Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Protest Rally at Israeli Consulate: Helen Freedman of Afsi, Fern Sidman of Arutz7 and Raanan Isserof of Chabad

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Why didn't Yesha Chairperson Danny Dayan or MK Yaakov Katz hold a demonstration against the destruction of Alei Ayin and Givat Aryeh like AFSI did in front of the Israeli Consulate?

Why are they not demonstrating on behalf of the budding communities slated for destruction such as Ramat Gilad, Migron, Givat HaUlpana in Beit-El, and perhaps many more. Why are they so quick to condemn "settler violence" which perhaps as Ketzele suggest is due to Shin Bet provocateurs inciting disaffected youth into the act.

AFSI, CHABAD and Friends including Notsrim are not shy to focus on the acts of violence perpetrated against Jewish Settlers by the Israel gov't who directs the IDF and by Arabs. Surely we must learn our lessons from Gush Katif.

A common tactic used by those who are guilty and do not wish to be prosecuted is to go on the offensive on their victim calling them the aggressor so that the victim is too busy defending himself against alleged crimes and have no energies left to prosecute.

Let us not fall into their trap and be sidetracked.

WHY ARE JEWISH HOMES, SYNAGOGUES, COMMUNITIES BEING DESTROYED BY THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT?

By: Helen Freedman Director of AFSI

It is with a sense of disbelief and shock that we continue to hear about the program being conducted by the Bibi/Barack demolition crews in Israel. In the middle of the night, Destructo crews are sent in to small, hilltop communities, the inhabitants are thrown out of their beds, out of their homes, and into the cold night. Total disregard is paid to babies, nursing mothers, children, the elderly, and adults. Synagogues have been destroyed, private possessions thrown broken and littered along the ground, and lives are left in limbo.

Teenagers who should be enjoying the carefree years of youth, are left embittered and bewildered by the scenes of the IDF, the police, and Arabs, destroying their homes. The love and trust placed in one's parents and government is shattered. Where does one turn for security and protection? The disillusionment and despair is devastating.

Amazingly, there are those who are able to pick up the pieces and start all over again, and again, and again. It takes amazing physical and mental strength, but there are some who can do it.

But where are our leaders? Why is Bibi groveling and scraping before the world, allowing people to see Israel's shame and degradation? Why is President Obama intent on making Israel the sacrificial lamb? Why does it take a Newt Gingrich to announce what any honest person must know, that there is no "Palestinian" people, language, culture, heritage, and therefore no "Palestinian" entitlement to any of the land of Israel?

Below is the Arutz Sheva article by Fern Sidman, covering AFSI's Sunday, Dec. 11, 2011 protest against the demolitions. We have already lost Alei Ayin and Givat Aryeh. Slated for destruction are Ramat Gilad, Migron, Givat HaUlpana in Beit-El, and perhaps many more. All of this is intolerable. Please read the following article and contact AFSI with your ideas regarding ways in which you can help to stem the flow. We are desperate for your help.

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/150663

US Jewish Right Speaks Out Against Destruction of Givat Aryeh

NY demo against gov't destruction in Itamar.

By Fern Sidman

Although it has always been the policy of right leaning American Jewish Zionist groups to avoid criticizing Israeli government policy in public, it seems that recent actions by the Netanyahu government are beginning to erode that policy, already severely shaken by the Gush Katif disengagement during PM Ariel Sharon's term of office.

On Sunday morning, December 11, a large gathering of American Zionists gathered at the Israeli Consulate in New York to vocally express their protest at the recent decision by the Israeli government to demolish the community of Givat Aryeh.

Organized by Americans For A Safe Israel (AFSI), its executive director Helen Freedman who just returned from Israel on the organization's bi-annual Chizuk mission, told those gathered, "Just two weeks ago, we celebrated the dedication of a new Torah scroll that was presented to the residents of Itamar and Givat Aryeh in the Shomron by its sponsor, AFSI member Jack Ross. Now we are totally disheartened to learn that the destruction of this community was orchestrated by a decision of the Netanyahu/Barak government."

