Wednesday, July 19, 2006
Dear
friends and family, shalom,
Today, like yesterday and the day before I should have been guiding a
family group from LA and these days we should have been in the
Well as you know, nobody's there, excepting the inhabitants of the area taking shelter from the terrorist rockets raining on them.
My family of tourists went to Eilat, which
they're visiting instead of the dangerous
In the meantime I did my Wednesday Walk on the Walls of Jerusalem.
I was fortunate to be accompanied by two lively tourists. Actually, one
can't really call them tourists because they are here visiting their family,
living in the Israeli town of
Most "real" tourists have left the country. Although I confess seeing two tour groups on the Via Dolorosa today.
Jewish town, like Ephrat, Kiryat Arba (near
This is because all the above
mentioned places are surrounded by Palestinian terrorists, who have the same
objective of destroying
Amazingly they are now very
safe places to be, seeing that the Hizbullah aren't
like to rain rockets on their brothers in arms.
The Palestinian enemies of
I assume that these words
remind them of the early settlers of countries like America, Canada, Australia,
New Zealand, South Africa and others, who took away the land from the native
inhabitants, the Indians of America and Canada, the Aborigines of Australia,
the Maori of New Zealand and the Zulu, Xhosa and other African tribes of South
Africa.
Of course I don't agree with
the Palestinians and others who have this view.
But I did support Sharon's
plan of disengagement and Olmert's plan of
consolidation, which involved the dismantling of some of these towns as part of
an Israeli, humanitarian gesture to help the Palestinians achieve their own
independent state in the boundaries of the
Even though, historically,
the Jewish People were formed into a nation in this territory more than 3000
years ago, by our kings like David and Solomon, and we never gave up the hope
of returning to our ancient homeland in the course of the last 2000 years of
dispersion, I was in favor of giving part of it to the Palestinians.
We the Jewish People, who
have suffered for such a long time and so badly feel sympathy for suffering
people, like the Palestinians who don't have an independent state to call their
own.
In view of the present
Palestinian and Hizbullah atrocities (Kasam rockets raining on Jewish towns in the Negev, Katyusha rockets on the
The Palestinians and the Hizbullah have made it frighteningly clear that the total annihilation
of the Jews is their goal.
With towns like
Giving them an independent
state is now totally out of the question. It would bring about the end of
Wishing you
a great no news day. Yours truly.
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