Monday, February 29, 2016

IF NOT NOW Simone Zimmerman spreading lies and falsehoods in Brooklyn. They don't allow others to express their opinion

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https://www.facebook.com/IfNotNowOrg/?fref=nf

Simone Zimmerman fell for the anti-Israel propaganda at Berkley:Watch her on youtube. I am in shock that she has been brainwashed and used to turn against her people. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMxdDCSDquU. I hope she is open enough to check out these Pro Israel links I sent her on twitter. 

I tried to post the following on their facebook page but didn't succeed. 
Simone, 

The millions of Palestinians under "military occupation of Israel" are not in their true Ancestral Biblical Homeland.  Jews are! They come from other places from various tribes, where they probably would feel much more comfortable.  Just look at the map and see the size of Israel and the size of all the Muslim and Arab countries in comparison.  If they are unhappy in Israel, let them emigrate elsewhere. Israel is the only Jewish State in the world.   Arabs are welcome to reside in Israel. But while non Jews are living under Israel's Sovereignty they must accept Israel's Sovereignty and abide by Universal Morality and the 7 Noahide Laws. ...The organization IfNotNow is one big lie!!!

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To Whom It May Concern at IFNOTNOW,
Maybe you guys should look at the source. The Bible. Universal Values and Morality come from the 7 Noahide laws. The Palestinians engage in stabbing, brutal terror attacks against innocent civilians while Israel engages in self defense. All the Palestinians killed were terrorists while the Jews were innocent civilians going about their business. The Palestinians are brought up on a hate culture which inculcates them with hate from Palestinian Sesame Street through the UNRWA camps who want to annihilate Tel Aviv, Haifa and Acco and the Jewish State along with all Jews. Little Arab kids, teenie boppers have been stabbing Israeli's in the name of a H-ly War aka Jihad. Watch videos of them learning to behead dolls at the age of 2. Watch their Imam on Al-Aqsa Mosque and the link above, training them on the techniques of stabbing most efficiently. This is the kind of society that you want to empower? Just try to visit their communities and see if you are safe as a Jew there in spite of your noble intentions to free them from "Israel's occupation".
Judea and Samaria of today is the inheritance of the Israelite Tribes of Judah, Benjamin and Josef. The People of Israel Conquered the Canaanite Nations under Joshua their leader. The natives of Canaan weren't known as Palestinians. There were in fact 7 Canaanite nations.  

There was a people that somehow arose called Pelishtim when David fought Goliath. https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Samuel+17 With G-d's help David was victorious over the giant.

Fellow Jews... Please do not believe Simone Zimmerman nor her indoctrination. Her Judaism is distortion and totally false. . Justice is what we all desire but she is acting the part of the wolf of the Goldilock's story who has hijacked the Jewish religion and is dressed up in Grandma's clothing ready to eat up Goldilocks. I wonder where she is getting funded in spite of all her rhetoric. I am sure there are multi millions who are willing to fund her passion. There is no lack of funding for Israel's enemies. But truth prevails over falsehood. Those who truly interested in truth and justice will see reality. Israel welcomes all those who accept Israeli's Sovereignty and abide by the 7 Noahide laws. Unfortunately those who sacrifice their children in the name of Jihad, who engage in suicide bombings in supermarkets like Rami Levi that cater to both Jew and Arab alike, who engage in BDS against those like Soda Stream who employs Jews and Arabs alike because they were situated in Judea and Samaria, are Israel's enemy. Don't be fooled and check the money trail...

If Palestinian terrorists didn't engage in terror there would be no need for checkpoints....They brought it upon themselves. They glorify the terrorist and call schools and streets after their names. They celebrate jihadist deaths with lavish funerals. They give a stipend to their families for having engaged in terror against Israel.

The burning bush took place at Sinai. G‑d's words: "When you take the people out of Egypt, you will worship G‑d on this mountain."On the very mountain where he first encountered G‑d, the Hebrews were destined to receive the Torah. http://www.chabad.org/parshah/article_cdo/aid/1093544/jewish/Unconditional-Love.htm

The passion of this organization IF Not Now (an expression stolen from a Jewish Sage Hillel) is based on falsehoods. The burning bush of the Torah is not to support a Palestinian State. It is to support a Jewish Kingdom which must abide by 613 commandments of the Torah. Will the Palestinians keep the laws of the Sabbatical Year where they leave the land fallow every 7 years to show that the Land belongs to G-d? Jews know that the Land belongs to G-d and not to them and G-d decides to whom he wishes to inherit the Land. Read the Bible. All of Judea and Samaria is the Biblical homeland and inheritance of the Jewish people and they in turn are obligated to keep the commandments in the Land.

Freedom and Dignity does not come from supporting Palestinian occupation of Judea and Samaria. It comes from supporting the vision of the Bible which is for the Jewish People to settle the Land of Israel. When this happens there will be peace and prosperity for all of humanity. When Israel gave 22 flourishing communities of Gush Katif, Gaza to the Arabs, with hot houses etc. in 2005, all the Arabs that were employed by these Jewish communities lost their jobs. Arabs did not build their economy with these communities. Hamas then took over and reigns despotic to Palestinians. The Lion King taken over by Skar. They instead used them to launch rockets against Southern Israel. And the Arabs who were employed by Israeli's had to flee for their lives.

If there would be G-d forbid a Palestinian State it would be Judenrein and all the planes coming into Ben Gurion airport would be threatened being a stones throw away. All the low lying areas of Tel Aviv and the entire Gush Dan area, densely populated areas would be at the mercy of the high ground of the hills of Judea and Samaria under a threateninig Palestinian State intent on Israel's destruction.

The bottom line is that if you are Jewish go and learn. Embrace your Heritage and you will indeed learn about spreading Truth and Justice and Tikkun Olam. However, don't trust this organization which is funded from antisemitic and hateful enemies of Israel

American Jewish millennials aren't disengaged from Israel, we're angry

We don't need any more multi-million dollar ventures, like the 'Jewish Peace Corps' Ari Shavit suggests, to save us. We need the Jewish community to wake up to the disastrous reality of the occupation.

