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GLOBALISTS TRASH BORDERS

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GLOBALISTS TRASH BORDERS

Bilderberg Pushes American Superstate


By James P. Tucker Jr.

Leaders of Bilderberg have gathered the appropriate flunkies at the Fairmont Le Chateau Montebello, about 50 miles outside Quebec, to accomplish a North American Union without congressional action.

Bilderberg met at the same site in 1983. The Aug. 20-21 session of the unknown Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) is struggling to define its goal of a borderless union of the United States, Mexico and Canada as something Americans will welcome, after it has been accomplished.

On the agenda is a report by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), which is being translated into Spanish and French so all three governments can celebrate it together. The report explains how “hemispheric integration” will be a blessing for all and not a surrender of sovereignty. It is to be presented to the three governments in September.

The trustees of CSIS who are attending this closed meeting include Henry Kissinger, Bilderberg and Trilateral; Zbigniew Brzezinski, Trilateral; and Harold Brown, former defense secretary and Trilateral. Also participating is Richard Armitage, Bilderberg. Other Bilderberg-Trilateralists may be attending but have not been identified.

The “North American Future 2025 Project” report stresses “economic integration” and “labor mobility.” It calls for the “international migration of labor” and “international movement not only of goods and capital, but also of people.” It stresses the “free flow of people across national borders.” It calls for action to “integrate governments.” The three nations are to work on “harmonizing legislation” and regulations.

Bilderberg is fighting back from severe setbacks in its long-range goal of dividing the world into three great regions for the administrative convenience of a world government under the United Nations. The European Union was to have been fully integrated into a single state by 2000, but seven years later, there is strong resistance in France, Germany and Britain.

NAFTA was to quickly expand throughout the Western Hemisphere with an “American Union” emerging. Now, there is great resistance to NAFTA itself among voters and, consequently, congressmen.

President Bush started the country on the road to integration on April 22, 2001, when he signed the Declaration of Quebec City in which he made a “commitment to hemispheric integration.” Participants claim it can be accomplished without legislation and their final agreement would not be a “treaty” requiring Senate ratification.

But when this “agreement” is sprung on the American people, Congress will feel compelled to react to the outrage.

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Vatican/WCC study on Conversion

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Note: From the Watchman. This is a press release from the WCC. I put this here to help you understand the United Faith Dialogues initiatives which are ongoing.
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World Council of Churches

For immediate release: 17 May 2006

Vatican/WCC study on conversion affirms freedom of religion, warns about “obsession of converting others”

A study process jointly sponsored by the Vatican and the World Council of Churches (WCC) kicked off this week by affirming the freedom of religion as a “non-negotiable” human right valid for everyone everywhere while at the same time stressing that the “obsession of converting others” needs to be cured.

“Freedom of religion is a fundamental, inviolable and non-negotiable right of every human being in every country in the world,” states the report of the 12-16 May meeting in Lariano/Velletri, near Rome, that launched the cooperative study.

“Freedom of religion connotes the freedom, without any obstruction, to practise one’s own faith, freedom to propagate the teachings of one’s faith to people of one’s own and other faiths, and also the freedom to embrace another faith out of one’s own free choice,” the report goes on.

But this right entails the “equally non-negotiable responsibility to respect faiths other than our own, and never to denigrate, vilify or misrepresent them for the purpose of affirming superiority of our faith”. Moreover, the “right to invite others to an understanding” of one’s own faith “should not be exercised by violating other’s rights and religious sensibilities”.

The report makes a bold recommendation: “All should heal themselves from the obsession of converting others”. Acknowledging that “errors have been perpetrated and injustice committed by the adherents of every faith,” it suggests that “it is incumbent on every community to conduct honest self-critical examination” of its historical record as well as its doctrines.

As a result of such “self-criticism and repentance,” some reforms should take place in order to ensure a healthier approach to the issue of conversion. Some concrete suggestions include: discouraging and rejecting “unethical means”, avoiding taking advantage of “vulnerable” people like children and disabled persons, and doing humanitarian work “without any ulterior motives”.

The report, issued by the 27 participants from Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Muslim, Jewish and Yoruba religious backgrounds, recognizes that “many differences and disagreements” remained among them, but nonetheless a “convergent understanding of the several aspects of the issue of religious conversion” developed.

The participants welcomed as useful and needed the idea of a collectively developed ‘code of conduct’ on conversion and suggested “that inter-religious dialogues on the issue of conversion should continue at various levels”.

