WOMEN IN GREEN wishes all of its friends, supporters and their families a Happy New Year!!

A year of good health, happiness and joy.
A year of Jewish pride and return to Jewish values.

A year in which Hashem will give the People of Israel the willpower and the strength to be victorious over our internal and external enemies and to return to all parts of ERETZ YISRAEL.

SHANA TOVA,

Ruth and Nadia Matar
Women in Green

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Yesterday, Wednesday, September 24, 2008, tens of members of Women in Green went on a chizuk trip to the outposts in the Shomron and to Yitzhar.

Meeting today’s Jewish heroes living in Samaria gave us all strength and even more determination to continue the struggle for the Land of Israel.

First we visited Halfon’s factory for prefab houses. Halfon is a dear Jew active for the Land of Israel for the past 40 years. After visiting his factory located close to Karnei Shomron, we went to Shavei Shomron to see a house Halfon built.

Halfon developed a technique to build homes fast and relatively cheap to enable young couples to move to Judea and Samaria at a time when the Israeli government does not allow any Jewish building and expansion. (Arabs, on the other hand, build as much as they want, with the help of the European Union and other countries like Japan).

We urge you to click below on the link to Gemma Blech’s pictures of our trip yesterday to enjoy the photos of our trip in general and of Halfon’s sample house in particular.

Afterwards we went to Chavot Yair. Chavot Yair is a so-called "outpost" next to Yakir. Twenty families live in the community of Chavot Yair which is located in the most breath taking areas of Israel, in between the mountains of Samaria.

Famous Attorney Doron Nir Zvi lives in Chavot Yair with his wife Tamar. In response to the expulsion from Gush Katif, Doron and Tamar have built a beautiful coffee house in Havot Yair called "Hatzrif shel Tamari" . The coffee shop is open on Thursday evenings and Friday mornings. If you want to be imbued with renewed strength, you must come to Chavot Yair!

Attn Doron Nir Zvi was in the news not so long ago when the Civil Administration came to destroy the swimming pool he had built in Chavot Yair. Not deterred by the authorities, Doron rebuilt his pool within days with a very clear message: this land belongs to the Jewish people. We will live here, build here and even enjoy life like our brothers in Tel Aviv and Savyon, building swimming pools and coffee shops!

Women in Green brought a box full of toys for the children of Chavot Yair and continued on to Yitzhar.

In Yitzhar we went straight to the neighborhood of Shalhevet-Ya, where the Arab terrorist entered two Shabbatot ago, burnt down a house and stabbed a child. We were welcomed by Revital Ofan who, calmly, told us the entire story of the Arab attack on their homes. From the area of Yitzhar, located high up in the Samaria hills, we could clearly see Tel Aviv and Herzliya, within katyusha range. Anyone visiting Yitzhar understands what, G-d forbid, would happen to Tel Aviv and Herzliya if instead of Jews, the PLO-Hamas regime would be controlling those hills.

In Yitzhar we also met the sister of Tuvia, the nine year old boy who bravely fought the Arab terrorist. We gave her a book to give Tuvia. The book is Arieh Yitzhaki’s book on the history of Kfar Darom (see below for more details) which is a book on Jewish heroism. We wrote in it:
"To dear Tuvia, a book on Jewish pride and heroism to a modern day Jewish hero as yourself".

After Yitzhar we drove back to Jerusalem but before heading home we had one more stop: we drove to the Hawara checkpoint to strengthen our soldiers. The Hawara checkpoint is the IDf checkpoint at the entrance to Shchem (Nablus). Thousands of Arabs enter and exit that checkpoint and the IDF must check all of them thoroughly for otherwise terrorists would be able to go to Natanya and Gush Dan and blow themselves up there. Thus, the Hawara checkpoint is the place where the IDF makes sure Gush Dan is safe.

Unfortunately, the extreme left traitorous Israeli members of Machsom Watch come to Hawara daily to harass our soldiers and collaborate with the Arabs. A few days ago an Arab terrorist woman took advantage of the "humanitarian" lane at Hawara and threw acid in the face of one of our soldiers. The soldier lost his eye.

Women in Green felt it to be very important to come and strengthen the soldiers there. We arrived at the checkpoint, got off the bus and surrounded our IDF soldiers with love, cakes, singing and praises. Using our bullhorn we strengthened the soldiers telling them that the People of Israel thank them for their hard work and wish them a happy New Year. We told them how much we appreciate them for doing exactly what they have to do: that is to fight the Arab enemy. We also added that we hope, pray and expect that they would always only deal with securing the Jewish People in the Land of Israel and never have to deal with expelling Jews.

The soldiers were very moved and thanked us .

Thus ended a long uplifting day. As usual we came to strengthen but thank G-d, we came back strengthened.

Here is the link to Gemma Blech’s pictures-please give credit if used.
http://picasaweb.google.com/gemmablech/WIGToTheSHOMRON24908

Lastly, below is a summary by Gemma Blech of Arieh Yitzhaki’s book "222-The days of Kfar Darom 1948".

Women in Green strongly recommend to buy the book. It is a great present for Bar/Bat Mitzva- birthdays-holidays and in addition it helps our dear friends Arik and Datya Yitzhaki, expelled three years ago from kfar Yam in Gush Katif, temporarily living in Efrat until we, please G-d, will return to Gush Katif and rebuild the flourishing communities there.

