Nobel Prize Winner Saw "Home Game" Last Night in Jerusalem!!!

I had the pleasure of meeting a nobel prize winner at a "Home Game" screening last night at the Jerusalem Cinematheque.

Professor Yisrael Aumann attended the screening!!!

During the question and answer period with the Producer (me) and Director (Yaron Shane) Professor Aumann took the microphone and said "The movie was Fabulous, strong and Kol Hakavod!!"

I can't tell you how much it means to hear such words from probably the one Jew in our generation to make a Kiddush Hashem on a global scale - not for winning the nobel prize but for winning the nobel prize as a proud Jew!!

Together With his whole family at the ceremony (including grandchildren and great-grandchildren) wearing their shatnez checked formal white suits, with their kippot on their heads, eating kosher food at the whole event and walking to the event after Shabbat even though it started during Shabbat!

I am honored to have met this man and his wife and humbled that he took the time to see "Home Game" and compliment it so.

That is what the whole world saw from the last Jew to win a nobel prize!

Professor Yisrael Robert John Aumann
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_J._Aumann

Why I Refused to Continue to Serve in this War

I wanted to take the opportunity to tell you what made me take the drastic
action that I did.

First of all Olmert and Chalutz have already publicly declared that they can
not promise that they will be able to stop the Hizbullah rockets falling on
Northern Israel.

In addition, the UN is now working on a draft resolution that will allow a
multi national force to patrol South Lebanon and give Lebanon a protected
country status which means that if any other country attacks it, the
international community can then attack back.

Basically, put together, this all means that once the multi-national force is
in South Lebanon and the Hizbullah continue to shoot rockets on Israel, Israel
can NOT defend itself because, if it did, the international community would have
the legal right to attack Israel. This is the ceasefire Israel will be forced
to accept with the direction of the current political leadership.

What does this all have to do with my refusing to serve in the war up North?


Because the best of our soldiers are fighting and dying in house to house
combat in Lebanon and millions of Israelis are refugees because our government
places the lives of the enemy civilians over the lives of our own this is not
a way to fight, period, and definitely not a way to fight a war that must be
won.

Because our government no longer intends to stop the rockets in the North,
just like it has made peace with the fact that the rockets in the South are a
fact of life that Israelis have to live with as well.

Because Olmert is already on record saying that this war is being used to
ensure that an international recognized border is implemented on the East as
well, via the destruction of more yishuvim and the expulsion of more Jews from
their homes in Yehuda and Shomron.

Because this war is allowing Olmert to assist the Hizbullah in setting up
rockets in destroyed communities in Yehuda and Shomron to then fire on Tel Aviv
and the Mercaz

I'm all for beating the Hizbullah, but wake up and realize that is not what
Olmert is trying to do! He already admitted that dismantling the Hizbullah is no
longer a demand in any future ceasefire and Israel is not even demanding that
the international force disarm them but the demand concerning the Hizbullah
will be some lukewarm demand that basically means the Hezbullah will stay put in
Lebanon (maybe a few kilometers away from the border - a lot of good with
rockets that fly 150 kilometers)!

So why are we fighting this war?

Our brave soldiers are dying STAM fighting house to house in a war so that
Olmert can prove to Israelis that we need to destroy yishuvim in Yehuda and
Shomron in order to place a border on the West Bank an act that will then
allow the Hizbullan to fire rockets from the hills of Yehuda and Shomron on the
rest of Israel.

I have taken the very uncomfortable step of refusing to serve in this war in
order to give across a message to the rest of Israel wake up! This war is more
about disinformation and public statements (JUST LIKE THE GERUSH) and less about
actual victorious results.

The government has already given up the fight, the fighting now is just to
"look victorious" before a cease fire is implemented, but the Hizbullah has
already won they have proven to the Arab world that rockets could be shot on
Israel and Israel WON'T do what is necessary to stop it.

Israel CAN do what is necessary, but Israel's current leadership is focused
making ourselves look good in the eyes of the world and not about protecting its
citizens or soldiers. The political echelon and the army leadership no longer
have the moral capacity to defend us as a country.

This is what I protest!

Unless the leadership leading this war changes and the target becomes to beat
the Hizbullah so that NO more rockets fall on Israel in the future from the
North (or from the South) using all military means necessary (and NOT placing
the lives of civilians protecting the enemy before the lives of our own
civilians and soldiers) then I call on the Israeli government to stop this war
now instead of using Israeli civilians and soldiers as pawns in the war to
ensure re-alignment, that will put all of Israel in danger.

Somehow this message has to get across because not enough of us are seeing
through the media spins, so I took it upon myself to take this drastic action so
that people can hopefully start to wake up.

Olmert's public statement on his real purpose of the war (to ensure the
re-alignment plan) allowed me to finally get up the guts to take off my uniform.
He finally revealed the truth for everyone to hear and I thought it would be an
immoral act to let it get by without any public outcry against the way this war
is being manipulated.

I know many of you will disagree with me, but I have had enough of the years
of derelict Israeli policy that has made Jewish lives hefker in our own country.

With all the justification to fight this war please realize that the way our
current leadership is running it, it is yet another derelict policy proving how
Jewish blood is hefker the government has already gone on record that it
doesn't intend to win the war, rather cause as much damage as possible to the
Hizbullah before a ceasefire. Hence the Hizbullah (who will continue to get
rockets from Iran and Syria after a ceasefire) will have won regardless of the
media spins our politicians will come up with.

Yes, we must beat the Hizbullah, AND Syria AND Iran (the real handlers behind
the Hizbullah) but that is not what this war is about unfortunately.

I pray for the safety for all my friends and comrades who are up North
fighting for those who disagree with my action and for those who agree with me
but told me that they are too afraid of the consequences for joining me in my
act.

