| tbs"d bs"d Dear Friends, amv"sh Thank you Aliza for sending me these links on tips on how to write an effective letter to the editor so that it will be published. I urge all fellow activists to take the time to read these very important suggestions straight from the experts at Honest Reporting and Camera. Aliza Karp writes: below i have pasted links to valuable instructions for writing to the editor with publication as your goal. i will add that giving Tzedaka before hand will also add to success.
writing letters to the media is something that anyone can do. once you get printed - you make a very big impact! and yet it is something you can do by yourself or together with people you know. you do not have to tell the heads of organizations how to do their job - because when it comes to writing to the editor - anyone can do it and anyone can make an impact... but as i said before, it takes time, training and concentration to write a letter that will get printed.
studying the information on the links below is the first step.
Kol Tuv, aliza
http://www.honestreporting.com/articles/45884734/critiques/Write_Right.asp
http://www.honestreporting.com/a/letterWriting.asp
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Tuesday, April 29, 2008
How to write an effective letter to the Editor - a must read for activists.
Monday, April 28, 2008
Ethnic Cleansing vs. Entitlement, Judaism vs Democracy
Dear Friends, amv"sh
CALL THE CONSULATE AND WRITE LETTERS!
As American Citizens we must recognize that America is forcing Israel to act against Israel's National Security Interests and pushing her to relinquish her Sovereignty over the Land of Israel.
Map in Abbas office (thank you Stuart for sending)
By forcing Israel to accept Fatah and Hamas as peace partners, they are meddling into Israel's affairs and basically putting the lives of Israeli citizens in serious danger.
The implementation of the disengagement of Gush Katif has resulted in Ethnic Cleansing and Judenrein in the Gaza Strip. The failure of the IDF to destroy the source of the Kassam rockets in Southern Israel has resulted in thousands of Jews running away from Sderot. Just today alone Terrorists in Gaza have fired a total of 13 rockets and 13 mortar shells at Israeli towns . (thank you Izzy Kaplan for latest update). The abandonment of the IDF of military units in Judea and Samaria, the dismantling of roadblocks, the arrest of military officers (Halamish brothers) when they protect their communities within Judea and Samaria, the eviction of a family when they move into their new home in Negahot, the latest decision to destroy the shul Hazon David near Kiryat Arba are all proof of subtle and not so subtle attempts to get Jews to leave their entitled Land. This is coupled with monetary incentives which buys silence to enable the roadmap, the 2 State Solution to progress without protest.
Can you imagine if a foreign gov't would put pressure on the USA to stop expansion in a Jewish Community in the States e.g. Boro Park or Flatbush and then evict any new Jewish homes that have been built recently. Would this be considered Democracy? Even by rules of Democracy, such actions are illegal.
Yet Israel is not meant to be a democracy. Israel is the Land of the Jews and G-d's law is the ideal Law of the Land.
Judaism has laws that can be misconstrued as racist. Only the High Priest may enter the Holy of Holies and only on Yom Kippur. Only the Priests can enter the Holy and only Levites can enter certain parts of the Temple Mount. The land is divided among the Tribes. According to the Torah, every 50 years in the Jubilee Year, the land was returned to it's original owner's as determined by the allotment in Joshua's time. Originally, the Land was divided by lots and which plot went to which family was also determined by lottery. Each tribe would then retain their inheritance forever. The Priests and the Levites and the convert do not have territorial inheritance though they do have designated cities. All the tribes accepted their designated Land apportioned to them. Every seven years the Land is let to lie fallow and returned to the Creator of the world. Can one tribe then claim that these laws are racists? Can an Israelite complain that it's not fair that the Temple Mount is closed to him and his family. Can he claim that the priests are racists? Can he protest in the Jubilee year when he is forced to return the Land he "owns" to the original owner? Can he complain that the allotment of his brother is better than his own and really he is deserving?
We are awaiting the Messiah who will tell us who belongs to which tribe and once again we pray that we will know which parcel of Land if any is our rightful inheritance. In the meanwhile, we know that the Land of Israel is promised exclusively to the Nation of Israel. The Nation of Israel must keep and preserve the commandments. Only we have entitlement. There is place for the Ger Toshav, the resident that is not a member of the Jewish Nation, to live among us. However, such a resident must accept the 7 Noahite Laws and accept Jewish Sovereignty.
Is this racist? This is Torah and from this all the blessings of peace and prosperity will flow.