With Love for Israel,

Nadia Matar - Anita Finkelstein
Women in Green

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The book, 222-The Days of Kfar Darom 1948, first published in Hebrew about a year ago, is now [in excellently translated] English. It tells the almost unknown story of a handful of Jews who stood against Arab terror, and outright Egyptian war, before and after the birth of Israel as a nation. Many of us know of the far briefer battles for Yad Mordechai, Kfar Etzion, etc, but only now has the full story of Kfar Darom been told. The author, Aryeh Itzhaki, is an historian and geographer with a wide range of books, publications and research papers to his credit. Formerly of Gush Katif and now living in Efrat, Itzhaki is an Israeli military historian and a senior lecturer in the field of military history in IDF courses for officers.

His book begins with ‘defining supreme valor’. ‘The height of bravery’, we are told, ‘is ongoing bravery. Not a momentary act where a person risks his life for a short while, … but an act of bravery that stretches out excruciatingly and is measured in weeks or even months.’

The story of those 222 days of bravery in 1947 and 1948 is a book one does not easily put down. Even the details of the military campaigns and the names of people and places, are made simple enough for those who do not know Hebrew or the Israeli landscape.

Aryeh Itzhaki is married to Datia, whose father was one of the fighters for Kfar Darom, and who then became one of the core re-builders of Kfar Darom after the Six-Day war in 1967. The two of them later built and lived in Kfar Yam, another Gush Katif community, and became defenders again in 2005 when this time it was an Israeli government which became the destroyer of Jewish towns, homes and farms in Eretz Israel.

The book costs $20 or 75 NIS in English and 65 NIS in Hebrew ­ including the price of postage within Israel

TO ORDER, PLEASE SEND IN A CHECK TO POB 1265, Efrat 90435

Or contact Datya at datya@netvision.net.il

The book is very suitable as a birthday, Bar/Bat Mitzva present or indeed for Rosh HaShana and Sukkot etc.

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Dear Friends,

1) Arab terror against Jews in Israel is increasing daily. As the famous saying of our Rabbis says:
"Those who have mercy on the cruel, will become cruel to the merciful"

Yesterday an Arab woman threw acid in the face of a soldier at the Hawarra checkpoint. The soldier lost his eye sight. The Arab woman exploited Israel’s latest capitulation to terror labeled "the special "humanitarian" lane" at checkpoints. The "humanitarian" lane at the IDF checkpoints is meant to allow Arabs with "humanitarian" problems to pass by the checkpoint faster, without being checked as thoroughly as the other Arabs waiting in the other lanes. This latest criminal idiocy by the Israeli government was exploited by the Arab enemy and an IDF soldier lost his eye.

A few hours later an Arab resident of Jerusalem drove with his BMW car into a crowd of Israeli soldiers walking on the sidewalk in downtown Jerusalem, close to the Old City, wounding tens of Israeli soldiers and residents. Luckily, an IDF officer realized this was a terror attack and immediately killed the Arab terrorist, thus preventing him from continuing on his killing spree.

All this is happening at a time when 0.23% of the Israeli public (i.e. less than 20,000 people- many of them Arabs and Druze whose votes were bought) appointed a new chairman for the virtual Kadima party.

We must hope that Tzippy Livni will not be able to form a government and thus will be forced to go to new elections. The key to that is the Shas party. It is mostly in their hands whether Livni will be able to form a government or not. Unfortunately, the Shas party has disappointed all of us since the Oslo agreements. Now is the time to tell the Shas leaders:
Shas can repent for the crime of allowing the Olso Accords to happen! Do not join Tzippy Livni! Call for new elections!

Bombard Shas’s offices with phones,faxes and emails:
Minister of Trade and Industry Eli Yishai
tel: 972-2-666-22-52-3
fax: 972-2-666-29-09

Emails of all Shas members of Knesset:
found at http://www.knesset.gov.il/mk/eng/mkindex_current_eng.asp?view=1

eyishay@knesset.gov.il
dazulay@knesset.gov.il
aatias@knesset.gov.il
eamsalem@knesset.gov.il
mazorb@knesset.gov.il
yvaknin@knesset.gov.il
nzeev@knesset.gov.il
amncohen@knesset.gov.il
izchakec@knesset.gov.il
amichaeli@knesset.gov.il
mnahari@knesset.gov.il

2) Below please find Caroline Glick’s article in this past Friday’s Jerusalem Post "It is time to act."

3) REMINDER: TOMMORROW WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 24th,2008
WOMEN IN GREEN exciting chizuk trip of outposts in the Shomron.
Leaving Jerusalem at 9:00 am. Approximate return 3:30pm.
There are places left on the bus.
Call now and reserve seats for what will, please G-d, be a special and meaningful day.

Anita 0505-777254  Nadia 0505-500834

4) RESERVE THE DAY! THURSDAY CHOL HAMOED SUKKOT, October 16th,2008
CELEBRATE SUKKOT IN SHDEMA with your family and friends!

Shdema:
An abandoned army camp, 5 km from Har Choma,overlooking the Jerusalem-Gush Etzion road. The camp was abandoned two years ago. We must continue the fight to keep it in Jewish hands.

