| Not a Personal Struggle |
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| Written by David Ha'Ivri | |
| Feb 08, 2005 at 02:50 PM | |
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The Yesha Council recently set out on a campaign entitled: "The Struggle for our Homes", which included the well publicized gimmick of a human chain from Gush Katif to the Western Wall in Jerusalem, culminating in a young girl from Gaza placing a note in the wall. In order to finance this campaign, the Yesha Council turned directly to the residents of Yehuda Shomron and Gaza to foot the bill of 3 million NIS.
It turned out that the Yesha Council hadn't yet repaid its debts from previous campaigns. The bulk of this debt was owed to public relations advisors and advertising professionals who sold the Yesha Council meaningless slogans at an inflated price to print on thousands of signs, full page newspaper ads and public busses. Being in no financial position to finance another campaign, they were forced to go "begging" to the residents of Yesha for money. The Yesha Council has more or less gone bankrupt. The financial bankruptcy is a direct result of their ideological bankruptcy. The people who tried so hard to remain in the "consensus" by arranging careful demonstrations and PR campaigns with empty messages, were eventually exposed as a body bereft of any ideology whatsoever causing their supporters to lose interest in their grandiose campaigns. The constant stream of empty meaningless slogans makes it clear that those writing them have no idea what the struggle is really about. The slogan "A Palestinian State is a Prize for Terror" implies that were it not for Arab terror, it would be perfectly acceptable to hand them over parts of our ancestral heritage. The slogan: "The Struggle for our Homes" implies that we are only concerned with the financial loss of the residents who will be expelled from their homes, when the real issue is the Chillul Hashem of banishing the Jewish People from Eretz Yisrael, the land given to us by G-d. We need to declare the truth! � The Land of Israel belongs to the Jewish People! Whoever attempts to find favor in the eyes of the "nation" by distorting the problem as being merely a personal injustice to the residents of Gush Katif, is defeating the entire purpose of the struggle! The fact is, the residents of Yehuda, Shomron and Gaza are sick and tired of the Yesha council who for so long has failed to represent them. On top of this, the nation isn't even buying into their ideologically vapid slogans. A study released not long ago by Haifa University showed that 1.5 million citizens of Israel support the path of Rabbi Kahane! The Divine right to the Land of Israel which is deeply engrained in the heart of every Jew is not in question. We don't need gimmicks to arouse these sentiments and reap the sympathy of the nation. We already are in the national consensus � it is only the corrupt government and media cartel which do an excellent job of hiding the fact. The only thing necessary today is the courage to proclaim the truth - The Land of Israel belongs to the Jewish People! This isn't a personal issue, it is a national one. No one cares about the potential financial loss to the "settlers", especially since Sharon has promised to pay them compensation. We are dealing with a betrayal of one of the basic tenets of the Jewish faith. The land of Israel collectively belongs to all the Jewish People - An Eternal Gift from G-d. End of discussion� |
