Media Releases – September 1997
September 1997
September 2, 1997 Deceit and Fraud You Shall Uproot
September 4, 1997 You Can’t Revive A Dead Oslo, Madeleine!
September 5, 1997 We Owe It To Ourselves
September 9, 1997 The “Diplomatic” Masquerade
September 13, 1997 A Brazen Act Of Irresponsibility
September 14, 1997 Kissing Oslo Goodbye
September 15, 1997 The Toy President
September 17, 1997 Lies and Deplorable Censorship
September 17, 1997 Come to Ma’aleh Har Hazeitim
September 21, 1997 “Choose Life, If You Would Live …” — The Dagan Trial
September 22, 1997 Zu Artzeinu, Mrs. Albright
September 22, 1997 The True Culprits
September 26, 1997 “Changing The Character of A Neighborhood”
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Jerusalem, September 2, 1997
The following is the text of last Sunday’s program by Nadia Matar, the
chairperson of Women for Israel’s Tomorrow (Women in Green), on Arutz
7. Nadia speaks every Sunday after the 12:00 noon newscast.
Deceit and Fraud You Shall Uproot
Shalom to all our listeners!
This is Nadia Matar speaking –
In an exclusive interview in the Mekor Rishon newspaper this week,
Mrs. Timaniah Habani, a resident of Tel Aviv, tells of a horrifying
incident that occurred in 1949, and I quote: “I made aliyah a week
after my firstborn son was born. We named him Tziyon, to mark our
aliyah to Israel. There were only women on the plane. When we arrived
in Israel, we were housed in the Atlit camp, where there were two
wings, A and B. There were 40 children in each wing. “One evening,”
Mrs. Habani continues, “they summoned us, all the mothers. There was
a medical team there that also included nurses. They told us that the
next morning they were taking all the children from Wing A to
Jerusalem to receive vaccinations. ‘Prepare the children for the
journey,’ they told us, ‘they will receive the vaccination and be
returned the following day.’ In the morning a bus arrived, as long as
a train. Instead of seats in the bus, there were cubicles, with a
crib in each cubicle. The nurses who were in the bus took the babies
and put them in the cribs. They promised us that the children would
be returned the following day after the vaccination. “The children
did not return. After a week, they evacuated us from the camp and
dispersed us in apartments throughout the country. About another two
and a half months passed and a letter arrived. More accurately, a
note in which it was written that the child had died. “I checked,”
Mrs. Habani said, “all the mothers who were in the camp – they each
received a note that the child died. Forty children in a single bus –
and they all died.” My listeners – I read this passage on Shabbat
more than a hundred times. And every time the central question rang
in my mind: “Master of the Universe – how could they? How could Jews
kidnap the children of other Jews? And after the Holocaust. How could
such a terrible thing as this happen?” We are not talking only about
the case I have just read to you, but about more than 3,000 cases – on
such a scale that it is crystal clear that the kidnapping of the
children was not the private initiative of one or two people, rather
it was the establishment itself that was involved in this crime. And
then, when I analyze other events that occurred in that same period,
the picture that forms is much more distinct – sad, but clear: the
establishment that was behind the kidnapping of the Yemenite children
is the same Bolshevik establishment of the people from Mapai, the
leftists, who were responsible for the Saison (the “season,” the
period of informing, during which they handed over their fellow Jews
from the Etzel and the Lehi to the British enemy) – the same people
from Mapai, including Yitzhak Rabin, who were responsible for the
massacre on the Altalena ship in which they coldbloodedly murdered 16
Jews, and the same establishment that is responsible in our time for
the Oslo sham. Yes, my listeners, I see a direct line between the
informing in the period of the Saison, the massacre on the Altalena,
the kidnapping of the Yemenite children, and the Oslo deception. All
of these crimes were perpetrated by people belonging to the same
social elite of the Left, with the same arrogance, haughtiness, and
belief that “the State belongs to them,” and that “only they know
what is good for all of us.” In all these instances, we find the
willingness to delegitimatize their Jewish brethren, and even the
willingness to hurt them, for a seemingly superior goal. In the
Saison they handed over Jews, and on the Altalena they killed Jews
for the sake of democracy, as it were. The Yemenite children were
kidnapped for “the common good” or “the good of the child.” And in
the Oslo accords, 150,000 Jews in Judea and Samaria were abandoned
for the sake of peace. They didn’t ask the Yemenite parents if they
agreed to give up their children for adoption, and they didn’t ask
the Jewish People if they were willing to give up Judea, Samaria, and
Gaza. It was all a deception, all a fraud, everything was done
secretly and stealthily and a lid was put on all these episodes,
thanks to the media that is willing to occupy itself at length with
the Prime Minister’s nanny, but not with the crimes of the Left. Next
Shabbat we read the portion of Shoftim, in which it is written: “You
shall appoint magistrates and officials… in all the settlements
that the Lord your God is giving you, and they shall govern the
people with due justice….Justice, justice, shall you pursue, that
you may thrive and occupy the land that the Lord your God is giving
you” (Deut. 16:18-20). We cannot continue to live as an independent
people in its country if justice will not be done – if all these
deceptions will not come to light, and if those, the ones
responsible, will not be brought to trial. We must pressure the
government to take steps so that all the information is given to the
families of the Yemenite children. We must teach our children about
the sorry episodes that took place at the time of the establishment
of the State, in order to uproot such phenomena from our midst, and
we must struggle, with all our strength, against the Oslo fraud and
to bring about its curtailment. Only in this manner will we be able
to cleanse our camp and merit the blessing “that you may thrive and
occupy the land that the Lord your God is giving you.”
Have a good week.
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Jerusalem, September 4, 1997
You Can’t Revive A Dead Oslo, Madeleine!
And You Can’t Make Peace With Arafat
Just As No One Could Make Peace With Hitler
Hitler gassed and burned your grandparents
and millions of others, because they were Jews
Arafat Has The Same Virulent Hatred of Jews!
Representatives of the People of Israel,
Men, Women and Children, will demonstrate in front
of the U.S. Consulate in Jerusalem, and also at the
U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv, to demand:
SAVE ISRAEL – STOP OSLO NOW!
Jerusalem: Gather in Menorah Park at 4 P.M. on
Wednesday, September 10, 1997, for a
March to the U.S.Consulate on Agron St.
Tel Aviv: At 5 P.M., at U.S. Embassy on HaYarkon Street.
Women In Green: P.O.B. 7352, Jerusalem
Telemesser: 03-636-3549
Fax: 02-624-5380
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Jerusalem, September 5, 1997
We Owe It To Ourselves
We Jews specialize in the bizarre. How
else can you explain the Chelm decision by a Jewish
Court that holds loyal and patriotic Jews guilty of
sedition, while our Attorney General’s office allows
to go unpunished the likes of Tibi, Faisal Husseini,
and Arab Knesset Members. They engage in patent
seditious and traitorous behavior daily, here in
Israel, and recently in Syria. Moshe Feiglin, a
captain in the IDF reserve, whose love of this country
and all of its history and traditions is unparalleled,
as well as his fellow defendant Shmuel Sackett, have
been incredulously found guilty, would you believe it,
of SEDITION! The law defines sedition as an act that
leads to “hatred, scorn or disloyalty to the state, or
its…law.”
They have been found guilty for the same
acts which are more crudely and violently, and with
far less justification, continuously executed by
Histadrut workers who are unhappy and take the law
into their own hands when things are not going their
way during a labor dispute. It is well known that
such workers have barricaded themselves into public or
private property, used violence against the police and
anyone who tries to interfere with their unlawful
behavior, blocked intersections and even air traffic,
and yet are not arrested, nor are they tried for their illegal
acts. In contradistinction, Feiglin and Sackett are
treated by the Court as pariahs, and await their
delayed sentence of punishment for their non-violent
crime against the “State of Israel.”
Did the Court, which ruled in this
“Sedition Trial,” not realize that the prestige
of the “rule of law” and the Israeli System of Justice
has been dealt a severe blow? The ordinary layman has
reacted with abhorrence at this judicial
determination. Is it really possible that these
wonderful heroic Jewish defendants can be found by a
Jewish Court to be guilty of trying to destroy the
Jewish State? The absurdity of the whole matter
borders on the grotesque.
No, it is not to be believed. It is all a
bad dream. When we awaken in the morning of reality,
we will regret that it ever happened. To maintain
one’s sanity in the face of such a judgment is quite
difficult. Nevertheless, we must rise up and protest
this miscarraige of justice, rejection of reason, and
ostracizing of the best of our most loyal patriots as
criminals. No democratic nation can long endure in
the face of such rulings. It is incumbent on all of
us to see that there is a speedy reversal on appeal of
this illogical court holding. We owe this not only to
Captain Feiglin and Shmuel Sackett. We owe it to the
Jewish People, and above all we owe it to ourselves.
Ruth and Nadia Matar
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Jerusalem, September 9, 1997
The “Diplomatic” Masquerade
The “Merry-Go-Round ” of self-deception
continues. U.S. Secretary of State
Madeleine Albright has come to the Middle East to
revive the dead Oslo Process. Yassir Arafat, the arch
murderer and vicious fosterer of hatred against the
State of Israel and the Jews, is still to be one of
Oslo’s principal players. Secretary of State Albright
will be urging Arafat to continue the charade as a ”
man of peace” that he has, for so long, deceptively
and successfully, portrayed on a receptive world
stage. No attempt, it seems, will be made to deal
with reality.
