Tel-Chai Nation: I support Sderot, and offer some suggestions

With the continuing bombing coming from Gaza against Sderot and other neighborhoods in that area, the Sderot municipality is convening to discuss this:

(IsraelNN.com) The Sderot Municipal Council has convened an emergency meeting to discuss ways to put an end to the government’s inability to prevent Arab terrorists from firing rockets on the beleaguered city.

Council members characterized the government’s policy as one of “helplessness”.

Indeed it is. Let me offer this suggestion: confront the Shas party, if it's going to continue to remain as part of the government. You should not feel reluctant to confront them about this.

Again, here's some of Shas' contact criteria:

E-mail: avidaniiz@012.net.il

Website: Shasnet

MK telephone numbers:

David Azulai: 04-9815233, 0505-494151

Nissim Ze'ev: 02-5374319, 0505-411752

Amnon Cohen: 08-9230340, 0505-515361

Yitzhak Cohen: 08-6738063, 0505-457005

Yaakov Margi: 08-6420211, 0544-962020

Last Tuesday, I was in Tel Aviv, and there were two small rallies for Sderot being held there, one by the train station and another by the defense ministry compound. I was glad to see that, but, it's time for a really big one, I recommend, organized with the help of the Sderot municipality as well. Also, if it comes in handy, here's Matot Arim's own e-mail: mattot.arim@gmail.com

Update: and while we're on the subject, here's an article from The David Project (Hat tip: Dhimmi Watch), about the need for a call to action. It's very good to see that the US Jewish community is waking up, and I wish them good luck on their end in helping out.

"Some suggestions"?

The whole thing is a direct consecuence of NOT paying attention to a Torah ordinance and its accompaning warning:

וְהוֹרַשְׁתֶּם אֶת-כָּל-יֹשְׁבֵי הָאָרֶץ, מִפְּנֵיכֶם, וְאִבַּדְתֶּם, אֵת כָּל-מַשְׂכִּיֹּתָם; וְאֵת כָּל-צַלְמֵי מַסֵּכֹתָם תְּאַבֵּדוּ, וְאֵת כָּל-בָּמוֹתָם תַּשְׁמִידוּ. וְהוֹרַשְׁתֶּם אֶת-הָאָרֶץ, וִישַׁבְתֶּם-בָּהּ: כִּי לָכֶם נָתַתִּי אֶת-הָאָרֶץ, לָרֶשֶׁת אֹתָהּ. וְהִתְנַחַלְתֶּם אֶת-הָאָרֶץ בְּגוֹרָל לְמִשְׁפְּחֹתֵיכֶם, לָרַב תַּרְבּוּ אֶת-נַחֲלָתוֹ וְלַמְעַט תַּמְעִיט אֶת-נַחֲלָתוֹ--אֶל אֲשֶׁר-יֵצֵא לוֹ שָׁמָּה הַגּוֹרָל, לוֹ יִהְיֶה: לְמַטּוֹת אֲבֹתֵיכֶם, תִּתְנֶחָלוּ. וְאִם-לֹא תוֹרִישׁוּ אֶת-יֹשְׁבֵי הָאָרֶץ, מִפְּנֵיכֶם--וְהָיָה אֲשֶׁר תּוֹתִירוּ מֵהֶם, לְשִׂכִּים בְּעֵינֵיכֶם וְלִצְנִינִם בְּצִדֵּיכֶם; וְצָרְרוּ אֶתְכֶם--עַל-הָאָרֶץ, אֲשֶׁר אַתֶּם יֹשְׁבִים בָּהּ

(במדבר פרק לג, פסוקים נב עד נה )

…and ye shall take possession of the land, and dwell therein, for to you have I given the land to possess it. And ye shall take for yourselves the land as an inheritance by lot according to your families: to the many ye shall increase their inheritance, and to the few thou shalt diminish their inheritance: where the lot falleth to him, there shall be each man's [inheritance]; according to the tribes of your fathers shall ye take for yourselves the inheritance. But if ye will not dispossess the inhabitants of the land from before you, those that ye let remain of them shall be thorns in your eyes, and pricks in your sides, and they shall harass you in the land wherein ye dwell.

Numbers (Bamidbar) 33:53-55

Yep, instead of kicking the Arabs out, the Jews have been expelled from their homes in Eretz Yisrael. There we have, thorns in our eyes, prick in our sides, kasams in Sderot and Ashkelon, Katiushkas poiting to Israel's coastal region. Danger everywhere in Israel. And a "Convergence Plan"...

When will we learn?!

Posted by Rafael V. Rabinovich | 6/18/2006 10:39:00 AM

I'm certainly glad that people now are starting, even slowly, to wake up, and in the US, there too they're starting to do so. Daniel Pipes had an entry today about how in Baltimore County, there too, they realize that they're going to have to wake up.

Posted by Avi Green | 6/18/2006 11:14:00 AM