December 2003
December 4, 2003 The "Peace Carpenters"
December 11, 2003 You Can't Dance with a Murderer
December 12, 2003 Please Mark Your Calendar For These Important Events!
December 15, 2003 Save Migron
December 16, 2003 Saddam Is Captured But Did The Good Guys Really Win
December 17, 2003 A Letter
December 18, 2003 History Repeats Itself
December 18, 2003 Dear Police Officer
December 19, 2003 Another Tack: The prostitute's price
December 20, 2003 Transfer
December 23, 2003 President Bush Recommends That Jews Disregard the Bible!
December 24, 2003 Dear Mr. President
December 25, 2003 About Pigs and Transfer of Jews
Decmeber 25, Terror-Dee and Terror-Dum
December 26, 2003 Israel's Shame
December 28, 2003 First the Saturday People
*******************************************************
December 4, 2003
THE “PEACE CARPENTERS” ARE PUTTING NAILS INTO THE COFFIN OF THE JEWISH STATE
LETTER FROM RUTH MATAR (WOMEN IN GREEN) JERUSALEM
Thursday, December 4, 2003
Dear Friends,
Only 55 years after its rebirth, the life of the Jewish State of Israel is in mortal danger, whether by murder, or by assisted suicide.
There is no dearth of volunteers to be the executioners of the Jewish State. The Arab Muslims consider Israel a cancer in their midst that must be uprooted, either by war as in 1948, 1967, or 1973, or by continual terrorism.
In the forefront of the campaign to eliminate the Jewish State are the radical Islamic dictatorships, such as Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Libya, who themselves are recent creations of the European colonial powers.
Now for a bit of history:
The Ottoman Empire lasted for a little more than 600 years. Following the breakup of this powerful Empire during World War I, the following countries, among others, were established by colonial powers such as Britain and France.
Iraq was created by then English colonial secretary, Winston Churchill, and became an independent kingdom on October 3, 1932.
Saudi Arabia gained its independence on September 23, 1932.
Syria was administered by the French until it was granted independence on April 17, 1946.
Libya got its independence from Italy on December 24, 1951.
In their desire to get rid of the “cancer” in their midst, Israel, these newly created states are trying to act as midwives at the birth of a fictional country, “Palestine” inhabited by a fictional people, the “Palestinians”.
How do the Arabs get away with these incredible fabrications and lies? They have a most powerful weapon. That weapon is called OIL! The whole world has an insatiable need for it and the Arabs sit on vast quantities of this black gold.
There is an American saying “The squeaky wheel gets greased” and 22 billion Muslims are one giant squeaky wheel. Their giant propaganda machine controls much of the world’s media; this propaganda machine has convinced most of the world, certainly the European countries, that the “poor” Palestinians have had their homeland stolen and occupied by those “nasty” Jews. Never mind that very few of the Arabs who now live in the area of what is now Israel, have lived there not even 100 years. Most of these Arabs left surrounding Arab countries to find work and better their living conditions, after the Jews started to rebuild their country.
Oil became the controlling factor in the diplomacy of all the industrial nations, including, unfortunately, what has often been called “Israel’s one and only friend”, the United States.
It seemed in the beginning, in the wars of 1948, 1967 and 1973, that Israel was able to overcome insurmountable odds. There was a time when Israel had belief in the rightness of its cause. Granted, the Arabs hated Israel as much then, as they do now. But the Jewish People believed fervently in the miracle of the rebirth of the Jewish State.
The simple answer is that Israel is now attacked by enemies from WITHIN. The Trojan horse has been let inside our gates by the post-Zionists, who now collaborate with the Muslim Arabs in order to decimate the Jewish Homeland.
Some disastrous examples:
1. The Ayalon - Nusseibeh understandings. Ami Ayalon is a former Shabak (Israel’s Secret Service) head who has put forth together with Palestinian Sari Nusseibeh, a diplomatic initiative to give Arafat large parts of our Homeland.
2. A small group of Israel Air force pilots, who advocate refusal to bomb terror targets.
3. Four former Shabak heads, Avraham Shalom, Ya’acov Peri, Carmi Gillon, and Ami Ayalon (see my November 20 Letter), who are willing to call for another “Altalena” style affair in order to expel the Jews from Judea, Samaria and Gaza, our Biblical Heartland. And all this in the name of Israel remaining a “democracy”!
4. A Minister of Industry, Trade and Labor, Ehud Olmert, has caved in to the European Union, and exceeded to their request to label products made in Israel, with their city of manufacture. The European Union can now refuse to grant custom benefits to Israeli products manufactured in Judea, Samaria and the Gaza Strip.
The fact is that the EU has political problems with policies of the Israeli Government, which they’re trying to translate into economic sanctions. It is their right to try to forge this link. But why have we, a sovereign state, agreed to differentiate between one Israeli export and another, in order to accommodate the political prejudices of another country or group of countries?
Minister Olmert’s excuse is as follows: “It’s not so bad, it only affects 1% of our exports.” His intent clearly is that the affect of Israel’s exports will be minimal. The affect on the producers in Judea, Samaria and Gaza, however, will be very dramatic. They will lose their livelihood!
Prime Minister Sharon justified Trade Minister Olmert’s decision to mark Israeli products with their city of origin, in order to save the rest of Israel’s exports. Shades of the “Judenrat”: Sacrifice some Jews, in order to try to save the rest of the community. Of course, this did not work during the Holocaust, and it won't work now.
5. The ultimate betrayal is Yossi Beilin’s GENEVA SELLOUT.
On Monday, December 1, 2003, a “peace agreement” was signed by Israelis and Palestinians. The signing itself was greeted with much hoopla. Hundreds of journalists, rock stars, Hollywood actors and politicians were flown to Switzerland from all around the world, on a plane chartered by the “neutral” Swiss government. Even former U.S. President Jimmy Carter had a free seat on that plane!
Very weird situation. The agreement was signed, not by Israeli and Palestinian officials but by two individuals WITH ABSOLUTELY NO POWER. On the Palestinian side it was signed by former Information Minister Yasser Abed Rabbo. On the Israeli side it was signed by Yossi Beilin, a man whose political standing in his own country is so low, that he failed to make it into parliament. After helping to bring his Labor party to ruin, Beilin abandoned it for the far-left Meretz party, which then did so badly in the last election, that Beilin is now a private citizen. There is a reason why he is one of Israel’s most reviled and discredited politicians. He was the principle ideologue and architect behind the “peace” fostered on Israel in 1993. Those Oslo agreements have been a decade of the worst terror in all Israeli history.
And what does this treasonous document entail? A Palestinian State. Evacuating every Jewish “settlement”. Redividing Jerusalem. Giving up the Temple Mount, the subject of Jewish longing in poetry and prayer for the last 2000 years. Jews will only be allowed to visit the Temple Mount with Arab permission. But they (and the Christians) will not be allowed to pray there. Beilin intends to return Israel to its 1967 borders with no security safeguards. In addition, third parties (like hostile Syria) will determine how many of the so-called Arab refugees will be able to flood Israel. Let me digress and tell you how this Geneva Accord will affect me personally. Three of my children and their spouses, and eleven of my grandchildren will be expelled from their homes in Efrat, a beautiful community, twenty minutes away from Jerusalem by car. With a stroke of his pen, Beilin has made a present to Arafat of this vibrant Jewish town with 7,622 inhabitants. However, I don't know when this count was taken. I am therefore not sure if this includes my 6 month old granddaughter Nava, and my 4 weeks old grandson Ivri.)
Inexplicably, Beilin has also handed over to the Arabs the Mount of Olives cemetery, the oldest Jewish cemetery in the world. It dates from the First Temple Period, more than 2000 years ago.
My parents, may they rest in peace, are buried in this cemetery according to their wish before their death. Will my family, our children and grandchildren, require a visa to visit their graves? Might their graves, be vandalized, G-d forbid, as Jewish graves were vandalized between 1948 and 1967, during the occupation of the “moderate” King Hussein of Jordan.
Also, inexplicably, Beilin proposes to give Arafat free access to a cemetery in the Middle of Jerusalem, on Emek Refaim Street, where only Christians are buried. Almost diagonally across the street is Cafe Hillel, where seven people were killed on September 9, amongst them Dr. Applebaum and his daughter Nava, who was to be married the next day. Is Beilin ensuring free access for Arab murderers?
Who is to blame for this anarchy and chaos? Unquestionably the Government of Ariel Sharon. He cannot continue mumbling inanities and ignoring all these independent “initiatives.” A supposedly warm personal relationship between President George W. Bush and Sharon does not warrant a neglect of Congress and American public opinion.
The absence of a more concerted campaign to promote our position in the U.S., contributed to the recent public chastisement of our policies by the administration and the deduction of $300 million from our loan guarantees - to which our government barely responded.
Sharon must realize that if he continues on his present path, Bush will simply drift into making more anti-Israeli gestures to mollify the Europeans.
And now for “Israel’s one and only friend”, the United States: Secretary of State Colin Powell has written a letter to Beilin and Rabbo, expressing appreciation for their effort, and is now planning to meet with them on Friday. United States Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz has also requested a meeting. Thus, Beilin and Abed Rabbo are now scheduled to hold talks with Powell, Wolfowitz, and other senior administration officials.
