5769.10.01 Israel the Land of My Posession. SHDEMA, Religious Parties have UNITED! Phil Chernofsky, Paul Eidelberg, Gimmel Tammuz

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Rosh Chodesh Tammuz 5768
July 3, 2008

1. Shdema - A Must Read to Know who our Enemies are!   Investigative report of Sharon Katz in Voices! It is lengthy but a must read! If you are too sleepy make sure to go back and read it when you are awake. Campaign of Decolonization of the Jews.

2. Portions of Tanach in response to the investigative report above regarding Shdema. Not to be ignored

3. Religious Parties UNITED in Statement against Toeva Parade!!!!!he Shas, National Religious Party, United Torah Judaism and National Union Parties have joined forces i(I am sure Manhigut is also against this impurade but I'm not sure why their name was not on. (Robin))

4.Phil Chernofsky in Torah Tidbits. Re: Chareidim in IDF. Never too late to do Teshuva

5. Paul Eidelberg.  The Majority of Jews in Israel are against Land for Peace.  The Knesset does not reflect the will of the people due to a system which encourages bribery and no accountability of MK's to constituency.  Israel needs electoral reform. Shas is major culprit.

6. Gimmel Tammuz CROWN HTS WOMEN FOR THE SAFETY AND INTEGRITY OF ISRAEL  Today Thursday July 3rd. You can also see on archives!

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1. Shdema -

From: Nadia & David Matar [mailto:nmatar@netvision.net.il]
Subject: The struggle for a Jewish Shdema-

          Dear friends,

                     The following are new, and shocking, details on what is happening in Shdema and in the struggle for Shdema.

           First of all, mark the following dates, on which we are planning activities for a Jewish Shdema. Make every effort to come, and to bring additional activists who love Eretz Israel.

 A) Friday, July 11, 2008, at 10:00 a.m., in the Gush Etzion community center (Matnas):

gathering and tour for a Jewish Shdema, with the participation of public figures, settlement secretariats, and activists from all over Israel

Details regarding the speakers at the gathering will be provided in the coming days.

           The gathering in the community center will be short and purposeful. At 11:00 we will travel together by bus to Shdema, where we will tour the area and plan the activities for the coming weeks.

 

          It is very important to attend the gathering and participate in the tour, in order to see with your own eyes what is happening at Shdema, and how international anarchists are attempting to take over the location (details below). Estimated return to the Gush Etzion community center at 1:30 p.m.

          Those planing to arrive for the gathering and tour are requested to send an e-mail, so we will have an idea of how many people will participate and order buse accordingly. Send an e-mail to:

eli7@womeningreen.org.il
 
B) Monday, July 14, 2008: a kumsitz and sleeping at the Shdema camp

          Reserve the date. Precise details of the program for the day will be sent by e-mail in the coming days.

          We will arrive at Shdema in the late afternoon, and we will repaint the buildings after the anarchists painted over what we had done about a month ago.

          With God's help, we will remain at Shdema until morning. It is important that many people come for this activity, as well.

          The more we engage in activities at Shdema and increase the Jewish presence at the site, we will succeed, with God's help, in returning it to our hands and turning it into a Jewish settlement.

           New details follow regarding Shdema and the anarchists involved in their activities there. A report by Hodayah Karish-Hazoni appeared in Mekor Rishon in the last Shabbat issue..

           We are grateful to Sharon Katz,  Efrat resident, the editor of the Voices magazine, who accompanied us on one of the tours to Shdema, discovered the activity by the anarchists, and wrote a lengthy investigative article on the subject in her magazine. A link to Sharon Katz's article in Voices will be available soon.

           Also enclosed is a letter signed by rabbis and public figures, mainly from the Har Homah-Gush Etzion-Kiriat Arba-Hebron area, who warn the Defense Minister of what is happening at Shdema, and demand that this be dealt with speedily.

 With the blessing of  "Let us by all means go up, and we shall gain possession of it" (Numbers 13:30)

The Committee for a Jewish Shdema

 for information:

Rabbi Yaron Durani, Rabbi of Nokdim

Yehudit 02-9961292

Anita 0505-777254

Nadia 0505-500834

Datia 0505-246770

 Shdema:

Shdema is the abandoned army camp on the Jerusalem-eastern Gush Etzion road, not far from Har Homah. Despite the camp being in Area C (Israeli control), the government gave the OK to the PLO  Authority to establish an Arab neighborhood there in the near future.

           About a month and a half ago we began the struggle for the establishment of a Jewish city at Shdema, and the security forces removed us. Since then, we have been returning in small groups to examine what is happening and to plan the continuation of the struggle. To our amazement, we recently encountered groups of international anarchists who are trying to take control of the location. Sharon Katz conducted an investigation of who these anarchists are, and the results are simply amazing.

           Actually, there are many international elements involved and mixed together.

          There is the CURE organization that builds hospitals in Muslim countries in order to "draw the Muslims closer" and the like. According to what is written in their site, they are building a hospital for the children of Beit Sahur in the vicinity of Shdema, but it is not certain that this is exactly where the army camp is located. They are the ones who tell us they have $16,500,000 to develop the hospital.

http://www.helpcurenow.org/site/c.nvI1IeNYJyE/b.3411401/

 http://www.curenewsroom.com/webcast/

           And there are two more names: Paidia, Oush Grab

          Paidia is building the Forrest Adventure Gardens on "an abandoned Israeli army base."

          They call the Shdema area "Oush Grab."

           They work together with an NGO of very organized anarchists and artists (Arabs, Europeans, Americans, and at least one Jew from London named Eyal Weizmann) who set up a truly horrible web site based entirely on the ideology of decolonization. That is, a web site that analyzes the question, "How to deal with the great architectural problem: what to do with the remains of the settlements when they will be destroyed and dismantled in the future." Decolonization means, of course, the dismantling of the settlements. That is, we have here a band of Israel-haters who professionally plan the dismantling of our settlements.

          They write "Architecture is speculation, but we are providing real answers to what can be done on the ground." And, actually, anyone who enters the site sees that they have built an instructive professional plan, with maps, aerial photographs, and the like, of a considerable portion of the settlements: how to dismantle them, how to use the houses after being dismantled, etc.

           They are a group of dozens of people who meet on a weekly basis and discuss this issue.

http://www.decolonizing.ps/site/?page_id=40

           They say:

"We have chosen the settlement of Psagot as a test case, because it is close to Ramallah and el-Bireh."

http://www.decolonizing.ps/site/?page_id=39
     

          Eyal Weizmann explains the national need to, first of all, destroy everything that has been built by the settlers, and shows photographs of Shdema when the Arabs destroyed the military structures.

http://www.decolonizing.ps/site/?page_id=12

                     After the locals destroy, then comes the next stage: dismantling (or destruction).

http://www.decolonizing.ps/site/?page_id=49
       

          What to do with the settlers' houses - how to dismantle them and use them - to turn them into public buildings? into a school classroom?

http://www.decolonizing.ps/site/?page_id=48

And on and on.

          You should take a look at their site - it's a good idea to first take a pill against nausea.

           The chapter on "Vision" has photographs of Shdema and the "vision" to transform the army base into a gigantic site for the showing of movies, to give the Palestinians a good feeling about an area that was once occupied

and that this will become an area from which "Palestine can be seen."

http://www.decolonizing.ps/site/?page_id=11

                   And then there is the Paidia organization, which sends volunteer activists into the field to live with the Arabs and to help them. These are the same ones we met there. If we wondered what strange games they are playing, then here below is a  letter to their activists.