Towards a Christian code of conduct on religious conversion

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Read my article Prophecy in Action: Towards a United Faith

World Council of Churches

For immediate release: 17 May 2006

Progress towards a Christian code of conduct on religious conversion

With Evangelical and Pentecostal representatives joining in at an 8-12 August consultation in Toulouse, the joint Vatican-WCC study process on religious conversion gets one step closer to its goal of a common code of conduct in seeking converts to Christianity.

Kicked off in May last year at a meeting that affirmed freedom of religion as a “non-negotiable” human right valid for everyone everywhere and at the same time stressed that the “obsession of converting others” needs to be cured, the three-year joint study process moves now into its second phase.

Intended as an intra-Christian discussion – whereas the first encounter featured participants from different faiths – the project’s second phase will consist of a high-level theological consultation entitled “Towards an ethical approach to conversion: Christian witness in a multi-religious world”. The consultation will take place at the Institute of Science and Theology of Religions (ISTR) in Toulouse, France, from 8-12 August.

At the consultation, some 30 Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant, Pentecostal and Evangelical theologians and church representatives will aim to articulate what a common code of conduct on religious conversion should look like from a Christian viewpoint.

“Conversion is a controversial issue not only in interreligious relations, but in intra-Christian relations as well”, says Rev. Dr Hans Ucko, WCC’s programme executive for inter-religious dialogue and cooperation. “In Latin America it is a source of tension between the Roman Catholic Church and the Pentecostal movement, while in other regions Orthodox churches often feel ‘targeted’ by some Protestant missionary groups.”

“Since there are many accusations of ’sheep stealing’ among Christians we will most likely also focus on this issue. The consultation in Toulouse will be the opportunity for doing so”, Ucko adds.

Scheduled speakers at the consultation are: Prof. Dr Thomas Schirrmacher, World Evangelical Alliance (WEA); Bishop Dr Tony Richie, Church of God (Pentecostal); Fr Dr Fiorello Mascarenhas, SJ (Roman Catholic Church); and Rev. Dr Hermen Shastri (WCC). The Catholic Archbishop of Toulouse, Mgr Robert Le Gall, will also be present.

The three-year study project jointly undertaken by the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue and the WCC’s programme on inter-religious dialogue and cooperation bears the name: “An interreligious reflection on conversion: From controversy to a shared code of conduct”. It was launched in May 2006 in Lariano/Velletri, near Rome, and aims to produce a code of conduct on religious conversion commonly agreed among Christians by 2010.

Additional information on the study process, including the report of the first meeting (only in English), is available at:

http://www2.wcc-coe.org/pressreleasesen.nsf/index/pu-06-04.html

More information on WCC and Interreligious Dialogue:

http://www.oikoumene.org/en/programmes/interreligiousdialogue/christian-self-understanding-amid-many-religions.html

Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue:

http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_councils/interelg/index.htm

Institute of Science and Theology of Religions (ISTR):

http://www.ict-toulouse.asso.fr/istr/site/047.html

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The World Council of Churches promotes Christian unity in faith, witness and service for a just and peaceful world. An ecumenical fellowship of churches founded in 1948, today the WCC brings together 347 Protestant, Orthodox, Anglican and other churches representing more than 560 million Christians in over 110 countries, and works cooperatively with the Roman Catholic Church. The WCC general secretary is Rev. Dr Samuel Kobia, from the Methodist Church in Kenya. Headquarters: Geneva, Switzerland..

Prophecy In Action: Towards a United Faith

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Prophecy In Action: Towards a United Faith

NWo pic

By Dana G Smith
Keywords: UN, WCC, Globalization, Faith, Dialogue, United,
Words: 2215

