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Dear Friends,

Women in Green wishes all of Israel’s friends a Happy 61st Independence Day.

Last night, some of us went to celebrate Independence Day by participating in a festive dinner organized by the Kiryat Arba Hevron Action Committee. The dinner took place in the street, on the Zion road between Kiryat Arba and Hevron, as a protest against the intention to open the road to Arab traffic. On the one hand we celebrated Independence Day by thanking G-d for the miracle of the creation of the state of Israel, but on the other hand it is clear we must continue the struggle for real Independence and that means that sometimes we need to continue to protest.

At the festive dinner where close to a hundred people participated, Rabbi Shimon Ben Zion gave a nice talk:

Rabbi Ben Zion pointed out that to be independent means to be able to run a country without having to rely on external forces. In Hebrew the word independence is “atzmaut”. There is another word in Hebrew that is very close to the word “atzmaut” and that is the word “otzma”, strength.

As Rabbi Ben Zion pointed out, quoting from Rabbi Kook: Israel will be strong and really independent when we will act in the interest of the Jewish People without worrying what the nations of the world will say.

One of the conditions to be independent and strong is to declare, proudly and clearly, that the entire land of Israel belongs to the Jewish People and no one has the right to give it away.

We hope and pray that Israel’s new Prime Minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, understands this simple message and, when going to the States to meet president Obama on May 18, will present a strong position as to our right to this land and the people’s complete opposition to the creation of an Arab State in Israel’s Biblical Homeland.

We expect the Prime Minister to stay firm and proudly declare: The land of Israel, given to us by G-d, belongs to the people of Israel. This is the message of a strong and independent Israel!

Happy Independence Day,

Nadia Matar
Chair, Women in Green

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Obama`s Mideast Myopia
Leo Rennert - Apr 24, 2009
American Thinker

President Obama met this week at the White House with King Abdullah of Jordan — the first of separate get-togethers with Israeli, Palestinian and Egyptian leaders in coming weeks. In an exchange with reporters, Obama made several comments which ought to give pause to anyone expecting him to act as an honest broker to forge an Israeli-Palestinian peace. His comments raise serious doubts about his grasp of the conflict and thus what it will take to resolve it.

To wit:

1. If you log on to the White House website, the transcript of the Obama and Abdullah remarks is preceded by a statement that the two leaders spent the bulk of their time on questions regarding Israel and “Palestine”. Obama`s support of a two-state solution is well known. But to have the White House declare that there already exists a “Palestine” is, to say the least, jumping the gun. Beyond that, it points up the basic flaw in Obama`s peacemaking strategy — to start with Palestinian statehood instead of preceding it with confidence-building measures, including Palestinian renunciation of terrorism and cessation of anti-Israel incitement, as required by Bush`s “road map,” which the Obama administration itself seems to have embraced.

2. In stressing the need for an end to the conflict, Obama said “generations of Palestinian and Israeli children are growing up insecure, in an atmosphere of hate.” This is what you get when you persist in playing the equivalence game, regardless of how lopsided some realities may be. Is there really as much of an “atmosphere of hate” in Israeli homes and schools as there is in Palestinian homes and schools? Does Israeli children`s TV promote the killing of Palestinians as Palestinian TV does in grooming Palestinian kids to become terrorist “martyrs”?

3. And with such an equivalence paradigm, Obama then goes on to declare that there will need to be “some hard choices of all the actors involved.” What about “hard choices” already made? On the Israeli side, there has been a total withdrawal from Gaza and a ceding of administrative and political autonomy to the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank. Plus, recent Israeli leaders already have shown ample evidence of readiness for “hard choices” by volunteering to withdraw from 95 percent of the West Bank and even to give up Arab neighborhoods of Jerusalem.

What “hard choices,” in return, were made by Arafat or, more recently, by Abbas? Zilch. Abbas hasn`t deviated one inch from his claim of an absolute Palestinian “right of return” (which would create 2 states — both Palestinian) and complete Israeli withdrawal from the entire Old City of Jerusalem and all of Hebron. Yet, by flippantly calling on both sides to make “hard choices,” Obama buys into the false notion that there is somehow an equivalent point of departure — as if Israel and the Palestinians will have to proceed from the same starting gate — with no points for Israel for already having unilaterally shrunken its size and unilaterally empowered the Palestinian Authority to rule all major Palestinian population centers in the West Bank, to say nothing of Hamastan in Gaza.

