July 2003
July 2, 2003 World-wide Demonstration Against Road Map
July 4, 2003 Sharon Agrees to Release Arab Murderers
July 9, 2003 A Special Spiritual Invitation
July 13, 2003 Is It Safe? By Jack Engelhard
July 18, 2003 The Spiritual Event of the Year
July 21, 2003 Worldwide Protest Against the Evil of the Road Map
July 22, 2002 Is This What We Call Jewish Morality?
July 23, 2003 Women in Green Hour with Ruth Matar
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Jerusalem, July 2, 2003
World-wide Demonstration Against Road Map
WOMEN IN GREEN in Israel and abroad are enthusiastically
joining in a world-wide demonstration of grass-roots
movements, both Christians and Jews, to be held inmany
communities throughout the world on Sunday, July 20, 2003.
The following cities have committed to holding demonstrations
on that day: Copenhagen, Toronto, Surrey, Johannesburg,
Chicago, New York, Atlanta, Denver, San Francisco, Miami,
Baltimore/Washington, Dallas, Columbus,Portland, Philadelphia,
and Jerusalem. Additional cities and communities can be
added to this growing list.
In Jerusalem, we shall be holding the demonstration outside
of the office of the Prime Minister, at the Rose Garden, at 9:30
a.m. At 10:15 a.m. we will then march to the Office of the
Foreign Ministry, where we shall continue our demonstration.
The Road Map is a disaster for Israel. It rewards terrorism.
The Arabs who have fostered suicide bombings and other
forms of terrorist activity would be unjustly receiving a state
within Historical and Biblical Israel. The Road Map would
destroy the Jewish State of Israel. It is contra to, and defies
the Word of G-d. The Bible promises, that all who promote
the principles and contents of the Road Map, shall be cursed.
Ruth and Nadia Matar
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Jerusalem, July 4, 2003
Sharon Agrees to Release Arab Murderers,
While the Courts Continue to Persecute Loyal Jews
On the day the Sharon Government released yet another batch of Arab
terrorists, Nadia Matar had three judges of the District Court in
Jerusalem reject her appeal in the "Cookie Case" against her.
A few months ago, Nadia Matar was found guilty of throwing cookies at
an Arab car during a demonstration at an intersection in the Gush
Etzion area in which she lives. The residents were demanding that
the Chief of Staff ruling be implemented, that no Arab cars be allowed
on that road. There had been an inordinate amount of Jews being
killed by Arab drive-by shootings, on the very road in which the
above-mentioned citizen protest was being held.
The judge in the lower court believed the contradictory statements
of the police and gave Nadia an inordinately harsh sentence: 180
hours of community service; a fine; a criminal file; a suspended
sentence for three years, wherein if she was found guilty in another
protest demonstration, she would go to jail.
The punishment is indicative of the fact that the courts in Israel are
left-oriented and anti-nationalistic. The courts are not attuned to the
prevailing views of the majority of its citizens and they do not
represent the will of the people. There is no such thing as a democratic
election of judges by the people, here in Israel.
The higher echelons of the police are also left-oriented. On many
occasions, the police do not hesitate to tell lies under oath. The courts
nevertheless usually believe and do not question testimony by the police.
It is a bizarre situation. The Sharon Government agrees to release
additional murderers, both potential and otherwise. Nadia Matar and
Women in Green are loyal, outspoken, and God-fearing Jews. We and
all other Jewish activists are passionately devoted to the survival of
Israel as a Jewish State. Nevertheless, Nadia, Women in Green and
all other activists are harassed and harshly treated by the Israeli Courts.
Ruth Matar
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Jerusalem, July 9, 2003
A Special Spiritual Invitation
A Special Invitation from Women For Israel's Tomorrow (Women in Green) to
come to the Holy City of Jerusalem on the 9th day of the Hebrew Month of Av
to participate in the ancient custom of walking around the walls of the Old
City of Jerusalem. This year the Walk will take place on Wednesday Evening,
August 6, 2003, the beginning of Tisha B'Av.