By  Feb. 29, 2016 | 7:19 PM |  1
The anxiety in the American Jewish establishment over "what is happening to our young people" is reaching a fever pitch of absurdity, as communal leaders and spokespeople frantically try to remedy the symptoms while refusing to acknowledge the true root of the problem: We're not disengaging from Israel, in fact we're paying attention to what's happening in Israel - and we are angry.
The latest edition in this ongoing category error is Ari Shavit's epiphany ('Only a 'Jewish Peace Corps' Can Save Zionism From Its Millennial Crisis') that, to save the Jewish future and Israel's public image, we need a "Jewish Peace Corps" which would be "a joint venture between Israel and the Diaspora," that will engage young people in "universal do-gooding," from Yerucham to Rahat to Ferguson.
Shavit dreams for the day that Israel will be identified with human rights and "the effort to make the world a better place," instead of with, "occupation, oppression, settlements, fanaticism and reactionary-ism."
The hypocrisy of expecting feel-good social justice projects to offset millennials' deep outrage at the grave injustices committed by the Jewish state is almost too much to bear.

Shavit blames the Israeli government because it, "refuses to understand and internalize," the crisis among Jewish millennials. Yet, it is Shavit himself, and every Jewish establishment leader peddling similar arguments, who refuse to understand and internalize this crisis.

My peers and I don't need any more multi-million dollar ventures to save us. What we need is for the community to wake up.

What we need is for the community to stop willfully blinding itself to the disastrous reality of holding millions of Palestinians under military occupation.

We need the community to stop justifying policies that deny Palestinians the ability to move freely, to sleep safely in their homes without the fear of a military raid, to access water and resources, to live without terror that their homes could be bombed to rubble, and to protest the unjust conditions of their lives nonviolently. None of these policies are moral, and none of these policies make Jews safer.

Moreover, we need the community to stop policing and demonizing those of us who say these truths in public and are fighting for change. We need the community to stop holing itself up behind walls and tanks and guns, as well as behind redlines and standards of partnership.

We are not too naive to understand what is going on or so selfish as to be lured away by more free programming.  Listen to us when we say that the status quo is unbearable and untenable. The community as it stands today is a community we refuse to participate in.
No public relations trick can save Israel's image. The problem isn't with the hasbara. The problem is nearly 50 years of occupation. The problem is rampant racism in Israeli society. The problem is attacks on human rights defenders by extremists and by the state.  The problem is a Jewish establishment that ignores or justifies all of this.
Sending young, mostly Ashkenazi Jews to do volunteer work with Bedouins in Rahat or African Americans in Ferguson to demonstrate solidarity with people of color is completely missing the point. We hear those people saying the same thing we hear from Palestinians: that band aids and kind words won't end state-sponsored racism and violence.
It is insulting to young Jews' intelligence, and to communities leading their own struggles against oppression, to expect that another "do-gooding" program can mask the violent abuse Israel inflicts upon the human beings living under its rule every day.  No amount of so-called "social justice activism" around the world can distract or make us care less about that. Nothing, except actually addressing it.

Despite the panic about the disengagement of young people from the community, across the country I see principled, courageous, loving, and yes, incredibly angry young people calling on the establishment to change course, to actually do something to end the occupation instead of simply paying lip service to it.

I see J Street U demanding transparency from Jewish Federations to ensure their funding is not further entrenching the occupation. I see Open Hillel insisting Hillel allow a vibrant debate about Zionism and BDS inside its walls. I see Jewish Voice for Peace calling on international corporations to stop profiting off human rights abuses.
I see the Center for Jewish Nonviolence bringing American Jews to do civil resistance work in solidarity with West Bank Palestinians. I see IfNotNow building a mass movement to challenge our community to genuinely stand for freedom and dignity for all in Israel/Palestine.
We millennials have one simple question for our community's leaders: do you support equal rights for all people and if so, what are you going to do about it?
We are doing this out of love for our community and love for our neighbors. We know that Jewish liberation is inextricably tied to the liberation of all people.
My generation isn't disaffected; we're passionate and we're mobilizing. The question is not whether my generation will remain Jewish; it's whether our parents and grandparents will follow our lead as we build the kind of Jewish community that celebrates universal values and struggles for justice.
Those who truly want to help young Jews connect to the Jewish world should live out the values they profess. Fight for an end to the occupation and for freedom and dignity for all in Israel/Palestine. Commit to restoring the moral soul of the Jewish community. Prove to young people that this is a community worth believing in.
You have a choice.
Simone Zimmerman is an activist and organizer based in Brooklyn NY. She is a leader of IfNotNow, an emerging movement of young American Jews working to end their community's support for the occupation. Follow her on Twitter:@simonerzim
On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 9:21 PM, Yisrael Medad <yisrael.medad@gmail.com> wrote:
If Not Now is an emerging movement of young American Jews organizing to end the American Jewish community's support for the occupation. We are inspired by the sage Hillel's famous dictum: "If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am only for myself, what am I? If not now, when?"
If Not Now is creating a mass movement around the principle that the project of Jewish liberation is inextricably bound to the freedom and dignity of the Palestinian people. We will be the generation to end our community's support for the occupation and create a Judaism that stands for the dignity of all people.
Throughout the winter and spring, we are bringing this movement to cities across the country, running small, weekend-long orientation trainings on our movement DNA - our collective strategy, story, and structure - that will ensure unity for our movement as we grow to scale.
Sign up now to get information about trainings happening in cities near you, or to bring a training to your city.
IfNotNow welcomes and celebrates our community's vast diversity of identities and experiences. We are building a diverse, vibrant Jewish network -- across spectrums of race, class, culture (Mizrachi, Sephardic, and Ashkenazi), sexuality, gender identity, ability status, nation of origin, and age -- and are working to prioritize Jews who have identities that have been marginalized by the mainstream community.

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Sincerely,

Robin Ticker

Israel Advocacy Calendar (www.IsraelAdvocacyCalendar.com).
Activist emails sent to my list  are L'Ilui Nishmat Yisrael ben David Aryeh ob"m (Izzy - Kaplan) and Howard Chaim Grief great activists and lovers of Eretz Yisroel, Am Yisroel and the Torah. Yehi Zichronum Baruch.  May their memories serve as a blessing. 

Most of these emails are posted on Shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com

Personal emails to individuals will not be posted to my blog. 

Thursday, February 25, 2016

Judicial Terrorism and Faked Hate.... fyi,

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Settlers and Hilltop Youth are often accused and  framed with faked Muslim hate crimes that are labeled Jewish Price Tag vandalism and Jewish  Price Tag Terror with trumped up accusations  consisting of assault,  arson, murder etc.... The goal is to  slander them  and their community and to establish and give credence to a false phenomenon called "Jewish Terror".  

