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Blowing up synagogues for Palestinian profit
Dear readers,
On Sunday or Monday, barring a last minute surprise, sappers of the Israel Defense Forces will lay charges underneath the foundations about some twenty synagogues in Gaza and blow them to smithereens, by order of its elected government and with the blessings of Israel's High Court .
Just as we have become in just a week accustomed to seeing decomposing bodies floating or lying in the streets of New Orleans, we have become inured to the sheer horror of what the government of Israel, its legislature and its courts, have done, are doing and will -- unless stopped -- do to the fabric of Jewish existence, in the State of Israel and beyond.
Ten thousand Jews have been expelled from their homes, most of them by force, and those homes already reduced to rubble. Most of those expelled do not have decent places to live, crowded into fleabag hotels, mobile homes one-third the size of their former hours, or forced for lack of suitable accomodations to live in tent cities.
The worse-case assumptions offered by the critics of the Sharon disengagement plan are rapidly coming true. Anarchy rules in Gaza, Hamas is poised to take over, rockets are falling on the southern part of Israel -- and preparations are now being made to protect the northern suburbs of Tel Aviv. ONE HUNDRED gunmen last week carried out the assassination of Yasser's Arafat's cousin, the former head of intelligence, and kidnapped his son. The Palestinian security forces didn't lift a finger.
At last, Yasser Arafat's former personal physician admitted what Israel Insider was among the first to publicize -- the Rais had AIDS. Whether he died of the virus remains uncertain -- many had motives, days after the Disengagement Plan passed in the Knesset, to rid the world of this vermin -- but it now is clear that the Palestinians, and the French, conspired to conceal Arafat's AIDS status from the world. Even now, it seems, the anti-Israel crowd -- including The New York Times, which did not consider Arafat's physicians statement to be newsworthy -- continues to downplay the realization that the founder of the Palestinian nation apparently had a fatal attraction to young Arab boys.
DEAD TO DESECRATION:
Will Jewish boys or Hamas boys destroy our holy places?
Our shock threshhold continues to rise these days. What will it take to disrupt our daily routine to see that Israel is on a self-destructive course. That young Jewish soldiers will be ordered -- on September 11 of all days -- to demolish sacred houses of worship: shouldn't that cause us to shout to the heavens and ask ourselves what the HELL is happening here?
Yes, we are dealing on the level of symbols here. The Jewish presence in Gaza has been eradicated, the Zionist enterprise has been rolled back, the residents are now wanderers and the synagogue structures are mere shells. If we leave them standing, they will become an irresistible attraction -- a Mecca, one is tempted to say -- for the victorious Arabs to scorn and, if history is a guide, to desecrate. Who are we to deny them that pleasure? But what will it do to the Jewish soldiers who detonate the Jewish houses of worship, or who witness this horror? And what will it do for those Jew-haters, worldwide, who glory in the sight of Jews destroying their own?
If for real peace, or comprehensive and permanent coexistence with our neighbors, compromises can be made. But this? What good comes from this? From this foolishness, we get nothing, only more destruction, desolation, and dissolution. Instead of a foretaste of peace, we get a premonition of the next Final Solution.
Just let those who celebrate Israel's defeat, and those in our government who engineered it, and those in the Diaspora who support it, remember that, as they say, every dog has his day.
Those who cause, or support, or allow, the destruction of the Jews and Jewish homes, may yet live to see their own lives, possessions, homes and holy places destoyed and desolated. If I were Ariel Sharon, I would call up my insurance company and about Kassam rocket coverage for Sycamore Ranch.
One last thought for this week-end. Jonathan Pollard, the modern-day hero who risked his own life and freedom to protect Jews, has petitioned Israel's High Court of Justice to overturn the government's decision that he should NOT be considered a Prisoner of Zion, a status which would help him in his struggle to gain freedom after twenty years in prison. He is not a symbol. He is a man abandoned by successive Israeli governments, after sacrificing his liberty to save Jewish lives. The Sharon government is arguing against him.
One good piece of news published today is that the Austrian Justice Ministry has appointed a state prosecutor to conduct an independent investigation into allegations that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon received a bribe from an Austrian businessman with business interests in Israel via a Vienna-based bank. The affair is lined to Sharon's sons and close aides, and involves the web of corruption surrounding the casinos in Jericho (soon to be reactivated) and (soon to be established) on the ruins of Jewish Gaza. What goes around comes around. Perhaps we will yet live to see the day when Austrians are extraditing Israelis. But don't bet on it.
As for the Palestinians who will in the coming weeks swarm onto the ruins of the former Jewish communities of Gaza, I would suggest not getting too comfortable. The rubble you dance on may one day be your own. Some only learn the hard way: it's a hard rain that's gonna fall.
For you dear readers, Shabbat shalom, Sabbath peace, despite it all.
Reuven Koret
Publisher One more Sabbath for twenty shuls...:
 As IDF levels posts and factories, synagogues get brief reprieve
Acceding to a request by DM Shaul Mofaz, Ariel Sharon agreed to delay the order to blow up Gaza?s remaining synagogues until after Sunday's Cabinet meeting.
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Arafat's final illness began suddenly when he vomited and had abdominal pain and watery diarrhea hours after his supper.... These symptoms, including a constant urge to defecate ... continued for two weeks.
The New York Times 09/08/2005 | | | |
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