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Moshe Feiglin is head of the Jewish Leadership faction in the Likud and can be reached via the web site.
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By Moshe Feiglin
August 11, 2005
What will be in another week? Will the disengagement actually happen? Will it be stopped?
If you don't insist on fooling yourself, you understand that the disengagement is already happening.
The positive disengagement.
Disengagement from evil, disengagement from immorality, from sacrilege and from idol worship.
The storm in Gush Katif has blown away the sand and has revealed the diamonds. We must hold them close -- if we don't they will once again be covered by the sand.
Now is the time -- the market is open. All of the merchandise is on the stands and everyone can come to inspect it and to choose between good and evil. Soon the train will start to move. With G-d's help, we will triumph. But then the merchandise will already be packed away. The evil will again be stored in dark warehouses, and we may once again fall into its trap. Now we can all see the merchandise clearly, and we can all choose for ourselves. Without middlemen, without advisors -- we don't even need rabbis to help us to differentiate between good and evil. It is all clear. And I must decide. Am I with the good or with the evil?
We don't need to convince you with convoluted logic that what we are dealing with here is not Red Riding Hood's grandma. We are dealing with the wolf. It is now clear that the state of Israel is not a grandma that sometimes bites by mistake. Grandma has removed her mask. Everyone can see that she is the wolf. Tomorrow we may forget. Especially, if we with G-d's help triumph.
Now is the time for every person to ask himself a number of questions and to write the answers on a special notepad. Write them in ink that will not fade out, keep your notepad handy and safe and promise yourself to look at what you have written at every future critical national decision that you must make.
Your notepad needs no more than four pages. On the first page write clearly on the top "Wolves" (or "Evil") and on the second page write "Grandmas" (or "Good"). These are the pages for institutions or concepts.
On the next two pages write again "Wolves" and "Grandmas". These are the pages for people.
Now we can begin to gather the diamonds that have surfaced in the sands of Gush Katif.
The Supreme Court that imprisons a twelve-year-old girl while releasing terrorist and murderers. Is it a grandma or a wolf? Write it in your notepad!
The police force that explains that the officer who incited his patrolmen against the settlers in the basest and most violent terms and then explains that this officer is among its finest -- is this a grandma or a wolf?
The army whose main goal is to destroy the homes of people who have been permanently crippled by terror attacks, and the home of David Hatuel who lost his wife and all his children to terror last year -- is it a grandma or a wolf? Write it quickly in your notepad. Tomorrow you will forget!
Of course, there will always be people who will continue to explain that all the depravity of the past, present and future are part of the process of redemption. The Supreme Court is holy and the police who incite against settlers are holy and the army that cruelly destroys settlements is truly a microcosm of the Holy Temple. But in the introduction to this article we already explained that we are writing for the people who do not insist on fooling themselves. The clear answer -- as clear as the dazzling sky over the shores of Gush Katif -- is that the justice and security systems are the wolf. And the justice and security systems make up the state. The sorry conclusion is that the state of Israel is currently the wolf.
Write it in your notepad.
Whoever does not disengage from the wolf -- sooner or later becomes his next meal.
So write.
To remember.
To disengage from the evil.
To live.
When Israel withdrew from the Sinai over twenty years ago, we could have kept those diamonds and understood that we must disengage. But we allowed the sands to cover the diamonds again. "It is just a slight delay in the redemption process," we explained to ourselves. We stayed with the wolf and we were devoured in Oslo. With the Oslo process, we should have understood that we had a wolf on our hands. They gave our Land to our enemies, they gave them guns with which to kill us -- but we remained with the wolf. Now we are being devoured by the disengagement.
Fifty percent of our battle troops belong to the Religious Zionist camp," explains the General of Expulsion. In other words, if we disengage from the wolf, if our sons simply abandon him, the expulsion will not happen. But many of their rabbis are not willing to order them to disobey the wolf's orders.
So let us again open our notepads. This time on the pages for the people. True, it is unpleasant to accuse certain individuals. But wolves have a peculiar characteristic -- either you devour them, or they devour you.
So take your notepad and answer the following questions:
A young teenager who faces off with violent riot police for the sake of his/her country and his downtrodden brethren in Gush Katif -- are they grandmas or wolves? Good or evil? And even if they make mistakes here or there -- on which page do you write them?
A famous rabbi who never publicly criticized the wolf. Suddenly he appears in all the media criticizing the above teenagers. His public criticism halts the mass roadblockings, freeing the expulsion forces to block Gush Katif and to bully its residents. Is he on the side of good or of evil?
A soldier who refuses orders to expel his brothers and to destroy their homes. Is he a grandma or a wolf?
A rabbi that demands of him to carry out his orders. Grandma or wolf?
Write it all down. There are a lot of wolves out there from whom we must disengage. Keep your notepad handy. We need it to make the correct choices, to strengthen the forces of good, and to lead Israel on its true and Divine mission.
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