Sukkot Program:
*Art Exhibition-paintings by Binyamin Keltzel- *Lecture on Shdema-*Singing and dancing with Tekoa band- *Fun activities for children (arts & crafts-"mitnapchim")-*Fair with booths selling art-cakes-food-drinks

The event is authorized by the army who will provide security.

THE COMMITTEE FOR A JEWISH SHDEMA
To see the short powerpoint presentation on shdema go to http://www.womeningreen.org/
and click on the SHDEMA icon.

With Love of Israel,

Nadia Matar - Anita Finkelstein
Women in Green

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Column One: It is time to act
September 19, 2008
Caroline Glick, THE JERUSALEM POST
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1221745565484&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Iran is just a heartbeat away from the A-bomb.Last Friday the Daily Telegraph reported Teheran has surreptitiously removed a sufficient amount of uranium from its nuclear production facility in Isfahan to produce six nuclear bombs. Given Iran’s already acknowledged uranium enrichment capabilities, the Telegraph’s report indicates that the Islamic Republic is now in the late stages of assembling nuclear bombs.

It would be a simple matter for Iran to assemble those bombs without anyone noticing. US spy satellites recently discovered what the US believes are covert nuclear facilities in Iran. The mullocracy has not disclosed these sites to the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency, which is charged with inspecting Iran’s nuclear sites.

As to the IAEA, this week it presented its latest report on Teheran’s nuclear program to its board members in Vienna. The IAEA’s report claimed that Iran has taken steps to enable its Shihab-3 ballistic missiles to carry nuclear warheads. With their range of 1,300 kilometers, Shihab-3 missiles are capable of reaching Israel and other countries throughout the region.

In support of its swiftly progressing nuclear program, Iran has escalated both its conventional military and terroristic adventurism. It has also ratcheted up its diplomatic assault on the US. This week, Teheran conducted a countrywide air defense exercise. Gen. Khatim al-Anbiaa, the commander of Iran’s Air Defense Corps, explained that the exercise was aimed at defending against both electronic jamming systems and actual bombing strikes.

Also this week, Yahya Rahim Safavi, the former commander of the Revolutionary Guards Corps and current senior adviser to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei for security affairs, announced that Iran has shifted responsibility for naval warfare on the Persian Gulf from its regular naval forces to its more fanatical Revolutionary Guards. The Iranian navy will now be deployed only in the Gulf of Oman and along the Caspian Sea.

The deployment of the Guards along the Persian Gulf means that the force will be responsible for naval operations in the narrow Strait of Hormuz, through which 40 percent of global oil shipments travel. Issuing Iran’s most explicit threat to US naval forces in the area and global oil shipments to date, Safavi declared, "The entire Strait of Hormuz is under the tight control of the Iranian security forces, which are ready to defend Iran against any threat."

As for terror, al-Qaida boss Ayman Zawahiri’s recent tirade against the Islamic Republic notwithstanding, Iran has apparently intensified its cooperation with al-Qaida. Over the past two weeks, Israeli counterterror officials have issued explicit warnings to Israeli vacationers to immediately depart from Sinai. They have stated that terror cells from al-Qaida and Hamas are working with Iran’s Hizbullah to abduct groups of Israeli vacationers to Gaza. Moreover, as Hamas and Teheran have openly acknowledged their "brotherly" ties, more and more reports have been published about al-Qaida’s escalating presence in Gaza.

Beyond all this, both regionally and globally Iran is escalating its diplomatic and strategic offensive against the US. It has widened its diplomatic operations in the Western hemisphere from Venezuela, Cuba, Ecuador and Nicaragua to the Caribbean by opening diplomatic relations with Grenada and St. Vincent, and it is pursuing diplomatic ties with Jamaica.

Teheran has initiated its own pro-Russian diplomatic initiative to "stabilize" the Caucasus. This week Iran’s Foreign Minister Manoucher Mottaki caught the US State Department by surprise when he arrived in Tblisi to meet with Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili. That meeting was part of a regional tour that took Mouttaki to Russia, Azerbaijan and Armenia, as well as Germany.

Finally, of course, there is Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s annual trip to New York for the UN’s General Assembly opening session next week. Aside from being honored by leaders of the supposedly pacifist and clearly anti-Semitic Quaker and Mennonite churches, Ahmadinejad will be feted by newly elected General Assembly President Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann from Nicaragua.

COUNTERING TEHERAN’S sprint to the nuclear finish line and its intensifying threats against Israel and the West are three Western initiatives to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.

First, the US, France and Britain have stepped up their rhetoric calling for additional economic sanctions against Iran. During the General Assembly meeting in New York, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is scheduled to meet her counterparts from the other permanent members of the Security Council and Germany to try to agree on such sanctions. But this will be an exercise in futility.

Russia has made clear that it will reject any further sanctions. Indeed it is intensifying its military and financial ties to Teheran. Moscow has pledged to have the Bushehr nuclear plant up and running by the end of the year. And Iran is already suspected of diverting plutonium from the plant to develop still more nuclear weapons.

Germany, too, has evinced no interest in curtailing its financial ties to Teheran. To the contrary, German trade with Iran expanded 12% in the last year, from $2.7 billion to $3b.

