My family went to Israel during the summer of 2005. We flew home from Israel three days before the disengagement from Gaza began. During our two-week trip we asked Israelis how they felt about the upcoming giveback of the Gaza Strip. There was one person whose words still haunt me. This old man was sitting in a wheelchair that had an orange ribbon attached to it. I asked him why he was against giving back Gaza. He looked up at me and said, "Do you know what Sunday is?" I answered I knew Sunday was Tisha B'av (both Jerusalem Temples, along with a long list of other tragedies happened to the Jews throughout the ages on that same date, Tisha B'av, the ninth day of the Hebrew month of Av).The old man in the wheel chair said to me, " Yes Sunday is Tisha B'av, disengagement begins on Monday. Giving away this land will be added to the list of horrible events that happened to us on Tisha B'av." That Old man turned to be right. The war in Gaza did not start a little over...(Read Full Post)