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Dear Friends,

Below please find information about different activities related to the struggle for the Land of Israel.

*Two activities in Israel organized by Women in Green *A counter protest in the States organized by AFSI together with a coalition of many other pro-Israel organizations *Details about the International Temple Mount Awareness Day

Please forward the info to your lists.

Whoever did not yet receive in the mail our Women in Green -Yibane, must see 9 minute movie, please email us your snail mail and we will send it to you.

With love for Israel,

Nadia Matar Yehudit Katsover

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1) This coming Friday in NETZER, Gush Etzion, at 9:00 am

9:00 - 10:00 am Lecture by Arieh Klein (in Hebrew)

10:00 - 11:30 am Tour of the area with safari jeep to increase our
Jewish presence in the hills threatened to be taken over by Arabs

More details about the struggle in Netzer to safeguard Jewish land will be posted in a separate email tomorrow

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2) Register now for Women in Green’s monthly chizuk trip :

WEDNESDAY, March 17th we will go to YAD BINYAMIN, SHEKEF and NEGUHOT

PROGRAM:

9:00 am departure from Inbal Hotel, ­registration obligatory

· shopping in Yad Binyamin to strengthen the economy of our
brothers from Gush Katif expelled almost five years ago and still living in horrendous conditions

· Visit to Shekef where houses are being built for the
expellees from Gush katif- tour led by former MK and deputy minister of education Moshe Peled

· Visit to Yehudit Ben David in Neguhot who, with her family,
is rebuilding her house for the third time

· Approximate return: around 7:00pm

· The tour is in Hebrew with translation into English

For registration please contact: Elisheva Ginzburg 052-3003689

For details please contact: Nadia Matar 050-5500834 Yehudit Katsover
050-7161818

Upcoming chizuk trips: please mark your calendar:

*Wednesday April 14th- tour of the Jewish strongholds in the Old City of Jeruslaem *Thursday May 20- tour of Jericho area with Dr Haggi ben Artzi

· Also planned is a tour to promote Jewish labor in building
and agriculture. Details will follow

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3) IN THE USA- FROM AFSI:

TO CONCERNED JEWS - BE THERE WITH US - TUESDAY, MARCH 9, 5-7 PM - NYC

Posted Thursday, March 04 @ 15:39:13 EST URGENT COUNTER-PROTEST , TUESDAY, MARCH 9, 5-7 P.M.

TO ALL THOSE WHO CARE ABOUT ISRAEL - IT IS URGENT THAT YOU ATTEND THE COUNTER-PROTEST RALLY

Across from the WALDORF ASTORIA - PARK AVE.,bet. 49th & 50th , NYC

UPDATE:
The NYPD has switched the locations for Tuesday night WE ARE GOING TO BE on PARK at W. 50th - 51st, and the Haters will be at W. 48th - 49th.

On Tuesday, March 9, The Friends of the IDF is having their annual dinner at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in NYC. We have learned that there will be an Arab demonstration outside the hotel, defaming the IDF and Gabi Ashkenazi, the Chief of the IDF General Staff.

We will be handing out information, holding signs, Israeli and American flags, and alerting the public as to the true nature of Fatah, Hamas and the PA. The Hamas terrorist acts against Christians and Fatah, the use of women and children as human shields, the firing of rockets from mosques, homes, and schools in order to deter IDF retaliation, the misinformation and hatred being fed to Arab children in their classrooms and through PA media, will all be detailed.

We’ll be highlighting the IDF and Israeli assistance to the Arabs in the fields of medical care, education, and providing a standard of living for Arab Israelis that is the highest in the Middle East. In addition, in opposition to the recent “apartheid” claims against Israel, the Israeli Arabs enjoy full democratic rights in the Knesset , in their religious observances, and in the media.

A number of grass roots activist groups have come together to counter-protest on that evening. They include Americans For a Safe Israel/AFSI, Get Out The Facts, Human Rights Coalition Against Radical Islam, National Council of Young Israel, Shalom International, Stand With Us, World Committee for the Land of Israel, Zionist Organization of America/ZOA . Individuals such as Assemblyman Dov Hikind, Lori Lowenthal Marcus, and Andy Upton are also working with us. Others continue to join.
PLEASE BE THERE WITH US - MARCH 9, 5-7 P.M.