Calling the decision to bulldoze the synagogue and the homes of those residents in the Givat Aryeh community a "craven, cowardly and sacrilegious act", Ms. Freedman declared, "It is shameful and abhorrent that an ostensibly Jewish government in Israel would even consider destroying a holy Jewish synagogue, along with the homes and possessions belonging to its most loyal citizens."

Ms. Freedman added, "I had invited many rabbis and mainstream Jewish leaders to attend this demonstration. Many refused; saying that they didn't believe in criticizing Israel in public. I responded by saying, 'If your beloved is about to walk off a cliff, wouldn't you reach out to restrain him?'"

In a private interview with Arutz Sheva, Ms. Freedman said, "I believe it is because of our great love for Israel that we venture out together on a bitterly cold Sunday morning in December to denounce actions that are suicidal for our Jewish homeland. It is dishonest and un-Jewish to shake off that responsibility while pretending that it is in the best interest of Israel when we know it is self-destructive. As we approach the Chanukah season, we would do well to remember the immortal words of the brave Matityahu who said, 'All who are faithful to G-d, follow me!'"

Demonstrators held aloft Israeli flags along with signs and banners saying, "Build Jewish Homes and Schools: Don't Bulldoze Them", "A Two-State Solution is Indefensible", and "Save Judea and Samaria from Destruction".

Among the speakers at the protest were Pastor James David Manning of the ATLAH World Missionary Church in Harlem who was joined by a contingent of his congregants. As an outspoken supporter of Israel and a fervent Zionist, Pastor Manning said, "The Bible states quite clearly that the land of Israel belongs to the Jewish people for eternity and no one has a right to take that away. My congregants and I unequivocally support the Zionist cause and as a Christian member of the clergy I remind everyone that whoever blesses the people of Israel shall be blessed but those who curse Israel shall be cursed forever."

Echoing these sentiments was Raanan Isseroff, a representative of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement who reminded the protestors of the words of the Lubavitcher Rebbe who said that, "The land of Israel belongs to the people of Israel and is non-negotiable. It is G-d's gift to the Jewish people and there is no human being who can alter that fact."

With great emotion, AFSI member Jack Ross recalled that the Torah he had presented to the people of Givat Aryeh had been purchased and restored by him in memory of his parents who had survived the Holocaust. "I dedicated this special Torah to the memory of the murdered members of the Fogel family in Itamar and tragically, it was confiscated by the IDF on December 1 when both the community and synagogue of Givat Aryeh were destroyed."

In a powerful display of symbolism designed to graphically depict the devastating destruction that was wrought in Givat Aryeh, both Mr. Ross and long-time Jewish activist Charlie Bernhaut, held up a Torah scroll (allowed as it was one which was deemed halakhically pasul), to represent the assault on Torah-true communities in Judea and Samaria by the Israeli government. Mr. Bernhaut enumerated the names of the communities that appeared in the Torah which was on display and told the protestors that "these are the very same communities that the Arabs claim belong to them. It is clear that we get nowhere when we attempt to appease our enemies."

David Jacobs, formerly of Staten Island and now a citizen of Israel who resides there with his family, spoke of his own daughter's Bat Mitzvah which took place in the Elei Sinai synagogue in the former Gush Katif region. Recalling the pain he felt when that synagogue was destroyed as well by the Israeli government when the residents of the 21 communities of Gush Katif were expelled in 2005, Mr. Jacobs outlined many of the flaws existing in the Israeli government today, and the difficulty Jews have in publicly speaking out about them.

