More religious fanatics

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http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/493713.html

Leading rabbi: Faith will defeat disengagement plan

By Nadav Shragai, Haaretz Correspondent

Opponents of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip and four settlements in the northern West Bank will defeat the disengagement plan via prayer and faith, leading rabbi and yeshiva head Rabbi Mordechai Elon said at an anti-pullout rally outside the Knesset on Tuesday.

Knesset members were debating the disengagement plan for the second day Tuesday, and will vote on it at 8 P.M.

Tens of thousands of people were participating in the rally held in the Rose Garden, including students from schools in the West Bank and Gaza Strip dressed in orange shirts with anti-disengagement slogans on them.

Schools in the settlements were closed Tuesday to allow the students to participate in anti-pullout demonstrations.

The High Court on Tuesday rejected a petition by Yahad MK Ran Cohen, in which he requested that the schools be banned from remaining closed, Israel Radio reported.

"The people present here, innocent children and the righteous will win the struggle through prayer and faith," Elon said at the rally.

Addressing Sharon, Elon, who heads Yeshivat Hakotel in Jerusalem, said: "Not through a dictatorship and not through violence will you beat them. Look into these children's eyes, look into their parents' eyes. Not by force but with my spirit, sayeth the Lord."

Local councils in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip put up tents on the lawn and Hebrew songs were played over a central PA system.

The protestors held up placards saying "Sharon is a traitor" and "Soldiers: disobey orders to evacuate us". In a nearby park, demonstrators erected a huge map of Israel without borders to show Gaza or the West Bank.

After the rally, the participants will try to hinder Knesset proceedings by forming a "human chain" and staging a go-slow parade of cars around it.

Work at all local and regional councils in the West Bank and Gush Katif was also suspended Tuesday, as council workers and many other residents of the settlements were expected to participate in the demonstrations which were also to take place at government offices in the capital.

The events organized for Tuesday by the right wing began at 8:30 A.M., with a convoy of vehicles and residents from the West Bank and Gaza making their way to Jerusalem.

The children's rally turned after noon into a mass prayer attended by the former chief rabbis Mordechai Eliyahu and Avraham Shapira, who recited Psalms usually used on Yom Kippur. The crowd repeated the Psalms line by line.

"When you push someone into a corner, you cannot predict what he will do. The man who helped us build Gush Katif is betraying us now. We don't understand his about-face," said Aharon Tzur, a Gaza settler.

"We view the situation with open eyes. After disengagement, the Arabs will not turn into lovers of Zion. They will not stop firing mortars at us. They will have longer-range targets."

"We thought Ariel Sharon would be the one to save us. If it won't be him, it'll have to be God. We are waiting for the messiah," said Carrie Fried, an American planning to move with her young family to a West Bank settlement.

The Council of Yesha Rabbis called Monday on lawmakers "to raise their hands in favor of the Land of Israel and strengthening our hold in every place."

According to the council, "Anyone who, God forbid, raises his hand against the settlement enterprise and the faith of Israel and its customs will be remembered in shame as someone who paved the way to a rift in the nation, which already today is bleeding from within in the face of the destroyers."

Meanwhile, settler leader Avi Farhan, who marched 22 years ago from the demolished and evacuated Yamit communities to Jerusalem to protest the pullout from the area where he had lived, completed a similar march Monday, together with residents of the Alei Sinai settlement in the Gaza Strip. Farhan and Gush Katif children then placed notes in the Western Wall, pleading for a "revocation of the decree."

Farhan is slated to meet in the coming days with President Moshe Katsav and will ask the president, who supports a referendum, to press for a nationwide poll or general election on the subject of the pullout.

"This is not a protest demonstration, but a cry from a wounded and aching heart, a cry to Arik [Ariel Sharon], who led us along this path, from the ruins of Yamit to the establishment of Alei Sinai," Farhan said Monday. "How, Arik, how do you have the gall to do this to us a second time?"

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the #'s of jewish religious "fanatics" as compared to muslim ones are not worth mentioning but thanks again for proving how much of a jew hater you are by posting only articles that are anti-israel esp from haaretz who are very left leaning

Sharon shouldn't be withdrawning, he should clean the area up & build more settlements there.

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the #'s of jewish religious "fanatics" as compared to muslim ones are not worth mentioning but thanks again for proving how much of a jew hater you are by posting only articles that are anti-israel esp from haaretz who are very left leaning

Sharon shouldn't be withdrawning, he should clean the area up & build more settlements there.

Yet again, your stupidity is absolutely mind-boggling! The only people who are "anti-Israel" and anti-democratic are your friends and family, the settlers!

So, if these are only a "small" number of fanatics, how come they are causing so much trouble in Israel?

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the #'s of jewish religious "fanatics" as compared to muslim ones are not worth mentioning but thanks again for proving how much of a jew hater you are by posting only articles that are anti-israel esp from haaretz who are very left leaning

Sharon shouldn't be withdrawning, he should clean the area up & build more settlements there.

Newsflash..................everyone hates the Jews, in case you haven't noticed.

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Yet again, your stupidity is absolutely mind-boggling! The only people who are "anti-Israel" and anti-democratic are your friends and family, the settlers!

So, if these are only a "small" number of fanatics, how come they are causing so much trouble in Israel?

cause the media is blowing it out of proportion in their reporting, they're nmot causing "so much" trouble

in case you havent noticed israel is very leftist in certain aspects & by giving up land like sharon plans on doing they are committing suicide

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Newsflash..................everyone hates the Jews, in case you haven't noticed.

Yes I'm going to listen to some moron who's "All up in dis beotch", lose the suburban ebonics if you wanna be taken seriously.

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Yes I'm going to listen to some moron who's "All up in dis beotch", lose the suburban ebonics if you wanna be taken seriously.

Look who's talking about being "taken seriously" hahahaha

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cause the media is blowing it out of proportion in their reporting, they're nmot causing "so much" trouble

in case you havent noticed israel is very leftist in certain aspects & by giving up land like sharon plans on doing they are committing suicide

Oh threatening civil war (and by high-ranking rabbis too) and assassinations is not "so much" trouble!

And in case you didn't realize, most of the normal Israeli population actually do support the pull-out.

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Look who's talking about being "taken seriously" hahahaha

you obviously taken me serious enough to reply to every one of my posts like my little puppet. Now fetch your shinebox boy.

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Oh threatening civil war (and by high-ranking rabbis too) and assassinations is not "so much" trouble!

And in case you didn't realize, most of the normal Israeli population actually do support the pull-out.

Again this is blown out of proportion, arabs threaten assassinations & civil unrest all the time no one cares but as soon as a few jews who's homeland is being taken from them say something the whole world is in an uproar. Maybe it's cause this behaviour is unusual for Israel but it sure is the norm in the backward arab countries.

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Yes I'm going to listen to some moron who's "All up in dis beotch", lose the suburban ebonics if you wanna be taken seriously.

I'm not expecting you to "take my word for it". Isn't pretty evident anyway. I'd imagine you're not that naive. And you classifying me as an ebonics speaking simpleton based on the light-hearted geographic description that I put under my avatar proves that you are the moron.