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Seeking Confession at All Costs, Israeli Court, AG, Endorsed Torture of Jewish-American Minor by David Israel
http://www.jewishpress.com/new
Elisha ben Odess, a settler kid who was put under administrative detention by Shabak with the complicit collusion with the Defense Minister and Bagatz, was tortured and was forced to confess to a murder he never committed. His trial is scheduled for this Monday, February 12, 2018. (secular calendar)
Please daven for him
Elisha Chaim ben Naama Leah
אלישׁע חיים בּן נעמה לאה
This coming Monday, the court in Israel will hold a hearing which will affect Elisha's fate. The judges will hear the evidence of the prosecution and the defense. After that, within a short time period, they will decide if Elisha is innocent or guilty. His life hangs in the balance.
Fwd: Day of Tefilla for Elisha Odess: Teen Tortured by Shabak for false Duma confession https://shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com/2018/02/fwd-day-of-tefilla-for-elisha-odess.html
Will we allow this blood libel to actualize:?????
Now is a good time to push for some justice for Elisha Odess and all the hilltop Youth under administrative detention who have been denied basic human and civil rights.
In USA the DOJ Dept of Justice and the FBI are seriously under investigation for criminal abuse of power. (Russian Collusion, Dossier funded by Clinton Campaign etc.) The time has come for Israel as well. Ayelet Shaked is doing just that and the Shabak needs to be investigated together with BaGatz and the Ministry of Defense as per their bias against the Jews living in Judea and Samaria. When this bias happened under the reign of Obama and perhaps the politicians in Israel were being pushed to the wall, it might be understandable but still no excuse. But now under Trump?
It is my conjecture that had the Jews of Judea and Samaria and their leadership supported the kids who were falsely accused at DUMA we would now have in place a stronger and better leadership in Israel that would have added security to Yitzhar and Havat Gilad...perhaps this tragedy of Raziel Shevach hy"d and Itamar ben Gal hy"d, and future tragedies chas veshalom could have been prevented....
So long as these youngsters are still not receiving justice it is a stain on the entire Israel and a stain against the Leadership and Settlers of Judea and Samaria who allowed these kids to be scapegoated and branded as Jewish terrorists.
It is not only about Judea and Samaria. Lieberman and Eisenkott are clearly not the best Leadership for our Chayalim so long as they are dictated by politics rather than military considerations, so long as they disregard Torah and Mitzvoth and lack Yirat Shamayim, and so long as IDF soldiers do not trust that the military has their back.
Above all, we need G-d Fearing Leadership, and a Nation who is worthy of G-d's protection!
Leadership can come from many fronts.
Politics is messy but it says Lev Melachim Beyad Hashem. The hearts of Kings is in the Hand of G-d.
I do not envy Political Leaders of Israel. I am not judging them. I am not in their place nor do I want to be nor do I face their challenges and tests and hard choices that drive their decisions.
There is however something to say for those of us who are not Nogea baDavar who can see things with greater clarity than someone who is driven by politics.
The purpose is not to bash Netanyahu, Bennett, Lieberman and Eisenkott. The purpose is to do Teshuva, admit when we did wrong and correct our mistakes and resolve not to continue in this path in the future. Sometimes we need to push our leaders in a good direction to counter all the forces that are pushing them in a bad direction.
When we the people, Am Yisroel, All Jews United, are worthy, than surely the Leadership will also reflect the will of the people. Let us therefore not let up with a campaign to bring true justice to these hilltop youth and in return may Hashem protect all of the Land of Israel with Security and Prosperity!
Open Letter to all of us in light of the recent tragedies:
We need to sound the trumpets!
Lieberman I believe was complicit with allowing Shabak to torture the hilltop youth re: Duma. We knew it then. Yet even Rabbanim and Leadership in Yesha allowed these youth to be blood libeled and branded as Jewish Terrorist so that the Media could then portray a balanced pic of Palestinian terrorists vs Jewish terrorists.
Naftali Bennett as well, who is a star when he eulogizes victims of Arab Terror in Judea and Samaria, condemned, betrayed and portrayed hilltop youth as Jewish terrorists in a NY Times OP ED in 2015.
Recently by Raziel Shevach's funeral, following shouts for revenge, he made a comment that we should leave the security in the hands of the IDF. My comment: That's great if the IDF is doing their job effectively. But what should one do when Security is lacking and the lives of the families living in places like Havat Gilad are at risk?
Please take a moment in history to review false media reports of Hilltop Youth of Judea and Samaria being portrayed as Jewish terrorists....
Thursday, January 14, 2016
Duma Blood Libel - calling Hilltop Youth Jewish Terrorists. Jan 12, 2015 New York Times Print Edition, Front Page blurb to article on page A9, Front cover Forward January 15, 2016This libel did not come in a vacuum. Naftali Bennett has convicted them already in August 7, 2015 in a New York Times Op Ed. without even knowing their identity he called them terrorists, anarchists, a fifth column within Israel and like Hamas and Hezbollah they must face the full force of Israel's justice system and its defense establishment. [If I was a lawyer of any of these Duma suspects, I would sue Bennett for defamation of character and mental anguish leading to near suicide, false incarceration, torture and basically taking away months of my clients life away). Naftali Bennett, Prosecutor and Judge on Israel's Jewish Terrorists [Robin]Naftali Bennett on Israel's Jewish Terrorists
AUG. 7, 2015 They killed the baby and his parents....But they are also a tiny group. They do not represent the 400,000 residents of Jewish communities throughout the West Bank, the overwhelming majority of whom are law-abiding citizens and have condemned these acts of violence....The terrorists who killed Shira and Ali do not represent Israel or its people. They are a fringe group, made up of radical extremists who do not only seek to kill. Their ultimate goal is the destruction of the State of Israel. They act against and threaten the very premise of what the Zionist movement envisioned when returning to the Land of Israel after 2,000 years in exile — a Jewish and democratic state committed to equality and freedom for all its citizens. They are anarchists, a fifth column within Israel and like Hamas and Hezbollah, they must face the full force of Israel's justice system and its defense establishment.
