Nitzan residents take cover from rocket
Nitzan residents take cover from rocketIsrael NN (photo file)



You expelled the orange - you received the red.

Close to 50 people joined a Women in Green solidarity trip to Nitzan, near Gaza, which the nationalist group refers to as "the refugee camp in Lachish where our friends from Gush Katif have been dumped in cardboard homes after being expelled from their flourishing communities in Gush Katif."

The group toured the town of Gush Katif expellees, visiting residents, an art gallery, and conducting a shopping spree as a token effort to boost the local economy. In bitter irony, Nitzan is within range of rockets that are being fired by Hamas terrorists from the site of the residents’ former homes in Gush Katif.

Rachel and Moshe Saperstein welcomed the group with a "grand tour." The group viewed artwork of Gush Katif artists at the Orange Gallery and then toured the sewage pipes of Nitzan, which were provided by the Home Front as a means of protecting Nitzan residents from rockets. The "cardboard homes" provided by the government to the Gush Katif expellees is inadequate protection against deadly rocket attacks.



Women in Green’s Nadia Mater explained that the reason the air raid alert is called "Color Red" is that a recording of a voice shouts in Hebrew "Tzeva Adom- Tzeva Adom" (Red Alert-Red alert). The Nitzan residents have painted many of the sewage pipes, one of which is painted with the slogan. "You expelled the orange - you received the red."

Matar stated that this clearly explains “that those who expelled the Jews from Gush Katif, the orange camp, brought upon all of us the Kassams and missiles, symbolized by the Red Alert.”

Women in Green also brought spray paint and used it to decorate a Nitzan sewage pipe with slogans, "The Land of Israel belongs to the People of Israel."

After the groups' “artistic” experience, they went to the Saperstein residence and chatted with a journalist from Israel’s Channel 1 television.



"He told us that he realized that the time had come to give the microphone to those who have been expelled, those who were laughed at by the Left when they warned that the expulsion from Gush Katif and the capitulation from the Gaza Strip would bring Kassams to the south of the country," Nadia Mater recalls.

The day ended with the group helping the local economy by buying in Nitzan’s local stores. Although the group had received instructions in case of a rocket attack, the foreboding Color Red alert remained silent for the duration of their visit. However, the group did hear the siren sound in faraway Ashkelon.

Prior to leaving their friends in Nitzan, the group promised to return.



"On our way back to Jerusalem we looked at the road that we used so often to go down to Gush Katif and we vowed and prayed, ‘Please G-d, may the day come soon when we will free Gaza from its Arab occupation, reinstall Jewish sovereignty over Gaza and rebuild our beautiful Gush Katif," Nadia Mater stated.