Thursday, September 04, 2014

Klinghoffer

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 Caroline Glick: It’s time to beat the Jew haters
http://carolineglick.com/its-time-to-beat-the-jew-haters/

 EXCLUSIVE: New York’s Met Museum Honors Qatari Royal at Private Bash as Questions Over Qatar’s Terrorism Financing Persist  http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/10/27/exclusive-new-yorks-met-museum-honors-qatari-royal-at-private-bash-as-questions-over-qatars-terrorism-financing-persist/

 Klinghoffer Mock Playbill and Insert - Very Educational!
http://shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com/2014/10/klinghoffer-mock-playbill-and-insert.html

Klinghoffer Protest Rally at Met Opera Oct 29 at 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM In front of Lincoln Center West 64 Street and Broadway
http://shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com/2014/10/klinghoffer-protest-rally-at-met-opera.html

 Scenes of the crime
We saw "The Death of Klinghoffer," and it's every bit the screed critics have called it
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Sunday, October 26, 2014
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/editorial-scenes-crime-article-1.1986524

Death of Klinghoffer Protest in the News: leading to and following Premier showing of "The Death of Klinghoffer" at the MET October 20th, 2014 - ISGAP in the News http://shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com/2014/10/death-of-klinghoffer-protest-in-news.html

 On Oct. 20 there will be another protest against the Klinghoffer opera at the Metropolitan Opera. A 100 wheelchair caravan.


Coalition Against the Terrorist Opera:  

 Next Klinghoffer Protest:

 100 Wheel Caravan Protest to demonstrate against the Metropolitan Opera for glorifying terrorism in its Production of "The Death of Klinghoffer".  

 Monday October 20th, 2014 at 6:30pm at Lincoln Center - West 65th Street and Broadway. 

AFSI (Americans for a Safe Israel)  at www.afsi.org, phone 800-235-3658. emailafsi@rcn.com.

ZOA:  (Zionist Organization of America), www.zoa.org,   phone: 212-564-6677

JCC Watch  www.jccwatch.org
Social Media Coordinator is: Jeremy Dery :  973 454 2867 