So the US will fail to pass additional sanctions against Iran in the UN Security Council. And this is a shame. But even if a miracle occurred and Russia, China and Germany agreed to adopt and enforce stiff sanctions against Iran, those sanctions would come too late to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.

The uranium that the Iranians took from their Isfahan plant will be weapons grade and attached to Shihab-3 missiles or transferred to Hizbullah, al-Qaida or Hamas terrorists for use long before such hypothetical sanctions would even be noticed.

The second way that the West - and particularly the US and Israel - have sought to stymie Iran’s nuclear ambitions is through sabotage. As Yediot Aharonot reporter Ronen Bergman documented in his book, The Secret War with Iran, over the past few years the Mossad and US intelligence agencies have had some success killing personnel involved in Iran’s nuclear weapons program. They have also managed to sell faulty nuclear components to Teheran that have slowed down and sabotaged its operations. As the assassination of Iran’s terror master Imad Mughniyah in Damascus in February demonstrated, Israel has the capacity to carry out sensitive covert operations deep inside enemy territory. And more successful covert operations could no doubt cause still more damage to Iran’s nuclear program.

But it is all but impossible to see how any such operations can prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons in the short term. With that uranium from Isfahan hidden away in one of its covert facilities, with terror operatives deployed all over the globe and in charge of Lebanon and Gaza, and with the Shihab-3 missiles happily accepting nuclear warheads, it is apparent that no matter how bold, limited covert operations have not and will not prevent Iran from crossing the nuclear threshold.

Finally, there are the private initiatives to use international law, capital markets and political pressure to deter Teheran from acquiring nuclear weapons and to persuade states not to cultivate ties with Iran.

A year ago, The Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs began a push to indict Ahmadinejad as a war criminal for his breach of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. His calls for Israel’s annihilation make him guilty of the explicit crime of inciting genocide. The JCPA’s initiative has fomented similar calls by groups in Canada and Australia and, most recently, by tens of thousands of evangelical Christians.

The Anti-Defamation League and AIPAC are waging public campaigns against European oil and gas companies that are involved in developing Iran’s oil and gas fields.

The Center for Security Policy in Washington spearheaded the initiative to divest US public employee pension funds from companies that do business with Iran and other state sponsors of terror.

Several major American Jewish organizations are organizing a massive protest outside UN headquarters that will take place during Ahmadinejad’s address to the body next Tuesday. Other groups, like the Israel Project, conduct intensive briefings for the media in the US and Europe to educate reporters and editors about the Iranian nuclear program.

All of these private initiatives are vital for raising public awareness in the West about the lethality of the Iranian threat to Israel and to global security in general. They are also important for embarrassing governments - particularly Germany, Austria and other European governments with histories of anti-Semitic violence - that refuse to end their bilateral trade with Teheran. Beyond that, they serve the important goal of weakening the Iranian economy.

But again, none of these programs can do a thing against that uranium for six bombs that Iran removed from its plant in Isfahan. They can’t stop those centrifuges in Natanz and in covert facilities throughout Iran from buzzing along. They can’t destroy those Shihab-3 missiles. They can’t kill the scientists assembling the bombs.

IN LIGHT of Iran’s unrelenting and rapid progress toward the nuclear finish line, it is clear today that while positive in their own rights, none of the actions the West is taking will succeed in blocking its path to the atomic bomb.

For that matter, the one option short of war that might have put an end to the mullahs’ race to the bomb three years ago - namely supporting the Iranian people in their wish to overthrow their regime - cannot be adopted fast enough to prevent the likes of Khamenei and Ahmadinejad from pushing the button now.

Today, there is only one way to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. Israel must bomb Iran’s nuclear installations. Such a strike will not end Iran’s nuclear program. It will not overthrow the regime. It will not cripple Iran’s economy. It will not end Iran’s active support for international terrorist groups.

All an Israeli air strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities will do is set its nuclear program back for a couple of years. Such a strike will buy Israel and the rest of the world time. And during that time, Iran will no doubt expand its diplomatic, terror and political offensives against Israel and the US. But if Israel and the US are wise, they can use the time as well.

If Israel and the US are wise, they will use the extra time to ratchet up international economic sanctions on Iran. They will use the time to conduct covert operations against nuclear and regime targets. They will use the time to increase international pressure on countries that do business with Iran and sell it arms. And they will use the time that an Israeli military strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities will buy to support Iranian democracy movements and so weaken the regime and perhaps eventually topple it.

It is clear today that the Bush administration will not take action against Iran. This week five former secretaries of state said that the US should pursue diplomatic ties with Teheran regardless of Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons. There will be no will in Washington to act against Iran until after Iran has attacked Israel with nuclear weapons.

So it is up to Israel. Too bad we don’t have a government in Jerusalem.

caroline@carolineglick.com

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Dear Friends,

1) Below please find Caroline Glick’s article of today.

2) Tomorrow, WEDNESDAY, September 17th, Women in Green will be going at 12:00 noon to the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem to show support of our brothers in Yitzhar. we will hand out "Kulanu Yitzhar" (We are all Yitzhar) and "Eretz Yisrael Le’Am Yisrael" bumper stickers. We will meet at 12:00 noon exactly in front of the Sima restaurant.

