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By Ruth Matar
March 29, 2005
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The situation in the Holy Land is worsening daily. Ariel Sharon is driving his "Disengagement-Deportation of Jews Plan" with frightening speed toward the precipice.
He is now suppressing any vestiges of Israeli democracy! Israel has become a virtual police state!
Opponents to the Disengagement Plan are arrested and put in Administrative Detention, which means that they are not entitled to a trial, and are not allowed to face their accusers.
Young opponents of Disengagement, who engaged in non-violent demonstrations, are locked up in the newly-constructed "disengagement ward" in Ma'asiyahu Prison, without being brought before a judge. Last Thursday night there was a shocking occurrence. These young detainees, some of whom are religious, who asked to be allowed to hold a prayer service and to read the Purim Megillah, were refused permission. Claiming they were denied their basic rights, the prisoners announced they would not return to their cells unless they were allowed to pray.
Large prison service forces were alerted to the scene and, according to the prisoners' families, the young inmates were beaten with clubs and were pushed and kicked until they returned to their cells. One of the prisoners required medical attention.
The Disengagement Authority has received its long awaited budget supplement, and is using these funds (tax payers' involuntary contributions) for Sharon's immoral and illegal war against the Jews of Gush Katif and northern Samaria.
Five thousand policemen will take part in what police have called the "inner circle" where they will "evacuate" settlers. In addition, sixty GERMAN-BRED HORSES are to be used by the police cavalry department! "Horses will play a fundamental role in the evacuation from Gaza," said Assistant Commander Amos Carmeli. "One horse is the equivalent to one-hundred policemen," the Assistant Commander explained.
What will these German-bred horses be used for? To trample little Jewish children? To trample old grandmothers?
Another innovation in Sharon's war against the Jews is a tear-gas rifle with the ability to hold five canisters of tear-gas instead of only one. This will be used for "unruly" demonstrations. In Sharon's lexicon, any public disagreement with his Disengagement Plan is an "unruly" demonstration.
What happened to Israeli democracy?
The election of Ariel Sharon, who turned out to be the consummate con-artist, that is what happened to Israeli democracy. Sharon is fighting tooth and nail against a national referendum, where the Jewish People could voice their opinion on Disengagement, which might topple him from his position as Prime Minister.
The Israeli government was in danger of falling if Sharon's Budget would not have been passed by March 31, 2005. Sharon, the skillful general and tactician, leaves nothing to chance. On Saturday night, March 26, he invited the anti-religious Shinui leader, Yosef Lapid, to his Negev ranch. Yosef Lapid caved in to enormous pressure and agreed to allow his 14 Members of Knesset to vote in favor of a 700 million shekel bribe, thus rescuing Sharon's Government. The Shinui leader promised to vote for every clause in the budget, except for one allocating NIS 290 million for religious kindergartens. Yosef Lapid does hate religious kids, especially little boys with yarmulkes.
Former National Religious Party Chairman Effi Eitam said: "Sharon, the father of corruption, stole the votes of the Right, and now is robbing the public coffers to buy his political survival and prevent the public from having its say."
The Israeli Knesset (Parliament) which was chosen in a democratic election on January 23, 2003, gave the Likud Party and its leader Ariel Sharon a landslide victory. The Likud Party increased to 40 seats and the Labor Party decreased to 19 seats. The Knesset was voted in with a mandate NOT to remove Jews from Gaza, which had been the specific platform of Amram Mitzna, the Labor Party candidate.
The Knesset in place now bears no resemblance to the one elected in 2003. This Knesset has been hi-jacked and rebuilt by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who has a strange and distorted view of democracy. He has fired every one of his government ministers who dared to disagree with him. He has removed the I.D.F. Chief of Staff Moshe Yaalon from his position, because Yaalon had previously given his opinion that withdrawal from Gaza was dangerous, and "might blow up in Israel's face."
