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Saturday, July 23, 2005 

Joseph Farah: NO to "disengagement"

Via Israpundit, here's an editorial by WorldNetDaily's editor in chief, Joseph Farah, that makes it clear that expulsion of Jews from Gaza is racism and an invitation to murder, pure and simple.
As many as 100,000 Israelis have walked away from their families and jobs in the last few days to march to the Jewish community of Gush Katif in an attempt to save it from Israeli bulldozers.

The confrontation threatens to turn Israel upside down and draw the country into a civil war.

And it's no wonder.

Jews who have any historical memory don't like the idea of being told by anyone – not even the Israeli or U.S. government – that they can't live in certain places because they are Jews.

And make no mistake about it, that is the only reason the Jews of Gush Katif and other communities in Gaza and the West Bank are being forced out – because they are Jews.

Imagine this happening in any other part of the world. Imagine any other religious or ethnic group being told they have to abandon their homes and businesses because a budding new government has no use for them. Imagine any other peaceful group of people being forced off their land because of appeasement to a terrorist enemy.

It is one of the most shocking developments in my lifetime. And I say this as an Arab-American Christian and former Middle East correspondent.

It is ethnic cleansing. It is racism. It is an invitation to another genocide.

There is no moral or legal justification for it.

Understand that these Jews took no one's land. They developed an arid wasteland unused for decades and made the desert bloom. The community of Gush Katif is so successful, so prosperous, it produces some 70 percent of all the produce consumed in Israel. And it provides some of the only decent-paying jobs to Arabs in Gaza besides the high-turnover positions of suicide bombers.
This is also why, if you think that the Jewish community would support the Bush administration just because he's "conservative", and seemingly pro-Israel, think again. Plenty of Jews, in Israel and outside of it, are disillusioned with the Bush administration, including Condi, because of their double-stance (ostensibly fighting terrorism, while at the same time legitimizing it), and even if I weren't from a Democratic background, I doubt I'd support the Bush government now.

Update: An editorial in the Jerusalem Post points out how Christian Arabs are in danger of the Muslim extremism, mainly because security and protection for them is shockingly lacking.
Christian presence in the Holy land – on either side of its Green Line – is dwindling and Christian-Arab communities increasingly feel beleaguered and set upon. Many Christian Arabs have emigrated and others consider doing so. From the Jewish perspective that is a great shame and pity.
Perhaps the government would be so kind as to pay some attention to the Christian population, and stop worrying so much about "disengagement" which only serves to endanger the Christian population even more?

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