JNF, THE WHISPERS OF TREES

PLEA TO JEWISH BLOGGERS AROUND THE WORLD!!!!
ANYONE OUT THERE WHO HAS TREE CERTICICATES FROM JNF, SCREAM BLOODY MURDER UNTIL THEY HEAR YOU!!!!

I am a Child of Israel and I MUST ASK WHY, though I have sent letters, emails, made telephone calls, and asked others to do the same, no responses were received.
No response at all from those who claim to want to stop this surreal "disengagement" suicide ritual?
I am screaming at YOU, JNF. I am screaming at Natan Sharansky. I am screaming at Chabad. I am screaming at the Yeshiva Rabbis throughout Yisrael!!! I am screaming at the Knesset. Others. And I am pleading with HaShem...
You CANNOT allow the Land of Israel to be STOLEN from the Children of Israel. Those of us who don't live on the Land, nevertheless have PAID for the Land and nearly every single tree on it.
JNF, you have millions of names and addresses from around the world. Each of those names has made an investment, (some huge, some not so huge,) to put down living roots into the Land of Our Fathers. It was a bond and a Covenant between us and YOU and Eretz Yisrael, not between us and a corrupt, homicidal government.
NONE of us were asked to "trade" the roots we so lovingly cultivated to make the land bloom and yield, for patches of dry, dusty ground. No one asked us, the OWNERS of the land, to give up the land OR the TREES to murderers of souls.
None of us want to hear about the futility of fighting this madness. WE DEMAND a lawsuit, in whatever court MIGHT have been fair to us at least once, to retain what is ours.
This has NEVER been a case for one man to decide that the millions of us, many long since departed, who have BOUGHT those Trees AND the Land they were planted in, throughout our entire lives, should now turn our backs on the howlings of rage and pain from the living and the dead those trees represent.
YOU were simply the broker, but WE hold the certificates AS PROOF of ownership. One by one; three by three; by tens or by thousands.
WE, THE RIGHTFUL OWNERS, CLAIM THE TREES AND THE LAND AS MONUMENTS AND MEMORIALS TO ALL THE NAMES DEDICATED ON THOSE CERTIFICATES, AND THE NAMES OF THE CERTIFICATE HOLDERS.
We don't want money. Money can never, ever replace the vast sadnesses, celebrations, hope, pride, and yearnings of those who died for us, those who survived for us, those who dedicated their lives and allegiance to us.
In the groves of whispering trees and meandering streams, are the voices of the Holocaust, the cries of our children being born, the tears of mothers and fathers and friends whose children have gone before them, the sobs of families who planted in honor of fathers and mothers, grandparents, brothers, sisters, friends, heroes, soldiers...including some who might be about to commit this horrible sin against G-d.
THESE tears fall in our hearts and on our pillows. You capitulate and think because we can't afford plane fare that we can't feel it quite so much. YOU are wrong.
For many of us, our only hopes were for our children to be where WE put down the roots. NOW you tell us that instead of a continuation, it is to become a murderous trade.
I ask you this. WHO will continue to build and plant if none of us can ever be sure you won't do this again?
How can we ever know that our children will believe they have roots in Eretz Yisrael when they are old enough to understand what you have done to them already?
What will you say to the survivors of the Holocaust that already took millions of us from off the earth, when you have handed over trees and land we gave our pennies, nickles, dimes, quarters for since we were children for them, while non-Israelite children bought crayons and toys with theirs.
It might not sound so heroic now, but believe me, when you are a child, choosing to grow a homeland was something we knew, understood, and were more than willing to make any sacrifice for. We were so proud each time we received even ONE certificate. It was like putting heaven in our hands. We were all a part of it. Hannah Rebecca and Abraham Jacob, my grandmother and grandfather, are alive in those trees, in Yisrael.
Ruth, and Jacob, my mother and father, are alive in those trees...IN YISRAEL.
Yoshua, Chaim, and Seth, my sons that were born are alive in those trees...IN YISRAEL.
Yoshua and Seth, my sons who are in G-d's hands, STILL live in those trees...IN YISRAEL.
There are so many, many. Some might be faceless because we never got to know them, our families that Hitler and the Mufti murdered in their insane hatred. But they are NOT nameless. YOU have their Names. And they live in those trees...IN YISRAEL.
You cannot walk away now and murder them yet again. You cannot walk away and call it even. We want a fair fight, even as I curse Ariel Sharon for handing out hope then snatching it out from under us, will I curse YOU for turning away like scared rabbits for a piece of something that will end up being as nothing.
FIGHT for us ALL or you fight for no one.
TO THE RABBIS!!!!
Gather thy People in to you and lead them. Lead them with Shofars at the head of them. Let them know HaShem walks with you. Sound them continuously and courageously. Walk with G-d Almighty and let NO MAN stand before you.
If we could be with you in person, we would. WE are ALWAYS with you in every other way imaginable. This fight is not over. It has only just begun.
ISRAEL’S SELF-IMPOSED DHIMMI STATUS
By: Helen Freedman
Excerpt:
Driving to the northern Shomron to visit Homesh, another town on the expulsion list, we pass through Burya, another huge Arab village with palatial homes. We keep looking for the Arab slums that are so prevalent on CNN and the major TV news broadcasts. We have never seen one, only affluent Arab villages spread out in the sunshine, with their Minarets proclaiming their presence.
In Homesh, we learn that the Shomron area which will become totally Arab if the four communities in N. Shomron expulsion plan are evacuated, is almost three times the size of Gush Katif. Homesh has endured 1450 terrorist attacks since 2000. The attackers come from Tulkarm, Shechem and Jenin and use hilltops that were scheduled to be part of Homesh as their staging grounds.There is NO retaliation from the Israeli government. Instead, retreat and concessions will create a contiguous Area A that will unite the three Arab terror cities once Homesh, Sanur, Ganim, and Kadim are made Judenrein.
We are reminded that the JNF was created to buy land and build settlements. Today, Israel’s Attorney General has decreed that the land must be sold to Arabs also. This is a violation of the trust placed in the JNF by all those Jews who saved their pennies for the pushkas of the JNF so that Jews could live in the Promised Land.
(end excerpt)