Clearly, using "games" and faking "educational projects" has become the anarchists' tactic to steal the land of the Jews and  to push their real goal:  the destruction of the settlement enterprise and ultimately the destruction of the Jewish State of Israel.

Their letter:

http://www.pidev.org/new.htm

2. Portions of Tanach in response to the investigative report above regarding Shdema. Not to be ignored. Thank you Rafael Rabinovitz for this link

(במדבר פרק לג, פסוקים נ עד נ״ו )

http://rafvrab.blogspot.com/2005_08_01_archive.html

Posted August 4, 2005

And HaShem spoke to Moses, in the plains of Moab, by Jordan, [near] Jericho, saying: Speak unto the sons of Israel, and thou hast said unto them, When ye are passing over the Jordan unto the land of Canaan.

Then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, destroy all their engraved stones, destroy all their molded images, and demolish all their high places; you shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land and dwell in it, for I have given you the land to possess. And ye shall take for yourselves the land as an inheritance by lot according to your families: to the many ye shall increase their inheritance, and to the few thou shalt diminish their inheritance: where the lot falleth to him, there shall be each man's [inheritance]; according to the tribes of your fathers shall ye take for yourselves the inheritance. But if ye will not dispossess the inhabitants of the land from before you, those that ye let remain of them shall be thorns in your eyes, and pricks in your sides, and they shall harass you in the land wherein ye dwell. And then I will do to you what I plan to do to them.

Numbers (Bamidbar) 33:50-56

3. Religious Parties have UNITED in Statement against Toeva Parade!!!!!he Shas, National Religious Party, United Torah Judaism and National Union Parties have joined forces (I am sure Manhigut is also against this impurade but I'm not sure why their name was not on. robin.)

Frum Parties Call on Authorities to Move To'eva Parade Indoors

A letter was sent to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Attorney General Menachem Mazuz and the chief of police, calling upon them to move Thursday's scheduled to'eva parade in Yerushalayim to an indoor venue.

The Shas, National Religious Party, United Torah Judaism and National Union Parties have joined forces in their effort, along with Israel's chief rabbis, seeking to compel authorities to move the event to an indoor venue to prevent the chilul Hashem associated with such a happening in the streets of Yerushalayim.

(Yechiel Spira ñ YWN Israel)

http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/article.php?p=19936

4.Phil Chernofsky in Torah Tidbits. Teshuva for Chareidim...

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If the Chareidi rabbis had seen serving in the Israeli Army as a crucially important mitzvah, today's IDF would be a strong Torah Defense Force!

Judaism never accepts that things can't be fixed or changed. That's what tshuva, repentance, is all about. We must constantly strive for a higher level of Jewish Life and to correct our, yes, our, mistakes.

5. Paul Eidelberg.  The Majority are against Land for Peace.  The Knesset does not reflect the will of the people due to a system which encourages bribery.  Israel needs electoral reform.

Paul Eidelberg  To Disenfranchise or to Empower the Jewish People

Studies of the Guttman Institute indicate that 25% of Israel's Jewish
population is "orthodox," and at least 50% is "traditional."  No less
than 75% therefore identify with the Jewish heritage.  This
corresponds to the 76% of the Jewish electorate that voted against
the Labor Party's policy of "unilateral disengagement" in the January
2003 election-the paramount issue of that election.

Nevertheless, thanks to political bribery-facilitated by the system
of voting for party slates-the Knesset, by a margin of 67 to 45,
voted for territorial withdrawal and the expulsion of 10,000 Jews
from their homes!  Surely, few if any of the 23 Likud MKs would have
voted for that defeatist and criminal policy had they been
individually accountable to the voters in constituency elections.

This vividly illustrates how Proportional Representation in a single
nationwide electoral district undermines political accountability. It
also shows how PR has diminished Jewish sovereignty over the Land of
Israel and, to that extent, has undermined the Jewish heritage.  (I
have elsewhere cited polls going back to 1992 showing that a
substantial majority of the Jews have opposed surrendering Jewish
land.  See Ariel Center Policy Paper No. 172 for details.)

In view of the preceding facts, I conclude that Shas, by vetoing
constituency elections, perpetuates a system that disenfranchises the
people; and since most of the people identify with the Jewish
heritage and expect law-makers to uphold Jewish beliefs and values,
it follows that Shas, despite its religious orientation, has
undermined, to no small extent, Israel's Jewish character.

6. Gimmel Tammuz CROWN HTS WOMEN FOR THE SAFETY AND INTEGRITY OF ISRAEL  Today Thursday July 3rd. You can also see on archives!

Below is info about our special programs in honor of Gimmel Tammuz for this Thursday as well as an article about the child killer/terrorist Samir Kuntar who is, G-d Forbid, going to be released in the upcoming prisoner exchange the Israeli Knesset agreed to earlier this week.  You can call the White House Call-In line to protest its involvement in this travesty at 202-456-1111.  You can also call the Israeli Embassy in Washington--202-364-5500- to protest the Israeli government's disgusting behaviour in playing politics with the security needs of our fellow Jews both in Eretz Yisroel and outside.

 

 

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    On the latest housing crisis GK expellees face

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28 Sivan 5768
July 1, 2008

 Women In Green update,
1, RCRF  at Kever Rachel Rosh Chodesh Tammuz, July 3rd,  

2, Chizuk to Yitzhar July 8,

3. Samaria local council Head Gershon Messika! FANTASTIC, MI LAHASHEM EILAI

A7 article sent by Rafi

4.PM's Office: Money-Transfers to Hamas Is Policy

5. Smadar Haran Kaiser: The World Should Know What  What Samir Kuntar Did to My Family.

6. Petition for Jewish Prayer on the Temple Mount sent by Yosef Rabin.....
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Received from Women in Green:

1. RCRF  at Kever Rachel Rosh Chodesh Tammuz, July 3rd,  

On THURSDAY, July 3, 2008, Rosh Chodesh Tammuz, at 9:00 am at Rachels' Tomb- the Rachel's Children Reclamation Foundation and Emunah of Jerusalem will have a Tenth Year Anniversary of the Dedication of the RCFRF Sefer Torah to Kever Rachel.

Appreciations by Rabbi Shalom Gold, Recollection by Mina Fenton, City Council of Jerusalem, Reflections and Remembering Adir Zik, Z'l, by Nadia Matar.

Buses will leave the Kings Hotel.
For details rachelschildren@gmail.com or call 054-224-2649


2, Chizuk to Mitzpe Yitzhar July 8, 2008

On TUESDAY, July 8, 2008, Women in Green and the "Rehavia women" will go on a CHIZUK (strengthening) trip to MITZPE YITZHAR in Samaria. We will leave Binyanei Hauma in Jerusalem at 9:00 am and return approximately, please G-d, 2:00pm.

In Mitzpe Yitzhar we will visit the three pioneering familes living there. At 11:00 am Rabbi Uzi Sharbaf from Hevron will give a short shiur after which we will tour the area. As usual we will come to strengthen but we will come back strengthened.

Please order your seats by calling Anita 050-5777254 or Nadia 050-5500834

Latest political developments in Israel show  that unfortunately Israel will be stuck with Ehud Olmert as its Prime Minister at least for the next few months.

There is no doubt that Olmert will try to appease the leftists in power in the media and in the State Attorneys office by harming the settlement enterprise in Judea and Samaria.

