Which Story is more News Worthy? Jewish Press JTA article about Iran or Women In Green article about Harassment of Jewish Settlers?

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Why doesn't the Jewish Press put INN on the front page?

Which news is more newsworthy?

The fact that Europe and the  US are showing 'Unified Stance on Iran" - This weeks Front page news of Jewish Press (JTA) Friday October 16, 2009

or ...

that the government of Israel is expelling 3 innocent Jewish men with families from Yitzhar from their homes with no charges and without compensation for loss of livelihood....another clear example of settler harassment.

(Let's analyze...Tachlis, what real difference will it make  to know that in tone, America and Europe show a unified stance regarding Iran, especially when we read that these world powers are frustrated that they have been unable to stop nuclear proliferation in Iran,  and that there is strong skepticism in Europe that strong sanctions on Iran are not effective  and there is fear that sanctions will create security problems word wide.  In my opinion, this JTA article does nothing except create anxiety on the part of the reader.  After all there is not much a typical reader can do about nuclear weapons buildup in a country that espouses Terror.  What point is this knowledge when it merely serves to make us nervous.

On the other hand, reporting about 3 religious family men who for no apparent reason except perhaps political are being expelled from their homes serves to raise awareness that will hopefully stop a miscarriage of justice.

Please read the kind of story that usually does not get  prominence in the Jewish press.  Giving it the prominence it deserves is responsible reporting and also a Mitzva not to stand by idly when evil is happening when we are witness to it.

For the Arutz 7 story:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/133807

You got a few days to pack and leave your house!!

By Nadia Matar and Yehudit Katzover

 

Imagine the following scene:

You are a building contractor on your way to work. You have been asked to deliver some building material to a client. You park your car, and out of the blue, 10 to 12 detectives and policemen run towards you, surround you and hand you a piece of paper telling you: "This is an expulsion order. You are being expelled from your home and community and area for the next 6 months. You got  5 days to pack. If we find you in your home after that, you will be arrested and jailed". Not sure yet whether this is true or just a bad joke, you ask the police: "But why? What did I do? What are the charges?".

 The police answers: "No comment. That's the way it is."

 

Sounds like a scene from Kafka? Well, this is what happened this past Sunday to Akiva Hacohen, 25 year old resident of Yitzhar, building contractor, when he delivered some building material to a client.

 

On Sunday October 11 Akiva was given orders expelling him from his home and  from Judea and Samaria for 6 months at least. Akiva is married to Ayelet and they have 3 children. Ayelet is pregnant with number four please G-d.. Two other residents of Yitzhar were given similar expulsion orders. Ariel Gruner, 27 year old, married and father of 3 children and  Eliav Eliyahu, 20 year old, recently married and they are expecting their first child.

 

Like in previous times when this has happened, here too it is IDF Central District Commander Maj.-Gen. Gadi Shamni, known for his animosity towards Land of Israel lovers, who has signed the expulsion orders. For the entire story you can click on the link to the Arutz 7 report about it at the end of this article.

 

As usual, there were no specific charges to the expulsion orders.

 

 During the period of forced expulsion the government does not provide the expellees with any compensation or help to find alternative arrangements. The expellees have to find and pay for a place to live, and employment. At the present time, Akiva is working as a contractor building homes in the area of Yitzhar, where they live, and grinding wheat and selling the flour. This will no longer be possible. Likewise for Ariel and Eliav who will also lose their job.

 

Women in Green call upon all of us, friends of Israel in Israel and abroad, to express our outrage at this persecution of these wonderful Jews, lovers of the Land of Israel. The more noise we make about this, the more the authorities will reconsider and think twice about ever doing this again. See below for WHAT WE CAN DO.

 

The official, ridiculous, explanation given is that those Jewish fathers " are a danger for the public order". Our message is: If Akiva, Ariel and Eliav have violated the law, why aren't they charged and brought into court? Why are the reasons for their expulsion secret? The answer is clear: Because those expulsion orders have nothing to do with law and order. In fact they are a violation of basic norms of all enlightened democratic systems when one is only accused with due process. We know those great Jewish men. The only so-called "crime" they can be accused of is that they are proud Jews and loyal to the land of Israel. The expulsion orders are political tools meant to demoralize the national camp ; who knows, maybe before what might soon come G-d forbid, a new wave of destruction of outposts and communities. We protest this and demand that the expulsion orders against  Akiva Hacohen, Ariel Gruner and Eliav Eliyahu  be cancelled immediately.The more noise we make about this, the more the authorities will reconsider not only the expulsion decrees, but any other decrees they might be planning for the next few weeks.