In embracing the Geneva Accord, these senior U.S. administration officials are undermining not only Bush’s demand that Arafat be held accountable for the terrorism he has inspired and directed, but also the most precious ideal with which America has approached the Middle Eastern fray since 9/11: DEMOCRACY.
The Israeli authors of the Geneva Accords all failed to get elected to the posts they sought: Beilin failed in his bid for a Knesset seat; Amram Mitzna was handed by Ariel Sharon the worst-ever electoral defeat in Israeli history; and Avraham Burg lost the primary election for Labor’s leadership.
WHAT CREDIBILITY WILL AMERICA’S DEMANDS FOR DEMOCRATIZATION IN THIS REGION HAVE ONCE ITS OWN SECRETARY OF STATE PUBLICLY CELEBRATES THE ANTI-DEMOCRATIC ACTIONS OF A GROUP OF ISRAELIS WHO WERE, EACH IN HIS TURN, REJECTED BY THE VOTERS?
This is a scandalous action on the part of United States officials. Israel is a democracy, and this agreement was negotiated in defiance of the democratically (and overwhelmingly) elected government of Israel.
The Geneva Accord, according to columnist Charles Krauthammer, is not a peace treaty -- it is a suicide note -- by a private citizen on behalf of a country that has utterly rejected him politically. That this initiative should get any encouragement from the United States, is an utter disgrace.
Dear friends: Chanukah and Christmas are both very near. In fact, this year they coincide. No doubt your young children and grandchildren are expecting wonderful toy presents from you. This is what Palestinian children are getting as presents for their big holiday, Idi-al-Fitr: a doll in the form of arch terrorist Osama Bin Laden rejoicing over the destruction of the Pentagon, and the burning Twin Towers. (A picture of these toys can be seen on our website
Top of Page |
End of Page |
What We Say Index Page |
To Home Page
*******************************************************
December 11, 2003
YOU CAN'T DANCE WITH A MURDERER
LETTER FROM RUTH MATAR (WOMEN IN GREEN) JERUSALEM
Thursday, December 11, 2003
Dear Friends,
Ariel Sharon said in an Op-Ed article in the Jerusalem Post of September 3, 1993, entitled: “You Can't Dance With a Murderer”:
“... By recognizing this murderer’s organization, the PLO, the government has committed an act of madness. By reviving Israel’s greatest enemy on the eve of its disintegration and turning it into Israel’s shield against Hamas, the government has added crime to folly... There can be no reconciliation, historic or otherwise, with the man who ordered the murders of schoolchildren in Avivim, Ma’alot and Antwerp, of 11 Jewish athletes in Munich...”
The Archives of the Jerusalem Post have proven to be an incredible treasure trove. I’m going to give you some interesting examples of what Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said in the past, before he was the Prime Minister of Israel.
The following is an excerpt from an Op-Ed article in the Jerusalem Post of August 18, 1995, entitled “Amazing Role Reversal”:
“The State of Israel has always felt committed to the defense of Jews wherever they may be. Accordingly, Israel has acted to defend Jews in Europe, Latin America, North America, the CIS, everywhere.
“In my childhood, during the pre-state era, our parents volunteered to guard settlements whose security was more precarious than that of our moshav. Volunteers continued guarding vulnerable settlements even after the creation of the state.
“...True the IDF hasn’t yet withdrawn. But this can change within a short time; and we must prepare for it, in case these communities are abandoned by the government.
“... And if not the governments, the opposition should be helping to organize the volunteering. Surely the opposition must know that the Jewish towns and villages in Judea, Samaria and Gaza are the last line of defense before the armistice lines of 1949.
“To help the Jewish residents across the Green Line doesn't mean forming an underground or an armed militia. It means defending and preserving life. Nothing could be more legal, moral, honorable or right.”
And, finally, these are excerpts from an Op-Ed article in the Jerusalem Post of November 17, 1995, written about two weeks after Rabin was assassinated, entitled ”Pain Must not Obscure Judgment”:
“The Judean mountains and the Samarian hills haven't become any lower in the wake of Yitzhak Rabin’ tragic death. They retain a commanding position over most of the Jewish population, two thirds of it, living on the strip of land along the coast.
“Half of the Jewish population is still within a 30-40 km radius of Tel-Aviv, occupying an area the whole of which is overlooked by the Samarian hills.
“Airplanes loaded to overflowing with passengers which land at Ben Gurion Airport from the east, as often happens, fly low for miles over the Samarian hills. They would make an easy target for shoulder-carried land-to-air missiles of the kind possessed by the Arab terror organizations.
“The settlers aren’t ‘a cancer in the body politic,’ as the left has called them… Their settlements were set up by every government of Israel. They are citizens and taxpayers; they all serve in the IDF; some serve in the most elite combat units defending the communities of the north and the Negev.
“The government is not doing anyone a favor by protecting Israeli citizens, wherever they live. That is their duty.”
“Pain Must not Obscure Judgment” is an interesting title for Sharon's Op-Ed article. What has happened in the eight years since he wrote these words, which has made him change his beliefs and his opinions so radically? What pain has obscured his judgment to the point of declaring on November 21st, 2003 that within six months, the government may move to uproot Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza, as part of a package of UNILATERAL Israeli steps in the territories?
If this happens, Yasser Arafat would at last see his dream come true, as a government of the state of Israel does what Fatah, Hamas and Islamic Jihad could not: force Jews out of their ancestral Homeland! The forcible expulsion of Jews from their homes would constitute an unabashed assault on the fundamental principles of Zionism. It will be the betrayal of two millennia of Jewish hope and yearning, and a victory for our enemies.
The Jewish residents of Judea, Samaria, and Gaza purchased land, built houses, planted gardens, and opened businesses with the full backing of successive Israeli governments, Labor and Likud alike. By what right does a government, any government, assert for itself the power to eject hundreds, or perhaps thousands of citizens from their homes?
What does Sharon mean by UNILATERAL ISRAELI STEPS? What Sharon means is that if he is unable to restart negotiations with the new Palestinian premier, Abu Allah (the third in a series of Abus) Israel would carry out a series of unilateral moves, essentially giving up territory and giving nothing in return.
Sharon is virtually telling the Palestinian Arabs: you had better talk with us to get what you want, or else we will just have to give it to you anyway. With regard to this diplomatic plan, Sharon told his cabinet “It is clear that in the end we will not be sitting in all the locations where we’re now situated.”
Quite a reversal from what Ariel Sharon used to say BEFORE he became Prime Minister!
Even though Olmert’s father, Mordechai Olmert, was a fighter in the Jewish Underground before the establishment of the state, I am less surprised at Ehud Olmert turning his back on his Zionist upbringing than at Sharon's complete turnaround.
Firstly, Olmert owes his present position completely to Prime Minister Sharon. Olmert was not at all popular within the Likud party, where his position on the Knesset list was a low number 33 out of 40. Sharon invited him to be his campaign manager in the 2003 election. Olmert’s reward for a successful campaign was to be appointed Deputy Prime Minister and being given the ministries of Industry, Trade, Labor and Communication. Because of the many departments he now heads, some of Olmert’s detractors call him “Ministers Olmert”!
Three days ago, there was an interesting article in the Jerusalem Post about Ehud Olmert entitled “A history of Olmert’s zigzagging”.
The following is a quote from this article:
“Olmert has made countless controversial statements and taken many surprising steps that straddled the border between Right and Left. He has managed to meander back and forth in his political leanings and ideological orientation. In the 1970s, Olmert gained fame for joining then-Labor MK Yossi Sarid in a crusade against organized crime, implicating future minister Rehavam Ze’evi in the process. Olmert gained many enemies in the Likud when he joined efforts to try to unseat legendary leader Menachem Begin.”
The first recent Olmert bombshell: Ehud Olmert, on November 28, as Minister of Industry, Trade and Labor, caved in to the European Union, and agreed to their request to label products made in Israel with their city of manufacture. The European Union can now refuse to grant custom benefits to Israeli products manufactured in Judea, Samaria and the Gaza Strip. The effect on the producers in Judea, Samaria and the Gaza Strip will be the loss of their livelihood.
Then comes Olmert’s second bombshell. In an interview he gave to Nahum Barnea of Yediot Ahronot, on the 5th of December, he called for a UNILATERAL withdrawal from most of the territories, including neighborhoods on the outskirts of Jerusalem. This is the man who always spoke of the importance of an undivided Jerusalem.
Olmert has positioned himself squarely on the left of the Likud. He is not only a very close friend of Shinui chairman, Minister Yosef (Tommy) Lapid, but long time friends with Labor chairman Shimon Peres, whose 80th birthday mega-party he coordinated.
What prompted Olmert to make his radical proposal? According to Olmert, he feels that UNILATERAL steps are necessary, because Israel is rapidly approaching the point where Arabs will outnumber Jews.
As always, the beloved boogieman of the Left is the DEMOGRAPHIC SCARE. The Left tries to scare the rest of us with the threat that soon there will be more Arabs than Jews in Israel, and then we won't have a Jewish democratic state.
