{"id":198,"date":"2005-11-14T12:44:42","date_gmt":"2005-11-14T12:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/2005\/11\/14\/jordan-valley-on-the-block-for-expulsion\/"},"modified":"2005-11-14T20:51:27","modified_gmt":"2005-11-14T20:51:27","slug":"jordan-valley-on-the-block-for-expulsion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/2005\/11\/14\/jordan-valley-on-the-block-for-expulsion\/","title":{"rendered":"Jordan Valley &#8212; On the Block for Expulsion?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/servlet\/Satellite?cid=1131367084016&#038;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull\"><strong>&#8216;Right Losing Support for Jordan Valley&#8217;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Excerpts;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>The Right is in danger of losing public support for retaining the Jordan Valley<\/strong>, a strategic adviser to Prime Minister Sharon said Sunday.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Speaking Sunday at the College of Judea and Samaria, <strong>Lior Chorev warned<br \/>\n<\/strong>a right-wing audience that many of their arguments for retaining land taken in 1967 were falling short with the majority of Israelis. He added <strong>that the Jordan Valley was much like Gush Katif, noting that only 5,000 Jews live there.<\/strong>&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Speaking at a panel on the disengagement and the struggle over public opinion, which took place at the fourth David Bar-Ilan Conference on the Media and the Middle East, Chorev argued that public policy was not enough to maintain the public&#8217;s belief in the necessity of holding on to the Jordan Valley, and that the lack of such conviction was dangerous because it could lead to an eventual political loss.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>Chorev<\/strong> contrasted the attitude of secular Israelis towards the West Bank and Gaza with its attitude to the Golan Heights. He <strong>argued that the Israeli consensus could identify with the values of settlers in the Golan in a way they could not with settlers in Judea, Samaria, and Gush Katif, and would therefore be opposed to a future deal with Syria.<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Commentary;<\/p>\n<p>A strategic adviser to Prime Minister Sharon seems to frankly admit what those of us with eyes, ears and a grain of independent thinking have known for quite some time. <\/p>\n<p>Since when does the Israeli public make it&#8217;s own independent decisions as to good or bad &#8220;values&#8221;?   <strong>The government&#8217;s agendization, propagandization and media-supported brainwashing of it&#8217;s electorate regarding<\/strong> <strong>the &#8220;values&#8221; of those in Gush Katif, or now the Jordan Valley were\/are A key factor, along with the Left&#8217;s blackmail of a sitting Prime Minister, behind the Expulsion of Jews from Gush Katif, not security, not demographics, not separation from the &#8220;pals&#8221; (sic) and not pressure from Washington, the EU or any other foreign influence.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I write this commentary with my friends from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sefer-torah.com\/shirathayam.html\">Shi-rat HaYam<\/a> very much in mind.  This Yishuv of 15 families where the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sefer-torah.com\">Sefer Torah Recycling Network<\/a> placed a Sefer on 4 July, 2004, has the inner strength of their youth and emunah and seek to carry on with the fight for Eretz Yisrael B&#8217;Ezrat Hashem from a new venue &#8212; the Jordan Valley.<\/p>\n<p>How far the Am has fallen?  I was zocha to view one of the Entebbe movies, the one starring Yoram Gaon, today while having breakfast in the center of Beit Shemesh.  <strong>Is this the same Am whose Fathers and Grandfathers fought in an Army which won a miraculous, lightning war of Jewish survival in 1967, turned a near disasterous, catastrophic defeat in the Yom Kippur War into a great victory and in 1976, flew selflessly (without regard for the &#8220;values&#8221; of their Jewish brethren) over thousands of miles of hostile airspace to miraculously liberate over 100 Jews who were hijacked by PLO\/PA terrorists to Uganda? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Back at Entebbe, the only ones doing selectia on the Jews were Idi Amin and the PLO\/PA terrorists. <\/strong> But 29 years later, <strong>it is Arik Sharon, Shimon Peres and their effete leftist friends blindly using their tool, the IDF to do selectia against the Jews. Heaven forbid that they would be successful, for Chas V&#8217;Chalilah their success will do far more than to persecute the Torah-Observant.  Chas V&#8217;Chalilah, their success is destruction of Kol Am Yehudi.   <\/p>\n<p>The Land of Israel and the love of it is encumbent upon every Jew, regardless of where Chareidim live, where Datim live, where Dati Leumim live, where S&#8217;fardim, Timanim, or Secular Jews live.  As I&#8217;ve written in the past, if Gush Katif or the Jordan Valley or David HaMelech&#8217;s Kever is not sufficiently Kadosh for some of those among us, then what makes Ramat Aviv Bet any more Kadosh?   <\/p>\n<p>Kol HaKavod to my dear friends, formerly from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sefer-torah.com\/shirathayam.html\">Shi-rat HaYam<\/a>, for your Ahavat Yisrael and your desire to join with your brothers in settling the Jordan Valley!     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