Israel Uncensored: On the 8th Day, Don't Forget Netiv Ha'avot

Josh's been here Israel uncensored in the Land of Israel network at the Land of Israel calm it is Sunday June 17 2018 the forth of Tom Lewis five and seven seven eight hope you're doing well in your part of the world get in touch with me during the week Josh at the Land of Israel calm on Facebook it's Joshua hastin and on Twitter app Josh Easton last week on the program we dedicated a lot of the show to talking about the neighborhood of 'native a vote here where I live in Eleazar Gush Etzion and it was a day or two it was a day before when you heard the broadcast the destruction of 15 homes the eviction of 15 families in the destruction of their homes so it's been a traumatic week that decree came to pass there was no miracle in the last in the in the in the last minute that didn't happen so on Tuesday you had hundreds of Israeli security forces included including the police and the border police with IDF soldiers making a ring around the community itself and then actually it was the border police and the police tasked with throwing 15 scientists tax-paying reserve army duty serving families out of their homes here so one of those who was thrown out of his house along with his family his wife and his children he's been on the show before as rabbi not on Alexander and he's here with me now we're here in Eleazar and rabbi natan is exhausted justifiably so I mean everyone in Israel is tired on Sunday that's the way it is we don't have Sundays off people go back to work here on Sundays but not only is it Sunday for him but it's the first Sunday after he was forcibly removed and I said it before and I've said it for months now unnecessarily out of his home whereas the government could have found a creative simple solution so that this High Court of Justice ruling would not come into effect in order to save fifteen homes and not displace thirty five percent of a neighborhood seventeen out of forty two houses so rabbi knocked out is now living in a makeshift neighborhood temporarily with the hope please God that in a few years he along with his fourteen other neighbors will move back back to the Teva vote with homes just a few meters off from where they were standing before and then eventually the plan is for 350 more units that being said and I've said it before here on the show I you know I for those who were thrown out of their homes is that a consolation is it not a consolation I don't think that this week for them and Allah let rob not than speak for himself I don't think of this week having to go through this trauma it is a consolation maybe he's so optimistic that he can see that future we'll talk to him about it but it's it's an honor on this difficult week rabbi not on Alexander from the Teva vote Eleazar Gush Etzion thanks for coming on the show thank you for having me so I mentioned your you were exhausted but what else what are you feeling right now here we are on Tuesday was the eviction on Wednesday apparently that people go back in and take out last remaining items Thursday we have these images you can see them all over the place including my facebook page of the caterpillar bulldozers destroying homes Jews Jews destroying homes of other Jews here on the land in the Land of Israel by order of the courts so I think that part of the exhaustion is the emotional chewing and throwing the emotional one moment being down and depressed frustrated even angry and the next moment having hope and seeing the light at the end of the tunnel you you know you said that we're going to go back to our homes we're going to rebuild so I was actually renting one of those homes my plan is not necessarily to go back there but in fact to use the negative the fact that we've been chucked out and we are now in temporary homes on a new hillside that actually connects native our vote it it lengthens native our vote to war which is where we lived towards the next year shove over lunch wood it's somebody's responsibility to stay there and build there and grow that part of the community so I'm exhausted really because there's this tooling and froing of one moment absolute depression can't believe that this is happening in our own state can't believe that our own politicians not finding a way out that our leadership would rather bow to a small minority who have a whole lot of European money rather than strengthen the people that have been strengthening a Mistral the nation of Israel in the Land of Israel for so many years there's that depression there's a downside there's dealing with my wife and my children and their displacement which is probably the greatest strain and then on the other hand it's putting up pictures in my daughter's room which I was doing before now making it her new home making it a place that although it's not finished and there's a whole lot of stuff behind that you know that we had to sign form saying that we understand that it's still a building site and even though we were forced to move there if someone is injured we understand that it's a building site and therefore we don't take any they don't take any responsibility they that's a big story who they are is but anyway it's a real emotional to in front I think for for many Israelis it's very difficult but I also believers or limp Pulu chose to come to israel which i know that there are two families a denier family david dinner is also in Orlais a passionate Zionist who made decisions we made decisions to come here and be here and strengthen the people and inhabit the land like God told us to do so then where does all that ideology go now that ideology has to go to positive that ideology can't go to staying at pointing fingers and this politician should