October 2004
October 1, 2004 The Way to Prevent Further Missile Attacks!
October 3, 2004 Senior IDF Officer Backs Nadia Matar
October 4, 2004 The Right To Criticize A Public Official!
October 6, 2004 Self-Incrimination
October 7, 2004 The Editor - IBA News - Israel Television
October 8, 2004 We are at War with the Arabs
October 10, 2004 Who is Afraid of the Women in Green?
October 11, 2004 Upcoming Activities
October 17, 2004 Appeal for Nadia Matar
October 18, 2004 A Leader Destroying The Party That Elected Him!
October 19, 2004 Sheftel Translation to English
October 20, 2004 Sharon is Trampling Israeli Democracy
October 21, 2004 URGENT UPCOMING ACTIVITIES
October 22, 2004 Always Go Forward - Never Surrender to Terror
October 24, 2004 An Ignorance of Jewish Tradition
October 25, 2004 The Case Against Nadia Matar
October 26, 2004 With Leaders like these Who needs Enemies?
October 28, 2004 Let's Disengage from Ariel Sharon
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October 1, 2004
The Way to Prevent Further Missile Attacks!
The murder of two children of tender age and the
mortal wounding of a ten year old, and others who
suffered injuries, as a result of a Kassam Missile fired on
Sedorot, in southern Israel, is another disaster for Israel
and its civilian population. When will this government
properly respond to such unprovoked attacks? When will
this
Government take the necessary action to protect its
civilians,
as it claims is its highest priority? Sadly, it has utterly failed
up to now, because it has basically taken the wrong
approach. It destroys only individual homes of terrorists
involved, rather than involving the entire Arab community
to meet its responsibilities.
The fact is that there is a very easy solution to this serious
problem. The Arab community in Gaza is responsible for
all that has occurred, with regard to these missile attacks
on Gush Katif and southern Israel. The Arabs are secretly
overjoyed that the terrorists are doing what they are doing.
But even if they are not happy by the use by Hamas and
others of these weapons of death and destruction, they
must
get "involved" to prevent the reign of death emanating from
Gaza.
The solution is quite simple, and should have been taken
long ago. Our planes should fly over all of Gaza and drop
tens of thousands of warnings in Arabic, advising
the residents that if another missile or mortar is fired from
there, the houses of the entire community from the place
where it is fired from will be destroyed by bombs and air
attacks. We seem to be able to pin point from where these
missiles are coming. The Arabs in these communities,
which heretofore have taken no action whatsoever,
must do so in order to save their own homes and property.
It may be collective punishment, but it is punishment well
deserved.
Only when the Arab community is prepared to take the
necessary action to prevent missiles and mortars from
being fired from Gaza, will there be a quick end
to this problem. The action taken by the Sharon
Government
to date has not worked.
Moreover, it has been immoral in that it fails to prevent
injury
to its own populace. The mounting deaths, destruction and
mortally wounded, continues unabated. No normal
government
would have refrained from taking retaliatory action for such
a
long time. However, if Israel gives advance notice to the
Arabs of its intentions, it is adhering to the highest moral
standards.
That should bring an end to the missile and mortar attacks.
But if it doesn't, it is vital that we actually carry out what
we said we would do! The Arabs in Gaza must
realize the consequences of allowing Hamas and others to
operate in their midst, in the way they presently do. Only
then will we get the desired results, a complete
cessation of such attacks upon Jews wherever they are
located, including Gaza. Gaza is an integral part of the
Land which the Almighty promised to the Jewish People as
an
everlasting inheritance.
Ruth and Nadia Matar
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October 3, 2004
Senior IDF Officer Backs Nadia Matar
A senior IDF officer says "pullout plan similar to deportation
of Berlin Jews
to
crematoriums" Colonel (Res) Gadi Dorchler tells NRG
Maariv that actions
of
Disengagement Authority chief Yonatan Basi "chillingly
resemble the
activities of the
Jewish Yudenrat". Menahem Rahat, Maariv, September
28th, 2004
A senior reserve IDF officer has escalated the public
discourse regarding
the
disengagement plan. Colonel (res) Gadi Dorchler, who is still
active in the
IDF's
Northern Command, told NRG Maariv, "The pullout plan is
extremely
similar to the plan
to deport Berlin Jews to the crematoriums". Dorchler, a
member of the
religious Kibbutz
Sde Eliyahu, has no hesitation
to attack his fellow kibbutz member and head of the
Disengagement
Authority Yonatan
Basi.
"His actions chillingly resemble the activities of the Jewish
Yudenrat who
collaborated
with the Nazis in order to complete a smooth and problem-
free expulsion",
he said.
According to Dorchler, "I know this is an outrageous
comparison and that
it is a fellow
member of my kibbutz, but that's exactly how I feel about the
contemptuous role he is
carrying out".
The reserve colonel said that he had formulated the
comparison to the
Yudenrat after
noticing the reactions of the elders of the kibbutz, Holocaust
survivors in
their 80s and
90s, to the letters Basi sent to settlers slated for evacuation.
"These Jews told me with tears in their eyes that they hadn't
slept in three
days after they
had found out their fellow kibbutz member is the one in
charge of uprooting
Jews from
their homeland", he concluded.
(Israel Resource News Agency)
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October 4, 2004
The Right To Criticize A Public Official!
The shocking announcement is that the police intend going
ahead with
their interrogation
of Nadia Matar. Nadia dared criticize Yonatan Bassi for
heading Sharon's
Disengagement Plan of forcing the eviction of all Jews from
their homes
and destroying
their communities in Gush Katif. The destruction of their
synagogues, and
uprooting the
graves of their loved ones is also part of the Sharon Plan!
The fundamental and basic right of "free speech" so
necessary in a
democracy is at stake.
Today it is Nadia. Tomorrow it might be you!
It is vital that we protest against this dangerous turn of
events in our
beloved homeland.
Nadia Matar is loyal and faithful to Israel. She is devoted to
the welfare of
our Jewish
State. The Arab enemy is attacking us with great intensity,
incessantly and
ferociously.
We should not attack loyal and patriotic Jews such as Nadia
Matar.
Demonstration on Tuesday, October 5 at 11:30 A.M.
At the Moriah Police Building in Talpiot, Jerusalem
(corner of Pierre Koenig and Hatenufa)
Ruth Matar
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October 6, 2004
Self-Incrimination
by Prof. Paul Eidelberg
On March 31, 1995, when Yitzhak Rabin was Israel's Prime
Minister and
Shimon Peres
held the post of Foreign Minister, an article appeared in the
Jerusalem Post
entitled "The
Enemy Within". I quote the last four paragraphs, which
began as follows:
"When I told the Knesset this week, 'This government is
against everything
that is
Jewish,' several leftists were riled. But for me, the Jewish
cause
transcends everything.
Israel is the Jewish state; Jerusalem is Jewish, and
exclusively Jewish;
Hebron is forever
Jewish.
"Anyone who aided Arafat in the Lebanon war is anti-
Jewish. Those on
whose head lies
the blood of the 134 Israeli citizens murdered since the Oslo
Agreement are
anti-Jewish.
And those for whom Jericho is the 'tomb of Rahab the
harlot' (as Shulamit
Aloni put it)
and the Cave of the Patriarchs the burial place of an Arab
sheik are against
everything
Jewish.
"Anyone planning to hand over Beit El and Shiloh is against
Jews and
Judaism. Those
who gave official status to non-Jews on the Temple Mount
are anti-Jewish.
Whoever
proposes granting Israeli funds to the PLO - whose leaders
transfer the
money to their
own bank accounts or use it for anti-Israel purposes,
including incitement
of Israel's Arab
citizens - is anti-Jewish. "Anyone emotionally closer to the
PLO assassins
than to the
settlers in Hebron, who warmly shake hands steeped in
Jewish blood but
turns in disgust
from shaking a Jewish hand holding a prayer book in the
Machpela Cave is
against
everything Jewish. Inciters against Jews, indifferent to their
blood being
spilled, are anti-
Jewish."
The letter concludes: "Ergo Mr. [Yossi] Sarid and his friends
are anti-
Jewish, and I am a
Jew."
The author of this letter is none other than Israel's current
Prime Minister,
Ariel Sharon!
The letter implicitly denounces the late Yitzhak Rabin, who
was both prime
minister and
defense minister in March 1995, as being anti-Jewish. The
letter implicitly
denounces
Shimon Peres as anti-Jewish, for he was not only the
architect of Oslo, but
he, above all,
aided Arafat in the Lebanese War.
In any event, almost everything in his March 1995 article
which is
denominated anti-
Jewish applies ten-fold to its author, Ariel Sharon.
Shakespeare has Hamlet
say
"conscience [meaning knowledge] doth make cowards of us
all." What
knowledge does
Mr. Sharon now have as Israel's Prime Minister that he did
not have in
March 1995,
when he was in the opposition? What knowledge has he
obtained as
Israel's prime
minister that transformed him from being a Jew to being
anti-Jewish?
Whatever the answer may be, this prime minister must now
be regarded,
according to his
own testimony, as "The Enemy Within."
If a private citizen were to describe "The Enemy Within" in
the words of
Ariel Sharon, he
would almost certainly be accused of "incitement." Fear of
being charged
with
incitement has silenced the moral outrage which should be
leveled against
Israel s prime
minister and his colleagues in the government. Sharon
could denounce
Yossi Sarid, and,
by implication, Rabin and Peres, because he enjoyed
parliamentary
immunity. It required
no great courage for him to write the "The Enemy Within."
The article was obviously written to arouse public opinion
against the
Rabin government
and Oslo. But public opinion in this country has no efficacy
between
elections, since
members of the Knesset and those who become cabinet
ministers are not
individually
accountable to the voters in multi-district or regional
elections. They don't
have to
compete against a rival candidate who could expose their
failings, to say
nothing of their
anti-Jewish treachery.
