Sunday, April 17, 2016

Fwd: Protected-Christians in Muslim lands

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And the GOI (government of Israel) officially still promotes a 2 State Solution? Sounds too much like the "Final Solution".    Bethlehem, Gush Katif...Its pretty clear what the 2 State Solution means to the Arabs...Elimination of Jewish Biblical Homeland Judea and Samaria for Jews.

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From: "Yoram Ettinger" <yoramtex@netvision.net.il>
Date: Apr 17, 2016 9:12 AM
Subject: Protected-Christians in Muslim lands
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Yoram will be in the US during May and September, 2016, available for speaking engagements (http://bit.ly/1W5CrSr).

 

 

Protected-Christians in Muslim lands
Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger, "Second Thought: a US-Israel Initiative"
"Israel Hayom," April 17, 2016, http://bit.ly/1Sn5V0b

 

Bethlehem's Christian Arab leaders lobbied Israel against transferring the city to the Palestinian Authority. Thus, in 1993, on the eve of signing the Oslo Accord, the Christian mayor of Bethlehem, Elias Freij, urged Israel's Prime Minister Rabin to annex Bethlehem into Greater Jerusalem – as it was under the Ottoman, British and Jordanian rule of the area - predicting that "transferring Bethlehem to the Palestinian Authority would relegate it to a town of many churches, but devoid of Christians."  Before Oslo, the Christian mayor of Beit Jala - Bethlehem's twin town - Farah al-Araj, told the NY Times syndicated columnist, William Safire: "The PLO will force a wave of Christian emigration, making Belize in Central America a home for more Beit Jala Christians then left in Beit Jala." In 1967, shortly following the Six Day War, then Christian Mayor of Bethlehem, Elias Bandak, warned Israel's Defense Minister, Moshe Dayan: "An Israeli failure to annex Bethlehem into Greater Jerusalem would doom the city's Christian character."

 

Since the 1993 establishment of the Palestinian Authority, the Christian majorities of Ramallah - Mahmoud Abbas' headquarters - Bethlehem and Beit Jala have been transformed into insignificant minorities, due to physical, social, economic, legal and political intimidation. More Christian emigrants from these towns reside in Latin America than Christians remaining there.

 

The violent discrimination of Christians has been a systematic feature of the Muslim/Arab societies.  For instance, in Saudi Arabia, Christians were murdered, expelled or converted until the tenth century. Currently, non-Muslims cannot become Saudi citizens and Christians working in - or visiting – Saudi Arabia are not allowed to worship, or display Christian items (Bibles, crucifixes, statues, carvings, etc.), openly.  While the Egyptian President, General Sisi, has attempted to minimize the traditional intimidation of Egypt's Coptic Christian (10%) minority – which possesses ancient Pharaonic roots - the abduction of Coptic females has been routine and Copts face deep-seated discrimination in all walks of life.  Moreover, conversion to Christianity is prohibited under Islam. While physical assaults on Coptic communities were a daily occurrence during the brief rule of the Muslim Brotherhood, it has become a monthly event under General Sisi.


The persecution of Christians in Arab lands is based on the teachings of Muhammad, which dominates the social, political, cultural, judicial, military and educational aspects of the Muslim Middle East. Therefore, the political establishments in the Muslim/Arab countries are not secular in the Western sense. According to the Quran, Jews and Christians - "the people of the book" who rejected Islam – transgressed egregiously, were the enemies of God, were rejected by God, causing Judaism and Christianity to be replaced by – and subordinated to - Islam, the only legitimate and inherently supreme religion.  Islam commands Muslims to pursue the domination of the "House of Islam" over the "House of the infidel," which includes Christians. Hence, the centrality of Jihad, the holy war.

 

A typical reference, by the Quran, to Christians and other "infidels," appears in Surah (chapter) 5, verses 60 & 86: "God cursed and blustered those whom he transformed to apes [Jews] and pigs [Christians]…. The infidels shall inherit hell…."
 

The submission of Christians and other "infidels" to Islam was further institutionalized under the seventh century "Pact of Omar," which severely restrained and humiliated Christians - and later extended to other "infidels" - consistent with the Quran.

 

In fact, the legalized-persecution and scapegoating of Christians are in accordance with the Muslim concept of "Dhimmis," who are the non-Muslim citizens in Muslim lands.  As stipulated by the Islamic code of law (the Sharia') they are subordinated to, and protected by, Islam, as long as they accept Islamic supremacy. The attitude towards the Dhimmis is specified in the Quran, Surah 9, verse 29: "Fight the people who received the book [Jews and Christians] - who do not adhere to the truthful religion [Islam] - until they pay the Jizya ["infidel" tax], while they are humiliated."  Non-Muslim citizens are faced with three choices: conversion to Islam, accepting Dhimmitude or death/execution.

