December 1999
December 3, 1999 A Hanukkah Message To Ehud Barak
December 6, 1999 A Zionist Response to the Destruction of the Maon Farm
December 9, 1999 Golan Telephone Poll
December 9, 1999 A Plea for Unity
December 10, 1999 False and Misleading Advertising
December 12, 1999 This Week’s Hero – A Twelve-Year-Old Jewish Child
December 12, 1999 Demonstrate for the Golan
December 14, 1999 Freedom of Speech in Israel?
December 16, 1999 Demonstration
December 19, 1999 Now is the Time to Act
December 20, 1999 The Struggle for the Temple Mount
Is Also the Struggle for Herzliyah Pituah
December 22, 1999 The Old-New Wise Men Of Chelm
December 28, 1999 Emergency!! Police Raid Arutz 7
December 29, 1999 An Invitation For Tea at The Baraks?
December 30, 1999 Barak, the Manipulator And Puppet of Clinton, Stifles Dissent!
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Jerusalem, December 3, 1999
A Hanukkah Message To Ehud Barak
“No Jew has the right to give up the right of the Jewish nation
to flourish in Eretz Yisrael. No Jewish body of people has any such right.
Even all the Jews alive today do not have the authority to give up even a
single plot of land. That is the right reserved for the Jewish nation
throughout the ages, and it cannot be given up under any circumstances.
Even if at some future date there are Jews who declare that they are giving
up this right, they will enjoy neither the strength nor the authority to
deny future generations the right to Eretz Yisrael. The Jewish nation is
neither responsible for nor subject to any such concessions. Our right to
this land, in its entirety, is valid and operative for all time, and until
the Final Redemption, we shall not budge from this historic right.”
David Ben Gurion at the 21st Zionist Congress at Basel in 1937.
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Jerusalem, December 6, 1999
A Zionist Response to the Destruction of the Maon Farm
The attached photo appeared in the “International Herald Tribune – HaAretz”
on Friday, November 26, 1999.
IDF army tractor destroying Jewish home on Maon Farm. Maon is mentioned in
the Bible (Samuel I, 23:24,25) as the place where David fled from the
anger of King Saul. Our ancestor King David could have hidden in one of
the many caves that are found on the Maon Farm. Maon is also mentioned in
the Book of Joshua (15:20,55) as being an inheritance of the Tribe of Judah
from which Tribe most Jews living today are descendants.
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Prime Minister Barak’s explanation of why he destroyed the homes on the
Maon Farm is totally unsatisfactory. It wasn’t democratic principles that
were involved, but ruthless action by a man who has lost contact with his
People, and thinks he can militarily force Jews to obey his arbitrary
dictates. In the process he is killing the morale and spirit of his People.
Barak heartlessly has leveled Jewish homes painstakingly and lovingly
built. Carried off the inhabitants and their friends in the middle of the
night. And as a final blow criminally charged them with resisting the
destruction of their homes and property. Barak is, in effect, justifying
Arab terrorists for having previously murdered Dov Dribben on this Jewish
land at the Maon Farm. How this must pain Dov’s father, a U.S. veteran of
the Korean War, who resides nearby.
The praise Barak received from Arafat for his actions in Maon tells us
everything about the merit of Barak’s actions. Arafat, the immoral
murderer, has learned well from Hitler whom he admires, the telling of the
“big lie” over and over again until it is believed. He incredulously has
the gall to announce that it was Jews, not Arabs, who executed the recent
murderous attacks on Jews in Netanya. It is he, speaking through his wife,
who revived the blood libel that Jews poison Arab water and the air the
Arabs breathe.
Never mind that except for the subsequent removal by the IDF of a few
“token” tents, Arabs continue to dwell unmolested in illegally built homes
on the “firing range”, which is the claimed basis for the removal of the
Jews from the Maon Farm. Arabs are now grazing their flocks around the
Maon farm. Jews are prevented from being there, but Arabs move freely
about and are even working Government Land with tractors. Barak is only
able to take tough measures against Jews, such as the pioneers at Maon, who
have cultivated barren land and made it fertile. Against the widespread
illegal activity of Arab building throughout Jerusalem and Judea and
Samaria, Barak is impotent. Nor will he address himself in any serious way
to have Arafat comply with the obligations he undertook under the Oslo,
Hebron, Wye and Sharm El Shekq Agreements.
How can we respond to this self-destructive madness? We have a Zionist
answer! We have opened a bank account in behalf of those whose homes
have been destroyed by Barak. It is at the MAIN BRANCH or 001 Branch of
the Mizrahi Bank at 12 Ben Yehuda Street, Jerusalem, Israel. The name of
the account is: “Families of MAON FARM”.
We ask you to call in your pledge at 02-6249 885. Or send or wire any sum
you can manage to the Mizrahi Bank, Main Branch in Jerusalem, specifying
the account number 564 250. In the alternative send the money to us and we
shall see that it is deposited immediately in their behalf. Be generous!
It is your appropriate answer to Barak’s grievous wrong and anti-Zionist
action at the Maon Farm.
Ruth and Nadia Matar
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Jerusalem, December 9, 1999
Golan Telephone Poll
Women In Green encourages all its Israei supporters to take part in
the following poll and help save the Golan Heights for future generations.
The “Reshet al HaBoker” television program is conducting a telephone poll
permitting participants to express their view on the Golan Heights issue.
Callers may dial 121-233-2200 from inside Israel and press “1” to support
an Israeli withdrawal in return for a comprehensive peace and “2” to
oppose such a move.
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Jerusalem, December 9, 1999
A Plea for Unity
Many years ago a great Jewish leader, Vladimir Jabotinsky, foresaw the
imminent tragedy that was about to befall the Jewish People of Europe, and
urged them to take the necessary measures to prevent the looming calamity.
He was ignored by the Jewish leaders of his day. The Holocaust followed
with results more ghastly than even Jabotinsky ever had imagined.
