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"'In a few moments you will be led to the central building, where you will tell the staff whether you want your loyalty mark on your forehead or your right hand. The area you choose will then be disinfected with an alcohol solution. When it is your turn, you will enter a cubicle, where you will sit and be injected with a biochip, while simultaneously tattooed with the prefix 216, which identifies you as a citizen of the United Carpathian States. The application takes just seconds.'"
-- (Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins, The Mark: The Beast Rules the World, 2000, p. 285)
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Israeli Soldiers Clear Out Gaza Strip
Posted on Wednesday, August 17 @ 06:14:38 PDT by Kyle Peterson |
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By AMY TEIBEL
The Associated Press
Wednesday, August 17, 2005; 8:20 AM
NEVE DEKALIM, Gaza Strip -- Israeli troops dragged sobbing Jewish settlers out of homes, synagogues and even a nursery school Wednesday and hauled them onto buses in a massive evacuation, fulfilling Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's promise to withdraw from the Gaza Strip after a 38-year occupation.
Soldiers carried away worshippers still wrapped in their white prayer shawls. Wailing men ripped their shirts in a Jewish mourning ritual. Women in a synagogue pressed their faces against the curtain covering the Torah scroll. A woman set herself on fire at a police roadblock in Israel.
In Gaza, settlers kicked and screamed as they were loaded onto buses. One woman in Neve Dekalim shouted, "I don't want to! I don't want to!" as she was carried away.
Irate residents in one outpost employed Nazi-era imagery - including stars of David on their T-shirts - to protest the military's actions.
But there were no signs of serious violence in the settlements as a growing number of residents appeared to be coming to terms with the withdrawal.
"I believed that God would not let this happen, but this is not true," a woman said in the isolated settlement of Morag while clutching her baby.
Sharon, who championed the settlements for years, said the images of settlers being removed from their homes were heartbreaking.
"It's impossible to watch this, and that includes myself, without tears in the eyes," he told a news conference.
But he urged settlers to show restraint.
"I'm appealing to everyone. Don't attack the men and women in uniform. Don't accuse them. Don't make it harder for them, don't harm them. Attack me. I am responsible for this. Attack me. Accuse me," Sharon said.
The operation capped a bruising political battle for Sharon, who proposed the withdrawal more than 18 months ago as a way to reduce friction with the Palestinians. Opponents accuse him of caving in to Palestinian violence and abandoning the dream of full control over the biblical Land of Israel.
Throughout the day, some 14,000 troops entered six Jewish settlements: Morag, Neve Dekalim, Bedolah, Ganei Tal, Tel Katifa and Kerem Atzmona.
In several settlements, including the largest _ Neve Dekalim, army commanders were trying to persuade residents to leave voluntarily.
Security officials said the goal was to clear out the 21 Gaza settlements in just a few days, far more quickly than originally planned. But thousands of pullout opponents who infiltrated Gaza in recent weeks remained.
In Neve Dekalim, a grizzled colonel, with tears in his eyes, shook hands with a young father, cradling the man's tiny baby, as he explained it was time to go.
Another commander, identified only as Yitzhak, tearfully hugged another settler.
"It's not easy. These are very special people. This is the salt of the earth," Yitzhak said. "But we have a mission and we will carry it out, and I think these people understand that."
Some teenage activists _ many West Bank activists _ showed fierce resistance. Troops dragged dozens of protesters, some as young as 12, onto buses and took them away.
"I want to die!" screamed one youth as he was hauled off.
Several soldiers were hit by white paint bombs, and protesters smashed a bus window.
Hundreds of protesters holed up in the town's main synagogue.
A group of teenage girls sang, "I believe in the messiah," and many cried while pressing their faces to the curtain covering the Torah.
In Morag, soldiers encountered cement blocks and burning garbage containers early Wednesday, briefly clashing with residents. But as the day dragged on, protesters gradually surrendered.
Under a weeping willow tree at a children's nursery, mothers clutched their babies, soldiers carried toddlers, settlers ripped their clothes and troops loaded diapers and toys onto buses for evacuation.
A female soldier with tears in her eyes held a toddler in her arms, gave him some candy and implored, "Where is his mother?" Another soldier waved away flies from a toddler lying in a stroller.
Troops carried dozens of worshippers out of the local synagogue, in one case escorting a crying man covered by a prayer shawl. Some kept praying in front of the Torah as soldiers removed others.