Since this is the time of hiding one’s
true intentions and identity, Women In Green will join
the masquerade, as well, impersonating the major
players. We will be protesting against the
unwarranted pressures by President Clinton and the
U.S. State Department, who conceive of the State of
Israel as a tiny Banana Republic, subject to their
dictates.
On Wednesday, September 10, 1997, at 4
P.M. at Gan Menorah in Jerusalem ( next to HaMashbir),
our March will begin to the American Consulate on
Agron Street; voices of protest will be raised against
the expected pressures on Israel that Albright’s
visit portends. Knesset Members and other speakers
will address the audience opposite the American
Consulate.
Almost simultaneously, at 5 P.M. in Tel Aviv, a
parallel demonstration will be held by Women In Green
at the U.S. Embassy on HaYarkon Street,
in the presence of Knesset Member Michael Kleiner.
Ruth and Nadia Matar
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Jerusalem, September 13, 1997
A Brazen Act Of Irresponsibility
In contradistinction to the Prime Minister, Ezer
Weizman has not been democratically elected by the people
of Israel to be President. His appointment to that
office by a Labor-dominated Knesset came as a reward for
his past heroic efforts as Commander of the Israeli Air
Force. He has not always acted in accordance with the
restricted powers of the Presidency. He is a favorite of
the Media because of his unpredictable rash statements,
which unfortunately put him into the limelight, at the
expense of Israel’s good image, and the prestige of his
Office. The Presidency of Israel is largely a symbolic
position. The President represents Israel in ceremonial
activities dealing with other nations, and greeting world
figures who come to Israel. Domestically, his office is
intended to help unify the nation.
Improperly using the podium that was furnished
to him as President to greet and meet with U.S. Secretary
of State Albright on her arrival in Israel, Weizman
acted in a thoroughly improper manner. Using the
prestige of his position, he recommended to the U.S.
Secretary of State that the U. S. should exert pressure
on Israel to continue with the Oslo Accords and with
Arafat. In so doing, he was speaking out against the
declared will of the majority of Israel; in a poll taken
by Israel Television Channel 2 only yesterday, 53 to 47
percent answered negatively to the question whether Oslo
should be continued. Weizman’s outrageous urgings were
immediately picked up by the U.S. State Department, as
well as the world and Israeli media, to support criticism
of Netanyahu for refusing to go forward with Oslo unless
terror is wiped out by Arafat. Weizman’s uncalled for
advice, moreover, shifted the guilt away from the
Palestinian Authority with relation to Israel’s security,
and the PA’s responsibility for the recent bombings at
the Ben Yehuda Mall and the Mahane Yehuda Market where
scores of Jews had been killed and maimed.
Instead of acting to unify the People of Israel
in such distraught times, Weizman, once again
irresponsibly and disloyally shot from the hip, and acted
in a divisive manner by criticizing the present
democratically-elected Government’s policies and actions.
He was virtually inviting the U.S. to treat Israel as a
“banana republic,” and sanctioned action by America to
intervene in Israel’s internal affairs, and to restrict
our Prime Minister’s right to make independent decisions
as he was elected to do.
The Knesset should demand President Weizman’s
resignation, and he should, as has been suggested by
Knesset Member Michael Kleiner, retire to Caesaria and
voice his independent views from there as a private
citizen. The debt the nation owes him for his
distinguished Army Service, does not justify, nor allow
to be tolerated, his unwise acts of vanity and grotesque
overstepping of his role as President.
Ruth and Nadia Matar
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Jerusalem, September 14, 1997
Kissing Oslo Goodbye
Women In Green held a March and
Demonstration to the U.S. Consulate on Agron Street in
Jerusalem on Wednesday, September 10, 1997. At about the
same time they demonstrated in front of the U.S. Embassy
in Tel Aviv. Both events were a huge success. The theme
of the day was a call to Save Israel by immediately
stopping the Oslo Process. That this was what the
majority of Israelis wish, was confirmed by a poll taken
by Israeli Television Channel 2 the following day. That
station is known for its passionate dedication to the
“Oslo Process,” so the results of its poll are even more
significant. They reported that 53% of those
participating in the poll did not want to continue the
Oslo Process. That is just about the Jewish majority
that put Netanyahu in office about a year ago.
The parade was led by Nadia Matar and
directly behind her was a huge banner carrying the
message of the theme of the Campaign which
Women In Green has launched throughout Israel and in
America. The banner read: “Save Israel – Stop Oslo Now.”
Storekeepers and their customers and the general public
along the route of the March were out on the sidewalk
applauding, and shouting words of approval as the parade
passed by.
Several themes were presented in the
parade. The poster winning the greatest plaudits,
however, was the blown up recent photograph of Arafat
kissing the leader of Hamas, bearing the apt caption
“Kissing Oslo Good-bye”. A masked Arafat, walked arm in
arm with several of our women in Arab headdress with toy
machine guns and grenades.
Another section of the parade had a woman
wearing a President Clinton mask handing out bananas,
with a huge backdrop of posters showing these bananas
enlarged, with accompanying signs which read: “Israel
Refuses to be a Banana Republic.”
And still another section of the parade had
four male pallbearers, in green hats, carrying a coffin
which had “Oslo” engraved on each side, signifying that
Oslo was dead!
At the U.S. Consulate on Agron Street the
program was also innovative and impressive.
Nadia Matar was inspirational in her address to
Madeleine Albright, reminding her what appeasement of
Hitler led to in her birthplace of Czechoslovakia, and how
her grandparents were murdered, along with millions of
others, simply because they were Jews. That the U.S.
advocacy of stoppage of building in Jerusalem was a
totally bankrupt policy, which only served as an
encouragement and reward to Arafat for the violence he
has advocated and fostered in his partnership with Hamas.
Member of Knesset Rav Benny Elon also
spoke extremely well, as usual. Joyce Boim, whose American
son was killed by terrorists, who remain at large and
unpunished, also eloquently addressed the gathering, as
did Rav Avraham Groff, a leader of Young Israel here in
Jerusalem. Kaddish was said in memory of those
massacred at both recent Arab terrorist bombings of
civilians in Jerusalem.
Appropriately, and movingly, the Shofar was
sounded near the close of the ceremony; it was the
ancient traditional call to action during times of grave
emergencies for the Jewish People. Would its sounds also
stir the embers that might remain aglow within the Jewess
Madeleine Albright?
The ceremony closed with the gathering
proudly singing the National Anthem: “HaTikvah.” The
song expresses the still unfulfilled yearnings and
aspirations of Jews for freedom, peace and security in
their tiny Biblical country which they returned to after
2000 years, rebuilt, and made to blossom once again.
HaTikvah ends with the famous refrain: “To be a free
people in our own land, in the Land of Israel and
Jerusalem.” It was a message that Madeleine Albright and
President Clinton cannot and must not ignore.
Ruth Matar
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Jerusalem, September 15, 1997
The following is the text of today’s program by Nadia Matar, the
chairperson of Women for Israel’s Tomorrow (Women in Green), on
Arutz 7. Nadia speaks every Sunday after the 12:00 noon newscast.
The Toy President
Shalom to all our listeners!
This is Nadia Matar speaking –
In the Shabbat edition of the Hatzofeh newspaper, reporter
Hagai Huberman cites a passage he found in Yoel Marcus’s book on
the Camp David accords. The name of the book is Camp David – An
Opening for Peace. The passage on page 207 relates to Ezer
Weizman (who was involved in the Camp David agreements, and who
exerted much pressure on Menahem Begin to make concessions to
Egypt). I quote: Sources close to Menahem Begin and to Moshe
Dayan claimed that Weizman is a superficial person, who does not
read documents and small print at all. “If you want to give a
copy of a document to Weizman, don’t bother … he certainly
won’t read it” Dayan once said to one of the Israelis in Blair
House. And, in fact, the Foreign Ministry official was surprised
to discover what Weizman does with the documents that are given
to him. He folded them up, made paper planes and flew them
in the room, like boys do, and said: “Here’s an F-15!”
My listeners, when I read this story, I suddenly understand
everything. Now I know why Ezer Weizman has been consistently
pushing to continue with the Oslo fraud! It seems that this
person has simply not bothered to read the death accords – he
turned all the pages he was supposed to read into paper
airplanes! All the commentators who dealt this week with the
scandal created by the President when he asked Albright to
pressure Netanyahu focused on the issue that this was not part of
his role, that he should not have intervened, that this is not
democratic, etc…. All of this is fine, but what astonished me
even more was the very fact that the President still believes in
these accursed accords and continues to press for their
implementation! Master of the Universe, after the hundreds of
condolence calls that Weizman had made to families who have lost
their beloved ones because of Oslo – he still thinks that we
have to continue with this? This is the President of the State of
Israel?
This is the President who is supposed to care of his people? For
me, this is the best proof that Ezer Weizman is a superficial
person, not especially bright, a person whose thoughts are not
especially profound. The truth be told, this bothers me more than
the very fact of his intervention with a foreign power against
the policy of an elected government. Let’s be frank: for the sake
of argument, if, Heaven forbid, an extremist Leftist government
was in power and the President miraculously held national views,
and he would intervene both in Israel and abroad in order to halt
the death accords, we would all support him. The actual issue is
that we don’t deserve a President like Weizman. We don’t deserve
a President who represents the fringes of society. The majority
of the people in Israel has awakened and knows that Oslo must be
stopped – now! We must act in three areas:
1) write to the President that he does not represent the people.
