December 2000
December 3, 2000 Women in Green with Kfar Darom and Morag
December 5, 2000 Israeli Endgame
December 6, 2000 The CIA in Israel
December 6, 2000 Bibi Netanyahu
December 6, 2000 Update on the Cohen Family
December 7, 2000 Micky Returns to Jerusalem
December 11, 2000 Hizbollah Broadcasting from Emek Haela
December 11, 2000 Barak's Resignation: Failing To Tell It Like It Is!
December 19, 2000 Evil Ideology
December 20, 2000 Chanuka Blessings From Jerusalem
December 20, 2000 4th Night of Chanuka
December 20, 2000 Support Arutz 7
December 23, 2000 A Chanuka Anomaly
December 26, 2000 Betrayal Dafka On Chanuka
December 26, 2000 Conference on the Rabin Assassination
December 27, 2000 Candle Lighting at Kever Rachel
December 28, 2000 Kever Rachel Open Again on Fridays
December 29, 2000 Sunday Demonstration
December 31, 2000 Women In Green to Join Planning Meeting
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Jerusalem, December 3, 2000
Women in Green with Kfar Darom and Morag
Next week, Sunday, December 10th, Women in Green are going, please
G-d, to Kfar Darom and Morag to entertain the children there, give
them toys etc... A bus will leave Jerusalem at 10:45 am, from the
Rose Garden in front of the PM's offices.
Transportation in Gush Katif will be on bullet proof buses.
Return will be around 6:30 pm in Jerusalem.
Cost: NIS30
Reserve a seat by e-mailing me or call Ruth at 02-6249887;
or Anita at 02- 9964805 in the evening from 7:00-10:00 pm.
Nadia
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Jerusalem, December 5, 2000
Israeli Endgame
The Wall St. Journal
Editorial
December 1, 2000
The accolades came in fast and thick the night Ehud Barak was
elected Prime Minister of Israel in a landslide over Benjamin
Netanyahu. New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman hailed the
neophyte politician as a "statesman" who could bring an end to the
country's "national nightmare." Similar gush was heard from the
Clinton Administration, which had dispatched its political hit
team of Carville, Greenburg & Shrum to defeat the evil Bibi and,
it was assumed, Give Peace a Chance.
That was 17 months ago. Since then, Mr. Barak has done just
about everything people like Mr. Friedman and Mr. Clinton have
wanted him to do. He made a good-faith offer to Syria to return
nearly all the Golan Heights. He withdrew the Israeli army from
its outposts in southern Lebanon. He went to Camp David and
reportedly made Yasser Arafat an offer beyond anything the
Palestinian strongman could have expected given previous Israeli
conditions. The offer is said to have included 90% of the West
Bank and half of Jerusalem.
And where has this got him? Syria imperiously rebuffed the Golan
offer because it amounted to a mere 99% of its demands. Hezbollah
has been launching attacks into northern Israel on the claim that
a sliver of Lebanese territory remains in the "occupiers" hands.
(Even the U.N. disagrees.) The Palestinian leadership did not
waste much time in tagging the new Prime Minister as "Barakyahu."
When the opportunity presented itself in the form of Ariel
Sharon's allegedly provocative visit to the Temple Mount, they
launched their latest bloody "uprising."
Now Israel is facing up to a real horror: terrorist bomb attacks
within Israel proper, something that didn't happen even in the
"nightmarish" Netanyahu years.
Internationally, too, the situation has worsened. An Israel that
found itself ostracized under Mr. Netanyahu's government is now
nearly a pariah state, routinely accused of the excessive use of
force, war crimes and even genocide. This despite the fact that
Israeli soldiers have in the present crisis acted only defensively
or reactively, going so far as to warn Palestinians in advance
where helicopter gunships are going to strike. Meanwhile, the
Clinton Administration that did so much to bring Mr. Barak to
power has offered only halfhearted support for Israel, terrified
as it is that in so doing it might offend Mr. Arafat. Not that it
helps: Mr. Arafat has now taken to denouncing the U.S. for
providing Israel with military support.
All this came to a head on Tuesday, when Mr. Barak, facing a vote
of no confidence, was forced to call for new elections, probably
to be held within the next six months. Current opinion polls show
that Mr. Barak would lose narrowly to Mr. Sharon or otherwise be
trounced by Mr. Netanyahu, should the former prime minister choose
to throw his hat in the ring. As it is, Mr. Barak may not even
make it that far: members of his own party are disgruntled and may
challenge him for the leadership.
So what's been learned from all this? Tom is confused. The
current fighting, he says, "makes no sense." The Israeli strategy
is "whacky" and the Palestinian one "insane." Saying the world's
gone mad is, of course, what people often do when their
predictions prove wrong.
Meanwhile, U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright thinks the
peace process can "move ahead" as soon as the violence ends. But
she, of all people, should know that you can never go home again.
Israelis, however, do seem to be learning something. They are
learning that the international support generated by territorial
concessions can last only as long as it takes the Palestinians to
gin up another grievance and there's an endless supply of those,
from hassles with work permits to the "right of return" for
refugees. They are learning that goodwill gestures are taken by
their enemies as a sign of weakness, not goodness. They are
learning that Palestinian demands are non-negotiable, calling into
question the utility of negotiation. They are learning that to
have formal relations with their neighbors counts for little, as
the recall of Egypt's ambassador last week showed. They
are learning, in short, that after more than a half-century of
existence they are still fighting a war for independence.
So Israelis will soon go to the polls and change the composition
of government. That they alone among their neighbors can do this
is not a fact much commented on in the Western press (much less in
the Arab one). But as little Israel again comes under siege --
from Hamas terrorists, Tanzim militiamen, Hezbollah guerrillas as
well as sanctimonious Westerners it bears notice that this little
country remains free, and brave and, it now seems, a little wiser.
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Jerusalem, December 6, 2000
The CIA in Israel
Dear Friends,
* Exposure: This Is How the CIA Operates in Israel and in the
Territories.
Kol ha-Ir, November 24, 2000, pp. 54-60
The American intelligence agency bears the main responsibility for
the military development of the Palestinian Authority. CIA agents
organized courses for snipers, trained special units, and provided
sophisticated listening devices, all in exchange for security
cooperation with Israel. Now George Tenet, the head of the
organization, and John O'Connor, station chief in Israel, have
become the only communications channel between the sides. No great
success has been chalked up
THE INTELLIGENCE PROS
[note: the Hebrew used for "pros" - ashfei - also uses the same
letters as the Hebrew for PLO - ASHAF]
Arnon Regoler
At the unsuccessful Paris summit George Tenet, the Director
of the CIA, met Yasser Arafat, and demanded that he calm the
atmosphere and stop the violence. Tenet did not forget to remind
the Palestinian leader that it was not for nothing that the CIA
has a reputation of builder and destroyer of nations. According to
the British Independent newspaper, the head of the Palestinian
Authority was not impressed by the threat.
This was not the first time that Tenet met with Arafat. The
Director of the American intelligence agency is considered to be
the patron of Israeli-Palestinian-American cooperation since '96.
Over the course of years, Tenet and Arafat met in the region a
number of times in order to clinch security deals. Thus the
organization, and especially Tenet, who heads it, have gradually
become an integral part of all the contacts conducted between the
Israelis and the Palestinians in the last three years. And thus
the head of the organization, who is responsible for the Bay of
Pigs and the Iran-Contras scandals (who did not anticipate even a
single important political development in the region, such as the
Iraqi invasion of Kuwait or the Oslo accords), has become the
object of the wet dreams of the Israeli and Palestinian
leaderships.
