The Western image of tough Israeli settlers is just another media lie. The early settlers, leftists, were indeed tough. They enjoyed full governmental backing, and they were strong and proud of it. Since the 1970s and especially the 1980s, the face of the settlers has changed: they are religious conservatives, at odds with the government, and thus habitually insecure.
Settler leaders developed an understanding with the government that anti-establishment rhetoric would be permitted, and some clashes allowed, but no major resistance would take place. This happened infamously in Kfar-Maimon, when the chief settlers sent a huge crowd of Gush Katif defenders in a roundabout march along the fence to exhaust the crowd. The understanding held for the Beit HaShalom evacuation: the leaders’ goal has been to erect hurdles before the evicting forces, and that’s it. Obviously, those amateur hurdles couldn’t stop the well-trained and battle-hardened government forces. So it came down to farce.
It took the military police hardly an hour after a surprise attack to clear the entire building of its hapless defenders, who were mostly disorganized kids. Almost immediately after the police broke into the building, the defenders started walking out—and who would expect yeshiva kids to do anything else when they don’t even have physical training lessons in their school? Girls and women have acted more bravely.
Considering the circumstances, the violence was minimal. Dozens of the defenders were lightly wounded, but the violence fell far short of a typical crowd dispersal in any civilized country. Four were seriously wounded as the police clubbed their way into the rooms. Tear gas and stun grenades fall short even of the summer’s pogrom in Mea Shearim, where police used colored water cannons.
Typically for the evacuations, kids tried to kick the policemen in riot gear—to no avail, of course. Others prayed as were being dragged—also to no avail, because God doesn’t perform miracles for those who wait for them passively. Aiming incompetently for a PR effect, local men left their wives with small children crowded in one room—but policemen brought the wall down and escorted the abandoned ladies out relatively politely.
The evacuation went so smoothly, it was as if the government merely slapped the settlers in the face. Insulted at the eviction’s straightforwardness, some started low-level riots and hurled stones at Palestinian houses, and one man non-lethally shot a few random Palestinians. Palestinians, in their turn, engaged in a stone-throwing contest with Beit HaShalom’s defenders.
The settlers will try to re-enter the houses despite the army post there.
There is no point in condemning the government. Of course, it only consists of rodef and malshin traitors who don’t even realize the obscenity of evicting Jews as Palestinian rockets keep falling on Sderot and hundreds of Jewish petitions are pending against Palestinian squatters. The eviction demonstrated decisively the settler movement’s political bankruptcy. The official right-wingdom is still worse. Bizarrely, Uri Ariel, Yuval Steinitz, et al., denounced the grassroots violence that is the right’s only hope to prevail against the leftist monster of a state.
Hardly coincidentally, the state prosecutor closed a major investigation against Olmert, the Bank Leumi privatization case. His thirty pieces of silver were meted out in exchange for Olmert’s acquiescence to the Hebron eviction.
MACCABEAN RESISTANCE RALLY
“Thus Says the L-rd of Hosts, “They shall build, but I will Throw Down; and they shall be called, ‘The border of wickedness,’ and ‘The people against whom the
L-rd has Indignation for ever. ’ ” Mal’Akhi/Malachi 1:4
At a day in time where many a blind guide is putting darkness for light and light for darkness in the name of peace and security, we who carry the Burden of the L-rd within our hearts must sharpen our focus as the Festival of Lights draws near this Holiday Season. In the spirit of the Maccabees, who overcame pagan occupation within the Promised Land, 165 B.C.E., and under the banner of a non-proselytizing solidarity movement called the Maccabean Resistance, we call on Jewish and Christian groups in America and throughout the world to rally within their respective capitals and local communities during the eight days of Chanukkah.