Contact ASFI:

1751 Second Ave, New York, NY 10128

Tel: 212-828-2424; Fax: 212-828-1717; afsi@rcn.com; www.afsi.org
Contact: Helen Freedman, Executive Director

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4) INTERNATIONAL TEMPLE MOUNT AWARENESS DAY:
MARCH 16TH, ROSH CHODESH NISAN

The following organizations are participating in the first annual International Temple Mount Awareness Day:

Israel: The Temple Institute, Organization for the Renewal of the Temple (ORT), Women in Green, Matot Arim, Manhigut Yehudit, The Nascent Sanhedrin, The Temple Mount Heritage Foundation, The Organization for Human Rights on Temple Mount, Radio Free Nachlaot, El Har Hashem - The Temple Mount Advocacy Council, Israel National Radio

International: World Committee for the Land of Israel, Jewish Activists Network, Bnai Elim, All4Israel, Americans for a Safe Israel (AFSI), Children of Jewish Holocaust Survivors

ARE YOU AWARE THAT:

The Temple Mount is the holiest place in the world; yet Jews and all non-Moslems are denied the right to pray in groups, and even as individuals; this refusal is accompanied by their constant degradation, and they are granted no opportunity for any religious expression whatsoever on the Temple Mount.

IN RESPONSE:

We are calling on all groups to unite to begin fighting this ongoing travesty. We are calling for a day of action to be known as “International Temple Mount Awareness Day.” We have no illusions and we fully understand that a long battle is still in front of us, but yet we must begin the work. We must bring the Temple Mount back into our national heart and mind and begin to restore it to its former glory. Yes, this will be a long difficult path, but so was our return to Zion after 2,000 years of exile. Our parents, grandparents and great-grandparents had their mission and we have ours.

http://templeinstitute.org/temple-mount-awareness-day.htm
Hatenua@gmail.com
rabbirichman@gmail.com

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Dear Friends,

Purim represents the holiday in which the Jewish People was victorious in their struggle against Haman and his evil decrees.

Even though Haman had already declared the decree of annihilating the Jewish People, Mordechai and Esther, like real activists, did not accept that decree and acted to overturn it. That is the message Mordechai and Esther teach us: it is up to each and one of us to behave like a proud Jew, adhering to our belief in the justness of our cause. When enemies wish to harm us, Israel will not fear nor kneel or bow to the haters of Israel but rather, will act and, if necessary, fight.

>From then to the present, the Jews have been forced to act against the
descendants of Haman, who was from the seed of Amalek.

The distinguished Rabbi Yaakov Moshe Charlap, of blessed memory, explained in his article “Arousing the Hatred of Amalek”, that in order to understand the meaning and importance of the commandment to “remember what Amalek did to you on your journey after you left Egypt”
(Deuteronomy 25:17), we must examine Amalek’s intentions.

The rabbi explains, based on various midrashim, that Amalek led Israel to be doubtful, hesitant and questioning the very fact of the involvement by G-d in the life of the people, until the children of Israel actually questioned: “Is the L-ord present among us or not?”
(Exodus 17:7).Amalek understood that only when the children of Israel would lack faith, their enemies could defeat them in battle. Thank G-d Amalek’s plan did not work out, Israel fought bravely, was victorious and returned to complete faith in G-d.

If, during the wilderness, Amalek introduced doubts and hesitation about the G-d of Israel, in our time, Amalek’s seed (Ahmedinajad, Hamas, Fatah, Jihad, etc.) go even further. Not only do they want to annihilate Israel and the Jewish people physically but they try to erase our identity by trying to implant in the Jewish People doubts and hesitation concerning our very existence as a People, and our right to all of the Land of Israel.

The latest hypocritical outcry of the Arabs against the fact that the Tomb of Machpela and Rachel’s Tomb have been included in the list of Jewish holy sites is only one example of this war by the Arabs against us.

This is the time to be like Mordechai and Esther, not to bow down to our enemies but rather declare loud and clear: The entire Land of Israel belongs to the People of Israel. It was given to us by G-d as an everlasting inheritance and nobody has the right to give it away or take it away from us. Not only should the Tomb of Machpela in Hebron and Rachel’s Tomb in Bethlehem be included in the list of our holy sites but also Joseph’s Tomb in Shchem, and the tombs of Ruth and Yishays’, Otniel ben Knaz, Avner Ben Ner in Hevron , … and of course the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. In addition, Jews should continue to build and expand and settle all over our Biblical Homeland.

Women in Green continue now, more than ever, the struggle for the Land of Israel. Below, please find the description of our activity in Shdema and Netzer.

