Media Releases – March 1998
March 1998
March 1, 1998 Carmi Gillon, How Dare You?
March 15, 1998 Demonstration Against British Foreign Minister Robin Cook
March 16, 1998 Double Toil and Trouble
March 17, 1998 Violence Pays Dividends
March 18, 1998 “In Every Generation….”
March 22, 1998 There Is Something Rotten In Israel
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Jerusalem, March 1, 1998
Media Release — CARMI GILLON, HOW DARE YOU?
The following is the question asked by Nadia Matar to Carmi
Gillon at his lecture last Thursday night at the Yakar Center
in Jerusalem. Gillon refused to answer.
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CARMI GILLON, HOW DARE YOU?
1) YOU – who lost your position as head of the Shabak for your
failure to protect PM Yitzhak Rabin; (failure that raised many
unanswered questions);
2) YOU – who, as head of the Shabak, set in motion the “Jewish
Department of the Shabak” which shamelessly spied on Jews “a la
KGB”;
3) YOU – who as head of the Shabak, began a policy of planting
provocateurs throughout the national camp; (the most famous one
being AVISHAI RAVIV) provocateurs, who through their violent
actions, were supposed to blacken the name of this entire
public;
4) YOU – whose hatred to the national camp is common knowledge;
YOU who considered all Jewish inhabitants of Judea, Samaria and
Gaza as CRIMINALS and acted accordingly;
5) YOU- who wrote your Masters thesis at Haifa University on the
“Jewish extreme right” without interviewing anyone affiliated
with the “right”; (the only people you spoke to for your thesis
belong to the left if not extreme left: Uri Avneri, Amnon
Zichroni, Aharon Barak, Yitzhak Zamir, Chaim Cohen).
HOW DARE YOU NOW SHOW YOUR FACE AS A NATIONAL COMMENTATOR ON
ISRAELI POLICY?
Nadia Matar
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Jerusalem, March 15, 1998
Demonstration Against British Foreign Minister Robin Cook
Women in Green will be demonstrating on Tuesday, March 17th,
at 3:00 PM on Har Homa against the visit there of Robin Cook
together with the enemy of the Jewish people, Faisal Husseini.
A bus will leave the Laromme Hotel at 2:00 PM.
Come dressed as cooks (with aprons) and bring pots and pans to
make lots of noise.
Important — you must call and confirm your participation so that
if there is a schedule change we can inform you.
Please bring at least two other demonstrators with you.
To confirm your place on the bus and your participation, please call
one of the following people by Monday night:
Ruth Matar — 624-9887
Nadia Matar — 993-2083
Anita Finkelstein — 996-4805
Nadia and Ruth Matar
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Jerusalem, March 16, 1998
Double Toil and Trouble
(Shakespeare’s Macbeth)
Robin Cook, the Foreign Minister of the English Labor
Government, is visiting Israel. What is behind his
ludicrous decision to have Faisal Husseini, the
notorious descendant and admirer of the late Grand
Mufti of Jerusalem, be his Jerusalem guide? Does not
that choice tell you everything there is to know about
Cook’s objectivity?
It is an evil brew that Cook is intending to stir up
here in Israel. Accordingly, Women In Green will raise
our voices in protest when we meet him and his Husseini
guide on their planned visit to the new Har Homa building
site, located in southern Jerusalem, on Tuesday, March
17, 1998 at 15:00.
Our women will be dressed in appropriate “cook’s” attire,
and will point out to Foreign Minister Cook, that the brew
he is stirring is a witches’ brew, conceived in evil, and
harmful to all concerned. No amount of pandering to Arafat
and the Arab World in order to gain favorable markets for
Great Britain will bring peace to this region. Moreover,
the British, who have been unable to resolve their own
internal conflict in Northern Ireland, and who have a sordid
past record of non-objectivity in this region, are not
suitable advisers. Any menu they prepare is more
than suspect!
Ruth and Nadia Matar
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Jerusalem, March 17, 1998
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Violence Pays Dividends
The pattern is repetitive. It begins
with a reported incident of Arab violence, which
the media takes in its stride, does not emphasize,
and never critcizes. It could be a bomb incident
at Damascus Gate, or a Jew whose hands are blown off
in Afula by an Arab made bomb. It ends with the Jews
somehow being found at fault, and blamed for whatever
occurred. It all sounds very familiar.
Virtually ignored by the Media, both
foreign and local, is the daily unchecked Arab
rioting, endangering the lives of Jews, particularly
Jews living in Hebron. Everyone knows and recognizes
that such rioting is continually stoked and provoked
by the present Arab leadership, and the local PA
police aids and abets. Yet the issue is not raised,
not by the Media, not by any Government, including the
U.S., since they say that pointing the blame at the
Arab doorstep would endanger the “peace process.”
The Arabs know only too well that the
incitement they create, and their totally
ignoring the resultant riots and stone throwing,
inevitably puts pressure on Israel to do
something to placate them, and to save the “peace.”
And sure enough, Mr. Netanyahu obliges each time. His
comdemnation of the Jews of Hebron, when they reacted
to Arab guns firing into their homes from the Arab
controlled area of Hebron, is utterly shameful.
