David Wilder January 06, 2014
Ariel Sharon is dying. It’s not considered nice to say bad things
about dead people, especially immediately after their passing. So I’m
writing this while he’s still alive. Barely.
When I heard the news
I wasn’t sure if I wanted to laugh or cry. Laugh, that finally, he’s
leaving us. Or cry, because his ‘this world’ suffering is coming to an
end.
That’s how much I like Ariel Sharon. He had many positions, and many titles. I will remember him as a monster.
When
elected to the office of Prime Minister in March, 2001, the 2nd
Intifada, or what we call the Olso War, was well underway. Terror
attacks, shootings, and the like had begun. In Hebron, Arab terrorists
had taken positions on the hills surrounding the Jewish neighborhoods
and were shooting at us like ducks in a pond. Great for target practice,
but not when the targets are men, women and children, in their homes,
cars, or just plain walking down the street.
Sharon could have stopped it. He didn’t. It continued for almost a
year and a half, here in Hebron. Only after the Passover Massacre in
Netanya and the killing of five year old Danielle Shefi at Adura, just
outside of Hebron, did he finally put an end to the nightmare. He was
Prime Minister when most of the over 1,500 people murdered during that
war. He could have stopped it. He didn’t.
But that was just the beginning.
The expulsion from Gush Katif
and the Northern Shomron, abandoning the southern tip of Israel to
Hamas, brought over 13,000 rockets into Israel, into Ashkelon, Ashdod
and Tel Aviv. To this very day.
Actually, it began with Menachem Began. He set the precedent, with
Ariel Sharon as his right-hand man, implementing the expulsions from
Sinai. There Sharon learned that it is possible to forcibly remove Jews
from their homes, destroy Jewish communities and abandon land to our
enemy.
It is written about Omri, an evil king: “Why did Omri, Ahab's father,
receive the kingdom? For adding one city to Israel (Sanhedrin 102:B).
‘Go and learn the strength of the Mitzvah of building a settlement in
Eretz Israel, until even though it is said about him, "and Omri did evil
in the sight of the L-rd and more that all of those before him" –
despite this he was awarded the kingdom because, in the future, he was
to build one city in Israel’ (Maharsha).
An evil man was granted the kingdom in order to allow him to add a
city to Israel, to buy land and make it a part of the state. What then
is the punishment of people who remove cities from Israel, abandoning
the land, expelling the people, endangering the population?
What happened to them, what was their fate: Begin, the hero of Jewish
underground, the leader who destroyed the Iraqi nuclear threat,
secluded himself for years following his resignation as Prime Minister,
unseen until his dying day. Rabin was assassinated. Olmert, one of the
primary initiators of the Gush Katif catastrophe, has undergone numerous
trials on charges of corruption, facing disgrace. Katzav, who as
President refused to oppose the Gush Katif expulsion, imprisoned
following conviction for rape, from the president’s mansion to a jail
cell. Ariel Sharon, suffering the worst kind of hell, neither here nor
there, not dead, not alive, for the past eight years. Some 8,600 people
were expelled from the Gush, a year for every thousand people. And one
can only image what he will face when trying to enter the pearly gates
of heaven.
It is written that there is a ‘place’ somewhere between this world
and the next, called in Hebrew “Kaf HaKelah.” This is a kind of nether
land – not here, not there. It is written that here, such souls who
have so sinned in this world, float around, not being in this world, or
the next, a kind of horrible limbo. Usually, for such deserving souls,
this aspect of punishment happens following a person’s death. In
Sharon’s case, it began here in this world.
There is a story, told now for years, about how a famous Rabbi cursed
Ariel Sharon, saying he should receive a blow on his head. People
approached the Rabbi and expressed their opposition to this curse. So,
the Rabbi then blessed Sharon, saying, ‘he should live a long life.’
It seems that both the ‘curse’ and the ‘blessing’ were achieved.
So
what should this come to teach, what is the lesson for the future? This
is what I ask the present Prime Minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, as he
seems to be negotiating away our land, Eretz Yisrael. Be it Hebron or
Shilo, Gitit in the Jordan Valley, or the Arab villages of the
‘Mishulash, on the eastern Sharon plain, bordering Samaria. This is all
our land. It is clear that, at present, there are at least two parallel
sets of discussions going on; those led by Justice Minister Tzippy Livni
and those being led by Netanyahu himself, seemingly with Abbas, aka Abu
Mazen. The US is pushing, but Israel doesn’t necessarily have to budge.
That’s up to us; it is up to our Prime Minister, Foreign Minister (who
today came out publicly in favor of an agreement), and the Defense
Minister. And the others.
What will be in store for them, what will be their fate, should they choose to walk in the footsteps of Ariel Sharon?
It
is difficult to fathom their blindness, how and why they reach such
depths of absurdity – to even speak of such concessions, of such
abandonment, of such expulsions, again.
One thing is very clear: the United States, and in this case, the
Secretary of State John Kerry, is pushing very hard, harder than any of
his predecessors in recent history. We can only imagine the types of
pressure he is applying on Netanyahu.
However, it should be known, the word ‘Kerry’ in Hebrew has a
distinct meaning: impurity. It is a term utilized to express a tainted
uncleanness, almost a defilement, of body and soul. This term quite
accurately describes the American SoS. Sometimes, such scum can be
contagious. It seems that, in this case, it is starting to rub off on
others.
I can only say: Bibi beware. Don’t fall into the potholes left to you
by Sharon. And to the others, who can join him, or leave him, can
support him or bring him down, your fate is too hanging in the balance.
Purify yourselves from the contamination of Kerry. Before Sharon’s
miserable fate will almost look good to you.
===================================================================== http://www.ruthfullyyours.com/2013/12/30/my-say-the-persons-of-the-year/
MY SAY: THE PERSONS OF THE YEAR
on December 30th, 2013
There
are so many persons of the year worthy of respect, admiration and
support. In Israel the persons of the year are the Jewish residents of
Hebron the biblical first capital of the Jewish people. In spite of
hardship, danger, hostility from neighbors, a vile Western media, one
sided “negotiations” and Israeli leftists…they remain and they persist.
They continue that miraculous link between Abraham and Sarah that has
made our survival as a people possible in spite of every effort to
extinguish our faith. When David Wilder, the spokesmen for the Jewish
community in Hebron speaks of his city, he does not cite the
incoveniences and difficulties of daily life. He calls it a privilege to
live there.
David Wilder at home in Hebron
|
|
No comments:
Post a Comment