Resistance News, 2005_06_08

Resistance News, 2005_06_08


See note at article's end.

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1. The people speak - Mofaz gets an ear-full

JPost reports:

Mofaz fails to dispel despair in Homesh


In a stormy meeting Tuesday at this lonely settlement perched over Nablus, Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz had little to offer the settlers except a sheepish smile and a nebulous plan to relocate them once Homesh is evacuated this summer...

Two settlers from Homesh broke down in tears at the end of the meeting. One of them, Etti Rosenblatt, addressed Mofaz telling him that "in my current situation I feel twice raped. The first [time] is by an obtuse government that is expelling me from my home," and the second time from a government that has not provided her with a place to go after the evacuation, she said.

If she and her friends were not provided answers, "I'll barricade myself in my home – that will be much harder to deal with [for you] than the youth outside..."

The barrage of insults began during Mofaz's closed meeting with Homesh local secretariat and continued steadily throughout his "town hall" meeting with the settlers. Shosh Shiloh, a resident of the nearby settlement of Kedumim and a grandmother of four children who live in Homesh, cried, "stop now before you end up like Yitzhak Mordechai," Israel's former defense minister, who was convicted of sexual assault in 2003.

The minister smiled meekly as a phalanx of some 20 bodyguards and Special Police escorted him from the secretariat's office to the community center.

There, as Mofaz tried to address the settlers, the demonstrators outside beat a steady chant of "a Jew does not expel a Jew." Some held their babies at the windows of the community center screaming that Mofaz intends to banish their children from their homes. When the windows were shuttered they tried to scream through the cracks. Some demonstrators also entered the town hall meeting and jeered Mofaz as he stood to speak.


2. They aren't even ready!

From JPost:

It is unclear whether the government is prepared to implement the disengagement plan, head of the National Security Council, Maj.-Gen. (Res) Giora Eiland, said.

According to Eiland, who sent a letter to senior officials at the Prime Minister's Office - which was obtained by Israel Radio, "The disorder that has been created is weakening the government and strengthening the plan's opponents."

Eiland describes the situation as a "mess"; he urges the government to convene an emergency meeting, limited in scope, to assess the situation.


3. Grass-roots resistance

Arutz 7 reports:

Gush Katif Residents Block Entry of Defense Ministry Officials

Residents of the Gush Katif community of Netzer Hazani blocked the entrance of Defense Ministry officials from entering their town this morning.

The residents say the officials came with maps to solidify preparations for the plan to expel them from their homes.

They filed a complaint with the police claiming the officials were trespassing and creating a provocation.


4. Other Arutz 7 pieces relevant to the Resistance

Gaza Leaders Blame Disengagement for Increase in Terror

Yatom Calls for Elections or Referendum

Note: "Resistance News" is a daily column devoted to news about the Jewish resistance to Sharon's expulsion and resettlement plan. Let it not be said that IsraPundit observed the ethnic-cleansing of Jews.

Posted by Joseph Alexander Norland at June 8, 2005 08:02 AM

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