Media Releases – July 2000
July 2000
July 2, 2000 Not in Pleasant Ways
July 2, 2000 Water, Water, Everywhere, But Not A Drop To Drink
July 6, 2000 “Napoleon” Strikes Again
July 10, 2000 Hunger Strike
July 14, 2000 Important Demonstrations on Sunday, July 16
July 11, 2000 An Atmosphere of Despair
July 17, 2000 If I Forget Thee O’ Jerusalem Let My Right Hand….
July 21, 2000 If I Forget Thee, O’Jerusalem
July 23, 2000 Barak’s Ghetto Mentality
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Jeruslaem, July 2, 2000
Not in Pleasant Ways
Mekor Rishon, June 30, 2000
Editorial by Emanuel Shilo
There are two options available now to the inhabitants of Judea,
Samaria, and Gaza and the [Jordan] Valley and their supporters
throughout Israel, who want to aid them in their struggle against the
unbridled plans of the Barak government.
One way is to attempt to remove the threat by means of a referendum.
In order to be successful in this, the majority of the public must be
persuaded that the agreements are destructive, dangerous, and immoral.
Informational efforts and propaganda of this type are not necessarily
transmitted by logical reasons. No less important than them are
appearance and image. In order to reach the mind of the urban
television viewer, one must look good and be nice. Statements that
sound extreme to the average ear, disturbances of the public order,
attacks against members of the government – all these do not
photograph well and lessen the sympathy of the majority of the public
for the demonstrators. This mode of struggle is nice, sympathetic, and
mainly – not harmful.
Whoever adopts it will not escape media criticism for the very fact
of his being an opponent of peace who does not understand that he must
joyfully evacuate his home, but, on the other hand, he will not be
charged with incitement to murder Barak and responsibility for the
assassination of Rabin, no one will call for his investigation or his
being placed on trial, and the public at large may even be sympathetic
to him.
This way is nice and pleasant. There is only one problem with it: it
is not effective under the current circumstances. The inhabitants of
the Golan, who adopted this method of action, were saved temporarily
thanks to Assad’s insistence upon 100 meters next to the Sea of
Galilee. If Assad had demonstrated minimal flexibility, their chances
in a referendum would have been slim. And all this, when we are
talking about the Golan Heights – where there is no intifada, no
refugees, or rule over a foreign people, but only bubbling streams,
breathtaking landscapes, and inhabitants who were sent by the Labor
government and who are not, Heaven forbid, “settlers.”
If the inhabitants of Judea, Samaria, and Gaza were to adopt the
method of sterile informational efforts, there would be no chance of
defeating the well-oiled propaganda machine of the left, that has been
chipping away for years at their image and at public support for their
positions. If Barak succeeds somehow in surviving the frequent crises
that are generated by his shaky coalition, in arriving at Camp David,
and in signing an agreement there – the probability of stopping him in
a nice manner is nonexistent. Israel’s journalists will mobilize, the
people of Israel will undergo a media brainwashing, and the majority
of the public will not dare say no to Clinton and to the entire world
and reject the signed agreement.
If the settlers want, not only to make noises of a struggle, but also
to win, they have no choice but to turn to the other, less sympathetic
way: the forceful way. At the basis of this way lies the assumption
that the forced evacuation of settlements or the abandonment of their
inhabitants to a foreign and hostile rule are not legitimate, and are
contradictory to an unwritten social contract of the Jewish people and
the State of Israel. The very thought, that it is possible to compel
50,000 people to be uprooted from their settlements, in which they
have already raised a second and third generation, or to live in
intolerable conditions under the rule of corrupt and hostile
gangsters, is the product of the cruel totalitarianism from the
distorted school of the Israeli left. Such a plan would be
inconceivable in any normal country, and even in Israel it is accepted
with understanding only when it refers to “settlers,” the veteran
punching bag of the fashioners of public opinion in the country. In
such a struggle, care is to be taken to avoid violence, which is only
harmful, but a forceful and unambiguous message is also to be
delivered: we will not accept the decision of evacuation and
abandonment, even if a majority of the public supports it. The
democratic majority cannot decide, for its benefit and convenience, to
cast out the minority as a scapegoat. The plan will fail, because we
are determined to cause it to fail, and we are have the ability to do
so. Barak cannot deliver the goods to Arafat.
