By Ruth Matar
May 11, 2005
Today, as I write this Letter from Jerusalem, the Israeli nation marks Remembrance Day, which honors the memory of those who have lost their lives in defense of the State of Israel. In the words of Lt. General Moshe Ya-alon: "We have come to remember those who will forever remain in our imaginations, young people who were full of life, those with whom we went into the night, and never got to see the light of day again."
For the families of fallen soldiers, every day of the year is Remembrance Day. However, this year Remembrance Day is particularly difficult for bereaved families whose homes are in Gush Katif.
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Would you contemplate digging up the bones of your beloved wife Lilly, your first wife Margalit (Lilly's sister), or your son Gur, who died at a young age?
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In addition to being forcibly expelled from their own homes, the graves of their fallen soldier sons are to be exhumed from the Gush Katif Cemetery by a special army unit. This unit has been secretly established by the Sharon Government, in preparation for the planned withdrawal from Gaza this summer.
It is forbidden to desecrate Jewish graves: The widely accepted and most important Code of Jewish Law, the Shulchan Aruch, states as follows: (Yoreh Dea 363:1)
"You are not allowed to remove the dead and the bones, not from a respectful grave to a respectful grave, not from a disrespectful grave to a disrespectful grave, and not from a disrespectful grave to a respectful one. (It goes without saying that it is not allowed to remove from a respectful grave to a disrespectful one.) The only cases where the transfer of the dead would be allowed are if it was the will of the deceased, or if the remains are being transferred to Israel."
Sharon has given the Arab terrorist murderers an incredible victory. He has agreed to make Jewish Biblical Land "Judenrein", both above and below ground.
Mahmoud Darwish, a "Palestinian citizen of Israel," is widely considered to be the national poet of Palestine. The following are lines from one of Darwish's most popular poems:
"DIG UP YOUR DEAD
TAKE YOUR BONES WITH YOU
AND LEAVE OUR LAND."
Now, shamefully, Prime Minister Sharon is planning to make Darwish's poem a horrible reality. Shame on you Ariel Sharon! Would you contemplate digging up the bones of your beloved wife Lilly, your first wife Margalit (Lilly's sister), or your son Gur, who died at a young age?
Miri Gubi, the mother of Corporal Elkana Gubi, who was killed three years ago preventing a terrorist attack, feels completely betrayed. "More than betrayed" she says. "He gave his soul, he saved scores of people, and now this is the answer," she said.
Master of the Universe, how long will you permit this betrayal of the Jewish people to continue?
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