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Feb 24, 2005 From: zimra [mailto:zimra1@netvision.net.il] Subject: You can help!! |
As you know, I am a resident of Neve Dekalim
slated to be deported, homeless, and unemployed with my husband and five
children. I thought you might want to know that Israeli non Jewish soldiers
are now being trained to break womens' wrists (mine, for example) so that
their babies can be easily snatched from them during the evacuation - and
they are learning to do this in such a way that leaves no signs of laceration
on the skin so that the women will not be able to show it to the media.
Following is an open letter from Pastor Jim Vinyard (from Oklahoma) to Ariel
Sharon regarding the illegal and immoral forcible expulsion of the Jews from
Gush Katif and the Shomron.
Do you want to help? You can: 1) Get the following article published in your
local newspaper. 2) Write or call Prime Minister Sharon: Office of the PM,
3 Kaplan Street, Jerusalem, Israel;
webmaster@pmo.gov.il; 972-2-652-4040; 972-2-670-5527.
Write: I strongly identify Pastor Jim Vinyard's open letter regarding the
illegal and immoral forcible expulsion of the Jews from Gush Katif and the
Shomron.
Cut and Paste the letter and sign your name
3) Send a copy of your letter to President George W. Bush, the White House,
Washington, DC 20500;
<mailto:president@whitehouse.gov>
president@whitehouse.gov; 202-456-1414. 4) Distribute this letter as widely
as possible, to your Congressional representative, your email list, and your
religious leaders. Ask them to add their voices of outrage against
the "black-days" planned for the Jewish
people.
Open Letter from Pastor Jim Vineyard to Prime Minister
Sharon:
Christian-Zionist greetings to you Sir on this "black-day" in the history
of the nation of Israel! I call it a "black day" Sir, as an observer
from Oklahoma, because of your arrogant and jubilant boast to your cabinet
that "Gaza will be 'Judenrein' (my words Sir) by Rosh Hashanah." I
call it a "black day" Sir, because your personal plan is a reversal of your
"campaign platform" you had against Amram Mitzna. I call it a "black
day" Sir because your concept of democracy now says "anyone who speaks or
writes against the disengagement plan is guilty of incitement".
I call it a "black day" Sir, because your five thousand Druze, Bedouin and
Jewish jerks, raised in a non-faithful environment, "storm-trooper deporters",
will not have to wear name tags, hence no accountability. I call it
a "black day" Sir, because a Hatzofe article noted that many of your storm
troopers will be Druze and Bedouins, who are "looking forward" to manhandling
Jews. I call it a "black day" Sir, because the entire storm trooper
machine, which is now known as the "State of Israel" had reneged on
its Abrahamic Covenant, to adopt a new, sick and macabre venture, all in
an effort to secure the "silly approval" of the European Union and the Bush
Administration. I call it a "black day" Sir, because your "storm trooper
school for deportation", established in Beit-Govrin [Lak'hish area], now
promises a cool $5,000 bonus to the "storm trooper" deporters. With
five thousand storm trooper deporters receiving $5,000 each, that is a cool
$25,000,000 (million) the American tax payers will be giving your storm troopers
to deport Jews.
I call it a "black day" Sir, because of the fact that it would seem that
the only true friends of those people whom you supposedly lead, the apple
of God's eye, are the faithful Jews and Christian Zionists, who believe that
God meant what he said, and said what he meant, to Abraham, Isaac and
Jacob.
I call it a "black day," Sir, because it is like that day, when Israel's
first King, King Saul, as the Holy Bible tells us in 1 Samuel 13: 13-14,
when Samuel said to Saul: "thou hast done foolishly, thou has not kept the
commandment of the Lord thy God, which He commanded thee .... But now
thy kingdom shall not continue. The Lord hath sought him, a man after
his own heart, and the Lord hath commanded him to be captain over his people,
because thou hast not kept that which the Lord commanded thee."
I call it a "black day," Sir, because it is like that day, when Israel's
king, King Ahab, had Elijah tell him that King Ahab had acted immorally in
deporting faithful Naboth from his home. God never changes His morality.
