Sunday, 11 March 2012
Women in Green's response to the false report of “IMEMC News”
by Ghassan Bannouna of
Thursday, March 8,2012, entitled:
"Israeli settlers uproot and take 100 olive trees owned by Palestinian farmers"
The Facts:
#1. To stop and block Arab take-over of public, nonprivate lands Women in
Green plants trees on those barren plots, so as to reclaim them for the
Jewish People.
#2. We operate in accordance with up-to-date maps that delineate all the
public lands.
#3 We do not plant on privately-owned land.
#4 We do not claim personal ownership of the land,or even of the trees that
we plant. We have only one aim: the safeguarding of lands that belong to the
Jewish People, for our children and all future generations.
#5 Norwegian JAI activists joined our Arab enemies to illegally plant tens
of trees on a plot of public - not private- land, where Jews had planted
months ago.
#6 Arabs had subsequently uprooted all the Jewish trees, and then invited
the JAI activists to plant there in order to steal that land away from the
Jews and the Jewish state. If it is true that the trees that were illegally
planted by the radical JAI activists have now been uprooted, as mentioned in
the IMEMC report, we applaud that and thank those who upheld the law.
#7 The Arab claiming ownership of that piece of land, Mr Dadoua, is simply
lying – his so-called documents are either non-existent or fabricated and
forged. He is a dangerous and violent man, who was arrested a few months ago
after he attacked a Jewish farmer with a hoe, and almost killed him.
Women in Green's response to the false report of “IMEMC News” by Ghassan
Bannouna of Thursday, March 8,2012, entitled:"Israeli settlers uproot and
take 100 olive trees owned by Palestinian farmers"
(see report below)
The article should really be entitled:
"Tens of Norwegian anti-Israeli JAI activists plant trees in Netzer on
Israeli land, in the heart of Gush Etzion, between the communities of Alon
Shvut and Elazar,to help Arabs steal land from the Jewish People"
And now for the facts:
We, the Jewish People, are embroiled in an ongoing battle for reclamation of
our land, our historic birthright, the Land of Israel.
The Jewish People are, and have been, the indigenous inhabitants of the Land
of Israel for over 4000 years. We have been continuously present here, in
greater or lesser numbers, despite enforced exile and dispossession by a
series of foreign invaders and conquerors – with the Arabs and Moslems only
the latest in a long line.
With the advent of the national liberation movement of Zionism, and with the
help of G-d, the Jewish People have returned to our G-d given biblical
Homeland, especially to Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria,where the very first
Jewish "settlers" lived thousands of years ago- Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and
later the Judges, Kings, Priests and Sages of our people. At a time when
Europe was still a forested haven for primitive tribes, and Islam did not
yet exist, Jews flourished in their homeland and developed the spiritual and
ethical heritage that has transformed human civilization.
Today's 750,000 Jewish residents living in Judea and Samaria should not be
labeled "settlers", which is a mistranslation of the Hebrew "mitnachalim",
but rather "heirs" or "inheritors" of the land. We have been here for over
4000 years and we are here to stay. In contrast, as Joan Peters points out
throughout her lengthy and well-documented book “From Time Immemorial”,
almost all the Arabs living in Israel or in Judea and Samaria, are not
“native” to the land, but rather immigrants from Syria and Saudi Arabia
attracted by the Zionist return and economic development of the Land of
Israel.
In a conference held in Tul Karem in 2010, Salem Fayyad called for the
planting of ten million trees: "The great challenge against the occupation
and the settlements is to increase the investment and agriculture on the
lands in area C." As you might know, since the infamous Oslo agreements in
1993, in which Israel sadly abandoned large parts of Judea and Samaria to
the control of the Palestinian Authority ,the area has been divided into
area A, B and C. Areas A and B-which include the Arab cities and villages-
are unfortunately totally controlled by the Palestinian Authority. Area C
which includes the Jewish communities, the hills in between the communities
and the roads, is Israeli controlled. That is where the Arabs are waging a
battle to take over all the as yet undeveloped public lands.
Our organization, Women for Israel's Tomorrow-Women in Green is dedicated to
safeguarding our homeland, and combatting the organized Arab trespass that
seeks to take control of Israel's public lands. The Arabs do this both by
massive illegal construction of thousands of houses on state lands in
Israeli controlled area "C", and by an agricultural jihad, in which the
Arabs, backed by almost unlimited international financing, steal lands by
cultivating them. Their goal is clear: an Arab takeover of all the areas
between the Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria, in order to choke them
and prevent their growth.
For the past few years our organization is trying to stop and block this
Arab take-over of public, nonprivate lands - by planting trees on those
barren plots, so as to reclaim them for the Jewish People. We operate in
accordance with up-to-date maps that delineate all the public lands. We do
not plant on privately-owned land. Moreover, we do not claim personal
ownership of the land,or even of the trees that we plant. We have only one
aim: the safeguarding of lands that belong to the Jewish People, for our
children and all future generations.
