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I just read this urgent message from Elisheva Federman: Yisca is her daughter. See attached letter with pictures of the young couple. See letter below.
Re: HaUlpana:
Even though residents of HaUlpana came to an agreement to leave peacefully, this decision is still a dangerous one for all settlement in Judea and Samaria and for all of Israel. It's hard to blame the settlers.
Jewish Press June 29, 2012 writes on Page 40 "Netanyahu reportedly stressed that the agreement is not a precedent for future evacuations of West Bank outposts". [what does that mean Jewish Press? did he or did he not say it?] The first thought that came to my mind was READ MY LIPS! Didn't Sharon promise a solution for every family from Gush Katif. Arutz7 reported "Katz agreed on May 23 to temporarily table his bill during a stormy debate, after he was promised by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu that the government would not oppose the bill if he held off for two weeks – the period in which Netanyahu hopes to find an administrative solution to the pending demolition orders." It seems that Netanyahu only bought time to find an administrative solution and what happened to Netanyahus promise to Katz? Was he double crossed? And why did Katz magically do such an about face? This demands a thorough investigation as per what pressures the settlers are facing. It just doesn't add up!
"Of key concern after Netanyahu's threat to impose cabinet and party discipline against the bill last week, is whether ministers will be allowed to vote according to their conscience should Katz resubmit his bill.
Netanyahu is under intense pressure from Likud lawmakers and government ministers to allow them to vote freely next week, should no administrative solution present itself."
Well this concern was well justified and Netanyahu in spite of intense pressure, got his way! This is democracy in action?
How can we agree to settle for 300 new units in Beit El and unfreezing another 551 in Judea and Samaria when this move seems to undermine our right to settle all of Judea and Samaria? It is irrelevant if the residents agree or do not agree.
This decision affects all of Judea and Samaria and weakens our Biblical claim to the Land of Israel. Judea and Samaria are bursting with large population growth and have been slowly strangled by the government. (see article in Jewish Press page 11 by Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silverstein enttitled 'Givat HaUlpana and Jerusalem') Finally the gov't temporarily loosens a notch in order to make a PR statement to the world that they are serious about "Peace".
Is it no wonder that the residents in Judea and Samaria need to take a breath so desperately so that they agree to this deal. But we, who aren't being strangled, how can we be silent? We know that it is not for anyone's best interest especially those living in Judea and Samaria to agree to this ridiculous compromise and waste of money that is a Judicial lynch as Moshe Dann calls it.
Op-ed: Top institutions use power arbitrarily, without due process to prevent settlement expansionMoshe DannPublished: 06.26.12, 11:15 / Israel Opinion
-- Let us fight this until the very end, until we can not fight this battle any longer and let us or the gov't never forget how they reneged in the past of their promises to the Settlers.
Arabs Burn House of Young Married Couple in Havat Gilad
On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 4:40 PM, אלישבע פדרמן <elishfed@gmail.com> wrote:
Yesterday Arabs came, in broad daylight and burned the house of Yisca and Elyasaf Oyerbach.
Please take a few minutes to read this letter and do what you can to help them.
Please forward this letter to your mailing lists.
May Hashem bless you.
Dear Friends,
Four months ago, Yisca Federman and Elyasaf Oyerbach got married.
The young couple had decided to build their house in Havat Gilead, in the Shomron. Elyasaf was expelled from his house in Neve Dekalim which was in Gush Katif (Gaza strip). After being deported from his home, he went to the beautiful Shomron Mountains and built a new house. He hoped that this will be the place he will be able to put down roots.
Unfortunately, the bulldozers were sent by the authorities to this house too. The house was destroyed completely. Elyasaf did not give up and he started all over again- determined to build another house. It wasn't long before Yisca joined his efforts.
Like him, she too was deported from her home which was in the Federman's farm in the Hebron Mountains. In the middle of the night police troops broke into her family's house, forced her 8 younger siblings out to the cold, dark night and destroyed the house and everything that was in it. The very next day she went back to the ruins of the house and started clearing them. Her family rebuilt the house, and again it was destroyed by the Israeli police. 6 times they built their house and 6 times it was dismantled. No wonder that Yisca joined Elyasaf in rebuilding his house at Havat Gilad.
Yisca and Elyasaf spent all of their savings and all of the money they got for their wedding to build a beautiful, well equipped house.
Words can't describe the joy of watching the young couple establish the foundation of their new home. So many tears were shed, prayers said, and hopes wished for them to get to this exciting moment.
On Monday Tamuz 5th, in broad day light Arab intruders broke daringly into their house. The plunderers broke the furniture, spilt the content of the closets and set fire to the house in three different spots. When Yisca and Elyasaf returned home from work, they saw smoke coming out of the house. They immediately called the firemen, but despite all their efforts, the house was completely burnt. All they could do was sit and watch their dream house burn up.
This brave young couple's story is not a story of privet people. This is a story of courageous young people who were born into a life of caring for our people's future. Their life is a life of devotion to the Jewish people and for the holy land of Israel. Not only that they did not seek a more comfortable life, but they chose to be pioneers and conquer the hills of Samaria. It wasn't an easy choice, but they have a strong and undeniable faith that this is the right thing to do. That this is the best way they can act in the behalf of our people, our land and our Torah.
