Media Releases – November 1997
November 1997
10 November 1997 Out Of Touch With The Jewish People
12 November 1997 “How Goodly Are Thy Tents O Jacob”
16 November 1997 Avishai Reviv Isn’t the Only One Who Has to be Put on Trial
24 November 1997 A Shortsighted and Harmful Decision
25 November 1997 Expect No Condolence Calls From Peres and Beilin
25 November 1997 The Great Scandal
27 November 1997 No To the Second Redeployment
27 November 1997 Demonstrate Against Redeployment
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Jerusalem, 10 November 1997
Out Of Touch With The Jewish People
At 14:30, on Tuesday, November 11, 1997, at
the Shalom Court in the Russian Compound in
Jerusalem, the sentencing of Moshe Feiglin and Shmuel
Sackett is scheduled to take place. A three judge
Court heretofore pronounced a guilty verdict against
these defendants to the charge of sedition which had
been brought against them by the former Peres
Government. These judges unwisely found that the
“Civil Disobedience” activities of these defendants,
widely practiced by Mahatma Gandhi in India, and by
Martin Luther King and his followers in the United
States, constitutes seditious behavior in Israel.
The absurd result is that two of the most loyal of
our Jewish youth, completely devoted to the State of
Israel and its well being, were found guilty of
“sedition”!
Women In Green cannot be silent in the
face of this grave injustice. They will join with
others in demonstrating outside the entrance to the
Shalom Court at the time of the sentencing. We shall
voice our identification with the defendants and
thereby convey to them, and to the Court, the
sentiments of the majority of the Jewish People.
Ruth and Nadia Matar
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Jerusalem, 12 November 1997
“How Goodly Are Thy Tents O Jacob”
Most people are unaware that in Lebanon today,
more than fifty percent of our IDF soldiers are kippa-
wearing young men. Lebanon admittedly is the most
dangerous area where the IDF is located today.
Moreover, we are constantly being told in the Media that
religious Jews are merely a minority in Israel, and
should bow to the will of the secular majority. Why
then are the percentage of religious soldiers on these
front lines so disproportionately larger than what the
Media claims is their minority status? Despite the
impressive number of religious soldiers in Lebanon
defending our Country, the Media continues to incite
against the religious. The results of such incitement
were manifested recently in the Jerusalem neighborhood
in Gilo. On the walls of the local branch of Bnai
Akiba, a nationalistic-oriented religious youth
movement, there was prominently painted in huge letters
the ugly phrase which read: “Death to the Religious
Jews”!
Nor is the latter phenomenon an isolated
occurrence. The Media apparently ignores such
incidents, and rarely give them appropriate coverage.
They are certainly not highlighted as they were when in
the much rarer occurrence, when one of the Meretz
“peace” group’s office’s was reportedly firebombed. The
biased reporter of that attack virtually told his
readers without any proof that the religious were
responsible.
Such seeds of hatred and division are
planted daily by the secular controlled media here in
Israel. And Labor’s HaAretz, is their chief and
constant spokesperson in that regard. A glaring example
of their blind prejudice was shown in the recent
interview of Minister of Transportation Yitzhak Levy, in
the October 31, English edition of that paper. The
reporter’s questions were all loaded, and were variants
of one central theme: you religious Jews were
responsible for the death of Rabin; you are all cut from
the same cloth and are indistinguishable from Yigal
Amir. It is a pattern of accusations which is exploited
to the hilt, and is intended to continuously smear the
religious.
Behind the unjustified attacks on Judaism
and its believers, is usually the attacker’s
own self-hatred. Such a person scoffs at Jewish
patriotism, but understands completely such feelings in
other Peoples; in practice he has little regard for his
fellow citizen, Jew or Arab; he has no belief in the
Bible, nor any real knowledge of its contents; and has
very little pride in being Jewish. Instead he is a
sower of hate and discord in the guise of seeking
“peace” (which is one-sided) with the Arabs, who
ironically despise him because he is a Jew. We Jews
have survived against far more formidable opponents,
and are here today to bear witness to that fact. ” How
goodly are thy tents O Jacob, your dwelling places, O
Israel!”
