Media Releases March 2005 – Women In Green

MARCH 2005

OPEN LETTER TO SHIMON PERES

LETTER FROM RUTH MATAR (WOMEN IN GREEN) Jerusalem
THURSDAY, March 3, 2005

Mr. Peres,

I am writing this letter to you as an American Israeli Jewess, who has found her spiritual home in Jerusalem, in the Holy Land. The first time I met you was in January or February of 1996 in the Renaissance Hotel in Jerusalem. I was there with a group of Women in Green. We approached you in the hotel lobby to tell you that we were very concerned about the continual Arab terrorist murders of Jews. You were visibly upset at our criticism. You turned to me, since I spoke Hebrew with a pronounced American accent, and shouted: “”Go back where you came from!”” At that moment, I felt that your attitude was quite peculiar for a Foreign Minister of Israel, who should certainly not be against immigration from the United States! I also found your remark particularly offensive, since you yourself are an immigrant from Poland.

My initial impression of you has changed – from bad to worse. I cannot pretend to admire you, Mr. Peres. In fact, I feel that you are dangerous for the very survival of Israel as a Jewish State.

Yesterday, March 2, 2005, there was an article in the Jerusalem Post entitled, “”Peres predicts 6% economic growth after Gaza withdrawal.””

In this article, you tell us the “”good news”” that Israel’s plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip is boosting investment and tourism, and may push 2005 economic growth as high as 6%. (You never do explain how there is going to be a 6% economic growth in Israel if the Disengagement is successful.)

Your fascination with the redistribution of money from one group of people to another reminds me of the famous story about your courtship of your future wife Sonia. You yourself tell us, as a “”charming sidelight,”” that when you courted Sonia, you read her by candlelight chapters of DAS KAPITAL by Karl Marx. [R. M.: I think it might have been more romantic to read her portions of the SONG OF SONGS from the Bible, but to each his own.] DAS KAPITAL became the Bible of Communist Russia. It shows that you were fascinated early on by the forceful redistribution of wealth!

The wealth that you now want to redistribute is that of the Jewish communities in Gush Katif, to Arab terrorists. For instance, you are planning to turn an Israeli hotel on Gaza’s 25 mile-long beach into a Palestinian resort. You want to stimulate the depressed Palestinian economy by renewing permits for Palestinians from the “”West Bank”” and Gaza to work at day jobs in Israel. You want the Government to give such permits to as many as 35,000 Palestinians.

This really is adding insult to injury. These Arabs, many of them terrorists, are going to take over Jewish homes, and in addition, to take away jobs from Jews in the rest of Israel. The rightful owners of these homes, on the other hand, will be hard put to find new lodgings and new jobs, after being expelled from Gush Katif. You certainly must know that Israel currently suffers from widespread unemployment!

In the March 3, 2005 article in the Jerusalem Post entitled, “”Talks held on Gaza hothouse handover to PA,”” your plans are even more explicit.

I am quoting verbatim from the relevant parts of this article:

“”A day after the world pledged in London to help the Palestinian Authority prepare for disengagement, Vice Prime Minister Shimon Peres and PA Civilian Affairs Minister Muhammad Dahlan met Wednesday and discussed the possible transfer of Gush Katif’s hothouses to the Palestinians.

Earlier in the day, Disengagement Authority head Yonatan Bassi said the government was negotiating with the PA and others about the possible sale of the hothouses, many of them hi-tech and state of the art.

The government was looking to boost the PA economy by helping it develop an agricultural infrastructure, Bassi said at a Jerusalem press conference.

“”Israel is negotiating now with America and with others, with the international community, to leave all the infrastructure of the hothouses to the Palestinians through a third party,”” he said.

Bassi added that such a move would help the PA economy and increase the food supply for Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. The vegetables grown in the hothouses could help feed them and the flowers could be sold to Europe, he said.

Bassi’s office clarified that the sale was an option for Gaza settlers who might prefer to leave their hothouses in place rather than move them. Money from the sale would allow for greater compensation funds to be paid to them.

A spokesperson for Peres said the talks about the hothouses were part of a greater discussion dealing with the transfer of existing businesses to the Palestinians after the withdrawal. A number of ideas were raised and needed to be checked with both sides.

In addition, the two discussed job creation, possible tourism enterprises and improving the overall Palestinian standard of living.””
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The average person may not realize the evil deed you are planning. These are not your average little greenhouses! These are state-of-the-art greenhouses which have benefited from Jewish genius at improving agricultural methods.

* There are 900 acres of greenhouses growing bugless lettuce, cherry tomatoes (90% of Israel’s exports), organic vegetables, spices, flowers, plants and more.
* Jewish agriculture in Gaza brings in $60 million a year in exports – an average of $7,500 for every man, woman and child in Gush Katif.
* 70% of all of Israel’s organic produce comes from Gush Katif.

And all these results of Jewish love for the Land, hard labor and ingenuity, are to be handed over to the Arab enemy to “”increase food supply for Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, make it possible for the Arabs to make a living, selling agricultural produce and flowers to Europe, and to improve their economic situation””?

What makes you feel, Mr. Peres, that you have a right to redistribute the property of your Jewish brethren to the Arabs?

In addition, you discussed with PA Civilian Affairs Minister Muhammed Dahlan, job creation for the Arabs, tourism enterprises and generally improving the overall Palestinian standard of living.

(Of course, Mr. Peres, since you are privy to the secrets of the Israeli Government, you must be aware that there are credible allegations that it was Muhammed Dahlan who ordered the attack on the school bus in Gush Katif where the three Cohen children lost four limbs? You must also be aware of the allegation that the CIA has a tape with Dahlan’s recorded voice ordering this attack!)

The tragedy of the Deportation Plan for the Jews of Gush Katif is the poisonous fruit of your perfidy in the secret agreements you signed on August 20, 1993 in Oslo.

I am quoting your own words from page one of your book, “”The New Middle East.”” “”That night in Oslo I had celebrated my 70th birthday. In Israel it was still dark, but in Norway the early northern dawn was just beginning to show through the mist. Here was a small group of Israelis, Palestinians and Norwegians – partners to one of the best guarded diplomatic secrets ever…. “”(page 1)

Yes, Mr. Peres, it was an absolute secret, with some important exceptions. President Hosni Mubarak, Foreign Minister Ahmru Mussah, and advisor Osmah el-Baaz were privy to the fact that secret talks were under way (page 22). Although you were the Minister of Foreign Affairs, you did not tell Israel’s Prime Minister, Yitzhak Rabin, about your secret agreement, nor for that matter, did you tell the Israeli Knesset. In fact, the Knesset was made to approve your secret agreement with the PA retroactively! Hardly a democratic procedure, would you say?

Your secret 1993 “”GAZA FIRST”” Plan was the beginning of today’s “”disengagement.””

The People of Israel, and Jews and Christians all over the world, are now reaping the fruits of your perfidy. Israel is in danger of losing what G-d has promised the Jews as an everlasting inheritance.

Politics does make strange bedfellows, doesn’t it? In his book “”Warrior,”” Ariel Sharon strongly criticizes you for not being able to see the absolute necessity for Israel’s survival, and to destroy the Osirak nuclear reactor in Iraq in 1981 (page 382). Sharon also did not appreciate, your inciting, as Labor Party leader, against himself and Prime Minister Menachem Begin during the Lebanon War of 1982 (page 483).

