We are happy to present you with our Sovereignty bulletin # 54, sent to members and supporters of our Sovereignty Movement. You are invited to read, get updated, send us your comments and join:
Baruch Dayan HaEmet. The people of Israel are united in the great mourning for the victims of the heavy calamity in Meron and in the prayers from the bottom of their hearts for the well-being of the wounded of the tragic event.
This newsletter was written before the disaster became known:
Dear friends,
Shalom and Greetings.
It should have been so simple, yet now it seems nearly impossible. It is as if a higher power is blinding the leaders and preventing them from seeing what is so clear to right-wing voters. If only they would keep uppermost in their minds what is best for the people and the state, they would abandon their personal boycotts and focus on the effort to form a broad, right-wing government, but for some reason, of all their promises they made before the election, it seems that the one to boycott other people has become the most sacred to them.
The riots in Jerusalem, terror rearing its head in Lod, Jaffa and Judea and Samaria, the increasing ties between Biden and the PA, the International Criminal Court [ICC] in Hague, the U.S.’s policy of appeasement towards Iran, the Iranian efforts to drive a stake into the Kingdom of Jordan, the Syrians shooting a missile that landed in the Negev, all of these things, as well as others, should have been a call to the leaders of the Right to internalize the importance of forming a right-wing government with a common ideology and values that could provide an appropriate, Zionist response to all of these things. But this is not what is happening. In the name of the dubious sanctity of mutual estrangement and alienation, the leaders of the Right camp prefer to join with radical leftist parties and Arab members of Knesset over a true right-wing coalition.
In this spirit, calling on right-wing leaders to see what the voters see and understand and together, prevent the Israeli Titanic from crashing into the iceberg of challenges awaiting them in the future, Heaven forbid, we published an article in the media this week. Click here to read it, and please convey its main points to anyone who might have influence on Israel’s right-wing leaders.
Dealing with trivialities, forgetting the main issue
This week marked the 101st anniversary of the Sam Remo Conference. For some incomprehensible reason, it passed silently in Israel, with no public commemoration.
We thank our dear friends from Canadians for Israel’s Rights who constantly educate the public about the San Remo Conference.
Israel should mark the conference and its conclusions in every way possible, especially these days, with the anti-Semitic danger of the ICC in Hague hangs over the State of Israel, threatening the right of the Jewish People to their homeland.
The conference effectively confirmed the content of the Balfour Declaration and gave Britain the task of implementing the declaration calling for the establishment of a national home for the Jewish People in the Land of Israel. The conclusion of the conference enshrined in international law the historic rights of the People of Israel to its Land.
True, we do not derive our right to the Land of Israel from the laws of the gentiles and the nations. Our rights to our Biblical Homeland are the most ancient in history, dating thousands of years before the San Remo conference, yet during a period when there are those who seek to overturn these rights, the State of Israel and its emissaries should echo the significance of the conference to the entire world, but it seems that even here, while the leadership is busy with internal disputes, drafting agreements on one hand, and shredding agreements on the other, it has no time to speak for the people in Israel in a proud and Zionist manner.
Condemnation and praise
We would like to express our movement’s protest against the destruction, again, this week, of the yeshiva in Homesh in northern Samaria.
Every day that the government of Israel has not found it correct to allow the residents of Homesh and Sa Nur in northern Samaria to return to their land, it not only perpetuates the irrational uprooting and expulsion that took place there, it also actually perpetuates the vain and tragic event in the annals of the State of Israel.
And if it is not enough that the government doesn’t allow Jews to return to the destroyed towns, which areas, it will be recalled, under the full responsibility of the IDF, it launches law enforcement agents to destroy a beit midrash where pioneering students devotedly hold onto the soil of the homeland and connect spirit and deed with dedication and infinite love for the Land of Israel.
This act is extremely reprehensible, in contrast to the praise deserved by the students and their rabbis, who, despite the repeated destruction, continue to study at the place and maintain the Jewish and Israeli embers there. The People of Israel will someday thank them for every single day that they cling to the soil of our Land.
The Challenge of the two boxes
PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas is threatening to cancel the elections for leadership of the Authority if Israel does not allow them to hold elections in eastern Jerusalem as well.
Here is a quote by Prof. Aryeh Eldad, food for thought, in his special manner of expressing himself:
“Abu Mazen postpones the elections for the Palestinian Authority leadership until the coming of the Messiah and his excuse is that Israel does not allow the Arabs of east Jerusalem to vote for parliament. And I say: Why do we always say no? Why not go along with them?
Please understand. I know that Abu Mazen does not want the elections that he promised because he knows that Hamas will win, but why provide him with an excuse?
I suggest to announce that all the Arabs of east Jerusalem who want to vote for the Palestinian Authority should go to the Qalandiya Crossing. There will be two boxes there. In one, they will drop their Israeli ID card and in the other, they will vote for Hamas or Abu Mazen or whatever they want. This seems like a fair deal to me.
I know that there are those who see the very act of east Jerusalem Arabs voting for the Palestinian Authority as a blow to Israeli sovereignty, but they need not take it so hard. Anyone who surrenders his status of permanent residency in Israel will give up the blue card, he will receive a green or an orange one and he’ll vote. It really does not harm our sovereignty. On the contrary. And now, let’s see how many of them really don’t enjoy the fact that they are residents of Israel. And may we all succeed”.
Sovereignty is also the commitment to IDF soldiers
The Sovereignty Youth are again expanding their activities and on Friday its representatives joined the very important demonstration at the Black Arrow Memorial along with members of the families and friends of Oron Shaul and Hadar Goldin, obm, calling on the government to bring them home from Hamas’ captivity.
Click here to read an article on the youths’ meeting with Hadar’s father, Prof. Simha Goldin, and on the remarks of Eliyahu Friedman, the representative of Sovereignty Youth at the event.
The return of the sons is an obligation of the state and an expression of a sovereign state. A sovereign state knows how to leverage its strength against terrorists in order to bring back its sons. A sovereign state does not give humanitarian benefits to enemy citizens as long as its sons have not been returned to their borders. The head of a sovereign state does not remove the claim and demand for the return of its fighters and citizens from the agenda. Unfortunately, it seems that the leadership is preoccupied with many matters, but not with the painful matter of the return of the sons. A leadership that can bring the Iranian nuclear archives to Israel, a leadership that sends its air force to respond deep in enemy territory, a leadership that knows how to rescue an entire state from a pandemic, must bring back its sons, who set out to fight for her.
It is difficult to see the magnitude of the miracle
We make mention here of the severe crisis now being experienced by Israel’s great friend, India. Every day, more than three hundred thousand more people are infected with Covid-19 and more than 3000 die from the virus. The tragedy only grows worse.
Little Israel sends as much support as she can and the Indians people know how to appreciate this. Israeli technology in remote medicine, a field where Israel is one of the most prominent in the world, is only one of the ways in which Israel supplies the required support in India, as well as organizing systems of inoculation and sanitation. Here as well, Israel, whose size and population are tiny compared to India, appears to be a light to the nations, helping to improve the world.
The media discourse in India relates quite a bit to the miracle that is occurring in the State of Israel and they see it as a model for themselves as well. For us, who are living the miracle, it is difficult to see the reality, which has become normal for us, as a miracle but it is a reality for which we must thank the Creator as well as his emissaries in the Israeli government and the Israeli health system. Thank you!
Shabbat shalom,
Yehudit Katsover and Nadia Matar