Rocket Lands Near Tomb of Baba Sali
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“A Kassam rocket landed in the southern city of Netivot, near the Tomb of Baba Sali. No injuries are being reported.”
Prepare for the Coming of the Kassam, By Moshe Leshem: Jun 28, ’05 / 21 Sivan 5765
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Uprooting 8,000 Jews from the Katif region and the destruction of flourishing towns will not only not bring about peace or calm, it will bring 44 towns into range of the Kassam rockets. Hundreds of millions will be invested in protection. As if it were a consolation, industry leaders come and offer “a bright and colorful roof that passed a test for Kassam rocket and mortar shell strikes.” (Yediot Aharonot, May 5, 2005) Note the emphasis on “bright and colorful”, which covers in a layer of sugar the bitter pill of the chilling security situation created by Ariel Sharon’s government. The color and brightness serve a similar purpose as the word “disengagement”, which is a much more pleasant term than “uprooting and expulsion”.
And what will the security services do if towns – among them, large cities like Ashkelon, Ashdod, S’derot and Netivot – are bombarded with Katyusha rockets? In that case, the colorful roofs will be shredded like paper. Can anyone now get up and tell me that Katyusha rockets will not make their way into the hands of the terrorists in the Gaza Strip?
And what of Samaria? Will the defense establishment wait until the fall of the first Kassam on Hadera or Afula before it begins defending the dozens of towns and tens of thousands of homes that will come into range of rockets from Samaria? Kassam rockets targeting Afula were found in the Jenin region, and others threatening Beit She’an were found in Kfar Yamoun.
So, what will they tell us then? How will they justify the uprooting of Sa-Nur and Homesh, which prevent the creation of a terrorist strip that could be more dangerous than Gaza simply by their presence in the center of the “terror city triangle” – Jenin, Shechem and Tul Karem?
Moshe Leshem, a colonel in the IDF reserves, is one of the founders of the non-profit organization Gamla Shall Not Fall Again.
Time to Say Who Was Right, By Hillel Fendel
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Nationalist camp commentator and journalist Haggai Segal and the Rabbi of Ofrah, Avi Gisser, are the first to send out the message.
Segal, broadcasting on his Knesset Channel TV show and writing in his weekly column in B’Sheva, says the right-wing must not be as modest as it was when the PA broke out the Oslo War in late 2000.
Segal, a resident of Ofrah, then continues,
“In light of the danger that this chutzpah-like narrative will begin to attract attention, and mainly because of the danger that the lessons of the Disengagement might not prevent a further withdrawal from Judea and Samaria, Rabbi Avi Gisser of Ofrah declared this week the opening of the ‘We Told You So’ campaign. He is not one of the most vocal or raucous spokesmen in the right-wing, but he has reached the conclusion that there is no other choice. He feels that the right-wing must not again fall for the sweet illusion that the left-wingers will recognize their folly and not repeat it. He took out a large ad in Haaretz this week, declaring, ‘We told you so – Whoever runs away from Gaza, Gaza will run after him. Whoever disengages and converges, terrorism will find a way to re-engage with him.’“… It’s not so clear why this is a one-man initiative. Instead of waiting for the last minute to protest and run to the streets, it would be better to actualize now the bitter fruits of the Disengagement and wage a strong attack on the intention to Realign or Converge or Withdraw any further. It is incumbent upon us now to scream out publicly wherever possible, ‘We Told You So!’ Only in this way can we arouse a genuine public debate over which camp is right – the right or the left, the orange or the blue.”
Late Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin ridiculing… those who warned that rockets would be fired from Gaza.
“The scare-stories of the Likud are well-known,” Rabin said in 1995… “Why, they also promised us Katyushas from Gaza. It’s already a year that the Gaza Strip is mostly under the control of the Palestinian Authority – and there wasn’t a Katyusha and there won’t be any…”