The American agents trained sniper units, policemen, and
intelligence officers, and conducted military exercises for
additional units in the Palestinian military apparatus. They also
provided sophisticated equipment, built a headquarters for Jibril
Rajub, from which they also operate, and operated satellite
stations in the Authority's cities. The Israeli governments, that
felt confident of American support, did not express opposition,
knowing that, in the final analysis, American intelligence
information concerning what was happening in the Authority would
aid the security situation in Israel.
Everything has gone topsy-turvy in recent weeks. The
security cooperation between Israel and the Authority has become a
faint memory, and except for individual initiatives by political
elements, in recent weeks, since the outbreak of the riots, Tenet,
by means of John O'Connor, the CIA station chief in Tel Aviv, has
succeeded in taking control of the communications channels between
Israel and the Palestinians. O'Connor was actively involved in the
attempts to rescue Yusef Madhat from Joseph's Tomb about a month
ago, and according to the testimony of security sources, also in
the surrendering of the lynchers from Ramallah. After four years
of active involvement by the CIA in the security contacts between
the sides, the failure to calm the situation is glaring. The
agreements (that were violated)concerning the Beit Jala-Gilo
sector and the meetings between Israeli and Palestinian security
elements in Cairo placed O'Connor, Tenet, and the entire CIA
organization in the embarrassing situation in which the
sides may possibly be beating a path to their door, but do not
honor any agreement to which they committed themselves before it
[the CIA].
An Opening for the PLO [Hebrew wordplay: petah le-Fatah]
The CIA's ties with the Palestinians are not something new.
Similar to other regions in which the Agency developed ties with
the countries with which the US does not officially talk, this
also happened with the Palestinian movements and with the PLO.
This began in the 'seventies in Lebanon, when Bob Ames, the
CIA station chief there, started to maintain ties with elements in
the Arab world, and especially with PLO people and other factions
in Lebanon. In meetings with Israelis he told a great deal about
his ties with Abu Jihad and Arafat. The Americans preferred to
conceal these ties because of Israeli opposition, and the
Palestinian identification with the Soviet bloc, but this did not
prevent them from maintaining the open channel. Thus, for example,
they exchanged messages with the leading members of the Young
Fatah in Beirut, most prominent among whom was the Operations
Officer of Black September and the founder of Force 17, Ali Hasan
Salameh, who would later be murdered by the Mossad in the
explosion of a car bomb.
Salameh served, among other tasks, as the central
intelligence officer of the Fatah, alongside Abu-Iyad, and on the
background of his ties with Ames, he delivered lectures twice at
the headquarters of the CIA organization at Langley, Virginia,
about the then-forming PLO. Salameh would later recompense the
Americans by protecting the US embassy in Beirut at the beginning
of the Lebanese civil war, and provided security for the
evacuation of American citizens from the city in 1976. These ties
were never broken: Ames mediated between Israel and Arafat during
the course of the transfer of the PLO forces from Beirut to Tunis,
and Arafat, who met with him on a steady basis, always regarded
the ties with the US as a central goal. A tangible insurance
policy, paralleling the PLO's ties with the USSR and the
Eastern bloc.
In the 'eighties the Americans maintained a direct link with
Abu-Iyad, that also included preliminary feelers after the
eruption of the intifada in 1987, in an attempt to examine the
possibility of diplomatic negotiations between the PLO and Israel.
These ties became public in the meetings between Robert
Pelletreau, the US ambassador in Tunis, and Yasser Abu-Rabo, the
deputy of Naif Hawatma, the head of the Democratic Front for the
Liberation of Palestine.
The American contacts were conducted in parallel to the
Palestinian ties with France and security services in additional
European countries. In 1990 the US announced the suspension of the
dialogue with the PLO, that was already public, in the wake of the
Iraqi invasion of Kuwait and Arafat's support for Saddam Hussein.
Despite this, the contacts continued, and upon the conclusion of
the Gulf War and at the time of the preparations for the Madrid
Conference the tie once again became public.
The secret negotiations conducted at Oslo between Israel and
the PLO caught the CIA by surprise. Even if the Americans knew
about some of the meetings, they certainly were not aware of their
scope and significance, and they only got on the horse after the
fundamental agreements had been reached. The main importance of
the story, however, lies specifically in the consequences for the
relationship between the Palestinian national movement and the US,
consequences that, as far as Arafat is concerned, make an
appearance at present as well. The connection with the CIA
fulfills a number of goals for him, at this time as well. This is
a connection that also guards his life as the head of the
Palestinian national movement against the radical elements in
Fatah and in Libya, in Iran, and in Iraq. Arafat understood that
he needs a new intelligence arrangement. He began to search for
this, and he also found it.
Problems in Concentrating
Upon the signing of the Declaration of Principles in
September 1993, for the first time Arafat received vital
legitimacy from Israel, and with it American support. Israel
presented him as a partner and ally in the war against the Hamas
terror. The seal of approval received even stronger validity in
the Cairo agreement in May 1994, that permitted the entry of the
Authority to Gaza and Jericho, and later to the cities of the
[West] Bank as well. Before the entry of the forces, security
matters were clarified, such as the scope and structure of the
Palestinian police. The entire process created exaggerated Israeli
expectations. In practice, Arafat did not really take control of
the Hamas and Fatah, who were active in the field.
Rather, Arafat's entry to Gaza was also accompanied by a
change in the format that had been determined in the agreements.
Instead of establishing an administration of the different
policing mechanisms that would command the forces, Arafat began to
direct the police in a centralized manner. The number of the
mechanisms and their function changed; thus came into being the
General Intelligence apparatus, under the command of Amin al-
Hindi, from Black September; the Preventive Security apparatus,
that was headed by Mohammed Dahlan in the Gaza Strip and Jibril
Rajub in the [West] Bank; and a string of additional organizations
such as Force 17, the Presidential Guard, the Special Security,
and the National Security - the Palestinian army, that is based
primarily on members of the Palestine Liberation Army that was
deployed in Arab countries. Arafat directly controlled each
apparatus and intervened in what happened in each, to the smallest
details.
Upon the outbreak of the recent riots, the intelligence
officers of the Central Command, who briefed IDF forces in Bitunia
to the west of Ramallah, warned that the Palestinians received
training in anti-terror measures and sniper marksmanship from
foreign experts in the tent camp near Jibril Rajub's new
headquarters. It can hardly be said that, as far as the IDF is
concerned, that this is an exceptional development. Already in
1994, upon the entry to the territories of the Authority's forces,
Israel accepted this pattern. The goal was strengthening Arafat
against the Hamas.
Dr. Boaz Ganor, from the Interdisciplinary Center in
Herzliyah, explains: "At the basis of the conception was the idea
of reliance upon the Palestinian intelligence capabilities,
especially since in '93 they were vastly superior to our
[intelligence capabilities] as occupiers. This is a system that
lives within its people, is familiar with it, and receives
cooperation from it."
And so thousands of Palestinian police found themselves
receiving American training, along with courses by Scotland Yard,
courses by the French police, and the police forces of Germany,
Austria, Holland, and the Scandinavian countries. Even different
frameworks of the UN have, since 1993, been providing training
courses, that extend from days to weeks. The training courses
include responding to disturbances of public order, the war
against terror, interrogations and questioning, administrative
police courses, and more. Added to these courses are more advanced
and complex topics, of an intelligence nature.
An Israeli intelligence source explains: "On the part of
Israel, there was an oral understanding with the Palestinians,
that was based on the need to build a Palestinian police force.
Everything was conducted under the general understanding that
subjects that could trouble the State of Israel would not be
taught within the context of the courses." This was conducted,
according to the source, with full transparency to the foreign
countries. "The problem was never the very holding of one course
or another, but with its content. This was a troubling subject, to
which objections were raised by the GSS and by the other
organizations, in a specific manner. This was always
perceived as a potential threat, but, to the best of my
recollection, it never constituted a causus belli. Israel, at the
most, expressed its displeasure and moved along."