We are following a course today in the world which brings us headlong into a New World of Globalization and beliefs. Because of the many troubles facing the world today with starvation, famine, plagues, poverty, terrorism, and in religious intolerance, the need to find an answer is paramount. Because of this many organizations are working with the United Nations to bring in the vision of a New World Order. This NWO, as we shall call it, is especially interested in what you believe.
There are many nations, peoples, and tongues, all living together on this planet. We must get along in order to survive. Thus maintaining human dignity among peoples and the traditions they hold too, a United Faith is paramount to peace in the world. The United Nations actually recognized this fact long ago, when in 1981, a resolution was brought up, among many. This particular resolution, Article one of 36/55 made in November of that year stated the rights of people to have “freedom of thought, conscience, and religion”. The stated aforementioned article also said these freedoms may be “manifested in his religion or belief of his choice”, stating further that “no one shall be subject to coercion which would impair this freedom”. While this sounds a fair and just resolution at a glance, the end note of the resolution states that this freedom to manifest this religion or belief is “subject to limitations as are prescribed by law”. [“Quotes” are excerpts from: ohchr.org/english/law/religion.htm]
The problem exists, of course in the obvious. If you live in Egypt, one who is a Christian cannot take a bible on the street, preach, or use any other attempt to profess his or her faith on the matter. This also goes as well in many Muslim nations. The course of this freedom is limited by Islamic law. In India, for instance, one can be a Hindu, Muslim, Christian, or other faith holder and still be in the law. The problem here is in the violence incurred on other faiths because of their beliefs. It is this violence, in the name of religion that these resolutions attempt to stop. While on the outside this seems good, in fact, it is bringing in the “son of perdition” and his rise to global power and dominance. It is here that this Power broker will deceive the nations, and employ religious observance upon all who live at this time.
The United Nations, then, with the backing of many other’s put together the “Commission on Human Rights”. This Commission issued a resolution (2003/4) titled “Combating the Defamation of Religions”. It calls for the “international community to promote a culture of tolerance based on the human rights and respect for religious diversity”. They are to do this in the confines of national and international state nations, utilizing religious bodies, print media, and electronic media to conform public opinion towards a united faith objective. Again, while the objectives seem good, the method they use is the law, administered by the United Nations and cooperating nations. This means all peoples will be the subject of this law, no matter what individual nations may hold too. [“Quotes” are excerpts from: wfdd.org.uk/unitednations.html]

The United Nations has had one goal of strengthening it’s own power on the nations. They see themselves as the power brokers, the peace keepers, the universal marshal’s of the World. They envision themselves bringing in a New World full of peace and prosperity. One, in which, all religions, peoples, traditions, and faiths are in God and God in them. This vision brings in a hope which a humanistic world order brings to bear values of human thought and desires. This vision they are bringing in follows the prophetic words in Psalm two.

Psalms 2:1 ¶Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying,
3 Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.

The cords they are looking to break away from are the commandments and oracles of the Lord God. These nations see themselves as administrating a world that is unto itself in morality, aside from God and if God exists, then whatever they do is fine with him. After all, many believe this God created the world and then left it to us to fix up as we see fit.

Furthermore, other groups have joined the chorus led by the United Nations. In 2006 a study sponsored by the Vatican and the World Council of Churches stated openly the line of the United Nations that “freedom of religion connotes the freedom, without any obstruction, to practice one’s own faith” In this statement many would agree with. That is until you actually read the proverbial fine print which is inherent in all these documents and studies. It goes on to say this “right entails the equally non-negotiable responsibility to respect faiths other than our own, and never to denigrate, vilify or misrepresent them for the purpose of affirming superiority of our faith”.
Moreover, the “right to invite others to an understanding” of one’s own faith “should not be exercised by violating other’s rights and religious sensibilities”. In the sense of what many today in the Christian realm would consider ‘evangelization’, Muslims and others would say this right is actually violating theirs. As a result, Christians could not evangelize as such. In fact, this very study comes out and says “All should heal themselves from the obsession of converting others”.[“Quotes” are excerpts from: www2.wcc-coe.org/pressreleasesen.nsf/index/pu-06-04.html]
With the Catholic Church, Pope, and many others onboard, the stage is now being set. The term being coined for this unifying belief is plurality of religions, which is seen as a co-existent equality of faiths coming together for the benefit of mankind, which has in its unique characteristic faith in God or some higher power. In 2002 the World Council of Churches brought forth a study session on the theological approach to religious plurality. The result was a document to understanding this issue from the WCC and the United Nations approach. God is seen as the Creator and is present and active in all religions. Therefore the WCC conclusion is that it is “inconceivable to us that God’s saving activity is confined to any one continent, cultural type, or group of people”. Further, they were opened to the “possibility that the God we know in Jesus Christ may encounter us also in the lives of our neighbors of other faiths.” For the believer in Christ who walks in the declaration to: Go ye into the entire world and preach the gospel to all creatures that our Lord gave us, these words are blasphemy. To think that people would not like us revealing the true salvation as was given by Jesus Christ to the Apostles, for instance, when Jesus said “ I am the Way, The Truth, the Life, no man comes to the Father but by me” John 14:6 is something we could not even consider foregoing. To actually hear that an organization who calls itself after Christ would say that there is saving activity or even Jesus Christ himself in other religions or faiths is unbelievable. That is until you understand the prophetic times in which we live. In the last days, people simply will not endure sound doctrine. [“Quotes” excerpts from oikoumene.org/en/resources/documents/assembly/porto-alegre-2006/3-preparatory-and-background-documents/religious-plurality-and-christian-self-understanding.html]
Furthermore, in 2006, The Most Reverend Dr. Rowan Williams, then the Archbishop of Canterbury, the most senior bishop in the established church in England and leader of the Anglican Communion around the world gave stark words confirming that other faith’s and religions could arrive at the same place of forgiveness and communion with God. He said that when others have “arrived at a place where forgiveness and adoption are sensed and valued, even when these things are not directly spoken of in the language of another faith’s mainstream reflection, are we to say that God has not found a path for himself?” [“Quotes” excerpts from: oikoumene.org/en/resources/documents/assembly/porto-alegre-2006/2-plenary-presentations/christian-identity-religious-plurality/rowan-williams-presentation.html]
This suggests is that other faiths can bring you to the Father, actually doing it at the same level that Christians in Jesus Christ claim. This is actually coming from the Anglican Communion, if you can believe it. For many today, both the WCC and the Anglican community, along with others in the Christian arena are known as the ‘apostate’ church, one we call Sardis.

