| Revision as of 07:40, 23 February 2009 editPedrito (talk | contribs)2,399 edits Undid revision 272463892 by Tkalisky (talk) see Talk:Israeli settlement.← Previous edit | Latest revision as of 17:34, 31 October 2024 edit undoMonkbot (talk | contribs)Bots3,695,952 editsm Task 20: replace {lang-??} templates with {langx|??} ‹See Tfd› (Replaced 1);Tag: AWB | ||
| (126 intermediate revisions by 67 users not shown) | |||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
| {{short description|Israeli activist}} | |||
| {{copyedit|date=May 2008}} | |||
| {{Infobox person | |||
| {{tone|date=May 2008}} | |||
| | name = Nadia Matar | |||
| | image = NADYA MATAR.JPG | |||
| | alt = | |||
| | caption = Nadia Matar | |||
| | birth_date = {{Birth date|1966|02|16}} | |||
| | birth_place = ], ] | |||
| | death_date = <!-- {{Death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} (death date then birth date) --> | |||
| | death_place = | |||
| | nationality = | |||
| | other_names = | |||
| | known_for = | |||
| | occupation = Political activist | |||
| }} | |||
| '''Nadia Matar''' (Pikovitch) ({{Langx|he|נדיה מטר}}) (born February 16, 1966, in ], ], into a non-religious Jewish family)<ref name="Balint" /> is a right wing activist in ]. A ] youth leader, she performed ] (immigrated) alone at the age of 18 in 1984,<ref name="Balint" /> while still in her teens, and married an American doctor, David, a pediatrician at ], with whom she has had six children,<ref name="Koutsoukis" /> and settled in ],<ref name="Campbell" /> though she moved her family to ] in ] in 2004 when ] decided to dismantle Jewish settlements in the ].<ref name="Balint" /> She has been called by some admirers 'the settlers' Joan of Arc'.<ref name =Campbell>Deborah Campbell, D & M Publishers, 2009 pp.95-96.</ref> She is, together with Yehudit Katsover, the co-chairman of the ] organization<ref name="Langenbacher" /> ].<ref name ="Koutsoukis" >Jason Koutsoukis , ] 14 November 2008</ref> She hosts a settler radio show.<ref name="Campbell" /> | |||
| <!-- Image with unknown copyright status removed: ] --> | |||
| '''Nadia Matar''' (Pikovitch) born on ] ] in ], ]) is a well-known ] in ]. She is, together with her mother-in-law, co-chairman of the ]. | |||
| == |
==Positions== | ||
| Matar regards the ] as a "criminal betrayal of the Jewish people."<ref name="Koutsoukis" /> | |||
| Matar's great-grandfather Bentzion Rabinovitch was a very famous cantor, while her grandfather and father were in the diamond trade. Nadia spent her youth in Antwerp and attended the Tachkemoni School, where she learned secular and Hebrew studies. In her free time she was a member of the youth organisation Bnei Akiva, soon becoming a counselor, therein developing leadership skills. | |||
| She lobbied against the ] and compared Yonathan Bassi, the official ] appointed to oversee the withdrawal, to the kind of person in a ] under Nazi control who wrote letters telling his community to prepare for deportation (to a concentration camp). The analogy was rebuffed by ], chairman of ], as 'irresponsible, disrespectful and distorting history'.<ref name = Langenbacher>Eric Langenbacher, 'Collective Memory as a Factor in Political Culture and International Relations,' in Eric Langenbacher, Yossi Shain (eds.) ], 2010 pp.11-49 p.40.</ref> Unification of the land for her means, ultimately, all the land from 'the ] to the ]'.<ref>Seth Freedman, ''Can I Bring My Own Gun?'', Five Leaves 2009 p.269.</ref> In her view, ], and the restitution of the ] was a "tragic mistake".<ref name="Koutsoukis" /> | |||
| She took Australian Prime Minister ] to task for backing a UN resolution against Jewish settlement in the West Bank. She warned him that God was on her side and advised him against forcing settlers to "do something. ... Just for your own sake, because you might be next."<ref name="Koutsoukis" /> | |||
| After high school she spent a year at Machon Gold, in Jerusalem, to perfect her Jewish studies, and after a brief return to Belgium to study psychology in Brussels, returned to Jerusalem to study history at the Hebrew University. | |||
| She has set up roadblocks to stop Palestinians travelling in certain areas of the ].<ref>Peter Boukaert, ] 2001 pp.100-101.</ref> Recently, she called Palestinian building on and use of the land in the West Bank "agricultural jihad", while arguing for an annexation of the same area, with an extension of equal rights to Palestinians on condition that they sign a ] to Israel and serve in the ].<ref name=Englard>Zahava Englard, ] 1 June 2012.</ref> | |||
