Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Fwd: I PRETENDED I DID NOT SEE by Evelyn Hayes, Author of the Plague Series because their hearts were softened to accept the unacceptable.

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Dear Friends, Family, Activists for Israel, Activists for Kids, Activists for any righteous cause amv"sh

I hope this poem will inspire you to take action before tragedy strikes and hits closer to home. 

We don't need to go very far back in time, (our parents generation) to see the horrific tragedy and consequences of  pretending one didn't know or see the dark skies threatening the world and our people. Read the news. Ukraine, Iran, Benghazi, Turkey,  Fort Hood, Obamacare, 2 State Solution (they want a Final Solution...)

This also holds true as per how we respond to warning signs affecting family members or members of our immediate community, not only global terror.  When we ignore the wakeup call and we go on with our lives and pretend everything will miraculously fix itself and fail to act, this leads to great tragedy both to individuals and also for society.  

As an example let me quote Shlome Katz a father whose 3 year old son, was accidentally dragged by a school bus when the little boy's jacket got snagged in the automatic door.  (Mishpacha Story entitled "Steering a Safer Course" by Riva Pomerantz Issue 496, 5 Adar, 5774) . The byline reads  "Over and Over again.  Shlomi found himself visiting Shivah Houses of Accident Victims offering words of comfort even as their own wounds lay painfully open".  She writes "He and his wife gathered shards of their heartbreak and created a way to make Israel's notoriously dangerous roads safer for others".   Shlomi was quoted as saying "With education, you can change things around before tragedy strikes.  You don't have to wait for something terrible and then get a nice budget to effect change".  

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From: Evelyn Hayes <rachelschildren@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 12:23 AM
Subject: I PRETENDED I DID NOT SEE by Evelyn Hayes, 
To:


I PRETENDED I DID NOT SEE

By Evelyn Hayes,

Author of the Plague Series because their hearts were softened to accept the unacceptable.

© February 24, 2014


I pretended I did not see.

I pretended I did not hear.

I pretended I did not know.

 I pretended I wasn't there.

I pretended I was not we.


And I saw the bullying, the slandering, the intimidating, the vicious thuggery-

So smug and cruel

Against the rules.


I pretended it wasn't so bad.

I pretended there was some glad.

I pretended they were right.

I pretended majority means truth -so what if they are uncouth!


And I saw the ruthlessness, the abusiveness, the comradery against their ridiculed.

Shame, I wasn't a fool:

There was a duel against righteousness.


I pretended as their brazenness got more evil, inconceivable, more provocative, more distasteful, less lawful.


I pretended I was not responsible.

I pretended I was not irresponsible.

I pretended I was innocent Just a bystander

And I saw the sadness from their madness

And I saw the tears from the jeering, jabbing, jabbering, damaging demented actions.

And I saw no smiles nor gladness, just stress and strain, loneliness, loss,

 from such cruelty without restraint.

And when  I thought, "So Shameful" It was too late.


The pain had been too great.

It was too late.

Because of the meanness of those ravaging against correctness,

a royalty for such a comradery created  such dejectedness


And I reflected: I could have interfered

And there would have been another fate

A better act than hate.

But I had failed to react

And I cried, tried to hide that I could have done something.

I could have been a righteous friend

And not let there be such an end to innocence, uniqueness, blessedness, dreams so grand. 

I could have stopped the recklessness, the offensive. Oppressive. Massiveness, divisiveness of a misguided majority 

riding on the power of disempowerment for an unheavenly stake.


If only I had done what I could, what I should have done

Against what I saw, heard, witnessed, knew…

I pretended and now I know I am guilty too.

I would have made a difference if not pretending indifference.


I pretended, but I was aware

And I cared but did nothing

And the victim is now nothing, is no more. Is no more.

I failed the test of reaction, action.

I did not give support. I did not retort. I did not report the crime.

I did not fight for right.

I did not make an alliance against noncompliance, violence, wrong.

I failed the test.


Will I be next? 




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Sincerely,

Robin Ticker
Activist emails sent to my list  are L'Ilui Nishmat Yisrael ben David Aryeh ob"m (Izzy - Kaplan) and Howard Chaim Grief great activists and lovers of Eretz Yisroel, Am Yisroel and the Torah. Yehi Zichronum Baruch.  May their memories serve as a blessing.