  • Klinghoffer Facebook Event: Rally against "Death of Klinghoffer" Opera!!!**IMPORTANT UPDATE**!!!! Please RSVP, attend, share, and invite all your contacts to the new "October 20th Rally against "Death of Klinghoffer" Opera! - Opening Night" event. I have a number of important updates to share with you all this afternoon and I will be posting them there. Thank you so much for your help thus far. WE need your help. RSVP, RSVP, RSVP, Share, share, share - thank you, ♥ , The Coalition https://www.facebook.com/events/1543973605819828/?ref=3&ref_newsfeed_story_type=regular
  •  https://www.facebook.com/events/1464338863845334/
  • Klinghoffer Website: I AM LEON KLINGHOFFER.  Visit the Coalition website: stopdeathofklinghoffer.com. Sign up to be an occupant of a wheelchair, or an assistant,or simply to be at the demonstration: liz@zoa.org. As at our last rally, signs will be available for all. Everyone is encouraged to carry a sign and make this demonstration as powerful as possible.
  • The Script "Death of Klinghoffer"http://www.dicoseunpo.it/A_files/Death_of_Klinghoffer.pdf
  • Protest at Dante Park on Monday, October 20 in connection with The Met Opera's Opening Night Performance of the "Death of Klinghoffer" http://shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com/2014/10/protest-at-dante-park-on-monday-october.html
  • Op-Ed: Don't Just Blame "Klinghoffer", Blame Yourselves.
  • Protesting, while important, is not the answer. The Jewish intellectual community can do better.
    •  http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/15817#.VEOrOvnF_96
  • Leon Klinghoffer Terrorist Murder 1985: Headline "The Murder of a 69 year old disabled passenger from NYC angers America"  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtGKXTkSwuo#t=68   1:49 minutes. Start it from the beginning.  The story as reported then. U.S. Ambassador to Egypt "Leon Klinghoffer was murdered". 
  • Ronald Reagan takes action! His remarks  "What we want is justice done!" 
  •   In a flawless execution, US navy F14 fighter jets  intercept the Egyptian airliner in mid air and forces it to land on a US base in Italy. 
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  • "These young Americans send a message to terrorists everywhere. the message: You can run but you can not hide!"   Italian courts convict the Palestinian hijackers but again, the Reagan Administration and the public are left dismayed when Italian Authorities grant freedom to Abu Abbas, the man believed to be the brains behind the hijackings. The Italian courts had found no direct evidence of his involvement.  
  • Leon Klinghoffer murdered by terrorists, who found relative safety in Italy. 
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  • One of the hijackers, Youssef Magied Molqi, was eventually released on a 12 day pass for good behavior.  
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  • On October 7, 1985, four hijackers from the Palestine Liberation Front (PLF) took control of the Achille Lauro off Egypt as it was sailing from Alexandria to Port Said, Egypt.  
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  • Holding the passengers and crew hostage, they ordered the captain to sail to Tartus, Syria, and demanded the release of 50 Palestinians then in Israeli prisons, including the Lebanese prisoner Samir Kuntar. 
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  • The next day, after being refused permission by the Syrian government to dock at Tartus, the hijackers singled out Klinghoffer, a Jew and US citizen, for execution, shooting him in the forehead and chest as he sat in his wheelchair.  
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  • They then forced the ship's barber and a waiter to throw his body and wheelchair overboard. 
  • Marilyn Klinghoffer, who did not witness the shooting, was told by the hijackers that he had been moved to the infirmary. She only learned the truth after the hijackers left the ship at Port Said. PLO Foreign Secretary Farouq Qaddumi said that perhaps the terminally ill Marilyn Klinghoffer had killed her husband  
    • See this page here for an interesting development in 1996:        http://www.usa-anti-communist.com/ard/satellite-coverups.php#nsa2
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Achille_Lauro After being refused permission to dock at Tartus, the hijackers killed disabled Jewish-American passenger Leon Klinghoffer and then threw his body overboard.[4] The ship then headed back towards Port Said, and after two days of negotiations, the hijackers agreed to abandon the liner in exchange for safe conduct and were flown towards Tunisia aboard an Egyptian commercial airliner. This plane, however, was intercepted by US fighter aircraft and directed to land in Sicily, where the hijackers were arrested and later tried for murder.

Jeremy Dery writes: Everyone please remember the goal of this campaign- Please remember to keep the pressure on PETER GELB at the METROPOLITAN OPERA. He must understand the importance of cancelling "THE DEATH OF KLINGHOFFER" performances at the Met, especially in light of the onslaught of terrorism going on in the Middle East today. NO SYMPATHY FOR TERRORISTS!!!

 Espousing incendiary anti-Semitic lies, and celebrating the "humanity of the terrorists" is totally unacceptable.

 Maya Fridman writes: ATTENTION: As one of the hosts, I am inviting you to participate in stopping the production of this horrible opera, called “Death to Klinghoffer.” The storyline is Anti-Semitic, Anti-Israel, and Anti American. Most importantly the opera is legitimizing, accepting, and praising terrorism! Not only are the Jewish and Israeli communities are at risk of danger from terrorism, but right now Jihadists are threatening America’s safety also. Don’t we as Americans remember 9/11 when we lost our Twin Towers and the thousands of Americans who died from the result? Do not sit quietly and do nothing! Get into IMMEDIATE action in removing this filthy opera from performing by writing to Peter Gelb at pgelb@metopera.org, calling him at 212-799-3100 ext. 2891, or loudly protesting on the Opening Day of September 22nd, 2014 from 5 pm to 7 pm at the NYC Metropolitan Opera. Let’s show the haters that we won’t be silent and always will prevail! Am Israel Chai ♥

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Wednesday, September 03, 2014

Links to Operation Edge Miracle stories, IDF Prayers and Song, New York activist events, Inspiring Videos of Righteous Gentiles in Solidarity with Israel, Hamas, Isis etc on Shemittahrediscovered

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Dear Friends, Family and Lovers of Eretz Yisroel,amv"sh

Since Operation Protective Edge started all of us have been glued to our computers clicking links to inspiring videos about Israel and lehavdil horrific reports and videos of Israel's enemies (Hamas, Isis, Fatah)  I have been filing them on my blog and you can find many interesting links on the following post where I have grouped the links according to categories.  I try to update these posts on a regular basis so you can always go back to them and see if there are any updates.  

