Zo Artzeinu
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Zo Artzeinu (Hebrew: זו ארצנו, This is our land) was a protest movement created and led by Moshe Feiglin and Shmuel Sackett in Israel in the early 1990s to block Israeli land concessions to the Arabs and prevent the PLO from receiving thousands of machine guns which were subsequently used to murder and harm Israelis. The movement was known to block roads and use other forms of Non Violent civil disobedience adapted from the civil rights movement in the United States led by Martin Luther King to make known their protests and goals.
Feiglin and Sackett established Zo Artzeinu after realizing that the Israeli Media was only showing the intended benefit of the Oslo Accords without explaining the dangers to the people and state of Israel. Feiglin and Sackett were determined to find a way to wake up the Israeli public from the media brainwash and help protect and secure Israel, but by peaceful means only. They did not agree with a more militant approach. Thousands of Israelis took to the street in solidarity to show they were against capitulation and did not want Israel to be put in danger.
In 1998, Feiglin and Sackett moved on to establish the Manhigut Yehudit ("Jewish Leadership") faction within the Likud party, with Feiglin eventually running for leadership of the Likud party.
Today Zo Artzeinu focuses on activities that help protect and safeguard the land of Israel like by Planting Fruit trees. They have been responsible for thousands of new Fruit Trees being planted all over Israel, and the wine from their vinyard in Yitzhar has won the Gold and Silver Metal Award in Israel a few times.
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