One should never jump to conclusions when they hear of a  hate crime directed against Muslims by Jews and rush to condemn it.  It is much more likely than not that it is another frameup against the Jewish Settler or Hilltop youth, with police or ISA  believing and or possibly fabricating false reports without credible evidence to back it up.  

Yehuda Glick: Police aided our enemies with 'judicial terrorism' 
Temple Mount activist Yehuda Glick vindicated in court, looks to return to Temple Mount.


This MO Modus Operandi is hitting America as well. 

FAKED HATE: MUSLIM CHARGED with ANTI-MUSLIM BOMB Threat to Dearborn High School -

Sincerely,

Robin Ticker

Israel Advocacy Calendar (www.IsraelAdvocacyCalendar.com).
Activist emails sent to my list  are L'Ilui Nishmat Yisrael ben David Aryeh ob"m (Izzy - Kaplan) and Howard Chaim Grief great activists and lovers of Eretz Yisroel, Am Yisroel and the Torah. Yehi Zichronum Baruch.  May their memories serve as a blessing. 

Most of these emails are posted on Shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com 

Personal emails to individuals will not be posted to my blog. 

Tuesday, February 23, 2016

Fwd: An Open Letter to the Moetzet Gedolei Hatorah re: Writing an Open Letter to Netanyahu to Free Meir Ettinger who has been slapped with 4 more months of Administration after 6 months in isolation

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Lichvod HaRabbanim shlita

What drives me to write these words comes from having lived in Kiryat Arba, Hebron, being so connected with our Forefathers, our Avos and Imahos Avrohom, Yitzchak and Yaakov Avinu, Sarah, Rivkah, Leah Imeinu  buried in Maarat HaMachpela, and from the cries of Rachel Imeinu buried on the way crying for her children who refuses to be consoled...Rachel Imeinu cries for the children of her son Yosef, who was thrown into the pit by his righteous brothers. She cries for her precious son Efraim whose inheritance is near Kever Yosef near Shchem, the same hilltops of these hilltop youth.  She cries for her children who are lost...
I am disappointed that as far as I know,  Rabbanim, have not tried to influence and protest the Government of Israel's (GOI) decision to extend Meir Ettingers Administration Detention sentence.  

Yesterday the following email was posted to plead with those who love the Torah to please write a letter to the Prime Minister.

Monday, February 22, 2016 re: Tizku LeMitzvoth! Either have Open Fair Trial or Free Meir Ettinger Letter Writing Campaign to PM:  http://shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com/2016/02/re-tizku-lemitzvoth-either-have-open.html

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End the Sinas Chinam Against the Hilltop Youth

By Robin Ticker

Letter Writing Campaign to PM:

As of Feb. 23, 2016 Meir Ettinger the grandson of Rabbi Meir Kahane ob”m hy”d had his administrative detention orders extended for another 4 months following 6 months of isolation.

According to Wikipedia, Administrative detention is arrest and detention of individuals by the state without trial, usually for security reasons. The reasoning behind administrative detention often is based upon contentions that the suspect is likely to pose a threat in the future. It is meant to be preventive in nature rather than punitive e.g. in order to remove the threat of dangerous terrorists.  Administrative detention was first introduced by the British and French colonial authorities prior to and during World War II created as a mechanism to control political dissent.  Opponents maintain that in essence, administrative detention is a form of collective punishment and a violation of human rights. 

For those of you unfamiliar with the case, Administrative Detention for Meir Ettinger is a politically correct, legal way to lock him up in one of the highest security cells surrounded by dangerous Arabs and subject him to mental and physical anguish.  There have been no specific charges or accusations filed against Meir Ettinger nor others who are being held under administrative detention.  

We can merit so many Mitzvoth by writing one simple letter to Prime Minister Netanyahu in protest of Meir Ettingers incarceration as well as in protest of the immoral and unjust administrative detention imposed on many hilltop youth,  violating their basic human rights.  Please send your email to mankals@pmo.gov.il.  Please cc: me at   faigerayzel@gmail.com.

Pikuach Nefesh (Savings one’s life) Meir Ettinger's life is endangered, isolated in a cell that is surrounded by Arab terrorists. He conducted a hunger strike in protest which thank G-d he ended but the factors that lead to his hunger strike still exist!  We can therefore still assume that his life, physical and emotional is in a precarious state...)

Pidyon Shvuyim -- Pidyon Shvuyim (Hebrew: פִּדְיוֹן שְׁבוּיִים, literally: Redemption of Captives) is a religious duty in Judaism to bring about the release of a fellow Jew imprisoned unjustly by the authorities. The release of the prisoner is typically secured by a ransom paid by the Jewish community.  We are not asking for money but simply for letters.

Shmos Perek 23 Parshat Mishpatim Pesukim 1-8
1 You shall not accept a false report; do not place your hand with a wicked person to be a false witness.
   א לֹא תִשָּׂא שֵׁמַע שָׁוְא אַל תָּשֶׁת יָדְךָ עִם רָשָׁע לִהְיֹת עֵד חָמָס  We have good reason to believe that the Israel Security Agency (also known as ISA  or Shin Bet) has provided false reports about the hilltop youth among them forced confessions.  Unfortunately, many influential leaders, Rabbanim across the board, political figures and journalists have accepted these false reports as truth and the slander has been spread throughout the secular and Jewish media.

2 You shall not follow the majority for evil, and you shall not respond concerning a lawsuit to follow many to pervert [justice].   
"לֹא-תִהְיֶה אַחֲרֵי-רַבִּים לְרָעֹת וְלֹא-תַעֲנֶה עַל-רִב לִנְטֹת אַחֲרֵי רַבִּים לְהַטֹּת ב
Just because the majority of the media and political figures and even Rabbanim have condemned hilltop youth for Price Tag vandalism, arson and the murder of innocent Arabs we may not pervert justice and must conduct a fair investigation as to precisely what exactly happened and not rely on forced confessions..

3 Neither shall you glorify a poor man in his lawsuit.  
ג וְדָל לֹא תֶהְדַּר בְּרִיבוֹ: It must be a fair investigation

(As does the Torah, I am now embedding in our discussion about pursuing justice the Pesukim regarding helping with your enemy's donkey. There is much we can learn from this juxtaposition. Many Rabbanim hold that Meir Ettinger and the Hilltop youth reject and threaten Rabbinic authority when they promote going up to Har HaBayit etc. and in this respect consider them their enemy. Yet the Torah says that when our enemy is down we come to his aid.  What a tremendous Kiddush Hashem it would be if Moetzet Gedolei Hatorah and the Aguda would demand a fair and open investigation of the hilltop youth! We pray for Shalom and Unity in Am Yisroel)

4 If you come upon your enemy's bull or his stray donkey, you shall surely return it to him.  
ד כִּי תִפְגַּע שׁוֹר אֹיִבְךָ אוֹ חֲמֹרוֹ תֹּעֶה הָשֵׁב תְּשִׁיבֶנּוּ לוֹ: Please restore the good name  of these boys who have been slandered as Jewish Terrorists in a blood libel against them.

