Letter from Ruth Matar (Women in Green) Jerusalem
Thursday, March 29, 2007
The West is in trouble! In an open act of war last Friday, Iran kidnapped 15 British sailors in the Persian Gulf. Iran’s act of aggression occurred just as the British voted in favor of a UN Security Council Resolution, imposing increased sanctions against Iran for its illicit nuclear weapons program.
Kidnapping is something the Iranians are very good at. Last summer Iran’s Lebanese proxy, Hizbullah, kidnapped two Israeli soldiers, Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev, to divert attention from Iran’s nuclear program. These soldiers have not, as yet, been freed, nor has access to them been allowed. We pray that they are alive and well!
One of the theories about the kidnapping of the 15 British sailors is that Iran used this as a bargaining chip to force the U.S. military to release Iranian operatives, who the U.S. has arrested in Iraq in recent months. No doubt Iran feels that the West, or at least the U.S., will be willing to pay any ransom price to solve this international crisis. And they are right! The U.S. Administration is more than willing to pay the price, as long as it is in Jewish Israeli coin!
U.S. Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, certainly no friend of the Jews and Israel, has therefore hastily been dispatched to our neck of the woods. Since last Friday, she has been shuttling between Egypt, Israel, the Palestinian Authority, Jordan, and Saudi-Arabia.
Has Condoleezza Rice come to our region to coordinate moves to check Iran’s increasing bellicosity?
Not at all! Rather, Rice is here to promote the Mecca Arab Peace Plan. This Plan was dreamed up by Saudi-Arabia, which pretends to be America’s good friend. Never mind that 15 of those 19 terrorists, who blew up the World Trade Center towers, killing more than 3,000 Americans, were bona-fide citizens of Saudi-Arabia!
No Sir! Condoleezza Rice is here to attempt to push the Jewish Israeli scapegoat off the cliff. She is laboring hard to force a weak, ineffective, unpopular Israeli Prime Minister to agree to dangerous and strategically catastrophic concessions to the Palestinian terrorist government.
The Mecca “Peace Plan” that Rice has come to the region to advance does not even have the benefit of a peaceful façade. The Palestinians make clear every single day that they do not and will not accept Israel’s right to exist in any borders, and that they will not work to combat terrorism against Israel. The Arab “Peace Plan” will, if implemented, bring about Israel’s rapid destruction.
In today’s Jerusalem Post, (March 2
, there is a verbatim report of excerpts from U.S. Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice’s March 27th Jerusalem press conference.
Reading this verbatim report of what Rice said, (not somebody’s interpretation), makes it crystal clear that she has great animosity toward the Jewish State, and that she is unable to be impartial with regard to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Now for a few excerpts from Rice’s verbatim remarks:
CONDOLEEZZA RICE: “President Abbas truly desires peace!“
RUTH MATAR: I beg to differ. On January 14th of this year, Abbas publicly called upon Palestinians to attack Israel. Speaking at a rally to mark the 42nd anniversary of the founding of Fatah, Abbas told a huge crowd in Ramallah: “With the will and determination of its sons, Fatah will continue. We will not give up our principles. We have said that rifles should be directed against the occupation. We have a legitimate right to direct our guns against Israeli occupation.”
After returning home from her meetings with Abbas, Rice said that the U.S. is working with Abbas’ Fatah to create a unified Palestinian security force. Rice then announced a United States 86.4 million dollar grant for the purpose of equipping and training Abbas’ Fatah forces!
Mahmoud Dahlan, a Gaza War Lord, was chosen to be responsible for carrying out this plan.
This is an exact quote of what Dahlan said upon being appointed by Abbas:
“THE PROJECT THIS TIME IS SUPPOSED TO BE ARMING FATAH AGAINST HAMAS, BUT [ALLAH] FORBID, I WILL NEVER SHOOT AGAINST MY BROTHERS IN HAMAS. THE USA WEAPONS AND AID WILL PROTECT THE INSTITUTIONS OF FATAH AND BE USED TO FIGHT ISRAELI OCCUPATION!”
Dear friends, I don’t know what happened to that 86.4 million dollar grant to Abbas that Condoleezza negotiated. Could someone please enlighten me? Did Congress agree to bankroll these murderers?
Now let’s discuss Condoleezza’s negotiating partner, Ehud Olmert:
*He is currently under investigation on several cases of suspected bribery and corruption.
