Doc's Talk: Save Migron

Friday, April 20, 2012

Save Migron

Nurit Greenger

Not one more Gush Katif; the story of the Friends of Migron.

There was time when I did not understand the ambiguous policy of the government of Israel. Then I also did not know much about the Jewish pioneering in Gaza, Judea and Samaria. I am not to blame, I am a Jewess living in the United States. In 2004, as in each year, I attended the Independence Day of Israel Festival, an event that takes place, each year, in Los Angeles. There I met a bunch of orange shirt wearers who introduced me to Gush Katif and the expulsion and destruction it was facing. Of course I signed the petition and in my mind I thought, the government of Israel simply cannot do such an evil deed; Jews simply do not expel other Jews from their homes and make them homeless overnight; these Jewish pioneers will remain to live where they are after all and all will be hunky-dory and good.

How wrong I was.

A year later, regardless of the petitions, demonstrations, the outcry and the political rhetoric, in August 2005, the Government of Israel sent the Israeli army to Gush Katif and in a massive operation, that till today remains an enigma of how they pulled it to me, destroyed every single home and structure and forcibly expelled the 8,600 residents of Gush Katif. As it turned out to be, this unilateral disengagement plan that Ariel Sharon, the Prime Minister at that time, convinced his government to support was a total failure and it has set back and badly compromised Israel's security in the south of the country.

The videos that were filmed and published during the Gush Katif expulsion were horrendous and hard to watch. The violence the Israeli military used, the vicious destruction of beautiful homes and synagogues was hard to believe it took place, but it did. Flourishing and profitable communities vanished over night as if a tsunami came ashore and washed them all away. Gish Katif became a rubble.

Did Israel gain anything positive from the disengagement, as Ariel Sharon promised she would? Yes [sic], thousands of rockets and mortars were fired into Israel since, causing fear and chaos and even injuries and death. Yes, millions of dollars more were and are spent to fight the terrorist enclave Gaza and to keep the citizens of Israel safe.

To me, the unilateral disengagement from Gaza was a total failure. More so, it forced me to use a repulsive new terminology, a "Jewish Pogrom," Jews vandalizing other Jews, Jews expelling other Jews.

The anti-Semitic Russians of the Kishinev Pogrom that took place on April 6-7, 1903 were laughing in their graves. We are now exonerated they have said if they were alive; if Jews can do it to other Jews, surely it is acceptable that non-Jews, who hate Jews, can do the same.

In 1967, in a brilliant and rather miraculous military operation that will be part of warfare studies in military schools, Israel gained territories she lost in her 1948 War of Independence, i.e. Gaza Strip, gained from Egyptian control, Judea and Samaria gained from Jordanian control, and some land on the Golan Heights, gained from Syrian control. Israel became a country from the [Jordan] River to the [Mediterranean] Sea, just as God promised.

As the Bible tells us, in a special Covenant between God and man, in this alliance God has given Abraham and his seed after him a divine promise that cannot be waived. Genesis Chapter 15: On that that day God made a Covenant with Avram saying, to your seed, I give this land, from the river of Egypt, to the big river, the Euphrates River ... "

Gush Katif, meaning, Harvest Bloc, was a bloc of seventeen Israeli communities in the Gaza Strip in southern Israel. Late Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin emphasized the fact that Gush Katif was essential to Israel's security border. Ariel Sharon did not care what Rabin said; he had his agenda he was going to force on the nation through lies and deception.

Gush Katif was not the only place Jews settled after the 1976 Six Day War victory.

With the stamp of approval from the Government of Israel, Jews began settling in their ancient land in Judea and Samaria as well. However instead of making this land a natural part of Israel's sovereignty, Israel chose to exclude it and maintained the territory under military control and law. In other words, no matter that Judea and Samaria is a mighty important territory to Israel's security, it could fall victim to another unilateral disengagement, just like Gush Katif did.

