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Fwd: A spirit of youth and renewal is animating the Sovereignty Movement

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A Spirit of Youth and Renewal is animating the Sovereignty movement

Dear friends,

Hag sameach!

Our national holidays will soon be arriving – Pesach, Independence Day
and Jerusalem Day and we thank the Almighty that we have the privilege
of living during this special generation, a generation of rebirth. And
together, we can add another layer to the rebirth and to the promotion
of sovereignty.

Thank Heaven, the subject of sovereignty has penetrated well into the
political system as well as into the public's awareness, but there is
still much work to be done before it will be enshrined in legislation.

The tenth issue of the Sovereignty Journal

Issue no. 10 of the political journal is now being prepared and G-d
willing, 200,000 copies will be published and distributed by Jerusalem
Day. We thank the donors, who believe, as we do, that even in the era
of social networks, Facebook and Twitter, there is still a place for
printed news media.


The Sovereignty Budget

The subject of sovereignty can gain even greater momentum if we have a
bigger budget. In the most recent crowd fund-raising event in
December, we raised an amount that enabled us to begin work on the
TAMA plan and hold several conferences. But it turns out that the
expenses are much greater than we anticipated, especially due to
advertising and if we want to strengthen the Sovereignty Campaign, we
must raise much more money. It would be a shame to waste the
opportunity that we now have, with the sympathetic American
administration. We must seize the moment and this window of
opportunity. Your contributions and help will be gratefully received!
And if you know of other people, whether in Israel or abroad, who
would like to take part and donate toward the sovereignty awareness
revolution, please contact us and help us to reach out to them.

Many Youths have joined the Sovereignty Movement

A new group of teenagers and young adults has joined the Sovereignty
Movement and  embarked on an extensive hasbara (public relations)
campaign in various Israeli cities with the slogan "The People
supports sovereignty". There are now Sovereignty youth representatives
in Jerusalem, Modiin, Lod, Givat Shmuel, Tel Aviv, Rosh HaAyin, Ramat
Gan, Bnei Brak, Gedera, Kiryat Gat, Ashkelon, Beersheva, Dimona,
Natanya, Kfar Saba, Petach Tikva, Haifa, Moreshet, Tiberias.
Stickers, ribbons, flyers and pens will be distributed. Encourage the
younger generation in your area to join them. For details: Yair
Buchnik and Asaf Jayson

Telephone: 053-3371789

If you are interested in receiving material to distribute in your
area, please send your contact information to:
ribonut@gmail.com


TAMA 100


The TAMA 100 (Strategic Outline Plan) is progressing too. As you may
recall, when we discovered that Judea and Samaria are not included in
the State of Israel's official TAMA plans, we decided that to make
sovereignty a reality we would need to prepare a plan with details of
how Israel would look in its 100th year. We assert that the Land of
Israel is one unit, geographically, ecologically, historically, in
matters of security, etc.and thus that needs planning.

Architect Yoram Ginsburg, senior lecturer at the University of Ariel
School of Architecture, is coordinating the project for us, together
with Avraham Shvut, geographer and specialist in regional
entrepreneurial projects and development. The experts who will be
working on the project have already been recruited. The topics that
they will cover include: treasury, economy and tourism, property
appraisal and land use, ecology, national infrastructure and others.

We hope that within a year we will be able to collate the results of
the work into a brochure that will be distributed to every home in
Israel and there will be a film that describes how life would be under
sovereignty. It is important to note that the document will be an
outline of a direction and not a detailed plan. The official TAMA
funded by the State of Israel, TAMA 35, was about 10 years in planning
and cost approximately 10 million shekels.

Upcoming Sovereignty Conference  in Tel Aviv on May 6th,2018

Our next conference, which, among other things, will deal with the
subject of the TAMA, will be held, G-d willing, on May 6th 2018 in Tel
Aviv at the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) Conference Center on 2
Ahuzat Habayit street.  Please note the date in your calendar and
start talking about it to your friends and family who live in the
area.


