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Zionism and Pioneering on the Hills of Judea and Samaria
by Nadia Matar and Yehudit Katzover

“Lofty spirits,” “elation,” “joy,” “inspiration,” and “strengthening” were only some of the words used by the participants in the chizuk tour to bring support and encouragement to the outposts in Benjamin and Samaria - to describe their feelings at the end of a full and emotional day organized by Women in Green.

A hundred people came to take part in the tour, from the Jerusalem area, Gush Etzion, Kiryat Arba-Hebron, and even from Tel Aviv and Kibbutz Shoval in the Negev. One bus was for Hebrew speakers, and a second bus, for the English speakers. The outstanding guide Aryeh Klein from Hebron left us all the wiser with the amazing information he gave us, as if he were a walking encyclopedia.

The first stop was at Bnei Adam, an outpost some 4 kilometers from the community of Adam in the desolate Benjamin hills, between Nahal Prat and Nahal Michmash, that looks out at Maaleh Edumim, to the south, and to all of Samaria, to the north. Young couples who live under harsh conditions (in tents, karavanim [mobile housing units], and even in a bus) joyfully received us, and gave us all an instructive lesson in pioneering and the love of Eretz Israel. The destruction of three caravans about a month ago by the government of Israel, with the cooperation of Amanah, did not weaken them. Two families remained at the site, and are organizing to rebuild their homes. The third family will come back soon.

From there we traveled north on Route 60. At Har Bracha we turned right, passed by the Samaritans, and arrived at Mitzpeh Yosef, an outlook with a view of the entire city of Shechem, and a clear view of Joseph’s Tomb. Words cannot describe the emotions we all felt. To see the place where Abraham heard from the Holy One, blessed be He, (in Genesis 13:15): “for I give all the land that you see to you and your offspring forever”; to feel the thousands of years of Jewish history at that very place; to be angry at its temporary occupation by the Arabs; and to gain strength from Joseph, who - despite being alone among the Arab enemy - broadcasts determination, power, and tremendous devotion to Eretz Israel. This was simply an experience of exalted spirits fitting for the Ten Days of Repentance, that just strengthened our understanding that we must greatly intensify the struggle for the Land.

At Mitzpeh Yosef we met Hayyim Parag, who showed us plans for the construction of a magnificent tourism observation point at the site, for the thousands of tourists who, with G-d’s help, will come to gaze upon Joseph’s Tomb, until the day will come when, with G-d’s help, we will be able to return to Shechem itself.

We stopped for lunch at the Ronen Farm, at the foot of Har Brachah.

On the way to the settlement of Haresha in the Talmonim bloc we stopped at the Gilad Farm. The Gilad Farm was established in response to the murder of Gilad Zer, may G-d avenge him. At present, tens of families live there. This Rosh Hashanah, Arabs threw Molotov cocktails at the settlement. The fire spread rapidly, and two caravans caught fire. One caravan burned to the ground, and the family couldn’t save anything. Everything was burnt - clothes, photo albums, books, everything. The second caravan was severely damaged, and is no longer fit for habitation. This event can definitely be called a pogrom. But this Arab attack did not make the headlines in any of the press, except for our national right wing newspapers.The Israeli media reported a single laconic sentence: “Arabs set fire to fields in the Samaria area, there were no casualties.” Once again we see how the lives of Jews in Judea and Samaria are free for the taking. But, with G-d’s help, the inhabitants of the Gilad Farm are strong. The community immediately organized, and with the help of friends and the Samaria Regional Council, funds are being raised to build new homes for the two families.

The high point of the tour was the community of Haresha, in western Benjamin. Haresha is located on a hilltop that affords a view of the entire coastal plain. Haderah, Tel Aviv, Ashdod, and Ashkelon are in the palm of one’s hand, within reach. Anyone who still does not understand why it is forbidden to establish a Palestinian state, and for whom an ideological argument is not sufficient, has only to stand in Haresha in order to understand what would happen to all Gush Dan if, Heaven forbid, such a Palestinian state were to arise.