4. Said Obama: “I am a strong believer in a two-state solution. I think there are a lot of Israelis who also believe in a two-state solution.” This is a not-so-veiled slap at Prime Minister Netanyahu for not embracing Obama`s mantra to put Palestinian statehood at the head of the line. And why did Obama fail to say anything about how many Palestinians favor a two-state solution? Why is it only important that Israelis do? Why not admit that many Palestinians reject a two-state solution and want a single Palestinian state from the river to the sea? After all, Hams iron rule of Gaza and as a sizeable political presence in the West Bank isn`t exactly chopped liver. If Obama were really serious about playing the role of impartial, honest broker, he`d have to, at a minimum, spell out how Abbas can negotiate for the Palestinians as long as he can`t speak for half his people.

But to Obama, these are all inconvenient details to be swept aside in favor of his grand vision of a Palestinian state.

http://www.israelunitycoalition.org/news/article.php?id=3942

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Dear Friends,

Women in Green call upon all to read David Bedein’s letter below and then bombard Bibi Netanyahu’s office with faxes and phone calls of protest against Michael Oren’s possible appointment.

Every letter, every phone call and every fax make a difference.

Nadia Matar
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From David Bedein:

Bibi has announced that he will be making policy in the next ten days, towards his May 18 visit in the white house, which is a way of saying that he waits for pressure from all sides.

That means that there are 10 days to work hard.

Bibi LISTENS to feedback.

Opening trial baloon: Michael Oren, who served as a proud soldier during the expulsions four years ago and has promoted the expulsion policy ever since Summer 2005.

Apparently, a PR firm pushingis pushing this expulsions advocate as the next ambassador to the USA, as are some people connected to Bibi.

Not all of of Bibi’s advisors favor appointing an expulsion advocate into such a key policy poisition.

Now for today’s opportunity to make waves. Michael is being honored tonight by CAMERA in New York. He appears there with Sen. Joe Lieberman, one of Arik’s key supporters in Congress for the expulsion plan.

Today is the day for letters to Bibi, with copies to friend in the USA, asking Bibi NOT to appoint an expulsion advocate.

Tel of PM office switchboard remains:
972-2- 6705555

Best fax:

972-2 563 2580

The following article speaks for itself.

Brachot

Dsb

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Netanyahu’s candidate for U.S. envoy backs one-sided pullout
By Barak Ravid Haaretz Last update - 06:01 24/04/2009
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1080695.html

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s candidate for Israeli ambassador to
Washington, Dr. Michael Oren, supports a unilateral Israeli withdrawal from
the West Bank and an evacuation of most of the settlements.

Oren, a visiting Georgetown University professor, said in a lecture there
last month, “The only alternative for Israel to save itself as a Jewish
state is by unilaterally withdrawing from the West Bank and evacuating most
of the settlements.”

Oren, a Middle East expert and senior researcher at Jerusalem’s Shalem
Center, gave a 90-minute lecture entitled “The Gaza Crisis from an
Historical and Personal Perspective on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.”

Answering questions from attendees, Oren voiced his opinions about possible
solutions to the conflict and the policy Israel should take. He emphasized
that he does not represent the majority of Israelis.

“I may be the last of the standing unilateralists,” he said. “The only thing
that can save Israel as a Jewish state is by unilaterally withdrawing our
settlements from the West Bank,” and waiting for a new Palestinian
leadership.

Oren said he does not believe that a solution to the conflict could be
achieved at this stage. Instead we should find ways to “better manage the
conflict, to relieve tensions and ameliorate the conditions under which
people live to ensure against future flare ups.”

“Peace as a solution is not a question of next week but a generational
issue,” he said. “One of the lessons that the failed Oslo process has taught
us is that peace must be built from the bottom up. We cannot impose peace
from the top down, it doesn’t percolate from the top down.”

Establishing a Palestinian state would require the evacuation of tens of
thousands of Jewish settlers from the West Bank and from holy cities like
Hebron, Oren said.

To take such a traumatic step most Israelis must be convinced that they
would be getting “absolute peace” and the “end of the conflict,” he said.

