Chabad is speaking out for Shleimut HaAretz!. NCJA calls for the recall of Ambassador to Belgium, Howard Gutman who has betrayed his ancestry

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Check out. www.chabad4israel.org!  

Baruch Hashem for Chabad and for the wise teachings of the Rebbe!

But shame on some other Jews. Please read the following release just sent out by the National Conference on Jewish Affairs (NCJA)

National Conference on Jewish Affairs calls on 
US Administration to Remove Dangerously Clueless Amb. Gutman from his Post

Contact: Lori Lowenthal Marcus 610.664.1184                              

For Immediate Release

New York, December 9, 2011 -- The NCJA, a coalition of Jewish leaders and heads of Jewish, pro-Israel organizations, is appalled by the current US Ambassador to Belgian, Howard Gutman, trading on his ancestory and the tragedy of his familial suffering in the Holocaust to sanitize his double-headed affront regarding anti-Semitism.  At a time when there are well-documented increases in European anti-Semitism, including arson and other attacks on synagogues, defacements of Jewish cemeteries, physical violence against those wearing outwardly Jewish symbols, and anti-Semitic aspects to public protests on unrelated topics, Gutman's claim that there isn't any increase in anti-Semitism simply attests to his Ostrich qualities.  Even worse, his pronouncement that Israel itself is at fault for a different kind of anti-Semitism, because of its "failure" to achieve peace with the Arab Palestinians is staggering.  

"It is time for Jews to stop using their ancestry as an imprimatur of validity for their own anti-Israel views, and to their dangerous minimization of the rise of anti-Semitism in Europe and around the world," said Lori Lowenthal Marcus, Z STREET president and chair of the NCJA executive committee.  "When the 'partner' with whom Israel is supposed to make peace refuses to recognize the Jewish nation's existence and continues naming public squares and soccer teams for murderers of Jews, it is grotesque for Gutman to blame anti-Semitism on Israel's 'recalcitrance'," said Marcus.  

Beth Gilinsky, executive director of NCJA, asked "How can it be that the official representative of the United States is telling the world that, despite all palpable evidence to the contrary, anti-Semitism is not on the rise?"  Gilinsky, a long-time advocate for Jewish causes, said,  "Gutman is a disgrace for having made those statements both because he officially represents the views of the United States and because he is a Jew."  Dr. Herbert London, president emeritus of the Hudson Institute and member of the NCJA executive committee added, "Gutman has demonstrated in his misguided commentary that he is gutless, yet another pol who myopically blames Israel for the violent behavior of Hamas and Hizbollah."

The National Conference on Jewish Affairs is an umbrella organization of American Jewish leaders and groups which work to uphold the American Constitution and liberty, promote a strong and safe Israel and Jewish rights in the Land of Israel, initiate positive relations with our non-Jewish friends, protect our Jewish young people in educational institutions, and assert the rights and security of Jewish People across the globe.  NCJA is adamantly opposed to making concessions to terrorists in the Middle East, or anywhere else across the globe.  The NCJA calls on this US Administration to recall Amb. Gutman from his post.

Shabbat Shalom UmeVorach! 

Arabs Infiltrate Itamar, Beat Shepherds and Soldiers. Encouraged by "Rabbis for Human Rights"????????

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Dear Esteemed Rabbanim, Media Personnel and activist list, 

The subject of this email is from today's news on Arutz7. 

Calling upon all RABBIS FOR TORAH. Please make the time to come on Sunday morning at 11:00 in front of the Israel Consulate on 42nd Street and 2nd Ave run by AFSI.  (see details below) There will be a Sefer Torah.  Tenu Kavod LaTorah. Bring Honor to the Torah! Bring your congregations.. Don't ask who else will be there.  It doesn't matter even if you are the only Rabbi that comes.  G-d will take note. The most important thing is our Hishtadlus, our willingness to try to do what we can. Deep down you know that we must proclaim what it says in the Torah or else there is a Chillul Hashem.  Rejoice around the Torah!  Let us be proud Jews and proclaim our entitlement of Yerushalyim, Har Habayit, Yehudah and the Shomron based on Torah.  We are the Chosen People for good reason.  We are a Kingdom of Priests and a Holy Nation.  Our Sovereignty in Israel, whose boundaries include all of Judea and Samaria brings peace and prosperity to mankind.  We are the seed of Avrohom, Yitzchok and Yaakov and we pride ourselves in studying and keeping the Commandments of the Torah.  This is what sets us apart.  This is what makes us a Holy Nation! 