Over the past two weeks we have sent out a mailing by snail mail, which include our latest must see short movie about the Yibaneh fund for building and development in the hills of Judea founded by Women in Green. If you are not on our snail mailing list, please email us your exact name and address and we will send you the material. Thank you for being partners in the struggle for the land of Israel,

May it be His will that the verse “there was gladness and joy among the Jews, a feast and a holiday” will be fulfilled for all of us.

With love for Israel, Happy Purim!

Nadia Matar and Yehudit Katsover

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Expanding Activity for Eretz Israel from Shdema - to Save the Lands of Netzer

Last Friday several dozen activists went up the Netzer hill, between Alon Shvut and Elazar, and heard a lecture by the veteran guide Aryeh Klein of Hebron on “The Grape Vine.” The lecture was followed by a tour in a safari vehicle of the areas under and opposite the Zayit neighborhood in Efrat. Thanks to the tour, there was a Jewish presence in areas where Jews had not set foot for many years.

The archaeological finds there prove that this entire area was inhabited by Jews in both the First and Second Temple periods. The terraces, coins, cisterns, wine presses, ritual baths - all tell what we knew all along: this land is ours!

Unfortunately, the Arabs, aided by European organizations, are taking control of considerable plots of no-man’s land in our area. The strong hand wielded against the Jews, the freeze, the fence - all these broadcast to the Arabs: establish facts on the ground, and the land of the Jews will be yours!

We must struggle for every foot of land. The planting by the international organizations is presumably done as a “humanitarian step,” out of concern for the so-called “poor” Arab peasant, but, actually, a struggle is being waged for the Land of Israel.

The Committee for Jewish Shdema, together with Women in Green, the Yibaneh Fund, and the Action Committees in Judea, have extended our activity to include Netzer. Since the IDF is building an outpost at Shdema, most of the activity can be transferred to Netzer, with a watchful eye on Shdema.

Tomorrow, Friday, on the eve of Purim, we will go up to Shdema to distribute mishloah manot to the soldiers and to hear a shiur by Rabbi Yaron Durani, the rabbi of Nokdim and Shdema, with wonderful music by Eli Gilboa of Kiryat Arba-Hebron.

Come in costume and with musical instruments!

* The activity will be held, regardless of weather conditions.

Bus transportation: from Kiryat Arba-Hebron at 8:15 a.m., Gush Etzion junction (Tzomet ha-Gush) 8:30 a.m., Efrat southern junction 8:35 a.m.

For pictures of last Friday in Netzer please click on Rivka Rybacks link:
http://www.yeshabulletin.com/FIGHT%20BACK/FightBack.htm

The Committee for a Jewish Shdema - Women in Green - Judea Action Committees - Netzer Settlement Group - Yibaneh Fund

For details: Yehudit Katsover - 050-7161818, Nadia Matar - 050-5500834

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Dear Friends,

Below please find the dates and details of 3 exciting upcoming Women in Green chizuk trips.

Please register early, for places are limited.

1) Wednesday March 17th- Neguhot, Amatzia-Yad Binyamin

Chizuk trip to Neguhot and then to our brothers and sisters expelled from Gush Katif- strengtheneing them by shopping for Pessach in their stores

Details will be posted later.

2) Wednesday, Rosh Chodesh Iyar, April 14th- tour in Jerusalem
inside the Old City

Details will be posted later.

3) Thursday, May 20th, Isru Chag Shavuot- tour of Jericho with Erna Kobos

Details to be posted later.

For details and registration:
Nadia Matar 050-5500834 Yehudit Katsover 050-7161818

Women in Green
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With mixed feelings of happiness and worry we came to Shdema yesterday, Friday February 5th to listen to Prof. Hillel Weiss’s lecture on the literature of the first aliyah.

Feelings of happiness-because of the IDF’s decision to return to Shdema and set up an outpost there.

Feelings of worry- worrying whether the outpost would stand firm against the international pressure against Israel.

When we came down the hill at the end of the morning, a consular car was there, watching our moves. When we came near to try and see who was inside, we saw the driver was a bodyguard. Somebody was in the back.The back window was very dark. When we tried to approach the car even more to see who the person in the back was, the car fled towards Bet Sahour. We drove after them to photograph them and they fled towards Jerusalem. There is no doubt that in the car was a person who did not want us to know he was there. We think it might be the USA consul himself. A picture of the car can be seen by clicking on:
http://www.yeshabulletin.com/FIGHT%20BACK/FightBack.htm

The Haarets newspaper and their reporter Amira Hess* came out on Thursday and Friday with articles against the IDF’s return to Shdema, articles in favor of the Arabs of Bet Sahour and in favor of the illegal Arab construction at the bottom of Shdema claiming that the lands of Shdema have been taken away from the Arabs.