Ruth and Nadia Matar
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Jerusalem, 16 November 1997
The following is the text of today’s program by Nadia Matar, the
chairperson of Women for Israel’s Tomorrow (Women in Green), on Arutz
7. Nadia speaks every Sunday after the 12:00 noon newscast.
Avishai Reviv Isn’t the Only One Who Has to be Put on Trial
Shalom to all our listeners!
This is Nadia Matar speaking –
I want to read to you the testimony of four Jerusalem residents who
told my mother-in-law Ruth Matar the following story: Several months
before the Rabin assassination, we took part in a tour in the
vicinity of the Orient House. The purpose of the tour’s organizers
was to show people several illegal offices of the PLO Authority that
are active in Jerusalem. A young man by the name of Avishai and
several other youth joined our group, which numbered about twenty
people. Several “IDF soldiers” joined us, supposedly in order to
guard us. What was strange was that these soldiers were equipped for
the tour with fire extinguishers. Already at the beginning of the
tour, the young man named Avishai Reviv began to curse and shout
“Death to the Arabs.” Suddenly he began to light torches and toss the
burning torches into the yards of Arab houses. In at least two
instances he succeeded in starting a real fire in a courtyard. To our
amazement, the soldiers made no attempt to restrain or arrest
Avishai, but simply put out the fires with the extinguishers they had
brought with them. All of this was photographed by someone in
civilian garb. We began to shake from fear. We asked the soldiers to
help us to get away, but they shouted in our faces and said that
“they do not know the area.” We finally succeeded in spotting a
Jewish automobile that gave us a lift, and so we managed to extricate
ourselves from this dangerous and frightening situation. We felt that
we had been ensnared – someone had tried to lay a trap for us. I
received another testimony from a worried mother who related how her
son had fallen victim to a provocation by Avishai Reviv. Her son was
young and innocent, as often happens to teenagers, and he fell under
Reviv’s spell. Her son was always with Avishai Reviv’s group in
demonstrations, and he was arrested by the police many times. The
legal expenses caused much anguish to the family, along with
staggering legal fees. Now her son has put this “meshugas” (folly)
behind him, and a while ago he wanted to serve in the IDF. They
refused to take him, claiming that there was “secret” information
about him. When it became known that Reviv is a GSS agent, his mother
felt betrayed. Until now she thought that the struggle against Reviv
was a struggle against a single extremist, an individual. But now she
understands that there was a whole organization, with the
participation of important people from the previous government, who
are responsible for incriminating her son, and because of whom her
son cannot now serve in the IDF. A real Orwellian story. This mother
ends her letter by stating: This affair can undoubtedly ruin my son’s
life. How many other young people will suffer their entire lives
because of Avishai Reviv, the GSS agent? My listeners, the media and
the organs of the left are already trying to hush up the entire
affair. This is a scandal of the first order. A government, and
apparently also the Prime Minister, who use the General Security
Services in order to delegitimize more than half of the country….
There is nothing more Bolshevik than this. It took two years until
this affair finally came to light, thanks to wonderful people like
Adir Zik and others who did not let the matter go. Our task now is to
ensure that the affair doesn’t get buried, rather that the whole
truth will, at long last, come to light. And this can happen only as
a result of tremendous pressure from the public. We must inundate the
offices of the Justice Minister and the Attorney General with the
demand for the establishment of a commission of inquiry into this
affair. We must also demand that Avishai Reviv will not be the only
one to stand trial – since he was just a low-grade soldier – but also
his controllers, Yaakov Perry and Carmi Gillon, for they knowingly
allowed Reviv to act in such a manner that his actions would cause
inestimable damage to the national camp. But even this is not enough.