The past few weeks have already seen an increase in destruction of so-called "illegal" caravans and homes of Jews living on hilltops in Judea and Samaria. Their so-called "illegality" is that they are defined as such by the US State Department, which ultimately regards even East Jerusalem's Jewish neighborhoods as illegal.

Last week the government came and destroyed some caravans in Yitzhar in Samaria. For a detailed account of what happened: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/126557

Other places where the Olmert-Livni-Yishai government plan on destroying homes are Ofra, Har Bracha and Migron, Migron being a community of some forty families.

It is clear that our reaction must be determined and forceful. We must fight like lions for each caravan and each shack that they want to destroy making it clear that the days of Gush Katif are over. Making it clear that in Judea and Samaria nobody will be able to expel us. It must be made clear to the authorities that if destroying just one caravan takes hours and hundreds of security forces, they will, pleae G-d, never succeed in forcing us out of our communities.

In fact, a group of activists have started organizing the "Kol Yisrael areivim Ze la zeh" plan. (All of Israel are responsible for each other). The idea is to organize all over the country protests in reaction to uprooting and destruction of outposts. If for instance the Olmert government sends troops to destroy a caravan in Samaria, not only will local activists make the job very difficult for the troops, but in addition there will be a avalanche of reactions all over the country - protests, road blocking, etc.
Women in Green is joining this effort. We will update you on any uprooting or destruction and will inform you as to how you can join the protest whether it is by actually joining the demonstration or by sending faxes of protest to your local embassies in the States.

One of the local leaders who understand that now is the time to be tough, is Samaria local council Head Gershon Messika. When many more leaders will speak like Gershon Messika (see news item below) Israel will finally be in much better shape.

With Love of Israel,

Ruth and Nadia Matar
Women in Green


3. Samaria local council Head Gershon Messika! FANTASTIC, MI LAHASHEM EILAI

Samaria Leader: Migron will be 'Second Amona'
by Gil Ronen, IsraelNN.com
June 28, l008

Shomron Regional Council Head Gershon Masika said Wednesday that the struggle over the community of Migron, which the government has slated for demolition, will be "a second Amona" and will make that confrontation look like no more than an "opening shot."

In an interview for this weekend's issue of SOS-Israel's leaflet, "Eretz Yisrael Shelanu," Masika said: "The attempt to make ourselves look beautiful for the general public and show them that we are nice, not 'extremists,' and want to connect to them with love, doesn't work. The general public understands nuances and it understood that in the struggle for Gush Katif we were not determined enough to hold on to the land.

"The result of the policy that led to the expulsion is that nobody gives a hoot about the expellees. They were thrown to the dogs and they are down and out and humiliated in refugee camps. Experience has thus shown that we need to change the policy. Our line of argumentation is not political, but very simple: the Land of Israel is ours and we will not give up a single grain of sand. Besides that, the concessions cause Jewish blood to be spilled."

'Go on the offensive'
"It is time to switch to an offensive war and stop being on the defensive all the time," Masika said. "We need to shout that the emperor has no clothes. The governments took us from bad to worse, from concession to concession, and brought us down to the gates of hell. They have no ideological or security value anymore, and they only serve our enemies."

Asked about the events at Yitzhar last week, he said: "The evacuation did not proceed with ease. There was serious resistance with dozens wounded on both sides. And the main thing is that by the grace of G-d, on the same night of the destruction of the structure, the new caravan at Givat Shaked was built, which shows great determination.

"As council head I tried to be there and prevent the violence and rioting by the uniform-wearers against the wonderful, devoted and ideological youth that is worthy of all praise. We admire this wonderful youth, that is the pride of Judea and Samaria and gives us great pride."

Not lambs any more
"The lesson of Gush Katif is that going like lambs to the slaughter yields no benefit but only means going from bad to worse, to a complete destruction of the State of Israel, of the military, of the communities, a deep chasm through society and bleeding wounds that will apparently never heal."

Masika, who was elected in the aftermath of the Disengagement and is not considered a part of the old Yesha leadership establishment, explained: "When you demand your rights without caring about the cost, the treatment you will receive will be, at the very worst, what the Druze got and what the Bedouins in the Negev got. They don't give a second thought to anything and that is why they are not uprooted, even though this is not their land."

"If the country does not wake up at the last minute, Migron will be a second Amona, with all of the serious meaning that involves. The reason the residents of Gush Katif were thrown to the dogs was that the eviction was wrapped in promises that supposedly, it would improve the security situation, and also improve the evacuees' lives. In fact they saw that the eviction not only did not improve anything, it actually made security worse and the evacuees reached rock-bottom."

'Daring struggle' ahead
"We will fight for every clod of earth. As the Arabs ­ lehavdil ­ say, that the land is sacred and one may not give up a single grain. Our struggle for the land is an existential necessity. We received it from the Kadosh Baruch Hu rightfully and no one is permitted to give it up. And the main thing like I said is that this is simply a security matter for the lives of millions of Jews. The State of Israel also understands that the planned eviction will not go smoothly. There will be a determined struggle and daring here with no compromises, and Amona will seem like an opening shot compared to it.

"I learned two things from the Expulsion, Masika added: "The real field of battle is the political one. That is why we must unite all of the forces in a single bloc with no differences, and the uniting cry should be the one uttered by Mattityahu the Maccabee, "mi leHashem elai!" ("Whoever is for the Lord ­ let him come to me!"), and then we will be able to infuse the public with a new spirit.

"With HaShem's help, the day is not far when the leadership shall come out of the religious and hareidi public. Only we have the values, the clinging to Torah and Land and soil, as opposed to the alienated and disconnected secular leadership."



4.PM's Office: Money-Transfers to Hamas Is Policy

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/126643

PM's Office: Money-Transfers to Hamas Is Policy

 
by Hillel Fendel

(IsraelNN.com) The Prime Minister's office has admitted, in a letter to the Shurat Hadin Israel Law Center, that it is enabling the transfer of huge amounts of shekels into Hamas-run Gaza.

Asked about this issue by Attorney Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, director of human rights organization Shurat HaDin Israel Law Center, the PM's office replied, "The transfer of funds to the Palestinian Authority in the Gaza Strip takes place with the knowledge of the Israeli government, for diplomatic reasons."

Notably, the letter states that the money is transferred to the PA, when in actuality, Hamas - not the PA - runs Gaza.

The PM's Bureau letter continues, "The money transfer takes place after consultations on the matter with the relevant elements, in which are taken into consideration various possibilities and ramifications of the stoppage of the transfers. At this stage, in light of the conclusion that was reached that it was an Israeli interest that the money transfers continue, it was decided to continue to transfer certain sums to Gaza."

Law Centers Demands Stop to Money Transfers
Shurat HaDin, an organization representing hundreds of terror victims in ongoing global battles against terror funding, had sent letters to the Prime Minister, the Bank of Israel and the Israel Postal Bank, demanding an immediate cessation to the transfer of funds to Hamas.

Israel Launders Hamas Money
A Law Center representative explained that the funds are transferred in two ways: "For one thing, trucks from Arab banks in Judea and Samaria bring new banknotes and shekels issued by the Bank of Israel to the Gaza crossings, where the money is exchanged for dollars and euros smuggled into Hamas under the Philadelphi Corridor from Iran and elsewhere.  This means that Israel is essentially laundering Hamas's smuggled money."