The CIA, that conducted some of the courses, also was not
free of its own interests. "From my knowledge of the way in which
intelligence organizations work," a military source relates, "the
central consideration on the part of the foreign organizations is
the recruitment of agents, and during the course of these training
sessions they undoubtedly recruited whoever they could." The
source cites as an especially problematic example the training
courses that were given in Egypt and in Jordan. "As far as Egypt
is concerned, mainly Gaza, but also the [West] Bank, is its front
yard, and they have a double motive to know what is happening in
the Authority, and through it to also know what is happening in
Israel. The Authority's security cooperation with Egypt
unquestionably exceeds the relations with other Arab countries.
There are clear indications that people from the Egyptian
intelligence are currently present in the territories, and closely
follow the recent riots."
The Element of Penetration
Despite the original Israeli conception of the Palestinian
Authority's [security/intelligence] apparatuses, as if their goal
is to fight terror, it was clear, already from the beginning, that
the main efforts of the apparatuses were directed to the locating
Israeli penetration of their services and the disrupting of the
Israeli capability in this context. As is known, old habits die
slowly, and decades of activity against Israel in the territories
and outside them established a pattern of limited cooperation with
Israel. There was no reason why Amin al-Hindi, who for decades had
waged the war of minds with the GSS and the Mossad (and maintained
for Fatah contacts with the foreign intelligence organizations)
would smoothly make the transition to a format of cooperation with
Israel; and also for the heads of the other apparatuses, such as
Rajub, Dahlan, and others, there is no natural tendency like this,
in spite of the Israeli expectations. Additionally, the continued
operation of agents in the areas of the Authority after the
agreement, and various events, such as the discovery of listening
devices attributed to Israel in the headquarters of the one who
was supposed to head the Palestinian police, General Nasser Yusuf,
did not contribute to a change of this atmosphere.
Between 1994 and 1996 the appearance was created of
intensive cooperation, that concealed great hostility and
suspicion. In some instances, the Palestinians agreed to act in
accordance with Israeli information, but such information led to a
chain reaction on the Palestinian side, that had the goal, first
and foremost, of revealing how the information had leaked to the
GSS. "The instances of the transferal of information or
independent Palestinian prevention [of terror] activity are
extremely rare, and they happened, for example, on the eve of the
last elections in Israel, when the apparatus of Mohammed Dahlan
prevented the infiltration of large explosive charges
for the purpose of conducting a major terrorist attack in the
center of Israel," a security source explains.
The suicide bombings in February and March '96 in Jerusalem
and in Ashkelon were a turning point in the Palestinian policy.
The attacks also constituted a turning point in terms of
involvement by CIA operatives, who saw how public opinion in
Israel, and Binyamin Netanyahu's chances of rising to power, cast
doubt upon the continuation of the diplomatic process.
After Peres, by means of his emissaries, had attained the
April understandings, that included consent to outlawing the Hamas
and the Islamic Jihad, the American intelligence entered the
picture once again, this time in a more active manner than ever.
The first stage was the entry by Stan Moskowitz, the former
CIA station chief in Tel Aviv, into the details of the security
contacts and the sending of representatives of the intelligence
agency to accompany the activity of the Preventive Security and
General Intelligence people in Gaza and in Jericho. Meir Dagan,
the head of Netanyahu's security staff: "It is my assessment that
the involvement did not stem from a specific and clear decision,
but rather from a gradual development. The United States always
wanted to know what was really happening, but there is a well-
known process of the dragging of intelligence organizations into a
crisis. This is a slow process, that receives gradual
legitimization by the relevant parties."
First and foremost, the CIA functioned as a conduit for the
passing of personal messages to Arafat. "Until then, if
information about a senior individual in Hamas had accumulated in
Israel, Israel would have addressed Arafat with the information
and requested clarifications," relates a senior security
personage. "Arafat would say that the information does not exist
or is groundless, or 'I checked, and there is nothing to it.' The
American involvement began a process of the active clarification
and determination of information details in the field."
Rajub as a Chatterbox
Moskowitz also played a part in the deep involvement of the
CIA in that period. Moskowitz, who was his sixties at the time, is
described as someone who had free access to the Rais [leader]'s
chamber, and as having an open line to the head of the GSS, the
Mossad, and the IDF Intelligence Branch, and to the Prime
Minister's Bureau. In that period the Americans also began to
undertake the training of Arafat's Presidential Guard, with
courses for the protection of individuals, and improving
intelligence capability by means of courses and visits to the
Agency headquarters in Virginia. American sources report of visits
by apparatus heads Rajub and Dahlan to the American headquarters
of the CIA and other intelligence agencies such as the FBI.
In addition to the training of the forces, courses were also
given in the organization of databases, along with improving the
capability of employing advanced surveillance and photography
methods, and the supply of sophisticated listening equipment, such
as computer programs capable of monitoring a large number of
frequencies. The CIA also supplied the Palestinians with advanced
radio scanners, that could also be used to listen in on the
frequencies of the Israeli security forces, and additional
intelligence equipment.
As the process continued, CIA liaison offices were
established on the ground in Hebron, Ramallah, and Shechem. The
construction of the Preventive Security compound in Bitunia, next
to Ramallah, was completed at the beginning of the year, with the
activity of the [Preventive Security] service transferred there
from Jericho. This compound, that was built with the aid of the
American intelligence agency, is called "the Pentagon" in the
Palestinian street. Palestinian sources report of an additional
compound of the General Security, that also will be constructed in
the Ramallah area.
A CIA officer also is resident in Jerusalem, in the offices
of the American consulate in East Jerusalem. This officer conducts
tours of Bethlehem and of "seam" [= 1967 border] areas, while
disguised in traditional Islamic garb, and conducts meetings on a
steady basis with Palestinian security and political elements.
Laboratory Conditions
In January 1997 the CIA involvement acquires a new
dimension, when Moskovitz is involved in the formulation of the
security appendix to the Hebron agreement, and is directly in
charge of the contacts between the Palestinians and the Israelis.
He is supervised by Tenet, then only the deputy of John Deutsch,
the ousted head of the intelligence agency. Inspired by the
agreement, the CIA began to conduct additional activities, such as
counting, at Israel's request, the Hamas members imprisoned in the
Palestinian prisons and supervision of the lists of Palestinian
policemen.
In July '97 the American envoy for Middle East affairs
Dennis Ross conducts a low-profile security visit, that leads to a
clash between him and Netanyahu's people, on the background of the
demand for action against the Hamas infrastructure. When Ross
insisted, "You, too, were not successful in contending with the
Hamas," a senior member of the Netanyahu government replied: "You
need a terrorist to deal with a terrorist." Despite the difficult
atmosphere, contacts continued for the creation of a formula for
the continued transferal of area to the Palestinians, in exchange
for determined war against the Hamas (the code word for the arrest
of activists, on demand), supervision of continued arrests, the
locating of laboratories for explosives, and the arrest of senior
wanted [terrorists].
In operational terms, the security cooperation began to
acquire a new form. A senior Israeli official at the time relates
that Ross's visit "led to the creation of a veto mechanism,
according to which if the Palestinians want to release Hamas
members, the names would be given to the CIA, who had the right of
veto over the release. In parallel, we conducted a quiet dialogue
and updating with the Americans, with the Palestinians being aware
of this." In addition, the American agents went to the prisons to
confirm in the field the continued imprisonment of the wanted
[terrorists], cooperation that eventually led in practice to the
elimination of the military arms of the Hamas and of the Islamic
Jihad.