What about the ministerial committee responsible for the activities
of the GSS? The four members of the committee: Shimon Peres, Yossi
Beilin, David Libai, and Moshe Shahal – the time has come for them,
together with other leaders in the left, to pay for using the GSS in
a manner in which any totalitarian country would be proud: using the
GSS as an instrument of the Labor Party, with the clear purpose of
delegitimizing whoever opposed the Oslo accords. This is simply
criminal. Another question which must be asked, and I saw that the
journalist Aaron Lerner from the IMRA agency asked, is: Why did
Justice Shamgar agree to keep the Reviv report as a secret report in
the commission’s conclusions? There are no secrets here that could
harm the state. But they could cause damage to the Labor Party! Did
Justice Shamgar act in this fashion so as to do everything possible
not to embarrass Shimon Peres before the elections? If so, then he
actively sought to influence the election results! Can such a judge
be relied upon? These are only a few of the questions demanding an
answer. Once again: only public pressure will keep this affair in the
headlines, and this depends upon us. The two stories that I related
at the beginning are only a small portion of the hundreds of
testimonies of people who suffered due to Reviv. These people must
now organize in a nonprofit organization – let’s call it “Onesh
(Punishment), the Organization of GSS Victims,” and they must put on
file all the provocative acts of the GSS agent Reviv and bring them
before the commission of inquiry. It is written in Psalms 85:12:
“Truth springs up from the earth, justice looks down from heaven.”
When truth will spring up from the earth, from Israel, when the
people will struggle for the truth – then justice will come from
heaven.
Have a good week.
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Jerusalem, 24 November 1997
A Shortsighted and Harmful Decision
We live in an imperfect world where justice is not
always achieved. Judges who owe their appointments
to the Labor Party hierarchy, find it difficult to
decide matters on the merits alone, when the Labor
Party or its leaders are directly or indirectly
involved in the case.
Take the absurd “sedition trial” of Jewish loyalists,
which had been instituted by the Shimon Peres Labor
Party Government against Reserve Captain Moshe Feiglin
and Shmuel Sackett. A three-judge Court found these
patriotic and exemplary Jews GUILTY OF SEDITION! It
never was disputed that the defendants were exercising
their democratic right of non-violent dissent against
the Peres Labor Regime’s Oslo program of giving up
historical Jewish Land to the Arabs for a fraudulent
non-existent peace.
The judges were unable to view the case before them in
its true perspective because their “Party” was involved.
That “Party” had moved to crush dissent to Oslo by the
nationalistic Zo Artzenu movement. Never mind that no
Court had ever declared the Histadrut to be “seditious”
when it used its extraordinary power to call baseless and
sometimes violent strikes which paralyzed the nation,
causing it great economic harm. The ensuing chaos on
such occasions literally threatened the government’s very
existence. In contradistinction, the former Attorney General,
Ben Yair, charged Feiglin and Sackett with sedition, and the
Court chose not to criticize his preposterous legal finding
to describe Feiglin’s and Sackett’s activities.
Women In Green were not daunted by the ludicrous air of
legitimacy sought to be given by these judges to the
action of the Peres regime in criminally indicting
Feiglin and Sackett. They were outside the Courthouse
on the day the predictable guilty decision was to be
handed down by the judges in this case. They came back
again in larger numbers on the day these defendants were
to be “sentenced” for their crimes against the State of
Israel. At that time they pointed out that Women In
Green, as well as the majority of the Jewish People,
were guilty as well of opposition to the former
government’s complete breach of the platform on which it
was elected. If the defendants are guilty of
“sedition,” so are all of us.
In the end, the sentence given was a relatively light
one; when one takes into account that under a guilty
conviction on the charge of sedition, a heavy jail term
could well have been imposed by the judges. The light
sentence, however, does not change the unjust and
wrongful conviction of these defendants for the crime of
sedition! The convictions should be appealed so that
the disgrace of what has occurred to these patriotic
defendants be erased. At a time when reconciliation is
being sought to heal the great divide which has befallen
the Jewish People, such a reversal of their conviction
is a prerequisite. We must reestablish the kind of
pride, love and devotion to the Jewish People and its
Land that these selfless defendants, Feiglin and
Sackett, reveal to us in their daily lives time and time
again. Realistically, only then can any meaningful
reconciliation of our People take place.
