Fwd: April 17, 2017 Open Letter re: Elisha Odess by Shmuel Koenig...Let Us Support Hilltop Youth... Forced confession still admissible following torture...

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Dear Chaver or Chavera,

The government of Israel doesn't exactly officially label Hilltop Youth as Terrorists.

Since 1994 those affiliated with Rabbi Meir Kahane ob"m and his ideology are designated Jewish Terror groups.

The Hilltop Youth are TREATED as belonging to a terrorist group  by detaining them and denying them due process.  It appears that Hilltop youth are arbitrarily detained for political purposes and their detention, interrogation  and even torture has been justified by Shabak who claim they are dangerous and ticking time bombs. They also argue that their forced confession should be permitted as evidence since their torture was conducted while protecting the dignity of the detainees and of their free will. 

It seems like the outcome of the trial has already been predecided. Shabak needed only to produce the evidence.

Why is the forced confession necessary if there was real evidence or witnesses?

It is our impression that their only 

"crime" is standing up for our rights to settle the entire Land including the Hills of Judea and Samaria based on Israel's Covenant with G-d as an everlasting inheritance!

This is consistent with the first Rashi in Breishith. This is the way to respond  to the Nations of the World who tell us that we stole the land.

In the Media they have often been labeled as "extremists" and " Messianic".

Why is it a crime to want to be tried by a Torah court, which is what they want ?

Why is it a crime to want to restore the Davidic Kingdom ?

The prosecutor in the Elisha Odess case has withdrawn some of the evidence, admitting that it is not valid. 

According to the family, they are only withdrawing forced confessions that they extracted under torture. Forced confessions that were made between torture sessions, merely under threat of additional torture, (and while those who tortured them were entering and leaving the room),  will still be permissable as evidence.

We have to support the Hilltop Youth and not allow them to be treated nor branded as terrorists.

 

With best wishes for the Geula,

Shmuel Koenig