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Tuesday, February 11, 2014

re: Action Alert. My letter to Kerry

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 (United Coalition for Israel had a great one as well but I decided to write my own so they get a variety of letters) Friends, you can send your personal letter via UCI *United Coalition for Israel

CLICK HERE to send the sample letter below or edit the letter as you wish. 

by voices@unitycoalitionforisrael.org..    


Dear Secretary of State Kerry,

Ones Heritage by definition cannot be given away.  Our Land, the Land of Israel is called "Morasha", a Heritage.  Netanyahu or members of his government have no right to make any deals to give the Land away since it does not belong to Netanyahu nor to the gov't of Israel. That is why you can not force him to give parts of the Land away.  The only one you can try to convince is G-d himself.  The Land actually belongs to the Creator of the World and He and He alone decides to whom He wishes to bequeath the Land.  The Bible, aka as the Torah is quite clear as per who G-d considers the rightful caretakers to be. The boundaries of the Land of Israel are clearly delineated and Judea and Samaria is unquestionably withing the delineated boundaries.  G-d's Promise and the Covenant He established individually with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob our forefathers was to take the Land from the Canaanites and to give it as an everlasting Heritage to the seed of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. It is for this reason the Land of Israel is commonly called "The Promised Land". 

It is for this reason that all your efforts and the efforts of the Obama Administration to make peace in the Middle East  via establishing a Palestinian State is futile and has only resulted and will continue to result in an increase of  terror and rocket and missile attacks aimed at civilians killing innocent people, men, women and children, Jews and non Jews alike.  

Arabs under Jewish Sovereignty, who wish to be under Jewish Sovereignty have it very good.  Israel is not racist nor apartheid.  They protect their residents so long as their residents are peaceful and willing to be living under  Jewish Sovereignty peacefully.  

The living standards, education, life expectancy, medical care are greatly enhanced from what they are accustomed to under Muslim regimes. However, if they are not happy residing under a Jewish Sovereign Nation in spite of all the material and humanitarian benefits, they are free as far as Israel is concerned, to leave and settle  elsewhere.  There are many Muslim and Arab Nations to choose from.  The problem probably is that the 22 Arab countries, probably closer to their own ancestry, are unwilling to absorb them.  That is something that should be addressed.  Why should Israel absorb a population that is hostile to its very existence? Shouldn't families take care of their own rather than demand that others do it for them. Many of the Palestinian Arabs trace their lineage to specific clans.  Jews trace their ancestry to the 12 Tribes and welcome their brothers to Israel with open arms.  Palestinians refugees and their succeeding generations have suffered terribly not because of Israel.  Rather it's because their own people forced them a deprived life and blamed it all on Israel.  Jews absorbed their own refugees and the next generation, my generation are now fully absorbed and all independent, productive and on the giving end while UNRWA Palestinian refugee numbers have exploded to crazy exponential numbers always blaming Israel for their lot in life.

I hope you take this message seriously and refrain from pressuring Israel to give away it's birthright and force an expulsion of families  and communities who are living productive lives in homes that they rightfully own with a deed or contract.  How would you or others who are promoting this 2 State Solution like being called "occupiers" and then thrown out of your home and community with your family for no moral, legal or legitimate justification but rather because of some false, fabricated lie!   Not very much I would venture to say......

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Sincerely,

Robin Ticker
Activist emails sent to my list  are L'Ilui Nishmat Yisrael ben David Aryeh ob"m (Izzy - Kaplan) and Howard Chaim Grief great activists and lovers of Eretz Yisroel, Am Yisroel and the Torah. Yehi Zichronum Baruch.  May their memories serve as a blessing.

Most of these emails are posted on Shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com 

Personal emails to individuals will not be posted to my blog. 

Monday, February 10, 2014

Vigil for Israeli Sovereignty in Judea and Samaria organized by Women in Green together with Mattot Arim and Professors for a Strong Israel. Full week February 2nd - Sunday February 9th

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The Vigil for Israeli Sovereignty in Judea and Samaria, initiated and organized by Women in Green, together with
Mattot Arim and the Professors for a Strong Israel, took place February 2nd and ended Sunday afternoon, February 9th.  Other than the last day,  participants were out there from 9:00 am to 9:00 pm every day.  

