re: Tizku LeMitzvoth! Either have Open Fair Trial or Free Meir Ettinger Letter Writing Campaign to PM: Please send me your letters to the PM and I will post it on my blog. Thank you.

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We can merit so many Mitzvoth by writing one simple letter to Prime Minister Netanyahu.

• Pikuach Nefesh (Savings one"s life, Meir Ettinger's life is endangered behind bars surrounded in a cell by Arab terrorists. He conducted a hunger strike in protest which thank G-d he ended but the factors that lead to his hunger strike still exist!  We can therefore still assume that his life is in a precarious state... )
• Pidyon Shvuyim -- Pidyon Shvuyim (Hebrew: פִּדְיוֹן שְׁבוּיִים‎, literally: Redemption of Captives) is a religious duty in Judaism to bring about the release of a fellow Jew captured by slave dealers or robbers, or imprisoned unjustly by the authorities. The release of the prisoner is typically secured by a ransom paid by the Jewish community. It is considered an important commandment in Jewish law. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pidyon_Shvuyim
• See all the Mitzvoth D'Orayta below!

Shmos Perek 23 Parshat Mishpatim Pesukim 1-8

1 You shall not accept a false report; do not place your hand with a wicked person to be a false witness.

א לֹא תִשָּׂא שֵׁמַע שָׁוְא אַל תָּשֶׁת יָדְךָ עִם רָשָׁע לִהְיֹת עֵד חָמָס

2  You shall not follow the majority for evil, and you shall not respond concerning a lawsuit to follow many to pervert [justice].  
ב לֹא תִהְיֶה אַחֲרֵי רַבִּים לְרָעֹת וְלֹא תַעֲנֶה עַל רִב לִנְטֹת אַחֲרֵי רַבִּים לְהַטּ:

3 Neither shall you glorify a poor man in his lawsuit.
ג וְדָל לֹא תֶהְדַּר בְּרִיבוֹ: 

4 If you come upon your enemy's bull or his stray donkey, you shall surely return it to him.
ד כִּי תִפְגַּע שׁוֹר אֹיִבְךָ אוֹ חֲמֹרוֹ תֹּעֶה הָשֵׁב תְּשִׁיבֶנּוּ לוֹ: 

5 If you see your enemy's donkey lying under its burden would you refrain from helping him? You shall surely help along with him.
ה כִּי תִרְאֶה חֲמוֹר שׂנַאֲךָ רֹבֵץ תַּחַת מַשָּׂאוֹ וְחָדַלְתָּ מֵעֲזֹב לוֹ עָזֹב תַּעֲזֹב עִמּוֹ 

(I included the Mitzvah of helping with your enemy's donkey just in case a Rav feels that Meir Ettinger and the Hilltop youth threaten Rabbinic law in that they promote going up to Har HaBayit etc. still should still come to his aid now)

6 You shall not pervert the judgment of your poor man in his lawsuit.  

ו לֹא תַטֶּה מִשְׁפַּט אֶבְיֹנְךָ בְּרִיב

7 Distance yourself from a false matter; and do not kill a truly innocent person or one who has been declared innocent, for I will not vindicate a guilty person. ז מִדְּבַר שֶׁקֶר תִּרְחָק וְנָקִי וְצַדִּיק אַל תַּהֲרֹג כִּי לֹא אַצְדִּיק רָשָׁע:

8 You shall not accept a bribe, for a bribe will blind the clear sighted and corrupt words that are right. ח וְשֹׁחַד לֹא תִקָּח כִּי הַשֹּׁחַד יְעַוֵּר פִּקְחִים וִיסַלֵּף דִּבְרֵי צַדִּיקִים:

Vayikra Perek 19 Pesukim 15-18

15 You shall commit no injustice in judgment; you shall not favor a poor person or respect a great man; you shall judge your fellow with righteousness.  

טו לֹא תַעֲשׂוּ עָוֶל בַּמִּשְׁפָּט לֹא תִשָּׂא פְנֵי דָל וְלֹא תֶהְדַּר פְּנֵי גָדוֹל בְּצֶדֶק תִּשְׁפֹּט עֲמִיתֶךָ:

16 You shall not go around as a gossipmonger amidst your people. You shall not stand by [the shedding of] your fellow's blood. I am the Lord.