They Shot the Sheriff
A week after the terrorist attack at Cafe Apropo, the CIA
people came to Bitunia to examine the garage in which the
explosion occurred, as a result of which Muhi ed-Din esh-Sharif,
who was known as the Engineer no. 2, was killed. GSS people also
were seen beside them. In the end, a joint version was
established, that esh-Sharif was murdered with a pistol by I'adal
Awadallah, as a result of financial and tactical disagreements.
Hamas, of course, denied this, but the episode was a major
embarrassment for the movement.
The CIA-inspired security cooperation was also noticeable in
the capture of two members of the Tzurif gang that carried out the
terrorist attack at Apropo. Jamal Alhud and Abd-el-Rahman Janimat
fled to Hebron after the attack, and were arrested by members of
the Preventive Security. The two were transferred for some reason
from the Hebron prison to the one in Shechem, and close to the
village of Hawara IDF special units took control of the vehicle
and captured them without opening fire. Following the arrest,
demonstrations by Hamas activists against Rajub were held in
Hebron. Rajub himself denied that the arrest was the result of any
cooperation with Israel, and claimed that the pair were
transferred to Shechem in order to stand trial. An
Israeli security source describes: "Unrelated to the diplomatic
contacts, during the course of the entire period, there was
noticeable determined action by the Palestinian security services,
under supervision by CIA people, that included action against
preachers identified with the Hamas in the mosques, and continued
arrests of members of the movement."
As a result of this activity, I'adl and Imad Awadallah, the
heads of the military arm of Hamas, were eliminated by a Yamam
[special antiterrorist police unit] force at a farm near Hebron,
in a region under Israeli control, and in December 1999 the Hamas
members Iad Batat and Nadr Musala, also senior members of the
military arm, were killed in a clash with Duvdevan soldiers in the
village of Bet-Awa, southwest of Hebron.
Sheikh Abd el-Hakim el-Masalama, a member of the political
leadership of the Islamic Jihad, who currently sits on the joint
committee with Fatah, said this week: "There is no doubt that the
security cooperation under American inspiration had harsh
consequences for the Hamas and the Islamic Jihad. The most
prominent expression of this policy is the Palestinian Authority's
policy of political arrests, that was done under American
pressure. Beyond this, our people encountered American agents in
the prisons, when they came to check that they were under arrest.
It is clearly known among the Ramallah people that an entire floor
in the 'Pentagon' is used by the CIA people."
Screen Check
In November '97 Tenet appeared before the Conference of
Jewish Organizations and shared his feelings with those present:
"There is a single ray of light on the background of the terrorist
attacks in the past two years in Israel, and that is the
contribution by the US to the work of the sides in facilitating
the dialogue and security cooperation, especially in that it
caused the Palestinians to fulfill their obligations."
The entry of the organization into direct action aroused
criticism in Israel. "Until the entry of the CIA, we were forced
to contend with low-level State Department reports regarding the
construction in the settlements," relates one of Netanyahu's
people, "until this construction became the central dynamics
between the secret services. Censuses of mobile homes became the
central focus of interest by the CIA people, and the subject also
arose in the security discussions." In another instance the Arab
weekly that is published in Paris, Alwatan el-Arab, claimed that
Netanyahu even demanded the firing of Moskovitz, claiming that he
was pro-Palestinian. The report resulted in denials from
Jerusalem.
Despite the criticism, the outing by Tenet and Moskovitz
came about, in all places, in the Wye talks, when the two were
present for the first time publicly in the rooms of the
discussions, and accompanied the negotiations during the nine days
they were held. The presence of the two, who came after a direct
invitation from Clinton and the involvement of the Agency in the
resolution of the disagreement between Israel and the Authority,
stirred up much criticism in the American media and in the Senate
Select Committee on Intelligence, that oversees the organization.
The head of the committee, Senator Richard Shelby, defined the
role of the CIA as a nuisance, and voiced the opinion of many who
thought that there was a problem in the CIA's being about to be
involved up to its neck in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Melvin Goodman, a professor of international security and who is
close to high-level American security circles, describes the
problematics: "Clinton initiates moves, and the Senate goes along
with him willingly in order to assure the attainment of a
diplomatic agreement. This is a matter for statesmen, and not for
secret services. The CIA has defined tasks of information
gathering, the recruitment of agents, and the writing of
situation assessments. Tenet, who is no more than a skilled
Democratic politician who spent most of his time on Capitol Hill,
did not know about the bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade,
and now he 'cooks up' situation assessments for Clinton."
After the outbreak of the latest clashes with the
Palestinian Authority, Tenet and O'Connor were asked to save the
diplomatic process and their role as referees in this game, so far
without results. The terrorist attacks in the past week merely
attest to the inability of the CIA people, who are not successful
in calming the arena. In practice, the Agency people are still in
the field, but their function is not tangibly expressed in a
calming of the situation.
Several months after King Hussein's death last year and the
crowning of Abdullah, American security sources reported a
strengthening of regional cooperation in the war against terror.
The sources, who briefed senior American reporters, proudly spoke
of the creation of a regional regime of effective cooperation
between Jordan, Israel, the Palestinians, and Egypt under the
aegis of the CIA against the fundamentalist elements in the
Islamic world. A senior Israeli political figure, who is familiar
with the CIA involvement in the current conflict, said this week:
"In a situation of military conflict between Israel and the
Palestinians and the danger of an expansion of the conflict, it is
preferable for Tenet and his buddies, and the can of worms that
accompanies them, to direct their calming efforts to other
places."The American embassy stated that it does not
respond to matters related to the CIA.
Nadia and Ruth
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Jerusalem, December 6, 2000
Bibi Netanyahu
A Bibi Netanyahu supporter e-mailed me, asking me if I wanted
Netanyahu to run again and if I would support him if he did.
I wish to share my answer with the list.
Nadia Matar
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Dear Friend,
The first time Bibi Netanyahu ran for PM, we worked night and day
for his election. He said: "If you want to know who I am, read my
book "A place among the nations" - I read the book; it was
fantastic. Here was a proud, Jewish Zionist leader who would
finally show leadership and would not cave in to American-European
and Arab pressure.
We all believed he would stand firm on his promise of 'hadadiyut",
reciprocity: if and when Arafat and the PA carry out their part of
the agreement, we will do so too. This was a smart way ,we
thought, of not having to implement the Oslo agreements, cause
everybody knows Arafat never did and never will implement any of
the Oslo obligations he signed.
Well, as is known: great expectations breed great disappointments.
Very quickly it appeared that Netanyahu's government was only a
so-called national government that basically continued to carry
out the Oslo policies of the Left. After the Kotel tunnel
intifada where 15 of our soldiers were murdered by Arafat's men,
Bibi, to our shock and horror, ran to meet Arafat; warmly shook
his bloody hands, called him a friend and a partner. And then, to
add insult to injury, Bibi handed over most of Hevron to Arafat.
Some of his relentless supporters tried to convince themselves
that Bibi was "obligated" to do so....come on...where was the
famous 'hadadiyut"???
In fact, for the last 2 months, when the Hevron Jews are being
shot at every single day and night, they remember that while Peres
and Beilin gave guns to the Arabs - it is Bibi Netanyahu who gave
the Hevron Arabs both the guns and the opportunity to shoot at
them from commanding positions.
And this was only the beginning: Bibi did nothing to change the
bolshevik rule of this country by the extreme leftist media,
courts, culture, education etc... He released Arab terrorists.
And then came the worst: the infamous Wye agreements. Agreements
that are worse than the Oslo agreements. Agreements that give the
CIA power they never had, agreements that give away, as a first
stage, 13% of Yesha etc...
