Yesha Action alerts- Rivka Meyerchik, Chazon David, Mishmeret Yesha, Baruch Rofeh Cholim

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1. Pidyon Shvuyim. Demonstration Rivka Meyerchik.(Nadia and David Matar)

2. Chazon David outpost rebuilt for the 33rd time. (Nadia and David Matar)

3. Support  Mishmeret Yesha. (Helen Freedman)

4. Baruch Rofeh Cholim. Yosef Chaim ben Mazal Tov of Kiryat Arba  (Tehilla Shimoni)

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1. Pidyon Shvuyim. Demonstration Rivka Meyerchik

Prisoner of Zion in Zion

Tomorrow Thursday, June 5th 2008, at 2:30pm there will be a demonstration at the Shalom Court in Kfar Saba (Tchernechovsky street) to demand the immediate release of Rivka Meyerchik, innocent of any crime, who was arrested at the outpost of Shvut Ami and is in prison for the past two months in the neve Tirza prison.

The justice system, the police and the prison authorities are abusing and persecuting this young womanfor her refusal to recognize the authority of the justice system.

 Her  basic human rights are trampled and non-existant.

When brought to court  she is taken out of her cell hand and leg cuffed and she is not allowed to talk to family nor lawyers.

All human rights groups and all lovers of Israel are called to come and protest this grave travesty of justice done against a young Jewish woman in Israel only because she represents those who love the land of Israel.

0505-246770 or 0505-777254

 2. Chazon David outpost rebuilt for the 33rd time

 As we told you, On the eve of the liberation date of Hebron, 29^th of Iyar, the IDF has destroyed the Chazon David outpost for the 33^rd time.

This time, because of the IDF's lack of sensitivity, destroying the outpost on the day Hebron was liberated, the residents of Kiryat Arba – Hebron decided to rebuild the Chazon David synagogue and make it much bigger. With nightfall, with presence of Rabbi Dov Lior and head of the Kiryat Arba council Tzvi Katzover, a truck unloaded building materials. Throughout mincha and ma'ariv, the afternoon and evening prayers, the sounds of hammers could be heard mingling with the cantor's voice.

After just a few hours, a new synagogue was raised, bearing a massive Star of David.

The elation the builders just intensified when we heard from a trusted source – that Olmert told Condoleezza that "We have taken down four outposts", only to have her tell him that "No, you have taken down only three. Chazon David has been rebuilt".

 

A drive has been organized, in which every citizens will be able to buy blocks in order to rebuild the outpost, hopefully boasting not only a synagogue but also a neighborhood center.

 

For contributions and information  contact Yehudit Katzover

at 02-9961292 or at ihuditk@gmail.com

 

Attached are pictures of Chazon David partially rebuilt already this morning

 

link to the arutz 7 Hebrew article with more pix

http://www.inn.co.il/News/News.aspx/175902

 3. Support  Mishmeret Yesha

WHY ISRAEL NEEDS RAPID RESPONSE TEAMS

By: Helen Freedman

 

            Israel is reputed to have one of the best armies in the world. The army, navy, and air force of the IDF have been victorious over and over again in so many miraculous defensive wars. Noting that, one would ask why it is necessary for Israel to have rapid response teams made up of members of the individual communities in which they live. The answer is supplied by an IDF spokesperson, Rabbi Moshe Hager-Lau, a reserve colonel who serves as assistant division commander for reserve forces in Judea and Samaria . He says, "It takes at least ten minutes for the IDF to respond when an infiltration incident occurs. An armed terrorist can kill a whole lot of people in ten minutes."

            What happens in the time it takes for the IDF to appear on the scene of a terrorist attack? If the community is lucky, and the men have been trained by Mishmeret Yesha's crack trainers, the rapid response team drawn from the residents of the community will identify the terrorists and subdue them. In situations where such teams don't exist, horrific murders have taken place.

            It has been my privilege to enlist the services of Israel Danziger as a tour guide for the Chizuk (encouragement) missions conducted semi-annually by Americans For a Safe Israel (AFSI). I and the members of the group are continuously amazed at the depth of Danziger's knowledge about the land of Israel . Wherever we travel, he knows the hills, the communities, the farms, the vineyards, the people, and the trees. Mishmeret Yesha  and their groups have planted thousands  of these trees and vineyards. It is his conviction that this is one way of holding onto the land of Israel . We've stopped at some of the rocky hillside areas that Danziger has found for us, and with rudimentary tools, we've dug away at the hard soil, planting our saplings. We've also admired the huge fields of vineyards planted by Mishmeret Yesha. We look forward to drinking the wine from those grapes, and seeing it exported to the U.S.

            Danziger has also taken us to the "factory" in Beth-El where he personally has designed the bullet-proof vests that are provided to the reservists called to active duty. His expert workers – six work full-time – carefully cut out the patterns and sew up the vests which contain pockets and belts and loops of all kinds, anticipating the needs of the soldiers. Of course, there is a sleeve for the bullet-proof shield.

            When Danziger took us to the target practice field where the 12 man team from Yitzhar was being trained, I was moved to tears. Here were Jews practicing with the M-16 rifles supplied by the IDF, so that they could protect the lives of their families and friends. Their instructors were driving them hard, and they were training hard. Life and death matters were at hand, and they were taking it all very seriously.

            The MIshmeret Yesha training is primarily for the threatened communities in Judea , Samaria , Hebron hills, and the former Gush Katif. Here there are communities that are small and largely unprotected by the IDF. Over 100 settlements like Shavei Shomron, Kfar Tapuach, Adei Ad, Shvut Rahel, Bat Ayin, Yitzhar, Itamar, Otniel, Esh Kodesh, Sde Boaz and more, are forced to deal with the constant threats from Arab terrorism that confront them daily.