Screaming this at the top of our lungs after the war would be too late, Am
Yisrael needs to hear this now to hopefully help stop this from all happening
and sometimes drastic actions are necessary to get messages across. Believe me,
this step is most painful for ME and not for any of you who have the luxury of
throwing your two cents into an email and not paying any consequences. This is a
well thought out life decision that will have repercussions on my life today and
in the future in ways that are impossible for me to know today but I took the
decision anyway because I thought it was the correct thing to do.

Disagree with me if you must but also please show respect for a fellow Jew,
neighbor and possibly friend who took a life effecting decision for the benefit
of Am Yisrael.

Achdut is very very important, it is what I strive to achieve day in and day
out as a Jew, but when that feeling of achdut and our actual LIVES, as
civilians and soldiers, are being manipulated and used cynically by politicians
and army generals, then I believe it is better to cause a ruckus to help people
realize that true achdut will only come when the leadership in the country is
true and moral then go along with the charade. The current "achdut" that
everyone wants to preserve in this time of war is only bringing the country to
an even lower level of security and morality than it was at before.

As a little kid in New York City I dreamt of one day serving as an Israeli
soldier and defending the Jewish people in the Land of Israel. I fulfilled that
dream by becoming an infantry soldier in Golani. I have now taken a decision
that stops me from being able to serve again to defend my country on the
battlefield. I cry as I write these words, it is not something that I'm proud
of, not at all. I will have to explain this act to my children whom I hope will
one day be proud soldiers in an Israeli army based on true morality and Jewish
pride. But I will no longer be a pawn of a crooked establishment that has, and
continues to make Jewish lives hefker. No more.

I'm willing to act and pay the price for my decision - what about you?

Over 1,000 people have watched this powerful trailer - have you?

"Home Game" is a must see movie - if you are in Israel then order your tickets now (from the website). If you are anywhere else then contact info@homegamethemovie.com to organize a screening in your community.

Most importantly - forward on the trailer and the movie website

www.homegamethemovie.com

The Fence, The Pigua in Gush Etzion Today and the Establishment

Unfortunately, we all (most of us) knew this killing would start up
again in our area. We all hoped otherwise, but they were false hopes.
I still hope and pray that this is the end, but I have no false hopes.

Unfortunately today, settlers blood is not as red as those belonging
to Israeli citizens within the Green Line.

Which brings us to the fence - as the army has already told our
leaders, the purpose of the fence is ONLY to stop terrorists from
entering Israel (so as to not kill those Israeli citizens with really
red blood). The fact that it places our homes and cars in the
gunsights of the enemy is not important, because the fence is not
supposed to think of how best to defend us.

We also all know that the fence is not a security fence, it is a
Bagatz (High Court of Justice) fence, a route that will hopefully
stand up to the criteria of the Bagatz.

Which brings us to our reality - Israel is no longer a democracy. The
Knesset, the voice of the people, does not make the final decisions
in this country, the High Court of Justice does.

stice Barak's judicial activism means that everything is up to
Judicial judgement, the Knesset does not have a final voice in
deciding policy, the High Court of Justice does.

The laws, the ministers, the Knesset Members all have to make their
decisions based on what the High Court of Justice would approve.

It really does not seem like a bad idea, except for the fact that the
High Court of Justice is made up of a select few individuals who
appoint themselves!!

They mostly all have the same outlook on issues, even if there is the
token religioius Jews, the token Arab etc. All in all, most High
Court decisions regarding religious issues, or Land of Israel issues
are known even before they are discussed.

So, the fence issue....

What can we do to fight the Gush Etzion fence that even cuts out
Jewish owned land in order to consider the needs of the Arabs over
those of the Jews (forget about our security).

I have heard that the Moetza heads want to go to the Bagatz.

BIG MISTAKE, they are the ones who don't care about us to begin with.
Why would they change the route to "their" fence? maybe they'd make a
minor change here or there to at least come out looking like they
care about us. But change it to actually make us safe - does anybody
really think that will happen?

NO, we must protest against the Bagatz fence and protest the
illegitimacy of the Bagatz, the establishment of the establishment,
who are the real policy makers in Israel today.

We must return the country to the people and out of the hands of
Bagatz who are turning Israel into a country of all its citizens back
to the '49 borders.

We must make our voices heard and we must make our actions seen so
that everyone will know that we won't comly with the Bagatz or the
Bagatz fence because they have lost legitimacy in our eyes.

Opening a tik in the Bagatz against the fence just continues to show
that we are poodles to the establishment that are responsible for
ruining this country.

Only when the establishment sees that we no longer view them as
legititmate will we have a chance of returning the country to the
people. So long as we honor their decisions, and respect their
legitmacy, we will continue to be second class citizens in this
country, because the establishment cares more about liberal, Western
values and the lives of our enemies, than Jewish values and our own
lives.

Practical steps to follow...
Avi

Has anyone heard the Shofar?

Hearing the shofar during the Yamim Noraim is supposed to be a sort of wake up call. Have you heard the shofar this year? I mean have you really heard it?

Today Yechezkel Chazani from Netzer Hazani, GK, passed away suddenly in his car while his wife jumped out to buy some food to prepare for the seudah hamafseket. Yechezkel was 52 years old and a father of 6. His oldest is married and was also just expelled from his home in Kfar Yam, GK, and his youngest is 9. All 6 are now fatherless.

After speaking with people from Netzer Hazani and Gush Katif today I heard the same message over and over again - "Sharon killed Yechezkel".

Yechezkel was a healthy man, no known health or psychological issues. He and his family were not on the "special list" for social workers to look after. He was one of the pillars of the Netzer Hazani community and a hard working man who went from being a proud bread earner to unemployed. He and his wife just decided to rent a home in Hispin, as part of their efforts to take control of their lives.