You will see and hear the voices of individuals who possess a strong fighting spirit, a passionate love and emotional attachment to the Land and unapologetic of an inner and  deep conviction and knowledge of our Biblical entitlement. In the videos linked below, you will find an authentic and accurate expression of the spirit of those who share solidarity for Israeli Sovereignty in Judea and Samaria.
 
Among the many public figures who came were:

Knesset Members: 
 
MK Yariv Levin - Head of Coalition, Likud,
MK Ayelet Shaked - Head of HaBayit HaYehudi
MK Deputy Minister of Transportation Tsipy Hotovely - Likud
MK Deputy Minister of Religious Affairs Rabbi Ben Dahan - HaBayit Hayehudi
MK Orit Struk - HaBayit HaYehudi
MK Miri Regev - Likud
MK Zevulun Calfa - HaBayit  HaYehudi
MK Moshe Feiglin - Likud
MK Motti Yogev - HaBayit HaYehudi
MK Shuli Mualam - HaBayit HaYehudi

Rabbanim and Rabaniyot: 
Rabbi Nahman Kahana, 
Rabbi Shalom Gold, 
Rabbi Uziya Sharbaf, 
Rabbi Yisrael Dorminetzer from the Jordan Valley,   
Rabbi Gideon Perl Regional Rabbi of Gush Etzion, 
Rabbi Chaim Greenspan
Rabbi Menachem Felix - One of the Founders of Gush Emunim
Rabbi Avi Baumol - Shavei Israel's emissary to Krakow Poland

Rabanit Chaya Raanan, 
Rabanit Shani Taragin, 
Rebanit Lior, 
Rabanit Zviya Eliyahu, wife of Rav Mordechai Eliyahu zt"l
Rabbanit Geula Twersky 

Political Figures: 
Prof. Arieh Eldad - Head, Professors for a Strong Israel and Former MK
Arieh King - Member of Jerusalem City Council
Gershon Messika - Mayor of Samaria, 
Davidi Perl - Mayor of Gush Etzion 
Moshe Savil - Deputy Mayor of Gush Etzion
Zvi Katsover, former Mayor of Kiryat Arba Hevron,
Avi Roeh Head of the Yesha Council,  former Consul, 
Yochai Dimri - Head of the Council of South Hebron,
Elyakim HaEtzni Attorney former MK

Public Figures
Yehudit Katzover - Co-Chair Women in Green
Nadia Matar - Co-Chair Women in Green
Susie Dym - Spokesperson Mattot Arim
Amb (ret.) Yoram Ettinger,                          
Jeff Daube -  Director Israel Office ZOA, 
Ted Belman - Blogger - Israpundit, 
Dr. Nava Tavger - Professors For a Strong Israel
Dr. Netta Cohen Dorshav - Professors For a Strong Israel, 
Dr Arieh Yitzhaki, 
Datya Yitzhaki, 
Noam Arnon - Hebron spokesman, 
Arieh Bramson from Kiryat Arba Hevron, 
Dr Ruthi Wallfish, 
Sarah Eliash,
Robin Ticker -Blogger - Shemittah Rediscovered
Steve Goldberg - National Vice Chairman Zoa
Geula Hershkowitz - Widow and bereaved mother
Sapir Sabach -  fought a public battle against the indoctrination of her pro-Palestinian high-school teacher
Dr. Moshe Goldberg - Professors for a Strong Israel
Jeremy Gimpel - Deputy Director of World Mizrachi Movement
Dr. Myriam Brand - Historian, Expert on the 2nd Temple
David Hagoel - Brigadier General (Res.)
Meir Indor -  Almagor
Shifra Hoffman -Founder of the Victims of Arab Terror International (VAT), 

Journalists:
Rachel Sylvetsky - Arutz 7, Emunah Women Activist
Sofia Ron-Moriah
                

Details about the continuation of Sovereignty campaign to follow via email
Yehudit Katsover 0507-161-818, Nadia Matar 0505-500-834, www.womeningreen.org