טז לֹא תֵלֵךְ רָכִיל בְּעַמֶּיךָ לֹא תַעֲמֹד עַל דַּם רֵעֶךָ אֲנִי יְהוָֹה:

17 You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your fellow, but you shall not bear a sin on his account.

יז לֹא תִשְׂנָא אֶת אָחִיךָ בִּלְבָבֶךָ הוֹכֵחַ תּוֹכִיחַ אֶת עֲמִיתֶךָ וְלֹא תִשָּׂא עָלָיו חֵטְא:

18 You shall neither take revenge from nor bear a grudge against the members of your people; you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am the Lord. 

יח לֹא תִקֹּם וְלֹא תִטֹּר אֶת בְּנֵי עַמֶּךָ וְאָהַבְתָּ לְרֵעֲךָ כָּמוֹךָ אֲנִי יְהוָֹה:

Tizku LeMitzvoth!

Please send me your letters and I will iyh post them. Thank you Renanah (Goldhar) Gemeiner, , a student of Weissmandl for being the first to respond!!

Letters to Prime Minister Netanyahu: re: Court proceeding for Meir Ettinger

http://shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com/2016/02/letters-to-prime-minister-netanyahu-re.html

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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: RANANAH {GOLDHAR} GEMEINER
Date: Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 7:57 AM
Subject: Court proceeding for M. Ettinger
To: "mankals@pmo.gov.il" <mankals@pmo.gov.il>

To PM Netanyahu: 

 How can this be possible?  If the statement below is not accurate, please clarify! We are waiting with broken hearts.

Sincerely,

Renanah Gemeiner - co-founder of Mothers for Israeli MIAs

Rebbetzin Libby Kahane,  his grandmother, writes: The court proceedings are held behind closed doors; only one judge is shown the "evidence." Neither Ettinger nor his lawyer are told what the charges are and there is no way to argue in his defense. If the Shin Bet had even one iota of of evidence that Ettinger allegedly committed an illegal act they would have, and should have, charged him in open court."

mankals@pmo.gov.il  

Sincerely,

Robin Ticker

Israel Advocacy Calendar (www.IsraelAdvocacyCalendar.com).

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. 

Letters to Prime Minister Netanyahu: re: Court proceeding for Meir. Ettinger

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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: RANANAH {GOLDHAR} GEMEINER
Date: Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 7:57 AM
Subject: Court proceeding for M. Ettinger
To: "mankals@pmo.gov.il" <mankals@pmo.gov.il>

To PM Netanyahu: 

 How can this be possible?  If the statement below is not accurate, please clarify! We are waiting with broken hearts.

Sincerely,

Renanah Gemeiner - co-founder of Mothers for Israeli MIAs

Rebbetzin Libby Kahane,  his grandmother, writes: The court proceedings are held behind closed doors; only one judge is shown the "evidence." Neither Ettinger nor his lawyer are told what the charges are and there is no way to argue in his defense. If the Shin Bet had even one iota of of evidence that Ettinger allegedly committed an illegal act they would have, and should have, charged him in open court."

mankals@pmo.gov.il  

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Dear Honorable Prime Minister of Israel Mr. Netanyahu Shalom,

I am writing today to protest a very undemocratic law called: Administrative Detention (also called: the Jewish Terrorist Law) which Israel has as part of its legal system.

This law, as will be described below, removes the word: Democracy from Israel. It is a shameful law that can be used against any Israeli, without evidence, without recourse and for no real positive purpose under the law.

The person accused of a crime using this law is arrested with only suspicion, without evidence, denied a lawyer. Denied due process as every Israeli is entitled to. He or She is then subjected to various forms of torture, until the person, out of their mind with pain confesses to things they never did. This "confession" is then considered legal evidence with which to prosecute the victim (there is really no other word for what he is). The victim of this law then has no recourse, for the process, and method of evidence gathering is completely legal under the law in Israel.

This shameful, anti-democratic law is used against Jews and Arabs alike. It is as if Israel is at a state of war against its own citizenry!

You may object that I include Arab citizens (or non-citizens or half citizens) in this plea.

However, the black eye this law gives to Israel for lazy police work, and the poor quality of evidence and the flimsy claims of criminal behavior alleged, if producing questionable cases against Jews, must certainly in this form, be producing questionable cases against Arabs as well. In fact one might go as far to say, that its outrageous use against Israeli citizens might well be termed: Political Agenda.

This medieval form of brute punishment without just cause, is disappointing to many of us supporters of Israel who view Israel as the last bastion of democracy in the turbulent Middle East. It's disappointing enough to hear anti-Israel protester's calling Israel a regime. 

Its worse to see aspects are actually truth.

One must ask: If one has evidence, why torture?

If one has no evidence, so let them find it, if any exists.