have and that judge could have and whatever it's about moving forward driving forward and making sure that we rebuild and thanks to those people the Shalom a shove thank you to you for everything that you have done destroying our seventeen homes because we are fast stronger than you we are far more passionate than you in our Zionism in our connection to the land then not only will we be building 350 ohms will be building three million homes in the Land of Israel so you can keep trying because we're gonna win it's an extremely positive outlook during this very very difficult time and you refer to shell them off Shrive I mean it basically peace now in English I mean they were acting solely out of baseless hatred unfortunately as sad as it is that's the reality there well there was no other reason this wasn't a situation and we've gone over the details time and time again in terms of the that the you know the skewed and reasons behind why this this happened which I still don't understand till this day there will never be any Arabs who will be farming land in the middle of al-azhar in the middle of the community in other words it wasn't about justice for these Arabs would ever claim or lack of claim that they had because they will not be farming it and the same thing happened several years ago in the open a neighborhood in the middle of Bethel when they ruled that several buildings were possibly problematic no Arabs are going to be crossing into the community of Bethel and farming the field but it wasn't the Arabs brought all this about it was peace now acting against their fellow Jews out of baseless hatred because of these Jews and their beliefs and their ideology and their geography you know where they're located here in Judea and Samaria and in Gush Etzion and people say this is a consensus area well how consensus is this area really if you can destroy 15 houses in this area based on this illogical court decision but focusing on the positive though rabbi Nathan said there actually they may have won this battle but they're actually losing the in the bigger picture because they want Jews off this land peace now in the other groups but if you go outside today and I've done this on my bike several times already if you look between the communities of Nevada yell to the north via Nativa vote and Eleazar and all the way down to on lunch route which is a little further south and a little bit west there's nearly now a contiguous group of homes they've made it one big cluster of homes here in central gush etzion and with the hope that the government will stick to their guns and continue to build those 350 homes which they promised it'll be even even as rabbi Nathan said even bigger it'll be more homes here you can see it for yourself you can come out and visit you can you can see the reality on the ground and at the end of the day we'll say thank you I'm not willing to say thank you yet because of what the families are going through but at the end of the day we will thank them for building more homes than the Land of Israel your reaction you know one of the really interesting things and powerful moments in this entire two years has been when shelah Mashav came a few months ago to in inverted commas dance on the graves right they came to our our homes and wanted to come into the issue of to see what they had won and what they were going to destroy obviously they weren't allowed in but we naturally came out to meet them with Israeli flags that's what we stand for we stand for the Jewish people in the Land of Israel and one massive I know it's a dicot anot dichotomy i can't think of the big word but one of the massive things that I saw was the flags they were holding with Shalom Arshad flags black and red flags there was not one Israeli flag there so what are they standing for I don't really know and I don't really care what I know is that over 60 children were displaced from native arvit every single one of them no matter how difficult it's been being face to face with our soldiers and I promise you that was the most difficult part was us being face to face with our soldiers the soldiers probably not wanting to do what they were doing but they had to follow orders just not wanting to do what we were doing we also had to follow orders and that that balance between the two but Shalom Arshad came out with no Israeli flags standing for nothing but themselves we come with Israeli flags with over 60 children that are proud to be Jews proud to be Israelis that will continue inhabiting this land will continue to stand for something other than destruction our children will continue to stand for growth for building for faith and for the continuing continuation of the Jewish people in our land and for those who were there on Tuesday and witnessed the expulsion firsthand as difficult as it was with Jews Israelis having to pull other Jews out of their homes because of this ridiculous court ruling you could see firsthand how actually how peaceful it was and and unfortunately you could see how the media those who hate and those who wanted to cause even more tension and and more create more lies about what happened on Tuesday you could see it firsthand on how they skewed the events you're talking about hundreds of supporters coming to show their love for the people being thrown out of their homes you're talking about hundreds of officers I would probably guess 99.9 don't want to be there and I would also say that a ninety-nine point cent of the of the instances instances they're on Nativa vote on Tuesday things work peaceful you had some families I think I believe yourself who actually left before Tuesday you had several families who left before then you had other families who I was in one