Replacing Old With New
"In addition, the Bank of Israel sends Brinks trucks to the Gaza crossings to replace old, unusable shekel banknotes.  It replaces the old ones with shiny new ones - and last November, just days after such an exchange took place, the whole world saw pictures of Hamas terrorists holding their Kalachnikov rifles kissing Israeli banknotes with pictures of Yitzchak Ben-Tzvi and Shmuel Yosef Agnon that they had just received as their salaries; they had not been paid in months, and the Hamas government appeared to be on the verge of collapse, when Israel stepped in with this delivery." 

"Without these criminal acts," the Law Center writes, "Hamas' financial hold on the Strip would collapse, and thus these measures are directly responsible for shoring up the Hamas control over Gaza and its continued terrorist activity launched from the region."

Shurat HaDin director Darshan-Leitner had sharp words for the government of Israel, saying it "cannot fight against the Hamas terrorist organization  with one hand, and continue to secretly finance it with the other. Hypocritically, the Prime Minister demands that governments around the world isolate and and embargo the Hamas terrorists in Gaza, and stop transferring funds to them, while at the same time he authorizes the transfer of  Israeli currency into the hands of the enemy. "

"There can be no doubt," Darshan-Leitner said, "that the  Israeli government's policy of transferring shekels is assisting the  Hamas terrorists with their missile attacks on the Negev communities.  If the Prime Minister does not immediately halt the currency transfers to Gaza, Shurat HaDin will take all legal means available against the government to bring this terror financing to a close."

5. Smadar Haran Kaiser: The World Should Know What Samir Kuntar Did to My Family.

From: imra@netvision.net.il
Date: 27 June 2008 02:03:55 GMT+03:00
To: imra@imra.org.il
Subject: Smadar Haran Kaiser: The World Should Know What Samir Kuntar Did to My Family
Reply-To: imra@netvision.net.il

The World Should Know What He Did to My Family
By Smadar Haran Kaiser
The Washington Post Sunday, May 18, 2003; Page B02
NAHARIYA, Israel
www.washingtonpost.

com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A2740-2003May17

Abu Abbas, the former head of a Palestinian terrorist group who was captured
in Iraq on April 15, is infamous for masterminding the 1985 hijacking of the
Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro. But there are probably few who remember
why Abbas's terrorists held the ship and its 400-plus passengers hostage for
two days. It was to gain the release of a Lebanese terrorist named Samir
Kuntar, who is locked up in an Israeli prison for life. Kuntar's name is all
but unknown to the world. But I know it well. Because almost a quarter of a
century ago, Kuntar murdered my family.

It was a murder of unimaginable cruelty, crueler even than the murder of
Leon Klinghoffer, the American tourist who was shot on the Achille Lauro and
dumped overboard in his wheelchair. Kuntar's mission against my family,
which never made world headlines, was also masterminded by Abu Abbas. And my
wish now is that this terrorist leader should be prosecuted in the United
States, so that the world may know of all his terrorist acts, not the least
of which is what he did to my family on April 22, 1979.

It had been a peaceful Sabbath day. My husband, Danny, and I had picnicked
with our little girls, Einat, 4, and Yael, 2, on the beach not far from our
home in Nahariya, a city on the northern coast of Israel, about six miles
south of the Lebanese border. Around midnight, we were asleep in our
apartment when four terrorists, sent by Abu Abbas from Lebanon, landed in a
rubber boat on the beach two blocks away. Gunfire and exploding grenades
awakened us as the terrorists burst into our building. They had already
killed a police officer. As they charged up to the floor above ours, I
opened the door to our apartment. In the moment before the hall light went
off, they turned and saw me. As they moved on, our neighbor from the upper
floor came running down the stairs. I grabbed her and pushed her inside our
apartment and slammed the door.

Outside, we could hear the men storming about. Desperately, we sought to
hide. Danny helped our neighbor climb into a crawl space above our bedroom;
I went in behind her with Yael in my arms. Then Danny grabbed Einat and was
dashing out the front door to take refuge in an underground shelter when the
terrorists came crashing into our flat. They held Danny and Einat while they
searched for me and Yael, knowing there were more people in the apartment. I
will never forget the joy and the hatred in their voices as they swaggered
about hunting for us, firing their guns and throwing grenades. I knew that
if Yael cried out, the terrorists would toss a grenade into the crawl space
and we would be killed. So I kept my hand over her mouth, hoping she could
breathe. As I lay there, I remembered my mother telling me how she had
hidden from the Nazis during the Holocaust. "This is just like what happened
to my mother," I thought.

As police began to arrive, the terrorists took Danny and Einat down to the
beach. There, according to eyewitnesses, one of them shot Danny in front of
Einat so that his death would be the last sight she would ever see. Then he
smashed my little girl's skull in against a rock with his rifle butt. That
terrorist was Samir Kuntar.
By the time we were rescued from the crawl space, hours later, Yael, too,
was dead. In trying to save all our lives, I had smothered her.

The next day, Abu Abbas announced from Beirut that the terrorist attack in
Nahariya had been carried out "to protest the signing of the
Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty" at Camp David the previous year. Abbas seems
to have a gift for charming journalists, but imagine the character of a man
who protests an act of peace by committing an act of slaughter.

Two of Abbas's terrorists had been killed by police on the beach. The other
two were captured, convicted and sentenced to life in prison. Despite my
protests, one was released in a prisoner exchange for Israeli POWs several
months before the Achille Lauro hijacking. Abu Abbas was determined to find
a way to free Kuntar as well. So he engineered the hijacking of the Achille
Lauro off the coast of Egypt and demanded the release of 50 Arab terrorists
from Israeli jails. The only one of those prisoners actually named was Samir
Kuntar. The plight of hundreds held hostage on a cruise ship for two days at
sea lent itself to massive international media coverage. The attack on
Nahariya, by contrast, had taken less than an hour in the middle of the
night. So what happened then was hardly noticed outside of Israel.

One hears the terrorists and their excusers say that they are driven to kill
out of desperation. But there is always a choice. Even when you have
suffered, you can choose whether to kill and ruin another's life, or whether
to go on and rebuild. Even after my family was murdered, I never dreamed of
taking revenge on any Arab. But I am determined that Samir Kuntar should
never be released from prison. In 1984, I had to fight my own government not
to release him as part of an exchange for several Israeli soldiers who were
POWs in Lebanon. I understood, of course, that the families of those POWs
would gladly have agreed to the release of an Arab terrorist to get their
sons back. But I told Yitzhak Rabin, then defense minister, that the blood
of my family was as red as that of the POWs. Israel had always taken a
position of refusing to negotiate with terrorists. If they were going to
make an exception, let it be for a terrorist who was not as cruel as Kuntar.
"Your job is not to be emotional," I told Rabin, "but to act rationally."
And he did.

So Kuntar remains in prison. I have been shocked to learn that he has
married an Israeli Arab woman who is an activist on behalf of terrorist
prisoners. As the wife of a prisoner, she gets a monthly stipend from the
government. I'm not too happy about that.

In recent years, Abu Abbas started telling journalists that he had renounced
terrorism and that killing Leon Klinghoffer had been a mistake. But he has
never said that killing my family was a mistake. He was a terrorist once,
and a terrorist, I believe, he remains. Why else did he spend these last
years, as the Israeli press has reported, free as a bird in Baghdad, passing
rewards of $25,000 from Saddam Hussein to families of Palestinian suicide
bombers? More than words, that kind of cash prize, which is a fortune to
poor families, was a way of urging more suicide bombers. The fortunate thing
about Abbas's attaching himself to Hussein is that it set him up for
capture.