            Today, as a result of terrorist infiltrations into yeshivas throughout Israel, such as the Mekor Haim high-school yeshiva in Kibbutz Kfar Etzion, in Atzmona (before it was destroyed), in Otniel ,and at Jerusalem's Mercaz Harav Yeshiva on March 6, 2008, where eight students were murdered and nine were seriously wounded,  Mishmeret Yesha has been called upon to train rapid response teams in the schools. The organization is ready to do this, but there is one stipulation. There cannot be any Arabs working in the schools – or for that matter in any of the communities – in which training will be supplied. There is the belief that Arabs will either participate in terrorist attacks themselves, as in the case of the Arab driver who worked for the Jerusalem Yeshiva, or they will supply information to others, thereby enabling successful attacks.

            Another outgrowth of the success of Mishmeret Yesha is a plan to arm young men who have completed their army work with M-16's and handguns in order to neutralize terrorists who infiltrate urban facilities. This would be in addition to the guards who are typically posted at all urban public buildings and businesses.

            My question to Israel Danziger is, "Who pays for all of this?" How can enough money possibly be raised to cover the expenses of the training, the vests, the night vision scopes, the communications equipment, the tree plantings, and all the many activities in which the organization is engaged? It costs $18,000 a year just to train one 12 man team. Mishmeret Yesha now trains 30 teams, at a cost of over half a million dollars. That doesn't include all the other costs, and the demand for more training, more equipment, is increasing.  

            Organizations like Friends of the IDF do NOT contribute to the rapid response program of Mishmeret Yesha, and neither does the IDF, except to supply the M-16's for training. At present, the burden of payment is on the shoulders of the organization.

 

Anyone wishing to share in this burden is encouraged to do so. Send your tax-deductible contribution, to: Mishmeret Yesha  1412 Avenue M , Suite 2363, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11230 . Those wishing to contact Israel Danziger directly can reach him by email at: guards24@zahav.net.il or by cell phone: 011-972-52-468-9991.

 

In Canada contact Toronto Zionist Council, israelkaplan@yahoo.com

cell phone 416 824 2858

 

 

 

 

Kol Hakovod to those who respond to this need.

4. Baruch Rofeh Cholim. Yosef Chaim ben Mazal Tov

My name is Tehila Shimoni. I'm 27 years old, the wife of Yosef Chaim Shimoni 28 years old, and mother of Itai, two and a half years old. I would like to tell you about my young family.

My husband and I both were born in Kiryat Arba. He went to the army, to a special unit, "Egoz"- that fights terrorists in Judea and Samaria and against" Hizballah" in Lebanon.

When we married 5 years ago we chose to live in "Giva't Harel"-in the Binyamin Settlements.  This settlement is named after our loved brother in law, Harel Ben Noon, who was murdered by an Arab terrorist on the same hills.

My husband Yosef works in a company that ensures that the Arabs will not take over more lands in our holy land.

A few weeks ago Yosef wasn't feeling well. We went from doctor to doctor and then from one hospital to another, and they told us that it's just an infection. On Israel's Independence Day he was accepted for emergency surgery and unfortunately diagnosed with a very violent cancer that spread in his stomach.

After counseling with doctors, we were told that the treatments in Israel are limited.

My husband and I were raised on the laps of our ancestors: Avraham and Sarah, Yitzchak and Rivka, and Ya'akov and Leah, all of whom refused to give up hope.

After searching all over the world we found a clinic in Germany that treats successfully such cases They combine chemotherapy treatment with other unique treatments. We sent a family member to Germany to examine those clinics and we understand that we have to be quick and arrive as soon as possible in order to improve our chances of success.

The estimates of the expenses are 150,000 Euro (almost $250,000) which we don't have, even after opening all our savings.

My uncle, Ofer Ochana, who some of you many know from the Gutnick Center Restaurant in Hebron, suggested that I write and tell you my story. Therefore I ask any of you that can help me save my husband's and the father of my children's (I'm two months pregnant) life!

As it is written "whoever saves one life, it is as if he saved an entire world."

Funds can be donated via the Hebron Fund in NYC,  at 1760 Ocean Ave. Brooklyn, NY 11230 or via internet at www.hebrontruma.com. Please note on the check or web donation that the funds are for the Yossi Shimoni Fund.

In Israel checks can be deposited in Bank HaPoalim, Branch 695, Account number 595954. Please fax the deposit slip to 02-9944521. More information can be received from Efrat at 050-628-5603 or Moshe at
054-486-1274.

Also, your prayers are very much needed for: Yosef Chaim ben Mazal Tov.

Thank you very much.

 

Tehila Shimoni

 

 

 

 

FINALLY AN AUTHENTIC RABBI NOT AFRAID TO SPEAK. RABBI ALGAZE.....

 

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DEAR Friends, amv'sh

Failure of the Major Orthodox Jewish Organization in America to express  our entitlement to Eretz Hadodesh and be an integral player towards the Settling of the Land of Israel.

It has been so frustrating for me after years of calling and calling Rabbis and Major Jewish Organizations such as Agudath Yisroel of America, the OU and the Young Israel, the Chofetz Chaim Heritage Foundation etc. etc. etc. only to be treated politely and respectfully to my cries to please end the Silence and speak out for our entitlement to Eretz Yisroel.   I always sensed that our respectful Rabbinic Leaders agreed with me 100% regarding our entitlement to Eretz Yisroel.  Can they blatantly ignore what is so clear in the Torah?  Yet there was that awful silence as the people of Gush Katif were thrown out of their homes.  There was no public protest or statement of clarity to the perpetrators of this terrible tragedy inflicted upon our dear brothers by our very own.  In fact many of the religious parties chose to be part of a coalition in the gov't in return for various subsidies. There was no public protest to the progrom of our precious children in Amona.  No outcry of pain and anger toward the gov't of Israel as those Kassam Rockets showered on the people of Sderot and the army as per their instructions looked the other way, nor any apology to the people of Gush Katif for allowing their expulsion to happen and there was  no resolution to not allow it to happen to another community in Judea and Samaria or the Golan.  Yes these worthy organizations will collect for the poor.  (Their askanim will find it quite difficult in the future to support the hundreds of thousands of displaced people chas veshalom, as was quite apparent after the Disengagement from Gush Katif or the War with Lebanon.)   

