A letter to the Commander of the Lod Police Station

By Amichai Gross.

To the Commander of the Lod Police Station, greetings and blessings!

I would like to put in words the thoughts that have been going through my mind lately.

In my opinion, the police behaviour against the opponents of the disengagement is simply shocking! The police relate to the settlers (mitnachlim, from the word nachala, namely inheritance) as enemies. (Translator's note: The word mitnachlim is used by the Left as a derogatory word).

As a proud resident of Gush Katif, I have been witness to daily attacks by the Arabs against Jewish targets-mortar bombs, side arms, Kassam missiles, roadside bombs, tunnels used for smuggling arms and ammunition, infiltrations in to settlements-all this with no real reaction from the Israel Defence Forces. But when it comes to dispersing right-wing demonstrations, the police humiliate us and treat us with contempt, excessive violence and personal insults which reflect their personal views.

I don't think that it is necessary to explain to you that we are not criminals. The vast majority of us do not have any connection to crimes. We don't stab each other in nightclubs and we are not looking for trouble. We love every Jew and exactly because of this we will carry on the struggle forcefully against the evil design to transfer the Jews of Gush Katif and of Northern Samaria. The disengagement is a grave danger to the existence of the State of Israel! We will do everything to foil this evil plan short of resorting to violence. We do not intend to make life easy for the police who have accepted the responsibility to carry-out this heinous crime. We will definitely try our best to make all the systems collapse and thereby prevent the eviction of the Jews from Gush Katif and Northern Samaria. Blocking roads is certainly a democratic, legitimate and non-violent way to express our determination. In most cases, those who resort to violence and fan the flames are the police themselves! Blocking roads is the only way that we have left to express our opinion clearly since the government has blocked all other avenues of expression.

I do not understand how you, as one who is responsible for the safety and security of citizens, are capable morally of carrying-out this terrible evection. I am not talking from the point of view of security or politics or even religion-I am talking about morality-how can you?! To take Jews who have put all their lives in this place where they live-this desolate place which they made bloom-where they came to as representatives of the whole of the People of Israel, and simply throw them out while at the same time disgracing them and de-legitimising everything they do and think! To destroy tens of synagogues, to exhume bodies from their graves and to give all the area to the Arabs who hate us and who have so tormented us, may their names be erased, Arabs whose whole purpose in life is to kill Jews-women, children and old people. Terrorists who stabbed two elderly men in a synagogue, terrorists who murdered Tali Chatuel and her four small daughters and cold-bloodedly gave them the coup-de-grace at point blank range, terrorists who bombed a bus carrying children to school one morning-to these murderers you want to give this land that has been made holy by so much spilt Jewish blood?! Don't you think that this is a moral/ideological blow?

How can you not stand up and shout: "I will not carry-out this order! I am not like the German soldiers who claimed that they were just small cogs in the Nazi war machine and that they were just obeying orders. I am a Jew who acts according to common sense and according to moral principles that won't let me carry-out this crime against the nation!" As long as you don't say this you will have to face the non-violent determined resistance of a large portion of our nation.

It is important to point out that we are guided by our love for the People of Israel and for the Land of Israel and not by personal motives. We love our policemen and we will strongly object to them having to carry-out this horrible order that has been given to them.

Neither arrests nor having a police record nor any other threats will prevent us from acting according to our beliefs. On the contrary, we will gladly go to jail if that is the price we have to pay for our faith. We will be proud to be caught and to be put in jail for our actions on behalf of the People of Israel and for the Land of Israel.

I hope that I have been understood clearly.

I will be glad to receive your response, if there will be one.

I hope and pray that this terrible decree will be annulled and that all of us can go back to fulfilling our purpose in life.

With greetings and love for Israel,

Amichai Gross, age 18

A resident of Gush Katif and a student at the "Eliyashiv" Yeshiva High School in Lod.