in cahoots with the Government of Israel in betraying the Nation of Israel by their willingness to give away our birthright thereby endangering Israel, and the entire world.

This in my opinion is what is keeping Jonathan Pollard in Jail.

When Pollard will defend his decision to transfer intelligence that was rightfully due Israel and necessary to protect Israel from a terrorist regime, then perhaps G-d will perform miracles on his behalf.

Apologies on the part of Pollard are said in return for the hope of freedom but is it truly heartfelt or morally justified?

Yes, sometimes it appears that the truth seems to make matters worse.  Moshe Rabbeinu asked G-d "Lama Haraeosa?"  Why did you make things worse for the Jews when I approached Pharoh?  Pharoh after all intensified the suffering of the Jews.

Yet, G-d replies, Just witness the great miracles of redemption that is about to happen!

Saturday, January 03, 2009 Shemittah Rediscovered

Jonathan Pollard - Why isn't America expressing remorse?

22 January 2009  J4JPnew January 21, 2009

Why was the Pollard clemency bid dismissed?

Clarification for Congressmen: Israel Wants a Palestinian State but do the Jews or do Bible believers? Mishpacha Magazine "Dear Mr. President" by Rabbi Moshe Grylak Editor in Chief

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Dear David Bedein and Rabbi Stein, amv"sh

This is in response to Rabbi Stein's question "Which Congressmen are against a 2 State Solution" and David Bedein's  response that AIPAC has instructed all Congressmen that Israel wants a 2 State Solution thereby confusing them.

My comments are as follows:

AIPAC does not represent authentic Judaism. That is why it has become so imperative of the major Orthodox Jewish organizations with offices in Washington such as Agudath Yisroel, Young Israel, OU and Chabad International to make matters clear with a statement that the majority of  Torah Believing Jews are against a Palestinian State and that Fatah and Hamas  have the same goals.   Fatah wishes to achieve it's goal of Israel's destruction via diplomacy and Hamas is upfront.

I was pleasantly surprised to read a letter to the newly elect President Obama  by Rabbi Moshe Grylak, Editor in Chief of Mishpacha Magazine, that clarifies the authentic Jewish position that Eretz Yisroel is our land and any claim by the Palestinians to the Land of Israel is fiction.  If you can, please read the whole article. Rabbi Grylak wrote on Page 10-11 Issue 243

"...And Mr. President, there is no difference between moderates and zealots other than in the tactics they use to achieve their desired goal of destroying us, G-d forbid.

Since their propaganda is so effective, and so many people are convinced that it is just as they say - that the State of Israel was born in sin -- it is only right that you as president of a country where the Bible is the Book of Books, should refresh your biblical knowledge a bit and familiarize yourself with the historical facts before you sit down to deal with this painful and convoluted subject..."

I was pleasantly surprised  to read this in Mishpacha this past week since up to this point Rabbi Grylak will only speak out according to Daas Torah.  When the Gedoilim have been silent in speaking out against the Disengagement, Rabbi Grylak has staunchly defended them saying that the Gedoilim see a greater picture and it is not up to us layman to question their Silence.

Apparently, the Gedoilim BaTorah must be speaking out more forcefully and perhaps this is an opportune time for the Moetzes Gedolei Hatorah to come out with a clear statement to correct the misconception portrayed by AIPAC that Jews are for a Palestinian State.  This statement can be followed up with a strong campaign of hundreds of thousands of caring Jews to express our yearning and desire of our birthright, the Land of Israel and the precepts and laws that are associated with the Land of Israel.

Judiasm and Zionism is synonomous even for Satmar Chassidim. Antizionism is a rejection of Judaism.  Satmar Chassidim, especially those living in the Land of Israel happen to be the strongest and staunchest supporters of Zionism in the truest sense of the word. One merely has to visit a typical class play in Satmar Bnos Yerushalyim and hear the love and devotion that these girls have for Yerushalyim Ir Hakodesh and Eretz Yisroel, Eretz HaKodesh.   Tzion is Yerushalayim and the Resting Place of Hakadosh Baruch Hu on Har Habayit.

Any antizionist activities on the part of Satmar Chassidim have more to do with commercial and political considerations rather than on the teachings of the Satmar Rebbe tz"l.  Given the reality of today, those antizionists that justify their existence based on the 3 oaths actually themselves go against the 3 oaths.

The Government of Israel does not represent Judaism or the Torah!

