Goldstone, International Law, Jewish Press, Once again your front page cover puts dangerous new IDF Policy changes in positive light

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Unfortunately I am once again angered that  the Jewish Press uses their Front Page to report  acceptably on  a new IDF policy that potentially endangers IDF Soldiers and Israeli lives.  http://www.jewishpress.com/pageroute.do/47946/Goldstone_Fallout:_I.html

Failure of Jewish Media to put things in a proper Torah perspective indirectly aids and empowers  the enemies of Israel.

 I am referring to the new IDF Policy Changes as a result of the Goldstone Fallout.  Rather than expose the double standard of the use of International Law  JTA tells half the story leaving out the side that conclusively shows that such a new IDF policy can in fact endanger Israeli Soldiers and Israeli civilians.

Unfortunately this is the pattern of JTA reporting and the Jewish Press should reconsider using them as a reliable and  kosher news source typically gracing the Jewish Press on their front cover.  The Jewish Press as well as all the Jewish Print Media who puts Torah before everything else  would do well to consult with Daas Torah  as per whether such IDF decisions is consistent with how the Torah would advise a Jewish army defending the residents of Israel when the Palestinians use their civilians as human shields.  The Torah viewpoint must be investigated, heard and not suppressed!

Please report on the likely endangerment of IDF Soldier due to these new policy changes as per what happened in Jenin where many IDF soldier were killed in urban warfare in an attempt to spare Palestinian civilian casualties.   While there is positive things to say about using accurate weapons it must not be done at the expense of the lives of the Israel Soldier.

Please note  that in the Jenin battle,  the international media did not recognize or appreciate  the self sacrificing efforts to save Palestinian civilian lives.  That was a perfect example but not the only one of how IDF military operations are dictated by media rather than military considerations and as a consequence suffered very heavy losses.

 Not only were the efforts not appreciated in international media it received the exact opposite desired  PR reaction in that Israel was accused of War Crimes and of staging a  progrom against the civilian Palestinian population.  These accusations were based on lies and distortions and falsehoods...and  I personally knew Gedalia  a soldier who died in combat in that useless urban battle in Jenin and know of the pain and sorrow of his family...  This should surely cause one to reflect as per whether these new guidelines of the IDF is indeed one that is consistent with Torah.

But not only the lives of IDF soldiers and Israeli residents are endangered by fighting a war based on PR. Israel is endangering the world by setting a precedent of weakness in the fight against such evil  The world takes their cue from how Israel responds.    Being compassionate to the cruel results in being cruel to the compassionate.

 NATO forces in Libya face these same moral dilemmas.  Military targets are placed in civilian populations zones who serve as human shields and NATO forces retreat. How compassionate is this to the potential victims of  these rockets allowed to be left in place ready to be fired on the civilian populations of  babies, children and elderly?

Please take your reporting from Kosher sources such as Doris Wise Montrose and the Children of Jewish Holocaust Survivors working to ensure that Never Again remains more than a mere slogan,  Please put only Kosher News sources, those that are proud to  defend our rights to defend our Land dictated by Torah Shebichtav and Torah SheBaal Peh , the written and oral Torah Law on your Front Page.   Please don't empower those (including  the Gov't of Israel and the IDF who hold that Torah is secondary to secular state laws of IDF engagement.  These new IDF guidelines implicitly suggest guilt of war crimes by their determination to "rectify wrongdoing" in the face of international condemnation. It seems pretty clear to me that the IDF now calls for new policies that potentially stops to  protect our own Jewish military and  civilian population in order to defend the civilian population of our enemies who unfortunately are  being used by cowards as human shields..

Please turn a blind eye to the hostile international media waiting to pounce on Israel whenever she shows strength to defend the rights of our Land and our people.   Who if not  the Jewish Media, will speak out the Truth of Torah?

Sincerely, Robin Ticker


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From: Doris Wise Montrose <doris@cjhsla.org>
Date: Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 8:22 PM
Subject: IMPORTANT EVENT: Goldstone, International Law, and the Coming Crisis in September - April 28 at 7 p.m.
To: faigerayzel@gmail.com

Working to ensure that Never Again remains more than a mere slogan
	THURSDAY, APRIL 28 AT 7:00 P.M. Goldstone, International Law, and the Coming Crisis in September A presentation by three distinguished lawyers, historians, and scholars   Avi Bell J.J. Surbeck Rick Richman   Thursday, April 28 - 7 p.m. Luxe Hotel Sunset 11461 Sunset Blvd. Los Angeles, CA  90049 Avi Bell participated in a debate on the Goldstone Report at Stanford Law School on March 28 with Justice Richard Goldstone and others, three days before Justice Goldstone published his now-famous recantation in the Washington Post. The Goldstone Recantation demonstrates that the truth about international law and the Arab-Israeli conflict, although slow to get its boots on, can be used as an effective defense by those who are knowledgeable in it.   International law is usually considered only when it can be played against Israel and is generally ignored when it is in fact in Israel's favor or would condemn the Palestinians. We have been dealing with the progressive institutionalization of a double standard. J.J. Surbeck will give examples of the problem and where it is leading the world community if not addressed in time. In advance of the coming September meeting of the UN General Assembly, where opponents of Israel plan to seek a unilateral declaration of a Palestinian state with non-negotiated borders, Rick Richman will analyze the legality and the political implications of such an attempt.  Panelists: Professor Avi Bell holds multiple degrees from Harvard and the University of Chicago, clerked for the Supreme Court of Israel, and has taught courses on the laws of war and the legal aspects of the Arab-Israeli conflict.  He is a professor at Bar Ilan University Faculty of Law as well as the University of San Diego Law School. J.J. Surbeck is a Swiss-educated attorney who worked for 16 years for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), which many have called the "Guardian of the Geneva Conventions." He has lectured and taught widely on the Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols, also called International Humanitarian Law. He is currently Executive Director of T.E.A.M. (Training and Education About the Middle East), a non-profit organization, and is based in San Diego.   Rick Richman is a graduate of Harvard College and NYU Law School. His articles have appeared in American Thinker, Commentary, the Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, the Jewish Press, Pajamas Media, and the New York Sun. He blogs at Contentions and edits Jewish Current Issues. $15 per person - Cash or check at the door  SPECIAL DISCOUNT FOR STUDENTS $5 (with valid ID - age 26 and under) Register by email at RSVP@cjhsla.org or call (818)704-0523 Children of Jewish Holocaust Survivors(CJHS) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit tax exempt organization committed to the promotion of Western values against the dual threats of complacency at home and political Islam abroad. We believe that a safe and secure Israel, prospering as a Jewish State, is a prerequisite to long-term global peace.  CJHS insists that the last Holocaust imposes upon all people of good will a moral and political imperative to prevent the next one. Or mail your tax deductible check payable to "CJHS" 20058 Ventura Blvd., #198 Woodland Hills, CA  91364   We are grateful to the Luxe Hotel Sunset for their gracious contribution to making this event possible.

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Sincerely,

Robin Ticker
This email  is L'Ilui Nishmat  Yisrael ben David Aryeh ob"m (Izzy - Kaplan)  a great activist and lover of Eretz Yisroel, Am Yisroel and the Torah. Yehi Zichrono Baruch.

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