In the last few years, despite existing Arab terrorist activities, between
80,000 to 100,000 participated in this annual "spiritual event"
commemorating the destruction of the First and Second Temples, on the very
same day, thousands of years ago. However, it is not inconceivable that
more than 250,000 will participate in this Event in the very near future.
Those participating in the Walk, will be praying for the rebuilding of the
Third Temple on the sacred Temple Mount here in Jerusalem.'s
We hope that you can come to Jerusalem personally and participate in this
yearly spiritual occasion. However, even if you cannot, you can
participate in the "Walk" by sponsoring a person to "Walk" in your behalf.
The minimum amount for sponsoring such a person is $25. You, however, are
urged to contribute beyond that sum to cover the large costs involved in
the worldwide sponsorship of this Event. It is also your personal statement
of your support for Jerusalem, the spiritual center of the Universe.
Each person sponsoring a participant will be sent a beautiful card of his
sponsorship of a Walker in this historical happening. Wherever you are
located, you will share in this spiritual experience of walking around the
Walls of the Holy City of Jerusalem on Tisha B'Av Evening.
Now more than ever we need everyone to identify with the Prophet Isaiah,
who proclaimed many centuries ago:
"For Jerusalem's Sake I Will Not Be Silent."
Ruth and Nadia Matar
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Jerusalem, July 13, 2003
Is It Safe? By Jack Engelhard
Suppose 1,300 Israelis had been slain in one day? Wouldn't that be war?
Instead, that same amount of murder has been spread out over some two
years. So what do we have?
Merely a "situation."
Two years, one day, what's the difference? That's still 1,300 Israelis dead.
In the event of such wholesale catastrophe within a 24 hour period, there'd
be wailing, outrage, a summons to gather all tanks, ships and planes to
destroy the enemy from land, sea and air. The nation would be mobilized,
even the world would nod its affirmation as Israel recovers and retaliates
to save its homeland.
Think back to October 6, 1973, when Egypt and Syria came calling. Israel
rose up as one soldier. Or think December 7, 1941, when Japan came calling.
Both were "dates which will live in infamy," FDR, and in neither case was
there dithering.
What we have here, instead, are slight infamies -- yes, like being slightly
pregnant.
For this enemy is clever. He goes retail. Virtually every day more
killings, five on Monday, eight on Tuesday...a wedding here, a bar mitzvah
there...a kibbutz here, a moshav there...a bus...a restaurant...a man, a
woman...a child...all that but never enough to awaken and startle the
Israeli populace. As another conflict once had it: "acceptable losses."
President Bush himself has gotten sucked into the same wobbly thinking.
Back on May 1, on the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln,
Bush said it's over in Iraq. Hmmm. What about our American troops being
picked off two at a time day after day? Bush is still declaring victory and
American boys are still being shot dead -- more than 50 at the time of this
writing.
Indeed, watching it on TV you double-take as to where the scenes are coming
from, Iraq or Israel, for in both cases the enemy's tactics are the same.
Ambush. We have the enemy sneaking up from behind, sneaking in as a friend,
and we even have women performing the task of suicide bombers. Is it
Israel? Iraq? Take your pick.
Can the leaders of Israel and America be so deluded? Yes.
Do you remember the movie "Marathon Man" and that famous line from the Nazi
dentist: "Is it safe?" Yes, it's safe says Bush and yes it's safe says
Israel's Chief of General Staff, Lt. Gen'l Moshe Ya'alon, who publicly
decided, for the living and the dead, that the intifada is over. Just like
Bush. So what if a few Israelis and a few Americans get killed every day?
It's not like there's, heaven forbid, a war going on. What war? We won,
didn't we?
How would it be, however, if those 50-plus Americans had all been killed in
one day, one firefight? Still safe? Still no war?
