from AFSI, contact the addresses in the post
- - - - by Batya
AMERICANS FOR A SAFE ISRAEL/AFSI; 1623 Third Ave., Suite 205, New York, N.Y. 10128; Tel: 212-828-2424; Fax: 212-828-1717; afsi@rcn.com; www.afsi.org; April 8, 2005; Contact: Helen Freedman, Executive Director
EMERGENCY SITUATION – TO ALL CONCERNED PARTIES: This is a letter we received from our very dear friend, Member of Knesset, Dr. Arieh Eldad. He and his wife, Eleora, moved to Sanur, one of the four communities in northern Samaria that is threatened with expulsion by decree of Ariel Sharon. The letter describes his extraordinary efforts to prevent the ethnic cleansing of Jews from any part of the Promised Land, and asks for your help. If you wish to send financial help, email afsi@rcn.com for instructions, or call AFSI at 212-828-2424.
Dear Helen and Herb,
I want to let you know about my plans.
There are thousands of Jews in Gush Katif and North Samaria that can not fall asleep. They think of the terrible future ahead. It seems that the state of Israel is running into collision with her best citizens. The risk of a civil war is substantial.
In such a situation one cannot continue with business as usual. I can not even stay in my new home in Sa-Nur in North Samaria, where Eleora and I moved last Tuesday.
I decided to start walking.
I will take a tent and sleeping bag, and walk from Sa-Nur to Mevo-Dotan. We will sleep there. The next day we will walk from Mevo Dotan to Shaked, and then to Ganim and Kadim, two settlements that are planned for uprooting like Sa-Nur. And then we will walk along the country to the settlements in the north of the Gaza strip and to Gush Katif. We will be five in the first day, 25 in the second day, and by the end of the week I hope we will be hundreds of marchers.
If this will move the people of Israel, soon we will be many thousands. We will talk to the people who are candidates for deportation, and with the people along the fence, explaining that their lives are going to be changed under the shade of Kassam missiles that will be fired from the areas that Israel will evacuate.
We will talk to people who think that they support the disengagement plan and ask them to join us to meet the settlers, to express some humane support, to understand their situation. Maybe it will change their minds. I feel it might be the last chance to organize a non-violent movement to stop the plan. Otherwise it will be the clash on the fence of Gush Katif with our soldiers.
I have no logistic or financial support at all. I trust some support will arrive on the way if many people will join us. I hope you will be able to join us or help in any other way.
Yours
Arieh Eldad
EMERGENCY SITUATION – TO ALL CONCERNED PARTIES: This is a letter we received from our very dear friend, Member of Knesset, Dr. Arieh Eldad. He and his wife, Eleora, moved to Sanur, one of the four communities in northern Samaria that is threatened with expulsion by decree of Ariel Sharon. The letter describes his extraordinary efforts to prevent the ethnic cleansing of Jews from any part of the Promised Land, and asks for your help. If you wish to send financial help, email afsi@rcn.com for instructions, or call AFSI at 212-828-2424.
Dear Helen and Herb,
I want to let you know about my plans.
There are thousands of Jews in Gush Katif and North Samaria that can not fall asleep. They think of the terrible future ahead. It seems that the state of Israel is running into collision with her best citizens. The risk of a civil war is substantial.
In such a situation one cannot continue with business as usual. I can not even stay in my new home in Sa-Nur in North Samaria, where Eleora and I moved last Tuesday.
I decided to start walking.
I will take a tent and sleeping bag, and walk from Sa-Nur to Mevo-Dotan. We will sleep there. The next day we will walk from Mevo Dotan to Shaked, and then to Ganim and Kadim, two settlements that are planned for uprooting like Sa-Nur. And then we will walk along the country to the settlements in the north of the Gaza strip and to Gush Katif. We will be five in the first day, 25 in the second day, and by the end of the week I hope we will be hundreds of marchers.
If this will move the people of Israel, soon we will be many thousands. We will talk to the people who are candidates for deportation, and with the people along the fence, explaining that their lives are going to be changed under the shade of Kassam missiles that will be fired from the areas that Israel will evacuate.
We will talk to people who think that they support the disengagement plan and ask them to join us to meet the settlers, to express some humane support, to understand their situation. Maybe it will change their minds. I feel it might be the last chance to organize a non-violent movement to stop the plan. Otherwise it will be the clash on the fence of Gush Katif with our soldiers.
I have no logistic or financial support at all. I trust some support will arrive on the way if many people will join us. I hope you will be able to join us or help in any other way.
Yours
Arieh Eldad