Some say that Italy should have first crack at Abbas. It had already
convicted him of the Achille Lauro hijacking in absentia in 1986. Prime
Minister Silvio Berlusconi now wants Abbas handed over so that he can begin
serving his life sentence. But it's also true that in 1985, the Italians had
Abbas in their hands after U.S. fighter jets forced his plane to land in
Sicily. And yet they let him go. So while I trust Berlusconi, who knows if a
future Italian government might not again wash its hands of Abbas?

In 1995, Rabin, then our prime minister, asked me to join him on his trip to
the White House, where he was to sign a peace agreement with Yasser Arafat,
which I supported. I believe that he wanted me to represent all Israeli
victims of terrorism. Rabin dreaded shaking hands with Arafat, knowing that
those hands were bloody. At first, I agreed to make the trip, but at the
last minute, I declined. As prime minister, Rabin had to shake hands with
Arafat for political reasons. As a private person, I did not. So I stayed
here.

Now I am ready and willing to come to the United States to testify against
Abu Abbas if he is tried for terrorism. The daughters of Leon Klinghoffer
have said they are ready to do the same. Unlike Klinghoffer, Danny, Einat
and Yael were not American citizens. But Klinghoffer was killed on an
Italian ship in Abbas's attempt to free the killer of my family in Israel.
We are all connected by the international web of terrorism woven by Abbas.
Let the truth come out in a new and public trial.
And let it be in the United States, the leader in the struggle against
terrorism.
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Smadar Haran Kaiser is a social worker. She is remarried and has two
daughters.

6. Petition for Jewish Prayer on the Temple Mount

From: Yosef Rabin <613yos@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 11:06 PM
Subject: Petition for Jewish Prayer on the Temple Mount

Our Goals!

1 Bring at least 600,000 Jews and lovers of Israel from all around the world together for an awesome, holy and Jewish cause
 
2 Spark a serious discussion throughout the Jewish world about the Temple Mount
 
3 Return Jewish Prayer to the Temple Mount
 
 
The first stage of this campaign will continue until after the fast of Tisha B'Av.
 
Tisha B'Av is the fast day that commemorates the destruction of the two Temples that once stood on the Temple Mount. The fast will begin at Sundown at 7:57pm on Saturday August 9th and will conclude shortly after sunset at 8:20pm on Sunday August 10th.
 
1st Temple was built by King Shlomo in 950BCE and was destroyed by the Babylonians in 586 BCE

2nd Temple rebuilt in 353 BCE and was destroyed by the Romans in 70 CE
 

Please sign and pass on the petition!
http://www.petitiononline.com/har1/petition.html
 
 
PS. For the Halachic implications of  Aliyah L Har HaBayit please see the Rambam, Hilchot Beit Habichira, Perek 7 it can be found in Sefer Avodah.

 

Tonight Meeting in Brooklyn. 2717 Ave. J. Rabbi Yeshayahu Hollander

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Dear Friends and Fellow Activists, amv"sh

Tonight please come to the house of Rachel and Arnie Beiss 2717 Ave. J at 8:30pm  in Flatbush to meet Rabbi Yeshayahu Hollander from Eretz Yisroel.

For more info please call 71-510-2364

Rabbi Yeshayahu [Julius] HaKohen Hollander.  Editor of a new publication of Talmud Bavli with Rashi embedded, previously he was a Ram in Yeshivat Hesder.  He learned at Yeshiva Poneviz and Kollel Valozin, and merited to study under Rabbi Yitzhak Kolitz z"l, Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem. He holds a M.Sc. Theoretical Physics at Hebrew University and is a licensed Patent Attorney with twenty five years in industry. He was a general manager of Heled Educational Experiences and taught in Ricanati School for Economics at Tel Aviv University.  Born in New York in 1937, came to Israel in 1948.

http://www.thesanhedrin.org/en/courtbneinoah/

5768.09.23 Addendum- Israel the Land of My Possession - Do4Israel Media Watch on Yated and OU, ZOA.

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23rd Sivan 5768
June 26, 2008

Shabbat Shalom!  Though I try to send out only one email a day. this email will be sent out today instead of tomorrow. Kol Tuv,

This is a collection of insights from members of Ait Laasot, do4israel, activists who speak out with clarity for Eretz Yisroel. and their dismay at major Jewish Organizations/MEDIA who do not speak out with clarity.

1.  AIT LAASOT! Statements of Belief with Clarity .

2. The JIDF  Jewish Internet Defense Force.

3. Jewish Media and Jewish Organization Watch - Ask the OU

4. Jewish Media and Jewish Organization Watch - Ask the Yated

5. Jewish Media and Jewish Organization Watch - Ask the ZOA
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1.  AIT LAASOT! Statements of Belief with Clarity.

This Land is G-d's, G-d gave this Land to Israel.

The World is Blessed When the Jews Keep the Commandments in Eretz Yisroel.

The 2 State Solution and Land for Peace negates G-d's Covenant with Israel.

The Land of Israel only Produces for it's Rightful Owner, the People of Israel.

The Roadmap, Land for Peace, the Gaza Disengagement was/is a Disaster.  Let's cut our losses and start anew!

The Torah Roadmap is the only authentic Roadmap.

Let's start anew with a New US/Israel Policy based on G-d's Covenant/Promise to Israel.

Only Am Yisroel can fulfill the Commandments in Eretz Yisroel.

Each and every Jew Has an Inheritance in Eretz Yisroel.

Each of us can help settle Eretz Yisroel and be a partner in Yishuv Haaretz.

Mitzvah of Pidyon Shvuyim is not a political Statement

2. The JIDF http://thejidf.org 

The Jewish Internet Defense Force

6.25.2008

40 Nations Pledge $242 Million to help aid and abet "Palestinian" terrorists

Certainly with the terrorist groups Hamas and/or Fatah in charge, these funds will not go toward the stated purpose, but rather, toward more war and bloodshed with the Jewish people. -The JIDF

Source: JTA (edited for accuracy by the JIDF)

Representatives of some 40 nations attended Tuesday's event devoted to planning for an independent "Palestinian" state dedicated to the destruction of Israel.

for more go to link above.

3. Jewish Media and Jewish Organization Watch - Ask the OU

ASk the ou! is it kosher? to support a two state solution
 
Is it kosher to be part of our  organization that supports a two state solution?
 
'We answer to a higher Authority not the ou'

1)The Torah gave the Jewish People the Land of Israel, therefore the OUR  claim that
it represents a orthodox view is ridiculous
 
2)The Torah put a great emphasizes on the survival of life and it is of uttermost importance
that even the shabbat could be desecrated to save a life (so what is the ou real agenda $$$$$$$$$$
or leftist backing)what other agendas could come first? don't be fooled by the wording by N.D. from the ou

(It is now a proven fact that the giving back of land causes loss of life)
 
3)According to international Law as Professor Eli Hertz has written in 'This Land Is MY Land'
 the Jews have clear entitlement to land of israel.
 
4)The ou and anybody that claims to represent or lead the Jewish must answer to GOD and The
Jewish people and the world

4. Jewish Media and Jewish Organization Watch - Ask the Yated

Shame on you, Yated for your editorial of Sinas Chinam

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/126603

The hareidi-religious newspaper Yated Ne'eman published a scathing editorial attacking not only the rabbi's ruling, but the entire settlement movement to boot.  "We must remember that the settlements were born in sin," the paper wrote, "and they were established only to transmit a nationalistic message of provocation and taunting of the nations and, like the first Zionists, 'taking our destiny into our hands.'"