Oz veGaon

The Oz veGaon Preserve, which we founded together with you, on the
night that we learned of the murder of Gil-ad, Eyal and Naftali,hy"d,
has become a bustling educational-tourism-cultural site and continues
to attract many groups of visitors from Israel and abroad, who come to
enjoy the scenery, the atmosphere, the recreational equipment, the
Zionist Boulevard and the lectures on Zionism. Among these groups
were, for instance, tourists who came recently from Gush Dan,
accompanied by guides Gen. (res.) Uzi Dayan and Yoav Rabinowitz.

Tuesday mornings there are lessons in the Women's Beit Midrash, in
which dozens of women take part, from Kiryat Arba-Hevron, Gush Etzion
and Jerusalem. The lectures (in Hebrew) are uploaded to our YouTube
channel. In the evenings, there is a Beit Midrash for men, led by Rav
Mor Bergman.

The public is invited to come to the preserve and contribute to the
Jewish presence at this important and strategic location in the heart
of Gush Etzion. The place is suitable for family gatherings, picnics
and barbecues.


Independence Day Eve at Oz veGaon – A Special Program!

On Independence Day eve, Wednesday, the 3rd of Iyar at 21:00, April
18th, G-d willing, we will hold a special program of words and music.
"Our country, through the poems and songs of Yoram TaharLev", who will
be a recipient of the Israel Prize this year. Seventy years of
history, moving, nostalgic and full of hope. With Dr. Joseph Priel,
teacher of Tanach. Hold the date for us! More information to follow.

To register for transportation from Jerusalem: Renee Margolis 0547103240

In Summary

With the Almighty's help, we will continue in the spirit of the
Haggadah to be active and progress toward full sovereignty over the
expanse of our Land. The meaning of "'To see ourselves as if we went
out of Egypt', is not a return to the past, but the opposite! The
meaning of seeing ourselves as belonging to the exodus from Egypt is
unlimited renewal" (And You Shall Teach your Children, Rav Eli Adler).

See you at our activities!

With great appreciation, Chag sameach!

Yehudit Katsover and Nadia Matar
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Fwd: ZOA Criticizes Lauder for Promoting PA State, Wrongly Blaming Israel for No Peace