Revelation 3:1 ¶And unto the angel of the church in Sardis write; These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead.

The continuing dialog all spawned from the United Nations initiatives, United Faiths organizations, the Catholic Church, along with the WCC which began some time ago. The WCC and the Vatican put together a joint dialogue in 2006 which will conclude in 2009. This effort consists of a conversion code of conduct. While we see that many Christians may seem to support this idea, it lies in the antithesis of what Christ called us to do. When you do spread Gods word and the message of Christ, will you be violating the laws of the world? If you do spread the word of God, will other Christians despise you for violating the right of religion which all peoples are to have?
The code aims to ease tensions with Muslims, Hindus and other religious groups that fear losing adherents and resort to punishments as extreme as imprisonment and even death for converts from their faith and foreign missionaries.

WCC said the code of conduct should serve as an “advocacy tool in discussions with governments considering anti-conversion laws (and) help to advance the cause of religious freedom.” The rules should also address concerns in other religions about Christians seeking converts, and inspire those faiths to “consider their own codes of conduct,” it added.
[http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8R1NPA00&show_article=1Evangelicals Support Conversion Code]

In conclusion, the Catholic Church set up some time ago the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue. This dialogue is there to help bring in the Catholic’s church desire to be the instrument of Christ in the last days. The Church declares itself the only true body of Christ, due to their perceived apostolic succession. They also see all faiths as outside of theirs, but they all have an inherent presence of God, Gods word, and His Spirit. This dialogue reveals in excerpts what they truly believe. The dialogue states there is good, found in the “minds and hearts”, but also in “the rites and customs of the peoples”. This brings to the forefront that all rites, customs, beliefs of people are good. That in these is good things. These have religious traditions with positive values. These values are attributed “to the active presence of God through His Word, pointing to the universal action of the Spirit.” Thus equating values attained through other faiths as coming from Gods Word and the action of His Spirit. It is, according to this dialogue that the “sincere practice” which these people follow are the result of their own faith and that they respond, following the “dictates of their own conscience”, this according to the Pontifical Council for Inter-Religious Dialogue says these faiths will “respond positively to Gods invitation and receive salvation in Jesus Christ, even while they do not recognize or acknowledge him as their savior”.
PONTIFICAL COUNCIL FOR INTER-RELIGIOUS DIALOGUE, DIALOGUE AND PROCLAMATION, Reflection And Orientations On Interreligious Dialogue
And The Proclamation Of The Gospel Of Jesus Christ [“Quotes” excerpts from: www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_councils/interelg/documents/rc_pc_interelg_doc_19051991_dialogue-and-proclamatio_en.html]

It can hardly even be believed that one can have Salvation in God through Christ Jesus without recognizing Him or acknowledging him as their savior. This is all smoke and mirror, religious theological tripe which will soothe the New World Order and its current model for Religious diversity and tolerance. It is one which says all paths are in God, they lead to a higher awareness and power. One which will lead you to the next new advent for man, while taking away any need for the gospel commission or even following the example of the Apostles.

2 Peter 2:1 ¶But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.

++BIO++

Dana G Smith is the author of D-Day For America, a prophecy book of what is coming to America. Published by Xulon Press, ISBN: 1-59781-843-7. Dana is the editor of the W.I.B.R. online Web Sites.
He Hosts WARN Radio, “into the night”, airing Fridays 9 PM Pacific on The America Voice radio network. He also is The Watchman of W.A.R.N. Radio Network, www.warn-usa.com .
His articles appear on his own news sites at www.wingswatchman.org , www.ddayforamerica.com , www.warn-usa.com , and on many sites around the web.
Dana is a Watchman, “let the Watchman declare what he see’s Isaiah 21:6. He is also an investigative and research journalist who lives in the Midwest. You can contact him through his websites or email watchman at wingswatchman.org.