"It has now become clear," the paper continued, "that one sin leads to another... and some of them [the religious-Zionists] have now decided that the settlements must be built even on the holy Sabbath... This grave phenomenon reminds us once again that the 'nationalist religion' continues to break down barriers amidst a distorted scale of values according to which, nationalist and Zionist values take precedence over the entire Torah."

Dear Yated, amv"sh

It is your editorial that is a blatant distortion of our Torah.  Eretz Yisroel is Keneged the entire Torah.  Shabbat is Keneged the entire Torah.  It says Es Shabsosai Tishmoru in plural which also includes, Shabbat Haaretz.  How can the editors of the Yated explain how they will keep Shabbat Haaretz w/o the Land?  Do they really believe that giving the Land away to the Palestinians is the proper spirit of Shabbat Haaretz? How do they explain the first Rashi of Braishit?  How do they explain the Covenant that Hashem Promised to the Avot as an eternal Covenant for all generations? How do they explain all of the points of clarity mentioned in statement 1 above.  It is their distortion of the Torah that wishes to pick and choose the Mitzvoth of the Torah when they eliminate Eretz Yisroel from the Torah.  They deny the Nissim Geluyim, open miracles of our generation following the Holocaust in our return to Eretz Yisroel.

If the Torah Leaders would have jumped on the opportunity to instruct all their followers to Eretz Yisroel rather than stay in Eastern Europe, we would have by now had a Torah State rather than the memory of 6,000,000 Jews.

According to Dr. Michael Berenbaum, former director of the research institute attached to the U.S. Holocaust Museum, 50-70% of those murdered by the Nazis "were traditionally religious Jews." Not only were six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust, but an entire thousand-year culture of Torah learning was destroyed. Only the Mirrer Yeshiva, of all the great pre-War yeshivos, survived nearly intact.
(Mishpacha 2006)

It's just too bad they didn't make Aliya when they had the opportunity. Isn't it misplaced humility not recognizing their inherent strengths to overpower with love of Torah and with reason and with Siata Dishmaya the chilonim.

Now  is the time to be  Metaken the Chait Hamiraglim and state like we do in bentching Nodeh lecha Hashem Elokein Al Shehinchalta Laavoseinu Eretz Chemda Tova Urechava that  this a Good Land and  we will possess  her and keep her Mitzvoth! 

And even if they do not like the psak that one can allow the non Jew to build on  SHabbos , have they come out with a Psak against  Gezel, stealing ones property, destroying ones parnassa, bashing young  unarmed kids and adults on the heads  with no provocation  whatsoever as in Amona?  What  is the point of learning all the  Gemorrahs regarding property rights if they are silent when there is blatant chillul Hashem in this area? How about all the Mitzvoth Dorayta that were violated during the disengagement and what about the  200,000  Jews to be expelled from Judea and Samaria or the security risks that will chas vechalilia model those in  Sderot  after the disengagement aka expulsion that will even affect yes, Bnei Brak and other Chareidi communities?

5. Jewish Media and Jewish Organization Watch - Ask the ZOA

From an undisclosed anonymous source who was at the ZOA conference today in Washington DC June, 25, 2008.  The following question was asked.  "Should we bring up the 2 State Solution when we lobby our congressmen?"  The answer given by ZOA organizers was not to mention the 2 State Solution but rather to speak about Iran.  A follow update question was "Isn't ZOA a Zionist organization????  How can you not speak out against a Palestinian State and still claim to be a Zionist.

Does the ZOA represent our yearning and desire for Zion or simply wishes to be the one of the players in the Lion's den, not remembering that they are the sheep.  Our only hope for Salvation is in Hakakosh Baruch hu and not in our involvement in the world arena of politics devoid of G-d's wishes and desires for the Jewish people.  Let ZOA first proclaim  the words of  our Holy Torah and  G-d's promise to our forefathers and speak out with clarity against the 2 State Solution.  Let the ZOA reflect upon our holy commandments that bring the blessings and promises for peace and then and only then will their lobbying in Washington carry weight and significance. 

5768.09.23 Israel Land of My Possession - Letter to OU, Appeal for Tsfat

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23 Sivan 5768
June 26th 2008

Activism for the Land of Israel

1. Letter to Dr. Luchins and OU Leadership by Buddy Macy. Must read  article by Caroline Glick. 
2. Heart wrenching appeal from Tsfat.
3. More Heart wrenching news  Subject: Gush Katif Families Face Yet Another Eviction
4. CJHSLA Calls on Congress to Investigate Why State Department's Arabic TV Network is Spreading Pro-Terrorist Propaganda
5. Israel's Illegitimate and Criminal Government: Paul Eidelberg

6. Parade of Homosexuals Gets Green Light from Court

Meeting for Brooklyn activists, Monday night at 8:30pm in Flatbush.  For more info call 718-510-2364
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1. Letter to Dr. Luchins and OU Leadership by Buddy Macy. 

Shalom Gentlemen,

 

Earlier this year you decided to remain a part of the JCPA despite its notorious public statement in support of a two-state "solution." Your rationale for remaining in that body was that you thought you would be able to make more of a difference from within, than as an outsider. Please ask yourselves the following: Is Israel better off now, or five months ago?

 

Sincerely,

Buddy Macy

973-785-0057

 

Israel's Darkest Week
 
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1213794285097&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
 
The Olmert-Livni-Barak-Yishai government's liquidation sale of Israel's strategic assets opened officially this week. Iran's proxies have pounced on the merchandise. Please click on the link above to read the entire article.

 
2. Heart wrenching appeal from Tsfat.

(Dear Friends: Please read the urgent appeal below. If you can send a donation, that would be appreciated. Most importantly, you can help us by sharing this email with newspapers, bulletins, mailing lists, etc. Please ask your friends and organizations help to broadcast this information. This would be of immeasurable help to us. Thank you.)

 

IMAGINATION

Imagination is fun but it's not reality. The volunteers at Lev U'Neshama in Tzfat, Israel want our imagined situations to become reality. We would like to imagine, and have it actualized, that every day, every Tzfat mother had the ability to prepare nutritious meals for her family because the family had sufficient funds to purchase food. Sadly the reality is starkly otherwise. About half of our population has difficulty buying their family's basic food needs.

 

A Tzfat grandmother was grateful for her food delivery that came in time for her to fill the request of a visiting grandson who asked for an apple. Imagine not having an apple in the house nor anything else to offer him.

 

A young mother reached into her vegetable bin and there was nothing there with which to make a salad for dinner and little else in the cupboards. The next day her food delivery arrived and her children were so excited to find the boxes at their door, that they called their mother at work to tell her the good news. Imagine the happiness at dinner that night that included a fresh vegetable salad.

 

Another young mother said that the food deliveries always seem to come at the time when she had nothing in the cupboards and that the food assistance not only brought nourishment but it brought peace into her home. Imagine the strife that was averted between husband and wife and their frustration of not having sufficient food to quell the hunger of their young, growing children.

 

For the past six years, donations from compassionate supporters around the world have funded Lev U'Neshama's Food Fund. Presently we are assisting 144 needy families (over 1,100 individuals from children to the aged) with a monthly food box consisting mainly of fruits and vegetables. Lev U'Neshama has helped thousands of people through its various programs but now our Food Fund - our main focus - is in danger of closing.