Our Arab enemies, backed by the UN, the Palestinian Authority and leftist
international anti-Israeli organizations, come almost every day, and –in
broad daylight - uproot the trees that were planted by Jews on public lands.
They burn and destroy irrigation systems, and they physically attack those
Jews working in the fields.
That is what happened this past Wednesday, 7-3-2012,when tens of Norwegian
JAI activists joined our Arab enemies, and came by bus to Netzer, in the
heart of Gush Etzion, a 15 minute drive south of Jerusalem, between the
Jewish communities of Elazar and Alon Shvut. They travelled halfway across
the world in order to illegally plant tens of trees on a plot of public -
not private- land, where Jews had planted months ago. Arabs had
subsequently uprooted all the Jewish trees, and then invited the JAI
activists to plant there in order to steal that land away from the Jews and
the Jewish state. If it is true that the trees that were illegally planted
by the radical JAI activists have now been uprooted, as mentioned in the
IMEMC report, we applaud that and thank those who upheld the law.
The Arab claiming ownership of that piece of land is simply lying – his
so-called documents are either non-existent or fabricated and forged. He is
a dangerous and violent man, who was arrested a few months ago after he
attacked a Jewish farmer with a hoe, and almost killed him.
The Arabs, and Moslems, of course, are fighting for far more than the
possession of this or that piece of land – they aim for nothing less than
the destruction of the State of Israel. Extremist anti-Israeli organizations
like JAI and many others, knowingly and deliberately support this planned
destruction, by denying the Jewish People's connection to their homeland,
and often by delegitimizing the very existence of Israel as the Jewish State
. They certainly do not accept any Jewish presence in Israel's biblical
homeland, and thus collaborate with the Arabs to do all they can to steal
the Jews' land and to expel them.
That is why I told the group of young Norwegian radicals: "the generation of
your grandparents helped the Nazis kill the generation of my grandparents.
Now you once again are on the wrong side, you are helping those who want to
destroy the Jewish State, you are helping those Arabs who want to finish off
what the Nazis did not finish - the destruction of the Jewish People by
destroying the Jewish State. You are collaborators. Read history books.
Learn the facts. Wake up and realize that you are shooting yourself in the
foot. One of the slogans in the Palestinian Authority is "First the
Saturday People, then the Sunday People". First they want to get rid of the
Jews; then of the Christians. The real war in the Middle East is not about
this or that settlement. It is a war of Islam against Western Civilization.
The Arabs want to take over Judea and Samaria in order to destroy all of
Israel, as a first step. The next step will be a jihad by millions of their
followers in Europe to turn Europe into Eurabia.”
Thus,when we fight for the right of the Jewish People for its Biblical
Homeland, we also fight for the survival of western civilization.
When the European Union, the UN, Oxfam and any other organization, funds the
Arabs with million of dollars for illegal Arab construction and
agriculture -it really is in order to help the Arabs in their quest to
destroy Israel. More and more Europeans are starting to realize this and
understand that they need to defend Israel's right to its Biblical Homeland,
in order for them to safeguard their own European countries from Arab and
Moslem take-over.
By the way, there is no greater proof of the disingenuousness and hypocrisy
of these young radicals, and their European “peace” activist backers, than
the fact that they pour their time and money into false Arab land claims in
Judea and Samaria, and blithely ignore the slaughter of thousands of
civilians by the murderous Assad regime. The agenda of these so-called
humanists stands revealed: pure unadulterated hatred of Jews, and
collaboration with the genocidal enemies of Jews, the Arab successors and
students of the Nazis. The shameful record of the large majority of the
Norwegian populace under Quisling in the Nazi period, where their
indifference and hatred of their Jewish neighbors allowed the Nazis to
deport and murder most of Norway’s 2000+ Jews, stands in clear contrast to
the behavior of their Danish neighbors. Many of the grandparents of the
modern Norwegian radicals and “humanists” were anti-semitic and morally
inadequate, and many of their children and grandchildren are, sadly, worse –
they replace indifference to genocide with active assistance to those who
support terror and murder of Jews.
,
As our Prime Minister Mr Netanyahu has said: "2012 is not 1944". We would
like to add: Not only are we not going to allow Ahmedinajad to nuke us; we
are also not going to allow the Arabs to take away our land. We are here to
stay, in our G-d given Biblical Homeland.
The time has come for the government of Israel to unequivocally establish
the true status of Judea and Samaria, and to apply Israeli law.
We are not deterred by the consequences of such a move, including the
possibility of granting citizenship to those Arabs of Judea and Samaria who
will pledge loyalty to the State and its laws. Israeli sovereignty
throughout the entire Land of Israel is the one and only Israeli
alternative.
In every generation, each individual and every nation has to decide whose
side they want to be on. On the side of the Hitlers, the Ahmedinajads, the
Assads, ElKayeeda, Fatah-Hamas…or on the side of Israel. When you decide,
please don't forget G-d's words in the Bible:
"Blessed is everyone who blesses you, O Israel, and cursed is everyone who
curses you." Numbers 24:9
With blessings from Israel,
Nadia Matar and Yehudit Katsover
Women in Green
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