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IDF general compared pullout to Temple's destruction


By Jerusalem Newswire Editorial Staff
August 14, 2005

The Officer Commanding the Israel Defense Forces Southern Command last week linked the ?disengagement? plan he is about to oversee to Israel?s destruction in antiquity at the hands of the Babylonians and Romans.

In a letter he wrote to the thousands of Jews he is poised to drive from their homes later this week, Brigadier-General Guy Tzur sought to encourage the victims of this pending action by telling them that their eviction would take place immediately following Tisha b?Av (the 9th of Av) ?when Am Yisrael cries for the destruction of our Temple, and with hope and prayer for its rebuilding.?

Tzur told the people who face the prospect of having their homes turned to rubble and ploughed into the dunes of Gaza that ?from within the calamity will sprout redemption, and from the ruins will blossom the desert.?

Apparently insensible to the fact that he was in some way equating the destructive actions he expects his soldiers to carry out with two of the most calamitous acts inflicted on his people in the past, Tzur went on to inform the Jews that they would be served their eviction notices as soon as Tisha b?Av comes to an end.

They would go from mourning to mourning.

Jews in Israel and throughout the world are fasting Sunday as they remember the destructions of the Temple of God in Jerusalem together with other painful events they have experienced as a nation on this date through the centuries.

While many Jewish holidays mark Israel?s victories over their numerous enemies (Purim over Haman; Passover over Pharaoh; Hanukkah over the Greeks) Tisha b?Av recalls Israel?s defeats at the hands of Nebuchadnezzar and the Babylonians, Titus and the Romans, and other gentile rulers and kings who have persecuted the Jews living in the borders of their lands.

Many Jews refer to reborn national Israel as ?the Third Temple.?

One anti-disengagement Israeli stated last week that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon will be remembered in history as the Jewish leader who began the process of destroying the Third Temple.

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