But now you and Ariel Sharon have made an unholy alliance. You are both hell-bent on destroying Jewish communities, not only in Gaza and northern Samaria, but all over the Holy Land. And in the process, you are destroying Israeli democracy as well.

Former Israeli Prime Minister and Foreign Affairs Minister Moshe Sharett made a most prophetic statement about you. These words appear in his personal diary (1957):

“”I have stated that I totally and utterly reject [Shimon] Peres and consider his rise to prominence a malignant, immoral disgrace. I will rend my clothes in mourning for the State if I see him become a minister in the Israeli government.””

Many thousands of Israelis – families of terror victims – have done K’RIYAH (to rend one’s clothing in mourning) because of you. Yoram Ettinger, former Israeli liaison to the U.S. Congress, writes that 250 Israelis were murdered by (Islamic) Palestinian terrorists during 1988-1993. Since your Oslo “”Peace Plan”” in 1993, more than 1,700 Israelis have been murdered by Palestinian terrorists. What you brought to many of our citizens, Mr. Peres, is the “”peace of the grave””.

And now you plan to have fellow Jews forcibly expelled, deported, and transferred from their homes! Why? To help the Palestinian economy? To increase the food supply for the Arabs, with Jewish-grown produce? To create jobs for terrorists?

HAVE YOU NO SHAME, SHIMON PERES?

Signed,

Ruth Matar
Co-chair for Women for Israel’s Tomorrow, Women in Green
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March 4, 2005
The MAJORITY of the Jewish People Oppose Disengagement
The Sharon Plan for Disengagement is clearly against what the majority of the Jewish People desire. That is why Peres and Sharon are opposed to a Referendum. It is the reason for the intellectual terrorism that the Sharon Government has recently introduced into Israel.

What is even clearer is that the present Likud faction which is keeping Sharon in power, are at the same time destroying the Likud Party. Sharon’s action in incorporating the Labor Party into his present government, in order to stay in power, has turned tens of thousands here in Israel away from their former support of the Likud.

Since the Sharon Government cannot persuade the public that its overall security would be furthered by withdrawing from Gaza and northern Samaria, the Government must resort to suppression of freedom of expression and individual liberty. And that is clearly what is being done in Israel, and sadly with American support. Moreover, by turning over part of the Promised Land to Arab terrorists, the Will of the G-d of Israel, as repeatedly expressed in the Bible, is being defied and ignored.

President Bush professes that he is promoting the principles of democracy. He may be doing this everywhere else, but that certainly is not the case with regard to Israel. His actions speak louder than his policies in the Middle East. By permitting the action of the Sharon Government with regard to suppression of free speech and individual liberty, Bush is himself acting in an undemocratic manner, and against America’s true national interests.

What does it take to make those in power realize that they are acting against the basic beliefs of the Jewish People and its Ancient Heritage? We Jews have always passionately believed in our Promised Land, our Torah and our Bible. To depart from these basic beliefs, in which the majority of the Jewish People everywhere actually believe, requires something more than the present Sharon Government’s promiscuous and unprecedented edicts. The same is true with regard to the recent poorly thought through, and undemocratic pronouncements of Sharon’s Cabinet.

All politicians in a democracy are supposed to intuitively recognize that in order to win an election, they must act in accordance with the Will of the Majority. However, the Likud politicians in our present government refuse to act in accordance with this principle. Therefore, the decimation of the Likud, and the destruction of that Political Party, is most certainly assured!

Jerusalem, March 4, 2005 Ruth and Nadia Matar
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March 8, 2005

Women in Green invites you to
our 8th Annual Family Purim Masquerade Party

Join us at the Sheraton Plaza on Thursday March 24, 2005

18:00 Registration
18:30 Maariv
18:45 Megillah Reading

Followed immediately by a Festive Dinner and Fabulous Entertainment
by renowned Israeli pantomimist Ofer Goren

Please Come in Appropriate Purim Costume
Prizes for the Best Costumes

Couvert: $100. per each adult or Shekel equivalent
(Special rates for Teenagers and Children under 12)

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This is our one of our main events of the year. Please come and show your support for our important work – or at the very least – send in an Ad which will be printed in our Purim Gazette, a copy of which we will send to those who advertise in the Gazette.

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TALIA SASSON AND HER NEW BUDDY, ARIEL SHARON
(or: Politics Makes For Strange Bedfellows)

LETTER FROM RUTH MATAR (WOMEN IN GREEN) JERUSALEM
Thursday, March 10, 2005
Dear Friends,

Wow! The papers are full of this story. The March 9th, 2005, edition of the Jerusalem Post has a screaming headline: GOVERNMENT COLLUSION CITED IN SASSON REPORT ON ILLEGAL OUTPOSTS.

The first paragraph of this March 9th article, the contents of the report submitted by attorney Talia Sasson on the illegal outposts established in the West Bank over the past 12 years, are to be released at a press conference at the Prime Minister’s Office on Wednesday.

The March 10th, 2005, edition of this The Jerusalem Post also has a big headline: RIGHT TARGETS SHARON IN OUTPOST SCANDAL.

The 300-page Sasson report details an institutionalized system of the provision of services to the outposts Sasson termed unauthorized. Many bodies were named in the report, including the Defense Ministry, the IDF, the Civil Administration, the Police, and the Ministries of Housing, Infrastructures, Education, Industry, Religious Affairs and Finance.

What amazes me is that Sharon knew all along what Sasson would discover. He not only ordered this report from Talia Sasson, he arranged for a dramatic press conference in his own Office (which of course he did not attend). Talia Sasson read out the conclusions of her damning indictment of the Government’s breach of law from a podium embossed with the Prime Minister’s Office logo. And, Ariel Sharon’s own spokesman, Assi Shariv, was completely in charge of the press conference!

Of course, Sharon was assured beforehand that he was not mentioned in the Sasson Report, even though he is the main “”offender.”” Strange, since he, himself, not long ago, called on the the youth of Israel to “”grab the hilltops.””

So why did Sharon appoint Talia Sasson to make such a report – which she worked on for six full months – if he thereby exposed himself to criticism, both from the left in Israel and from the United States?

Likud activist, Aviad Visoli, who heads a group called “”The Land of Israel Task Force,”” may have the correct answer. Visoli intends to file a complaint against Sharon in the Haifa District Court today (Thursday), charging that Sharon illegally appointed Sasson, to prevent her from investigating him.

Otherwise, why would Sharon open a Pandora’s Box? He well knows that his exposure is great, since he is known as the “”father”” of the settlement movement.

In an article which Nadia Matar wrote in October 2004 entitled “”J’Accuse: who is really guilty of incitement,”” published in the “”Israel Insider”” (you can find the article at: http://web.israelinsider.com/Views/4209.htm ), Nadia discusses various prominent leftists who have issued clear calls of incitement to murder and violence, that for some reason have not been subject to a legal treatment. The inciters have not been questioned or placed on trial. Nadia asks: Could this ensue from the fact the inciters are situated on the left side of the Israeli political map?

