No other people has ever claimed Palestine as their national home.
National Home for
THE JEWISH PEOPLE JUNE 30, 1922
HOUSE RESOLUTION 360 - UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTED

"Palestine of today, the land we now know as Palestine, was peopled by the Jews from the dawn of history until the Roman era. It is the ancestral homeland of the Jewish people. They were driven from it by force by the relentless Roman military machine and for centuries prevented from returning. At different periods various alien people succeeded them but the Jewish race had left an indelible impress upon the land.

"Today it is a Jewish country. Every name, every landmark, every monument and every trace of whatever civilization remaining there is still Jewish. And it has ever since remained a hope, a longing, as expressed in their prayers for these nearly 2,000 years. No other people has ever claimed Palestine as their national home. No other people has ever shown an aptitude or indicated a genuine desire to make it their homeland. The land has been ruled by foreigners. Only since the beginning of the modern Zionist effort may it be said that a creative, cultural, and economic force has entered Palestine. The Jewish Nation was forced from its natural home. It did not go because it wanted to.

"A perusal of Jewish history, a reading of Josephus, will convince the most skeptical that the grandest fight that was ever put up against an enemy was put up by the Jew. He never thought of leaving Palestine. But he was driven out. But did he, when driven out, give up his hope of getting back? Jewish history and Jewish literature give the answer to the question. The Jew even has a fast day devoted to the day of destruction of the Jewish homeland.

"Never throughout history did they give up hope of returning there. I am told that 90 per cent of the Jews today are praying for the return of the Jewish people to its own home. The best minds among them believe in the necessity of reestablishing their Jewish land. To my mind there is something prophetic in the fact that during the ages no other nation has taken over Palestine and held it in the sense of a homeland; and there is something providential in the fact that for 1,800 years it has remained in desolation as if waiting for the return of the people."

[Written by Representative Frank Appleby, New Jersey]

The cruelty of this act is unthinkable: just two days after Gilad Zar's Yahrtzeit - the anniversary of his killing, the Israeli government is going to kill Gilad again.
Exactly eight years ago:

May 29, 2001 - Gilad Zar, 41, of Itamar, was shot dead in a terrorist ambush while driving between Kedumim and Yizhar.

Gilad Zar, security officer of the Samaria Regional Council for the last four years, was hit by a hail of over 40 bullets as he drove on a bypass road between the communities of Yitzhar and Kedumim. The Palestinian terrorists shot at his windshield from a parked car, causing his car to overturn. They then got out, walked to Zar's car, shot him in the head at point-blank range, and fled to Nablus. Gilad died en route to hospital.

Zar was seriously injured in a previous shooting incident on March 25, when he was shot three times in the chest, hand, and leg.

Gilad's father, Moshe Zar, one of the first pioneers in Samaria, served in the "101" special commando army unit under Ariel Sharon, and the Prime Minister was a close personal friend of the family.

Gilad Zar was one of the founders of Itamar. He is survived by his wife Hagar and eight children, the oldest 15, as well as his parents and seven brothers and sisters.

Gilad Zar was buried in Karnei Shomron.

From: http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Terrorism-+Obstacle+to+Peace/Memorial/2001/Gilad+Zar.htm

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According to latest reports, Netanyahu and Barak are planning on destroying the community initiated in Gilad's memory, Ramat Gilad, late tonite or early tomorrow. Some 13 families live there, including members of Gilad's family.  The cruelty of this act  is unthinkable: just two days after Gilad Zar's Yahrtzeit - the anniversary of his killing, the Israeli government, led by the Prime Minister and Defense Minister, are going to kill Gilad again. How cruel can they possibly be? 

Two days ago, Rabbi Moshe Levinger, (who suffered a stroke a year and a half ago), fell and broke his hip. He is now undergoing surgery. 

Please pray for the full and speedy recovery of Rabbi Moshe ben Tirza HaLevi.

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The Jewish Community of Hebron/The Hebron Fund wish all of our friends and supporters around the world a Chag Sameach - A joyous Shavuoth holiday. 

See:  http://www.hebron.com/english/article.php?id=535