Noone will know the real reasons why Yechezkel passed away. But becoming homeless, jobless and helpless without being abe to trust any official insitution to help, probably didn't assist in keeping Yechezkel healthy.

I think the people of Gush Katif are being too generous when they blame his death on Sharon. The truth is that the Israeli establishment killed Yechezkel, not Sharon. The court system, the judges, the heads of police, the press, the heads of the army etc.

The establishment of Isreal allowed Yechezkel and 8,000 other "salt of the earth" Israeli Jews come to this reality - not only did they allow these people to be expelled from their homes, but they took part in a process that leaves all these expellees with no "solution" of housing or employment one month after being expelled from their homes.

And what about us? Where do we fit in all of this?

8,000 Jews - grandparents, parents, children, teachers, doctors, farmers etc. - are homeless for a month, becoming more and more depressed and helpless as each day passes, and we go on with our regular lives as if nothing has happened. Is that really good?

Many of us are doing chesed to help these families, but few of us are doing anything to make the guilty establishment feel guilty for what its done. Few of us are doing anything to make sure that this picture doesn't repeat itself.

Have you really heard the shofar this year?

To anyone who has has really heard the shofar and realizes that something must be done to change all this - please contact me. There is plenty to do, even after you come home from your daily work.

Through messages we hear day in and day out we are made to feel as if we are powerless, and that everything is inevitable. Well, that is exactly against what the Yamim Noraim come to teach us!

The power of teshuva is the message that G-d tells us we have the power to make changes and make a difference in this world. We are not powerless, and everything is not inevitable.

The shofar will be blown Motzei Yom Kippur. Will you really hear it this year?

Gmar Chatima Tova,
Avi Abelow
"Expelled from Netzer Hazani by the Israeli Establishment"

We will Not Forget, We Will Not Forgive: Do a Mitzvah and Remember

Please pass this message on to friends, relatives, lists and websites.

Tizku L'mitzvot,
Avi
"Expelled from Netzer Hazani by Fellow Jews"

There is so much to say, so many facts to bare, so much disinformation to clarify and so much to explain about the situation of former Gush Katif residents expelled from their homes.

It is too late for me to go into all the details. All I can tell you at this hour is that these people are trying their best to have positive attitudes with the intent of rebuilding their lives. This, even though at this very moment many are still homeless and penniless. The information I will tell you in future emails is just too sad to even imagine. Most of these people are currently penniless and in a few days time they will even be forced to pay for their hotel costs, since the government is stopping the payments.

Here is just a single fact regarding their situation that most people are not aware of.

The farmers of Gush Katif are only receiving 60% of the worth of
their hothouses in order to rebuild them. They still have other personal and community expenses to fulfull as well in trying to re-establish themselves. This money does not even include the daily living expenses that they currently must spend today (clothes, tuition for children's educations, food etc.) - Money that they do not have, and money that will in the end come out of their compensation, that therefore won't be able to go towards rebuilding their homes or communities! Each GK community has represenatives talking to people everyday trying to raise whatever money they can just so that their families can have money for food, clothes etc. They don't have money to pay for their children's tution bills - from early childhood programs to Universities. The government did not help them with any of this and they are on their own.

I have made a short 4 minute online video (in English) documenting the day of the expulsion. Please watch it, it is a must see. I'm now in the process of finishing up a full 35-40 minute video documenting that day, a little before and a little after. It will also be a must see.


The sights and sounds in this long video are ones that we should not forget, and I hope to keep the memory alive through the distribution of this video.



To all those who give a donation towards the families of Netzer Hazani, they will receive the 40 minute video as a gift.



For all information regarding donations and the video please visit the following websites:




For information on US tax deductible donations:

https://www.oneisraelfund.org/donations.php?d=13



For information on Israeli tax deductible donations:
https://www.litrom.com/?Artst_ID=490

As soon as the movie is finished it will be shipped to those who donated towards the families of Netzer Hazani.


Every donation is blessed.

Avi
"Expelled from Netzer Hazani by Fellow Jews"

Link to the 4 minute trailer:

http://www.archive.org/download/Tragedy0JewsExpellingFellowJews/Clip_English_Done.wmv

Please pass this on to all lists and friends.
Tizku L'mitzvot!

Reality without needing any explanation...



A picture is worth a thousand words...

Regardless if you agree or disagree with the expulsion of Gush Katif this picture says it all.

Avi

Procesing the New Reality in Israel

To be totally honest, I'm still in the process of processing everything in order to redefine where I stand and what I believe, so I can't give you a definitive answer yet.

But I can tell you some things for sure.

I will continue to celebrate Yom haatzmaut - because the Jewish people returning to rule in the land of Isreal was a miracle.

I will continue to celebrate Yom Yerushalyim because that too was a miracle.

I will continue to say the prayer for the medinah, although with much pain because of what this state is doing to its own fellow Jews, because this is our homeland.

Our problem today is not with the state, it is with the people who run and influence the state - a big difference, but one that is complicated and makes the process of deciding how to decide on my/our future actions/beliefs very complex.

I will continue to say the prayer for soldiers, although I support the move to change the wording so that it no longer includes "blessing all their actions", because some of those actions are now being taken against fellow Jews. (the official officers courses in the army will now formally include lessons from the expulsion - a firm indication that the army is already planning for more expulsions in the future!).

As of this moment I have decided not to continue to serve in miluim, because the army has been abused by its army leadership and turned into a tool against the Jewish people. And I will have no part of it until those leaders are thrown out and the army will no longer be used against fellow Jews.

This decision was not an easy one for me, especially since there is so much the army does do to continue to protect us, but I can no longer serve in an army that has been turned into a tool against fellow Jews and whose soldiers have been turned into robots who just follow orders (yes they have feelings, but in the end they followed orders that they knew were wrong).

