Images From Gaza

Yahoo ^ | 8-17-05

[M. Espinola]

Images From Gaza

Israeli female soldiers taking part in the uproot of settlers cry in the southern Gaza Strip settlement of Neve Dekalim. The Israel security forces ejection of Jewish settlers from the Gaza Strip, amid sobs and screams after 38 years of occupation, was overshadowed by the killing of four Palestinians by a Jewish settler.(AFP/Nicolas Asfouri)

Israeli border policemen console each other after informing settlers they must leave the Jewish settlement of Ganei Tal, in the Gush Katif settlement bloc, southern Gaza Strip August 17th, 2005. REUTERS/Jerry Lampen

A young Jewish settler employs Nazi-era imagery, including orange Stars of David on their T-shirts, in protest against the forced removal by Israeli troops from her home in the Jewish settlement of Kerem Atzmona, in the Gush Katif settlement bloc, Gaza Strip August 17th, 2005. REUTERS/David

An Israeli soldier carries a crying boy from his home towards a bus as his family is evicted from the Jewish settlement of Neve Dekalim, in the Gush Katif bloc of settlements, in the southern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Aug. 17th, 2005. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)

An Israeli settler removes the Mezuzah, a Jewish prayer box, from the doorpost of his home before being evacuated from in the Kerem Atzmona settlement in the Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Aug. 17th, 2005. (AP Photo/David Silverman, Pool)

Trying to shame Israeli troops, a settler holds up her baby in front of the soldiers who were waiting to evict the settlers from their home in the Jewish settlement of Neve Dekalim, in the southern Gaza Strip, Wednesday. (AP/David Guttenfelder)

An Israeli commander comforts one of his soldiers who began to cry after assisting in the eviction of a settler family from their home in the Jewish settlement of Neve Dekalim, in the Gush Katif bloc of settlements, in the southern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Aug. 17th, 2005. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)

Jewish settlers children employ Nazi-era imagery, including stars of David on their shirts, in protest against their forced removal by Israeli troops from their home, as they are walked out of their front door to a waiting bus Wednesday Aug. 17th, 2005 Kerem Atzmona settlement in the Gaza Strip. The 12 resident families and hundreds of their supporters were forcibly evicted under Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's disengagement plan.(AP Photo/David Silverman,Pool)

A Jewish settler weeps on the shoulder of an Israeli policeman, as Israeli troops evacuate the Jewish settlement of Neve Dekalim, in the Gush Katif bloc of settlements, in the southern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Aug. 17th, 2005. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

A weeping Israeli police officer is comforted by a fellow policeman as they take part in the forced evacuation of settlers in the Jewish settlement of Neve Dekalim, in the southern Gaza Strip Wednesday, Aug. 17th, 2005. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Jewish settlers and Israeli soldiers cry as they pray in a synagogue in the Neve Dekalim settlement in the Gush Katif bloc of Jewish settlements, in the southern Gaza Strip, August 17th, 2005. The haunting melody some Jews sang on their way to Nazi gas chambers echoed in a synagogue in Gaza's biggest Jewish settlement on Wednesday as weeping worshippers offered prayers against their evacuation. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic

An Israeli soldier kisses the Torah as they leave the synagogue in the Neve Dekalim settlement in the Gush Katif bloc of Jewish settlements, in the southern Gaza Strip, August 17th, 2005. The haunting melody some Jews sang on their way to Nazi gas chambers echoed in a synagogue in Gaza's biggest Jewish settlement on Wednesday as weeping worshippers offered prayers against their evacuation. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic

Israeli soldiers comfort each other as they take part in the evacuation of a synagogue in the southern Gaza Strip settlement of Morag Wednesday Aug. 17th, 2005.(AP Photo/Shay Shmueli, Pool)

Jewish settlers pray in the synagogue in the Gaza Strip settlement of Morag, Wednesday August 17th, 2005. (AP Photo/Shay Shmueli, Pool)

Islamic death cultists wait in the wings of Gaza. These rabid Muslim killers will now set up their terrorist murder factories in all the 'state mandated' abandoned Jewish towns of Gaza.

[M. Espinola]

A Jewish settler recites his morning prayers Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2005 in the settlers' outpost of Kerem Atzmona in the Gaza Strip. Twelve resident families and hundreds of their supporters face forced eviction under Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's disengagement plan. (AP Photo/David Silverman/pool)

[Lauretij2]

A video version of Lamentations.

[M. Espinola]

"A video version of Lamentations."

Very well stated.

[SevenofNine]

OHH you got that right

[Just A Nobody]

My heart is breaking for them. Prayers up - God help us all.

[mowowie]

Wow., I'm crying. This is very sad.
I'm sure all of them will be set up with a much happier safer future....I hope

[Prime Choice]

I'm sure all of them will be set up with a much happier safer future.

I wish I could share your optimism. When the land the Israelis are vacating now was previously held by Egypt, the Arab world had absolutely no intention of reverting the land to the Palestinians.