In our day, the warning signals are once again being flashed by those who
are cognizant of the kind of enemy we actually have in Arafat and his
followers. But Ehud Barak seems to be oblivious to these danger signals.
There has been throughout the entire so-called “peace process” an
unwillingness to come to grips by our Jewish leaders, with the hatred, and
hostility that Arafat actively promotes towards the State of Israel and the
Jewish People. Arafat in no way attempts to mask this hostility towards
Israel. No objective person can find from the onset of Oslo any action of
Arafat which indicates he really wants “peace”. Instead, the education of
Arab children under Arafat’s auspices is directed toward hatred and
vilification of the Jews, and the propaganda on his Media carries the same
sordid message.
There are those among us who choose to be blind to the certain dangers that
await us from Arafat. He is an unrepentant murderer who’s word cannot be
trusted. He merely uses the peace process to attain a better position from
which to attack us. Giving up further land and transferring Jews from parts
of their homeland is no solution; not only is such transfer reprehensible
and illegal, it will not bring us any closer to peace. The additional land
ceded will only create deeper and lasting divisions among our people. It is
another act by Barak causing disunity.
If during a peace process Arafat is capable of continuing unabated his
hatred of Israel and the Jews, what can you expect from him once the
process ends? That is why a Palestinian State in our midst, with Arafat and
his followers in control, would only give the enemies of Israel a closer
base from which to attack. Barak’s separation plan is illusory and
unworkable. He should be spelling out to his people the actual dangers
they face, and be working assiduously to unify his people at this critical
time in our history.
In the face of the need for unity, Leah Rabin last week attempted to sow
hatred among the non-religious against the religious segments of our
community. Is it too much to expect from her, and all of our Jewish People,
to come together and face the serious problems that confront us with our
mortal enemy Arafat and the PLO? Where is the wisdom we have displayed
during our dispersion among the nations? It was Jews like Disraeli who
were the advisers to kings and potentates. Today, with disaster facing us,
our wisdom has disappeared. We are silently marching off to be slaughtered
once again. Few voices are being raised to criticize Barak’s improper
focus. Barak seems unable to redirect our energies to seek Jewish unity.
The critical problem we have is that Arafat is our peace partner. Barak can
only deal with Arafat through a unified people. For as Abraham Lincoln
wisely put it, “a house divided against itself cannot stand”.
Ruth and Nadia Matar
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Jerusalem, December 10, 1999
False and Misleading Advertising
The news of PM Barak’s complete capitulation to American and Syrian
positions vis a vis the Golan Heights is indeed cause for grave concern
among all those who are concerned about the survival of Israel. The rush
to show approval of Barak’s capitulation is, of course, led by the Peace
Now people. They have already begun to place Ads in our newspapers trying
to deceptively influence the Jewish public with regard to Barak’s promised
conduct of a poll of Israel’s voters on any Golan Withdrawal Agreement that
may be reached.
A typical Ad attempting to psychologically prepare Jews for acting
like sheep to approve any such Golan Agreement, appeared in HaAretz-Herald
Tribune today. Without any basis or offer of proof, Barak is falsely told
by Peace Now that the “majority” in Israel, support his “historic”
decisions with Syria, and the freezing of new building in Judea and
Samaria. These continuous humiliating concessions to Arafat are now being
extended to Syria, without a single act on the part of either of them that
they have peaceful intentions. The whole masked Syrian manipulation of
its puppet in Lebanon, the fact that Syria still provides a home for
leading terrorist groups against Israel, and the recent death of a leading
Gestapo leader in Syria, reminding us of the many Nazis harbored there, is
indicative of Assad’s true leanings.
A canard of Peace Now is that “peace is greater than the Golan Heights”,
What a meaningless and deceptive phrase! It is only rivaled by their
previous puzzling statement that peace is more important than life itself.
Peace Now doesn’t tell us that without the Golan we will not have life
itself. We have had peace up to now only because we control the Golan, and
Damascus is only a stone’s throw away from there. The virulent hostility
continued to be shown by Assad and his deputies towards the existence of
Israel, is not lessened by Barak’s humiliating and immoral whitewash of
Syria’s ruthless dictator. In theory, peace may be something one should
always seek and work towards; but when you are dealing with intransigent
enemies, you cannot give up your fortress of protection for illusory
concepts.
The continued hatred of Israel by Egypt, and yes, even by Jordan, with
whom “Peace Agreements” have been signed, cannot be ignored. Each of them
represent a marked failure in achieving Arab respect and honor towards
Israel, or any lasting peace arrangement between each of them and Israel.
Is there anyone who seriously doubts that both Egypt and Jordan, as well
as Arafat, would unquestionably join with warring Arab nations against
Israel, no matter what minor pretext the Arabs would have for initiating
such an attack? The same is true in spades, with regard to Syria. It is
in the short term U.S. interest not to have the Arabs upset. Israel’s
concerns will not determine U.S. policy, nor that of the U.N., nor Europe.
The supply of Arab oil will be the overriding consideration. Barak, the
leader of this tiny nation, fails to grasp that he is leading us towards
the loss of many Jewish lives and a major disaster by his futile
concessions and appeasements. Has he not learned anything from Neville
Chamberlain’s dealings with a previous dictator, to achieve “Peace In Our
Time?”
Ruth and Nadia Matar
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Jerusalem, December 12, 1999
(The following is a translation of Nadia’s Hanukkah show on
Arutz 7)
This Week’s Hero – A Twelve-Year-Old Jewish Child
This week’s hero, in my eyes, is a twelve year-old Jewish child whom
I do not know personally, but I want to congratulate him for his
brave deed two days ago. As it was reported yesterday in “Ha-Tzofeh”
(similar reports were broadcast on Arutz 7, and even on Radio 2
[Reshet Bet] of Kol Yisrael):
“The commander of the Samaria brigade, Col. Shin, yesterday forbade
the entrance of worshipers to the Tomb of Yosef, in the wake of an
event in which a twelve year-old Israeli child stuck his tongue out
at a Palestinian policeman. The Kol Min Hashetah news agency
reported that the child was among those visiting the site. Following
the “collective punishment” by the brigade commander, dozens of
yeshivah students and visitors present at the Tomb of Yosef were
prevented from leaving the place, and new people were forbidden to
enter the tomb site.