HHS Secretary To Visit Africa

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Headline: HHS Secretary To Visit Africa

Stops Include Communities Benefiting from U.S. Government Funding
in Fight Against HIV/AIDS and Malaria

HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt and a group of senior U.S. government leaders will visit four African nations to observe U.S. government programs that are delivering life-saving health care and sustenance to underserved communities, beginning Friday, Aug. 17. The Secretary will meet with top host-country government officials during the 10-day mission, as well as multiple sites that are providing health care and basic social services in each country.

The countries are South Africa, Mozambique, Tanzania, and Rwanda, and the Secretary’s itinerary will include visits to communities that are receiving funding through the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), the President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. In each country, the Secretary and his delegation will spend one day in the capital city, to meet with government and civil-society leaders, including from faith-based organizations, and will then travel to a rural area to spend time with families in smaller communities. Among the sites will be urban hospitals, rural health clinics, home-based-care settings, programs for orphans and academic institutions. These site visits will both reinforce partnerships with host-country organizations, and allow Secretary Leavitt to assess the impact of U.S. government-sponsored programs in Africa. The visit comes on the heels of President Bush’s call to Congress to support his efforts to double the initial funding of the Emergency Plan as it begins to consider reauthorization of that program this fall.

“On behalf of the American people, the President has made unprecedented commitments to fight HIV/AIDS and other major health threats in Africa,” Secretary Leavitt said. “The Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief and the President’s Malaria Initiative has helped bring hope to millions of people in Africa over the last three years. I am excited to visit these important programs to see, first-hand, how these programs are working in communities to improve lives.”

In each of the countries, the Secretary will get an on-the-ground perspective on the health care and social service systems that are delivering treatment, preventing illness and supporting families:

South Africa
* The integration of biomedical research with on-going HIV-prevention, care and treatment programs that are serving the community via interagency collaboration.
Mozambique
* U.S. government programs that are working to bring care to people affected by severe poverty and inadequate infrastructure, as well as future investments of the Millennium Challenge Corporation.

Tanzania
* U.S. government strategies in action to improve the training of current health workers, expand the available health workforce, and engage communities in the delivery of health care, including participating in a campaign to spray houses against malaria-carrying mosquitoes.

Rwanda
* Post-genocide investments to reconstruct the health system and use information technology to improve health care in both urban and rural settings.

Secretary Leavitt’s trip comes just days after HHS’ Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced the 50th and 51st AIDS drugs authorized by FDA in association with the PEPFAR program. This authorization is part of the President’s five-year, $15 billion effort to fight the HIV/AIDS epidemic in 15 focus countries in Southeast Asia the Caribbean and Africa, including the four nations the Secretary will visit. Through the PEPFAR program, the U.S. government is now supporting treatment for 1.1 million people worldwide, more than a million of them in Africa.

The Secretary will also see the PMI in action as he visits Mozambique and Tanzania and Rwanda, three of 15 focus countries of the PMI — a program launched in 2005. At least 1 million infants and children under age five in sub-Saharan Africa die each year from malaria — one approximately every 30 seconds. The PMI commitment boosts U.S. malaria funding by more than $1.2 billion over five years to reduce deaths due to malaria by 50 percent in 15 African countries. This goal focuses on reaching 85 percent of children under age five and pregnant women — the most vulnerable groups — with four key activities: the indoor spraying of homes with insecticides; the distribution of long-lasting, insecticide-treated mosquito nets; the use of newer, lifesaving anti-malarial drugs; and the provision of treatment to prevent malaria in pregnant women.

The PMI is already saving lives, and has reached more than 6 million Africans. The PMI has distributed more than 1 million mosquito nets to protect pregnant women and children under age five; conducted indoor residual spraying campaigns to shield over 2 million people; and procured over a million treatments of artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs) and other anti-malarial drugs to treat the disease.

Traveling with Secretary Leavitt will be Ambassador Mark Dybul, M.D., U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator; the Honorable Kent Hill, Ph.D., Assistant Administrator for Global Health, U.S. Agency for International Development; RADM Tim Ziemer (USN, ret.), U.S. Malaria Coordinator; Julie L. Gerberding, M.D., Director of the HHS Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Roger Glass, M.D., Ph.D., Director of the Fogarty International Center of the HHS National Institutes of Health; and Carol Thompson, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs.