Will these "RABBIS for Human Rights" set the tone??? Surely our enemies will publicize their message.  In today's world, inaction while our enemies are proactive is our greatest danger.

 It is no wonder that these Arabs feel empowered following the demolition and destruction  of the newly established shul in Givat Aryeh, near Itamar authorized by Israel.  Equally upsetting is the support these Arabs are receiving from "Rabbis for Human Rights" !?!

This shul was established in answer to the Pogrom against the Fogel family from Itamar. Recently they celebrated a Hachnosat Sefer Torah. This was their answer to the atrocities against them. (Apparently, according to these "Rabbis", the Fogel Family and the residents of Itamar aren't human so they are not candidates for Human Rights.  Chopping off heads of babies 3 months old and murdering the parents and the siblings in cold blood is not a problem.  The Synagogue is a problem. Jews that settle the Land of Israel is a problem).  Did I miss the condemnation by these "Rabbis of Human Rights"  of the inhuman animalistic behavior by terrorists who show no remorse!  If so please enlighten me.  

So much for these "Rabbis" engaging in interfaith dialogue and twinning with Muslim groups affiliated with Muslim Brotherhood.  Rabbis for Human Rights - North America and Rabbis for Human Rights Israel  check them out or rather X them out!

Arabs Infiltrate Itamar, Beat Shepherds and Soldiers

Arabs from the village of Akraba infiltrated an agricultural area in the town of Itamar on Thursday morning, beating residents.

By David Lev

Arabs from the village of Akraba infiltrated an agricultural area in the town of Itamar on Thursday morning. The Arabs came looking for a fight – equipped with metal bars and sticks, stones and other items. The entered an area where some Jewish residents of the town were grazing a flock of sheep and attacked them, inflicting injuries on some of the shepherds. The Arabs also threatened to come back later that night for another attack – this time with guns.

The shepherds called for help from IDF troops, who were attacked as well when they arrived. Two Arabs who attacked residents and soldiers were arrested. A resident of the town managed to take video of the attack. Security staff of the yishuv filed a complaint with police Thursday afternoon over the attack.

Residents said that they saw the Arab attackers taking instructions over the phone from leftist groups – including the "Rabbis for Human Rights Groups," which consists largely of Conservative and Reform rabbis who have made it their mission to help Arab villagers in Judea and Samaria fight against Jewish residents.

Only two weeks ago, a spokesperson for the Samaria Residents' Council, officials of the Civil Administration denote the specific borders of the area belonging to Itamar – which Arab agricultural workers are not allowed to use, or even to enter. Nevertheless, the Council said, Arabs continued to seek ways to sneak onto Jewish land in Itamar, and Thursday's attack showed just how far they were willing to go – with a premeditated attack on Jewish shepherds who had done nothing to provoke them.

In the wake of the incident, Samaria Council head Gershon Mesika said that the incident was "serious, consisting of an attack on civilians and soldiers. I call on police and the IDF to act against these rioters and criminals – both for the attack, which could have ended in tragedy, and for their illegal entrance into Itamar," he said

From AFSI:

PROTEST THE ONGOING DEMOLITION DERBY AGAINST JEWISH HOMES AND SYNAGOGUES BY THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT -   SUNDAY, DEC. 11, 2011 - FROM 11 AM - NOON - OPPOSITE THE ISRAELI CONSULATE - SECOND AVE. & 42ND STREET, NYC     PLEASE PLAN TO ATTEND - INVITE FAMILY, FRIENDS, NEIGHBORS, ALL LOVERS OF A WHOLE ISRAEL TO JOIN YOU -   Speakers will include our grass roots leaders who are not afraid to criticize the Israeli government when it follows policies that desecrate G-d's name!   This protest has been triggered by the recent destruction of the synagogue at Givat Aryeh, and the confiscation of the Torah scrolls. We are also protesting additional planned demolitions about which we have been informed:  in Givat HaUlpana in Bet-El, Givat Assaf, Amona, and additional demolitions of homes in Migron. The AFSI Chizuk group saw three demolished homes there on our recent November visit.             The uplifting story of the creation of Givat Aryeh by a group of young, Jewish pioneers, led by YEDAYA SHOHAM, in response to the brutal butchery of five members of the Fogel family in Itamar, descends into a tragic tale of demolition and disgrace. AFSI was privileged to be part of the joyous creation of the synagogue, and the dedication, on Nov. 15, 2011,  of a Torah scroll rescued from the Holocaust.             On Dec. 1 we learned of the Israeli government's betrayal of its purpose and its people when it sent in a Destructo squad, including Arabs, to demolish the modest tent homes and the synagogue on the hilltop.            Contact AFSI:

Americans For a Safe Israel 1751 Second Avenue (91st Street) New York, NY 10128 Tel: 212-828-2424; 800-235-3658; Fax: 212-828-4538 www.afsi.org; afsi@rcn.com Contact: Helen Freedman, Executive Director

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Understanding Islam in this age of Jewish Muslim Alliances

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Dear Journalists, Rabbis and Members of my list,

In light of the latest craze of Conservative and Reform Rabbis across America,(Orthodox Rabbis tend to be Silent and not take a stand) to foster Interfaith Dialogue between Jews and Muslims and promoting tolerance, moderation, diversity, and pluralism which is the active seeking of understanding across lines of difference,   I wish to present to you very enlightening articles. Please read the articles in their entirety.  They suggest a reality that differs 180 degrees from the reality presented to a clueless, naive, gullible and unknowing audience by the organizations listed below. Thank you. 

• Non-Muslim Muslims and the Jihad Against the West (2 pages long, please read entire article) A Muslim revealing the reality about Muslims and Islam.

• PMW Bulletins - PMW  gives the world a precise understanding of the reality of the Palestinian Authority by translating, monitoring and analyzing the Palestinian Authority through its media and schoolbooks.PMW has presented its findings before members of US Congress and to members of Parliament in numerous countries 

• Who Is Responsible for Muslim Violence?  We can reject their narrative and stand up to their violence.

Organizations promoting Interfaith Dialogue seeking and promoting an illusion of tolerance, moderation, diversity, and pluralism: 

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• Americans for Peace Now invents right wing violence, labels Knesset bills to limit funding to NGO's that hurts Israel as antidemocratic, promotes the boycott of  Israeli products based on false claim of Israel's occupation of the Palestinians, full of lies and distortions of Torah, history and fact
• Families of Abraham  presents Islam as a peaceful and tolerant religion when they are anything but (see above articles)
• The Pluralism Project assumes one can engage those out for Israel's destruction with actively seeking understanding in dialogue and communication.
• Clergy for Tolerance same as above
• ILJB Institute for Living Judaism in Brooklyn features Koran Events 
  is a mini-series of classes on Islam and Judaism. classes taught by Jewish and Muslim scholars will explore some common religious rituals of the two faiths, their origins, meaning, variations in observance, etc. They present themselves as pluralistic but in the one event I attended they had full control of who speaks in their audience and what is said at their events by not allowing freedom of an attendee to express oneself.  Questions are  submitted on index cards and presented by their moderator and not by the one with the questions. There is no way to respond in debate mode to lies and distortions presented by the panelists. 
• Global Jewish Muslim Alliance headed by Rabbi Marc Schneier, twins Mosques with Synagogues promoting an illusion of tolerance, moderation, diversity, and pluralism. Learn about the joint efforts to build a global movement of Jews and Muslims committed to communication, reconciliation and cooperation.This event kicks off the fourth Weekend of Twinning (Nov 18-20), an annual event in which mosques and synagogues, Jewish and Muslim students, young leadership and women's groups hold face-to-face encounters in cities around the globe to celebrate commonalities in the two faiths and undertake social action projects.Brief Biographies: Rabbi Marc Schneier is founding rabbi of the Hampton Synagogue and president of the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding (FFEU).Imam Muhammad Shamsi Ali is spiritual leader of the Islamic Cultural Center of New York (96th Street Mosque), the largest and most influential mosque in New York City.Dr. Mehnaz Afridi is director of the Manhattan College Holocaust, Genocide and Interfaith Education Center.