The IDF Spokesman confirmed the information, and stated that for a
few hours the IDF stopped the busses bringing Jewish worshipers to
the Tomb of Yosef in Shechem, because of the confrontation between
the worshipers and the Palestinian police at the site. Towards
evening the bus service resumed normal operation.” (the end of the
quotation from Ha-Tzofeh)
The “confrontation,” if anyone could call it that, consisted of a
Jewish boy who dared, Heaven help us!, to stick his tongue out at a
Palestinian policeman. This little and almost fictional story is
symptomatic of everything that is happening with us today. Just look
to what depths of absurdity and disgrace the IDF is willing to bring
itself and us, so as not, Heaven forbid, to hurt the feelings of the
Palestinian Arabs.
In contrast, Arab children and adults, on a daily basis, curse the
soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces, humiliate them, spit on them,
throw stones at them, stab them. Will the IDF impose collective
punishment on them? Heaven forbid! For we, the Jews, it is permitted
to be disgraced. Only the Arabs must be respected.
The story of this child obviously reminds me of the story of the
little boy who called “the emperor is naked”. In our case, the
emperor is not only naked, he is mainly wicked and evil. Professor
Paul Eidelberg wrote this week on the Internet a wonderful article
entitled “Being Silent about Evil.” In the article he describes his
personal theory regarding the reasons for the sudden collapse of the
Soviet empire. In addition to the dry factual reasons, such as
poor economy and the like, Prof. Edelberg indicates an additional,
completely different, cause. In his opinion, this empire collapsed,
not only because it was inherently, by its very nature, evil, but
because the President of the United States Ronald Reagan did not
cease to publicly call this empire: “the evil empire.”
“Being silent about evil”, writes Prof Eidelberg, encourages the
designs of the wicked and corrupts the innocent.”
Then Pof. Edelberg quotes the following words of Alexander
Solzhenitsyn (The Gulag Archipelago): on keeping silent about evil,
in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the
surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand-fold in
the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers, we are
thereby ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new
generations. It is for this that they are growing indifferent. Young
people are acquiring the conviction that foul deeds are never
punished on earth, that they always bring prosperity. It is going to
be uncomfortable, horrible, to live in such a country.”
Prof. Eidelberg continues and writes:
“There is another Evil Empire in the world today, but no statesman
dares speak of it. Although this empire is fragmented, it is unified
by one goal: the destruction of Israel…Anti-Israel and
anti-Jewish propaganda not only floods the Arab Islamic world, but
makes ‘Der Sturmer’ tame by comparison….The fighting spearhead of
Islamic hatred of Jewish infidels is none other than Yassir Arafat.
The danger confronting Israel, however, is not merely loss of land
and strategic depth, but the consequent loss of national morale which
is the most important ingredient of national power.The morale of any
nation will be undermined when people see that evil not only goes
unpunished, but is rewarded. Once a nation loses its sense of justice,
and of honor as well, it will yield to any pressure, to any scoundrel,
to any humiliation”.
“The people of Israel have seen countless Arab crimes go unpunished.
Hundreds of helpless Jewish men, women and children have been
murdered by the PLO under orders of Yassir Arafat. Yet, the people of
Israel have seen this arch-murderer rewarded with money, land and
power.”
Prof. Eidelberg concludes his article by writing:
“If Israeli political elites remain silent about the evil personified
by Arafat…they will implant evil in the souls of countless men.”
This Jewish child who stuck his tongue out at a Palestinian
policeman was not silent when he saw evil. He pointed it out and
showed his contempt for it. We have to learn from him.
Today,as well as in the time of the Maccabees, there exist external
forces of evil that seek to destroy us – and today,as well as in the
time of the Maccabees, there are Jews who collaborate with this evil,
against their Jewish brethren. This evil is not only Arafat, but also
Mubarak, and obviously, Asad, who understood that the current day
decrees of Antiochus are the “peace agreements” that have become the
secret weapon for the destruction of the State of Israel.
The lesson that we learn from Hanukkah is that we cannot be silent;
that we must not accept the decree; and that we must act and struggle
against the evil and against those who collaborate with the evil.
The holiday of Hanukkah is the festival of the victory of the few who
waged an uncompromising struggle on behalf of the people of Israel,
the Torah of Israel, and the Land of Israel. May it be His will that
the Holy One, blessed be He, grant us, today as well, the strength to
act, to struggle, and to be victorious.
Nadia Matar
Women in Green
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Jerusalem, December 12, 1999
Demonstrate for the Golan
The Va’ad Yishuvei HaGolan is organizing
a big demonstration tomorrow,
Monday, December 13, 1999
at 4:00pm in the Rose Garden
in front of the Knesset.
At that time Ehud Barak is supposed to give
a speech in the Knesset.
Women in Green are calling upon everybody
to join in this important demonstration.
For more details:
Va’ad Yishuvei Hagolan
06-6962977
06-6962358
06-6962966
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Jerusalem, December 14, 1999
Freedom of Speech in Israel?
The following is a translation of part of Sheli Yechimovitz’s radio
show. Sheli’s show is one of the most popular morning radio shows
on Kol Yisrael.
The amazing part is not only the story itself ,
(those who are experienced demonstrators already know what police
state we live in), but the fact that Sheli actually agreed to
interview this person.
Let this story be a warning to all of us of what’s going to come….
Nadia Matar
This translation is distributed as a public service by Women in
Green.
