Yehoram Gaon Decries War Against Land of Israel Lovers
Excerpts;
“Have you noticed that something has gone totally wrong in the Zionist agenda of the People and State of Israel? It’s getting worse and worse, deteriorating to a situation in which a real collision is unavoidable… How many wounded or dead will we have to suffer in order to remove a caravan or two from some desolate hill on which some youths settled to prove their love for the Land of Israel?”
“They call them, justifiably, law-breakers. But… law-breakers are those who fire Lau missiles at their competing gangsters’ homes and kill people along the way, and drug-dealers and pimps. So with all the due respect that you do not give them, at least agree with me that the law-breakers in Amona have a different type of motivation.”
“…Why are they, of all people, being persecuted? Do you realize how many building violations there are in Israel? Why specifically them, and why specifically now? And who wants to prove what this time, and to who, and why specifically at their expense?”
“…[Nothing] is worth these terrible pictures in which we saw such great force expended – force that is nothing more than rage that is really just great weakness… Horses charging forwards – yes, I know, in reaction to stones; and clubs being wielded – yes, I know, in reaction to stones. But suddenly the face of our police and army has changed, and they are getting further away from us, as if in a bad dream. They are suddenly different, estranged from this beautiful and good land…”
“…OK, fine, so there were polls, and 60% are not interested in Amona and blame the settlers. These 60% – are not interested in anything. “
“In the end, the ones who will remain in this Land for many years to come will not be those 60%, but rather the “law-breakers” from Amona and Katif. Because they made a vow, as the everlasting nation in an everlasting covenant, for this land…”
Commentary;
Please, Mr. Gaon, speak these words in the ears of Ehud Olmert, who is “too tired to fight,” to win, to cleave to the Land of Israel, and to Mofaz, Livni, Karadi, Halutz, to Chief Justice Barak, to Shimon Peres, etc., to Yosef Q. Israeli for whom nothing means anything except for his convenience in getting through the day. MB
And as if Yehoram Gaon’s words didn’t suffice, Batya provides additional clarity on another of her blogs with these words entitled; Ani Yerushalmi, I am a Jerusalemite.
Excerpts;
“The 1973 Yom Kippur War was a terrible time in Israel. The country was in danger of annihilation. Syrian forces from the North and Egyptian from the South were over-running the country. There were many dead and wounded soldiers. Celebrities from all over came to try to cheer the troops. My husband was then working in PR in Shaare Tzedek Hospital and Danny Kaye came over from Hollywood, (and he didn’t get me an autograph.) I heard from a friend who said that her husband reported that Yoram Gaon came to visit the troops, but all the famous singer could do was hug the soldiers and cry.”
“And now Yoram Gaon is showing his love for the country for the Land of Israel by being brave and saying something that will make his “friends” angry. He’s seeing the connection of the kids who demonstrated at Amona with those who established the kibbutzim before the State of Israel was restored. He’s asking the question all should ask:
It would be a good idea to think long and hard about this: When the regime fights the people of Amona, who is it actually fighting? Are these youth the State of Israel’s real enemy?”