 

SO WHAT CAN WE DO?

1) Maj-Gen Gadi Shamni, who signed the expulsion orders and is known for his animosity to the national camp,  is leaving Israel next week to become the IDF's military attaché in Washington. If he thinks he could sign those expulsion orders and then go to Washington where nobody will remind him of the shameful expulsion orders, he should reconsider. Women in Green call upon all Washington friends of Israel to find out where exactly Gadi Shamni will be located  and organize lawful vigils in front of his home and work with a clear message: Shame on you for expelling Akiva, Ariel and Eliav. Cancel the expulsion orders and let these 3 Jewish fathers go back home!

Vigils like these are very effective and important.

 

2) For those living abroad: Please contact the Israeli Embassy or consulate  in your country to protest these expulsion orders

For the link to the Israel Embassy and consulate Directory: http://www.science.co.il/embassy.asp

Let Israeli embassies in Holland, France, belgium, Australia, Canada etc...receive emails, calls and faxes in support of Akiva, Ariel and Eliav.

 

 

 Same for  US Citizens: please contact the Israeli embassy in Washington, Ambassador Michael Oren, and your local Israeli consul  

        Israeli embassy in Washington:      Tel: 202-364-5500               Deputy Chief of Mission: Mr. Dan Arbell Fax: (202) 364-5560

Defense and Armed Forces Attaché  Major General Benjamin Gantz  Tel: (202) 364-5403   Fax: (202) 364-5503

link to all other departments in the Embassy in Washington: http://www.israelemb.org/about_us.html

 

3) Obviously we must also contact the Israeli politicians. Emails are ok but phonecalls and  faxes are better.

For all contact info (telephone and fax) for Israeli ministers please click on:

http://www.pmo.gov.il/PMOEng/Government/Offices/

Emails of Israeli ministers (thank you to Suzy Dym):

sar@moch.gov.il ; roeil@moin.gov.il ; minister@most.gov.il ; ministerts@most.gov.il ; sar@tourism.gov.il ; sar@mfa.gov.il ; sar@mof.gov.il ; sar@mops.gov.il ; yedelstein@knesset.gov.il ; gerdan@knesset.gov.il ; bbegin@knesset.gov.il ; myaalon@knesset.gov.il ; mcachlon@knesset.gov.il ; yiskatz@knesset.gov.il ; llivnat@knesset.gov.il ; gsaar@knesset.gov.il ; ypeled@knesset.gov.il ; ysteinitz@knesset.gov.il ; sshalom@knesset.gov.il ; iaharon@knesset.gov.il ; aliberman@knesset.gov.il ; ulandau@knesset.gov.il ; slandver@knesset.gov.il ; smiseznikov@knesset.gov.il ; dhershkovitz@knesset.gov.il ; mnahari@knesset.gov.il ; aatias@knesset.gov.il ; eyishay@knesset.gov.il ; ymargi@knesset.gov.il ; yakovm@dat.gov.il ; sar@sviva.gov.il ; sar@moc.gov.il ; sar@moia.gov.il ; sar@environment.gov.il ; sar@mni.gov.il ; zelkin@knesset.gov.il

 

Please ask others to join this effort, especially prominent community leaders and rabbis.

 

4) Lastly, the families to be expelledfrom Yitzhar need apartments for 6 months.

 If anyone can help, or knows of someone who has an empty apartment,

 please let them know: Akiva: 054 765 7556, Ayelet: 054 638 2106,Zangy (Honenu): 052 566 5975

 

The police have given Akiva, Ariel and Eliav a few days to comply, after which time they will be arrested, so time is of the essence.

The families have hired lawyers, but so far they have not been able to stop the proceedings. 

 

As the famous quote goes: "All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing "

We are doing! For Jerusalem's sake we will not be silent!

