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Letter from Ruth and Nadia Matar (Women in Green)
Monday, September 10, 2007
Dear Friends of Israel,
We go to the synagogue on Rosh HaShanah to pray to G-d for a good year. When we hear the Shofar blowing, most of us will think about personal repentance. However, in Jewish history the Shofar was also blown to warn and alert us about an upcoming threat and danger to the Jewish people.
Recent dramatic developments in Israel still mostly deliberately hidden from the public are urgent reasons to sound the Shofar alarm. According to confirmed leaks in the media, the Olmert government plans to attend US President Bush’s November Mid-East conference in Washington DC. Olmert is, no doubt, willing to agree to the creation of a terrorist Arab Muslim state carved out of Judea and Samaria, the Biblical Heartland of Israel. This will surrender to the Arab enemy all of Judea and Samaria and half of Jerusalem, including the Temple Mount. The creation of such an entity will endanger the very existence of the State of Israel.
Before the Oslo Agreements and the Disengagement plans were divulged to the public, most people refused to believe the leaks in the media, only to wake up to the fact that our leaders had betrayed us. This time we cannot sit by idly and wait. We must already now act and do all we can to prevent this disastrous evil decree.
Friends of Israel abroad, bewildered by the recent continuous leaks in the media, often send us e-mails asking us why the people in Israel are not taking to the streets? Why aren’t there mass demonstrations? Why this silence?
We must, once and for all, address this pertinent question. It is important that we remember that after the signing of the Oslo Accords we held many demonstrations, large and small. There wasn’t a week without a vigil or demonstration, and Women in Green certainly played a leading part. Women in Green members and others were often arrested and jailed during such demonstrations. Despite the fact that the Rabin government was trying to violently crush dissent and to silence the opposition, people were not scared, and came out in masses. People were hopeful that the demonstrations would bring down the government, and that a new Government would completely detach itself from the Oslo Accord policies of capitulation and concessions to the Arab enemy.
Unfortunately, that is not what happened. Despite the change of governments, the policy of withdrawal and concessions to the Arabs continued. Ariel Sharon’s betrayal and turnabout was the final straw. Israel had become a “democratic dictatorship”, i.e. a country that pretends to be a democracy, but really is ruled by one or a few persons, regardless of the will of the public. People started asking themselves what is the point of demonstrating when the government in any case, completely disregards the wish of the people. Even large-scale demonstrations of hundreds of thousands of demonstrators had no effect whatsoever!
In such a situation, the only way to oppose the implementation of the government’s decrees of expulsion of Jews from their homes is by mass civil disobedience and by soldiers refusing the order to uproot. Unfortunately, not enough people understood this before the expulsion from Gush Katif and Northern Shomron actually took place. It was a pity that many rabbis and public leaders, who were of the opinion that the State can do no wrong, bitterly opposed civil disobedience and refusal of orders.
And thus it happened that since the Expulsion, most people, even in the national camp, feel very helpless with regard to the political situation, and deliberately detach themselves from reality. They avoid listening to the news and are more and more focused in their private lives. They passively just hope for the best.
Today, with the city of Sderot being bombarded daily with Kassams launched from Gaza, turned into Hamastan after the Expulsion, most Israelis realize the dangers of capitulation to the Arabs. There is no doubt that a large majority of the Jews in Israel oppose the creation of a PLO State in Judea and Samaria. Women in Green have gathered over 350,000 signatures against the creation of such a state! We are sure that today, the dangers of such a state have become that much clearer to the Israeli electorate.
So now the question is: what can be done to wake up the people who have no faith in the power of demonstrating any more? How can we lead them to rise against the upcoming decrees that the Olmert government is formulating together with the internal and external enemies of Israel.
Women in Green believe that the answer lies in the hands of the prospective victims of the Olmert government’s plans, i.e. the Jews of Judea and Samaria. If the Jews in Judea and Samaria will show that this time they will fiercely resist any expulsion from their homes, if they will show steadfastness and loyalty to the Land of Israel, this will, please G-d, help rekindle the patriotic spirit of all the people in Israel.