A fateful struggle is being waged now in Haresha. This battle gets no state media exposure, in the hope that Peace Now will succeed in carrying out its machinations. The community was established ten years ago, on state land, with government funding and encouragement. About forty families live there now. In 2005 the Peace Now extreme left wing movement filed an appeal against eight stone structures in Haresha (and, likewise, against the settlement of Hayovel, near Eli). The left claimed that these structures are “illegal,” but it is known that this is not true. The structures received all the permits, except for the final signature by the Defense Minister, who, for political reasons, refuses to sign any permit for any place in Judea and Samaria. The case has been dragging on for four years in the court, until three months ago, when the High Court of Justice decided to put an end to the matter. The High Court of Justice gave the state four months to give a precise date for the destruction of the structures. That is to say, within a month the bulldozers might come to raze the structures.

Our hearts were filled with pride, and we breathed a sigh of relief, when the representatives of the Haresha residents who spoke with us, made it clear that they were setting out on a stubborn and uncompromising struggle against the destruction decrees, without any political deals. They explained that they understand that the struggle is not over their private homes, but for the entire settlement enterprise in all of Judea and Samaria. Haresha is the first domino that Peace Now hopes to push down, with the help of the High Court of Justice and the silent consent of the government. We must stop the madness in Haresha. Their struggle is in conjunction with the struggle by the Regavim organization against Arab illegal construction, as they highlight the discrimination against Jews.

If, Heaven forbid, all these struggles are not successful in the political sphere, the inhabitants of Haresha promise to conduct a much more determined struggle than that in Amona, and they call upon the entire people of Israel to aid them. (A full report on Haresha and how to help them will be posted on our email list after Yom Kippur please G-d).

Without doubt, this was a full day in which we came to encourage, and came back encouraged.

We met the best of the proud Jews who, with their own hands, are continuing pioneering and Zionism, totally devoted to Eretz Israel.

In each place we distributed to the inhabitants the wall carpet designed by Ruth Matar with the verse from Isaiah 62:1: “For the sake of Zion I will not be silent, for the sake of Jerusalem I will not be still.” And in truth, it is these Jews, who live under harsh conditions in the outposts, who are the defenders of Jerusalem, and of Zion, i.e. of all Eretz Israel.

We want to thank Elisheva Ginsberg and Michal Melamed for their assistance in organizing the tour.

Thank you to the guide Aryeh Klein for his excellent explanations. Last but not least, thank you to Gemma Blech for her help in guiding the English bus and for taking such wonderful pictures that can be seen by clicking on the following link:
http://picasaweb.google.com/gemmablech/September23rd2009WIGDayTripToHilltopCommunitiesOfBenyaminAndShromron

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Dear Friends,

This new year is, according to our calendar, the year 5770. The year in the Jewish calendar is expressed by letters. 5770 equals the Hebrew letters “taf”, “shin” “ayin”- which can be an acronym for “May this year be a year of Aliyah and increased activities”

Women in Green is starting the new year with exactly that: increasing, even more, our activities for the Land of Israel.

Below you will find a reminder about our special program in SHDEMA on the first day of Hol Hamoed Sukkot, Sunday October 4th. A day of real Eretz Israel joy, for the entire family, NOT TO BE MISSED!
The struggle for a Jewish Shdema is receiving more and more attention by the media and the politicians.
It is important to have a big turn-out on Sukkot in Shdema. The more people show up, the more chance we have to keep Shdema in Jewish hands. Tell your family and friends about it. For those who want to receive the flyer about the Sukkot event in Shdema (flyer in English and Hebrew), please email us and we will email you the flyer so you can print it and post it in your synagogues and community centers.

Be a partner in the increased activities for the Land of Israel! Join us!

Nadia Matar, Women in Green
Yehudit Katzover, the Committee for a Jewish Shdema
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Going up to Shdema!