Congressmen have to answer to their constituencies.  If they are made aware that the Government of Israel misrepresents not only Torah Believing Jews but also millions of American citizens that makeup the Bible Belt then hopefully they will be able to distinquish between being loyal to the Government of Israel that takes its position based on American Foreign Policy and American interests rather than on Israel's own best interests.

2009/1/24 Israel Resource News Agency <media@actcom.co.il>

Nothing is clear right now.

 

AIPAC, which represents the State of Israel on the Hill, has instructed all congressman that Israel wants a Palestinian state. Even those who oppose it are now confused as to what to say in public on the matter.

 

DSBedein

This is posted on shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com
 

Apologize says ZOA: Israeli & US Supporters of 2005 Gaza Withdrawal Should Apologize to Israeli Public, World Jewry, Gaza Jew

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The Teshuva Process includes 1. Vidui which means admitting ones mistake, 2. Charata  - regretting ones mistakes 3. Kabbala Al HeAtid - resolve not to repeat the mistake.

Included in those that should apologize are the major mainstream Jewish organizations that were quiet and failed and continue to fail to mobilize hundreds of thousands of Jews to SPEAK OUT against the Disengagement and for our entitlement of Eretz Yisroel and against a 2 State Solution.  This includes the Moetzet Gedolei Hatorah in Eretz Yisroel, Agudath Yisroel of America, OU, theYoung Israel and Chabad International. 

Judea and Samaria are the next KorbanChas Veshalom unless these major Jewish Organizations wake up and make a statement that admits their mistake and apologizes and resolves not to repeat the mistakes that led to this War in Gaza and then proceeds to mobilize the Nation of Israel to SPEAK OUT for our entitlement and against giving away our birthright!

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From: Sara Lehmann <saralehmann21@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:00 PM
Subject: Fw: ZOA: Israeli & US Supporters of 2005 Gaza Withdrawal Should Apologize to Israeli Public, World Jewry, Gaza Jew