Soldiers also removed families from their homes. Female residents walked out under army escort, while the men let themselves by carried. One resident, Eran Hendel, lay on the floor, read a psalm and ripped his shirt collar before being carried away.
In the hardline outpost of Kerem Atzmona, irate settlers shouted at soldiers: "Nazi!" "Refuse orders!" and "Jews don't expel Jews!" Soldiers dragged the flailing residents out of their homes and loaded them onto buses, as children sat in their homes crying.
In the Bedolah settlement, Rabbi Menachem Froman hugged and kissed a Torah scroll as he was led out of the local synagogue. A soldier held him up by the elbow. The elderly, white-bearded rabbi, who lives in a West Bank settlement, advocates coexistence with the Palestinians.
In Kfar Darom, another center of fierce resistance, 65 families and 2,000 protesters barricaded themselves behind barbed wire but said they would not resist violently, the Haaretz newspaper reported.
The Gaza pullout is to be accompanied by a withdrawal from four small West Bank settlements. Security officials have expressed fears that the West Bank pullout could be more violent, given the land's biblical significance to observant Jews.
A 54-year-old West Bank woman opposed to the Gaza pullout set herself on fire Wednesday in southern Israel, suffering life-threatening burns over 70 percent of her body, police and hospital officials said. She had the smell of gas on her, a paramedic said.
Sharon, meanwhile, reiterated Wednesday he would never give up the West Bank's largest settlement blocs. He said settlers' efforts were not in vain, but it no longer was realistic to hold on to Gaza, where 1.3 million Palestinians live in crowded, impoverished conditions.
"True they (settlers) had a dream, and I did, too, that can we hold on to all the territory, or most of the territory, but things have changed," Sharon said.
The army said it arrested 52 Israelis headed Wednesday to Homesh, one of the settlements slated for evacuation.
Once Gaza is cleared of civilians, it will take troops about a month to dismantle military installations and relinquish the coastal strip to Palestinian control.
The Palestinians have deployed thousands of troops to prevent any attacks on settlers or Israeli soldiers during the withdrawal. Palestinians have welcomed the evacuation but also fear that Israel is trying to draw borders without negotiations.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/17/AR2005081700436_pf.html
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Re: Israeli Soldiers Clear Out Gaza Strip (Score: 1)
 by leslie on Wednesday, August 17 @ 08:56:13 PDT
(User Info | Send a Message) | I hope that this is the end of an Age and the begining of a new one. The end of, 'we must always be at war in order to always have peace'. To an Age of beining able to have peace, by having peace in the middle east. Generations come and generations go, but the Word of God is forever. A lady in the article said that she did not think that God would let this (leave occupied land)happen. Is this what many in Jerusalem believed in 70AD also, as their City and Temple was burned around them. We must go foward into the new Age and leave the past Age, in the past.
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Re: Israeli Soldiers Clear Out Gaza Strip (Score: 1)
by brad_religion on Wednesday, August 17 @ 09:12:31 PDT
(User Info | Send a Message) | Well, finally, those zionist people can know what it felt like for those Palestinian Christians and muslims during the 1947-48 removal of them from their homes. Perhaps they will learn from this forced removal and realize why muslims from Palestine have reacted in the way they have since their "forced" movement over 50 years ago. I don't feel an ounce of sympathy for those settlers. They stole that land from the people who were there for hundreds of years before they were. Using their judaistic "heritage" as an excuse to steal land from the rightful owners is reprehensible. How would you like it if your family owned land for many generations, just to be forced by the United Nations to move out with not even financial help to do such a move? If I'm not mistaken, I believe each family or member of these "settlers" being "forced" to move are getting a kickback of $250,000 each. It isn't that terrible.
If the same situation as happened in 1947-48 happened in America today, how would Americans react to giving their homes to people who aggrivated it in the first place? People who were never there in the first place, using their religious "rights" as a reason to steal it? I mean, the American conspiracies usually accused the Communists of doing that very thing. We would not go down without a fight, even if the United Nations supported it.
