This is the response to that: I am no scholar, I cannot vouch for the accuracy of it, but I think this writer hit the nail on the head when he wrote about trading Land for Death:
Mark Goldberg, Aberdeen,NJ, USA:
Comment to comments made by Daniel Ceuppens:
Gaza, or Azza, was mentioned in genesis and Abraham and Isaac are mentioned living there. It was the land of the Philistines, Aegean peoples who battled the Jews, conquered by Kind David, and who disappeared by 500 BC. It was the home to Talmudic communities, and Jewish communities were there through the Arab and Turkish control. In the 20's a thriving Jewish community was wiped out by Arab riots at the same time as the Hebron community was wiped out, I believe, and the Great Mosque had until a few years ago, the tiled remains of Kind David on it's walls, which of course, the Muslims erased- like all Jewish presence- everywhere.
The Jews, who've moved back since the 67' war, occupy almost entirely unoccupied lands and were welcomed by Arabs who thought they might bring jobs if they succeeded in the land known as 'El Guarre' or something like that- the dead desert? But they too were gotten rid of by the Arabs brought back from Tunis and Libya and Tunisia and Lebanon and Syria and Iraq and who of course are dedicated to wiped out any and all Jewish presence their and Israel.
This is called land for worse than nothing or Land for Death, as I call it.
And to cavalierly state that the people waiting in line for multiple id checks (because the IDF is ordered to not defend them) is their fault and reason to deny entry is both fatuous, illogical and self destructive.
You may feel that you care not for that land, that you erroneously assumed is not nor never was a part of Israel, which it was and is.
More so- that whole 'Land for Peace' bit - that was destroyed, or should have been, after it was used to destroy Jewish people, Jewish souls, and human decency, and the rights of people to exist without being assassinated by homicidal murderers who sing and dance their way to heaven slaughtering infidels. - Well now we have it's new meaning- Land for Death. And it will most assuredly include all of Israel- as the Muslims and Arabs have now clearly articulated.
And that is your testimony to those innocent murdered on roads.
May it never be given as the testimony to you or yours
Response to the Gush Katif Blog entry--Land for Death
There were two comments to Rabbi Katz's Gush Katif entry that I just posted. The first is some of the usual reasoning why we should not be in Gaza. The second is a response to that, and I think it's instructive and worth reading, at Katif entry responses
This is the response to that: I am no scholar, I cannot vouch for the accuracy of it, but I think this writer hit the nail on the head when he wrote about trading Land for Death:
Posted by Maurice Sonnenwirth at August 5, 2005 02:21 PM