In a welcome departure from the daily news fare offered by Israeli media, recently, a major television station and newspaper both featured stories concerning the phenomenon of multitudinous correspondence which arrives each year addressed to "G-d in Jerusalem". Highlighting the in-depth report was an interview with the rabbi of the Western Wall, who devotedly places each of the thousands of letters, containing heartfelt requests to the Almighty, into the crevices of the Kotel HaMaaravi.



As I watched the unusual newscast, it occurred to me that it is a true and simple faith that, tragically, is lacking in the leaders of Israel. They, who are legends in their own minds, for the most part either grudgingly tolerate, or inwardly scoff at, the Jewish belief in a Supreme Being, the G-d of Israel, to whom Jews should turn for solutions to individual or national problems. Yet, history clearly records that many of the greatest catastrophes that befell the Jewish people were caused by their rebelling against G-d's will.



Indeed, in our present day, the ill-fated Oslo Accords and the subsequent so-called 'peace process' endorsed by successive Israeli governments are in direct contradiction to the Torah commandments.



Jews are forbidden to give up one inch of our sacred land in Eretz Yisrael.



Tell that to the prime minister of Israel who advocates giving up Gush Katif and other areas in Judea and Samaria to pave the way for an enemy 'Palestinian state' on Israel's border.



Jews are forbidden to hate their brothers.



Tell that to the Jewish soldiers and police who arrest and forcefully beat men, women and children for peacefully protesting Ariel Sharon's 'Disengagement' policy.



Jews are responsible one for another.



Tell that to the renegade leftists and their ilk who support Arab enemies while ignoring the suffering of thousands of Jewish victims of Arab terrorist attacks.



Indeed, the wisest of all men, King Solomon, in a sage admonition to future generations, declared, "Unless G-d builds the house, the laborers labor in vain." Israelis must stop looking for the 'knight on the white horse' (or in the white house) to save us. We have only one true Ally - our Father in Heaven - on whom we can rely.



With each passing day, the desperate voices of those who perceive the disaster facing Israel are silenced by the Sharon government, which tramples both democracy and Judaism. The government is forging ahead to remove not only the courageous Jewish residents of Gaza from their homes, but, incredibly, also the bodies of loved ones from their graves.



While in Israel there are plans to mobilize the entire nation to thwart Sharon's evil plan, Jews in the Diaspora as well, particularly in America, have an important role to play. Utilizing the theme "Divest from Disengagement" the Victims of Arab Terror International organization (VAT) calls upon American Jews to immediately begin an urgent campaign to contact their Congressmen and Senators and tell them not to provide Prime Minister Sharon with the more than one billion dollars he is now seeking from the United States to offset the cost of transferring the Jews of Gaza, Judea and Samaria from their homes in the Jewish state. American Jews and non-Jewish supporters of Israel must lobby their elected representatives by phone, fax or email, to vote against providing their taxes for the 'blood money' that will help to reward Arab terrorists for their ongoing murderous atrocities.



An anonymous philosopher once declared, "The answer to prayer is often the beginning of resolve." Thus, with faith in almighty G-d that He will help us defeat our enemies from without and within, a determined, united Jewry must resolve not to allow Sharon's disastrous Disengagement to become reality.