The Younger Generation Declares: The Time has come for Sovereignty
The sovereignty youth movement has begun a hasbara campaign focusing on the call to apply sovereignty in Judea and Samaria. The first step: a learning seminar and an operation of encouragement to the fighters of the Border Police and local police of the Mahane Yehuda market.
Following the announcement of its establishment at the sovereignty panel, which was held in the Oz veGaon reserve about two weeks ago, the Eretz** movement ( acronym for Sovereignty Youth Organization) began its first activity, in which they combined a learning seminar with activity in the field.
Youths, from all parts of the Land, took part in the event (Wednesday, October 28), which began with a visit of encouragement and uplifting in the Mahane Yehuda market, in Jerusalem, and immediately afterward, a learning seminar where they participated in discussions centering on the matter of sovereignty.
The teenagers and youths, from Moreshet in the Galilee, Kadima in the Sharon, Jerusalem, Beit El, Gush Etzion, Sderot, Rishon LeZion and other places, came to the Jerusalem market carrying Israeli flags and flyers calling for the application of sovereignty over Judea and Samaria.
During the visit they expressed support and encouragement for the fighters of the Border Police and the local police as well as the passersby, who responded to them with expressions of joy and appreciation for the strong Zionist spirit that they brought with them into the stalls of the market.
Later, as mentioned, the youths were participants in the learning seminar about the need for sovereignty. The first of the speakers was Attorney Elyakim Haetzni, who presented a historical, legal survey to the youths, of the era since the days of the Balfour Declaration, the days of the British Mandate until these days.
Afterward, demographer Yoram Ettinger spoke with the youths, presenting them with encouraging demographic data regarding the feasibility of applying Israeli sovereignty over Judea and Samaria.
In his talk, Ettinger stated that there is no reason to fear the demographic specter, and that those who use the “demographic threat” as a reason not to apply sovereignty do it just as a political ploy, and nothing more.
Daniel Gabai, the coordinator of activities for Eretz, sums up the event by saying “we came with the objective of encouraging and demanding the realization of sovereignty in Jerusalem in order to prevent the next waves of terror. We demand from the government that Jerusalem be unified under the law and not only theoretically”.
About the plans for the new movement he says: “We will begin a large, national course of hasbara calling for sovereignty. We will come to homes in Israel with this message, and we will do this in every possible media – with hasbara material in the field, in electronic media, with social networks and so forth, in order to unite everyone around this solution. In parallel, we also intend to lobby members of Knesset and public figures. We will apply public pressure to influence the decision makers until we bring about a change in policy, to implement what we believe in and what they were elected to do. Their role, as those who have received the mandate from the People, thus bringing them to leadership, is to change the discourse and to strive toward this goal, to push ahead in every way toward application of sovereignty and practical realization of sovereignty. Everywhere where there is no sovereignty we get terror”.
Yehudit Katsover and Nadia Matar, the heads of the Women in Green movement, the movement espousing the vision of sovereignty, to which the new youth movement, Eretz, is connected, tell of the youths’ lively interest in the issues that were raised during the seminar – “it was very moving to see the youth delving into the questions and seeking the historical truth. There was a wonderful sense that there is a generation to which we can pass on the scepter”. Katsover and Matar encourage the new movement and state that “It is important to train a young and fresh cadre of leadership, who will lead the vision of sovereignty in the streets of the Land and especially among the teens and youth, since they are familiar with the language of the modern media and the capabilities of the younger generation”.
The two women see the activity that began today as the first promising harbinger of a continuity of both the seminars that will delve into research regarding the vision of sovereignty and activism in the field in hasbara and in strengthening the settlement enterprise.
For Details:
Yehudit Katsover 050-7161818 Nadia Matar 050-5500834
The Movement for Israel’s Tomorrow
Women in Green