Oren said he supported the disengagement from the Gaza Strip. After they
started firing Qassam rockets from Gaza, he said Natan Sharansky asked him
if the disengagement wasn’t a mistake.

Oren said he replied that it had not been. The mistake was Israel’s failure
to react to the Qassam fire, which sent a message of weakness to the entire
Middle East.

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Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day

Hypocrites, Leave the Swiss President Alone!
by Nadia Matar, Women in Green

When Swiss President Hans-Rudolf Merz’s intention to meet Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during the Durban II Conference taking place in Switzerland became known, officials in Jerusalem issued a statement harshly critical of Switzerland, and of Merz himself. It declared, inter alia, that “there is absolutely no reason to hold such a meeting with a serial Holocaust denier such as Ahmadinejad.”

Israel’s President, Shimon Peres, expressed himself in a similar manner at the ceremony opening Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day, saying that “the Conference that opens today in Geneva is the acceptance of racism, not a war against it. And the main spokesman at it, Ahmadinejad, calls to destroy Israel and denies the Holocaust. It’s a shame.”

If I were the President of Switzerland, I would respond to Shimon Peres and those Israeli officials:

“Excuse me? What do you want from me? You don’t have a problem with meeting with the Holocaust denier Abu Mazen! The same Abu Mazen who chose the denial of the Holocaust as the subject of his doctoral thesis. And this is not all - to the Holocaust denier Abu Mazen, the head of Fatah, a partner in the massacre of the eleven Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympic Games in 1972, you give guns, “police” forces, an army, and an almost autonomous Authority, with control over a population in which the book Mein Kampf is a best-seller, and Holocaust denial is universal. Why are contacts with Abu Mazen OK, while shaking Ahmadinejad’s hand is invalid?”

Actually, if the Swiss President were to answer like that, I think he would be right.

This is simple, unvarnished hypocrisy to distinguish between the Holocaust denier Ahmadinejad and the Holocaust denier Abu Mazen. And Holocaust denial is not all that they have in common. Both support the elimination of the State of Israel. One by an atomic attack, and the other by the “two states for two people solution,” which in fact is a nice slogan on the road to a Final Solution for the State of Israel as a Jewish state.

So then, anyone who conducts talks with Abu Mazen and his people, and even helps him to enhance his power and standing - should not have any complaints about someone who has talks with Ahmadinejad. Israel can register complaints only when it mends its own fences. It can do this only by the formal revocation of the Oslo Accords and a public announcement that the Oslo Accords were a mistake and a crime that cannot be repeated.

With the Oslo Accords, the Oslo architects, headed by Shimon Peres, gave a seal of approval to the arch murderer Yasser Arafat and his movement. The Oslo Accords are based on the false assumption that Arafat and the PLO/Fatah are legitimate partners for dialogue, and that they should be strengthened by giving them weapons, ammunition, and cities of refuge, while in contrast, other organizations, such as Hamas and the Islamic Jihad, are not kosher - when it was clear to all, already in 1993 when the Oslo Accords were signed, that there is no difference between Fatah, on the one hand, and, on the other, Hamas and the other terror organizations. The murderous terror attacks against Israel, a considerable part of which were perpetrated by Fatah members (despite the signing of the Oslo Accords), proved that they all champion terror against Jews, and actively participate in terror activities against Jews. All of them - Fatah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and the other organizations - are united in their belief that Israel has no right to exist. All you have to do is open up a history book in the PLO Palestinian Authority’s schools to see that Israel does not appear in its books, just as it does not appear in the books of Hamas supporters.

Accordingly, before attacking and denouncing the Swiss President, we must understand that the ones who gave a “kosher” stamp to Arafat and Abu Mazen are the ones who paved the way for approving Ahmadinejad.

It is still not too late to make things right. The new Israeli government must proclaim to all the world that it makes no distinction between Abu Mazen-Ismael Henya-Ahmadinejad and Osama bin Laden. They all are detestable terrorists, against whom a no-holds-barred war must be conducted. This is the only way that Israel will once again be a light unto the nations.

Only then will Israel regain its moral right to make demands to and raise complaints against the countries of the world, with Switzerland at the top of the list.