The Maccabean Resistance will hold a rally in Washington D.C. on December 21st, the eve of Chanukkah:
? To denounce a ”two-state solution” for Israel
? To warn of further Divine Judgment against our country if its leaders do
not relent from calls to divide even one more grain of Promised Land sand
? To proclaim opposition to our foreign policy of pushing Israel to capitulate to the “palestinian” Authority: the whitewashed pLO terrorist organization that still promotes the pLO Covenant’s stated agenda to destroy the Jewish State
? To speak out against attempts by our Administration to stifle Jewish growth in the Jewish Homeland
? To support Israel’s Divine Right to settle all of Her Biblical Inheritance
? To express our unwavering solidarity with the owner and residents of Beit HaShalom (the Peace House) in Hebron, the City where our Biblical Patriarchs and Matriarchs rest
? To counter the campaign of demonization against the Hilltop Youth and Jewish Homesteaders for their resistance efforts against yet another “palestinian” ploy to steal legally redeemed Jewish Land
? To speak out against the Islamic revolutionary agenda that threatens Israel and our entire global village
Bible Believers who call upon the Name of the L-rd of Hosts, the G-d of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, must work together to create a unified bloc that will be a force to reckon with during these days of tribulation. The prophetic events related to the rebirth of Israel place the tiny Jewish Nation in the crosshairs of the principalities of darkness that have been unleashed on the earth today. The advent of the modern-day Islamic Revolution with its signature form of expression –- terrorism — is causing worldwide upheaval. Nowhere is Islam more virulent than in Israel. The Arab-Muslim bloc has been waging an Islamic war by proxy on
G-d’s Land through the so-called “palestinian” people, who are, in reality, Sunnis from the surrounding nations. Rallying together, we will raise awareness among our political leaders and citizens regarding the threat that the Islamic Revolution presents, first and foremost to Israel, then to the rest of civilized society.
By banding together, we can express our solidarity and support for those Jewish Homesteaders who are standing in faith on the hills of Judea and Samaria, the Biblical Heartland of Israel. Under the current leadership of hard-line leftists, there are plans to abandon yet even more numerous thriving Jewish communities that serve as a first line of defense for hundreds of thousands of Jewish residents throughout the Land of Israel. Should a two-state “solution” be realized, most Jewish communities of Judea and Samaria would be uprooted and displaced, just as had happened with the Gush Katif communities, where some 8000 Jewish residents were torn from their homes in August of 2005 and to this day many remain displaced. Jerusalem would be ripped in half and most of Biblical Israel would be plunged back into the dark ages of Arab rule and destruction. If this retreat from Jewish soil were to take place, Israel would be dissected into two sections of indefensible land and the Jewish soul of the country would be decimated. We can, and must, resist the removal of Jewish homesteads from any part of the Land of Israel.
In the footsteps of the Maccabees, therefore, we servants of the G-d of Israel are duty bound to take up our positions in the struggle against the dark forces that are waging a jihad for religious domination over G-d’s Land and His Elect. We must put our faith into action by holding our leaders to G-dly accountability. While G-d is Redeeming His Land and Re-gathering the Remnant of Jacob in accordance with Ancient Prophecies, the nations can participate in this Divine Process, and thus bring Blessing upon their lands, or they can attempt to hinder His mighty Hand and be Wiped Away with the dust of Time.
The Maccabean Resistance rally will take place in front of the White house from noon to three o’clock, December 21, 2008/Kislev 21, 5769 at LaFayette Square, on the north side of the White House.
If you are not able to rally with us in D.C., we urge you to take time from your holiday preparations to make your voice heard within your local communities. You can hold a rally at your representative’s office or at a city square. Those who are unable to get out can make phone calls and write letters to their respective leaders. Maccabean Resistance literature, including talking points and informational handouts, can be obtained by contacting us at noretreat@maccabeanresistance.org. We have designed posters that will get noticed and literature that will educate, all of which can be printed from pdf files that are available via Kinko’s or email. T-shirts and hats bearing the Maccabean Resistance emblems are also available. Contact us and we will make sure you are equipped.
Let your voice be heard at the city gates on behalf of righteousness. At this critical time, we cannot be silent on the issue of Israel being divided.
“If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I do not set Yerushalayim above my highest joy.” Tehillim/Psalms 137:6