The only reason that Bibi did not himself implement those
agreements was that thank G-d, his government fell. But Barak DID
implement those agreements, because Bibi, supposedly representing
the National Camp, had signed them.
So, to answer your question:
We do not want to hear about the farce of "reciprocity" anymore.
Anybody who wishes to be the leader of the national camp has to
publicly declare
* that the Oslo agreements and all its side agreements
are dead - null and void.
* that Arafat is not a partner but THE enemy. Arafat and the
Palestinian Authority need to be eliminated and expelled.
* that he will not give away one more inch of our homeland to
foreign rule
* that not one Jewish yishuv in Judea, Samaria and Gaza
will ever be uprooted or transferred to the PA
We will not fall, once again, into the trap of voting for a leader
who pretends to have a national Zionistic agenda but in fact
simply continues, at a slower pace -( big deal), the policies of
the left.
If Bibi is willing to repent and admit his mistakes publicly, I
might think about it. He should certainly not take our support for
granted, if he runs.
Nadia Matar
Co-Chair
Women in Green
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Jerusalem, December 6, 2000
Update on the Cohen Family
Dearest Friend,
Thank you so much for your interest and your support - it really
means a lot to us.
Yesterday we went to see our cousins in Beersheba.
Orit, who lost a foot, and Yisrael, who lost a leg, were released
from hospital on Friday. They will shortly begin rehabilitation at
Tel Hashomer hospital.
Tehila, who lost both her legs and two fingers, is unfortunately
still in Intensive Care at Soroka Hospital in Beersheba. She is
awaiting the wounds from her back surgery to heel. Her situation
is considered stable.
After our visit, the rest of the Cohen family went back to their
home in Kfar Darom for the first time since the bus bombing.
The outpouring of care and attention from friends and family has
been a tremendous blessing for the Cohens during this terrible
ordeal.
Thank you again for your genuine concern.
Yours,
Annika & Uri Schwarz
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Jerusalem, December 7, 2000
Micky Returns to Jerusalem
The following was translated from:
"This Week"
Amnon Shomron
"Mekor Rishon"
December 1, 2000
pp. 14-15
Assistant Commander Micky Levy, who was filmed as he was beating
Nadia Matar and arresting her, gave contradictory and false
versions regarding the incident * Levy will soon be appointed
Commander of the Jerusalem District [...]
In March 1994 a group of Women in Green demonstrated at Givat Ram
in Jerusalem. Thirty-three women, mostly elderly, stood on the
sidewalk under the Rose Garden, at the Israeli nerve center
between the Prime Minister's Office, the Bank of Israel, and the
Supreme Court. They held signs with the names of the 33 who had
been murdered since the signing of the Oslo accords. It was a cool
morning. The women stood in silence, quietly bearing the
documentation of terror on simple paper posters, and listened to
the group's leader, Nadia Matar, using a megaphone, as she read,
in a monotonous and chilling tone, the names of those murdered and
the dates of their murder. After about half an hour Matar was
requested to leave the area by a policewoman:
"The demonstration is not legal," the policewoman said. Matar
responded that this was a protest vigil that did not require a
permit, and agreed to stop using the megaphone. The protest vigil
continued.
Television crews, reporters, and photographers gathered
around. A police officer again demanded the dispersal of the
"illegal demonstration." His request as well was rejected. It is
not clear who gave the order to the police. In any case, this was
an order that itself was illegal. The group of Women in Green was
indeed entitled to conduct a protest vigil, with no need to
receive a permit, in a group numbering up to 50 people. And then
Micky Levi arrived.
At the time Levi was the commander of the Habirah station in
Jerusalem, and held the rank of Assistant Commander. That was the
violent time of the Jerusalem police, with Aryeh Amit as Commander
and Effi Havivian as commander of the Yasam [Special Patrol
Force]. Central activists from the right actually looked with
approval upon Levi. He was generally tolerant, they said. The
tragedy that his family had suffered in a terror attack also was a
plus for him. "The problem," they said, "is when he gets heated
up, and then it is impossible to talk to him." Nadia Matar was put
in the police car. An indictment was filed against her for causing
a disturbance, the aggravated assault of a policeman, and
obstructing a policeman in the course of his official business.
The indictment was based on the report submitted by Assistant
Commander Levi immediately after the incident.
And thus Levi writes in the arrest report: "When I arrived, I
announced once again that the demonstration is illegal, and the
demonstrators are requested to disperse. I approached the
organizer Nadia Matar, whom I know personally from previous
demonstrations, and I informed her that I am detaining her for
questioning. She began to resist and she pushed me with her hand,
and then I informed her that I am arresting her for illegal
assembly and because she did not obey my instructions to accompany
me for questioning." This version of Levi's was reinforced by the
testimonies of his subordinates, the officers who were present
there.
Matar was put in a detention cell in which there were prostitutes
and drug addicts. She was released in the afternoon hours and
immediately filed a complaint against Levi. The complaint against
Levi was thrown in the wastebasket. An indictment was filed
against Matar. But Micky Levi's luck ran out. The television
cameras of Channel Two captured the event. Levi and his
subordinate officers were exposed as professional liars. Levi
arrived at the incident in a speeding car and slammed on the
brakes. He is captured on the tape as he crosses the main street,
interfering with the traffic as he does so, quickly marching in
Matar's direction and shouting: "Everyone, disperse, and you
[waving with his finger to Matar], I am arresting." Levi and an
additional policeman held her hands and forcibly dragged her
toward the police car. She resisted and sat on the ground. Levi
pinched Matar's hand and kneed her in the back. Her friends who
came to her aid were pushed away by the police. Nadia was shoved
into the police car. The tape clearly shows that Levi lied when he
said that he sought to detain her for questioning. Levi wanted to
arrest her. Levi lied when he said that she pushed him. He and his
men acted violently, with no resistance by the women. The tape
came to light only during the course of the trial. Levi and the
police top brass were embarrassed. The judge recommended that the
police withdraw [its charge]. He warned that the continuation of
the trial was liable to harm Levi. The police insisted.
The Sanctity of Levi [a pun based on the name of the book by R.
Levi Yitzhak of Berditchev by this name: Kedushat Levi]
In his testimony in court, Levi retracted his version at the
police [station] and the version of the indictment, that Matar had
attacked him. Suddenly, Nadia Matar is not so aggressive.
According to the new version, Levi emphasizes that Matar did not
attack, but rather pushed, and that this was done only at the
stage in which he held her: "I was pushed by the defendant at the
moment that I held her," Levi testified at the trial. Based on the
photographs of the tape, this toned down version also is patently
seen to be false. Levi also retracted on the matter of the course
of the arrest. In his first version, Levi claimed that he informed
Matar of her detention, she resisted, and only then did he decide
to arrest her. After, however, the lie was exposed by the tape,
Levi explained that his version at the police [station] was
apparently "a technical mishap. This explicitly was not stated. I
was not accurate in my giving of testimony," he apologized. After
the prosecution had rested its case, and before the defense
presented its case, the district attorney decided to retract and
drop the indictment.
But Matar decided not to let it go at that. The plan of action of
the police had been derailed this time, as chance would have it.
It could reasonably be assumed that in other instances false
testimonies were not refuted, and the innocent were punished. She
demanded that Levi be put on trial for assault, the making of a
false statement, and false testimony. She requested an
investigation of the suspicion to suborn witnesses - police
officers, who submitted false testimony. She submitted the
complaint to the Department for the Investigation of Officers
(DIO, Mahash) in the Justice Ministry. Her complaint was filed on
April 30, 1996.