Ruth and Nadia Matar
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Jerusalem, 25 November 1997
Expect No Condolence Calls From Peres and Beilin
What does a person who still cares about his
fellow Jew do about this recent grave and infuriating
news: “two young Yeshiva students are gunned down by
Arabs in our Old City of Jerusalem.” It is painful but
necessary to conclude that it is not only the Arabs
involved who are responsible for this tragedy. The fact
is that Arafat and the Arab community as a whole share
responsibility for it. They shield and encourage such
murderers and their media and educational system fosters
hatred of Jews. But equally responsible are Peres and
Beilin, who conceived the not-thought-through Oslo Process
They pushed Oslo through the Knesset by the narrowest
of margins only with the support of its Arab members.
That “Accord” gave guns to the local Arabs, including
the Kalashnikov assault rifle used in the attack. Sadly,
the same accusation could be leveled as to the many
other Jewish deaths that have occurred by the weaponry
we gave to the Palestinian Authority.
For good reasons we do not allow Israeli Arabs to
serve in the armed forces of our nation, even though they
are citizens. Despite entering into the Oslo Accords,
even Peres did not recommend changing that policy. It is
therefore astounding that Peres and Beilin would agree to
turn over guns to the Arabs, without the most stringent
safeguards. It would be pure sophistry to argue that the
guns were only turned over to the Palestinian Police and
not to ordinary Arab civilians; or that we would first
have to prove that it was a gun given to the Arab Police
that was involved in this murder; or that it was Fatah
and not Hamas who was behind this killing. True, prior
to Oslo, Arabs murderously attacked Jews; but then it was
with knives, stones, axes and the like; guns, which are
far more deadly and dangerous, were rarely involved. And
to top it all off, Arafat deliberately ignored the
realities, and typically and irrationally claimed:
“Netanyahu is responsible for this murder!”
We cannot continue to ignore the continual acts
of violence by Arabs who now have guns, which can more
effectively and efficiently kill. Early on in the Oslo
Accord, Peres knew of the massing of illegal weaponry by
the PA, far beyond what Oslo allowed. This was only one of
the many serious breaches by Arafat, which were ignored by
Peres. Such indifference only encouraged complete disregard
by Arafat and the PLO of their obligations nder Oslo. Not
having anticipated such non-compliance and not having provided
the proper safeguards in such an eventuality, was a serious
error of the first magnitude by Peres, Beilin, and everyone
else who was involved in giving us Oslo.
Shimon Peres and Yossi Beilin will not be
visiting the bereaved of the Yeshiva student Gabriel
Hirshberg. Both are well known for not making personal
condolence calls to the families of such victims. The
mourners of the deceased would predictably not welcome such
a visit. Notwithstanding the hostility towards Peres and
Beilin by such mourners, the public at large has not as yet
reached the stage where they will place the blame directly at
the Peres-Beilin doorstep. Unfortunately, much more Jewish
blood will have to flow before that happens. The public must
first finally realize the unchangeable, immoral and murderous
nature of Peres’ chosen peace partner, Arafat. Only then will
the realization sink in of the naivete, irresponsibility and
yes, guilt, of those who foisted Oslo upon us.
Ruth and Nadia Matar
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Jerusalem, 25 November 1997
This program was aired before the announcement of Netanyahu’s intention for further
withdrawal from Eretz Yisrael. On Monday, November 24, Nadia participated in a
meeting in the Knesset called by the Eretz Yisrael Front MKs, led by MK Michael
Kliner, where it was unanimously decided that if the Prime Minister gives away even
one percent of Eretz Yisrael we would all work together to bring down the government.
The following is the text of last Sunday’s program by Nadia Matar, the
chairperson of Women for Israel’s Tomorrow (Women in Green), on Arutz
7. Nadia speaks every Sunday after the 12:00 noon newscast.
The Great Scandal
Shalom to all our listeners!