Even though Mr. Sharon - judging from his own words - is
no less anti-
Jewish than those
he denounced in March 1995, he has managed to
anesthetize the pundits
and the public
far more effectively than his predecessors. This makes him
all the more
dangerous.
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October 7, 2004
The Editor - IBA News - Israel Television
We often complain about the biased presentation of the
international
media:CNN, BBC, etc. It is time we turned attention to our
own media, the
English News in particular, which has a world-wide
audience, and a special
responsibility to fairly present a broad spectrum of
legitimate public
opinion in Israel.
Today, (5 October, 1700 hrs.) Nadia Matar was interviewed (if
that is the
proper word) by Leah Zinder. I was interested to hear what
Ms. Matar had
to say, and assumed that this was the purpose of the
exercise. She,
however, was given very little chance to complete an
argument, but was
harangued, hectored, and interrupted endlessly, in what
came over as a
hostile interrogation, rather than an informative interview.
Despite Ms.
Zinder's smooth style, this was ill-mannered, and, in my
view,
unprofessional. It would have been instructive to let Nadia
Matar present
her case in her own words. The interviewer prejudged Nadia
Matar's
statements as 'extreme'. If we could actually have heard Ms.
Matar's
reasoning we might then have made our own judgment
whether her views
are
legitimate or not. Freedom of speech is far too precious a
commodity to be
restricted in this way by a news presenter.
Sincerely,
Professor Gilbert Herbert, Haifa
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October 8, 2004
WE MUST REALIZE THAT WE ARE AT WAR WITH THE
ARABS
As Russian Premier, Vladimir Putin, put it after the massacre
of Russian
children, "we
have shown weakness, we have not recognized the kind of
enemy we are
up against".
Israel too has shown "weakness" and must now, after the
Sinai massacre,
drastically
change its ways.
A prime function of a government is to protect its citizens. A
government
which does not
do this has no right to exist. It is not enough for the Sharon
government to
warn its
citizens of the strong possibility of terror attacks and that
visiting the Sinai
controlled by
Egypt is very dangerous. This warning from the Foreign
Ministry was
issued constantly
in the newspapers, on radio, and on television for weeks.
In this way, the government tried to shift its responsibility to
protect its
citizens on to
those who planned to visit the Sinai desert. In effect, the
government said
"we warned
you- now the responsibility is yours." This is how a weak
government acts.
The Sharon
government had information that the average Israeli did not
have. If such
great danger
was foreseen for weeks, the government should have closed
the border
and taken
appropriate action against terrorists - not put the
responsibility on holiday
vacationers.
The government's attitude is best expressed by its Minister
of Justice,
Tommy Lapid,
who in a discussion of what to do with regard to the many
kassam rockets
attacks on
Sderot and other places in southern Israel said: "let them
reinforce their
roofs".
The responsibility for the Sinai massacre is squarely on the
shoulders of
the Sharon
government that has shown continual and irresponsible
weakness in
protecting its own
citizens. This is a government that did not react to 4500
kassam rockets on
Gush Katif.
This is a government that did not react to the brutal murder
of Tali Hatuel
and her 4
infant daughters. This is a government that whets the
appetite of the
terrorists by plans of
withdrawal, retreat, and transfer of Jews from our Biblical
homeland.
An interesting question is why didn't the Sharon
government close the
border with Egypt
when it had credible warnings of terror attacks? Was Sharon
afraid to
offend Egypt? The
time has come to realize that we are at war with the Arabs
and that Israel
must deal with
the Arab enemy like the Allied forces dealt with the Nazis.
Israel must
crush the entire
Arab terror infrastructure and retake control over all cities
occupied by the
Arabs. In
addition, Israel must take back all plans of retreat and
declare that the only
political plan
for the Middle East is: The Land of Israel for the Jews - the
22 Arab states
to the Arabs.
ONLY THUS WILL WE BE ABLE TO FIGHT AND WIN THE
WAR AGAINST
ARAB TERROR!
Ruth and Nadia Matar
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October 10, 2004
WHO IS AFRAID OF THE WOMEN IN GREEN?
LETTER FROM RUTH MATAR (WOMEN IN GREEN)
JERUSALEM
Sunday, October 10, 2004
Dear Friends,
Let me not keep you in suspense. The Sharon Government
seems to be
petrified of the
Women in Green. Sounds ludicrous, doesn't it?
How else can it be explained that Israel's Minister of Internal
Security,
Gideon Ezra,
made a public pronouncement "that Nadia Matar must not
be allowed to
roam the
streets"? This young mother of six children, a danger to
public security?
How else can one explain that Nadia Matar, co-leader of
Women in Green,
was forced to
report to police headquarters for interrogation on October 5,
2004? This
interrogation
lasted for more than two hours.
At the conclusion of the police interrogation, Nadia had to
post three
thousand shekels
security that she would appear for further questioning, when
summoned.
In other words, the government is planning further political
harassment of
Nadia Matar
and the Women in Green.
What then is Nadia Matar accused of?
Nadia faxed a letter to Sharon's Disengagement Director,
Yonatan Bassi,
noting "the
chilling similarity" of a letter he planned to send to the
people of Gush
Katif, who are to
be evacuated (transferred), together with a copy of a letter
written in 1942
by the Berlin
Judenrat to the Jewish community. Both the Berlin
Judenrat in 1942, and
Yonatan Bassi
in 2004, asked their coreligionists, in effect, to "leave quietly
and in an
orderly fashion".
Nadia further wrote in her letter "that Yonatan Bassi was a
much worse
version of the
Judenrat, for during the Holocaust, this was forced upon the
Jewish
leaders by the Nazis.
But today no one stands with a pistol to Bassi's head and
forces him to
cooperate with the
deportation of the Jews of Gush Katif and Northern Samaria.
Nadia Matar is not the only one in Israel who harbors these
feelings. The
great majority
of Israelis are of the same opinion.
Here are some prominent examples:
* Colonel GADI DORCHLER, a Senior IDF Reserve Officer,
still active in the
Northern
Command, and a member of the same religious Kibbutz (Sde
Eliyahu) as
Bassi, had this
to say about his fellow Kibbutz member:
"His actions chillingly resemble the activities of the Jewish
Judenrat who
collaborated
with the Nazis in order to complete a smooth and problem-
free expulsion. I
know this is
an outrageous comparison and that he is a fellow member of
my Kibbutz,
but that's
exactly how I feel about the contemptuous role he is
carrying out."
The Reserve Colonel said that he had formulated the
comparison to the
Judenrat after
noticing the reactions of the elders of the Kibbutz,
Holocaust survivors in
their 80s and
90s, to the letters Bassi sent to settles slated for evacuation.
"These Jews told me with tears in their eyes that they hadn't
slept in three
days after they
had found out that their fellow Kibbutz member is the one in
charge of
uprooting Jews
from their Homeland."
* Rabbi YOSEF DAYAN said he prays for Sharon's death.
* URI ELITZUR, former Bureau Chief of the Prime Minister's
Office, in an
article in the
BeSheva newspaper, called on the public to resist the
evacuation of the
settlements in
Gush Katif and Northern Samaria, and said he understands
people who use
violence
against security forces who come to "evacuate" them. (By
the way, Ariel
Sharon himself
said about the same in 1974: "Such an order is illegal.
Orders of this sort
must not be
carried out.")
* Knesset Member EFFIE EITAM, a former Minister in the
current
government and a
former combat Brigadier-General: "Despite the warnings of
the IDF officers
and security
leaders, the Prime Minister is leading Israeli citizens and
soldiers into a
death trap that is
exacting a high price in blood".
*Sharon's former soldiers march to protest Disengagement,
and wrote him
a letter: BOAZ
DROMI, one of the organizers, told the Jerusalem Post: "The
main theme of
our letter is
that Sharon has taken an undemocratic turn... We are
protesting that the
Prime Minister
does not have the right to take the votes that we cast for him
and turn them
upside down."
Extraordinary, isn't it? The above mentioned Israelis are not
criticized, but
Nadia is
"interrogated" at length by the police. In fact, Internal
Security Minister
Gideon Ezra
keeps insisting "that Nadia Matar should not be allowed to
roam the
streets."
Why is the government prosecuting, or rather persecuting,
Nadia Matar and
the Women
in Green? Very Simple! They want to silence us.
We are a very large Movement of members and
sympathizers from all over
Israel. We
have many members abroad as well. We have worked for
eleven years,
since the signing
of the disastrous Oslo Accords, to prevent the ultimate
crime against the
Jewish People:
the handing over to the enemy of the inheritance of our
Forefathers, which
is our
inheritance as well, promised to us by the G-d of Israel. No
Jew is
permitted to give this
inheritance away. Such a crime will be correctly interpreted
by the enemies
as a victory
for terror and will incite these Muslim enemies to continue
their murders
throughout the
whole world.
The Sharon Government is powerful, and will use all means,
even
undemocratic ones, to
achieve its goal to evacuate the Jews from Biblical Gaza and
Northern
Samaria.
Nadia Matar and the Women in Green vow to continue to
lead the fight
against the ethnic
cleansing of Jews from the Holy Land. We further promise
to continue to
fight for the
democratic freedom of speech in Israel.
Women in Green have retained counsel for Nadia to provide
her with the
proper defense
against the trumped up charges being leveled against her.
We desperately
need your
financial help!
HOW TO DO THIS:
Those living in the U.S. who file income tax returns can
make their IRS
approved
donations to WOMEN IN GREEN by writing their check to the
Central Fund
For Israel,
and sending it to the Central Fund For Israel, 980 Avenue of
the Americas,
3rd Floor,
New York, N.Y., 10018, writing on the lower left hand corner
of that check
that it is for
Nadia Matar's legal defense. Donations can also be made by
credit card by
going to our
website: www.womeningreen.org and sending same over
the Internet in a
safe and secure
manner. Or, checks can be sent directly to us in Jerusalem,
made out to
Women in
Green, P.O.B. 7352 Jerusalem, 91072, Israel, indicating
thereon that it is for
Nadia
Matar's legal defense.