I do not say this only because the army was involved in the expulsion, I say this because I know how the army prepared the soldiers for the expulsion - by teaching the soldiers that us YESHA residents are a danger to Israel, and that we were planning on shooting them (there was much much more stuff they taught that is despicable)....this, when it is well known in the army that some of the most decorated and motivated soldiers come from our community! I have heard much about how the army leadership prepared the soldiers for the expulsion, and i will have no part in serving under that leadership.

I used to speak to audiences in America about how when I served in the Israeli army I knew that I was standing up and defending Jews around the world, not just Israelis. In todays situation, I no longer believe that, because Jews expelling Jews and destroying Jewish communities will assist in the growth of anti-semitic acts around the world.

I will return to serve in miluim when the Israeli army returns to being an army that defends Jews around the world by first defending Jews in Israel.

That is as far as I have processed the "new" reality in Israel. There is still much more to process. This is not a simple issue and it is not simple in defining what I will or will not do. There are inherent inconsistencies that I will have to work out intellectualy and emotionally.

The bottom line is that our problem is with the people who run and influence this state, not with the state.

And we will get rid of those people, maybe not next year, or even in 5 years, but we will get rid of them, because we have faith in our path and in the destiny of Am Yisrael/Eretz Yisrael, they just have the greed for power and a disdain for all that the Jewish people stand for.

But regardless, this is the place to be, because this is where we are writing Jewish history and developing the nation of Israel into an or la'goim. We have lots of work to do, so we need all the good Jews we could get to help us achieve our goals. The sooner you come and join us the sooner we can get rid of the current movers and shakers in Israel.

Oh, I also believe that the Israeli flag should become blue, white and orange, and I'm not kidding.

Avi
"Expelled from Netzer Hazani by Fellow Jews"

I Cry, Yet I already see the Light at the End of the Tunnel


I cry over the Israeli institutions that did nothing to save Shules in Gush Katif.
I cry over the Israeli government that abused the democratic tools to pass an immoral plan to expel Jews from their homes.
I cry over the Israeli government that has not yet seen fit to declare the explusioin from Gush Katif as a sad occurrence in the history of the Land of Israel.
I cry over the Israeli Supreme Court that cares more about how a seperation fence effects the lifestyle of the Arabs than 8,000 Jews being expelled from their homes.
I cry over the Israeli Supreme Court that allowed civil liberties to be trampled upon in the protest against the Expulsion plan (a 50 page report is coming out soon detailing this).
I cry over the Israeli Supreme Court that allowed the police to place 12 year old girls in prison and allowed 14 year old girls to be placed in solitary confinement for protesting the expulsion plan..
I cry over the Israeli police who beat up Jewish protesters for protesting against the expulsion plan, in the streets and in jail.
I cry over the leadership of the Israeli army whom brainwashed the soldiers into believing that they must obey orders to defend the Israeli democracy.
I cry over the leadership of the Israeli army whom spent months brainwashing the soldiers that the residents of YESHA are extremists who might possibly use firearms to shoot at the soldiers.
I cry over the Israeli media that have blatantly disregarded all the government corruption that has lead to the implementation of the expulsion plan.
I cry over the Israeli media who express happiness that Jews have been expelled from their homes and that Gush Katif is Judenrien.

The list goes on and on against the Israeli institutions...

Yet I'm happy that the true face of our Israeli institutions has now been revealed for all to see.

People are now realizing that the façade of the Jewish state that has existed is just that, a façade, and the time has come to get rid of those who make up the current Israeli institutions in order to make them Jewish institutions. Those who want an Israel without a semblance of Jewish values are now going to get people waking up who want a Jewish State – an Israel which lives and breathes Jewish values.

Israel is in the midst of a culture war. A culture war between those few elite who are involved in creating Israeli government policy, leading the Israeli Supreme Court and deciding the editorial lines of the Israeli media versus the Jewish people.

The Israeli institutions that make up Israel don't want a Jewish state, they want an Israeli state with none of the Jewish values that go along with the Jewish people. They are in direct conflict with us Jews who are interested in making sure that Israel become a Jewish state - in practice and not in rhetoric!

This cultural war is only just beginning, but the Jews will win, because we make up the majority. Most Israelis feel Jewish and want the State of Israel to have a Jewish identity, even if they themselves are not religious. The Jews have faith and belief on their side, the Israelis have corruption and evil on their side. The Jews in the end will win. The sooner it takes more and more Jews to realize this reality the sooner the Jews will win this culture war!

With all that I mourn over Gush Katif, I'm extremely happy that the corrupt and evil elite Israelis are showing their true colors. The Jewish majority will win this culture war and we will one day return to Gush Katif! It is just too bad that Jews had to expelled from their homes in Gush Katif in order to awaken our fellow Jews to this reality.

May the awakening begin!

Jewish Values for a Jewish State!

Israel about to Destroy Synogogues! A Cry to the Heavens!!!
- Jews have been expelled from their homes because they are Jews

- Jews have been expelled from their homes by fellow Israelis

- Jews are living as refugees in Israel

- Millions of dollars worth of equipment have been left behind in Gush Katif, not being allowed to be returned to their rightful owners, because there is "no more time" to get them out

- Jewish communities have been destroyed by an Israeli government

- Shules are about to be destroyed by an Israeli government

- The Israeli Supreme court has let this all happen

- The Israeli media have let this all happen

- The Arabs are waiting to start their killing spree

Israel is acting as if it is no longer a Jewish country.
Israel is acting as if it were run by anti-semites.
Anti-semites around the world will now want to do the same thing in other countries and we will have no reason to stop them - because "if a (supposedly) Jewish country did this, then so can we"

Wake up and smell the coffee - this is a CULTURE war between Israelis and Jews and you still don't get it!!!

Hashem Yerachem!

