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BYE BYE GAZA - Barry Chamish

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- Song Of The Gush<br />

217<br />

217<br />

The Nazis knew how to keep the Jews deluded until the end.<br />

They hired the Judenraat to run local Jewish councils. The<br />

Judenraat fed the Jews false hope until they were gathered<br />

and shipped away. Of course, that could never happen in<br />

Israel? But it did. The new Nazis of Israel ran the Judenraat<br />

of the Yesha Council, and the Jews followed them into the<br />

ghettos of Kfar Maimon and Ofakim where they were safely<br />

trapped behind enemy lines.<br />

The new Judenraat hired kapos with names like Wallerstein<br />

and Aviner who pretended to be leading a rebellion, but they<br />

were really collaborating with the authorities. They pretended<br />

to back civil disobedience so long as no one was hurt or any<br />

damage caused. And that's just what the authorities asked<br />

them to do.<br />

However, the task was made so much easier by the religious<br />

leaders who instilled a sense of fatalism, laziness and<br />

superstition among their congregants. Well over 200,000<br />

prayed at the Western Wall five days before the rape of<br />

Gush Katif. Almost a quarter of a million G-d-fearing Jews<br />

prayed for the salvation of Gush Katif at the grounds of<br />

Judaism's holiest site.<br />

They all wasted their breath. Their prayers weren't answered.<br />

G-d was not interested in Gush Katif.<br />

And why should He be? Why should He have anything to do<br />

with a people who won't fight for His land and their homes?<br />

Why should He have anything to do with a people who<br />

forego responsibility because they believe, actually believe,<br />

that a miracle is going to bail them out? Or that the moshiach<br />

will come and sort things out for them?<br />

Well, no miracle saved Gush Katif, and still no signs of the<br />

moshiach.

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