Your contribution, large or small, whatever you can afford,
will help keep
Women in
Green afloat. It will reassure us that you are standing with
us, and will give
us strength to
keep on fighting for our common goal - the fulfillment of G-
d's Biblical
Promises to the
Jewish People and the preservation of freedom of speech so
essential in a
democracy.
Permit me to say a few words in praise of my co-chair, Nadia
Matar. She is
a real Jewish
heroine. The following is a quote from the introduction to
Ben Hecht's
book PERFIDY,
which might have been written about Nadia:
"Long before the British picked out the Lion as a symbol of
how brave they
were, there
was the Lion of Judea, who still crouches in Jewish hearts.
Not all of them.
Courage is a
special thing in any people. I do not mean the courage to
die. The Jews
have had good
training in that, better than most. But the courage to
protest, to stand up
against the
fearful odds of authority -- there's a rarer quality, and a more
mysterious
one."
With Blessings and Love for Israel,
Ruth Matar
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October 11, 2004
UPCOMING ACTIVITIES
1) WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2004
DEMONSTRATION AGAINST THE JNF-KKL convention in
support of
Sharon's
withdrawal plan
The holiday of Sukkot is over and the fight for the Land of
Israel intensifies.
Despite the
fact that neither the government nor the Knesset nor the
people of Israel
have approved
Sharon's capitulation plan that include the destruction of
tens of Jewish
communities and
the handing over of our Biblical homeland to the Arab
enemy - some
institutions like to
pretend that this plan surely will go ahead and even work
towards its
implementation.
Such an institution is the KKL-JNF (Keren Kayemet Le
Israel-Jewish
national Fund),
who, to our shock and horror, is having on WEDNESDAY,
OCTOBER 10th,
2004, in
Jerusalem, at the YMCA
center, a full-day conference in favor of Sharon's retreat plan
from the
northern Shomron
and from Gush Katif.
Officially, the conference's title is "Will there be any
geographic
consequences of the
"disengagement plan?". Seemingly an innocent title and
subject; but when
one analyzes
the list of speakers, one immediately understands that the
KKL-JNF is
openly supporting
Sharon's plan of retreat. All speakers are known to be in
favor of the
Sharon plan among
them: Minister Ehud Olmert, infamous for betraying what his
party stands
for and having
become extreme leftwing; Uzi Dayan, infamous for
approving the Oslo
accords in the
name of the army; Yonatan Bassi, infamous for agreeing to
be the head of
the
Deportation committee; Aharon
Abramovitch, infamous for planning in detail Sharon's
transfer plan and
giving
instructions to Yonatan Bassi, Prof Shimon Shitrit, infamous
for belonging
to Labor and
others. NOT ONE speaker known to oppose Sharon's plan!!
To add insult to injury, according to the schedule, at the end
of the day, the
kibbutz
movement choir, GEVATRON, will sing Erets Israel songs in
honor of the
land, the
water and Erets Yisrael!!!
The full day conference is organized by the KKL-JNF. On its
website
(www.kkl.org.il),
the KKL-JNF proudly writes: "KKL-JNF, one of Israel's
founding national
institutions,
was established in 1901 ...and spearheaded the efforts to
restore the
Jewish People to its
ancient homeland. Since the first land purchase in Eretz
Israel in the early
1900s for and
on behalf of the Jewish people, KKL-JNF has served as the
Jewish people's
trustee of the
land... More than a thousand communities all over the
country bear the
KKL-JNF
imprint- whether by virtue of land purchase or land
development and
reclamation.
Finally, its highly important Zionist education work, in the
past as in the
present, bonds
Diaspora Jewry to the homeland of Israel.
By giving a podium to all the people involved in Sharon's
anti-zionistic
plan of
transferring Jews and giving over our Biblical homeland to
the Arab
enemy, the KKL-
JNF is betraying its very "raison d'etre".
Women in Green will hold a vigil at the entrance to the
conference on
WEDNESDAY,
OCTOBER 13th, at 8:45 am - YMCA building (opposite the
King David
hotel).
Our signs will say:
* KEREN KAYEMET LE-ISHMAEL???
* IS KEREN KAYEMET DISENGAGING FROM THE LAND OF
ISRAEL ?
and other signs.
The conference (in Hebrew) is open to the public for a fee of
220 NIS.
Anybody who
wants to go inside and tell the speakers that no Jew has the
right to give
away our Biblical
Homeland can register by calling 02-6246828 or faxing: 02-
6245958
In addition, we urge all our friends to bombard the offices of
the KKL-JNF
in your
countries
with faxes and phone calls asking them if they are aware of
this disgraceful
conference
and
telling them clearly that unless the KKL_JNF does not
openly oppose
Sharon's plan - we
will not donate any monies to the KKL_JNF ever again.
KKL-JNF office in Jerusalem:
tel 972-2-670-74-11
fax: 972-2-625-69-41
email: info@kkl.org.il
KKL-JNF office in New York
tel: 212-879-9300
fax: 212-570-1673
email: zrns@jnf.org
The contact number for other KKL-JNF offices can be found
on their
website
www.kkl.org.il
2) OVER 100 CITIES IN SUPPORT OF GUSH KATIF AND
NORTHERN
SHOMRON
Women in Green are joining the activities planned by the
committee to save
Gush katif
and the Shomron-
ON THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14th,2004,
vigils will be held simultaneously in over 100 cities in
support of GUSH
KATIF and the
SHOMRON.
At 5:30pm people will stand at different intersections all over
the country.
At 7:00pm the
people will march with torches to major plazas and hold
vigils there.
Here are the details for Jerusalem. At 5:30pm people will
stand at the
following
intersections with signs and flags:
Entrance to the city; Pat intersection; Wolffson (Sacher)
intersection;
French hill
intersection; Oranim intersection.
At 7:00pm all people will start marching with torches
towards PARIS
square (and NOT
Zion square) next to the PM's residence, where the main
event will take
place at 7:30pm.
At that main even at Paris square, a large screen will show
footage from all
demonstartions and marches taking place around the
country at the same
time. It will
please G-d be an incredible event. BE THERE!!
(To find where to be outside of Jerusalem, go to the Gush
katif website
www.katif.net)
Ruth and Nadia Matar
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October 17, 2004
Appeal for Nadia Matar
Dear Member, Friend and Supporter,
The Sharon Government is intent on jailing Nadia Matar, and
denying her
the
right to criticize its policies. We thus have no alternative but
to appeal
for necessary funding to be able to pay for proper legal
counsel for Nadia.
Speaking through Gideon Ezra, his recently appointed
Internal Security
Minister, Sharon lashed out at Nadia in the "left" oriented
media. Ezra
demanded a police investigation of Nadia, and told the
media that she
should not be permitted to "roam the streets." Attorney
General of
Israel, Mazuz, who is part of the Sharon apparatus, has
obliged. The police
began interrogating Nadia on Tuesday, October 5. That
interrogation will
no doubt be followed by a formal indictment. She has
already retained
counsel, to provide her with a proper defense.
Nadia has dared to lead the fight for what a majority of the
people in
Israel are against, the ethnic cleansing of Jews from Gaza,
and the
undemocratic means that Sharon is using to accomplish
that unholy
objective.
Nadia's criticism of Bassi, the person chosen by Sharon to
head the
eviction of Jews from their homes in their own Biblical
Homeland, is
justified. She merely told him that the letter he intended to
send to
those being evicted was "chillingly similar" to a letter the
Judenrat sent
to Jews in Berlin in 1942 asking them to quietly submit to
German
dictates. Gaza in the Bible was promised to the Jewish
People by the G-d
of Israel. There is no justification for destroying their
homes, their
houses of worship, and uprooting the graves of their loved
ones. Nadia
spoke out against this intended undemocratic action. Free
speech can not
be restrained by the government unjustifiably labeling such
speech
"inciting to violence" or "insulting a public official." Nadia
believes
Sharon's Plan is an appeasement to terror and will only
increase it.
Those living in the U.S. who file income tax returns can
make their IRS
approved donations by writing their check to the Central
Fund For Israel,
and sending it to the Central Fund For Israel, 980 Avenue of
the Americas,
3rd Floor, New York, N.Y., 10018, writing on the lower left
hand corner of
that check that it is for Nadia Matar's legal defense.
Donations can also
be made by credit card by going to our website:
www.womeningreen.org and sending same over the Internet
in a safe
and secure manner. Or checks can be sent directly to us in
Jerusalem,
made
out to Women in Green, P.O.B. 7352 Jerusalem, 91072,
Israel. It is IRS
approved. Indicate in your letter that it is for Nadia Matar's
legal defense.
Give generously to this important Cause. Nadia speaks for
the majority of
the people of Israel. Nadia is a gifted, persuasive and
charismatic
leader, and her voice must not be silenced by the present
Sharon
government. You are privileged to financially enable her to
have a legal
defense, and to uphold the Biblical values of the only
democracy in the
Middle East.
Sincerely,
Ruth Matar
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October 18, 2004
A Leader Destroying The Party That Elected Him!
Ariel Sharon has reached the ripe old age of 76. At that old
age he
realistically has
concluded that he does not expect to be re-elected.
Accordingly, he no
longer needs the
Likud Party that elected him. Being a former Army General,
he is used to
having his
own way, and readily dismisses views that do not agree with
him. Not only
that, he
portrays those who oppose his views as "rebels" and
"disloyal".
He completely ignores the fact that on two previous
occasions his Likud
Party rejected
his plans for ethnic cleansing of Jews from their Promised
Land. Nor does
the prospect
of decisive division amongst the Jewish People on his Plan,
seem to faze
him. The Arab
enemy persists in seeking to destroy the Jewish People, and
daily
mercilessly continues
its attacks of firing missiles and mortars on Jewish
communities within and
beyond Gaza.
Nor does it disturb Sharon that Hamas says it will continue
these attacks
even after the
Jews vacate Gaza.
