Dear Friends,
1) Due to the expected snowstorm, we are postponing our Women in Green Chizuk Trip to Eastern Gush Etzion to next Wednesday, February 6th.
Same exciting program: leaving Jerusalem at 9:15 am for a special day trip. Driving through Har Choma, going to different communities and outposts in eastern Gush Etzion, meeting the pioneers of today. Coming to strengthen but really being strengthened. Call today to reserve seats on the bus:
Anita 050-5777254 or Nadia 050-5500834
Fee: 75 nis roundtrip
2) The demonstration against the violation of the girls honor who had been arrested for three weeks, planned for tomorrow, Tuesday, in front of the Binyamin police station, organized by the families and friends of the girls, was also postponed due to the weather. It will take place some time next week. We will keep you updated.
3) URGENT PHONE & FAX Campaign against the violation of basic human rights of the Jews in Bet Hashalom, Hevron
As we told you before, Bet Hashalom is the house between Hebron and Kiryat Arba that was legally purchased by Jews for close to a million dollars. The video of the legal purchase has been shown to all. Jewish families, with children and babies have been living in that house for the past ten months in the most basic conditions.
Last Sunday the Supreme court did not accept the demand to expel the Jews from that house and instead has postponed the next court session for another three months. Despite all this, the government of Israel has not allowed the residents of Bet Hashalom to put in windows. Our brothers and sisters in Bet Hashalom, with their children, are left to freeze! Everybody who knows the area, knows how cold it can get there in the winter.
Unbelievably, the government of Israel is doing to the Jews of Bet Hashalom what it does not dare to do to our worst Arab enemies in Gaza: denying them basic human rights!
Imagine what the world media would do if Israel would deny Arab families windows and heat. We would have CNN and BBC filming an entire Hollywood production showing the children hidden under blankets, freezing in the cold, crying. Within a day those Arab families would get windows. But when there is a real violation of basic human rights against Jews, everybody is quiet. Nobody cares.
THIS HAS TO STOP! Women in Green call upon all to bombard with phones and faxes, the office of the Minister of Defense Ehud Barak, who is the one who decides whether or not the Jews of Bet Hashalom will get windows and proper electricity and heat.
The phones and faxes must reach Barak’s spokesman, RONEN MOSHE
His phone number is 972-3-697-5750
His fax number is 972-3-691-6940
It is important that friends of Israel worldwide make the effort TODAY to call and fax and demand to stop the violation of the Jewish basic human rights.
For accuracy’s sake, when you call and fax, please note that the request is to be able to:
a) tar the roof to prevent leakage
b) install windows
c) hook up to municipal electricity
Together, these 3 requests will enable them to supply and retain heat in a normal fashion. At the moment the building is like a sieve and they are heating it with a generator and electric heaters. Often during the day and night the generator can’t handle the pressure and there are many power outages.
Every fax and every phone call can make a difference. Emails are a waste of time for the Israeli politicians do not care about emails sent to them.
If you know journalists, contact them and ask them to write a story about this scandal. Contact your embassy, consulate, local congressman. Ask your Rabbi to contact Barak’s office.
Pressure helps. As the famous verse says: “It is not up to you to finish the work, but you are not free to desist from it”
Please tell us by email what you wrote or said on the phone and how the people at Barak’s office responded.
With Love of Israel,
Ruth and Nadia Matar
Women in Green
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