This is a deliberate campaign to frighten and mislead the public. In the “good old days” when Sharon still held strongly Zionist opinions, he said the following in a September 29, 1995 Op-Ed article in the Jerusalem Post, entitled: “Sick Joy of Retreat”:
“I felt pain after the agreement [Oslo 2] was signed this week; pain caused not merely by the government’s mistaken, irresponsible decisions, but chiefly by its ministers’ devilish joy at the ‘defeat’ of their foes - the settlers. A very premature joy, I believe... Arafat’s Israeli advocates claim there is no other way. They don't want a binational state, they don't want to rule over another people, they say.
“What do they really mean? Are they planning a divided Jerusalem? After all, about 150,000 Arabs live in the city. Do they intend to ‘transfer’ 850,000 Israeli Arabs?
“We have never proposed granting Israeli citizenship to the Arab residents of Judea and Samaria: all have Jordanian passports. And there are other peaceful, acceptable solutions to the threat of binationalism.
“Neither the Israel of the Left nor that of the National Camp has the right to concede Hebron, Rachel’s Tomb, Shilo, Beit El and Joseph’s Tomb. Certainly no government has the right to give up the Temple Mount.
“Governments come and go and so do generations: it is our great privilege to hold these sacred possessions in trust for future generations. We have no right to transfer them to alien hands.”
THE SHARON WHO MADE THESE STIRRING PRONOUNCEMENTS IS THE SHARON WE THOUGHT WE VOTED FOR!
More than most, former General Ariel Sharon realizes that before going into battle, it is essential to know from where the troops will be fired upon. Olmert’s statements about unilateral concessions was a trial balloon par excellence!
If Sharon wants to know where the fire is going to come from and how intense it is going to be, let me quote Pinhas Wallerstein, Binyamin Regional Council Head: “The decision to dismantle populated settlements is unacceptable. We will end up with direct confrontation and, if need be, there will be a war,” he told army radio.
What about President George W. Bush, urged by Colin Powell and the US State Department, by the Saudis, and by the European Union, to pressure Ariel Sharon to make concessions?
I am sure there is such pressure! And continual and strong pressure at that! But in the years from Israel’s rebirth in 1948 until 1992, Israeli Prime Ministers often had to defy very heavy U.S. pressure, for example:
1948/9: U.S. pressure on Ben Gurion with threats of economic sanctions to refrain from declaration of independence.
1967: The U.S., the U.S.S.R. and the UN pressured Levi Eshkol to refrain from a pre-emptive strike and from reuniting Jerusalem.
1981: The U.S., U.S.S.R., Europe and the UN threatened Begin with military and economic sanctions, lest he bomb Iraq’s nuclear reactor.
Previous Prime Ministers were able to successfully withstand incredibly strong pressure of the U.S. Go for it Arik, like in the old times. The world and the US are more likely to respect a “NON-PUNCHING BAG ISRAEL”. And as you said yourself way back in 1993: “You Can’t Dance with a Murderer”.
Dear Friends: What could we do? It would be most effective if you forwarded this message to your friends, President George W. Bush president@whitehouse.gov, and Vice President Cheney vice.president@whitehouse.gov. To get the email addresses of Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld, Secretary of State Colin Powell, and your Senators and Congressman, call the Capitol Hill Switchboard at (202)456-6212 or (202)224-3121. They will even tell you who the Congressman of your District is, or transfer you to his office.
A strong, democratic, undivided Israel, as promised to the Jews according to the Judeo-Christian tradition, is not only in Israel’s interest, but in America’s interest as well.
With Blessings and Love for Israel,
Ruth Matar
Top of Page |
End of Page |
What We Say Index Page |
To Home Page
*******************************************************
December 9, 2003
Please Mark Your Calendar For These Important Events!
(1) This Wednesday, December 10, at 9:15 A.M., at the entrance to the Knesset Building, Women In Green will conduct a vigil with signs calling for freeing NOAM FEDERMAN from Administrative Detention! On that morning, a Knesset Committee will be holding hearings beginning at 10 A.M., concerning the inhumane conditions of Noams Administrative Detention. Come and greet Members of this Committee as they arrive at the Knesset and voice your protest. Noam Federman has been on a hunger strike over the past 50 days, and you can express your anguish over his cruel handling, and this anti-democratic action against a loyal Jew. These Knesset Members virtually hold the fate of Noam in their hands. and you have the right and duty to tell them that they must act to free him immediately.
(2) On Sunday, December 14, 2003 at 7 P.M., at the Jerusalem Theater (Crown Hall), Women In Green will join the Demonstration organized by Gamla Will Not Fall Again, against honoring Minister of Communications Ehud Olmert by Israels Media Watch.
Minister Olmert has done absolutely nothing to initiate legislation to restore Arutz 7 to be able to broadcast once again. Instead. he has shocked us all by his unsolicited statements, which would place the Jewish historical communities of Judea, Samaria and Gaza in grave
jeopardy.
(3) Women In Greens Chanukah tour of Jewish Communities in the Southern Hebron Hills will take place, rain or shine, on Tuesday, December 23, 2003. There will be limited spaces on the bus, and if you wish to be included, you must reserve your place early on. Call our office at 02 6249 887 to arrange for your reservation.
Ruth and Nadia Matar
*******************************************************
December 15, 2003
Dear friends - THIS IS AN EMERGENCY MESSAGE!
SAVE MIGRON - SAVE THE LAND OF ISRAEL
Please Read the following short News Release from Arutz 7:
"MIGRON ON THE CHOPPING BLOCK"
Defense Minister Sha'ul Mofaz has given orders to uproot and dismantle the
'outpost' of Migron - including all 42 of its families.
Migron is over four years old. It is located on a hilltop overlooking the
Shomron's central artery highway 60. The tall buildings of Jerusalem can be
clearly seen to the south, such that Migron is part of Jerusalem's defense
belt.
Mofaz has ordered O.C. Central Command Maj.-Gen. Moshe Kaplinsky to prepare
an order that will bypass the need to receive Supreme Court approval for
the evacuation of the families. Arutz-7's Haggai Huberman reports that
information in the hands of Yesha Council leaders indicates that the
dismantling will take place this Thursday, ignoring the necessary legal
process. The strategy will be to highlight the fact that Israeli law does
not apply to Judea, Samaria and Gaza, and that the IDF is sovereign
there. Buildings and towns will thus be able to be demolished without
receiving legal approval. IDF officers arrived at the site of Migron
yesterday to ascertain what equipment will be needed for the evacuation.
Current Chief of Staff Moshe Yaalon has warned that the site is a
critically strategic point, and that if Israel does not take it, the Arabs
would. A former Central Commander, Yitzchak Eitan, who was not a great
friend of the Jewish settlement enterprise in Yesha (Judea, Samaria and
Gaza), also insisted that the site remain Jewish. He even told
then-Defense Minister Binyamin Ben- Eliezer that if Jewish civilians were
not permitted to remain, he would build an army outpost there. "This site
must not be abandoned," he said.
The 130 residents of Migron, virtually all of them young couples and
families, have no other homes - and this would thus be an "expulsion" in
the full sense of the word.
The entire work force of the Binyamin Regional Council and associated
bodies are convening today in Migron to decide on their next steps. A
network has been established in all the Binyamin communities - Adam,
Psagot, Kokhav Yaakov, Rimonim, etc. - to call on all residents to arrive
at Migron to stop the destruction of their neighboring town. A large
200-square-meter tent has been erected to house the masses of people
expected to arrive, and generators and large containers have also been brought.
Minister Mofaz told people, who spoke with him about Migron in the past few
days, that it was PRIME MINISTER SHARON, UNDER HEAVY AMERICAN PRESSURE, who
made the decision to destroy Migron. Sharon has experience in decisions of
this nature; in 1982, as Defense Minister under Prime Minister Menachem
Begin, he oversaw the destruction of the city of Yamit. Since then, and
most recently in the last election campaign, he has said that destroying
Yamit was a 'mistake' that he regrets."
Dear friends- Women in Green are joining the intense preparations to
prevent this crime:
1) On WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2003 at 10:30 A.M from the Inbal (LaRomme)
Hotel, we will go to Migron on a chizuk (strengthening) visit by private
cars. We urge you all to join us. We plan to be back around 1:30pm.
We will bring the children of Migron treats and toys. There are 60 small
children in Migron (20 under the age of 1 year; 7 between 1 and 2 years
old; 15 between the ages of 2 and 3; 10 between the ages of 3 and 4;
3 children 5 years old; 2 children in first grade and 3 children in 2nd grade.
2) We are preparing lists of people who are willing to be called on the
day of the attempted deportation of the 42 Migron families, in order to
come to Migron - day or night- to try to prevent this heinous crime. If
you are willing to be called- Please email us asap your name, phone number,
cell phone number and we will be in touch with you.
3) we call upon all friends of Israel, in the entire world, to bombard the
offices of Prime Minister Sharon and Defense Minister Mofaz with phone
calls and faxes NOW. Do not waste your time with emails- they won't be
read. Tie up their phones and faxes with the following message:
DON'T UPROOT MIGRON!
