Women in Green decided to demonstrate against the forcible evacuation of Migron. Two bus loads of Women in Green traveled to Migron. We brought refreshments for the adults and a teddy bear for each child.
Posted on 07/23/2008 10:07:04 AM PDT by SJackson
Filed Under (Ruth Matar's letters from Jerusalem) by admin
THE TEDDY BEAR DEMONSTRATION
Letter from Ruth Matar (Women in Green) Jerusalem Thursday, July 17, 2008
Dear Friends,
I was deeply shocked to learn that presidential candidate Barrack Hussein Obama has appointed Daniel Kurtzer as his key Middle East adviser!
Kurtzer, a former U.S. Ambassador to Israel, has long been recognized by Israel leaders, including prime ministers, as biased against Israel and is notorious for urging extreme concessions from the Jewish State.
The first time I came across the name Daniel Kurtzer was in December 2003, when, as U.S. Ambassador to Israel, he instructed Israel Defence Minster Shaul Mofaz that Migron, a community in the Judean Hills just minutes from Jerusalem, had to be the first "Jewish settlement" to be evacuated, so as to make possible a contiguous Palestinian State.
It is important to understand that Migron is not some little collection of huts. The community has built a synagogue and they have a library, their own health care center, a petting zoo and a kindergarten. Migron is home to 43 young Torah-observant Jewish families with over 60 young children. They are professionals, teachers, students and soldiers. They work in Migron or in Jerusalem, or in the surrounding communities, such as Michmash. (Michmash was the stronghold of Judah Maccabee, who reestablished Jewish sovereignty in this whole area during the time of the Chanukah wars.)
Migron had actually been approved by Sharon and the Defense Ministry. In fact, successive previous defense ministers have insisted that Migron was essential strategically and must never be abandoned. It had been built on land completely owned by Jews and its residents had the legal papers to prove these facts.
This affair is more than shameful on more than one level; Israel’s Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, under heavy American pressure, made the decision to destroy Migron, and Kurtzer, a supposedly Orthodox religious Jew lent himself to the attempt to the destroy the Jewish State, because of personal ambition.
Women in Green decided to demonstrate against the forcible evacuation of Migron. Two bus loads of Women in Green traveled to Migron. We brought refreshments for the adults and a teddy bear for each child.
We had received a large donation for children’s toys from a lovely Jewish American lady. Unfortunately, we cannot remember her name but we bless her for her generosity. We used all the money to purchase as many teddy bears as could be had from the donation. Fortunately, there was enough for all the Migron little children. It seemed to us to be the perfect gift for the little children, in case, G-d forbid, police and soldiers actually were sent to forcibly evacuate the Migron Jews. At least the small children of Migron would than each have a teddy bear to hug!
(Actually, Migron was not evacuated at that time; we like to think that it was partly because of publicity for our demonstration.)
* * * The following is an article about Obama’s new Middle East adviser, DANIEL KURTZER, by Aaron Klein of WorldNetDaily (May 13, 2008):
Obama Adviser: Divide Jerusalem
Unless one has their head in the sand or is on the liberal koolaide binge, why would this news deeply shock anyone about Obama?
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