 

With love for Israel,

 

Nadia Matar, Women in Green

Yehudit Katzover, the committee for a Jewish Shdema

 

For the Arutz 7 story:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/133807

 

will JTA and others report this? Fwd: Haraisha-the Battle against the Silent Expulsion - Report as Jews

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JTA claims to be the source for Jewish News.  Will they disregard very blatant biased Supreme Court decisions that favors Arab Building in Judea and Samaria over Jewish Building?  Read Timna Katz's excellent report (below) about how Peace Now took advantage of legal bureaucracy in Israel  in order to push for a Silent Expulsion in Judea and Samaria and about subsequent political rulings of the Israeli Supreme Court that make a mockery of justice.  Please also investigate where Peace Now is getting it's funding to pay for their hefty legal fees as compared to the way the Jews of Haraisha are funding their legal fees.   

Please report  Timna Katz's story as sent out by Women In Green.   Hopefully the media NOISE generated regarding this mockery of justice by the Israeli Supreme Court  will be the key to stop expulsion from Haraisha.

As reporters you carry a heavy burden.  The way you choose to present the News actually creates News and facts on the ground.    (Today, in modern times, there is a media war of Public Relations that has direct  influence on the way physical wars are fought. Case in point is the War of Lebanon vs Operation Cast Lead.)

Will JTA and other Jewish media report on the grassroots efforts of on line activists to help Haraisha.  Below is a copy of  Ted Belman's letter forwarded by  other activists with impressive email lists.  By doing so you might actually save the property of your fellow Jew and stop further Jewish expulsions.

Can't we learn from Gush Katif how such expulsions wreck havoc to the lives of wonderful caring Jewish families expelled from their homes and communities and wrecks havoc as well to neighboring settlement now in the reach of rockets and missiles..

There is no such thing as objectivity in reporting.  What you choose to report or fail to report -  brings a certain slant.

Therefore, please report as Jews rather than as objective reporters as if there was no difference between being a Jewish reporter and being Kechol HaGoyim (like all other nations). Even if Jews choose not to differentiate, Hitler Yemach Shemo did choose to differentiate between a Jew and a Non Jew.  Religious observance did not seem to matter.

The Jewish Perspective:

Even if the Supreme Court would treat Jewish and Arab building as equal, we know from reading the Torah that Jews have entitlement and Arabs that reject Jewish Sovereignty do not. Our claim to the Land is based on the Torah.   Palestinians have no religious or historic claim!

The law of Medinat  Yisroel can not override Divine Law and can not give away that which is not theirs to give.  The Land belongs to G-d as is written in the Holy Torah. (Ki li kol Haaretz)  G-d has chosen the Land of Israel for the Nation of Israel in order that we observe the commandments.  We are a Holy Nation and the Land of Israel is referred to by the entire world as The Holyland. For the sake of World Peace and Prosperity, the Land of Israel actualizes it's raison d'etre only when the Nation of Israel have sovereignty in the Land and are observing the commandments in the Land which are spelled out in the Book of Deuteronomy also called Mishneh Torah. ( Deuteronomy, Sefer Devarim is read on the night of Hoshana Rabba and parts are read in the Hakhel ceremony on Sukkot following a Shemittah year and on weekly Parsha Torah readings in the summer months up to Sukkot)

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From: eli7 <eli7@womeningreen.org.il>
Date: Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 5:01 PM
Subject: Haraisha-the Battle against the Silent Expulsion
To: eli7 <eli7@womeningreen.org.il>

From: Nadia Matar [mailto:nmatar@netvision.net.il]
Subject: Haraisha-the Battle against the Silent Expulsion

 

 

Dear Friends

 

Last week,on our Women in Green chizuk trip to the Shomron and Binyamin outposts ,we went, among other places, to Hareisha and heard the mind boggling story of this great community in danger of having its houses demolished because of "Peace Now".

 

Thank you to our dear friend Timna Katz for writing the story of Haraisha in English.

 

With love for Israel,

 

Nadia Matar - Yehudit Katzover

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Haraisha

The Battle Against the Silent Expulsion

 

Background

 

Haraisha was established in 5749 (1999) during the last days of Netanyahu's first tenure as prime minister.  With the help of the Binyamin Local Council under the leadership of Pinchas Wallerstein and his successor Avi Roeh as well as residents of the nearby yishuvim of Talmon and Neria under the leadership of Rav Daniel Hershkovitz, the initial garin of Mercaz HaRav graduates struck roots.  Today the community numbers over 40 families.