PIDYON SHVUYIM not a priority

And today as I write this email, there is no attempt to publicize or act upon the travesty of justice of the imprisonment of Rifka Meirchik whose crime was stubborn refusal to recognize a corrupt Judicial System that persecutes those that settle our heartland.  There is no outcry of Pidyon Shvuyim for the Chalamish brothers, lovers of Eretz Hakodesh, defenders of the security of the residents of Yehuda and Shomron for doing what they were supposed to do which is defend our rights to live securely on the Land.  Jonathan Pollard, who acted on behalf of his brethren when the United States gov't failed to share important intelligence with Israel is still languishing in jail and we continue to tolerate it with an occasional protest that is ignored and we fail to persist in our protest.

We are powerless is their excuse. 

Our leaders and organizations  say they are powerless and refuse to publicly even validate the legitimacy and justification of the struggle of our brave brothers and sisters that have taken upon themselves the unfair burden of the rest of us to settle and defend our Land. Instead our leaders are silent while others successfully portray the struggle as a religious extremist fringe element of the Jewish population. It is politically correct to speak of the tragedy of Mercaz Harav Kook and the martyrs but not politically correct to speak of the policies that led to this and other tragedies and G-d forbid portend future tragedies of the same sort.

The World Committee for the Land of Israel is a spark that will hopefully turn into a flame to unite all Jews to recognize our precious gift Eretz Yisroel and speak out with Komemiut, uprightness for the Torah and for Am Yisroel in Eretz Yisroel.  No longer will the Mainstream Jewish Organization in the Diaspora hold us hostage, or steal the actualization of  yearning of hundreds of thousands of Jews in an applied manner towards Yishuv Haaretz.   The goal of the World Committee for the Land of Israel is to practically invest our resources and efforts in being an integral part of the settlement of Eretz Yisroel in this historical time.  No longer will we allow our Jewish Organizations to divert the pure intentions of our people to go nowhere except to memorialize the dead and into empty prayers of hypocrisy.  

Let us stop this absurd expression of yearning for something that we have been given and proceed with the next step of fulfilling our historic mission of keeping the Chukim and Mishpatim in the Land of Israel with a burst of passion.  G-d has kept His promise and we have witnessed a miraculous return to Zion in our generation. Now we are expected to fulfill our part of the agreement.

Invest our energies to settling Israel rather than putting in stronger roots into the Diaspora

 Here in America our Jewish energies are diverted to investing our lives in the Diaspora and obtaining American aid for our Yeshivas here in the Diaspora and obtaining aid for our worthy programs in America so that we have no energy left to cry out in despair against the American Foreign Policy that is strangling the lives of our brethren in Israel.  Maybe we fear that speaking out against American foreign policy will jeopardize the funding for the government aided programs or our tax exempt status as non for profit organizations.  Meanwhile the lives of our brothers and sister living in Eretz Hakodesh are in danger at the mercy of their enemies that our surrounding them at an alarming rate,  These enemies have armed themselves with sophisticated weapons coming from Iran funded by monies of Arab countries that have become so rich from the American consumer.  Where is all our money for gas going if not to aid terrorists?

Christians Leaders speak up quoting Tanach while the Jewish Leaders are silent or condemn them.

I have seen courageous Christian Leaders such as Hagee, Hutchinson, Vineyard, Hellman speak up with clarity regarding G-d's promise to Israel.  And it's a real disgrace that there have been Jewish  or so called Jewish Leaders that condemn them since they are an obstacle to the "Peace Process" based on the "Land for Peace" recipe .

 Promote Huckabee for Republican Vice Presidential Running Mate for McCain.

I have listened to Huckabee, a G-d fearing man say what we the Jews have not publicly said.  He speaks with clarity and conviction regarding the rights to the Land to Israel given to our ancestors by G-d.  He speaks out with logic and reason against a 2 State Solution. He speaks of Americas dependency on oil that is feeding the terrorists.  Don't these these words deserve our endorsement and promotion? 

 

Now is the time for us Jews to express our admiration for his courageous stand for truth and convince McCain to accept him as the Vice President running mate and to embrace the words of Hagee and all those that love freedom and Democracy and Israel's right to their Land for the benefit of humanity.

I am not a political person and do not speak up for what is politically correct.  But when a politician speaks up for Torah then I will do whatever I can to embrace their platform and promote it.   

From: Nadia & David Matar [mailto:nmatar@netvision.net.il]
Subject: MUST READ!! Rabbi David Algaze's speech at Central Park, Sunday
Dear friends,

If more and more Rabbis and public figures would speak like Rabbi David
Algaze spoke in Central Park, the Jewish People would be in much better
shape.

Kol Hakavod Rabbi Algaze!

Ruth and Nadia Matar
Women in Green
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Subject: MUST READ!! Rabbi David Algaze's speech at Central Park, Sunday
June 1, 2008



Speech at the Concert in Central Park
June 1st, 2008
Rabbi David Algaze


I HAVE COME TO ASK A QUESTION, A SIMPLE QUESTION, ONE THAT HAS BEEN
FORGOTTEN IN ALL THE TALK ABOUT PEACE IN ISRAEL.

WHO DOES THIS LAND BELONG TO?

WE HAVE AN ANSWER AND IT IS THE ONLY ANSWER. LET US SAY IT OUT LOUD,
LET THE WHOLE WORLD HEAR IT. LET NO ONE, NOT EVEN US, HAVE ANY DOUBT
ABOUT IT:
THIS LAND IS MY LAND, IT'S YOUR LAND IT'S OUR LAND.
IT'S THE LAND OF OUR FATHERS; IT IS THE LAND FOR OUR CHILDREN.


THIS IS THE SIMPLE TRUTH WE ARE BEING ASKED TO FORGET AND IGNORE. BUT
WE WILL NOT FORGET IT, WE WON'T BETRAY OUR LAND. WE SAY TODAY AND
EVERY DAY: "IF I FORGET THEE
JERUSALEM LET MY RIGHT HAND BE PARALYZEDS."