In the meantime Levi was promoted to the rank of Tat-Nitzav
[Deputy Commander], and became Deputy Commander of the Jerusalem
District. The decision of the DIO was taken a year later: the case
would be closed on the criminal level, and would be given over to
the Disciplinary Department of the Israel police for further
action. In other words, the matter was closed, as far as the DIO
was concerned, and would become an internal police disciplinary
affair. The police decided to continue to advance the lying
officer. Levi's name was already mentioned as a candidate for
promotion and for receiving the rank of Commander [Nitzav]. Matar
decided not to let it go at that. She appealed the decision by the
DIO to close Levi's case on the criminal level. She demanded the
issuing of an indictment.
Attorney-General Eliakim Rubinstein examined the appeal, and on
September 28, 1998, four and a half years after the incident, and
two and a half years after the filing of the complaint with the
DIO, he decided to accept it in part and to obligate the police to
put Levi on disciplinary trial. Matar waited, in vain, to give
testimony. This time the Israeli police exhibited surprising
dispatch. Two months were enough for Inspector-General Yehudah
Wilk to rule that Levi was innocent. Nadia Matar received the
verdict and its reasoned arguments only about a year later. The
reasons of Wilk's decision are a fine job of cover-up and
whitewash, sewn together with the coarse threads of police codes
and the fraternity of street fighters in which the citizen is a
criminal unless proven otherwise. Wilk ignored Levi's violent
behavior and the fabrication of testimony by him and by the
policemen, and decided to concentrate only on Levi's changing of
versions, and to adopt his ridiculous excuses. He is not
impressed by the position of the judge and the Attorney-General on
the matter. To the contrary. Wilk praises the DIO for requesting
to close the file, "more power to them," and levels criticism at
the Attorney-General who accepted the appeal and "rolled the
incident to the doorstep of the police." Thus, for example, Wilk
repeats the argument that the demonstration was illegal, since the
permit for the demonstration was issued for IDF Square, while in
the end it was held opposite the Supreme Court, contrary to the
conditions of the permit. If Wilk had bothered to ask Matar, he
would have learned that a demonstration was planned for IDF
Square, while a protest vigil, that does not require
a permit, was held opposite the Court. "In these circumstances,"
Wilk sums up, "I determine unequivocally that the police officer
had no intent of delivering testimony that contradicted his
statements in the police [station]." In the coming days Micky Levi
is to be promoted to the rank of Commander and to be appointed
Commander of the Jerusalem District.
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Jerusalem, December 11, 2000
Hizbollah Broadcasting from Emek Haela
The following news report was printed in Yediot Acharonot
Tesday, December 5th, 2000).
The translation is mine, so excuse the poor English.
I promise the article is not a joke...
To paraphrase some Communist leader:"we are basically selling the
enemy the rope with which they can hang us"
Nadia
YEDIOT AHARONOT:
"Hizbollah broadcasting from Emek Haela"
by Ronny Shaked
The state of Israel permits the Hizbollah to broadcast its
propaganda through communication services from Israel: the
satelite dishes in Emek Haela. [you know guys, those big satelites
behind Bet Shemesh- Nadia].
The Hizbollah television station "Almanar" is very popular in the
territories, it broadcasts the events and encourages the
continuation of the confrontation with Israel. Its programs
include footage from the Westbank and from Gaza - mainly
confrontations, shooting battles and interviews with Hamas and
Islamic Jihad people.
We are talking about footage that has been taped in the
territories by Palestinian journalists who have been hired by the
Hizbollah.
The pictures are not broadcast straight to the Hizbollah station,
but instead, go first through a very winding way: from the
territories they are transmitted through the "Ulpanei Habira"
relay stations in Gaza and Ramallah - an Israeli company
belonging to the American Ronald Lauder, close to the previous PM
Biyamin Netanyahu. "Ulpanei Habira" enables transmission of the
programs to the satelite station in Emek Haela -- activated by
"Bezek" - and from there to the media sattelites.
Here too the road is not finished: from the satelite, the programs
are broadcasted to a mediator - a Turkish, Saudi or United Arab
Emirate Television network. Only from there the programs are
transmitted to the Hizbollah station.
Dr. Pauz Camel, head of the Arab department of the Government
Press Office, confirmed that the Hizbollah uses communication
services from Israel. "We know of at least 2 journalists who are
working for the Hizbollah. We did not try to stop the Hizbollah
broadcasting. In fact, we do not have real control over the
satelite broadcastings that exit the country".
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Jerusalem, December 11, 2000
Barak's Resignation:
Failing To Tell It Like It Is!
Ehud Barak fully exploited the opportunity for him to gain
valuable and free TV exposure for his planned future political
campaign, on the occasion of his resigning as Israel's Prime
Minister. He waited until the end of his long political speech
reviewing the paucity of his purported accomplishments during his
brief reign, to dramatically announce his resignation.
His alternatives had been drastically reduced by the unfolding
events. The Knesset had passed the first reading of its own
dissolution by an overwhelming majority. It seemed certain that
the necessary votes for the second and third readings of the bill
would be there. The murders of Jewish mothers of small children
and our soldiers had become a daily event. The guns and
ammunition provided by the Oslo Accords to Barak's peace partner
Arafat, were being used blatantly against us. Arafat and his
followers were resorting to violence in several parts of
Jerusalem, in Hadera, in Gush Etzion, and throughout the rest of
Judea, Samaria and the Gaza Strip. The only solution offered by
Barak was restraint. That proved to be a failed policy. It did
not stem, and even increased, the widespread Arab terror.
In his resignation talk he did not refer to the reverberations
within his own Party. Criticism of him there was rife, and
challenges to his leadership very likely.
During his lengthy resignation speech, Barak still did not reveal
to the public what he had offered Arafat at Camp David. Nor did
he mention the problems in the north with Hizballah which his
withdrawal from Lebanon ignited. Nor did he explain why his
Cabinet Secretary Herzog and his brother-in-law refused to answer
police interrogations about their respective roles in the
fraudulent use of fictitious entities to fund his prior election
campaign. Barak instead, gave a contrived reason for his
resigning: it was to get a new mandate from the People for his
peace policies.
It was a typical Barak avoidance talk, more significant in what he
did not say, than in what he disclosed. He did not tell the
public that his calculated political move, (which sounded like it
came from Clinton's public relations outfit), was aimed at, among
other strategies, to remove Netanyahu as a rival candidate. Were
Netanyahu to contest Barak, all the polls showed Netanyahu as a
heavy favorite to win. The. hurried timetable of elections within
60 days moreover, gave little time for his opponents, within his
party and the Likud, to organize a formidable campaign against his
candidacy. For Barak it was a clever political maneuver within
the options he had available to him. He, however, was treating
the People of Israel in his usual dictatorial fashion. He hid
from them crucial facts. His maneuver would still leave him as a
minority in the Knesset, and make him even more dependant on the
Arab vote. All this he did not mention in his deceitful talk to
the nation of Israel.
Ruth and Nadia Matar
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Jerusalem, December 19, 2000
Evil Ideology
The following is the response I sent a person who was shocked and
outraged with a letter I wrote against Meimad and Rabbi
Melchior; (see a copy of the letter at the end of this mail)-
claiming it was 'sinat chinam' and saying Rabbi Melchior might be
misguided or wrong but what came across in my letter was
"contempt, disdain and disrespect."
I wish to share my reponse with the list.
Shabbat Shalom,
Nadia
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Dear Friend,
Before I made aliya I also thought all Jews loved each other
and will always do everything to protect each other from the
enemy. Achdut (unity) - Ahavat Chinam (unconditional love)- Arvut
Hadadit (caring for each other)...were the words leading us, I
thought.