 

Donations from abroad have dramatically dropped due to stressed economies. We have only sufficient funds for two more months, (July and August). This means that families will be at risk. In some families, both parents are working - but salaries may be many months in arrears. In others only one parent works while many others are not able to find any employment. We don't want to imagine their disappointment if our food program is cancelled but this will be a reality unless donations are received. Donations don't have to be large (although that would be appreciated), but lots of small ones add up, too. At the present exchange rate, it costs $30 to sponsor one family for one month. Lev U'Neshama's monthly grocery bill for these 144 families is $4,320. Please take a moment to imagine that your cupboards are empty and there is nothing to give your family.

Please help in any way that you can to make certain that these families, who must, unfortunately, depend on all of us, will continue to receive food assistance.

 

Lev U'Neshama is a non-profit organization and all our programs are carried out by volunteers. This means that all donations go to the designated project. Unlike other charity organizations that do their work in Tzfat for the benefit of families based on a specific affiliation, Lev U'Neshama stands alone in helping all Jewish families in Tzfat, regardless of their level of observance or affiliation with any religious group.

 

Donors in the US and Canada can receive tax receipts. Here is how.

In the USA: Make your check payable to: To Save A Life. Then send the check to: To Save A Life 16405 Equestrian Lane, Rockville, MD. 20855. Please indicate that your donation is for Lev U'Neshama, Tzfat. By using the following website, you can make a credit card donation. (www.tsal.org)

In Canada: Make your check payable to: B'nai Torah Charity Fund. Then send the check and a note indicating that the donation is for Lev U'Neshama, Tzfat to: Congregation B'nai Torah, 465 Patricia Avenue, Willowdale, Ontario M2R 2N1

(Either of the above organizations will send you a receipt and Lev U'Neshama will send a thank you letter when your donation is received.)

If you don't need a tax receipt, make your check payable to Lev U'Neshama and send it to: Lev U'Neshama, c/o Smolensky, PO Box 6432, Tzfat 13229 Israel. Checks are exchanged for shekels and put to work immediately. For more information about Lev U'Neshama, please visit our website: www.levuneshama.org

Thank you for helping make it a reality that desperate families in Tzfat will continue to receive much needed assistance.

 

With best wishes and appreciation,

 

Rabbi Yisroel Rottenberg, Director

Rena Dvorkin Cohen, Moshe and Yaffa Smolensky, Yosef and Faga Weiss, Volunteers.

3. Heart wrenching news from the former residents of Gush Katif.

Subject: Gush Katif Families Face Yet Another Eviction
To: "rafvrab@gmail.com" <rafvrab@gmail.com>


http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/126611

Gush Katif Families Face Yet Another Eviction

 
by Hillel Fendel

(IsraelNN.com) Home construction for three expelled Gush Katif communities has begun in three locations - but many other families are now in an even worse situation than they were after the expulsion. Some of the latter, living in Kibbutz Or HaNer and nearby Miflasim, have been told they must leave by August 15.

First the good news: Eight families in Nitzan - the site of the largest concentration of families expelled by the Sharon-Mofaz government from Gush Katif nearly three years ago in the Gaza Disengagement plan - have finally begun building their new, permanent homes. Though the government promised, three years ago, speedy housing solutions for the nearly 1,700 dislocated families, including the rebuilding of the tight-knit communities in new locations, these promises remain nearly entirely unfulfilled. 

Dror Vanunu of the Gush Katif Residents Committee reports that Nitzan's families hail mostly from N'vei Dekalim, the largest community in Gush Katif.  About 210 of them plan, in the first stage, to rebuild their destroyed homes in the nearby established community of Nitzan, and well over another 100 plan to join them in the second stage. Work on the first handful of houses began last week.

"It's a welcome start," Vanunu told IsraelNationalNews, "but the fact is that about 25% of the families can simply not afford to build.  This is because of the low compensation they received in the first place, and because of the fact that the price of building has increased greatly."  He added that the construction cost index of three years ago, when the compensation rates were set, is much lower than it is now, and that a court suit demanding linkage to the current rates is being considered. 

"The fact is that if the government had not dragged its feet and caused so many delays, construction could have begun earlier, when the prices were closer to what they originally were," Vanunu said.

In Yad Mordechai and Ashkelon, too, groups of former Gush Katif communities have also begun building their houses.

Other Families: Thrown Out, Nowhere to Go
However, most Gush Katif families are still out of luck, not sure where and when their permanent houses will ever be built.  Some have even received yet another set of "get out" orders.

The Barda family, for instance, from the former northern Gaza community of Elei Sinai, signed an agreement with the government over three years ago - even before the Disengagement - together with many of their neighbors.  Despite this, and despite the three years that have passed, no work at all has begun for their new houses.  Not only that, but the Bardas and other families have been told that they must leave the temporary house in which they currently live.

As if that was not enough, they have also been informed that the agreement they signed to build their homes in Talmei Yafeh (5 kilometers southeast of Ashkelon, 10 kms north of Sderot) has expired, as it was signed three years ago! 

The Knesset Audit Committee discussed the matter last week, called on the Israel Lands Authority to solve the problem immediately, and scheduled a follow-up meeting for two weeks from now.

One Mother's Story
Mrs. Sigal Barda, mother of three, has written up her harrowing story.  Excerpts:

"We lived in Elei Sinai for 15 years, and after the expulsion, we moved with a group of other families to the temporary-housing site in Or HaNer [near Sderot].  We belonged to that [very small] group of families who, despite our absolute opposition to the Disengagement, decided to cooperate with the State and to plan ahead [i.e., consent to leave their houses with no struggle - ed.] in order to minimize the damage and speed up the rebuilding process.

"But looking backwards, we now see how naive we were to think this way, and how much fury it arouses today!  We never thought for a moment that we would meet up with such difficult bureacracy and lack of understanding by the State towards law-abiding citizens whose world suddenly collapsed upon them one bright day - through no fault of their own.

"Three years later, we still live in temporary quarters with no hope in sight, struggling every day with Kassam rockets fired upon us directly from the ruins of our homes. We pray and hope that someone will wake up and decide to end our suffering.  We have fulfilled our part of the agreement - but what about the State?

Kibbutz Receives House, Family Must Leave
"On Israel's 60th Independence Day, we received from the Kibbutz [Or HanNer] a letter instructing us to leave our caravilla [pre-fab home, designed to last ten years, of the kind allotted to all the expelled families - ed.] by August 15th [the 3rd anniversary of the Disengagement].  Is there no limit to the chutzpah?!  I was thrown out of my house and the Kibbutz received a caravilla - and now I have to leave it, to who knows where, in favor of a Kibbutz member?!  Where are we to go?!

"I am ashamed to look my children [who objected to our early agreement] in the eye.  I promised them a quick rehabilitation, at the price of a quiet and passive departure from our home.  But they knew then what I understand only now!

'Don't We Deserve Better?'
"Even if I wanted to rent a house independently [without the rest of my community which we are trying to sustain], the State is allotting us only 2,050 shekels a month [enough for an average apartment building residence, Vanunu said - ed.]. This, after they threw us out of our 160-square-meter (1,722 square feet) house in Elei Sinai and we now live in 90 square meters (970 sq. ft.). Don't we deserve to live, after three years, in something better than that - especially in light of the long way off we still are from our permanent home?!

