I sometimes amaze myself with the wealth of material I get within the span of 15 minutes on the internet. Thank you to Arieh Zaritsky of Eretz Yisroel Shelanu, Michelle Nevada and Jpost for sending many of the links below..
2005 Gush Katif, Listen to Katsav talk in Hebrew about the legality of the Prime Minister of Israel to implement the expulsion of Jews from their homes in Gush Katif and how he has full confidence in Israel's legal system. This "just" legal system now turned against him and created his own personal destruction.
Moshe Feiglin, Moshe Katzav and Punishment for Supporting Jews Expulsion
(H) http://www.sos-israel.com/index.asp?pageID=45042&siteLang=3
Video: Katzav is Confident in the Israeli Court (H) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHUouVaegGo
Apparently, Israel's court system is impotent to allow building in Judea and Samaria. All of the territories are under the jurisdiction of the Defense Ministry. Ehud Barak it seems has total power over whether the communities in Judea are built or they stagnate. He decides whether or not they get permits. ( Talk about taxation w/o representation! ) Perfect reason for a tea party. Why should residents of Judea and Samaria pay their taxes to a government that gives control over their lives into the hands of one individual by the name of Ehud Barak because he happens to be the Defense Minister???? Their gov't is officially the defense dept since they are not annexed by Israel. Read about Maaleh Adumim's and Ariel's struggle.
Ma'aleh Adumim and Ariel beg PM to okay new building
Rather than submit to the "legalities" of strangulation, believers in the Torah, families like the Federman's and the Carlebach's build their homes, plant their gardens and raise their sheep and goats, chickens ducks and horses to fulfill G-d's promise of abundance and prosperity.
By this very "illegal act", they become enemies of the State of Israell and are treated accordingly. It happened 2 and 1/2 years ago to the Federmans and now once again to the Carlebach's.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuo7ay_rmgs
These two acts of destruction, share in common total disregard of any human decency and demonstrate purposeful intent to generate the maximum emotional trauma to the lives of a mother and her child/children. It seems almost impossible for this to have been executed by a Jewish soul since it is devoid of anything that we recognize as compassion the trademark of a Jew.
Noam Federman's Home Destroyed by Government Goons
It's time to raise h-ll. The Gov't of Israel is acting in Solidarity with a Fascist Islamic Palestinian State and are allowing the Arabs who reject Jewish Sovereignty and embrace a Fascist Islamic Palestinian State to build while putting a stop to Jewish building.
In addition, the gov't of Israel allows this Muslim population to grow up educated to glorify sacrificing children as martyrs in the name pf Shahid and the Holy War as they rejoice in the wedding of their martyrs in their H-ly Union in the afterworld.
Martyrs and terrorist prisoners source of pride for Palestinian families
From: אלישבע פדרמן <elishfed@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 11:27 AM
Elisheva
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November 25, 2010
Dear Friends,
My name is Elisheva Federman. I am the wife of Noam Federman and the mother of 10 children. We are living on a farm next to the holy city of Hebron.
It is very rare to find people who have the means and decide to support the right activities. Most wealthy people are not very responsive to the on-going struggle of Jewish identity for people like us. Our enemies have so much support from all over the world, and most wealthy Jews prefer to support left-winged groups, who help our enemies.
I assume you have some knowledge of who my husband is, and what he went through, being a most devoted son of our nation. During 20 years of marriage, I have found out how hard this kind of life can be. I gave birth to half of my children while Noam was in prison, under different administrative detentions. Nonetheless, I continued raising our family in the holy city of Hebron. I feel thankful to the One Above, for giving me the strength to do so.
After the terrible disengagement, Noam was released from a three year term of house arrest. We then considered how to serve the Jewish people in a more beneficial way. We felt the only strong and proper response to that horrible act by the Israeli government, was for Jews to go out to the small "settlements" and redeem the Holy Land of Israel. So we used our life savings (it was 200,000 NIS which is an enormous fortune for people like us) and invested it in a small plot of land close to Hebron. (We love Hebron so much; we needed to stay within walking distance of the Tomb of the Patriarchs.)
We built a house and planted trees: olives, figs, pomegranate, grapevines, and other fruit trees that our beloved country is blessed with.
We have also bought some goats, chickens, ducks, and horses and established a little Jewish farm. Changing our lifetime habits to this new life of working on the land was difficult. First of all, because we had no knowledge or experience with the management and problems of farm life, and secondly, because the authorities have been fighting us every step of the way. They have tried on more than one occasion to expel us from this land. Like ba'aley t'shuva, we have studied the land and learned how to work it. No words can describe the elation we feel, becoming one with the Land of Israel. But, as I said, the authorities have been attacking us time and time again. It started when they disconnected us from water and electricity, continued when they arrested us for illegal building and the climax was the cruel destruction of our house two years ago. They came in the middle of the night, with no warning, arrested Noam and the oldest girls (aged 17 and 16 at the time), threw me and the little children out of the house, and demolished it, with all our belongings in it, right in front of our eyes. In a short two hour period of time, they destroyed what took us a lifetime to build.
Two days later, I found out that I was pregnant with our tenth child. I felt it was a miracle. With Hashem's help we held his Brit Mila ceremony at the renovating farm. No words can describe our feeling…
People have gathered to help us to restore our life. Money was collected for furniture and other items that needed replacement. However, the damage was so great, we have managed to recover less that one-third of what we lost.
Today we live in a small wooden shed on our farm. With a lot of hard work and strong faith, we have cleared the ruins of our farm and started to build again. We believe that only if we remain strong and persistent will we be able to keep this land and never loose it again.
I am writing you this letter because we need help to continue what we have started: we need to fix the house for the winter, we have no insulation, and the hills of Hebron get very cold in the winter. We have to cover the house and make it dry and warm. We want to renovate the animal pen and bring in new goats. We want to plant grapevines, to replace the grapevines which were destroyed by the police. We want to restore the farm to the condition it was in before. Or perhaps even improve it….
If you identify with our goal to redeem and revitalize this Holy Land, near the City of Our Forefathers - please help us.
May G-d bless you in all of your endeavors; for the compassion you have shown to the people of Israel, and the concern you have shown for the Land of Israel.
Yours sincerely,
Elisheva Federman
Phone: 02-9963982
Mobile: 0528693880
Sincerely,
Robin Ticker
This email is L'Ilui Nishmat Yisrael ben David Aryeh ob"m (Izzy - Kaplan) a great activist and lover of Eretz Yisroel, Am Yisroel and the Torah. Yehi Zichrono Baruch.
This will be posted on Shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com