| She married David Matar, an American-born pediatrician she met at the university, in October 1987, and today they live in Efrat with their six children. | |||
| She is a leading figure in an apparent attempt to create a settlement, called Shdema, at Ush al-Ghrab ("Crow's Nest") in ], on a local Palestinian park that was, until 2006, an Israeli military base, and where her activism has managed to get the IDF to restore a presence there in the form of a watchtower and prevent 'illegal Arab building'.<ref>Apo Sahagian, Middle East Publications 20 October 2012</ref><ref name="Balint" >Judy Lash Balint, 'How two women work to shift public opinion on Israeli sovereignty,' ] 6 July 6, 2014.</ref><ref>Ben White ] 21 February 2010</ref> | |||
| ==Political activity== | |||
| Nadia believes that the Land of Israel including the West Bank and Gaza was promised and belongs to the Jewish People, according to the Torah. She fights for the right of all Jews to live and flourish throughout the ], the heart of the Jewish Homeland and the cradle of Jewish history for thousands of years. | |||
| “When the movement of the Women in Green was created in 1993, the idea was to break the stereotype of the bearded colonist in his military dress with the machine-gun on his shoulder", says Nadia. "We wanted to show that in Judaea-Samaria (the West Bank) and in Gaza, the women were similar to the women of Paris or Antwerp. I saw myself as a peaceful housewife, I did not have great ambitions. Peres and Rabin changed all this." | |||
| After the Oslo Accords in 1993, Nadia "saw red". She decided then, with her mother-in-law Ruth, her inseparable partner, to organize women opposed to the principle of “Land for Peace”. The movement aims at attracting attention from the media by generating more or less controlled happenings and provocations. Nadia is not afraid to clash with the police, get bruised and spend days in jail, always together with her mother-in-law. | |||
| She regards Tel Aviv as a 'baby' (''tinoket'') compared to the ]<ref name="Englard" /> and has stated that renouncing ] is tantamount to losing one's moral right to ].<ref name="Campbell" /> Palestinians are the real squatters in the 'land of Israel', she argues,<ref name =Thomas>Mark Thomas Random House, 2011 pp.2i9ff.</ref> and has gone on record as supporting the idea of expelling ]. In an interview with Michael Petrou, she stated: | |||
| The principles of the Women in Green: | |||
| <blockquote>I'm in favour of having a system in which any major decision for this country is taken by a Jewish majority. If that means giving less rights to the Israel Arabs, then yes. Everyone knows that there is another war coming, and in the war we'll have to do what we have to do to make it clear to them that this is a Jewish state, whether that means expelling them or buying their land or telling them to go to Canada.'<ref>Michael Petrou, Dundurn, 2012 p.170.</ref></blockquote> She imagines that the whole land of Israel, in which she includes the West Bank, lies under an imperative struggle on the ground, throughout every inch of territory, where '(e)nemies from within and without want to take it from us and we must not continue with our life's routine. The words routine (''shigra'') and expulsion (''geirush'') have the same root.'<ref>Lihi Ben Shitrit, Princeton University Press, 2015 p.145.</ref> When anchorman ] noted that settlement building is illegal, she replied, 'where should we go? Where should we go? Back to Auschwitz?'<ref>], , ] ] 20 September 2009</ref><ref>], Transcript.</ref> | |||
| *1. All-out war against terrorism | |||
| In the wake both of the ] and on the discovery that ] was perpetrated by Israeli youths, she said the response to the former was to build new outposts and settlements in revenge, one of which is named after them, Givat Oz Ve’Gaon.<ref name="Balint" /> <blockquote>When somebody hurts you, you want revenge, you want to hurt him. How do you hurt him? When you show them that - with a smile, that you are not going to take us away from our homelands and we are going to - forever every Jew you attack, we're going to build another community.<ref name="Cooper" >Hayden Cooper & Sarah Ferguson, ] 07 July 2014.</ref> | |||
| *2. Not to give back an inch of territory | |||
| </blockquote> Asked what she would do were she, a mother of three, in the shoes of a Palestinian mother, she answered that she could not imagine that, since a Palestinian mother is her enemy, adding: "In the law of the jungle, only the strong survive. And we will survive."<ref name="Campbell" /> | |||