The following is an excerpt from Nadia Matar’s article:

“”Ami Ayalon, the former head of the General Security Service, in an interview in Yedioth Ahronoth, November 14, 2003: suggests eliminating the “”problematic”” settlers who would refuse to willingly be evacuated of their own free will: “”I will say this in clear words: There is more than one Altalena in the life of every state or nation. […] The political leadership in the State of Israel has already taken difficult decisions when the alternative was clear, and in the future the political leadership will have to take difficult decisions when the alternative is clear.”” Anyone who is familiar with the Altalena episode (in which sixteen Jews, Ben-Gurion’s political rivals, who were swimming, unarmed, in the sea towards the coast, were coldbloodedly murdered by the Palmah under the command of Yitzhak Rabin) knows that the call to conduct an “”Altalena”” against a political rival is incitement to murder that rival. The Women in Green lodged a complaint with the Attorney-General for Ayalon’s inciting statements.

Talia Sasson wrote in her reply: “”After an examination of this matter, it was decided that what Mr. Ami Ayalon said in the context of the interview that is the subject of the complaint does not constitute a criminal transgression. It is our understanding that Mr. Ami Ayalon did not call for the implementation of a violent act against settlers, but rather estimated that when it will be necessary to evacuate settlements, there will be a certain percentage of inhabitants who will not consent to be evacuated from the settlements of their own free will. In such a situation, he maintains, the state will have no alternative other than to confront anyone who will not obey the legal order of the elected government. As was noted, I did not find any transgression in these statements.””

Nadia Matar, in her article, rightly points out that “”TALIA SASSON, ON BEHALF OF THE STATE ATTORNEY’S OFFICE, JUSTIFIES THE COLD-BLOODED MURDER OF SETTLERS, JUST BECAUSE THEY WOULD REFUSE TO BE EVACUATED OF THEIR OWN FREE WILL.””

On many other occasions as well, Talia Sasson has shown her extreme hatred of the “”settlers.””

Ariel Sharon sure knows how to choose his hatchet-man or, in this instance, his hatchet-lady.

Has the great tactician possibly out-foxed himself this time? Will Sharon hoist himself on his own petard?

Tune in next week for the following installment of this on-going drama.

With Blessings and Love for Israel,

Ruth Matar
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March 14, 2005

A Few Questions Supporters of Israel Need to Ask
A Letter to an Editor …

Why is the Bush Administration exerting pressure on Israel and never on the Palestinians for concrete action ? Why does the president tell the Jews where to live or not to live and demand that they stop building homes to live in,never demanding the same from the Palestinians ? As a supposed Christian he goes against the clear Will of G-d as written in Amos 9 14-15. Does he realize that he has picked a fight with G-d that he will lose ? Why does he never hold Palestinian leader Abbas to do more than just move his lips for the cameras ? Why after seeing the intent of the Palestinians to destroy Israel does Mr. Bush help and encourage them in every way ? CIA training of their terrorist police in more lethal tactics ,knowing they will never use it against their fellow jihadist brothers but certainly against Jewish civilians.

Why have you rearmed Egypt with the best weapons avaliable knowing that they will soon be used against Israel ? And why have you remained silent on the weapons smuggling going thru Egypt and into Gaza and at the same time pressing Israel to remove road blocks that halt the movement of these weapons and the terrorist infiltrators ? Why are you silent on Palestinians attempt to secure larger and more offensive weapons to be used to destroy Israel ? And yet you press on to drive Israel to undefensable borders. Are you stupid or just plain evil ,masquerading as a nice sincere fellow?

You’ve got most of Israel fooled and aiding in their own demise.How Briliant ,Mr. President even a deadly venemous snake couldn’t have done it better Why have you Mr. Bush called on Israel’s Prime Minister Sharon to show restraint every time the IDF were close to winning against the enemy ? Why the cry against I! srael fo r using disproportionate force and never the Islamic suicide bombers and their disproportinate force on Israeli civilians on buses and at gathering places ? Why the great hypocrisy in wasting,destroying the city of Fallujah and killing thousands of civilians in Iraq and tying Israel’s hands ,not allowing her to defeat same Islamic terrorists in her own yard ?

Why continue to send millions to the corrupt terrorist infested Palestinian Authority even before they do anything ,the least positive for peace ? Why are you silent even though Abbas has failed to crack down on Palestinian terrorist groups ,but invites them to join his ‘democratic’ governement? Why do you send your henchmen to pressure Israel’s P.M. to follow an agenda that circumvents Israeli voters and subverts sovereign decisions to conform to your own self centered agenda that immediately threatens Israel ? Why have you never demanded an accounting of the billions already sent and seizure of said money in secret Swiss acccounts?

Why did you pardon four convicted criminals last week and not Jonathan Pollard and at the same time call for Israel to release Islamic terrorist ? Why do you ride rough shod over Israel’s sovereignity and pressure them to do things that endanger their survival? And with great hypocrisy you speak about freedom and democracy, treating Israel as one of your
slave holdings ! Why the gross hypocrisy in claiming to fight terrorism while rewarding it with your Road Map seizure of Jewish land and handing it over to those still intent on Israel’s destruction ?
Why do you never hold the Palestinians accountable to breaking of even one of the hundreds of their broken agreements and yet demand that Israel do more, surrender up more for NOTHING but lies in return ? After U.S. policy failure with every peace plan starting with Madrid,Oslo,Wye,Zinni,Tenant,Mitchell,Sharm El Sheik,Aquaba,Condi,Powell,Baker don’t you think it’s ti! me to bu tt out and fire yourself for gross incompetence or is your arrogance just too great to stop your deadly game ? Why is Israel alone expected to do goodwill gestures and pressured behind closed doors to implement your Palestinian State solution. Every time,Israel is punished to appease the majority Arab Islamic nations and you call yourself a fair and impartial broker ? Did ha Satan give you your Road Map vision of a Palestinian state in a dream or did it come by an advisor ?

If your plan is a failure(which it is),what do you have to say to the millions who will suffer due to your foolish and ill conceived plan, or is that above your concern ? Seeing that Israel could never be defeated thru war,has the destruction of Israel via peace in stages
(to weaken Israe)l, been your gift to the Arab league and your Saudi partners ? Your plan resembles a final solution to infidel Israel unwelcomed in the Mid East Mr. President and not one that will lead to any peace.

The article below reveals the drive of the Bush administration to reward Israel’s enemies for what they have done already.They are being paid off for a job well done and the niave are blind and decieved as Israel’s throat is being squeezed tighter and tighter

Faithful are the wounds of a friend,but deceitful are the kisses of an enemy …………..as he slowly chokes you. Porverbs 27: 6 with added warning to Israel !

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March 15, 2005
The World Loves Dead Jews
Tuesday, March 15, 2005, Yad V’Shem will be opening a new museum. Government leaders and dignitaries from all over the world, as well as UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan, will attend the inauguration.

These are the same world leaders who immorally push Israel to deport Jews from their homes, and make suicidal concessions to Arafat’s successor and loyal follower, the Holocaust denier Abu Mazen.

Women in Green will hold a vigil close to Yad V’Shem with signs which say:
“”The World Loves Dead Jews, but hates proud Jews living in the Land of Israel.””