 

Since the 1683 defeat of the Ottoman Empire at the gates of Vienna, Islam has declined dramatically, witnessing the rise to global domination by the "infidel, inferior and arrogant" Christian world, and alarmed by the penetration of "infidel" ideologies and values into the Abode of Islam. This perceived-humiliation has led to tectonic eruptions of Islamic rage and terrorism, aimed at regaining the, supposedly, inherently supreme, megalomaniacal status of Islam. 

 

Also, the Islamic religious and political establishments consider the "infidel" Christian/Western modernity and civil liberties clear, present and lethal threats, which fuel endemic domestic instability. Furthermore, the recent erosion of Western posture of deterrence, as well as the Western appeasement and retreats have provided a tailwind to the Islamic surge, fueling the anti-Christian/Western Islamic rage, in spite of the generally pro-Arab Christian/Western policy (including the US arms embargo during Israel's War of Independence, while the British supplied arms to the Arabs; punishing Israel for destroying Iraq's nuclear reactor; pressuring Israel to re-divide Jerusalem; President Obama's courting of Muslim regimes and condemnation of Prime Minister Netanyahu's policies).

 

While most of the Christian/Western world pressures Israel to accept Palestinian demands, a common battle cry in Palestinian Authority-inspired rallies is: "After Saturday comes Sunday," which communicates a Muslim warning to Christian minorities throughout the Arab World: Muslims will do away with Christians after they have dealt with the Jews!  

 

As befits the fate of Dhimmis, churches, convents, monasteries, Christian cemeteries, schools, homes, land and Christian women in the Palestinian Authority are subject to desecration, destruction, burning, confiscation, intimidation, rape and harassment. For example, in April-May, 2002, Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity – with its priests and nuns - was hijacked, looted and booby-trapped, for 39 days, by 200 Palestinian terrorists.  

 

The 1970-1982 PLO/Palestinian terror surge in Lebanon accelerated the flight of Lebanese Christians, reducing them from the ruling sector to a dwindling minority. Since 1993, the Palestinian Authority intimidation of Christians has intensified the flight of Christians.  However, the Vatican and most Christian/Western governments have – knowingly - sacrificed the religious and civil liberties of Christian minorities – and their very existence - on the altar of wishful-thinking, political-correctness and appeasement.

 

 

Wishing you  a gratifying week,

Yoram Ettinger, Jerusalem, Israel, "Second Thought: US-Israel Initiative," 
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Lichvod MGH Moetzet Gedolei Hatorah How can We Remain Silent?????? Re: Draconian Administrative Detention Incarceration and Torture by Shabak on Jewish Hilltop Youth!

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Lichvod HaRabbonim Shlita

We have all been diligent with learning the Halachot of Shmiras HaLashon about when it is appropriate to speak and when it is not. 

Here is a situation where it is criminal not to speak out forcefully against the Draconian practices of Shabak apparently acting in a "legal" fashion, who are incarcerating and torturing and endangering the physical, emotional and spiritual lives of innocent righteous Jewish Youth without any charges brought against them and without a fair trial violating their basic human and civil rights.  

Please write public letters of outrage to Netanyahu!!!!  As a leader in the religious community with a large following,  your letter will carry great impact!  Surely this is true in a Heavenly Court and with Siata Dishmaya also in the Israeli Court System. The Israeli Court System apparently needs to be seriously investigated and closely examined and reviewed by an outside and independent source other than itself to investigate,  how this is happening!!!. 

 Not protesting, not writing letters,  will send the message that the Israeli Courts can continue to act in a lawless and fascist manner without consequences... and that too will be noted in a Heavenly Court.  We collectively will be held liable in a Heavenly Court. 

Maybe when the GOI (Government of Israel) sees that nobody cares it emboldens them.  Since last week when this letter to you was written, very new disturbing reports have surfaced which substantiate and validate the urgency of this matter to please take action and not be passive!
http://shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com/2016/04/continued-incarceration-of-meir.html

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http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/jewish-minor-under-shabak-interrogations-rushed-to-hospital/2016/04/15/

A Jewish minor who was picked up by Shabak for interrogations a few days ago, without seeing an attorney or his family, was rushed to hospital Friday afternoon from the Shabak facility. He is suffering from urgent medical complications.
His family has issued a statement saying, "Now the suspicion that he was being tortured has become a certainty. We call on anyone who can do anything to help. It is a matter of life and death. They took from us a healthy child and now he is being rushed to hospital."
The Shabak informed the family that their child was being rushed to a medical center but interrogators refused to permit his parents to meet or accompany him.
Attorney Adi Keidar of legal aid society Honenu whose appeal to let the minor be accompanied by a parent was rejected, said that "the contempt for the right of people under interrogation has gone up a notch to a contempt for their state of health. We view very seriously the fact that despite the medical complications the intensive interrogation persists as does the refusal to permit family or an attorney to see him."
David Israel
ISA Interrogation: Violence, Humiliation, Shabbat Violation
 
Thursday, April 14, 2016, 22:11 After 10 days of interrogation in ISA facilities, one of the five detainees in a current case, Shenior Dana, met for the first time with an attorney. Dana revealed to Honenu Attorney Aharon Roza what he had experienced and painted a grim picture of violated rights, humiliation, brutality and trampled religious rights. 
Dana told Roza that the interrogations were carried out during most of the hours of the day and the night, severely depriving him of sleep for days on end. During interrogations his arms were handcuffed behind his back for many hours, causing pain, and from time to time he was subjected to actual physical violence, sometimes as if it was accidental. 
The interrogators also denied the detainees their religious needs and purposefully offended their religious sensibilities. Dana stated that during Shabbat, for many hours, loud music was played in the interrogation rooms, the interrogators smoked very close to him and from time to time offered him a smoke. Additionally all week long he was refused time to pray. 

