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Gush Katif Evacuees Prepare for Hanukka in J’lem Hotels

Excerpt:

“‘We thought we would only be here for 10 days,’ Miriami said, ‘but that has turned into four months.’ The Naumburgs would like to move to as-yet unready temporary housing, but are not keen on leaving the Hyatt for another Jerusalem hotel.”

Parsha Vayeishev 5766: Yosef and the Pit & Kassam’s, Mortars in Neve Dekalim By, Moshe Burt

I read the short article on the INN website; “Mortar Shells Filled With Chanukah Light” about the Menorah made from some of the spent Islamic mortal shells which were launched on Neve Dekalim over the years. read more

Gov’t Reaches Deal With Atzmona Evacuees, Shomriya

Excerpt:

“The government approved a plan on Sunday to turn over Kibbutz Shomriya in the eastern Lachish region to some 60 families who were evacuated from Gush Katif, most of them from Atzmona.”

This Author received the following email last Thursday from Anita Tucker, formerly of Netzer Hazani, Gush Katif, now Islamic-Occupied Gaza.

Anita has told this author the following; “I know the Israeli consulate sends speakers to tell how well the disengagement went and how people of Gush have settled in their homes and jobs! So I guess I have a lot of work to get the truth out.”

—– Original Message —–
From: Anita Tucker
To: Anita Tucker
Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 1:59 AM
Subject: speaking trip to USA read more

A Time to Reach Out

Jonathan Rosenblum wrote this article mere days after the Expulsion began. The words seem still relevant for the Callous Indifference of the Israeli Gov’t and segments of Israel’s population regarding the Gush Katif and Shomron Refugees 3 plus Months Later. MB

Excerpts:

“In the long span of Jewish history, the uprooting of 8,500 Jews from Gaza will not rank as one of the worst tragedies, though it was unique in that those doing the uprooting were themselves Jews. This was not 1492 and the expulsion from Spain or the Holocaust. And the attempts by some in the settler community to appropriate symbols of those earlier tragedies – yellow Jewish stars, concentration camp uniforms – and by implication, and sometimes explicitly, to cast the soldiers executing the evacuation orders in the role of Hitler’s S.S. troops, only infuriated secular Israelis.” read more

PM Sharon Convenes Meeting of the Ministerial Disengagement Committee

Oh How Nice it Looks on Paper, But Reality — Phoney Baloney. MB

Evacuees Interrupt Bassi’s Speech

Excerpts:

“Disengagement Administration Head Yonatan Bassi, who delivered a speech at the Sderot Conference for Society Wednesday, was continuously interrupted by Gush Katif evacuees who arrived to participate in a panel on the lessons of the disengagement.”

“Bassi stepped up onto the podium accompanied by a security guard, only after police reinforced the number of security guards in the hall.” read more

With much thanks to and with permission from Miriam Adahan;

It is March, 2006, seven months since the expulsion of some 10,000 Jews from Gush Katif. At that time, I wrote a piece called “Imagine,” decrying some of the tragic aspects of that terrible event. Now it is time for an update: