Rabbi Benny Elon said in his speech, "First we gave them guns and we will have to take them away. If we were to give them a state we would have to...."

I heard a story about a woman who had been washing her dishes in the kitchen after Shabbos. A bullet had gone through her window and hit a pot she had been holding. "Thank God, I had not washed the pot" she exclaimed. Shilo, started out as an archaeological dig, used to have over 3,000 visitors a month. Now they barely have 35 visitors per month, with an increase in casualities. I listened tearfully to their story. They really need a crisis counselor, wheel chairs and a bullet proof ambulance. I heard of 3 cases where both parents had been killed. Children are being told not to sit in a vehicle with siblings, thus minimizing the potential losses per family. Again I heard "we need a crisis counselor". Children are taught that they are safe in school. A woman who was at work recently received a telephone call - her child had been shot in the neck by a sniper. Jericho, Ramala, and Sachem, major Palestinian cities, have caused over 11,000 attacks on 45,000 setters. In Shilo I meet the father who's 5 month old baby son Yehuda had been hit on the head with a rock. Everyone prayed for his recovery. Even Prime Minister Sharon came to his bedside. The child died. His parents are now heading a project to create Kiryat Yehuda, in Yehuda Shoham's memory.

Bullet proof buses, rescue and security teams are needed. And very important "crisis intervention".

Kever Rachel (Rachel's Tomb) is located about 5 miles from Jerusalem, on the outskirts of Bet Lechem. Recently a woman from Hevron traveled to Kever Rachel and found it closed. Soldiers on guard there would not let her in. She returned a few days later with a sizeable group of women and some Japanese tourists. They marched down the street (Yasser Arafat Road) to the entrance of Kever Rachel and gained access from sympathetic solders. They would not leave until government officials granted them conditions on which the site would re-open. Bullet proof buses. The buses that travel to Kever Rachel today are paid for by these women from Hevron. They are asking for money so they can purchase their own bus. The government has offered to have the bus bullet proofed.

I rode to the top of a mountain at "Tekoa Daled" in our bullet proof bus. Each of our three buses had two heavily armed IDF guards on board. Tekoa is described to us as a little boy waving a flag on the top of a mountain in a sea of sharks. Started in the '67 war as an army outpost. Here religious and non religious Jews live with mutual respect. As you know anywhere there are 10 Jews there will be 11 opinions. All Jews in the world should get along as they do in Tekoa. Started with 18 families there are now 226. They have a tank at the main checkpoint. It use to take them 18 minutes to travel to Jerusalem. Now with the Palestinian "problem" it takes over 45 minutes. There are religious settlements and settlements with a mixture of religious and non-religious Jews. You can find children with payees and piercing. All are friends. I heard about a mother of 3, killed, her children need help. Recently there were 5 funerals, only 1 being a natural death.

We travel through the Judean hills and pass through Efrat. In Efrat almost 10,000 people live in 2,000 plus homes. A small shopping center, beautiful houses along new streets. I hear about a recent tragedies including the murders of two women from Efrat as they drove on the Gush Etzion-Jerusalem road. Close to 1200 religious Zionist families live in Efrat, many of whom are lawyers, doctors, architects and academicians, with a good percentage of the population being English speakers.