You may have read that the Israeli police have begun their electronic weeding out of visitors to Judea and Samaria. This is sold as expediting passage for the residents of the Jewish heartland, enabling them to avoid the lines at the checkpoints necessitated by the daily attempts to blow Jews to bits in their land.
However, this is not about convenience, but about severing these precious, simple, unassuming and God-fearing people off from the rest of the world. The next piece of track is easy to discern, even without the precedent of Gush Katif: cut off increasingly from the rest of the world, from Israel, and even from family in other parts of the nation, their communities are being isolated, walled in like ghettos. This will facilitate their deportation at the orders of the Bush administration and its affiliate, the House of Saud, and to the jeering cheers of most of Europe, Russia and other nations.
There are two terrible costs here for us all, and then a simple countermeasure to save us. Firstly, the Jews of Judea and Samaria are the true "beautiful people" for whom the world has been searching since the 1960s and before. These are lives of gracious hospitality, productivity, simplicity, fertility and groundedness: happy and independent people who ask for nothing and who build nearly everything themselves.
Cut off increasingly from the rest of the world, YESHA residents are being walled in like ghettos.
Their land is open and singularly beautiful - a fantastic, unique, rapidly varying mix of alpine vistas, chalk crags, basalt bluffs and red clay spires, domes and blocks of every possible shape, all interlaced by deep, narrow valleys. The vistas are vast and soul-nourishing. And the strategic value to Israel is essential: without these glorious mountain valleys and brave people, the nation is indefensible. Such is the malice of the plan of the "Quartet."
Secondly, the tagging of citizens for electronic and digital recognition, to pass or to be detained, threatens us all and clearly is the plan for the near future. Already, local network affiliates are promoting implantable computer chips for 'convenience' and so your computer will recognize you - and so the authorities will be able to monitor your every move and life transaction. The era of the pyramid returns, with a total bondage undreamt of by Pharaoh.
By resisting this plan to electronically and digitally register every car, and then every person, the Jews of Judea and Samaria will not only stave off the nascent World State's plans to ghettoize and expel them, but will lead the way for us also to resist slavery in the form of 'security.'
What's the other countermeasure? For everyone to realize that to be free in a humane sense they must, as Scripture states, turn to the Children of Israel in their Land - visit them, get to know them, publicize the beauty and courage of their lives, be the vast constituency they deserve and that we need to be. Drink in the milk and wine of their promise and their fields and flocks, their oil and grains and grace; purchase their produce and support the guard dogs that save their lives every night from the marauders who do the dirty work of the powers. Help the Jews of Judea and Samaria purchase a generator, complete a school, and retain the presence that is worth more to American defense than five carrier battle groups and three intelligence agencies - agencies that actually served rather than undermined America.
Their fight in Israel is our fight in the US. The abandonment and 'tagging' of Judea and Samaria Jews for fraudulent security is our future, as is expulsion from the land, eminent domain writ large. Visit the Jews of Israel, be blessed by them. Those who bless them will be blessed and, while they would not say so, those who curse them will be cursed.