Program: Ha-Kol Diburim [It’s All Talk]
Date: December 14, 1999
Time: 11:36
channel: Reshet Bet [Radio 2]
Title: Police Intervention in an Attempted Demonstration on behalf of
the Golan
Shelly Yechimovitz: We wondered before, where are the
demonstrators against the diplomatic process, when sweet and adorable
children who support the process provide the Prime Minister with a
lovely letter to Asad. And now we received a partial answer, Sarah
Neskin, a student from Bar-Ilan University, will aid us in the
solution of the mystery.
Hello to you, good morning.
Sarah Neskin:Shalom, shalom, good morning.
Shelly Yechimovitz: Oh, we hear you terribly. Are you speaking
through a diburit [car phone attachment] or something like that?
Sarah Neskin: I am speaking on a cell phone, I am standing here in
the bus, we are already on the way back to Bar-Ilan.
Shelly Yechimovitz: You wanted to demonstrate against the intention
to withdraw from the Golan Heights and to evacuate settlements, you
wanted to do this at Ben-Gurion Airport, obviously not on the
runways, but facing the passenger terminals. Tell [us], what happened
to you?
Sarah Neskin: Yes, first of all I want to state that we did
not want to demonstrate, we wanted to hold a vigil.
Shelly Yechimovitz: Sarah, wait a second, is there a radio on next to
you on the bus? Then it should be turned off immediately.
Sarah Niskin: Yes, do you hear?
Shelly Yechimovitz: Yes, but they still haven’t turned off the
radio, this simply interferes with our broadcast, so ask that they
turn the radio off, yes.
Shelly Yechimovitz: OK, continue, please.
Sarah Niskin: Yes, so we organized transportation from Bar-Ilan with
a lot of students that was supposed to leave at a quarter to ten in
the morning, we were supposed to arrive at the airport at ten-thirty,
and once again, to have a vigil there. They stopped us there,
they took the driver’s license from him, they did not let him drive.
Shelly Yechimovitz: Just a minute, at what point exactly did they
stop you?
Sarah Neskin: At the main gate of Bar-Ilan [university].
Shelly Yechimovitz: Already at the gate of Bar-Ilan [university]?
Sarah Niskin: Precisely, simply a lot of police came there, two
police cars.
Shelly Yechimovitz: What for? Did they receive information that you
were about to protest?
Sarah Neskin: Apparently, the GSS is present in all kinds of places
in Israel, unfortunately.
Shelly Yechimovitz: And you say that you were not even able to leave
the gates of the university, they already stopped you?
Sarah Neskin: Really, [we did] not [leave] the gates of the
university, they wanted to arrest me, they wanted to get from me all
sorts of details – name, ID number….
Shelly Yechimovitz: By the way, did you request a permit to
demonstrate?
Sarah Neskin: In all kinds of places throughout the world a permit is
not needed to express an opinion, permission is not needed.
Shelly Yechimovitz: No, but there are laws regarding this matter, a
demonstration of up to 50 people, if I am not mistaken, does not
require a permit, for 50 people or more a special permit is required.
Sarah Neskin: OK, we weren’t 50 people, we almost filled a bus, and
we were not 50 people. All we wanted to do was to stand next to the
leftists, people who do want to surrender the Golan Heights, we
wanted to stand there next to them, I am almost certain that they did
not have a permit to demonstrate, and we wanted to express our
opinion regarding parts of Eretz Israel.
Shelly Yechimovitz: But really, what is amazing is that they already
stopped you at the entrance to the university, when you still had an
hour’s ride to Ben-Gurion Airport. In short, there was advance
information that you are going to demonstrate, and they decided to
already stop you at an early stage.
Sarah Neskin: Yes, I don’t know exactly how they had this
information, but apparently we have ears in many places.
Shelly Yechimovitz: And then?
Sarah Neskin: And then, we went, finally, at 11:00am, after an hour’s wait
they let us go on, with, of course, four police cars, three in front
of us and one in back of us. We began to drive and they stopped us
once again, this time Yasam [Special Patrol Unit] officers, when we
approached the airport, they stopped us in the vicinity of the
Ta’asiyah Avirit [Israel Aircraft Industry], and there, once again,
they came on to the bus, began to ask us questions, and all sorts of
conditions.
Shelly Yechimovitz: And this was when you were already
traveling with a police escort?
Sarah Neskin: Yes, we were already with a police escort, and we have
…
Shelly Yechimovitz: This sounds like harassment for its own sake,
this is not…, they already asked you what had to be asked, and they
let you go out.
Sarah Neskin: All we are is students, not extreme right-wingers, we
are Jewish people who want to help Eretz Israel, all in all, we love
Eretz Israel, and this is very painful to know that, unfortunately,
we live in a police state, a police state! Not[?], people simply
began to cry here in the bus, they didn’t know that we have police
like this, they didn’t know that we have a state like this, and I
wanted to say something about the referendum, if it is possible to
stop us at the entrance to the university, to not even let us out, to
arrest the driver, to take his license from him, the referendum will
be a lie, it will be a total lie, and then it will be impossible,
impossible to call this …
Shelly Yechimovitz: Wait a minute, Sarah Niskin, what you are saying
on the basis of your harsh experience today, we live in a state in
which you don’t believe the results of the referendum?
Sarah Neskin: I don’t believe that the people, that what the people
will decide, is what will actually be.
Shelly Yechimovitz: Wait a minute, I don’t understand what you are
saying exactly, you are saying that there can be …
Sarah Neskin: I fear that there will be police intervention.
Shelly Yechimovitz: At the entrance to the voting booths, for
instance? Let us say, they won’t let students from Bar-Ilan vote in
the referendum?