THERE IS A REASON WHY THIS LAND IS CALLED THE PROMISED LAND. AND DO
YOU KNOW WHY? BECAUSE IT IS PROMISED TO OUR FATHERS AND IT IS
PROMISED TO OUR CHILDREN.
HOW CAN WE GIVE IT AWAY? WE DO NOT HAVE THE RIGHT TO GIVE IT AWAY.


G-D SAID TO OUR FATHER ABRAHAM OVER AND OVER AGAIN: THIS IS YOUR
LAND; I HAVE GIVEN IT TO YOU. HOW CAN WE FORGET THIS? IT IS REPORTED
THAT PRESIDENT TRUMAN, THE FIRST U.S. PRESIDENT TO RECOGNIZE AND
SUPPORT THE STATE OF ISRAEL, OFTEN CITED THE VERSE IN DEUTERONOMY
(1:8) "BEHOLD, I HAVE GIVEN THE LAND BEFORE YOU, GO IN AND TAKE
POSSESSION OF THE LAND WHICH THE LORD HAS SWORN UNTO YOUR FATHERS
THROUGH ABRAHAM, THROUGH ISAAC AND THROUGH JACOB."

TRUMAN REMEMBERED, MANY CHRISTIAN PREACHERS REMEMBER, DARE WE BE THE
ONES TO FORGET?

WE CREATED THE WORLD COMMITTEE FOR THE LAND OF ISRAEL JUST TO SPREAD
THAT SIMPLE TRUTH THAT THE LAND OF ISRAEL BELONGS TO THE JEWISH
PEOPLE AND WE WILL NOT PART WITH IT. THIS IS OUR LAND AND WE WILL NOT
BARTER IT AWAY. PERIOD.





THE REBIRTH OF ISRAEL IN ITS LAND IS AN EVENT HARD TO UNDERSTAND. THE
WORLD HAS NEVER SEEN SOMETHING LIKE IT. THE STORY OF OUR RETURN IS
WITHOUT PARALLEL. JEWS NEVER LEFT ISRAEL VOLUNTARILY AND THEY
RETURNED WHEN THEY COULD. WE NEVER ABANDONED THE LAND ENTIRELY
EITHER, THERE WERE JEWS THROUGHOUT HISTORY IN THE LAND. IT IS A
MIRACLE AND AS WITH ALL MIRACLES WE NEED TO BELIEVE IT TO SEE IT.

LET US BE CLEAR: THE JEWS HAVE RETURNED TO OUR LAND.

WE DID NOT COME AS CONQUERORS. WE DISPLACED NO ONE. THE NATIONS OF
THE WORLD MANDATED THE RETURN. ALTHOUGH THEY HAVE SINCE MANY TIMES
RESCINDED AND DIMINISHED THEIR ASSURANCE, THE RETURN HAS BEEN LEGAL
AND MORAL.

THE LAND WAS A DESERT BEFORE THE JEWS RETURNED. CHURCHILL ONCE
REMARKED THAT THE LAND BELONGED TO THE JEWS BECAUSE THE ARABS
DESTROYED THE LAND, WHEREAS JEWS CREATE THE LAND.

THIS IS A LOVE STORY BETWEEN A PEOPLE AND ITS LAND LIKE NO OTHER. NO
OTHER NATION EVER CREATED A STATE IN THE LAND, AND THE JEWS NEVER
CREATED A NATIONAL HOMELAND OUTSIDE OF IT. THE LAND ONCE FLOWING WITH
MILK AND HONEY, WHEN THE JEWS PARTED, REFUSED TO GIVE ITS FRUITS. THE
BEAUTIFUL LAND BECAME A WASTELAND. WAITING FOR HER CHILDREN.

WE ARE THE CHILDREN OF THE LAND AND THE LAND SMILED UPON US WHEN WE
RETURNED. WOULD ANYONE DESERT HIS OR HER MOTHER? CAN WE THINK OF
LEAVING THE LAND VOLUNTARILY IN THE HANDS OF STRANGERS?
THIS IS OUR LAND, AND WE WILL NOT BETRAY HER.

THE STORY OF GUSH KATIF PROVES THIS. THE LAND THE ARABS CALLED
"ACCURSED," AS SOON AS THE JEWS CAME, BEGAN TO YIELD THE MOST
BEAUTIFUL FRUITS, FLOWERS AND PLANTS. THE TINY PORTION OF LAND IN
GAZA YIELDED AT ONE TIME MOST OF THE AGRICULTURAL EXPORTS OF ISRAEL.
YET, WHEN THE JEWS LEFT, THE LAND BECAME USELESS AGAIN. EVEN THE
INSECTS PARTICIPATED. THE VEGETABLES THAT HAD BEEN ONCE FAMOUSLY
BUG-FREE, BEGAN TO DEVELOP BUGS. THE THRIVING BUSINESSES OF GUSH
KATIF LANGUISHED IN THE HANDS OF THE ARABS. EVEN THE SAME MANAGERS,
WHO HAD WORKED UNDER THE JEWS AND HAD ALL THE EXPERTISE TO MAKE IT
GO, COULD NOT DO IT. WHY? THE LAND DID NOT COOPERATE.

THE LAND WAS LOYAL TO THE JEWS, ARE WE GOING TO BE FAITHFUL TO THE LAND?



THERE IS A NEW CAMPAIGN IN THE JEWISH PEOPLE, A DANGEROUS AND
INEXPLICABLE DEMENTIA. IT IS CALLED "LAND FOR PEACE" IT WAS TRIED IN
OSLO, IT WAS TRIED IN WYE, IT WAS TRIED IN TABA, AND NOTHING WORKED.
THINGS ARE GETTING WORSE. WHEN TIME AFTER TIME A PROBLEM IS NOT
RESOLVED, IS IT NOT REASONABLE TO SUSPECT THAT IT MAY BE
IRRESOLVABLE? AT LEAST IN THE MANNER IT IS PLANNED?

