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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Manch on October 08, 2009, 06:43:41 AM
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Dear all, I just came from back to Shomron region (Samaria). This was such an unbelievable experience! I've made lots of pictures and uploaded them for your enjoyment. The bottom line - heroic Jewish pioneers who live there are different people from anyone you and I knew - their spirit is made from basalt, their hearts are made of fire. An external enemy cannot defeat such people. They only can be betrayed by the enemy within.
Samaria is incredibly beautiful and once you see the landscape, which is completely unsuitable to any mass mechanized warfare, you realize how suicidal it is for Israel to surrender it to vicious muslime enemy. When you see how beautiful and heroic Jews who live there, you realize how immoral it is to surrender one inch of this land.
Web Album:
http://picasaweb.google.com/Bulldogsarethebest/IsraelFall#slideshow/5390169533490619730
Some of my favorites:
(http://lh4.ggpht.com/_MqqqHujXxoQ/Ss27NkOkyLI/AAAAAAAACGY/KHDlxDxGAJk/s800/DSC_0785.JPG)
(http://lh4.ggpht.com/_MqqqHujXxoQ/Ss28BatR2pI/AAAAAAAACHo/x4dfING76KQ/s720/DSC_0860.JPG)
(http://lh4.ggpht.com/_MqqqHujXxoQ/Ss27lGbybMI/AAAAAAAACG8/ttlW9g-Ltog/s720/DSC_0810.JPG)
(http://lh4.ggpht.com/_MqqqHujXxoQ/Ss2843SvMII/AAAAAAAACJI/0SynozZxnCw/s720/DSC_0961.JPG)
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That are some really beautiful photos. I hope you enjoyed your trip! Israel is really a beautiful country!
One day I will go to Israel too.
:dance:
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Great album!!! :)
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great pics. What touring group did you go with? Were you within the "Green line" or outside of it?
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great pics. What touring group did you go with? Were you within the "Green line" or outside of it?
Thank you! We've toured Samaria, which today is outside of "green line." We've passed few IDF road blocks - very uneventful process - we did not even stop, just waved through. Highways in Samaria are saturated with IDF presence - it feels calm and secure. However, very often you come around a mark that was erected or a settlement that created in memory of murdered Jews. We had a great tour guide. He told us that in years after Oslo, he buried 7 of his pupils (5 girls), HY"D!
The buses were bulletproof and the trip was organized by Nesher Municipality. It looks like it was a Likud sponsored trip (we only paid 55 shekels per person) and had to attend a rally against settlement freeze in Revava. We only happily obliged - see pics. Our guide was a heroic Jewish pioneer of USSR extraction who lives there from 1987, walked back and forth all Eretz Israel, published books, and conducts various excursions in Judea and Samaria. http://mangupli.livejournal.com/profile (Russian language)
On the pics you can see buses that have phone numbers for agencies that organize trips to Judea and Samaria. What can I tell you? I've came from this trip emotionally drained - it is so beautiful, it is so elevating to be there!
(http://lh3.ggpht.com/_MqqqHujXxoQ/Ss270MmpdAI/AAAAAAAACHQ/5-m2He9UVQY/s720/DSC_0825.JPG)
Synagogue, Shilo Israel. Here where the Ark of Tanach was brought to Eretz Israel first and kept until it was later lost in the battle to Philistines. Shiloh is also a place where all twelve tribes gathered for prayer and where the land of Israel was divided between the 12 tribes.
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ohhh, very nice pictures!!!
I especially like the second one...
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ohhh, very nice pictures!!!
I especially like the second one...
Check them all out @:
Web Album:
http://picasaweb.google.com/Bulldogsarethebest/IsraelFall#slideshow/5390169533490619730
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These are great pictures. Thank you for sharing!
Long live Judea and Samaria - the heartland of Israel!
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Wow, gorgeous pictures, I must visit Israel soon, I have never been there in my adult life.
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Wow, gorgeous pictures, I must visit Israel soon, I have never been there in my adult life.
What are you waiting for?
Those pictures are absolutely stunning Manch! Very breathtaking!
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Thank you for sharing the pictures Manch.
The clouds in the sky with sunbeams was my favorite!
Shalom - Dox
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Jaw-dropping!
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Amazing. Kol HaKavod, Manch.
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Great Pictures, I was in Israel this past summer it was fantastic, just looking at your pictures makes me want to go back next summer!
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Samaria is very beautiful. Great pictures!
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Some info about Shiloh:
http://ohr.edu/yhiy/article.php/3871/html/rss/
When our ancestors entered Eretz Yisrael and wished to offer the sacrifices of which we read in this week's Torah portion, they did so in the Mishkan, which served as the home of the sacrificial altar for over four centuries until the establishment of the Beit Hamikdash in Jerusalem.
For most of that time the Mishkan sanctuary was located in Shiloh (369 years), until it was destroyed in the war with the Philistines. It was then transferred to Nov and Givon (57 years) before finally becoming the Beit Hamikdash in Jerusalem.
The Torah refers (Devarim 12:9) to Shiloh as "the resting place" and to Jerusalem as "the heritage".
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Wow, gorgeous pictures, I must visit Israel soon, I have never been there in my adult life.
What are you waiting for?
$2500 - $4000 for airfare, hotel rental car and spending money. ???
:::D
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Wow, gorgeous pictures, I must visit Israel soon, I have never been there in my adult life.
What are you waiting for?
$2500 - $4000 for airfare, hotel rental car and spending money. ???
:::D
Hide is a crate and ship yourself there air mail