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From: Israel Kaplan <israelkaplan@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 7:58 PM
Subject: HOW DO YOU TREAT YOUR FELLOW JEW
To: Izzy Kaplan <israelkaplan@yahoo.com>
From: Israel Kaplan <israelkaplan@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 7:58 PM
Subject: HOW DO YOU TREAT YOUR FELLOW JEW
To: Izzy Kaplan <israelkaplan@yahoo.com>
| Israeli gov't denial of due process to jews Read the following news stories about the Israeli gov't wisking away Jews from their families in Samaria, without indictments and without trial. Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria do not yet have civil liberties and human rights since these areas have not been annexed by Israel. The gov't acts as if Israel's basic law, which protects civil liberties and human rights, simply does not apply beyond the green line. Such a precendent was established in August 2005, with the Israeli government demolition of all of Katif and four communities in the Shomron. Orders in this regard are issued by the office of the Prime Minister. Orders in this regard are carried out by the Defense Minister. If you object to the orders of the PM to expel Jews from their homes, without trial, express your feedback to the PM cabinet sec'y, Atty. Zvi Hauser, 02-6705532 (dir.)02-5632580 (fax)or e-mail memshala@it.pmo.gov.il The Israeli gov't is particularly sensitive about bad feedback from outside of the country. That is why the lobbyists for foreign workers are working the international media to stop their expulsions. Get friends and relatives to send in letters to the PM office and to local consulates and embassies abroad to protest the Israeli gov't denial of due process to Israeli citizens. The Israeli government assumes that you will act with passivity and turn the other cheek. You have a choice. 1. Make sure that the Prime Minister of Israel hears strong feedback or wait until it is your turn to have your human rights and civil liberties abused. 2. Go into denial and live a normal life. ================================================= ISRAELI MILITARY EXPELS THREE JEWS FROM WEST BANK HOMES Israeljustice.com Date added: 10/12/2009 www.israeljustice.com/news2.asp?key=173 JERUSALEM -- Israel's military has served administrative expulsion orders to three Jewish residents of the West Bank community of Yitzhar. Israeli Army Central District Commander Maj.-Gen. Gadi Shamni signed administrative orders to evict three Jews from their homes in the northern Samarian community of Yitzhar and to distance them from Judea and Samaria for six months. The three, Akiva HaCohen, 25, Ariel Groner, 24 and Eliav Eliyahu, 19, haven't been charged with any crime. Army officials said the administrative orders were issued after "information was received of their involvement in violent and illegal activity and in light of the genuine danger foreseen from them to security and the public order. "This is not connected to the olive harvest," HaCohen said. "They [the police] said this is connected to confrontations between Jews and Arabs and the eviction from and destruction of outposts." HaCohen, a father of four together with his wife, Ayelet Hashachar, who is in her ninth month, said that he had not yet decided how he was going to respond to the order. HaCohen said he drove to the central Israeli city of Petah Tikva on the morning of October 11 to purchase building materials. As he got out of his car to pay the parking, he was surrounded by four police officers who served him the administrative expulsion order. Another eight police officers remained in the police vehicles. The order allows three days for HaCohen to appeal and one week to leave his home for six months or face imprisonment. "This is anti-democratic and is discrimination against Jews," HaCohen said. "What about the left-wing and the Arabs?" HaCohen and Groner, also a father of four with a newborn, are not newcomers to this scenario. HaCohen was expelled from his home in Yitzhar in October 2006 for over three months after sitting in jail for attempting to enter the now destroyed Gush Katif in the Gaza Strip in August 2005. In August 2007, Groner was jailed for two months for breaking an administrative expulsion order from Yitzhar and was then ordered to live under house arrest in a mobile home in the scorching Beit Shean valley without air conditioning for three months. He was then forbidden from returning to Judea and Samaria for another three months. In previous years, security forces said they served the administrative orders during the Palestinian olive harvest to prevent confrontations between Jews and Arabs but by October, the harvest is almost complete. "It's not connected to the olives," Daniella Weiss, one of the leaders of the Land of Israel Faithful Movement said. "It's connected to the eviction of outposts and to [Defense Minister Ehud Barak] who wants to destroy them." The Land of Israel Faithful Movement issued a statement criticizing the government for its use of undemocratic tools and for failing to tell HaCohen, Groner or Eliyahu why they were expelled from their homes. "We sharply and unambiguously condemn these expulsion orders," the statement said. "We demand that the Government of Israel, a nationalist government, immediately stop the erroneous use of these undemocratic tools that are reminiscent of dark periods in our history." ISRAELI STATE PROSECUTION RELENTLESS IN PURSUING JEWISH DISSIDENTS Israeljustice.com Date added: 10/14/2009 JERUSALEM -- An Israeli court reversed a decision to release a Jewish dissident after the state prosecution petitioned to appeal the release in a higher court. On October 14, Jerusalem Magistrate Ram Vinograd ordered Elhanan Groner distanced from the home of Deputy State Prosecutor Shai Nitzan until the end of judicial proceedings against him. Immediately, the state prosecution requested an order delaying the judge's decision and asked that Groner remain in custody pending an appeal to the Jerusalem District Court. Several hours later, the state prosecution rushed through an indictment for offending a civil servant, punishable by six months in prison. The law, introduced by the British Mandate before the founding of the Jewish state, was reintroduced prior to the government's destruction of the Gush Katif block in Gaza in August 2005. Nitzan, who was instrumental in devising and implementing special guidelines to prosecute opponents of the government's policy in 2005, including minors who were first-time offenders, has relentlessly appealed all acquittals of anti-government protesters. Groner, 19, is the younger brother of Ariel Groner who, on October 11, was served an administrative expulsion order from his home in the Jewish community in Yitzhar in northern Samaria and from the West Bank for six months. Groner is charged with insulting Nitzan on the evening of October 13. Groner, who is married and lives in Yitzhar, was visiting his parents who are neighbors of Nitzan in a Jerusalem neighborhood. He allegedly went to the state prosecutor's home and told him he should be ashamed of himself for the latest administrative expulsion orders. Groner is also charged with telling Nitzan's childen, aged eight and 11 that they should be ashamed of their father. Groner has denied the charges. Groner was immediately arrested and investigated by police in Nitzan's home. He was then taken to Jerusalem's Russian Compound jail where he remains in custody despite the magistrate's decision to release him. "This was a good decision for them [the state prosecution]," Shmuel Meidad, head of the Honenu Legal Aid Organization, said. "But they want him held until the end of judicial proceedings. They also arrested his wife and she is being investigated." Groner, then 18, was distanced from Judea and Samaria in November 2008 for three months on the eve of the army's eviction of Jews from the peace house in Hebron also by an administrative expulsion order signed by Israeli Army Central District Commander Maj.-Gen.. Gadi Shamni. Meidad said that the three young men, Ariel Groner, Akiva HaCohen and Eliav Eliahu, who just received administrative expulsion orders from Judea and Samaria for six months have not yet decided how they will respond. Non-compliance with the order results in imprisonment. IZZY KAPLAN 416 824 2858 CELL 416 256 2858 OFFICE Check out my new blog http://israelonisrael.blogspot.com |