Particularly is this so when these very Jews warned
him not to turn over Hebron to the Arabs, because guns
turned over to them would be fired at Jews from such
areas. At that time he promised that if that were to
happen he would bring in tanks and put a stop to it.
Instead he now verbally attacks these Jews for
reacting to deathly shooting attacks.
Everything is topsy turvy here in Israel
and in the world at large. “Wrong” seems to be
“right,” and immoral actions are condoned or explained
away. We cannot continue in this path and survive.
Our leadership must be unwavering in the actual
protection of the Jews of Hebron, and throughout the
Land. Arab violence must be put to a halt immediately,
and not rewarded in any form or fashion. Only when
such basic protection and security is afforded, will
reaction by Jews no longer be necessary.
Ruth and Nadia Matar
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Jerusalem, March 18, 1998
“In Every Generation….”
Robin Cook, the British Labor Government’s
choice as Foreign Minister is a wily, plotting strategist
whose sole and only criterion for British Foreign Policy
is what he determines will materially benefit Great
Britain. In addition to this posture, he obviously
possesses an antagonistic attitude to the Jewish People,
its historical ties to the Biblical Land of Israel, and
certainly has no fear of the God of Israel. That is why
he can easily embrace, hug and kiss Arafat, as he did
during his recent visit to Israel. It also explains why
he refused to visit the Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem,
something no other Foreign Dignitary had refused to do
since the founding of Israel.
The tabloid press in England have made much
of his infidelity and lack of honesty with regard to his
former wife, and his having a secret adulterous relation
with a mistress for many years. In his personal
relationships, he apparently has no moral restraints,
certainly not those imposed from above. Moreover, he
fits well into the long established Anti-Semitic British
Foreign Office which he now heads. His gift of being able
to articulate and obfuscate, makes him even more
dangerous.
Yesterday, he explained his audacity of
visiting a local building project in southern
Jerusalem, against his host’s express opposition.
He falsely labeled with the highly emotional
appellation “settlement” this planned housing project
within the municipal boundaries of Jerusalem. This
grotesque interference in the independence of the only
democratic country in the Middle East, is shameful
enough. What is even more scurrilous is his attempt to
justify such action in the name of the world community at
large, and America in particular, saying it was entirely
consistent with, and approved by Secretary of State
Madelaine Albright, with whom he claims he spoke to
before coming to Israel.
Having just celebrated the holiday of Purim
when the Jews were extricated from a foe not
dissimilar to the present Robin Cook of Great Britain,
the Jewish People are prepared to vigorously oppose
this modern attack on its sovereignty and survival.
In the forthcoming holiday of Passover, there is
recounted in the reading of the Haggadah the Exodus
from Egypt where Jews were enslaved, and the account
of Moses leading them miraculously to the Promised
Land of Israel. In that Haggadah, Jews are told that in
every generation there arises a Pharaoh-like person who
will threaten the very existence of the Jewish People.
Robin Cook apparently fits this description to a T.
Ruth and Nadia Matar
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Jerusalem, March 22, 1998
There Is Something Rotten In Israel
British Foreign Minister Cook’s blatant intrusion in
Israel’s internal affairs by visiting a local housing project at
Har Homa in Jerusalem, is bad enough. The sordid picture of
Knesset Members Sarid, Dayan, Chazan and Ron Cohen appearing at
Har Homa when Cook showed up there, expressing their approval of
the Foreign Minister’s obscene conduct, was even more grotesque.
There is little question that the behavior of these Knesset
Members was seditious, and they should be prosecuted for it.
Now it appears from an article written in Maariv last
Friday, March 20, by Sima Kadmon, that Yossi Beilin, (and
probably his adviser Shimon Peres) were also in on the
plot. It all adds up. It is well known that the relations
between Cook and Beilin have been long standing and close. Now
on the eve of Cook’s visit here, Beilin flies to London and
visits with him, prior to the Foreign Minister’s sudden and quite
unusual announcement that he intends to visit the building
project at Har Homa. When Cook shows up at Har Homa, who should
be there but these disloyal Knesset Members, who seemingly are
part and parcel of this plot to embarrass the Netanyahu
Government?
Beilin admitted to Kadmon, when pressed by the columnist,
that it is quite, quite unusual for any visiting Foreign Minister
to act in the manner in which Cook did. Although Beilin refused
to admit that he was the one who advised Cook to act in the way
that he did, Beilin’s sudden visit, the subsequent unusual
announcement of Foreign Minister Cook that he intends to visit
Har Homa, and these Knesset Members’ coming to Har Homa when Cook
arrives in Israel, is apparently not just coincidental.
There is something rotten not in Denmark, but right here
in Israel, and Beilin, Peres and Meretz are at the center of it
all. Their lack of loyalty to Jerusalem, their People, and their
Country, is a problem our Knesset will have to deal with, the
sooner the better. There is the additional problem of the Fifth
Column Arab Knesset Members, whose loyalties are not to the
Jewish State of Israel; that also is a matter of grave concern
and requires the immediate attention of the Knesset. Our
Legislature has buried its collective head in the sand, and has
refused to face up to this glaring perplexity. The problem will
not solve itself; left unattended, it intensifies, until one day
it will explode, threatening the very existence of Israel.
Ruth and Nadia Matar