First day of Hol ha-Moed Sukkot October 4, 2009

May this be a year of aliyah

Aliyah to Eretz Israel

Aliyah - a rise in settlement, throughout Eretz Israel

Aliyah - a rise in love of Israel

Aliyah - a rise in the service of God

Going up in joy to Shdema with the whole family

Program:

12:00 Opening of photograph exhibition that documents the aliyah and activity at Shdema by photographers Gemma Blech, Rivka Ryback, and Avigail Browning.

12:30 Songs of Eretz Israel with Musa Berlin and his band

14:00 Greetings:
Rabbi Dov Lior, Rabbi of Kiryat Arba-Hebron
MK Zeev Elkin, Likud chairman and coalition Chairman
Shaul Goldstein, head of the Gush Etzion Regional Council

14:30 Colonel Res.Moshe Peled on Settlement and Security

14:45 The heroic and inspiring story of the aliyah by Rabbi Yosef Mendelovitch

15:00 Simhat Beit ha-Sho’evah, dancing with the Me’Shir Zion band of Benzi Thee and Avi Schmell

For children: inflatables and activities

Food and artwork stands

Open sukkah for the public’s convenience

The Committee for a Jewish Shdema www.womeningreen.org.il

Rabbi Yaron Durani (El-David, Nokdim), Zuri Botusch Shdema Youth (Jerusalem), Igor Bialski (Tekoa), Elisheva Ginsberg (Alon Shvut), Orly Glauber (Har Homa), Ruti Wallfish (Tekoa), Ina Vinyarski (Tekoa), Yehudit Tayar (Beit Horon), Timna Katz (Neveh Daniel), Tomer Karazi (Tekoa pre-army mekhinah). Nadia Matar (Efrat) 050-5500834, Gedaliah Friedman (Neveh Daniel), Yehudit Katzover (Kiryat Arba-Hebron) 050-7161818, Eli Rodan (Elazar)

Bus transportation: From Kiryat Arba-Hebron at 11:15, Gush Etzion junction (Tzomet ha-Gush) 11:30, Efrat 11:35, Har Homa 11:45

Return: 16:00 (approximately)

Registration: Elisheva 052-3003689

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To our dear friends and partners in the determined struggle for Eretz Israel,

On the night of Rosh HaShana, we spread our tables with an assortment of foods and make special blessings over them for the new year. Many of these blessings are preoccupied with defeating our enemies. One of them suggests how to do so:

She’nehiye la’rosh v’lo la’zanav.
May we be like the head and not the tail.

May we be leaders and not the victims of local and foreign leaders. May we set the direction for our people and not be swept along by the foolish and dangerous designs of others.

Isn’t it astounding? There’s genocide in Sudan, brutal repression in Iran, mass starvation in North Korea, the acquisition of nuclear weapons by both those demonic regimes, but the world can’t be bothered. Instead, its attention and indignation is focused on the Jewish People’s continued settlement of its homeland.

The outposts and settlements of Judea and Samaria in Israel’s Biblical Heartland, are the “rosh,” the spearhead of the Jewish return to Zion, and that is why they are at the center of international attention.

We, in Women in Green, have been, for the past 16 years, at the “rosh,” the head, of the public struggle for our Biblical Land of Israel.

“Eretz Yisrael L’Am Yisrael” (”The Land of Israel for the People of Israel”) has been our motto ever since the founding of our movement. We constantly arouse public activism so as to safeguard our land. Over the years we have become an outspoken voice of conscience in Israel.

Since the expulsion from Gush Katif, the people’s fighting spirit has been weakened. We understood that we must step up our activities, in order to rekindle that spirit and prepare the public for the struggle to save Judea and Samaria, which is, of course, the struggle for the survival of the entire country.

