Rachel Saperstein wrote July 31st in Arutz7 ”Remembering Gush Katif – The calamity of Gush Katif has affected every Jew“, recalling poignantly and asking …

     “Forget Gush Katif? Can we, as a Jewish nation, forget Tisha B’Av and our expulsion from Eretz Yisrael? Can we forget our wandering from land to land, as edict after edict turned us into a homeless people?  … “Just as we, as a collective Jewish nation, feel the pain of each calamity that befalls us, the calamity of Gush Katif has affected each and every one of us…”"   Read the whole thing  

Update:  Read the July 29th article about Rachel and her husband Moshe in an article in the Jerusalem Post “From the sands of Gush Katif to the rolling hills of Lachish” By ANN GOLDBERG.

Arutz Sheva has provided a continuously streaming video and article, well worth viewing: “Remembering Gush Katif“, both upbeat and heartbreaking at the same time (Rachel Saperstein and her husband were among many interviewed in these videos):

     “Gush Katif was the bloc of 17 Israeli Jewish villages along Israel’s southern Mediterranian coast that was demolished by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in August 2005. Four villages in northern Samaria (19 miles east of Netanya) were also destroyed”… Go there to view the streaming video with interviews, news and other linked resources

As one considers the example set by the expulsion of so many Jewish families from their homes in Gaza, one wonders what it would be like for so many families to be uprooted if forced from their homes in Judea and Samaria – Gush Katif expulsions should stand as a warning for the future.

Read our previous posts:  Remembering … Gush Katif and Netzarim (Updated), “Forty-two Seconds”, Expulsion 2: Preparing the People by Rachel Saperstein, and Gush Katif (continued): 1000 Days Without a Home — still waiting …. (Updated).

With thanks to Jerusalem Diaries in Tense Times