Israel orders Gaza 100,000 Palestinians to evacuate their homes
Wednesday, July 16th, 2014 10:17:20 by Jamshed Sindhu
Israel on Tuesday night continued their bombardment of the Gaza Strip, where authorities reported that the number of Palestinians killed in one week already exceeded 200. Several attacks targeted private homes for at least five Hamas leaders, including the former Foreign Minister of the government of Gaza, Mahmoud Zahar. By Wednesday morning, Palestinians in the outskirts of Gaza City received automated calls and text messages on their mobile urging them to evacuate Shuyaiya and Zeitun, two neighborhoods under threat of imminent bombing.
In addition, aviation threw thousands of leaflets in the suburbs of the largest Palestinian city. According to official sources, these orders evacuation of Gaza City on Wednesday affecting more than 100,000 Palestinians, to which must be added those who escaped those already issued in the northern Gaza since the weekend. Neither pamphlets or call the shelter could explain where tens of thousands of displaced Palestinians should go, who can not leave Gaza to Israel or to Egypt. Under Israel bombs Gaza seems more than ever a big prison for 1.8 million Palestinians.
On Tuesday, Israeli died by Palestinian fire since they began the massive bombing of Gaza, a civilian 37 years who took food to the soldiers stationed along the border with Gaza, waiting for a possible ground invasion. He died of shrapnel wounds from a mortar bomb.
On Tuesday, Israel observed a unilateral ceasefire for nearly six hours after his Security Cabinet decided to accept an Egyptian proposal for a ceasefire. Hamas said it had not been consulted about this plan truce and continued to fire rockets during Israel’s unilateral cease- fire, some fifty in total.
Israel ‘s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had said on Tuesday that continued rocket gives Israel the “legitimacy to expand the operation” against Gaza.
The message of the Israeli flyers on Wednesday is that “despite the ceasefire initiative ” proposed by Egypt on Monday night, “Hamas and other terrorist groups ” continued to fire rockets into Israel. Therefore announces massive bombing in Israel these areas of Gaza.
The night was less violent than many feared after the failure of the Egyptian initiative, but in the morning continued shelling and explosions to that achieved during last week slower pace. However, since the news that the Armed Forces are preparing massive bombing in the neighborhood Gazari Shuyahiya, early and loud explosions were heard in the city center.
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Personally, if this former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu mentor were Muslim, the mentor would have been hunted down and killed as an extremist jihadi leader. But that’s my view.
The liberal Israeli newspaper Harretz said of his death last October, headlined “Rabbi Ovadia Yosef: A mixed legacy” said, in an editorial, the following:
“Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, who died Monday in Jerusalem at 93, filled numerous positions in Israeli public life. As the spiritual mentor of the Shas party, he formed and toppled governments; as Sephardic chief rabbi, he issued innovative and breakthrough halakhic rulings, such as permitting the remarriage of Yom Kippur War widows whose husbands’ bodies were never found, or determining that Ethiopian Jews could immigrate to Israel under the Law of Return. He won the Israel Prize for Torah Literature for his halakhic work “Yabia Omer,” and was considered one of the leading adjudicators of Jewish law in recent generations.
But his ultimate importance was his serving as a symbol of leadership for hundreds of thousands of Mizrahim – Jews of Middle Eastern and North African descent – both in Israel and the Diaspora. The Shas party under his leadership became a political, cultural and spiritual home for a large population that had felt unrepresented. Under the slogan, “Restoring the Crown to its Glory,” Yosef helped many Mizrahim feel proud of their origins and the culture that had nurtured them.
Yosef was also the only major rabbinic figure to make the courageous ruling that preserving lives was more important than retaining territory. In “Yabia Omer” he wrote, “If the heads and commanders of the army, together with the members of government, determine that saving lives is at issue… it seems that it is permitted to give up territory in the Land of Israel.”
But along with his virtues and achievements, Yosef will also be remembered as a man who contributed a great deal to the polarization and division of Israeli society, particularly between secular and religious, with scathing remarks like “secular teachers are donkeys.” He undermined the legitimacy of the courts when he claimed that “they are unworthy of judging Jews,” calling Supreme Court justices “empty, reckless and wicked.” He called then-State Comptroller Miriam Ben-Porat “an enemy of Israel.” About former Meretz leader and government minister Shulamit Aloni, he said, “A feast should be made on the day she dies,” and he thought former minister Yossi Sarid should “be hung from a tree fifty cubits high.”
Yosef also represented a RACIST version of Judaism, claiming that non-Jews were born only “to serve us. Otherwise, they have no place in this world.” Shas under his leadership discriminated against women, forbidding them to run for office under its auspices. When asked about Women of the Wall, the liberal women’s prayer group that seeks the right to conduct its own services at the Western Wall, he said, “There are stupid women who come to the Western Wall … they want equality … we must condemn them and be wary [of them].”
Perhaps the greatest damage of Yosef’s legacy is that Shas, under his leadership, nurtured a large and growing group of citizens who did not work for a living or serve in the army, but instead subsisted on government allowances and charity. Shas even started a new network of schools, Ma’ayan Hahinukh Hatorani, which contributed to alienating its graduates from Israeli society.
We must hope that along with preserving the humane spirit that underlined his earlier rulings, Yosef’s successors will choose to promote a path more favorable to integration in society, the economy and the military.