The truth is exactly the opposite. Since the Oslo agreements most of the area has been taken away from Israel and has become area A (under full Arab control). Gush Etzion has been left with only 4% of the land and from these 4% they want to take away Shdema from us!

About the second claim, i.e. that all the Arabs want is to build a hospital in Shdema that will serve “all”…we checked and saw that they have lots and lots of lands in area A on which they can build hospitals if that was what they really wanted. It is clear that the claim that they want to build a hospital there is just an excuse that sounds very “humane” when their real purpose is: to take away from Israel yet another area C under Israeli control and break the Jewish continuity between Jerusalem and Eastern Gush Etzion.

On June first of 2009, Shaul Goldstein, mayor of Gush Etzion, wrote a letter to the Defense Minister explaining why one should not allow the Arabs to build a hospital in Shdema claiming rightfully that it will not end with a hospital: “the Palestinians will then continue and demand to receive the rest of the area into their hands too- claiming they need parking spaces, and areas in which to grow and expand in the future”.

Unlike what Haarets is trying to claim, it is clear that the IDF’s decision to return to Shdema is a purely professional decision. The IDF understands the strategic importance of Shdema for the security of the area. Anybody with common sense understands one cannot abandon such an important place.

The Committee for a Jewish Shdema and Women in Green will continue with its activities in Shdema as planned.

Next week we will have the pleasure to hear a lecture by Emanuel Shilo, editor of the “Besheva” newspaper who will talk in Hebrew on “How to turn the plate around to our favor”.

The presence of each and every one of us in Shdema is now more important than ever. The support of all our members together with the constant presence of the devoted activists from Har Choma, Jerusalem.
Bet Shemesh, Efrat, Gush Etzion, kiryat Arab Hevron, together with the involvement of the members of Knesset active on behalf of Shdema- is what brought progress in the struggle for a Jewish Shdema. Now we must continue and make even more of an effort to come every week. Please G-d, we will succeed.

The Committee for a Jewish Shdema and Women in Green

Rabbi Yaron Durani (El David Nokdim)- Tsuri Botosh (Shdema youth,Jerusalem)-Igor Bialsky (Tekoa)-Elisheva Ginzburg (Alon Shvut)-Orly Glauber (Maaleh Rehavam)-Ruthi Wallfish (Tekoa)-Ina Viniarsky (Tekoa)-Yehudit Tayar (Bet Horon)-Timna Katz (Neve Daniel)-Tomer Karazi (Nokdim military mechina)-Nadia Matar (Efrat)—Gedalya Friedman (Neve Daniel)-Yehudit Katzover (Kiryat Arba Hevron)-Eli Rodan (Elazar)

For details :
Nadia Matar 050-5500834 , Yehudit Katsover 050-7161818

*Article by Amira Hess on thursday

(we did not find an English translation of Amira Hess’s Friday article)

Other related articles on the IDF’s return to Shdema:
Link to Arutz 7 article: (English)
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/135785

Link to Jerusalem Post article:(english) IDF to return to strategic hilltop
http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=167447

Link to article in Walla news (Hebrew): http://news.walla.co.il/?w=//1639382

Link to article in Haarets (Hebrew):
http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasite/spages/1147450.html

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Dear Friends,

The following letter by David Yehezkel says it all. Below the letter we include the link to the video clip about Israel’s amazing field hospital in Haiti.

Thank you Helen Freedman from AFSI for forwarding the information.

With love for Israel,

Nadia Matar
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ISRAEL’S DISPROPORTIONAL RESPONSE
by David Yehezkel

Many countries and world leaders have accused Israel of responding disproportionately to aggression from Hizballah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza. However, it is time that the world press and media speak of another disproportionate response from Israel.

The terrible disastrous earthquake in Haiti has generated responses from many nations. The US has sent supplies and personnel, Britain sent 64 firemen and 8 volunteers, France sent troops for Search and Rescue. Many large and wealthy nations of the world sent money. The Arab and Moslem world nothing.