THIS WOULD BE A REWARD FOR ARAB TERROR!
The Land of Israel belongs to the people of Israel as promised by God in
the Bible.
Prime Minister Sharon: Tel: 972-2-670-5555 and fax: 972-2-566-48-38
Defense Minister Mofaz: Tel 972-3-697-66-63 and fax 972-3-697-62-18
On the eve of Chanuka, let us find strength in the words of former Chief
Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu, who has warned against the uprooting : "Whoever is
for God, rally around me!"
This was the call of the Maccabees over 2000 years ago, prior to their
victories over the Syrian-Greeks and their Jewish Hellenist
collaborators--victories that guaranteed the Jewish people's spiritual and
national freedom.
Ruth and Nadia Matar
Top of Page |
End of Page |
What We Say Index Page |
To Home Page
*******************************************************
December 16, 2003
Saddam Is Captured But Did The Good Guys Really Win by Gary Cooperberg
Saddam Hussein was a symbol of defiance to the power of the U.S. and the free world in general. He mocked the first President Bush and the present one and really thought he could get away with it. The first time he really did get away with it, and I have a feeling that were it not for the horror of 9/11, he would have succeeded again/ And to be perfectly frank, it is too early to be certain that he will not succeed again. Okay, great, we got the murderous dictator. It has been reported that he has been offered a deal. Tell where he is hiding the weapons of mass destruction and he will spend life in prison rather than be executed. Nice try. How come no one offered him a Nobel Prize for chutzpa? Does anyone honestly expect that he will be executed? No way.
Let's take a look at Israel. She has in her custody a far greater criminal than Saddam, yet she is forbidden to assassinate him or even to bring him to trial and then execute him. Why? Bush has already agreed that he is personna-non-grata (not to mention a major terrorist murderer). What makes Arafat so special? It should also be pointed out that he is great friends with Saddam. He and all of his PLO cohorts are devastated at the news that Saddam has been captured. Although President Bush appeared very pleased as he announced the good news, I don't really think that he can honestly believe that now Iraq will turn into an oasis of democracy. And, I daresay, I sincerely doubt that Saddam will suffer serious punishment either. Saddam did not knock off the twin towers, and we still didn't find the MWD. But, what is more significant, I do not think Saudi Arabia would be too happy to see a fellow Islamic fanatic dictator demeaned any more than he already has been. You see, the war against terror does have its limitations. Arafat is off limits. It will be very interesting to see how Saddam squirms his way out of this one. And he will.
George Bush has turned a blind eye to the Bible and developed a "vision" of a two state solution for Israel because Saudi Arabia is blackmailing him. He is keeping Arafat safe for the same reason. And it is also for this same reason that Saddam cannot and will not be executed. Were the President of the United States truly his own man, he would have Saddam tried and executed and place his own puppet Islamic government over Iraq. If he doesn't do this then Iraq will simply be taken over by some other Islamic dictator who is not likely to be friendly to the United States. Were he sincere in his war against terror, and not under the thumb of Saudi petro-dollars, not only would he not tie the hands of the Israeli government, he would encourage Jewish settlement in all of the Land of Israel, especially Judea, Samaria and Gaza, and he would declare Arafat and the PA or PLO the terrorists that they are, giving Israel the green light to eliminate them.
Unfortunately his war against terror is little more than a facade. IBush has failed to muster the personal courage to stand up to the evil by sounding the alarm to Jew and Gentile alike, and to open our eyes to the G-dly process that is presently underway, and to work to support it. We dare not stand idly on the sidelines.
*******************************************************
December 17, 2003
A letter has come to our attention which has the germ of an important idea,
and we believe should be read by you, digested, and acted upon. The
contents of this letter follow:
Dear Mr. President and Mr. Vice President,
A little while ago your administration (which I've been a strong supporter
of) withheld close to $300 millions from the loan guaranties provided to
Israel based on their continuous development of the so-called settlements
in the disputed territories. Taking into account that you are often
criticized for the lack of "evenhandedness" in the Arab-Israeli conflict I
would like to suggest that a corrective action is in order. Would you
consider withholding some amount from the money our government provides to
the Palestinian Authority for every attempted terrorist attack by the
Al-Aksa Martyrs Brigade, which is a faction of the PA and is controlled,
directed and financed by it? Even better, what if you withheld let's say a
$1,000,000 for every attempted terror attack by the presumed non PA
affiliated terror groups like Hamas, Islamic Jihad and others, who PA is
suppose to control, and $10,000,000 withheld for every attempted terror
attack by the Al-Aksa Martyrs Brigade? If you feel comfortable and just
withholding the money from Israelis because they are building houses where
you think they shouldn't, surely you must feel more than being fair if you
refuse to pay for killing and maiming innocent civilians (Israelis and
Americans). I believe this simple action would do a lot of good in
minimizing the terrorist activities, showing your moral stand and
"evenhandedness", as well as strengthening the hand of Palestinians who
really would like to live in piece with Israel.
Sincerely,
Michael K.(from Redwood City, CA 94065)
name withheld
If you agree with the contents of this letter, Please send it out to
President Bush and to
Vice President Cheney. Use, of course, your own name and address in your
letter although you can select what pertinent language of this letter you
decide to use.
Their respective email, fax and phone numbers are as follows:
President Bush: president@whitehouse.gov Fax: (202) 456 2461 Phone:
202 456 6213
Vice-President Cheney: vice.president@whitehouse.gov (202) 456
6212 Phone 202 456 7549
Ruth and Nadia Matar
Top of Page |
End of Page |
What We Say Index Page |
To Home Page
*******************************************************
December 18, 2003
HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF
or
The Maccabean Battles - Reloaded
LETTER FROM RUTH MATAR (WOMEN IN GREEN) JERUSALEM
Thursday, December 18, 2003
Dear Friends,
Israel's Prime Minister Sharon, under heavy American pressure, has made the decision to destroy Migron, a community in the Judean Hills just minutes from Jerusalem. Migron is home to 43 young Torah-observant Jewish families with over 60 young children. They are professionals, teachers, students, and soldiers. They work in Migron or in Jerusalem, or in the surrounding communities, such as Michmash. (Michmash was the stronghold of Judah Maccabee, who reestablished Jewish sovereignty in this whole area, during the time of the Chanukah wars.)
It is important to understand that Migron is not some little collection of huts. The community has built a Synagogue. They also have a library, their own health care center, a petting zoo, and a kindergarten.
Why Migron? It seems that U.S. Ambassador, Daniel Kurtzer, has instructed Israel Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz that Migron has to be the first "Jewish settlement" to be evacuated, so as to make possible a contiguous Palestinian State. (More than shameful: Kurtzer, a supposedly Orthodox religious Jew, because of personal ambition, lends himself to try to destroy the Jewish State.)
The truth is that Migron was approved by Sharon and the Defense Ministry. In fact, successive previous Defense Ministers have insisted that Migron is essential strategically and must never be abandoned. Migron was built on Land owned by Jews, and the Migron residents have all the legal papers to prove these facts.
What right does Prime Minister Sharon, or U.S. President George W. Bush, (or the State Department?) or the European Union, have to uproot these Jewish families from their homes? What right does anyone have to give away portions of the Jewish Homeland, the Land given to us eternally and irrevocably by G-d, to a bunch of terrorists, or to anyone else for that matter?
This Friday night we are lighting the first candle of the Chanukah holiday. What exactly are we celebrating?
In children's books the story is very simple:
"Many years ago, a wicked king, named Antiochus, captured the Land of the Jews. He ordered them to give up their religion and to worship his Greek gods. All who refused to obey the king's command, were put to death."
But also for adults -- in the popular perception -- the story is not much more complex:
"Chanukah is the victory of a small band of the courageous Maccabees fighting the mighty Syrian-Greek army of King Antiochus. The miracle of Chanukah is the rededication of the Temple, and the triumph of freedom of religion in the face of oppression."
The TRUE Chanukah story is not so simple. Yes, the Maccabean wars were fought against a foreign occupying force, the Syrian-Greeks. But these wars were also waged against another enemy trying to destroy Israel as a Jewish entity, an enemy WITHIN. The Hellenized Jews at the time of the Hasmonians were a dedicated group of "worldly" Jews drawn to the "beauty" of Greek culture and alienated from their own heritage and from the G-d of Israel. They existed to ingratiate themselves by serving the whim of their foreign patrons and to eliminate the yoke of their own heritage -- the Torah. They longed to be like the other nations of the world, free to indulge in whatever they wished, and to eradicate any vestige of what makes a Jew Jewish in the first place: The G-d of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob; the Land of Israel, and the Holy Torah itself.
The REAL battle of the Maccabees was not only against the Syrian-Greek army of Antiochus. It was also against their fellow Jews, who were willing to sell out their Jewish identity for universality, world citizenship, economic advancement, and of course, acceptance by other nations. They were even willing to give up the Holy Temple, and to allow Jerusalem to become a Greek city, all in order to obtain for themselves "the good life", and to become enlightened "citizens of the world".
Today, our modern assimilationists are very much like the Hellenists of old. We have our own version of disloyal High Priests and our own Hellenizers -- the Sharons, the Olmerts, the Yossi Beilins, the Yossi Sarids, and the Shimon Pereses, and others too numerous to mention.