--- On Tue, 1/20/09, Judy Shapiro <jrsalem36@hotmail.com> wrote: From: Judy Shapiro <jrsalem36@hotmail.com> Subject: Fw: ZOA: Israeli & US Supporters of 2005 Gaza Withdrawal Should Apologize to Israeli Public, World Jewry, Gaza Jews To: saralehmann21@yahoo.com Cc: chai126@aol.com Date: Tuesday, January 20, 2009, 9:02 PM I could add some local Jews who should also participate in the "apologies." to Israel, world Jewry and Gaza Jews. From: ZOA Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 2:05 PM To: ZOA Subject: ZOA: Israeli & US Supporters of 2005 Gaza Withdrawal Should Apologize to Israeli Public, World Jewry, Gaza Jews  NEWS RELEASE Zionist Organization of America Jacob & Libby Goodman ZOA House, 4 East 34th Street , New York , N.Y. 10016 (212) 481-1500     Fax: (212) 481-1515    email @ zoa.org      www . zoa . org   You are receiving this email from an opt-in mailing list. To remove yourself from this list, send a request to email@zoa.org      January 20, 2009 Contact Morton A. Klein at: 917-974-8795 or 212-481-1500 Attn:  NEWS EDITOR     Major Israeli journalist (Haaretz) also demands apology   ZOA: ISRAELI & U.S. SUPPORTERS OF 2005 GAZA WITHDRAWAL SHOULD AP OLOGIZE TO ISRAELI PUBLIC, WORLD JEWRY & GAZA JEWS   The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has called upon Members of the Knesset (MKs) and other Israeli officials, journalists and Jewish leaders who gave their support to the 2005 Gaza/northern Samaria unilateral withdrawal to apologize to the Israeli electorate, which had voted overwhelmingly against that proposal in the January 2003 elections (when then-Labor leader, Amram Mitzna, lost decisively to Likud after campaigning strongly on a platform of unilateral withdrawal), as well as to the Jewish people and the uprooted Jews of Gaza and northern Samaria, whose lives have been turned upside down. Since the unilateral retreat from Gaza, the terror groups have enjoyed a massive boost in morale and Palestinian support, Gaza has been given over to terror groups who have smuggled in huge amounts of offensive weaponry and launched thousands of rockets upon Israel, while Al Qaeda affiliates have established themselves in the territory which Hamas seized by force from Mahmoud Abbas' Fateh in 2007. Such an apology should include a public recognition that one-sided concessions and withdrawals to an unreconstructed Palestinian Authority (PA) can only lead to more violence, not peace.   In a meeting with American Jewish leaders at Blair House in Washington D. C., on April 13, 2005, before the implementation of the unilateral withdrawal, then-Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told ZOA's President, Morton Klein , in front of 30 other American Jewish leaders, that the withdrawal would "reduce terror and give Israeli citizens the maximum level of security. It will increase security for the residents of Israel and relieve the pressure on the IDF and security forces." He also said to Klein that once Israel removes the Gaza Jewish communities and leaves Gaza, any military need to intervene in Gaza would be acted upon immediately and with overwhelming force and because of Israel's withdrawal, the whole world would then support anything we need to do. It is now clear that the very opposite has come to pass. Israel waited three years after the Gaza withdrawal and 7,000 missiles later before responding to protect its citizens, and yet the world and the United Nations, for day one, has condemned Israel repeatedly and continuously for her actions and pressured her to stop.    The following is a sampling of comments by Israeli officials who supported unilateral withdrawal, saying it would boost Israeli security and reduce terrorism:   ·         Then-Defense Minister, current Kadima MK Shaul Mofaz: "I anticipate that the level of terrorism will drop after the disengagement and after pragmatic Arab forces take control." (Israel National News , July 2, 2004); "I'm convinced that the process is necessary and correct. It will give more security to the citizens of Israel , and will reduce the burden carried by the security forces. It will extract the situation out of stagnation and will open the door to another reality, which will allow talks towards co-existence. (Speech to the Knesset, October 2004). ·         Current Likud leader, Binyamin Netanyahu: "Let there be no mistake. On the Referendum, I will support the [unilateral withdrawal] plan." (Speech to the Knesset, October 2004). ·         Likud MK Yuval Steinitz: "I think the plan, with these restrictions, is trustworthy. It's not an easy plan, but it has a good chance of improving our geo-strategic situation." (Speech to the Knesset, October 2004). ·         Then Likud MK, now Kadima MK Meir Shitreet: "Some argue that there will be a threat, threat of escaping, threat to the Negev communities. I have never heard such a ridiculous claim. (Speech to the Knesset, October 2004). ·         Labor MK Dani Yatom: "Before the withdrawal from Lebanon , the Intelligence Directorate also threatened us with Katyushas reaching Hadera and we see what actually happened. I estimate, and my estimate is just as valid as those that threaten us with horrors, that after we leave the Gaza Strip, terrorism will decrease, not increase." (Maariv , February 5, 2004). ·         Labor MK Orit Noked: "I want to believe that as a result of the eviction [of Jews] from Gaza , moderate Palestinian factions will grow stronger, terrorism will be reduced." (Speech to the Knesset, October 2004). ·         Labor MK Ofer Pines: "I want to thanks [then-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon for the unilateral withdrawal policy] for he gives me and my wife hope that my son, when recruited, won't have to serve in Gaza Strip." (Speech to the Knesset, October 2004). ·         Meretz MK Ran Cohen: "The Disengagement [sic] is good for security. Right wing representatives spoke of Qassem rockets flying here or there. I'm telling you, if you want to spare both Sderot and Ashkelon, we have to understand that if we won't get out of [the] Gaza Strip, in two-three years, or even a year, the range [of Palestinian rockets] will extend to Ashkelon ." (Speech to the Knesset, October 2004).   Other Likud MKs, including current Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, current foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, Silvan Shalom and Limor Livnat also voted in favor of the unilateral withdrawal policy.   