Today, forty-five years after the Six Day War, there are approximately 300,000 Jews living in Judea and Samaria; in other words, should such expulsion take place, it means, approximately 35 times the size of Gush Katif expulsion. Who can tolerate that? I cannot!

To add more fuel to the fire, in 1993, in the Oslo Accords, the government of Israel came up with a new, not at all smart idea: to give the Arabs land, in Judea and Samaria, to establish their own country Palestine. Israel also conceded to their newly acclaimed name "Palestinians" thus giving birth to a new Arab nation that never existed before. Through the Arabs consider all of the state of Israel to be "their" Palestine, Israel thought that by conceding to such Arab state idea, the Arabs will get off their goal to conquer all of Israel's land, expels [or kill] all Jews and bring to an end the Zionist enterprise. How wrong in her thinking was Israel again. By signing the Oslo Accords Israel conceded to a new onslaught and warfare, political, media, diplomatic and intellectual terrorism the Arabs launched on her.

Learning the lessons from Gush Katif, seeing how the Supreme court, the Defense Ministry and even the Prime Minister's office act when it comes to the Jews living in Judea and Samaria one can only predict, with trepidation, that more government wickedness is being prepared for their constituent Jews. Knowing that the Government of Israel cannot be trusted, after all they lied in their promises to the nation in order to convince the people that Gush Katif destruction will yield good, precautions must be taken.

Along its fickleness, the government of Israel has created a new, but dark history, of approving and then destroying communities in Judea and Samaria. To mention one is the notorious and violent expulsion of Jews from Amona, a community that was once part of Mateh Binyamin.

The Amona pogrom פוגרום עמונה: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMtltu16pGk

פינוי עמונה - Amona Pogrom: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mx1xY0KmRsg

But harsh reality made me understand that surprises may come and soon.

The expulsion from Gush Katif was a shock to the nation, more so, a shock to me. A repeat is such action is unacceptable.

With the clear view that the policy of the Israeli Defense Ministry is bias toward Jews living in Judea and Samaria, I see the much spoken about case of the community of Migron a time bomb, ready to explode.

Migron, founded in 1999 in Samaria-Shomron, with full approval and support of the government of Israel, is a community of 50 families with over 300 Jewish souls, and is now in danger of destruction.

The anti-Israel, pro-Arab-"Palestinians" organization Peace Now searched and found some Arabs who can come forward to claim that they owned the land, with absolutely no proof. Along their standard approach to harassing Israelis and the legal system of Israel, Peace Now then went to the High Court of Israel and made the claim to the land on behalf of the Arabs. The court then ordered the community of Migron to be evacuated on the 1st August 2012.

Early April 2012 a friend from Australia, who was greatly involved in petitioning against the destruction and evacuation of Gush Katif asked me if I will be part of a global petition to save Migron.

Reading reliable legal opinion that Migron has the full legal right to remain where it is, I did what any good Jew do, I said yes, and got involved in the petition campaign to save Migron, because, the battle for Migron is mighty important, as the fate of Migorn is the harbinger of the fate of the 300,000 Jews living in Yehuda and Shomron-Judea and Samaria.

Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day, when we, Jews, stand in silence for the duration of the siren, to remember six million Jews who were brutally exterminated by the savage Nazis. The Holocaust began with destroying Jews' property, burning their shops, and ghettoing them before sending them to the Concentrations Camps, the Nazi killing factories. This kind of inhumane behavior was performed in Gush Katif and Amona. (The Jewish People's Rights To The Land Of Israel - http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0065WZM14)

In 1967 Israel did not conquer any land. It gained land that legally belongs to her, which the Arabs occupied since 1949 when the fledgling Israeli army could not defend it from the Arabs' onslaught.

