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ISRAELI GOVERNMENT DESTROYS HOLY SITES by Helen Freedman, Executive Director
That's an alarming headline. If the holy sites were Muslim, there would be a world-wide outcry of condemnation. Instead, because the synagogue and mikveh of a Jewish community are destroyed, one hardly hears a murmur of disapproval. Yes, there were many Israelis who fought against the destruction of Migron. There were many of us in the "galut" who cried out against it. But the sanctity of an outrageous and unjust Supreme Court decision held sway, and on America's Labor Day, the hated Yassamnikim, the black-robed destroyers of the Israeli police, arrived to do their dirty work.
I saw these people face to face seven years ago in Neve Dekalim, Gush Katif/Gaza, when they formed an unbreakable line of resistance against the Gush Katif residents who were pleading with them not to destroy their communities. I saw the impassive faces, the cold stares, and the total indifference of the destroyers. Of course, they were only carrying out the orders of their superiors.
Today, PM Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak are delivering these orders and the underlings are executing them. Along with the homes, schools, playgrounds, shops, nurseries, offices, and community halls which were destroyed, the mikveh and synagogue will also be leveled. What malevolent force drives Israel's leaders to order such evil? And what pretense there is in suggesting that this is simply moving people from one home to another!!
Aviela Deitch, a young mother with whom the AFSI Chizuk group has had a number of meetings while visiting in Migron, has written me the following email. Please, put yourself in her shoes and understand the enormity of the pain and suffering she and her neighbors are enduring. Do whatever you possibly can to reach the Netanyahu government to decry this action and others that might be in the planning stages. memshala@pmo.gov.il; bnetanyahu@knesset.gov.il; pm_eng2@it.pmo.gov.il; minister@mod.gov.il
FROM AVIELA DEITCH - REFUGEE FROM DESTROYED MIGRON COMMUNITY
I will try to write things out better tomorrow, but I want everyone to know that as much as a rosey picture has been painted all over the place, the lower neighborhood is simply very unsafe at this point, and most families, most likely, will be moving in tomorrow. That is not yet final. Additionally, eight families received caravans that are uninhabitable, some grossly so. These families include that of Etai, founder of the community, whose wife is currently expecting; as well as the Gutman family, whose home was already destroyed once, then twice; another family that had a home that they had built, and one family where the wife is due to give birth any day, in addition to having four other small children at home, thank G-d. The kindergartens, day care and shul are far from ready. Where we will daven on Rosh HaShanah is entirely unclear. It is so NOT OKAY. The community, as well as the head of the county, Avi Roeh, have begged for at least the synagogue not to be destroyed, or the permanent and expensive mikveh. No go. were it a dead sheikh lying up there, he'd be safe. But we are being left with no mikveh at all and our shul is also marked to be plowed under next week. That's right, while everyone is sitting at work or in school, a shul will be destroyed. It apparently isn't even enough to board up a mikveh made of concrete, it has to be destroyed. WHY?!!
Americans For a Safe Israel
1751 Second Avenue (91st Street)
New York, NY 10128
Tel: 212-828-2424; 800-235-3658; Fax: 212-828-4538
Contact: Helen Freedman, Executive Director
Sincerely,
Robin Ticker
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