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ZOA Criticizes Ron Lauder for Advocating for PA State & Comparing PA Promoting Murder to Settlements Share       For more information contact Morton A. Klein 212-481-1500 Follow @mortonaklein7 on Twitter. Website: www.zoa.org NEW YORK, March 21, 2018 Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) President Morton A. Klein released the following statement criticizing World Jewish Congress (WJC) President Ron Lauder's opinion piece published in the New York Times on March 18:  Lauder's op-ed unconditionally demands a Palestinian State as the solution to the Arab war against Israel but ignores the fact that Palestinian Arabs rejected Israel's statehood offers three times in the last 17 years, not to mention rejecting Statehood in 1937 and 1947 because it required accepting Israel, which they won't do because their goal is its destruction.  Lauder also immorally and absurdly appears to equate "settlements" (Jews living in the Judea/Samaria) to the Palestinian Authority (PA)'s incitement and promotion of the murder of Jews.  Lauder's op-ed also employs a false "demographic" argument (apparently relying on false, wildly overstated PA population figures and projections) and promotes a dangerous so-called "two-state solution" (a euphemism for the creation of a Palestinian Arab terror state) as the "only solution." Israel's Real Self-Inflicted Wounds:  The title of Lauder's op-ed, 'Israel's Self-Inflicted Wounds,' (New York Times, Mar. 18, 2018) is deeply misleading and unfair.  It falsely blames Jews living in the Jewish homeland and Israel for the lack of peace, when the blame is squarely on the Palestinian Arabs.  Israel's real "self-Inflicted wounds" (the term that Lauder employs) were Israel's catastrophic concessions to terrorists, including: the disastrous Oslo accords, which brought PLO terrorists into the heart of the Jewish homeland and resulted in Yasser Arafat launching the deadly Second Intifada, in which PA terrorists murdered and maimed 10,000 Jews; the Hebron accords (which resulted in Palestinian Arab attacks on Hebron's Jewish community); Israel's withdrawal from a border zone in Lebanon (which enabled Hezbollah to entrench itself along Israel's northern border, with 150,000 rockets pointing at Israel); and Israel's 2005 Gaza withdrawal (in which Israel uprooted 10,000 Jews from their homes, farms and communities – only to have Hamas use those formerly Jewish areas to launch 20,000 rocket attacks on Israeli civilians, resulting in three wars and numerous deaths). It is particularly mind-boggling that Lauder is endorsing Palestinian Arab statehood so soon after Mahmoud Abbas' January 14, 2018 speech to the PLO Central Council, during which Abbas' poisonous, surreal, inflammatory and extreme attacks on Israel, Zionism and the United States reached new lows.  In that speech, Abbas spewed curses at President Trump and the president's family, cursed U.S. and Israeli officials, and demonstrated the PA's profound unwillingness to acknowledge and accept the legitimacy and permanence of the Jewish state of Israel.  In this speech, Abbas denied, falsified and appropriated Jewish history in order to deny Jews any right to a state of their own.  (See "Exclusive – Mort Klein: Palestinian Leader Mahmoud Abbas Unmasked as U.S. and Israel-Hating Anti-Peace Terrorist," Breitbart, Jan. 22, 2018.)   Yet Mr. Lauder now sees fit to urge that the PA be given statehood. ZOA President Morton Klein explained: "Even leaders of left wing Jewish groups whom I (Mort Klein) recently met with stated that this is no time to talk about establishing a PA State." "Under conditions prevailing today, such a move would result in only one thing: the creation of a Palestinian Arab terrorist regime, infested with Hamas and other Iranian proxies, protected by the immunities of sovereignty." Palestinian rockets would be closer to Israel's major population centers. And Israel would be only nine miles wide, making it indefensible.  Lauder's Immoral "Equivalence": "In his op-ed, Mr. Lauder mentioned in the same breath, as obstacles to peace, PA-sponsored hatred and refusal to make peace, on the one hand, and Jews living in parts of Judea/Samaria, on the other." "This is grotesque. There is no moral or practical equivalence between Jews' building Jewish homes and communities and the PA's hate-filled promotion of the murder of Jews and rejection of peace-making.  One is constructive and moral, and the other is destructive and evil. Shame on Mr. Lauder taking the view that Israeli Jews –– and only Israeli Jews, because they are Israeli Jews –– are an obstacle to peace because they seek to live and thrive in the biblical, legal and historical homeland of the Jewish people." Lauder's Demographic Fear-Mongering:  "Mr. Lauder spends much of his op-ed promoting the baseless fear of Israel being demographically overwhelmed by a Palestinian Arab population increase." "However, Israel does not in fact have a demographic problem.  Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics just announced that in 2016, 74% of babies were born to Jewish mothers (whose fertility rate is 3.06 children per woman), and 20.7% were born to Muslim women (whose fertility rate is a nearly identical 3.11 children per woman).  The recent figures showed that the Jewish fertility rate continues to climb, while the Muslim fertility rate continues to fall.  ("Israel's Fertility Rate is Far Higher Than Rest of OECD," by Michael Bachner, Times of Israel, Mar. 14, 2018.) The American-Israel Demographic Research Group (AIDRG) similarly found that Jewish fertility rates have increased and are projected to continue increasing, while the Arab birth rate is expected to drop to 2.4% by 2025.  The AIDRP has also amassed impressive evidence showing that the PA deliberately misled U.S. and international humanitarian efforts by creating a 'Million Person Gap' — inflating its population figures to total over 3.3 million, as opposed to the actual figure of 2.4 million.  (See, e.g., "Israeli Demographics Working in Jews' Favor," by Hillel Fendel, Israel Nat'l News, Dec. 20, 2015; and IsraelDemography.com.)  "These findings have enormous implications for the future: namely, a 67% Jewish majority over 98.5%  of the land west of the Jordan River (including Judea/Samaria, but without Gaza) can be expected, contrary to Mr. Lauder's inaccurate claims of impending Jewish minority status." If Lauder is so concerned about demographics, we also have to wonder why he so harshly condemns "ultra-Orthodox" Jews.  Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics found that: "the highest fertility rate in communities with a population of more than 10,000 people was in the ultra-Orthodox town of Modiin Illit, with 7.59 babies per woman. The lowest, 1.91, was in northern secular town of Kiryat Tivon."  Lauder should stop attacking the Jews who help assure Israel's continued large Jewish majority. "Further, those such as Mr. Lauder who base their support for creating a Palestinian Arab state on the demographic question continue to ignore the fact that, since the 1996, the vast majority of the Palestinian Arabs in Judea/Samaria and, since 2005, all Palestinian Arabs in Gaza, live under the jurisdiction of Palestinian Arab regimes, not under Israeli rule." "As distinguished Israel historian Efraim Karsh has pointed out, since the major Israel withdrawals of 1995-96 and the dissolving of the Israeli civil and military administrations in those areas, nearly 60% of Palestinian Arabs live entirely under Palestinian jurisdiction (Area A) while a further 40% live in towns, villages, refugee camps and hamlets where the PA exercises civil but not military authority. A mere 2% of Palestinian Arabs in Judea/Samaria live in areas where Israel has complete control, but even there, the PA maintains 'functional jurisdiction.' "As Karsh concludes, 'In short, since the beginning of 1996, and certainly following the completion of the redeployment from Hebron in January 1997, 99% of the Palestinian population of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip has not lived under Israeli occupation. As the virulent anti-Israel and anti-Jewish media, school system and religious incitement can attest to, during these years, any presence of a foreign occupation has been virtually non-existent.'" "In sum, Palestinian Arabs live with their own legislature, police forces, municipal services, school system and youth camps –– illiberal, corrupt, bellicose and hate-filled as these are. Israel's writ no long runs in their societies.  By no stretch of the imagination can Israel be said to be occupying them." Lauder's False Claims About Settlement Building and Obstacles to Peace:  "Lauder is again wrong when he refers to 'extensive Jewish settlement-building beyond the separation line.'   In fact, there has not been a new Jewish community established in Judea/Samaria in 24 years.  Further, the Jewish communities comprise only about 2% of the area in question – although Jews have the fundamental right – under binding international law – to live anywhere within Judea/Samaria.  Moreover, the limited building that takes place occurs within Jewish communities that would remain under Jewish control in the highly unlikely event of a genuine, durable peace agreement." "Further, viewing the presence of Jewish communities as an 'obstacle to peace' adopts the PA/PLO's anti-Semitic view that Jews must be ethnically cleansed from a Palestinian Arab state."    "Ideas that some have floated for Israeli annexation of the portions of Judea/Samaria with a large Jewish communities would also not create any 'obstacle to peace.'  