Dear Friends,
Two issues in this mail related to President Bush’s visit to Israel
1) MONDAY, JANUARY 7th at 2:30 pm Jerusalem City Council to dedicate Pollard Square
2) TUESDAY, JANUARY 8th at 6:00pm gathering at Har Choma from where we will set out to build in Judea and Samaria
Women in Green call upon all to participate in both of these very important events.
1) JERUSALEM CITY COUNCIL TO DEDICATE POLLARD SQUARE
On Monday, January 7, 2008, at 2:30 PM, the Jerusalem City Council, led by Representative Mina Fenton (NRP), has scheduled a renaming ceremony to take place at Kikar Paris (Paris Square) in Jerusalem – a public square situated midway between the American Consulate and the Prime Minister’s Residence – to rename it in honor of Jonathan Pollard.
The name change to Freedom for Jonathan Pollard Square anticipates the arrival of President George Bush in Israel (January 9, 2008) and marks the start of Jonathan Pollard’s 23rd year in prison. The Jerusalem City Council declares that the name change will take effect immediately and remain in effect UNTIL Jonathan Pollard is released and returned to Israel.
Members of the Jerusalem City Council, Jonathan Pollard’s wife Esther and other public figures will be in attendance. The ceremony is being arranged in coordination with the Jerusalem-based Committee to Bring Jonathan Pollard Home (HaVaad) and Justice4JP.
It is urgent that as many people as possible attend in order to show support for the release of Jonathan Pollard. The greater our numbers in attendance at this event, the stronger a message will be sent to President Bush and to Ehud Olmert to FREE JONATHAN POLLARD NOW!!
Please reprint, recirculate, and forward this message to all of your friends, family, and associates in Israel. Urge everyone to attend.
For further information visit www.jonathanpollard.org (English) or www.FreePollard.org (Hebrew), or email us at justice4jp@gmail.com (English) or FreePollard@gmail.com (Hebrew). Please be there!!!
2) WE CONTINUE TO BUILD THE LAND OF ISRAEL!!
PM Olmert has said it bluntly in an exclusive interview today with the Jerusalem Post: he wants Israel to go back to the 1967 borders. It is enough to remind us all that Abba Eban has labelled those borders the “Aushwitz borders”.
Incredulously, we are being told that Jews are no more allowed to build in their homeland and in their capital. If in any other country in the world we would hear on the news that such and such Prime Minister does not allow the Jews to build and expand in their own Land, that Prime Minister would be called a vicious antisemite. How exactly are we to describe a government of the Jewish State of Israel that applies such antisemitic decrees against Jews?
If, once upon a time, the idea of “building anywhere and everywhere in the land of Israel” was the main slogan of Zionism, today “building the land of Israel” has become the tool to defy the decrees of our internal and external enemies. And thus, we urge all of you to join in the gathering planned on the eve of Bush’s visit, NEXT TUESDAY, JANUARY 8th. We will meet at 6:00pm in Jerusalem at Har Choma (Chomat Shmuel). From there, after a few speeches by rabbis and public figures, we will accompany the trucks filled with building materials to build and expand settlements in Judea and Samaria. The message is clear: There is no Jerusalem without Judea and Samaria and the entire Land of Israel, and there is no Land of Israel without Jerusalem.
Details about the settling effort can be heard in a interview in English that Nadia Matar gave to Arutz 7 on the day of the court case of the seven girls who had been arrested for the “crime” of settling a hill in the Land of Israel.
Go to http://www.israelnationalnews.com/TV/ and click on DEFIANT CONSTRUCTION FOR BUSH ISRAEL VISIT
For more details about the girls court case you can click on GIVAT HA’OR ACTIVISTS STILL REFUSING TO COOPERATE.
As we told you in a previous email, people can join the struggle:
a) By sponsoring a truck filled with building materials. Each truck costs $5000. Our goal is to be able to get at least ten trucks. We already received donations from all over the world and we thank all those who already gave but we are still far away from our ten-truck-goal. Details as to how to donate will be posted at the bottom of this email.
b) You can also help by coming to the gathering in Har Choma (Chomat Shmuel) and making sure all your relatives and friends will join. It is very important that many people attend. Help us by spreading the word.
If you plan on coming by the Jerusalem public transportation, take bus no. 14 to Har Choma.
Instructions as to how to get there (with thanks to Suzy Dym from Mattot Arim):
If you drive to Har Homa from the Tel Aviv Jerusalem highway. just before you reach Jerusalem:
1. Take the new road (I think it is route 9) toward the Dead Sea.
2. Stay in the right lane and follow the signs to Begin South.
3. Stay on Begin South until the first traffic light, which is the end of Begin.
4. Turn left at the light and go straight to Tzomet Pat.
5. Make a right at Tzomet Pat (Tzomet Pat is a T. Make the right before the gas station (I think it is a Delek station).
6. Go up the hill and pass the first traffic light.
7. At the second traffic light make a left.
8. Go straight to end of the road, which I think is the first light.
9. At the end of the road make a right.
10. Go straight to Derech Hebron.
11. Make a right onto Derech Hebron and stay in the left lane.
12. Go straight for about half a kilometer. You will see an Alon gas station on your left.
13. Make a left toward Har Homa after the Alon gas station.
14. Go down the hill to the traffic circle.
15. Bare right at the traffic circle and you will enter Har Homa.
For details call 052-5309954
Register for transportation: Rehovot 050-7901090 Bet Shemesh 054-2024970 PetachTikva 052-8606225 Bat-Yam 054-6235818 Gush Talmonim/Nof Ayalon 052-4088650 Kiryat Arba 054-8120908 Bet-El 054-6445100 Kochav Hashahar 052-8971670 Gush Etzyon 052-3992605 Kedumim 052-8133392 Elon Moreh 052-6830400 Maaleh Adumim 054-5665036
The event is organized by:
Loyalists of the Land of Israel – Youth for the Land of Israel – Women in Green – Vaad Rabbanei Yesha – Komemiyut – The Committee for Saving the People and the Land – Meginei Eretz – Forum Nahalal – Halev Hayehudi – Virashtem Ota – Mateh Tsafon – Mattot Arim – HaMateh LeMaan Erets Israel – The Action Committees-the families – Le Petit Hebdo,the bulletin of the French Olim in Israel
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With Love of Israel,
Ruth and Nadia Matar
Women in Green
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