Israel, a nation of 7.5 million people has sent a team of 220 people that include Medical personnel and will establish the largest field hospital in Haiti, treating up to 500 people a day, an experienced Search and Rescue team and medical supplies. As in previous earthquake disasters, such as in Gujarat India in 2001 and in Turkey, in the bombings in Kenya, Israel has been one of the most generous givers of aid and assistance

Turkey seems to have forgotten this help as its extreme Moslem Government is cozying up to Iran.

Judge Goldstone, where are you now? Eating your heart out and hanging your head down in shame I hope.

The favorite occupation in the UN is Israel bashing. More resolutions have been passed condemning Israel than all the so called democratic nations such as Sudan, China, Russia and others for their crimes against their minorities.

I think it is time that the world should know about Israel’s disproportionate response.
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FROM AFSI:
Please view this video from CNN. The reporter discovers, to her amazement, that Israel responded to the earthquake devastation in Haiti from “the other side of the world” with the most advanced field hospital installation possible. She marvels that the U.S., so much closer to Haiti, hasn’t done the same. Viewing this video will make you very proud of Israel’s accomplishments.

The world needs to learn a great lesson from Israel!

CNN Video: http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/world/2010/01/18/dnt.cohen.haiti.patients.dying.cnn.html

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Erev Shabbat, Parshat Vaere 5770
Friday, January 15, 2010

The struggle for Shdema in Gush Etzion is starting up again.

After a relatively quiet period at Shdema of ongoing cultural activity, those coming to Shdema this morning were shocked to discover that all of the base’s buildings had been spray painted by leftist activists and Christian anarchists.

The graffiti consisted of verses from the Bible and slogans of “love and peace.” From the quantity of graffiti on the walls, it was obvious that they had spent hours at the base without the army interfering.

During the course of the lecture by Dr. Tzipi Rainey on the author Naomi Frankel and her writing, the Shdema Youth organized and repainted the entire base, expunging all the graffiti.

The question arose among the audience of the permissibility of expuning verses containing the name of G-d. The Committee for a Jewish Shdema argued that since this was a hostile invasion, despite the “love and peace” slogans, of sovereign Israeli territory and a challenge to the Jews: “You don’t belong here,” this was undoubtedly an attack on Jewish honor. Any thinking person realizes that just as we wouldn’t let a stranger into our living room to draw on the walls, not even verses from the Bible, this certainly applies in this case.

In the atmosphere of capitulation that reigns in Israel at present, the Arabs and their supporters are raising their head. We therefore were forced, not only to remove the graffiti, but to respond in the same manner. At the end of the morning, Shdema activists went down to the illegal compound that the Arabs built at the foot of Shdema, in Area C. a building against which destruction orders exist from the Civila administration but of course arent implemented.

They went in and sprayed all of the Arab illegal buildings, inside and out, on the walls, on the doors, and on the floors.

An IDF officer who was present there, promised “payback”, against the Jews, of course, and said: “I will personally see to it that you won’t go up to Shdema any more.” It’s a pity that this determination is revealed only against Jews, and not against the enemy. In light of this, the Committee for Jewish Shdema and Women in Green call upon all the people of Israel to come next Friday, January 22 (the eve of parshat Bo), and demonstrate a massive presence at the site. Israel must stop self-restraint and go over to the offensive in the struggle for Eretz Israel.

Planned for Friday next week, at 9:00 a.m.: a lecture by Dr. Haggai Ben-Artzi on the subject: “Eretz Israel in the Literature of the Kabbalists.”

The Committee for Jewish Shdema and Women in Green For details: Yehudit Katzover - 050-7161818, Nadia Matar - 050-5500834

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From: “Naomi Ragen”

Friends,

Back in the time when Israelis decided to paint doves and declare the war with Palestinian terror over, we sane people didn’t understand what was going on. We thought: Hey, there must be something wrong with our understanding. We still think Arafat is a terrorist -peace prize or not- who is trying to kill us. Then in 2000 when our buses started blowing up, and our government called the scattered pieces of
Israelis: “sacrifices for peace” we finally understood who was sane and who was crazy.

As I feared, Americans are just now waking up to the reality of their incomprehensible choice of leadership. I am so sorry Americans had to find out the truth the same way we Israelis did: the hard way. Let’s hope they do something, fast, because take if from someone who had a hotel blow up around her, the alternative is horrific. Below, an article by Charles Krauthammer, who always tells it like it is.

