This is what happens when those in authority forget the admonition of Ex 34:12-16. Are you listening, Bibi?
Posted on 09/02/2012 4:10:01 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
The eviction of Israeli families from Migron on Sunday brought back painful memories for many of the 9,000 citizens expelled from Gush Katif in 2005. Now Katif expellees are asking the government for just one thing: leave the synagogue standing.
“We, who seven years ago felt on our flesh the Israeli government’s decision to uproot our lives and our towns in Gush Katif, are pained and shocked today at the fact that the Israeli government is repeating the terrible mistake, and crime, of demolishing settlement and uprooting homes in Migron,” wrote Eliezer Orbach of the Gush Katif Residents’ Committee, in a letter to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.
“In Gush Katif, after much debate, it was decided not to destroy buildings of religious significance,” he continued. “After the fact, with the families evicted from Migron, we call to you to please not be part of the demolition of the synagogue and mikveh [ritual bath – ed.] in Migron.”
The Gush Katif synagogues were left standing, and were seized by Gaza Arabs, who desecrated most of them.
Orbach criticized the decision to evict families from Migron at all. “After most of the lands in the town of Migron were purchased from their Palestinian owners, justice – and common sense – dictated that the State Attorney’s Office should have been the one to go the Supreme Court and request to overturn the [expulsion] order,” he said.
In fact, the State Attorney’s Office supported expulsion even after the land purchase deal – despite having stated prior to the deal that they would change their opinion if there were a proper land purchase.
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This is why The G-d of Israel turns away. This is Isaiah’s prophecy writ large.
Why don’t these people shoot at the Druze IDF who come to evict them?
Praying for the residents of Migron, may they find justice. But why would they want to leave the synagogue and mikveh standing? A present for the Palestinians to do with as they please?
This is what happens when those in authority forget the admonition of Ex 34:12-16. Are you listening, Bibi?
They’ll be gone eventually, and then we’ll need a synagogue and a mikveh.
That would justify retaliation, and that would lead to civil war. Menachem Begin’s Irgun did not retaliate to the tale bearing of the Hagana, nor the destruction of the Altalena or the deliberate stiffing of former Irgun forces during the War of Independence, and the many slanders that circulated against them afterwards, because he knew that a civil war would destroy the emerging state before it became a reality. It could still destroy us.
I believe they will, but my question is will the synagogue and mikveh still be standing? Look at what the Philistines did when Israel abandoned Gaza! And assuming they are still standing, it doesn’t take too much of imagination to guess in what condition they would be. What would it take to make them usable again?
If they’re going to desecrate it in the usual way, burning it to the ground and hitting it with their shoes as they fire shots in the air and all that crap, they’ll do that. Why save them the work? The sin will be theirs. If it’s still standing when we get it back, we’ll clean it out and use it.
BTW, I've been reading so much lately about Ulpana, Migron, Amona... If I remember correctly you are in Remat Mamre. I have googled the name and came up with nothing. Is it a so-called illegal settlement? Are you at any risk of eviction?
It might have been once. Right now it’s officially a part of Kiryat Arba, just outside Hebron. The building in which I lived was once illegal, but later got legalized. Now it’s Mitzpe Avihai’s turn to be illegal for about a decade.
Anyway, cleaning a synagogue is about the same as renovating a house. The Hadassa House in Hebron was used as a sheep kennel and manure depot from 1929 until the ‘70s, when it was slowly and lovingly cleaned and reestablished as an apartment complex with playground, synagogue and other amenities. Avraham Avinu, the neighborhood in Hebron where the big massacre took place, remains in dispute but is now solidly Jewish, lovingly renovated and still being worked on. The Slobodka Yeshiva building still remains closed to Jews and is in either Area B or A. Tel Romada and the tombs of Ruth and Yishai are now Jewish neighborhoods, and an ancient synagogue has been excavated. That’s where Abraham sat down with Ephron the Hittite and bought the Cave for his wife Sara. The day will come. We’ll get it all back. We’ve had millenia of patience, but won’t have to wait much longer.
The building in which I live, I mean.
I'm relieved to hear that
but won’t have to wait much longer
I agree 100%. The 70th week of Daniel is around the corner and I believe that Israel will own the land from the Nile to the Euphrates.
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