This is a very powerful message by Rabbi David Bar-Hayim relating to Tisha B'Av but about Jewish survival.

This week marks 17 years since one of the worst tragedies in Israeli history occurred, one that still has a massive negative affect on the Israeli security situation as well as on the many people it directly affected and those that it now indirectly affects. The disengagement from Gaza took place whereby over 8000 Jews were forced to leave their homes in ruins only to be taken over by blood thirsty terrorists in Gaza.

See the videos and pic below this post.

I included one of the most iconic videos and songs that will bring a grown man to tears as the very last group of Jewish girls who were the last to leave Gaza and before they left they let everyone know how they felt by singing their hearts out for hours in the Beit Knesset to the prayer of Tefila LeAni. See the full documentary here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMYz0spNfhY

I included a pic of Yelena Bosinova z"l.....just before the disengagement she became the first Israeli to burn herself to death in protest...the protest was against the disengagement of Gaza. She was a right-wing activist who wrote on Russian websites expressing her concern that the disengagement would bring disaster to Israel and boy was she right. She was also an engineer and a physicist. Even though I do not agree with her choice of protest, may her memory be a blessing!

In addition I include a very sad song by Narkis who was born in Gush Katif and who was forced out too. It caused her and her husband to divorce. She slightly changed the words to the poem "Im Nin'alu" and then added her own words in the rest of the song. The people in the video are some who were kicked out of their homes.

The scars of those people still hurt to this day and that isn't an exaggeration. A large amount of the families have broken homes now, parents divorced, many still homeless and live in shelters in Ashdod and other places. None of the left wingers in Tel Aviv or anywhere else in Israel gave a crap and do not give a crap today for what they protested so strongly for. I pray we never see such an awful moment again.

May all of those who were exiled from their homes, only to be replaced with savage terrorists, find their peace and prosper and may we return to all parts of our land.

Some additional information about the disengagement which is interesting.

On the 7th August 2005, Bibi Netanyahu resigned from the Likud just prior to the cabinet ratification of the first phase of the disengagement plan. Netanyahu blamed the Israeli government for moving "blindly along" with the disengagement by not taking into account the expected upsurge in terrorism and boy was he right too.

On the 10th August 2005, in his first speech before the Knesset following his resignation, Netanyahu spoke of the necessity for Knesset members to oppose the proposed disengagement.
"Only we in the Knesset are able to stop this evil. Everything that the Knesset has decided, it is also capable of changing. I am calling on all those who grasp the danger: Gather strength and do the right thing. I don't know if the entire move can be stopped, but it still might be stopped in its initial stages. [Don't] give [the Palestinians] guns, don't give them rockets, don't give them a sea port, and don't give them a huge base for terror."

Ultra-Orthodox Jews who walk to the Western Wall from the Shchem Gate receive beatings, curses and spitting from Arab children.

This happens in the Old City of Jerusalem almost every Shabbat. This time it was filmed by an Arab who was sitting there.

If these were Jewish kids doing this it would be all over the news and people would be outraged but because it's Arab kids it is acceptable.

Here is another video, during the recent operation in Gaza, showing how the IDF delay strikes to avoid harming civilians.

See 2 more here:
https://t.me/DocumentingIsrael/8810
https://t.me/DocumentingIsrael/8703

Wow look what these amazing Israeli guys did for this older woman who's home was in a horrendous unlivable condition and they did it for free!