Robin
Fwd: LATEST TEST CASE:DESTRUCTION OF A SHUL NEAR KIRYAT ARBA
From: Israel Kaplan <israelkaplan@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 1:10 PM
Subject: LATEST TEST CASE:DESTRUCTION OF A SHUL NEAR KIRYAT ARBA
To: IZZY <israelkaplan@yahoo.com>
Bechol Dor VDor, A MUST SEE documentary from England! Know your enemy! Please forward!
From: Israel Kaplan <israelkaplan@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 8:54 AM
Subject: COMING TO A JEWISH COMMUNITY NEAR YOU!
To: IZZY <israelkaplan@yahoo.com>
The Problem of Militant Islam in Europe
Action Alert: Pidionshvuim7&8 Halamish brothers, family in Negahot
Action Alert: In addition to calling up the Embassy [telephone 202-364-5500], here are additional email addresses to express your outrage at the arrest and pending imprisonment of the Halamish brothers whose crime is protecting a Jewish community.
Apparently, American Foreign Policy rather than legitimate Israeli security considerations are dictating IDF. Dismantling 50 roadblocks as well as supplying Fatah with arms that find themselves in the hands of terrorist are other examples. where American Foreign Policy has taken priority over security considerations, thereby endangering the lives of Israeli citizens. Evicting a family from their home on the Eve of the holiday by the IDF is another proof that the IDF will operate in order to please American Foreign Policy rather than behave with human decency and concern for their fellow Jew.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Jon Grímsson <pidionshvuim@yahoo.com>
To: FaigeRayzel@aol.com
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 05:51:51 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: pidionshvuim5
April 11, 2008
Pidion Shvuim Alert:
No. 7
Halamish Brothers Land in Legal Limbo; Could Be Arrested Any Moment
Hours before they were scheduled to begin their prison sentence in
connection with protecting a Jewish community, the Halamish brothers won
what turned out to be a very short reprieve.
Jerusalem District Court Judge Moshe Ravid stayed the prison sentence of
Danny and Yitzhak Halamish, scheduled to enter jail on April 10. At first,
Ravid ordered a hearing after Passover to discuss why the request by the
brothers to stay their prison sentence was rejected without explanation. But
a day later, Ravid said the hearing would take place on April 11 at 9:30
a.m. Why? Call it pressure from his superiors.
At the hearing on April 11, Ravid, who pleaded ignorance to the details,
said he did not have authority to decide the case. The prosecution was
pleased, but then asked the judge to order the arrest of the Halamish
brothers so that they would not be declared fugitives. The judge refused,
and suggested that the court that sentenced the brothers be approached
instead.
The bottom line is that the Halamish brothers are free, but could be
arrested at any moment. The brothers plan to again appeal the Supreme Court,
which already rejected a previous motion.
In March, we reported on the case of Danny and Yitzhak Halamish, two
members of an Israel Army-sponsored unit abandoned by the military and
sentenced to jail for protecting a Jewish community in Judea and Samaria.
Since then, at least 1,000 people have either telephoned
their outrage to the Israeli military or signed a petition for the
suspension of theit sentences.
Ravid's ruling not to hear the Halamish case could give the brothers
another chance to prove their innocence. The brothers argued in their appeal
that a third member of the unit had been kept of out prison until he
was pardoned by then-President Moshe Katsav. The Halamishes have submitted a
similar
pardon request to President Shimon Peres.
Dear lovers of Zion, there is no question that your pressure helped keep
the Halamish brothers out of prison. Now, we must redouble
our efforts so that the Israel Army assumes responsibility for its soldiers
and
either bails them out or tries the brothers in a military court..
Call the Israel embassy [telephone 202-364-5500] and ask to speak to
the military attache. Express your outrage that the Israel Army abandoned
its fighters for protecting Jews.. Don't argue. The military attache's office
knows exactly what you're talking about.
Stress that you are an American citizen whose support for the Israeli
military is based on its protection of Jews. Say that you also plan to
discuss this case with your member of Congress who decides on U.S. military
aid to Israel.
The Olmert government, with an approval rating of near zero, has refused
any accountability to the Israeli people and fears only the Bush
administration. Unless we act now, there will be many more young Jews in
jail. The Jewish holiday of Passover is about redemption. Let's work to
redeem our fellow Jews.
With Love of Israel,
Datya Itzhaki
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