 

The families were originally housed in caravans.  After some years the Housing Ministry began developing the permanent infrustructure for the yishuv, including laying the groundwork for permanent housing.  The investment of the Housing Ministry was supplemented by the support of other governmental offices and ministries, including the Defense Ministry, who appreciated Haraisha's strategic importance overlooking Ramallah to the south and east and all of Gush Dan to the west.

 

Once the Housing Ministry had laid the groundwork for the permanent housing, the families invested their private funds to build their homes.  Like almost everywhere in the country where ownership of land is not private, the final permits weren't obtained before construction began.  As is typical throughout Israel, the eight houses were built with the expectation that the final permits would be granted at the end of the long bureaucratic process.  As is also typical, the Civil Administration automatically issued destruction orders on the buildings, which are then retroactively cancelled once the approval process is completed.

 

 

Peace Now Gets Involved

 

Peace Now discovered this technicality and turned it into a weapon in its war against the Jewish presence in Judea and Samaria.  It initiated a continual and ongoing campaign to have the "illegal dwellings" throughout Judea and Samaria destroyed.  And it found an eager and willing partner in the Israeli Supreme Court.  About four years ago, Peace Now filed a petition to force the state to execute the destruction orders pending on the permanent houses in Haraisha.  The State responded to Peace Now's appeal with weak equivocation.  True, it asserted, the houses are illegal, but it isn't high on the State's list of priorities to destroy them for many and varied reasons.  . . . It was the same answer that the State gave to Haraisha's identical appeal against illegal Arab building in the neighboring village.

 

And wonder of wonders, the Supreme Court accepted the State's position regarding the Arab building, but not the Jewish building.  On July 7, 2009, the Supreme Court issued a precedential decision to intervene in the State's manangment of state-owned lands by ordering it to set a time for the evacuation of the families and the destruction of their homes within four months.

 

The decision's blatant discrimination in favor of Arab defendants and against Jewish ones is yet another stone in the long road the Supreme Court and its Leftist collaborators have paved leading the State along their preferred political path against the will of the people and their elected representatives.

 

 

A Simple Solution

 

There is a simple solution that would frustrate the fond wishes of Peace Now: the signature of the Defense Minister as the final remaining step in the long approval process for the yishuv.  This is a simple procedural step since the land on which the yishuv is built is "adamot sekker", 'surveyed' land that becomes state land when there are no private claimants to ownership.  The land upon which Haraisha sits is indeed uncontested.  Unfortunately, Defense Minister Ehud Barak shares the goals of Peace Now and is unwilling to affix his signature due to political considerations.

 

Ma Nishtana?

 

How is this struggle different from other struggles?  The nationalist public has become very familiar with this drama and its unchanging cast of characters: the vicious and dishonest leftist organizations, the hostile and hypocritical Supreme Court, the dissembling government issuing its doublespeak, the hostile and hypocritical media, and the embattled and noble settlers.  The public has also grown weary of the spectacle: because the ending doesn't vary, it has started to seem like the characters are just going through the motions.  Once again, the weak are overcome by the mighty because everyone realizes – especially after Gush Katif – that this is a battle that can't be won.  So the settlers are put in their place by the establishment, but leave the field vowing to fight another day – a cry that rings more and more hollow as the days pass.

 

Here in Haraisha, we are not weary.  We are not shrugging our shoulders and saying, 'well, what do you expect from the Supreme Court?'  We recognize that the cooperative venture between Peace Now and the Supreme Court will turn into a stealth "disengagement" if left unchallenged and unchecked.  We recognize that the small fissure made by the Supreme Court's decision will turn into a wide canyon through which the heavy bulldozers will roll to dismantle settlement after settlement.  We are treating our houses as the House of Israel, Beit Yisrael, and our struggle as the struggle of the Jewish People's right to their homeland.

 

Every single member of Haraisha is committed to wage this battle with total determination.  We are well organized and we are serious.  We will not back down, we will not make deals, and we will not compromise since we will not be on the defensive.  While we will use all the tools at our disposal, including traditional lobbying and political pressure tactics, our strategy will be different.