This "disengagement" is nothing but a spin on the "land for peace" proposition. And for it, Israel will wind up with neither land nor peace. Once terrorists sense lack of resolve, they know they can continue hammering until their prey is annihilated in spirit or flesh...or both.

[mowowie]

I hear you. by now we should all realize what appeazment leads too.

[M. Espinola]

"My heart is breaking for them. Prayers up - God help us all."

It was very upsetting reviewing the hundreds of photos for this thread. G-d shall not abandon the Jewish State of Israel.

[McGavin999]

I believe that God will mark the borders and the Jews will hold the land that God intends them to hold. We just have to wait awhile and God will make his wishes known.

No one can hold the land that God intends for his chosen people, so there must be a reason this is happening. We must be patient and watch and wait.

[Prime Choice]

I believe that God will mark the borders and the Jews will hold the land that God intends them to hold.

I pray that is so. The last time the borders resembled what they are becoming now, Jordan and Egypt attempted to pinch Israel into two pieces and destroy the entire nation.

...and the Arab world has a long history of showing that they never learn from history.

[Prime Choice]

by now we should all realize what appeazment leads too.

It is sad that the evil benefit from the benevolence of the good.

I fear a terrible cascade of events is only beginning...and its consequences will be further-reaching than we can imagine today.

[hope]

Yaron Deckel, of Israeli Television Channel 1, asked President George W. Bush the following question on August 11, 2005, at Crawford, Texas:

"As a believer, Mr. President, what do you say to Jewish believers who think that God sent them to settle in the biblical Israel and they will not obey any decision of elected government?"

President Bush: Well, you know, there are admonitions in the Bible that does talk about the role of government relative to man. And Israel is a democracy and democracies are able to express the will of the people. The Prime Minister is expressing what he thinks is in the best interests of Israel and the people will decide, ultimately, whether or not that decision makes sense.

God help us, indeed.

[hope]

Kol ode balevav
P'nimah -

Nefesh Yehudi homiyah

Ulfa'atey mizrach kadimah
Ayin l'tzion tzofiyah.

Ode lo avdah tikvatenu
Hatikvah bat shnot alpayim:

L'hiyot am chofshi b'artzenu -
Eretz Tzion v'Yerushalayim

The Hope


As long as the Jewish spirit is yearning deep in the heart,

With eyes turned toward the East, looking toward Zion,

Then our hope - the two-thousand-year-old hope - will not be lost:

To be a free people in our land,

The land of Zion and Jerusalem.

[lefty-lie-spy]

Perhaps what is happening here is that Ariel Sharon is going to withdraw from Gaza only to sit back and watch the Palestinian government destroy the "peace process" by not reigning in their terrorists even though he has given everything including his political career to make peace with the Palestinians; he'll wait a few years for things to crumble due to Palestinian misleadership and patronage of terrorists and say that his government has done everything imaginable to appease the terrorists and Palestinians, worked with broken promises and dead-end negotiations from Palestine, and then finally go in with force to take back Gaza and West Bank forever.

[M. Espinola]

"As a believer, Mr. President, what do you say to Jewish believers who think that God sent them to settle in the biblical Israel and they will not obey any decision of elected government?"

G-d help US.

[hope]

"G-d shall not abandon the Jewish State of Israel."

All other nations were created by an act of men, but Israel was created by an act of God! The Royal Land Grant that was given to Abraham and his seed through Isaac and Jacob with an everlasting and unconditional covenant. (Genesis 12:1-3, 13:14-18, 15:1-21, 17:4-8, 22:15-18, 26:1-5 and Psalm 89:28-37.)

[Duke of Milan]

Joel 3:2 "I will gather all the nations And bring them down to the valley of Jehoshaphat. Then I will enter into judgment with them there On behalf of My people and My inheritance, Israel, Whom they have scattered among the nations; And they have divided up My land."

The Muslims and the Arabs have a terrible day of reckoning coming.

[Just A Nobody]

It was very upsetting reviewing the hundreds of photos for this thread.

I can only imagine. I am still tearing up.

G-d shall not abandon the Jewish State of Israel.

Yes, we know this don't we? It is just so hard to witness this now, even knowing the ultimate outcome.

May His blessings be upon you through this difficult time.

[M. Espinola]

"All other nations were created by an act of men, but Israel was created by an act of God! The Royal Land Grant that was given to Abraham and his seed through Isaac and Jacob with an everlasting and unconditional covenant. (Genesis 12:1-3, 13:14-18, 15:1-21, 17:4-8, 22:15-18, 26:1-5 and Psalm 89:28-37.)"

What you stated, along with the listed verses, is so correct.

No other nation, after being so totally decimated & her people forcefully dispersed throughout the world has returned to the very land after some 2000 years, as a new nation, making the desert bloom. This time of sorrow shall also pass.

These two items may be of interest:

The Scroll of Esther and Anti-Semitism

Galut, 2005 Post Tish'ah B'av Thoughts