Sarah Neskin: No, of course I don’t mean that, I mean
that if there is the possibility to silence us, even at the entrance
to Bar-Ilan, then it will certainly be possible to silence all kinds
of persons among this people. And people will not know that,
actually, they have the voice and the right to speak. In the United
States, I come from the United States and I am simply in total shock,
I am really in shock that in the United States there is what is
called the “First Amendment,” that every person has the right to
speak, and if we live here in a democracy, we are supposed to have
here too …
Shelly Yechimovitz: Sarah Niskin, let’s leave aside for a moment
your far-reaching conclusions regarding the referendum, and continue
to tell us what happened this morning. You say that the first time
they stopped you at the entrance to Bar-Ilan, in the most surprising
way they knew that you were planning to protest, they didn’t let you
go out, they let you at 11:00, which was really already pointless,
because it was clear that the Prime Minister is taking off, you went
to Ben-Gurion Airport. Just a second, you went to Ben-Gurion Airport
with a police escort, and then, on the way, they stop you a second
time, this time Yasam officers, they come onto the bus, and …?
Sarah Neskin: Yes, now they are leaving the bus, by the way, goodbye
to the Yasam, thank you very much.
Shelly Yechimovitz: Uh, just at this minute they left the bus?
Sarah Niskin: Yes, we are now really before … here is the hill of
garbage here, before Bar-Ilan, now we are really close, now they
left, because they know that there is no point now for us to return
to the airport, we, I told you, they stopped us once again at the
junction, and once again Yasam came on [to the bus], and then at the
junction we saw demonstrators from the left with signs to, of course,
descend from the Golan Heights, and we said … two of our people got
off the bus and wanted to stand next to them with “The People Is with
the Golan” signs, and the Yasam simply ran to them and arrested them.
This is what we have in the country today, everyone has to understand
this.
Shelly Yechimovitz: Sarah Neskin, we of course are requesting
the response of the police regarding this severe story, and I thank
you for talking here.
Sarah Neskin: Thank you very much, and peace to all the people of
Israel.
Shelly Yechimovitz: Shalom, shalom.
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Jerusalem, December 16, 1999
Demonstration
Important: Women in Green Demonstration 8:30 am Thursday Dec. 16th.
Please come to show your support. We will be outside the District Court
House at the Russian Compound to protest against the bringing to trial
of the 3 boys who took part in the so called T.V. documentary on the
political group ‘Ayal’ which was led by Avishai Raviv.
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Jerusalem, December 19, 1999
Dear Friend,
Women In Green are taking to the streets once again. The time for action
in these critical times is now. Our very existence, our very lives, and those
of our children are being put in grave danger by PM Barak. What can we do
about it? Plenty! The time has arrived for the People to speak out and be
heard, as it should be in any meaningful democracy. The People must know
the facts before they can vote intelligently on any future referendum.
All of us are quite upset by PM Barak’s unsatisfactory explanation for
his abandonment of his prior strong stand, while he was Chief of Staff, that
it was Israel’s vital security need to retain the Golan. Just a few years ago,
on August 18, 1994. he said: “Even in time of peace, we must hold the Golan
Heights.” His continued acts of appeasement towards Arafat, are now being
extended to Assad of Syria. He is not justified to naively rush to attempt to
make peace with Israel’s mortal enemies. Certainly not through the heretofore
proven unworkable method of capitulation.
What makes the situation even more grave, is that Barak has hired slick
American public relations outfits to do a job on the Jews and sell them the
“abandonment of the Golan” package for a peace that isn’t and can not be.
Unfortunately, we can count on the Israel media to be part of the Barak
strategy to dupe the Jews into voting for, like sheep, automatic approval
of his disastrous agreement with Syria.
Our plan is to have Women In Green become active throughout Israel —
in Tel Aviv, Haifa, Rehovot, Beer Sheva, Petach Tikva and Jerusalem, just
to mention a few. We will be at important intersections and places where
Jews congregate with our posters, handing out literature, car stickers, and
cassettes to get the facts to the public. The cassette will explain the grave
situation in which we find ourselves, in Hebrew, Russian or English, and
will include a lovely song in Hebrew entitled “The Golan Is Ours.”
Our groups will demonstrate at least three times a week. We are also
planning to join with many other organizations in a large demonstration to
protest the most recent Arab desecration of the Temple Mount where they
continue to remove earth containing artifacts from the 1st and 2nd Temple
periods. This demonstration will take place on Monday, December 27
at 5 P.M, and we will have a bus to take us to the site of the demo. Take
the initiative and call our office immediately to register for this bus —
624-9887.
Also please call and tell us which days of the week and hours you will be
available to help on the Golan campaign. We will supply you with placards,
and all necessary information material and stickers. Ask your friends,
relatives and neighbors to join you. These are urgent matters. YOU can
make a difference in determining what the future will be for Jews in their land.
IF NOT NOW — WHEN?
With an everlasting love of Zion,
Ruth and Nadia Matar
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Jerusalem, December 20, 1999
The Struggle for the Temple Mount
Is Also the Struggle for Herzliyah Pituah
The following is the translation of part of Nadia Matar’s latest show on
Arutz 7: (Thursday mornings from 10:05 to 11:00am)
The fast of the Tenth of Tevet: “On the tenth day, King
Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon moved against Jerusalem with his whole
army. He besieged it, and they built towers against it all around.
The city continued in a state of siege until the eleventh year of
King Zedekiah.”
The Tenth of Tevet is also the General Day of Kaddish, the memorial
day for the martyrs, for the six million of our brethren the Children
of Israel who were annihilated by the Germans, may their memory be
blotted out. A line extends from King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, who
destroyed Jerusalem more than 2500 years ago, to the German
murderers. On this day the king began his attack against the walls of
Jerusalem, and the rulers of the “people of culture” in Germany, in
Europe, continued, after more than twenty-six centuries, to destroy
and kill the members of our people, in cold blood and with a precise
plan.