This is Nadia Matar speaking –
So this is it: after the media revolted and nauseated us for an
entire month with its reports, articles, interviews, commemorations,
and films about the martyr Yitzhak Rabin, who – according to the
media and the left – was murdered by more than half the country, they
have now decided to focus upon the great “scandal” that took place in
the Likud convention. And what was the scandal, according to them?
That the Prime Minister promised the ministers not to cancel the
primaries, or at least to postpone the cancellation, and then he
supported the members of the central committee, and the primaries
finally were canceled.
Wow, really – a major-league scandal. Because of this, articles
appeared on Shabbat quoting “distinguished” professors who call
Netanyahu: “Mussolini,” “fascist,” “dictator,” and who knows what
else. None of these distinguished professors had bothered at the
time to write about the true Bolshevism of Rabin and Peres, who did
not honor a single word of their election platform, deceived, lied,
conducted secret negotiations with the worst of our enemies, armed
them, and handed over to them their brethren – the settlers in Judea,
Samaria, and Gaza, betrayed the principles of Zionism and Judaism,
repressed every legitimate protest by sending into action the
stormtroopers of the Minister of Internal Security Moshe Shahal, who
in demonstrations so very brutally beat pregnant women, children,
and the old. With the help of their leftist State Attorney’s Office
they opened hundreds of fabricated cases against innocent citizens in
order to intimidate them, lest they demonstrate again; they threw Jews
completely innocent of any crime into administrative detention, for
the sole purpose of intimidating them; and of course, they also used
provocateurs, GSS agents, in order to delegitimize the entire national
camp. Those were the dark days of the former, totalitarian, regime.
But what is all that in comparison with the “scandal” in the Likud
convention? Or compared to the fact that the Prime Minister takes his
children with him on his trips to the United States, Heaven help us.
My listeners, I also think that there was a scandal at the Likud
convention. But it is completely divorced from one form or another
of elections. The scandal is that during the three days of the
convention, no ideological, fundamental debate was held. Master
of the Universe – the Likud convention convenes once every four
years. This means that the last time it convened was just before the
Oslo Accords. And now, four years later, they don’t have anything
to talk about except “musical chairs”? This isn’t just a scandal –
this is the total collapse of the party that was supposed to be the
standard-bearer of the national camp. If Jabotinsky were to arise
today and see who are supposed to be his ideological heirs, he would
rend his clothes in mourning.
I myself went to the Likud convention with Ruth Matar in order to
distribute the sticker of our new campaign: “Stop Oslo Now!” When we
saw the gigantic parking lots filled with the automobiles of Likud
members, we decided that the most efficient way to distribute the
stickers was to place them under the windshield wipers of each car,
and whoever wanted to stick it on his car would do so. We worked for
about two hours, with 2,000 cars, and we were amazed to discover
that the overwhelming majority of the automobiles of the Likud
members did not have even a single sticker. Not a sticker about
Hebron, nor a sticker against Oslo. Nothing. Obviously, this is not the
proof of an ideological decline in the Likud, but it is certainly a
worrisome phenomenon, and attests to emotional alienation from the
ongoing struggle.
The question is whether the Likud has become the bastion of people
such as Ronni Milo and Dan Meridor, who belong, ideologically, to the
Labor Party, if not to Meretz! How come people that I so greatly
esteem, such as Ehud Olmert and Limor Livnat, even hint that they are
liable to make a pact with these Meretz types in order to depose the
Prime Minister?
Those from our camp who are calling to topple the Prime Minister now,
just what are they complaining about? Because he canceled the
primaries? Is this a reason to bring back to power the previous despotic
regime? It should be clear to everyone: if the Prime Minister is deposed
now because of irregularities in the way he governs, this will bring
Ehud Barak to power, not out of love of Barak, but out of hatred for the
Likud. In ’92 as well, Labor took power because of those from our camp
who deposed Shamir prematurely, and because people were disgusted by all
the revolting things that took place in the Likud. So now we’re returning
to the same scenario?