YET THERE IS A CAMPAIGN AFOOT INVOLVING ALL MAJOR JEWISH
ORGANIZATIONS TO GIVE THE LAND AWAY. WHEN WE GIVE AWAY JUDEA AND
SAMARIA, WE ARE GIVING AWAY THE CORE OF OUR LAND, THE HOLY PLACES
WHERE OUR HISTORY EVOLVED. WE ARE GIVING UP ONLY JUDEA?  WHAT WOULD
JEWS BE CALLED IF WE GIVE UP JUDEA? AND THOSE INTRUDERS WHO WILL
OCCUPY JUDEA, WOULD THEY NOT HAVE THE RIGHT TO BE CALLED JUDEANS AS
WELL?

WHEN WE GIVE UP THE LAND, WE GIVE UP OUR HISTORY, WE GIVE OUR
IDENTITY AND WE GIVE UP OUR SOUL.


WE HAVE COME TO STOP THIS MADNESS. TO SAY TO THEM:
WE ARE TIRED OF EXPULSIONS, WE ARE TIRED OF POGROMS, AND WE ARE TIRED
OF SUICIDE BOMBERS AND INDISCRIMINATE MURDER IN THE STREETS. WE ARE
NOT GOING TO SPEAK OF THE RIGHTS OF OTHERS; WE ARE GOING TO SPEAK OF
OUR LEGITIMATE AND INALIENABLE RIGHTS. WE WILL NOT ENDANGER OUR
PEOPLE WITH FOOLISH DREAMS THAT HAVE BEEN TRIED AND DISCREDITED OVER
AND OVER AGAIN.

THERE IS A SPIRIT OF FEEBLENESS AMONG US. OUR LEADERS HAVE LOST THE
WAY. THEY KNOW THAT THERE IS NO HOPE FOR A PEACEFUL ARAB STATE IN THE
LAND OF ISRAEL. NEVERTHELESS THEY INSIST BECAUSE THEY HAVE FORGOTTEN
THE ESSENTIAL: THIS LAND BELONGS TO US. THEY FAILED AND YET THEY KEEP
TRYING WITHOUT REMORSE AND WITHOUT SHAME.

TO THEM WE TELL THEM: ENOUGH. ENOUGH OSLOS, ENOUGH WYES, ENOUGH
LIFTING OF ROADBLOCKS, ENOUGH RISKING THE LIVES OF OUR INNOCENT
PEOPLE, ENOUGH OF SDEROT, ENOUGH!

IN OUR LONG HISTORY, WE WITNESSED THE DESTRUCTION OF JEWISH
COMMUNITIES BEFORE. BUT THIS TIME IS WORSE, MUCH WORSE. THIS TIME WE
WANT TO HELP THE DESTRUCTION ALONG.






AFTER HITLER, WE VOWED "NEVER AGAIN" BUT TODAY OUR LEADERS, OUR
RABBIS, OUR MAJOR JEWISH ORGANIZATIONS ARE ALLOWING WITH THEIR
ACTIONS AND THEIR SILENCE, THAT WE HEAR  "EVER AGAIN."


WE NEED TO RISE AND TELL THEM "NO!"

THE CURRENT GOVERNMENT IN ISRAEL WITH THE AID OF WEAK-MINDED JEWISH
LEADERS IN THE DIASPORA HAS EMBARKED UPON A PROGRAM THAT MAY SIGNAL
THE DESTRUCTION OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL. WITH A BLEND OF HASTE AND
SUBMISSIVENESS, WITH DECEIT AND SELF-DECEPTION, THE PRESENT
LEADERSHIP OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE HAS SUCCEEDED WHERE ITS MOST BITTER
FOES HAVE FAILED. THEY ARE ENDANGERING THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF THE
ZIONIST ENTERPRISE THAT WERE ATTAINED WITH A SACRIFICE AND DEDICATION
UNPARALLELED IN HISTORY. OUR LEADERS ARE PLAGUED WITH AN
IRRESPONSIBLE SHORTSIGHTEDNESS AND ARE RUSHING HEADLONG INTO ACCORDS
WITH PARTNERS THEY KNOW ARE DECEITFUL.

WE PROTEST. THE WORLD COMMITTEE FOR THE LAND OF ISRAEL HAS COME TO
OBJECT AND REFUSE THESE PLANS OF THE DEMENTED AND THE PATHETIC.

WE NEED TO REPUDIATE ANY PLAN THAT INVOLVES BETRAYING OUR LAND. WE
MUST OPPOSE ANY PROGRAM THAT PUTS OUR POPULATION WITHIN THE RANGE OF
THE KASSAM. WE HAVE TO STAND AGAINST ANY SUGGESTION THAT PLACES OUR
CHILDREN AT RISK. WE DID NOT RETURN TO ISRAEL TO RELIVE THE TRAGEDY
OF POLAND AND GERMANY. IF OUR LEADERS ARE TIRED, LET THEM STEP ASIDE.
IF THEY FEEL EXHAUSTED AND DRAINED, LET THEM MAKE ROOM FOR A NEW
GENERATION THAT REMEMBERS THE DREAM OF ABRAHAM AND HAS THE COURAGE TO
FIGHT IN OUR DEFENSE.

THIS IS NOT TO SAY THAT WE DO NOT WANT PEACE. WE SHOULD BE ZEALOUS IN
THE PURSUIT OF PEACE, BUT WE SHOULD BE NO LESS FIERCE IN THE DEFENSE
OF OUR LAND.

WE EXTEND OUR HAND IN PEACE TOWARDS ALL OUR NEIGHBORS. OUR HANDS
CONTAIN NEITHER RANCOR, NOR HATRED NOR WAR.
BUT THEY ALSO CONTAIN NO LAND.

WE OFFER PEACE, A REAL GENUINE PEACE. NEVERTHELESS, OUR PEACE IS NOT
THE PEACE OF BEGGARS. IT DOES NOT GIVE AWAY OUR CHERISHED LAND.  WHAT
OTHER NATION IN THE WORLD GIVES AWAY ITS LAND?  WE WILL NOT GIVE AWAY
OUR LAND NO MATTER WHO COUNSELS IT OR WHO PROFITS FROM THIS BETRAYAL!

