This Time? [edited. AZ]
Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 14:30:20 +0200
From: Women In Green
I have a bad gut feeling that the left is once again cooking up for us some rotten dish... The current National-Zionist mood is the nightmare of the extremist left in the country. They are panicking. They are in such a plight that they have no chance of convincing the Israeli public of the seeming need to evacuate settlements... What trap are they setting for us, in order to sabotage the unity that reigns among the people? What is being planned for us by the extreme left, that holds all the key positions in the axis of evil: the media, the police, the General Security Services, and the State Attorney's Office?
...We must recall that this period of the nation coming to its senses and the left hitting bottom is very similar to the time of the terrorist attacks in 1995. Every time that a suicide terrorist exploded himself, the dream of "peace" exploded in the faces of the architects of Oslo, and their prestige dropped and faded in the eyes of the public. Then, too, there was the beginning of a national sobering up that was expressed, among other ways, in affinity for the Jews of Judea, Samaria, and Gaza. -- Until the appearance of the episode of the GSS agent Avishai Raviv, an episode that reached a climax with the Rabin assassination.
...Other false GSS fabrications include: (1) Oren Edri was accused of heading a "new underground" before it became clear that everything was a lie; (2) the announcement that Judea, Samaria, and Gaza Jews had murdered Arabs from Halhul ( later discovered that they had been killed by other Arabs) led to a vigorous smear campaign directed especially against the Jews of Hebron. No governmental body apologized for the "mistake."
...The delegitimation and besmirchment campaign after the Rabin assassination was very successful. The leaders of the national-religious public fell into the trap that the left had set for them. Instead of condemning the attempt by the left to lay the blame for the Rabin assassination on the entire national camp, and to declare that, just as we did not kill Jesus, so too we had no part in the murder of Rabin, the naive leaders of the national camp set out on a degrading campaign of "heshbon nefesh [spiritual stocktaking]." This was a tragic mistake that only strengthened the spurious claims by the left of the guilt of the entire national camp in the assassination. It is to be hoped that this error will not be repeated.
...The national camp cannot continue being naive. There are leftist elements in the GSS and in the State Attorney's Office who take advantage of the legal system to relentlessly, cruelly, and wickedly persecute all those whom they put in their sights - first and foremost, naturally, the inhabitants of Judea, Samaria, and Gaza...
Nadia Matar, Co-Chairperson, WiG, POB 7352, JERUSALEM, 91072 Israel, Tel
02-624.9887, Fax: 02-624.5380, http://www.womeningreen.org
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