 

 

 

 

 

Preventing the Destruction by Attacking the Root Cause

 

Haraisha has joined hands with the Regavim organization to attack the problem at its root: the hijacking of the Israeli justice system to serve the ends of the Far Left political elite, effectively bypassing the democractic process.

 

Though the financial cost is onerous (a mere pittance for Peace Now but a staggering sum for us), we intend to file petition after petition demanding that the Supreme Court treat illegal Arab building the same way as "illegal Jewish building."  (In truth, the two are not the same as the Arabs rarely take steps to comply with the law, whereas the Jews do everything in their power to comply.)  While the Supreme Court and the media can sweep one or two such cases under the carpet, if the double standard becomes too flagrant and too stark and too public, the matter will come to a head.  The Court will either have to stop playing ball with Peace Now or it will lose so much of its legitimacy that the government will be forced to step in and act.

 

For our legal strategy to be effective, we will need to inform the public about our campaign and to arouse their active support. To this end, we will and are employing traditional lobbying and public relations tactics.

 

 

We Need Your Help

 

1.      By being politically active – Anyone with access to people with political influence can help by contacting those people on behalf of Haraisha.

2.      Creating a public storm – Pass on the word in whatever way you can: by contacting the media, spreading the message on email lists and internet forums, etc.  Even a simple conversation with the people you come in contact with on a daily basis can make a big impact in unexpected ways.  Also, please participate in the public events that we will be holding.  The perception of widespread public support for our cause has a big influence on politicians.

3.      Fundraising – Please contribute to this cause that is the cause of all of us.  Ask your families and friends to contribute.  If you know of philanthropists who might be willing to help us, please pass on their names.  The legal war that we're embarking on entails significant sums.

4.      Share your ideas with us – If you have new ideas or a different angle on how to conduct this struggle, we are happy to hear from you.

 

Aloh na'aleh . . . ki yachol nuchal la. 

With G-d's help – and united – we can do this!

 

 The Residents of Haraisha

 

For Contributions, call 054 6235818

To contact the Residents' Committee: cellphones:

 El-Ad 052 6071277    Nachum 052 8119726

email: zimra@neto.co.il

from vegibud@gmail.com to faigerayzel@gmail.com date Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 5:11 PM subject 40 Israeli children and babies in Harasha need help!

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Grassroots efforts to help the community of Harasha, sent by Ted Belman and forwarded by other activists.

40 Israeli Children and Babies in Harasha Need Help! 

Peace Now has asked the Israel High Court (Bagatz) to order 8 Israeli homes  to be razed in a small Shomron community called Harasha. These are the first 8 stone houses (as opposed to caravans) to be built in Harasha. Haresha is an Israeli outpost, which was recognized as legal by the Prime Minister's office years ago -- here's the actual document:http://mattotarim1.blogspot.com/2009/10/haresha-ishur-roham1.html

More than 40 children and babies will be homeless and penniless if these 8 homes are razed. Worse,  Peace Now will use this as a precedent to try to deport the 7000 Israelis - almost as many as resided in Gush Katif! – residing in outposts today.

Kindly write to Israel's cabinet ministers, and to Coalition Chairman MK Zeev Elkin. For example (feel free to change this -- or write your own!!):

Subject line: 40 Israeli children and babies in Harasha need help!

Email message: Dear Gentlemen,

I was so sorry to learn that Peace Now is yet again harassing 8 Israeli families, totaling more than 40 children and babies, for no reason. Please, Mr. Minister, can you take charge  by  contacting Prime Minister Netanyahu, Cabinet Secretary Gidon Hauser and Justice Minister Yaakov Neeman and urging them to deal with this vital issue immediately. Enough of the "legal" attacks on any Israeli or Jew who dares to do anything (build a home, defend his children) that some terror group somewhere does not like.

Please notify ZIMRA, a woman who was expelled with her family from Gush Katif, set up residence in Harasha, and now is faced with the destruction of the homes there, at– Zimra@neto.net.il - that you have responded to her plea.  She and AFSI would also love to see you raise this issue in the media, defending the brave, tiny, peaceable community of Harasha and urging more neighborhoods to be built there. Send us copies of anything you send out.