5 If you see your enemy's donkey lying under its burden would you refrain from helping him? You shall surely help along with him. 
ה כִּי תִרְאֶה חֲמוֹר שׂנַאֲךָ רֹבֵץ תַּחַת מַשָּׂאוֹ וְחָדַלְתָּ מֵעֲזֹב לוֹ עָזֹב תַּעֲזֹב עִמּוֹ 
Please write a letter!

6 You shall not pervert the judgment of your poor man in his lawsuit. 
ו לֹא תַטֶּה מִשְׁפַּט אֶבְיֹנְךָ בְּרִיב (These kids are vulnerable. They have been outcasts either by choice or by force, many of them never recovered from the severe trauma and betrayal they experienced from the expulsion from Gush Katif and Amona or of a similar nature. The Jewish people owe them an apology rather than to compound to the trauma)

7 Distance yourself from a false matter; and do not kill a truly innocent person or one who has been declared innocent, for I will not vindicate a guilty person.  
  ז מִדְּבַר שֶׁקֶר תִּרְחָק וְנָקִי וְצַדִּיק אַל תַּהֲרֹג כִּי לֹא אַצְדִּיק רָשָׁע:
 The hilltop youth claim that the allegations against them are false and fabricated and they deny the allegations… that is until they were tortured. One just turned 17, Jewish boy, a Duma suspect, who happens to be an American citizen, showed the scars of an attempted suicide following being tortured..

8 You shall not accept a bribe, for a bribe will blind the clear sighted and corrupt words that are right.   ח וְשֹׁחַד לֹא תִקָּח כִּי הַשֹּׁחַד יְעַוֵּר פִּקְחִים וִיסַלֵּף דִּבְרֵי צַדִּיקִים: Does government funding for Political entities and Yeshivoth come into the picture that distorts clarity of what really happened in Duma and their quick condemnations of hilltop youth?

Vayikra Perek 19 Pesukim 15-18

15 You shall commit no injustice in judgment; you shall not favor a poor person or respect a great man; you shall judge your fellow with righteousness.  
  טו לֹא תַעֲשׂוּ עָוֶל בַּמִּשְׁפָּט לֹא תִשָּׂא פְנֵי דָל וְלֹא תֶהְדַּר פְּנֵי גָדוֹל בְּצֶדֶק תִּשְׁפֹּט עֲמִיתֶךָ
The truth must be investigated and the words of influential politicians or even influential Rabbinic or governmental leaders should not be taken more seriously than the words of the poor and vulnerable. 

16 You shall not go around as a gossipmonger amidst your people. You shall not stand by [the shedding of] your fellow's blood. I am the Lord.
   טז לֹא תֵלֵךְ רָכִיל בְּעַמֶּיךָ לֹא תַעֲמֹד עַל דַּם רֵעֶךָ אֲנִי יְהוָֹה
The slander regarding the Duma case clearly reminds us of this Pasuk where almost everyone was quick to condemn them thereby engaging in character assassination and a blood libel..

17 You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your fellow, but you shall not bear a sin on his account.
 יז לֹא תִשְׂנָא אֶת אָחִיךָ בִּלְבָבֶךָ הוֹכֵחַ תּוֹכִיחַ אֶת עֲמִיתֶךָ וְלֹא תִשָּׂא עָלָיו חֵטְא
Silence of evil is evil, to quote Glenn Beck.  How can we be silent at this travesty of justice? Not coming to their defense points to Sinat Chinam against the hilltop youth in our hearts and fueling Sinat Chinam between Chareidim and Dati Leumi communities. Will we allow them to be locked up to satisfy our own agenda?

18 You shall neither take revenge from nor bear a grudge against the members of your people; you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am the Lord.
יח לֹא תִקֹּם וְלֹא תִטֹּר אֶת בְּנֵי עַמֶּךָ וְאָהַבְתָּ לְרֵעֲךָ כָּמוֹךָ אֲנִי יְהוָֹה:

Amein! Ken Yehi Ratzon!


Tizku LeMitzvo

There have been no specific charges or accusations filed against Meir Ettinger nor others who are being held under administrative detention, other than of a broad category called "Nationalist Crimes". There is no way of defending oneself of any charges. There is no trial and no conviction.)

We are One People. We should be feeling the deep pain of Meir Ettinger and all those kids who have been placed under Administrative Detention.  For some incarcerated it meant physical and mental torture.  Pshuto KMashmaoh!  Literally in order to obtain forced confessions of violent criminal acts that they never committed.  For others, administrative detention means staying locked in ones home,  not being able to be free to go as they please, slandered and isolated as lepers in Israeli society,branded in the media,  for crimes that they did not commit. 

Going on Youtube to watch these kids give their side of the story is surely using the internet in a Kosher way to do a Mitzvah!  The excuse not to go on the internet is no excuse for someone who needs the information and is required to get the evidence. Would we refrain from putting out pieces of bread for bedikas chometz out of fear we might forget one piece?  We just try to be careful...Shouldn't we also be careful not to add to the Torah?...

Actually it is us, Am Yisroel that must bang Al Chait.   We owe many of these hilltop youth an apology for the crimes for which they were the victims... like the expulsion at a young impressionable age by the IDF from Gush Katif, Amona, etc.... Do we really want to compound their trauma????

Moetzet Gedolei Hatorah have much more Achrayus as they are the leaders and they will be held accountable in a Heavenly Court!  No one wants to take their job from them chas veShalom to  take away their leadership role.  But all agree that we want Rabbinic Leadership  al Pi Hatorah as it says in the Torah and then we must not deviate right or left from what they say. If their Leadership is not coming from a Torah source but rather from a non Torah source, for instance if blinded etc, they would be misleading the entire congregation.  

We wouldn't want what happened to the Miraglim to happen to our Spiritual Leaders. Why was Am Yisroel also punished because of the Chait HaMiraglim. Because they should have protested. They too were at Sinai...