Eretz Yisrael is the Jewish homeland and we will overcome the current hardships that the corrupt Israeli institutions are causing us.

When will Jews in Israel wake up to this reality and begin to act accordingly?

When will all Jews come home and help us make this country the Jewish country we are supposed to spend our lives building?

When will the Jews in the diaspora wake up and realize that they are on the wrong side of the ocean?

When will Jews in the diaspora wake up and realize that what is going on here is partly because they are not here with us trying to strengthen the Jewish identity of the State?

Eretz Yisrael is the place for all Jews. Now more than ever this message must be realized.

God forgive us for our sins and God forgive us for the hardships that will now befall world Jewry because of what Israel has done to it's own Jewish citizens, and because of the apathy and weakness Jews have in their own beliefs.

When will we wake up? When?

Avi
"Expelled from Netzer Hazani by Fellow Jews"

Must See Movie on Expulsion of Jews from their homes by fellow Jews

www.friendsofnetzer.blogspot.com

Click on the link to the movie and please think about the lives of these people. There is so much to write about my experience in Gush Katif until the expulsion. Soon, I will take out the time to blog it. In the meantime, I'm still very sad and mourning the tragedy that took place to our holy nation.

We will overcome this tragedy and sadness, but we must not forget what has taken place and is still taking place.

Avi
"Expelled from Netzer Hazani by Fellow Jews"

Our Government Has Created Jewish Refugees! Where Are Cries of Injustice???

I know of two yishuvim from Gush Katif who have no where to sleep tonight!!

Netzer Hazani

Netzer Hazani people have been kicked out of the youth hostel in Hispin because of reservations. Some families have moved into the Hispin Yeshiva dormintory, but two buses of them are on the way to Kissufim right now and then on the way to set up a tent city in Tel Aviv because they have no where to sleep tonight!!

Their leadership has tried negotiating with Maaleh Hachamish and with the Olive Tree Hotel in Yerushalayim, but they can't come to an agreement without the government,who would pay - but the government is not cooperating - so they are homeless tonight - and this is until Sep. 1st, because the government is only supposed to pay until Sept. 1st! The government didn't even pay for their stay in Hispin, that was complementary of the Youth Hostel!!!

Paet Sadeh

Paet Sadeh residents signed agreements with Minhelet Selah/government a year and a half ago on an agreement to get housing. Their houses are still not ready so they were put up in a hotel in Yam Hamelach. This morning they were kicked out of the Hotel because of reservations. They have no where to sleep tonight either!!

So what are you doing about the fact that our own government has created homeless refugees?

Are you still paying your taxes? Are you still going to your government paid jobs? Are you still going to miluim? Are you still carrying around your teudat zehut?

Where are the cries and acts of injustice that our OWN Jewish government has created homeless refugees?

Who has connections with the Joint Distribution Comittee to get them to act on behalf of our fellow Jewish refugees in Israel?

Please call me now!!!
052-4519609

Avi
"Expelled by Jews from Netzer Hazani"

The expulsion from Gush Katif was one of the saddest days of my life.

I watched families packing up their houses crying. I watched families using sledge hammers to do as much damage to their homes as possible - some to get out their anger and frustration at the immoral situation and some so as not to leave anything for the Arabs!

I even watched people light their houses on fire!!

Some of the saddest events were watching children - 12/13 year olds - pleading with the soldiers not to expel them from their homes. Screaming at them that they are about to ruin their lives. Running from soldier to soldier aksing them "You don't have the courage to disobey an immoral order?"

Then their was the resident who was a high ranking officer from an elite unit - screaming at the soliders telling them that he taught the ethics courses to officers in the army and he knows that what they are about to do is totally against the ethical code of the army, but yet they follow the unethical orders like robots! What happened to implementing the lesson of knowing when to say NO to unethical orders?! This high ranking oficer then tore kriah on his army uniform right before the soldiers.

The expereince of watching Jews being expelled from their homes by fellow Jews was one of the saddest days of my life.

Avi Abelow
"Expelled from Netzer Hazani by Fellow Jews"

Coming to Gush Katif Clarification

I want to clarify the following message to everybody:

The key is not necessarily getting into Gush Katif or even making it to Kissufim.

Rather the key is packing up with the determination of not returning home until the plan is cancelled. Drive towards Kissufim and get as far as you can and then stop! With hundreds or thousands of others you then create a balagan wherever you are. That balagan is critical, regardless if it is 100 meters away from Kissufim or 4 kilometers away.

The critical mass, wherever you end up, causes a balagan that takes troops away from dealing with the expulsion.

I heard that thousands tried to drive to Kissufim last night, but they all were stopped and turned around. Don't turn around, set up camp where you are stopped and stay there. That creates a balagan. The police force you to move? Then create a balagan and the next place that you can.

Nobody wants to go alone "without" masses being with them - so make phone calls and get organized with friends and drive together as a small mass. THen hook up with other cars on their way as well.

I have also heard that groups leave every few hours from Ofakim and Netivot. Go join them, you won't be alone.

It is all about determination and mesirut nefesh. Just don't turn around to go come!!

It is not easy and not everybody can do it, but the struggle today is not just about Gush Katif, it is about our homes as well, and I do believe that if it was our homes in Gush Etzion that we were about to be expelled from, we would not be going to work today, tomorrow or the next day.

Something to think about.

The message is create the balagan as far as you get. Every balagan in a different place strains the army, which could create a chain effect of making it impossible to do what they have to do to expel us.

Whatever miracle people are waiting for depends on that chain effect, but if "little balagans" are not happening, then no chain effect will happen and no miracle that people are praying for.

Without your determination and mesirut nefesh, instead of Jews continuing to live in Gush Katif you will just read about our heroic last stand in Gush Katif as a part of the history books.

It all depends on us.