Let us inundate his office with thousands of letters to the
address:
President Ezer Weizman
President’s Residence
Jerusalem
He must know that he is on his way home, to live as a pensioner
in Caesarea.
2) we must take steps so that in another year the national camp
will have a different candidate for President. A serious,
intelligent candidate, a Jewish-Zionist leader with Jewish
principles. A President with pride. A President who does not
demean himself vis-a-vis the Arabs and who does NOT accept
terror. What is needed is leadership that will proclaim to the
entire world that Eretz Israel is ours, by force of Divine
promise, and that no terror will defeat us. Only then will the
verse in Ki Tavo be fulfilled: “And all the peoples of the earth
shall see that the Lord’s name is proclaimed over you, and they
shall stand in fear of you” (Deut. 28:10).
3) we must continue to be active in the “Stop Oslo Now!” campaign,
in order to educate all the naive ones like Ezer Weizman who still
want to believe that an agreement with the archmurderer is possible.
Call telemeser (03) 6363549 and material for distribution will be
sent to you.
Have a good week.
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Jerusalem, September 17, 1997
Lies and Deplorable Censorship
Listening to the daily distortions by
newscasters, it is a wonder that any listener can come
out right side up. It is as if there was no code of
morality which restrains.
Take the report of four families of Jews moving
into a Jewish-owned house on the Mount of Olives. This
property has been owned by Jews for at least the last
hundred years, and is in an ancient Biblical area
closely associated with the Jews for thousands of
years. Despite the fact that the house in question is
directly across the road from a vast Jewish holy burial
site where thousands of illustrous Jews are buried, the
reporters persist in calling the area by what the recent
migrating Arabs call it, Ras Al Amud, rather than its
Biblical name, the Mount of Olives. By doing this they
try to create the impression that this neighborhood is
being invaded by the Jews, even though this particular
area, even today, is sparsely settled by Arabs.
Interestingly enough, aerial photographs taken of the
area following the Six-Day War in 1967 show the area to
have been at that recent date virtually vacant and
barren.
Nor does the central fact that this piece of
private Jewish property is being leased from the owner
in the City of Jerusalem, Israel’s ancient capital,
restrain the broadcasters from attempting to denigrate
these residents in the eyes of the listener by using the
highly emotional description of them as “settlers.” The
Arabs, led by the Jew-hating Faisal Husseini, and joined
by their slavish partners, Meretz, and Peace Now , have
launched still another of their major anti-Jewish
offensives, this time against Jews “LIVING” in this
area, rather than just being “BURIED” in it.
Unfortunately, they are seemingly supported in this
attack by a short-sighted Prime Minister. Imagine if
this was an area in the United States which excluded blacks or
Jews, all these so-called “liberals” would be up in
arms. Yet, here Jews are being excluded in their own
Capital by the Arabs, Peace Now and Meretz; new
guidelines of what constitutes a “liberal” will now have
to be drawn up. All Arab violence to prevent Jews from
living in this area is condoned, and encouraged by such
“lovers of peace.” No wonder morality is in disarray,
when the world and Israeli Media can sympathize with an
arch murderer such as Arafat. Oh, what a topsy, turvy
world we live in.
Undaunted, Women In Green, showed up at the site
and brought flowers, salt, fresh bread, and fruit for
the four families. The new residents were widely
interviewed by the Media, as was Nadia Matar. Once
again the Arab Editor of our Government Television
Channel 1, CNN, BBC et al. censored their views. A fair
and balanced presentation is taboo. In marked contrast,
was the widespread coverage given to a Husseini-led
small Arab protest, and to the detailed comments of all
Peace Now, and Meretz spokespersons. At all costs the
public must not fairly see, hear and decide for itself
what is good for the Jews.”
Ruth and Nadia Matar
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Jerusalem, September 17, 1997
COME THIS FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19,
TO MA’ALEH HAR HAZEITIM (what the Arabs call Ras el Amud)
The Women in Green are going once again to show support to
our fellow-Jews in Ma’aleh Har Hazeitim (Mt. of Olives)
this Friday, September 19, 1997.
Buses will leave the Laromme Hotel at 9:15 am.
Fee: 5 NIS
We plan to be back at the Laromme at 12:00 noon.
Reserve your seat ASAP by calling 02/6249887 or fax: 02/6245380.
We want to fill a few buses, so we ask each person to bring
along at least two other friends!
In addition, we ask each person to bring some food or drinks to
give to the families for Shabbat. (No cooked foods please!).
BE THERE !!
Ruth and Nadia Matar
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Jerusalem, September 21, 1997
The following is the text of today’s program by Nadia Matar, the
chairperson of Women for Israel’s Tomorrow (Women in Green), on
Arutz 7. Nadia speaks every Sunday after the 12:00 noon newscast.
“Choose Life, If You Would Live …” — The Dagan Trial
Shalom to all our listeners!
This is Nadia Matar speaking –
Tomorrow, on Monday, the trial against me concerning Givat
Hadagan will continue, and probably conclude as well, in the
Jerusalem Magistrates’ Court. Under the previous regime, I was
arrested eight times during the course of legal demonstrations,
and in five times criminal indictments were brought against me
and against several of my fellow Women in Green members in which
I was falsely charged with attacking a police officer, disturbing
the peace, illegal assembly, etc….
Four cases are still being conducted, unbearably slowly, in
the courts. One indictment against me was dropped when it was
proved, by means of a videotape, that the police witnesses
perjured themselves and that the Assistant Commanding Officer of
the Jerusalem District, Micky Levi, also lied in his testimony.
The tape proved that it was he who brutally attacked me and not
the opposite, as the prosecutor sought to prove in vain. The
trial that concludes tomorrow concerns Givat Hadagan.
The struggle for Givat Hadagan was, as we know, the struggle
of the residents of Efrat and Gush Etzion and thousands of their
supporters, in order to guard lands that were as yet unpopulated,
which belong to the municipal territory of the settlement, but
which, according to the Oslo accords, were to be given over to
the PLO Authority. The struggle for Givat Hadagan took place
several months after the struggle for another hill in Efrat,
Givat Hatamar – a struggle which for some reason has dropped out
of the public consciousness, but in the light of what happened
this week on the Mount of Olives, the details should be recalled.
In January ’95 the Efrat council received all the necessary
permits in order to begin building on Givat Hatamar. The first
tractor began working. Everything was legal and proper. But not
for certain Jews — Jews from the left. A group from Peace Now
organized very quickly, and Peace Now began to incite the Arabs
so that they would begin to demonstrate against the legal
construction on Givat Hatamar. “This is a provocation!” the
demonstrators from the left said. “This will destroy the peace!”
“This will lead to terror!” and so on and so forth. Faisal
Husseini came to demonstrate. Naomi Hazan lay down before the
tractors, and the archmurderer Arafat put international pressure
on Yitzhak Rabin, who pressured the head of the Efrat council,
who unfortunately surrendered to the pressure and agreed to a
“compromise.” The compromise was that we would stop the
construction work on Tamar until the “right time,” and in
exchange for the construction on Tamar, we received a promise
that when the time came we could build on a much smaller hill,
Givat Hazayit.
To this day there is no construction on Givat Hatamar. To this
day we in Efrat are paying the price of this terrible compromise,
in that we do not have sufficient housing for the hundreds of
families that want to join the settlement and for the young
couples within Efrat who are forced to leave. The similarity with
the Mount of Olives compromise is horrifying. Here too,
everything was legal. Here too, the ones who inflamed the area
were a handful of extreme leftist activists from Peace Now – Jews
who hate themselves and the members of their people.
It is ironic that it is they, together with their partner
Faisal Husseini, specifically they who call this act of
settlement a “provocation that will lead to war,” but it is they
who with this call invite and justify the Arab violence and
terror. These Jews are so alienated from their roots that they do
not understand that when the Jewish People prayed for thousands
of years “Next year in Jerusalem,” this was not in order to
return to the Malha Mall or the Teddy Stadium! “Next year in
rebuilt Jerusalem”: Jerusalem – this is the Temple Mount!
Jerusalem – this is the Old City! Jerusalem – this is the Mount
of Olives! Despite the great similarity, and despite the
suffering, pain, and terrible disgrace of the very fact that in
Jerusalem we must cave in to the dictates of Arafat and find
“compromises,” as it were, I hope that the Mount of Olives
compromise will not end like the failure of the Givat Hatamar
compromise, but rather like the success of the St. John’s Hospice
compromise in Jerusalem in 1991, according to which the Jewish
families were asked to leave, with only security guards remaining
– in the place, now called “Neot David,” where dozens of JEWISH
families live.
In the upcoming Torah portion, the portion of Nitzavim, we
read:
I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day:
I have put before you life and death, blessing and curse.
Choose life – if you and your offspring would live
by loving the Lord your God,
heeding His commands, and holding fast to Him.
For thereby you shall have life and shall long endure
upon the soil that the Lord your God swore
to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob to give to them.
Those who champion the Oslo accords have chosen death,
destruction, a covenant with the Devil. We have chosen a covenant
with the Holy One, blessed be He; we have chosen to live, to
build and be built, to continue the way of the Patriarchs, and
with God’s help, we shall prevail.