“”Deportation of Jews: Never Again!””
When and Where: Women in Green will conduct the vigil at 3:30 P.M. at the the corner of Herzl Boulevard and Shaarai Tzedek Hospital.

Jerusalem, March 15, 2005 Ruth and Nadia Matar

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THE WORLD LOVES DEAD JEWS
The Live Ones In Israel Are The Real Problem

LETTER FROM RUTH MATAR (WOMEN IN GREEN) JERUSALEM
Thursday, March 17, 2005
Dear Friends,

Holocaust Museums are mushrooming all over the world. Even Germany has a very elaborate museum.

Poland has decided to contribute $26 million towards the construction of a Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw. (This is 75% of the cost of the Warsaw Museum Project, despite difficult economic times in Poland!)

When Yad Vashem first opened in 1957, very few museums in the world even mentioned the Holocaust. Today, as the new Yad Vashem museum opens, there are at least 250 Holocaust museums and memorials worldwide – in Israel, the United States and Europe, but also in such far-flung places as Australia, Argentina, South Africa and Japan.

The most elaborate and expensive of these Holocaust Memorials is the new wing of Yad Vashem, which was inaugurated on Tuesday, March 15, 2005, in the Holy City of Jerusalem.

A large number of presidents, prime ministers, foreign ministers and other dignitaries from abroad were invited to attend the Tuesday opening of Yad Vashem’s new History Museum.

Leaders from some 40 nations attended the ceremony. Those who took part in the two-day, invitation-only opening events included U. N. Secretary-General Kofi Anna, the presidents of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Lithuania, Poland, Serbia-Montenegro and Switzerland, the prime ministers of France, Sweden, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark and Romania, the deputy prime minister of the United Kingdom, the vice president of the Dominican Republic, the foreign ministers of Germany, Norway, et al.

Yes, even the children and grandchildren of our executioners came to attend this festive opening of this new Holocaust museum.

Their parents or grandparents may have either collaborated in the murder of six million Jews, or were complicit, or stood by in indifferent silence.

But shouldn’t we Jews forgive and forget? Shouldn’t we Jews be grateful for this show of support? Such a distinguished international influx does not show up here every day! In fact, there has been nothing to compare to it since the funeral of Yitzhak Rabin almost a decade ago!

I cannot help but think that my family in Europe, many of whom were exterminated like so much vermin, would have preferred to be allowed to live a normal life, rather than this continual commemoration of their untimely, violent death.

Israel’s President Katzav enthused that these leaders of the free world have come to show solidarity, not only with Israel, but against anti-Semitism. That they are now more sensitive to the Holocaust!

On the contrary! In the Jerusalem Post of the same day there was an article about Canada recalling passports that by mistake listed Jerusalem as being in the State of Israel. These passports were recalled like defective automobile parts!

One thing these important world leaders agreed on was that Israel must stop building Jewish communities in their own Land, and permit their country to be divided to allow the establishment of “”Palestine,”” a country that never was, and inhabited by a never-was people.

Was there one of these illustrious visitors who spoke against “”Disengagement””? Was there one voice raised against forcibly deporting families from their homes, from their own Land?

But U. N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan takes the cake! By the way, I feel that Sharon’s fawning over Kofi Annan, the head of the United Nations, is reprehensible, certainly at the inauguration of yet another expensive Holocaust memorial. The U.N.’s track record has been viciously anti-Israel since its inception.

U.N. Secretary-General Annan said that the Holocaust was an “”inconceivable event,”” but commended the Prime Minister on the Disengagement Plan, and expressed his hopes that Israel’s budget issue will be “”successfully resolved,”” so as to “”enable the continuation of dealing with this important issue.”” (RM: this issue being to once again deport Jews from their homes?) Of course, Kofi Annan is an expert on manipulating budget issues (the Oil for Food scandal, which is alleged to have involved both Kofi Annan and his son!). He certainly realizes the relationship between budgets and politics.

We Jews have a terrible “”genetic flaw.”” We refuse to face reality. Anti-Semitism is growing by leaps and bounds worldwide, in the very countries whose leaders were invited to the inauguration of Israel’s new Holocaust Museum. Even “”law-abiding”” Switzerland experienced its very first synagogue burning a few days ago.

At the same time, Israel’s Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who has turned out to be a ghetto-type Jew par excellence, is wining and dining the descendants of those who were either collaborators or stood silently by while European Jewry was being murdered.

I believe that the most shocking statement of this whole conference, at least from what was published in the papers, was that of Israel’s Prime Minister Ariel Sharon: “”The State of Israel is the only place in the world where the Jews have the right and the power to protect themselves by themselves. This is the only guarantee that the Jewish People will never know another Holocaust.””

This is the man who plans to deport fellow Jews from their Biblical Homeland, Gaza and Samaria. These areas are specifically mentioned in the Judeo-Christian Bible as being part of the eternal inheritance promised to the Jewish People by the G-d of Israel. These Jews are to be violently dragged out of their homes and their Land given to the Arab enemy for yet another terrorist state. Sharon has even promised the Arabs that the remains of Jews buried in Gaza will be disinterred, to make the very earth “”Judenrein.””

Unfortunately, with dictator Ariel Sharon as Prime Minister, the State of Israel is no longer a guarantee that the Jewish People will never know another Holocaust.

And, if a Jewish Prime Minister can uproot and deport Jews from their homes, what will prevent other world leaders from doing the same? This is a very dangerous situation for all Jews worldwide.

Are then, the Jews completely without friends? Be of good courage! There are millions of Bible-believing Christian Zionists in the world, especially in the United States.

I am hereby including a very interesting article by Michael Freund, who served as an aide to former Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.

Calling all Christians (The Jerusalem Post, March 15, 2005)

“”Is George W. Bush missing a couple of pages from his Bible? In a speech last week at the National Defense University, the president repeated what has become one of his primary foreign policy mantras.

Asserting that the only way to bring about tranquility in the Middle East is through the establishment of a Palestinian state, Bush said, ‘We seek two democratic states, Israel and Palestine, living side-by-side in peace and security.’

In addition, Bush insisted that Israel must ‘freeze settlement activity’ and ‘ensure that a new Palestinian state is truly viable, with contiguous territory on the West Bank,’ meaning that he expects the Jewish state to withdraw not only from Gaza and northern Samaria, but from large chunks of the rest of the territories as well.

The president’s statement, of course, is nothing new. It is a theme he has harped on for the past few years, laying down his conviction that the Land of Israel should be partitioned between Arabs and Jews.

But what is truly remarkable, and as yet inexplicable, is that a man so committed to his Christian faith and to belief in the Bible could possibly be unaware of the inherent contradiction in his policy toward the region.

Indeed, how is it that the most devoted Christian to sit in the White House in decades is the same person pressing to divide God’s Holy Land, the very same land promised exclusively to the Jewish people by Divine right?

Now, I am neither a theologian nor a Christian, but I do know that the words ‘Palestine’ and ‘Palestinians’ do not appear anywhere in the New Testament. So Bush could not have gotten the idea to establish ‘Palestine’ while attending Sunday school. Did he not learn that Jesus was a Jew who, like the Jews who today are called ‘settlers,’ lived in land given by God to the Jews, the same land in which he would now create a hostile Palestinian state?