Here's a news alert: both our countries are at war, and with the same
enemy! Contrary to philosopher Francis Fukuyama, who announced the end of
history, and in defiance of the leadership here in America and in Israel,
there is a very big war going on and it's coming from radical Islam, whose
ambitions are global domination.
Yes Virginia, the Koran has arrived and it has come to devour the Bible!
Don't take my word for it, for even such newspapers as the New York Times
admit that Saudi Arabia is energetically exporting (extremist) Wahhabi
Islam across the globe, even to a mosque near you.
Or consider France's leading intellectual, Bernard-Henri Levy, who visited
Pakistan to research a book on slain Wall Street reporter Daniel
Pearl. Ordinarily a leftist, Levy returned stunned by the depth and
ferocity of radical Islam. Here's what he reported to Le Figaro: "Radical
Islam is as much to be feared as the Communist and fascist totalitarianisms
of yesterday." I agree and disagree.
Communism, for all its Stalinist ruthlessness, will end up being dumped as
a footnote, and as for fascism -- even the Nazis did not raise up an entire
generation to the cult of self-sacrifice. Who knows what's coming next from
over the Islamic horizon...?
The end of history? No, it's only the beginning -- and is it safe? No, it
is not safe.
(A View of the Absurd an op-ed column published in Comteq Communications
on July 11, 2003.)
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Jerusalem, July 18, 2003
The Spiritual Event of the Year - Walking Around
The Walls of Jerusalem
The First Temple was destroyed more than 2500 years ago. The Second Temple
was destroyed in 70 A.D. Both occurred on the SAME DAY the 9th of the
Hebrew Month of Av.
Is the Third Temple soon to be built? That depends on all of us.
Join in the Walk around the Old City commemorating this spiritual
destruction of the Temples where the L-rd of the Universe resided in Holy
Jerusalem.
If you can't come personally, sponsor a Walker. Over the last few years,
more than 100,000 participated each year in this annual event commemorating
this tragic spiritual loss. Be counted amongst those who wish to bring
back G-d into our daily lives, and to live in accordance with His Divine
Will.
Next year in Jerusalem!
Ruth and Nadia Matar
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Jerusalem, July 21, 2003
Worldwide Protest Against the Evil of the Road Map
Our grass roots protest against the Road Map, which began outside the Prime
Minister's Office in Jerusalem, attracted over 200 people. However, the
support we received from passing cars, and from those walking by, confirmed
the fact that Women in Green represent the silent majority of the People of
Israel on the vital question of the Road Map. There is no doubt about it,
that US President Bush and Arik Sharon completely ignore the overwhelming
majority of the Jews of Israel, who are antagonistic to the Road Map and
all that it stands for.
But apparently, it is not only the Jews of Israel. Most Christians and Jews
throughout the world are vigorously opposed to the Road Map. They
simultaneously showed such dissatisfaction by joining worldwide protests
against this Saudi Arabian Plan to destroy Israel. The Road Map is, in
effect, an unholy War against the G-d of the Universe. It epitomizes the
concept of making peace with evil. When the United States and Britain
endorsed the Road Map, they were being inconsistent with their actions
against Arab terror in Iraq. Accordingly, they are paying a very high price
for this inconsistency by the continual loss of American and British lives
in Iraq, where they are dealing with the same problem that exists in Israel
Arab terrorism. They cannot maintain a double standard one for Arab
terrorism in Iraq, which must be wiped out, while at the same time,
permitting Arafat and Arab terrorism to reign within Israel.
Worldwide demonstrations were held on the same day against the Road Map,
from Cape Town in South Africa, to New York, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles,
San Francisco, Philadelphia, to name but a few of the many protest
demonstrations. Not only does the Road Map reward Arab terror and threaten
Israel's existence, but what is more important, it will lead to the Arab
destruction of whatever morality exists in the world today. Moreover, the
Saudi onslaught by way of the Road Map is a ruthless attack on the very
foundations of Western Civilization, and must be recognized as such.
