B. Rosenfeld
From the newspaper " Novosty nedely », 06/09/2001
On Tuesday, September 4 at 17:30 in the square before the Jerusalem
town hall was held a demonstration remarkable both its theme and its form.
The demonstration in support of the Idea of the State Israel from the
Nile to the Euphrates was organised by the movement “Bead Artzein” (“For
the Homeland”), headed by rabbi and historian Avrom Shmulevic from Hebron.
“The usual demonstrations by all have bothered, new forms are needed”
– said the activists. The bright performance, called by the participants
as a "musical-political action", apart from speeches, slogans and distribution
of leaflets, included the show of the rock group "Gosplan". On the backstage
of the demonstration were casually appended pictures on militarist themes
by the Haifa artist, appointed with the “Medals of the City of Haifa for
his contribution to art”, Igor Cherchenko. The demonstration was concluded
by a symbolical act – from a date-palm (symbol of the Country of Israel),
under loud shouts of approval and appropriate music, was hung a puppet
of Arafat.
The participants arrived from every corner of Israel: from Jerusalem,
Hebron, Tel Aviv, Haifa and even Kyriat-Shmona – hundreds of people, including
the active members of movement – and Arabs from Eastern Jerusalem, dissatisfied
with Arafat’s terror.
“The Israeli society lays in a state of deep systemic crisis, its total
renewal is necessary, if you like - a revolution. Our movement unites the
people, who cannot breath in this suffocating atmosphere, while the souls
of those who love our land and our people is open to the New and Strange”
- explains Abraham Shmulevic.
“The process of national revival of the Jewish people is irreversible
and has its internal logic” - he says. “We shall have no peace as long
as the whole territory of the Country of Israel will not return under Jewish
control. This might sound too hard, but such is the logic of history. The
war on the Holy Land has been already fought for four thousand years
and the end cannot be seen. A stable peace will come only then, when Israel
will return to itself all its historical lands, and will thus control both
the Suez and the Ormudz channel. The state will find at last its geostrategic
completeness. We must remember that Iraqi oil fields too are located on
the Jewish land. This may seem utopia to many now - but an even greater
utopia seemed a hundred years ago the revival of the Jewish state. As Hertzil
said: "If you want it, this will not not be a fairy tale" ”.
" A long road begins with one step " – says an ancient proverb. This
step to the renaissance of Greater Israel in its biblical borders was made
in the centre of Jerusalem.
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