Tel-Chai Nation

The Women in Green put together a protest march along the Jerusalem-Efrat highway yesterday:

"Breaking Out of the Ghetto" was the theme for 150+ Gush Etzion residents marching along the Efrat-Jerusalem highway yesterday, protesting Olmert's plan to suffocate them with walls and checkpoints.

The marchers, organized by the Women in Green organization, protest what they call "political traffic jams" and extensive delays at various checkpoints all over Judea and Samaria.

Motorists at the Tunnel Road checkpoint on the Jerusalem-Gush Etzion, at the Hizme Checkpoint between Jerusalem and the Yesha communities to the north, and elsewhere have been forced over the past several weeks to suffer interminably long traffic jams at various hours of the day. The traffic is caused where Arab vehicles are checked for terrorists and explosives.

I applaud the march, but let me comment on one thing here:

Rabbi Dov Lior, Chief Rabbi of Kiryat Arba, encouraged the marchers and told them, "The entire Land is our, and we must conquer it by marching." He said we must not fall into the slumber imposed upon us by the government echelons: "We must say the truth in an absolute manner, and not the way they portray and corrupt it."

Correction, that should be RE-conquer it from the enemy.

Women in Green's Co-chairperson Nadia Matar, a resident of Efrat, addressed the crowd as well, and said, "Our first action in conquering the land is to re-conquer this road." She said afterwards that many drivers passing them by had honked in solidarity. "Our goal of the raising our heads and our spirit was achieved."

Very good. I look forward to when they'll schedule a town-square rally, but there's one little thing: keep the National Union away from unless they're willing to publicly apologize for hatemongering against the Likud.

I mean it. The NU must apologize and be willing to admit that they were being stupid.