To be fair, Bush has been a great friend of Israel, deflecting international criticism over the Jewish state’s efforts to defend itself while pushing to reform and democratize some of our nasty neighbors.

Nonetheless, his insistence on pressing for the establishment of a Palestinian state remains baffling, if not incomprehensible, as it would appear to conflict with both his religious and his ideological worldviews.

Even in terms of the war on terror, Bush’s stance on the Middle East is laden with inconsistency. In that same National Defense University speech last week, Bush said, ‘The theory here is straightforward: Terrorists are less likely to endanger our security if they are worried about their own security. When terrorists spend their days struggling to avoid death or capture, they are less capable of arming and training to commit new attacks. We will keep the terrorists on the run, until they have nowhere left to hide.’

And yet, when it comes to the Palestinians, that is precisely the opposite of Bush’s policy, as the creation of a Palestinian state would inevitably give terrorist groups such as Hamas and Islamic Jihad a perfect place ‘to hide.’

In light of the president’s position, as well as his religious beliefs, there is one group in particular that should seize the moment now and come out against the current drive toward Israeli withdrawal and retreat: American Christians.

As the core group of Bush’s Republican constituency, and as a growing factor to be reckoned with on the American political stage, evangelical Christians have the clout, the numbers and the conviction to help forestall the creation of ‘Palestine.’

Efforts by Bush and by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to carve up the Holy Land and turn over parts of it to the Arabs should offend anyone who takes the Bible seriously, including evangelicals. To stand by and watch this process unfold without speaking out is simply unthinkable. There are three things the three P’s that US Christians can and should do to make their voices heard: protest, pressure and pray. They shouldn’t wait for a divided American Jewry to take the lead, because time is of the essence, as the planned withdrawal from Gaza is just four months away.

Hence, there is no reason why American Christians can’t start taking to the streets to organize rallies and protests under the banner of ‘Don’t Divide the Holy Land.’ What a powerful message it would send to decision-makers in Washington and Jerusalem to see hundreds of thousands or even millions of non-Jewish Americans speaking out on this important issue.

U. S. Christians can also apply pressure on their elected representatives. Next Thursday, March 24, when Jews mark the Fast of Esther, a grassroots effort is being planned to get as many American Jews and Christians as possible to phone, fax and e-mail the White House, with the central theme being ‘President Bush: Honor God’s covenant with His people. Stop Disengagement.’

Lastly, it is time for Jews and Christians to pull out the most potent weapon in their arsenal, the power of prayer. The Land of Israel is in danger, and there can be no better way to influence events than by turning in prayer to the One who guides all human events.

There is still time to act, to make a difference. American Christians have been put in a unique position, one in which they can have a direct impact on the future of Israel and its land. At this critical hour, when the integrity of the Holy Land is at stake, they cannot and must not be silent.””
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Unfortunately, President George W. Bush believes that the only way to bring about tranquility in the Middle East is through the establishment of a Palestinian state. In his words: “”We seek two democratic states, Israel and Palestine, living side-by-side in peace and security.””

Michael Freund suggests three things – the three P’s – that U. S. Christians can and should do to make their voices heard: PROTEST, PRESSURE AND PRAY. I do agree with Michael Freund as to what we should all do. I do disagree with him on one point. Even though American Jewry is divided on this issue, there are many Jews who will be just as interested as the Christians in the survival of the Promised Land as the eternal inheritance of the Jewish People.

Emergency call to American Christians and American Jews! Start PRESSURING your elected representatives, and PRAY that the Master of the Universe should take pity on all of us. As you well know, it is written: “”Those who curse Israel shall be cursed, and those who bless Israel shall be blessed.””

Just as important is the planned PROTEST in Washington, D.C. on May 19th, 2005.

Circle this date on your calendar. That is the date when we all, please G-d, will join a major rally in Washington, D.C. against the “”Disengagement-Deportation-of-Jews-by-Jews Plan.”” The rally will probably take place on or near the Washington Mall.

I will publish further particulars as soon as they become available.

TOGETHER, WITH G-D’S HELP, WE SHALL OVERCOME.

With Blessings and Love for Israel,

Ruth Matar

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March 18, 2005
The Slogan “”Let the People Decide”” Is a Return to the Sin of the Spies
by Nadia Matar
Egged buses are currently festooned with huge posters bearing the slogan: “”Let the People Decide.”” My stomach turns when I think about the hundreds of thousands of shekels – and perhaps more – that the Council of Jewish Settlements in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza is wasting on this campaign, instead of channeling the money to preparations for the upcoming struggle this summer – the renovation of empty houses to absorb the thousands of new residents, the purchase of generators, tents, stores of food and water for the tens of thousands of people who will dig in, and the like.

But what is even more troubling than the waste of money, is the message of the campaign itself. We must declare, once and for all, that whoever promotes the “”Let the People Decide”” slogan inflicts the greatest possible damage on our struggle for The Land of Israel. In my humble opinion, the campaign for a referendum is actually spreading calumny about the Land, and is a return to the Biblical account of the sin of the spies.

When the spies returned from scouting out the Land, the people had to decide whom to follow. Would they follow the ten spies who told them how beautiful the Land was, but “”we cannot go forward against that people, for it is stronger than we,”” “”the country is one that devours its inhabitants”” – or would they go with Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun, who declared: “”Let us by all means go up, and we shall gain possession of it, for we shall surely overcome it”” (Deuteronomy 13).

Let the people decide? The people did decide. Not only did they want to stone Caleb and Joshua,

“”the whole community broke out into loud cries, and the people wept that night. All the Israelites railed against Moses and Aaron […] “”Why is the Lord taking us to that land to fall by the sword? Our wives and children will be carried off! It would be better for us to go back to Egypt!”” And they said to one another, “”Let us appoint a new leader and head back to Egypt.”” (Numbers 14:1-4)

Could any modern referendum be clearer than this? All the Children of Israel, the whole community, an overwhelming majority, were against Caleb and Joshua, and for a return to Egypt. What did G-d say to this? Did He accept the results, and say that, since a majority of the people wished to renounce the dream of the Land of Israel, they should return to Egypt! Definitely Not!

And the Lord said to Moses: “”How long will this people spurn Me, and how long will they have no faith in Me despite all the signs that I have performed in their midst. I will strike them with pestilence and disown them, and I will make of you a nation far more numerous than they!”” (Numbers 14:11-12)

G-d wanted to destroy all the whiners and those lacking faith. Only after Moses intervenes, does the Lord agree not to kill them all. Instead, the punishment is that they will not see the Land of Israel. Only Caleb and Joshua would merit to enter the Land, together with the new generation. That night, when all the people wept, was the night of Tisha be-Av. The midrash says that G-d told them: “”You wept for nothing, therefore I will establish this night for you as one of lamentation for future generations.””

If G-d was so harsh with the liberated Israelite slaves when they were still in the wilderness on their way to the Land of Israel, a land that they had never seen – how much more scandalous is it when we, who have already settled and taken possession of this Land, dare to speak about the possibility of handing it over to the enemy?

