That is how one might describe Gush Katif. It was early in the morning when I, along with forty-six other Christian Zionists, boarded an armored bus for the hour and fifteen minute ride from Jerusalem to this beautiful community of pioneers who have literally given their lives to “make the wilderness like Eden and the desert like the garden of the Lord.”

We all wore orange T-shirts and caps to identify with the people who chose orange for the color of their first flag in 1978. They chose orange because it is a combination of the yellow of the sun and the golden sand of the nearby beaches. To the people at Gush Katif, orange was a color that represented optimism and hope and that was what we wanted to give them.

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22:11 Jun 26, '05 / 19 Sivan 5765
(IsraelNN.com) The worldwide movement against the Disengagement Plan is calling upon people all around the world to conduct a demonstration at 6 PM Israel time Monday against the expulsion of nearly 10,000 Jews from their homes and the creation of a terrorist state.
As motorists and business owners in Israel pull over and close their shops at 6 PM, people of conscience worldwide are asked to close their businesses, pull off the road, pause in their teaching, stand by their desk where they are learning, walk outside their home and stand on the sidewalk to demonstrate their opposition to the expulsion of Jews from their eternal homeland.

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(IsraelNN.com) Hevron spokesman Noam Arnon, a friend of the Levi family, whose 17-year-old son Avichai was murdered while waiting for a ride Friday, placed responsibility for the boy's murder upon Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
"So that Sharon and his sons could stay out of jail he has abandoned the lives of our children," he said at the massive funeral for the boy.

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Inter Press Service (IPS)
Thu Jun 16, 7:20 PM ET
 


JERUSALEM, Jun 16 (IPS) - It might have been expected that Israel, not wanting to have pictures broadcast of Palestinians triumphantly entering the evacuated homes of settlers in the Gaza Strip, would want to demolish those homes. It might equally have been expected that the Palestinians, wanting to be seen marching into the homes of their retreating occupiers, would want the houses to remain intact.
But the question of what to do with some 1,600 settler homes - inhabited by 7,500 settlers - that are to be evacuated in mid-August as a part of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's disengagement plan has become an increasingly vexing one, for both Israel and the Palestinians.
After initially signalling that the homes would be demolished to spare the settlers the sight of Palestinians entering their houses, Sharon recently indicated that the matter was still unresolved. The reason: the military has informed the Israeli leader that it opposes demolishing the homes because this would significantly increase the time it would take to complete the Gaza withdrawal and would expose soldiers to increased risk of attack from Palestinian militants.

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By Caroline B. Glick

Can both Jerusalem and Washington really be that deep in denial?
http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | During his meeting with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Saturday, PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas told Rice that the PA had ceased all incitement activities against Israel. Yet on the same day that they met, the PA's official news service WAFA "reported" that Israelis were sending hordes of wild pigs to Palestinian villages around Hawarah village in the Nablus district to attack them and destroy their fields.
The PA's official news service even interviewed Hawarah Mayor Mansour Dmaidi, who backed these ludicrous and incendiary statements.
It is not surprising that Abbas brazenly lied to Rice about PA-sponsored incitement against Israel. After all, he lied to her about everything else. Most importantly, Abbas told Rice that he is opposed to terrorism. And yet, Abbas fervently supports terrorism.


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