It is symbolic that on the very day that so many demonstrations were being
held against the Road Map, we are observing the tenth anniversary of the
murder of Mordechai Lipkin. Ten years ago, Mordechai was driving home to
his family in Tekoa, where his four little boys were waiting for him. A few
kilometers from his home, Arabs shot and murdered him. The murder marked a
renewed wave of Arab terror, which was never crushed. Instead, a few weeks
after the murder, the Israeli Government, under Rabin and Peres, rewarded
these Arab terrorists by signing the criminal Oslo Accords. The Oslo "Deal"
included releasing Arab murderers, and giving them cities of refuge, and
distributing thousands of more guns to them.
Ten years later, we have more than 1,300 other murders by Arabs of persons
like Mordechai Lipkin. We have PM Sharon continuing to follow the
Peres-Rabin policy of releasing Hamas and Jihad murderers. We have Sharon
promising (what no other Prime Minister of Israel has ever dared to do) to
reward these Arab terrorists with a state of their own, within Israel's
Biblical heartland.
Those who came to demonstrate in Jerusalem were not only settlers from
Jerusalem, but also settlers from Tel Aviv, Ashdod, Tiberias, Bnei Brak,
Ofra, Tekoa, Efrat, Kiryat Arba, Beersheva, Oranit, Haifa and Ashkelon, etc.
Dressed as Arabs, with kefiyas and toy guns, the demonstrators held a
coffin, which had written on it in large, bold letters, "Road Map to
Israel's Destruction". On the sides of the coffin were plastered yellow
Stars of David. It was to remind all of us that Abu Mazen, a
Holocaust-Denier, and puppet of Arafat, seeks to return Israel to its 1967
"Auschwitz" borders.
Minister Benny Elon left the government meeting that was going on in order
to join the demonstration and to eloquently speak to the gathering. Member
of Knesset Prof. Arieh Eldad also spoke. He warned that the Road Map is in
effect a recipe for the annihilation of the Jewish State. Attorney Elyakim
Ha'etzni explained the insane situation we are in. PM Sharon is being
forced by U.S. President Bush to do things that harm Israel's interests, in
order to strengthen Abu Mazen's Arab regime. The only solution, according
to Ha'etzni, is to use all legal means to bring down the Sharon Government.
Jan Willem van der Hoeven, President of the International Christian Zionist
Center, conveyed to his audience that the Road Map is not only a problem
for the Jews but for millions of Bible-believing Christians as well. He
said it goes against G-d's promise to the Jewish People. No one has the
right to go against the Will of G-d and give this Holy Land away to others.
Nadia Matar, a leader of Women in Green, deplored the fact that Prime
Minister Sharon has turned out to be a zero, and not the hero he was
thought to be. She stressed that the primary task of Sharon was to actively
seek the release of the MIAs, Jonathan Pollard in the U.S. and Azzam Azzam
in Egypt, rather than releasing Arab murderers to wreak havoc on the
community in Israel.
After hearing the encouraging speeches, there was a blowing of the shofar,
a traditional means of warning of danger. The demonstrators marched to the
nearby Foreign Ministry, to continue the Demonstration. The ceremony ended
with a singing of Psalm 24 (A Song of Ascents) and the national anthem,
Hatikvah. It is ironic that though free in their own Land, the Jewish
People live daily with Arab terror, which the nations of the world
virtually ignore.
Ruth and Nadia Matar
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Jerusalem, Jerusalem, July 22, 2002
Is This What We Call Jewish Morality?
Yitzhak Pass, the father of Shalhevet Pass, a baby
that was shot in the head and killed by an Arab while in the arms of her
father, is being held by Israel Security Forces (Shabak) for extensive
questioning, without having the right to counsel. A protest will take
place there at 11:A.M. on Wedesday, July 23, 2003 by the Hebron
Community and others in front of the Shalom Court located at the
Russian Compund In Jerusalem where the Court will decide on the
extension of his detention..