3) Reminder: Friday, September 19th: Car convoy to SHDEMA.
Program: Tour of Shdema-  Dvar Torah by Rabbi Gideon Perl, Rabbi of Alon Shvut- coffee and cake
9:45- departure from Har Choma parking lot next to the police station
9:30- departure from Efrat’s southern gate
9:45- departure from Tekoa main road

With Love of Israel,

Nadia Matar - Anita Finkelstein
Women in Green

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Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni may not be a crook, but she is a fraud. And if polls are to be believed, Livni the fraud is just one fraudulent election away from becoming our next prime minister.

Her basic dishonesty is expressed both in her political maneuverings and in her behavior as a policymaker. In both areas, she upholds herself as Mrs. Clean - the servant of all of us who are sickened, demoralized and revolted by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and his hordes of corrupt Kadima colleagues and staffers. But she is not our servant. Rather than serve us, like Olmert and her Kadima colleagues, she lies to us in a continuous bid to expand her power.

Case in point is her participation in Wednesday’s anti-democratic Kadima primary, which will elect the party’s new leader to replace Olmert, who of course is both a fraud and a crook.

Unlike all the other party primaries that have been held over the years, this one is designed not as a preparatory step ahead of general elections to the Knesset. Rather, it is intended to replace general elections. The expressed goal of Livni and her three opponents - Transportation Minister Shaul Mofaz, Public Security Minister Avi Dichter and Interior Minister Meir Sheetrit - is not to ready Kadima for elections, but to select a new prime minister who will form a governing coalition that will bar the public from electing its representatives until March 2010.

KADIMA’S MOVE to trample the people’s right to choose our leaders is not the only reason that its primary is an affront to the public. The primary is not just anti-democratic, it is also a fraud.

Only 15 percent of Kadima’s members joined the party on their own initiative. According to analyses conducted over the past several months, these 15% are people who were swept up in the initial excitement when Kadima was formed by Ariel Sharon in 2005.

According to pollsters, like most Israelis, these idealistic Kadima members became disenchanted with the party over the past three years. Accordingly, they are the least likely to vote in Wednesday’s poll.

The other 85% of Kadima’s 70,000 members are people who were brought into the party by those nefarious standard-bearers of Israeli politics of recent years: the vote contractors.

Vote contractors are political bosses and paid political operatives who peddle their influence in various communities, labor unions and population sectors to persuade citizens to join specific parties as bloc voters.

In its brief political life span, Kadima’s membership rolls have been subject to multiple criminal investigations. In one case now under investigation, up to 1,000 people were signed up for the party without their knowledge. Vote contractors forged their signatures on membership forms and paid their membership fees.

Although the media - which are openly biased in Livni’s favor - have placed most of the blame for this state of affairs on Mofaz, the truth is that Livni has not shied away from backroom deals with influence peddlers selling votes. For instance, she has used Deputy Foreign Minister Majallie Whbee to sign up blocs of Livni voters in the Arab and Druse sectors. Arabs and Druse comprise 20% of Kadima’s members and it has been widely predicted that they will cast the decisive vote. Livni is expected to win some 70% of their votes.

Then there is the Russian community. Here too Livni has hired vote contractors to sign up blocs of voters on her behalf. And like the Arabs and the Druse, there is no reason to believe that the Russian olim even support Kadima. They are just as likely to vote for another party in the general election. Livni knows this. She just doesn’t care.

Owing to the basic fraudulence of Kadima’s voter rolls, the fact is that regardless of the identity of the victor, he or she will be beholden not to voters, but to a few dozen influence peddlers. That Livni upholds this anti-democratic and wholly corrupt electoral farce as a legitimate path to the premiership puts paid the notion that she is an honest politician dedicated to cleaning up politics and making politicians accountable to voters.

LIVNI’S EMBRACE of fraud is the thread that ties her political machinations to her policy maneuvers. Indeed, fraud - that is deceit - has been her chosen tactic for advancing her political fortunes since she first rose to prominence in 2004.

The most blatant recent example of Livni’s deceitfulness is her behavior on the issue of sovereignty over Jerusalem. For the past year, Livni has led the negotiating team with the Fatah faction of the Palestinian Authority. In her position, she has been the architect of whatever agreements the government has concocted regarding the surrender of Judea and Samaria and parts of Jerusalem to Fatah.

Supported by the local media, Livni and Olmert have denied the public the right to know what they are discussing on our behalf and so prevented any public debate about their actions. This is crucial for them because opinion polls show that their presumptive plan to withdraw from some 98% of Judea and Samaria and partition Jerusalem is not supported by the public.

The issue of Jerusalem is particularly sensitive. Olmert pledged to coalition partner Shas that he would not discuss the city with the Palestinians. Since Shas doesn’t wish to leave the government, Shas leader Eli Yishai pretends he doesn’t know that Olmert’s pledge was a fraud. For their part, Livni and Olmert defraud the public by claiming that Jerusalem is not on their diplomatic chopping block.