Members of his own Likud Party understandably have
difficulty
questioning his present
actions. They recognize that Sharon in the past has done a
great deal for
the Likud Party.
For instance, in the last elections, based on his prior record,
he brought
Likud a
resounding victory over his Labor opponents. His Likud
Party garnered 40
seats in the
Knesset to his opponents the Labor Party who suffered a
resounding
defeat by electing
only 19.
Moreover, his military record was no less than brilliant. The
fact is that he
contributed
greatly to Israel's survival in the many Arab wars that were
waged against
Israel. Under
such circumstances, the members of his Likud Party would
be hesitant to
criticize, other
than verbally, Sharon's present reversal of his prior views
and policies.
And then there was the very practical reason that Members
of the Knesset
from his own
Likud Party had to consider the consequences of
expressing opposition to
his leadership.
New elections would jeopardize their present seats in the
Knesset, and
they could not be
assured of re-election.
The fact is that their Party has betrayed the electorate by
Sharon adopting
the views of
Labor's Mitzna on Gaza, which the electorate had rejected by
their vote in
the last
election. There is no question that savvy politicians would
realize that the
ordinary voter
who previously voted for their Party, would not be doing so
again. Even if
there is a
rebellion within the Party, and Likud Knesset members did
not support
Sharon, they
could not be assured that the electorate would vote Likud
again.
So while there is a good deal of verbal criticism within the
Party, and there
is no lack of
"rebels" to Sharon's Disengagement Plan, there remains a
considerable
gap between
verbal disagreement to open rebellion of Sharon's
leadership. There does
not seem to be
anyone with vision in the Likud to take the necessary action
to depose
Sharon.
Unfortunately, the Likud Knesset Members will not vote to
remove Sharon,
even if the
consequences are that their own Party will likely be
destroyed by his
present actions.
Ruth and Nadia Matar
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October 19, 2004
Sheftel Translation to English
Sheftel-Beckerman-Simhoni
Law Offices
Yoram Sheftel, Adv.
Doron Beckerman, Adv.
Ayal Simhoni, Adv.
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Nir Alfasa, Adv.
5 Jabotinsky St., (Avgad House, 17th floor), Ramat Gan
52520
tel.: 03-7515001 (switchboard)
fax: 03-7520802
October 16, 2005
file: 226/505
To
Mr. Eran Shendar, Adv.
State Attorney
fax: 02-6288065
Dear Sir,
Re: The Investigation of My Client Ms. Nadia Matar, on
Suspicion of
Committing the
Offense of Insulting a Public Servant, Section 288 of the
Penal Code, 1977
In the name of my client Ms. Nadia Matar I address you, as
follows:
1. On October 5, 2004, my client was interrogated in the
Moriah police
station in Talpiot,
Jerusalem, on suspicion of committing the above offense,
upon your
instructions. Let it
immediately be said that it would have been preferable not
to summon her
rather than
summon her for this interrogation, since the very order to
open an
investigation is a
foolish and unreasonable attempt to cause the stifling of
opinions and an
improper and
illegal limitation of the freedom of expression of the activists
of the
national-Zionist-
patriotic camp, activists who are struggling against the plan
for the
deportation of some
10,000 Jewish pioneers - who have been giving their lives
(literally, as well)
- since the
beginning of the Oslo war (the "shameful deportation plan"),
all in order to
hold onto the
soil of the homeland.
2. The purpose of Section 288 of the Penal Code, 1977
("Section 288") is to
prevent, by
means of a criminal sanction, a situation in which a citizen
who requires
the services of a
public servant and is dissatisfied with the response that he
received will, in
response,
curse that public servant. And similarly, a situation in which
a police officer
writes some
report against someone, and the latter rudely insults the
officer, and the
like, Section 288
is for this end, and for this end alone.
The purpose of Section 288 is in no way to serve as a tool in
the hands of
the State
Attorney's Office and the police to intervene, and certainly
not in a
selective and
discriminatory manner, in any public debate, including that
which has
arisen concerning
the shameful deportation plan.
3. Furthermore, the letter by my client comprises trenchant
and legitimate
criticism of the
very willingness of Yonatan Basi - who, like most of the
pioneers of Gush
Katif, wears a
kippah [skullcap, i.e., is religious] and therefore the
governmental circles
are so happy
over his services - to carry out the shameful deportation
plan.
4. The comparison of Yonatan Basi's deeds to those of the
Judenrate
during the Holocaust
period, based on the clear context in the letter by my client,
was intended
solely to
denounce Yonatan Basi's willingness to collaborate, and
willingly so, with
the
government in the implementation of the shameful
deportation plan.
Needless to say, in
every society that presumes to be free, it is the right of every
person to
denounce in a
strong and blunt manner those like
Yonatan Basi who are willing to take upon themselves the
implementation
of such
disgraceful deeds that the implementation of the shameful
deportation plan
entails.
5. The intervention of the government in such matters by
means of the
State Attorney's
Office and the police, with the aim of incriminating one who
makes use of
such a basic
and understandable right, teaches nothing of the criminality
of the act, but
rather of the
"short fuse" of the rulers and those who do their bidding, as
regards their
ability to
contend with legitimate criticism. And it should be stressed,
once again:
the comparison
of Basi's deeds with those of
the Judenrate bears no connection with the "insulting of a
public servant."
6. Now here, it was specifically the "founding fathers," first
and foremost
Chaim
Weizmann and David Ben-Gurion, who poisoned the public
debate in the
Land of Israel
and in the Zionist movement - already beginning in the
period before the
establishment of
the State [of Israel] - with their repeated and despicable
comparison of
Zeev Jabotinsky
and Menachem Begin, of blessed memory, not to those who,
like the
Judenrate, aided the
Nazis, but to the Nazis themselves, and especially to Adolf
Hitler, may his
memory be
blotted out.
a. Chaim Weizmann, the President for decades of the
Zionist movement
and the first
President of the State of Israel, repeatedly uttered the
despicable and false
expression that
"Revisionism [that is, the Jabotinsky movement - Y. S.] is
comparable to
Hitlerism in its
worst form."
b. Ben-Gurion, in his contemptible language, constantly
applied to the
head of Betar,
Zeev [Vladimir] Jabotinsky, the base epithet: "Vladimir
Hitler."
c. In his well-known wickedness, Ben-Gurion said of
Menachem Begin, the
leading and
most talented of the disciples of the head of Betar, that:
"Menachem Begin
is a clearly
Hitleristic type, and if he were to rule in Israel, he would rule
as Hitler did in
Germany
and forcefully and cruelly repress the worker's movement."
All the
quotations are from p.
25 of the book by Tom Segev, Ha-Milyon ha-Shevi'i.
It need not be recalled that, almost every day over the
course of fifty years,
Menachem
Begin, of blessed memory, was constantly called a fascist
by all the
elements of the leftist
camp; and, as is known, Nazism is an integral part of
fascism.
And now, in an environment in which the "culture" of debate
is as detailed
above, there is
clear political persecution in the summoning of my client to
a criminal
investigation for
the use of such a relatively neutral term as Judenrat in
regard to Yonatan
Basi.
7. Finally, the selective enforcement of the law is a
phenomenon of
unequaled severity,
and how much more so when the selectivity ensues from
invalid political
considerations.
Attached is an extremely partial list of statements by
Flaviuses of Edomite
descent [a
reference to Josephus, i.e., traitors] from the media,
academia, and the
arts, in comparison
with which the statements by my client regarding Yonatan
Basi are
completely neutral.
a. During the course of the Lebanon War, Prof. Leibowitz,
making use of
the sewer
language of which he was fond, called IDF soldiers "Judeo-
Nazis."
b. Prof. Moshe Zimmerman polluted the air a number of
years ago when he
said that the
children of the renewers of the Jewish community in Hebron
- who hold on
to the City of
the Patriarchs by their fingernails - are like the
"Hitlerjugend."
c. The retired Stalinist Prof. Harsegor published an article in
Haaretz - to be
precise, it
would be preferable to translate its name into Arabic - in
which he asserted
that "the
leaders of the ultra-Orthodox are the enemies of democracy,
no less than
the blackshirts
or the heads of the Nazis in Germany."
d. Shulamit Aloni, who is totally identified with Arafat and
his gang, soiled
the pages of
the Maariv newspaper at the end of 2002 when she wrote
that: "Eli Yishai
acted in
accordance with the Nuremberg Laws when he was the
Interior Minister,"
and, relating to
a PR film of the Shas [political party], she wrote in the same
article that
"this reminds me
of a Nazi propaganda film."
e. A gutter rag by the name of Kidmah ["Progress"!]
informed its readers in
January
2003 that: "A general statement may be made of the
ideological settlers,
that they are
much worse than any neo-Nazi in Austria."
f. Gen. [Res.] Shlomo Gazit spoke obscenely a number of
years ago when
he said that:
"there is a resemblance between the knitted-kippah- wearing
IDF soldiers
and the SS
symbol on the Nazi uniforms."
g. In 1988 the anti-Semitic scoundrel Yigal Tomarkin
dragged a pig to
Malkhei Yisrael
Square, and wrapped it in tefilin.
We need not burden anyone with needless words: none of
these good-for-
nothings was
placed on trial. The reason for that is as simple as can be:
we are dealing
with a band of
the wicked, each of whom belongs to the Flavius-of-
Edomite-descent
camp, and they
therefore enjoy "immunity" from being placed on trial. The
State Attorney's
Office
explains this "immunity" by means of diverse and strange
excuses, that
change from time
to time, but always remain within the realm of excuses
lacking any
contentual basis.
8. And last of all, Section 288, for which my client is under
investigation, on
the basis of
your order, is one of the less serious sections in the Penal
Code. This is an
offense that is
in the lower level of offenses of a minor type; despite this,
with such great
alacrity - and
out of the desire (that will not succeed) of instilling my client
with fear - you
issued an
order to investigate her. In contrast, the most serious
offense under the
Penal Code is that
under Section 97 of the law. This offense is the first in para.