Believe me, I too am not a dedicated follower of Netanyahu. He betrayed
us with the Hebron agreement, he is ungrateful to those who brought
him to power (whether Arik Sharon or the religious-national camp), we
do not know exactly where he stands ideologically today, and there
certainly could come about a situation in which I would also act to bring
him down immediately, for example, if Netanyahu were, God forbid, to
continue with the Oslo accords, if he were to give over more
territories to the PLO, and if he were to become a Barak and Peres
clone, Heaven forbid. But let’s be honest – this is not the situation at
present. On the other hand, we are trapped, because despite all the
attacks against him, I am not willing to organize a demonstration
supporting him, as one woman requested that I do. For he continues to
declare that he wants to go forward with Oslo, he isn’t building a
great deal in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza, the contacts with the
archmurderer to open the ports in Gaza continue, he is not doing
anything against the hostile media, he doesn’t replace the political
appointees of the previous government … and so why should I “break
a leg” in order to support him? And in this fashion a situation has
come into being in which he is attacked from all sides, and there is
no one to defend him.
Actually, the Prime Minister tries continually to dance at different
weddings, in order to be liked by everyone. This must come to an end.
He has to understand that salvation will not come from the left or from
the Americans. For their part, he could sell his soul to the archmurderer
Arafat, but they would still continue to attack him. His only hope of
surviving is to uncompromisingly return, this time without hesitation,
to the camp that brought him to power, the ideological national camp.
He must be loyal to what he wrote in his book and to his pre-election
promises. Only if he will do so in all sincerity will we be able to
demonstrate on his behalf; but if this will not happen and he continues
to vacillate, then when the time comes, there will be no option but to
find another candidate, who will truly represent us, and with whom we
will also win. Such a candidate cannot be found within a week. We
have until the year 2000 to find him.
Have a good week.
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Jerusalem, 27 November 1997
Here is the list of phone and fax numbers of Israel’s ministers.
Please bombard their offices demanding:
NO TO THE SECOND REDEPLOYMENT !!!
Every phone call and every fax can make a difference.
I would certainly focus on the Mafdal people.
PARTY MINISTER TEL FAX
SHAS Eli Suissa – Interior 02/5660166 02/5666376
SHAS ELI Yishai- Labor 02/6752523 02/5666385
LIKUD Y. Mordechai-Defense 03/6955476 03/6962757
LIKUD Tsahi Hanegbi-Justice 02/6708527 02/6285438
LIKUD Limor Livnat-Commun. 02/6706301 02/6240029
LIKUD Michael Eitan-Science 02/3847400 02/5811613
LIKUD Yehoshua Matza-Health 02/6787626 02/6787662
LIKUD Ariel Sharon-Infrastruc. 02/5316100 02/5375473
LIKUD Moshe Katsav-Tourism 02/6754852 02/6250890
LIKUD Yaakov Neeman-Treasury 02/5317200 02/7635769
MAFDAL Zevulun Hammer-Educ 02/5602330 02/5602856
MAFDAL Yitzhak Levi-Transport 02/6228200 02/6249134
ISRAEL Yuli Edelstein-Absorption 02/5618163 02/5669244
BA’ALIYA
ISRAEL Nathan Sharansky-Trade 02/6220383 02/6243738
BA’ALIYA
GESHER David Levy- Foreign 02/6535015 02/5303506
TSOMET Raphael Eitan-Agricult. 02/6553701 02/6535958
3rd WAY Avigdor Kahalani-Police 02/5821191 02/5811832
Now is the time to act,
Nadia Matar
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Jerusalem, 27 November 1997
Dear friends,
It is time to go back to demonstrate. We cannot be quiet when a
so-called national government plans on handing over to the terrorist
Authority more than 30% of Yesha.
The government will continue to discuss the further “redeployment”
at its meeting on Sunday morning.
The Women in Green call upon all of you to come and demonstrate
against the intended further redeployment,
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 30, at 8:45 AM
IN FRONT OF THE PM’S OFFICE — JERUSALEM
BE THERE,
Nadia Matar