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      Batya Medad made aliya from New York to Israel in 1970 and has been living in Shiloh since 1981. Recently she began organizing women's visits to Tel Shiloh for Psalms and prayers. (For more information, please email her.)  Batya is a newspaper and magazine columnist, a veteran jblogger and recently stopped EFL teaching.  She's also a wife, mother, grandmother, photographer and HolyLand hitchhiker, always seeing things from her own very unique perspective. For more of Batya's writings and photos, check out:

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      Shevat 4, 5768, 1/11/2008

      Why Let It Happen Again?


      The OU fundraises for the victims of Disengagement, the exilees, but it did nothing with its massive membership to prevent Disengagement. Every time I see their ad my blood boils.
       
      They did nothing! Instead of asking their rabbis and synagogues to protest Disengagement, they preached helping Darfur.
      Immediately after Disengagement, Olmert announced even more drastic destruction of Jewish Life in our Holy Land, and that was predictable, too.
       
      WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE?
      WHERE ARE THE PROTESTS?
      WHERE ARE YOU--OU?
       
      Are you planning a new department for your fundraising, if G-d forbid Olmert and your President Bush have their way?
      • I don't want to be an object of your pity!
      • I don't want my home to be destroyed!
      • I don't want to be exiled!
      • I don't want to be murdered by the terrorists the world is funding!
      • It's not about Jerusalem!
      Don't think that by protesting the division of Jerusalem you're doing your job!
       
      Jerusalem can't stand alone! G-d helped us liberate Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria as a package deal. Oxygen doesn't go to the heart without lungs.
       
      Yes, "their grief is our grief," but not the way you mean it. Their grief is that they were abandoned by their brothers, our brothers.
      Don't abandon us, like you abandoned them!
       
       
      also posted on Shiloh Musings