Therefore, in my humble opinion, those among our camp who call for a referendum are essentially no different from Ariel Sharon and Shimon Peres. All belong to the faction of the ten defeatist spies, who spread calumny about the Land. All are actually saying that in certain instances we must – obviously, with a grieving heart – surrender the Land of Israel or parts of it. All are weak people, who do not have complete faith in our divine destiny, who do not believe in our ability to remain in the Land and protect it. All say: “”We cannot go forward.””

If we do not want endless lamenting here, once again, if we truly desire to be victorious, to block the Sharon plan, to prevent the deportation and uprooting, and to thereby save the State of Israel and the Land of Israel – goals that are within our reach, if we only organize properly – then we must follow only leaders who speak in the spirit of Caleb and Joshua. Leaders who say clearly, without stuttering or hesitation: The Sharon plan is a crime. A crime against the Holy One, blessed be He, a crime against the Torah, a crime against the people, a crime against the land.

This land belongs to us because G-d gave it to us, and no Jew is entitled to give it away. Likewise, no government or Knesset is entitled to give it away, even if an absolute majority votes in favor. Consequently, every Jew – soldier, policeman, Border Patrol soldier, attorney, government official, etc. – is forbidden to participate or assist in this criminal plan, whether directly or indirectly. On D-Day, all the people must leave their homes to stand and be counted in Gush Katif and the Northern Shomron, to prevent, with their bodies, the realization of the crime. If our leadership will speak in such a clear manner, and act and organize accordingly, then, with God’s help, we will succeed in preventing the execution of the decree.

To all those in our camp who – still – advocate only the policy of “”With Love We will Win,”” we say: Don’t you understand that Sharon and the band of Oslo criminals around him plan to love us to death? To all those in our camp who send mixed messages and weaken our cause with demands for a referendum; to those who sabotage our struggle with talk about the “”moral”” obligation of soldiers to obey the patently illegal and immoral deportation order; to those who are too fearful to say like Caleb and Joshua “” If G-d desires to help us, He will indeed bring us into the Land and give it to us[…] only you must not rebel against the Lord””-

To all these well-meaning people we say what Mordechai told Esther thousands of years ago: “”If you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance will come to the Jews from another quarter”” (Esther 4:14)
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March 24, 2005

Important announcement:
THE FAST OF ESTHER
A DAY FOR FASTING AND PRAYING
FOR ISRAEL, FOR THE LAND AND HER PEOPLE
On Thursday, March 24, 2005, Jews all over the world will fast and pray in commemoration of the 3 days of fast and prayer of the Jews of Persia more than 2,500 years ago. Then, the Jews of Persia were threatened with annihilation by the wicked Haman and they were miraculously saved. Now, the Jews of Samaria and Gaza are threatened with forced evacuation and we are praying for divine intervention.

The leaders of the US and Israel are certainly not wicked Hamans. But they are misguided. They believe that withdrawing from Gaza and Northern Samaria will save Israel. We are convinced that it will seriously endanger Israel, both from a spiritual and from a natural perspective. Spiritually for how will God view the voluntary relinquishing of His land to another? Naturally for how will Israel defend itself when Gaza and Northern Samaria become terrorist states?

Christians and Jews will join hands on the Fast of Esther, to pray for Israel and its territorial integrity.

On that same day American Christians and Jews will bombard the White House with phone calls and e-mails. The message will be short and clear: President Bush Honor G-d’s covenant with His people. Stop Disengagement.

On Thursday March 24, 2005, phone the White House at:

Comments: 202-456-1111
Switchboard: 202-456-1414
FAX: 202-456-2461

On Thursday March 24, 2005 send an e-mail to:

President George W. Bush: president@whitehouse.gov
Vice President Richard Cheney: vice.president@whitehouse.gov

If millions will contact the White House on the same day, we will be heard.

May G-d bless you all.

Jan Willem van der Hoeven, Director
International Christian Zionist Center
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IT’S NOT OVER UNTIL THE FAT LADY SINGS

LETTER FROM RUTH MATAR (WOMEN IN GREEN) JERUSALEM
Monday, March 28, 2005
Dear Friends,

The situation in the Holy Land is worsening daily. Ariel Sharon is driving his “”Disengagement-Deportation of Jews Plan”” with frightening speed toward the precipice.

He is now suppressing any vestiges of Israeli democracy! Israel has become a virtual police state!

Opponents to the Disengagement Plan are arrested and put in Administrative Detention, which means that they are not entitled to a trial, and are not allowed to face their accusers.

Young opponents of Disengagement, who engaged in non-violent demonstrations, are locked up in the newly-constructed “”disengagement ward”” in Ma’asiyahu Prison, without being brought before a judge. Last Thursday night there was a shocking occurrence. These young detainees, some of whom are religious, who asked to be allowed to hold a prayer service and to read the Purim Megillah, were refused permission. Claiming they were denied their basic rights, the prisoners announced they would not return to their cells unless they were allowed to pray.

Large prison service forces were alerted to the scene and, according to the prisoners’ families, the young inmates were beaten with clubs and were pushed and kicked until they returned to their cells. One of the prisoners required medical attention.

The Disengagement Authority has received its long awaited budget supplement, and is using these funds (tax payers’ involuntary contributions) for Sharon’s immoral and illegal war against the Jews of Gush Katif and northern Samaria.

Five thousand policemen will take part in what police have called the “”inner circle”” where they will “”evacuate”” settlers. In addition, sixty GERMAN-BRED HORSES are to be used by the police cavalry department! “”Horses will play a fundamental role in the evacuation from Gaza,”” said Assistant Commander Amos Carmeli. “”One horse is the equivalent to one-hundred policemen,”” the Assistant Commander explained.

What will these German-bred horses be used for? To trample little Jewish children? To trample old grandmothers?

Another innovation in Sharon’s war against the Jews is a tear-gas rifle with the ability to hold five canisters of tear-gas instead of only one. This will be used for “”unruly”” demonstrations. In Sharon’s lexicon, any public disagreement with his Disengagement Plan is an “”unruly”” demonstration.

What happened to Israeli democracy?

The election of Ariel Sharon, who turned out to be the consummate con-artist, that is what happened to Israeli democracy. Sharon is fighting tooth and nail against a national referendum, where the Jewish People could voice their opinion on Disengagement, which might topple him from his position as Prime Minister.

The Israeli government was in danger of falling if Sharon’s Budget would not have been passed by March 31, 2005. Sharon, the skillful general and tactician, leaves nothing to chance. On Saturday night, March 26, he invited the anti-religious Shinui leader, Yosef Lapid, to his Negev ranch. Yosef Lapid caved in to enormous pressure and agreed to allow his 14 Members of Knesset to vote in favor of a 700 million shekel bribe, thus rescuing Sharon’s Government. The Shinui leader promised to vote for every clause in the budget, except for one allocating NIS 290 million for religious kindergartens. Yosef Lapid does hate religious kids, especially little boys with yarmulkes.

Former National Religious Party Chairman Effi Eitam said: “”Sharon, the father of corruption, stole the votes of the Right, and now is robbing the public coffers to buy his political survival and prevent the public from having its say.””

The Israeli Knesset (Parliament) which was chosen in a democratic election on January 23, 2003, gave the Likud Party and its leader Ariel Sharon a landslide victory. The Likud Party increased to 40 seats and the Labor Party decreased to 19 seats. The Knesset was voted in with a mandate NOT to remove Jews from Gaza, which had been the specific platform of Amram Mitzna, the Labor Party candidate.

