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BYE BYE GAZA - Barry Chamish

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synagogues and halls just like this one, to discuss what to do<br />

about the Nazi danger. They were not really going to do<br />

anything to protect themselves, they just wanted to console<br />

each other by giving the same opinions to each other. Back<br />

then, the consensus among them was that everything was<br />

going to be all right.<br />

"Every now and then these denial groups were interrupted by<br />

Jews led by Zeev Jabotinsky who brought them the truth.'<br />

They are planning to slaughter you,' they would warn. 'You<br />

have to get armed and trained or you have to flee. If you<br />

choose to stay, then you have to be prepared to fight.' And<br />

the Jews reviled the warners and their warnings. They didn't<br />

want to know the horrible truth. They preferred to build their<br />

own fantasy world instead.<br />

"When I chose Israel as my home while I was young, it was<br />

to protect my children someday and offer them safety in their<br />

own home. I never dreamed that history would repeat itself<br />

or that I would be that Jew who tried and failed to warn his<br />

people about what awaited them."<br />

Sixty people were in that hall, and twenty of them gave their<br />

opinions. They were talking to themselves. When the<br />

dreadful blather ended, I approached Ronen Tsafrir, who<br />

organized the evening, and explained why this kind of a<br />

gathering does way more harm than good. This meeting<br />

served one purpose only, to feed the delusions of the angry,<br />

keeping their emotions in check and assuring that their anger<br />

would not spill over into action.<br />

I then explained how three soldiers in Netzarim, on October<br />

26 2003, were set up to be murdered, just to persuade the<br />

tired Israeli public that it was too dangerous to send their<br />

children to defend Gush Katif. I got four sentences into my<br />

explanation when Tsafrir said, "I don't want to know," and ran<br />

away.<br />

BETRAYED BY OUR "FRIENDS"

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