It is time to end the two state policy; there is no room for another Arab state in Judea and Samaria;

It is time to end any and all destructions of Jewish communities, even if it is still considered to be an "outpost";

It is time to annex the entire Judea and Samaria and admit, to ourselves first, that the land from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea is legally Jewish Land;

It is time to open the economic gate and offer huge incentives to settle every possible square kilometer of Judea and Samaria; build and build our ancient Jewish land;

It is time to reverse the Supreme Court Order and allow Migorn to remain and thrive on the precise land it was founded;

It is time for the government of Israel to become the people of the Torah;

It is time to end any and all Jews against Jews actions; Jews do not demolish other Jews' homes. Jews do not uproot one Jewish tree; Jews do not destroy one Jewish home, even if it is a caravan, in which Jews dwell. Jews do not destroy Jewish synagogues. The Government of Israel must immediately end the Pogroms it conducts, on a regular basis, in Judea and Samaria

Please join us, Friends of Migron International and the campaign to save Migron now.
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I am asking you to please sign this important Petition and then please spread it WIDE:

The link for the petition in English:

http://www.yeshuv.org/mission/save-migron

The link for the petition in Hebrewהעתירה בעברית-: http://www.yeshuv.org/mission/save-migron/hebrew

The link for the petition in Spanish:

http://www.yeshuv.org/mission/save-migron/spanish

The link for the petition in Italian:

http://www.yeshuv.org/mission/save-migron/italiano

The link for the petition in French:

http://www.yeshuv.org/mission/save-migron/french

The link for the petition in German:

http://www.yeshuv.org/mission/save-migron/german

The link for the petition in Russian:

http://www.yeshuv.org/mission/save-migron/russian

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The IDF’s Minorities in Numbers and Pictures

In honor of IDF Diversity Week, we present diversity through numbers and pictures. Each year, more and more Muslims, Christians, Druze, Bedouin and immigrants from around the world take on the responsibility of defending Israel.

MUSLIMS:

Muslim Arab Israelis are not required to draft in the IDF, but there are many who volunteer. In 2013, there were over 200 Muslims serving in the IDF and over 300 in the reserves.

Bedouins:

Bedouins are nomadic Muslims who were in Israel when modern borders were set in place and are now considered Israeli citizens. They are not required to draft but a growing number choose to enlist. In 2012, there were over 1,400 Bedouin Muslim soldiers doing regular IDF service and almost 1,500 in the reserves.

Read more:http://www.idfblog.com/2014/02/27/truth-idf-numbers-pictures/#more-34027

Are you aware that in 2013, Middle class taxes go up-significantly?

In January of next year, the federal income tax rate for middle-class taxpayers is scheduled to rise from 25 percent to 28 percent, and the payroll tax is scheduled to rise from 13.3 percent to 15.3 percent… This drives the marginal tax rate based on the aforementioned three taxes to 48.12 percent. Add in state and local property, corporate, excise, and other state and local taxes, and the percentage of each additional dollar that is taxed hovers around 50 percent… When half of each additional dollar earned is taxed away, taxpayers experience a disincentive to start businesses or expand existing ones. This leads to fewer jobs being created.

Why is HAMAS Inside Tampa Schools?

Clare Lopez

Kelly Miliziano, who teaches history classes at Steinbrenner High School in the Tampa, Florida area apparently thinks it’s perfectly OK to invite a senior official of a HAMAS-affiliated organization into her classroom to discuss Islam with her students. According to local media reports, not only has this been going on for years, but in spite of the civil and criminal proceedings that could result from such reckless negligence, the Hillsborough County school superintendent, Mary Ellen Elia, and the chairman of the school board, Candy Olson, also expressed approval for students under their responsibility to be exposed repeatedly to guest speaker, Hassan Shibly, who is the Executive Director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in the Tampa area.
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Did You Know... Ignoring the Call to Islam will Bring Jihad

‘Conquest through Da’wa [proselytizing] that is what we hope for. We will conquer Europe, we will conquer America! Not through sword but through Da’wa.’
-- Yousef al-Qaradawi , Muslim Brotherhood spiritual leader The Arabic word ‘Da’wa’ means the “call to Islam.” But do not think that Da’wa is the same thing as an invitation to an optional holiday event. The classical Islamic doctrine of jihad mandates that enemies must be given the opportunity to convert to Islam or pay the jizya tax before it is permissible to attack them.
Clare M. Lopez