| *3. To expel Palestinians involved in armed actions | |||
| *4. To allow the other Palestinians to live within the larger Israel, but without the right to vote. | |||
| ==See also== | |||
| Familiar with television interviews, Nadia likes to use shock formulas: “My hero became one zero (Sharon)”, “Our buses are the gas chambers of the Palestinians” or “Bassi applies the policy of Judenrat”. This comparison between the Nazis and the senior Israeli official in charge of dismantling Jewish Gaza provoked the fury of the Israeli left. Nadia caused the controversy when she compared the government's intention to remove Israeli settlers from Gaza to the involvement of the Judenrat ("Jewish Council") in Berlin in 1942, which under orders from the German government organized the expulsion of the Jewish community from that city. | |||
| *] | |||
| *] | |||
| ==References== | |||
| Matar drew this comparison in a letter she sent to Yonatan Bassi, the head of the department overseeing the civilian aspects of the withdrawal. She attached a copy of a 1942 letter from the Judenrat, which she claimed mirrored the letter Bassi sent to Gaza settlers explaining the procedures for the evacuation. Matar stated: | |||
| {{Reflist}} | |||
| "Yonatan Bassi is a much worse version of the 'Judenrat' in the Holocaust, for then in the Holocaust, this was forced upon those Jewish leaders by the Nazis, and it is very difficult for us to judge them today. But today no one stands with a pistol to Bassi's head and forces him to cooperate with the deportation of the Jews of ] and northern Samaria." | |||
| Three weeks before the disengagement out of Gaza she moved to a small caravan (house trailer) on the beach of Gush Katif, where she lived with her six children. From there, she organized resistance against the dismantling of the settlements. With ] and ], barricaded in a hotel near her caravan, she developed a battle plan. | |||
| "The goal is to attract as many Israelis as possible who will oppose the soldiers. You do not imagine the number of soldiers who will not obey the orders", promises Nadia. "This plan will not be carried out. If not, it would be the beginning of the end for Israel”. | |||
| ==External links== | ==External links== | ||
| * | * | ||
| * by Nadia Matar, ''israelinsider'', September 29, 2004 | |||
| {{DEFAULTSORT:Matar, Nadia}} | |||
| ] | |||
| ] | ] | ||
| ] | ] | ||
| ] | ] | ||
| ] | |||
| ] | |||
| ] | |||
| ] | |||
| ] | |||
| ] | |||
| ] | |||
| ] | |||
Latest revision as of 17:34, 31 October 2024
Israeli activist| Nadia Matar | |
|---|---|
 Nadia Matar | |
| Born | (1966-02-16)February 16, 1966 Antwerp, Belgium |
| Occupation | Political activist |
Nadia Matar (Pikovitch) (Hebrew: נדיה מטר) (born February 16, 1966, in Antwerp, Belgium, into a non-religious Jewish family) is a right wing activist in Israel. A Yavneh Olami youth leader, she performed aliyah (immigrated) alone at the age of 18 in 1984, while still in her teens, and married an American doctor, David, a pediatrician at Hadassah Hospital, with whom she has had six children, and settled in Efrat, though she moved her family to Shirat HaYam in Gush Katif in 2004 when Ariel Sharon decided to dismantle Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip. She has been called by some admirers 'the settlers' Joan of Arc'. She is, together with Yehudit Katsover, the co-chairman of the Nationalist organization Women in Green. She hosts a settler radio show.
Positions
Matar regards the Oslo Peace Accords as a "criminal betrayal of the Jewish people." She lobbied against the Israeli withdrawal from its Gaza Strip settlements and compared Yonathan Bassi, the official Ariel Sharon appointed to oversee the withdrawal, to the kind of person in a Judenrat under Nazi control who wrote letters telling his community to prepare for deportation (to a concentration camp). The analogy was rebuffed by Avner Shalev, chairman of Yad Vashem, as 'irresponsible, disrespectful and distorting history'. Unification of the land for her means, ultimately, all the land from 'the Nile to the Euphrates'. In her view, Israel's Peace Treaty with Egypt, and the restitution of the Sinai was a "tragic mistake".
She took Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to task for backing a UN resolution against Jewish settlement in the West Bank. She warned him that God was on her side and advised him against forcing settlers to "do something. ... Just for your own sake, because you might be next."
