Settlers, you have failed

www.haaretz.com ^ | 08:44 16/03/2006 | Aluf Benn

[Esther Ruth]

Last update - 08:44 16/03/2006

Settlers, you have failed

By Aluf Benn

Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has declared his intention of eliminating all settlements beyond the separation fence in the West Bank within the next four years, as well as evacuating some 70,000 settlers from their homes, resettling them, and closing ourselves within a unilateral border. The idea is not new: former prime minister Ehud Barak spoke of it in 2001, and Ariel Sharon began to carry it out with the disengagement from Gaza and northern Samaria. But this is the first time that an incumbent prime minister is declaring his intention of dismantling dozens of settlements, and nothing is happening. No demonstrations and protests, no rebellion within the party, and no media uproar. Olmert's message sounds natural, understood, and not revolutionary.

This is the time to tell the Yesha (Judea, Samaria and Gaza) settlers: You have failed. Your grandiose project, which is about to be dismantled, has registered a triple failure. The first failure was in achieving the ultimate goal. The settlers did not succeed in attracting enough Jews to the hilltops of Samaria and cliffs of Judea to establish irreversible facts on the ground and prevent return of the territories. They did not even succeed in approaching demographic parity with the Palestinians, which would have led to an imposed coexistence.

[Esther Ruth]

"The Gush Emunim settlement movement considered them a fulfillment of a divine promise, but implementation was totally secular."

What a sentence -The arrogance of man, not acknowledging God's hand.
The more obvious it is, the harder some men's hearts get toward Him.

[Convert from ECUSA]

Ping! Ha'aretz thinks the settlers "failed." Someone a lot bigger than Ha'aretz says otherwise from Genesis through Malachi....to say nothing of Matthew through the Apocalypse (Revelation).

[Alouette]

"Aluf Benn, you have failed!" -- G-D

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[Alouette]

"Aluf Benn, you have failed!" -- G-D

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[Nachum]

The gloves are off. The Haaretz crowd wants civil war.

[Slings and Arrows]

Ha'aretz: Neutri Karta with journalism degrees.

[Alouette]

Ha'aretz: Neutri Karta with journalism degrees.

and without the funny hats.

[Slings and Arrows]

True.

[Cicero]

I blame Sharon for this. I know he's in tough shape, but he's the guy who started this and put Olmert in a position of power without having to face an election.

But the more serious question is, are the Jewish people in Israel ready to defend themselves, as they seemed to be when they threw out Barak, or are they growing tired and giving up? I find that truly unbelievable. This next vote will be pretty crucial, I should think.

[Honestfreedom]

The settlers should have attracted more people to Gaza. If there were 20-30 thousand Jews in Gaza it would have been that much harder to throw them out. And what is happening in the Golan? Why did they not relocate Gaza Jews to there? Are they being set up for Gaza/Amona treatment?

[SJackson]

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[Salem]

A pristine example of the cruelty, vindictiveness, hatred, and moral bankruptcy of the secular left, whether in Israel, or here in America.

Still, have patience in the face of this bitter venom, as the Lord tries in the fire, hearts and minds:

Isa 40:27 ¶ Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my God?

Isa 40:28 Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.

Isa 40:29 He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.

Isa 40:30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:

Isa 40:31 But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

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[Convert from ECUSA]

"Ha'aretz: Neutri Karta with journalism degrees."

ROFL! Ain't that the truth!

[Slings and Arrows]

Thanks! I include Larry Derfner in that description.