I wonder where Pat Robertson and Hal Lindsey were when the jews stole the homes and land of Christians living in Palestine. They would rather worry about Christ-hating rebels than Christ-loving arabs. Is it any wonder that Pat Robertson or Hal Lindsey haven't converted to judaism yet? They may as well, since they are such traitors to the gospel of Jesus Christ. They are the very men preaching "jewish fables" Paul warned Titus about in the 1st century. |
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Re: Israeli Soldiers Clear Out Gaza Strip (Score: 1)
by leslie on Wednesday, August 17 @ 09:37:06 PDT
(User Info | Send a Message) | | Last week and again today, Israeli Jews gunned down and killed Arabs in order to insite the Arabs to retaliate. Tit for Tat. The Israelis did care about the religion of the person, only the nationality. To insite, to cause harm, to hate. Terrorism breeds terrorism. Israeli hands have blood on them as also Palistians. Factions want war, not the larger population. But the larger population (on all sides) end up paying the cost for these extreme factions. Two nations? I think that there should be one nation and they would all Have To live to gether and rise as a single nation or sink as a single nation, TOGHTER. Les |
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Re: Israeli Soldiers Clear Out Gaza Strip (Score: 1)
 by chrisliv on Wednesday, August 17 @ 11:18:40 PDT
(User Info | Send a Message) | Yeah,
A lot of high drama for the cameras.
The abuser has become an expert at playing the victim.
Peace to you all,
C. Livingstone |
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Re: Israeli Soldiers Clear Out Gaza Strip (Score: 1)
by NB9M (brad@nb9m.com) on Thursday, August 18 @ 10:07:43 PDT
(User Info | Send a Message) | Zionists (Christians and Jews) are dishing this sutff out, and believers are lapping it up without serious consideration (out of fear?) THAT'S the problem. Believers are facilitating this insanity. Please allow me to give a specific example...
Here is a recent quote from "Messianic" Rabbi Eddie Chumney, Hebraic Heritage Ministries International (www.hebroots.org)
The Israeli government
crackdown on those who support the settlers and
suppression of freedom of expression indicates that they
are fully committed to the withdrawal from the Gaza so
therefore the withdrawal from the Gaza is inevitable.
The magnitude and manner in which the Israeli
government will crack down on those who oppose
withdrawal from the Gaza and eventually a PLO state will
create seeds for a REBELLION against the Israeli
government and ultimately a SEPARATION from being
under the current Israeli government who is secular,
humanist and anti-Torah.
The Bible says that Gaza is forsaken in the 'Day of the
YHVH'
Zephaniah 1:14 The great day of the YHVH is near, it
is near, and hasteth greatly, even the voice of the day of
the YHVH: the mighty man shall cry there bitterly.
Zephaniah 1:15 That day is a day of wrath, a day of
trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and
desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of
clouds and thick darkness,
Zephaniah 2:4 For Gaza shall be forsaken, and
Ashkelon a desolation: they shall drive out Ashdod at
the noon day, and Ekron shall be rooted up.
Assumptions: The Day of Yaweh has not yet happened, today's Jews are "God's Chosen People."
Major Premise: The Bible says that Gaza is forsaken in the 'Day of the YHVH'
Minor Premise: Gaza is being forsaken with support by the Israeli government
Conclusion: the Day of YHVH is very near!
One of many glaring examples of bad eschatology by this Zionist, Jewish "Messianic mission" which has PalTalk rooms, seminars by real Rabbis, books, ocean cruises to the Promised Land, etc.
Of course, the problem is TIMING:
Israelites long ago assimilated Gaza: Judges 1:18 - Also Judah took Gaza with the coast thereof, and Askelon with the coast thereof, and Ekron with the coast thereof.
Gaza was indeed later abandoned, as prophesied: Zephaniah 2:4 - For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation: they shall drive out Ashdod at the noon day, and Ekron shall be rooted up. Zechariah said, of this time, that there would be a King of Gaza (Zechariah 9:5). Amos said that there were palaces there at the time of its abandonment ( Amos 1:7)
There currently IS no Ashkelon "king of Gaza" with his Phillistine palaces. The prophecies concerning Gaza were fulfilled long ago; Judah assimilated Gaza after the death of Joshua, but later left it for the Phillistines. Today's Gaza cannot be the Gaza then.
"Askelon was one of the proudest satrapies of the Philistines; now there is not an inhabitant within its walls; and the prophecy of Zechariah is fulfilled: ‘The king shall perish from Gaza, and Askelon shall not be inhabited’" Zechariah 9:5. (Source: http://dictionary.crossmap.com/definition/askelon.htm)
As believers, why don't we take the time to check this whacky stuff out?
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