It is a shameful act of Israel to allow the imprisonment
of this man and his brother-in-law Moti Shabo. This indignity will not make
the Road Map more acceptable; nor is such behavior by the police in
any way comprehensible. How can one be so lacking in feeling and
understanding to hold a father who experienced this horrible tragedy to
his new born baby? How can the Jewish People be silent while this father
is subjected to such cruielty on the part of the so-called security forces?
How can a government which releases Arab terrorists to continue their acts
of savagery, live with itself?
Have we lost all sense of proportions? Are we sinking
into an abyss of insensitivity and lack of understanding? The traits of
humaneness and understanding have typified the Jewish People down
through the ages!
Women in Green urge all of its members, friends
and supporters, to join in this protest against the inhumane, insensitive
and undeserved treatment of Yitzhak Pass and Moti Shabo.
Ruth and Nadia Matar
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Jerusalem, July 23, 2003
Women in Green Hour with Ruth Matar
Last Sunday, July 20, I listened to a panel discussion on Fox TV.
The discussion was about the fact that President George W. Bush's
approval rating had gone down considerably, as much as 14 points,
that is from a high of 71% to 57%. The panel of experts discussed the
reason for this drop. Two main explanations were offered:
1. The weak economy
2. The developing guerilla war with daily attacks on US Forces in Iraq.
I want to suggest that there is a very important additional reason for
President Bush's sagging popularity, his approval and support for
the so-called "Road Map to Peace", which is in effect the Saudi
Arabian plan for Israel's destruction.
Saudi Arabia is unfortunately wielding undue dangerous influence
over the Bush administration.
Firstly, let us deal with the troubled economy which Bush is facing.
The Saudis OWN a huge chunk of America's economy. The Saudis
flexed their muscles shortly after 9/11 by pulling billions of dollars
out of the US stock market when the United States, against Saudi
wishes, revealed that 15 of the 19 terrorist attackers were Saudi
nationals. That was to serve as a warning to the United States that
America was in the grip of Saudi financial might.
And the Saudis certainly feel that they virtually control the American
economy. For instance, the Saudis practically own Citibank and they
have seventeen trillion dollars invested in the United States.
The Saudis have also reacted with anger to a lawsuit for damages
filed by families of September 11victims against Saudi banks and
charities.
There is no doubt that the Saudis hate Israel, have a boycott
against all Israeli products, and will not do business with
companies that have anything to do with Israel.
It was pressure from Saudi Arabia, even threats to cut off all
relations with the United States, which caused President George
W. Bush to agree to the establishment of a Palestinian state, and
to divide the Holy Land. Even his father, President Bush Sr., did
not promote a Palestinian state when he was in office. In fact, at
the Madrid conference after the first Iraqi war, he declared that
the establishment of a Palestinian state was NOT United States
policy.
Saudi Arabia is the evil power that is manipulating the United
States policy toward Israel. It is the major force behind the murderous
Road Map conspiracy. Is this little desert kingdom with its collection
of 3,000 oil-rich princes blackmailing today's only super-power?
The second cause for President Bush's declining popularity is the
guerilla war against US Forces in Iraq.
Back on May 1st, on the deck of the aircraft carrier US Abraham
Lincoln, Bush declared victory and said: "It's over in Iraq."
But what about our American troops being picked off two at a
time day after day? A senior US military official was quoted as
saying: "Everyone in uniform is a target."
If you watch TV, you don't know where the killing scenes are
coming from, Iraq or Israel. In both cases the enemies' tactics
are the same. Ambush! Suicide bombers! Snipers! Even women
suicide bombers!
The Arabs in Iraq are excellent pupils of the Palestinian terrorists.
Palestinian terrorists entered Iraq through Syria during the war to
help their Iraqi brothers. Palestinians trained Iraqis to be suicide
bombers, and also as snipers. Foreign fighters such as Jordanians
and Palestinians are currently being held for questioning by the
Americans for being agents and provocateurs and for killing
American soldiers. Many of these foreign fighters, by the way,
are dependent on Saudi money.