I don't know when next I will be near a computer, so until then...

Chazak Vematz and remember:

"DETERMINATION, DETERMINATION, DETERMINATION"!!!

Avi from Netzer Hazani

A Presonal Pea from Gush Katif - COME NOW!!!

You must understand. The people of Gush Katif are very strong. Don't believe what you hear/see in the media. There has been no violence and a majority of families in Gush Katif are still in there homes.

The people of Gusk Katif are encouraged and empowered by all the people who have joined them from the rest of the country and they are encouraged and empowered when they hear that more people are trying to come jointhem!

You must understand, here in Gush Katif we are doing everything we can, everything!!!

But we can't win this struggle alone - the rest depends on all of you.

The soldiers don't want to expel us! They don't!!

Everytime soldiers are brought to the settlements - people run out to talk to them - telling them about the immorality of the plan, the immorality of expeling fellow Jews from their homes, the immorality of giving a prize to those same terrorists who are our real enemies, and asking them what they would tell their children/grandchildren one day regarding their participation in this expulsion.

Do you know the result? The soldiers and officers cry! They cry together with the residents! They all cry like children!!!

THE SOLDIERS DONT WANT TO DO THIS!!

A Letter was sent from 5 Magadim in the army to the Ramatcal saying that they fear half of the soldiers in the expulsion forces will either not participate at the last minute or help the settlers!

Help us help the soldiers!

- Come down to Kissufim
- Try to get in to Gush Katif
- Block the roads so that the buses of soldiers can't get through

Do know the secret on getting into Gush Katif?
Determination, Determination, Determination!!!

Drive with the expectation of not returning home! Pack with the expectation that you are not retunring home!! I promise you that you will end up entering Gush Katif! maybe not immeidately, maybe not after one day or two days, but you will enter. Being at Kissufim is also a big nuisance to the army.

Do anything, but don't stay at home, don't go to work!!

Everyday people here ask - "so are thousands coming to kissufim yet?" and the past two days the answer has been NO!!

Do you how demoralizing it for all of us here, who know we are doing all that we can to stop the immoral expulsoin plan, to know that our fellow citizens who are also needed down here are not coming??? That they are going on with their normal lives, just a little sadder???!!!

For all of us who are here, our consciences will be clear - we know we did all in our power to stop this immoral expulsion plan?

What about your conscience? What will you tell your children and grandchildren?

We know that everyone is doing something, but everyone must gain the confidence to do even more and come down here and not return home until this plan is canceled.

As we tell the press everyday - we know the army will end up doing what it has to do, our job here in Gush Katif is not to do everything to stop the plan from happening, we don't have the`power to do that.

Our job here in Gush Katif is to make it as hard as possible for them to do what they have to do and to delay their plans!! Every minute that we delay their plans is another minute for all the protests and balagans you are doing outside to create the dynamic to stop the plan.

BUT, if you are not protesting or creating a balagan outside, then our struggle in Gush Katif won't make a difference!!!

We believe that Am Yisrael still has the power to stop this plan, but you must come down here in the thousands to create the necessary balagan for us all to succeed!! You must join us!

By the way, in one on one conversations with top officers here in Gush Katif - they ALL admit that we will be back "occupying" Gaza in the near future. They are only following orders, even though they know the plan is extremely dangerous.

Avi from Netzer Hazani

Gush Katif Press Release from netzer Hazani

The people that are living here are very moral people. The Israel Defense Forces is a very moral army, they educate their forces to the highest levels of morality. We are really one with the soldiers of the IDF. The thing that stands between us is this terrible immoral expulsion plan. We have an obligation to do everything we can to prevent the IDF from handing out the expulsion notices. This plan is immoral and unethical because you can't throw out 9,000 people from their homes without any valid reason. The last thime this happened was in Soviet RUSSIA. You can not allow terror to run wild and on top of that give it a prize!

Today the army twice appeared at the gates of our town and each time we told the army officers the above message. They looked at the fathers, mothers and children dancing in front of the locked gates of our town and began to understand why this plan is so immoral. As a result, the buses of soldiers turned around both times without entering the town and without handing out the expulsion notices.

Gush Katif Under Siege - Live Report

Hello all,

I finally succeeded! I sneaked into Gush Katif on Tuesday afternoon and I have settled in the moshav of Netzer Chazani and helping out the community here plan and organize for the upcoming events. I'm here with over 400 other families (with children of all ages) and singles who have joined Netzer Chazani from other parts of Israel. The atmesphere is wonderful. Teenagers from the outside are running childrens activities every morning for all the children (from the moshav and from the outside), people are working in the hothouses and everyone is doing something to help prepare for next week.

There is so much to say, to explain to you what is going on here, but I don' t have time now. You will have to wait.

Just so you know, we (outsiders) have more than doubled the population of the yishuv and they are all mostly staying here to the end, regardless of all the threats by the government that they will lose 25% of their compensation if they don't leave by the 17th. In general the population of the Gush has more than doubled all from "illegals" like me who have sneaked in to GK. Everyone has their own unique unbelievable story about how they snuck in. Buy the book that will be put you with all the stories. i'm sure one will be written!


We are about to go through one of the most traumatic weeks for the Jewish people, how ironic that it coincides with (Tisha Ba'av)! There is much preparation that we are doing, but our government is stopping at nothing to expel us. It will be the first time that a Jewish government turns off electricity and water to Jewish settlements - just like the Romans did to us.

Please read the message below written by a person who was one of the origonal founding members of Netzer Chazani, here since the days all that was here were sand dunes.

Please help as much as you can. Thank you.

