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Sunday, May 11, 2008

Rally for Jonathan Pollard on eve of President Bush's visit Monday May 12, 2008

bs"d Please forward to your lists.

Women in Green call upon all to join the Pollard Rally that will take place tomorrow, Monday, May 12th, in Jerusalem.

Ruth and Nadia Matar
Women in Green
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Massive Rally 05/12/08: Freedom for Pollard, Independence for Israel

Attendance Compulsory for all Lovers of Israel!

Justice4JPnews April 30, 2008

The COMMITTEE TO BRING JONATHAN POLLARD HOME, in cooperation with J4JP, has scheduled a major rally for Monday, 12 May 2008 (B"H) on the eve of President Bush's upcoming visit to Israel in honor of Israel's 60th anniversary.

EVENT: Massive Rally for Independence for Israel and Freedom for Pollard

DATE: May 12, 2008 (The 7th of Iyar 5768)

TIME: 5:30 PM (Human Chain); 6:30 PM (Rally)

WHERE: Freedom for Jonathan Pollard Square (midway between PM's residence and the US Consulate) where King George Street meets Keren HaYesod Street (at the intersection of Ramban and Agron Streets.)

FEATURING: A Human Handcuffed Chain with Israeli flags stretching from Agron Street (opposite the US Consulate) to Freedom for Jonathan Pollard Square (formerly Kikar Pariz)

ASSEMBLY POINT: At 17:30 (5:30PM) we will assemble in Independence Park, opposite the US Consulate on Agron Street, to form a Human Handcuffed Chain with Israeli flags and kick off the rally. The main event rally will take place at 6:30 PM at Freedom for Pollard Square (formerly Kikar Pariz).

May 12, 2008
FREEDOM for POLLARD
INDEPENDENCE for ISRAEL

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Women For Israel's Tomorrow (Women in Green)
POB 7352, Jerusalem 91072, Israel
Tel: 972-2-624-9887 Fax: 972-2-624-5380
mailto:wfit2@womeningreen.org
http://www.womeningreen.org

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Wednesday, May 07, 2008

Naftali Ben Gila Rachel b"h steadily improving! Last email was erroneous!

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Sent to me by Akiva. Thank you for correction! Great news. Hodu LaHashem Ki Tov, Ki LeOlam Chasdo! May he and his fellow friends have a Refuah Shleima BeGufam UbeRucham and may we continue to be comforted from this almost unbearable loss at Mercaz Harav.

PLEASE READ BELOW AND RE-FORWARD IT OUT TO THOSE TO WHOM YOU SENT THE PREVIOUS MESSAGE...

(This information is directly confirmed with the family as of May 6, 2008.)

There has recently been a tremendous amount of erroneous information on various email lists regarding the condition of Naftali ben Gila Rachel, the most seriously wounded student at Mercacz Harav yeshiva.

The following information is up to date as of Monday April 14 at 11:00 am, and comes directly from Naftali's mother, and was re-confirmed with Naftali's aunt on May 6, 2008:

Naftali was critically injured in the attack. He was unconscious for 8 days, and regained consciousness on Friday night March 14. He was moved out of ICU into the surgical ward of Shaare Tzedek hospital on Tuesday March 18. He celebrated his 14^th birthday on Purim.

The family is very much aware of all of the tefillot and the concerted effort undertaken by many in the community on behalf of Naftali and his recovery, and are very thankful for the tremendous outpouring of concern and the well wishes that have been expressed. The inaccuracies that have been circulated recently are therefore all the more painful for them.

On Friday night, April 4, Naftali suffered symptoms that are similar to a seizure, but were not actually an epileptic seizure. Hospital staff moved him back into ICU as a precautionary measure for observation.

On Sunday, April 6, Naftali was moved back to the Surgical Ward, where he has remained ever since. At no time did he suffer a stroke or anything similar, and at no time since he regained consciousness was his life in any danger. His condition is steadily improving, and he is often out in the halls of the ward in his wheelchair. In the hospital, he continues to keep up with his learning, and plays the violin when he is bored. He was allowed out of the hospital for the Pesach seder, and then returned to the hospital in the morning.

At no time did Naftali have a name added for tefillot. His name was, and is, Naftali ben Gila Rachel.

While the family is extremely appreciative of all the tefilos and concern for Naftali, they beg the Jewish world to please try to stop these inaccurate e-mails.

--Akiva
http://mysticalpaths.blogspot.com

On 5/7/08, FaigeRayzel@aol.com <FaigeRayzel@aol.com> wrote:

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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Shoshanna Walker <rosewalk@concentric.net>
To: Endtimes <EndtimesIsraelNews@topica.com>, eejh <eejh@yahoogroups.com>, EretzYisraelUndivided <EretzYisraeUndivided@yahoogroups.com>, Ayelet Walker <blackiegrl@hotmail.com>, Avichai <and1140@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 00:11:22 -0400
Subject: [EretzYisraeUndivided] Urgent: Tefila needed for one of the wounded Mercaz HaRav students

From: Elijah H. Gold <elyahu@comcast.ne

Please say Tehillim for Naftali ben Gila, one of the students wounded
in the Mercaz HaRav shootings whose condition is drastically
worsening. Please forward immediately to at least 5 people.

Please Daven for him. He suffered a stroke yesterday...15 yrs old.

Eli Gold
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Action Alert : Pollard: 'I Can’t Get Out of Jail without Israel's Help

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What we can do in America to help Pollard? Take the contact information presented below. While on the phone with the Foreign Affairs Committee in Congress, lobbying about removing constraints to kill terrorist leaders, bring up Pollard.