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Hypocrites, Leave the Swiss President Alone!
by Nadia Matar, Women in Green

When Swiss President Hans-Rudolf Merz’s intention to meet Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during the Durban II Conference taking place in Switzerland became known, officials in Jerusalem issued a statement harshly critical of Switzerland, and of Merz himself. It declared, inter alia, that “there is absolutely no reason to hold such a meeting with a serial Holocaust denier such as Ahmadinejad.”

Israel’s President, Shimon Peres, expressed himself in a similar manner at the ceremony opening Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day, saying that “the Conference that opens today in Geneva is the acceptance of racism, not a war against it. And the main spokesman at it, Ahmadinejad, calls to destroy Israel and denies the Holocaust. It’s a shame.”

If I were the President of Switzerland, I would respond to Shimon Peres and those Israeli officials:

“Excuse me? What do you want from me? You don’t have a problem with meeting with the Holocaust denier Abu Mazen! The same Abu Mazen who chose the denial of the Holocaust as the subject of his doctoral thesis. And this is not all - to the Holocaust denier Abu Mazen, the head of Fatah, a partner in the massacre of the eleven Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympic Games in 1972, you give guns, “police” forces, an army, and an almost autonomous Authority, with control over a population in which the book Mein Kampf is a best-seller, and Holocaust denial is universal. Why are contacts with Abu Mazen OK, while shaking Ahmadinejad’s hand is invalid?”

Actually, if the Swiss President were to answer like that, I think he would be right.

This is simple, unvarnished hypocrisy to distinguish between the Holocaust denier Ahmadinejad and the Holocaust denier Abu Mazen. And Holocaust denial is not all that they have in common. Both support the elimination of the State of Israel. One by an atomic attack, and the other by the “two states for two people solution,” which in fact is a nice slogan on the road to a Final Solution for the State of Israel as a Jewish state.

So then, anyone who conducts talks with Abu Mazen and his people, and even helps him to enhance his power and standing - should not have any complaints about someone who has talks with Ahmadinejad. Israel can register complaints only when it mends its own fences. It can do this only by the formal revocation of the Oslo Accords and a public announcement that the Oslo Accords were a mistake and a crime that cannot be repeated.

With the Oslo Accords, the Oslo architects, headed by Shimon Peres, gave a seal of approval to the arch murderer Yasser Arafat and his movement. The Oslo Accords are based on the false assumption that Arafat and the PLO/Fatah are legitimate partners for dialogue, and that they should be strengthened by giving them weapons, ammunition, and cities of refuge, while in contrast, other organizations, such as Hamas and the Islamic Jihad, are not kosher - when it was clear to all, already in 1993 when the Oslo Accords were signed, that there is no difference between Fatah, on the one hand, and, on the other, Hamas and the other terror organizations. The murderous terror attacks against Israel, a considerable part of which were perpetrated by Fatah members (despite the signing of the Oslo Accords), proved that they all champion terror against Jews, and actively participate in terror activities against Jews. All of them - Fatah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and the other organizations - are united in their belief that Israel has no right to exist. All you have to do is open up a history book in the PLO Palestinian Authority’s schools to see that Israel does not appear in its books, just as it does not appear in the books of Hamas supporters.

Accordingly, before attacking and denouncing the Swiss President, we must understand that the ones who gave a “kosher” stamp to Arafat and Abu Mazen are the ones who paved the way for approving Ahmadinejad.

It is still not too late to make things right. The new Israeli government must proclaim to all the world that it makes no distinction between Abu Mazen-Ismael Henya-Ahmadinejad and Osama bin Laden. They all are detestable terrorists, against whom a no-holds-barred war must be conducted. This is the only way that Israel will once again be a light unto the nations.

Only then will Israel regain its moral right to make demands to and raise complaints against the countries of the world, with Switzerland at the top of the list.

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Dear Friends,

At a time when internal and external enemies are trying to push Israel to commit suicide by calling for the so-called “two-State Solution”; we lovers of Israel know that what really needs to be done is to increase Israel’s stronghold over its Biblical Homeland with the very clear message: the Land of Israel belongs to the People of Israel.

Let all the hypocrites of the world who pretend to care about the so-called “Palestinian” Arabs give them their homeland. They know, as we do, that the call for a “two-state solution” is simply a call for the destruction of the State of Israel as a Jewish State. If the abandonment of the Gaza Strip by Israel brought Arab kassams and grads on the entire Negev, anyone with basic intelligence understands that if, G-d forbid, the settlement enterprise in Judea and samaria and eastern Jerusalem would be destroyed and a “Palestinian” State would be created there instead, the entire Gush Dan, Tel Aviv, Haifa and Jerusalem area would be attacked by Arab Kassams and grads as a first step towards a general Arab attack against Israel, as was already done by the Arab forces in 1967.