In the sin of the Chait HaEgel, the people collectively were accountable for the sin of the minority few the Eirev Rav.  They were punished for silent acquiescence.  If the hilltop youth are being held unjustly, tortured for their Torah beliefs, by the government of Israel, we as a nation are obligated to protest!

 My connection is to Hebron.  I am an outsider so my vision is not clouded. I personally cannot relate to this tremendous Nisayon of our generation by our leaders since I am a Pashute Jewess and I  too have my limitations. It's a blessing not to be in a leadership role not to be tested...
But I am worried that we will collectively be Chayav Bidei Shamayim...

I do not doubt that there are considerations, that are not trivial, by speaking up and writing a letter on Meir Ettinger's behalf.  However these considerations are trivial, as I see it,  to what Am Yisroel will lose by not protesting. I remember Gush Katif...WWII, There are many possible scenarios that are too scary to write about. We surely need unity and Zechusim at this time.

We understand that by questioning the Silence of the Gedoilim in this matter of the hilltop youth, we are bringing up matters which might lower the esteem and respect of Rabbinic Leadership by the Hamonei Am. Perhaps, for this reason, our Emunas Chachamim is questioned and we have been perceived as an enemy who are on the warpath to discredit Torah Shebaal Peh, Halacha Moshe MiSinai. 

Please believe us that this is not the case. In fact it is only because of our faith in our Gedoilim BaTorah that we feel comfortable to challenge the silence, and what we interpret to be misplaced humility to not take more of a Leadership Torah Stand in this matter.  

But precisely because of this perception , it would be that much more powerful if Rabbonim would, in spite of their hesitation to support the hilltop youth, davka because they object to the message of the Hilltop Youth, write a letter asking Netanyahu to abolish the Administrative Detention Law.  This law violates basic human rights, with no habeas corpus to protect them. What a message of unity that in spite of their differences they demand that the Israeli gov't not to consider nor treat these Yiddishe Neshomas as Jewish Terrorists.

This Diba Tova on behalf of these youth, to call for a fair and open trial whether or not they agree with them would be an amazing Tikkun on many different levels and would bring a much needed zechus to Am Yisroel and Eretz Yisroel. Israel today is defamed and slandered internationally. Is it  perhaps Middah Keneged Middah, what the State of Israel deserves for defaming and slandering and torturing innocent Hilltop youth and the people of Israel deserve for being complicit with not protesting.

The Holocaust did not come in a vacuum.  We need unity.  

If Meir Ettinger was being held hostage by Hamas wouldn't Gedoilim BaTorah rule that everything must be done to free him from captivity?

If Shabak is fabricating false evidence shouldn't it be exposed and if Meir is indeed guilty, of inciting the hilltop youth to conduct acts of random violence against innocent Arabs, shouldn't they bring the charges in an open hearing allowing him to defend himself? Isn't this Torah?

 If one is obligated to help his enemy with his load that is weighing him down surely we are commanded to help Meir Ettinger ease his burden of being in prison for no defined reason. Maybe if Rabbanim would Insist that he be formerly charged with documented  evidence as is normal procedure in any respected Jewish and non Jewish court of law and allow him to defend himself from these charges, the government would pay attention.  In a heavenly court, surely it would be duly noted...we will all be subjected to give a Din VeCheshbon...
We believe that the Rabbanim can help overturn draconian laws of Administrative Detention destructive to the very fiber of Am Yisroel, destroying young peoples lives, with their involvement and protest.  Their daily Tefillot can be actualized of Hoshiva Shofteinu KeVarishona, bringing unity between Dati Leumi and Chareidi, actualizing Shma Yisroel, unity within our Nation and with our Creator. Surely this will bring tremendous Nachas to HKBH to rip up any evil decree against His people.
On the other hand, how will they, the MGH justify in Beit Din shel Maala that they did not even try....
With love of Am Yisroel, the Torah and Eretz Yisroel and may be Zocheh with no Jew left behind to bring Moshiach and bring the Geula Bimheira Beyameinu Amein! Ken Yehi Ratzon!
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Sincerely,

Robin Ticker

Israel Advocacy Calendar (www.IsraelAdvocacyCalendar.com).
Activist emails sent to my list  are L'Ilui Nishmat Yisrael ben David Aryeh ob"m (Izzy - Kaplan) and Howard Chaim Grief great activists and lovers of Eretz Yisroel, Am Yisroel and the Torah. Yehi Zichronum Baruch.  May their memories serve as a blessing. 

Most of these emails are posted on Shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com

Personal emails to individuals will not be posted to my blog. 

Fwd: Landmark Legislation: Commission Regulating Textbooks - Assemblymen Curran and Hikind with Education Activists and Authors Cindy Grosz and Dr. Sandra Alfonsi


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Protecting our Kids from Pro Islamic Bias and Distortions of History
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B86sGl9yfinjNzl6VUpxV2VqdGpBZ3Z4NkllQkhkdXFFR0dj/view?usp=sharing


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Sincerely,

Robin Ticker

Israel Advocacy Calendar (www.IsraelAdvocacyCalendar.com).
Activist emails sent to my list  are L'Ilui Nishmat Yisrael ben David Aryeh ob"m (Izzy - Kaplan) and Howard Chaim Grief great activists and lovers of Eretz Yisroel, Am Yisroel and the Torah. Yehi Zichronum Baruch.  May their memories serve as a blessing. 

Most of these emails are posted on Shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com

Personal emails to individuals will not be posted to my blog. 



Monday, February 22, 2016

Letter from AFSI Brooklyn To Prime Minister Netanyahu Protesting Administrative Detention - Jewish Terrorist Law


BS"D

Dear Honorable Prime Minister of Israel Mr. Netanyahu, mankals@pmo.gov.il

Shalom,

We are writing today to protest a very undemocratic law called: Administrative Detention (also called: the Jewish Terrorist Law) which Israel has as part of its legal system.

This law, as will be described below, removes the word: Democracy from Israel. It is a shameful law that can be used against any Israeli, without evidence, without recourse and for no real positive purpose under the law.

The person accused of a crime using this law is arrested with only suspicion, without evidence, denied a lawyer. Denied due process as every Israeli is entitled to. He or She is then subjected to various forms of torture, until the person, out of their mind with pain confesses to things they never did. This "confession" is then considered legal evidence with which to prosecute the victim (there is really no other word for what he is). The victim of this law then has no recourse, for the process, and method of evidence gathering is completely legal under the law in Israel.