As for our Arab Chevra, you may argue: We need it for Arab terror, etc.

So there are two answers for this-

One is that Arab terror is a war crime. This should be dealt with as such, not as a civil crime.

Two is that Israel doesn't seem that concerned with Arab terror, first because Israel claims it made peace. If so, it can't be terror that Arabs are doing blowing themselves up and digging tunnels and firing missiles. Israel anyways seems to ignore all of these things claiming the perpetrators are enemies of peace. So if Israel is truly not concerned, why worry about Arab terror?

And if Israel is truly concerned, so end peace talks which bring more terror, and prosecute Arab terrorists under war-time laws under military law. End Camp David and stop the tunnels. End Oslo and end the land giving which is only used for missile launching against Israelis.

But to needlessly subject Israel's citizens to non-stop military law is unfair and immoral. 

There is not a country in the world that does this, save regimes, and Israel has no need to go that route, for doesn't it claim to be a democracy?

I would like to suggest that you personally support removing this anti-democratic law from Israel's law books. 

All the very best,

Name, address etc

(Print off and send to: 

Honorable Prime Minister of Israel

Mr. Benjamin Netanyahu

800 2nd Avenue 

New York, NY 10017

Meir Ettinger Court Hearing Tomorrow Feb 23rd. Let's bombard Netanyahu with letters. It makes a difference at least up in Shamayim. pls fwd. Please read Rebbetzin Libby Kahane, grandmother plea.

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My last email erred in that it said the Court Hearing was supposed to be on Feb. 21.  Meir Ettinger's wife says it's tomorrow.  Do we want his incarceration on our heads that we stood by and did nothing?  Please davan for Meir Dovid Chai ben Tova. Please fwd this to your Rabbi as well as Letters from Rabbi's and influential people from Chutz LeAretz especially make a difference we are told. 

Rebbetzin Libby Kahane,  his grandmother, writes: The court proceedings are held behind closed doors; only one judge is shown the "evidence." Neither Ettinger nor his lawyer are told what the charges are and there is no way to argue in his defense. If the Shin Bet had even one iota of of evidence that Ettinger allegedly committed an illegal act they would have, and should have, charged him in open court."

Please write a letter to the Prime Minister that if there is evidence he should be charged openly and let them conduct a fair and honest trial.  Otherwise they should free him!

Quantity of letters is important. Please send your emails to:

mankals@pmo.gov.il  

Tizku LeMitzvoth!

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/18427#.Vsr9X_krJdg

Op-Ed: Trial by the media?

The grandmother of one of the administrative detainees in the Duma story tells her side.

Published: Friday, February 19, 2016 1:36 PM

Libby Kahane was married to Rabbi Meir Kahane from 1956 until his murder...

On July 31, 2015 a house in Duma, an Arab village in Samaria, was firebombed by unknown persons and a child was tragically killed. The entire gamut of Israel's "Who's Who" condemned the unknown persons, whom they labeled "Jewish Terrorists" because of questionable graffiti in Hebrew.

The condemnation was not enough to satisfy the New York Times, which quickly published an article titled, "Israeli Justice in West Bank Is Seen as Often Uneven." This was picked up by all the foreign media and our government was pressured into taking hasty, precipitate action.

Among those arrested was my grandson, Meir Ettinger, named for his late grandfather, Rabbi Meir Kahane, who had a reputation for promoting unpopular opinions. He was the perfect scapegoat. He was arrested on August 3 and interrogated using illegal physical force, including punching and shaking him. On Sunday, August 9, he was taken before a judge to extend his arrest, but the court hearing he should have had was cut short by the arrival of an administrative detention order straight from Minister of Defense Moshe Yaalon.

Administrative detention means detention without a trial, meaning it does not allow the accused to challenge the allegations against him.

Leaks to the press by the Shin Bet (the Israel Security Agency), had prepared the ground for Yaalon's order so as to gain public acceptance for this undemocratic act, On August 3, when Meir was first arrested, Israel's Channel 2 television broadcast a lengthy, detailed report that named Meir Ettinger, "the primary target of the Shin Bet." As Meir himself said in a televised report from court, there was no truth in the declaration that the Shin Bet considered him a "primary target." When he was arrested they did not even know that one of his sidelocks, payot, had been torn off while he was working on a construction job. It happened when his right payah was caught up in an electric drill and in all the photos of him in court the length of his payot are uneven, which makes him look unkempt.

There are many inaccuracies in the Channel 2 report, possibly intentional.. For one thing, it claimed that Meir was suspected of writing a document found in his computer titled "The Uprising." In itself, even had this been true, this is a purely ideological statement.

