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(IsraelNN.com) A committee to rebuild a Samarian town that was destroyed during the 2005 eviction of Jews from their land has gone on a fundraising campaign for the rebuilding of the Homesh – Obama Hilltop. The Shomron Regional Council, Homesh First, and the Chicago-based Land of Israel Committee teamed up for donations for the rebuilding of the hill, named in “honor” of U.S. President Barack Obama.

Donors to the website can send a ready-made letter to President Obama. The letter states, “A donation has been made in your honor to strengthen the "Homesh - Obama Hilltop" located in Northern Samaria (West Bank), Israel.” The letter continues, “Mr. President, your current foreign policy, which objects to any Jewish communal growth in the liberated territories of Judea, Samaria and East Jerusalem, contradicts the most sacred values of the Jewish Nation and friends of Israel. It is written in the holy Torah, "Then the Lord your G-d will restore your fortunes and have compassion on you, gathering you again from all the peoples among whom the Lord your G-d has scattered you …The Lord your G-d will bring you into the land that your ancestors possessed, and you will possess it; he will make you more prosperous and numerous than your ancestors." (Deuteronomy, 26:3-5).”

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