MOTHERS' VIGIL: PHOTO ALBUM: http://www.eish-l.org/s/7l9i0d

Videos:


Articles: 


(If anyone was omitted by mistake please let me know and accept my sincerest apologies. Robin Ticker)

 



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Sincerely,

Robin Ticker
Activist emails sent to my list  are L'Ilui Nishmat Yisrael ben David Aryeh ob"m (Izzy - Kaplan) and Howard Chaim Grief great activists and lovers of Eretz Yisroel, Am Yisroel and the Torah. Yehi Zichronum Baruch.  May their memories serve as a blessing.

Most of these emails are posted on Shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com 

Personal emails to individuals will not be posted to my blog. 



Sunday, February 09, 2014

What Does a Bride On Her Wedding Day and Sapir Sabah do at the Mother's Vigil?

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English Translation of Hebrew Arutz7 Article http://www.inn.co.il/News/News.aspx/270350


What does a bride on her wedding day and Sapir Sabah do at the mother's vigil?

On Wednesday, activity in the tent of the vigil with the motto "The Mothers say YES to Israeli Sovereignty over Judea, Samaria and the Jordan Valley" continued to gain momentum. Many public figures came to the tent today as well. Mothers from throughout the land came to express solidarity.


The surprise of the day was when Sapir Sabah arrived with her mother Nurit directly from the Knesset. Sapir displays leadership ability. She does not accept the results of the hearing for her teacher of Jewish Philosophy, who criticized the IDF and its soldiers saying that our army is not ethical and that this land is not ours. "I would give up if he was sorry and had expressed regret, but he continues his incitement".


Next came Rebbetzin Shani Taragin, who, in honor of the month of Adar, brought biblical references to sovereignty from the Scroll of Esther, from the passage "Each person rules in his house". The passage implies that the People of Israel must be sovereign in its Land. The lesson ended with the connection between Joshua's conquest and Purim. Just as the Holy One, blessed be He, aided Joshua in girding himself to be courageous, so the Holy One, blessed be He, will help if we make an effort and take initiative.

There was a surprise awaiting MK Moti Yogev of the Bayit HaYehudi (Jewish Home) party after he finished his words of blessing and solidarity to the organizers, and spoke about the importance of applying sovereignty over the entire Land of Israel. A bride in a white dress came to the tent, who wanted to enter the wedding canopy only after having done a deed for the national home,  before building her private home.


The bride is Efrat Leshem, the granddaughter of the Ganiram family, who are among the founders of communities in Hebron and the Golan Heights.


If, even on the day of her wedding, a bride sees fit to take part in the national struggle, then the People of Israel will surely be victorious.

During the evening Yochai Dimri, the new, energetic head of the Council of South Hebron came to the tent, as well as MK Moshe Feiglin, Rebbetzin Lior, Rabbi Yisrael Dorminetzer from the Jordan Valley with his family, Rabbi Haim Greenspan and Sarah Eliash.


The vigil, organized by Women in Green in cooperation with Matot Arim and Professors for a Strong Israel, continues on Thursday, Friday and Sunday.

Link to the video of of this moving event:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzoMrMTgcnQ   


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Sincerely,

Robin Ticker
Activist emails sent to my list  are L'Ilui Nishmat Yisrael ben David Aryeh ob"m (Izzy - Kaplan) and Howard Chaim Grief great activists and lovers of Eretz Yisroel, Am Yisroel and the Torah. Yehi Zichronum Baruch.  May their memories serve as a blessing.

Most of these emails are posted on Shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com 

Personal emails to individuals will not be posted to my blog. 

Friday, February 07, 2014

In Defense of the Rabbis from the Committee to Save the Land and People of Israel

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In Defense of the Rabbi's Who Courageously Defend Our Birthright!


Please read the Statement of Rabbi's from the Committee to Save the Land and the People of Israel.

 http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/177114#replies
by Ari Yashar 
Rabbis Threaten Kerry with 'Divine Wrath'

A group called Rabbis from the Committee to Save the Land and People of Israel sent a letter to US Secretary of State John Kerry this Sunday, warning him to end his "antagonism" towards Israel.

