Protest! MK Michael Ben-Ari (Ichud Leumi - National Union) denied Visa

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Please email: nivtelaviv@state.gov

Demand " Give MK Michael Ben-Ari a Visa Now!!!"

Backround:
MK Michael Ben-Ari (Ichud Leumi-National Union) reported Monday that he had been turned down for a visa to visit the United States. Ben-Ari had been planning a trip in the upcoming days, in order to visit several American Jewish communities.

Sources close to the MK said that the refusal appears to have stemmed from concerns over demonstrations in which Ben-Ari took part prior to the 2005 Disengagement from Gaza. While applying for a visa Ben-Ari was asked if he had a criminal background, and revealed that he had been arrested during an anti-Disengagement protest, they explained.

My comments:


Denied a Visa because he was arrested for an anti disengagement protest?  Let the State Dept investigate. Didn't the protesters against the Disengagement have their  basic rights of Freedom of Speech, Freedom of religion, etc. denied?.  

What about the American Colonists who formed a militia as a result of intolerable acts and  taxation w/o representation by the British which led up to the AMerican Revolution? Let us brush up on our American History and the Founding of the United States of America.

Compare these grievances of the Colonists with getting thrown out of one's home, having your house destroyed as well as your community uprooted.  What about the loss of livelihood, emotional and psychological pain inflicted on the families following the Disengagement?  What about loss of property and the work of a lifetime and sometimes encompassing 2 generations go down the tube for no apparent good reason..  Settlers of Gush Katif communities were after all tax paying citizens of the State of Israel.  Surely what happened to them was far worse  in comparison with the crime of taxation w/o representation.  In hindsight, after all the Kassam rockets falling on southern Israel, and the degradation and failure to compensate the settlers after promises of fair compensation, wasn't Michael ben Ari justified in protesting the Disengagement?  

Surely, our Founding Fathers would not have been issued visas as well for their protest (sometimes even violent) against the British! The Boston Tea Party was clearly illegal.

 I  believe that if the Founding Fathers of America were alive today they would be able to relate to the settlers of Judea and Samaria and their struggle for freedom of religion and the right of self defense.  This is precisely why the Founding Fathers came up with the Bill of Rights. It serves to protect our rights and freedom from a  government that is not interested in protecting the rights and freedoms of its loyal citizens.  Shame Shame Shame on those that will not issue Michael ben Ari a Visa!  They have lost their vision of what America truly stands for. 

Sincerely, Robin Ticker

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Letter to Honest Reporting and Camera regarding Smear Press against Right Wing Nationalists

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Dear Honest Reporting and Camera,

Please read the following links. 

http://shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com/2009/11/more-on-smear-campaign-of-media-against.html

http://shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com/2009/11/outnumbered-30-to-7-mishtara-biased.html

It pays to  investigate whether lying under oath (as in giving testimony) in the Arab culture  is considered acceptable or even laudable when it is used as an effective tool to fight the "Israeli occupiers". 

If this is the case, all testimony from Arab sources should be under extra scrutiny unless it is determined that such testimony is indeed accurate and not a result of coercion, bribes or hate.  Their testimony should not be considered accurate by credible News Sources unless it thoroughly investigated. One  reasonably expects a reliable and fair investigation by the Israel Police before any story is sent to the press!

That raises another question.  Is the Police - Mishtara,  interested in enforcing Israeli Law or are they a political police force intent on enforcing and publicizing the political agenda? 

 It is quite clear that there was defamation of name and character of Orthodox Right Wing Nationalists.

It seems to me that the Mishtara - Police accepted false testimony of the Arabs that were proven lies.  Apparently before the police investigation was complete, the news went out to all the News Sources that told the news based on the lies that made the Right Wing camp look bad. (e.g. the Jews shot at the Arabs, Arabs were injured  etc.)