And thus, the time has come to declare once and for all: NOT ONE INCH! We will not give up any more territory of our G-d given Biblical homeland. In fact we plan on going back to the Gaza Strip and to all other areas abandoned by previous governments. We demand from our government to lift the ban against Jewish building in Judea and Samaria and allow us to build new communities there. When we will raise the number of Jews in Judea and Samaria to one million instead of today’s 300,000, nobody will talk about a “Palestinian State” anymore. This is what the people of Israel have voted for in the past elections and this is what we expect our government to implement.

One of the places in danger of being handed over to the Arab enemy is SHDEMA. Below please find a detailed account of our upcoming activities in Shdema. Please join us!

With love for Israel,

Nadia Matar
Chair, Women in Green

A full year of activities in Shdema!
This summer we are all in Shdema!

See below for details

Reminder: Shdema is the IDF army camp situated under Israeli control C, some 5 km from Har Choma and 8 km from Tekoa, overlooking the Jerusalem-eastern Gush Etzion highway.

The army camp was abandoned for political reasons some 3 years ago.

The Arabs from Bet Sahour aided, funded and incited by international anti-Israeli organizations, are working hard in trying to take over and occupy Shdema. They even succeeded in illegally building a park and some sports facilities at the northern tip of Shdema.

The Committee for Shdema that was founded a year ago in collaboration with Women in Green, decided to fight for this part of the Land of Israel as part of the general struggle for the land of Israel.

Every Friday morning we go to Shdema to show a Jewish presence and listen to a lecture and/or a shiur. Once a month we have large cultural-educational events with hundreds of participants who come from far and close.

In the last few days, thanks to the Committee’s constant activities in Shdema, together with the municipality of Gush Etzion, demolition orders have (finally) been handed out by the Civil Administration against the illegal Arab construction in Shdema.

Now more than ever it is important to increase our Jewish presence in Shdema to pressure the political echelon even more in our demand to keep Shdema in Jewish hands and enable us to create there a Land of Israel Cultural and Educational Center.

Upcoming activities in Shdema:

Friday April 24 at 8:30am- Lecture by Sima Gillis on the fall and rise of Gush Etzion

Friday May 1 - lecture by Ezra Yachin, Lehi fighter, on Jewish Heroism

Friday May 8 at 9;30 am- shiur on Jerusalem by rabbi Uziya Sharbaf, head of the Shalhevet Kollel in Hebron

Friday May 15 at 9:30 am- Lecture by Yehuda Etzion on Bar kochva,Rabbi akiva, destruction and Redemption”

Friday May 22, Yom Terushalayim at 10:;00 am;
* singing Naomi Smer Erets Israel songs with Dudu Elharar
* talk by Israel Prize winner Geula cohen on the singing of Erets Israel

MARK YOUR CALENDAR!

SPECIAL SEMINAR IN SHDEMA DURING THE THREE WEEKS!!

One can arrive in Shdema with private cars. Transportation will be provided only by prearrangement.

The Committee for a Jewish Sdema & Women in Green

Rav Yaron Durani (El David-Nokdim) - Igor Bialski (Tekoa) - Elisheva Ginzberg (Alon Shvut) - Orli Glauber (Har Choma) - Ruthie Wolfish (Tekoa) - Ina Viniarski (Tekoa) - Timna Katz (Neve Daniel) - Nadia Matar (Efrat) ­ Anita Finkelstein (Tekoa) - Gedalia Friedman (Neve Daniel) ­ Yehudit Katzover (Kiryat Arba Hebron) ­ Eli Rodan (Elazar)

For more details on the struggle for a Jewish Shdema: http://www.womeningreen.org
For the movie about Shdema : http://womeningreen.org/shd.htm
For Rivka Rybacks pictures on the struggle for Shdema: http://www.yeshabulletin.com/FIGHT%20BACK/FightBack.htm

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Dear Friends,

In a few hours we will all sit with our family and friends around the Seder table and start the celebration of Pesach. We will read the Haggada of Pesach recounting our miraculous exodus from Egypt, when Hashem saved us from slavery with a “mighty hand and an outstretched arm” to bring us to the Land of Israel, the Land promised by Hashem to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

At the Seder we will drink four cups of wine, representing four languages of redemption: “Vehotseti” (and I take you out ­of Egypt); “Vehitsalti” (and I save you); “VeGaalti” (and I redeem you); “Velakachti” (and I take you).