The rabbis sharply criticized Kerry for his plans to establish an Arab capital in Jerusalem for Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, and to have Israel withdraw to the 1949 Armistice lines. On Saturday, Kerry threatened Israel with an international boycott if peace talks fail, in addition to previous threats of a "Third Intifada" last year.

"Your incessant efforts to expropriate integral parts of our Holy Land and hand them over to Abbas'sterrorist gang, amount to a declaration of war against the Creator and Ruler of the universe. For G-d awarded the entire Land of Israel to our ancestors, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, in order that they bequeath it, as an everlasting inheritance, to their descendants, the Jewish people, until the end of all time," opens the rabbis' letter.

The letter was signed by Rabbi Gedalya Axelrod, emeritus head of the Haifa Rabbinical Court, Rabbi Yisrael Ariel, Chairman of the Temple Institute, Rabbi Ben Tziyon Grossman of Migdal Haemek, Rabbi Shalom Dov Wolpo, Dean of the Institute for the Complete Code of Maimonides, and Rabbi Yigal Pizam, Dean of Yeshivat Kiryat Shmuel.

Warning of the imminent security threat that Kerry's plans would place Israelis in, and bringing the example of Gaza's having turned into a launching pad for rockets, the rabbis slammed the plan for seeking to immediately uproot "20% of the Jews now living productively in Judea, Samaria and the Jordan valley."

The letter adds that Kerry's plan "would force tens of thousands of Jews to be evicted from their homes and livelihoods, devastating their lives financially, economically and psychologically, as happened to those expelled from the flourishing Gaza settlements, most of whom still suffer from the expulsion's ruinous after-effects."

Drawing on Jewish history, the letters declares to Kerry: "If you continue on this destructive path, you will ensure your everlasting disgrace in Jewish history for bringing calamity upon the Jewish people – like Nebuchadnezer and Titus who destroyed, respectively, the first and second great Temples and the entire Holy City of Jerusalem, and who, by Heavenly punishment, brought eventual disaster upon themselves, too."

"By the power of our Holy Torah, we admonish you to cease immediately all efforts to achieve these disastrous agreements – in order to avoid severe Heavenly punishment for everyone involved," warned the rabbis.

The letter closed with a reference to the upcoming Jewish holiday of Purim, in which the Book of Esther records Haman's genocidal plots against the Jewish people were turned against him and he was "hung on the very same gallows he had prepared for Mordechai, the Jew."

Employing the language of scripture, the rabbis warned "conspire a plan and it will be frustrated; talk the talk and it will not be fulfilled, for G-d is with us" (Isaiah 9:5). 

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There was a strong backlash to this letter:

Rabbinical Council of America and Orthodox Union Repudiate Statement by Some Israeli Rabbis Denouncing Secretary of State Kerry

Today, the leaderships of the Rabbinical Council of America, the largest Orthodox Jewish rabbinical organization in the United States, and the Orthodox Union, the largest Orthodox Jewish umbrella organization in the United States, issued the following statement:


"It has been reported that a group of rabbis in Israel calling themselves 'The Committee to Save the Land and People of Israel' has issued a letter denouncing Secretary of State John Kerry and his Israeli – Palestinian peace process efforts. The reports indicate that in the letter these rabbis engaged in extreme and offensive rhetoric, and seem to arrogate to themselves unusual insight into the desires of the Almighty.  The letter also claims these rabbis represent hundreds of other rabbis around the world.
The Jewish Press.com by Yori Yanover on the other hand defended the Rabbis. It was cached for some reason and no longer accessible in its entirety.  I managed to retrieve one page


Did OU and RCA Choose Ties with Kerry over Eretz Yisrael? by Yori Yanover Jewish Press

The OU and RCA found no reason to question the Obama administration's intentions, but do they understand those intentions are to kick Jews out of their homes?