Instead, such a move would further peace by 'taking off the table' the PA/PLO's maximalist demands to rid the Jewish homeland of Jews." This annexation movement stems from the fact that peace appears hopeless, that this is historically Jewish land and that Israelis have learned, through bitter experience since 1993, that whatever territory is ceded to the PA becomes a new base for launching terrorist attacks on Israelis. As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin put it recently, as reported by the New York Times, 'You can bring models, theoretical models, say it will be good if we give them a state . . . Empirically, it doesn't work with what we see. When we leave land, terror organizations take it up. Immediately.' Like most Israelis, those supporting annexation have been obliged to conclude that creating a Palestinian state under prevailing conditions would be a disastrous folly."  "The true obstacles to peace are the Palestinian Arabs' refusal to accept Israel as a Jewish state; their horrifying Nazi-like Jew-hatred; their naming schools, streets and sports teams after Jew killers; their demand for a Jew-free Palestinian state; Palestinian Arab insistence on the Israel-destroying, so-called 'right of return'; and the PA/PLO's continued "pay to slay payments" incentivizing Arabs to murder Jews, and promotion of the murder and maiming of Jews in every aspect of Palestinian culture and education. Mr. Lauder scarcely even mentions this, the most profound cause of the absence of Israeli/Palestinian Arab peace. Lauder's Positions Do Not Reflect Groups He Claims to Be Affiliated With:  It was also odd and misleading that Mr. Lauder called himself a "conservative and a Republican" and supporter of Likud in his op-ed – when the positions Lauder's op-ed espoused are further to the left than the Israeli left, and clearly do not represent the parties he claims to affiliate with.  The existing U.S. Republican platform does not promote a Palestinian state.  Instead, the platform promotes Israel's security; specifically "reject[s] the false notion that Israel is an occupier"; and states: "We oppose any measures intended to impose an agreement or to dictate borders or other terms."  In July 2017, Likud's central committee voted to reaffirm Likud's 2002 vote against the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state.  ("Likud Votes To Oppose Palestinian State," by Gil Hoffman, Jerusalem Post, July 26, 2017.)And Israeli PM has publicly and repeatedly stated that PA State cannot bring peace.  Lauder's False Claim that Most Diaspora Jews Are Not Accepted:  Lauder's op-ed also falsely and misleadingly portrays Israel as a place where "most Jews outside of Israel are not accepted."   In fact, the Israeli government supports Jewish institutions from all streams of Judaism.  Reform Judaism's own website reports that the Israeli government spent 2.5 million NIS building Reform synagogues in Israel during the past 4 years, and that Israel has 50 Reform congregations and community centers, 50 Reform kindergartens, 5 Reform elementary schools, 2 Reform high schools, 120 Reform rabbis, 100 Reform rabbis ordained in Israel, and 250,000 Israelis affiliated with Reform Judaism.  ("Reform Judaism in Israel," Reform Judaism website.) In addition, each year, the para-statal Jewish Agency for Israel allocates $2.7 Million to educational programs in Israel for various Jewish streams: 40% goes to the Reform, 40% to the Conservative, and 20% to the Modern Orthodox movements.  The Agency's website explains that "This support stems from a desire to both expose Israelis to the varied expressions of Judaism existing outside Israel and within it, as well as to help Jews worldwide feel that their styles of Jewish expression have a home in Israel."  ("Supporting Religious Streams in Israel," Jewish Agency for Israel website.) Moreover, the overwhelming majority of American Jews would have no problem with being "accepted" even by Israel's "ultra-Orthodox" – who rely on Jewish law (halakha), under which someone with a Jewish mother, or who converts in accordance with Jewish law, is Jewish.  A recent Pew study found that about 90% of American "Jews by religion" (4.2 million persons who say their religion is Judaism) have Jewish mothers.  (Presumably many in the remaining 10% converted.)  In addition, about two-thirds of American "Jews of no religion" (persons with some Jewish background who say that they are "culturally" but not religiously Jewish) have a Jewish mother.  ("A Portrait of Jewish Americans," Pew Research Center, Oct. 1, 2013.)  Ron Lauder needs to place the blame for lack of peace solely on the terrorist dictator Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian Arabs. Abbas has refused to even negotiate for 8 years; promotes hatred and violence against Jewish Israelis in every aspect of the Palestinian culture in his speeches, schools, media, and PA-appointed Imams; refusing Israel in their maps and atlases- even within the 1967 lines. The U.S. Administration has finally recognized these truths. It's time that Ronald Lauder recognize them as well.  ­