Sincerely, Robin Ticker

Protest destruction of Shul and confiscation of Sifrei Torah Sunday Dec 11 across Israeli Consulate. Notzrim. Evangelicals are they rooted in Shevet Ephraim of the Ten Lost Tribes?

bs"d  When the government of Israel confiscated 3 Torahs from Givat Arheh and destroyed the shul and broke the Aron Kodesh, they demonstrated their disregard for Torah.  Let us counter this Chillul Hashem with our own vigil in honor of the Torah.  Calling on all Torah believers and especially Rabbanim to stand up for Torah and thereby weaken the Gov't of Israel's decision to nullify Torah when it comes to Jewish settlement in Judea and Samaria.  Please don't be apathetic.  Apathy serves to empower those who are our enemies who are proactive in their agenda. Apathy is our biggest danger. (please read the rest of this email to the end where you will find some very fascinating links) From Helen Freedman of AFSI: PROTEST THE ONGOING DEMOLITION DERBY AGAINST JEWISH HOMES AND SYNAGOGUES BY THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT - SUNDAY, DEC. 11, 2011 - FROM 11 AM - NOON - OPPOSITE THE ISRAELI CONSULATE - SECOND AVE. & 42ND STREET, NYC PLEASE PLAN TO ATTEND - INVITE FAMILY, FRIENDS, NEIGHBORS, ALL LOVERS OF A WHOLE ISRAEL TO JOIN YOU - Speakers will include our grass roots leaders who are not afraid to criticize the Israeli government when it follows policies that desecrate G-d's name! This protest has been triggered by the recent destruction of the synagogue at Givat Aryeh, and the confiscation of the Torah scrolls. We are also protesting additional planned demolitions about which we have been informed:  in Givat HaUlpana in Bet-El, Givat Assaf, Amona, and additional demolitions of homes in Migron. The AFSI Chizuk group saw three demolished homes there on our recent November visit.             The uplifting story of the creation of Givat Aryeh by a group of young, Jewish pioneers, led by YEDAYA SHOHAM, in response to the brutal butchery of five members of the Fogel family in Itamar, descends into a tragic tale of demolition and disgrace. AFSI was privileged to be part of the joyous creation of the synagogue, and the dedication, on Nov. 15, 2011,  of a Torah scroll rescued from the Holocaust.             On Dec. 1 we learned of the Israeli government's betrayal of its purpose and its people when it sent in a Destructo squad, including Arabs, to demolish the modest tent homes and the synagogue on the hilltop.            Contact AFSI:

Americans For a Safe Israel 1751 Second Avenue (91st Street) New York, NY 10128 Tel: 212-828-2424; 800-235-3658; Fax: 212-828-4538 www.afsi.org; afsi@rcn.com Contact: Helen Freedman, Executive Director Christians have been responding quite angrily to this demolition. A CHRISTIAN ASKS BIBI, "WHAT SHALL I TELL MY GRANDSON ABOUT SYNAGOGUE DESTRUCTION IN ISRAEL?"  From: annstacy@verizon.net Subj: What Do I Tell My Grandson? Dear  Mr. Prime Minister: We are wondering where the man is that stood up to President Obama as we proudly watched him address our American Congress.  A number of years ago we saw you, a man who simply wanted to start his day with a workout at the Anatole Hotel Gym in Dallas, Texas.  Yet on that morning you were interrupted by a horrific phone call regarding yet another murderous bus bombing in Jerusalem.  We personally watched your face and the pain that was evident in your heart.  Where was that man December 1,  that either directly or indirectly ordered the demolition of Givat Aryeh?.     The week after the Fogel Family was butchered we took all our children and grandchildren to see Irving Roth, a survivor of Buchenwald.  As we were discussing Eretz Israel and how to impart this to our family,  Mr. Roth suggested, "a trip like no other trip would be with  Americans For a Safe Israel".  My husband suggested I take our 15 year old grandson, Matt.   Mr. Prime Minister, Matt was at Givat Aryeh in June of this year.  He saw Eretz Israel in the eyes and heard it in the voices of these people.  He stood in the yet unfinished synagogue that would soon hold the holy Holocaust Torah scroll.   Again,I went back to Givat Aryeh just a few weeks ago with Americans For a Safe Israel.  As a Christian I cried as I watched the unmitigated joy of these Jewish people as they sang and danced up the hill to the synagogue at Givat Aryeh.  My grandson rejoiced with me through email pictures, and video.  Sir, respectfully, what do I tell him now?  As Zionist Christians we have taught our children, our grandchildren, and will teach our great grandchildren     Genesis 12:3.  Mr. Prime Minister, G-d says, "I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse those who curse you".  I have to ask you where that now puts you and the Israeli government this week?  Of all times and people you and the government have to have G-d's blessings right now,  this day, this month, this year! I told Matt that I had given a copy of his favorite child's book, I AM A HOLOCAUST TORAH, to the Mayor of Itamar, Rabbi Moshe Goldsmith.  It is a little book written by Rabbi Alex Goldman about the 1564 Czech Torahs stolen by the Nazis.  It is written in the first person through the mind, heart and words of one of these Torahs.  Mr. Prime Minister, if this precious, holy Polish Torah scroll survived the Holocaust could talk, what would it say to you today? In this book the author says, "some scrolls live fortunate happy lives.  They are carried around during services...rabbis dance, holding them aloft.  Still other scrolls are unlucky, pushed to the back of the ark, unloved, silent.  Still other scrolls suffer a tragic fate and go through fire and suffering, die, or survive in a damaged condition.  Yet all contain the same sacred Words, all are holy in the eyes of the beholder".  Prime Minister Netanyahu, has the last word been written over this particular Torah scroll, or will you allow it to return to its rightful and final home?  G-d has given you the position to be able to change the ending of this story. Respectfully,   Ann and John Stacy Another example of the Notzrim making a statement: Christian Tourists Angry at Discrimination at Outpost Christian tourists, threatened by arrest during a visit in Yesha, ask Netanyahu why leftists at the site were not arrested.Christian tourists, threatened with arrest during a solidarity visit at an outpost in Judea and Samaria, ask Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu why leftists at the site were not arrested. The 34 Canadians and eight Americans stopped for a visit at the Oz Tzion outpost during their recent two-week visit. "Your troops showed up and threatened to arrest the men of our group if we did not leave within 10 minutes," Alberta, Canada resident Al Dublanko wrote the Prime Minister. He revealed, "The colonel who came to arrest us confessed that he has seen many busloads of foreigners come to his region, all in support of the Arabs against the settlers." Dublanko asked Prime Minister Netanyahu, "Why would you so easily let these confessed enemies of Israel wander around with immunity, and arrest us who support you?  On a previous visit we went to Bat Ayin [in Gush Etzion], and the residents were visibly upset thinking us to be yet another busload of Peace Now activists coming to taunt them over the terrible slayings of their [the Bat Ayin] children."  He was referring to the terrorist who infiltrated the town and murdered 13 year old Shlomo Nativ with an ax. The Christian group had visited Oz Tzion shortly after Israeli police raided the community and destroyed most of it. Dublanko wrote, "The pathetic little outpost had already suffered the indignity of having 15 shacks torn down in a violent manner by your troops during the night, and they had succeeded in rebuilding only one…. "Mr. Netanyahu, you are confused. We are not your enemy. You do not seem to know who your heroes or your friends are. You move against your own people with the excuse of keeping rules and agreements, meanwhile ignoring the rules and even facilitating the rule breaking of your enemies. "You protect the most anti-Semitic leftist groups as they move around your country trying to foment anti-Israeli sentiments, and expel our little group because we agree with the settlers in their belief that G-d gave the Jewish people the land.  "Mr. Prime Minister, your attempt at appeasement of world opinion is not working nor can it ever work. Jews are a chosen people and Israel is a special country, established not by a UN declaration, or Balfour Declaration, or any negotiations, not even by the might of the IDF, but by an ancient promise by G-d…. "We Christians know this, the Arabs know this, and you and every Jew in the world knows this. This is not to be debated…. "The European nations who support the Anti- Israel peace movements so generously, have the same hatred toward the Jewish people that they showed in WW2, and these groups are just their grandchildren trying to finish the task… Dublanko said he is planning to send his teenage children to Israel in the spring because "we want them to see the courage and faith of the settlers and the total commitment of the youth like those of Oz Tzion and Bat Ayin.  We ask that you not arrest them."  Comment by Robin Rabbanim, Where is the United  Jewish Voice? I find it very interesting and not coincidental that the Notzrim  (also the Hebrew Name for Christians) speak out to protect the Shomron.  The root נצר means to safeguard. In תנך Tanach, the word Notzrim is often mentioned in connection with Ephraim and the Shomron (see the prophesy of Yirmiyahu 31:6) Can it be that these Evangelicals have their root in Shevet Ephraim whereby they accepted Christianity in the land to where they were exiled. In any case one can not deny that in todays news, Evangelicals are proving themselves as the watchmen for the Shomron and protecting Israel's Birthright.  In researching this phenomenon I came across the following interesting links that address the Ten Lost Tribes and what happened to the Tribe of Ephraim. fyi http://britam.org/Proof/Attributes/roleNotsrim.html http://www.hebroots.org/hebrootsarchive/0009/000924_g.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7x4AuGYuZHw