She has set up roadblocks to stop Palestinians travelling in certain areas of the West Bank. Recently, she called Palestinian building on and use of the land in the West Bank "agricultural jihad", while arguing for an annexation of the same area, with an extension of equal rights to Palestinians on condition that they sign a loyalty oath to Israel and serve in the IDF.
She is a leading figure in an apparent attempt to create a settlement, called Shdema, at Ush al-Ghrab ("Crow's Nest") in Beit Sahour, on a local Palestinian park that was, until 2006, an Israeli military base, and where her activism has managed to get the IDF to restore a presence there in the form of a watchtower and prevent 'illegal Arab building'.
She regards Tel Aviv as a 'baby' (tinoket) compared to the West Bank and has stated that renouncing Hebron is tantamount to losing one's moral right to Tel Aviv. Palestinians are the real squatters in the 'land of Israel', she argues, and has gone on record as supporting the idea of expelling Israeli Arabs. In an interview with Michael Petrou, she stated:
I'm in favour of having a system in which any major decision for this country is taken by a Jewish majority. If that means giving less rights to the Israel Arabs, then yes. Everyone knows that there is another war coming, and in the war we'll have to do what we have to do to make it clear to them that this is a Jewish state, whether that means expelling them or buying their land or telling them to go to Canada.'
She imagines that the whole land of Israel, in which she includes the West Bank, lies under an imperative struggle on the ground, throughout every inch of territory, where '(e)nemies from within and without want to take it from us and we must not continue with our life's routine. The words routine (shigra) and expulsion (geirush) have the same root.' When anchorman Liam Bartlett noted that settlement building is illegal, she replied, 'where should we go? Where should we go? Back to Auschwitz?' In the wake both of the murder of 3 Israeli teenagers and on the discovery that the revenge murder of a Palestinian boy was perpetrated by Israeli youths, she said the response to the former was to build new outposts and settlements in revenge, one of which is named after them, Givat Oz Ve’Gaon.
When somebody hurts you, you want revenge, you want to hurt him. How do you hurt him? When you show them that - with a smile, that you are not going to take us away from our homelands and we are going to - forever every Jew you attack, we're going to build another community.
Asked what she would do were she, a mother of three, in the shoes of a Palestinian mother, she answered that she could not imagine that, since a Palestinian mother is her enemy, adding: "In the law of the jungle, only the strong survive. And we will survive."
See also
References
- ^ Judy Lash Balint, 'How two women work to shift public opinion on Israeli sovereignty,' JNS.org 6 July 6, 2014.
- ^ Jason Koutsoukis ,'Israeli anger that burns brightly,' Sydney Morning Herald 14 November 2008
- ^ Deborah Campbell,This Heated Place: Encounters in the Promised Land , D & M Publishers, 2009 pp.95-96.
- ^ Eric Langenbacher, 'Collective Memory as a Factor in Political Culture and International Relations,' in Eric Langenbacher, Yossi Shain (eds.) Georgetown University Press, 2010 pp.11-49 p.40.
- Seth Freedman, Can I Bring My Own Gun?, Five Leaves 2009 p.269.
- Peter Boukaert,Center of the Storm: A Case Study of Human Rights Abuses in Hebron District, Human Rights Watch 2001 pp.100-101.
- ^ Zahava Englard, 'Nationalist activists send shockwaves throughout Judea and Samaria' The Times of Israel 1 June 2012.
- Apo Sahagian, 'The Ruin of Israel,' Middle East Publications 20 October 2012
- Ben White 'Beit Sahour: a new struggle,' New Statesman 21 February 2010
- Mark Thomas Extreme Rambling: Walking Israel's Separation Barrier. For Fun, Random House, 2011 pp.2i9ff.
- Michael Petrou, This Your First War?: Travels Through the Post-9/11 Islamic World, Dundurn, 2012 p.170.
- Lihi Ben Shitrit, Righteous Transgressions: Women's Activism on the Israeli and Palestinian Religious Right, Princeton University Press, 2015 p.145.
- Liam Bartlett, 'Hate Thy Neighbour', 60 Minutes Nine Network 20 September 2009
- Liam Bartlett, Hate Thy Neighbour,' Transcript.
- Hayden Cooper & Sarah Ferguson, 'Arrest of murder suspects has Israel fearing return to violence,' Australian Broadcasting Corporation 07 July 2014.