The public is invited to attend the show trial that is being
conducted against me concerning Givat Dagan, tomorrow, Monday, in
the Jerusalem Magistrates’ Court in the Russian Compound, at
12:00 noon, before Justice Tzaban.
Have a good week.
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Jerusalem, September 22, 1997
The following is the text of the September 7, 1997, program by
Nadia Matar, the chairperson of Women for Israel’s Tomorrow
(Women in Green), on Arutz 7. Nadia speaks every Sunday after the
12:00 noon newscast.
Zu Artzeinu, Mrs. Albright
Shalom to all our listeners!
This is Nadia Matar speaking –
This time I want to talk to you about two topics, and so I ask
you to take pen and paper to write down the details. The first
subject is the scandalous conviction of the leaders of Zu
Artzeinu, Moshe Feiglin and Shmuel Sackett. It is quite cynical
that this of all weeks, in which we read the portion of Shoftim,
in which it is written: “Justice, justice, shall you pursue,” it
was this week that so wicked an injustice was done to two
wonderful Jews – Jews whose only crime is love of the Jewish
People and Eretz Israel. “You shall appoint magistrates [shoftim]
and officials [shotrim] … in all your settlements” the Torah
portion of the week tells us. But if you remove the letter peh
for peulah (action) from “shoftim” and the letter resh for ruah
(spirit) from “shotrim” – in other words, when judges and police
lack a basic understanding of the action and spirit behind their
roles, then all that is left of them is shotim – fools.
We encountered such this week in the trial of the leaders of Zu
Artzeinu, fools who decided to take a Chelm decision and find
loyal and patriotic Jews guilty of sedition! The true inciters
such as Ahmed Tibi, Faisal Husseini, and all the Arab Knesset
members are not charged with sedition and incitement – but Moshe
Feiglin and Shmuel Sackett were found guilty, even though
everyone knows that this is a political indictment! My listeners,
it isn’t enough to be shocked, we must protest in a concrete
manner against this distortion of justice, against the punishment
of the best of our sons as if they were criminals. We must
condemn the verdict of the court and demand that justice be done
– not only on behalf of Moshe and Shmuel, but on behalf of the
entire Jewish People, first and foremost for our own sakes.
Please, flood the office of the Attorney-General, Eliakim
Rubinstein, with thousands of letters and express your protest to
the address:
Mr. Eliakim Rubinstein
Attorney-General
Ministry of Justice
Salah-a-Din Street
Jerusalem
The second topic is the visit of the United States Secretary
of State Albright. I congratulate the government of Israel for
its decision not to continue with the death accords. The problem
is that Secretary of State Albright is bringing tremendous
pressure to bear so that the government will change its mind.
Unfortunately, I greatly fear that the government will be unable
to withstand this pressure. Here we, the ordinary people, enter
the picture. We must exert counterpressure and show the world,
and especially the United States, that the people in Israel does
not want to continue with the Oslo deception. We must demonstrate
against Oslo. I call upon all my listeners, men, women, and
children, to come and participate in two demonstrations against
the American pressure on Israel that will take place, God
willing, on the day of Secretary of State Albright’s visit to
Israel, this Wednesday, Elul 8, September 9.
in Jerusalem: at 4:00 p.m. A march will set out from Menorah
Park, near the Hamashbir, to the U.S. Consulate on Agron Street, where
a demonstration and shofar-blowing ceremony will take place. Men
who can are requested to aid in blowing the shofarot. I n Tel Aviv:
a demonstration at 5:00 p.m., opposite the U.S. Embassy on Hayarkon
Street.
To all the skeptics among you who say to me at times, “What
will this help?” “Why demonstrate” I say that demonstrations do
help. We, the people, have power, and we must make use of it. A
sane people, a normal people, takes to the streets when the
enemy, in his great audacity, seeks to blow us up in our streets.
We will tell Mrs. Albright: The Oslo deception cannot be
revived! The archmurderer Arafat is not a partner for peace, just
as peace could not be made with Hitler! Hitler killed the parents
of your parents, Mrs. Albright, together with millions of others
only because they were Jews. Arafat has the same fiendish hatred
for our people!
The Jewish People demands that Oslo be stopped – now! See you
this Wednesday opposite the U.S. Consulate in Jerusalem and
opposite the Embassy in Tel Aviv. We’ll all be there! Details and
responses: telemeser (03) 6363549
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Jerusalem, September 22, 1997
The True Culprits
Every once in a while Arab leaders let slip what
is the true situation that prevails here in Israel as to
the capacity of the PA to control Arab violence both
within and beyond the so-called “green line.” Faisal
Husseini had been leading the Arab charges against the
return of the Jews to live in their ancient neighborhood
of the Mount of Olives, on Jewish land, the ownership of
which is undisputed. The Media, quick to bow to Arab
propaganda, have supported the insupportable contention
that this so called Ras Al Amud is an old, densely
populated Arab neighborhood in the Jewish Capital of
Jerusalem. Any cursory investigation would disclose
facts that clearly show otherwise. This Mount of Olives
is an ancient Jewish Biblical area. Jewish identity
with this holy area of Jerusalem began long before the
Prophet Zechariah predicted that it is from the Mount of
Olives that the Messiah would be coming. For many
centuries it has been a holy burial site for more than
one half million Jews, a great many of them renowned
sholars who played a prominent role in Biblical
interpretation.
When three Jewish families moved into this Jewish-
owned property shortly after the City of Jerusalem had
lawfully granted a permit to build a small number of
apartments in the area, Husseini and Arafat exploded.
Arab behavior was similar to the uproar they tried to
create when the Jews began building in another sector of
the southern part of their Capital, in the neighborhood
known as Har Homa. Shortly after Faisal Husseini and
his gang of warriors descended upon the residence of
these Jewish families on the Mount of Olives, typical
Arab violence broke out in the form of stone throwing
and fire bombs, and the smashing of Jewish vehicles. No
attempt was made by Husseini or any other Arab leader,
or Peace Now, to subdue this violence. Husseini invited
such violence by deliberately and continuously
predicting in the media that it would occur, unless the
Jews withdrew.
At the height of encouraging such Arab violence,
it came as a great surprise that the Friday Moslem
service at the Al Aksa Mosque, located on the side of
the Temple Mount in the Old City, went by peacefully.
The media, of course, turned to their mentor Faisal
Husseini for an explanation of this otherwise
inexplicable quietude in Arab behavior. In the past
such services have featured sermons provoking violent
behavior. Husseini gave them the answer: ” .. the PA
discouraged wild protests becasue it didn’t want the
agenda to shift from the Jewish presence in Ras Al Amud
to the issue of violence. To stir up events at Al Aksa
would have been wrong. If one rock had been thrown at
the (Western) Wall, the whole world would forget the
issue of the settlements.” So you see, it is easy.
When the Arab leaders wish it, they can effectively
silence Arab violence! Is this not proof positive of
who is responsible for the widespread Arab violence that
presently exists in the Holy Land?
Ruth and Nadia Matar
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Jerusalem, September 26, 1997
“Changing The Character of A Neighborhood”
The U.S. State Department really deals in
absurdities. Take its stance on its support for the
agreement whereby Jewish families would be removed
from their Mount of Olives home because the State
Department does not want the “character of the
neighborhood to change.” It was a euphemistic way of
saying that the more than one half million Jews who
have been buried in the adjacent holy cemetery on the
Mount of Olives, and the few recent Arab arrivals,
should determine the character of the the
neighborhood. It is definitely not to come alive with
living Jews! So, when the Messiah will come from the
Mount of Olives, as the Prophet Zechariah predicted,
leading the revived dead to the Temple Mount, it will
not be with the U.S. State Department’s approval. The
Messiah would be “changing the character” of the
neighborhood, and that is Verboten!
It is so typical of American policy with
regard to Israel. It comes up with guiding principles
that apply only to Israel, but have no application
whatsoever to life in America. Imagine any U.S. Court
dealing with the claim that Afro-Americans cannot move
into a white neighborhood because that would “change
the character” of the neighborhood. Yet, Jews are to
be excluded from living in an ancient Jewish area,
because recent Arab migration into the area finally
has given the neighborhood “character.” Any Jew
living there would spoil this wonderful “character” of
the neighborhood, created by the violence and threats
of violence these Arabs cause to Jews visiting the graves
of their departed ancestors buried on this Mount of Olives,
and the desecration they vent on these Jewish graves.
There is no attempt, whatsoever, by any Arab residents in
the area to chastise or prevent such monstrous behavior by
their kinsmen.
The bizarre aspects of such a ludicrous policy
continue. What is truly amazing is the brazenness,
and callousness of the reasons given by the State
Department, and the comparative silence of American
Jewry to this hypocrisy, and blatant anti-Semitism.
It is amusing that the State Department spokesman is
probably an assimilated Jew. James Rubin has all the
earmarks of having somewhere in his past some
association with the Jewish People. His surname
certainly sounds that way. Be that as it may, we
wonder if the “character” of the respective
neighborhoods in which he, as well as Martin Indyk,
Sandy Berger and Dennis Ross presently live, have been
changed by their presence. Women In Green support
that each of them, together with their families, be
immediately removed from their homes, to be consistent
with the U. S. State Department’s aforesaid guidelines
for Israelites.
