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July 25, 2006
Confession re: Gush Katif
I received this by email today, forwarded to me from someone else, I was speaking to a friend just yesterday about this very same thing.:
Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 12:17 AM
Subject: confession - must read!!
Enclosed is the translation of the letter I got today.
Please read
Friends and family members are being injured and killed.
Some of us are without a roof on our heads.
I closed my business since the beginning of the battle and I don't know what will happen.
We are wandering between family and good people.
Our family life has been impaired.
I never thought that I, a Haifa resident for 30 years, would be a refugee in my own land.
Every thing sound so familiar from the close past.
During 5 years you coped with bombs – and I didn't care
You buried family and friends - and I was indifferent
You found yourselves without a home, like that and you never had someone that listened to you.
Even when you came to visit me to my house, to explain, to convince, to share your feelings with me – I refused to listen to you.
It has already been a week. I am out of my house, without my regular routine, it is very hard to me – but the empathy, the support, and people identifying with our plight helped me go on.
You , don't even have that.
You – In guest houses, hotels and even in tents- It's not easy to say: "Who cares?!"
People from Gush Katif and the Shomron!
Forgive me!
Forgive us for letting you on your own.
Forgive us for not understanding you.
I am not a religious man, and not a mystic person.
But we cannot ignore the deep relation
Between my attitude towards you
And the price that I am paying now for my understanding.
I could not have expressed this any better. It's true! Those who closed their eyes to the fate of our people in Gaza last year are now suffering the same fate.
Posted by LindaSoG at July 25, 2006 10:17 AM
Comments
I can't begin to tell you how saddened I was when the pull-out of Gaza was ordered and we saw the pictures and video of those poor people who were forcibly removed from their homes.
When is the world going to learn that appeasement never works? And after this crisis is settled, only with the Hez'bollocks being destroyed, Israel should never 'appease' any group ever again. Lesson Learned - Never Again!
Posted by: patd95 at July 25, 2006 04:52 PM