Then, over the years, one learns what happened in this country
only a few years ago and one is shocked to find out that
that is not always the case. You learn about the "saison"
(the hunting season): when Jews were hunting other Jews to hand
them over to the British. Yes, Jews of the left who in the 1930s,
1940s were 'malshin' (stool pigeon) to the British against their
fellow Jews, political opponents, and were 'moser' (turned in)
their fellow Jews to the British. Thanks to that info, the British
were able to arrest, torture and even kill other Jews. That was
not done because those Mapai (left) Jews were 'wrong' or made a
'mistake'....it was made out of evil intent, by Jews who were
willing to do everything, even hand over their fellow Jews to the
enemy, in order to stay in power. Of course I call it "evil
intent' - they call it "ideology". Let's call it
"evil ideology", because in my eyes nothing justifies betraying
your Jewish brother.
Then you learn about the Altalena. The boat on which
Menachem Begin was with many other Jabotinsky supporters.
That boat was coming from France, bringing weapons and ammunition
to Israel. All that ammunition could have saved the lives of many
Jews. But Ben-Gurion was worried his political power would be in
danger and all he cared about was to eliminate his political
opponent, even at the price of sinking all that ammunition that
would have helped Klal Yisrael. He ordered the boat to be sunk.
Many Hagana Jews refused to carry out the order to sink the boat,
but Ben-Gurion found a happy volunteer: Yitzhak Rabin.
Yitzhak Rabin volunteered to shoot the canon (the Holy Canon as he
used to call it) - the Jews on the boat jumped in the sea to save
their lives, trying to swim ashore. Yitzhak Rabin ordered his men
to shoot at the swimming Jews in order to kill them. 16 Jews were
murdered in cold blood by Yitzhak Rabin and his men, only because
they were his and Ben-Gurion's political opponents. This was not a
mistake. This was not a difference of opinion. This was not "being
misguided". This was evil ideology. This was Jews killing other
Jews in order to do everything to stay in power.
Then you learn about the "mysterious disappearance" of hundreds of
Yemenite children in the 1950s. It quickly came clear that it was
the Mapai policy to kidnap the religious Yemenite children and
take them away from their religious parents, in order to cut off
their peyot (sidecurls)and "reshape" those children and turn them
into secular Laborites. Mapai's intent was to create a secular
country and those highly religious Jews were a threat to them.
It is sickening to read the testimonies of Yemenite
mothers and fathers who were asked to bring their healthy children
to the hospital for a "routine overnight check-up" and when the
poor parents came back in the morning, they were told their child
had died. (Which of course wasn't true...their child had been
given away). Hundreds of these stories have been retold in a
commission of inquiry that is still not over. Those kidnappings
were not a 'mistake', were not 'a difference of opinion'. They
were part of that same evil ideology in which the Jews on the left
were willing to destroy perfectly happy families, taking away
babies from their mothers, in order to create the society they
were dreaming of.
And unfortunately I could go on with other examples.
You will ask: what is the relevance of those stories, from 50
years ago, to today? And what is their relevance to Rabbi
Melchior?
Unfortunately, I believe (and so do many others) that the entire
Oslo agreements are part of that same evil ideology. ('Evil'
because they are willing to harm, hurt and even kill other fellow-
Jews for their ideology as the previous examples have shown).
The post-Zionist dream. The heirs of the Mapai founding fathers,
who dreamed of turning Israel into a socialist non-religious
country, today's Beilin, Peres, Ben-Ami, Pundak and many other
Oslo architects want to continue their father's dream and want
Israel to be, not a Jewish state, but a secular state of all its
citizens. Basically turning Israel into the 51st state of America.
Finish with Zionism, it's old-fashioned. Out with Yiddishkeit,
that was good for our grandparents.
But how do you do that? The first thing is to detach those
religious, ideological Jews from their connection to the land of
our Forefathers. Get the settlers out of Judea, Samaria and Gaza.
That will break their Zionism, that will break their morale. We,
the settlers, and the national religious movement in general, we
are the main political opponents of those Oslo architects. The
same as the Jabotinsky people on the Altalena boat were a threat
to Ben-Gurion. And after they will get rid of those settlers, they
will implement the "secular revolution" that Barak already started
with.
But, how do you get rid of those settlers? You can't put them on
trucks. It does not look good on CNN. And there is not enough
money for compensation. So you come up with a malicious plan, the
Oslo agreements, where you unite with an old enemy, Arafat, give
him power, guns, land and, step after step, withdrawal after
withdrawal, you create a situation in Yesha where all Jewish
settlements are surrounded by a sea of Arab terror. Yes, I claim
that what is going on now, the daily terror, the daily killings,
was planned and known in advance and that is the reason the
government is not instructing the army to do all in its power to
eradicate the terror. The hope of the Oslo architects is that
after a while, we, the settlers, will decide we are not able to
live in such danger and will pack up and leave. As Shimon Peres
allegedly said in 1993, after the Oslo agreements were signed and
he was asked: "But Mr Peres, what with the settlers? What will
happen to them" And he allegedly answered: "Don't worry, one or
two pogroms and most of them will leave". I believe it. If they
could shoot Jews swimming ashore, they are capable of this too.
It is shocking. Yes. It is a shattering of our dream that "kol
Yisrael Areivim ze lazeh". (All Jews are responsible one for
another). Yes. And it hurts because they only represent a small
minority of Am Yisrael. But unfortunately, a minority that has all
the power in this country.
And this phenomena is not new either.
Approaching Hannuka, one has to remember that the real war was
between the Maccabees and the Hellenist Jews. The Hellenist Jews
wanted to forget about their Yiddishkeit and turn into "citizens
of the world". Not like those "old-fashioned" religious Maccabees.
In fact the historians ask how come Antiochus came out with his
decrees against Judaism. All the other nations that he had
conquered, he did not ask them to give up on their tradition and
heritage. Only with the Jews. How come? Professor Bickerman came
up with the only possible answer: it was the Hellenist Jews who
advised Antiochus how to break and destroy the religious,
traditional Jews - the Maccabees. It was the Hellenist Jews who
told Antiochus: "you want to break the Jews? Tell them they are
not allowed to keep Shabbos, tell them they are not allowed to
learn Torah, tell them they are not allowed to circumcise their
sons". And with the advice of those Jews, Antiochus
carried out his decrees.
It breaks my heart to have come to that realization, years ago.
That Jews can be so mean and evil to other Jews, just in order to
carry out some anti-Jewish, anti-Zionistic ideology. But those are
the facts. And one has to be aware of them. And while it is
possible that Rabbi Melchior, in the beginning, naively believed
in the Oslo agreements - that it was a chance for peace - now it
is clear to all, that those agreements will not bring peace and
that continuing to sit with Arafat will only lead to more deaths
of Jews. And therefore, anybody who still sticks around with
Barak and the other Osloides, who do not hide their intentions
(that is: Jews who are willing to give away Har Habayit, give away
parts of Jerusalem, continue giving guns to Arafat, guns that -
now we know it - are killing Jews and in addition
to all this, planning the secular anti-religious
revolution.)...anybody who declares that they stay in such a
government, is now an active participant in the crime of Oslo - no
matter how big his kippa is and no matter how much Torah he knows.
And yes, towards those kind of Jews I have contempt, disdain and
disrespect.
May we be privileged to once again witness the miracle of
Hannukka, as in the days of the Maccabees when, with Hashem's
help, they were victorious over the Hellenists and Hellenist Jews
who collaborated with the enemy in order to push their political
agenda, even at the price of betraying their fellow-Jews.
Shabbat Shalom,
Nadia
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Letter I wrote to a person who was defending Meimad and Rabbi
Melchior:
B,
You say yourself:
"the only chance of the enemy to destroy us is when we are evil
against each other"
I am sorry to say but that is exactly the definition of Meimad,
Rabbi Melchior's party.
