Monday Dec 10, 2007

Gush Etzion celebrations

Posted by Avigdor Lieberman

The Etzion Block was the birthplace of the Jewish Settlement movement. Here our spiritual, religious and political identity was shaped. Here we created cultural values of national and universal significance and exemplified to the world the values of the eternal Book of Books.

Three times in modern history, Jewish residents of the Etzion block have been forcefully exiled: After the Arab pogroms of 1929; after the Arab pogroms of 1936; and on the fourth day of the Jewish month of Iyar, 5708, a day before the establishment of the State of Israel. Each time, the people kept faith throughout their dispersion and never ceased to pray and hope for their return to it and for the restoration in it of their political freedom.

Impelled by this historic and traditional attachment, second and third generations strove in every successive generation to re-establish themselves in their ancient homeland. In recent decades they returned en masse.

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hamutzi:

Yosher Koach, Avigdor
It also does not go unnoticed by the Israeli public, that unlike the sometime zionists from Shas, you did not wait around to see how much more money you could extort from the nogoodniks sitting on their tucheses in the ruinous Kadima Knesset, but packed your pekalach and went, just as you said you would do, once the evidence of the sell-out of our nation became too much for you, too, to bear, like any other good and authentic Jew.
All you say of the brave folks of Gush Etzion, is absolutely true.
Happy and safe celebrations!
hamutzi

Ari - Jakarta:

Dear Mr. Lieberman,

Implement Torah's values and moral on daily lives of every Israelis. May the Great Lord and Redeemer bless Israel and keep her always.

From Indonesia.

Josh, USA:

Mr. Lieberman --- This blog entry, a transcript of the speech you gave at Nokdim, is very inspiring. I agree with every word. But, if you really believe what you say, then why do you allow the Olmert Government, which wants to give up the Etzion Block, to stay in power?!

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