Divine Retribution for expelling Jews from Gaza?
[ Bible Probe ]Posted by Bible Probe on September 10, 2006 at 21:33:50:
Ads Claim Divine Disengagement Retribution
01:07 Sep 11, '06 / 18 Elul 5766
by Ezra HaLevi
The Committee for Saving the Nation and Land of Israel has embarked on an ad campaign to spread the message "There is justice and there is a Judge," regarding those who took part in Disengagement.
Ads appearing in major newspapers read, “One year after the expulsion of Jews – there is justice and there is a Judge.” The ads and posters feature nine prominent backers of the Disengagement Plan who have suffered various misfortunes, be they medical or legal, in the year since its implementation.
The largest picture features former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who suffered a stroke last winter and remains in a coma. His son, Omri, who was handed an active jail sentence, is pictured alongside him.
Current Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who the State Comptroller has recommended that the Attorney General hand an indictment to for his political appointments as Minister of Industry, is featured as well. Olmert was the first member of the Sharon government to come out in support of a Gaza withdrawal, despite the fact that Labor party candidate Amram Mitzna lost the election running on that very platform.
Haim Ramon, who was a longtime backer of a withdrawal from Gaza, and who left his Labor Party to join Sharon’s Kadima, recently resigned from his position as Justice Minister after being indicted for sexual harassment.
President Moshe Katzav, who is being investigated on charges of rape and pilloried in the Israeli media, appears as well. Though Katzav was not a vocal backer of the Disengagement, he refused to criticize it prior to its implementation and called on the residents to leave willingly a week before the forced expulsion.
Disengagement Authority chief Yonatan Bassi, a member of a religious kibbutz in the Beit Shean valley, is rumored to have cancer and appears as well.
Of the security brass who took part in the expulsion, Chief of Staff Dan Halutz was recently humiliated by reports he sold his stock portfolio in the hours leading up to the war in Lebanon, immediately following the kidnapping of two IDF soldiers by Hizbullah. He is also being blamed for mishandling of the war.
Halutz was appointed to his position when IDF Chief of Staff Moshe Yaalon was dismissed ahead of schedule, reportedly due to his muted opposition to the Disengagement Plan.
Police chief Moshe Karadi has been linked to Israel’s Parinion crime family. According to recently-released testimony before a governmental commission, the family had a part in Karadi's appointment to the post.
Shai Gefen, a members of the committee, which is affiliated with the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, told Arutz-7 that he does not see the campaign as a provocation. “The Hebrew month of Elul is a time of soul-searching. From the perspective of loving our fellow Jews we must make it clear to our leaders that for every retreat there is a price tag, there is Divine retribution.”
The ad appeared not only in the weekend Haaretz and B’Sheva newspapers, but on banner ads on several other news sites.
“The ads should act as a warning to Knesset Members and to the prime minister,” Gefen said. “Ariel Sharon said, in his day, that he is not afraid of anything since his mother lived until the age of 90 – and look what happened to him. So we are just saying to politicians, ‘You have been warned.’ ”
Gefen said that there are many other examples of misfortune that has befallen IDF generals who participated in the Disengagement. “We did not want to ‘dance on the blood’ of many who have since experienced tragedy in their households – and this is also the reason why we did not outline the punishment that each person received beneath their picture. Let each person understand the matter on his own, in a delicate manner.”
Gefen said a number of left-wing organizations tried to term the ad incitement, “but I have no idea what the connection is. We are simply stating facts and the pictures speak for themselves.”
Bassi: I am Healthy Like an Ox
Speaking with Arutz-7, Yonatan Bassi said that rumors he is sick with cancer are incorrect. “I feel great. As far as any person can attest to their own health: I am as healthy as an ox. The many letters I received from families I assisted in restructuring their lives following the evacuation testify that everything was done in a proper manner. I am with a full heart and proud of my contribution to the residents,” Bassi said.
He added that the rumors about his health were probably started by “vandals” who distributed the rumor on a number of Internet forums.
Published: 00:55 September 11, 2006
Reference: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=111766
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