OUR FIRST FATHER ABRAHAM HAD TO UNDERGO TEN TRIALS. THE LAST OF WHICH
WAS TO BURY HIS DEAR WIFE SARA. THE TRIAL WAS THAT ALTHOUGH G-D HAD
PROMISED HIM THE ENTIRE LAND OF ISRAEL, HE DID NOT HAVE EVEN A PLACE
IN WHICH TO BURY SARAH. YET, HE, THE OWNER OF THE ENTIRE LAND, DID
NOT COMPLAIN. HE HAD NO LAND NOW BUT HE STILL KEPT THE HOPE. IT IS
IRONIC THAT OUR FATHER ABRAHAM, WHEN HE DID NOT HAVE THE LAND, KEPT
THE HOPE AND WE WHO POSSESS THE LAND ARE THINKING OF GIVING IT AWAY.

THE WORLD COMMITTEE FOR THE LAND OF ISRAEL CALLS UPON THE JEWS OF THE
WORLD TO RALLY AROUND OUR BEAUTIFUL MOTHER, THE LAND OF ISRAEL. WHEN
ESTABLISHED JEWISH ORGANIZATIONS ARE PATHETICALLY ACCEPTING AND EVEN
CALLING FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF AN ARAB STATE IN THE LAND OF
ISRAEL-- IT IS TIME FOR US TO SAY NO!

IF THEY HAVE BEEN BRAINWASHED OR WORSE, WE WILL NOT ALLOW TO BEING
BRAINWASHED. THE GIVING AWAY OF LAND TO CREATE ANOTHER ARAB STATE,
THIS ONE IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL IS WRONG.  IT WAS WRONG WHEN THE ARABS
WANTED IT, IT WAS WRONG WHEN JESSE JACKSON SUGGESTED IT, IT WAS WRONG
WHEN OUR ENEMIES SUGGEST IT AND IT IS STILL WRONG!

HASHEM OZ LE'AMO YITEN, HASHEM YEVARECH ET AMO BASHALOM!
G-D SHOULD GRANT US THE STRENGTH TO STAND UP TO OUR ENEMIES. IF WE
DO, THEN WE WILL MERIT THAT HE BLESSES US WITH LASTING PEACE.

I CALL UPON ALL JEWS AND GOOD PEOPLE EVERYWHERE TO RALLY AROUND ERETZ
ISRAEL, THE LAND OF OUR FOREFATHERS AND OUR GRANDCHILDREN. DO NOT
LEAVE HER, DO NOT BETRAY HER. THIS LAND CAN BECOME THE RALLYING POINT
FOR ALL JEWS, REGARDLESS OF THEIR RELIGIOUS PREFERENCE. LET US ALL BE
BROTHERS AND SISTERS AND IN THE DEFENSE OF OUR LAND, WE WILL BECOME
ONE NATION AGAIN.

WHEN ALL JEWS ARE UNITED, NO FORCE ON EARTH WILL EVER CONQUER US. LET
US UNITE, BROTHERS AND SISTERS, AND LET US HAVE THE HOPE OF ABRAHAM
THAT THIS LAND IS OUR LAND NOW AND FOREVER.

Rabbi David Algaze

To hear this speech live, www.israelnationalnews.com . Click on radio and then on Israel Day Concert. Rabbi Algaze's speech may be found in Part 3 of the concert.

 

Also please read Caroline Glicks article in the Jerusalem Post showing disgust at the Jewish leaders of AIPAC for shunning Hagee and CUFI

 

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Jerusalem liberated with Hebron and places of our Biblical Homeland: J-M Video

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Thank you Ruth Matar from Women
wfit2@womeningreen.org in Green for sending.  Please watch the phenomenal clip and famous Letter to the World by Stanley Goldfoot.

 

Dear Friends,

Today we celebrate "Jerusalem Day".

Anyone who googles Jerusalem Day will get the following: "Jerusalem Day is "a Israeli national holiday, held on the 28th day of Iyar, marking the Israeli liberation of East Jerusalem in 1967 and the subsequent reunification of the city. " (Wikipedia Encyclopedia.)

And indeed, anyone listening to the Israeli media only hears about celebrations in Jerusalem. But this is not correct. For on this day not only East Jerusalem was freed from Arab occupation, but also Judea, Samaria, Gaza and the Golan!! In fact, tonight begin the Hebron Day celebrations, on the 29th of Iyar.  Hebron, holy to the Jewish people as much as Jerusalem, was liberated from Arab occupation.

The name "Jerusalem Day" is therefore a political name trying to make us all forget that on this day the Jewish People liberated and returned to large parts of our biblical Homeland, which had been under Arab occupation for 19 years, from 1948 till 1967.

Therefore, Women in Green really believe that the name "Jerusalem Day" should be changed into "Land of Israel Day", with the clear message that the entire Biblical Land of Israel was given by G-d to the People of Israel. The day will come, please G-d, when we will celebrate the return of the Jewish people to all the different parts of that Land, from the Euphrates until the Nile.

In honor of "Jerusalem Day - Land of Israel Day" Women in Green would like to share with you once again  the famous letter written by Stanley Goldfoot in August 1969:  "LETTER TO THE WORLD".

Stanley and Helen Goldfoot have been fighting for the Land of Israel since before the creation of the State of Israel. Stanley passed away in 2006 at the age of 92. Helen, may she be blessed till 120 with good health, lives in Herzliya. Both were dear friends and active members of  Women in Green.

A four minute video-clip based on Stanley's letter was made. It is very powerful
Click on: http://www.aish.com/movies/jerusalem.asp

Happy Land of Israel Day,

Ruth and Nadia Matar
Women in Green
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Some more background on Stanley Goldfoot:

On November 24, 2006, at the age of 92, a man named Stanley Goldfoot passed away.  He is remembered by family and friends for his love for and devotion to Israel and the Jewish people.

Stanley Goldfoot was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. Subsequent to his hearing a speech about the Zionist vision by Ze'ev Jabotinsky, he headed for Palestine where, at the age of 18, he joined a HaShomer HaTzair kibbutz.

