The Next Expulsion of Jews

Not content with having emptied Gaza of its Jews, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has now turned his sights to a neighborhood in Hebron.

According to media reports, the Israeli army issued expulsion orders this morning to the 8 Jewish families living in the Shalhevet neighborhood of the ancient Jewish city, giving them until January 15 to leave their homes or be forced out.

The neighborhood in question is named for Shalhevet Pass, a Jewish infant who was murdered by a Palestinian sniper in 2001. It lies on land that was owned by Jews until 1929, when Hebron’s Arabs massacred 69 Jews and forced the remaining members of the community to leave. Subsequently, Arab squatters moved in to the area, and turned it into a marketplace.

After young Shalhevet was murdered, Jewish families moved in to the neighborhood to reclaim the land and restore a Jewish presence there.

Once upon a time in Israel, this was seen as the proper Zionist response to Arab terror: The more they tried to kill us, the more determined we were to cling to this land.

Sadly, that is no longer the case. Now, it seems the more they try to kill us, the more our leaders seek to run away.

To learn more about the planned expulsion, visit: www.hebron.org.il. Write your representatives, inform your friends and family, raise your voices in protest and in prayer. The Jews of Hebron need our support.

Europe "Outsources" the Killing of Jews

This past weekend, Israel came within a matter of meters from disaster, death and destruction, when rockets fired by Palestinian terrorists in northern Gaza just missed hitting an elementary school and a gas station.

And how did the European Union respond to this outrage?

By agreeing to fund Hamas, of course.

On Monday, the EU announced that it would provide the Hamas-controlled Palestinian Authority (PA) with some $140 million in “emergency” funds to stave off the financial collapse of the PA.

And so, Europe now joins with Iran, which has pledged $250 million to the Palestinians, in helping to salvage the solvency of Gaza and Ramallah.

It does not seem to matter one whit to the enlightened statesmen of Europe that they are helping to keep a terrorist entity afloat, providing it with the wherewithal to continue to threaten Israel and attack Jews, and effectively joining hands with the Ayatollahs of Iran.

But none of us should really be all that surprised by this turn of events. After all, Europe has spent the better part of the past millennium killing and persecuting Jews.

Now, instead, they are merely “outsourcing” their efforts to Hamas.

Is Yossi Beilin still rooting for the Seattle Seahawks?

So now it is official: a Hamas-controlled parliament was formally sworn in yesterday, signifying the Palestinians’ unmistakable and undeniable desire to wipe Israel off the map.

But has that served to wake up the Israeli left from its trance-like belief in peace at any price?

Of course not.

The Labor party reacted by declaring that it still “sees Mahmoud Abbas as a partner in peace talks”, which is akin to saying that one still thinks the Seattle Seahawks can win last month’s Superbowl.

Then there is Dr. Yossi Beilin of Meretz, one of the “brainchilds” of the Oslo process that created the Palestinian entity now under Hamas control.

Neither contrite nor remorseful over the failure of his policies, Beilin reacted to Hamas’ ascension to power by….. blaming Israel, of course.

“Israel made a terrible mistake by weakening the PA and Abbas in the past few years,” he opined, displaying yet again his uncanny ability to find no fault with Israel’s foes.

This, of course, is nothing new. Even after the Oslo process quickly descended into unprecedented waves of anti-Israel terror nearly 13 years ago, the hard-core Left refused to acknowledge the error of its ways, so why should now be any different?

Nonetheless, there is something instructive in all of this, for it serves as a useful reminder to those with short memories that people such as Beilin and his comrades can not and must not be returned to power.

If they are incapable of recognizing the dangers inherent in a Hamas-led terrorist regime, then they are best left to spin their fantasies far away from the centers of power.