Today, the PLO Authority continues the work of Nebuchadnezzar and the
Germans, may their name be blotted out. The path of devastation that
the Wakf and the PLO Authority are leaving on the Temple Mount has
the purpose of destroying our Jewish identity, of annihilating the
Jewish people, its roots, and its most sacred site – the Temple
Mount.
Nadav Shragai reports as follows in Ha’aretz from Wednesday, December
15, 1999:
The Wakf Dumps without Coordination Thousands of Cubic Meters of
Earth from the Temple Mount into the Nahal Kidron Archaeological Site
by Nadav Shragai
” The last two nights, trucks removed thousands of cubic meters of
earth from the excavations of the Wakf on the Temple Mount, within
the context of the works to make an entrance for Solomon’s Stables.
The trucks removed the dirt fills to the streambed of Nahal Kidron,
that is an archaeological site, without coordination with the
Antiquities Authority, and without a permit from the Jerusalem
Municipality. Archaeologists in the Antiquities Authority say that
such serious underground damage has not been done to the Temple Mount
since the time of the Temple, as that caused by the works of the Wakf
in recent weeks. The coordination between the Wakf and the
Antiquities Authority has not yet been renewed. Archaeologists who
came in recent days to the location of the dirt fills told Ha’aretz
yesterday that, in contrast with early estimates, according to which
finds from the Early Islamic and Crusader periods would be discovered
in the fill, the finds that were uncovered are mainly from the Second
Temple period, and also from the First Temple period. During the
examinations of the mounds of earth in the Nahal Kidron streambed, a
Palestinian came there who identified himself as someone from the
Wakf. He told the archaeologists and the members of the “Hai Vekayam”
movement who were present that they have no right to be there. “We
removed the trash of the Christians and we restored the earth to be
Muslim,” the individual claimed. He recorded the numbers of the
automobiles of the members of the group, and announced that he would
give them to the Mufti.” (end of quote)
The media is attempting to convince the public as if no
archaeological damage has been done at the site. Ronny Reich, in an
article in Ha’aretz, “A Short Lesson in Archaeology,” from December
13, 1999, opposes this stance and explains that “scientific
archaeological research has been crushed on the Temple Mount with a
heavy boot. The importance of the fills of earth that accumulated at
the site is no less than any built monument. […] The leaders of the
Wakf fear these shards and the other fragmentary finds more than they
fear the politicians. […] The probability of finding Hebrew letters
[on the fragments of stones and shards] is obviously not low, and
this is a real threat, that is liable possibly to cut the roots of
someone.”
My readers, the government is doing nothing regarding this matter!
The government is afraid. It has muscles only when the houses of Jews
have to be demolished. But when we are talking about the Wakf and the
PLO Authority, then the government always folds, in their favor. This
also happened in Nazareth. In Nazareth, however, when the government
of Israel folded and surrendered to the pressures by Muslims against
the interest of the Christians, the entire Christian world arose and
cried out: the Pope, the Church….everybody.
And I ask: why does the Jewish people not arise and cry out when its
history, its past, its Holy of Holies, is crushed underfoot and
destroyed? Where are the Chief Rabbis? Where are all the rabbis?
Master of the Universe, where are they?
Gershon Solomon wrote in the” Hatzofeh” paper a short and pithy
article on the subject: “The Breach of the Temple Mount”:
Gershon Solomon
The Breach of the Temple Mount
” The Temple Mount Faithful movement places the responsibility for
the barbaric destruction of the holy of holies of the Jewish people
on the Temple Mount upon the government of Israel, the
Attorney-General himself, and law enforcement agencies and the
Israeli police, who, during the course of years in which this
destruction continued and two additional mosques were erected on the
ruins of the remnants of the Temple, did nothing to stop and to
prevent this vandalism. Incessant appeals by the Temple Mount
Faithful to these authorities, including the Jerusalem Municipality,
ran into a stone wall. In the petitions to the High Court of Justice
filed by the Temple Mount Faithful, all of these authorities,
including the Antiquities Division, went to the trouble of arguing
that there was nothing in the complaints by the Faithful, and they
justified the barbaric works of destruction. Even the High Court of
Justice itself, that confirmed the fact of the destruction and the
illegal construction, did not use its authority or honor its
obligation to stop the destruction, the construction, and the mortal
blow to what is sacred to Israel, by [imposing] the rule of law on
the Temple Mount and Israeli sovereignty in the place that is most
sacred and most precious to us. To our great pain and shame, the
Chief Rabbis, the Minister of Religious Affairs, and the rabbis of
Israel in general, also were partners to this embarrassing silence
and disregard concerning the harm to the apple of the eye of Judaism
and the people of Israel, and the terrible desecration of the Holy of
Holies. Now, when this terrible crime has been completed and its
serious dimensions have been revealed, against which we warned time
and again, and our voice was the sole voice in the wilderness, the
Attorney-General has awakened, to claim that “the remnants of the
history of the Jewish people are being crushed, and that the great
breach in the Temple Mount is a kick at Jewish history.” This is
correct, but his response is too little and too late. This is mainly
a kick at ourselves and a severe blow to what is most holy and dear
to us, to the sovereignty and laws of Israel, to Jewish and national
honor, and a terrible disgrace to the entire people of Israel. Not
only the kick itself, but the mortal harm to our standing in
Jerusalem and our existence in Eretz Israel. All the bodies of
government and law in Israel encouraged this terrible crime, not only
by ignoring it, but by their covering for it before the High Court of
Justice, and now they exonerate themselves. An entire people,
including all the different “beautiful people” and the “humanists,”
stood aside and did nothing. The God of Israel and Jewish history
will not forgive us for the barbaric desecration of the House of God.