*His bungling of the Second Lebanon War has left him bereft of any public support, with popularity polling figures between 2 and 3%.
*Olmert agreed to a cease–fire last summer, which was strategically catastrophic for Israel. UN Security Council Resolution 1701 places Israel on the same plane as the illegal Hizbullah terrorist organization; it prevents Israel from taking steps to protect itself; it does not require the safe return of hostages Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser; it enables Hizbullah to rearm and reassert its control over south Lebanon; and lets Hizbullah’s state sponsors, Syria and Iran, completely off the hook for their central role in Hizbullah’s illegal war against the Jewish state.
*Ehud Olmert proudly boasts that he was the mastermind behind the Gaza disengagement, and that he had to work hard to convince Ariel Sharon to expel the Jews from their homes in Gush Katif.
Olmert and his orientation have proven to be a tragedy for the Jewish people.
*Olmert has sent both of his own sons abroad, one to New York and one to Paris. Could that have been to avoid the dangers of Israeli Mandatory Army Service?
What gives this man the right to sign away portions of our Home Land as if this were his private real estate?
Dear Lord, save us from Condoleezza Rice’s diplomatic efforts. Above all, save us from Ehud Olmert, the most ineffective, defeatist and inept Israeli Prime Minister since our country’s rebirth. He is even disloyally willing to sell our Home Land for prime-time photo opportunities with bigwig American leaders!
We must get rid of Olmert before he gets rid of us!
Dear friends, we implore you to stand with us in these crucial times. Not only Israel’s future is on the line, but that of the United States and of the entire Western World. We must unite now in order to defeat our common enemy!
Please forward this Letter from Jerusalem to President Bush and to all your government representatives.
In the words of Eric Hoffer, the famous American longshoreman/social philosopher;
“I HAVE A PREMONITION THAT WILL NOT LEAVE ME; AS IT GOES WITH ISRAEL, SO WILL IT GO WITH ALL OF US. SHOULD ISRAEL PERISH, THE HOLOCAUST WILL BE UPON US. ”
I am pleased to be able to include the 1968 article by Eric Hoffer in its entirety.
ISRAEL’S PECULIAR POSITION
By Eric Hoffer (LA Times 5/26/6
The Jews are a peculiar people: Things permitted to other nations are forbidden to the Jews.
Other nations drive out thousands, even millions of people, and there is no refugee problem. Russia did it. Poland and Czechoslovakia did it. Turkey threw out a million Greeks and Algeria a million Frenchmen. Indonesia threw out heaven knows how many Chinese–and no one says a word about refugees.
But in the case of Israel, the displaced Arabs have become eternal refugees. Everyone insists that Israel must take back every single Arab. Arnold Toynbee calls the displacement of the Arabs an atrocity greater than any committed by the Nazis. Other nations when victorious on the battlefield dictate peace terms. But when Israel is victorious it must sue for peace. Everyone expects the Jews to be the only real Christians in this world.
Other nations when they are defeated survive and recover, but should Israel be defeated it would be destroyed. Had Nasser triumphed last June, he would have wiped Israel off the map, and no one would have lifted a finger to save the Jews. No commitment to the Jews by any government, including our own, is worth the paper it is written on. There is a cry of outrage all over the world when people die in Vietnam or when two Negroes are executed in Rhodesia. But when Hitler slaughtered Jews no one remonstrated with him.
The Swedes, who are ready to break off diplomatic relations with America because of what we do in Vietnam, did not let out a peep when Hitler was slaughtering Jews. They sent Hitler choice iron ore and ball bearings, and serviced his troop trains to Norway.
The Jews are alone in the world. If Israel survives, it will be solely because of Jewish efforts and Jewish resources.
Yet at this moment Israel is our only reliable and unconditional ally. We can rely more on Israel than Israel can rely on us. And one has only to imagine what would have happened last summer had the Arabs and their Russian backers won the war to realize how vital the survival of Israel is to America and the West in general. I have a premonition that will not leave me; as it goes with Israel, so will it go with all of us. Should Israel perish, the holocaust will be upon us.
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Mr. Hoffer’s article was published in the LA Times in 1968. It is as relevant today as the day it was written!
With Blessings and Love for Israel,
Ruth Matar
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