However, as revealed by the weekly magazine Olam Katan (February 12, 2016), there is another document, written by someone else who has no connection with Meir Ettinger. That document, "A Guide to Harming Arabs," calls for violent acts against Arabs. The Shin Bet knows who wrote it. He is currently in prison, being held until his trial ends. But they deliberately leaked parts of that document as if it were part of the document found in Meir Ettinger's computer, creating a negative impression about him in the eyes of the public.

The TV report implied that Meir and a group of young people "invaded" Kusra, an Arab village in the Binyamin area, in order to destroy property there. Actually, they were hiking far from the village, completely unarmed. Police were unable to find any evidence of paint cans, brushes, tools or any weapons that could be attributed to them. The Kusra villagers attacked them and bloodied them and they were photographed by Reform rabbis visiting the village. One photo showed Meir comforting one of his friends who had put a kerchief over his bloody nose. This became a photo of "Meir Ettinger and a masked man."

The report on Channel 2 hinted that the Shin Bet had implicated him the firebombing of a Christian church near the Sea of Galilee and it quoted a "friend of his" saying, his voice disguised, that Meir had charisma and was "cunning and devious."

He has been in jail for six months on an administrative detention order and the Shin Bet has asked the court to approve four more months. The judge said he would issue his decision in 20 days, i.e. February 23. The court proceedings are held behind closed doors; only one judge is shown the "evidence." Neither Ettinger nor his lawyer are told what the charges are and there is no way to argue in his defense.

 

If the Shin Bet had even one iota of of evidence that Ettinger allegedly committed an illegal act they would have, and should have, charged him in open court.

Instead of being tried in court, where there are rules of evidence and procedure, Meir Ettinger is the victim of a media trial, subjected to a stream of rumors, perhaps even spread by the Shin Bet, creating a false media image of Meir Ettinger and demonizing him. This should sound a red alarm to all honest, decent people.

Anyone can read what he has written openly on his Internet blog. What he has done is not considered a crime in any democratic country. He expressed unpopular views in a blog he wrote on the Hebrew website "Hakol Hayehudi."  When his case came to court for review after his first three months in administrative detention, the judge ordered his imprisonment continued. The reason he gave was that Meir had not changed his views. The Honenu lawyer said, "If the judge wants him to change his opinions, he can send him to Korea, there they know how to make people change their opinions.

One can disagree with the opinions he has expressed but his right to express them is completely legitimate in a state where even the Hezbollah is permitted to freely express its intention to destroy that state, Israel.

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Sincerely,

Robin Ticker

Israel Advocacy Calendar (www.IsraelAdvocacyCalendar.com).

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. 

Will Meir Ettinger be set free today or will his Administrative Detention be extended? JerusalemPost.com Jerusalem Report Slanders Meir Ettinger and Hilltop Youth on Jerusalem Report Cover Story Feb 22. 2016 entitled The Terror Within Settler Extremists. Hard-core Ideologists or Fringe Youth gone bad.The Dark Side of Ideology How widespread is the terrorist fringe among religious Jewish Youth by Andrew Friedman

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Slander- False Derogatory Statements. Motzei Shem Ra on Meir Ettinger and on the Hilltop Youth

This article is a good example of how  Lashon Hara and Motzei Shem Ra on Meir Ettinger and the Hilltop Youth spreads.

Link:  Hard-core Ideologists or Fringe Youth gone bad. The Dark Side of Ideology How widespread is the Terrorist Fringe Among Religious Jewish Youth by Andrew Friedman

http://www.jpost.com/Jerusalem-Report/The-dark-side-of-ideology-443908 Featuring Meir Ettinger.

My comments: 

I have yet to find one convicted Jewish Hilltop Settler where the evidence against them is of substance and not self incriminatory. 

Maybe this article by Caroline Glick explains this phenomenon:ISRAEL'S DANGEROUS CONSENSUS 99% of Mossad and Shin Bet officers are leftists?  http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/261880/israels-dangerous-consensus-caroline-glick

Does the Jerusalem Post author provide first hand eye witnesses to the alleged Jewish Terror attacks, with pictures and/or videos to back it up like we have seen with practically every Arab Terror attack against Jews? 

This whole front page story on the Jerusalem Report/Jerusalem Post article is based on the "hilltop phenomenon" hearsay.  Probably all those who talk about these extreme, fanatic, terrorist hilltop youth get their source from the ISA, Shabak.

