Signing

Hebron - 3:30 PM Israel time

I am sitting in the Hebron settlers gift shop -

underneath Ma'arat HaMachpela. In an hour a major

demonstration is scheduled to begin here in Hebron. In

another two and a half hours Rabin and Arafat are

supposed to be affixing their signatures to a document

betraying Eretz Yisrael and the Jewish People.

People continually ask how we feel, and how they can

help. We, of course, aren't happy with what's happening.

Things could be better. But, we have not, in any way

shape or form, given up. Far from it. Thankfully,

thousands of people from all over the world are behind

us, supporting the continued Jewish Community of Hebron,

supporting Jewish prayer and presence at Ma'arat

HaMachpela - The Caves of the Patriarchs. People arrive

in Hebron daily, visiting, praying, showing support.

This morning I spent a few hours touring with a couple

from NYC who wanted to see the city of the Patriarchs

before returning to the US.

But, if you really want to know how to help - to

tell the truth, I've debated with myself whether to write

this or not - and if I want to be honest with myself, I

have no choice. I expect that it's not necessarily

popular to say what I say, but I'm not running a

popularity contest. For Hebron doesn't belong to me, or

to any of the people or families that live here, or in

Kiryat Arba - or in the entire Hebron region. Hebron

belongs to the entire Jewish people, throughout all the

generations - people who dreamed of Hebron as they

dreamed of Jerusalem - but for them it was only a dream -

because the reality was so far from Eretz Yisrael that

even dreaming seem far-fetched. Hebron belongs to you,

and to your children, and to your grandchildren, and

great-grandchildren - Jews who deserve the privilege to

pray at the tombs of the Patriarchs no less than myself

or yourselves. And what are we going to say to them if,

G-d forbid, they won't be able to, because it is held in

foreign hands, - and not because they conquered it in a

war, but because a Jewish government GAVE IT AWAY?! What

will we say to children and grandchildren who ask us:

"But why did it happen? Why did they do it? WHAT DID YOU

DO TO TRY AND PREVENT IT?"

WHAT WILL YOU SAY? In my opinion, anyone who

today really wants to save Eretz Yisrael MUST BE HERE -

IN ERETZ YISRAEL, NOW. Israel, not just Hebron belongs

to you too. The only way to do anything is to be here -

now. It's not a case of "pikuach nefesh" - the

"watching of a soul", rather it is a case of "hatzalat

nefesh" - "the saving of a soul" - saving the soul of

the Jewish People - the saving of Eretz Yisrael. When, G-

d forbid, one receives notification that a dear relative

is critically ill, one drops everything that he is doing

and rushes to the hospital. Why? There are doctors and

nurses, and there really isn't too much we can do - but

we feel it's the least we can do, so we go. If that is

the case with an individual, what about the nation, the

soul of the Jewish People? For 2,000 years we prayed and

died just saying "next year in Jerusalem" and now what

of Jerusalem? Don't be fooled - Hebron and Jerusalem are

one. One cannot exist without the other. If we lose

Hebron, Jerusalem is next - and what is Eretz Yisrael

without the heart - especially if we hand it over to our

enemies on a silver platter?

So, I say to you, from Hebron, from the home of

Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Sarah, Rivka and Lea- home of

David HaMelech - if you really care - not just

emotionally, not as a feeling, but REALLY CARE, you have

to be here - now! If you are here you can influence, you

can fill up all the empty apartments in all of Judea and

Samaria - you can volunteer to patrol in Hebron or in

other cities in Yesha - you can voice your opinion - you

can vote. YOU CAN MAKE THE DIFFERENCE!

So, I say it again - if you really care about Eretz

Yisrael, come here now. That is the eternal answer to

Rabin, Peres and Arafat. They are trying to throw us out

- we have to to the opposite.

For sure, we will stay here in any case, and in the

end will be victorious - but the victory should be a joint one,

of all the people of Israel - you and us together.

IF NOT NOW - WHEN?