At that point we should have raised the trumpets. What was Bennett doing by giving credibility to the false narrative that there are Jewish terrorists?
Does it have to wait for more Karbanot like Raziel Shevach and Itamar ben Gal hy"d for us to wake up from the brainwashing we assume was true?
The Security around Havat Gilad was terrible as Yossi Dagan brought up and we need to investigate why. Why didn't Liberman make sure that cameras were installed as per requested from the residents of Yizhar? Perhaps, let me postulate, he justified this breach of security because Yizhar settlers are budding terrorists and lawbreakers and are unworthy of IDF protection as are Settlers of Havat Gilad. If you paint them as terrorists and subhuman and law breakers why protect them? They deserve what's coming to them. So who then gets to be the Korban? Raziel Shevach...the law breaker from Havat Gilad.
If you think that the Jews of Yitzhar didn't feel the isolation from their brethren, think again. Watch this video. (H)
Why did we have to thank Lieberman for saying he would look into normalizing Havat Gilad, when we should have figured out he was throwing a starving dog a bone, a few crumbs. Why didn't Yael Shevach remember or be reminded that he used almost the same lashon before they went ahead and demolished the 9 homes in Amona.
I get it. It is a way to give him a way to save face and give him some good PR and take off some of the pointing fingers at him and pray that he will in fact send us some relief in return for not bashing him.
It worked temporarily but I don't believe he would have followed through without being pressured.
Soon it became clear that he and Netanyahu had no alternative due to built up anger and frustration at the delay, when it became apparent that perhaps they were not going to follow through.
This initial bone, announcing he would look into legalizing Havat Gilad, served to distract and take the offense off of LIeberman's own failures as Defense Minister, and it worked.
But the gov't was forced to follow through to normalize Havat Gilad at least for now....
It is premature to let out a sigh of relief and we can not let go of the reigns.
Let us not forget the past as it has continued ramifications especially as we are facing real threats from Hezbollah in the North and Hamas in the South.
Strikes against the Israeli Defense Leadership:
Time for leaders living in Judea and Samaria to right a wrong for allowing a kid like Odess to be blood libeled and branded not to mention tortured.
Time to judge the likes of the Shabak, the Israel Supreme Court and Lieberman and Eisenkott for allowing and being complicit in torture and a blood libel and Motzei Shem Ra and Lashon Hara.
Shochad MeAver Pikchim. Time to investigate if and any benefit the powers at large receive so that the hostile media gets to report about their young teen Jewish terrorists that they claim exist, detained and convicted without proof nor fair trial, no habeus corpus.... all with a Kosher Hechsher by MK's and Rabbanim.
My guess is that bread crumbs are being thrown all too often using divide and conquer technique so that "Territory folks don't stick together..."
KT Robin
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Strikes against the Israeli Defense Leadership:https://shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com/2018/02/strikes-against-israeli-defense.html
This news will hopefully help Elisha Odess, the 19 year old Jewish teen from the Shomron who was arrested two years ago and brutally tortured by the Shin Bet until he "confessed" that he was involved in the arson of an Arab house in the Arab village of Duma. There is no other evidence linking him to this event except for his forced confession which he gave after a week of unbearable torture. He has been held in jail without evidence under the purview of "Administrative Detention" which allows the Israeli government to hold a person prisoner indefinitely and with no legal recourse. May we finally see the end of this barbarism in the only democracy in the Middle East.ISRAEL OPENS BRUTALITY INVESTIGATION AGAINST SHIN BET: Jerusalem -Israel's Justice Ministry has launched an unprecedented criminal investigation against an interrogator from the Israel Security Agency over brutality allegations.It marks the first time that an investigation has been opened since the Justice Ministry established a unit called Mivtan about 18 years ago to investigate complaints against the ISA, also known as the Shin Bet.The complaint was filed against the ISA operative over an interrogation from 2015.More than 1,100 complaints have been filed alleging misconduct and brutality by Shin Bet interrogators over the last 17 years, according to the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel, which called the statistic "highly unflattering." The committee did not file the complaint against the operative under the criminal probe, according to Haaretz.Both Mivtan and the Police Internal Investigations Department, or Mahash, must approve the launch of a criminal investigation against a Shin Bet agent. Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit was involved in the decision to investigate this interrogator, Haaretz reported, citing two unnamed sources."We hope that this precedent will usher change in the Shin Bet's interrogations procedures, in line with their legal and moral obligations," the committee said in a statement. "Personal accountability will encourage interrogators to adhere to legal practices, keeping in mind that even detainees, be them Jews or Palestinians, maintain their rights and dignity."By launching this unprecedented investigation, the Ministry of Justice sends a clear message that the Israeli Security Agency is not above the law and that interrogators crossing red lines will have to answer for their actions. The State of Israel acknowledges that torture is a prohibited and immoral practice, and that no justification can be made for the use of cruel or degrading treatment in breach of international treaties."The Justice Ministry told Haaretz that 50 examinations of complaints were started in the last year."The process of examining the complaints has frequently led to different system-wide lessons being applied, or to disciplinary action being taken against investigators," the ministry said.
Sincerely,
Robin Ticker
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