Dear Friends,

Women in Green want to wish all of their friends a happy Pessach.

As the article below shows, there are many struggles awaiting us after this holiday. In fact, Unbelievably, a few hours before the beginning of Shabbat armed forces showed up at the community of Neguhot and forcibly removed a family with their five children from their home who lived in a home they had built and moved into a few months ago on one of the hills of Neguhot in Southern Hevron. At the time of the typing of this email we still don’t know what caused the Olmert government to expel a family from their house a few hours before the beginning of the holiday. We expect all friends of Israel to protest this Pharaoh-like behavior and demand to restore this Jewish family back to their home.

With Love of Israel,

Ruth and Nadia Matar
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The headline in Maariv, April 15, 2008: "The Quiet Evacuation. Under the nose of the extreme right, without violence, without police, the me’ahaz [outpost settlement] of Mavo Horon was evacuated last night." The writer Roi Sahron reports in the article that Moetzet Yesha (the Council of Jewish Settlements in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza) agreed to the evacuation of Mavo Horon North in exchange for building permits elsewhere. In the night between Monday and Tuesday six karavans (mobile housing units) and twenty residents were evacuated. According to the article, additional "evacuation operations" like this are planned, as part of a new me’ahazim agreement.

You read the details of the "deal" between Moetzet Yesha and the government, and you refuse to believe. For anyone who thought that bringing new public figures into Moetzet Yesha would change something, here we have another proof that this is more of the same, just in new getup.

Once again, Moetzet Yesha becomes the implementation arm for the decrees by the destruction and expulsion government. And this is not all: if we thought that there was fatal cooperation between Moetzet Yesha and the government of destruction and ruin only at the time of the Gush Katif and northern Samaria expulsion, the reporter Hagai Huberman reveals to us in an interview to the Basheva newspaper, from April 3, 2008, on the occasion of the publication of his new book Knegged Kol ha-Sikuim (Against All Odds), that even at the end of the Oslo period there were close ties between Moetzet Yesha and the Oslo government. It transpires that the heads of Moetzet Yesha, who, while outwardly forcefully attacked the Oslo accords and even organized demonstrations against them, in private cooperated with the Rabin government, and even aided it in drawing up the withdrawal maps. If this had not been written by a reliable and senior journalist, we would refuse to believe this.

Huberman said in that interview (Basheva, issue no. 287):

"The result is that the settlers determined the withdrawal maps. This was also understood at the time by Rabin, who let Zambish look at the Oslo II maps and make his comments. Actually, Zambish was the only civilian who was permitted to take a look at them. Even some government ministers were denied access. Following Zambish’s comments, corrections were introduced. This was a secret cooperation that was devised between Moetzet Yesha and the government, in the course of the harsh confrontation. Rabin understood that the settlers could be relied on. Despite his being suspicious, the settler heads gave him their word of honor that what he told them in a closed room would not get out. Zambish and Uri Uriel went out to demonstrations and clashed with the authorities, but they did not leak the information."

I must state that Hagai Huberman notes these facts in praise of Zambish, as if the settlement enterprise was saved thanks to this secret cooperation. I read the above paragraph and everything goes black before my eyes. Doesn’t everyone understand that the times have changed, and that every capitulation and surrender broadcasts weakness that invites a further destruction? It could have been – and this, too, requires further discussion – that in the 1970s and even in the 1980s, at the beginning of the renewed settlement in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza, when everything was moving up, with building everywhere, that it was worthwhile for the settlers to make "tactical deals" with the various governments. It could be argued that, then, those were governments that looked favorably upon, or at least did not vigorously oppose, the idea of the renewal of Jewish settlement in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza. It was still possible to make deals with those governments that would advance the Jewish settlement enterprise in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza.

But since Oslo, everything has changed. From Oslo to now, Israel has been ruled by governments that have championed the total elimination of the Jewish settlement undertaking in Judea, Samaria, and the Gaza District. This is not because the leftist governments believe that this will lead to peace with the Arab enemy, but because the left hopes that the eradication of the settlements in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza will, once and for all, result in the smashing of the Jewish-national camp in Israel. Consequently, it is not important if this will harm the general interest of the people of Israel in its land; since Oslo, the leftist governments have been eager to dismantle the settlement enterprise in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza, in order to return us to the ’67 lines.