For the past year and a half Women in Green has acted together with the Committee for a Jewish Shdema, combining activities on the ground, directed to strengthening our actual possession of Eretz Israel, with hasbara and educational activities, teaching and reminding the public of the centrality of the Land of Israel, our exclusive right to settle and expand in it, and our obligation to struggle for it. Women in Green and the committee for a Jewish Shdema are broadcasting a message of Jewish strength, determination, and activism. If not for our activities and for those of a few other organizations, the arena of the struggle would have been abandoned.

Any and all of our activities are not congenial to the leftist elite that dominates the State Attorney’s Office. For example, for four years the state has been conducting a trial against me (Nadia Matar) for “insulting a public servant”, because of a protest letter that I sent to Yonatan Bassi, the head of the expulsion authority.

In addition, we just received notice by the State Attorney, of their intent to prosecute me and another Woman in Green, for holding a vigil, two years ago (!) in front of the Prime Minister’s residence, during Condolleezza Rice’s visit. At the end of the peaceful vigil, when most activists had already gone home and I was getting ready to go to my car, I was surrounded by policemen and brutally arrested. Women around me, who asked the policemen why they were doing so, were beaten to the ground. One was arrested as well. We spent the night in jail. We were released the next day, erev Yom Kippur, after they forced us to give a sample of our DNA. Now they intend to prosecute us!

This legal persecution by the left proves to us that what we are doing is very important and strengthens us in our determination to continue our activities.

You readers who receive our emails know of the great number and variety of our activities. All of them have been made possible thanks to your aid. We are reaching the tipping point in this struggle, and feel strongly that a little more effort, or pressure, or presence, can make all the difference. We’re eager to do more and go further, but we’re limited by our budget.

Strong forces are ranged against us: the leftists organizations in Israel are funded with millions of dollars by the European Union and other anti-Israeli organizations. We have only you, lovers of Eretz Israel. We know and believe that you want our activity to continue.

Be a partner in the struggle for the Land of Israel!

Please help us to act on your behalf and on our behalf by providing us with your financial support.

With G-d’s help we will do and succeed!

A happy and healthy new year to all of you, your families and to all of Am Yisrael! May we be like the head and not the tail!

With the blessing of “Aloh Naaleh Veyarashnu Ota”- “Let us by all means go up, and we shall gain possession of it”,

Nadia Matar, Women in Green
Yehudit Katzover, the Committee for a Jewish Shdema

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Dear Friends,

In the Jerusalem Post article below, Cherna Moskowitz, long time lover of Israel and fighter for the right of Jews to reclaim their homeland, bravely says it as needs to be said: “This is our place, so mind your manners!!”

May all of Israel’s political leaders read this article, and be imbued with the same passionate belief in our G-d given right to our Biblical Homeland.

With love for Israel,

Nadia Matar
Women in Green
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This is our place, so mind your manners
September 6, 2009
CHERNA MOSKOWITZ, THE JERUSALEM POST

When my husband Irving was a young man he would go door-to-door around Milwaukee with a Jewish National Fund blue box collecting money to redeem property in the Land of Israel. Although it was during the Depression, everyone put in what they could afford: pennies, nickels and dimes.

In the 19th century, wealthy Jews like Rothschild were purchasing large tracts of land for Jews to settle in the Holy Land. The synagogue Ohel Yitzhak in the Muslim Quarter of the Old City, abandoned in 1938 after waves of Arab violence - which we recently rebuilt - was originally built and paid for by European Jews in the 1880s. For thousands of years Jews dreamed of Israel and in the last centuries all Jews took part in the effort to reclaim the land and support Jews who lived there.

THIS IS a part of the Jewish tradition: charity for the poor and reclaiming the land of our country. It was perfectly normal for Irving and me to continue to fulfill these mitzvot. It was the driving force behind Irving’s quest to work hard to continue the tradition.

How did this become world news, fodder for riots and outraged pronouncements from foreign leaders?

We were both born in the United States and experienced anti-Semitism while growing up. However, we were secure in the knowledge that our government would ensure our equal rights to live in any neighborhood in any part of the country we wished. We believed that if it was legal, the full force of the government would protect us regardless of the fact that we were Jews.

