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Digitally tagged, isolated, walled-in, readied for expulsion: their fight is our fight.
You may have read that the Israeli police have begun their electronic weeding out of visitors to Judea and Samaria. This is sold as expediting passage for the residents of the Jewish heartland, enabling them to avoid the lines at the checkpoints necessitated by daily Arab attempts to murder Jews.
But the new initiative (which actually has been developing during the past two years as de facto border cross-points are built between Judea and Samaria and the 1949 armistice lines) is not about convenience but about severing these precious, simple, unassuming and God-fearing people from the rest of the world. The next step is easy to discern even without the precedent of what was done to the Jewish towns of Gush Katif (the 15% of the ‘Gaza Strip’ in which Jews were allowed to settle): cut off increasingly from the rest of the world, even from family in other parts of Israel these communities are being isolated, walled in like ghettos to facilitate their deportation at the orders of the Bush administration and its affiliate, the House of Saud, and to the jeers and cheers of most of Europe, Russia and other nations, the “Quartet” playing their favorite minuet da capo.
Yes, apropos to Purim, a lot has been cast against the Jewish people, again. The powers, including America’s diplomatic echelon seem obsessed with making Israel an increasingly small target while Russia and China arm Iran and Syria and America’s government arms Fatah and feigns helplessness.
There are two terrible costs here for us all, — and then a simple countermeasure to save us. Firstly, the Jews of Judea and Samaria are the true beautiful people for whom the world has been searching since the 1960s, and long before. These are lives of gracious hospitality, productivity, simplicity, fertility and integrity: happy and independent people who expect little and build nearly everything themselves. Their land is open and singularly beautiful, a unique mix of alpine vistas, chalk crags, basalt bluffs, and red clay spires, domes and blocks of every possible shape, all interlaced by deep narrow valleys. Where the Jews have settled, the greening process continues. The vistas are vast and soul-nourishing. And the stratagic value to Israel and the West is essential: without these glorious mountain valleys and brave people the nation is indefensible. Such is the malice of the plan of the “Quartet” to make this Promised Land a jihadist state.
Secondly, the tagging of citizens for electronic and digital recognition, to pass or to be detained threatens us all and clearly is the plan for the near future. Already local network affiliates promote implantable computer chips for ‘convenience’ so your computer will recognize you: — and so the authorities will be able to monitor your every move and life transaction. It’s further along than that: Britain intends by 2009 to require biometric tags, fingerprints and retinal scans for any citizen that wants a passport. From Serbia to America similar plans are in place. The era of the pyramid returns with an enslaved populace that would delight Pharoah.
By resisting this plan to electronically and digitally register every car, and then every person, the Jews of Judea and Samaria will not only stave off the nascent World State’s plans to ghettoize and expel them but will lead the way for us also to resist slavery and helplessness in the form of ’security.’
What’s the other countermeasure? For everyone to realize that to be free in a humane sense they must, as Scripture states, turn to the Children of Israel in their Land, visit them, get to know them, publicize the beauty and courage of their lives, be the vast constituency they deserve and that we need to be as part of a genuine war on terror. Especially in Judea and Samaria, drink in the milk and wine of their promise and their fields and flocks, their oil and grains and grace; purchase their produce and support the guard dogs that save their lives every night from the marauders who do the dirty work of the powers and try to get the Jews to leave so they don’t need to be dragged out which still is hard to sell to most Americans. Help them purchase a generator, complete a school, and retain the presence that is worth more to American defense than ten carrier battle groups and three intelligence agencies – agencies that actually served rather than undermined America.
Their fight is our fight; their abandonment and ‘tagging’ for fraudulent security is our future, as is their expulsion from their land, eminent domain writ large. Visit them, be blessed by them: those who bless them will be blessed; and while they would not say so, those who curse them will be cursed.