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Fwd: Arab Unlawful Acts of Aggression in 1967 Eli E. Hertz Myths and Facts

Arab Unlawful Acts of Aggression in 1967

 

Arab Unlawful Acts of Aggression in 1967 Series 2

Eli E. Hertz | 20 March 2018

In June 1967, the combined armies of Egypt, Syria, and Jordan attacked Israel with the clear purpose expressed by Egypt's President: "Destruction of Israel." At the end of what is now known as the Six-Day War, Israel, against all odds, was victorious and in possession of the territories of Judea and Samaria [E.H., The West Bank], Sinai and the Golan Heights.

International law makes a clear distinction between defensive wars and wars of aggression. More than half a century after the 1948 War, and more than four decades since the 1967 Six-Day War, it is hard to imagine the dire circumstances Israel faced and the price it paid to fend off its neighbors' attacks.

Who Starts Wars Does Matter

Professor, Judge Stephen M. Schwebel, past President of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) states the following facts:

"The facts of the June 1967 'Six Day War' demonstrate that Israel reacted defensively against the threat and use of force against her by her Arab neighbors. This is indicated by the fact that Israel responded to Egypt's prior closure of the Straits of Tiran, its proclamation of a blockade of the Israeli port of Eilat, and the manifest threat of the UAR's [The state formed by the union of the republics of Egypt and Syria in 1958] use of force inherent in its massing of troops in Sinai, coupled with its ejection of UNEF.

"It is indicated by the fact that, upon Israeli responsive action against the UAR, Jordan initiated hostilities against Israel. It is suggested as well by the fact that, despite the most intense efforts by the Arab States and their supporters, led by the Premier of the Soviet Union, to gain condemnation of Israel as an aggressor by the hospitable organs of the United Nations, those efforts were decisively defeated.

"The conclusion to which these facts lead is that the Israeli conquest of Arab and Arab-held territory was defensive rather than aggressive conquest."

Judge Sir Elihu Lauterpacht wrote in 1968, one year after the 1967 Six-Day War:

"On 5th June, 1967, Jordan deliberately overthrew the Armistice Agreement by attacking the Israeli-held part of Jerusalem. There was no question of this Jordanian action being a reaction to any Israeli attack. It took place notwithstanding explicit Israeli assurances, conveyed to King Hussein through the U.N. Commander, that if Jordan did not attack Israel, Israel would not attack Jordan. 

"Although the charge of aggression is freely made against Israel in relation to the Six-Days War the fact remains that the two attempts made in the General Assembly in June-July 1967 to secure the condemnation of Israel as an aggressor failed. A clear and striking majority of the members of the U.N. voted against the proposition that Israel was an aggressor."

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Are the Europeans funding illegal Arab constructions on Israeli land? 

Illegal building by EU in Judea and Samaria. 

 

Arabs are using European Union funding to violate court orders and continue their illegal building near Hebron.

By: Ezra Stone, United with Israel

Arabs in the Hirbet Z'nutah outpost have apparently defied a court order by continuing to illegally build structures at the location. Hirbet Z'nutah is located in the middle of an archaeological site in the southern Hebron Hills region of Judea. This time, the Arabs' illegal construction was reportedly completed using funding from the European Union (EU).

Just six months ago, the High Court suspended demolition of the outpost provided that no additional construction take place. Allegedly flouting that commitment, the Arabs responsible for construction in Hirbet Z'nutah apparently used EU funds to build yet another illegal structure, reported Arutz 7.

"Construction of a school on a protected archaeological site, with EU funding, is a gross and blatant violation of the High Court's decision, as well as a violation of the European Convention on the Protection of Archaeological Heritage," said Yishai Hemo to Arutz 7. Hemo serves as Field Coordinator for Judea and Samaria for the Regavim organization, a watchdog that monitors illegal Arab constructions.

As a result of the latest violation, Regavim plans to file another petition with the High Court of Justice in the following days.

"The offenders have sharpened their tactical skills, and have managed to pull the wool over the Court's eyes. They never intended to uphold their commitments in this matter. We will also be petitioning the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to demand that decisive action is taken in light of the European Union's illegal conduct," Hemo explained.

While the illegal Arab outpost is located in Area C, and is thus under Israeli control and not subject to Palestinian Authority administration, the new structure flies PA flags. (For the Oslo Accords negotiated in 1995, Judea and Samaria alias Cisjordan or West Bank have been divided in 3 areas i.e. "A", "B" and "C", with Area "A" entirely administrated by the Palestinian Authority including police responsibility, Area "B" with Palestinian civilian administration but joint Israeli/Palestinian police responsibility, and Area "C" entirely administrated by Israel including police responsibility -note by E. Nahum).

It remains to be seen whether Israeli authorities will be required to remove the most recent structure, a course of action that has been required several times since the illegal outpost was first started several year ago. In 2012, for example, Israeli authorities had to eliminate makeshift stables and tents set up there.

 

Think-Israel Article Honor and Shame by Elder of Zion on Israel Closing Temple Mount

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