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This author was among the 3,000-5,000 people who attended the Gush Katif Remembrance event near the Kisufim checkpoint.
The event featured a number of speakers, both youth and adults who spoke about Gush Katif, interspersed with acappella negunim conveying a spirit of returning to and rebuilding Gush Katif.
This author visited with Rabbi Yigal Kamenetsky, the Rav of former Gush Katif residents as well as MK Tzvi Hendel and with a Rav who spoke 4 years ago at the Hachnasat Sefer Torah which took place on 4 July, 2004 at Shi-rat Hayam.
Meanwhile, it is noteworthy to cite how vindictive the Israeli government is toward the former Gush Katif residents 3 years after they expelled them, even to the extent of the IBA’s censoring an ad promoting purchase Gush Katif Yahrtzeit candles because the ad “used the word ‘expulsion,’ instead of the official term ‘evacuation.'”
This harrassment piles on top of recent disclosures that the regime left the former Gush Katif Jews holding the bag regarding Arab worker claims of “wrongful dismissal” and of the facts which a recently appointed state commission of inquiry will find; that 3 years later, the former Gush Katif residents have received but a mere fraction of their legally mandated full compensation, none have been officially resettled anywhere and many still face repeated threats of further evictions from their temporary residences.
At the same time, murderous terrorists prance around the ruins of the former Gush Katif communities training for their next terrorist attack and stockpiling hundreds of tons of explosives, “precision guided missiles, thousands of machine guns and 10 million rounds of ammunition” in preparation for the official end of the oft-violated “truce.” MB