I hate the word 'settler.' Whenever I hear that word I get really angry! Why? Because what they call a settler, I call a true a hero of the Jewish people. There was a group of people who returned to Homesh today, one of the communities destroyed in the 2006 disengagement, and they raised a flag there.
Just a flag
Such a powerful image, the Israeli flag. I see the flag and I think about 2000 years, a people without a homeland sticking together, sharing a dream, and finally creating one. There hasn't been a case in the history of the world like this one.
These people returning to Homesh, are that symbol, a symbol that has unfortunately been lost in the recent decades as Israeli politicians start to question the creation of the State of Israel, and in the process of trying to bring peace, are actively destroying it.
What people like to call 'settlers' and 'settlements,' I like to call the residents of Biblical Israel. Because most of biblical Israel is in this 'West Bank,' as people like to call it. Hebron, the Temple Mount, Beit El, these are all places that are in land the Arabs claim as theirs. So no wonder our secular politicians are willing to give it up. They're so obsessed with trying to wipe religious Judaism off the map, they are blind to what that means politically, and to their precious secularism. The Arabs know that this land is important, in fact they know the whole land is important, that's why they want all of it.
They want it for religious purposes as well, the Koran says that once a land has been under the rule is Islam (which means 'submission,' by the way) it will always be under Islamic rule. The fact that Israel exists in a place that used to be Islamic land drives the Arabs crazy!
What I want to say is that we, as Jews, have to start accepting out religion more (make aliyah:) but in the meantime we have to realize that the only way we're ever going to win this war is going to be through Torah and Mitzvot, not through armed conflict. One day the Muslims will wake up and change, but what is going to happen if they change and we don't?
Just a flag
Such a powerful image, the Israeli flag. I see the flag and I think about 2000 years, a people without a homeland sticking together, sharing a dream, and finally creating one. There hasn't been a case in the history of the world like this one.
These people returning to Homesh, are that symbol, a symbol that has unfortunately been lost in the recent decades as Israeli politicians start to question the creation of the State of Israel, and in the process of trying to bring peace, are actively destroying it.
What people like to call 'settlers' and 'settlements,' I like to call the residents of Biblical Israel. Because most of biblical Israel is in this 'West Bank,' as people like to call it. Hebron, the Temple Mount, Beit El, these are all places that are in land the Arabs claim as theirs. So no wonder our secular politicians are willing to give it up. They're so obsessed with trying to wipe religious Judaism off the map, they are blind to what that means politically, and to their precious secularism. The Arabs know that this land is important, in fact they know the whole land is important, that's why they want all of it.
They want it for religious purposes as well, the Koran says that once a land has been under the rule is Islam (which means 'submission,' by the way) it will always be under Islamic rule. The fact that Israel exists in a place that used to be Islamic land drives the Arabs crazy!
What I want to say is that we, as Jews, have to start accepting out religion more (make aliyah:) but in the meantime we have to realize that the only way we're ever going to win this war is going to be through Torah and Mitzvot, not through armed conflict. One day the Muslims will wake up and change, but what is going to happen if they change and we don't?
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