You too, are acting illegally and immorally when you remove Jews in Gaza
and Shomron in 2005 from their homes. As the Bible states: "has thou
killed, and also taken possession ... in the place where dogs licked the
blood of Naboth, shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine." [1 Kings 21:19].
I call it a "black day," Sir, because it is a day in which people in democracies
worldwide need to know that Israel now has a fascist dictatorship
endowing Israel in its ruling elite with legitimacy.
I call it a "black day," Sir, because American Christians and Jews need to
know that Israel's Prime Minister must presently be exposed as a dictator.
I call it a "black day," Sir, because Americans need to know that you are
utterly ruthless and will stop at nothing - not even bloodshed - to deport
Jews from their homes in Gaza and northern Samaria.
I call it a "black day," Sir, because I am going to have to involve all the
resources I can, in money and people, to let Americans know what you, Sir
- a man who reminds me of Haman, mentioned in the Bible in Esther's day -
are going to do to the innocent Jews in Israel.
I call it a "black day" because America is complicit with you in this
endeavor.
A true yedid and haver to the Jews.
Jim Vineyard, Baptist pastor
Windsor Hills Baptist Church, 5517 Northwest 23rd St., Oklahoma
City, Oklahoma 73127. Email:
jav9@juno.com
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Americans for a Safe
Israel/AFSI distributes this open letter from Pastor Jim Vineyard to Prime
Minister Sharon with a sense of anguish and anger. We agree with the sentiments
expressed in this letter regarding the illegal and immoral forcible expulsion
of the Jews from Gush Katif and the Shomron. After reading this letter, if
you too agree, please write or call Prime Minister Sharon at: Office of the
PM, 3 Kaplan Street, Jerusalem, Israel;
webmaster@pmo.gov.il;
972-2-652-4040; 972-2-670-5527.
Please send a copy of your letter to President George W. Bush, the White
House, Washington, DC 20500;
president@whitehouse.gov;
202-456-1414.
In addition, please distribute this letter as widely as possible, to your
Congressional representative, your email list, your religious leaders, and
your fellow worshippers. Ask them to add their voices of outrage against
the "black-days" planned for the Jewish people.
Americans For a Safe Israel/AFSI; 1623 Third Ave., Suite 205, New York, N.Y.
10128; Tel: 212-828-2424; Fax: 212-828-1717;
afsi@rcn.com;
www.afsi.org
http://www.afsi.org/ ; February
23, 2005
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ARIK, YOU'VE LET ME
DOWN!! |
I once so admired you, Ariel Sharon. Now you,
along with your patched-up opportunist government, have joined the pathetic
ranks of those who have caved in to terror, all those "enlightened" people
who have, for reasons of overconfidence, corruption and conceit, given up
on the ideals this country was built on.
You have with your bulldozer style trampled on our rights as citizens; but
even worse, you have virtually ripped the country in pieces.
You, who send our sons into the houses of terrorists, endangering their lives
in order to try and save innocent lives, are now releasing those same terrorists
and rewarding and encouraging those who have perpetrated and been involved
in terror.
You plan to uproot Jewish homes, synagogues, shops and cemeteries for no
justifiable reason using our sons, daughters, and husbands as tools of
destruction. This will never be forgotten. You will never be forgiven.
We understand the enemy and his plans; it is obvious that you no longer do.
No matter how many embraces or promises you receive from any head of the
Palestinian Authority or president of the United States you forget one important
lesson:
Listen to what is said, not what you wish to hear, or imagine you are hearing.
We have been through many signatures, many guarantees from US governments
and Muslim leaders. We have paid for these in blood and tears.
You will be remembered in the annals of our history as a gambler, or worse.
You will be remembered for your autocratic approach. You will be remembered
also as a corrupt politician.
Do not weep crocodile tears for us; do not attempt to embrace us. We see
through all of this. We will not be a part of your charade.
The threat of a criminal investigation hangs over your head. While we do
not need to curry favor with anyone. At the same time, many, many members
of our nation are disheartened, discouraged and have lost direction.
We, however, must live with ourselves and our God.
At the end of the day we will persevere despite the wrong-headed decisions
railroaded through by you and your political partners.
