As an Israeli who actively opposes the occupation, it is important and fascinating for me to keep abreast of what the “other side” thinks. The following is a quote from the leading religious settler activist Nadia Matar of Women in Green, who is known for her fanaticism. While she does not represent a large segment of Israeli society, some of what she expresses certainly resonates with many Israelis and with the very definition of the State of Israel.
“Already now, when there is just talk of the destruction of the outposts, that everyone knows is the first stage of the destruction of the settlement enterprise as a whole, with the goal of establishing a Palestinian state instead, we must make the mental switch and internalize that each of us has the responsibility and obligation to leave our everyday lives and participate in the struggle for Eretz Israel. In my humble opinion, we lost the struggle for Gush Katif and northern Samaria because we did not relate to Eretz Israel as a supreme value for which self-sacrifice is needed. If there had been some preposterous government decree that IDF soldiers must enter the homes of Jews on Yom Kippur and forcibly feed them nonkosher food, I assume and hope that a wall-to-wall consensus would take shape among our public on the need to refuse to obey this anti-Jewish and anti-moral order. The victims of the “force-feeding” would not begin a “With Love We Will Be Victorious” campaign, but rather, they, too, would vigorously resist.”
And I ask: Why is what is so clear regarding Shabbat and kashrut observance is not clear regarding Eretz Israel?”
Sign at a recent Women in Green rally in Jerusalem
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Jul 31st
Posted by Joseph Dana in Unarmed Resistance
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As an Israeli who actively opposes the occupation, it is important and fascinating for me to keep abreast of what the “other side” thinks. The following is a quote from the leading religious settler activist Nadia Matar of Women in Green, who is known for her fanaticism. While she does not represent a large segment of Israeli society, some of what she expresses certainly resonates with many Israelis and with the very definition of the State of Israel.
“Already now, when there is just talk of the destruction of the outposts, that everyone knows is the first stage of the destruction of the settlement enterprise as a whole, with the goal of establishing a Palestinian state instead, we must make the mental switch and internalize that each of us has the responsibility and obligation to leave our everyday lives and participate in the struggle for Eretz Israel. In my humble opinion, we lost the struggle for Gush Katif and northern Samaria because we did not relate to Eretz Israel as a supreme value for which self-sacrifice is needed. If there had been some preposterous government decree that IDF soldiers must enter the homes of Jews on Yom Kippur and forcibly feed them nonkosher food, I assume and hope that a wall-to-wall consensus would take shape among our public on the need to refuse to obey this anti-Jewish and anti-moral order. The victims of the “force-feeding” would not begin a “With Love We Will Be Victorious” campaign, but rather, they, too, would vigorously resist.”
And I ask: Why is what is so clear regarding Shabbat and kashrut observance is not clear regarding Eretz Israel?”
Sign at a recent Women in Green rally in Jerusalem
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