Until the next update from Gush Katif!
Avi

DEAR FRIENDS,

Did you know that Gush Katif is being placed under siege? Starting now, the army is stopping food from entering Gush Katif. There is already a shortage of baby-food, diapers, food & basic staples. The army isn't letting things enter and the supermarket shelves are emptying. We have been warned that any minute the supply of Gas and Water may stop.There will be opportunities during the next three days to bring in supplies. We need your help NOW.

We have been promised by our brethren that in our time of need they will stand by us. The Jews in Israel are fulfilling "Kol Yisrael Arevim Zeh Lazeh" in the highest sense by uniting behind the residence of Gush Katif. Many have left their homes and places of work to help in Gush Katif. Join. Please be a part of the unification of our people in Gush Katif. Any donation is appreciated. (ALthough we need food for Thousands of people, even $5 can buy a lot of bread) Just click on the link https://www.group.co.il/donation/katifund/CreditInput.asp?lang=2

Your caring gives us strength.

Anita Tucker
atucker@isdn.net.il

Important: Please write in the "Notes Section" at the bottom of the donation-form the word NOW so that your donation will be processed immediately for these emergency supplies.

Anita Tucker is from Brooklyn and her Husband is from Cleveland. They have been living in Gush Katif for 29 Years. She has Children and Grandchildren that were born there, and prays every day to see Great-grandchildren born there. She is a farmer who grows insect-free produce and her children who live in Gush Katif are farmers as well.

My Struggle against the Jewish White Paper of 2005!

Gush Katif has been totally sealed off to all Jews ecept if they live in Gush Katif - and even they have horrible stories of how they are being treated by the authorities today.

IN my eyes, what is going on today is the Jewish White Paper of 2005.

As in teh days of the British White Paper where heroic Jews tried day and night to sneak into Israel illegaly, so too today thousands of Jews, day and night are trying to sneak into Gush Katif illegaly!

Friends and relatives think I'm crazy trying to sneak into Gush Katif, for a couple of reasons:
1. I have a life with responsabilities (job, wife and children)
2. Me being in Gush Katif won't change anything

First I will answer those claims and then I will tell you the highlights about my recent trials when trying to sneak into Gush Katif last week ( I didn't succeed yet!)

First of all, in my opinion, life is worthless i you do not live according to your values and beliefs. A job and responsabilities to family are only worth something to me if the life that I lead is one that I lead by example
- as an example for myself to not only preach values of Am Yisrael and Eretz YIsrael, but live them!
- as an example for my wife and children that the values that I preach I live by as well
- as an example to my co-workers, that the values they know I stand for, I actually practice and defend!

By me not leaving my job to join the active struggle against the expulsion plan, I would be showing to all of the above (including myslef) that living ideals is different than preaching them. That is not what Judasim is about and that is not what I'm about - so I have joined the active struggle. One day when my children and grandchildren ask "What did you do to stop the expulsion plan?" I can be proud when I answer them with a detailed description of what I did.

Today is no normal event. This is historic. I can't live my regular life (waking up in the morning, going to work, returning home, goind to sleep etc.) when ten thousands of Jews are about to be expeled from their homes. Forget about the fact that there is no good reason to expel them and that the government is corrupt, the justice system is political and unjust etc. Put those "little facts" on the side.

I can't go on with my daily life as ten thousand Jews are about to be expeled from their homes.

The question is not - why am I doing what I'm doing?
The question is - How can you go on with your daily life?

As for point number two - that my presence in Gush Katif won't change anything - I have this to say:
1. First and foremost the people in Gush Katif are going through a traumatic experience that should never befall any of us. The most important thing we could do for them is give them chizuk and let them know they are not alone. I can't tell you how happy the Gush Katif people are when they hear that people are trying to get through the siege and the roadblocks wanting to join them. It gives them so much chizuk. One of the most important things we can do on the "inside" is continue to give them chizuk and try to help them as much as possible, in every possible way.

2. Some of the highest ranking officers of the army have themselves admitted that if tens of thousands of people stand against them in Gush Katif when they come in to expel them - the army will not be able to perform its duty to expel and would have to return to the government to reconsider its decision. The army is designed to fight armies, with weapons and manpower, it is not designed to stand against tens of thousands of civilians to uproot them!

Today, the day Netanyahu resigned, it has been recorded that soldiers throughout Israel were applauding. Why? Because they think this is the beginning of the cancellation of the decree and they don't want to do it!!!

Thousands of soldiers don't want to follow their orders to expel fellow Jews!

Imaging if tens of thousands of Jews were in Gush Katif on the day when these soldiers came in to expel them? The would stand still and they wouldn't be able to expel.

My next posting will list my James Bond type story in trying to sneak into Gush Katif to fight the Jewish White Paper of 2005

Avi

Why the Israeli soldiers should refuse all orders connected to the Expulsion Plan and preparation for that plan:

1. It does not take a smart person to obey an order it takes a smart person to disobey an order!

2. The people remembered on the special avenue for righteous gentiles at Yad Vashem are remembered because they refused orders

3. What will they tell their children and grandchildren when they asked what they did to stop the expulsion of Jews from Gaza and the Northern Shomron

Written by a proud Jew who served in the Israeli army and serves, year after year, in the reserves. Today is a day of shame for the Israeli army. I look forward to the day when all the soldiers who refused all expulsion related orders are reinstated tp their ranks and positions. Please G-D that day will come soon.

Avi

A Response to Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein's Call to Obey Orders and Carry Out the Eviction Plan

by: Moshe Feiglin
Tamuz 5765 (July 05)

Rabbi Lichtenstein, one of the heads of the Har Etzion Yeshiva in Alon Shevut, recently published an article entitled Reflections regarding D-Day, in which he explains his opposition to refusal to obey orders by soldiers in the planned eviction of Jewish settlers from Gush Katif and Northern Shomron.