Here are the  email Addresses for the Ministers - copy all these email addresses into the "to" field and send the same email to all ministers at once:

sar@moch.gov.il; roeil@moin.gov.il; minister@most.gov.il;  ministerts@most.gov.il;  sar@tourism.gov.il; sar@mfa.gov.il; sar@mof.gov.il; sar@mot.gov.il; sar@mops.gov.il; yedelstein@knesset.gov.il; gerdan@knesset.gov.il;bbegin@knesset.gov.il; myaalon@knesset.gov.il; mcachlon@knesset.gov.il; yiskatz@knesset.gov.il;llivnat@knesset.gov.il; gsaar@knesset.gov.il; ypeled@knesset.gov.il;ysteinitz@knesset.gov.il; sshalom@knesset.gov.il; iaharon@knesset.gov.il; aliberman@knesset.gov.il;ulandau@KNESSET.GOV.IL; slandver@knesset.gov.il; smiseznikov@knesset.gov.il; dhershkovitz@KNESSET.GOV.IL; mnahari@knesset.gov.il; aatias@knesset.gov.il; eyishay@knesset.gov.il; ymargi@knesset.gov.il; yakovm@dat.gov.il; sar@sviva.gov.il; sar@moc.gov.il;sar@moia.gov.il;sar@environment.gov.il;sar@mni.gov.il; zelkin@knesset.gov.il 

 

Ted Belman
Jerusalem
054 441 3252

Re:JTA responds to JTA Treif News Source. Switch to Arutz7 and other authentic Jewish Kosher News

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Dear Uriell Heilman of JTA,

Thank you for your response about how you stand by your reporting.

On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Uriel Heilman <uheilman@jta.org> wrote:
http://blogs.jta.org/telegraph/article/2009/10/02/1008266/the-acid-test-we-stand-by-our-reporting
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Uriel Heilman
Managing Editor, JTA
Tel. 212 643-1890 x209


Mr. Heilman, Reporters pick and choose their stories. 

10,000 peoples lives were uprooted, their homes destroyed, synagogues, playgrounds, cultural centers in Gush Katif were bulldozed. Today as we speak their pain is still raw.  The wound is festering.  Beit Hashalom is merely another inflicted pain on this festering wound.

 A Nazi State that glorifies martyrs iis being slated to take the place of settlers in Judea and Samaria, who love the Land and their communities, the same kind who grew bug free lettuce, tomatoes etc.  and flowers in Gush Katif. 

The Mufti of Jerusalem was a partner with Hitler and he is the founding ideological  father of Fatah. 

Maybe you should visit Yad Veshem or review the pictures of Palestinians massacring the 3 soldiers. Why don't you report on the rapes and dismemberment of body parts in the massacre of 1929 to the Jewish Community of Hebron when they did nothing to provoke the Arabs and rather befriended them?  Compare their violence to the Jewish Violence.  Compare the hate speeches of their Leaders prior to the Massacre in Hebron  and the speeches of hte Jewish Leaders in Hebron while Beit Hashalom was in the process of being dismantled and the families expelled.

Why is your reporting so one sided?  I stand by my charge that  some of the news from JTA  is Treif reporting and that all authentic Jewish News Sources should choose their Jewish News from sources that reflect our Torah and our Biblical Heritage.

Why are you so blind to see the whole picture. What will  it take to wake you up?  Will the only way you  can relate to the settlers is if  someone comes to  destroy your home, chas vechalila, and you will find yourself forced to swallow your emotions, restrain your feelings so that others will report (or not report on your good behavior) and your ability not to be violent in the face of their "legal rights" to your home. 

Of course we would never want you to experience the Arab Violence as did the Jews in the 1929 Massacre. 

Arabs have a history of lying for PR and public sympathy.  They  have a history of blood libels and using Jewish compassion as their weapon.  They have a history of barbarity and cruelty. Just go on the PMW website (Itamar Marcus,) and report in JTA what they are saying iin Fatah news and teaching in Fatah schools.  Let your readers know after whom do they name their schools?

 I would strongly suspect any reports about acid throwing Jewish settlers.  I have lived and been n the Nationalist  circles and I can attest that the teachers in these circles do not encourage acid throwing against ARabs.  Never, in the many lectures and shiurim have I heard this being preached. Rabbi's do emphasize the Bible which  clearly teaches that the Land of Israel is G-ds gift to the Jewish people and that we in turn are obligated to keep the commandments in the Torah.  Jews also have the obligation to defend our Land and Protect our lives.

