OK, Maybe I am Stupid
I'm not denying the
possibility, and I'm sure there are all sorts of people out there
and much closer who think I am.
Let me tell you what has me
confused. I've been under the distinct impression that we're a
country in danger. We have enemies, real ones. They attack,
terrorize, murder, bomb, shoot rockets at us. This isn't a polite
disagreement for diplomats to chit chat about. Our survival, very
existence is at stake.
That's why I can't see the
point of training Border Police and Yassamnikim (special forces
units) for crowd control in
soccer matches.
Shouldn't they be protecting Israeli citizens from terrorists?
Terrorism is a bigger danger than unruly sports fans.
Another thing that makes no
sense to me is all of the investment in temporary "solutions" for
the Disengagement victims. None of it is helping the victims
restart their lives. At present, most find it
impossible
to get work and begin to recover. They live in a twilight zone of
unreality. Many are still paying mortgages for homes the
government destroyed. I don't know how it works in the rest of the
world, but here in Israel one is penalized by the bank, which
demands a high cancellation fee if you want to pay your mortgage
early. So if these poor homeless people ever get their
compensation, in some cases they will have to pay more to the bank
than their house was worth, and then nothing will remain with
which to pay for a new home.
Another thing: An
absolute fortune was invested in reinforced buildings and shelters
in Gush Katif to protect the residents from Arab rockets launched
by the terrorists. All of this was left and destroyed when the
thousands of loyal citizens were forced out of their homes last
summer. Now they're
living in temporary quarters, dormitories, hotels and trailer
homes. In some of the areas they were put, they are now in
danger,
since the PA Arabs now aim their rockets inside the "green line"
where the refugees now are.
And lastly, I have trouble
accepting that most of world Jewry is so disengaged from what is
happening here in our Holy Land. We're all one people, and if
others think that the trouble here won't affect them, I'm sorry to
inform them that they are wrong.
G-d willing, we must bridge the
gaps and work together.
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Are you
confused? You're not alone
The latest election polls, for the upcoming Israeli elections
show that
half
the citizens will vote for.....well, honestly, they don't know!
It makes you
wonder, doesn't it. Actually, it's the best results I've seen so
far. Sure gives me some hope, G-d willing, that maybe my fellow
Israelis will get some "seichel," common sense. The
various TV stations are competing for viewers, trying to make
the elections more exciting. For us it's just academic, since we
get only one channel, Channel One. Last night they compared the
"three top teams," Likud, Labor and Kadima by comparing the
chosen candidates, number by number. (It could have had just
been Labor and Likud.) They said that the elections should
be seen as a sports event. Line up the opening fives and see how
they compare. And they went on until about twenty. The
Jerusalem Post has a
poll
asking readers to vote which top ten, Labor or Likud, is better.
The results at this moment are strongly for the Likud. I guess
The Jerusalem Post readership doesn't watch
Channel One. Ha'aretz's
poll
asks what we think of Olmert's "war" on the outposts. I didn't
like the choices, and not too many voted for what I chose. The
"poll" that has me the most worried is my own private one. It's
the conversations I've had with people who tell me that they
aren't planning on voting at all. What's terrifying is that we
agree on all of the issues. They should be voting for the same
party I will vote for. The problem is that they just don't see
the point in voting. They don't trust the system; they don't
trust the politicians, even "ours;" they don't trust the
judicial. They are seriously depressed about the state of our
nation. I also agree with all of that.
The difference
is that I think that we still have to vote. I will not abandon
my country to the people who want to destroy it. That's the aim
of all that has been going on. The media, the Left, the
self-hating Jews cheered on by anti-Semites all over the world
all want us to give up, fade away, shuffle off and disappear.
They want us to DISENGAGE from our Land and history, from our
restored country.
I'm not "
...tired of fighting...
" Mr. Olmert. You'd be surprised. I know what you've been trying
to do to us, demoralize us, exhaust us. We're the David to your
Goliath. We're the David to your Saul. And we're the Maccabee to
your Hellenist.
I realize that the most important campaign is to
convince my friends and neighbors to vote against you in Kadima
and against your supporters in Labor and Likud and even Mafdal,
because you're all the same. You all believe that parts of our
Holy Land should be Judenrein, empty of Jews. As far as I'm
concerned, there's no, absolutely no reason for us to abandon
our Land and hand it over to terrorists. Neither praise nor
prizes could ever tempt me.
Money can't buy me love
and Land won't buy peace.
No, I'm not
confused, Baruch Hashem, Thank G-d.