Tterrorist leaders if caught alive have been put into Israeli prison and serve as professors for advanced terrorism courses to other Palestinians sitting in jail thereby upgrading their fellow Palestinians with relative unsophisticated knowledge of terror to a higher level. Many of these students and sometimes the terrorist leaders themselves with blood on their hands are then released only to continue in their acts of terror on a more sophisticated level.

Compare this with Pollard who is also sitting in prison, who the gov't of Israel has abandoned and mention that his motivation was to share intelligence regarding a matter of Israel's security, with Israel, an ally. The intelligence he shared was intelligence to which Israel was rightfully entitled according to the existing agreement with Israel and USA. Ask why America did not share the intelligence themselves as they were obligated to, putting Jonathan Pollard in a moral dillemma???? Say you believe that indeed Jonathan Pollard is a hero of the highest moral character and it is a national crime of the highest degree that he has been sitting in jail !

David Bedein media@actcom.com.il writes:

Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008

Subject: Attn US citizens: Ask Congress to remove constraints on Israel to kill terror leaders and kill human shields in Gaza

US policy presently allows Israel to shoot at rocket launchers in Gaza - not those who give the order to shoot from Gaza..

Each time Israel mounts the slightest military operation towards Gaza, the US intervenes.

We in the world of journalism can easily locate and reach Gaza leaders who give the orders to fire mortars into the Western Negev.

The IDF can also locate and reach the same culprits.

The US State Dep't has repeated time and again that Israel must not kill non combatants, including people who give orders to fire.

There are several US groups who now organize massive pressure on the US to not allow Israel to respond militarily.

The answer must be stated simply: Dead terrorists cannot give orders to kill.

It is vital for US citizens to bombard members of the Middle East Subcommittee of the US House Foreign Affairs Committee with one message:

Here are the members:

http://foreignaffairs.house.gov/members.asp?committee=mideast

The tel. of all congress people is: 202-224-3121

The Message:

STOP RESTRAING ISRAEL'S HAND.

ALLOW ISRAEL TO KILL TERRORIST LEADERS AND KILL HUMAN SHIELDS

THERE IS ONE KIND OF ACCEPTABLE TERROR LEADER: DEAD.

SHEICK YASSIN IS VERY LONELY DOWN THERE

Hundreds of people must flood Rep. Howard Berman, chairman of the US House Foreign Affairs Committee and Rep. Gary Ackerman, chairman of the Middle East Subcommittee of the US House Foreign Affairs committee with that message

Speaking personally, the lives of my children in Sderot depend on this message being delivered to those who can remove US restraints on Israel.

DAVID

David Bedein

Bureau Chief, Israel Resource News Agency

President, Center for Near East Policy Research

www.IsraelBehindTheNews.com

PS IF there is someone who could sponsor an immediate ad of this nature, RSVP. ASAP

Pollard: 'I Can't Get Out of Jail without Israel's Help
30 Nissan 5768, May 5, '08
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/145994
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(IsraelNN.com) Jailed American Jonathan Pollard, imprisoned for life
for passing on classified information to Israel 23 years ago, told
the Hareidi religious daily HaModia that the American government will
not pardon him without the involvement of the Israeli government. He
stated that former Prime Minister Ministers Yitzchak Rabin and
Binyamin (Bibi) Netanyahu are the only two leaders who acted on his
behalf.

Pollard stated, "The people in the White House are not stupid; they
see the negligence of the Israeli government and the Jewish
community."

He added that the American Jewish community also needs to play a
larger role in his appeal for relief from the severe sentence, which
usually is no more than four years in prison for similar offenses.
"If the Jewish community here would have understood this to be their
moral obligation - if not for me, for you yourselves, I would have
gotten out," he said n an interview. "And it is not too late…. My
message to the Jewish community is if you won't speak up about it,
then you are agreeing with it."

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Golan Promise

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From: The Dry Bones Blog <blog@mrdrybones.com>
To: ackieone <ackieone@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 06:03:18 -0400
Subject: Dry Bones:Golan Promise (1981)

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Golan Promise (1981)

Dry Bones:Golan Promise (1981)

Golan Promise (1981)

With all the talk about Israel giving the Golan Heights back to Syria "in exchange for peace" I decided to search the Dry Bones archives for cartoons about the Golan and about Israeli "concessions for peace".

I was shocked to discover a fact that everyone (your faithful servant included) has forgotten. Following the 1973 Egyptian Yom Kippur War surprise attack on Israel, the Israelis pushed the Egyptian invading force out of Sinai.

In the ensuing "search for peace", America put heavy pressure on Israel to withdraw from the Egyptian Oil fields in Sinai.

What I (in 2008), and apparently President Ronald Reagan (in 1981) forgot was that Israel had received something tangible from the Americans in return for the unilateral withdrawal from the oil fields:

"the tangible benefit for Israel from its agreement to a unilateral withdrawal from the Egyptian oil fields was a presidential letter from President Ford concerning the vital importance of Israel holding on to the Golan Heights, which Israel had taken from Syria in 1967 following 19 years of Syrian shelling on Israel's northern communities from the towering Golan Heights, and Syria's incessant attacks from the Golan on the Sea of the Galilee – Israel's only fresh water resource, from where Israel's National Water Carrier pumps water to the whole country." -more

In the letter, Gerald Ford, 38th President of the U.S. gave an assurance that

"The U.S. will support the position that an overall settlement with Syria in the framework of a peace agreement must assure Israel's security from attack from the Golan Heights. The U.S. further supports the position that a just and lasting peace, which remains our objective, must be acceptable to both sides. The U.S. has not developed a final position on the borders. Should it do so it will give great weight to Israel's position that any peace agreement with Syria must be predicated on Israel remaining on the Golan Heights." -more

-Dry Bones- Israel's Political Comic Strip Since 1973

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