How is it then, that President Barack Obama demands that the Israeli government disallow the Shepherd Hotel a building permit because Jews would live there? Christians and Muslims yes, Jews no. This is clearly racist. Furthermore, this would deprive us as American citizens of our constitutional rights to equal protection of the law.

It seems to be a continuation of a 2,000-year-old habit of Jews being told where they can and cannot live. This spanned from the ghettos of medieval Europe, to severe zoning restrictions in czarist Russia and finally to the edicts of Nazism, where we were eventually told that we could not live at all.

Can it be possible that we will accept any part of that today in our own nation? Jews should be able to live anywhere in the world. The question should be: “Is the purchase legal and are the permits in order?” Not “what faith do the families living there follow?”

The British Consulate, located near the Shepherd Hotel, also objected to Jews building on our property there. This while construction on several nearby Arab-owned buildings is currently in progress. Someone should remind the British Consulate that there is no longer a British Mandate. I don’t mind if they don’t come over with a pot of tea, but at least they should remember that they are guests of the Jewish state and behave in a civilized and neighborly way.

The writer is the president of the Irving I. Moskowitz Foundation and serves on the board of numerous prominent organizations both in Israel and abroad.

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Dear Friends,

Please mark your calendar for Wednesday, September 23rd, and join us on a uplifting chizuk trip to some outposts in Binyamin and Samaria who are on the national public agenda.

Following the information on our trip is an article by Yoram Ettinger, “State of Terror”, explaining the dangers of the creation of a Palestinian State in Israel’s Heartland.

After reading Ettinger’s article one understands even more how important it is to strengthen the outposts and do all we can to build more and more Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria.

With love of Israel,

Nadia Matar
Women in Green

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MARK YOUR CALENDAR!

WOMEN IN GREEN CHIZUK TRIP TO OUTPOSTS IN BINYAMIN AND SHOMRON!

Women in Green invite you all to a special and moving morning of chizuk in the hills of Eretz Israel .

We will visit some of the outposts on the national public agenda. We will see that “outposts” are real thriving Jewish communities, defending the larger communities of Judea and Samaria who in their turn are the ones who defend Jerusalem.

When?
Please G-d, between Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur, WEDNESDAY,SEPTEMBER 23rd, 2009

Where?
We will visit Bnei Adam- Mitzpe Yossef-the Ronen Farm and Haresha

With whom?
With the great and special tour guide Aryeh Klein who will fascinate us with his stories and explanations. The tour will be in Hebrew with translation into English for English speakers.

Departure by bus from Jerusalem at 9:00am, Inbal Hotel
Approximate return: 3:30pm

Fee: 30 nis (which will help to partially cover the expenses of the day)

More details about the trip will be posted soon.
As usual, we come to strengthen and come back strengthened.

Registration for the bus is a must. Please call Elisheva Ginzburgh and register now: 052-300-3689

For details: Nadia Matar 050-5500834, Yehudit Katzover 050-7161818

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State of Terror
By Yoram Ettinger
August 26, 2009

Why a Palestinian state would be a threat to American, Israeli and even Arab national security.

The idea that a Palestinian state can lead to enduring peace in the Middle East has become a diplomatic obsession for American policy makers. Bringing such a state into being has become the equivalent of finding the Holy Grail. In fact, however, a Palestinian state would not only fail to bring peace and stability to the region, but would make it an even more dangerous place than it already is. And ironically, given its adamant backing for a government that would have been led by Yasser Arafat and now would be headed by Abu Mazen, U.S. support for the creation of “Palestine,” which would immediately ally itself with and become a client of rivals and enemies of America such as Iran, would harm American, Israeli, and even Arab interests.