Extremely disturbing article regarding  ISA aka Shabak torture http://www.hakolhayehudi.com/planting-evidence-shabak-style/

ISA is not a credible source.  They have a political agenda and they seem to fabricate the evidence and find some convenient targets to frame, torture into making forced false confessions. .  

Perhaps, perhaps my accusations against Shabak is also hearsay against the ISA (even though Caroline Glick seems to agree that they have an agenda).  

I am basing these accusations on some very credible witnesses, from first hand reports, from family members, friends and  lawyers who have heard consistent stories from the detainees after finally being allowed to speak to them. 

However, in pursuit of fairness and justice, , let us then have an open and fair trial of all those under Administrative Detention and see who indeed has been lawless.  Who has tortured innocent kids into forced confessions of crimes that they did not commit? OR is there real evidence of Amiram ben Uliel torching the Duma home and writing graffiti.    I would bet on the hilltop youth and not on ISA who has even admitted that they don't have any evidence acceptable in a respectable court of law on these kids.  

Yet the Jerusalem Report goes ahead with this slanderous article and totally disregards actual facts on the ground and instead relies on hearsay. This is how they present their case:

Given: Meir Ettinger and some Hilltop Youth are guilty (all they need is just one or a few guilty hilltop youth, that's enough to start and spread the slander)

In an attempt to appear "balanced" this article accepts as a given that some of the hilltop youth are Terrorists and are considered "Martyrs" by their comrades. By saying that these kids do not necessarily represent the majority of those living in Judea and Samaria they are being balanced.  

The only problem is that this given is a false given.  Usually martyrs and their families are proud of their actions. I don't hear any of these youths bragging or glorifying acts of terror against the Arabs.  I hear that they are denying that they did it.   A Martyr from my understanding is like a Jihadist. A Martyr is someone who is willing to sacrifice their lives with a religious act of self righteous terror against the enemy.  Yet there is no evidence of a culture of Martyrdom nor of  any such proven terror here by Jews, so how can their friends believe that they are Martyrs unless these friends are agents of Shabak or unless the author wants you to believe that they are Martyrs.   If you fabricate they they committed a terror attack, then you can fabricate that they were Jihadists, martyrs,  as well,  to explain and justify their fabricated,  alleged terror attacks. 

Appear to look Balanced

This article attempts to show 'balance" in presenting two possibilities

• there are just a few such Jewish Terrorists, "errant weeds" as they were referred to or 
• it exists "more widespread among the religious community" ?

They are very balanced in presenting both options, both of which have no substance.  When told that these kids had nothing to do with the Arab attacks, they dismissed it as simply being a programmed response by their community supporters for journalists. 

The underlying given of this article is to believe that the allegations against the Jewish Hilltop youth are true that they are guilty of murder/arson and acts of violence and terror against this innocent Arab family with a young baby.  In other words, the Jerusalem Report basically accepts the blood libel on these youth that they indeed perpetrated all the allegations be it the Duma arson and murder or the June arson at the historic Church of the Multiplication of the Loaves and Fishes. 

Is this Jerusalem Report author and by extension the editors of the Jerusalem Report a judge and a jury to convict these kids of the alleged crimes? Wouldn't they agree that these kids deserve a fair and open trial and not merely hearsay or a closed Kangaroo Court which has an agenda?

Isolate the few.  Use family members and Influential Rabbi's and Leaders to isolate them as well. 

The author brings much support for his conclusions, trusting that the allegations are true,  on Religious Zionist Leaders who are quick to condemn these kids. These leaders, rather than checking out the facts, have probably relied on the ISA allegations. 

Rabbi Ginsburgh who is a Rabbi respected by these Settler Youth apparently is  Passuled (unfit, invalid) as he praised Baruch Goldstein the one who gunned down Arabs in Maarat HaMachpela. My guess is that this is a grave distortion of what Rabbi Ginsburgh actually said.  I personally lived in Kiryat Arba in the 80s and knew Dr. Baruch Goldstein and his whole family.  His mother was a very active Emunah member and President of the Emunah Chapter in Kiryat Arba.  D. Goldstein was very respected in the community as being a caring compassionate doctor and not as a murderer of praying Arabs.  What happened that Purim, G-d only knows.  However, the whole truth is not out there.  All I can say is this act of vigilante was out of character.  My guess is that he was probably framed and attacked and responded in self defense.  There really isn't a good explanation.  One thing I can say is that Dr. Goldstein surely struck me as being much less violent than this author who sees no problem with character assassination.

