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Dear Friends,
Below please find the summary of our activity in Netzer this past Friday and the details about our upcoming Women for Israel’s tomorrow (Women in Green) monthly chizuk trip on the day after Shavuot, this time to the Jericho area.
Lastly, please sign the petition “Stand for Israel, Stand for Reason”
promoted by Fiamma Nirenstein in reaction to the anti-Israeli petition by JCall.
With love for Israel,
Nadia Matar and Yehudit Katsover
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1) In Netzer, the trees have been planted and the message that Jews are in Netzer is starting to be understood.
This past Friday, a lecture was held in NETZER, in Gush Etzion, by Shimon Yitzhak, who fought in the liberation of Jerusalem. His fascinating lecture gave us more details as to the important role of the Jerusalem Brigade during the war.
Netzer is the area between Alon Shvut and Elazar where we are fighting to safeguard the State lands from Arab take-over. Over the past months, thanks to our activities, funded by Women in Green’s Yibaneh Fund for building and development in the hills of Judea, the Jewish stronghold over Netzer has increased. We have organized lectures, planting of trees, tours by car and by foot, etc.
The Arabs,continue to work the lands that are in their possession, but they feel the Jewish presence and they do not dare take over more lands.
The IDF, too, has, for the time being, stopped taking down our flags and Netzer signs that we put up on the main road. They even gave us back the signs that they had confiscated on a weekly basis.
Netzer is just an example of the struggle we Jews have to safeguard our lands – a struggle that takes place all over, in the Negev, the Galil, Judea and Samaria and Jerusalem. In all those places Arabs are working hard to take away our land. The Civil Administration and security forces don’t care about Arabs taking away Jewish land, they only look out for Jewish building and thus-the safeguarding of our lands has become the responsibility of each and every one of us.
We have to open our eyes to what is happening around us. Each and every community should plan with the person in charge of the lands (the “pakach karkaot) how to safeguard the lands around our communities and thus safeguard the future development of our communities.
Residents and groups willing to join our initiative – please contact us and we will work together.
Please help us continue our work to safeguard the lands through planting and other forms of Jewish presence, by sending your donations to “The Yibaneh Fund- Women for Israel’s Tomorrow, POB 7352, Jerusalem 91072.
This coming Friday at 9:00 am we will have the pleasure of listening to Yisrael Sadiel’s lecture in Hebrew on the Jewish return to Gush Etzion after 1967.
For pictures by Rivka Ryback please click on:
http://www.yeshabulletin.com/FIGHT%20BACK/FightBack.htm
Women For Israel’s Tomorrow (Women in Green)- Judea Action Committees- Garin Netzer-Yibaneh Fund For details: Yehudit Katsover 050-7161818 Nadia Matar 050-5500834
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2) Women for Israel’s Tomorrow (Women in Green)’s Monthly chizuk trip
THURSDAY MAY 20th, 2010 to the JERICHO AREA with Dr. Chagi Ben Artzi
PROGRAM:
9:00am- Departure from Inbal hotel in Jerusalem
* The Good Samaritan guest house-in Kfar Adumim
* Overlooking the Jordan valley from Mitzpe Jericho
* Bet Hogla- overlooking Moav and Har Nevo – meeting with Erna Kubos, relentless fighter for the Jewish return to Jericho
* Kassar-El-Yehud
* Mineral Plant
* The Dead Sea Scrolls-Kibbutz Almog
*The tour is for both men and women
*We are trying to get a permit from the IDF to enter Jericho itself and visit the “Shalom Al Yisrael synagogue”
*Approximate return: 6:00pm
*Please bring a hat for protection from the sun, comfortable walking shoes, lots of water and food for the entire day
Please register until Erev Shavuot by calling Elisheva 052-3003689.
Fee: 30 nis to partially cover the transportation
For details: Nadia matar 050-5500834 or Yehudit Katsover 050-7161818
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3) Petition “Stand for Israel, Stand for Reason”
Fiamma Nirenstein is an Italian politician, journalist and author.
Together with others she has launched a petition in reaction to the anti_Israeli petition of JCall.