Categories: Shemittahrediscovered: Events, IDF: Prayers and Songs, Miracles, Solidarity Videos, Hamas, Organizations to donate,Obama, Anti-Semitism, Isis, MK's stand strong.... http://shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com/2014/08/categories-shemittahrediscovered-events.html

Please fwd links you might wish to add. KT Robin.

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Fwd: From Israel: Arlene Kushner Lonely Mandate in response to Israel declared 4,000 dunams (988 acres) in Judea (Gush Etzion area) as state land available for future housing.



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From: Arlene Kushner <akushner18@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 2:09 PM
Subject: From Israel: A Lonely Mandate
To: A Kushner <akushner18@gmail.com>


September 3, 2014
 
"A Lonely Mandate"
 
These are particularly tough times for Israel (and for Jews more broadly). The situation demands steady nerves and absolute determination to pursue our course with conviction.  Is is difficult, indeed, not to be deflected by rage, which enervates, or to fall into depression, the flip side of that rage. 
 
The world, which has turned upside down, is smoldering, and on the cusp of bursting into flames.
 
But in the face of consummate and breathtaking evil, attacking Israel occupies the attention of the western world.  For we have done something that is deemed terrible: we have allocated close to 1,000 acres in the Gush Etzion area as state land available for future housing. 
 
Shocking, isn't it?  Never mind that Islamists are raping women in large numbers, or that there are hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees, or that ISIS has beheaded two American journalists.  Or that Khaled Mashaal, head of the Hamas politburo, has said Hamas will never relinquish its "sacred" weapons, and is prepared, as necessary to return to "resistance" until its goals (destruction of Israel) are reached.  The EU and the US have time to harshly criticize Israel:
 
The US has formally asked Israel to reverse the decision on this land.
 
The EU has said this decision constitutes "an obstacle to peace and threatens to render the two state solution impossible."
 
There has been "condemnation" of Israel's action in several quarters, and Britain warned that this would "threaten" our "standing" in the international community.
 
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Allow me, then, to respond with pertinent background information.
 
The land in question is largely in Gush Etzion, a bloc of Jewish communities south east of Jerusalem that is solidly tied to Israel's history – and to the modern history of Jews in the Land even before the founding of Israel.  See: http://www.gush-etzion.org.il/history.asp
 
It is unthinkable that this area would ever be part of a "Palestinian state," and the notion that building here would render the "two state solution" impossible is unmitigated nonsense.
 
It is simply that the world has decided we have no rights to land beyond what is referred to as the "pre-1967 border" but is in fact a 1949 temporary armistice line.  An irrational fixation with that "Palestinian state" persists at all costs.  A fixation that we must counter.
 
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In point of fact, the Oslo II Interim Agreement, as elucidated in a briefing by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, "established a division of the West Bank into three areas: Area A, where the Palestinians had full control, Area B where there was mixed Israeli and Palestinian security control but full Palestinian civil control, and Area C, where Israel had full military and civilian control. Israeli responsibilities in Area C included the power of zoning and planning.  The territory which Israel declared as state land is within Area C." (Emphasis added) 
 
 
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Oslo aside for the moment, matters of land allocation in Judea and Samaria are complicated precisely because Israel has not annexed the area. There is a layering of laws going back to the pre-Mandate Ottoman period; the Mandate period (1922 – 1948), when Great Britain was the administrator; through the period of illegal Jordanian occupation (1949 – 1967; and since to the present with Israel as administrator.
 
Broadly, land in Judea and Samaria falls into one of three legal categories: state land, private land, and land whose status is to be determined. The area in question had the status of territory whose status is to be determined.  However, an investigation was required before the change of status to state land could be announced: That lengthy investigation, completed this summer, determined its status.  No private Arab ownership was uncovered. Now there will be a window of opportunity for those who might wish to contest this finding.  And as we are looking at a bureaucratic process, it will be some time before any actual building is done.
 