The Knesset in place now bears no resemblance to the one elected in 2003. This Knesset has been hi-jacked and rebuilt by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who has a strange and distorted view of democracy. He has fired every one of his government ministers who dared to disagree with him. He has removed the I.D.F. Chief of Staff Moshe Yaalon from his position, because Yaalon had previously given his opinion that withdrawal from Gaza was dangerous, and “”might blow up in Israel’s face.””

The most evil thing the Sharon Government has accomplished is to divide the Jews of Israel between “”left”” and “”right,”” between “”religious”” and “”anti-religious,”” and between those who have become extremely wealthy (such as the Sharon family) and the Israeli poor, whose children literally don’t have enough to eat. Sharon has also completely ignored the very platform of the Likud Party, which he led in the last election. This platform stated unequivocally: “”NO to a Palestinian state, and NO to Jewish Land to be given away to the enemy.””

In order to try to understand the enormity of the betrayal of the Jewish People by Ariel Sharon, it is essential to read his autobiography WARRIOR, which was republished by Simon & Schuster, as recently as 2001.

In a new foreword, his life-long friend Uri Dan remarks that Ariel Sharon fully realizes that as Prime Minister of the Jewish state he assumed responsibility for the entire Jewish people, who have finally achieved their 2,000-year-old dream of reestablishing their homeland.

What happened to Ariel Sharon? There are many theories as to why his outlook changed so radically, such as, for example, his and his sons’ legal problems in connection with financial misdeeds. He may feel that he needs to abandon his erstwhile support base, those who believe in the necessity to reestablish Jewish communities in the historical Jewish homeland of Judea, Samaria and Gaza. His complete 180-degree turnaround may have been to placate his opponents on the Left, and thereby avoid their clamor for his legal prosecution.

There is no doubt, however, that what he professed to believe in his autobiography, republished in 2001, is radically at odds with his actions today.

p. 553 And we must say very clearly that concern for our own survival does not permit the establishment of a second Palestinian state on the West Bank.

p. 554 Withdrawal form the territories is, unfortunately, an easy answer that may satisfy a certain number of people initially but which will inevitably create more violence and a greater threat to our survival than we have faced since the first part of the War of Independence.

p. 554 Gaza at this point is our southern security belt. What will we do once we withdraw from Gaza and find, as we inevitably will, that Arafat or his successors have stepped in and that squads of terrorists are again operating from there into Israel, murdering and destroying? What will we do when the Katyusha fire starts hitting Sderot, four miles from the Gaza district, and Ashkelon, nine miles from Gaza, and Kiryat Gat, fourteen miles from Gaza? A Katyusha is nothing more than a metal tube seven feet long, easily transportable, virtually undetectable.

p. 556 The great question of our day is whether we, the Jewish people of Israel, can find within us the will to survive as nation that is necessary to solve the problems confronting us.

Ariel Sharon, who once was considered a courageous defender of Israel, is now intent on dividing our Promised Land, the Land which G-d gave the Jewish People as an everlasting inheritance. He has unfortunately lost his will!

Another factor has entered the discussion. Both U.S. Ambassador to Israel Dan Kurtzer and U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice have implied that Sharon’s understanding of President Bush’s declarations of April 14, 2004, is faulty and “”at odds with American policy”” and could threaten peace with the Palestinians.

Wow! Then Ariel Sharon fooled the Jewish People by convincing them that President Bush had promised him all kinds of wonderful things at that meeting, if he disengaged from Gaza and gave it to the Arabs as a confidence-building measure, and for them to enjoy a better lifestyle.

Knesset Member Aryeh Eldad was absolutely correct when he recently said that you can read President Bush’s letter of April 14, 2004, to Prime Minister Sharon one-thousand times, but you won’t find those President Bush “”promises”” that Sharon continually boasts of.

Can you imagine a greater immorality than dragging the Cohen family and their children out of their home in Gush Katif? Three children of the Cohen family lost four limbs between them in a terrorist school-bus bombing, ordered by the U.S. State Department’s “”moderate darling”” and Abu-Mazen’s security chief, Muhammad Dahlan. And in addition, is their lovely home with all its beautiful memories to be given over to the very terrorists who maimed the Cohen children for life?

Have we lost the battle already? No way! IT’S NOT OVER UNTIL THE FAT LADY SINGS! We desperately need to unite and to fight the immoral, illegal Disengagement-Deportation of Jews Plan. Time is running short.

THAT IS WHY WE ARE CANCELING THE MAY 19, 2005, RALLY IN WASHINGTON, D.C., and we are instead organizing a protest rally in CRAWFORD, TEXAS, which is as near as you can get to President Bush’s ranch.

The new protest date is APRIL 11, THE DATE WHEN ARIEL SHARON HAS BEEN HONORED BY PRESIDENT BUSH WITH A PERSONAL INVITATION TO HIS HOME, AN HONOR WHICH IS NOT LIGHTLY BESTOWED, BUT GIVEN ONLY TO REALLY IMPORTANT PEOPLE SUCH AS TONY BLAIR AND THE KING OF SAUDI ARABIA.

The April 11 visit will be Sharon’s first to Bush’s ranch in Crawford after nearly ten visits to the White House since taking office in 2001. Israeli officials had said earlier that the meeting would take place in Washington.

The change in venue can be seen as a move by Bush to bolster a close ally who is under fire from settlers at home over a U.S.-backed Gaza pullout plan, and by Christian Zionists in the United States.

The Jewish community, both in Israel and in the United States, has found a wonderful, powerful ally in Baptist Pastor Jim Vineyard of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He is sincere and passionate in his defense of the Jewish State of Israel. He told me that his reason for his involvement is a simple one. He believes that the Tanach (Bible) is truly the word of G-d, and that G-d has promised the Holy Land to the Jews as an everlasting inheritance – no ifs, ands, or buts.

Now for the particulars:
PROTEST RALLY IN CRAWFORD, TEXAS,
APRIL 11, 2005
We pray to have 500 buses with at least 30 people in each bus, which will give us 15,000 protestors. (Of course, double or triple that amount will be even more effective!)

Will you come?
Will you get a car-load to come?
Will you get a van-load to come?
Will you get a bus-load to come?
Will you get a plane-load to come?

Make up signs on orange poster board, the color of Gush Katif resistance, such as:

“”SHARON IS ASKING PRESIDENT BUSH TO FINANCE THE DEPORTATION OF JEWS WITH MY TAXPAYER’S MONEY!””

Let Pastor Jim Vineyard know how many of you have coming. Write him at: whbc@windsorhills.org or call him at 405 943 3326.

WHEN YOUR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN WILL ASK YOU, “”WHAT DID YOU DO TO SAVE THE HOLY LAND?”” YOU CAN THEN TELL THEM: “”I WAS THERE IN CRAWFORD, TEXAS, ON APRIL 11, 2005.””

I am looking forward to meeting you there.

