We hereby present the fourth in a series of excerpts from a new Arutz-7 project, entitled, "The Writing was in the Air," showing how Arutz-7, alone among Israeli media, covered the Oslo process and warned of its dangers. The Hebrew-language project combines an audio CD of selections aired on Arutz-7 and a 96-page book of explanation and background. Other excerpts can be read in previous news reports of this week, which can be had (as usual) by sending email to Tuesday@IsraelNationalNews.com, for example. To order (in Israel), call 067-666079.
Excerpts from Track 2:
During each stage of the Oslo process, the government media provided live broadcasts of the signing ceremonies in Israel and abroad, trying not to miss even a single word. We, on the other hand, tried to provide a voice to the broad public that objected to the agreements, for both ethical and security reasons, and that went out to the streets to protest.
Avi Mor, Sep. 20, 1993: "I am an army officer in the reserves. I took part in the 1982 Peace for Galilee war. In the wake of this dubious agreement with an organization of murderers, whose entire purpose is to murder Jewish citizens... we have decided, a group of reserves officers, to go out and express our protest in public... We, officers in the reserves, object to this terrible process, which represents the loss of all the ethical values on which we were educated and on which we bring up our children. We call upon every reserves officer to take part in this protest vigil that we are starting today..."
Binyamin Netanyahu, at a Jerusalem rally, Sep. 1, 1993: "And I ask this huge crowd: Is there anyone here amongst you who believes Yasser Arafat?! Is anyone here willing to abandon Israel's security to the PLO?!"
Rehavam Ze'evi, at the same rally: "Brothers and sisters, if you turn your heads southwards, you would see the top of Mt. Gilo, known as Beit Jala. Arafat's autonomy will be right there. From there, from that mountain top that you see before you, the weapons will be deployed..."
MK Gonen Segev, of the right-wing Tzomet party, who later was seduced into deserting and joining the Rabin government, thus enabling the continued implementation of the Oslo Agreement by a margin of only one vote: "The situation today is very grave. The surprise was very great, not only us but even Labor Party MKs and ministers knew nothing of this strange agreement that is about to rage upon us. Nothing has happened yet, and it could definitely be that not only is it not too late, but this is the time to go out to the streets and show Rabin that he has no mandate to give up any of Eretz Yisrael and certainly not to establish a Palestinian state in Gaza and Jericho." (Sep. 1, 1993)
[To explain the phrase "seduced into deserting," we quote the Likud's Limor Livnat in April '97 saying that an investigative committee should examine the Labor government's "shameful buying of the votes of Alex Goldfarb and Gonen Segev on issues vital to Israel's interest."]
The next two items on Track 2 of the CD document an explosion of a Jewish bus at Ayosh Junction on the Beit El-Ramallah border - with no casualties - on Oct. 4, precisely three weeks after the signing of the Oslo Agreement, and the double murder of Mordechai and Shalom Lapid outside Kiryat Arba two months later.
Excerpts from Track 2:
During each stage of the Oslo process, the government media provided live broadcasts of the signing ceremonies in Israel and abroad, trying not to miss even a single word. We, on the other hand, tried to provide a voice to the broad public that objected to the agreements, for both ethical and security reasons, and that went out to the streets to protest.
Avi Mor, Sep. 20, 1993: "I am an army officer in the reserves. I took part in the 1982 Peace for Galilee war. In the wake of this dubious agreement with an organization of murderers, whose entire purpose is to murder Jewish citizens... we have decided, a group of reserves officers, to go out and express our protest in public... We, officers in the reserves, object to this terrible process, which represents the loss of all the ethical values on which we were educated and on which we bring up our children. We call upon every reserves officer to take part in this protest vigil that we are starting today..."
Binyamin Netanyahu, at a Jerusalem rally, Sep. 1, 1993: "And I ask this huge crowd: Is there anyone here amongst you who believes Yasser Arafat?! Is anyone here willing to abandon Israel's security to the PLO?!"
Rehavam Ze'evi, at the same rally: "Brothers and sisters, if you turn your heads southwards, you would see the top of Mt. Gilo, known as Beit Jala. Arafat's autonomy will be right there. From there, from that mountain top that you see before you, the weapons will be deployed..."
MK Gonen Segev, of the right-wing Tzomet party, who later was seduced into deserting and joining the Rabin government, thus enabling the continued implementation of the Oslo Agreement by a margin of only one vote: "The situation today is very grave. The surprise was very great, not only us but even Labor Party MKs and ministers knew nothing of this strange agreement that is about to rage upon us. Nothing has happened yet, and it could definitely be that not only is it not too late, but this is the time to go out to the streets and show Rabin that he has no mandate to give up any of Eretz Yisrael and certainly not to establish a Palestinian state in Gaza and Jericho." (Sep. 1, 1993)
[To explain the phrase "seduced into deserting," we quote the Likud's Limor Livnat in April '97 saying that an investigative committee should examine the Labor government's "shameful buying of the votes of Alex Goldfarb and Gonen Segev on issues vital to Israel's interest."]
The next two items on Track 2 of the CD document an explosion of a Jewish bus at Ayosh Junction on the Beit El-Ramallah border - with no casualties - on Oct. 4, precisely three weeks after the signing of the Oslo Agreement, and the double murder of Mordechai and Shalom Lapid outside Kiryat Arba two months later.