Who is being discriminated-facts tell the truth

Religious bias

Hate crimes motivated by religious bias accounted for 1,409 offenses reported by law enforcement. A breakdown of the bias motivation of religious-bias offenses showed:

65.4 percent were anti-Jewish.
13.2 percent were anti-Islamic.
9.5 percent were anti-other religion, i.e., those not specified.
4.3 percent were anti-Catholic.
3.8 percent were anti-multiple religions, group.
3.3 percent were anti-Protestant.
0.5 percent were anti-Atheism/Agnosticism/etc.

http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/hate-crime/2010/narratives/hate-crime-2010-incidents-and-offenses.

On March 31, 1977, the Dutch newspaper Trouw published an interview

with PLO executive committee member Zahir Muhsein. Here's what he said:

"The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct "Palestinian people" to oppose Zionism.

For tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa, while as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan."

In March 1977, Zahir Muhsein, a PLO executive, said:

"The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct Palestinian people to oppose Zionism."

"For tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa, while as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan."

The Arab Apartheid

Ben-Dror Yemini
In 1948, the Arab countries refused to accept the UN partition proposal and they launched a war of annihilation against the State of Israel which had barely been established. All precedents in this matter showed that the party that starts the war - and with a declaration of annihilation, yet - pays a price for it. Between 550,000 and 710,000 Arabs fled because of the war and a larger number of 850,000 Jews were expelled or fled from Arab countries (the "Jewish nakba").
Population exchanges and expulsions were the norm at that time, occurring in dozens of other conflict points and affecting about 52 million people. In all the population exchange precedents that occurred during or at the end of an armed conflict, there was no return of refugees to the previous region, which had turned into a new national state.
Only the Arab states acted completely differently from the rest of the world. Instead of assimilating the refugees, they crushed them despite the fact that they were their coreligionists and members of the Arab nation - instituting a regime of apartheid. So the "nakba" was not caused by the actual dispossession, which had also been experienced by tens of millions of others. The "nakba" is the story of the apartheid, oppression, abuse and denial of rights suffered by the Arab refugees at the hands of the Arab countries. (Maariv)

International Law and Military Operations in Practice - Col. Richard Kemp

"Islamist fighting groups study the international laws of armed conflict carefully and they understand it well. They know that a British or Israeli commander and his men are bound by international law and the rules of engagement that flow from it. They then do their utmost to exploit what they view as one of their enemy's main weaknesses. Their very modus operandi is built on the correct assumption that Western armies will normally abide by the rules, while these insurgents employ a deliberate policy of operating consistently outside international law. "

Lost Historical Moments

What Rabin’s last Knesset speech really said:repudiation of a Palestinian state

Rabin ruled out a fully sovereign Palestinian state :

“We view the permanent solution in the framework of State of Israel which will include most of the area of the Land of Israel as it was under the rule of the British Mandate, and alongside it a Palestinian entity which will be a home to most of the Palestinian residents living in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. We would like this to be an entity which is less than a state, and which will independently run the lives of the Palestinians under its authority.”

Rabin ruled out a total withdrawal from Judea and Samaria and thus a return to the pre-June 1967 borders :

“The borders of the State of Israel, during the permanent solution, will be beyond the lines which existed before the Six Day War. We will not return to the 4 June 1967 lines.”

Rabin ruled out withdrawing form the Jordan Valley:

“The security border of the State of Israel will be located in the Jordan Valley, in the broadest meaning of that term.”

Rabin ruled out uprooting settlement blocs, like the Gush Katif bloc in Gaza (which was subsequently uprooted by former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon):

“The establishment of blocs of settlements in Judea and Samaria, like the one in Gush Katif.