Naomi
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Admit the country’s at war
The administration’s response to the Christmas Day attack makes nation uneasy.
By Charles Krauthammer
Jan. 4, 2010

Janet Napolitano - former Arizona governor, now overmatched secretary of homeland security - will forever be remembered for having said of the attempt to bring down an airliner over Detroit: “The system worked.”

The attacker’s concerned father had warned U.S. authorities about his son’s jihadist tendencies. The would-be bomber paid cash and checked no luggage on a transoceanic flight. He was nonetheless allowed to fly, and would have killed 288 people in the air alone, save for a faulty detonator and quick actions by a few passengers.

Heck of a job, Brownie.

The reason the country is uneasy about the Obama administration’s response to this attack is a distinct sense of not just incompetence but incomprehension.

>From the very beginning, President Obama has relentlessly tried to
downplay and deny the nature of the terrorist threat we continue to face. Napolitano renames terrorism “man-caused disasters.” Obama goes abroad and pledges to cleanse America of its post-9/11 counterterrorist sins. Hence, Guantanamo will close, CIA interrogators will face a special prosecutor, and Khalid Sheik Mohammed will bask in a civilian trial in New York - a trifecta of political correctness and image management.

And just to make sure even the dimmest understand, Obama banishes the term war on terror. It’s over - that is, if it ever existed.

Obama may have declared the war over. Unfortunately al-Qaeda has not.
Which gives new meaning to the term asymmetric warfare.

And produces linguistic - and logical - oddities that littered Obama’s public pronouncements following the Christmas Day attack.

In his first statement, Obama referred to Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab as “an isolated extremist.” This is the same president who, after the Fort Hood shooting, warned us “against jumping to conclusions” - code for daring to associate Nidal Hasan’s mass murder with his Islamist ideology. Yet, with Abdulmutallab, Obama jumped immediately to the conclusion, against all existing evidence, that the bomber acted alone.

More jarring still were Obama’s references to the terrorist as a “suspect” who “allegedly tried to ignite an explosive device.” You can hear the echo of FDR: “Yesterday, Dec. 7, 1941 - a date which will live in infamy - Japanese naval and air force suspects allegedly bombed Pearl Harbor.”

Obama reassured the nation that this “suspect” had been charged.
Reassurance? The president should be saying: We have captured an enemy combatant - an illegal combatant under the laws of war: no uniform, direct attack on civilians - and now to prevent future attacks, he is being interrogated regarding information he may have about al-Qaeda in Yemen.

Instead, Abdulmutallab is dispatched to some Detroit-area jail and immediately lawyered up. At which point - surprise! - he stops talking.

This absurdity renders hollow Obama’s declaration that “we will not rest until we find all who were involved.” Once we’ve given Abdulmutallab the right to remain silent, we have gratuitously forfeited our right to find out from him precisely who else was involved, namely those who trained, instructed, armed and sent him.

This is all quite mad even in Obama’s terms. He sends 30,000 troops to fight terror overseas, yet if any terrorists come to attack us here, they are magically transformed from enemy into defendant.

The logic is perverse. If we find Abdulmutallab in an al-Qaeda training camp in Yemen, where he is merely preparing for a terror attack, we snuff him out with a Predator - no judge, no jury, no qualms. But if we catch him in the United States in the very act of mass murder, he instantly acquires protection not just from execution by drone but even from interrogation.

The president said that this incident highlights “the nature of those who threaten our homeland.” But the president is constantly denying the nature of those who threaten our homeland. On Tuesday, he referred five times to Abdulmutallab (and his terrorist ilk) as “extremist(s).”

A man who shoots abortion doctors is an extremist. An eco-fanatic who torches logging sites is an extremist. Abdulmutallab is not one of these. He is a jihadist. And unlike the guys who shoot abortion doctors, jihadists have cells all over the world; they blow up trains in London, nightclubs in Bali and airplanes over Detroit (if they can); and are openly pledged to war on America.

Any government can through laxity let someone slip through the cracks.
But a government that refuses to admit that we are at war, indeed, refuses even to name the enemy - jihadist is a word banished from the Obama lexicon - turns laxity into a governing philosophy.

