Dear Friends,
Women in Green had a busy week last week. A very successful
Sovereignty conference in Haifa on Wednesday and an amazingly moving
Torah dedication ceremony in Shdema on Friday.
Video clips of both events will be sent to you in the next day or two.
Meanwhile, below is a translation into English of some of the Arutz 7
reports about our Haifa Sovereignty conference. The links will bring
you to a page where you can see pictures of the conference.
1) Rav Zini- whoever still needs proof of the necessity for
sovereignty needs a psychiatrist
http://www.womeningreen.org/RavZini 2) Attorney Amb. Alan Baker: The actions of the PA- a window of
opportunity for Sovereignty
3) Dr. Martin Sherman- Paying Palestinians to leave is a positive solution
4) Summaries of speeches by demographer Yoram Ettinger and attn.
Elyakim Haetzni will be posted in our next mailing please G-d
The Sovereignty plan is catching on. More and more public figures and
politicians call for the application of Israeli Sovereignty. Women in
Green wants to increase its Sovereignty educational campaign all over
the country. Such campaigns cost a lot. Be partners! Please donate.
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Eretz Yisrael. Thank you,
Yehudit Katsover and Nadia Matar
www.womeningreen.org www.ribonut.co.il 1) Rav Zini: Whoever Still Needs Proof Of the Necessity for
Sovereignty Needs a Psychiatrist
Another conference calling for application of Israeli sovereignty over
Judea and Samaria was held yesterday (Wednesday, May 28) in Haifa. Rav
Zini: The discussion on sovereignty is superfluous. This is totally
clear.
Yesterday, another conference in the series of conferences calling for
application of Israeli sovereignty over Judea, Samaria and the Jordan
Valley took place in Haifa. At the conference, which was organized by
the Women in Green movement and the student organization, National
Vision, more than two hundred and fifty supporters of the settlement
enterprise who live in the north took part: religious and secular,
young and mature, immigrants and veteran citizens, who were presented
with various matters relating to the vision of sovereignty.
The event began with words of congratulations to the heads of the Land
of Israel Lobby, MKs Orit Struk and Yariv Levin, for several laws that
they proposed in recent days as initial steps toward application of
sovereignty over Judea, Samaria and the Jordan Valley.
In her opening words, Yehudit Katsover, one of the two leaders of
Women in Green, presented a short overview of the political structure
of the three last decades in which the Left was active in the realm of
public relations, promoting the idea of two states, while the Right
worked on establishing facts on the ground throughout Judea and
Samaria.
Katsover described the Sisyphean battle against the Arab theft of land
throughout Judea and Samaria, a battle that was waged dunam by dunam,
but as a result of understanding the difficulty involved in running
from one plot of land to the next and from one battle to the next,
Women in Green decided to establish and lead an inclusive campaign for
the application of sovereignty.
Nadia Matar, Katsover's partner in the leadership of Women in Green,
noted the process of disenchantment within Israeli society, which has
grasped the reality that the false Arab narrative must be confronted
with the ancient and Jewish truth: the Land of Israel belongs to the
People of Israel and only to the People of Israel. "More and more
Israelis understand the importance of the strategic depth which is
provided by the mountain ridge in light of what was experienced after
the withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and the launching of missiles from
there. More and more citizens understand the economic benefit that
will stem from application of sovereignty over Yosh (Hebrew acronym
for Judea and Samaria) and more and more citizens are internalizing
the true demographic facts that prove that even in this sphere,
history works in our favor".
The first speaker of the conference was the former rabbi of Technion
and the head of Or Vishua Yeshiva, Rav Zini, who stated that the
entire discussion around sovereignty is superfluous because there is
nothing clearer than the ancient right of the People of Israel to its
Land. Regarding this subject he brought up the words that Rav Tzvi
Yehuda Kook said to the journalist who asked him if he could describe
the right of the People of Israel to its land in 10 minutes and his
answer was that of those 10 minutes, 9 of them are not necessary
because the matter is simple and there is no need for clarification or
explanation.
"When a people returns to its land with wondrous miracles and
self-sacrifice and we are still discussing if there is a place for
application of sovereignty on the Land, apparently such a people is in
need of psychiatric care", said Rav Zini with a smile and told of his
friend, a Professor of Mathematics, who told him once that in Israel
we need another 16 million people because every Israeli needs to
engage 2 psychiatrists…
Rav Zini also related what he said in an interview with a journalist,
which aroused the wrath of the president of Technion, Prof. Tadmor.
This was when he supported the idea of a gathering of all peoples and
not only the people of Israel. "He did not like it but I did not
change my stand, despite his threats", said Rav Zini.
The event ended with words from Ariel Kellner, the head of the student
organization, National Vision, who stated that even if it seems that
the vision is a long way from being implemented, persistence and faith
in the vision will lead to practical achievements until it is
realized, in the same spirit as words of the national visionary "If
you will it, it is not a dream".
Also speaking in the conference were Dr. Alan Baker, who was a member
of the Levy Commission and one of the people who wrote the wording for
the Oslo Accords, demographer Yoram Ettinger, journalist and economist
Eran Bar Tal, Dr. Martin Sherman and Attorney Elyakim Haetzni, from
one of the first communities in Judea and Samaria.