house in particular where the family said we don't want anybody others other than our family in this house we're gonna get up and walk out all on our own power when the authorities come so there were no demonstrators in those houses and then you had a third group of those who came to show support who carried out passive resistance in other words they did not raise their hands strike the authorities they were forcibly pulled out but they weren't willing to live their homes now my point is you had you know point zero zero one percent who decided that they were going to raise their hands let's say against a soldier or a police policeman to be more exact because it wasn't the IDF actually doing physically taking people out you had people on that in that last home they're hurling plastic water bottles off the top there was one soldier who was hurt but but my point is you had 99.9% of it was an unbelievably peaceful you're talking about a heated situation with hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people maybe over a thousand people and I saw on some on some websites some hateful media skewed websites the picture the one picture out of all that they used was that one policeman who unfortunately and it's you shouldn't be condoned was struck by some object and he was bleeding but that was the image that they showed to the world whereas that was point one percent of all the activity that took place that day it just shows that unfortunately people still have hate in their heart and are willing to skew the story to such an extreme that they don't show the 99.9 percent of everything else that went went on that day and they show that 1 percent and this shows you how the media can lie and manipulate what happened yeah listen I'm not I'm not anyone who understands the media I'm someone as you probably know for now who just tells the straight truth or what the truth is for me and it was it was a great pain for everybody it was a great pain for the families it still is a great pain for the families it was a great pain for the soldiers but one thing that I I want to point out is you know there is a type of feeling of mourning right now you know we have when someone god forbid dies we have a mourning period of seven days and then 30 days Chrissa and a year or 11 months because there's a natural progress to one's morning now when's the hardest day of mourning is the eighth day it's a day where everybody leaves everybody's brought you cake everybody's made you coffee everybody's send you well wishing cards and on the eighth day you've got to get up and you've actually got to get on with life that's the most difficult day and that day is coming very very close where people will have to get back to their own lives and people will even you know be saying well come on they got to get on with it they're in they've got a roof over their head they've got do what they've got to do my request to all of you listening is this this battle this peaceful battle has not been one until Native our vote has been legalized fully there was a metre and a half running through there was an issue our houses are now gone from that it is now time that our politicians it is now time that our courts rule that the rest of the Teva vote that has no political or or no legal issues be made legal so that they can begin building the 350 homes and more and those of you that are listening please don't turn a blind eye on the eighth day please don't turn around and say well we sent Josh a nice email to say please send our love to the families get on social media write an email to Josh write an email to me rough natin at gmail.com let us know your support let us know if you know any politicians in America in Europe anywhere that can help us continue the building of Jewish homes in this Jewish land because you are listening to this for a reason there's a reason that God's put your ear to this radio and it's most likely because you have some power whatever that may be to help us do God's work in this land so be in touch with Josh be in touch with me we will send you to the right places in order to help us continue the Jewish people living in the Jewish land the eighth day being the hardest that's a very good point I wrote that down or I've not done so I could remember that and share that message with people that people are listening around the world or following us on facebook or what-have-you should not forget about the Teva vote and the residents there coming this I guess Wednesday would be the eighth day or what have you or maybe Friday the day after the the homes were physically destroyed another aspect that I do want to stress and I don't think people realize it enough is not only did this affect those who were actually thrown out of their homes but this affected those whose homes are still standing I mean it's bad enough for those who who are now no longer part of the team of what I told you 35% of the neighborhood destroyed but those who remain and I'll give you an example there are two families in nutiva vote two sisters who live literally lived next to each other one house next to another now one houses go on one house was demolished and the other still stands think about the children who live in the house that still stands in the guilt that they feel knowing that their first cousins and in other cases their friends and their neighbors no longer have a house next to them there is that guilt not only in the children but I know for a fact talking to some people who are still living in the Teva vote in the adults there's still that guilt I know one woman who said how can I continue to live here and I don't know how serious she is at this point saying maybe I should move to a different neighborhood I just