Ruth and Nadia Matar
September 1997
September 2, 1997 Deceit and Fraud You Shall Uproot
September 4, 1997 You Can’t Revive A Dead Oslo, Madeleine!
September 5, 1997 We Owe It To Ourselves
September 9, 1997 The “Diplomatic” Masquerade
September 13, 1997 A Brazen Act Of Irresponsibility
September 14, 1997 Kissing Oslo Goodbye
September 15, 1997 The Toy President
September 17, 1997 Lies and Deplorable Censorship
September 17, 1997 Come to Ma’aleh Har Hazeitim
September 21, 1997 “Choose Life, If You Would Live …” — The Dagan Trial
September 22, 1997 Zu Artzeinu, Mrs. Albright
September 22, 1997 The True Culprits
September 26, 1997 “Changing The Character of A Neighborhood”
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Jerusalem, September 2, 1997
The following is the text of last Sunday’s program by Nadia Matar, the
chairperson of Women for Israel’s Tomorrow (Women in Green), on Arutz
7. Nadia speaks every Sunday after the 12:00 noon newscast.
Deceit and Fraud You Shall Uproot
Shalom to all our listeners!
This is Nadia Matar speaking –
In an exclusive interview in the Mekor Rishon newspaper this week,
Mrs. Timaniah Habani, a resident of Tel Aviv, tells of a horrifying
incident that occurred in 1949, and I quote: “I made aliyah a week
after my firstborn son was born. We named him Tziyon, to mark our
aliyah to Israel. There were only women on the plane. When we arrived
in Israel, we were housed in the Atlit camp, where there were two
wings, A and B. There were 40 children in each wing. “One evening,”
Mrs. Habani continues, “they summoned us, all the mothers. There was
a medical team there that also included nurses. They told us that the
next morning they were taking all the children from Wing A to
Jerusalem to receive vaccinations. ‘Prepare the children for the
journey,’ they told us, ‘they will receive the vaccination and be
returned the following day.’ In the morning a bus arrived, as long as
a train. Instead of seats in the bus, there were cubicles, with a
crib in each cubicle. The nurses who were in the bus took the babies
and put them in the cribs. They promised us that the children would
be returned the following day after the vaccination. “The children
did not return. After a week, they evacuated us from the camp and
dispersed us in apartments throughout the country. About another two
and a half months passed and a letter arrived. More accurately, a
note in which it was written that the child had died. “I checked,”
Mrs. Habani said, “all the mothers who were in the camp – they each
received a note that the child died. Forty children in a single bus –
and they all died.” My listeners – I read this passage on Shabbat
more than a hundred times. And every time the central question rang
in my mind: “Master of the Universe – how could they? How could Jews
kidnap the children of other Jews? And after the Holocaust. How could
such a terrible thing as this happen?” We are not talking only about
the case I have just read to you, but about more than 3,000 cases – on
such a scale that it is crystal clear that the kidnapping of the
children was not the private initiative of one or two people, rather
it was the establishment itself that was involved in this crime. And
then, when I analyze other events that occurred in that same period,
the picture that forms is much more distinct – sad, but clear: the
establishment that was behind the kidnapping of the Yemenite children
is the same Bolshevik establishment of the people from Mapai, the
leftists, who were responsible for the Saison (the “season,” the
period of informing, during which they handed over their fellow Jews
from the Etzel and the Lehi to the British enemy) – the same people
from Mapai, including Yitzhak Rabin, who were responsible for the
massacre on the Altalena ship in which they coldbloodedly murdered 16
Jews, and the same establishment that is responsible in our time for
the Oslo sham. Yes, my listeners, I see a direct line between the
informing in the period of the Saison, the massacre on the Altalena,
the kidnapping of the Yemenite children, and the Oslo deception. All
of these crimes were perpetrated by people belonging to the same
social elite of the Left, with the same arrogance, haughtiness, and
belief that “the State belongs to them,” and that “only they know
what is good for all of us.” In all these instances, we find the
willingness to delegitimatize their Jewish brethren, and even the
willingness to hurt them, for a seemingly superior goal. In the
Saison they handed over Jews, and on the Altalena they killed Jews
for the sake of democracy, as it were. The Yemenite children were
kidnapped for “the common good” or “the good of the child.” And in
the Oslo accords, 150,000 Jews in Judea and Samaria were abandoned
for the sake of peace. They didn’t ask the Yemenite parents if they
agreed to give up their children for adoption, and they didn’t ask
the Jewish People if they were willing to give up Judea, Samaria, and
Gaza. It was all a deception, all a fraud, everything was done
secretly and stealthily and a lid was put on all these episodes,
thanks to the media that is willing to occupy itself at length with
the Prime Minister’s nanny, but not with the crimes of the Left. Next
Shabbat we read the portion of Shoftim, in which it is written: “You
shall appoint magistrates and officials… in all the settlements
that the Lord your God is giving you, and they shall govern the
people with due justice….Justice, justice, shall you pursue, that
you may thrive and occupy the land that the Lord your God is giving
you” (Deut. 16:18-20). We cannot continue to live as an independent
people in its country if justice will not be done – if all these
deceptions will not come to light, and if those, the ones
responsible, will not be brought to trial. We must pressure the
government to take steps so that all the information is given to the
families of the Yemenite children. We must teach our children about
the sorry episodes that took place at the time of the establishment
of the State, in order to uproot such phenomena from our midst, and
we must struggle, with all our strength, against the Oslo fraud and
to bring about its curtailment. Only in this manner will we be able
to cleanse our camp and merit the blessing “that you may thrive and
occupy the land that the Lord your God is giving you.”
Have a good week.
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Jerusalem, September 4, 1997
You Can’t Revive A Dead Oslo, Madeleine!
And You Can’t Make Peace With Arafat
Just As No One Could Make Peace With Hitler
Hitler gassed and burned your grandparents
and millions of others, because they were Jews
Arafat Has The Same Virulent Hatred of Jews!
Representatives of the People of Israel,
Men, Women and Children, will demonstrate in front
of the U.S. Consulate in Jerusalem, and also at the
U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv, to demand:
SAVE ISRAEL – STOP OSLO NOW!
Jerusalem: Gather in Menorah Park at 4 P.M. on
Wednesday, September 10, 1997, for a
March to the U.S.Consulate on Agron St.
Tel Aviv: At 5 P.M., at U.S. Embassy on HaYarkon Street.
Women In Green: P.O.B. 7352, Jerusalem
Telemesser: 03-636-3549
Fax: 02-624-5380
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Jerusalem, September 5, 1997
We Owe It To Ourselves
We Jews specialize in the bizarre. How
else can you explain the Chelm decision by a Jewish
Court that holds loyal and patriotic Jews guilty of
sedition, while our Attorney General’s office allows
to go unpunished the likes of Tibi, Faisal Husseini,
and Arab Knesset Members. They engage in patent
seditious and traitorous behavior daily, here in
Israel, and recently in Syria. Moshe Feiglin, a
captain in the IDF reserve, whose love of this country
and all of its history and traditions is unparalleled,
as well as his fellow defendant Shmuel Sackett, have
been incredulously found guilty, would you believe it,
of SEDITION! The law defines sedition as an act that
leads to “hatred, scorn or disloyalty to the state, or
its…law.”
They have been found guilty for the same
acts which are more crudely and violently, and with
far less justification, continuously executed by
Histadrut workers who are unhappy and take the law
into their own hands when things are not going their
way during a labor dispute. It is well known that
such workers have barricaded themselves into public or
private property, used violence against the police and
anyone who tries to interfere with their unlawful
behavior, blocked intersections and even air traffic,
and yet are not arrested, nor are they tried for their illegal
acts. In contradistinction, Feiglin and Sackett are
treated by the Court as pariahs, and await their
delayed sentence of punishment for their non-violent
crime against the “State of Israel.”
Did the Court, which ruled in this
“Sedition Trial,” not realize that the prestige
of the “rule of law” and the Israeli System of Justice
has been dealt a severe blow? The ordinary layman has
reacted with abhorrence at this judicial
determination. Is it really possible that these
wonderful heroic Jewish defendants can be found by a
Jewish Court to be guilty of trying to destroy the
Jewish State? The absurdity of the whole matter
borders on the grotesque.
No, it is not to be believed. It is all a
bad dream. When we awaken in the morning of reality,
we will regret that it ever happened. To maintain
one’s sanity in the face of such a judgment is quite
difficult. Nevertheless, we must rise up and protest
this miscarraige of justice, rejection of reason, and
ostracizing of the best of our most loyal patriots as
criminals. No democratic nation can long endure in
the face of such rulings. It is incumbent on all of
us to see that there is a speedy reversal on appeal of
this illogical court holding. We owe this not only to
Captain Feiglin and Shmuel Sackett. We owe it to the
Jewish People, and above all we owe it to ourselves.
Ruth and Nadia Matar
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Jerusalem, September 9, 1997
The “Diplomatic” Masquerade
The “Merry-Go-Round ” of self-deception
continues. U.S. Secretary of State
Madeleine Albright has come to the Middle East to
revive the dead Oslo Process. Yassir Arafat, the arch
murderer and vicious fosterer of hatred against the
State of Israel and the Jews, is still to be one of
Oslo’s principal players. Secretary of State Albright
will be urging Arafat to continue the charade as a ”
man of peace” that he has, for so long, deceptively
and successfully, portrayed on a receptive world
stage. No attempt, it seems, will be made to deal
with reality.