President Bush has taught the Palestinian terrorists an important
lesson. Terror pays! Terror pays, and if your sponsor Saudi Arabia
so demands from the United States, terror pays big time. Even t
hough the Palestinian terrorists have murdered more than 1300
innocent people since the Oslo Accords, they are being rewarded
with a Palestinian state. Are the Palestinian Arabs grateful for this
American largess? For instance, the Israeli daily Ha'aretz
(March 30, 2003), reported that the Palestinian Authority renamed
the main square in the city of Jenin in honor of the Iraqi bomber
who murdered four American soldiers in a suicide car bomb attack
on March 27, 2003 in Iraq. The Iraqi Arabs cannot fail to learn that
terror is not punished, but rewarded by the United States.
The Saudis practice the most violent form of Islam - Wahabism -
which calls for a global Jihad - death to ALL unbelievers - and that
includes all unbelievers - Jews and Christians alike. Never forget
the graffiti in Arab countries: "First the Saturday people, then the
Sunday people." Both the United States and Israel are at war with
the same enemy, radical Islam, whose ambitions are global domination.
The Koran has arrived, and it has come to try to devour the Bible!
Unfortunately, President Bush does not seem to understand that
appeasement of these ambitions of radical Islam is dangerous
for America. His Secretary of State, Colin Powell, has the same
attitude toward Saudi demands, instead of defending our American
freedom of religion.
I have just read Colin Powell's book, "My American Journey",
published by Random House in 1995. Appeasement of Saudi
Arabia which, after all, American troops were sent to defend,
is obvious throughout his book. Colin Powell is proud of all
the deals that he makes with his friend Prince Bandar, the
Saudi Ambassador to the United States for the last twenty
years. He boasts of the familiarity between himself, the
poor kid from the South Bronx, and the Prince from a royal palace!
All of Colin Powell's concessions were in Saudi Arabia's favor.
The following are a few quotes from Colin Powell's book starting
on Page 474.
"At this early stage, morale among our troops was high, but the
desert was a bleak, forbidding world, hedged in by Muslim moral
strictures uncongenial to GIs from the Western world. At one point,
Prince Bandar warned me, "No Bibles". "Are you kidding?" I said.
We were being inundated with Bibles from religious groups, and
I could imagine the military trying to tell these folks: "The Arabs
will take your sons, but not their Bibles."
"Saudi customs officials will have to confiscate the Bibles,"
Bandar insisted. We finally worked out a deal whereby we
flew the Bibles directly to our air bases, while Saudi officials
looked the other way.
Then Bandar informed me that no religious services could be
held on Arab soil for our Jewish troops. "They can die defending
your country, but they can't pray in it?' I asked.
"Colin, be reasonable," he answered. "It will be reported on CNN.
What will our people think?"
We found a practical solution. We planned to helicopter Jewish
personnel out to American vessels in the Persian Gulf and hold
Jewish services aboard ship.
Bandar also worried about crucifixes. I told him our soldiers
would be ordered to wear them inside and not outside their T-shirts."
Last Sunday, there was a worldwide protest against the evil of the
Road Map. Simultaneous demonstrations were held in New York
City, Philadelphia, Atlanta, San Francisco, Chicago, Houston, Portland,
Oregon, Miami, Dallas, Denver, Capetown, South Africa, and other
places. The Women in Green demonstration was held in Jerusalem.
Those who came to demonstrate in Jerusalem were not only settlers
from Jerusalem, but also "settlers" from Tel Aviv, Ashdod, Tiberias,
Bnei Brak, Ofra, Tekoa, Efrat, Kiryat Arba, Beersheva, Oranit, Haifa
and Ashkelon, etc.
Dressed as Arabs with kaffiyehs and toy guns, our demonstrators held
a coffin, which had written on it in large, bold letters, "Road Map to
Israel's Destruction". On the sides of the coffin were plastered yellow
Stars of David. It was to remind all of us that Abu Mazen, a
Holocaust-denier and puppet of Arafat, seeks to return Israel to its
1967 "Auschwitz" borders.