This shameful, anti-democratic law is used against Jews and Arabs alike. It is as if Israel is at a state of war against its own citizenry!

You may be surprised  that we include Arab citizens (or non-citizens or half citizens) in this plea.

However, the black eye this law gives to Israel for lazy police work, and the poor quality of evidence and the flimsy claims of criminal behavior alleged, if producing questionable cases against Jews, must certainly in this form, be producing questionable cases against Arabs as well. In fact one might go as far to say, that its outrageous use against Israeli citizens might well be termed: Political Agenda.

This medieval form of brute punishment without just cause, is disappointing to many of us supporters of Israel who view Israel as the last bastion of democracy in the turbulent Middle East. It's disappointing enough to hear anti-Israel protester's calling Israel a regime. 
Its worse to see aspects are actually truth.

One must ask: If one has evidence, why torture?
If one has no evidence, so let them find it, if any exists.

As for our Arab residents, some may argue: We need it for Arab terror, etc.

So there are two answers for this-

One is that Arab terror is a war crime. This should be dealt with as such, not as a civil crime.

Two is that apparently Israel doesn't seem that concerned with Arab terror.  Israel claims it made peace. If so, it can't be terror that Arabs are blowing themselves up and digging tunnels and firing missiles. Israel seems to often ignore these minor details claiming the perpetrators are enemies of peace. How can we prosecute our peace partners?  So if Israel is truly not concerned, why worry about Arab terror?

And if Israel is truly concerned, so end peace talks which bring more terror, and prosecute Arab terrorists under war-time laws under military law. End Camp David and stop the tunnels. End Oslo and end the land giving which is only used for missile launching against Israelis.

But to needlessly subject Israel's citizens to non-stop military law is unfair and immoral. 

There is not a country in the world that does this, save regimes, and Israel has no need to go that route, for doesn't it claim to be a democracy?

We would like to suggest that you personally support removing this anti-democratic law from Israel's law books. 


All the very best,

AFSI Brooklyn

PS. Some of:this is a bit tongue and cheek but there is unfortunately too much truth,  especially with the treatment of Residents of Judea and Samaria and especially the Hilltop Youth who have been slandered by government officials and in the Media. ..... 

CC: 
Honorable Prime Minister of Israel
Mr. Benjamin Netanyahu
800 2nd Avenue 
New York, NY 10017

CC: 

Likud MKs
Shas MKs
Bayit Yehudi MKs
Kulanu Mks
UTJ MKs
Yisrael Beiteinu MKs

Knesset Minsters
Knesset Ministerial Committee on Settlements

CC: Rabbinic Leaders

CC: Print and Radio Spot Media

CC:  Social Media

CC: Jewish Activist Lists
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re: Tizku LeMitzvoth! Either have Open Fair Trial or Free Meir Ettinger Letter Writing Campaign to PM: Please send me your letters to the PM and I will post it on my blog. Thank you.


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We can merit so many Mitzvoth by writing one simple letter to Prime Minister Netanyahu.

  • Pikuach Nefesh (Savings one"s life, Meir Ettinger's life is endangered behind bars surrounded in a cell by Arab terrorists. He conducted a hunger strike in protest which thank G-d he ended but the factors that lead to his hunger strike still exist!  We can therefore still assume that his life is in a precarious state... )
  • Pidyon Shvuyim -- Pidyon Shvuyim (Hebrew: פִּדְיוֹן שְׁבוּיִים‎, literally: Redemption of Captives) is a religious duty in Judaism to bring about the release of a fellow Jew captured by slave dealers or robbers, or imprisoned unjustly by the authorities. The release of the prisoner is typically secured by a ransom paid by the Jewish community. It is considered an important commandment in Jewish law. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pidyon_Shvuyim
  • See all the Mitzvoth D'Orayta below!
Shmos Perek 23 Parshat Mishpatim Pesukim 1-8

1 You shall not accept a false report; do not place your hand with a wicked person to be a false witness.
א לֹא תִשָּׂא שֵׁמַע שָׁוְא אַל תָּשֶׁת יָדְךָ עִם רָשָׁע לִהְיֹת עֵד חָמָס

2  You shall not follow the majority for evil, and you shall not respond concerning a lawsuit to follow many to pervert [justice].  
ב לֹא תִהְיֶה אַחֲרֵי רַבִּים לְרָעֹת וְלֹא תַעֲנֶה עַל רִב לִנְטֹת אַחֲרֵי רַבִּים לְהַטּ:

3 Neither shall you glorify a poor man in his lawsuit.
ג וְדָל לֹא תֶהְדַּר בְּרִיבוֹ: 

4 If you come upon your enemy's bull or his stray donkey, you shall surely return it to him.
ד כִּי תִפְגַּע שׁוֹר אֹיִבְךָ אוֹ חֲמֹרוֹ תֹּעֶה הָשֵׁב תְּשִׁיבֶנּוּ לוֹ: 

5 If you see your enemy's donkey lying under its burden would you refrain from helping him? You shall surely help along with him.
ה כִּי תִרְאֶה חֲמוֹר שׂנַאֲךָ רֹבֵץ תַּחַת מַשָּׂאוֹ וְחָדַלְתָּ מֵעֲזֹב לוֹ עָזֹב תַּעֲזֹב עִמּוֹ 

(I included the Mitzvah of helping with your enemy's donkey just in case a Rav feels that Meir Ettinger and the Hilltop youth threaten Rabbinic law in that they promote going up to Har HaBayit etc. still should still come to his aid now)

6 You shall not pervert the judgment of your poor man in his lawsuit.  
ו לֹא תַטֶּה מִשְׁפַּט אֶבְיֹנְךָ בְּרִיב

7 Distance yourself from a false matter; and do not kill a truly innocent person or one who has been declared innocent, for I will not vindicate a guilty person. ז מִדְּבַר שֶׁקֶר תִּרְחָק וְנָקִי וְצַדִּיק אַל תַּהֲרֹג כִּי לֹא אַצְדִּיק רָשָׁע:

8 You shall not accept a bribe, for a bribe will blind the clear sighted and corrupt words that are right. ח וְשֹׁחַד לֹא תִקָּח כִּי הַשֹּׁחַד יְעַוֵּר פִּקְחִים וִיסַלֵּף דִּבְרֵי צַדִּיקִים:

Vayikra Perek 19 Pesukim 15-18



15 You shall commit no injustice in judgment; you shall not favor a poor person or respect a great man; you shall judge your fellow with righteousness.  