It is somewhat problematic for an unlearned person such as myself to challenge the views of a prominent rabbi such as Rabbi Lichtenstein. It is therefore necessary for me to first say that I don't believe that the rabbi himself maintains that his article is really Halachic, and not merely publicistic.

Perhaps this is the place to emphasize that in general those rabbis who write articles against the disengagement plan and in support of refusal to obey orders, base their arguments on scores of clear unambiguous sources and Halachic rulings. In contrast, those holding diametrically opposed views do not base these arguments on Halachic sources or express them in the customary Halachic matter.

I shall therefore permit myself to argue that Rabbi Lichtenstein's article falls into the second category, and I don't think that he would dispute this.

The key issue in the article is the use of the expressions "considered judgment" and "the saving of life". I shall therefore address this issue, even though I don't believe that there is any connection between the subject of the disengagement plan and the saving of life. This was not the real reason behind this vile plan, nor does the faithful public oppose it for security considerations.

This important rabbi wishes to give the impression that the issue of saving life dominates his thinking. However, we have to recall that Rabbi Lichtenstein and many others of his ilk placed all their weight behind what was known as the Oslo process.

Ten years ago the process began of handing over parts of Eretz Israel to the terrorist gangs. Most of the believing public understood then that this process was not only contrary to the Creator's wishes but would also lead to great bloodshed.

Rabbi Lichtenstein and a small group of rabbis gave their support to that process that has caused the deaths of about three thousand Jews, up to now. In the decade that has passed since that terrible bloody process (that was supported by Rabbi Lichtenstein and other rabbis holding similar opinions), more Jewish civilians have been murdered in Israel in terrorist attacks than in the entire period from the establishment of the State until the Oslo process.

I shall now address Rabbi Lichtenstein's arguments, that may be divided into two: the need for pragmatic judgment (in order to avoid danger to life) and the need for Halachic judgment.

Regarding the issue of pragmatic judgment, the rabbi presents three problems:
1) The fear that refusal to obey orders may also spread to the other side (the Left), weaken the army, and consequently lead to a risk to life.
2) The harm that will be caused to mutual relations normally achieved by jointly bearing the burden of military service.
3) Distancing the national religious public from State values in which they believed in the past.

It can clearly be seen that issues 2 and 3 have nothing to do with danger to life. Obviously they are of importance, but the role of the IDF is to protect the lives of Jews. It was not established as a society for improving mutual relations nor as a means of strengthening the inner beliefs of the religious Zionist public.

For many years the Left has adopted the technique of refusal to obey orders and it is widespread amongst them. Movements of this kind have sprung up amongst the Left and have been awarded legitimacy by the Israeli establishment, the judicial system, and the media. This has frequently involved refusal to obey orders in the face of the enemy.

A clear red line has been established regarding the IDF's activities. In today's Israel it is illegal to talk about the transfer of Arabs, because Amos Oz declared that in such circumstances he would blow up bridges, and Moshe Negbi said that he would break up the army and the State.

In other words, there's no need to fear that refusal to obey orders would spread to Leftist circles, because it's already there.

A totally different issue is involved: Will the Left's capability of setting up ideological lines which, if crossed, would lead to absolute refusal, be balanced by the capability of the belief-based public to establish its own red lines? If not, then it would seem advisable for us to give up in advance all the achievements of Zionism and settlement, and in fact to abandon the existence of Israel as a Jewish State.

The rabbi's logic does not necessarily lead only to the destruction of Gush Etzion where his yeshiva is located, but to the destruction of Israel as a Jewish State, because this is what the struggle is actually about.

We're not talking about Gush Katif, but about the Jewish identity of the State of Israel.

When the side that desires a state of all its citizens uses the weapon of refusal to achieve this aim, by destroying the settlements and evicting their residents, by sending female soldiers to combat units, and by acts of mass desecration of Shabbat, while the other, belief-based side, always accepts the situation, because Rabbi Lichtenstein's arguments will always be valid -- then in such circumstances it is a foregone conclusion that the extreme Left will achieve all its aspirations and the Jewish State of Israel will cease to exist.

Since Israel will be incapable of surviving as a state of all its citizens for any significant period of time (opinion polls have indicated that most people don't give it more than thirty years), and since our Arab neighbors don't seem to want us as citizens with equal rights, obviously the rabbi's logic will inevitably lead to the Final Solution for the Jews of Eretz Israel.

Those who think this is far-fetched should recall the cooperation during the Second World War between Hitler and the founding father of the "Palestinian" movement, the Jerusalem Mufti. Husseini planned to construct gas chambers in the Dotan Valley in Samaria for Rabbi Lichtenstein and his family. Because of the Oslo process and the humanist Palestinian education following it, Husseini's Final Solution is taught to first grade children in Kalkilya.

Consequently, soldiers who don't refuse to obey the eviction order will be responsible for a terrible blood bath, and endanger the very existence of the State of Israel, and the lives of millions of Jews.

The second argument presented by Rabbi Lichtenstein is the need for Halachic judgment.

In this argument, that is apparently a Halachic one, the rabbi explains that since the government claims that the disengagement plan will save the lives of many people, and since it is impossible to know whether or not the government is right, then we must accept the plan motivated by feelings of responsibility and love for the nation and the country.

Since the Halachic considerations of the rabbi are based on the purity of the intentions of Sharon and his son, and since everyone on both the Left and the Right is now aware that this purity does not exist, then the Halachic consideration based on the judgment of the decision makers is invalid. Rabbi Lichtenstein may not wish to hear this, but the disengagement plan was adopted for personal, cynical motives. Consequently the issue of considered judgment is irrelevant. Not only is there no logical explanation for the disengagement plan, but there is also no direct and real starting point for it.

The rabbi's declaration about "our responsibility and aspirations to support with all our strength the Jewish nation" obligates every officer and soldier to proudly refuse to take part in, or aid, the perpetrators of this crime.