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E-mail Charles Krauthammer at
letters@charleskrauthammer.com.

http://www.philly.com/inquirer/opinion/80562932.html

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Dear Friends,

Sunday night, January 4th, at 1 a.m., police and Yassam forces entered the community of Neguhot in the southern Hevron hills, and, like thieves in the night, went to the “Beit Hakerem” hill and ordered the Ben-David family to get dressed, and leave their home into the night cold. Once again, bulldozers destroyed their house, rebuilt only a month and a half after their original, beautiful home was destroyed.
Two other homes, built nearby in solidarity with the Ben-David’s, were also destroyed. Again, the families’ household goods were scattered along the hilltop. The houses themselves, constructed of fiberboard panels, were turned into a muddy conglomerate.

Yehudit Ben David called us early in the morning. This is what she told us:

“At around 1:00 in the morning we heard loud knocks on the door.
“Police, open the door!!” they shouted. We opened the door and saw the troops outside. “We came to destroy your house. Get dressed and get out”. Then they cut off the electricity and the entire house was in the dark”.Yehudit and her husband told the police that their six children were sleeping and they needed some time to get organized and wake up the children, etc. The policeman said: “I must come in and see if you are not lying and really have children sleeping here”. The policeman came in with a flashlight and confirmed that there indeed were six children sleeping there, aged one year old to 12 year old.
“Get them up and get out” he told the parents. Yehudit said: “but there is no light. You cut off the electricity. We can’t see a thing.
Can I at least get one of your flashlights? Each and every one of your policemen have flashlights- give us one”. The policeman refused.

“Somehow we managed to get the kids up” says Yehudit. “Meanwhile Arabs who had been employed by the police , entered our house and started taking out our possessions, simply throwing everything outside, on the muddy floor - the fridge, the matresses, the linens, the books, the clothes…” After that the bulldozer came and destroyed our house and an additional two that belong to our neighbors.

“Luckily, on the nearby hill that is also part of Neguhot, where some ten families live, there was an empty caravan, and we temporarily moved in there, till we can rebuild our house on the “Bet Hakerem”
hill, for the third time. “The problem is”, said Yehudit ben David, that now the “Beit Hakerem hill” is empty and Arabs who come by foot from their village, kilometers away, approach the hill and steal our belongings. They grab whatever they can and walk back to their village far away.We must find a way of priotecting the hill.

Women in Green immediately organized a group of young men to stand guard at the hill and together we drove out to Neguhot. The scene of the destruction was heartbreaking. Just a few days ago we had come there to protest the fact that Arabs had thrown a molotov cocktail against a bus, wounding an 18 year old girl. Instead of trying to catch the Arab terrorists, Israeli security forces were busy planning the destruction of the Ben David house.

Through the ugly stratagems of Defense Minister Barak and the deafening silence of Prime Minister Netanyahu, the power of the state continues to be mobilized against “enemies of the state” like the Ben-David’s and their neighbors, whose “crime” is their desire to make their homes in the Land of Israel generally, and within the legal boundaries of their community of Neguhot specifically. They built their homes in a designated new neighborhood of Neguhot to prevent Arab squatters from expropriating their community’s land, as is happening throughout the Negev and the Galil along with Judea and Samaria.

The spirit of these families won’t be broken: they are ready to rebuild their houses anew. We, secure for now in our nice, warm homes, have to do our own mobilizing — of ourselves — to provide them with the resources to rebuild their homes for the third time.

We call on all lovers of the Land of Israel to contribute to the Yibane Fund, currently being established by Women In Green for building and settlement in the hills of Judea.

While organizing the launching of this fund, the destruction in Neguhot gave us an object lesson of the fund’s purpose and necessity.

We can rebuild the houses destroyed in Neguhot within 10 to 14 days if we can collect the funding. It will take 100,000 NIS (some $30,000) to construct three new very basic structures.

The struggle over the future of the Land of Israel is being waged on the hilltops of Judea and Samaria.

We, with God’s help and with your help, will ignore all anti-Zionist and anti-Jewish decrees and continue to build our Biblical homeland.

Please send your checks to:

“Women For Israel’s Tomorrow (Women in Green)- The Yibane Fund”
P.O. Box 7352 Jerusalem 91072 Israel

For US tax deduction please contact us by email at nmatar@netvision.net.il

For details: Nadia Matar 050-5500834,Yehudit Katsover 050-7161818, or Miriam Fleishman 052-4295557.

Link to Arutz 7 article in which you can see pictures of the Ben Davids first beautiful house, the bulldozer destroying that house and pictures of the simple houses rebuilt after the first destruction. The pictures are at the end of the Hebrew article.
http://www.inn.co.il/News/News.aspx/198660

With love for Israel,

Nadia Matar and Yehudit Katzover

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