AND

Rabin ruled out removing any settlement before coming to a full peace agreement with the Palestinians:

“I want to remind you: we committed ourselves, that is, we came to an agreement, and committed ourselves before the Knesset, not to uproot a single settlement in the framework of the interim agreement, and not to hinder building for natural growth.”

Rabin insisted on Israel retaining full security control of the borders with Egypt and Jordan, contrary to Israel’s relinquishment of the Philadelphia Corridor on the border with Egypt:

“The responsibility for external security along the borders with Egypt and Jordan, as well as control over the airspace above all of the territories and Gaza Strip maritime zone, remains in our hands.”

Correcting Oslo Myths-Part 2

3) Kuttab laments that the post-1993 Oslo process resulted in a Palestinian Authority "whose ministers and legislators are not guaranteed passage between Gaza and the West Bank ...."

Before free passage or other perquisites, PA leaders were obligated, among other things, to eliminate the terrorist infrastructure in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, end anti-Israeli, antisemitic incitement in schools, mosques, and communications media, and resolve all outstanding issues through peaceful negotiations. They met none of these commitments, sometimes bolstering terrorism and greatly increasing incitement.

4) Kuttab complains that under Oslo the PA got "lightly armed police ---- but no real sovereignty over the land or contiguity between our communities in Gaza and the West Bank."

Oslo agreements repeatedly were revised, regardless of Palestinian non-compliance, until the authorized number of police grew from 8,000 to 40,000. Though they were to be the only armed forces in the territories, Israeli estimates early in the second intifada put the number of gunmen - police, "security services," terrorists, and armed gangs - at 85,000. Their armament reportedly included not only heavy machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades, but also anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles.

Sovereignty was to be negotiated in the envisioned 1998 "final status" talks - after a five-year period of confidence-building. Palestinian leadership chronically undermined the process. Palestinian terrorism made the 1993 - 1998 Oslo period more deadly for Israelis than the 15 years preceding it.

The United States doesn't have contiguity between the lower 48 states and Alaska and Hawaii; territorial contiguity between the West Bank and Gaza Strip - that is, through the 20 miles of Israeli territory between them - was never promised and would destroy Israeli contiguity.

5) "Palestinians have been made to endure hundreds of checkpoints in the West Bank, an eight-foot wall deep in our territories, and tight Israeli control over borders."

The security barrier is not "deep in Palestinian territories," but rather encompasses less than 8 percent of Judea and Samaria, and is mostly a fence, rarely a wall; the land in question is not "our [Palestinian] territories" but disputed territory to which, according to the authors of U.N. Security Council Resolution 242, Jews as well as Arabs have claims; and there are no international borders, only the 1949 armistice lines with Jordan. Under 242, borders remain to be negotiated. As for checkpoints - like the security barrier and "tight Israeli control" - Palestinian Arabs precipitated these measures themselves. No terrorism and there would be no fence or tight Israeli control and few checkpoints - like before the first intifada.

Correcting Some Oslo Myths

1) In Oslo "Israeli, Palestinian and other world leaders promised that ... Palestinian sovereignty would be solidified."

No, they didn't. The 1993 Declaration of Principles and subsequent Oslo agreements outlined a process by which final status negotiations about the West Bank and Gaza Strip would be reached. The process required an end to anti-Israel terrorism and incitement and a commitment to peaceful negotiations. The PA, Fatah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and other terrorist groups, sabotaged the process from the start.

2) "The reality is that, in defiance of U.N. Security Council Resolution 242, which states that it is inadmissible to occupy land by force, Palestinian territories are still under foreign military occupation."
Wrong again. Resolution 242 (1967) does note "the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war." It also affirms the right of every state in the area "to live in peace with secure and recognized boundaries free from threats or acts of force." There were no "Palestinian territories." Jordan occupied the West Bank, Egypt controlled Gaza. Israel did not have "secure and recognized boundaries," so retention of some of those territories was possible under 242. Israel is not a "foreign" military occupier in the West Bank but, pending final negotiations, the lawful military administrator as a result of a successful war of self-defense.

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