On Thursday, Olmert, Livni and Shas had their bluffs called when the US Consul in Jerusalem Jacob Walles told the Palestinian Al-Ayam newspaper that the government has agreed to give the Palestinians control over most of eastern, southern and northern Jerusalem. Livni and her representatives were outspoken in their angry denials of Walles’s statement.

Yet as Channel 10 reported on Sunday night, just a few weeks ago, Livni told her supporters that she is negotiating the partition of the city. Livni has told sympathetic reporters of her intention to form a far-left governing coalition with the non-Zionist Meretz party that will be supported from the outside by the anti-Zionist Arab parties. But she doesn’t want the general public to realize how radical she is. So she lies.

LIVNI’S LIES about Jerusalem are of a piece with all the lies she has told and all the frauds she has advanced over the past three years. In 2004 as justice minister in Ariel Sharon’s government, Livni concocted a detailed fraud to compel her Likud colleagues Binyamin Netanyahu, Limor Livnat and Silvan Shalom to vote in favor of Sharon’s bid to withdraw from Gaza and northern Samaria and expel all Jews from the areas.

Livni authored what she referred to as the "compromise agreement." Forming the basis of the government’s decision in favor of the withdrawal, it stipulated that the Jews would be expelled in four stages over a period of several months. At each stage, the government would stop to reevaluate and each new stage would have to be separately approved. This decision was legally binding.

Right after she convinced her colleagues that Sharon would respect the compromise deal and so secured their votes, Livni discarded her grand compromise. Arguably in violation of the legally binding decision she had herself crafted, Livni, together with Sharon, claimed that national security considerations overrode the stipulations of the decision and therefore Sharon was within his rights to order that the expulsions be carried out in one operation that lasted a less than a week.

And defrauding her colleagues to advance her political fortunes wasn’t the only way Livni exploited her undeserved reputation as an honest woman during her tenure as justice minister. In the months leading up to the expulsions, she presided over the country’s law enforcement bodies as they systematically trampled the basic legal rights of law abiding citizens who sought to demonstrate their opposition to the expulsions.

Thousands of protesters were illegally arrested and held in jails for weeks at a time without charges being brought against them. In many cases, groups of demonstrators were illegally charged as groups. Protesters were physically assaulted by police. Buses carrying protesters to legal demonstrations were illegally blocked on highways.

A few months after the withdrawal and expulsions were completed, Chief Public Defender Inbal Rubinstein’s office released a report documenting how laws were prejudicially enforced based on the demonstrators’ political views. Livni’s response was to threaten Rubinstein with firing. Rubinstein apologized for releasing the report and mumbled something about it not representing the views of her office.

This, of course, is not how one would expect a politician dedicated to the sanctity of the rule of law and good governance to behave. But it is how one would expect a politician motivated only by her will to power to behave.

In her belief that all ends justify the means, Livni is a loyal representative of Kadima. She has defrauded the public by lying about the fact that she is actively advancing the cause of Jerusalem’s partition. She has defrauded her political colleagues by crafting "grand compromises" she knows will never be implemented. She is defrauding the public by using a fraudulent electorate to catapult her way into the prime minister’s office. And she does all of this while deceiving us into believing that she is competent to lead.

She tells us that the cease-fire with Hizbullah she crafted which paved the way for the Iranian proxy’s takeover of Lebanon was a diplomatic success. She tells us that we have no option of victory over our enemies and the best we can do is beg others to defend us. And she tells us we should give her the reins of power because she tells us the truth.

The public is powerless today to do anything in the face of Livni’s and Kadima’s trampling of our democratic system and open contempt for our national interests. It can only be hoped that whenever elections are eventually held, we will punish them for what they have done.

caroline@carolineglick.com

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Dear Friends,

Gemma Blech


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Dear Friends,

Let the quiet not fool you. The corrupt and morally bankrupt Olmert-Livni government is having daily talks with the Arab enemy, desperately trying to come to some kind of agreement in which they will, G-d forbid, agree to give away to the Arabs large parts of our Homeland.

Those are dangerous times for the People of Israel in the Land of Israel. We must make sure not to fool ourselves again by saying "nothing will come out of it". Unfortunately the criminal Oslo agreements and Disengagement (Expulsion) plans became very real, even though, at the beginning, we thought nothing of the sort could happen.

We cannot sit by and wait. Now is the time to make a geshrei. Now is the time to make clear to all that we oppose the creation of a Palestinian State in any part of Israel’s biblical homeland. Now is the time to scream out loud: "The Land of Israel belongs to the People of Israel."

What is more worrisome than the quiet of the government, is the quiet in the national camp. How come we do not hear the Rabbis, the politicians, the public figures, organizing and screaming against the secret talks that are taking place? Do we have to wait till they officially declare the creation of a PLO State to wake up and act?

What about the fact that tens of thousands of dunams of Israeli State land are being stolen away from us on a daily basis by Arabs, in Judea and Samaria and even in Jerusalem and this in order to facilitate the creation of a PLO State? Little by little Arabs are taking over so much land, illegally building tens of thousands of houses and agricultural farms, that soon the Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria will turn into ghetto-like enclaves in a sea of hostile Arabs.

Shouldn’t all heads of Yeshivot, ulpanot and high schools stop their daily routine of learning Torah in their nice air-conditioned buildings and instead, continue the learning but, instead, at this crucial time of Eretz Yisrael emergency, bring their students on to the hills and thus implement what the Torah orders us’ i.e. actually acting to conquer and keep our land?