Dana reported that during interrogations the ISA interrogators humiliated him and threatened him, saying that they have various ways and methods to injure him and his relatives. 

Honenu Attorney Aharon Roza responded to what he heard from Dana: "Today, in a discussion I was permitted to have with the detainee Shenior Dana, after he had been barred from meeting with me for almost 10 days, I was horrified to hear that in the framework of the ISA investigation, and in the framework of interrogation methods which someone delusional thinks are legitimate, a religious man was taken for interrogation on Shabbat, a telephone playing extremely loud music was placed in front of his face, cigarettes were lit in front of him, and he was offered a smoke. There are no words to describe the goings-on other than embarrassment and disgrace." 

On Thursday, April 15, the Petah Tikva Magistrate Court extended Dana's remand by four days, until Monday, April 18, at which time he will be brought with the other detainees to a court deliberation. 

The four other detainees in the case have not been allowed to meet with an attorney, some of them for over 10 days. This situation necessitated special authorization from the Central District Court, which authorized the order prohibiting the detainees from meeting with an attorney for an additional four days.
Please forward to friends, social media and contact Israeli government officials 
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Jewish Minor Under Shabak Interrogations Rushed to Hospital

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http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/jewish-minor-under-shabak-interrogations-rushed-to-hospital/2016/04/15/

A Jewish minor who was picked up by Shabak for interrogations a few days ago, without seeing an attorney or his family, was rushed to hospital Friday afternoon from the Shabak facility. He is suffering from urgent medical complications.

His family has issued a statement saying, "Now the suspicion that he was being tortured has become a certainty. We call on anyone who can do anything to help. It is a matter of life and death. They took from us a healthy child and now he is being rushed to hospital."

The Shabak informed the family that their child was being rushed to a medical center but interrogators refused to permit his parents to meet or accompany him.

Attorney Adi Keidar of legal aid society Honenu whose appeal to let the minor be accompanied by a parent was rejected, said that "the contempt for the right of people under interrogation has gone up a notch to a contempt for their state of health. We view very seriously the fact that despite the medical complications the intensive interrogation persists as does the refusal to permit family or an attorney to see him."

David 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 

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Shabak Interrogation: Violence, Humiliation, Shabbat Violation on Jewish Hilltop Youth under Immoral Administrative Detention

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ISA Interrogation: Violence, Humiliation, Shabbat Violation
 
Thursday, April 14, 2016, 22:11 After 10 days of interrogation in ISA facilities, one of the five detainees in a current case, Shenior Dana, met for the first time with an attorney. Dana revealed to Honenu Attorney Aharon Roza what he had experienced and painted a grim picture of violated rights, humiliation, brutality and trampled religious rights. 
Dana told Roza that the interrogations were carried out during most of the hours of the day and the night, severely depriving him of sleep for days on end. During interrogations his arms were handcuffed behind his back for many hours, causing pain, and from time to time he was subjected to actual physical violence, sometimes as if it was accidental. 
The interrogators also denied the detainees their religious needs and purposefully offended their religious sensibilities. Dana stated that during Shabbat, for many hours, loud music was played in the interrogation rooms, the interrogators smoked very close to him and from time to time offered him a smoke. Additionally all week long he was refused time to pray. 
Dana reported that during interrogations the ISA interrogators humiliated him and threatened him, saying that they have various ways and methods to injure him and his relatives. 
Honenu Attorney Aharon Roza responded to what he heard from Dana: "Today, in a discussion I was permitted to have with the detainee Shenior Dana, after he had been barred from meeting with me for almost 10 days, I was horrified to hear that in the framework of the ISA investigation, and in the framework of interrogation methods which someone delusional thinks are legitimate, a religious man was taken for interrogation on Shabbat, a telephone playing extremely loud music was placed in front of his face, cigarettes were lit in front of him, and he was offered a smoke. There are no words to describe the goings-on other than embarrassment and disgrace." 
On Thursday, April 15, the Petah Tikva Magistrate Court extended Dana's remand by four days, until Monday, April 18, at which time he will be brought with the other detainees to a court deliberation. 
The four other detainees in the case have not been allowed to meet with an attorney, some of them for over 10 days. This situation necessitated special authorization from the Central District Court, which authorized the order prohibiting the detainees from meeting with an attorney for an additional four days.
Please forward to friends, social media and contact Israeli government officials 
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