This, then, is what the furor is about.
 
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All of this has to do with the resumption of the "peace process."  A linkage that is without reason has been made: now that there is a ceasefire (still temporary) between Israel and Hamas, Israel must go back to the table to negotiate with the PA.  How that is – when Abbas sat at the table with Hamas in Cairo and has not pulled out of the unity agreement – is unclear.
 
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I've written several times lately about the difficulty of determining where our prime minister stands, as his statements and policies do not seem consistent.  I wrote this with regard to the goals of the war with Hamas, but it applies, as well here with Israel's stand against the international community. 
 
I do not for a moment consider the pressures being brought to bear on Netanyahu to be anything less than horrendous.  But this is what I'm seeing:
 
According a report in Arutz Sheva two days ago, in response to the June 12 abduction and murder of Gilad Sha'ar, Naftali Frenkel and Eyal Yifrah, Netanyahu had ordered for bids to go out on 2,500 housing units – in the southern Jerusalem neighborhood of Givat Hamatos in the Judea and Samaria communities of Ariel, Emanuel, and Beitar Illit.
 
"The bid publications were prepared and ready to go - until Netanyahu at the very last minute waffled and changed his mind, canning the plan right before it was to be published. (Emphasis added)
 
According to Cabinet Secretary Avichai Mandelblit "the international pressure placed on Israel during and following Operation Protective Edge...led Netanyahu to fear an international 'crisis' if he were to announce plans for new Jewish houses."
 
 
These were plans for new housing in areas where Israeli development already existed and yet were deemed too controversial.  Yet now an announcement has been made for a new area to be considered state land, and Netanyahu has allowed this to go through.
 
Gil Hoffman of the JPost says that Netanyahu permitted this for political reasons: with Naftali Bennett besting him in polls as the right wing leader of the nation, he had to show his nationalist credentials.
 
Perhaps. But the fact is that he did it.  He presumably made the judgment that it is possible to withstand the international furor.  A lesson that should not be lost.
 
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On the issue of negotiations, Netanyahu is showing strength right now.
 
In the face of Abbas's peace plan (which I will track in more detail in following posts), our government has made it clear that we will not deal with a PA government that has Hamas backing.
 
 
This is precisely as it should be, for starters.  (I can think of many reasons not to negotiate with a PA government even if it were no longer backed by Hamas.)
 
In addition, according to Israel's Channel 2, yesterday, before the Gaza war Netanyahu had told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee that his government would no longer release prisoners convicted of terrorists acts as a gesture to Abbas. 
 
 
Considering the disasters we've encountered as a result of terrorists who were released (and never should have been), no other position is possible. 
 
This is not going to play well with the US, or with the PA.  Or, I would assume, with the EU.  But it is a position that absolutely must be maintained – and which may, in and of itself, preclude negotiations because of what Abbas will demand.
 
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It is, I believe, the mandate of our prime minister and his government to stand strong for Israel – for Israeli rights and Israeli security both. A tough mandate, given the pressures and the complex decisions that must be made, and a very necessary one.  More necessary, perhaps, than at any other time.  Appearance of Israeli weakness or doubt as to Israel's rights would be a disservice to the nation.
 
Along with this, there is a mandate to present Israel's positions in a clear, forthright manner, public forums and for the media.
 
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And it is, then, the mandate of all who care about Israel, to stand with the prime minister in this time as he stands for Israel's rights and security.  This means speaking out in a forthright way for Israel and missing no opportunity to broadcasts the facts. which are so little understood.  It also means exposing the evil and the duplicity of the PA, which continues to be embraced by the international community.
 
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Here I ask, please, that you communicate with Prime Minister Netanyahu.  Do it with courtesy and brevity.  Encourage him to stand strong against a perverse international community that will never be pleased no matter what Israel does.  Implore him to speak for Israel's rights and security.  And ensure him that you will salute him for this, and stand with him – and speak out for Israel in your community.
 

E-mail: Memshala@pmo.gov.il and also pm_eng2@it.pmo.gov.il (underscore after pm) use both addresses.