The new trend in the national religious camp is to focus more on "chesed" projects or on "teshuva" projects and less on the struggle for the land of Israel. This in our eyes is a tremendous mistake. Chesed and teshuva are of course very important but when there is a fire in a building, one must first act to extinguish the fire and thus save the building from collapsing so that the furniture and other important items in the building will be saved. At this time, when our internal and external enemies are working night and day to take away our Land from us, in order to crush us and destroy the Jewish State of Israel; all efforts must be turned towards the struggle to save the land of Israel and to prevent the creation of a PLO State.

You might say: but we have done that in the past! We have demonstrated. We have screamed. And despite all that we have done, Gush Katif and Northern Shomron have been destroyed; so why shall we do all this again? Our answer is simple: if Gush Katif and Northern Shomron have been destroyed then we have not done enough. This time we must understand that civil disobedience and refusal of orders must be part of our arsenal. In addition, in the pre-expulsion days, we thought our national leadership was on our side. Only after Kfar Maimon did we realize that our own Yesha leadership and many Rabbis were collaborating with the authorities. In one word, the situation today is different than before. We are less naive and much more determined to not only protest but, if need be, to also really put up a struggle.

There are many ways to act. First and foremost we must bypass the anti-zionist leftist media and rekindle patriotism into the hearts of the Israeli population. The word "Eretz Yisrael" has literally been erased from the Israeli media and secular education system. Let alone the message that this Land belongs to the Jewish People and to the Jewish People only.

The slogan "The Land of Israel belongs to the People of Israel" has been Women in Green’s slogan since its founding in 1993, written on banners and stickers. Women in Green have decided that the time has come to go back to the streets with exactly that simple message. (see below for details). We call upon all of you to order banners and stickers and organize vigils in your areas too. We must recreate an ambiance in the streets of Jewish pride in our Homeland. Imagine that all around the country there will be daily vigils with signs saying: "This is our Land" and people will hoot in agreement. We must show that we proudly and loudly declare: "The land of Israel belongs to the People of Israel" with the clear message to all politicians: nobody has the right to give any part of it away. Not Olmert. Not Livni. Not Barak. And not Bibi.

Obviously, signs and vigils are not enough. Simultaneously the struggle on the hills of Judea and Samaria and the strengthening and expansion of those hills must increase and continue. Below you will find a list of activities to help the communities.

Women in Green doesn’t have large funds. Unlike the leftist organizations like "Peace Now’ who are funded by European countries, we have only you, our loyal friends to count on, but we believe we can do this. We are not going to have large ads in newspapers. That costs too much. We are not hiring famous PR firms either. We are turning to each and one of you, fellow Jews. We are sure you are willing to give a few hours a week for the struggle for the land of Israel. Some can help by personally participating in struggles and activities.

Others can help by sending in donations. As long as we all understand that none of us has the luxury to stay home and kvetch! (complain)

Speak to your children, grandchildren, friends and relatives, in Israel and abroad and ask them: What have you done today to save the land of Israel?

Below, please find a list of Upcoming Activities. Mark your calendar and join us!

With Love for Israel,

Nadia Matar ­ Anita Finkelstein
Women in Green

1) SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 14

Join Women in Green for a visit to the new GUSH KATIF museum in Jerusalem. We will meet at 11:00 am in front of the museum, Shaarei Tzedek street no 5. The new website of the new museum is http://www.gushkatifmuseum.com

At the end of the tour we will go to the nearby Mahane Yehuda shuk and hand out stickers "The Land of Israel belongs to the People of Israel".

2) WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 17

Car convoy to Kever Rachel (Rachel’s Tomb). Details will be given by the beginning of the week.

3) THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 18

NORTH AMERICAN JEWISH STUDENT STRIKE

Stand Up to Prevent…

In response to the silence of the Jewish leadership on the planned expulsion of 300,000 Jews from Judea and Samaria, the division of Jerusalem and the abandonment of the holy Temple Mount, Jewish students across North America are saying,

3 No’s!

No Expelling Jews!
No Dividing Land!
No Abandoning Har HaBayit!

Date: Thursday, September 18th
Start time: 10 Minutes before first class
End Time: Up to the students (suggestion about 2 hours)

Instructions to students:

1. Organize your friends. 2. Invite the media to come (Jewish and other), bring cameras so we can post over the Internet like Youtube. 3. Signs to make - Jews do not expel Jews, Israel United Not divided, Temple Mount is in Our Hands. 4. Give a speech about how major Jewish Organizations must protest against the 3 No’s. 5. End with Tehillim, Shofar blowing and singing and dancing.

Contact info: strike4eyisrael@gmail.com

Interested students from Atlanta, California, Chicago, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Washington
and Canada too! So add your school now!

3) FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 19

10:00 am tour of SHDEMA

The Committee for a Jewish Shdema is calling upon the public to join in the continue activities to keep Shdema in Jewish hands. The more we go to Shdema, the more pressure, the more chances we have to succeed. Starting Friday September 19th, we will drive every two weeks in a car convoy to Shdema to tour the place.

