Received this email overnight from an activist. This author holds that this is a MUST READ and a MUST for Action.
Every Jew Deserves a Pesach, Even Jews from Gush Katif Dear friends,
Today, while at the Jerusalem Conference at the (old Hyatt) Regency Hotel in Jerusalem, my friends and I had the opportunity to meet one of the Gush Katif mothers who lives there. She mentioned how worried all the Gush Katif families at the Regency and other hotels were, because they have all received EVICTION NOTICES. They have been told to vacate the premises (in different cases) between ten days and three weeks from now. Their caravans and caravillas are not yet ready. Nonetheless, they have been informed that they are being kicked out of their hotel rooms. They have nowhere to go.
The Gush Katif Mom mentioned that one family had been notified to get the keys to its caravan, although the caravan wasn’t ready yet. And when the family signed that it had accepted the keys, it was immediately locked out of its hotel room, because now it had keys to a caravan. The families are feeling helpless and afraid.
Friends, our brethren from Gush Katif are suffering so terribly. We must do something to help. But truthfully, the Israeli government doesn’t care if we protest about our Gush Katif brethren. The government does, however, care VERY MUCH what Jews and supporters in the Diaspora say, and what foreign officials say.
I know that just about everyone on this list has family in America, Canada, England, Australia, South Africa, etc., and many are coming to Israel for Pesach, IY”H. Please pass this letter along to anyone traveling here for the holidays. Actually, pass this along to any caring Jews.
Let’s make a difference together, IY”H.
On Pesach, we call out that hungry and needy should join in our Seder. Well, let us make sure that our brethren from Gush Katif are NOT further abandoned this Pesach.
Please forward this letter to the Diaspora.
Thank you.
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Dear friend coming to Israel this Pesach,
Just before you, your friends and your families will be checking into different hotel rooms throughout Israel this year, the ex-residents of Gush Katif will have been thrown out of their hotel rooms. These families have known no other “home” since their own homes were destroyed this summer. These families will literally be on the street, because their future caravans are NOT ready for habitation. Despite this fact, the government is offering them no solution at all.
What can you do?
Call the Israeli Consulate in your area. Say, “I am going to Israel for Passover, spending my hard-earned money there. I want to know where the Gush Katif families are spending Pesach!!! And don’t tell me, ‘in their caravans’, which have not yet been hooked up with electricity, water or sanitary plumbing.”
Demand a response, and register your complaint that the Jews of Gush Katif are being treated so inhumanely. Say, “How do I sit at my seder in Israel when I know that at the same time, the Israeli government is once again throwing hundreds of Gush Katif families into the street.”
Call your Congressman/Senator/Representative and ask him to register his disdain as well.
Your words will make a difference. Please raise your voice for your brethren, and may G-d bless all His people with a happy and kosher holiday.
For background on the plight of the Gush Katif Expellees, Refugees, particularly the countless citings of their mistreatment, harrassment and abuse at the hands of the Government of Israel and it’s “Disengagement Authority (Sela)”, click here, here, here and here. MB
Related Report;
Public Warned About More Disengagements
Excerpt;
The Gush Katif session of the Jerusalem Conference placed in sharp relief the expellees’ pain, the government’s ineptitude, a left-wing approach as to why it happened,& a forecast of future dangers.