Not all of us have their mental strength. Not all of us can choose to lead our life the way they do- so unselfish, so devoted to the cause. But many of us feel that their struggle is our struggle and their pain is our pain. Let us not be indifferent! Let each and one of us, open our hearts and our wallets and help them. Let us all be part in this courageous act of conquering the land. May G-d bless us in all of what we do, and may he help us in the task of maintaining the land of Israel.
For donations:
Elyasaf Oyerbach. Bank Ha Mizrahi- 491. Account no. 152143.
Or: p.o.b. 89 Kiryat Arba-please mention it is for Yisca and Elyasaf Oyerbach.
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Received from Nadia Matar and Yehudit Katzover of Women in Green - 2nd Conference on the Application of Israeli Sovereignty over Judea and Samaria
Dear Friends,
Below please find the fascinating program of our upcoming Second conference on the application of Israeli sovereignty over Judea and Samaria that will please G-d take place Thursday July 12th at the Machpela Visitor Center in Hebron
The struggle is about changing the public discourse from reactive to proactive and raising awareness to the program of application of Israeli sovereignty over Judea and Samaria as an alternative to all the defeatist political plans.
We'd appreciate if you could spread this email far and wide to all your lists.
In the next few days we will publish and spread the official flyer
Whoever can get together at least ten people from his area to come to the conference,
we will help organize the transportation.
Shavua Tov
Yehudit Katsover and Nadia Matar
050-7161818 050-5500834
Conference II
Application of Israeli Sovereignty
over Judea and Samaria
Thursday, July 12th 2012
Machpela Visitors Center
Hebron, the City of the Patriarchs
All lectures are in Hebrew with simultaneous translation into English
16:00 Gathering
Handing out of earphones for simultaneous translation from Hebrew to English
16:30 Greetings: (video)
Ms. Geula Cohen, Israel Award Laureate, initiator of the
Jerusalem and Golan Heights Bill
MK Ze'ev Elkin, Chairman of the Coalition and Chairman
of the Lobby for E'retz Yisra'el
MK Miri Regev, Chairwoman of the Knesset Lobby for
the Application of Israeli Sovereignty over Judea and
Samaria
16:45 Rabbi Uziyahu Sharbaf, Head of the Shalhe'vet-Yah Kollel - One Nation and One Land
17:00 Minister Rabbi Prof. Daniel Hershkovitz - Sovereignty, without further
Disengagements
17:15 Adv. Daphna Netanyahu,editor of the Hebrew "Marah" internet magazine - Sold, for less than Lentil Stew
17:30 MK Uri Ariel, National Union -The program for the extension of Israel's sovereignty over Judea and Samaria
17:45 Adv. Itzik Bam - Application of Sovereignty, the Legal aspect
18:00 Refreshment Break
18:15 Eran Bar-Tal, Economics editor, Ma'kor Rishon – Balance of profit and cost of Applying Sovereignty
18:30 Emanuel Shilo, Be'She'va editor – The Jordan Valley First
18:45 Yoram Ettinger, former consul in US,Demographic Studies for the Begin-Sadat Center -From Refuted Fatalism to Documented Optimism
19:00 Caroline Glick (video), Jerusalem Post senior editor, Head of the Israel
Security Program at the David Horovitz Center of Freedom in Los
Angeles - Israeli Sovereignty throughout all of Judea and Samaria
19:15 Adv. Gershon Mesika, Head of the Shomron Regional Council -
Bringing forth the Gospel of Sovereignty
Conference leaders and conductors: Yehudit Katsover and Nadia Matar
The conference is sponsored by ( preliminary list):
Women for Israel's Tomorrow (Women in Green) - Just Peace for Israel- Professors for a Strong Israel
Transportation based on pre-registration by Tuesday, 10/7/12:
Jerusalem- Ramot 14:15 - Inbal Hotel 14:45 Rene Margolis 052-3294194
Gush Dan and the Merkaz- 14:00 Arlozerov Train Station and the Coca-Cola Junction Katty Cohen 03-5323472
Efrat and Gush Etzion- 15:30 Elisheva Ginzburg 02-9931978 or 052-3003689
Bet Shemesh- 15:00 Givat Savyon 15:15 Ramat Bet Shemesh Debbie Buckman 0528909524
North – Orit Spitz 0524627118
Meitar- Leah Wolf 0522719875
Sincerely,
Robin Ticker
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1 comment:
You wrote:
It seems that Netanyahu only bought time to find an administrative solution and what happened to Netanyahu's promise to Katz? Was he double crossed? And why did Katz magically do such an about face? This demands a thorough investigation as per what pressures the settlers are facing. It just doesn't add up!
Moshe Feiglin is accusing the Yesha Council people of the same perfidious actions that led to the "Disengagement". He writes:
Approximately a month ago, we held marathon meetings with government ministers to convince them to vote in favor of the Regulation Law. After a few meetings, I began to once again smell the same old smell. I understood that the deals were all being struck in a different place – not inside the political system and not in the grassroots struggle. Once again, shadowy leaders were making deals behind the backs of the public.
I decided to publicize my view, doing so in two separate sector-based articles and in our weekly update. Apparently, the things that I wrote touched upon the most sensitive nerves in the Yesha Council, which embarked upon a campaign to restore its legitimacy. The sector's media filled up with adoring articles for the Yesha Council, petitions supporting each other, mutual praise gatherings and of course – a scathing attack on me and distortion of my words.
His full comment is here:
http://www.jewishisrael.org/eng_contents/update/5772/7239.htm#Ulpana
Lovers of truth ought to investigate Moshe's claim. How do Katz and others respond? We do not know the full story.
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