lTo the point, if you ask me, and not a minute too soon, considering the onslaught of boycott threats and security promises from Kerry and his Israeli and Jewish-American collaborators. Finally someone is putting the Boston Brahmin in his place.  Enter the nice rabbis of the OU and the RCA, with a rebuke to these brave men, who are fighting for their homes and their lives. It's nice to have brethren, isn't it: Rabbinical Council of America and Orthodox Union Repudiate Statement by Some Israeli Rabbis Denouncing Secretary of State Kerry Today, the leaderships of the Rabbinical Council of America, the largest Orthodox Jewish rabbinical organization in the United States, and the Orthodox Union, the largest Orthodox Jewish umbrella organization in the United States, issued the following statement:


 "It has been reported that a group of rabbis in Israel calling themselves 'The Committee to Save the Land and People of Israel' has issued a letter denouncing Secretary of State John Kerry and his Israeli-Palestinian peace process efforts. The reports indicate that in the letter these rabbis engaged in extreme and offensive rhetoric, and seem to arrogate to themselves unusual insight into the desires of the Almighty. The letter also claims these rabbis represent hundreds of other rabbis around the world. "We, the leadership of the RCA and the OU, repudiate this letter and the rhetoric they have deployed. While the people of Israel and Jews around the world may properly possess serious concerns about proposals Secretary Kerry is putting forth, such concerns must only be expressed with civility and on the substance of the issues, not degenerating into personal venom and threats. "We have personally engaged in discussions about these matters with Secretary Kerry and other Obama Administration officials, and while we may disagree with their views we have found no reason to question their intentions in pursuing this effort–which are to, as they see it, support the long term security and welfare of Israel, as well as the United States. "The letter of the Committee to Save the Land and People of Israel may represent the views of its signators; it does not represent ours."

 I understand that, living on American soil, in the heart of galut-diaspora, these wise rabbis have their own interests to consider. It's possible that a clash is coming between the Jews of Eretz Israel and the Obama Administration, at which point things might get so bad, they would have to make Aliya in a hurry, and who wants that? I also understand that when push comes to shove, some of our Orthodox brethren in America would rather watch us be deported than risk their popularity with the U.S. government. We need to know this as we commit to resisting the second deportation of Jews in Israel in less than ten years. What drove me absolutely bonkers, to the point that if I owned a dog I would have kicked the poor thing, was this excerpt: "We have personally engaged in discussions… with Secretary Kerry… and while we may disagree… we have found no reason to question [his] intentions…" Holy macrobiotic snacks, Batman, these people are so full of hot air, I hope they don't hit the ceiling… I don't question Kerry's intentions either. Kerry's intentions are to kick Jews out of their homes. I was reminded of a passage from tractate Gittin which we usually learn on the 9th of Av. It is a lesson the gemorah has been trying to teach us for two millennia, and, alas, the folks at the OU and the RCA are yet to get it.  

*the rest of the post is inaccessible (Robin)
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I am not sure why even Arutz7 emphasized the "Divine Wrath" aspect of the letter in the headline. While one might argue that perhaps it was a bad PR move on the part of the Rabbi's to speak about Divine Wrath and not necessary for this discussion, history can back up the facts that those that destroyed the Temple were themselves punished.  In Psalms 137  the prayer Al Naharos Bavel, the well known psalm "on the Rivers of Babylon"   a prayer recited by all Orthodox Jews before Grace After the Meal in the month of Av, the wording can be quite harsh as well. Would the OU and RCA repudiate the author for extreme and offensive rhetoric?
ז  זְכֹר יְהוָה, לִבְנֵי אֱדוֹם--    אֵת, יוֹם יְרוּשָׁלִָם:
הָאֹמְרִים, עָרוּ עָרוּ--    עַד, הַיְסוֹד בָּהּ.
7 Remember, O LORD, against the children of Edom the day of Jerusalem; {N}
who said: 'Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.'
ח  בַּת-בָּבֶל,    הַשְּׁדוּדָה:
אַשְׁרֵי שֶׁיְשַׁלֶּם-לָךְ--    אֶת-גְּמוּלֵךְ, שֶׁגָּמַלְתְּ לָנוּ.
8 O daughter of Babylon, that art to be destroyed; {N}
happy shall he be, that repayeth thee as thou hast served us.
ט  אַשְׁרֵי, שֶׁיֹּאחֵז וְנִפֵּץ אֶת-עֹלָלַיִךְ--    אֶל-הַסָּלַע.9 Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the rock. {P}
It is quite understandable that those who really feel the destruction of the Temple and the destruction of their homes and communities would have feelings of resentment. Remember that the expulsion of Gush Katif did happen on Tisha BaAv and the day after. 

