Sharon to Demolish the Synagogues and Religious Schools in Gaza
Picture Synagogues and Jewish religious schools being demolished, Jews being taken from their homes, forced to leave by soldiers and police officers, and once thriving Jewish businesses being evacuated to be taken over by a foreign government. It sounds like something you might have read in a history textbook covering the Nazi invasion of Poland, or the raising of the Ghettos in Nazi Germany doesn’t it?
Sadly, this vision will become a reality in 2005, and it won’t be carried out by Nazis, but by Jews. In August, Sharon’s government will engage in a form of ethnic cleansing preparing the way for Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and a terrorist supporting government to take over Jewish land…….again. As resisting Jews are dragged from their homes by their own people, we’ll likely hear reports of Qassam rockets raining down on the evacuating Israeli civilians, and homicide bombers will exchange death for a chance at Paradise in record numbers. These bombs and rockets will be launched by Palestinian terrorists for the purposes of creating an illusion. The illusion they hope to give the world will be one of Jews running from their Arab tormentors as Islamic terrorism triumphantly gains ground in its quest to push Israel into the sea. For those who doubt any attacks will be launched on evacuating settlers, Hamas has openly admitted and announced to the media their intentions.
The repercussions from rewarding decades of terrorism and murder will be Sharon’s legacy. The blood of innocent Jews will be on his hands when the inevitable terrorist attacks resume, this time, from a new front closer to the heart of Israel.
All of this will happen UNLESS the growing Israeli opposition can stop it, or the Palestinian terrorists escalate terrorist attacks to a level that makes the evacuation impossible. In my opinion a combination of both is quite possible.
The planned date for the withdrawal from all 21 Gaza settlements and four in the West Bank was postponed from July 20, ostensibly out of consideration for the religious Jews observing a three-week mourning period, beginning on Sunday, for the destruction of the biblical Jewish temples.
A decision to demolish the synagogues and religious schools in the evacuated settlements is bound to antagonise further the 9,000 settlers who are due to leave Gaza, especially since Mr Sharon had originally ordered that the buildings be dismantled and brought to Israel.
Brigadier-General Uzi Moscovich, head of a division assigned to the Gaza pullout, said that it would be impractical as the larger religious structures would take up to five days to demolish with bulldozers, disrupting the pullout timetable.
Army rabbis have not objected to the use of explosives. “We will bring the . . . explosives and blow them up,†General Moscovich said during a briefing. “This is for practical and symbolic reasons.â€
Symbolic reasons indeed. Jewish history is repleat with that kind of symbolism.
For more on the disastrous affects this plan will likely have, see here.