2 of part 2 of
the Penal
Code, that is entitled "Treason," in
both senses of the word.
According to this section: "Whoever acts intentionally to
harm the
sovereignty of the
State, [performing] an act that harms its sovereignty, is
punishable by
death or life
imprisonment."
Together with Sections 98 and 99 of the Penal Code, these
are the only
sections in Israeli
law - with the exception of the Law for Imposing Justice on
Nazis - for
which the
specified punishment is death.
Not a day passes in which the heads of the Flavius gang
who are
signatories to the
traitorous writ called the "Geneva Accords" are not
interviewed by their
supporters in the
electronic and printed private and state media, in order to
publicly
disseminate the
criminal "accords." These understandings are headed by the
giving over of
what is holy
to Israel in united Jerusalem, that is entirely under Israeli
sovereignty, to
the murderous
gangs of Arafat, the Hamas, and the like.
Although this is an act of treason, not only from the Jewish
moral aspect -
"If I forget
you, O Jerusalem, may my right hand forget its cunning"
[Psalms 137:5] -
but also by the
law in force in Israel, none of the above - Beilin, Lipkin-
Shahak, Nehamah
Ronen, and
their accomplices - have as yet been investigated, and
certainly not placed
on trial, for the
seeming public and deliberate commission of the most
serious of the
offenses in the Penal
Code, that is, the offense of treason.
9. The above collection clearly indicates, any objective
observer from the
side will likely
receive the impression that my client is being persecuted by
the State
Attorney's Office
solely because of her Zionist- national-patriotic worldview,
that is not
viewed favorably
by the top echelon of the State Attorney's Office, most of
whose senior
officials are, as is
common knowledge, situated kilometers to the left of center
as regards
their political
worldview.
10. Accordingly, it would be proper for you to immediately
issue an order to
shelve the
investigation concerning my client. Even if this shall not be
done, my client
has agreed
with me to inform you this would be a vain thought that her
summons to
the interrogation
rooms of the police, on the order of the State Attorney's
Office, would deter
her from
continuing in the holy work that she has done for many
years, for the
people of Israel's
maintaining its hold of all parts of Eretz Israel.
Respectfully,
Yoram Sheftel, Adv.
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October 20, 2004
ARIEL SHARON IS TRAMPLING ISRAELI DEMOCRACY
LETTER FROM RUTH MATAR (WOMEN IN GREEN)
JERUSALEM
Wednesday, October 20, 2004
Dear Friends,
On February 2nd of this year, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon
dropped a
bombshell on the Jewish People. He revealed his plan to
abandon Jewish
communities in Gaza and Northern Samaria, and to forcibly
evacuate and
transfer the Jewish population from their homes in these
areas. As we
know from reading the Bible, Gaza and Samaria are part of
the Land
promised to the Jewish People by the Almighty as an
everlasting
inheritance.
According to Sharon's Plan, these areas are now to be made
"Judenrein"
and handed over to the Arab enemy. In addition, the Arabs
were promised
by Sharon that even the very soil of these communities is to
be cleansed of
Jews, which means that Jewish bodies will have to be
exhumed from their
graves and taken somewhere else.
Sharon calls his Plan to expel Jews from their homes
"Unilateral
Disengagement", and explains that this Plan is important in
the
international arena, and that Israel's standing in the world
would be much
worse were his Plan not on the table. "Today's situation
demands this
step... You don't know what our situation would be [in the
international
arena] if we did not have this plan," Sharon said.
"The international arena" is probably delighted that the
erstwhile Lion of
Judah has given in to Arab terror and is running away, with
his tail between
his legs, from his responsibility to defend the Jewish
People.
But what about us plain folks who believed his campaign
promises that he
would protect the Jews from the Arab enemy, and give them
security?
Security to live in peace in their homes and in their
neighborhood. Security
for their children attending school. Security when riding
buses, or even
when just enjoying a cup of coffee with friends in a
neighborhood cafe.
Sharon did fulfill campaign promises - those of his Labor
opponent, Amram
Mitzna, who had promised, if elected, that he would
evacuate every last
Jew from Gaza. Because of this very platform, Amram
Mitzna was roundly
defeated.
Sharon has literally stolen our votes. He won by a landslide
as head of the
Likud Party, opposing Labor Party candidate Amram Mitzna.
The Likud
Party platform clearly states: No to a Palestinian State, and
no
abandonment of any Jewish community.
Sharon's Disengagement Plan was a betrayal of both his
Likud Party and
the electorate at large. After this betrayal, the membership
of the Likud
Party voted against Sharon's Plan, in a referendum, with an
approximately
20% majority. Likewise, the Likud Central Committee voted
the same way,
with a similar majority.
Unfazed, Sharon continues to ignore the Likud membership,
the Likud
Central Committee and almost half of the 40 Likud Knesset
Members. He
insists that the majority of the Israeli People supports his
Plan. Then, why
does he so adamantly refuse to let the Israeli People vote on
his Plan in a
National Referendum? So much for Sharon's belief in the
democratic
principle of listening to the voice of the People. He is
completely
"disengaged" from the majority of Israel's citizens.
Sharon has become a virtual dictator. In order to achieve
his new goals, he
does not hesitate to trample Israeli democracy.
Sharon tries to prevent Ministers and Knesset Members
from voting
according to their conscience. On June 4th he fired 2 MK's
who would
have dared to vote against the Disengagement (Benny Elon
and Avigdor
Lieberman). In last Monday's Jerusalem Post (October 18,
2004) there is a
report that Sharon is considering firing additional Ministers
and Deputy
Ministers, who do not plan to support his Disengagement
Plan, when it
comes to a vote in the Knesset next Tuesday, October 26th.
Sharon tries to prevent the people at large from expressing
their opposition
to the Disengagement Plan by curtailing their freedom of
speech and their
ability to freely demonstrate against unpopular government
policies.
Ofer Lefler, spokesman for the Israel Prisons Authority (IPA)
told Israel
Radio in a live interview on September 20, 2004 that the IPA
is currently
working on the development of "creative alternatives" for
the mass
detention of disengagement opponents.
Sharon has ordered a law to be drafted listing penalties for
opponents to
the Disengagement Plan: five years in prison for people who
violently
resist being "evacuated" from their own home and three
years in prison for
"evacuation disrupters".
This is a very dangerous infringement of individual freedom.
If Women in
Green hold a demonstration against the transfer of Jews
from Gaza, are we
then "evacuation disrupters?"
If Women in Green leader Nadia Matar criticizes Yonatan
Bassi, the head of
the Disengagement authority, is she then an "evacuation
disrupter"?
It is evident to most people that the persecution of Nadia
Matar is not
meant in a personal way, but an attempt to eliminate the
power of the
Women in Green as a protest Movement against Sharon's
unpopular and
dangerous dictatorial behavior.
We, the Women in Green, feel that it is a very dangerous
development to
vilify all Disengagement opponents as inciters, mutineers,
and a danger to
the very existence of the state. If no steam can be vented
and all protesters
stifled, there is the danger that it can "blow people's minds",
and lead to
dangerous results.
Dear friends, in this regard I want to share with you an op-ed
article by
Sarah Honig in last Friday's Jerusalem Post. The title of this
article is
"Another Tack: Blowing People's Minds". Sarah Honig is,
without doubt,
one of the best and most perceptive columnists of the
Jerusalem Post.
She is never afraid to tell it like it is.
* * *
ANOTHER TACK: BLOWING PEOPLE'S MINDS
In response to last week's "Tack," a reader sent me a copy
of the Rosh
Hashana eve interview which Ariel Sharon gave Kfar
Chabad's publication
on the prospect of uprooting established settlements. It
wasn't about the
eviction he's steamrolling now, but about the one mooted
nine years ago.
Nothing illustrates better that alleged incitement is in the
beholder's eye,
that it's a function of shifting political expediencies, not
necessarily of
entrenched convictions.
On September 24, 1995, Sharon praised the settlers
effusively, likened
them to brave pioneers of the 1940s, and opined
unequivocally that they
won't be tempted away from their homes by lucrative
compensation
packets. He urged them to "resist and vie with brethren, if
need be."
Eviction, predicted yesteryear's Sharon, "would be
unmitigated disaster;
the settlers won't yield. The government must reflect hard
where it's
leading us. It's leading to horrific results, to civil war."
These are literally the warnings repeated now by settlers
and their
supporters. Reiterated, these very words outrage Sharon's
entourage and
trigger a hysterical, sanctimonious cacophony, vilifying all
disengagement
opponents as inciters, mutineers, and a danger to the very
existence of the
state.
Today's Sharon certainly doesn't regard his own legitimate
past
pronouncements in such malevolent light. Yet his double
standard can
become a self-fulfilling prophesy of doom. If anyone
currently threatens
this country with internal internecine strife, it's none other
than Sharon
because he consistently blocks options of democratic
dissent.
When every cry of anguish becomes insurrection, when
those who won't
snap up compensation offers are threatened with harsh
penalties, when all
peaceful recourse to reverse high-handed dictates is
effectively denied,
people are pushed into dark corners.
Crazies thrive where no steam can be vented and where
protest is stifled,
where no sane options are left, where no course corrections
are possible,
where no avenue of action with a sliver of a chance to
succeed is left open,
where an imperious leader declares that he'll have his way
regardless of
bothersome democratic niceties.
A LEADER who leaves people feeling betrayed and without
remedy is to
blame.
A leader, who never satisfactorily explained to his own
followers why he
abandoned them, fragments society. When the only
justification for an
ideological about-turn of historic proportions is a
declaration that the head
honcho knows best - because he says so - it can blow
people's minds.
When the leader orchestrates a campaign of demonization
against political
adversaries yet remains silent while his fair-weather fans
call for
bloodshed, he loses his residual moral credibility.
Sharon and sidekicks saw nothing untoward when Meretz
Knesset member
Avshalom Vilan, in an August 20 interview with Haaretz,
proposed that "we
fight extremist settlers by all possible means if need be,
we'll open fire we'll
shoot to hit the sovereign authority must announce that in
order to
preserve itself, it too will be ready to kill."
