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Barry Chamish is most recently the author of "Save Israel!", and also "Who Murdered Yitzhak Rabin", "Israel Betrayed" and "The Last Days Of Israel." His website is .
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By Barry Chamish
March 10, 2005
The Gush Katif surrender is stage one in the latest campaign to diminish and eventually eliminate Israel as a sovereign entity. Instead Israel will vanish into a Middle East bloc of nations which will someday meld with the EU, NAFTA etc. into one happy and obedient world parliament.
The hard part is getting people to part with their heritage, history and land and agree to this entirely new order. The Gush Katif sellout required an undeclared war against the Jewish residents of Gaza which utilized every psychological trick to wear down a people's will until they give in to a scheme that will spell disaster for them and their nation.
These tricks included psychologically targeted murder and lots of it.
On Feb. 26, 2005, I took my book table and son to Kfar Bilu, a prosperous moshav near Rehovot. He had been my assistant at many rallies and demonstrations against the Gaza pullout but this one would be different. A group called Nahalal claimed to be composed of kibbutz and moshav members, secular and even left wing, who were opposed to the government's Gush Katif policy. The leader had declared on TV, the evening before, that his group would gather 200,000 secular Israelis in Gush Katif to fight the army and protect the rightful residents. This time, I told my son, we would see some hope.
Hope was dashed quickly enough. Only 60 people showed up to the meeting and I knew most of them from previous rallies. The mass movement of secular Israelis against the Gaza withdrawal was not very massive.
However, for a change, it looked like they were seeking the facts. The first speaker was Itamar Marcus, head of Palestinian Media Watch. His presentation was a bit arrogant but it was calm and orderly. Showing video clips and charts, he showed how the "palestinians" were defeated and prepared to abandon terror before the Gush Katif pullout was announced by Sharon. Immediately after, attitudes changed. Now a great majority agreed that terror had worked and was the only way to exact concessions from the enemy.
Marcus presented solid facts and he was the last speaker to do so. From then on things deteriorated badly. Facts were replaced by opinions. One windbag after another hogged the microphone with the same old harangues against Sharon. Four speakers in a row, in overly dramatic tones, elucidated why they would refuse to obey any army order to evacuate Gush Katif.
And on it went. Opinion, opinion, blabber, blabber and more heartfelt opinions.
It never occurred to these blabbermouths that their opinions are worthless because the government could not possibly care less what they are. The only possible good a meeting like this could do would be to bring the hard facts and plan concrete reactions to them. The only useful result of this meeting would have been a plan of civil insurrection and the will to carry it out.
But there were no facts, no plans and no will. Any disobedience would be controlled by the government through their Shabak inciters like Itamar Ben Gvir. A popular rebellion among the Jews was
out of the question. Their cause was lost and with it would go the nation.
In Kfar Bilu time was suddenly racing backwards seventy years. I told my son, "In 1938, in Germany and Poland, groups of Jews would meet in synagogues and halls just like this one, to discuss what to do about the Nazi danger. They were not really going to do anything to protect themselves, they just wanted to console each other by giving the same opinions to each other. Back then, the consensus among them was that everything was going to be alright.
"Every now and then these denial groups were interrupted by Jews led by Zeev Jabotinsky who brought them the truth. 'They are planning to slaughter you,' they would warn. 'You have to get armed and trained or you have to flee. If you choose to stay, then you have to be prepared to fight.' And the Jews reviled the warners and their warnings. They didn't want to know the horrible truth. They preferred to build their own fantasy world instead.
"When I chose Israel as my home while I was young, it was to protect my children someday and offer them safety in their own home. I never dreamed that history would repeat itself or that I would be that Jew who tried and failed to warn his people about what awaited them."
Sixty people were in that hall, and twenty of them gave their opinions. They were talking to themselves. When the dreadful blather ended, I approached Ronen Tsafrir, who organized the evening, and explained why this kind of a gathering does way more harm than good. This meeting served one purpose only, to feed the delusions of the angry, keeping their emotions in check and assuring that their anger would not spill over into action.
I then explained how three soldiers in Netzarim, on October 26 2003, were set up to be murdered, just to persuade the tired Israeli public that it was too dangerous to send their children to defend Gush Katif. I got four sentences into my explanation when Tsafrir said, "I don't want to know," and ran away.
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