After the rebirth of the Jewish State of Israel his main goal, which he eventually realized, was to establish a Zionist English newspaper, "The Times of Israel."

In the first issue of "The Times of Israel", Stanley Goldfoot wrote his famous controversial "Letter to the World from Jerusalem", which caused quite a stir. The article is still relevant .

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A LETTER TO THE WORLD FROM JERUSALEM
by Eliezer ben Yisrael  (Stanley Goldfoot)
from The Times of Israel


I am not a creature from another planet, as you seem to
believe. I am a Jerusalemite-like yourselves, a man of flesh and
blood. I am a citizen of my city, an integral part of my people.
I have a few things to get off my chest. Because I am not a
diplomat, I do not have to mince words. I do not have to please you
or even persuade you. I owe you nothing. You did not build this city,
you did not live in it, you did not defend it when they came to destroy
it.

And we will be damned if we will let you take it away.
There was a Jerusalem before there was a New York. When Berlin,
Moscow, London, and Paris were miasmal forest and swamp, there was a
thriving Jewish community here. It gave something to the world which
you nations have rejected ever since you established yourselves- a
humane moral code.

Here the prophets walked, their words flashing like forked lightning.

Here a people who wanted nothing more than to be left
alone, fought off waves of heathen would-be conquerors, bled and died
on the battlements, hurled themselves into the flames of their
burning Temple rather than surrender, and when finally overwhelmed by
sheer numbers and led away into captivity, swore that before they
forgot Jerusalem, they would see their tongues cleave to their palates,
their right arms wither.

For two pain-filled millennia, while we were your unwelcome
guests, we prayed daily to return to this city. Three times a day we
petitioned the Almighty: "Gather us from the four corners of the
world, bring us upright to our land, return in mercy to Jerusalem,
Thy city, and swell in it as Thou promised." On every Yom Kippur and
Passover, we fervently voiced the hope that next year would find us in
Jerusalem.

Your inquisitions, pogroms, expulsions, the ghettos into which
you jammed us, your forced baptisms, your quota systems, your genteel
anti-Semitism, and the final unspeakable horror, the holocaust (and
worse, your terrifying disinterest in it)- all these have not broken us.
 They may have sapped what little moral strength you still possessed,
but they forged us into steel. Do you think that you can break us now
after all we have been through? Do you really believe that after
Dachau and Auschwitz we are frightened by your threats of blockades and
sanctions?

We have been to Hell and back- a Hell of your making. What more could
you possibly have in your arsenal that could scare us?

I have watched this city bombarded twice by nations calling
themselves civilized. In 1948, while you looked on apathetically, I
saw women and children blown to smithereens, after we agreed to your
request to internationalize the city. It was a deadly combination
that did the job- British officers, Arab gunners, and American-made cannon. And
then the savage sacking of the Old City-the willful slaughter, the
wanton destruction of every synagogue and religious school, the
desecration of Jewish cemeteries, the sale by a ghoulish government
of tombstones for building materials, for poultry runs, army camps, even
latrines.

And you never said a word.
You never breathed the slightest protest when the Jordanians
shut off the holiest of our places, the Western Wall, in violation of
the pledges they had made after the war- a war they waged,
incidentally, against the decision of the UN. Not a murmur came from
you whenever the legionnaires in their spiked helmets casually opened
fire upon our citizens from behind the walls.

Your hearts bled when Berlin came under siege. You rushed your
airlift "to save the gallant Berliners". But you did not send one
ounce of food when Jews starved in besieged Jerusalem. You thundered
against the wall which the East Germans ran through the middle of the
German capital- but not one peep out of you about that other wall, the one
that tore through the heart of Jerusalem.

And when that same thing happened 20 years later, and the Arabs
unleashed a savage, unprovoked bombardment of the Holy City again,
did any of you do anything?

The only time you came to life was when the city was at last
reunited. Then you wrung your hands and spoke loftily of "justice"
and need for the "Christian" quality of turning the other cheek.
The truth- and you know it deep inside your gut - you would
prefer the city to be destroyed rather than have it governed by Jews.
No matter how diplomatically you phrase it, the age old prejudices
seep out of every word.

If our return to the city has tied your theology in knots,
perhaps you had better reexamine your catechisms. After what we have
been through, we are not passively going to accommodate ourselves to
the twisted idea that we are to suffer eternal homelessness until we
accept your savior.

For the first time since the year 70, there is now complete
religious freedom for all in Jerusalem. For the first time since the
Romans put a torch to the Temple, everyone has equal rights (You
prefer to have some more equal than others.) We loathe the sword- but
it was you who forced us to take it up. We crave peace, but we are
not going back to the peace of 1948 as you would like us to.

We are home. It has a lovely sound for a nation you have willed
to wander over the face of the globe. We are not leaving. We are
redeeming the pledge made by our forefathers: Jerusalem is being
rebuilt. "Next year" and the year after, and after, and after, until
the end of time- "in Jerusalem"!

Stanley Goldfoot
Founder Editor
The Times of Israel
 August 1969


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ACTION ALERT: AIPAC, PIDYON SHVUYIM : HALAMISH BROTHERS RIVKA MEIRCHIK in PRISON

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Dear Friends, amv"sh

Our friends in Eretz Yisroel are depending on us.  Please email this to your email lists and Rabbanim, and print it out and leave and post in shuls and other public places and  urge people to act AND FULFILL THE MITZVAH D'ORAYTA (Biblical commandment) OF AL TAAMOD AL DAM REIACHA (not to stand idly when your brother's blood is being spilled or about to be spilled which is likely to happen chas veshalom with the establishment of a Palestinian State)  AND the Mitzvah of  PIDYON SHVUYIM (releasing captives).

Thank you Susie Dym mattot.arim@gmail.com and

Datya Itzhaki pidionshvuim@yahoo.com,  for these action alerts!

Urgent about AIPAC: Will AIPAC encourage rocket attacks on Tel-Aviv and Jerusalem?

