The Yesha Council is planning a series of events and actions to increase public support for Gush Katif - but its most grandiose plan of all is to form a human chain from Gaza all the way to the Western Wall in Jerusalem. Between 70,000 and 80,000 people are expected to have to participate in the July 25th event in order to make it work.
Gush Katif's unofficial website, Katif.net, features a special section dedicated to the human chain, including detailed maps of each section of the route and a means by which to register one's planned participation in any of the various sections.
The route is some 90 kilometers long, and is divided into eight sections - including from Gaza to just north of Ashkelon, from there to the Re'em, Nachshon, Latrun and Shaar HaGai junctions, and onwards to Jerusalem. Local organizers all along the route will coordinate their respective sections. Cities and towns along or near the route include Kiryat Malachi, Rehovot, Shaalvim, Yad Mordechai, Yad Binyamin, Yesodot, Telz Stone and Mevaseret Zion. Each section is also assigned to the responsibility of a region elsewhere in the country. The Shaar Hagai-Mevaseret section, for instance, will be manned by people from the Haifa-Akko-Afula-Hadera area, while central-region Israelis will link for the Ayalon Valley section.
The organizers say that because the expulsion of Jews from Gush Katif represents the "ripping of the spinal cord of Israeli society, from all standpoints: security, democracy, society, culture, ethics, and Jewish." The success of the human chain will "provide a great impact for the continued struggle against the Prime Minister's disengagement plan," they say. Its purpose, and that of the other planned events, is to "mobilize a popular movement that will bring about a wave of support for Jewish settlement in Gush Katif and will topple the Prime Minister's plan," and will show that the public is stronger than the regime.
The human chain is being accompanied by a campaign of signs, distribution of stickers and literature, petitions, and house-to-house visits.
Gush Katif's unofficial website, Katif.net, features a special section dedicated to the human chain, including detailed maps of each section of the route and a means by which to register one's planned participation in any of the various sections.
The route is some 90 kilometers long, and is divided into eight sections - including from Gaza to just north of Ashkelon, from there to the Re'em, Nachshon, Latrun and Shaar HaGai junctions, and onwards to Jerusalem. Local organizers all along the route will coordinate their respective sections. Cities and towns along or near the route include Kiryat Malachi, Rehovot, Shaalvim, Yad Mordechai, Yad Binyamin, Yesodot, Telz Stone and Mevaseret Zion. Each section is also assigned to the responsibility of a region elsewhere in the country. The Shaar Hagai-Mevaseret section, for instance, will be manned by people from the Haifa-Akko-Afula-Hadera area, while central-region Israelis will link for the Ayalon Valley section.
The organizers say that because the expulsion of Jews from Gush Katif represents the "ripping of the spinal cord of Israeli society, from all standpoints: security, democracy, society, culture, ethics, and Jewish." The success of the human chain will "provide a great impact for the continued struggle against the Prime Minister's disengagement plan," they say. Its purpose, and that of the other planned events, is to "mobilize a popular movement that will bring about a wave of support for Jewish settlement in Gush Katif and will topple the Prime Minister's plan," and will show that the public is stronger than the regime.
The human chain is being accompanied by a campaign of signs, distribution of stickers and literature, petitions, and house-to-house visits.