טו לֹא תַעֲשׂוּ עָוֶל בַּמִּשְׁפָּט לֹא תִשָּׂא פְנֵי דָל וְלֹא תֶהְדַּר פְּנֵי גָדוֹל בְּצֶדֶק תִּשְׁפֹּט עֲמִיתֶךָ:


16 You shall not go around as a gossipmonger amidst your people. You shall not stand by [the shedding of] your fellow's blood. I am the Lord.
טז לֹא תֵלֵךְ רָכִיל בְּעַמֶּיךָ לֹא תַעֲמֹד עַל דַּם רֵעֶךָ אֲנִי יְהוָֹה:

17 You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your fellow, but you shall not bear a sin on his account.
יז לֹא תִשְׂנָא אֶת אָחִיךָ בִּלְבָבֶךָ הוֹכֵחַ תּוֹכִיחַ אֶת עֲמִיתֶךָ וְלֹא תִשָּׂא עָלָיו חֵטְא:

18 You shall neither take revenge from nor bear a grudge against the members of your people; you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am the Lord. 
יח לֹא תִקֹּם וְלֹא תִטֹּר אֶת בְּנֵי עַמֶּךָ וְאָהַבְתָּ לְרֵעֲךָ כָּמוֹךָ אֲנִי יְהוָֹה:

Tizku LeMitzvoth!

Please send me your letters and I will iyh post them. Thank you Renanah (Goldhar) Gemeiner, , a student of Weissmandl for being the first to respond!!

Letters to Prime Minister Netanyahu: re: Court proceeding for Meir Ettinger

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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: RANANAH {GOLDHAR} GEMEINER
Date: Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 7:57 AM
Subject: Court proceeding for M. Ettinger
To: "mankals@pmo.gov.il" <mankals@pmo.gov.il>



To PM Netanyahu: 
 How can this be possible?  If the statement below is not accurate, please clarify! We are waiting with broken hearts.
Sincerely,
Renanah Gemeiner - co-founder of Mothers for Israeli MIAs
Rebbetzin Libby Kahane,  his grandmother, writes: The court proceedings are held behind closed doors; only one judge is shown the "evidence." Neither Ettinger nor his lawyer are told what the charges are and there is no way to argue in his defense. If the Shin Bet had even one iota of of evidence that Ettinger allegedly committed an illegal act they would have, and should have, charged him in open court."



Sincerely,

Robin Ticker

Israel Advocacy Calendar (www.IsraelAdvocacyCalendar.com).
Activist emails sent to my list  are L'Ilui Nishmat Yisrael ben David Aryeh ob"m (Izzy - Kaplan) and Howard Chaim Grief great activists and lovers of Eretz Yisroel, Am Yisroel and the Torah. Yehi Zichronum Baruch.  May their memories serve as a blessing. 

Most of these emails are posted on Shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com

Personal emails to individuals will not be posted to my blog. 

Letters to Prime Minister Netanyahu: re: Court proceeding for Meir. Ettinger

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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: RANANAH {GOLDHAR} GEMEINER
Date: Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 7:57 AM
Subject: Court proceeding for M. Ettinger
To: "mankals@pmo.gov.il" <mankals@pmo.gov.il>



To PM Netanyahu: 
 How can this be possible?  If the statement below is not accurate, please clarify! We are waiting with broken hearts.
Sincerely,
Renanah Gemeiner - co-founder of Mothers for Israeli MIAs
Rebbetzin Libby Kahane,  his grandmother, writes: The court proceedings are held behind closed doors; only one judge is shown the "evidence." Neither Ettinger nor his lawyer are told what the charges are and there is no way to argue in his defense. If the Shin Bet had even one iota of of evidence that Ettinger allegedly committed an illegal act they would have, and should have, charged him in open court."
BS"D
Dear Honorable Prime Minister of Israel Mr. Netanyahu Shalom,

I am writing today to protest a very undemocratic law called: Administrative Detention (also called: the Jewish Terrorist Law) which Israel has as part of its legal system.

This law, as will be described below, removes the word: Democracy from Israel. It is a shameful law that can be used against any Israeli, without evidence, without recourse and for no real positive purpose under the law.

The person accused of a crime using this law is arrested with only suspicion, without evidence, denied a lawyer. Denied due process as every Israeli is entitled to. He or She is then subjected to various forms of torture, until the person, out of their mind with pain confesses to things they never did. This "confession" is then considered legal evidence with which to prosecute the victim (there is really no other word for what he is). The victim of this law then has no recourse, for the process, and method of evidence gathering is completely legal under the law in Israel.

This shameful, anti-democratic law is used against Jews and Arabs alike. It is as if Israel is at a state of war against its own citizenry!

You may object that I include Arab citizens (or non-citizens or half citizens) in this plea.

However, the black eye this law gives to Israel for lazy police work, and the poor quality of evidence and the flimsy claims of criminal behavior alleged, if producing questionable cases against Jews, must certainly in this form, be producing questionable cases against Arabs as well. In fact one might go as far to say, that its outrageous use against Israeli citizens might well be termed: Political Agenda.

This medieval form of brute punishment without just cause, is disappointing to many of us supporters of Israel who view Israel as the last bastion of democracy in the turbulent Middle East. It's disappointing enough to hear anti-Israel protester's calling Israel a regime. 
Its worse to see aspects are actually truth.

One must ask: If one has evidence, why torture?
If one has no evidence, so let them find it, if any exists.

As for our Arab Chevra, you may argue: We need it for Arab terror, etc.
So there are two answers for this-

One is that Arab terror is a war crime. This should be dealt with as such, not as a civil crime.
Two is that Israel doesn't seem that concerned with Arab terror, first because Israel claims it made peace. If so, it can't be terror that Arabs are doing blowing themselves up and digging tunnels and firing missiles. Israel anyways seems to ignore all of these things claiming the perpetrators are enemies of peace. So if Israel is truly not concerned, why worry about Arab terror?

And if Israel is truly concerned, so end peace talks which bring more terror, and prosecute Arab terrorists under war-time laws under military law. End Camp David and stop the tunnels. End Oslo and end the land giving which is only used for missile launching against Israelis.

But to needlessly subject Israel's citizens to non-stop military law is unfair and immoral. 
There is not a country in the world that does this, save regimes, and Israel has no need to go that route, for doesn't it claim to be a democracy?

I would like to suggest that you personally support removing this anti-democratic law from Israel's law books. 