For those coming from Gush Etzion: We will meet at 9:45 am on the main road at the turn to Tekoa and drive together to Shdema.

For those coming from Jerusalem: we will meet at 9:45 at the Har choma police station and drive together to Shdema.

4) FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 19

1:00pm in TEL AVIV TZAVTA- new theater performance "Machsom Kissufim"

Five women expelled from Gush Katif will present a play they have written (in Hebrew) to explain the trauma of what they have been through. It is important we fill up the Tzavta hall. Tickets cost 25 nis. To order tickets please call Tzavta 03-6950156/7 or Hassida Bashari 054-5684105

5) MONDAY SEPTEMBER 22nd

Received from Batya Meidad:

There will be a special afternoon/evening program in Shiloh for Women before Rosh Hashana. The shiurim will be bi-lingual. Rabbi Dov Berkovits will speak in Hebrew and Rebbitzen Shifra Blass will speak in English.

It will be Monday, the 22nd of Elul, 22/9
4:30 pm- Registration and Individual Prayers at Tel Shiloh
5:30 pm- Shiurim
7:00 pm- light dinner/snack
7:30 pm- Performance by Karni Eldad
It is scheduled to end by 9:00 pm.  For more information contact Orit, shiloor@gmail.com

6) WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 24

Join WOMEN IN GREEN’s chizuk trip to the outposts in Samaria. Join us for a special day where we plan on strengthening those amazing pioneers in the hilltops but as usual, we will come back strengthened. Exciting program:
   * 9:00 am departure from the Inbal hotel
   * visit in Karnei shomron to Halfon’s new factory to build fast prefabs
   * visiting the outpost of Havot Yair next to Yakir
   * visiting the outpost of Mizpeh Nehemia
   * approximate return to Jerusalem around 4:00pm

Don’t miss out! Join us on this special Women in Green chizuk trip. Meet the pioneers. Breath the air of Eretz Yisrael!

We will only have one bus so order your seats now. Fee: 50NIS

Call Anita 050-5777254  or Nadia 050-5500834

7) SUKKOT IN SHDEMA

Mark your calendar: Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, Chol hamoed of Sukkot (October 15,16,17) there will be Sukkot activities in Shdema. Details to be posted soon.

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 9 , 11th of Cheshvan, Yahrzeit of Rachel Imeinu

A RACHEL IMEINU AFTERNOON IN SHDEMA with KARNI ELDAD
Mark the date in your calendar and make sure not to miss this special evening.

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Dear Friends,

Baruch Hashem, a success last night.

Not only did tens of citizens succeed in reaching the house of Central Command Officer Gad Shamni and hold a vigil there in protest against the eviction orders, but we managed to remind everyone that the Olmert-Livni regime is a totalitarian and Bolshevik regime that persecutes loyal Jews instead of fighting against Israel’s enemies, the Arabs and the international anarchists.

The tens of citizens who were arrested around 6:45pm while driving on the 443 highway and in other roads, were accused of "wanting to participate in an illegal gathering". They were all brought by the Israeli "thought police" to the police stations of Modiin and Ramle.

Placards, flags and megaphones were confiscated and not returned. On different occasions the police used brutal violence, inside and outside the police compound, against innocent bystanders, among them elderly women, children and journalists.

Most detainees were released in the middle of the night. Fifteen youths were kept in jail overnight. Honenu has more details about them.

For more details as to what happened, link to English Arutz 7 article:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/127453

Link to Jerusalem Post article:
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1220353265848&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

The hysteria shown by the Israeli police last night proved to us that we must continue, and increase, our protest activities against the anti-Jewish eviction orders. Details as to additional events will be posted soon, please G-d.

Nadia Matar
Women in Green

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PROTEST THE LATEST EVICTION ORDERS AGAINST JEWS

A few days ago, eviction orders from Judea and Samaria were given against three Jews living in Samaria even though they are not guilty of anything and are simply being persecuted by the authorities because of their love to the Land of Israel.

They were not arrested for something. Not put to trial. Nada. Nothing. In the middle of the night police and Civil Administration came and told them they got an eviction order from all of Judea and Samaria. They got a few days to find somewhere else to live for the next four months. What about the kids? The wife? The parnassa? Does not interest the authorities.

It is clear that we cannot stay silent in the face of such criminal behavior by the authorities.

Please join:
This coming TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2nd at 7:00pm, at the time when the eviction orders will start.

We will hold a demonstration in the yishuv of REUT, EREZ STREET 11, in front of the house of Gadi Shamni, Central Command Officer, who signed on the eviction orders.

We will demand:
* The immediate cancellation of the eviction orders
* Stop choking Jewish settlement
* Stop harassing and persecuting the Jews of Judea and Samaria

For details and transportation: 052-3114627

Transportation:
Jerusalem Binyanei Hauma 052-3114627 (6:00pm)
Kedumim 052-6859814 (5:30pm)
Yitzhar 054-6380607 (5:30pm)
Kiryat Arba Hevron 052-4295557 (5:30pm)

Loyalists of the land of Israel, Youth for the Land of Israel, Women in Green, the Committee for the Salavation of the people and the land, Forum Nahalal, The Action Committees

For more info on the three Jews banned from their homes:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/127362