A contributing editor of the nationwide Shabbat B’Shabato weekly Torah commentary publication, Rabbi Rosenne, former head of the Chief Rabbinate's conversion authority, explains that opponents to the government plan must accept that they have lost the battle. In an article, he suggests "accepting a position of defeat, folding the orange flag and raising a black flag to half-staff. To go into exile as one goes into exile."
To give physical expression to his position, Rabbi Rosenne proposes a mourning march to Gush Katif. The mourners, he envisions, would enter Gush Katif on the night following the Tisha B'Av fast day, commemorating the destruction of the Jerusalem Temples, one day before the scheduled implementation of the Disengagement Plan. They would then continue the march by turning around and exiting Gush Katif while escorting 100 Torah scrolls, Rabbi Rosenne suggests.
Admittedly pained by the idea of Jews being expelled from their homes, Rabbi Rosenne, who identifies with religious Zionism, adds that Disengagement Plan victims and their supporters must now "disengage from the leftists, the leftist elitists." Supporters of the right of Jews to live anywhere in their land, he says, should separate from the opponents of that right, from those who made the expulsion from Gush Katif and Samaria a possibility, together with those who fought tenaciously to promote the plan.
To give physical expression to his position, Rabbi Rosenne proposes a mourning march to Gush Katif. The mourners, he envisions, would enter Gush Katif on the night following the Tisha B'Av fast day, commemorating the destruction of the Jerusalem Temples, one day before the scheduled implementation of the Disengagement Plan. They would then continue the march by turning around and exiting Gush Katif while escorting 100 Torah scrolls, Rabbi Rosenne suggests.
Admittedly pained by the idea of Jews being expelled from their homes, Rabbi Rosenne, who identifies with religious Zionism, adds that Disengagement Plan victims and their supporters must now "disengage from the leftists, the leftist elitists." Supporters of the right of Jews to live anywhere in their land, he says, should separate from the opponents of that right, from those who made the expulsion from Gush Katif and Samaria a possibility, together with those who fought tenaciously to promote the plan.