We believe, therefore, that the most important thing to do now is exactly the opposite of what the overnment would like us to do: we must focus our struggle on Judea and Samaria. The Olmert government is trying to strangle the Jews there by building walls and fences around the Jewish communities? We will go beyond these fences and instead build NEW homes. The government wants us to stop building and even plans to destroy our communities ? We will defy those decrees by building NEW communities on hills the government plans to abandon.
Olmert must not be allowed to ignore the words of our first Prime Minister, David Ben Gurion: “No Jew is at liberty to surrender the right of the Jewish Nation and the Land of Israel to exist. No Jewish body is sanctioned to do so. No Jew alive today has the authority to yield any piece of land whatsoever. This right is preserved by the Jewish people throughout the generations and cannot be forfeited under any circumstance. Even if at some given time there will be those who declare that they are relinquishing this right, they have neither the power nor the jurisdiction to negate it for future generations to come. The Jewish Nation is neither obligated by nor responsible for any waiver such as this. Our right to this land, in its entirety, is steadfast inalienable and eternal. And until the coming of the Great Redemption, we shall never yield this historic right.” Speech to the 21st Zionist congress, Basel, 1937.
Women in Green are therefore proud to announce that, together with the Action Committees of Judea and Samaria and the Youth of Eretz Yisrael organization, we plan on creating five new communities throughout Judea and Samaria, starting this upcoming holiday of Succot, September 30th, 2007. These new communities will, please G-d, be built next to Efrat, Kedumim, Kiryat Arba, Elon Moreh and Chashmonaim. We already have a list of families who want to be part of this plan.
This campaign is a continuation of what was started this past summer. The thousands of people who went up to Chomesh declared: we do not accept the fact that the government gave away parts of the land of Israel and thus we will do all we can to go back to those places and rebuild Jewish life. Then, in addition to Chomesh, we went up to the Eitam. The thousands of people who walked up to the Eitam Hill next to Efrat, in the first stage of renewing the Zionist enterprise of settling the Land of Israel declared: not only will we go back to the places that the government has abandoned (like Chomesh) but we will also fight for the places that the government is trying to abandon now and give to the Arab enemy.
At that time the authorities were not able to stop the multitudes of Jews walking up to the hill. Only many hours later did they succeed in forcefully bringing down the people. Despite the fact that we were brought down, this was certainly a first success because it brought a much needed renewed spirit to the National Camp! A spirit of loyalty to the land. A spirit of defying and not fearing the authorities. A spirit of struggle. The spirit that was so lacking before and during the expulsion from Gush Katif and Northern Shomron.
We are now increasing our efforts. We plan to simultaneously begin populating five new hills. For this grandiose operation to succeed, we require the participation of lots of people from all over Israel.
That means we need to do a lot of publicity, which costs a great amount of money. We need to organize complicated logistics: busses to transport people, building materials for the new homes, generators, provisions for the new settlers, sanitary facilities such as chemical toilets, and above all, suitable security arrangements.
All this will cost a lot of money!
Women in Green, therefore, turn to you and urge you to help us financially. We are trying to collect the sum of $100,000 as soon as we can. Part of that sum is meant for “Hasbara” explaining to the public what we are doing and why. An example of such Hasbara is the article by Ariel Sharon written in 1994 and printed by Women in Green on the front page of the Jerusalem Post.
It is a given that the Olmert government will try to brutally crush this new endeavor. We promise you that we will do our utmost to fight any attempt to deprive us of the right to settle on our G-d-given Land. This is not a one-time effort for the TV cameras! We will go up again and again until we have achieved our goals.
When the People of Israel will see that the Jews in Judea and Samaria are once again raising their heads, and this time are ready to uncompromisingly fight for Eretz Yisrael, then, please G-d, the rest of the country will wake up to action, too.
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We wish you a wonderful New Year! May you be inscribed and sealed in the Book of Life. May the New Year bring to you and your family a shower of happiness, good health and prosperity! May it be a year of blessings for Eretz Yisrael and Am Yisrael. May we be victorious over our internal and external enemies.
Ruth and Nadia Matar
Co-Leaders of Women in Green
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