Since this is the time of hiding one’s
true intentions and identity, Women In Green will join
the masquerade, as well, impersonating the major
players. We will be protesting against the
unwarranted pressures by President Clinton and the
U.S. State Department, who conceive of the State of
Israel as a tiny Banana Republic, subject to their
dictates.
On Wednesday, September 10, 1997, at 4
P.M. at Gan Menorah in Jerusalem ( next to HaMashbir),
our March will begin to the American Consulate on
Agron Street; voices of protest will be raised against
the expected pressures on Israel that Albright’s
visit portends. Knesset Members and other speakers
will address the audience opposite the American
Consulate.
Almost simultaneously, at 5 P.M. in Tel Aviv, a
parallel demonstration will be held by Women In Green
at the U.S. Embassy on HaYarkon Street,
in the presence of Knesset Member Michael Kleiner.
Ruth and Nadia Matar
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Jerusalem, September 13, 1997
A Brazen Act Of Irresponsibility
In contradistinction to the Prime Minister, Ezer
Weizman has not been democratically elected by the people
of Israel to be President. His appointment to that
office by a Labor-dominated Knesset came as a reward for
his past heroic efforts as Commander of the Israeli Air
Force. He has not always acted in accordance with the
restricted powers of the Presidency. He is a favorite of
the Media because of his unpredictable rash statements,
which unfortunately put him into the limelight, at the
expense of Israel’s good image, and the prestige of his
Office. The Presidency of Israel is largely a symbolic
position. The President represents Israel in ceremonial
activities dealing with other nations, and greeting world
figures who come to Israel. Domestically, his office is
intended to help unify the nation.
Improperly using the podium that was furnished
to him as President to greet and meet with U.S. Secretary
of State Albright on her arrival in Israel, Weizman
acted in a thoroughly improper manner. Using the
prestige of his position, he recommended to the U.S.
Secretary of State that the U. S. should exert pressure
on Israel to continue with the Oslo Accords and with
Arafat. In so doing, he was speaking out against the
declared will of the majority of Israel; in a poll taken
by Israel Television Channel 2 only yesterday, 53 to 47
percent answered negatively to the question whether Oslo
should be continued. Weizman’s outrageous urgings were
immediately picked up by the U.S. State Department, as
well as the world and Israeli media, to support criticism
of Netanyahu for refusing to go forward with Oslo unless
terror is wiped out by Arafat. Weizman’s uncalled for
advice, moreover, shifted the guilt away from the
Palestinian Authority with relation to Israel’s security,
and the PA’s responsibility for the recent bombings at
the Ben Yehuda Mall and the Mahane Yehuda Market where
scores of Jews had been killed and maimed.
Instead of acting to unify the People of Israel
in such distraught times, Weizman, once again
irresponsibly and disloyally shot from the hip, and acted
in a divisive manner by criticizing the present
democratically-elected Government’s policies and actions.
He was virtually inviting the U.S. to treat Israel as a
“banana republic,” and sanctioned action by America to
intervene in Israel’s internal affairs, and to restrict
our Prime Minister’s right to make independent decisions
as he was elected to do.
The Knesset should demand President Weizman’s
resignation, and he should, as has been suggested by
Knesset Member Michael Kleiner, retire to Caesaria and
voice his independent views from there as a private
citizen. The debt the nation owes him for his
distinguished Army Service, does not justify, nor allow
to be tolerated, his unwise acts of vanity and grotesque
overstepping of his role as President.
Ruth and Nadia Matar
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Jerusalem, September 14, 1997
Kissing Oslo Goodbye
Women In Green held a March and
Demonstration to the U.S. Consulate on Agron Street in
Jerusalem on Wednesday, September 10, 1997. At about the
same time they demonstrated in front of the U.S. Embassy
in Tel Aviv. Both events were a huge success. The theme
of the day was a call to Save Israel by immediately
stopping the Oslo Process. That this was what the
majority of Israelis wish, was confirmed by a poll taken
by Israeli Television Channel 2 the following day. That
station is known for its passionate dedication to the
“Oslo Process,” so the results of its poll are even more
significant. They reported that 53% of those
participating in the poll did not want to continue the
Oslo Process. That is just about the Jewish majority
that put Netanyahu in office about a year ago.
The parade was led by Nadia Matar and
directly behind her was a huge banner carrying the
message of the theme of the Campaign which
Women In Green has launched throughout Israel and in
America. The banner read: “Save Israel – Stop Oslo Now.”
Storekeepers and their customers and the general public
along the route of the March were out on the sidewalk
applauding, and shouting words of approval as the parade
passed by.
Several themes were presented in the
parade. The poster winning the greatest plaudits,
however, was the blown up recent photograph of Arafat
kissing the leader of Hamas, bearing the apt caption
“Kissing Oslo Good-bye”. A masked Arafat, walked arm in
arm with several of our women in Arab headdress with toy
machine guns and grenades.
Another section of the parade had a woman
wearing a President Clinton mask handing out bananas,
with a huge backdrop of posters showing these bananas
enlarged, with accompanying signs which read: “Israel
Refuses to be a Banana Republic.”
And still another section of the parade had
four male pallbearers, in green hats, carrying a coffin
which had “Oslo” engraved on each side, signifying that
Oslo was dead!
At the U.S. Consulate on Agron Street the
program was also innovative and impressive.
Nadia Matar was inspirational in her address to
Madeleine Albright, reminding her what appeasement of
Hitler led to in her birthplace of Czechoslovakia, and how
her grandparents were murdered, along with millions of
others, simply because they were Jews. That the U.S.
advocacy of stoppage of building in Jerusalem was a
totally bankrupt policy, which only served as an
encouragement and reward to Arafat for the violence he
has advocated and fostered in his partnership with Hamas.
Member of Knesset Rav Benny Elon also
spoke extremely well, as usual. Joyce Boim, whose American
son was killed by terrorists, who remain at large and
unpunished, also eloquently addressed the gathering, as
did Rav Avraham Groff, a leader of Young Israel here in
Jerusalem. Kaddish was said in memory of those
massacred at both recent Arab terrorist bombings of
civilians in Jerusalem.
Appropriately, and movingly, the Shofar was
sounded near the close of the ceremony; it was the
ancient traditional call to action during times of grave
emergencies for the Jewish People. Would its sounds also
stir the embers that might remain aglow within the Jewess
Madeleine Albright?
The ceremony closed with the gathering
proudly singing the National Anthem: “HaTikvah.” The
song expresses the still unfulfilled yearnings and
aspirations of Jews for freedom, peace and security in
their tiny Biblical country which they returned to after
2000 years, rebuilt, and made to blossom once again.
HaTikvah ends with the famous refrain: “To be a free
people in our own land, in the Land of Israel and
Jerusalem.” It was a message that Madeleine Albright and
President Clinton cannot and must not ignore.
Ruth Matar
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Jerusalem, September 15, 1997
The following is the text of today’s program by Nadia Matar, the
chairperson of Women for Israel’s Tomorrow (Women in Green), on
Arutz 7. Nadia speaks every Sunday after the 12:00 noon newscast.
The Toy President
Shalom to all our listeners!
This is Nadia Matar speaking –
In the Shabbat edition of the Hatzofeh newspaper, reporter
Hagai Huberman cites a passage he found in Yoel Marcus’s book on
the Camp David accords. The name of the book is Camp David – An
Opening for Peace. The passage on page 207 relates to Ezer
Weizman (who was involved in the Camp David agreements, and who
exerted much pressure on Menahem Begin to make concessions to
Egypt). I quote: Sources close to Menahem Begin and to Moshe
Dayan claimed that Weizman is a superficial person, who does not
read documents and small print at all. “If you want to give a
copy of a document to Weizman, don’t bother … he certainly
won’t read it” Dayan once said to one of the Israelis in Blair
House. And, in fact, the Foreign Ministry official was surprised
to discover what Weizman does with the documents that are given
to him. He folded them up, made paper planes and flew them
in the room, like boys do, and said: “Here’s an F-15!”
My listeners, when I read this story, I suddenly understand
everything. Now I know why Ezer Weizman has been consistently
pushing to continue with the Oslo fraud! It seems that this
person has simply not bothered to read the death accords – he
turned all the pages he was supposed to read into paper
airplanes! All the commentators who dealt this week with the
scandal created by the President when he asked Albright to
pressure Netanyahu focused on the issue that this was not part of
his role, that he should not have intervened, that this is not
democratic, etc…. All of this is fine, but what astonished me
even more was the very fact that the President still believes in
these accursed accords and continues to press for their
implementation! Master of the Universe, after the hundreds of
condolence calls that Weizman had made to families who have lost
their beloved ones because of Oslo – he still thinks that we
have to continue with this? This is the President of the State of
Israel?
This is the President who is supposed to care of his people? For
me, this is the best proof that Ezer Weizman is a superficial
person, not especially bright, a person whose thoughts are not
especially profound. The truth be told, this bothers me more than
the very fact of his intervention with a foreign power against
the policy of an elected government. Let’s be frank: for the sake
of argument, if, Heaven forbid, an extremist Leftist government
was in power and the President miraculously held national views,
and he would intervene both in Israel and abroad in order to halt
the death accords, we would all support him. The actual issue is
that we don’t deserve a President like Weizman. We don’t deserve
a President who represents the fringes of society. The majority
of the people in Israel has awakened and knows that Oslo must be
stopped – now! We must act in three areas:
1) write to the President that he does not represent the people.