I don't believe this. Trees all over Gush Katif, and finally a response from JNF. I guess no one wants to stand up to Pe-ron, (peres-sharon,) the diabolacle duo, so I'm going to post the reply for the bilge it is, and suppose I am guilty of being one of them there extreeeemists.
And after you read this, I beg you, shout out loud that this response is not enough and never will be. When JNF promised to be the "caretaker" for The People as a whole, it never said, "...sometimes."
To: Nitzana
Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 11:00 AM
Subject: RE:
Dear Ms. ------------,
Thank you for writing Jewish National Fund. If you never received a response from our organization in the past I apologize; occasionally messages that deserve a response slip through the cracks.
Jewish National Fund is a not for profit apolitical organization that bought and developed the land Israel stands on now. Our policy for projects beyond the "green line" in Israel is that we conduct work in areas of national consensus. The term "areas of national consensus" refers to those areas upon which all of Israel's political parties and positions agree. The type of work that JNF conducts in these areas is tree planting and the establishment of comfort zones such as parks and recreation areas.
I understand that you feel strongly about this, and you are not alone. But the facts remain, and JNF will remain committed to the future of Israel by pursuing its seven action areas within the boundaries mandated by the Israeli Government.
(end response)
I sent one back. I guess this won't make them any happier with me, but right now, I just don't care.
REPLY:
And if the government is wrong? Which it is? What then? No one ever told us we were about creating "parks" and comfort zones. We thought we were creating a HOMELAND.
All of my life I have been buying trees or just making donations in other ways, to insure a place for my children and their children. Do you know that Israel's "government" is going to allow Jordanian troops to patrol the North?
Rafiah is in Gaza. It wasn't part of Israel for quite some time. Israeli law is what the Settlers are required to live by. Israel CREATED the Settlements. What is wrong with all of you????
If the Settlements aren't part of Israel, then what government is forcing them out? Shouldn't they just rename themselves and start their OWN government, if they aren't part of where Israel "stands now?"
The "national consensus" is THE PEOPLE, not a corrupt government. This is far too sad...not to mention horrifying. PLEASE, isn't there something, anything, you can do? We trusted you.
Or doesn't Israel even exist anymore except in our hearts? Why didn't you fight for us...for them?
Nitzana

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