It is not widely known that Antiochus did not issue anti-religious decrees against any other people than the Jews. He simply conquered many nations POLITICALLY, but did not attack their RELIGION in any way. It was ONLY against the Jews that he instituted anti-religious decrees.
Why just against the Jews? Historians say that Antiochus had no intention of issuing anti-religious decrees against the Jews, but his Jewish friends and collaborators, the Hellenists, advised him to do so. The Hellenists of that time - THEY were the ones who advised Antiochus how to break the Jews.
You want to break the Jewish People? Forbid them to study Torah and forbid them to perform circumcisions, allow their holy places to be desecrated and, above all, forbid them to live on their own Promised Land.
History, in truth, repeats itself! Or in modern terms, we now have "The Maccabean Battles - Reloaded!" The internal Jewish enemies counsel the external enemies, and give them advice on how to break the People of Israel. Hellenist Yossi Beilin is funded by the European Union and goes around the world selling his treasonous Geneva Accords. And Mr. Olmert and Mr. Sharon compete with each other as to who can announce more "painful concessions" to the world on Israel's behalf. THE GREAT TRAGEDY of our present situation is that the war of the Hellenized Jews, who joined the enemy against their Jewish brothers, continues to this very day!
Today, we are faced with the same enemies: world powers that are pushing the tiny Jewish state, pushing hard to divide and give away large portions of the Jewish Homeland, the Land given to us eternally by G-d. The same enemies are still here, including the enemy within.
Like then, the enemy within has the political power in our Land, cow-towing to the world powers that urge the weakening and diminution of our tiny nation. And for what reason? Astonishingly, to appease and reward a vast multitude of Arab terrorists who strive to destroy tiny Israel along with the United States and the rest of Western Civilization. Make no mistake: these are the same Arabs who cheered the destruction and massacre of the Twin Towers, and who today, weep because of the capture of Saddam Hussein, as he hid like a rat in a filthy hole in the ground. Their other role model and hero, Yasser Arafat, also cowers like a rat in his decaying compound in Ramallah, but, alas, he is dangerous. This enemy continues to order and organize the murder of Jews in Israel, inside and out of the absurdity known as the 'green line'. Is he brought to justice for these atrocities, is he stopped, is he captured or killed? No. Instead, he is protected by the United States, and courted by Peres, Beilin, and those of their ilk, the Jewish Hellenists of today.
We cannot afford to loose this fight -- THIS FIGHT IS FOR SURVIVAL.
Yesterday, December 17, our Women in Green went to the Judean Community of Migron, to show our solidarity with the 43 families with their 60 children, who are rebuilding this Biblical city. (Biblical references to Migron: Isaiah 10:28, Samuel I 14:2.) We brought the children toys and candy.
Also yesterday, a large number of Rabbis, under an umbrella called the "Land of Israel Rabbis", went to Migron. Last night they issued the following statement:
"The government is forbidden by a total religious prohibition to evacuate any outpost or settlement and has no right to give away parts of the Land of Israel to strangers, and anything done toward this aim is void. "
The "Land of Israel Rabbis" also stated that thousands of Yeshiva students will come to Migron to try and keep Israel Defense Forces troops from evacuating it.
Rabbi Elyakim Levanon, the Chief Rabbi of the Elon Moreh settlement, said that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's government was, "disintegrating the Land of Israel. We have never had a worse government than this one. The core of the problem does not lie with the IDF, the Ministry of Defense, or the Interior Ministry. All roads lead to Ariel Sharon. We are telling Ariel Sharon: You have 24 hours (before his speech at the Herzliya Conference tonight) to regain your composure and to examine your position. Otherwise you will lead us to the biggest disgrace in the history of Israel," the Rabbi said.
The Women in Green support these statements in their entirety. Judah Maccabee started the Maccabean battles by his statement: "He who is for G-d, follow me!" Women in Green will join and follow all those who believe in the G-d of Israel, in order to prevent this shameful attempt of the Hellenist Jews to abandon our Homeland.
I want to conclude with the words of Shimon, the Hasmonean: "WE HAVE NOT TAKEN OTHER PEOPLE'S LAND, NOR ARE WE IN POSSESSION OF OTHER PEOPLE'S PROPERTY, BUT OF THE INHERITANCE OF OUR FOREFATHERS."
With Blessings and Love for Israel,
Ruth Matar
P.S. Go to our website http://www.womeningreen.org/ to see pictures of the children of Migron.
Top of Page |
End of Page |
What We Say Index Page |
To Home Page
*******************************************************
December 18, 2003
(The following is an English translation of the Hebrew Media Release we
sent out on December 17, 2003 to each Member of the Israeli Knesset and to
the world and local media.)
Dear Police Officer!
Dear Soldier!
We are quoting from an article that was written in Yediot Acharonot by the
Members of Knesset Yossi Sarid and Yair Tzaban on May 27, 1990, when a
proposal was put forward to temporarily move a number of Arab villages
until the completion of the harvest:
"This Is a Red Line!" - said Yossi Sarid and Yair Tzaban on May 27, 1990,
"We want to say to all the proponents of transfer - this is our duty to
speak, and we implore you to read our lips. We are speaking slowly and
clearly, and not only in our name. Let there be no misunderstandings among
us, and let it not be said that you were not warned in advance: We shall
not obey the transfer order, nor will our children and those we have
educated obey it. Those ones will have to carry out the deportation work by
themselves, as we stand in their way, lying in the road. The day that the
transfer order - that is a patently illegal order - will be given, shall be
the day of our refusal to obey such an order."
If this is how these politicians talked about Arab villages in Eretz
Israel, how much more so is it forbidden to destroy Jewish communities and
outposts in the Biblical Land of Israel!
We therefore appeal to you, dear soldier and police officer:
Do not uproot what has been planted! (from a popular Israeli song by Naomi
Shemer)
Do not be a party to this crime against your people, against your homeland!
The order to uproot Jews from their homes and from their land is a patently
illegal order. Do not fear - governments rise and governments fall - but
Israel and its Bibilcal values, endure forever.
Ruth and Nadia Matar
*******************************************************
December 19, 2003
Another Tack: The prostitute's price by Sarah Honig
No need to worry about Ehud Olmert's latest pronouncements. He has evinced
such dubious originality in the past, most glaringly when he sabotaged the
Likud's 1999 campaign and starred in Ehud Barak's electioneering
broadcasts, vouching that Barak won't divide Jerusalem. Shortly thereafter,
Barak was about to sign everything away save for the subterranean strata of
the Temple Mount.
That's not to say, however, that there's no cause for anxiety - not so much
about Olmert, as about his boss, ultra-pragmatist Ariel Sharon. His cronies
informally reassure us that our interests are in capable hands, that the
wily old man knows best.
That's precisely what should deprive us of sleep at night. Crafty
expediency may get us out of assorted jams but land us into
life-threatening quicksand.
In this case, the road to disaster is paved with pragmatic considerations.
Pragmatism is akin to focusing on specific potholes in our national path
rather than sometimes lifting our eyes from the ground to scan the horizon,
survey the sweep of the land and behold the full track ahead. We bog
ourselves down with details and neglect the whole. We quibble about issues
and forget the basics.
Occasional pragmatism has its uses, but had Zionism's founding fathers been
dogged by the demographic demon like Olmert, this state would have never
been born. It came to be because of the Herzlian "irrational" resolve that
"if you will it, it's no myth." Unlike visionary, against-the-odds Zionists
of yesteryear, pragmatists reject dreams, absolutes and truths. Everything
is judged by the practical outcome. The quicker and more facile the
solution, the better, because impatient pragmatists rarely commit for the
long haul.
THUS IF the world, for a host of ulterior motives, contends Israel is the
villain and the Arabs its downtrodden victims, we don't quarrel with this
basic premise. We throw the howling hostile hounds a few bones to mollify
them, ease the pressure, win time.
If the world, for cynical self-serving reasons, equates us with South
Africa's old apartheid regime and the Arabs with the oppressed indigenous
masses, we don't challenge this odious distortion. We try to improve our image.
If the world decides we're foreign colonists who forcibly usurped the land
of peaceful natives, we remove several settler outposts, rather than refute
the brazen fabrications and stress our right to our only homeland.
If the world falsely depicts us as the many and the mighty and the Arabs as
the few and defenseless, we shy from military solutions to violent
conflicts. If the world calls us aggressors, we apologize.
If the world misrepresents this bloody dispute as being about a Palestinian
state, we don't protest that it's really about denying the right of a
Jewish state to exist. Instead, to please our critics, we concede the
Palestinian cause.
By repeatedly conceding the basic assumptions against us, we aggravate our
own distress and inevitably succumb to the inimical international axiom
that we're in the wrong and that those who would annihilate us are
desperate insurgents against injustice. Any means to which they resort are
thereby quasi-legitimized and terrorism against Israel not entirely cast
out of moral bounds. Our accommodating pragmatism effectively removes
Israelis, even Jews, from what the world's anti-terror warriors define as
terrorism.