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Jerusalem, July 2, 2000
Water, Water, Everywhere, But Not A Drop To Drink
Ehud Barak is busy drying up the Country both physically and
spirtitually. Instead of taking his ancestral giants the Prophets of
Israel as his guiding star, he is choosing instead the ephemeral and
worthless goal of being liked by Clinton, Arafat and the European
nations. He virtually pleads to make peace with a war oriented Arafat,
who is an unrepentant and unpunished murderer of Jewish children. His
Prophet Ancestors would have castigated his patron Clinton for immorally
welcoming the murderer Arafat to the White House. Moreover, these
ancestral Prophets would have rejected the immorality of entering into
any sort of arrangement or agreement with the evil represented by Arafat
and his followers. Especially is this true when Arafat continues to
spread the same unrelenting hatred towards the Jewish People, despite
our turning over parts of our historic Jewish homeland to his control.
Barak refuses to recognize that a punishment has been
visited on the Land by the lack of rain. Barak totally ignores the long
history of dependence which this Land has on the grace of the Almighty.
In Deuteronomy, and in their central prayer of Hear O Israel, Jews
recognize this dependence. They thrice daily recite that the heavens
will be opened and rain will descend only if and when we adhere to the
God of Israel’s Commandments.
Instead of taking precautionary measures to preserve the
dwindling water supply which is confronting Israel, Barak continues to
turn over huge amounts of our water to Jordan, who, at best, is a
seriously questionable ally. Moreover, he is prepared to give over to
our arch hostile enemy Syria, the area of our ancestral Golan Heights
where approximately one-third of Israel’s present water supply
originates. He would also, at the same time, place in jeopardy the
present main water supply of the Kinneret. By giving Syria the ability
to contaminate the water supply of the Kinneret which it could easily do
from the Golan Heights, Barak is both unwise, naive and irresponsible to
the Children of Israel.
This week’s demonstration of the FORTY THOUSAND MOTHERS was
held, as usual, on Sunday, July 2, between 8:30 and 10:30 in the
morning, at the Rose Garden, opposite the Prime Minister’s Office where
the weekly Cabinet Meeting will take place. The theme of this week’s
demonstration: Barak is mis-managing and playing havoc with Israel’s
limited water supply resources.
Ruth and Nadia Matar
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Jerusalem, July 6, 2000
“Napoleon” Strikes Again
Dropping all pretense that Israel is a democracy, Ehud Barak has
purportedly stated during his visit to Europe that even if only 25% of
the Knesset supported him, and even if he had only a minority of nine
ministers behind him, he would still sign an agreement with Arafat
giving up huge portions of the Land of Israel. Spoken like a true
little dictator.
No other people living even in a pretended democracy would tolerate such
high handed disloyal behavior from a purported leader. Planning to
first sign a treaty with the unpunished murderer Arafat, and then use
the controlled Israeli media to promote acceptance of such an
“Agreement” by the Knesset (including his reliance on the unanimous vote
of its Arab members)is his obvious strategy. He will then allow the
dissolution of the Knesset and go to the People for new elections,
abandoning Shas, with whom he shares no common goals.
Using his tactic of scare, he will run on a “peace” platform of having
brought our boys home from Lebanon, and now finally having arranged
peace with Arafat who will be our loving neighbor in a State of his
own. Arafat again will promise to be a good boy. Of course, the usual
Chamberlain slogans of “no more war in our time” will be paraded out.
The media will be telling us in typical Carville-Clinton style that the
alternative to rejecting the “Agreement” is war with the Arabs, and no
sane person would want that.
No one will mention that innumerable loss of Jewish lives will follow
when Jews live under the realm of Arafat and his successors. No one
will point out how the Palestinian State will arm itself to the teeth
with missiles and other heavy equipment, and join in the destruction and
conquest of Israel at the first opportunity. Nor will it be disclosed
that the war that will follow will be more bloody, and more costly
because of the concessions that Barak and his predecessors have
heretofore made to Arafat.
Barak has initiated going to Camp David, where Clinton’s Carter-like
twisting of arms will wring more disastrous concessions, will cause the
loss of more Jewish lives, and threaten Israel’s very existence. Will
you remain detached, and allow this catastrophe to occur? Minister
Natan Sharansky has recognized that going to Camp David spells disaster
for our People. He says that there is no consensus for such a summit;
that dire consequences will follow from it. Accordingly, he is handing
in his resignation this Sunday at the weekly Cabinet Meeting.
Forty Thousand Mothers, also recognize these dangers and will
re-invigorate their protest against the disastrous policies of Barak.
They will be outside the Rose Garden in Jerusalem, opposite the Prime
Minister’s Office, this Sunday, July 9, from 8:30 to 10:30 A.M.
Ruth and Nadia Matar
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Jerusalem, July 10, 2000
Hunger Strike
Dear Friends,
Tomorrow, Tuesday, July 11, at 9:00 am, a group comprised of kibbutz and
moshav veterans, professors, and reserve officers will begin a hunger
strike in protest over the Camp David summit. They plan to continue their
hunger strike until the end of the summit. Tomorrow at 12:00 noon there
will be a press conference at the site of the hunger strike.