Other Rabbis discredited in this article, respected by the Settler youth, is Rabbi Yitzchak Shapiro and Rabbi Yosef Elitzur of Od Yosef Chai Yeshiva in Yitzhar authors of Torat HaMelech a book whom the author claims is renounced by Rabbi Ovadia Yosef and HaRav Elyashiv ob"m. This is a scholarly book which brings down references about when one is allowed to kill a non Jew a not politically correct topic.   These esteemed Rabbis HaRav Elayashihv and Rav Ovadiah Yosef ob"m were not great public advocates for settling Judea and Samaria.  It is not surprising that they wouldn't want to support or publicize these references for political reasons.  Their denouncement is not of major significance.  The scholarship is. 

Many of the names quoted in this article are actually leaders from within the religious camp who apparently have much to gain politically by bad mouthing these kids as violent, extreme on the fringe and alienated from the rest of the religious communities.  They are funded by the State and they do not want to be connected as supporters of the hilltop youth since in the past this has resulted in withdrawal of funding to their institutions.  However, they themselves are not eye witnesses to any act of violence perpetrated by these youths and they are being Motzei Shem Ra based on what they probably assume, or wish to assume to be accurate accusations against the hilltop youth whose source is once again Shabak. 

An in depth analysis of this article http://www.jpost.com/Jerusalem-Report/The-dark-side-of-ideology-443908. 

Motzei Shem Ra Examples of False Derogatory Terms used to describe these kids

Jerusalem Report Front Cover February 22, 2016 Slander Terminology

• "The Terror Within"  
• (presented as fait accompli that it has been decided with no option to change,  that the hilltop youth committed terror)  Was there any conviction. How come I didn't hear about it?  
• "Settler extremists" 
• (In the context of this article, extremist has negative association. How are they extreme? What actions specifically renders them extreme?) One can be extremely passionate and extremely loving...Is that a bad thing?  Here the connotation is that they have extreme tendencies toward violence and terror related activities)
• "hard-core ideologist" 
• (this is a "nicer" descriptive term they use for these kids) Hard core has the connotation of unbending, rigid ideology. This description has negative associations  especially within the context of this article.  Why couldn't the author present some positive and just, true, good and peaceful elements in their ideology that is based on Torah. This viewpoint is not at all presented nor suggested as being even a remote possibility in this article. Quite the opposite.  The ideology of the hilltop youth that was probably fabricated by the author who based it on Shabak reports, depicted as a violent and extreme group,  was condemned cross the board by Jewish Religious Leaders. 
• "Fringe Youth gone bad" 
• ( How have they gone bad? Who has determined that they are fringe?  Just because they are not in school setting?  Why is shepherding, farming, or building and construction combined with prayer, learning Torah, interspersed with private times of introspection on a hilltop so bad?  I think it's a beautiful lifestyle. Uncomplicated, close to nature, close to G-d.)  The lifestyle may not be for everyone but what makes the school system a so much better lifestyle? Seems like kind of condescending attitude to alternative lifestyles with false conclusion that hilltop youth have extreme violent tendencies from which one needs to alienate.

That was just from the front cover which also had a blackened shadowy image of a "Extreme Settler" that looked quite scary especially with the word Terror spread across it. The reader did not even have to read the article itself to already have had a slandered and false perception about the Hilltop Youth. The cover was enough. 

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Article Slander....Page 19

• Title of article "The Dark Side of Ideology"  
• Who are they to judge that this ideology is the Dark Side unless they know for a fact that this ideology encourages random uncalled violence, uncalled for property destruction against innocent people.  As of yet there is no fair trial, only hearsay based on what the ISA and others say. 
• "How Widespread is the Terrorist Fringe among Religious Youth" 
•  this is a loaded slanderous statement.  It takes as a given that there is a Terrorist Fringe, and the only question is whether or not it is widespread. Jewish Terror coming from Religious Youth slanders the Religious community as well. 
• Prominent picture of Meir Ettinger with disheveled Peyot (one side curled the other not,and seems to pictorially portray him of being a leader of this terrorist fringe group

This article is based on individuals, influential Rabbi's and community Leaders who slander these kids. Anyone in support of the kids is dismissed as either extreme or not credible.:  

The author writes: 

From Shilo to Har Bracha to Jerusalem to Efrat to Orthodox Communities to Negev and even abroad, leaders of the religious Zionist world say the price tag/hilltop phenomenon is a rebellion against their theology and especially against the universalist thought of former Chief Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook

• Hele Manne, mother of 2 from Aish Kodesh  "Attacks are committed by no more than a few dozen young people who have nothing to do with our communities" Does Hele have evidence of Attacks?  If they have nothing to do with their communities, is she sure that indeed these allegations were committed.  These are still allegations.  It seems that she based this statement on hearsay rather than on fact.  Who are the few dozen of young people that committed these attacks other than the ones rounded up by ISA and more often than not released due to no evidence on them.  She sounds like a good ISA agent
•  Aaron Katsoff  - community spokesman "We don't know anything about the attacks",  dismissed as a "prerecorded soundbite" not to be taken seriously.