Rabbi Shlomo Goren in his book “Torat Hashabat VeHamoed” points out that there really should have been five cups of wine for there are five languages of redemption. In addition to the four already mentioned above, the last language of redemption is ‘Veheveiti” ­and I bring you”, based on the verse “and I will bring you to the Land of Israel that I am giving you…”

Why did our Sages not order us then to drink five cups of wine for the five languages of redemption by G-d? Is the promise by G-d to bring us to the Land of Israel less important that it does not deserve to have its own cup of wine, asks Rabbi Goren.

To this question Rabbi Goren gives a beautiful explanation: There is a difference between the first four promises by G-d and the last promise.The first four promises by G-d were all acts of redemption that relate to our exodus from Egypt. All those acts were done by G-d with supernatural miracles. The people of Israel had no partnership in those supernatural acts of redemption. They passively enjoyed the miracles.

In contrast to that, says Rabbi Goren, the fifth promise by G-d, “Veheveiti” (and I bring you to the Land) is not entirely in the hands of G-d but rather must be with the full participation of the People of Israel. Rabbi Goren writes that in order for the promise “and I bring you to the land” to be fulfilled, each and every person belonging to the people of Israel must take part in the conquest and the settling of the land of Israel. For this language of salvation ‘Veheiveiti” to be fulfilled, we cannot just stay passive and wait for G-d to act; we must be full partners in redeeming the Land of Israel. We must be willing to fight for this land and make sure no strangers take it away from us.

When the people of Israel will completely devote themselves to freeing the land of Israel, protecting it and settling it, then, says Rabbi Goren, we will please G-d see the miracles related to the drinking of the fifth cup.

Rabbi Goren finishes his words by suggesting we add a fifth cup of wine to the Seder table to represent our obligation and commitment to fight for the Land of Israel and our faith in G-d and our hope that the same way we deserved the miracles by Hashem to take us out from Egypt, we should deserve to see the fulfillment of the promises of the fifth cup.

Women in Green are certainly aware of Rabbi Goren’s teachings that the Land of Israel will only be ours if we take an active part in fighting for it, building it and settling it. Staying at home and praying for miracles will not bring any redemption. Women in Green has been active since 1993 representing the voice of the Land of Israel and acting on the ground to keep those parts of the land that the enemy is trying to take away from us. Our latest efforts are now to keep Shdema in Jewish hands, the abandoned army camp near Har Choma-Jerusalem, that the Arabs are trying to steal from Israel.

It seems that with the incoming new government we, loyalists of the Land of Israel, will have more work than ever. It will be our job to remind our politicians that the majority of the People of Israel have voted against the continuation of the leftist policies of withdrawal and capitulation to the Arab enemy.

The People of Israel expect this government to act like a proud Jewish government that finally will fight for the interest of the Jewish People in its Biblical Homeland.

What is needed first and foremost, is a change of attitude to the enemies of the Jewish People. Last week Shlomo Nativ HY”D, a 13 year old boy from Bat Ayin, was butchered by an Arab terrorist who had entered the community. The reaction to that murder has been complete quiet. No outrage or condemnation has been heard by the UN, the EU, the world media nor by the Israeli Left. When Jewish children are murdered (especially if they are “settler and religious” children, the world and the Israeli left is quiet.

That has to change!

The time has come to go back to the old fashioned Zionist response to Arab terror: for every Jew that is attacked we must create a new community in Judea and Samaria. That must be one of the first acts of this new government and if the government does not have the willpower or the courage to do so, it will be our job to demand it and fight for it.

Women in Green wishes all its friends a happy and kosher Pesach. May we all, together with all of Am Yisrael, act with loyalty and love to the Land of Israel that we will, please G-d, be worthy of Hashem’s blessings of the fifth cup of redemption.

Chag Sameach,

Nadia Matar
Chair, Women in Green

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