Dear Friends,
What more do we need to give us strength to continue our campaign promoting Sovereignty with even greater force, than having the PA foreign affairs Ministry
condemning us and saying that our activities are causing the prevention of the creation of a Palestinian state…!!
Yes, you can read the original piece in today’s Palestine News Network: http://english.pnn.ps/2018/07/16/mofa-judaization-night-march-is-a-rebellion-against-international-legitimacy/
or here below
If any of us had any doubt as to the importance of our annual walk around the walls and our Sovereignty campaign…, this news item reminds us of it.
The PA item is followed by Women in Green’s reaction.
We hope to see you at the Walk. Be a partner. Forward this email to family and friends and urge them to come.
With warmest blessings,
Yehudit and Nadia
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Photos Credit Gershon Ellinson
Palestinian Foreign Affairs condemn “Women in Green”s annual Tisha BeAv Walk
PNN Ramallah July 16th 2018
The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a statement on Monday condemned the calls of the extremist right wing“Women in Green” association that has been accustomed in the recent years to launch a night march on the anniversary of the “Temple’s destruction”.
MOFA said that what it called a “provocative” march, which is scheduled to take place on July 21, is a march around the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem under the title: March around the walls to affirm the sovereignty over Jerusalem, the eternal capital of Israel; which aims to unify the city as the capital of Jerusalem, under the auspices and participation of a number of Israeli officials.
The Ministry confirmed that this march is an extension of the state of extremism that dominates the political arena in Israel and the settlers, since Trump’s ominous declaration on Jerusalem and the transfer of the embassy and the continuous Judaization of the Holy City and its separation from its Palestinian surroundings.
It said that this prevents the creation of a viable Palestinian state with a territorial and sovereign with East Jerusalem as its capital.
The Ministry called upon the international community to act quickly to defend its remaining credibility and to implement its relevant UN resolutions and to take legal measures to force Israel to comply with international law, and the will of international peace, saying the failure to hold Israel accountable for its aggressive and provocative practices encourages it to continue to commit further violations and crimes and to continue its violent isolation of occupied Jerusalem and its holy sites.
Women in Green association defines itself as a grassroots movement of women and men, young and old, secular and religious, all bound together by a shared concern, love, devotion and loyalty to the Land of Israel.
Press release: Women in Green’s reaction
Women in Green, the movement behind the annual Walk, responds: “The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has decided to call on the international community to issue an objection to the Walk of Tisha b’Av, which has been organized for the past 24 years by Women in Green, restoring the ancient Jewish custom of walking around the walls of Jerusalem on the eve of the fast day.
The Palestinian Authority is correct in a few of the points that they raise in their call:
Indeed, the walk on the eve of Tisha b’Av is intended to reinforce our sovereignty in the eternal city, the capital of Israel, Jerusalem. We take this opportunity to thank the president of the United States, Donald Trump, for his support in this matter. We are proud that this walk constitutes another layer in the process of preventing the establishment of a terror state in the heart of the Land, as they themselves claim. The steps taken for sovereignty in Jerusalem are part of an overall process in which we are striving to apply Israeli sovereignty over Judea and Samaria.
To the international community we state: The People of Israel is here because this is our Land and the capital of this Land is Jerusalem, toward which we have prayed for thousands of years. Only under our Israeli sovereignty can all of the nations and religions pray in it and travel in it freely and safely. We also take this opportunity to tell the international community that we are here because of a divine commandment and a history of more than 3,000 years, as well as by right of international institutions which declared the right of the Jewish People to this Land, from the Balfour Declaration, the San Remo Resolution, the resolution of the League of Nations and so on.
It is important to clarify to the Palestinian leadership that the world has changed and no longer buys the Arab-Palestinian lie; the world has opened its eyes and can now distinguish between good and evil and there is increasing understanding that the aggressor no longer is the one who wins sympathy. The world has opened its eyes also as a result of changes in the White House and because of the Muslim immigration to the European countries.
Jerusalem under Israel’s sovereignty is a cosmopolitan city representing freedom, holiness and morality. We call on everyone to join the walk, which will begin this coming Saturday night at 10:15pm after the mass reading of the Scroll of Lamentations in Gan Ha’atzma’ut (Independence Park) in the heart of the capital; the walk will encircle the walls of the Old City, stop at the Lion’s Gate for speeches and conclude at the Western Wall”.
Link to the flyer with all the details and list of speakers: http://womeningreen.org/the-24th-annual-walk-of-tisha-bav-eve/
Yehudit Katsover and Nadia Matar
The Sovereignty Movement founded by Women in Green