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Activist emails sent to my list  are 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.

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Do not donate to MDA! Magen David Adom Pledges to Leave West Bank

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If you know of any contributors to Magen David Adom please pass on this information.  Why should their hard earned money to support Israel be misdirected to support our enemies without their knowledge?

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From: Paul Rotenberg <pdr@rogers.com>
Date: Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 10:18 AM
Subject: Look what Ha'Aretz Reported
To: Paul Rotenberg <pdr@rogers.com>

This issue has been festering since before the state was established.  IRC (International Red Cross) has not wanted to recognize the symbol or the organization. The fact that MDA (Magen David Adom) is trying so hard to gain their acceptance is really disappointing. They seem to have lost all self respect.  The fact that they are effectively negotiating away Jewish/Israeli rights in Yehuda and Shomron is shocking. I can not believe they are being allowed to do that by the government or whoever oversees the availability of emergency services to all Israelis.  The further fact that they have signed an agreement that bars them from picking up Israelis in Yehuda and Shomron, is beyond belief.  They are not allowed to put ambulances there!  Not mentioned here is a clause that commits MDA to upholding the humanitarian standards of the IRC and the PRCS (Palestinian Red Crescent Society).  If that is not a slap in the face, if that wasn't a hint that this agreement is not one to be signed I don't know what is.

 

So they are committed to removing the red Magen David – one suggestion might be to replace it with a yellow Star of David, IRC never had a problem with that.