Together, these efforts are a part of America’s larger commitment to health and hope around the world. To learn more about HHS’ Global Health Diplomacy work, visit www.globalhealth.gov; to learn more about the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, visit www.pepfar.gov; and to learn more about the PMI, visit www.fightingmalaria.gov.

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Iran-Backed Terror Group Converts Gaza into Hamastan

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Two Years after Disengagement, Iran-Backed Terror Group Converts Gaza into Hamastan

Just two years ago, Israel evacuated all 9,000 Israelis living in Gaza and four northern West Bank communities in an effort to pave the way for peace and a future Palestinian state. During the disengagement, Israel uprooted entire communities including schools, businesses, places of worship and the only Jewish cemetery there.

The only Israeli still in the Gaza Strip today is Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Cpl. Gilad Shalit, who was kidnapped while patrolling the Israeli side of the Gaza border June 25, 2006. He was forcibly taken by the Iran-backed terrorist groups Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’s violent militant wing; the Al-Nasir Salah al-Din Brigades, the military wing of the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC); and The Army of Islam. [1]

In return for this painful sacrifice, which Israel carried out Aug. 15, 2005, Gaza has been converted into a launching pad for rockets. Since the withdrawal, more than 1,500 Qassam rockets have been fired into Israel’s southern Negev region. The attacks have killed six civilians and injured hundreds more and hit areas where Gaza evacuees were relocated. [2]

Iran-backed Hamas has been chiefly responsible for the Qassam attacks, but other Palestinian militant groups also have taken credit, such as Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the Fatah party’s Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades and the Popular Resistance Committees. These groups, along with Hamas, have continued to launch Qassam rockets and mortars at Israel on an almost daily basis since disengagement. During a particularly violent period — May 15 to May 31, 2007 — more than 300 Qassam rockets were launched from Gaza at Israel. [3]

Israelis aren’t the only victims of the Hamas leadership that Palestinians voted into power in Jan. 2006. Just last week, on Aug. 7, 2007, a Qassam rocket aimed at Israel misfired, killing two Palestinian children and injuring seven more. [4]

After Hamas was elected to run the Palestinian Authority government, infighting among the Palestinian people increased. According to the Palestinian Independent Commission for Citizens’ Rights, more than 600 Palestinians have been killed in infighting since Hamas’s rise to power. [5] Hamas, designated a terrorist organization by the European Union, [6] the United States, [7] Israel, [8] Canada [9] and Australia, [10] openly seeks Israel’s destruction.

Overall, Palestinian internal violence has dramatically increased in the past two years. During the first seven months of 2007 alone, 415 Palestinians were killed, including 28 children, and another 2,022 Palestinians were injured – all at the hands of other Palestinians. [11]

By contrast, during all of 2006, 148 Palestinians died at the hands of other Palestinians. That included 12 children and another 871 who were injured. [12]

Israel’s Gaza Evacuees

Gaza’s Jewish residents have faced great economic and psychological hardship since being uprooted from their homes and communities:

Roughly 85 percent of families from Gaza’s former Gush Katif settlement continue to live in temporary housing scattered over 20 different locations around Israel. [13]
As many as 37 percent of evacuees are currently unemployed, according to SELA, the Israeli governmental organization created to handle disengagement.
Family incomes have plummeted 40 percent according to the Ministry of Commerce, Trade and Industry. [14]
Since Hamas took over Gaza by force in mid June 2007, the Iran-backed terrorist group has consolidated its military and Islamic authority over the Palestinian people. Examples of Hamas’s militarily growth include:

Importing sophisticated technological weapons into the Gaza Strip; [15]
Smuggling in more than 20 tons of explosives; [16]
Increasing militant manpower to 13,000; [17]
Sending more than 20 militants to Iran for training and instructing 400 more in Gaza; [18]
Creating a naval guard force. [19]

Examples of Hamas’s Islamic authority include:

Banning “all demonstrations and public gatherings” that do not have special permission and beating up protestors; [20]
Ordering the closure of popular television programs that portrayed the problematic situation in Gaza; [21]
Kidnapping a Christian professor from Palestine University in Gaza City, Ana al-Sayegh, forcing her to convert to Islam and forging a marriage between her and a Muslim man; [22]
Forbidding women to wear bathing suits to swim in a Gaza hotel pool, even on days designated for women only; [23]
Shutting down a coffee shop where men and women sat together, sometimes touching; [24]
Producing a children’s television show in which a Mickey Mouse clone named Farfur came under international criticism for conveying messages about Islamic supremacy as well as hatred of Jews and Israel. The pressure to change or shut down the program led Hamas to produce a show in which Farfur was killed off by an actor posing as an Israeli who appeared to beat him to death. Farfur is regarded as a martyr in the episode. [25] He was replaced by a bee character who says he will “…continue on the path of Farfur, the path of Islam is the solution. The path of heroism, the path of martyrdom, the path of jihad warriors. In the name of Farfur, we shall take revenge on the enemies of Allah, the murderers of the prophets, the murderers of innocent children, until Al-Aksa will be liberated from their filth.”
Concerning the security threat posed by the current situation in the Gaza Strip, former IDF intelligence chief Brig. Gen. Aharon Ze’evi Farkash said, “When we prepared for the disengagement, we mentioned all the scenarios for what might happen in the Strip, including the possibility of a ‘Hamastan’.” [26]

The Gaza Evacuees Two Years Later: Paying the Price for Peace

Two years since Israel carried out its Gaza disengagement plan, the nearly 9,000 Israeli residents who were living in the region continue to suffer from immense psychological, physical and economic distress.

Psychologically:

Gush Katif evacuees, subject to continuing financial and social difficulties, are increasingly seeking mental and emotional support; [27]
The youth of Gush Katif are at greater risk, living in an environment of uncertainty and social and communal instability that has impaired their scholastic education, with some even dropping out of school; [28]
The divorce rate of Gaza evacuees has noticeably increased. [29]

Physically: [30]

Research at the Ashkelon Regional Health Bureau and Ashkelon’s Barzilai Medical Center has shown a notable rise in deaths among the evacuees;
Their findings also show that former residents are suffering from a significant increase in medical maladies including cancerous growths, heart problems, diabetes, high blood pressure and asthma attacks.

Economically:

Evacuees continue to be affected by a very high rate of unemployment, currently 37 percent (about 1,450 people), according to the SELA Disengagement Authority; [31]
The family incomes of former Gaza residents have decreased by 40 percent since the disengagement, according to the Ministry of Commerce, Trade and Industry; [32]
Of the 180 nonagricultural businesses that once flourished in Gaza’s Gush Katif community, evacuees have reopened about 80 of them and most face bankruptcy; [33]
In agriculture, from which 30 percent of Gush Katif families earned a living, [34] 33 out of the 400 farmers have settled on new lands and only a few are back in business; [35]
The once successful and profitable farmers of Gush Katif, who had produced 15 percent of Israel’s agricultural exports and 70 percent of Israel’s organic produce, [36] have lost their overseas markets, buyers and distributors; [37]
Over 500 of the families are in serious financial straits, with many requiring support of welfare agencies and food packages; [38]
Due to the high rate of unemployment, many of the families are forced to use their state compensation funds for daily expenses rather than to build a house, as was intended. [39]

Housing:

85 percent of Gush Katif families, or 1,405 out of a total of 1,667, continue to live in temporary housing sites scattered over 20 different locations around Israel; [40]
The construction of permanent residences has barely begun. Fewer than 1 percent of evacuees having begun construction, resulting in a total of 12 houses. [41]