Insidiously, terrorism becomes the indiscriminate targeting of non-Jews.
It's therefore quite counterproductive for us to exclusively harp on the
terror theme. We'd do better to go back to basics, proclaim loud and clear
that we are here by right; that we were attacked; that the Arabs only
conjured Palestinian nationality in order to stake rival claims; that a
Palestinian state never existed (i.e. we certainly didn't conquer and
subjugate it); that we didn't drive out hapless refugees (who themselves
started the war); that they caused their own downfall by plotting genocide
and ethnic cleansing against us; that our only sin is surviving. We can
remind the world of the Nazi legacy of "Palestinian" hero Haj Amin
el-Husseini. We can point to Ahmed Yassin's recent declaration that there's
no room in the region for a Jewish state.
Admittedly, we may not convince anyone. The dice are loaded against us. But
we've nothing to lose by rediscovering our defiant spirit and lost Zionist
ideals. Excessive pragmatism - the sacrifice of national honor for
temporary gain - will lose us everything, from our own sense of justice to
the souls of our youngsters.
Pragmatism will turn us into the woman once asked by George Bernard Shaw
whether she'll go to bed with him for a 1,000 Pounds. When she answered in
the affirmative, he offered her a mere 2 Pounds. Outraged, she railed:
"What do you take me for? A prostitute?" Shaw replied: "We've already
determined that. Now we're haggling over the price."
Sarah Honig is a political analyst and columnist who writes for the
Jerusalem Post, where this article appeared on December 12, 2003.
Top of Page |
End of Page |
What We Say Index Page |
To Home Page
*******************************************************
December 20, 2003
Transfer
(The following is an English Translation of the thrust of the Hebrew
Media Release that was sent out to the Members of the Knesset, and
the Local and World Media by Women In Green following Prime
Minister Sharon's speech in Herzliya on Thursday Evening,
December 18, 2003.)
TRANSFER
Transfer Prime Minister Sharon out of the Government to his farm in the Negev !
Prime Minister Sharon's announced program, turns him into the worst enemy to the existence of Israel as a Jewish State!
In his speech at Herzliya Sharon formally joined those who are the criminals of Oslo.
He has chosen an unrealistic path. In effect, he would work together with our Arab enemies and surrender to their lies and disinformation.
He has abandoned his former Zionist beliefs, and has become indistinguishable from the positions held by Shimon Peres.
We call upon all those who hold paramount the national interests of this Jewish State to cut off all relations with the present Sharon Government.
Sharon for the true interests of the Jewish People and that of Israel, should be retired to his farm, and live out his days on a government pension.
Ruth and Nadia Matar
Top of Page |
End of Page |
What We Say Index Page |
To Home Page
*******************************************************
December 23, 2003
President Bush Recommends That Jews Disregard the Bible!
President George W. Bush, who purportedly has found religion , nevertheless seems to think his overriding dictate is to listen to Saudi advice as to what is best for the Middle East. It was the Saudis who, in effect, devised the Road Map as a solution to the problems of the Middle East., The Saudis friend in court, Colin Powell convinced President Bush, whose family has a long standing warm relationship with the Saudis, as to its merits. For their own respective self-interest, the U.S., EU, Russia and U.N. are pushing the plan.
Notwithstanding, the L-rd of this Universe has repeatedly declared in His Bible that the Holy Land of Israel was given exclusively to the Jewish People, as His eternal bequest. It is therefore ludicrous for President Bush to declare: Its in Israels interest there be a Palestinian state. That is in direct defiance of the Will of G-d, as expressed over and over again in the Bible! President Bush, in effect, is telling the Jewish People that he knows what is best for them, and to disregard what is specifically declared in the Bible.
Bush further stated that Its in the poor suffering Palestinian peoples interest there be a Palestinian state. This despite the fact that these same poor suffering people were very unhappy about Sadaam Hussein being captured by the Americans in Iraq, and danced in the streets after the news of September 11. That the Palestinian Authority has directly supplied suicide bombers to kill American soldiers in Iraq. That the great majority of these Arabs support Arafat, the murderer of American diplomats, who Bush himself refuses to meet with.
This indeed is a strange, mixed up world when the President of the U.S.A. defies what many Bible-believing Americans, both Christians and Jews, hold dear. It is definitely not in the American Peoples best interest to defy the Will of G-d. Their President should be acting only with regard to that self-interest!
Saudi Arabia is a recent creation. In the long history of man on this planet, it is a temporary phenomenon. Nations rise and fall. This dictatorial, cruel and oppressive regime, which has been found to be a major supporter of terrorism and fanatical Islam throughout the world, is hardly the source for a peaceful solution to the problems of the Middle East.
One can only humbly pray that President Bush. who often speaks of the distinction between good and evil, will act in accordance with the Will of G-d. He must adhere and follow in his term of office, the guiding moral principles of the Book of Books. Only in this manner will there ever be peace in this region.
Ruth and Nadia Matar
*******************************************************
December 24, 2003
A letter has come to our attention which has the germ of an important idea, and we believe should be read by you, digested, and acted upon. The contents of this letter follow:
Dear Mr. President and Mr. Vice President,
A little while ago your administration (which I've been a strong supporter
of) withheld close to $300 millions from the loan guaranties provided to
Israel based on their continuous development of the so-called settlements in
the disputed territories. Taking into account that you are often criticized
for the lack of "evenhandedness" in the Arab-Israeli conflict I would like
to su
Top of Page |
End of Page |
What We Say Index Page |
To Home Page
*******************************************************
December 25, 2003
(The following is a translation of Nadia Matar's Hebrew show on Arutz 7 Internet)
About Pigs and Transfer of Jews
We are now in a new period. Until a few days ago, we did not know where the Israeli Government was leading us, and we could still think that Ariel Sharon "is only talking, but doesn't mean it"; now things are crystal-clear: the Sharon Government intends to betray, hand over, uproot, destroy, and transfer.
The Prime Minister's mouthpiece, Minister Ehud Olmert, said this: in his opinion, Israel is incapable of controlling the entire area between the Jordan and the Mediterranean, and, therefore, we must withdraw. This is Sharon's political plan: to withdraw from most of the regions of Judea, Samaria, and the Gaza District, and even from part of Jerusalem. Why? We all know that this will only increase the enemy's appetite. A withdrawal will be interpreted as surrender to terror - and if we withdraw from Judea, Samaria, and Gaza, the Katushas will start to fall on Tel Aviv, Ben-Gurion, and Haifa. But nothing fazes Sharon and Olmert. According to them, we have to fold.
It is not important now whether Sharon implements this as a unilateral withdrawal, or as a withdrawal that is the result of yet another disastrous agreement with the Arabs. What is important to know is that this time Sharon is serious, and that he wants to be rid of most of Judea, Samaria, and Gaza, to uproot settlements, and to transfer Jews. As Sharon already said in the past, only he is capable of doing this.
This is not the place to begin a lengthy analysis of how it happened that people from the national camp suddenly become Yossi Beilin clones. In my opinion, the reality proves that only a believing leader, who believes that God gave us this land, is capable of standing
firm in the face of pressures. The moment that you base our being in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza on a security reason, without the Bible, without any Divine promise, you have no "case," and, ultimately, you surrender and cave in.
But, as we noted, now is not the time for analyses of what and why, now is the time to ask: What is to be done? How do we organize in order to thwart Ariel Sharon's malicious plans? First of all, we must state, clearly: 1) What the entire struggle is all about?
The struggle is not over Judea, Samaria, and Gaza. The battle is not to save one settlement or another. The struggle is to save the State of Israel, and for the Jewish people's right to exist in its land. The moment that the government of Israel will agree to uproot settlements in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza, it will have swept away from under its very feet our moral right to be in any other place in Eretz Israel. For if we were to retreat from Judea, Samaria, and Gaza, what moral right do we have to remain in Sheikh Munes in Tel Aviv? [Sheikh Munes is the neighborhood where Shimon Peres lives, which used to be an Arab village before 1948]. Accordingly, when we will act to prevent the uprooting of a settlement such as Migron, we actually will be struggling to save Tel Aviv, Beersheva, Tiberias, and Jerusalem.
2) This is not an evacuation!
We must not use the expressions "evacuation or removal" or "shifting" of settlements. This is the uprooting of settlements and transfer for Jews. Politicians who want to mitigate and downplay the crime that they intend to commit use words that do not shock the public. We have the task of crying out that this is actually the brutal uprooting of settlements and the transfer of Jews. It is extremely racist, anti-Semitic, and would involve a virtual Civil War with Jews fighting Jews.
3) About the eating of pork and the uprooting of settlements Question: if 120 Knesset members and an overwhelming majority in the government were to legislate the obligatory eating of pork, would those who observe kashrut obey this "democratic decision"? Obviously not. They would say that despite the decision having been made by majority vote, this is a patently illegal decision, over which a black flag flies. Such a decision is not to be obeyed. If they insisted and sent companies of policemen and soldiers to feed us the pork, we would forcefully resist and we would proclaim: We shall not let you! Period. In other words: over my dead body. The same holds true for the uprooting of settlements. A majority in the government or in the Knesset does not make the handing over of portions of Eretz Israel legal and moral. We shall not obey if the government or the Knesset were to betray the homeland. Accordingly, the residents in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza must remain in the settlements, and IDF soldiers must refuse to participate in the uprooting of settlements and the transfer of Jews.