Meimad is basically Shalom Achshav with a kippa on. Jews willing
to be evil against their brothers; Jews willing to be 'moser'
their brothers from Hevron and other smaller yishuvim to the enemy
with the (naive) hope to save their own little yishuv in Alon
Shvut. Meimad Jews, calling themselves religious, who have not
left the government despite the fact that Barak actively attempted
to give away Har Habayit, half of Jerusalem, the Jordan Valley,
bring 100,000 Arabs into Israel with the' right of return' and of
course uproot tens of thousand of Jews from their homes and/or
hand them over to the murderous PLO control. (If that is not
"sinat chinam" then what is?) Even Shas was too embarassed to stay
in such an anti-Jewish and anti-zionistic government!!!
We cannot forgive nor forget the Meimad Rabbis, including Rav
Gilad, who helped create the atmosphere to incriminate the
innocent Nachum Korman by paying well-publicized condolence visits
to the family of the Arab boy and would-be murderer Hilmi Shousha.
The fact that Rabbi Melchior is "helping with the matzav on the
road" is not a reason not to criticize him on the derech he
represents. (By the way, what exactly DID he do about the
"matzav"? Did he finally tell his buddy Barak to stop all the
insane 'confidence building measures', giving the murderer Arafat
more fuel, more weapons, more money, and now -as we heard on the
news yesterday- discussing the release of even more terrorists
with blood on their hands, while Jews are being killed daily!
Somehow I did not hear Meimad's opposition to that 'hefkerut'...
Nor did I see Rabbi Melchior pay any shiva call at the Didovsky's,
the ben Ami's, the Leisha's....
Don't you give us mussar on Sinat Chinam.
Let the few Meimad members look at themselves in the mirror
first.
Nadia Matar
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Jerusalem, December 20, 2000
Chanuka Blessings From Jerusalem
We Jews are an ancient People who have survived many
difficult and tragic times.
The Holiday of Chanukah reminds us of our heroic
ancestors, who successfully fought mighty foes. Roman pagans
refused to recognize the holiness of the Second Temple for the
Jewish People, and the miracle of Chanukah was the result.
Once again we have a similar enemy who refuses to allow
Jews to pray on the Temple Mount. Moreover, they refuse to allow
us to rebuild our Holy Temple at this Jewish holy and historic
site. Unfortunately, our enemies are aided and abetted by a
Jewish Prime Minister and his Foreign Secretary, who have no
concept of Jewish religious values, nor what is important and
basic if this Jewish State is to continue in existence.
May this Chanukah re-instill in the People of the Book
the necessary dedication to Jewish values and practices. It is
such dedication that is responsible to this very day for the
survival of Judaism and the Jewish People.
A Happy and Blessed Chanukah to everyone.
From the family of Women In Green, and from the multitude
of their supporters here in Israel, and abroad.
Ruth and Nadia Matar
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Jerusalem, December 20, 2000
4th Night of Chanuka
Sunday night, 4th night of Chanuka
A candle lighting ceremony will take place, please G-d at 5:00pm
At the Mashbir in Jerusalem
In support of Yoram Skolnik -
asking that he should be finally freed.
Your presence and support is needed.
The evening is sponsored by Women in Green.
Sigalit, wife of Yoram, will attend the evening with their 3
little children.
Ruth and Nadia Matar
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Jerusalem, December 20, 2000
Support Arutz 7
The entire day tomorrow, Thursday, as well as Friday, Arutz 7
radio station is having its annual telethon.
Therefore, during my regular time slot, instead of having my usual
one-hour Hebrew show, I will be helping Arutz 7 to raise funds
from its devoted listeners.
I call upon you to call in your pledges during my show -
and if possible, if you want, you will be put on air to say some
nice things about Arutz 7. Of course pledges can be made in honor
of, in memory of, or on behalf of loved ones.
My show is tomorrow Thursday, 21 December,
from 10:00 to 11:00 AM, Israel time.
You can find Arutz 7 on 105.2 FM or 1143 AM
or on internet www.a7.org
The phone number to call the Arutz 7 telethon is: 02-997-5555.
If you are awake in the States (worrying about Israel and/or
making potato latkes for Hanukkah) you can call during my show
too: 011-972-2-9975-555
California time: from midnight to 1:00 AM
New York time: from 3:00 to 4:00 AM
Last year's Arutz 7 slogan was: "T'nu la'arutz larutz"
literally: Let Arutz 7 run...
We have a lot to thank Arutz 7 for, and tomorrow, Thursday, the
entire day - and Friday - you can show your appreciation by
helping them to continue their marvelous work in spreading the
truth about Israel.
Nadia Matar
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Jerusalem, December 23, 2000
A Chanuka Anomaly
Barak is prepared to give up to foreigners, the Temple Mount,
historically the Holiest Site and the soul of the Jewish People.
When Sharon recently visited this Holy Site, Arafat incredulously
called it a provocation, and the world media repeated this lie,
and even spread it. What a far cry Barak is from the Macabees.
The latter were proud Jews, willing to fight and die for its
sacredness. Barak, in contrast, allows Arafat to ban Jews,
and Christians from praying at this Jewish Holy Site.
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Jerusalem, December 27, 2000
Candle Lighting at Kever Rachel
A Message From:
Shelli Karzen
Kever Rachel Committee
02-996-1756
Chanukah Candle lighting at Kever Rachel every evening. Free bus
leaves Binyanei Ha'uma at 3:45 daily to Kever Rachel. Additional
pick-up point at Beit Lechem Gilo intersection at 4:05 p.m. Your
presence makes a difference!!
This is in addition to the daily morning shuttle bus from Beit
Lechem Gilo intersection between the hours of 9 and 11. Take
advantage of the Chanukah vacation to bring the family!
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Jerusalem, December 28, 2000
Kever Rachel Open Again on Fridays
Dear Friends,
We have just been informed that Kever Rachel is once again open on
Fridays -- the first Friday in many weeks.
As during the rest of the week (except for Shabbat, of course)
there will be a shuttle bus from the Gilo-Bethlehem junction
between 9:00 and 11:00 AM.
It is important that many people visit Kever Rachel tomorrow (and
the other five days of the week)in order to keep the bus service
running.
Shabbat Shalom and Hanukkah Sameach,
Nadia and Ruth
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Jerusalem, December 29, 2000
Sunday Demonstration
We urge everybody to join the Women in Green demonstration this
Sunday morning in front of the PM's offices from 8:30 am on.
We will first hold our regular demonstration, but, if enough
people come, at the end of the demo we will go to the streets with
Israeli flags, dancing to the tunes of Jerusalem-related songs,
broadcast loudly from our public address system.
This is a positive way of blocking the road with a clear message
that the People of Israel will not let anyone give away our
Homeland, our Jerusalem and our Temple Mount.
The time has come for some more drastic action and we urge you to
join us.
Call at least another 5 friends and tell them to come.
Bring Israeli flags.
Shabbat Shalom,
Ruth and Nadia Matar
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Jerusalem, December 31, 2000
Women In Green to Join Planning Meeting
Women In Green will be joining Zu Artzeinu and other groups to
plan more effective action against the give away of Jerusalem and
Yesha by Barak and the Left.
When:
Tuesday, January 2, 2000 -- 8:30pm
Where:
Beit HaSofer, Tel Aviv
A bus will be leaving the LaRomme Hotel in Jerusalem at 7:15pm
(boarding at 7:00pm).
Departing Tel Aviv at 10:30pm -- arriving back in Jerusalem around
11:30pm.
Cost 20 shekels.
Please reserve a seat immediately by calling Ruth Matar: 624-9887.
Nadia and Ruth
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