Now the author engages in one of the most dangerous and despicable kinds of slander.  It uses the divide and conquer methodology attempting to pit the religious Zionist Movement against the hilltop youth. It portrays family members isolating them these "rebellious" kids and visa versa. This strategy was evident as well in the JTA article quoting Libby Kahane... JTA article http://www.jta.org/2016/02/10/news-opinion/israel-middle-east/kahanes-widow-jewish-extremists-have-nothing-to-do-with-kahanes-ideology#.VrzL2USnQQ0.email Entitled: "Jewish Extremists have nothing to do with Kahanes ideology" who did not get to review what they had written before it was published and then had to send out a disclaimer I want you to know that the interviewer distorted my words on a variety of topics.

• re: Amiram ben-Uliel tortured until he confessed while under Administrative detention with no charges nor trial: "Ben Uliel's extremism does not appear to have stemmed from his family or educational background. Acquaintances describe the family as "stable and functional" 
• re: Meir Ettinger:  "Security authorities believe Ettinger oversaw a Jewish terror group.  His arrest was linked to the Duma Firebombing.  Shin Bet officials have said Ettinger's movement was also responsible for the June arson attack at the historic Church of the Multiplication of the Loaves and Fishes, and seeks to bring down the government and replace it with a Jewish theocracy". As far as I know, Meir Ettinger is no longer linked to the Duma arson nor the arson attack at the Church.  His grandmother Libby Kahane, says he is under incarceration because they don't like his ideas. My guess is that he is under much scrutiny because he is Meir Kahane's grandson and they don't like his ideas.

Rabbi Shlomo Kimche:  Founder and Dean of Orot Yehuda Yeshiva in Efrat A Religious Zionist Rabbi who according to this article is more concerned with protecting his reputation and the reputation of the religious Zionist community than of finding out the facts.

There is no religious extremism in the religious  Zionist Community....However, we certainly do have a phenomenon in our community of young people who have lost their way.... but the violence we have seen that has been attributed to the kids on the hilltops is not an expression of anything those young people have learned in our communities and Yeshivas.  Very much to the contrary - the whole phenomenon is a part of a sharp rebellion against everything that religious Zionism stands for and represents.  Don't make the mistake the Medina loves to make -  you are talking about a few dozen kids who have become estranged from their parents. Their schools, their communities.It is outrageous and insulting to use violence of a few kids who have lost their way to smear an entire community".  To support his point Kimche stressed that "virtually all segments of the religious Zionist world have strongly and consistently denounced price tag attacks including last summer's attacks in Duma and against the Church of the Multiplication of the Loaves and Fishes at Tabgha". he adds "Vigilante violence ostensibly committed in the name of Judaism is a religious perversion and compares the phenomenon to other forms of teenage rebellion in the Orthodox community, particularly substance abuse and especially a decision to leave Orthodoxy."

It seems form what is written here, that Rabbi Kimche obviously believes that these boys are guilty of the Duma arson and the Church arson

Rabbi Chaim Druckman:  the head of the Religious Zionist Bnei Akiva constellation of Yeshiva's

"has called price tag attacks 'horrible, shocking, anti-Semitic and anti-morality'

It is also inferred from what is written here, that Rabbi Druckman obviously believes that these boys are guilty. 

Rabbi Eliezer Melamed  

The Rabbi of Har Bracha, considered one of the most extreme settlement in Judea and Samaria has denounced price tag activists as "Israel haters who 'appear to love Israel but in practice hate the Jews'"

He too obviously believes that they are guilty.