The most evil thing the Sharon Government has accomplished is to divide the Jews of Israel between "left" and "right," between "religious" and "anti-religious," and between those who have become extremely wealthy (such as the Sharon family) and the Israeli poor, whose children literally don't have enough to eat. Sharon has also completely ignored the very platform of the Likud Party, which he led in the last election. This platform stated unequivocally: "NO to a Palestinian state, and NO to Jewish Land to be given away to the enemy."
In order to try to understand the enormity of the betrayal of the Jewish People by Ariel Sharon, it is essential to read his autobiography WARRIOR, which was republished by Simon & Schuster, as recently as 2001.
In a new foreword, his life-long friend Uri Dan remarks that Ariel Sharon fully realizes that as Prime Minister of the Jewish state he assumed responsibility for the entire Jewish people, who have finally achieved their 2,000-year-old dream of reestablishing their homeland.
What happened to Ariel Sharon? There are many theories as to why his outlook changed so radically, such as, for example, his and his sons' legal problems in connection with financial misdeeds. He may feel that he needs to abandon his erstwhile support base, those who believe in the necessity to reestablish Jewish communities in the historical Jewish homeland of Judea, Samaria and Gaza. His complete 180-degree turnaround may have been to placate his opponents on the Left, and thereby avoid their clamor for his legal prosecution.
There is no doubt, however, that what he professed to believe in his autobiography, republished in 2001, is radically at odds with his actions today.
p. 553 And we must say very clearly that concern for our own survival does not permit the establishment of a second Palestinian state on the West Bank.
p. 554 Withdrawal form the territories is, unfortunately, an easy answer that may satisfy a certain number of people initially but which will inevitably create more violence and a greater threat to our survival than we have faced since the first part of the War of Independence.
p. 554 Gaza at this point is our southern security belt. What will we do once we withdraw from Gaza and find, as we inevitably will, that Arafat or his successors have stepped in and that squads of terrorists are again operating from there into Israel, murdering and destroying? What will we do when the Katyusha fire starts hitting Sderot, four miles from the Gaza district, and Ashkelon, nine miles from Gaza, and Kiryat Gat, fourteen miles from Gaza? A Katyusha is nothing more than a metal tube seven feet long, easily transportable, virtually undetectable.
p. 556 The great question of our day is whether we, the Jewish people of Israel, can find within us the will to survive as nation that is necessary to solve the problems confronting us.
Ariel Sharon, once considered a courageous defender of Israel, appears now intent on dividing our Promised Land, the Land which G-d gave the Jewish People as an everlasting inheritance. He has unfortunately lost his will!
Another factor has entered the discussion. Both U.S. Ambassador to Israel Dan Kurtzer and U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice have implied that Sharon's understanding of President Bush's declarations of April 14, 2004, is faulty and "at odds with American policy" and could threaten peace with the Palestinians.
Wow! Then Ariel Sharon fooled the Jewish People by convincing them that President Bush had promised him all kinds of wonderful things at that meeting, if he disengaged from Gaza and gave it to the Arabs as a confidence-building measure, and for them to enjoy a better lifestyle.
Knesset Member Aryeh Eldad was absolutely correct when he recently said that you can read President Bush's letter of April 14, 2004, to Prime Minister Sharon one-thousand times, but you won't find those President Bush "promises" that Sharon continually boasts of.
Can you imagine a greater immorality than dragging the Cohen family and their children out of their home in Gush Katif? Three children of the Cohen family lost four limbs between them in a terrorist school-bus bombing, ordered by the U.S. State Department's "moderate darling" and Abu-Mazen's security chief, Muhammad Dahlan. And in addition, is their lovely home with all its beautiful memories to be given over to the very terrorists who maimed the Cohen children for life?
Have we lost the battle already? No way! But we desperately need to unite and to fight the immoral, illegal Disengagement-Deportation of Jews Plan. Time is running short.
But it's not over till the fat lady sings.
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