We have a mandate to protect our Torah, our Land and our people.
Do not fool yourself. This Land does not belong to you. Many of us think
you are attempting to erase your shady, arguably criminal activities by directing
media attention toward the disengagement scheme.
I can only express my disdain at your decision to destroy the national fiber,
and for what? For nothing.
Abraham Lincoln said: "A house divided against itself cannot stand." [Luke
11:17, Jesus said, - Zionsake Editor]
You are ripping apart the country, and callously using the Israeli Defense
Forces, police and Border Police to tear Jews away from their homes. You
are threatening to incarcerate citizens of Israel who will oppose your policies,
much like the British did in the bitterly remembered days of the Mandate.
You were elected to protect us. Instead we feel you have stolen our votes.
We feel betrayed. Still, we have faith in God that your plans will not be
implemented.
We represent the covenant that the Jewish people have between our God and
our Land. No prime minister or government decision can change that.
As our first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, said: "No Jew has the right
to give up parts of our heritage, the Land of Israel. The Land of Israel
belongs to the Jewish people now and forever."
Some things, Mr. Sharon, do not change.
The Land of Israel belongs to the Jewish people now and forever. And we will
continue to protect that heritage by being there, in Katif, Judea, and Samaria
and building the Land.
The writer, who resides with her family in Samaria, is one of the veteran
spokespersons of the settlement movement. _____
Copyright 1995-2005 The Jerusalem Post -
<http://www.jpost.com/>
http://www.jpost.com/
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PEOPLE IN
PAIN
by Rachel Saperstein, Neve Dekalim,
Katif,
ruchinmo@netvision.net.il
"Do you think it is psychosomatic?"
I asked the doctor.
I have a persistent cough. Yes, I had a high fever, but now it's this
cough.
"Your lungs are clear", the doctor said. "Take it easy. Drink hot lemonade
with lots of honey".
My cough gets worse when I speak and speaking is what I do. I speak to reporters,
and with television and radio crews from around the world. The message of
Gush Katif must get through. I also speak to people who just call and need
emotional support.
The government of Israel has signed the official expulsion orders and we
are fighting for our lives.
Each of us volunteers in the battle for Gush Katif and I write and speak
with passion about my home, and when I speak I cough and choke.
I cry, silently, at night. I try not to let my husband hear. He suffers,
too.
I'm not alone. The people are in pain. One woman said: "I have nightmares
of a bulldozer coming towards me and I cry out STOP? but it doesn't stop.
It smashes into my home. I hear my children scream and I wake up shaking"
"I have a constant headache", a colleague at school told me.
I know what it is from.
"Why don't you pack and leave"? I ask.
"I can't. I have to be here with the people. But I suffer. If you believe
in Eretz Yisrael and all the values I grew up with and teach my own pupils,
then I can't just walk away. I even signed my daughter up for first grade
at the Atzmona school for next year".
"Aren?t you being impractical"?
"I guess so. I know you're right. I'm the most practical person you ever
met. This time I can't be practical. I have to believe that we will be here
next year, and the year after that."
A friend from a community in Samaria called. "We're not slated for this
expulsion, but I know we're next on the list. If they succeed in destroying
you, there is no hope for us. I have severe stomach pains. I don't sleep.
I find myself crying at all times of the day. I pray a lot. Surely the Almighty
will have compassion on us".
Men don't cry as easily, but the pain in their heart is no less great. I'm
over 50. I put my whole life into making my greenhouse farm successful. With
the Lord's help we made these vegetables grow. Religious people around the
world depend on us to provide insect-free kosher vegetables. My sons live
here with their families. Three generations to be thrown out. They want to
give this land to the Arabs. It will return to sand. Excuse me, I've got
to get back to work. My heart is breaking. My pain is for me and Eretz Yisrael.
The pain is there, for me, for my people in Gush Katif, for the people of
Israel, and for people all over the world. How often do journalists and radio
and tv reporters ask, "Why is Sharon doing this to you"? The world media
is here in Gush Katif listening to us and reporting this terrible shameful
story of expulsion to listeners around the world.
And despite my personal pain I speak to the world and tell our story over
and over again.
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