Other activists such as Brooklyn resident Robin Ticker, Manhigut Yehudit spokesman Rob Muchnick, veteran AFSI volunteer Charlotte Wahle and Bob Unger, all delivered moving remarks about the crucial need to "recognize the fraudulence of the Arab claim to the land of Israel" and added that any discussions of "legal" and "illegal settlements" in the land of Israel are a misnomer considering that "we recognize that the entire land of Israel belongs to the Jewish people." Concluding the protest was professional singer and activist Bob Unger who led the protestors in an emotional rendition of "God Bless America" and "Hatikvah".

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Protest Rally at Manhattan Consulate

by Raanan Isseroff

17 Kislev 5772 (13.12.2011)

Israeli's safety was first and foremost on everyone's mind today, as protesters with a Torah scroll joined AFSI director Mrs. Helen Friedman to rally Sunday Dec 11th in front of Israel's consulate in Manhattan.

Joining with Helen were Reverend James Manning and some of his congregants as well as Crown Heights Committee for Shleimus HaAretz and many others who came to voice their protest at Israel's unfair actions to its own Jews.

Givat Aryeh, a small hilltop village built and funded in memory of the martyred Fogel family killed so tragically earlier this year was destroyed this week. With it, was destroyed a synagogue and the villages pricey security system. The three Torah's were taken into custody and "booked" by police and by morning the village was no more.

One of the Torah scrolls was a very special gift of Mr. Jack Ross of Rochester, New York. Mr. Ross prays at the Chabad Center in Rochester run by Rabbi Nechemia Vogel the Lubavitcher Rebbe's emissary there.

The Torah donated had a story.

A Polish sefer Torah, rescued from the Holocaust and restored at no small cost by a Lubavitcher sofer, was presented as a gift to the community of Givat Aryeh in November of this year. Located a bit North of Ariel and West, the windswept hill of Givat Aryeh overlooks the community of Itamar in the Shomron region of Israel.

While there have been many "hilltop villages" destroyed over the last six years, none has so poignantly touched the nerves of Israelis and Jews around the world as this week's midnight destruction of Givat Aryeh, named after the murdered Fogel father Mr. Aryeh Fogel by Israeli forces.

It brought home the irony of Israel's seeking to "dance at two weddings" on the world stage. On the one hand trying to keep its mission as the Jewish Homeland pure and at the same time seeking to make its foreign friends happy with gifts of Land. All the while trying to make peace somehow with Israel's eternal destiny of G-d's restoring His exiles to Tzion and somehow never succeeding.

This week brought home more than ever, the losing battle, Israel's government is waging against the fulfillment of its mission as a Jewish government over a Land that is not just the birthplace of mankind, but is uniquely gifted to its Jewish citizens.

A mission the government has yet to come to terms with since its establishment in 1948.

In another classic "we won a battle but are losing the war scenario", the government proved itself to be once again the unpopular supporter of Arab rights over those of its Jewish citizens.

A battle it cannot win.

Speaking at the rally, Reverend Manning reminded the Jewish listeners of their sacred mission and his fervent wish to join them in preserving the Jewish face of the Land of Israel.

Mr. Jack Ross joined with another torah scroll that he brought from Chabad of Rochester. Speaking in 40 degree winds, Mr. Ross described how his father survived untold suffering in the infamous Lodz Ghetto until his liberation in 1945.

"A gun was held to heads of the Jews of Lodz forcing them to do what they did" (meaning to other Jews). "They had no choice."

Turning to the Israeli Consulate Mr. Ross pointed: "But Mr. Netanyahu has no gun to his head! Yet in 1992 he was the first in Likud to give away land (Hebron). Today, he still gives away land. But where is the gun?"

Mr. Ross's inference to Israel's putting Jews in danger at the beck and call of foreign powers was not lost on the audience. Nor was his inference comparing the Lodz Ghetto's infamous Jewish police who gave over Jews to be killed to Israel's feigned excuses of "helplessness" as they legally clear Biblically Jewish land of Jews.

Land that was bought or won in wars in which Israel was attacked and by miracles won.