According to various reports in the media, the authorities believe that some 85 percent of the residents in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza would consent to leave of their own free will if they were to receive suitable compensation, and that the security forces would be required to deal with "only" about 15 percent of the "problematic" ideological inhabitants. We must show them that the numbers are exactly the opposite, and that an overwhelming majority of the residents will remain where they are and refuse to leave. If this will be the situation, uprooting and transferring would not be possible.
4) On the Judenrat and the serious fear of a provocation by the authorities, Yair Sheleg, a journalist and member of the Israel Democracy Institute, wrote a position paper on The Political and Social Significance of Evacuating Settlements in Judea, Samaria and Gaza. In this paper he compares the uprooting of the Yamit settlements to what is liable to happen in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza, and he gives the authorities recommendations how to facilitate the work of uprooting. (Incidentally, it must be understood that Yamit and Judea, Samaria, and Gaza cannot be compared. We were in Yamit only for several years, while a third generation of children is growing up in Judea. Samaria, and Gaza. In Yamit we were only a few thousand, the majority of whom left of their own free will. In Judea, Samaria, and Gaza we are at least a quarter of a million people - not including the massive amount of relatives, friends, and supporters who live in pre-1967 Israel and are willing to come on the day of reckoning.) The bottom line in Sheleg's position paper is that the work of uprooting the settlements will indeed be difficult, but he hopes that the local leadership of the settlers will honor the democratic decision to uproot settlements, aid in calming the waters, help the authorities, and cooperate with them. In more blunt language: Yair Sheleg hopes that the leaders of the settlers (the Council of Jewish Communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza, rabbis, educators, and the like) will constitute a sort of "Judenrat" that collaborates with the transfer government. I would like to hope that this would not be the case, and that the leadership in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza will head the total resistance to this crime.
In such an instance, there exists the frightening possibility that the authorities will find another way to expedite the labor of transfer for them. We must already warn against such a possibility, and declare that we are aware of the fact that the authorities may plant several provocateurs within the public in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza, and that these agents will commit some terrible act (such as shooting at soldiers) to shock the public, to delegitimize us, and to silence our struggle. If this should happen, we will know that these individuals do not belong to our camp, and that they are new "Avishai Raviv"s.
5) What has to be done:
It is time to awaken and begin to organize. I believe with total faith that, with God's help, it is within our power to prevent the crime that the government intends to commit. Battalions of lawyers are already working on appeals to the High Court of Justice to prevent the uprooting of outposts and settlements, using legal tools. The national members of Knesset must organize and give Sharon a clear and unequivocal message that if even a single family will be uprooted, his government will fall.
And we must begin to take to the streets in droves, to show the world that the people of Israel firmly opposes defeatist and suicidal political plans. In the emergency meeting of the joint staff of the extraparliamentary organizations, that was attended by the rabbis of
"Piku'ah Nefesh," Professors for a Strong Israel, Gamla Shall Not Fall Again, Matot Arim, and the Women in Green, the following decisions were taken:
(a) the uprooting of outpost settlements and settlements that the government is plotting would constitute patently illegal racist transfer and ethnic cleansing, over which a black flag flies. This uprooting itself constitutes civil war. We call upon our soldiers to take advantage of the opportunity given them by the IDF not to participate in such actions.
(b) We stand behind the rabbis of "Piku'ah Nefesh" in their announcement to the public that they regard the "uprooting of Jews from their land" as a betrayal of the Jewish people. We ask the Attorney-General to add us to the list of those to be interrogated.
(c) We call upon all those loyal to Eretz Israel to mobilize on behalf of the settlements. We, for our part, have prepared the means for sending out the alert, transportation, and the method for bringing people.
(d) the upcoming activities are: a demonstration, under the slogan: "Olmert Is Dividing Jerusalem" on Sunday, December 14, at 7 p.m. opposite the Jerusalem Theater, against Minister of Communications Olmert who is to speak there. There will also be a demonstration against the Prime Minister on December 12 in Herzliyah during the time of the speech in which he is to announce his intent to hand over the heart of the land to the enemy. Details will be forthcoming in the coming days.
We conclude with the words of Simon the Hasmonean (I Maccabees 15:33-35): "We have not taken other people's land, nor are we in possession of other people's property, but of the inheritance of our forefathers; it was wrongfully held by our enemies at one time, but we, grasping the opportunity, hold firmly the inheritance of our forefathers."
Nadia Matar, Co-Chairperson of Women in Green
Top of Page |
End of Page |
What We Say Index Page |
To Home Page
*******************************************************
December 25, 2003
TERROR-DEE AND TERROR-DUM
Dealing With Arab Terror
LETTER FROM RUTH MATAR (WOMEN IN GREEN) JERUSALEM
Wednesday, December 24, 2003
Dear Friends,
It grieves me to watch Fox TV News today with the repeated warnings from Homeland Security, and the justified fear that there might be another 9/11 type attack. As an American, I fear as much for the safety of my brother's family in New York and New Jersey, and the safety of my sister's family, in Maryland, Illinois and Florida, as I fear for the safety of my children and grandchildren, who live in Israel.
What is not to be understood is: How can the U.S. hope to deter terrorism when it itself is actively involved in the rapid establishment of a terrorist State? When the U.S. itself is undermining its own strategic posture by genuflecting to the Palestinian terrorist agenda?
When the Bush Government speaks about the need for reform of the Palestinian Authority, no mention is ever made of the simple fact that every Palestinian political party is a terrorist organization. That every faction represented in the PA's legislature is an armed group, and that every one of the PA's "Security Forces" is involved in terrorist attacks against Israel.
Not withstanding, hundreds of millions of Dollars in annual U.S. aid for the PA and President George W. Bush's support for a Palestinian state, the PA's message remains staunchly anti-U.S. A poll by Palestinian Media Watch indicates that Palestinian hatred of the U.S. is deep and ingrained. The poll found that 42% of Palestinians support attacks on American forces in Iraq; 74% said they had supported Saddam Hussein in the war; and only 37% felt the World Trade Center bombers were "terrorists".
After Saddam's capture by the U.S., the PA newspaper Al-Hayat Al-Yadida wrote the following on December 18: "When the tragic fall of Baghdad took place and it became the second Arab capital to fall under occupation after Jerusalem, the traitors considered it an official holiday. This is your day, traitors. Dance to the tune of Bush's drums and time your prayers on Sharon's trumpets. But remember, that the Arab masses, especially in great Iraq, may have their backs to the wall, but they know that you are the enemy."
In Kahn Yunis (Gaza) Palestinians demonstrated in support of Saddam after his capture, shooting in the air from M-16 rifles (gift from Shimon Peres) and burning American and Israeli flags. They also burned George W. Bush in effigy.
President Bush and his State Department, keep insisting that all Jewish (not Arab) settlement activity in the Holy Land must stop. In fact, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Daniel Kurtzer, (who frequently issues orders to Israel as if he were the High Commissioner rather than the U.S. Ambassador) has issued a dictate to Israeli courts: do not to let the fact that Migron has submitted documents proving that it is a legal community on Jewish owned Land, prevent its uprooting! Why is U.S. Ambassador Daniel Kurtzer focusing on Migron? It seems that he had previously instructed Israel Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz that Migron has to be the first Jewish "settlement" to be evacuated, so as to make possible a contiguous Palestinian State.
It is difficult to understand President Bush's insistence on creating a Palestinian terrorist state in the Holy Land and thereby depriving the Jewish People of their rightful heritage.
But, as it has often been said, in politics there are no friends, only interests. And unfortunately, the United States perceives its interests to be to placate Saudi Arabia and the rest of the Muslim world.
But it is impossible to understand what has happened to Ariel Sharon, our erstwhile hero. He was elected by an overwhelming majority, because he promised security. But more civilians had been killed on his watch, than in all the years of Israel's statehood.
He has undergone a complete metamorphosis. First he agreed to the "Road Map", which is even worse than the Oslo Accords. It is important to remember that the "Road Map" was NEVER approved by the Israeli Knesset. Sharon said that it was not a formal agreement, just a "direction" or a "frame", and hence there was no need to bring it to the Knesset for approval. Very clever strategy on Sharon's part. And now, his pretence is that the Israeli People have already agreed to the "Road Map"!
He promised that Israel would not become another Czechoslovakia, and then he voluntarily agrees in his Herzliya speech in December 18 to "Unilateral Disengagement" and "Relocation" of tens of thousands of his countrymen.
Ariel Sharon, why not be honest with yourself and the Israeli People? Why do you hide behind phrases that attempt to mislead the public instead of using words that we all know and understand? "Unilateral Disengagement" really means "Retreat" (and the first step of defeat is retreat) and "Relocation" of Jews means TRANSFER of Jews.
Let Sharon's words written in the not too distant past speak for themselves. On September 29, 1995, an Op-Ed article by Ariel Sharon was published in the Jerusalem Post. The following is a reprint of this article in its entirety.