Let us inundate his office with thousands of letters to the
address:
President Ezer Weizman
President’s Residence
Jerusalem
He must know that he is on his way home, to live as a pensioner
in Caesarea.
2) we must take steps so that in another year the national camp
will have a different candidate for President. A serious,
intelligent candidate, a Jewish-Zionist leader with Jewish
principles. A President with pride. A President who does not
demean himself vis-a-vis the Arabs and who does NOT accept
terror. What is needed is leadership that will proclaim to the
entire world that Eretz Israel is ours, by force of Divine
promise, and that no terror will defeat us. Only then will the
verse in Ki Tavo be fulfilled: “And all the peoples of the earth
shall see that the Lord’s name is proclaimed over you, and they
shall stand in fear of you” (Deut. 28:10).
3) we must continue to be active in the “Stop Oslo Now!” campaign,
in order to educate all the naive ones like Ezer Weizman who still
want to believe that an agreement with the archmurderer is possible.
Call telemeser (03) 6363549 and material for distribution will be
sent to you.
Have a good week.
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Jerusalem, September 17, 1997
Lies and Deplorable Censorship
Listening to the daily distortions by
newscasters, it is a wonder that any listener can come
out right side up. It is as if there was no code of
morality which restrains.
Take the report of four families of Jews moving
into a Jewish-owned house on the Mount of Olives. This
property has been owned by Jews for at least the last
hundred years, and is in an ancient Biblical area
closely associated with the Jews for thousands of
years. Despite the fact that the house in question is
directly across the road from a vast Jewish holy burial
site where thousands of illustrous Jews are buried, the
reporters persist in calling the area by what the recent
migrating Arabs call it, Ras Al Amud, rather than its
Biblical name, the Mount of Olives. By doing this they
try to create the impression that this neighborhood is
being invaded by the Jews, even though this particular
area, even today, is sparsely settled by Arabs.
Interestingly enough, aerial photographs taken of the
area following the Six-Day War in 1967 show the area to
have been at that recent date virtually vacant and
barren.
Nor does the central fact that this piece of
private Jewish property is being leased from the owner
in the City of Jerusalem, Israel’s ancient capital,
restrain the broadcasters from attempting to denigrate
these residents in the eyes of the listener by using the
highly emotional description of them as “settlers.” The
Arabs, led by the Jew-hating Faisal Husseini, and joined
by their slavish partners, Meretz, and Peace Now , have
launched still another of their major anti-Jewish
offensives, this time against Jews “LIVING” in this
area, rather than just being “BURIED” in it.
Unfortunately, they are seemingly supported in this
attack by a short-sighted Prime Minister. Imagine if
this was an area in the United States which excluded blacks or
Jews, all these so-called “liberals” would be up in
arms. Yet, here Jews are being excluded in their own
Capital by the Arabs, Peace Now and Meretz; new
guidelines of what constitutes a “liberal” will now have
to be drawn up. All Arab violence to prevent Jews from
living in this area is condoned, and encouraged by such
“lovers of peace.” No wonder morality is in disarray,
when the world and Israeli Media can sympathize with an
arch murderer such as Arafat. Oh, what a topsy, turvy
world we live in.
Undaunted, Women In Green, showed up at the site
and brought flowers, salt, fresh bread, and fruit for
the four families. The new residents were widely
interviewed by the Media, as was Nadia Matar. Once
again the Arab Editor of our Government Television
Channel 1, CNN, BBC et al. censored their views. A fair
and balanced presentation is taboo. In marked contrast,
was the widespread coverage given to a Husseini-led
small Arab protest, and to the detailed comments of all
Peace Now, and Meretz spokespersons. At all costs the
public must not fairly see, hear and decide for itself
what is good for the Jews.”
Ruth and Nadia Matar
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Jerusalem, September 17, 1997
COME THIS FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19,
TO MA’ALEH HAR HAZEITIM (what the Arabs call Ras el Amud)
The Women in Green are going once again to show support to
our fellow-Jews in Ma’aleh Har Hazeitim (Mt. of Olives)
this Friday, September 19, 1997.
Buses will leave the Laromme Hotel at 9:15 am.
Fee: 5 NIS
We plan to be back at the Laromme at 12:00 noon.
Reserve your seat ASAP by calling 02/6249887 or fax: 02/6245380.
We want to fill a few buses, so we ask each person to bring
along at least two other friends!
In addition, we ask each person to bring some food or drinks to
give to the families for Shabbat. (No cooked foods please!).
BE THERE !!
Ruth and Nadia Matar
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Jerusalem, September 21, 1997
The following is the text of today’s program by Nadia Matar, the
chairperson of Women for Israel’s Tomorrow (Women in Green), on
Arutz 7. Nadia speaks every Sunday after the 12:00 noon newscast.
“Choose Life, If You Would Live …” — The Dagan Trial
Shalom to all our listeners!
This is Nadia Matar speaking –
Tomorrow, on Monday, the trial against me concerning Givat
Hadagan will continue, and probably conclude as well, in the
Jerusalem Magistrates’ Court. Under the previous regime, I was
arrested eight times during the course of legal demonstrations,
and in five times criminal indictments were brought against me
and against several of my fellow Women in Green members in which
I was falsely charged with attacking a police officer, disturbing
the peace, illegal assembly, etc….
Four cases are still being conducted, unbearably slowly, in
the courts. One indictment against me was dropped when it was
proved, by means of a videotape, that the police witnesses
perjured themselves and that the Assistant Commanding Officer of
the Jerusalem District, Micky Levi, also lied in his testimony.
The tape proved that it was he who brutally attacked me and not
the opposite, as the prosecutor sought to prove in vain. The
trial that concludes tomorrow concerns Givat Hadagan.
The struggle for Givat Hadagan was, as we know, the struggle
of the residents of Efrat and Gush Etzion and thousands of their
supporters, in order to guard lands that were as yet unpopulated,
which belong to the municipal territory of the settlement, but
which, according to the Oslo accords, were to be given over to
the PLO Authority. The struggle for Givat Hadagan took place
several months after the struggle for another hill in Efrat,
Givat Hatamar – a struggle which for some reason has dropped out
of the public consciousness, but in the light of what happened
this week on the Mount of Olives, the details should be recalled.
In January ’95 the Efrat council received all the necessary
permits in order to begin building on Givat Hatamar. The first
tractor began working. Everything was legal and proper. But not
for certain Jews — Jews from the left. A group from Peace Now
organized very quickly, and Peace Now began to incite the Arabs
so that they would begin to demonstrate against the legal
construction on Givat Hatamar. “This is a provocation!” the
demonstrators from the left said. “This will destroy the peace!”
“This will lead to terror!” and so on and so forth. Faisal
Husseini came to demonstrate. Naomi Hazan lay down before the
tractors, and the archmurderer Arafat put international pressure
on Yitzhak Rabin, who pressured the head of the Efrat council,
who unfortunately surrendered to the pressure and agreed to a
“compromise.” The compromise was that we would stop the
construction work on Tamar until the “right time,” and in
exchange for the construction on Tamar, we received a promise
that when the time came we could build on a much smaller hill,
Givat Hazayit.
To this day there is no construction on Givat Hatamar. To this
day we in Efrat are paying the price of this terrible compromise,
in that we do not have sufficient housing for the hundreds of
families that want to join the settlement and for the young
couples within Efrat who are forced to leave. The similarity with
the Mount of Olives compromise is horrifying. Here too,
everything was legal. Here too, the ones who inflamed the area
were a handful of extreme leftist activists from Peace Now – Jews
who hate themselves and the members of their people.
It is ironic that it is they, together with their partner
Faisal Husseini, specifically they who call this act of
settlement a “provocation that will lead to war,” but it is they
who with this call invite and justify the Arab violence and
terror. These Jews are so alienated from their roots that they do
not understand that when the Jewish People prayed for thousands
of years “Next year in Jerusalem,” this was not in order to
return to the Malha Mall or the Teddy Stadium! “Next year in
rebuilt Jerusalem”: Jerusalem – this is the Temple Mount!
Jerusalem – this is the Old City! Jerusalem – this is the Mount
of Olives! Despite the great similarity, and despite the
suffering, pain, and terrible disgrace of the very fact that in
Jerusalem we must cave in to the dictates of Arafat and find
“compromises,” as it were, I hope that the Mount of Olives
compromise will not end like the failure of the Givat Hatamar
compromise, but rather like the success of the St. John’s Hospice
compromise in Jerusalem in 1991, according to which the Jewish
families were asked to leave, with only security guards remaining
– in the place, now called “Neot David,” where dozens of JEWISH
families live.
In the upcoming Torah portion, the portion of Nitzavim, we
read:
I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day:
I have put before you life and death, blessing and curse.
Choose life – if you and your offspring would live
by loving the Lord your God,
heeding His commands, and holding fast to Him.
For thereby you shall have life and shall long endure
upon the soil that the Lord your God swore
to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob to give to them.
Those who champion the Oslo accords have chosen death,
destruction, a covenant with the Devil. We have chosen a covenant
with the Holy One, blessed be He; we have chosen to live, to
build and be built, to continue the way of the Patriarchs, and
with God’s help, we shall prevail.