If this isn't recommending a violent showdown, it's hard to
imagine what is.
It's not hard to imagine the uproar that would have ensued
had the identical
statement come from settlers' lips.
Ditto for Sharon's confessor-columnist Yoel Marcus (to
whom the PM first
revealed the disengagement gospel). On August 31, also in
Haaretz,
Marcus urged that an elite unit be charged with removing
settlers "even if
that involves bloodshed."
* * *
What is the reason for Sharon's about-face? In previous
years, he
unequivocally encouraged settling our Biblical Heartland,
Judea, Samaria
and the Gaza Strip. I have no answer whatsoever! If you
read Sharon's
prolific writings - also his writings in English, such as many
articles in the
year 1995 in the Jerusalem Post - and his autobiography
"Warrior", you will
see no early signs of Ariel Sharon's spiritual or moral
disintegration.
Suffice it to say that this ardent Zionist and fighter for the
Jewish
Homeland has tragically become virtually unrecognizable,
as he
persistently tramples his country's democracy!
Ariel Sharon is no longer fit to be the Prime Minister of the
State of Israel.
With Blessings and Love for Israel,
Ruth Matar
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October 21, 2004
URGENT UPCOMING ACTIVITIES
Dear Friends,
This coming Monday and Tuesday are crucial days. Monday
is when the
Knesset will start discussing Sharon's plan and Tuesday will
be the day
where the Knesset will vote for or against Sharon's plan of
ethnic cleansing
of Jews and of abandoning our G-d given Biblical homeland
to the Arab
enemy.
Therefore it is of utmost importance to keep those 2 days
free in order to
participate in the different protests that will take place:
1) National Campaign to fax and phone MK's from the Likud
To vote
AGAINST Sharon's "evacuation" of Jews plan! (Thank you to
Suzie Dym
from Mattot Arim for gathering the info)
MK/Minister (Likud ) Cell/Home Phone #(s), Fax #(s), Phone
#(s)
Ruchama Avraham 050-952121/052-8502075 02-6753360, 02-
6753206/6753280
Yaakov Edri 050-6272090, 02-5308933, 02-5309980/02-
6753446
Michael Eitan 054-700002, 02-6753199/496404, 02-6753273
Eli Aflalo 050-5284710, 02-6496164, 02-6753240/6496538
Zev Boim 050-6298049, 02-6496591/03-6976990, 02-
6753846/03-6977154
Daniel Ben-Lulu 050-5493233/08-8640640, 02-6496456, 02-
6753872/3
Roni Bar On 054-220100, 02-6753486, 02-6753937/6753170
Inbal Gavrieli 054-7703225/052-4501818, 02-6496406, 02-
6753443
Tsachi HaNegbi 050-6205014, 02-6773699, 02-6753266, 02-
6773690
Yehiel Chazan 054-5655292, 02-6753567, 02-6753656
Yisrael Katz 03-9485835, 02-6753237/75, 03-9485800
Limor Livnat 02-5602246, 02-5602330
Danny Naveh 02-6787662, 02-6705811
Bibi Netanyahu 02-6496421/02-5635769, 02-5317200
Yuval Steinitz 050-708712, 02-6753100, 02-6753123/3658
Silvan Shalom 02-6753792/02-5303506, 02-5303531
David Tal 050-457817, 02-6496014, 02-6753221/6753393
Chemi Doron 052-481138, 02-6496186, 02-6753870/371802
Yigal Yasinov 02-6496503 02-6753666/133
Victor Breilovsky (former Prisoner of Zion) 02-6703729, 02-
6703748
PS. From: Prof. Aharon Shaked shaked_a@mail.biu.ac.il ,
Bar-Ilan
University
The details of all MKs are in
http://www.knesset.gov.il/mk/heb/mkindex_current.asp?view
=1
2) MONDAY, OCTOBER 25th, 2004 at 9:30am
JOIN OUR WOMEN IN GREEN VIGIL OUTSIDE THE
KNESSET URGING THE
MK'S:
VOTE NO TO SHARON'S EVACUATION PLAN!
JEWS DON'T EXPEL JEWS FROM ERETZ YISRAEL!
(MEN: BRING SHOFARS AND TALLITOT
WOMEN: IF YOU HAVE, BRING AN ISRAELI FLAG)
We really urge all men who can blow a shofar - to come with
a shofar. It is
known that we blow the shofar when we face danger - there
is no bigger
threat to the survival of the State of Israel as a Jewish State,
than Ariel
Sharon's plan.
3) On Tuesday, Oct 26, we will all join Moetset Yesha's
general strike in
front of the Knesset- details will be given by Moetset Yesha
in the next day
or two-look in the Shabbat newspapers. The idea is that all
Yesha
communities and their supporters will not go to work or to
school and will
have a strike in front of the Knesset.
We live in crucial times - every one of us can make a
difference - everyone
of us can have an impact! IT IS VITAL FOR THE JEWISH
PEOPLE THAT
YOU BE THERE!
Ruth and Nadia Matar
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October 22, 2004
Always Go Forward - Never Surrender to Terror
by Rabbi Eliezer Waldman, Rosh Yeshiva
Thank G-d, we are again beginning from _Bereishit_. On
Simchat Torah, we
finished the yearly
cycle of weekly Torah portion readings and we are happy to
begin again
from the beginning. We
must always return to the beginning of our roots. We must
be reminded
again who we are and
what we are doing here in Eretz Yisrael. And so we begin
again with
"Bereishit barah...In the
beginning."
Abraham who taught us the power of faith creating the
energy of life,
showing us the way and
inspiring us with the responsibility of bringing a blessing to
all the world.
All of this dynamic
movement stems from the words Lech Lech, Go forward,
and creates the
driving force pushing us
forward and giving us the strength to overcome all
obstacles along the
way. This faith obligates
us to be constantly aware of the divine blessing flowing
within this process
of Lech Lecha, going
forward, as the Almighty promises Abraham: "I will make
you into a great
nation & and I will bless
those who bless thee " (Bereishit:12:2)
Ever since this G-dly command to Abraham, which paved
the road towards
Jewish destiny, the
Jewish people have been on the go. This process of more
than 3000 years
has taken us into
slavery in Egypt, ultimate redemption, to the spiritual
heights of hearing G-
d_s words at Mt. Sinai,
accepting His Torah and mitzvot which have implanted
within us an eternal
substance of life.
This eternal power of life has kept us going through many
generations of
trials and tribulations
both in our homeland and in exile. Ever since the
destruction of the second
Temple we have been
dispersed among the nations of the world who were bent on
annihilating
the Jewish people. All
these powers of evil and hatred could not suppress Jewish
faith and
determination to continue the
long trek towards our divine destiny of complete Jewish life
in our ancient
homeland.
Our beliefs and prayers have finally been realized in our
generation. The
driving force of
redemption has brought about the miraculous process of
the ingathering of
the exiles and re-
establishment of Jewish independence in the Land of Israel.
As the closed
gates of our holy land
were opened again, multitudes of idealistic Jews restored
new life to the
desolate hills and plains
of Israel. This pioneering spirit came to the peak of practical
settlement
activity, inspired by the
divine words of our prophets being realized before our very
eyes. This is
the profound
significance of the stirring movement of Jewish settlement
in the hills and
sands of Judea,
Samaria, Gaza and the Golan. Boundless energy, drawing
from the depths
of faith in divine
redemption, has been invested in rebuilding our ancient
towns and cities in
this heartland of Eretz
Yisrael. This has been accomplished in face of the most
difficult pain and
suffering wrought upon
us by Arab terror, whose goal has always been the
destruction of the
Jewish presence in Eretz
Yisrael. The continuous flourishing of Jewish life in
Jerusalem, Hebron,
Beit El, Elon Moreh,
Shilo, Eli and Gush Katif is the most glorious expression of
eternal
devotion to the words of G-d to
our father Abraham, "Go forward and I will make you into a
great nation
and you will be blessed".
In our wildest dreams, we never could have imagined that a
Jewish Zionist
government would
even consider such a distorted and evil plan of uprooting
Jews from their
homes in Eretz Yisrael,
and bringing destruction upon so many synagogues,
schools and other
fruits of Jewish labor in
the towns of Gush Katif and northern Samaria. The tragic
absurdity of this
wicked plan is that it
will not bring us any closer to peace, but instead will
stimulate the Arab
terrorists to chase after
the fleeing Jews who are yielding to terror. All the more so it
will serve as a
legitimate precedent
for further destruction and uprooting of Jews from their
homeland, as is
desired by many world
leaders. If such a diabolical plan would be suggested with
regards to any
Jewish community in
the world, it would surely arouse an outcry of condemnation
by the Jewish
government of Israel.
The divine process of Jewish redemption in the Land of
Israel has reached
the point of no return.
The very thought of Jews uprooting thousands of fellow
Jews from their
homeland is a disgrace,
and contradictory to the very essence of the ideological
roots of the Zionist
process.
Let us declare openly and clearly: we Jews living in the
heartland of Yesha
for 3 generations, will
do everything within our power to prevent such a crime to
be committed
against the Jewish
people and our homeland. We will rally all of our loyal
brothers and sisters
in unity against this
twisted and heinous plan. We have no doubt that multitudes
of Jewish
people abroad and in
Israel will unite around the proud banner of building and
renewing life and
will never join the
humiliating banner of uprooting and destruction. We draw
our strength of
belief and determination
from the divine words "Lech Lecha - Go Forward". This is
the only
direction which has an
ensured blessing inherent within it. I turn to our Israeli
government and
especially our Prime
Minister: your responsibility to Jewish destiny can still be
returned to the
true Zionist focus of
confronting terror instead of yielding; courageous building
and not
destroying, fearlessly going
forward and not cowardly fleeing. Remember, a nation
cannot escape its
destiny.