"We are in total despair, disappointment, and loss of strength... We are raising a new generation, but the values on which we grew up and educated our children have not withstood the test of reality.  For our children's sake, we must change things and restore their hope, and I therefore want to call your attention to the national importance in enlisting in the cause of finding ways to solve these problems - with the same 'determination and sensitivity' with which we were thrown out of our homes three years ago."

To contact the Gush Katif Residents Committee, click here.

4. CJHSLA Calls on Congress to Investigate Why State Department's Arabic TV Network is Spreading Pro-Terrorist Propaganda

Hollywood, CA  90028 June 24, 2008 LA-based activist group highlights years of corruption and misuse of taxpayer finances at US-funded Al Hurra Children of Jewish Holocaust Survivors Los Angeles (CJHSLA) is calling upon Congress to immediately investigate why the State Department is using the money of US taxpayers to spread hateful pro-terrorist and anti-Israel propaganda. This demand comes in response to a CBS-ProPublica report exposing how the State Department's Arabic TV station, Al Hurra, is being used to smear United States allies and to accuse Israel of conducting a modern-day "Holocaust." The investigation, the results of which aired last weekend, echoed similar accusations stretching back over a year. A 2007 Wall Street Journal investigation of then-news director Larry Register revealed that he "bragged about his close relationships" with Palestinian terrorists, proudly hung a portrait of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad in his office, and "harbored deep biases" against Israel. A subsequent House investigation accused Al Hurra of sympathetically airing Hamas and Hezbollah's "hateful, anti-American, and anti-Israel" and of uncritically broadcasting Iran's December 2006 Holocaust Denial Conference. At that time Congress correctly demanded Register's removal and called on the State Department to implement genuine and effective oversight over its Middle East public diplomacy efforts. But, according to CJHSLA founder and President Doris Wise Montrose, "this report proves that Al Hurra is still putting US money and US legitimacy to work for terrorist sympathizers." "The State Department needs to figure out how to reach Arab hearts and minds without wallowing in anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and propaganda. The State Department should be providing a competitor to Al Jazeera, not a clone," she added. Children Of Jewish Holocaust Survivors Los Angeles (CJHSLA) is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization raising awareness about the network of anti-Western and antisemitic religious extremists who march under the banner of global jihad. We insist that the last Holocaust imposes upon all people of good will an active political obligation to prevent the next one. Contact: Omri Ceren, Political Director CJHSLA, omri@cjhsla.org  View press release:  http://www.expertclick.com/NewsReleaseWire/default.cfm?Action=ReleaseDetail&ID=22018&f5=1     A safe and secure Israel is vital to America's national interest. A safe and secure Israel is a prerequisite to genuine peace in the Middle East. Visit us at www.cjhsla.org CJHSLA is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization that operates solely on donations, all of which are greatly appreciated. Please make your tax deductible checks payable to: CJHSLA

5. Israel's Illegitimate and Criminal Government: Paul Eidelberg

Self-preservation is the first law of nature.  Hence, the first
purpose of government is to protect the lives of its citizens.  A
government that fails to protect its citizens forfeits its
legitimacy.  Such a government should obviously, and of necessity, be
terminated by one means or another.

Consider the Israeli town of Sderot, once a town of 25,000 Jewish
residents.  This town has been terrorized and virtually depopulated.
It has been struck by thousands of missiles launched from Gaza.  The
Arabs can bomb Sderot with impunity thanks to Israel's cowardly and
evil government.   This cowardly and evil government has no right to
exist.  Its continued existence disgraces every Jew in Israel as well
as in the Diaspora.  This cowardly and evil government encourages
terrorism throughout the world-more so when Israel's ruling elites
reward Arab terrorism with Jewish land.

That the people of Israel tolerate such a government places in
question Israel's own right to exist.  Perhaps this is the arcane or
unconscious reason why we hear voices in America and Europe
questioning Israel's justification?  There may be another arcane
reason.

I have in mind the criminality of Israel's government. There is no
objective justification for releasing and arming Arab terrorists.
Yet this has been the policy of Prime Ministers Yitzhak Rabin,
Shimon Peres, Benjamin Netanyahu, Shimon Peres, Ehud Barak, Ariel
Sharon, and Ehud Olmert.  This policy is criminal, immoral, and
demonstrably inane.  Israeli prime ministers have released more than
7,000 terrorists, who have subsequently murdered more than 300 Jews.
Upon their release, these terrorists are exalted as heroes of Islam.
They become more zealously dedicated to terrorism, to killing more
Jews.  By releasing terrorists, Israeli prime ministers have become
complicit in murder.

Let us probe deeper, and here allow me to focus on Prime Minister
Ehud Olmert.  Like his six predecessors. Mr. Olmert has betrayed our
Jewish dead.  Like them, he has betrayed the Jewish soldiers who died
fighting in the cause of Judaism, Zionism, Eretz Israel.  Like his
predecessors, Olmert has sold his moral judgment to Arab villains.
Like his predecessors, Mr. Olmert has murdered the sense of justice.

But if justice has been murdered in Israel, does Israel have a right
to exist?  This question takes priority over  mere policy issues.  It
is nothing less than a regime issue.  Right-minded people will
accomplish nothing until they restore the sense of justice in this
country.  But to do this they must arouse moral outrage.  They must
condemn the prime ministers who have murdered the sense of justice.
This is no time for polite words.  I am speaking of prime ministers
who have aided and abetted terrorism and who have thus become the
patrons of evil.

This is not a complicated moral issue, except for minds trapped in
and corrupted by superficial and amoral jargon like "Left" and
"Right." If, God-forbid, your loved-one is murdered by an Arab
terrorist released and armed-as many are-by the Minister of Defense
and as directed by the Prime Minister, then these two ministers have
Jewish blood on their hands.   The Defense Minister may make the
excuse of Nazis:  "I was only following orders or obeying the law,"
but he is still a criminal, having violated the Moral Law.

The Prime Minister may say:  "I was adhering to the terms of the Oslo
or Israel-PLO agreement, and for the sake of peace."  But no
agreement with a terrorist organization, and none that requires the
release of terrorists, is lawful or valid.  Besides, not only does
Israeli law designate the PLO as a terrorist organization, but it was
evident from the outset that the PLO has never been committed to
peace.  Its constitution makes this crystal clear: it calls for
nothing less than Israel's annihilation!

So what should thoughtful and upright people say and do when Israeli
prime ministers repeatedly mislead and betray them?  What should they
say and do when their prime ministers talk peace while releasing and
arming the enemies of peace?

I invite every critic and protester of the Oslo "peace process" to
ask:  "Does my criticism or protest demonstration go to the heart of
the matter, or am I merely protesting against a policy pursued by one
prime minister after another, year, after year, after year?

Does my criticism or protest demonstration expose and denounce those
who have betrayed our dead?  Does it expose and excoriate those who
have released the murderers of our loved ones?

Does my criticism or protest demonstration denounce the government as
illegitimate-a criminal clique, a democratically elected despotism?

Does my criticism or protest demonstration call for regime change and
offer plans for the purpose?

Does my criticism or protest demonstration admonish our people that
justice has been murdered by seven Israeli prime ministers, and that
justice must be restored in the Land of Israel if we are not to be
expelled from this land?"

6. Parade of Homosexuals Gets Green Light from Court

(IsraelNN.com) The High Court has turned down a petition against a parade of homosexuals to be held in Jerusalem on Thursday. The appeal was filed by activists Itamar Ben-Gvir and Baruch Marzel.

The three-justice panel said it took into consideration that the