I suppose you wish to pick and choose which commandments in your opinion is "civilized" and which is not.  Perhaps, a certain number of the commandments you might find distasteful.

My guess is that  you have serious issues with some commandments of the Torah and since it is not political correct to admit that you have issues with what is written in the Torah since it might offend too many religious Jews who subscribe to your news, so you conveniently target the "fringe right wing fanatics, extremists,etc." and portray  them as extreme fanatics who hate Arabs.

Sincerely, Robin Ticker

Robin Ticker wrote:

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From Mattot Arim:

Whose Fault is it that We All Hate Settlers?

Hatred -- of any group -- does not drop out of the sky like rain. It is cultivated. Let's ask the JTA (the news agency which supplies most American Jewish newspapers) not to cultivate hate and not to falsely accuse settlers of criminal deeds.

 

Dear Jewish Telegraph Agency, Your website  http://jta.org/about  states that the JTA strives to be "the definitive, trusted global source of ...current events". But this past year you printed a series of 3 one-sidedly negative articles against settlers which does not fit this description.

 

I am told that Mattot Arim www.mattotarim.org,  an Israeli grassroots organization, has approached you several times regarding the most distasteful "fact" presented in your series:  "[R]adical settlers ...have ...thrown acid at Israeli soldiers" http://jta.org/news/article/2009/06/24/1005829/behind-the-headlines-radical-jewish-settlers. I understand that Mattot Arim told you they have carefully looked into this matter with the Hebron spokesperson, the Shomron Council spokesperson, Women in Green founder Nadia Matar, Gush Katif spokesperson and others and all believe that this allegation is not factual.

 

I also understand that you (the JTA) have claimed that an un-named Israel Police spokesperson made this allegation to you and you merely reported it. Could you, the JTA, possibly confirm this to me by return email. This will allow the un-named spokesperson's behavior to be raised in the Israeli Knesset or cabinet by Mattot Arim. Could you also write to the Israel Police, inform them that the information they gave you has been challenged and ask them to corroborate their allegation by providing the JTA in writing some elementary details regarding their allegation (copy of the chemical analysis performed if any, who (names, dates) purportedly witnessed these events, were any soldiers purportedly injured and if so where are the medical reports, etc.).

 

Or, since it's Yom Kippur season -- the traditional apology season -- could you simply publish a correction and apology indicating that no facts are available to support this allegation so it is hereby retracted until further notice! I look forward to hearing from you, sincerely, Robin Ticker

 

Dear Jewish Print Media,

You are Jewish aren't you?... and some of you are even Orthodox and Chareidi....

Why  bring your news from treif sources even if they call themselves Jewish?  Can't you syndicate from the following Kosher sources regarding Settlements in Judea and Samaria? A Palestinian State has its ideological partner with Nazi Germany.  Settlement in Judea and Samaria has its ideological roots in the Torah.  Why isn't your news waking up the Jewish People that the Land of Israel is our entitlement based on our Jewish Heritage?  Front Page Coverage of Women in Green and Matot Arim will tell the authentic Jewish news. Netanyahus handshake with Abbas is newsworthy but so is the fact that he is willing to negotiate away Land that does not belong to him making this agreement as well as Oslo null and void based on Biblical entitlement. Freezing Jewish Settlement in Judea and Samaria  and removing outposts indicates weakness in our ideological religious and historical conviction and claim to our Land. (The Land belongs to G-d and He chooses to whom he will give it.  First Rashi of Breishit). Yasher Koach to 5TJewish Times for their news coverage....

GOOD and Kosher NEWS SOURCES

Women In Green  Unbelievable!

Mattot Arim  Unbelievable!

Yosef and Melody Hartuv, Love of the Land,
http://www.eish-l.org subscribe to their newsletter
Israel National News - Arutz7
The David S. Wyman Institute forHolocaust Studies

Act for America - Brigitte Gabriel

Palestinian Media Watch , www.palwatch.org,
Independant Media Review Analysis _IMRA
http://israelbehindthenews.com - David Bedein

http://www.afsi.org/OUTPOST/outpost.htm - link to past issues

Outpost July August 2009- (12 pages long, very worthwhile reading)

www.yeshabulletin.com (excellent online news source )

http://yeshabulletin.blogspot.com/

Dear fellow activist, amv"sh

Please send your own letter to the above media and let them know that you'd appreciate front page non skewed, objective media coverage that reflects the position of the settlers and Torah
cc: mattotarim@gmail.com and faigerayzel@gmail.com

Gmar Chasima Tova! Gmar Chatima Tova!