We still hear the words of the Almighty reverberating
throughout the hills
of Yesha: " Go forward
to the land I will show you...I will make you into a great
nation&you will be
blessed and I will bless
those who bless thee. And all the families of the earth will be
blessed
through you" (Bereishit
12:1,2)
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October 24, 2004
An Ignorance of Jewish Tradition
The Jerusalem Post and Minister of Justice Tommy Lapid
have at least one
thing in common. Both are critical of Rabbis who they think
should not be
advising IDF soldiers to refuse to obey orders relating to
removing
residents of Gush Katif and Northern Samaria from their
homes. In the case
of Lapid, he wants the Attorney General to prosecute such
trouble making
"rabbis".
Rabbis have traditionally played the role of spiritual leaders
in Judaism.
They are not only well versed in the Torah, but in addition
are supposed to
guide ordinary Jews on how to behave morally. A Rabbi
thus should be
acting, as he has always acted in accordance with our
tradition, to
spiritually uplift his People. The Rabbi has the duty and
obligation to draw
everyone closer to the Almighty and to guide his fellow Jew
to achieve this
goal. Thus, Rabbi Avraham Shapiro, former Ashkenazi Chief
Rabbi of
Israel, was actually fulfilling the traditional role of rabbis
when he advised
soldiers not to partake in removing Jews from their homes
in their own
Promised Land. Such an action by a soldier would be
immoral. So says the
Torah of the Jewish People and their Hebrew Prophets,
according to Rav
Shapiro.
It should be stressed however, that a rabbi is not mixing in
"politics" when
he morally advises his constituents on how the Torah
expects us to
behave. Judaism encompasses every aspect of life, which
includes
"politics"! A Jew is required to make the values of Torah and
its teachings,
an integral part of his daily existence in all areas of life. That
is the reason
the Torah has survived for over 3700 years.
It is incumbent on any spiritual leader to speak up on such a
vital matter. It
goes to the very core and essence of our belief in the G-d of
Israel, and His
Biblical promises to our People. It also affects the lives of
the residents of
Gush Katif and their families. Certainly, the removal of Jews
from their
homes in Israel, requires a Rabbi to express his views on
how the Torah
deals with such a vital matter.
There may be Rabbis who disagree with Rabbi Shapiro.
However, his
scholarship and learning are outstanding and well
recognized by fellow
scholars in the Torah world. Moreover, his devotion to his
People is
unparalleled. His views should be respected by all who
value the Torah as
a means of providing a direction and purpose to our lives.
So the editorial in the Post and Lapid are both totally off
base when they
claim that Rabbis should not be advising our soldiers how
to act. It is the
duty of the Rabbis and their obligation to fulfill this spiritual
need of the
soldiers. Soldiers as well, are supposed to act as Jews, and
to observe
what the Torah demands of us. Sadly, it shows how far the
editorial writer
in the Jerusalem Post, and Minister Lapid are lacking in the
knowledge of
what the spiritual role of the Rabbi always has been
throughout the ages.
The failure of some rabbis to speak up on important matters
is what is
sorely lacking in our Israeli society today. It should be
encouraged and not
criticized as has been done by Lapid and the Jerusalem
Post.
Ruth and Nadia Matar
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October 25, 2004
The Case Against Nadia Matar
By Jonathan Pollard
FCI Butner
Butner NC
USA
LEGITIMATE DISSENT IS NOT A CRIME.
Nadia Matar, leader of Women for Israel's Tomorrow, is
being persecuted
by
the Government of Israel for being a good Jew.
Nadia did not foment a rebellion. She did not incite the
People of Israel
to revolt. Neither did she call for insurrection or political
subversion.
She did not commit any crime. All that Nadia Matar did was
to call upon a
fellow Jew to do tshuva, to give up his involvement in an
immoral
enterprise and return to the appropriate path for a G-d
fearing Jew.
Nadia did so in the finest tradition of our holy Prophets. Our
Prophets'
powerful messages exhorting errant Kings to desist from
"doing evil in the
eyes of G-d" and to return to the correct path is an important
part of our
history, and an integral part of our national consciousness.
Calling upon a
public figure to do tshuva was not a crime then and it is not
a crime now.
Nadia and I wrote separate but like-minded open letters to
Yonatan Bassi,
head of the Disengagement Authority. We both called upon
Bassi to give
up
his immoral position as head of the Authority and implored
him not to
become the chief liquidator of Jewish homes and
communities in Israel. It
is ironic: Nadia is now being interrogated, threatened with
indictment, and
intimidated by the possibility of unlimited administrative
detention for
writing her letter to Bassi. I, on the other hand, sitting here
in an
American prison, have suffered no repercussions. My right
to freedom of
speech is guaranteed. Nadia's is not.
My wife and I make many sacrifices in order to make my
voice heard
outside
of prison walls. We endure the hardship because Esther and
I are
determined
never to give up the one freedom I do have. Even as a
prisoner in America,
I have the right to freedom of speech. As long as I refrain
from discussing
classified information, I am free to express my thoughts,
opinions and
ideas. Nadia and our fellow countrymen on the right side of
the political
spectrum, are not.
WHY DO THEY WANT TO SILENCE NADIA MATAR?
What is it that the government and security establishment
see in Nadia
Matar which makes them fear her so? Why are the
authorities so
determined
to silence her? It is not because of anything she has done. It
is because
of what she represents.
Nadia is the head of one of the most effective citizens'
advocacy groups in
Israel. She is among a handful of natural leaders today, who
have the will,
the talent, and the strength of character to galvanize popular
protest
against undemocratic actions by the current Government of
Israel.
Nadia represents everything a repressive regime fears in its
citizenry. Her
idealism and her enthusiasm are infectious and her
determination is
unyielding. She is a G-d fearing woman and a fierce
nationalist, not easily
threatened or intimidated. She is a thinker and resists
following blindly.
What is more, she is a powerful model and source of
inspiration for others.
In short, she is everything a dictatorial regime cannot
tolerate if it is
to retain complete and unquestioning control over its
citizens.
Desperate to curtail Nadia's activities as a leader of one the
most
effective protest movements in the country, the Government
seized upon
her
letter to Bassi as an excuse to take action against her. She
was quickly
hauled in for police interrogation and grilled for hours on
end.
Eager to charge her with a crime - any crime - the authorities
zeroed in on
one part of her letter to Bassi. Nadia referenced a letter that
Bassi had
sent to citizens of Gaza urging them to cooperate with their
own expulsion,
and she compared it to a similar letter by the Judenrat
during W.W. II
urging Jews to cooperate and go quietly to the trains (which
would take
them to the death camps). Nadia wrote that Bassi's letter
was worse than
the Judenrat's since the Judenrat had no choice, whereas
Bassi had
accepted
the immoral task of expelling Jews from their homes of his
own free will.
The Israeli authorities decided that there must be a way to
criminalize the
insult of comparing Bassi's letter to the Judenrat's.
Searching the law
books, they came up with a law - totally unrelated and
absolutely
irrelevant - under which to prosecute Nadia.
The law they invoked - insulting a public official in the
course of his
official duties - was designed to protect policemen, firemen
and other
public servants from being abused in the course of their
work. For
example,
this law protects a traffic policeman from being verbally
abused by a
person who has just received a traffic ticket. In their zeal to
incriminate
Nadia, the Government reinterpreted the law, stretching its
application far
beyond its intended purpose.
Why? Because even if they cannot make a case against
Nadia, the public
furor that they have created over this incident will make it
easy to take
other actions to silence her. For example, administrative
detention is a
far greater threat hanging over Nadia's head than any
judicial proceeding
that the Government may take against her.
THE THREAT OF ADMINISTRATIVE DETENTION
It is more than possible that the Government plans to use its
twisted
interpretation of the "insult to public officials law" in a way
reminiscent
of America's infamous Internal Security Act of 1950. That
law not only
limited citizens' freedom of speech and freedom of
association, but also
permitted the President to lock up potential subversives
indefinitely in
concentration camps during times of perceived national
emergency.
Fortunately, there was a public outcry and this law was
never implemented
in the US.
However, the immoral use of administrative detention,
without formal
indictment and with no possibility of judicial review, still
exists in
Israel and it is routinely utilized. If the Government does
indict Nadia,
it can still lock her up in administrative detention before she
is brought
to trial. In other words, she can be placed in administrative
detention
indefinitely pending a trial - a trial which may be deliberately
delayed
for months, weeks, or even years.
Even worse, if the Government refrains from indicting Nadia,
it can still
lock her up in administrative detention indefinitely, without
judicial review.
Any attempt by the Government to place Nadia in
administrative detention
must be met with unlimited and overwhelming public
protest. If the
Government of Israel is permitted to lock up Nadia Matar
before, during or
after trial, on trumped up charges of insulting a public
official, the
country is headed for the kind of judicial authoritarianism
that Senator
McCarthy attempted to unleash in the US. This poses an
immeasurable
threat
to all of Israel, including the cancellation of freedom of
speech and the
abrogation of Israeli civil rights.
WHEN FREEDOM OF SPEECH IS A CRIME
According to the law, freedom of speech ends where its
exercise threatens
the public good. Shouting "Fire!" in a crowded theatre is a
crime. But this
is only true if there is no fire!
If there is a fire, it is unforgivable not to cry out.
For those of us, like Nadia, who cherish Israel and seek to
protect and
defend the Land, it is glaringly obvious that the House of
Israel is on
fire. The flames are threatening to engulf us all! Now, more
than ever,
Jewish lives are at risk, and Jewish homes and communities
are in mortal
danger. Every day the enemy grows bolder and bolder in its
attacks upon a
beleaguered civilian population. The Government not only
allows the
flames
to rage out of control but is also feeding the fire by offering
up chunks
of our homeland to our sworn enemies.