Minister Benny Elon left the government meeting that was going on in
order to join the demonstration and to speak to the gathering. Member
of Knesset Professor Aryeh Eldad also spoke. He warned that the Road
Map is in effect a recipe for the annihilation of the Jewish State. Attorney
Elyakim Ha'etzni explained the insane situation we are in. Prime Minister
Sharon is being forced by US President Bush to do things that harm
Israel's interests in order to strengthen Abu Mazen's Arab regime. The
only solution, according to Ha'etzni, is to use all legal means to bring
down the Sharon government.
My Co-chair of Women in Green, Nadia Matar, deplored the fact that
Prime Minister Sharon has turned out to be a zero, and not the hero
he was thought to be. She stressed that the primary task of Sharon
was to actively seek the release of the MIA's, Jonathan Pollard in the
United States, and Azzam Azzam in Egypt, rather than releasing
Arab murderers who will continue murdering innocent Jews in Israel.
There was much support from the bystanders for our demonstration.
Also, the media was there is full force. However, the Israeli media
almost completely ignored our demonstration, whereas they give
columns of print to an event such as the recent gay parade in
Jerusalem. On the other hand, the International Herald Tribune
published a large picture of our demo stating that this was a
demonstration by Women in Green activists.
WHY? The leftist media in Israel is anxious to show that there is no
grass root dissent from the government policies. The explanation for
such behavior can be found in a book, entitled "Murder in the Name of
G-d" by Michael Karpin. Mr. Karpin is an Israeli journalist, who was for
many years head of the government TV Channel I news program.
Here is a quote from his book, page 80.
"Demonstrations (by Women in Green) were regularly covered by
Israel's two main television channels. Yet, the most shocking clips of
the crowd were filmed by foreign news organizations and aired abroad,
while the Israeli crews usually stood at the edges of the crowds and
missed the agitation within. It is also possible that reporters and their
editors heeded requests from the Prime Minister's Bureau not to
amplify the incitement by broadcasting it. There is little question that
the media in general favored Rabin's policy of compromise with the
Palestinians and may, wittingly or otherwise, have skewed their
coverage accordingly."
It makes one wonder if Ariel Sharon is perpetuating this government
control of the media. This is the answer to many listeners who ask
me why there aren't more demonstrations against Sharon's betrayal.
Believe me, there are. But the controlled media makes sure that you
don't hear about them. The people of Israel, contrary to what you
might read, are definitely not in favor of the Road Map.
Elyakim Haetzni, former Knesset Member, Prominent Attorney, and
Columnist, spoke at our demonstration. I have asked him to give a
synopsis of what he said.
(A recording of this entire program, including the interview, is
available on http://www.israelnationalnews.com Click on Radio/On
Demand Audio)
On the evening of August 6, 2003 we will observe Tisha B'Av, the
9th of the month of Av, the commemoration of the destruction of the
First and Second Temples. Each year, Women in Green conduct a
Walk Around the Walls of the Old City of Jerusalem, in accordance
with an ancient Jewish custom.
Tisha B'Av is both a national and religious Holy day. The Walk this
year will be led by Minister of Tourism, Rabbi Benny Elon.
Come to Jerusalem and join us for a wonderful, spiritual experience.
If you cannot come, you may want to sponsor a "Walker". If so, send
in your check of $25 or more to American Friends of Women in Green,
POB 7352, Jerusalem 91072, Israel, to cover the security and other
costs involved in such a Walk.
Each person sponsoring a "Walker" will receive a beautiful card
indicating that they participated by proxy in the Walk Around the Old
City of Jerusalem. By participating in the Walk, or sponsoring a "Walker",
you will be casting your lot for a unified Jerusalem. You will also be
recognizing that this Holy City is the spiritual center of the world, where
G-d's divine presence eternally resides.
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