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Footnotes

[1] Ross, Gabe, “Israeli rabbi calls on Gaza Muslims to protect captive Israeli soldier,” The Associated Press , June 25, 2006
[2] Report by the Israel Defense Force Spokesman’s Office, Aug. 8 2007
[3] “Sderot hit by Kassam barrage from Gaza,” Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs Web site, June 1, 2007, http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Terrorism-+Obstacle+to+Peace/Palestinian+terror+since+2000/Sderot+hit+by+Kassam+barrage+from+Gaza+-+May+2007.htm
[4] Issacharoff, Avi and The Associated Press , “Qassam rocket fired at Israel kills two children in Gaza Strip,” Haaretz, Aug. 7, 2007, http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/890791.html
[5] Kfir, Isaac and Adam E. Stahl, “Hamas: A Gun in One Hand, a Qu’ran in the Other,” The Interdisciplinary Center, Herzilya, July 2007, http://www.ict.org.il/apage/14683.php
[6] “Council Decision,” Council of the European Union, Dec. 21, 2005
[7] “Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs),” U.S. Department of State Web site, Oct. 11, 2005, accessed Jan. 18, 2007, http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/fs/37191.htm
[8] Wilson, Scott, “Hamas Sweeps Palestinian Elections, Complicating Peace Efforts in Mideast,” The Washington Post , Jan. 27, 2006, accessed Jan. 18, 2006,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/26/AR2006012600372.html
[9] Public Security and Emergency Preparedness Canada, National Security, Listed entities, accessed Jan. 18, 2007, http://www.psepc.gc.ca/prg/ns/le/cle-en.asp#hhi18
[10] “Listing of Terrorist Organisations-Hamas’s Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades” Australian Government Attorney-General’s Department Web site, Jan. 17, 2006, accessed Jan. 18, 2007, http://www.nationalsecurity.gov.au/agd/www/nationalsecurity.nsf/AllDocs/CADAB9AC4723C526CA256FCD001BA892?OpenDocument
[11] Kfir, Isaac and Adam E. Stahl, “Hamas: A Gun in One Hand, a Qu’ran in the Other,” The Interdisciplinary Center, Herzilya, July 2007, http://www.ict.org.il/apage/14683.php
[12] “OCHA-oPt Protection of Civilians: Summary of data tables,” United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Aug. 2007, http://www.ochaopt.org/documents/PoC%20Monthly%20tables%20and%20terminology%20notes_July2007.pdf
[13] “22 months without a home,” Gush Katif Committee Special Report, Friends of Gush Katif Web site, May 2007, http://www.katifund.org/upload/mazav%20%20eng2.pdf
[14] Eglash, Ruth and Pollack, Ahinoam, The Jerusalem Post, Aug. 1, 2007, http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1185893685584&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
[15] Harel, Amos, “IDF: Hamas is smuggling high-tech arms into Gaza,” Haaretz, July 19, 2007, http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/883953.html
[16] Ibid.
[17] “Israeli radio: Israel contemplating major offensive against Hamas in Gaza Strip,” Ma’an News Agency, July 19, 2007, http://maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID=24119
[18] Ibid.
[19] “The interior ministry announced formation of a new naval guard force,” Izzedeen al-Qassam Brigades Web site, Aug. 9, 2007, http://www.alqassam.ps/english/?action=showdetail&fid=576
[20] “Hamas militiamen beat up Gaza protestors,” The Associated Press via The Wall Street Journal, Aug. 13, 2007, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118701300326395923.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
[21] Abu Toameh, Khaled, “Hamas bans popular TV talk show,” The Jerusalem Post, Aug. 1, 2007, http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?c=JPArticle&cid=1185893691489&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
[22] Abu Tomeh, Khaled, “Hamas forced professor to convert,” The Jerusalem Post, Aug. 5, 2007, http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1186066387589&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
[23] Issacharoff, Avi and Amos Harel, “Gaza vs. West Bank /Yet another last chance,” Haaretz, http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/882104.html
[24] Ibid.
[25] Marcus, Itamar and Barbara Crook, “Hamas TV Mickey Mouse beaten to death by Israeli – becomes Martyr in final episode,” Palestinian Media Watch, July 1, 2007, http://pmw.org.il/bulletins_jul2007.htm#b010707
[26] Greenberg, Hanan, “IDF officials warn of Gaza threat,” YnetNews, Aug. 12, 2007, http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3436609,00.html
[27] “22 months without a home,” Gush Katif Committee Special Report, Friends of Gush Katif Web site, May 2007, http://www.katifund.org/upload/mazav%20%20eng2.pdf
[28] Ibid.
[29] Eglash, Ruth and Pollack, Ahinoam, “Two years after Gush Katif, evacuees are still suffering,” The Jerusalem Post, Aug. 1, 2007, http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1185893685584&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
[30] “22 months without a home,” Gush Katif Committee Special Report, Friends of Gush Katif Web site, May 2007, http://www.katifund.org/upload/mazav%20%20eng2.pdf
[31] Eglash, Ruth and Pollack, Ahinoam, “Two years after Gush Katif, evacuees are still suffering,” The Jerusalem Post, Aug. 1, 2007, http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1185893685584&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
[32] “22 months without a home,” Gush Katif Committee Special Report, Friends of Gush Katif Web site, May 2007, http://www.katifund.org/upload/mazav%20%20eng2.pdf
[33] Ibid.
[34] Ibid.
[35] Shragai, Nadav, “Two years later, Gush Katif evacuees still need housing,” Haaretz, June 22, 2007, http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/873931.html
[36] Stahl, Julie, “Gaza farmers say government has no plan for them,” Christian News Service , April 11, 2005
[37] Shragai, Nadav, “Two years later, Gush Katif evacuees still need housing,” Haaretz, June 22, 2007, http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/873931.html
[38] Ibid.
[39] Ibid.
[40] “22 months without a home,” Gush Katif Committee Special Report, Friends of Gush Katif Web site, May 2007, http://www.katifund.org/upload/mazav%20%20eng2.pdf
[41] Ibid.

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