Not only we, but the God of Israel Himself weeps at the sight of His
sons, the leaders and rabbis of this people, who supported and
permitted the destruction and violation of the House of the Lord, and
who abandoned it to the enemies of Israel, who at this very moment
are continuing in the expunging of the Jewish identity of the Temple
Mount and its total Islamization. The Temple Mount Faithful movement
demands that the High Court of Justice immediately deliberate on its
urgent petition 741 on this matter in order to stop the destruction
and the construction, to restore the previous situation, and to place
on trial the officials of the Wakf and the agents of the “Palestinian
Authority,” who de facto rule the Temple Mount and are responsible
for this crime. The Temple Mount Faithful movement is about to bring
suit against the Chief Rabbis and the Minister of Religious Affairs
for their silence in the face of the desecration of the Holy of
Holies of the people of Israel, the destruction of the most sacred
place of the people of Israel, and the establishment of new mosques
on the ruins of the remains of the hallowed site. The Temple Mount
Faithful movement will appeal to the United Nations Organization and
protest its silence in the light of this devastation and the
desecration of the place most holy to the people of Israel, while it
makes haste to condemn Israel for legal building activities in its
capital Jerusalem, and gives constant support to the struggle of its
enemies against the existence of Israel.” (end of article)
The author is the chairman of the Temple Mount Faithful movement
True, there are small groups that are engaged with the issue of the
Temple Mount (the Temple Mount Faithful, Hai Vekayam, Rabbi Elboim),
but this is not enough. We are happy to hear that Zu Artzeinu is
becoming active once again, with the Temple Mount as its banner. We
all are joining the large demonstration that will be held on behalf
of the Temple Mount and against the actions of the Wakf. The
demonstration will be held, God willing, on Monday, 18 Tevet
(December 27, 1999) at 5 p.m. – details to follow in the near
future.
I know that many people are very estranged from what is happening on
the Temple Mount now, but, my readers, the Wakf is not only taking
control of the Temple Mount. Like a malignant cancer, the Wakf and
the PLO Authority are spreading throughout the country and are
dominating our region. They are coming, very, very quietly, to
villages that were abandoned in the ’48 war and reestablishing
neighborhoods. This is happening in Herzliyah Pituah (yes! Herzliyah
Pituah!): when you enter the Reshef school you go down behind it and
you see a mosque that was once in ruins – now, I have been told,
there are already four minarets there, Arab families that live there,
and the place is called Sidna Ali.
Slowly, slowly, they are coming and taking over, quietly, wisely.
This is also the case in Tel Aviv. The Hasan Bek mosque, that in the
War of Independence was a firing position against Tel Aviv. Today, it
is an active mosque, renovated by the Wakf, and, my readers, here you
have a flagrant foothold by the PLO Authority in Tel Aviv!
Therefore, dear readers, the struggle against the Wakf on the Temple
Mount is so important. One has to realize that the struggle against
the Wakf on the Temple Mount is the struggle for Jerusalem, for
Herzliyah, for Tel Aviv, for Ein Hod. The struggle for Har Habayit is
the struggle for our survival.
We will conclude with the words of Prof. Eldad regarding the Temple
Mount. Prof. Eldad, of blessed memory, did not cover his head, but in
many senses was more religious and national than many kippah wearers
today: “This is the navel of the world.” “This is the Foundation Rock
of our world. On it we are bound, on it we exist. Whoever thinks that
the Temple Mount is a matter for a religious rite, and therefore
should be under the supervision of the “Ministry of Religions,” has
not perceived the essence of the thing that is called: “the people of
Israel in the world.” The Temple cannot be some finer “Yeshurun” [a
large synagogue in Jerusalem] that could also be in New York. The
Temple’s linkage to this geopolitical and historical point that is
called the Temple Mount is what symbolizes the unique essence of our
worldview. It is the only thing to which we may apply the so
beautiful, and so wasted, expression: tzipor ha-nefesh [the apple of
one’s eye; literally, the bird of the soul].”
Hegyonot Hag [Holiday Reflections], 1951
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Jerusalem, December 22, 1999
The Old-New Wise Men Of Chelm
It is undisputed that everyone wants to live in peace. That no one wants
the destruction of Israel (except of course our Arab brethren.) That
everyone agrees that Israel’s security and survival is the underlying
consideration for all of us. Then why is it that we have, and have always
had, marked differences among us on fundamental questions of security
that Israel perpetually faces?
Take for instance the famous decision that Israel had to make several
years ago concerning the bombing of the Iraqi nuclear site. Clinton, now is
in the forefront of advising Israel to give up the Golan; then, America was
among those who roundly condemned Israel for taking this step which
Israel believed to be vital to its own security interest. But America was not
alone in such condemnation. Among the Israeli leaders who led the fight in
opposition, was none other than Shimon Peres and Ezer Weizman, the
present leading proponents of giving up the Golan to Syria. America has
since acknowledged that they were completely wrong in the condemnation
of Israel at the time, and now recognize that Israel’s act was an essential
necessity for establishing stability and peace in the Middle East. The
bombing and destruction of Iraq’s nuclear site did not prevent the Gulf War,
but the results of that war would have been far different if Iraq had
possessed nuclear capability at the time.
However, the Israeli leaders who proved so utterly wrong in their
security estimates, Peres and Weizman, have never owned up to their past
misjudgments on Iraq. What is more amazing is that they are right back
with us today, freely giving their military advices; they are advocating the
giving up to our mortal enemy Syria the strategic Golan Heights. American
top military leaders on the other hand have consisently held that the
Golan’s retention was a vital necessity for Israel’s security. Moreover, the
Israeli press is conspicuously silent in reminding us of Weizman’s and
Peres’ prior poor advice on such past crucial questions of Israel’s security.
We have repeatedly been told in the past that Israel cannot afford to make a
serious military misjudgment and continue to survive. The giving up of the
Golan to an unrepentant enemy, who even now refuses to shake Barak’s
hand when he is prepared to give up our ancestral homeland, is an action
which only the proverbial people of Chelm would approve.