ZOA National President Morton A. Klein said, "These statements which have been proved so disastrously mistaken, should not be forgotten as we contemplate the past three years of rapid security deterioration in the southern part of Israel . Whole cities like Sderot have seen a third of their population move away despairing of their safety and a normal life amid constant rockets, sirens, and life beneath ground in bunkers. Ashkelon with its vital national infrastructures has been struck repeatedly with missiles. Israel 's second largest port, Ashdod , is being hit. A missile has now reached the outskirts of Tel Aviv. About a million Israelis now lives in daily fear and insecurity from the rocket attacks that increased exponentially since the unilateral withdrawal from Gaza, did not end with the so-called ceasefire of last year, and were resumed with renewed intensity prior to Israel's launching of Operation Cast Lead on December 27.   "In these circumstances, it is high time for all MKs, journalists and others, regardless of party affiliation, who supported the process of unilateral withdrawal to apologize to the Israeli electorate. They should explain that they now understand the disastrous consequences of unilateral concessions to an  unreconstructed Palestinian terror regime. They should acknowledge and apologize for the fact that implementing the unilateral withdrawal from Gaza and northern Samaria deeply harmed the lives of the 10,000 Jewish men, women and children who were forcibly uprooted from their homes, synagogues, schools and businesses in Gaza for no gain at all and that, as a result, peace is further away than ever.   "Doing so would help restore public trust in the Knesset and the political system and be the best demonstration of  honesty and the willingness of political figures to stand accountable to the electorate for mistaken and failed policies which they advocated. We fully endorse the sentiments expressed today by the distinguished veteran journalist, Nadav Shragai in Haaretz, (the New York Times of Israel) in his piece 'just say you're sorry,' which we reproduce below:   Now, after the war and just before the election whirlwind sucks in our politicians once again, it would be appropriate for many of them to go out of their way and visit the mobile-home sites where those uprooted from Gush Katif live. This way they can tell them one small thing: I'm sorry.   Tzipi Livni, Ehud Olmert, Shaul Mofaz and Benjamin Netanyahu , the Israel Defense Forces and the police should do this - they, their agents and everyone else who initiated, implemented and aided in using force to uproot 10,000 people from their homes in Gush Katif and Northern Samaria , maliciously and without any real purpose. Everyone who saw some good in the evil of the disengagement and evil in the good of Gush Katif has turned light into darkness and darkness into light. At the very least, they are obligated to make this small apology.   This includes the judges of the High Court of Justice who did not even bother to visit Gush Katif and made do with defense experts acting on behalf of the state 'because that is the position of the court since it was founded.' The justices who ruled as they did because they automatically assumed that such a plan 'improves the security situation' because 'the evacuation reduces the desire of the Palestinians to harm the Israeli population.' It would be appropriate for the honorable justices to take a vacation day as an act of forgiveness and go down south for a close-up look at the results of their decisions.   This also includes the media, which provided a challenge for Ariel Sharon and allowed him to turn a prosperous agricultural land, a world full of communities, synagogues, yeshivas and magnificent educational institutions into piles of rubble. Also the heads of the IDF and Shin Bet security service who never spoke in public what they whispered in the backrooms, and the soldiers and policemen who dragged the pioneers of Kfar Darom and Neveh Dekalim from their houses while raining blows on the demonstrators who understood what would come.   The apology must also include everyone who painted those who warned that the rockets from Gaza would reach Sderot, Ashdod and Be'er Sheva as delusional and opponents of peace. Everyone who promised that they would 'give it to them' after the first Qassam, but in the end cried about the moral and international constraints that prevented them from doing so, and for years abandoned the south. It must include those who took the name of democracy in vain and aided Sharon in deceiving Likud members and breaking his promises to honor Likud's decisions once it became clear to Sharon that the party's members did not agree with him.   You, too, who paid almost no attention to the hundreds of thousands who tried to stop the evil, who paid no attention to those who internalized the lessons of Oslo and warned that we should not give them land and guns again. You who paid no attention to those who warned of the Hamastan state, foresaw exactly the trajectories of the rockets, and understood that this was something we gave away for free, a further disintegration of our power of deterrence and an adrenaline shot for terror.   Now rise and ask for forgiveness from those who paid the highest price, with their bodies, souls and property for your close-mindedness, arrogance and wickedness. Ask for forgiveness from the Gush Katif expellees, the noble souls who did not steal land from anyone, who made the empty dunes bloom as ambassadors of the State of Israel and who turned into the south's security buffer and absorbed over 6,000 Qassams and mortar shells with their bodies and belongings in the last years of Gush Katif.   Ask for forgiveness from those who swore to "win with love" - who believed and sowed until the very last minute; from those who did not raise a hand against the soldiers. Apologize to those who continued to enlist in the IDF and pay the ultimate price even after they were expelled from their houses, because they understood that the state - the national homeland of the Jewish people, even within limited borders - is still bigger than any mistaken and confused government.   There is no way to know if they will forgive you, but you at least need to ask."     *        *        *   The Zionist Organization of America , founded in 1897, is the oldest pro-Israel organization in the United States . The ZOA works to strengthen U.S.-Israel relations, educates the American public and Congress about the dangers that Israel faces, and combats anti-Israel bias in the media and on college campuses. Its past presidents have included Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis and Rabbi Dr. Abba Hillel Silver.