The conference, which was organized by the Women in Green Movement,
led by Yehudit Katsover and Nadia Matar, and National Vision, led by
Ariel Kellner and Israel Shuldiner, was attended by more than two
hundred and fifty people, who were given details of the vision of
sovereignty, a realistic, ethical and Jewish vision that constitutes
an alternative to the ideas of the Left of dividing the Land and
establishing a terror state in its very heart.
The conference was received with great enthusiasm by members of the
audience, who remained for quite a while afterward for discussions and
explanations with various speakers; they asked questions and requested
to take part in the hasbara (public relations) efforts of the
sovereignty campaign, which is gaining significant momentum these
days.
2) Member of the Levy Commission: The Actions of the PA – a Window
of Opportunity for Sovereignty
The international law authority, member of the Levy Commission and one
of the people responsible for the wording of the Oslo Accords, Dr.
Alan Baker, considers the recent procedures of the Palestinian
Authority as a flagrant violation of its agreements with Israel, a
fact that enables Israel, according to international law, to take its
own steps in its best interests.
The authority in international law Dr. Alan Baker, one of the members
of the Levy commission and one of the people responsible for the
wording of the Oslo Accords, stated in the Sovereignty Conference that
took pace yesterday (Wednesday, May 28) in Haifa, that because of the
recent steps taken by the PA, a rare window of opportunity has been
created for the official annulment of the Oslo Accords and for Israel
to act according to its best interests.
At the conference, which was organized by the Women in Green movement
and the student organization, National Vision, Dr. Baker opened his
words with the historical and irrevocable right of the People of
Israel to its Land, a right that any believer in the bible is familiar
with, even Christians, and anyone who reads ancient historians of
Greece and Persia, who describe the Jewish tribe whose customs are
different and meticulously maintained. "The nations recognized the
right of the Jewish People to renew its national home and this was
entered as a legal obligation into the Mandate that was given to the
British and was recognized afterward in the UN declaration of 1945.
The legal continuity was recognized in the UN declaration and it is
irrevocable", states Baker, relating to the international legal status
of Israeli rule in the Land.
Nevertheless he reminds us that the Muslims also claim to be
indigenous and because of this claim it was decided to establish
political negotiations in which, within the framework of the Oslo
Accords, it was decided that the final status will be resolved only
with agreement between the two sides. Baker notes that there have been
repeated collapses of negotiations in the past, but according to
Baker's claim, the recent steps taken by the PA constitute a
significant political reason for the Israeli leadership to change
direction, if they so desire.
"This time something happened that has not happened before. The
Palestinians did something that was not done until now when they made
three violations of their obligations according to the agreements
between them and us, meaning the Oslo Accords. They changed their
status and announced to the general secretary of the UN that they are
joining the nations as a state despite the fact that it is clearly
written in the Oslo Accords that such a step is forbidden. When they
did this they made a basic violation of the agreement between us.
Another violation is when they conducted foreign relations and signed
international conventions, which is forbidden for them to do according
to the agreement between us. But the third thing and the straw that
broke the camel's back is the renewal of relations between them and
Hamas. Included in the Oslo Accords is the Palestinian obligation to
dismantle all terror organizations and when they join the Hamas
organization, which is a terror organization that does not rescind its
terrorist character, there is a super basic violation here", states
Baker.
In view of these violations he adds that "international law states
that in the case of such a violation – as in any contract – this
grants the other side the possibility to see the agreement as having
been canceled and it can act as it sees fit, unilaterally. As an
international jurist I say that we have a window of opportunity that
never existed in the past. There is a violation on the other side and
we have the option to declare the annulment of the Oslo Accords and
act according to our security interests and do what is necessary for
us to do. These things are in the government's hands", states Baker.
These things were said in the framework of another of the conferences
for the application of Israeli sovereignty over Judea Samaria and the
Jordan Valley. More than two hundred and fifty people came to the
conference, which was organized by the Women in Green movement and
National Vision, and they were presented with details of the vision of
sovereignty, a realistic, ethical and Jewish vision that constitutes
an alternative to the Left's idea of dividing the Land and
establishing a terror state in its heartland.
Rav Eliyahu Zini, the demographer Yoram Ettinger, the journalist and
economist Eran Bar Tal, Dr. Martin Sherman and Attorney Elyakim
Haetzni, from one of the first communities in Judea and Samaria, also
spoke in the conference.
The conference, which was organized by the Women in Green Movement led
by Yehudit Katsover and Nadia Matar, and National Vision, led by Ariel
Kellner and Israel Shuldiner, was attended by more than two hundred
and fifty people, who were presented with the details of the vision of
sovereignty, a realistic, ethical and Jewish vision that constitutes
an alternative to the Left's ideas of dividing the Land and
establishing a terror state in its very heart.
The conference was received with great enthusiasm by members of the
audience, who remained for quite a while afterward for discussions and
explanations with various speakers, presented their questions and
requested to take part in the hasbara (public relations) efforts of
the sovereignty campaign, which is gaining significant momentum these
days.
3) Dr. Martin Sherman: The humanitarian solution
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