The public is invited to attend the show trial that is being
conducted against me concerning Givat Dagan, tomorrow, Monday, in
the Jerusalem Magistrates’ Court in the Russian Compound, at
12:00 noon, before Justice Tzaban.
Have a good week.
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Jerusalem, September 22, 1997
The following is the text of the September 7, 1997, program by
Nadia Matar, the chairperson of Women for Israel’s Tomorrow
(Women in Green), on Arutz 7. Nadia speaks every Sunday after the
12:00 noon newscast.
Zu Artzeinu, Mrs. Albright
Shalom to all our listeners!
This is Nadia Matar speaking –
This time I want to talk to you about two topics, and so I ask
you to take pen and paper to write down the details. The first
subject is the scandalous conviction of the leaders of Zu
Artzeinu, Moshe Feiglin and Shmuel Sackett. It is quite cynical
that this of all weeks, in which we read the portion of Shoftim,
in which it is written: “Justice, justice, shall you pursue,” it
was this week that so wicked an injustice was done to two
wonderful Jews – Jews whose only crime is love of the Jewish
People and Eretz Israel. “You shall appoint magistrates [shoftim]
and officials [shotrim] … in all your settlements” the Torah
portion of the week tells us. But if you remove the letter peh
for peulah (action) from “shoftim” and the letter resh for ruah
(spirit) from “shotrim” – in other words, when judges and police
lack a basic understanding of the action and spirit behind their
roles, then all that is left of them is shotim – fools.
We encountered such this week in the trial of the leaders of Zu
Artzeinu, fools who decided to take a Chelm decision and find
loyal and patriotic Jews guilty of sedition! The true inciters
such as Ahmed Tibi, Faisal Husseini, and all the Arab Knesset
members are not charged with sedition and incitement – but Moshe
Feiglin and Shmuel Sackett were found guilty, even though
everyone knows that this is a political indictment! My listeners,
it isn’t enough to be shocked, we must protest in a concrete
manner against this distortion of justice, against the punishment
of the best of our sons as if they were criminals. We must
condemn the verdict of the court and demand that justice be done
– not only on behalf of Moshe and Shmuel, but on behalf of the
entire Jewish People, first and foremost for our own sakes.
Please, flood the office of the Attorney-General, Eliakim
Rubinstein, with thousands of letters and express your protest to
the address:
Mr. Eliakim Rubinstein
Attorney-General
Ministry of Justice
Salah-a-Din Street
Jerusalem
The second topic is the visit of the United States Secretary
of State Albright. I congratulate the government of Israel for
its decision not to continue with the death accords. The problem
is that Secretary of State Albright is bringing tremendous
pressure to bear so that the government will change its mind.
Unfortunately, I greatly fear that the government will be unable
to withstand this pressure. Here we, the ordinary people, enter
the picture. We must exert counterpressure and show the world,
and especially the United States, that the people in Israel does
not want to continue with the Oslo deception. We must demonstrate
against Oslo. I call upon all my listeners, men, women, and
children, to come and participate in two demonstrations against
the American pressure on Israel that will take place, God
willing, on the day of Secretary of State Albright’s visit to
Israel, this Wednesday, Elul 8, September 9.
in Jerusalem: at 4:00 p.m. A march will set out from Menorah
Park, near the Hamashbir, to the U.S. Consulate on Agron Street, where
a demonstration and shofar-blowing ceremony will take place. Men
who can are requested to aid in blowing the shofarot. I n Tel Aviv:
a demonstration at 5:00 p.m., opposite the U.S. Embassy on Hayarkon
Street.
To all the skeptics among you who say to me at times, “What
will this help?” “Why demonstrate” I say that demonstrations do
help. We, the people, have power, and we must make use of it. A
sane people, a normal people, takes to the streets when the
enemy, in his great audacity, seeks to blow us up in our streets.
We will tell Mrs. Albright: The Oslo deception cannot be
revived! The archmurderer Arafat is not a partner for peace, just
as peace could not be made with Hitler! Hitler killed the parents
of your parents, Mrs. Albright, together with millions of others
only because they were Jews. Arafat has the same fiendish hatred
for our people!
The Jewish People demands that Oslo be stopped – now! See you
this Wednesday opposite the U.S. Consulate in Jerusalem and
opposite the Embassy in Tel Aviv. We’ll all be there! Details and
responses: telemeser (03) 6363549
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Jerusalem, September 22, 1997
The True Culprits
Every once in a while Arab leaders let slip what
is the true situation that prevails here in Israel as to
the capacity of the PA to control Arab violence both
within and beyond the so-called “green line.” Faisal
Husseini had been leading the Arab charges against the
return of the Jews to live in their ancient neighborhood
of the Mount of Olives, on Jewish land, the ownership of
which is undisputed. The Media, quick to bow to Arab
propaganda, have supported the insupportable contention
that this so called Ras Al Amud is an old, densely
populated Arab neighborhood in the Jewish Capital of
Jerusalem. Any cursory investigation would disclose
facts that clearly show otherwise. This Mount of Olives
is an ancient Jewish Biblical area. Jewish identity
with this holy area of Jerusalem began long before the
Prophet Zechariah predicted that it is from the Mount of
Olives that the Messiah would be coming. For many
centuries it has been a holy burial site for more than
one half million Jews, a great many of them renowned
sholars who played a prominent role in Biblical
interpretation.
When three Jewish families moved into this Jewish-
owned property shortly after the City of Jerusalem had
lawfully granted a permit to build a small number of
apartments in the area, Husseini and Arafat exploded.
Arab behavior was similar to the uproar they tried to
create when the Jews began building in another sector of
the southern part of their Capital, in the neighborhood
known as Har Homa. Shortly after Faisal Husseini and
his gang of warriors descended upon the residence of
these Jewish families on the Mount of Olives, typical
Arab violence broke out in the form of stone throwing
and fire bombs, and the smashing of Jewish vehicles. No
attempt was made by Husseini or any other Arab leader,
or Peace Now, to subdue this violence. Husseini invited
such violence by deliberately and continuously
predicting in the media that it would occur, unless the
Jews withdrew.
At the height of encouraging such Arab violence,
it came as a great surprise that the Friday Moslem
service at the Al Aksa Mosque, located on the side of
the Temple Mount in the Old City, went by peacefully.
The media, of course, turned to their mentor Faisal
Husseini for an explanation of this otherwise
inexplicable quietude in Arab behavior. In the past
such services have featured sermons provoking violent
behavior. Husseini gave them the answer: ” .. the PA
discouraged wild protests becasue it didn’t want the
agenda to shift from the Jewish presence in Ras Al Amud
to the issue of violence. To stir up events at Al Aksa
would have been wrong. If one rock had been thrown at
the (Western) Wall, the whole world would forget the
issue of the settlements.” So you see, it is easy.
When the Arab leaders wish it, they can effectively
silence Arab violence! Is this not proof positive of
who is responsible for the widespread Arab violence that
presently exists in the Holy Land?
Ruth and Nadia Matar
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Jerusalem, September 26, 1997
“Changing The Character of A Neighborhood”
The U.S. State Department really deals in
absurdities. Take its stance on its support for the
agreement whereby Jewish families would be removed
from their Mount of Olives home because the State
Department does not want the “character of the
neighborhood to change.” It was a euphemistic way of
saying that the more than one half million Jews who
have been buried in the adjacent holy cemetery on the
Mount of Olives, and the few recent Arab arrivals,
should determine the character of the the
neighborhood. It is definitely not to come alive with
living Jews! So, when the Messiah will come from the
Mount of Olives, as the Prophet Zechariah predicted,
leading the revived dead to the Temple Mount, it will
not be with the U.S. State Department’s approval. The
Messiah would be “changing the character” of the
neighborhood, and that is Verboten!
It is so typical of American policy with
regard to Israel. It comes up with guiding principles
that apply only to Israel, but have no application
whatsoever to life in America. Imagine any U.S. Court
dealing with the claim that Afro-Americans cannot move
into a white neighborhood because that would “change
the character” of the neighborhood. Yet, Jews are to
be excluded from living in an ancient Jewish area,
because recent Arab migration into the area finally
has given the neighborhood “character.” Any Jew
living there would spoil this wonderful “character” of
the neighborhood, created by the violence and threats
of violence these Arabs cause to Jews visiting the graves
of their departed ancestors buried on this Mount of Olives,
and the desecration they vent on these Jewish graves.
There is no attempt, whatsoever, by any Arab residents in
the area to chastise or prevent such monstrous behavior by
their kinsmen.
The bizarre aspects of such a ludicrous policy
continue. What is truly amazing is the brazenness,
and callousness of the reasons given by the State
Department, and the comparative silence of American
Jewry to this hypocrisy, and blatant anti-Semitism.
It is amusing that the State Department spokesman is
probably an assimilated Jew. James Rubin has all the
earmarks of having somewhere in his past some
association with the Jewish People. His surname
certainly sounds that way. Be that as it may, we
wonder if the “character” of the respective
neighborhoods in which he, as well as Martin Indyk,
Sandy Berger and Dennis Ross presently live, have been
changed by their presence. Women In Green support
that each of them, together with their families, be
immediately removed from their homes, to be consistent
with the U. S. State Department’s aforesaid guidelines
for Israelites.
Ruth and Nadia Matar