By orchestrating a very public campaign of intimidation
against Nadia
Matar
- who dared to cry "Fire!" - the Government is attempting to
silence all
dissention. It is using a pinpoint precision attack on Nadia
to intimidate
the entire nationalist camp. As it demonstrates its
willingness and its
ability to crush this popular leader, the Government is
sending a strong
message to all. It apparently believes that in this way it will
succeed in
breaking the back of the citizens' protest movements which
bitterly oppose
the Government's plan to uproot Jewish homes and
communities in Gaza
and
Samaria and turn the land over to our enemies.
DESTROYING THE FOUNDATIONS OF DEMOCRACY
The Government is mistaken in its aims and in its
calculations. All that it
has accomplished is to destroy its own legitimacy and its
right to govern.
In democratic states, a government derives its power from
the consent of
the people. A government cannot replace consent with
coercion and still be
considered a democracy.
Nadia Matar represents the voice of legitimate dissent in
Israel. If she is
silenced through intimidation and harassment, any pretense
that the State
of Israel is a democracy is unequivocally dispelled. Every
distinction
between Israel and her non-democratic neighbors in the
region is
effectively blurred.
Moreover by relentlessly persecuting those who exercise
free speech to
express legitimate dissent, the Government is deliberately
creating an
atmosphere of fear and repression - the kind of atmosphere
that invites
rebellion. Thus, by taking Draconian action against selected
individuals,
such as Nadia, the Government is actually fomenting the
very insurrection
it claims it is trying to prevent; and which it will use to justify
the use
of even more repressive and dictatorial measures.
The imprisonment of a nation begins with the unjust
incarceration of one
citizen. As Israeli citizens, our right to live freely in the Land
and our
freedom of speech depend on how we as a nation respond
to the
Government's
unwarranted persecution of any one citizen.
By going after Nadia Matar publicly, interrogating and
harassing her;
threatening her with indictment and arrest; holding the
specter of
administrative detention over her head, the Government is
effectively
threatening all of us. It is striking out at the heart of all that
Jews
hold dear: our right to live and act in harmony with G-d and
Torah; our
right to be a free People in our own Land; and our
fundamental right to
freedom of speech.
All of The House of Israel must unite to vigorously protect
and defend
Nadia Matar; to prevent the Government from singling her
out for malicious
persecution. We must fight this injustice as if our very
existence were at
stake. As G-d fearing Jews who love the Land, it is.
Justice4JP Note: Next month, on November 21, 2004,
Jonathan Pollard will
enter his 20th year of a life sentence for his activities on
behalf of Israel.
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October 26, 2004
With Leaders like these Who needs Enemies?
By Gary M. Cooperberg
The one trait which Shimon Peres can be complimented
upon is that of
consistency. He has consistently maintained that peace can
be achieved by
Israel backing down upon any of its principles which may
interfere with
negotiations with our enemies. He is convinced that this
policy will
eventually result in peace. What he fails to take into
consideration is the
fact that, were his policy truly implemented, the peace we
would enjoy would be
under the rule of our enemies. should they be kind enough
to allow us to
continue to live.
Ariel Sharon, on the other hand, has exemplified the quality
of most
politicians. . . the ability to become completely inconsistent.
Who would have
imagined, even a year ago, that Peace Now would be
demonstrating in favor of
Sharon? This fact is the clearest illustration possible of
just how
completely the Prime Minister's policy has changed. One
would expect even a
Sharon to take notice of the fact that the most vocal Israeli
political
organization dedicated to the self destruction of the Jewish
State is now his
new partner!
How ironic that, much like the thinking of Shimon Peres,
Sharon has stated that
one of the main reasons he wants to flee from Gaza is
because there are so many
Arabs there. Well the Arab population is growing faster than
the Jewish one in
Jaffa, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and all over Israel. Perhaps we
had just better
make plans to abandon the entire country. That would be
the consistent
conclusion one would have to arrive at should we follow
through on this faulty
logic.
Arabs living in the Gaza Strip are not "innocent civilians".
They are enemies
of the Jewish State and they have turned their children into
living bombs in
the war to destroy us. How dare we even consider the well
being of our enemies
above and beyond that of our own country?!
It has been said that this tiny country cannot take on the
entire world. The
USA and the European nations will never accept the idea
that Israel include
Judea, Samaria and Gaza as part of our country. What
country in the history of
nations voluntarily abandoned parts of its own homeland
owing to threats, real
or imagined, on the part of world powers? The only way
any self-respecting
nation would agree to give up its land is as a result of losing
a war. Our
hapless leaders have decided, in advance, that we would
lose should a war break
out and thus have decided to surrender even before the war
begins! With
leaders like this who needs enemies? The only wonder is
why our government
hasn't come up with a plan to change the name of Israel to
Palestine and just
hand the keys to Arafat. That would be consistent with the
current thinking
of our leaders, and would certainly result in the real peace
that Shimon Peres
envisions.
Voluntarily fleeing from any part of our homeland is not only
treasonous, but a
clear message to our enemies that we are afraid of them.
This will guarantee
an increase in terror and encourage our enemies to believe
that we can be
defeated. In a war either you crush your enemies or they
crush you. What
kind of mentality would find a leader inviting his enemies to
destroy his
country by giving him the implements to do so? What
country has ever
voluntarily given weapons and training to those who clearly
use them to destroy
you?
If you need proof that G-d is protecting us there is no better
proof than the
very fact that we still exist despite the incredible efforts on
the parts of
our leaders to self destruct. The very fact that a Sharon, in
the office of
Prime Minister, is working so determinedly to aid and abet
our enemies owing to
his fear of the nations of the world, will result in even greater
miracles
taking place as our G-d steps in to rescue us even from him.
But woe to us for
the deserved punishments we will suffer as a result of our
failure to stand up
to this bulldozer.
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October 28, 2004
LET'S DISENGAGE FROM ARIEL SHARON
LETTER FROM RUTH MATAR (WOMEN IN GREEN)
JERUSALEM
Thursday, October 28, 2004
Dear Friends,
Israel's first Prime Minister, David Ben Gurion, made a
speech to the 21st Zionist
Congress, in Basel, Switzerland, in 1937. His words are as
relevant today as they
were then.
"No Jew is at liberty to surrender the right of the Jewish
Nation and the Land of
Israel to exist. No Jewish body is sanctioned to do so. Even
all the Jews alive today
have no authority to yield any piece of land whatsoever. This
right is reserved to the
Jewish People throughout the generations. This right cannot
be forfeited under any
circumstances. Even if at some given time there will be
those who declare that they
are relinquishing this right, they have neither the power nor
the authority to negate
it for future generations. The Jewish Nation is neither
obligated by nor responsible
for any such waiver. Our right to this land, in its entirety, is
enduring and eternal.
And until the coming of the Redemption, we shall never
yield this historic right."
Tuesday, October 26, 2004, 67 years later, will go down in
Jewish history as a most
tragic occurrence. Sharon's Plan to forcibly evacuate fellow
Jews from their
communities in Biblical Gaza was approved by the Israeli
Knesset (Parliament) on
this date.
Our government has been hijacked by Ariel Sharon, who has
turned into a clever
manipulative dictator. He thumbs his nose at his own party,
the membership of
which had rejected his Unilateral Disengagement Plan
(deporting Jews from their
Biblical Homeland) by an overwhelming majority of 19.5% on
May 3, 2004.
One cannot blame Labor, Yachad (formerly Meretz), and the
Arab Knesset
Members who voted for the Plan. They did what was
expected of them. They had
advocated surrender to the Arab enemy all along.
The "Revised Disengagement Plan" was approved in a 67-45
vote with 7
abstentions. 29 of the votes in favor of Unilateral
Disengagement came from Left
wing opposition MKs, who jumped jubilantly from their seats
after the vote to
congratulate Sharon that he now has Knesset approval to
uproot Jews from their
homes. Ironically, once upon a time, before Sharon
betrayed his own Likud Party
and the voters who had given him a landslide victory in the
last election, these very
leftists considered Sharon to be Public Enemy Number One.
Thus, there were few surprises in the result of the Knesset
vote. Nevertheless, there
were some heartening aspects. Seventeen Likud Knesset
Members had the courage
to vote against Ariel Sharon. The nation may be seriously
divided as a result of
Sharon's Plan, but it should be noted that there are those in
the Likud Party who
will not timidly submit to his dictates.
Bibi Netanyahu, Limor Livnat, Tzachi Hanegbi, Dan Naveh,
and Silvan Shalom,
our so-called "friends", all Likud Ministers in Sharon's
Cabinet, have put a knife in
the back of their own constituency - betraying all Zionist
principles - in order to
hold on to their ministerial seats of power. They have joined
the camp of the enemy,
the extreme Left, which brought us the disastrous surrender
policies of the Oslo
Accords.
Of the Likud Ministers, only Uzi Landau and Michael Ratzon
had the moral
integrity not to go against their own Likud Party Platform
and the great majority of
the Likud membership. They cast their votes against
Sharon's Disengagement Plan.
As promised, they were immediately fired by Sharon, just as
he had previously fired
Ministers Benny Elon and Avigdor Liberman, when they
announced that they were
going to vote against his Plan.
We will continue to fight Sharon's evil immoral Plan to
forcibly evacuate Jews from
their Homeland. The People of Israel will not accept this
shameful vote of the
Knesset. NO ONE, NO PRIME MINISTER, AND NO
PARLIAMENT, HAS THE
RIGHT TO GIVE AWAY ANY PORTION OF OUR G-D GIVEN
BIBLICAL
HOMELAND.
Most importantly, the Women in Green will continue our
important work to
educate the People of Israel as to THE RIGHT TO OUR
LAND, and to resist
government suppression of dissent to Sharon's
manipulative Plan to surrender to
terror.
We are in desperate need of a leader who believes in the
ultimate destiny of the
Jewish People at this crucial period in our history. May the
G-d of Israel send us
such a leader.
THE STRUGGLE FOR THE LAND OF ISRAEL HAS JUST
STARTED. WITH
G-D'S HELP IT IS IN OUR POWER TO SUCCEED.
With Blessings and Love for Israel,
Ruth Matar
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