All the very best,

Name, address etc
(Print off and send to: 

Honorable Prime Minister of Israel
Mr. Benjamin Netanyahu
800 2nd Avenue 
New York, NY 10017

Meir Ettinger Court Hearing Tomorrow Feb 23rd. Let's bombard Netanyahu with letters. It makes a difference at least up in Shamayim. pls fwd. Please read Rebbetzin Libby Kahane, grandmother plea.

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My last email erred in that it said the Court Hearing was supposed to be on Feb. 21.  Meir Ettinger's wife says it's tomorrow.  Do we want his incarceration on our heads that we stood by and did nothing?  Please davan for Meir Dovid Chai ben Tova. Please fwd this to your Rabbi as well as Letters from Rabbi's and influential people from Chutz LeAretz especially make a difference we are told. 

Rebbetzin Libby Kahane,  his grandmother, writes: The court proceedings are held behind closed doors; only one judge is shown the "evidence." Neither Ettinger nor his lawyer are told what the charges are and there is no way to argue in his defense. If the Shin Bet had even one iota of of evidence that Ettinger allegedly committed an illegal act they would have, and should have, charged him in open court."

Please write a letter to the Prime Minister that if there is evidence he should be charged openly and let them conduct a fair and honest trial.  Otherwise they should free him!

Quantity of letters is important. Please send your emails to:


Tizku LeMitzvoth!



Op-Ed: Trial by the media?

The grandmother of one of the administrative detainees in the Duma story tells her side.

Published: Friday, February 19, 2016 1:36 PM


Libby Kahane was married to Rabbi Meir Kahane from 1956 until his murder...

On July 31, 2015 a house in Duma, an Arab village in Samaria, was firebombed by unknown persons and a child was tragically killed. The entire gamut of Israel's "Who's Who" condemned the unknown persons, whom they labeled "Jewish Terrorists" because of questionable graffiti in Hebrew.

The condemnation was not enough to satisfy the New York Times, which quickly published an article titled, "Israeli Justice in West Bank Is Seen as Often Uneven." This was picked up by all the foreign media and our government was pressured into taking hasty, precipitate action.

Among those arrested was my grandson, Meir Ettinger, named for his late grandfather, Rabbi Meir Kahane, who had a reputation for promoting unpopular opinions. He was the perfect scapegoat. He was arrested on August 3 and interrogated using illegal physical force, including punching and shaking him. On Sunday, August 9, he was taken before a judge to extend his arrest, but the court hearing he should have had was cut short by the arrival of an administrative detention order straight from Minister of Defense Moshe Yaalon.

Administrative detention means detention without a trial, meaning it does not allow the accused to challenge the allegations against him.

Leaks to the press by the Shin Bet (the Israel Security Agency), had prepared the ground for Yaalon's order so as to gain public acceptance for this undemocratic act, On August 3, when Meir was first arrested, Israel's Channel 2 television broadcast a lengthy, detailed report that named Meir Ettinger, "the primary target of the Shin Bet." As Meir himself said in a televised report from court, there was no truth in the declaration that the Shin Bet considered him a "primary target." When he was arrested they did not even know that one of his sidelocks, payot, had been torn off while he was working on a construction job. It happened when his right payah was caught up in an electric drill and in all the photos of him in court the length of his payot are uneven, which makes him look unkempt.

There are many inaccuracies in the Channel 2 report, possibly intentional.. For one thing, it claimed that Meir was suspected of writing a document found in his computer titled "The Uprising." In itself, even had this been true, this is a purely ideological statement.

However, as revealed by the weekly magazine Olam Katan (February 12, 2016), there is another document, written by someone else who has no connection with Meir Ettinger. That document, "A Guide to Harming Arabs," calls for violent acts against Arabs. The Shin Bet knows who wrote it. He is currently in prison, being held until his trial ends. But they deliberately leaked parts of that document as if it were part of the document found in Meir Ettinger's computer, creating a negative impression about him in the eyes of the public.

The TV report implied that Meir and a group of young people "invaded" Kusra, an Arab village in the Binyamin area, in order to destroy property there. Actually, they were hiking far from the village, completely unarmed. Police were unable to find any evidence of paint cans, brushes, tools or any weapons that could be attributed to them. The Kusra villagers attacked them and bloodied them and they were photographed by Reform rabbis visiting the village. One photo showed Meir comforting one of his friends who had put a kerchief over his bloody nose. This became a photo of "Meir Ettinger and a masked man."

The report on Channel 2 hinted that the Shin Bet had implicated him the firebombing of a Christian church near the Sea of Galilee and it quoted a "friend of his" saying, his voice disguised, that Meir had charisma and was "cunning and devious."

He has been in jail for six months on an administrative detention order and the Shin Bet has asked the court to approve four more months. The judge said he would issue his decision in 20 days, i.e. February 23. The court proceedings are held behind closed doors; only one judge is shown the "evidence." Neither Ettinger nor his lawyer are told what the charges are and there is no way to argue in his defense.
 
If the Shin Bet had even one iota of of evidence that Ettinger allegedly committed an illegal act they would have, and should have, charged him in open court.

Instead of being tried in court, where there are rules of evidence and procedure, Meir Ettinger is the victim of a media trial, subjected to a stream of rumors, perhaps even spread by the Shin Bet, creating a false media image of Meir Ettinger and demonizing him. This should sound a red alarm to all honest, decent people.

Anyone can read what he has written openly on his Internet blog. What he has done is not considered a crime in any democratic country. He expressed unpopular views in a blog he wrote on the Hebrew website "Hakol Hayehudi."  When his case came to court for review after his first three months in administrative detention, the judge ordered his imprisonment continued. The reason he gave was that Meir had not changed his views. The Honenu lawyer said, "If the judge wants him to change his opinions, he can send him to Korea, there they know how to make people change their opinions.

One can disagree with the opinions he has expressed but his right to express them is completely legitimate in a state where even the Hezbollah is permitted to freely express its intention to destroy that state, Israel.

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Sincerely,

Robin Ticker

Israel Advocacy Calendar (www.IsraelAdvocacyCalendar.com).
Activist emails sent to my list  are L'Ilui Nishmat Yisrael ben David Aryeh ob"m (Izzy - Kaplan) and Howard Chaim Grief great activists and lovers of Eretz Yisroel, Am Yisroel and the Torah. Yehi Zichronum Baruch.  May their memories serve as a blessing. 

Most of these emails are posted on Shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com 

Personal emails to individuals will not be posted to my blog.