Israel's rush to satisfy foreign entities appears to take clear precedence over its interest in the safety of Israel's Jews. A point a number of speakers brought up.

Today, Israel has still not rescinded its commitment to give away major parts of Jerusalem, keeping up building restrictions, recognizing new pre-1967 borders as "established" and refusing to reestablish the West Bank as a legal part of Israel. This is in spite of the West Bank's warlike posturing that has not ceased and has in fact increased with each land concession. Gaza too, a little 7 mile wide by 15 mile long area is a constant source of missiles into Israeli areas. Facts, Israel conveniently ignores as it moves forward to continue the Peace Process.

Yet to the ire of the Israeli public, these areas are not being reclaimed as part of Israel. Instead, they are allowed to continue being a source of murder and destruction for Jews. And will continue to be, until Israel finally listens to the clarion call of logic, good sense and the need to ensure the safety of Jews in Israel by retaking all the areas including Sinai that it so foolishly gave away like some lentils for a national heritage.

In keeping with the theme of Chanukah, speakers pointed out the hard fight that the Maccabees had against the "political Jews" of that time. Jews who put their faith in the Greek nation first. Much like today, where Jews around the world look to the nations of the world for the very survival of Israel. Nations who historically caused the Holocaust. Yet from them, they seek salvation. And like the political Jews of days of old, this faith in the nations was to such an extent, that it was not beyond them to put Jews in danger and even joined the Greek legions in fighting against those heroes, the Maccabee's.

While this seems romantic looking back, we are each left with the question of whose side are we really on today?

Have we unwittingly aligned ourselves with the "Political Jews", those Greek Jews of the Chanukah story against the very hero's we so revere?

Today, the situation is so similar. It will only be with those people who are the "small jar of pure oil". Those who feel the sacred mission of the Holy Land and its Jewish place in the destiny of the world, that Israel will again please G-d, regain its senses and begin to once again put the safety and necessity of Israel's Jews first.

Article that came out today on Chabad.info

http://www.chabad.info/index.php?url=article_en&id=25402

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PM orders emergency meeting on settler violence

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"Settler Violence" does not happen in a vacuum! see comment below! I urge you to visit the Arutz7 reports posted last night regarding this matter and watch the Miraglim youtubes.

Netanyahu Vows to End Violence Against IDF

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu condemned the violent raid on an IDF base in Yesha saying "we will stop it now."

By Gavriel Queenann

After reading this Arutz piece all I can say is to the following leaders in the Nationalist camp is "shame on you" for condemning the angry settlers and the "minority" of them who acted "despicably" and depicting those that are angry as radical . Pinchus Wallerstein is a known traitor from the Gush Katif saga but Ketzele and Danny Dayan? I hope not! But I am afraid that they are falling into a trap. i recommend that they watch the Miraglim youtubes so as not to be used by the evil forces.

Let's say that this "violence" was perpetrated by provocateurs as Ketzele and Danny Dayan suggest. Still, the reality is such that settlers are subject to day to day violence from Arabs and from the IDF and this violence directed against them is tolerated. It is not a minority of settlers who are very angry at the IDF for expelling Jews from their homes. It is not a minority of caring Jews all over the world who are angry at the IDF for violence directed at settlers! Whether or not settlers perpetrated this act of Violence, does not hide the fact that indeed they were provoked either by actual violence directed, such as the expulsion from their homes or by provocateurs implanted by Shabak who led them to believe that they and their homes will be attacked and they must do something in self defense. Let say that some of these settlers that perpetrated these "acts of violence" had intelligence that Ramat Gilad as well as 5 other outposts was going to be raised as was Givat Aryeh. Let us even say for arguments sake that this intelligence was planted falsely by Shabak. Are they totally unjustified to burn tires or even throw rocks at an IDF who is oblivious to rocks thrown at them?

