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Dear Friends,
Below, Yoram Ettinger reminds us of some important and basic facts on our historical ties to Judea and Samaria.
In addition, some announcements and upcoming events:
1) Women in Green mourn the tragic death of tank commander Uriel Liwerant, who was killed in a tank training accident Wednesday morning in the Golan Heights. Uriel is the son of our dear friends and long time Women in Green members and supporters Joni and Aaron Liwerant and Minnie Feldman, grandmother of Uriel, all living in Efrat. May the family be comforted among the mourners of Zion and know no more sorrow. The funeral will start today, Thursday, at 11:00am in Efrat (Rav Tachliti in Rimon). Uriel will be buried in Har Herzl at 12:30pm.
2) Here is a recording by Yishai Fleisher of our Women in Green Walk around the walls on Tisha Bav
http://wejew.com/media/5638/Nadia_Matar’s_March/
3) This coming Friday, July 7th, we will, please G-d, go to SHDEMA at 9:30am. Rabbi Tomer Karizy, from the Nokdim military mechina, will be giving a shiur. Afterwards, we will paint the buildings. Please come in work clothes.
Transportation by reservation only:
8:45 from Kiryat Arba Hevron- 9:00 from Tsomet Hagush – 9:05 from Efrat – 9:00 from Har Choma
The Committee for a Jewish Shdema and Women in Green would like to thank the hundreds of people who participated in last month’s Thursday-Friday seminar and thus took part in the struggle for a Jewish Shdema.
Now we must continue. Join us!
With love for Israel,
Nadia Matar, Women in Green 050-5500834
Yehudit Katzover, The Committee for a Jewish Shdema 050-7161818
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Shalom,
Enclosed you’ll find the 226th issue of Straight from the Jerusalem Cloakroom, highlighting a generally-disregarded/misrepresented fact.
Previous issues are posted at The Ettinger Report, http://yoramettinger.newsnet.co.il.
Yoram Ettinger
Jewish Occupation or Roots in Judea and Samaria?
Straight from the Jerusalem Cloakroom #226, July 31, 2009
Yoram Ettinger, Jerusalem
1. President Obama’s claim enunciated during his June 4, 2009 speech at Cairo University that “the aspiration for a Jewish homeland is rooted in a tragic history [The Holocaust] that cannot be denied,” ignores thoroughly-documented Jewish roots in the Land of Israel in general and in Judea & Samaria in particular.
2. World renowned travelers, historians and archeologists of earlier centuries, such as H. B. Tristram (The Land of Israel, 1865), Mark Twain (Innocents Abroad, 1867), R.A. MacAlister and Masterman (“Palestine Exploration Fund Quarterly”), A.P. Stanley (Sinai and Palestine, 1887), E. Robinson and E. Smith (Biblical Researches in Palestine, 1841)), C.W. Van de Velde (Peise durch Syrien und Paletsinea, 1861), Felix Bovet (Voyage en Taire Sainte, 1864) as well as Encyclopedia Britannica and official British and Ottoman records (until 1950) refer to “Judea and Samaria” and not to the “West Bank.” The latter term was coined by the Jordanian occupation of Judea and Samaria following the 1948/9 War.
3. The term “Palestine” was established by Greek Historian Herodotus, and adopted by the Roman Empire, in an attempt to erase “Judea” from human memory. “Palestine” was a derivative of the biblical Philistines, arch rivals of the Jewish nation, non-Semites who migrated to the area from the Greek islands and from Phoenicia in the 12th century BCE (“Plishtim” the invaders – is the Hebrew word for “Philistines”).
4. Most Arabs (Semites from the Arabian Peninsula), who reside between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean, have their origin in a massive 19th-20th century migration from Egypt, Syria, Lebanon and other Moslem countries.
5. Almost all Arab towns and villages in Judea and Samaria have retained biblical Jewish names, thus reaffirming Jewish roots there. For example:
*A-Dura is biblical (and contemporary) Adora’yim, site of King Rehoboam’s and a Maccabees’ fortress.
*A-Ram is biblical Haramah, Prophet Samuel’s birth and burial site.
*Anata is biblical (and contemporary) Anatot, the dwelling of the Prophet Jeremiah.
*Batir is biblical (and contemporary) Beitar, the headquarters of Bar Kochba, the leader of the Great Rebellion against the Roman Empire, which was crashed in 135CE.
*Beit-hur is the biblical (and contemporary) Beit Horon, site of Judah the Maccabee’s victory over the Assyrians.
*Beitin is biblical (and contemporary) Bethel, a site of the Holy Ark and Prophet Samuel’s court.
*Bethlehem is mentioned 44 times in the Bible and is the birth place of King David.
*Beit Jalla is biblical (and contemporary) Gilo, where Sennacherib set his camp, while besieging Jerusalem.
*El-Jib is biblical (and contemporary) Gibeon, Joshua’s battleground known for “Sun, stop thou in Gibeon and the moon in the valley of Ayalon,” Joshua 10:12.
*Hebron – named after Hevron, Moses’ uncle and Levy’s grandson was King David’s first capital for 7 years, the burial site of the 3 Jewish Patriarchs and 3 Jewish Matriarchs.
*Jaba’ is the biblical (and contemporary Geva, site of Jonathan’s (son of King Saul) victory over the Philistines.
*Jenin is the biblical (and contemporary) Ein Ganim, a Levite town within the tribe of Issachar.
*Mukhmas is biblical (and contemporary) Mikhmash, residence of Jonathan the Maccabee and site of King Saul’s fortress.
*Seilun is biblical (and contemporary) Shilo, a site of Joshua’s tabernacle and the Holy Ark and Samuel’s youth.
*Tequa’ is biblical (and contemporary) Teqoah, hometown of the Prophet Amos and currently known for its home grown Ginger.
*Etc.
Are these sites “occupied” by the Jewish State or are they the epitome of Jewish moral high-ground and Statehood?
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