WHERE: The Rose Garden (Jerusalem) — opposite the prime minister’s office
WHEN: 24 hours a day until the end of the Camp David summit
We ask all of you who live in the Jerusalem area to please come to the
protest tent, and join/encourage/help the hunger strikers.
For further information, please call Zvika or Rachel Slonim — 09-792-1290.
Nadia and Ruth
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Jerusalem, July 14, 2000
Important Demonstrations on Sunday, July 16
1. WOMEN IN GREEN/40,000 MOTHERS continue their weekly demonstration
opposite the prime mininster’s office. Everyone is asked to please come
out this SUNDAY FROM 8:30 TO 10:30 AM to protest Barak’s giving away large
chunks of our country and endangering the lives of every Jew.
2. In addition, it is every important that the demonstration this SUNDAY
AT 7:00 PM IN KIKAR RABIN, TEL AVIV, against the uprooting of
settlements/leaving settlements in PLO hands, have a huge attendance — the
biggest demonstration in the history of Israel! We must let Barak know
that he does not have the majority of the people behind him.
Shabbat Shalom,
Nadia and Ruth
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Jerusalem, July 11, 2000
An Atmosphere of Despair
Ehud Barak took off for Washington after suffering a humiliating
defeat in the Knesset. He was told by a Jewish majority of 54 members
that they had no confidence in him as a leader. Significantly, in this
Jewish State, he was supported by only 39 Jewish members of the Knesset
on a vote of no confidence.
This vote should have been an indication to him that it was not
an appropriate time for him to be entering into summit negotiations
while the nation was so divided. Having failed to convince a majority
of Jews at the Knesset prior to his departure, having failed to unite
the Jewish People at this crucial time in their history, it was an
immature and irresponsible act of desperation and false bravado on his
part to depart for a summit which can only harm the Jewish People and
their Promised Land.
Moreover, the airwaves, and even the United States is taking up
the Arafat strategy. The message which high up U.S. officials have for
the Jews is that violence will follow if no Agreement is reached.
The pattern is predictable, more terrible concessions. At the
very outset, Barak announces that as a “good will” gesture, even PRIOR
to the summit, he will release 30 prisoners with blood on their hands.
As usual, there is no reciprocal “good will” gesture of concessions on
the part of the other side. The unpunished murderer of Jewish children,
the immoral leader Arafat, has a long record of not keeping any promise
he has made. It is the height of folly to expect this leopard to change
his spots.
Moreover, Barak, without the support of the majority of Jews he
falsely claims he has, is commencing this summit in an atmosphere of
despair. The scare tactics which the Carville-Clinton strategy team
have already begun to float, are part and parcel of what they conceive
to be the necessary background to the summit. In order to get the
Jewish People to accept a very bad bargain of relinquishing their
homeland for totally unreliable promises of peace, it is necessary to
create justifiable fear in the hearts of the Jews.
We Jews who have survived after having suffered throughout the
centuries at the hands of oppressors, and bigots, culminating with the
experience of the Holocaust, are made of sterner stuff. Carville and
Clinton’s team of assimilated Jews cannot scare us. We have survived
Arab onslaughts in the past. We are truly interested in a just and
durable peace but will not be frightened by threats of violence. The
God of Israel is more dependable, and should we prove worthy, is capable
of thwarting the designs of those looking to threaten and destroy his
Chosen People.
Ruth and Nadia Matar
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Jerusalem, July 17, 2000
If I Forget Thee O’ Jerusalem Let My Right Hand….
(Psalm 137:5)
News Item: Yuli Tamir, Barak’s Minister of Immigration Absorption, who
had been summoned by Prime Minister Ehud Barak to come to Camp David in
Washington to handle the publicity connected with any accord that is
reached there, fell on the Capitol steps and broke her right hand …..
We anxiously await hearing the news of the cleaving
of whose tongue to the roof of whose mouth.
Ruth and Nadia Matar
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Jerusalem, July 21, 2000
If I Forget Thee O’Jerusalem
The theme of today’s Demonstration of the Forty Thousand
Mothers was Jerusalem. Once again Ehud Barak has misled the Jewish
People about our ancient holy Jewish City. Once again Barak has caved
in. He is a puppet of Clinton, to be manipulated as the Clinton-Carville
team see the world on any given day.
Barak issued a strong and unequivocal statement to President
Clinton only hours before Camp David was to end without an Agreement:
He, Barak had sadly reached the conclusion that Arafat was not sincere
in his desire to make peace with the Jews. Even before that Barak had
unofficially announced that he was abandoning Camp David because he was
convinced that Arafat was being his usual deceptive self and not acting
in good faith as a peace partner.