The history of the PLO’s Abu Mazen ­ who is hailed by the US administration as a peaceful leader ­ tells us something important about the likely character of a Palestinian state. As a graduate of Moscow University (Ph.D. thesis: Holocaust Denial) and a beneficiary of KGB training, he managed the logistics of the Munich Massacre of eleven Israeli athletes in 1972. He was the architect of PLO ties with ruthless communist regimes until 1989 and, since 1993, a series of PLO accords with Hamas. In 1950, 1966 and 1970, he was forced to flee Egypt, Syria and Jordan, respectively, for subversive activities. During the 1970s and 1980s he participated in PLO attempts to topple the Christian regime in Beirut, which resulted in the 1976 Syrian invasion of Lebanon and a series of civil wars, causing close to 200,000 deaths and hundreds of thousands of refugees. As Yasser Arafat’s confidante and first deputy for over fifty years until Arafat’s death, Abu Mazen is one of the engineers of contemporary Palestinian hate education, which has become a production line for terrorists. In 1990, he collaborated with Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait, despite the Gulf country’s unique hospitality to 400,000 PLO-affiliated Palestinians.

This history is not that of a peace maker, and the PLO’s track record of inter-Arab treachery, non-compliance, corruption, repression and terrorism does not give evidence of peaceful Palestinian state of the future. Since its makeover from a terrorist organization to a semi-independent entity in 1993, the Palestinian Authority, which has been led by PLO graduates of terrorist bases in Iraq, Yemen, Sudan, Lebanon, Syria and Tunisia, has become an incubator for terrorist tactics, which have been exported to Iraq, Afghanistan, England, Spain and other countries.

The 1968-70 and 1970-1982 PLO autonomy in Jordan and in Lebanon respectively provided training and inspiration for scores of international terror organizations; introduced the first wave of commercial aircraft hijackings; and facilitated the murder of 300 US Marines in the 1983 attack on the US Embassy and Marine Headquarters in Beirut. The year 1993 ­ when the PLO catapulted to prominence ­ marked a wave of anti-US Islamic terrorism, starting with the first bombing of the World Trace Center in 1993 and ending with the September 11 attacks.

The proposed Palestinian State would inflict destruction upon America’s Arab allies and would enhance the fortunes of its rivals and enemies. Other states in the region know this. During the October 1994 signing of the Israel-Jordan peace treaty, top commanders of the Jordanian military urged their Israeli counterparts to stop short of a Palestinian state west of the Jordan River, “lest it destroy the [pro-US] Hashemite regime east of the River.” Home to the largest Palestinian community in the world, Jordan is considered by the PLO to be Palestinian land. Why would the US support the Hashemite regime on one hand, but doom it to oblivion, by promoting a Palestinian State, on the other?

Even more worrisome are the ties between the PLO and Iran. The PLO was one of the earliest allies of the Ayatollah Khomeini when he toppled the Shah of Iran in 1979. After his 2005 election to the chairmanship of the Palestinian Authority, Abu Mazen’s first visits were to Teheran and Damascus. A Palestinian state would extend Iran’s long terrorist arm, facilitating subversive operations against pro-Western Arab regimes. It would also enable Iran to enhance its intelligence and military operations in the region, including port facilities in Gaza.

A Palestinian State would be a tailwind to insurgent terrorists in Iraq. With its long record of connections to Soviet intelligence, it would provide Russia and possibly China and North Korea with a foothold in the eastern flank of the Mediterranean at the expense of vital US interests. The increasingly Islamist and anti-US direction of Abu Mazen’s educational and media efforts indicates that a Palestinian state would export terrorism to Egypt, Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states.

The long and determined effort by American administrations to soften the Palestinian Authority’s harsh features cannot change the fact that a Palestinian State would add fuel to the fire of terrorism in the region. In tying its fortunes to the creation of such a state, the United States may be signing a suicide note for its Middle East policy.

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Ambassador Yoram Ettinger served as Minister for Congressional Affairs at Israel’s Embassy in Washington and Director of Israel’s Government Press Office, in addition to other posts. He speaks frequently on U.S. college campuses about the conflict in the Middle East.

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