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Rabbis: Sharon has declared war on God
By Jerusalem Newswire Editorial Staff

April 4th, 2005

JERUSALEM - The government of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has declared war on God and his Word by relinquishing its birthright in the Gaza Strip and Samaria in return for a false peace, senior Israeli rabbis said Sunday.

Rabbis David Meir Druckman and Dov Valfa called on those opposed to Sharon’s “disengagement” plan to increase their efforts to thwart the plan and not to fear imprisonment.

"We will do everything we can in this war of God to prevent the expulsion and destruction, and with God's help we will be the first to go to prison,” the rabbis wrote in a letter circulated to the Israeli media.

Druckman and Valfa said that following Passover, the leaders of the anti-retreat movement would “issue clear instructions and practical suggestions regarding what each person can do (without violence of course) for this sacred cause.”

They said “hundreds of thousands of Israelis” were prepared to take part in this effort, and accused the government of declaring “war on God and his Torah.”

Sharon “is about to destroy Israel and place millions of Jews in grave danger,” their letter stated.

Indeed, senior IDF officials anticipate a full renewal of “Palestinian” terrorist hostilities against Israel’s Jews immediately following the planned withdrawal from Gaza and northern Samaria.

Yediot Ahronot military correspondent Alex Fishman wrote Sunday that the IDF’s Central Command is already preparing for a huge increase in Palestinian Arab violence emanating from Judea and Samaria and focusing on Israel’s coastal plain.

The coming wave of terror, however, is expected to be more intense than the previous four years as a result of major “Palestinian” efforts to take advantage of the current relative calm to smuggle weapons into PA-controlled territories.

“Despite the successes in discovering arms-smuggling tunnels [between Egypt and Gaza], in the battle between smuggling and thwarting smuggling, the smugglers have won,” Fishman wrote.

He said the army puts the number of assault rifles successfully smuggled into PA-controlled Gaza between July 2004 and February 2005 at over 3,000. In addition, 400,000 bullets, 400 pistols, and 600 kilograms of explosives found their way into the Strip.

More than180 anti-tank rocket launchers and 5 anti-aircraft missiles were also obtained by the terrorists with the help of official PA security officers, according to Defense Minister Sha’ul Mofaz.

“Stopping the smuggling has become a matter of national existence. It is liable to spell the difference between a diplomatic agreement and a comprehensive war against the Palestinians,” Fishman concluded.

The inherent dangers notwithstanding, Sharon is unlikely to reconsider what has become the cornerstone of his government policies.

“The government is obsessed with showing that it’s carrying out the expulsion,” despite the fact “it’s not clear what happens next,” Likud MK David Levy said at a meeting of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Monday.

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