We know that what Aryeh says below is so.
A plague is judgment, always. A plague that kills livestock is to be taken as a warning, particularly when biologists worry that it may come to affect people and become a massive pandemic, God forbid! We are not prophets and this is not prophecy.
This is just learning. A friend and co-conspirator notes that the avian flu first hit Israel at Kibbutz Ain Hashlosha, where the government forces that expelled the Jews from Gush Katif were massed and from which they were deployed.
Far from proof of anything, of course, but isn’t it an interesting fact?
Jack G
-----Original Message-----From: Aryeh Zelasko Sent: Monday, March 20, 2006 12:34 PMTo: zelasko@il
Subject: national disaster?
Amazing, when Sharon's Pogrom destroyed the lives of 10,000 Jews, when Olmert's (pronounced all-merde) psychotic thugs viciously beat and molested hundreds of peaceful and unarmed protesters, they didn't see any sort of disaster. Now that they are suffering a loss in their highly subsidized income, we have a NATIONAL DISASTER.
It is truly amazing how some of our citizen only see something as a national issue if and only if it effects them financially.
I do not want to belittle the seriousness of this.
A pandemic is nothing to take lightly. It is only that I can not help wondering if there is a connection between the events.
One of the things we pray to be protected from during the High Holy Days is the plague. On every public fast day, when we say the AVINU MALKENU, we ask to be protected from the plague.
We have been taught that plague is sent to punish a community and not just the individuals who fall sick to it.
We also learn from the plagues of Egypt that G-D first brought punishment to the animals and property of the Egyptians before He directly punished or killed the people.
This was an act of mercy and was intended to give the Egyptians the opportunity to repent.
My sincere hope and prayer is that we understand the message of these dead birds. We are being told in no uncertain terms that today it is the birds and tomorrow it could be us. http://www.debka.com/headline.php?hid=2124
Avian flu has spread to another two Israeli poultry farms – angry farmers demand government declare national disaster
March 20, 2006, 10:18 AM (GMT+02:00)
The agriculture ministry and veterinary services were caught unprepared by the outbreak of the lethal virus in the first four turkey farms near east of the Gaza Strip and north of Jerusalem last Thursday.
The strain is confirmed as the pathogenic H5N1. Infection of the flocks at Amioz and Nir Oz in the southern Israeli Negev was reported Monday morning, March 20, in addition to Ain Hashlosha, Holit, Nahshonim and Sdeh Moshe. Culling and the interment of dead birds in lime pits are proceeding too slowly for lack of prior organization and a shortage of manpower to handle hundreds of thousands of birds.
Veterinary officials blame the government for failing to invest in stocks of vaccines to protect the poultry industry and contain the outbreak, like in France and Britain.
Sunday, March 19, fowls were still being sent to meat slaughterhouses from Nir Oz and Amioz where the virus was detected 24 hours later.
Health inspectors have gone into action to locate the meat. Poultry farming, one of Israel’s largest industries, is valued at over half a billion dollars a year plus another one billion in sales of chicken and turkey meat. Many kibbutzim and moshavim face ruin, as well as the food industries, like bakeries which use large quantities of eggs, from the bird flu blight.
Have a nice day Aryeh Zelasko
:-)Beitar Illit, Judea
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