Even though the right wing security guard in this news item was released from prison after a Shabbat in jail  based on conclusive evidence of his innocence, the bad PR damage had been done!  (note all the links to the false press generated as a result of this police report)

More on Smear Campaign of Media against Settlersk - Beit Zefafah

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Dear Journalists amd fellow activists, amv"sh

I just sent you the authentic version of what happened in Beit Zefafah. See link in orange.  See however, from the attached list below see how this incident was reported in the news based on a police report that was based on proven lies.

http://shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com/2009/11/outnumbered-30-to-7-mishtara-biased.html

Attached list of false media stories

YNET

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3797777,00.html 

NEWSTIN

http://www.newstin.co.uk/rel/uk/en-010-019627294 

JPOST

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1256799049399&pagename=JPArticle/ShowFull

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1256799049230&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull 

JEWISH UPDATES

http://jewishupdates.com/2009/10/30/right-wingers-wound-4-beit-safafa-men/ 
 

ALL VOICES

http://www.allvoices.com/news/4513230-los-angeles/stories

http://www.allvoices.com/s/event-4513230/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5oYWFyZXR6LmNvbS9oYXNlbi9zcGFnZXMvMTEyNDc5MC5odG1s 
 

MISC

http://tweetmeme.com/story/240766679/right-wing-men-wound-4-southeast-jlem-arabs-headlines-news-jerusalem-post

http://www.israel-palestinenews.org/2009/10/armed-settlers-shoot-palestinian-beat.html

http://australiansforpalestine.com/breaking-news-israeli-settlers-shoot-stab-palestinians-in-two-jerusalem-attacks 

http://engforum.pravda.ru/showthread.php?t=266678 

SILO

http://www.silobreaker.com/jerusalem-11_82021

http://www.silobreaker.com/jews-arrested-in-brawl-over-home-ownership-5_2262710484463517710 

JTA

http://jta.org/news/article/2009/11/01/1008854/right-wing-jewish-activists-detained-after-brawl-with-arabs-in-jerusalem#When:11:58:00Z 

INN

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/173552

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/173549

Outnumbered 30 to 7 - Mishtara biased against Jews. Mishtara fails to protect Jews under attack. Arrests the security guard that shot in air in self defense, still has not returned video that proves Jews innocence, Arabs bring false witnesses to test

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Dear Journalists and Fellow Activists, amv"sh

Please read the full story by Hillel Fendel on Arutz 7.

Arab Squatters were handed eviction notice by the 78 years old owner Yitzchok Herskovits. They responded with stones. Link to Arutz 7 article by Hillel Fendel  at Beit Tzafafah

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/134160

Read about it in Yeshabulletin.com

Outnumbered 30 to 7


I am not an investigative reporter but I received a first hand report from the photographer on the scene of the above mentioned articles. 

The blue clothes police, Mishtara,  took the side of the Arab aggressors.  They arrested Mordechai, a security guard of the group, who acted in self defense, in response to a barrage of large Arab hurled grapefruit sized stones.  The Mishtara also attempted to arrest and fingerprint the photographer  who clearly did nothing but film.  Luckily one of the border police intervened so the photographer was let go.  The Mishtara, the blue clothed police took away the incriminating film of the Arab stone throwers with the agreement that a copy of the video film would be returned to the photographer. As of a few hours ago,  this has still not happened. 

If the Mishtara fails to return the film, they are clearly hiding evidence that will show proof of innocence on the part of the Jews. This video proves that  the Jews were clearly acting in self defense and that the Arabs were the aggressors. 

Jewish citizens in the State of Israel as do citizens in the USA as do citizens all over the world have the right of self defense!

Not only were there 20- 30 rock throwers against these 7 Jews resulting in 2 injuries, thank G-d not life threatening, this Arab family  brought  false evidence to incriminate the Jews who were on the receiving end of their rocks. They  fabricated testimony that a bullet hit a man in the hand and also that the Jews stabbed an Arab women.  Of course as the video shows,  the group of Jews were all running under cover because they were under attack so this would be highly impossible.  With the grace of G-d, Mordechai, the security guard was released because the video was able to prove that Mordechai, the security guard clearly acted in self defense by shooting in the air. He did his job.  The bullet of the alleged Arab victim did not match the bullets in Mordechai's gun and that the wound was incompatible with a wound that would have resulted from Mordechai's gun.  This is clear proof that the Arabs brought false testimony. 

