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Aliza Karp supports the rights of Jews to live in the cities and lands of their patriarchs and matriarchs.
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By Aliza Karp
February 1, 2006
"Et tu, Brute?" ["Also you, Brutus?"], are the famous three Latin words reportedly asked by Caesar as he is being knifed to death and his eyes set upon his good friend Brutus. As he is dying Caesar realizes that Brute is also part of the conspiracy.
These words come to mind as I read in the news about the attack by the Yasam Special Police, intended to crush the Jewish youth whose only desire is to live in the heartland of the Jewish homeland. But it is not only the attacking Yasamniks and the government who sent them who are guilty. Es Tu Brute. The silence of the world Jewish community makes us part of the conspiracy. We are also guilty.
The youth are being beaten by clubs and injured by horses trained in Germany. Meanwhile, the representatives of the perpetrators, the ambassadors, seated in their embassies and consulates around the world, are not interrupted from their daily routine. Because world Jews are not interrupting their routine to demand an accounting. These ambassadors are not even asked to give a public explanation as to what the hell is going on!
Is it eight homes or nine homes that are standing without building permits? Is it six thousand or seven thousand police and soldiers who have entered the area to destroy the homes? Scores of Jews have been arrested and incarcerated. Hundreds of Jews have been injured. This is not a disgrace to democracy; this is a disgrace to civilization! There is an eclipse hiding the light unto the nations. A total eclipse.
There are more than seven thousand illegal Arab buildings in the Jerusalem area alone. By what right does the government have to destroy the few modest homes of Amona while they do not even mail eviction notices to the thousands of Arab squatters?
The public in Eretz Yisroel [the Land of Israel] is told that they need to retreat from areas with large Arab populations in order to keep the Jewish majority. This rings familiar. In the early stages of the Holocaust, the Jews did not resist being moved into ghettos. They felt more secure among only Jews. It was crowded and distasteful but it was worth it in order to not have to deal with the goyim.
The procedure of huddling together in the ghetto was overseen by Jews known as the Judenrat. History is a witness to what the ghetto mentality facilitated. And here we are, barely 60 years later, running into ghettos to be SAFE!
The borders in which the Jews would have a majority would be indefensible. We are no longer dealing with the enemies of 1948 and 1967. The enemy is much more sophisticated, not to mention the self-confidence and determination attained as a result of the Disengagement Plan. The election went to Hamas because terror works! As we run behind the new ghetto wall, the enemies will begin to knock us off by breaching that wall. Next the Judenrat would have us retreat further in order to ensure a Jewish majority. What about having the majority of Jews ALIVE?
I urge the members of the world Jewish community to use whatever means they can to raise a voice in wherever they find themselves. Let as many Rabbis and laymen as possible send faxes to the consulate demanding a public meeting ... let the meeting be after hours if the consulate general has a full schedule. Get in touch with influential people to use their contacts to arrange the meeting. But get the perpetrators out in the open and challenge them.
Don't think the violence reached its peak at Amona. This was the test to see if there will be an outcry. The government carried out a brutal midnight eviction of a widow and her children from Hilltop 26 near Kiryat Araba and they saw that world Jewry was quiet, so they knew they could throw out thousands of families in Gush Katif and Northern Shomron. They destroyed a Shul in Tapuach and saw there was no outcry, so they went ahead and facilitated the destruction of more than 20 Shuls in Gush Katif. Now they have stormed into gatherings of unarmed, unprotected youth on horseback, swinging clubs.
Will there be an outcry or not? The government is very sensitive to international pressure.
Let the embassies know they cannot rely on our ignorance to brainwash us. Tell them we are aware that, as stated by Rabbi Sholom Dovber Wolpo, author of 'Bein Ohr L'Choshech,' [Between Light and Darkness] "It has been the methods of the government which have empowered Hamas. By destroying Jewish homes -- they are in essence, partners with Hamas."
If not now, when will the Jewish community abroad raise their voices, contact their embassy, contact the media -- so that the voices of our youth on the hill at Amona will not turn to us and say: "Et tu, Diaspora Jew?"
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