Rabbi Hanan Schlesinger

There is a dark side of this ideology (Jerusalem Report/Jerusalem Post bothered this phrase for their Subtitle to describe the hilltop youth like Meir Ettinger)

On the other side: The Critics of the Religious Zionist community:

 Carmim Gillon:"Former Head of the ISA who founded the Intelligence Body's Jewish Division to deal with threat posed by the Jewish Underground, a group of religious Zionist Israeli who planned to blow up the Dome of the Rock"

Not just a Youth at Risk Phenomenan - they work of a few dozen disturbed anarchists but rather a breeding ground for extremism" since he started monitoring the community since 1984  - He claims the moderate voice is irrlevant in religious Zionism (in other words he faults the entire community of radical extremism)

Yuval Diskin Another ex-Shin Bet head between 2005-2011 

There are many hundreds of youths supporting Messianic and/or anarchistic anti -State ideologies [including dozens who daily adopt different levels of vioence or terrorism against Palestinian lives and property"

The article concludes with how Rabbi Kimchi tells his students to address the reality of Arab Terror. They should channel these negative emotions until the proper time.  When is the proper time?

When they are on patrol in the middle of the night without a shower for 3 days, that is when they funnel their feelings in an appropriate healthier and legal ways"

I beg to differ with Rabbi Kimchi. This is what I would have suggested that the most appropriate time is when they are confronting a terrorist in the act of committing terror they should act to neutralize him.  IMHO neutralizing a terrorist before they have the opportunity to commit an act of terror is the proper time to funnel their negative emotions.  

Perhaps that situation is not even suggested by Rabbi Kimchi because one might accuse Rabbi Kimche of being one of those "violent" Settlers. 

If I was a family member of Meir Ettinger I would sue the Jerusalem Post for slander and libel and defamation of character.  

Our Friend David Kerner sent us this audio he recently found that he had recorded in 2008, two years into Gilad Shalit's imprisonment. He slapped it into a youtube.   While who can not be glad for Gilad for his newly found freedom, we are dismayed that Meir Ettinger is in a Jewish jail, in isolation, surrounded by terrorists, sitting there for 6 months with no charges and no trial held on "Nationalist" crimes whatever that means.  There is much reason for concern as he had gone on a hunger strike endangering his life, and we have heard testimony that those under administrative detention have been tortured mentally and physically, have tried to commit suicide, and that it is legal for Shabak to do so.

Just replace the name Gilad Shalit with Meir Ettinger.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xe0qbae9zbo

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Sincerely,

Robin Ticker

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My Letter to the US Dept of State re: mislabeling of products from Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria and the Golan as coming from the "West Bank"

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This letter was written as per Susie Dym's request that at least 10 people, a Minyan of people write to the State Dept in protest of their recent customs regulation requiring products from Judea and Samaria, (not to mention products of Jerusalem and the Golan) to be labeled as products of the West Bank. See Susie Dym's Blog Zion's Corner post on Arutz7 http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Blogs/Message.aspx/8113#.VslvIPkrJdi entitled We need a minyan! (10 complaints)

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RE: Mislabeling of Products from Judea and Samaria, Israel

To Whom It May Concern:

Products that are made in Judea and Samaria, are products of Israel and not the Palestinian Authority.  These products are superior in quality than other products manufactured by Arab communities living in Judea and Samaria. These Arab communities have often substandard quality compared to the Israeli products because their self government is too focused on teaching their kids and their people how to hate Israel and how to attack Israel.  

Just take a look at their textbooks.  It does not focus on producing high quality products.  In fact they protested so much about a nice company called Soda Stream which helped employ many Palestinians that the company had to leave Judea and Samaria.  Now the Palestinians employed by Soda Stream will lose their jobs.  

What does it take for the Palestinians to appreciate Israel who is helping to provide their water and electricity and jobs. Shame on America for not recognizing that Jewish Settlement is good for the non Jewish population instead of spreading lies of Violent Occupation against the Palestinians. The truth is that it is only the Palestinians who have been violent against the Jewish Settlers and NOT Visa Versa!  Jews act in self defense against Terror attacks against their civilians.  That by definition is not a violent act but rather their basic civil rights to protect themselves against a violent terror attack. Jews have a claim to the Land of Israel based on the Bible. Judea and Samaria is the Biblical Heartland of Israel.  The Palestinians has a false claim to the territory they call "West Bank" based on their desire to destroy Israel. 

Kindly label these products as products of Judea and Samaria, Israel which is the correct label designation.   Many will be more than happy to enjoy these high end, organic, delicious products of Israel. Those who wish to boycott Israeli products will lose out and probably won't sustain the boycott since they won't be able to replace them with the same quality products elsewhere.

PS. The same holds true from products coming from any territories reacquired by Israel in 1967 like East Jerusalem and the Golan. 

Sincerely, 

Robin Ticker

Israel Advocacy Calendar (www.IsraelAdvocacyCalendar.com).

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.