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The Sovereign Path Forward with prominent activist Nadia Matar
Held on Yud Tes Kislev, December 9, 2025
It was the summer of 2006, Israeli leaders’ egregious Disengagement from Gaza a year earlier had emboldened Hezbollah to ambush IDF soldiers on patrol along the border in a gamble to force the release of their Lebanese brothers in arms being held in Israeli prisons.
In return Israel launched both a ground invasion and naval blockade. Hezbollah retaliated raining down thousands of rockets on Northern Israel leaving over 150 Jewish lives lost, thousands more wounded and residents evacuating to safer ground for the duration of the war.
In Buffalo, my hometown where I was staying for the summer, more than a thousand Jews gathered for an evening with Israel’s Consul General in New York City who was crisscrossing the state to raise awareness and funds for our beleaguered fellow Jews living under fire.
The Consul, whom I’m sure meant well, began his talk by going over the various wars the State of Israel had endured to date, saying after each one “and then something happened.” What that was, he never explained.
Of course what happened was what didn’t happen and that encapsulates prominent activist Nadia Matar’s message about sovereignty.
Nadia, co-chair and founder of Women in Green and The Sovereignty Movement was my guest last week for The........