* * *
SICK JOY OF RETREAT by Ariel Sharon
Jerusalem Post, September 29, 1995. pg. 07
The foreign minister helps the Palestinians rewrite history. The writer, a Likud MK, is a former defense minister.
I felt pain after the agreement was signed this week [Oslo 2]; pain caused not merely by the government's mistaken, irresponsible decisions, but chiefly by its ministers' devilish joy at the "defeat" of their foes - the settlers. A very premature joy, I believe.
Sometimes, you have no choice but to retreat; sometimes you hold on to something not yours for bargaining purposes. But to give up something that's entirely yours with cries of joy - the joy of retreat - is a sick phenomenon.
The devil's advocates like to make comparisons: distorting history, they have made the late Menachem Begin their symbol.
At Camp David, they contend, president Carter imprisoned Israel's premier and his advisers with Egypt's president and his aides for 13 days until they reached agreement. But at Camp David, despite American pressure, the hours of sleep were normal, and Begin conducted consultations with his government every day.
At Taba, on the other hand, Israel chose this mode of negotiations of its own free will, without outside pressure. And it surrendered, too, of its own free will.
Today, through cooperation with the US, Israel can obtain almost anything it wants. But, instead of promoting the country's interests, the government is busy helping Arafat, despite his violation of almost every clause of the Oslo agreement; it works for Jordan's benefit; and it aids President Mubarak, even though he now leads the anti-Israel Arab bloc.
The government hasn't demanded the release of Jonathan Pollard, nor has it pressed for the return of MIAs about whom Arafat has information. It refrains from demanding, in return for releasing Palestinian terrorists, the extradition of murderers who now roam free in the PA-ruled areas, or take short vacations in prison.
Terrorists, murderers with blood on their hands, will soon be freed. That is the height of abomination.
IN A campaign to mislead the public, Arafat's Israeli advocates claim there is no other way. They don't want a binational state, they don't want to rule over another people, they say.
What do they really mean? Are they planning a divided Jerusalem? After all, about 150,000 Arabs live in the city. Do they intend to "transfer" 850,000 Israeli Arabs?
We have never proposed granting Israeli citizenship to the Arab residents of Judea and Samaria: all have Jordanian passports. And there are other peaceful, acceptable solutions to the threat of binationalism.
The prime minister continues to talk about the Jordan River as Israel's security border, and mentions the Jordan Rift. He should know what any divisional commander knows: To wage a defensive battle there, forces must be deployed to a depth of at least 40-50 km. from the Arava. For this, a permanent foothold is needed on the mountain ridge, and west of it.
Even the Taba signing ceremony was shameful. Arafat, proud of his language, spoke in Arabic. Our foreign minister, a prisoner of inherent servility, spoke English.
Nor can one ignore the minister's bon mot: "Two peoples born in the same cradle." As though it were at all possible to compare the two histories!
The Jewish people settled in Eretz Yisrael 2,500 years before the Moslems ever reached it. That 2,000 years later the Moslems adopted our forefather Abraham as one of their prophets doesn't grant them preferred status here. Nor does the Koran, written a millennium after the Bible, and which never mentions Jerusalem, give them privileges in this country. Since when must an Israeli minister help the Palestinians rewrite history?
This is a Jewish state in which Arabs can live in dignity if they abide by the law. They can, of course, practice religious ritual according to their faith. We shall never emulate Arafat's "Minister of Religious Affairs" Hassan Tahboub, who recently said, "Jews will not be able to pray on the Temple Mount, the Machpela Cave, or Rachel's Tomb, once these shrines come under Palestinian control."
Hebron must remain in our hands: not because of the 400 Jews who live near the cave, but because of the 4,000 years of Jewish history; because of the Tomb of the Patriarchs and Matriarchs, that glorious monument whose like no other city can boast; because of David's kingdom in Hebron.
Neither the Israel of the left nor that of the National Camp has the right to concede Hebron, Rachel's Tomb, Shilo, Beit El and Joseph's Tomb. Certainly no government has the right to give up the Temple Mount.
Governments come and go, and so do generations: it is our great privilege to hold these sacred possessions in trust for future generations. We have no right to transfer them to alien hands.
A note on the government's recent chastisement of Diaspora Jews: "You live abroad. Don't intervene in Israel's affairs."
Strange. During Likud administrations, opposition leaders (today's cabinet ministers) made every effort to solicit foreign intervention against the government, including urging the US to reduce assistance to Israel.
For decades now, I have repeatedly declared that Israel is not just an Israeli project, but the responsibility of all the world's Jews. What happens to Israel will affect the situation, even the destiny, of Jews everywhere. It is not only their right but their duty to make their voices heard.
* * *
It is so very sad to see how Sharon has changed. I do very much agree with the last paragraph in his article, with one important addition: Israel is not just an Israeli project, but the responsibility of not only all of the world's Jews, but Bible believing Jews and Christians everywhere.
It is not only their right but their duty to make their voices heard, because the current struggle is for the very survival of the Judeo-Christian Western Civilization against radical Islam.
U.S. President George W. Bush may want to create a Palestinian State on covenant land for reasons of what he wrongly conceives as beneficial to the United States.
Israel's Prime Minister Ariel Sharon now believes in "Unilateral Disengagement", in effect retreat, because he has lost faith in the G-d given right of the Jews to the Land of Israel, or because he is afraid of the United States, and/or because he has just lost his nerve altogether. Both President Bush and Prime Minister Ariel Sharon are not able to see the larger picture. And hence, both are going against the words of G-d as spelled out in the Judeo-Christian Bible.
As it is written in Proverbs 19:21: "Many are the plans in man's heart, but the counsel of Hashem will prevail."
* * *
Dear Friends: What can we do? It would be most effective if you forwarded this message to your friends, acquaintances, President George W. Bush president@whitehouse.gov, and Vice President Cheney vice.president@whitehouse.gov. To get the email addresses of Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld, Secretary of State Colin Powell, and your Senators and Congressman, call the Capitol Hill Switchboard at (202)456-6212 or (202)224-3121. They will even tell you who the Congressman of your District is, or transfer you to his office.
In addition, I hope that you will forward this Letter to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon at pm_eng@pmo.gov.il. He needs thousands of reminders from you of what he told the world in 1995 about the Rabin Government's "mistaken irresponsible decisions" to make agreements of retreat with the enemy.
With Blessings and Love for Israel,
Ruth Matar
Top of Page |
End of Page |
What We Say Index Page |
To Home Page
*******************************************************
December 26, 2003
Israel's Shame
Women in Green call upon everyone to join in an important
DEMONSTRATION in behalf of Arutz 7.
WHEN: MONDAY, DECEMBER 29, 2003 AT 1:30 P.M.
WHERE: OUTSIDE THE JERUSALEM SHALOM COURT (RUSSIAN COMPOUND)
The judge who found the defendants guilty of violating the criminal law, will be sentencing the respective defendants at that time and place.
Arutz 7 has been the major source of objective news and commentary for the majority of Israeli citizens for many years. This large majority of Jews living in Israel had found that they could not get reliable news coverage from the major radio and television stations, whose views were those of a minority of the Jewish People. Unfortunately, it is this minority which controls the major means of communication in Israel.
We, who have faithfully listened to the broadcasts of Arutz 7 radio for many years, proclaim that we citizens of Israel are just as guilty as the defendants in the Arutz 7 case. We proclaim that we also should have been charged and punished along with these defendants, who selflessly supplied us with objective news and the commentary we needed to hear.
We also say to the defendants in the Arutz 7 case: You are our courageous heroes and we thank you for supplying us with the relevant news and commentary for the past 15 years. You have given us responsible free speech, and supplied us with the kind of views and Jewish orientation of our tradition and heritage, which resulted in pride in ourselves and love of our Country.
Come with your friends, neighbors and relatives en masse, on Monday afternoon to show your identification with, and appreciation of Arutz 7!
Ruth and Nadia Matar
*******************************************************
December 28, 2003
FIRST THE SATURDAY PEOPLE -
THEN THE SUNDAY PEOPLE !
Who will write the elegies for Jewish
girls and a Jewish boy, murdered in Tel Aviv on Christmas day, 2003?
Who mourns lovely Rotem? Bright eyed Angelina? And warm Edva? And handsome
Noam?
Who mourns them, slaughtered as they stood, waiting for the bus to taken them
home?
Nineteen years old.
Nineteen years old.
Twenty years old
Twenty-one years old.
Murdered, because we opened our gates.
Because our walls are not high enough.
Because we let them in, to kill and maim.
Let them in to take our children, in the streets. Our kind young men.
Our beautiful girls.
Helped them to serve their stone-hearted god, their evil prophets who despise
life.
Stone-hearted, like the idols of old, who
reveled in human sacrifice.
They claim a land. They claim a culture. These stone-hearted hordes who love
gravestones and bombs and iron-nails and exploding flesh and dead children.
Who will sing for Rotem, Angelina, Edva, Noam, killed in Tel Aviv on Christmas
Day, 2003?
Who will write the elegies?
Naomi Ragen
Top of Page
|
What We Say Index
Page
|
To Home Page