 

I would suggest that if you know any individual or organization that is planning to donate an ambulance to MDA, suggest that they find a better place to put the donations.  Aside from what is in this article, you might tell them that MDA sells the ambulances after just a few years, well less than half their life according to the manufacturers, in order to put the funds into their general revenues.  Getting donations to general revenues would be fine, but I suspect they feel that it is easier to sell an ambulance than a desk.  They must be getting a lot of ambulances.  However, we must recognize that by doing it this way they are purposely squandering a significant portion of the donation by using and selling ambulances in a market where they are practically the only people who buy ambulances.  Aside from the issue of how much (or little) they get for their used ambulances, I wonder who they are selling them to.  I understand that part of their agreement with IRC is that they will give some ambulances to the PRCS, something that they did already a few years ago.  I wonder how that plays with people and organizations that scrape together a lot of money to donate an ambulance to our brothers, all our brothers in any part of Israel.  Something is rotten in the state of  …  MDA.  Very rotten.

 

Paul  

 

 

 

Haaretz – 02.12.11
Magen David Adom Pledges to Leave West Bank, Haaretz Learns
 By Chaim Levinson
 According to the pledge, local authorities in the West Bank will run an ambulance service with different uniforms distinguishing them from their colleagues in Israel proper.
        Magen David Adom says it will implement a 2005 agreement to stop funding and operating ambulances in the West Bank, according to a document on the undertaking obtained by Haaretz.  According to the pledge, the local authorities in the West Bank will run the ambulance service, whose staff will wear different uniforms to distinguish them from their MDA colleagues in Israel proper.
  These steps had been agreed on in 2005, when Magen David Adom joined the International Federation of the Red Cross, but had not been implemented. MDA would also remove the Star of David from its ambulances in the West Bank, replacing it with a red diamond shape.
  For its part, Magen David Adom said in a statement on Thursday that it is "not familiar with the document in question. We denounce the attempt to use fragmental information, most of it distorted, and present it as facts. Magen David Adom is operating as usual with no change in the entire West Bank, with the organization's emblem as it has been until now."
  In June this year, Magen David Adom agreed to implement the 2005 measures at a meeting with former IFRC general secretary Per Stenbeck and the Palestinian Red Crescent chairman in Finland.  Magen David Adom signed understandings with the Palestinian Red Crescent in 2005 to stop operating ambulances in the West Bank, which falls under the PRC's jurisdiction. A senior Red Cross source said that then-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon personally authorized the agreement.
  Stenbeck, a former Finnish foreign minister, was appointed to supervise the implementation of the deal.
  In 2009, Magen David Adom told Stenbeck it had transferred its ambulances in the West Bank to the local authorities, but could not change the emblem. On March 22 this year, the IFRC management met in Geneva and insisted that Israel carry out this clause.
  At the beginning of June this year, senior Red Cross officials from the United States, France, Indonesia and Turkey came to Israel to pressure Magen David to change the emblem on the ambulances.  At the meeting in Finland later that month, Magen David Adom Chairman Noam Yifrah, the head of the Palestinian Red Crescent and Stenbeck agreed to change the Star of David emblems on the ambulances and the MDA's uniforms in the West Bank. Yifrah submitted examples of the new emblem and promised that foreign donations for buying Magen David Adom ambulances would not be used for buying ambulances for the settlements.
  In August, MDA started calling in ambulances from the West Bank to Israel to change the emblem, angering the settlers and raising a political uproar.  Stenbeck came to Israel last month and met Foreign Ministry officials, who told him they support the full implementation of the agreement.
  On November 13, Magen David Adom told the IFRC it had changed the markings on 62 of 68 ambulances posted in settlements, with a picture showing the new emblem. The emblem on five mobile intensive care units and nine ambulances that MDA still operates in the West Bank will be replaced by the end of 2012, it said.  Magen David Adom also said it had ordered new uniforms for its volunteers in the West Bank but had yet to receive them.
  MDA reported that it had problems with foreign donators due to the decision to change the emblem and had received a letter from the state comptroller asking for a clarification on the issue. It also said a number of settlers had changed the emblem on the ambulances themselves and MDA intended to take legal steps against them. 

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Activist emails sent to my list  are 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.

Most of these emails are posted on Shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com 

Personal emails to individuals will not be posted to my blog.