If you say that they are unjustified, let me remind you of the intolerable acts directed against the American pioneers that brought on the American Revolution. Freedom of Self Defense and Freedom to Bear Arms are built into the Bill of Rights of the American constitution. The settlers of Judea and Samaria are not merely suffering from Taxation without Representation. They are suffering from intolerable acts.

Settlers do not want to fight the IDF. They do not want a civil war. But the government of Israel is not allowing them basic freedoms and are not protecting them as governments are required to. Shame on Ketzele and Danny Dayan for not emphasizing these truths but rather worrying about how the settlers are depicted in the Press. You and I know that the settler movement is not a "home grown terror organization". By suggesting credibility in your statements of this being a possibility by a minority of settlers, strengthens the arguments of the government and makes you their tool to divide the Nationalist camp into 2 camps. Those who are "violent" and those who are not.

I suggest you emphasize the American Colonists and the Intolerable Acts that led to the American Revolution.

From YNet

PM orders emergency meeting on settler violence

Netanyahu to convene IDF chief, police commissioner and defense minister to discuss ways to handle settler violence, vows to take firm hand against rioters

Attila Somfalvi

    Published: 

12.13.11, 11:52 / Israel News

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered an emergency meeting following settler violence directed at the IDF. The discussion will be attended by the IDF chief of staff, police commissioner, Central Command chief, defense minister and internal security minister.

"This is an intolerable state," Netanyahu said. "Tonight's events are very serious. We shall take a firm hand," a statement on behalf of Netanyahu said. The prime minister will demand explanations and will search for ways to toughen handling of rioters.

Miraglim on youtube - How Yesha Council and Rabbanim collaborated with Police to implement expulsion

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Why is it so important that we watch these Youtubes? So that we don't fall into a similar trap with Judea and Samaria. If you don't think it's happening again visit todays news on Arutz7

Nationalists' Anger Spills Over into IDF Base

Dozens of youths from Judea and Samaria entered an IDF base following rumors of an imminent destruction of a Jewish community.

Gov't Forces to Destroy Ramat Gilad, 4 Others Overnight

Government forces reportedly set out after dark Monday night to destroy Jewish homes in five budding communities in Judea and Samaria.By Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu

Miraglim 1 9:39 minutes

Miraglim 2 9:52 minutes

Miraglim 3 9:53 minutes

Miraglim 4 4m 9:03 minutes

According to this documentary The following Yesha Council members deceived the public and acted as if they were the leaders of the struggle when in fact they collaborated with the Police who were then able to control the masses into effectively and methodically implementing the expulsion.

Among the Members of the Yesha council who were Traitors were

Zambish - Ze'ev Chever,

Pinchus Wallerstein,

Bentzi Lieberman and

Rafi Ben Saad.

Among the Rabbanim who collaborated with the Police in the expulsion were

Rabbi Shlomo Aviner

Rav Druckman

Rav Zviki Bar Chai

Rabbi Mordechai Alon

Rabbi Yaakov Gross

Rabbi Zvi Kostoner

Here are the links on Youtube or just search Miraglim 1-4

Miraglim 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H27TUyXm8HQ

Miraglim 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lQfws5peIQ

Miraglim 3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmkHopgglJU

Miraglim 4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWUN-jniJz

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Friday, December 09, 2011

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!

Thursday, December 08, 2011

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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Sincerely,

Robin Ticker
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Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Protest Rally at Israeli Consulate: Helen Freedman of Afsi, Fern Sidman of Arutz7 and Raanan Isserof of Chabad

PM orders emergency meeting on settler violence

Netanyahu Vows to End Violence Against IDF

PM orders emergency meeting on settler violence

Miraglim on youtube - How Yesha Council and Rabbanim collaborated with Police to implement expulsion

Nationalists' Anger Spills Over into IDF Base

Gov't Forces to Destroy Ramat Gilad, 4 Others Overnight

Friday, December 09, 2011

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

Thursday, December 08, 2011

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,

Arabs Infiltrate Itamar, Beat Shepherds and Soldiers

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