my best friends who lived here now live somewhere else I am standing on my porch and literally next door people should know this I'm looking out at a destroyed home so once again to the court who decided to carry out this demolition and didn't do the complete job and left as of now I'm sure eventually it'll be done but actually left the rubble still sitting there I don't know under I don't understand why it's a budget issue which is insane even they'll contribute to earmark any money for this in the first place but they didn't take away the rubble it's still standing there today you could drive there today on this Sunday and see and see 15 piles of rubble so she's conflicted the children living next door to these destroyed homes they're conflicted it didn't just affect them and certainly as you know friends and neighbors and family members in eleazar and in the Goshen and all of throughout all of Israel everyone is affected by this or should be affected by this because this really affects us all yep and and that you know we we have a saying Kali shall arrive in cellars every single Jew is responsible for the other and put that together with those a bless you will be blessed everybody who is part of the family of Abraham has a responsibility over here has a responsibility not only to feel but also to act come visit Israel when you come to visit Israel come and visit native avoid it's inspirational it's absolutely inspirational I feel honored to live amongst these people that yes they're going through pain they're going through suffering but at the same time their heads are up the songs that we've been singing for the past week the the different interviews that are in Hebrew and in English and the positive drive that these people have let me make it very clear all of the homeowners could have chosen to build within Eleazar the government said listen let's do this quietly there's a place within the issue of in Eleazar in the hoarse shards called will build your places there and I said absolutely because once we stuck there once we shoved away there this this gold that we have of inhabiting the Land of Israel goes down quiet and we're not willing to do that so when you guys are all sitting in your comfortable beds wherever it is and and and got your big gardens and all that type of stuff just think about the masuren officious self-sacrifice of these families on the behalf of the Jewish people and those that love us to continue the inhabitants of this land I made to that and our hearts go out to all those evacuated from their homes including rabbi not tun Alexander and his family please God as he mentioned earlier in the show letting the TiVo vote be billed speedily let the 350 homes be added to those 15 which will please God be rebuild in the very very near future and as he also said keep keep these people in mind and don't forget about them when that eighth day comes the pressure has to be there and other situations where the pressure perhaps isn't there as much where it's been already years now people living in EM thought and thinking about areas and every situation every case is different but I'm talking about me groan I'm talking about the bet that little enough families the people from omona o FRA and it's crazy you know the Gush Katif family some of them who were living still in temporary housing for years and years and years and hopefully this will be this will not be the case here in the Teva vote but keep the pressure on the elected officials here if you're living in Israel you have a vote in the Knesset you have every right you can call up these MKS are fully accessible you can put pressure on them you can call the Prime Minister's office and as I did and I know seven I've got called on the listeners to do the same several weeks ago calling the Prime Minister and asking him please decide last minute to examine the team about case and changer and change your mind the mind of the courts and do something but unfortunately that it didn't come to be bottom line don't forget that those families are and let's let's let them come home as soon as possible rabbi now attend Alexander thank you so much for your time I know you're exhausted after all that you've gone through and I promise not to forget about you on that eighth day and let's let the listeners also please God commit to not forget to not forgetting about you as well regards to you and your family stay strong and we're here for you thank you very much good bliss and we're gonna wrap up today with that I mean there's other news going on as always Hamas of course carrying out their near daily firebomb kite attacks and all the other things going on in the world in regard to Israel in the Middle East and everything but I think we're gonna leave it on that note for today's show so thanks from for everyone joining us here on the land of Israel Network Israel uncensored is the name of the show it is the 17th of June 2018 shout out the Benjamin brettski engineer extraordinaire without him there is no sound we could not even get any of these shows up if you missed any of the show go back to either the Land of Israel Network website at the Land of Israel calm on my Facebook page on the Land of Israel Facebook page SoundCloud iTunes a lot of different options and go listen to all the wonderful programming here bringing the true story of Israel and the beauty of Israel despite the craziness which was the destruction of homes overall we try to bring the beauty of the Land of Israel to you come home to Israel make alia you want to see change want to see change you want to prevent in the female vote the next Scott forbidden to see the look you want to create change don't 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