Lo and behold several hours later Clinton announced just before
his departure for Japan, that the parties are anxious to continue the
talks, and have agreed to stay on until he returns. Barak, as usual
capitulated to the demands of his master Clinton and silently fell in
line.
One can expect further capitulation by Barak on Jerusalem, even
going beyond what he was already prepared to do with Arafat concerning
East Jerusalem. His spokesperson has already dropped Barak’s former
often used phrase that his red line, not to be crossed, is that
Jerusalem remain united. That was before Clinton decided otherwise.
FORTY THOUSAND MOTHERS protested Barak’s abandondment
of Jerusalem, at their weekly demonstration today at the Rose Garden,
in Jerusalem, opposite Prime Minister Barak’s office.
Barak is not in Israel. He is in America awaiting President
Clinton’s return to receive his portion of bread crumbs if he is a good
little boy. Barak will then be prepared to barter away his People’s
National Treasures to Arafat. This is the same Barak who only yesterday
in effect accused Arafat of being deceitful and dishonest. Now suddenly
Arafat is once again a bona fide peace partner! Clinton, who has his
own problems with Biblical morality, has magically transformed Arafat
into ” Mr. Clean” once again.
Ruth and Nadia Matar
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Jerusalem, July 23, 2000
BARAK’S GHETTO MENTALITY
Ehud Barak has made a serious blunder. He naively thought that he could
resolve the impasse with Arafat by means of a Summit where Clinton would
pressure Arafat. Instead, Clinton predictably wound up pressuring the
Jews to make significant concessions, as he has often done in the past.
Yet even such concessions will not bring “Peace”. Nothing positive can
come out of negotiating with the evil that Arafat represents. Arafat
has stated in Stockholm and elsewhere that he is a hater and enemy of
the Jewish People. He does not have the capacity to change his nature.
When Barak finally realizes any peace obtained on paper with Arafat will
break down, we, to our sorrow, have learned from the Holocaust that we
cannot expect anyone to come to Israel’s assistance. We must not have
weakened ourselves drastically by the extensive nature of the
concessions previously made to Arafat.
Moreover, relying on Clinton and Albright to put pressure on Arafat does
not evidence sound judgment. America needs Arab oil and will not do
anything to jeopardize its own interests in the region. Clinton’s
immoral behavior in receiving the callous, unrepentant and unpunished
murderer Arafat at the White House, tells us in a nutshell just what
Clinton perceives America’s self-interest to be. Barak has difficulty
in recognizing that America and Israel’s interests are not always the
same. America’s short term interests, can prove disastrous to Israel in
the long term. This tiny State surrounded by enemies, cannot afford to
take the chances that Clinton may think they should be taking. Not he,
nor anyone else will be around to protect us when the “chance”
backfires. Ben Gurion pointed out that Israel does not have the luxury
of making a single mistake if it is to survive.
Barak’s move to look to Washington to solve Israel’s problems is a
double edged sword. It was a grave mistake to travel to Washington to a
Summit with Arafat when, immediately before his departure, he was told
by a vote of the Knesset that he no longer had the confidence of that
Legislature. If Israel were truly a democratic government, Barak would
not unilaterally negotiate and sign an Agreement with Arafat, when the
Legislature and the Nation are not approving of the Summit in question.
Barak himself addressed a letter to Clinton in the last hours of the
present Summit, specifically stating that after nine days of negotiation
he has sadly concluded that Arafat was not proceeding in good faith, and
was not interested in peace with the Jews. Now, by staying on in
Washington, as apparently Clinton has directed, Barak has reversed his
own announced judgment and succumbed to dictates from his “Puppeteer.”
What he is wrongfully doing is relying on Clinton to save him and
Israel. However, such action can only result in a lack of pride in our
ability to determine our own fate, and to considerably lower the morale
of our People. After 50 years of independence, it also projects us back
to a Ghetto mentality, of being taken care of by the “Poretz” and
submitting one’s fate to his decision.
Barak has already has made inordinately harmful concessions on
Jerusalem, on large portions of our historical homeland, and on Arab
refugees. By his staying on to arrive at a settlement with Arafat, he
will be required to make further important concessions. Many Middle East
analysts agree with the conclusion that Barak finally came to,
concerning Arafat’s bad faith intentions. They conclude, that any
Agreement with this terrorist PLO leader would be followed predictably
by havoc and bloodshed.
This is no time for impulsive actions founded in desperation. We can
understand why Barak does not want to come home empty handed However,
he will only make matters worse by staying on. It is time for Ehud
Barak to come home, while we still have a Jewish Nation.