 

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Do not write to ask Obama or Kerry to support Israel – it would be an absolute waste of your energy, as they have an agenda that will not change.  But please do reach out to your elected representatives in Congress in support of Israel, as often as it seems necessary to do so.

 

For your Congresspersons:

 

http://www.house.gov/representatives/find/

 

For your Senators:

 

http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

 

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I will, to the best of my ability, continue to provide information on the political/diplomatic situation – so that ramifications and processes might be understood, and on the devious machinations of Abbas.  Please, my friends, use my material.

 

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And there is something else I expect to do, as well:

 

As many of you know, Jeff Daube, head of ZOA in Israel, and I co-chair "Legal Grounds – the Campaign for Israel's Rights in Judea and Samaria."  During the war we were silent, because we understood what came first and where attention had to be focused. 

 

Now it's time to begin the campaign again.  I will be providing information on what we have done to date and what we yet hope to do. I encourage the interest and the participation of my readers. With the international push to get us to surrender our rights in Judea and Samaria, and to negotiate a "Palestinian state," this campaign assumes enormous importance for Israel's future.

 

 

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Monday, September 01, 2014

Fwd: Attn Israel Activists! fwd, post... SIGN UP PLEASE!: IMPORTANT **PRO-ISRAEL** and open MEETING AT UN Sept 8th for all who register today deadline extended till 12pm tonight.

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From: Janet Lehr <janetlehr@israellives.org>
Date: Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 3:15 PM
Subject: IMPORTANT **PRO-ISRAEL** and open MEETING AT UN Sept 8th for all who register today
To: janetlehr@israellives.org


Because it is at the UN, you need to furnish the names today.  The outline of the event is below -
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MEMBER:  WIN / WHOLE ISRAEL NETWORK

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/184579#.VAIfoVa4klJ
On Monday September 8th, 2014, at 1:15 p.m., the UN Permanent Mission of Palau, and the Engr Aja Eze Foundation are sponsoring a conference on "Global Anti-Semitism: A Threat to International Peace and Security" at the United Nations Headquarters facility in New York City.
The counter-anti-Semitism conference will feature speakers who will explain how the rising tide of anti-Semitism will have a catastrophic effect on the safety and security of the world.
The opening statements will be made by H.E. Dr. Caleb Otto, Amb. UN Perm. Mission of Palau, and H.E. Mr. Ron Prosser, Amb. UN Perm. Mission of Israel. Other noted speakers will be Ms 
. Brigitte Gabriel, of ACT for America; Mark Langfan, Arutz Sheva UN Correspondent/Security Analyst; and Pastor Mario Bramnick, Chief Liaison for Israel and the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference.
"There is no better place in the world to hold a anti-anti-Semitism conference than the United Nations, HQ. It's a vital forum to fight this resurging scourge," said Langfan, who will be presenting his graphic analysis of the strategic dangers to Israel and the world.
Attendance to this historic event is free. But, people interested in attending must immediately RSVP to Ms. Ugoji Eze Esq., at ugojieze@gmail.com , or Mark Langfan, at mapmun@aol.com before 12 p.m. Monday September 1, in order to pass the security checks.
Let me know - Janet

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Activist emails sent to my list  are L'Ilui Nishmat Yisrael ben David Aryeh ob"m (Izzy - Kaplan) and Howard Chaim Grief great activists and lovers of Eretz Yisroel, Am Yisroel and the Torah. Yehi Zichronum Baruch.  May their memories serve as a blessing.

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Fwd: Itinerary for AFSI Chizuk mission to Israel, Oct. 26-Nov. 5, 2014

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From: AFSI <afsi@rcn.com>
Date: Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 3:43 PM

Dear Friends,

     Many of you have been on AFSI Chizuk missions, and for some of you this will be very new. Find below our tentative itinerary for the trip. It remains a work in progress because of the literally shifting sands in Israel. This summer has been a difficult one for all of us who have been "listening" to the red alerts, either on our cell phones or in our minds and hearts. We are one with our beleaguered brothers and sisters in Israel. We have compiled the itinerary below with the realization that new people and new places will demand our attention and we have to be ready to respond. We know that those of you who decide to travel with us will understand the need to make changes when the need or opportunity arises.