In such a situation, doesn’t Moetzet Yesha understand that there is nothing to talk about with such people? We must not make any deals with such people. And not to mention the informational issue: just how can Moetzet Yesha explain to the public that evacuation, capitulation, and surrender deals are not to be made in order to "cut our losses" with America and the evil PLO Authority, when Moetzet Yesha itself does this with the Olmert government? Don’t they understand that, with such a destructive government, a stubborn and vigorous struggle for every karavan and every stone is more important, even at the cost of the destruction of the site, than a thousand promises of building permits – promises that will soon be revealed to be worthless, due to the secret agreement that is being hammered out between Olmert-Livni-Abu Mazen and Condi Rice, for the establishment of a Palestinian state in Judea and Samaria and part of Jerusalem?

First of all, we must state outright that we do not trade with Eretz Israel. Period. Just as a mother will not agree to put her baby to death in order to try and save the rest of her children, we, too, must refuse to waive a single grain of the land of Eretz Israel. This must be a matter of principle. Second, an unrelenting and sincere struggle, without deals or haggling, for every karavan and every hill will broadcast a clear message to the authorities, that they will no longer succeed in moving us with dancing and kissing, as happened in Gush Katif.

Here, it would be appropriate to ask several questions: if, according to Huberman’s sensational revelation, towards the end of the negotiations during the Oslo period, Zambish and other Moetzet Yesha members cooperated in complete secrecy with Yitzhak Rabin, and together they drew the maps … what is happening now, in 2008? Now, too, are the Moetzet Yesha people sitting with Olmert and Livni and, quietly, quietly, helping Olmert to establish the Palestinian state? Now, too, as in the time of Oslo, are Zambish and his friends promising the government to maintain total secrecy regarding the catastrophic agreement that is being formulated?

And another question that inflames my heart and mind: was there also a secret deal between Moetzet Yesha and the Sharon government that said: "We will help you to eliminate Gush Katif and northern Samaria, in exchange for building permits in Gush Etzion"? Who knows if, in private, they didn’t tell Sharon: "We will organize grandiose but pathetic demonstrations in Rabin Square. We will not break out from Kfar Maimon. We will censure the roadblockers and those who call to refuse orders, to ensure that you will be able to uproot Gush Katif and northern Samaria … in exchange for building permits in Ariel"? Who can promise us that there was no such deal?

In another six months, will the heads of Moetzet Yesha turn to the residents of Beit El, Ofra, Har Brachah, and Tekoa, and attempt to convince them to quietly evacuate these settlements, in exchange for building permits in Maaleh Edumim and western Gush Etzion? If the people in Moetzet Yesha are capable of doing this in Mavo Horon North, that was a eight year old settlement of twenty inhabitants, why shouldn’t they do this to a settlement with a population of two thousand? Who would have believed that Moetzet Yesha would be a partner to the divide-and-conquer policy that was used by our bitter enemies when they cunningly proposed: "Sacrifice group A of Jews in order to save group B of Jews," when the enemy intends, from the outset, to eliminate both group A and group B.

The good news is that, thank God, since Moetzet Yesha’s deception of the public, mainly at Kfar Maimon, a considerable portion of the national public has sobered up, and realizes that we cannot rely upon Moetzet Yesha. They no longer represent the public. Since the expulsion from Gush Katif and northern Samaria, a new generation of the inhabitants of Judea and Samaria has arisen, including tens of thousands of young people, who no longer are subject to the authority of Moetzet Yesha, and, incidentally, neither to the authority of the rabbis who, too, suffer from the sickness of "excessive mamlakhtiyut" (state orientation) and the desire to curry favor with the left, at the expense of Eretz Israel.

With God’s help, this new generation of healthy Jews who are totally loyal to the Land of Israel and the Torah of Israel will ensure that, this time, Moetzet Yesha will not succeed in again betraying the people, the land, and the Torah. In spite of the Olmert-Livni-Condi and Zambish band, these Jews have already succeeded in infusing our camp with a new spirit, whether  by the establishment of new settlement points in Judea and Samaria, or by the continued presence in Homesh. I assume, and hope, that at this moment a new settlement attempt is being planned for Mavo Horon, in order to expunge and rectify the disgrace of Tuesday’s evacuation by Moetzet Yesha.

By the merit of these Jews, the successors of Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun, thank God, we can already say today: Woe to anyone who will dare to harm Eretz Israel!

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