Her website: http://www.fiammanirenstein.com/
Text of petition:
(at the end of the text there is a link to sign the petition)
“STAND FOR ISRAEL, STAND FOR REASON”
The attack against Israel by the Jcall document is inspired by a short-sighted view of the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict. In fact, the signatories of this appeal do not have the clear perception of the global physical and moral threat to which Israel is currently exposed. It is indeed incredible that intelligent and cultivated people like Alain Finkelkraut and Bernard-Henri Levy – instead of dealing with Iran that will soon keep the whole world under the threat of the range of its atomic bomb – play with the idea that Benjamin Netanyahu is the true hindrance to peace, that the essential obstacle to a resolution of the conflict is a reproachable attitude of Israel.
The intellectuals who have signed the French document ignore history and don’t care about the help that it will give and is already giving to the unprecedented delegitimization threatening the life of Israel.
Pushing Israel to concessions without rewards, simply means to surrender the enemy without any guarantee: the unilateral withdrawal from Gaza has produced disastrous consequences, the land Gush Katif inhabitants has been kicked out from is since then a launching pad for missiles and terrorists; Ehud Barak’s concessions in Camp David, designed to give Arafat practically everything he was asking for, led to the horror of the second Intifada, with its two-thousand people killed by suicide attacks; the evacuation of Southern Lebanon in 2000 strengthened the Hezbollah, supplied them with 40,000 missiles and led to the 2006 war.
Finkelkraut, Henri Levy and their fellow signatories claim that they are concerned about the future and the security of Israel. But they actually ignore the basic element that has prevented success of any peace process, namely the Arab and Palestinian refusal to recognize the very existence of the State of Israel as a permanent nation-state in the Middle East. This all-encompassing rejection of Israel’s right to exist is reflected day by day in the Palestinian and pan-Arab media.
The attack against Netanyahu aims at breaking up his right wing coalition. But it actually never mattered whether an Israeli government was right or left: anyhow the Palestinians refused any proposal of peace.
Israeli land concessions like the ones the French intellectuals advocate will never bring peace. Only a cultural revolution in the Arab world can achieve it, but nobody asks for that, not even Obama, who devotes US great strength to pressure only Israel. This is the current fashion.
Peace will not come because Israel becomes smaller. What will bring us closer to peace is if Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas stops naming public squares after mass-murderers like Hamas bombmaker Yehiya Ayash; if the Palestinians stop passing out candies when Jewish families are murdered by suicide bombers in restaurants; and when the Arab world accepts Netanyahu’s modest request to recognize the State of Israel as the State of the Jewish people.
This reality is ignored as well by the Israeli intellectuals who have signed a document against the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel, who wrote a very noble letter to support Jerusalem spiritual core and historical homeland of the Jewish people.
This sadly politically correct epidemic is probably designed to give some oxygen to the defeated pacifist movements that is actually able only to crash against the rock of the Islamist hatred culture and to defame Israel. But in this approach there is no contribution to any better future for the Middle East: the world must find the courage to face the new Islamist frenzy that springs from Iran, Syria, Hezbollah and Hamas and points to the destruction of Israel. Iran and its allies are of course arming themselves with lethal weapons, not with vain words, like those who signed “The Call for Reason”. But even words can kill and destroy.
The signatories of the J-Call manifesto show a blatant ignorance of the extended hand policy adopted by Netanyahu since his Bar Ilan speech in June 2009, the ten-months settlements freeze, the lifting of many check points and the adoption of important measures to ease the Palestinian economy. And you can clearly see that the “Finkelkraut document” has an Obama flavour, a prissy and respectable trendy attitude intellectuals are often unable to say no. This makes possible nowadays to the increasing number of Israel’s enemies to delegitimize the Jewish State rejoicing “even the Jews are with us”. If this was the signatories aim, they have indeed achieved it.
SIGN THE PETITION “STAND FOR ISRAEL, STAND FOR REASON”. CLICK ON THIS
LINK: http://www.petitiononline.com/israel48/petition-sign.html
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