     Please know that we have also kept the costs to the absolute minimum so that the cost of the trip will not prevent you from joining us. Please read below – call with your questions – request your reservation form – return it with your non-refundable $1000 reservation by Sept. 19 – make your flight arrangements – and be prepared for what promises to be an extra-ordinary experience in our beloved Israel.

All the best,

Helen Freedman and Judy Freedman Kadish (afsi.judy@rcn.com)

CHIZUK ISRAEL MISSION – OCTOBER 26-NOV. 5, 2014 - ITINERARY

Monday, Oct. 27  - Meet  Ami, our good friend and bus driver at 8 AM at Ben Gurion airport. Visit David HaIvri and Gershon Mesika, head of the Shomron Liaison Council. Visit the Barkan Industrial Park where Arabs work alongside Jews. Lunch stop at Har Bracha, enjoying the amazing Shomron vistas. Stand on Har Greezim for an overlook of Shechem and Kever Yosef.  Visit the community of Itamar, home of the murdered Fogel family and meet with Mayor Moshe Goldsmith. Then on to Yitzhar, the Od Yosef Chai Yeshiva, and our good friends, Ayelet and Akiva HaCohen . Dinner and overnight in Ariel at Ashel HaShomron Hotel. 

Tuesday, Oct. 28 –Morning tour with Tuvia of the extraordinary biblical garden outside the hotel. Our first stop will be at Kfar Tapuach for a meeting with Lenny Goldberg, a leader of the community. We'll then go south to Eli, meeting with residents of the community, and then on to Shilo for a special tour with Batya Medad. Returning to Ariel, we'll visit with a group from the former Gush Katif Netzarim community that has made Ariel their permanent new home. Dinner and overnight in Ariel at Ashel HaShomron Hotel. After dinner meeting with Avi Zimmerman, Executive Director of the community, who will introduce us to the new Mayor of Ariel, Eli Shaviro.

Wednesday, Oct. 29 – Drive southwest to Yesodot to meet Dror Vanunu and Anita Tucker at Netzer Hazani. Then on to Ashdod, the port city that has been targeted by Hamas rockets. We proceed south to the caravan community of Nitzan to meet Rachel & Moshe Saperstein, still in their temporary homes 9 1/2 years after the expulsion from Gush Katif. We'll see and enter the sewer pipe bomb shelters available to the community. We'll visit the Gush Katif Museum and take time to discuss the ramifications of the 2005 expulsion from Gush Katif. Dinner will be at a favorite restaurant in Ashkelon, another beleaguered city, and overnight at the Holiday Inn in Ashkelon. After dinner meetings with residents of Ashkelon for an update on life in the city under the barrage of Hamas rockets. We'll visit a typical bomb shelter in which residents have spent countless hours in response to the red alerts announcing the launching of Hamas rockets.

Thursday, Oct. 30 –We drive south to the Kissufim junction which played an important part in the Gush Katif story. We continue south to visit Yevul and other communities along the Egyptian border. We'll be in the Sha'ar HaNegev regional council area and meet with leaders there. Sdot Negev, the home of Daniel Tregerman, 4 yr. old victim of a bombing, will be one of our stops. We'll see the exits of Hamas tunnels, designed to come right into Jewish communities for wholesale slaughter. Driving east, we arrive at the Air Force Museum near Be'er Sheva. If time permits, we will visit the city and speak with the residents about life under the rockets and the red alert. We return to Ashkelon for dinner and overnight at the Holiday Inn. Ari Briggs, head of Regavim, and an expert on Israel's southern region, will be our speaker for the evening.

Friday, Oct. 31 – Ari Briggs has arranged a morning meeting with Rav Shatz, head of security for the Gaza region, to gain a better understanding of conditions during Operation Protective Edge. We'll learn more about the Hamas tunnels and life under threat in the region. We'll drive to Yad Mordechai, which had an interesting history during the 2005 expulsion period, and then to the Erez border crossing into Gaza. We'll have lunch in Sderot and then proceed to the Hesder Yeshiva there.  All the rooms there are new, and can serve as shelters. Mayor Alon Davidi will greet us, along with Rabbi David Fendel for Shabbat and overnight at the Sderot Yeshiva.