 

AIPAC's Policy Conference starts today (2 June). The important speakers will be speaking on 4 June : http://www.aipac.org/about_AIPAC/Learn_About_AIPAC/2841.asp

It is very important to make sure that the speakers there (US presidential candidates, Olmert, etc.) do not burble on about options that are sheer lunacy, such as the "Palestinian state" option.

 

AIPAC is a huge and very important American Jewish organization. Contact them about this problem  by writing IMMEDIATELY to: press@aipac.org, membership@aipac.org, MARreg@aipac.org, hkohr@aipac.org.

 

For example, you could write:

 

"Urgent about the AIPAC Conference!

 

AIPAC leaders, please pre-confirm with your guest speakers that they will not mention the "Palestinian state" idea in any way. As Israel's most conciliatory newspaper, Haaretz, has said: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/875942.html

"There is a growing consensus in Israel that a withdrawal from the West Bank is no longer possible….The reason is obvious: Israel …does not want Qassam rockets against Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, and Ben-Gurion International Airport."
If AIPAC's leaders have any compassion at all for the poor rocket victims in Sderot, it is their  duty to make sure that Israel's terrible rocket problem does not spread, under their auspices, to Tel-Aviv, Jerusalem and Ben-Gurion airport. So, please emphasize to your guests: No Palestinian State in your address to our conference!

 

 

Nu? What's going on with the Halamish brothers?

 

President Peres has not yet taken up the issue of their presidential pardon; in the meantime the 2 brothers continue to languish in prison -- for having shot in the air.

Come on folks. Let's not be bashful. Let's pick up the receiver, call up the Bet Hanassi and ask: Hi there, what's new with the Brothers Halamish, I am worried about this, can the President take this matter up TODAY?

 

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June 2, 2008

Pidion Shvuim Alert:
No. 13

Israeli Judge Again Postpones Release Decision of Rivka Meirchik

   On June 1, Kfar Saba Magistrate Nitza Maimon Shashua scheduled yet
another hearing for a decision on the release of Rivka Meirchik despite an
earlier decision by Petah Tikva District Court Judge Ruth Lorch that her
arrest and detention are illegal.. [The hearing on June 1 was originally
scheduled for May 29 but was postponed after chief police prosecutor Shir
Laufer said she was vacationing in Eilat.]
    Meirchik, who remained handcuffed and shackled in leg-irons throughout
the hearing, has refused to be handcuffed inside the Neve Tirza prison where
she is kept in solitary confinement and denied visitation and telephone
rights. Prison authorities have also denied her the right from meeting with
her attorney in her cell.
    After the hearing, prison guard Orit Hasidi speeded Meirchik out of the
courtroom into a waiting prison van despite the judge's order to allow her
to meet with defense attorney Aviad Visoly.
    Earlier, police at the Kfar Saba court barred friends from entering the
open court session after they said that Tzvia Sariel, who earlier this year
spent three months in prison in similar circumstances, was provocative. The
judge later agreed to admit her.
    Meirchik, who appeared gaunt, managed to convey to family members that
she was hungry.
    "My sister is very allergic and can only eat certain foods," Rivka's
sister Racheli said. "We, the family, hired the attorney, because we want to
see Rivka released. Why is there so much foot-dragging and why does it
[judicial process] take so long?"
    Meirchik, like Sariel, has refused to accept the authority of the court
including agreeing to police conditions for her release and is being held
until the end of judicial proceedings.
      "According to the police release sheet, the reason for her arrest was
that she refused to identify herself," Visoly said. "There was no other
cause."
    Visoly said the police arrest record shows that Meirchik, arrested at
the Shvut Ami Jewish community near Kedumim on April 2, was arrested for
failing to identify herself and not for committing any other offenses. Only
later, Visoly said, police charged Meirchik with trespassing, disturbing and
assaulting a police officer, resisting arrest and violating a military
closure order.
    "The arresting officer did not follow protocol when he failed to
identify himself or explain [to Meirchik] that she was arrested and for what
reason," Visoly said. "According to paragraph 24 of the criminal code, this
arrest was illegal. And in the case of an illegal arrest, the suspect has a
right to resist."
    The Petah Tikva District Court also deemed Meirchik's arrest and
incarceration illegal for another reason. She was imprisoned and ordered
held until the end of judicial proceedings before the prosecution presented
any evidence against her.
    The next hearing is scheduled for June 5 at the Kfar Saba Magistrates
Court.

    The major Israeli media, particularly the state-operated radio and
television, did not mention a word of this travesty of justice. So, we must
turn to you, lovers of Israel, who were so effective in the case of Tzvia
Sariel and who, thanks to your efforts was released from jail, and ask that
you act to help defend Jewish rights in Israel.
    As a first step, we request that you telephone -- rather than e-mail -- 
the Israeli Embassy or the Israeli consulate nearest you and demand to know
why Rivka is still in prison. The embassy's phone number is 202-364-5500.
Stress, that as an American citizen, you can ask the State Department to
investigate what you feel is clearly a human rights violation.
    Now, we are asking you to call your member of Congress and raise the
issue of Rivka Meirchik. We also ask you to call the State Department's
Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor and inform them of Rivka and
demand an investigation. Tell the department officer you have also raised
Rivka's case with your member of Congress. The State Department's main
numbers are 202-647-4000 or 1-800-877-8339.
    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 Rivkas in jail.
    If you agree with this, please act quickly. What could be more important
than winning the release of a Jewish child imprisoned for loving her country
and people?
    We also urgently need your help to pressure the office of President Shimon Peres this week to pardon Dani and Itzik Halamish who are innocent of any crime but are sitting in prison.
    Please contact the military attaché at the Israeli Embassy [telephone: 202-364-5500] and ask to speak to the military attaché. 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.
      You can also fax the president's office at: 972 2 5671314.
     
With Love of Israel,
Datya Itzhaki

 

 

 

The Crow and the Kitten AMAZING Utube. Hopefully soon the Wolf and the Lamb....

 

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Thank you Buddy Macy (VegiBud@gmail.com) for link.

 

Buddy writes:

 

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