Israel, Three Months Later.

I've been in Israel for three months, and since I've gotten here, I've experienced so much. At the same time so little. The most emotional part of being here is watching Jews fighting Jews. It's really hard to watch how things could be so good, but people are so stuck in their ways and it just ruins things so badly.
What happened in Beit Hashalom was REALLY BAD. But I don't even know the worst of it because when people in Beit Hashalom were getting kicked (literally) out, I was all the way in Tel Aviv. I remember as I was getting off the train watching the scene on a TV screen hanging from the ceiling. I felt like crying. And there was nothing I could do, besides pray. So I did. But that didn't feel like enough for me. And I felt awful about the whole thing. There's something so wrong with this country. Jews don't expel Jews! Everything always seems to trace back to politics. I wish it weren't so bad, but it's not like Israeli politicians are know for being honest and trustworthy.
With such a sad situation in Israel, Shmuel Sokol took it upon himself to create a positive change. Jews are too passive to Arab violence, and he wants to put his foot down with many other like-minded people in Israel. He has a facebook group up, and a website. He is also working on collecting pictures of violent police officers from Beit Hashalom for purposes of lawsuits against their unnecessary violence. These officers broke the law and didn't wear name tags during the expulsion. This is probably to keep themselves safe of lawsuits. There's also a facebook group for pictures, and a website.

Recently the JIDF found that they were being threatened by Hezbollah on their official website. Shmuel Sokol took a look at it and found out a very interesting piece of news. Hezbollah was advertising free Hezbollah web mail accounts. The JIDF explained that Hezbollah web mail is supported by hotmail. As Shmuel puts it so nicely: "Thank you Microsoft, for providing technical support for Hezbullah's webmail." To read more click here.

Hamshushalaim has started! Anyone it Israel should definitely check it out. I remember last time I was in Israel for it, I had so much fun.

Violence in Hebron

There's a lot of action in Hebron these days, and I don't think most of it has been good. When I've been there things weren't too bad, but there was a teenage boy taken to the hospital with a broken skull. An Arab threw a rock at him that hit his head. I even saw a video of him bleeding from his head on Jpost.com. There's been tention between police, soldiers, Arabs and people supporting Beit Hashalom.

More recently, the road to Beit Hashalom was being blocked off, stopping more people from getting to Beit Hashalom. I spoke to someone inside that said he got through anyway, and the security isn't so tight. People are thinking that they are going to try to do the exulsion soon because of the current road block, but it's been going on for hours and I'm starting to think that it might happening just because of the rioting that's been going on for a while now.

I slept in Beit HaShalom two nights ago, and when I left om the morning I had a feeling of nervousness, not knowing when they were going to try to kick everyone out of the building. The Supreme Court did not say that the Jews in Beit HaShalom had to leave, only that it was in the hands of the police to evict them, if they so choose. This whole story seems to have turned personal. It's now a battle between the right and the left. It's like they don't want people to think that the right wing "extremists" can boss them around and do whatever they want. A fight between authority and disobedience (only for these "extremists," Arabs still being treated better as they seek more ways to cause harm).

I want to think that the government actually cares about what is right and what is wrong, but that would be wishful thinking. At this point, Israel has too many anti-Jewish government officials and I think it's a miracle that the State of Israel has lasted to long. Every second news report is about giving "back" land to Arabs, or freeing more terrorists that want to kill everyone.

I encourage people to go to Beit Hashalom to show support, and at the same time, show some respect to soldiers who put their life on the line to protect us. So in short, don't throw rocks. :)