With Blessings and Love for Israel,

Ruth Matar

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March 29, 2005

GIVE THEM CAUSE TO WORRY
April 11, 2005 Protest Rally in Crawford, Texas

LETTER FROM RUTH MATAR (WOMEN IN GREEN) JERUSALEM
Tuesday, March 29, 2005
Dear Friends,

In today’s Jerusalem Post, Tuesday March 29, 2005, there was an article entitled, “”PM’s OFFICE WORRIES ABOUT PROTESTS DURING U.S. VISIT.””

“”Officials in the Prime Minister’s office said they have received intelligence information that Disengagement opponents here would try to disrupt Sharon’s visit, in order to move the camera lens from what is expected to be a friendly Bush-Sharon meeting to the very unfriendly strife the plan is causing in Israel. “”

It is essential that you not only give Prime Minister Ariel Sharon a reason to worry, but that you also give President George W. Bush a cause to re-examine United States’ policy toward Israel.

It is a matter of life or death, not only for tiny Israel, but also for the mighty United States. And I speak here as a concerned American citizen, as well as someone who enjoys her spiritual home in Jerusalem.

Ariel Sharon’s plan of Disengagement from Biblical Gaza and Biblical northern Samaria may seem unstoppable. To many people, it may seem as if this is just a minor blip on the radar screen of history. “”Israel may surely survive without Gush Katif and northern Samaria,”” they say. “”After all, we are only talking about approximately 9,000 people. If it’s for the common good, it behooves them to give up their homes.””

Prime Minister Sharon has never even attempted to show that his Disengagement-Deportation of Jews by Jews is for the common good. It is, of course, simply giving in to Arab Islamic terror and pressure from the United States.

Ever since Israel regained its Biblical heartland – Judea, Samaria and Gaza – in a defensive war in 1967, the United States’ policy has been not to allow Jews to re-establish communities in the Land promised to them by G-d as an everlasting inheritance. Even though the League of Nations and the Balfour Declaration declared the whole area of Mandate Palestine – including what is now Jordan – as a Jewish Homeland, Winston Churchill, with great “”generosity”” toward the Arabs, chopped off a piece to placate one of the feuding sheiks (the other sheik got Iraq as his prize!).

All this happened not too long ago, just at the beginning of the twentieth century. But now the United Nations, the European Union, Russia and the United States have decided that the Holy Land needs to have some more parts amputated. They call this the Road Map to Peace!

Why is this amputation not only dangerous to Israel, but also to the United States and the rest of Western civilization, which are all based on the Judeo-Christian heritage? Isn’t this an incredible victory for Arab Islamic terror? The unmistakable message which radical Islam understands perfectly is that TERROR PAYS, AND INCREASING TERROR WILL BRING EVEN GREATER DIVIDENDS!

I may be severely criticized for what I am going to say. 9/11 may well have happened because the United States for years ignored the terror directed toward Israel, as well as toward itself, by the Father of Modern Terrorism, Yasser Arafat.

It probably seemed to the United States and to the European countries that Arafat’s terror was directed only at Israel and, hence, was only a local problem. “”The obstacle to peace”” between Jews and Arabs was perceived by the World to be the Jews building communities in Judea, Samaria and Gaza.

Even when the United States Ambassador Cleo Noel and his assistant, G. Curtis Moore, were machine-gunned on Arafat’s orders in Khartoum, Sudan, in February of 1973, the United States did not find it politically expedient to react as it should have. (The dirty little secret of the U.S. State Department is that they have for many years hidden a recording where Arafat’s voice has been clearly identified as ordering the torture and murder of U.S. diplomats.)

Yasser Arafat supplied the weapons used by the terrorists who killed 241 American Marines in Beirut in 1983. A National Security Agency phone-tap recorded a September 24, 1983 call from the Iranian ambassador to Abu-Haidr to “”undertake an extraordinary operation against the U.S. Marines in Beirut.”” The attack on the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut took place shortly thereafter. Two hundred forty one Americans were killed! (This information was revealed by Newsweek Magazine in its November 1999 issue.)

Yasser Arafat was also involved in the planning of the first World Trade Center bombing in New York in February, 1993, where six people died and thousands were injured. (Moshe Peled, Israel’s Deputy Minister of Education in the Netanyahu government, told CIA representatives in early 1997 that Israeli intelligence had complete evidence about Yasser Arafat’s involvement. The official Iranian government newspaper, E-Kirhan, as well, accused Arafat of responsibility for the first World Trade Center bombing.)

And what was the reaction of the U.S. State Department? To hide the evidence of Arafat’s continual perfidy.

These are just a few examples of terror perpetrated by Arafat and his henchmen against the United States. The rest of the world has likewise not been immune from Arafat-sponsored terrorism.

And what was the reaction of the United States’ government and the World at large? A year after the first World Trade Center bombing in February 1993, Arafat was rewarded in 1994 with the Nobel Prize for Peace.

Arafat must have found this very humorous indeed. However, the “”joke”” is on all of us.

9/11 and the train bombing in Spain, etc., was a direct result of giving radical Islam the feeling that they can literally get away with murder.

For U.S. President George W. Bush to stand by, no, even encourage the dictator of Israel, Ariel Sharon, to give parts of the Holy Land to Arafat’s political successor, Abu-Mazen, the terrorist who planned and funded the Munich Olympic Massacre, is to say the least, misguided, and not in the interest of the security of the United States. Islamic terror is continually promising the World another 9/11.

For Ariel Sharon to violently drag Jews out of their homes, people who have lived there for three generations, and to order the disinterment of their beloved Jewish relatives, is downright evil. Sharon’s Disengagement-Deportation of Jews by Jews Plan is tearing the Jewish State of Israel apart!

Dear Friends, it is a privilege for all of us to make our voices heard in America, which is the bastion of world democracy. The Jewish People in Israel, however, no longer have that privilege under Sharon’s undemocratic regime.

I am sure that President George W. Bush and Prime Minister Ariel Sharon will appreciate learning how the American people really feel about the future of the Holy Land.

I, myself, hope, G-d willing, to be in Crawford, Texas on April 11, 2005.

I implore you, dear friends, to come.

If it is difficult for some of you to take this trip, contact Pastor Vineyard, who is a passionate defender of Israel’s Biblical inheritance, and he might find a way to help you with logistic arrangements, so that you can attend this important protest rally.

Now – for practical information:
PROTEST RALLY IN CRAWFORD, TEXAS,
APRIL 11, 2005
We pray to have 500 buses with at least 30 people in each bus, which will give us 15,000 protestors. (Of course, double or triple that amount will be even more effective!)

Will you come?
Will you get a car-load to come?
Will you get a van-load to come?
Will you get a bus-load to come?
Will you get a plane-load to come?

Make up signs on orange poster board, the color of Gush Katif resistance, such as:
“”SHARON IS ASKING PRESIDENT BUSH TO FINANCE THE DEPORTATION OF JEWS WITH MY TAXPAYER’S MONEY!””

Let Pastor Jim Vineyard know how many of you are coming. Write him at: whbc@windsorhills.org or call him at 405 943 3326.

WHEN YOUR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN WILL ASK YOU, “”WHAT DID YOU DO TO SAVE THE HOLY LAND?”” YOU CAN THEN TELL THEM: “”I WAS THERE IN CRAWFORD, TEXAS, ON APRIL 11, 2005.””

I am looking forward to meeting you there.

With Blessings and Love for Israel,

Ruth Matar

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