Unlike the Jewish Press that is difficult to access, media reports blasting the Rabbinic Statement are quite accessible  on Google http://www.jpost.com/Jewish-World/Jewish-News/US-Orthodox-groups-blast-anti-Kerry-letter-340628 where they selectively pick and choose parts of what the Rabbi's write in order to put them in the worst light possible!  They purposefully omitted the first 4 paragraphs of the Rabbi's letter in their reporting, whereby the Rabbi's make some very lucid points like pointing out the security threat Kerry's plan would place on Israel as well as the expulsion of tens of thousands of Jews. Apparently these points are of no importance to those who only wish to blast the Rabbi's and chose character assassination and delegitimazation as modus operandi.

Why didn't the Jerusalem Post report the Rabbi's comments in full as did Arutz7? In due fairness to the Rabbi's position, Rabbi Sholom Dov Wolpo is the founder of the Gush Katif Museum dedicated to helping the refugees of Gush Katif and doing what it can to prevent another expulsion.  The Jerusalem Post chooses to quote Avraham Avi-Hai.   "Avraham Avi-Hai, a former chairman of the United Israel Appeal and a former member of the Executive of the World Zionist Organization and the Jewish Agency, sent a letter to Attorney-General Yehuda Weinstein asking him to open an investigation into the letter and its authors on suspicion of incitement to murder."

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They want to investigate the Rabbi's for inciting murder? Whose murder? Is this the only way to respond to those who voice opposition to a suicidal plan of Kerry? character defamation?


Now I would like to address the Rabbi's of Agudah, Young Israel, OU, Chabad and RCA etc and ask them why they are being Silent when the world is accusing us of "Illegal Occupation".  

How is Truth of Torah being defended by the Nation of Israel? Why leave it up to Netanyahu who is not representing Torah but is in a political position.

What about the Gemorrahs about property rights?   What is the Halacha about the uprooting of fruit trees in Aish Kodesh in Samaria?  Why didn't the Rabbanim protest this Torah inhibition by the gov't of Israel?

Can we be selective in what Torah Commandments we wish to adhere ignoring some when it doesn't fit our agenda and nisht inzera Sugia? Why isn't this a matter of relevance even if it is not my house that is being threatened with destruction?  

How can we be silent when there is talk about uprooting 90,000 fellow Jewish brethren from their homes?  

How can a seeming apathetic Rabbinic application of Torah to the plight of possibly uprooting of 90,000 G-d fearing Jews living in Judea and Samaria, the uprooting of thriving settlement and communities, stand on any solid ground as being consistent with the Written Torah?

Wasn't the Holocaust proof enough of the wrath of G-d on Israel? Rabbis in Eastern Europe by enlarge, remained Silent and did not take an active role to encourage  Aliya with numbers as per their following.  With numbers they could have possibly exercised the necessary influence to see that the Zionist gov't of Israel acted in accordance and consistent with Torah which includes the Mitzva of defending the Land of Israel (Milchemet Mitzvah).  They were/are content with blasting secular Zionism but did not exercise Rabbinic influence to promote Aliya according to Torah for the purpose of keeping the Commandments in the Holy Land and the dessemination of 6,000,000 Jews was the end result?

I cry and should cry if I am not crying, when I write/think these words since I too am unworthy.  How can we fathom G-d's ways or put blame?  Only for the purpose of preventing another Holocaust do I even suggest that had Rabbi's spoken up and the people would have demanded they do so, history might have taken on a different course for the good saving countless lives.

Shabbat Shalom Umevorach!



Sincerely,

Robin Ticker
Activist emails sent to my list  are L'Ilui Nishmat Yisrael ben David Aryeh ob"m (Izzy - Kaplan) and Howard Chaim Grief great activists and lovers of Eretz Yisroel, Am Yisroel and the Torah. Yehi Zichronum Baruch.  May their memories serve as a blessing.

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