Minister David Amsalem said in a newspaper interview: "I see the entire story of the chareidim as a political topic, bordering on anti-Semitism. Zahal never wanted to draft the chareidim. Never, including today. All this is merely lip service."
He added, "Someone, who serves in the Army reserves, came to me two weeks ago. He said that chareidim had come and the army sent them women soldiers immodestly dressed. So don't tell me stories about the army agreeing to accept them on their terms and that they could continue to conform to their ways within the army framework. It could be that these were people with pure intentions. But there is a common saying that 'the path to Gehennom is paved with good intentions.' And even if this is only a figure of speech, in today's context, it is to be taken literally. Not as a parable, but as what it actually symbolizes."
While in Washington, Netanyahu pinpointed one of his objectives, saying, "Anti-Semitism is on the upswing primarily because of the hate-mongering propaganda in the general media. We are fighting it here in the same way that we fought other fronts."
This seems to be a very accurate description of what is taking place against the Torah world on all of the media platforms where hate propaganda is organized and financed. Its end goal is to bring about the fall of the government. There are no doubts that were the chareidim to agree to be mobilized en masse, as they are being urged to do all the time, the first to fight against them in the army would be those selfsame anti-Semitic Leftists clamoring that they be drafted. And being that there are many idiots amongst the Rightists who fell for their publicity, there is a high probability that they will join the camp fighting against the Torah.
Looking Back at the Traumatic Disengagement from Gaza
Twenty years have elapsed since the project of Hitnatkut — Disengagement — a sterile phrase created to circumvent the real adjective replacing the word "expulsion." Twenty years since thousands of Jews were evicted from their [beautiful] homes in Gush Katif. Over twenty flourishing settlements were destroyed and literally razed to the ground, creating the groundwork for the establishment of a new entity on the map of the Gaza Strip: Hamastan.
The disengagement project was the brainchild of the then prime minister, Sharon and his son Gilad, which was geared to deflect from him criticism about the intrigue of the Greek isles. In the course of the interrogation, several suspicions of foul play and corruption were exposed in which Sharon and his son Gilad were involved.
In the heat of the inquiry, when suspicions against the two were surfacing, the scheme of Hitnatkut burst upon the world, deflecting public attention from the heavy suspicions to the new plan of evicting the settlers of Gush Katif. It was not the people of the Right but those of the Left. One of the prime figures then phrased it acerbically: "As deep as the inquiry, so deep is the injury {of uprooting]."
A well-known Leftist columnist said that it was necessary to guard Sharon intensely, using the word 'leatreg' coined from the idea of super-protection over a prime esrog, so that the investigation not prevent the rosy dream of the Left from being realized: of ejecting the Jewish settlers from their homes.
It was expected that the supporters of this revolting plan, that after twenty years had elapsed, during which it was clear to all how the Gaza Strip was transformed into a barbaric country of terror, threatening and not bound by any limitations, that they express an iota of misgivings, or at least, second thoughts about their sweeping support of the plan.
A heavy war is being waged in Gaza for the past twenty months with each day exposing more and more terrorist hornet nests, endless miles of terrorist tunnels, unbelievable stores of armor, tens of thousands armed terrorists — all under the very nose of Israeli support and of the Israeli government during those years.
No one can predict what would have happened had the Jewish settlement continued to exist, and the Strip had been governed the same way as Judea and Samaria. But there is no doubt whatsoever, that even if terrorist nests had existed, and they surely would, the transformation of this geographic area to a country of terror, armed and protected by thousands of tunnel kilometers, would not have happened.
In a special project initiated by one of the central media networks, a reporter interviewed people who were instrumental in the Gush Katif evacuation. None of them expressed a word of regret. Gilad Sharon, son of Arik, who claims credit for the whole idea, blames, why not, Netanyahu for fortifying Hamas over the years and for being responsible for its growth and consolidation.
Even today, when the results of the irresponsible eviction are so evident, he continues to support the project which his father executed where, instead of arriving at any kind of agreement, the latter simply abandoned the Gaza Strip and left it in the hands of a rule of brutal terror, whose prime and only object was to destroy Israel.
