Tzfas Chief Rabbi HaGaon HaRav Shmuel Eliyahu Shlita speaks of the real battle facing Am Yisrael today. Rabbi Eliyahu explains “It is a mistake to argue among ourselves. There are a number of good parties one can vote for. It is possible to find a family in which the father votes Yachad, the mother Likud, a brother for Bayit Yehudi, and an uncle for Agudas Yisrael. This is absolutely fine. We don’t argue in the family. We must assist one another” stated the rav.

The rav added that unlike voting for one of the right-wing parties, voting for a centrist/left-wing party such as Yesh Atid is unacceptable. He advises people to reflect back a number of years and remember where the left-wing was during the expulsion of Gush Katif families. “Today they call themselves the center. They saw all the anguish caused to Gush Katif families yet did nothing. We saw all those who hold human dignity and personal freedoms in such high regard, but when it came to the Gush Katif residents they remained silent. We saw the silence of women who generally are at the forefront for women’s’ rights”.

The rav speaks of how they tried resettling the evacuees in the Negev, anywhere but to impose on the left-wings and their lifestyle. He speaks of the judicial system that permitted passing the necessary laws to carry out the expulsion, and how Israel Police took part in the destruction. “They are already preparing for the next expulsion after elections if it is left up to them” he added.

Rabbi Eliyahu then reflects back to a column released by journalist Raviv Drucker about a month ago in which he laments the fact that Israel has failed to achieve peace with Syrian President Assad and “return the Golan Heights”. Drucker stated “perhaps this would have stopped ISIS”.

Rabbi Eliyahu warns they are trying to control us, the religious population and they are also planning another eviction, throughout Yehuda and Shomron as well as in areas of Yerushalayim. He adds that for the Israeli left-wing, a division between Jews and Arabs is not racist.

“They are not bothered by the fact that thousands of expellees that lived in hotels were ousted and they were not bothered with the reality the expulsion placed the entire nation at financial risk.

The rabbi feels it is a mitzvah to vote, “A big mitzvah to leave home and then vote towards succeeding in elections. There are thousands of things dear to us that will be decided by the elections and impact millions of lives. Don’t take it lightly. The little white piece of paper that weighs less than a gram can say the lives of many”.

The rav feels voting is a mitzvah and sending the correct shluchim to Knesset enables them to engage in mitzvos by building homes in yishuvim throughout Eretz Yisrael, appoint judges who are clean and determined to improve the judicial system and to be MeKadesh Shem Shomayim with their actions.

In reference to a spokesman at the left-wing rally at Kikar Rabin by Yair Gerbuz, who said “The fight is not about Bayit Yehudi or Yachad, but about those who kiss the mezuzos and those who despise mezuzos and equate those who kiss them with criminals”.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)