Saturday, Nov. 1 – Morning Lech Lecha services at the Yeshiva. After Shabbat lunch we will do a walking tour in Sderot, meeting with some of the families who have endured the thousands of Hamas rocket attacks.  After Shalosh Seudot and Havdalah, we will visit one of the army bases near the city where we will meet with the soldiers and learn what we can do to help them best once we return to the U.S. Overnight again at the Yeshiva in Sderot.

Sunday, Nov. 2 – We'll drive east to Hebron, visiting with David Wilder,   Noam Arnon,  and the Hebron community. Driving north through Judea, we'll meet Nadia Matar and Yehudit Katzover, leaders of Women in Green,  at the new community, Oz V'Gaon, created in memory of Gilad, Eyal, and Naftali who were kidnapped and murdered by Hamas. After lunch in Efrat, we'll visit Mother Rachel at Kever Rachel in Bethlehem. We continue driving north to Jerusalem for overnight at the King Solomon hotel. After dinner at leisure in Jerusalem, perhaps at restaurants conveniently located near the hotel, we will reconvene at the hotel to meet with Arieh King, Jerusalem Council Member.

Monday, Nov. 3 –Early morning visit to the Temple Mount with Rabbi Chaim Richman, where an ISIS flag was recently pictured flying. Those who don't wish to participate will have a leisurely morning, joining with the group again at the King Solomon at 11 A.M. Chaim Silberstein of One Jerusalem will meet us for a tour of hotly contested east Jerusalem, including the former Atarot airport. Afternoon visits at the Knesset with Members of Knesset to hear about post-war planning. Group dinner at Mamilla and City of David Light Show. Overnight at the King Solomon.

Tuesday, Nov. 4 – Meet with Jeff Daube for an update on the current situation in Jerusalem.  Visit the Mount of Olives and stop to visit Beit Orot, seeing the progress they are making with their building project.  Dan Luria of Ateret Cohanim will take us on his whirlwind tour of the old city, and outlying areas in Eastern Jerusalem. We will have our gala dinner at a restaurant in Jerusalem and then depart for Ben Gurion airport. Those not flying out that night may return to Jerusalem with Ami, or make their own plans for the rest of their time in Israel.

The cost of the trip, double occupancy, not including airfare, is $2000. Single occupancy cost is $2600. This will cover all your hotels, most meals, private bus and driver, guided tours everywhere, and special events. Participants MUST make their own flight arrangements. It is important to note that THE GROUP WILL MEET AT BEN GURION AIRPORT AT 8 A.M. MONDAY MORNING, OCT. 27. The trip ends the night of Nov. 4 when travelers will be taken back to Ben Gurion by 9 P.M., in time for late night flights.  Regardless of whether you arrive in Israel before our trip begins, or plan to stay longer, it is essential that you know the parameters of the mission.

Non-refundable reservations of $1000  must be made by September 19, with full payment by October 15. Payment may be made with checks made out to Americans for a Safe Israel/AFSI, credit cards, or paypal, available on the www.afsi.orgwebsite.

Questions will be readily answered by Judy or Helen at 212-828-2424, or by email: afsi@rcn.com; afsi.judy@rcn.com

 

 




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Sincerely,

Robin Ticker
Activist emails sent to my list  are L'Ilui Nishmat Yisrael ben David Aryeh ob"m (Izzy - Kaplan) and Howard Chaim Grief great activists and lovers of Eretz Yisroel, Am Yisroel and the Torah. Yehi Zichronum Baruch.  May their memories serve as a blessing.

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

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



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Sincerely,

Robin Ticker
Activist emails sent to my list  are L'Ilui Nishmat Yisrael ben David Aryeh ob"m (Izzy - Kaplan) and Howard Chaim Grief great activists and lovers of Eretz Yisroel, Am Yisroel and the Torah. Yehi Zichronum Baruch.  May their memories serve as a blessing.

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

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