I left early this morning from my home in Yokne'am, a quiet town near Haifa that tries to keep out of the public eye. Behind me was a car with an orange ribbon. At the intersection, another car with orange. Before I turned from the street, I counted ten cars on "our team". On the drive to Haifa there is no doubt. Haifa, usually known for its socialistic "red" bent, is quietly and assertively turning orange.

Afternoon at the Yokne'am intersection. After a week of effort, Eli Olgon has finally convinced the local police to allow him to hang his mega posters for Gush Katif in the intersection. The police even sent a patrol car to ensure that all is well. Kudos to Eli from Yokne'am.

At the Shomrim junction, overall clad David Canaani has come straight from the barn in Kfar Yehoshua to give out orange ribbons to passersby. He complains to me that he is all out of ribbons. Everybody wants orange. I rush back to my car to bring more ribbons, some of them visible from my pockets. I can’t get back to the junction. Car after car stops and demands (nobody asks -- they demand!) that I tie an orange ribbon on their antenna. Time and again I return to my car to bring more ribbons.

Finally at the junction, everybody wants orange. They don’t want leaflets or bracelets. They don't want to hear any more speeches. They are all with us, and they want the orange ribbons to express the will of the majority of the nation. The majority of the nation is orange!

The feel of the turnabout has been with me all week. Now at the junction, I am experiencing it first hand. The nation is with us -- in a large way. They no longer fear the dictator and his representatives. The orange ribbon is the way that they express their determined opposition to expelling Jews and destroying our Land.

In the meantime, I'm all out of orange ribbons. They are now flying on car antennas all over Israel. To avoid trouble, I had to auction off the last ribbon. It went to Zigi from Yokne'am, who paid 100 shekels toward the cause.

Does anybody out there have more orange ribbons???