I don't know if Mordechai got his gun returned to him.  I wonder if any of the  Arab witnesses were arrested for false testimony and if there was an investigation as per who set them up to testify falsely?  For example, were they bribed?

 Why with a history of false allegations by Arabs against settlers do the police believe the Arab Side and not the Jewish side? Isn't there a chazaka,  a status quo,   on the part of the Arabs that they will be hostile to a Jewish presence entering their domain.  Can Jews freely enter Arab villages w/o being afraid for their lives?   Arabs that are not suspected terrorists, are not afraid for their lives in Jewish population centers.  The walk around freely, feeling safe of being attacked. They and Israelis are merely inconvenienced by annoying security checks to weed out potential Arab suicide bombers and terrorists. On the other hand,  a mere Jewish presence in Arab population centers are considered "provocation" and their lives are seriously at risk as was seen by the lynching of 3 Israeli Soldiers, Daniel Pinner and many other examples. .

Unfortunately large news agencies including Jewish ones  trust the police reports  as opposed to the version presented by the "radical settlers".

Mordechai  the security guard was arrested and had to spend Shabbat in jail for firing in the air.  What was he supposed to do.  Allow his group to be sitting ducks?.  What would have happened to Mordechai, the security guard, had the Arab stone throwers not been caught on film and had his bullets been of the more standard variety that matched the type of bullet wound of the false Arab witness? There would be no evidence except the lies of the Arabs.  Would he have been forced to sit in  jail like Jonathan Pollard whose crime was to somehow to the best of his ability attempt to  protect his fellow Jew when the real responsible parties, like the IDF or Mishtara failed to do their job? Would Mordechai have been placed in administrative detention for months, with hefty legal feels, unable to work and bring in a livelihood for his family as is the case with some other unfortunate settlers with nasty police reports against them that rely on Arabs stories rather than the real truth based on an unbiased, non politically motivated investigation? 

 Is it any wonder that the UN Goldstone report succeeded in incriminating Israel in Operation Cast Lead for executing their moral obligation of protecting their citizens, similar to the way the Israeli judicial system currently incriminates settlers  in Judea and Samaria and elsewhere for executing their right in self defense? Middah Kinegged Middah.


Why didn't the Israeli Court send the army to issue the eviction notice?   Clearly the Arabs have history of hostility against the Jews especially when they are being evicted for squatting.   Why is it the responsibility of a 78 year old landowner to serve the eviction papers in hostile territory? 

Maybe the way things turned out is for the best for Herskovitz.  Apparently one can surmise that the police is biased against the Jews.   If the police would have received orders to serve the eviction notice, who knows if the fact that the eviction papers  reached the Selah family squatters would have been duly documented and recorded as was the case here.. From Hillel Fendel's report they simply threw the eviction papers away. It was recorded on video, however, that it was received.

We must demand from the Mishtara to return at least an untampered copy of the video film back to the photographer as evidence of what really happened.  Surely this evidence is needed to counter the negative publicity generated from biased media reports that base their news on false police reports that  serve once again to to demonize the settlers. 

We can not allow biased media journalists and the Mishtara to get away with spreading false and evil reports based on  police reports based on lies. 

The government of Israel has the obligation to protect its loyal citizens and when they fail to do so should not incriminate those that are forced to defend themselves to the best of their ability.

Let me conclude by adding that we can not allow the action of any individual, even if found guilty, which is clearly not the case here, to  be used to smear the reputation and good name of upright citizens and wholesome communities  that live in Judea and Samaria and elsewhere who believe in the Torah and our entitlement to the entire Israel within the Biblical Borders.

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