Weizman and Peres are even consenting to the bringing in by Barak
of Clinton’s public relations firm to manipulate the Jews in Israel to support
the abandonment of the Golan. Instead of leaving our citizens to decide
after a full disclosure of the facts, they join to stack the deck so that
Barak’s Chelm-like decision on the Golan is perfunctorily approved. Will
the promised pledge of a referendum turn out to be meaningless, and yet
another sly deception of Barak? Are not Barak, Peres and Weizman,
suitable for the proverbial Chelm leadership? Are they not exceptional
candidates to be listed as the Wise Men of Chelm?
Ruth and Nadia Matar
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Jerusalem, December 28, 1999
Emergency!! Police Raid Arutz 7
This morning (Tuesday, December 28) at around 9:30 am
the Israeli police broke into the Arutz 7 studios in
Bet-El, closed down the broadcasting, and confiscated
material.
This is a Bolshevic attempt at stiffling dissent!!
The government is in a panic about the Golan issue,
knowing that the majority of the Israeli people
oppose giving away the Golan Heights and therefore
is closing down the only voice that is not controlled by this
Bolshevic government.
WE CANNOT BE SILENT !
Women in Green call upon you to immediately
BOMBARD the following people WITH PHONES AND FAXES!!
1) Attorney General Elyakim Rubinstein (who gave the order)
tel: 02-6708522 or his helper Davida Lerman-Messer 02-6708557
fax: 02-6274481
2) Police Minister Shlomo Ben Ami
tel: 02-5308500 or his helper Yossi Melamed: 02-5308509
fax: 02-5811832 or 02-5847768
3) Prime Minister Ehud Barak
tel: 02-6705555 or 02-6705510 or 02-6705511
or his spokeswoman: 02-6705465 or 02-6705472
fax: Here are all the faxes of the prime minister’s office
and helpers: 02-6705415, 02-5362645
02-5664838
02-6705415
02-6512631
02-6535178
02-6705415
02-5635487
02-6705475
02-5619018
02-5610618
Nadia Matar
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Jerusalem, December 29, 1999
An Invitation For Tea at The Baraks?
Navah Barak has been in the news lately. She has come out to
greet supporters of her husband’s policies, and brought them all kinds of
goodies and shown them royal hospitality in appreciation for their support.
What happens to those who do not agree with Barak’s present policies on
the Golan and elsewhere? Should they not be given the same hospitality by
the First Lady, since we probably constitute a majority of the electorate?
We’re putting Navah to the test when we come to express the feelings of
Women In Green with regard to our beloved country outside the Barak home in
Kochav Yair, tomorrow Thursday, December 30, 1999 at 13:45 in the afternoon.
Since Barak is requesting the residents of the Golan to give up
their homes to the Syrians for peace, we are going to ask Navah and her
husband to similarly offer up their home to the Arabs, as well. This would
be a confidence building gesture, and an impressive example for all of us!
As her husband is about to leave for the States to meet with the
Syrians, we shall all be carrying black umbrellas to remind Ehud that
Chamberlain also sought “Peace In Our Time”. Barak similarly can bring
about a major tragedy to mankind in dealing with the same sort of dictator
who still sympathizes with Hitler’s aims and methods.
Ruth and Nadia Matar
**For those who have been inquiring, Barak’s email address is:
rohm@pmo.gov.il
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Jerusalem, December 30, 1999
Barak, the Manipulator And Puppet of Clinton, Stifles Dissent!
In an attempt to assure approval by the voting public in the upcoming referendum on whatever Golan Agreement is reached with Syria, Prime Minister Barak ruthlessly moved this past Tuesday to close down the only effective opposing media source to his policies, Arutz 7 Radio. Arutz 7 has been a thorn in Barak’s undemocratic military trained side with regard to his rapid moves of appeasement and concessions to the Arabs. Arutz 7 has had free and open discussion, informing the public of Barak’s subservience to Clinton, and the many faults and failures of his policies. It has also pointed out how he has managed to emasculate the national pride of the Jewish People, and is in the process of endangering the Jewish People’s very existence, by abandoning the strategic Golan Heights. Just a few years ago, Barak had an opposite opinion. Then he categorically held that it was vital for Israel to retain the Golan.
The dictatorial move to stifle opposition and dissent by closing down Arutz 7 is brazen, but typical Barak. He is a calculating manipulator, who sorely lacks any pride in being a Jew, nor does he possess any knowledge or understanding of the grandeur of his ancient Jewish Heritage. He is a small man physically, but his ego is that of a giant.
He does not understand, nor does he want to understand, democratic principles and practices. Freedom of speech to him is permissible as long as it does not threaten the execution of his decisions and policies. Arutz 7 to him is a danger because it is, in effect, the only media vehicle present on the Israeli scene to oppose his move with regard to abandoning the Golan. Barak’s ploy about a referendum seems to be backfiring, and he does not have the majority he thought would be easy for him to obtain. Arutz 7, by continuously pointing out the dangers and dire consequences of abandoning the Golan, is a threat to Barak’s views. Thus his military response is to order that Arutz 7 be closed down.
Such action by Barak cannot be tolerated. All citizens who are concerned about the need to have free and open discussion on vital issues, need to arise and voice their vociferous protest to such pernicious and arbitrary action by Barak and Attorney General Rubinstein. Closing down Arutz 7, the only media voice available to a large section of the nationally oriented Jewish public here in Israel, is a national crime. If we do not take appropriate, vigorous and decisive action at this time, the consequences of a horrific tomorrow awaits us all.
Ironically, Israel’s Attorney General Elyakim Rubinstein, who is reported to have given approval to the Arutz 7 “police raid,” lectured that evening in Jerusalem on the subject: “The Future of Law and Democracy in Israel.” Women In Green were outside the lecture hall to point out to Rubinstein this patent incongruity. Barak’s police state tactics concerning Arutz 7 Radio jeopardizes, more than anything else, the future of law and democracy in Israel.
Ruth and Nadia Matar