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Fwd: PICTURES FROM LONDON ....THIS IS BEYOND SCARY

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Why would anyone think that we should be at war with such nice, peaceful
Muslims?!

All Christians need to know. You need to forward this one to everyone!
These pictures tell it all!

Is this a sign of possible Religious Wars ???

Muslims have stated that England will be the first country they take over!


These are pictures not shown on American TV or in American Newspapers ,

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Fwd: Shall we outlaw the Jewish siddur (prayerbook)? by Nadia Matar Shall we outlaw Torah and Jewish Holidays? (ps by faigerayzel)

bs"d

My supportive comments to Nadia's letter to radio host Tali Lipkin-Shahak of Galei Tsahal who suggested one should "limit the freedom of speech of the fringe right wing Jewish extremists who call for the building of the Temple" :

While we are at it.... Shall we then outlaw the study of Torah which is constantly referencing the Temple Mount.  How about outlawing Rosh Hashana when we read about the Akeida  that occurred on Temple Mount and Yom Kippur whose Musaf prayer talks about the Avoda of the Kohanim and the Kohein Gadol that takes place on Temple Mount and the Holiday of Sukkot which involves pilgramage to Jerusalem to offer sacrifices on Temple Mount.  I suppose for Tali Lipking Shahak there is no point in remembering all of that. It might incite the "right wing Jewish extremists" to try to "chadesh Yameinu KeKedem", restore what we once had. 

Once we start with limiting  freedom of speech of "right wing Jewish extremists"  who wish to rebuild the Temple there are no end of possibilities..

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Subject: Shall we outlaw the Jewish siddur (prayerbook)? by Nadia Matar
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Shall we outlaw the Jewish siddur (prayerbook)?
by Nadia Matar

Translation of Hebrew letter written to radio host Tali Lipkin-Shahak of Galei Tsahal:

Shalom Tali,

In reaction to your interview with Minister Dan Meridor this morning on Galei Tsahal (Wednesday, October 7, at about 9:10 am) in which you suggested that one should "limit the freedom of speech of the fringe right wing Jewish extremists who call for the building of the Temple" and thus incite the Arabs to violence, I would like to give you an idea:

Why don't you suggest instead to make the Jewish siddur (prayerbook) illegal for its "inciteful" content? As I assume you know, a very large portion of the prayers talk about our longing and the need to rebuild the Temple.

No, not a few "Jewish extremists" talk about rebuilding the Temple but millions of Jews, in Israel and abroad, who pray three times a day, longing for the rebuilding of the Temple.

"Sheyibane Bet Hamikdash" (May the Temple be built) are not empty verses we say, but we actually mean it!

So, Tali, as someone who seems to worry very much about the rights of the poor, poor, violent Arabs and not about the right of the Jews to their holiest place, which is the Temple Mount and not the Kotel (as even Meridor pointed out to you in the interview), you have two options:

·  to suggest making the siddur illegal
·  to put in administrative detention millions of Jews who might have the hutzpa to pray from that "inciteful" prayerbook

All this, of course, in order to make sure not to upset the feelings of the very sensitive Arabs.

It is with great sadness that we still have radio hosts who don't understand that we are at war with a bitter Arab enemy. That Arab enemy davka does understand what Uri Zvi Greenberg wrote years ago: "Whoever controls the Temple Mount, controls all of Erets Israel"

I would love to have a cup of coffee with you and give you a tour of areas that you probably never set foot in, the mountains of Judea and Samaria, where our forefathers lived and where all of Jewish history took place. From the mountains of Judea and Samaria, we who live here watch over you down there in Gush Dan. The fact that we live here in our Biblical Homeland is what protects you Tel Avivians and the rest of the country, and prevents you from being bombarded by Arab katyushot and missiles.

With warm wishes of a chag sameach and fervent prayers that G-d will give us the opportunity to rebuild our Temple on the Temple Mount,

Nadia Matar
Women in Green
  www.womeningreen.org

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