5768.09.15 Israel the Land of My Posession - Hebron Fund, Operation Dignity, Har

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Today's  newsletter honors and pays tribute to all the following organizations and activists for the wonderful work they do for  Yishuv  Eretz Yisroel.  Please distribute. 

 

15 Sivan 5768

June 18, 2008

 

1. Hebron Fund -  Cruise n'Schmooze Thursday evening June 19, 2008 6:00pm  = Yossi Baumol

2. Operation Dignity- Gush Katif - Rachel Saperstein

3. Sign Petition for our rights to pray at Har Habayit - New Jewish Congress - Yossi Rabin

4. Jewish Activist Network - Joe Orlow - radio Wednesday 12-1am 620am 

5. Women In Green. Protest for Halamish Brothers

6. Zaka

7. Lev U'Neshama Heart and Soul Tzfat, Israel  - Rena

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1. Hebron Fund -  Cruise n'Schmooze Thursday evening June 19, 2008 6:00pm  = Yossi Baumol

 

The 4th Annual Hebron Fund Cruise n' Shmooze!
LAST CALL for The Premier Summer Kick-off Event!
Starring: Chaim Dovid Sarachik  &  Rabbi Simcha Hochbaum!
This Thursday evening, June 19, 2008
at Pier 40  -  The Hudson River at West Houston Street

Register now at http://www.hebronfund.com/ or call 718-677-6886!

Boarding @ 6 PM, Departure @ 7 PM, Returning @10 PM
Concert * Glatt Kosher Dinner Buffet * Open Bar * Dessert     

Individual Tickets: $85 if paid in advance, $100 at door
Celebrate the summer & help support our children's summer activities in
Hebron!

Grand Raffle Prize: Trip to Israel & Hebron for Shabbat Chayei Sarah!
Co-Sponsors:   "FutureSimchas",   "Saw You At Sinai",  "Frumster"  &
Flakey "Jake"

If you can't attend, please make your donation to our children's summer
programs
at our secure server here <http://hebron.addr2.com/url/397333/9eb640/> !  or
send your donation to:

The Hebron Fund,  1760 Ocean Avenue Brooklyn, N.Y.  11230-5401
tel. 718-677-6886    hebronfund@aol.com

2. Operation Dignity- Gush Katif - Rachel Saperstein

OPERATION DIGNITY is now appealing to you for financial aid.

Many of our families are still without work.

We started the "Dignity through Work" program to aid traumatized women
to do community service for payment. The program has been enormously
successful, but we need your help in keeping it running.

Our music scholarship fund is depleted.

We have had to reduce aid to the baby food and diaper fund.

We had hoped to run a "Youth Work Services" program to give our
youngsters pocket money for their community service. (Our synagogues
are badly in need of painting.)

Please remember the people of Gush Katif whose lives were changed so
brutally.

Please remember the people of Gush Katif who still need your help.

Please make your checks payable to Central Fund for Israel and
earmarked for OPERATION DIGNITY. Send them to:

Central Fund for Israel, 980 Sixth Avenue, New York, NY 10018, USA
or
Central Fund for Israel, 13 Hagoel Street, Efrat 90435, Israel

And do not miss our website: www.OperationDignity.com

 

3. Sign Petition for our rights to pray at Har Habayit - New Jewish Congress - Yossi Rabin

 

http://www.petitiononline.com/har1/petition.html

 

4. Jewish Activist Network - Joe Orlow - radio Wednesday 11-12pm 620am 

JEWISH ACTIVIST NETWORK, WSNR RADIO

When: This Wednesday night/early Thursday morning, 12 midnight- 1 AM

Where: 620 on the AM dial   or streaming live at

www.jewishactivistnetwork.com

Items:

• Jewish History continued: The move to Eretz Yisrael in "Pre-Aliyah" times with Shmuel Ben Gad of the Gelman Library, George Washington University.
• Discussion on Ĥanifa-flattery of the wicked, and Ahavas Yisrael - loving of fellow Jews even if they err. The discussion will focus on the concept of ingratiating oneself to the anti-Semite in order to try to win their grace. This is accomplished by drawing a distinction between yourself and other Jews by telling the anti-Semite that 'whereas we can understand your (the Anti-senite's) hatred in the case of other Jews who do bad – in our case it is not justified.'

Listeners are encouraged to call in during the show 718-569-0921.

For more information, contact us at media@jewishactivistnetwork.com

5. Women In Green. Protest in Jerusalem for Halamish Brothers

Women in Green  protested this morning in Jerusalem demanding the immediate release of Itzik and Danny Halamish, prisoners of Zion in Zion.

 Aharon and Edna Halamish, parents of Itzik and Danny, joined the protest.

 For photos and details please click on arutz 7 newsreport:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/126531

6. Zaka

Our main story this month features ZAKA's safety campaign initiatives at the Lag Ba'Omer festivities on Mt. Meron. Over 900 children were separated from their parents – and reunited thanks to the ZAKA wristband initiative.

Please visit our website, www.zaka.org.il, for updated information on ZAKA and news as it happens. Donations can also be made via the secure website. Please forward this e-newsletter to family and friends.

Yours sincerely Yehuda Meshi Zahav, C.E.O. David Zilbershlag, Chairman of The Management Board

info@zaka.org.il

7. Lev U'Neshama Heart and Soul Tzfat, Israel  -rena@levuneshama.org

Lev U'Neshama Heart and Soul Tzfat, Israel
First Annual Benefit Dinner Sunday July 27th, 2008 5:30 PM
East Side Kosher Deli, Banquet Room 499 South Elm Street Denver, Colorado

Guest Speaker: Rabbi Yossi Serebryanski
Topic: Tzedakah, The other side of the coin
Silent Auction and Door Prizes

Reservations: Terre Lidstone
Phone: 303 750-1999
Email: tlidstone@aol.com
$36.00 per person
Proceeds to the Lev U'Neshama Food Fund

 

This invitation in its original format is being sent to all our friends in Colorado. However we also want our friends and supporters outside of Colorado to know about this exciting event. The proceeds from this evening will be used to continue to provide the monthly food boxes for 144 needy families who are presently on our list.

We know that many people would like to attend this dinner but because of distance are not ab le to. However, if you cannot attend in person you can still be with us in spirit. We are planning a display that will include an empty plate to symbolize what many Tzfat families often face regardless of the time of year. This will be accompanied by a listing of those who have sent in donations to help us keep these plates filled. In this way you can join those who are attending the dinner.

Donations of any amount must be received by July 21st in order that your name and location will be included in the display. Please send your check payable to Lev U'Neshama to: Smolensky, c/o Quezada, 2285 Forest Street, Denver, CO 80207. If you want a tax receipt please contact Yaffa at: mortsmo@aol.com. Your participation will be gratefully accepted.

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5768.09.14 June 17, 2008 Israel the Land of My Posession. Newsletter Format

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Sivan 14, 5768

Wednesday, June 17th 2008.   

 

Dear Fellow Friends and Activists, amv"sh

 

Thank you for subscribing and for reading these emails. Rather than sending you multiple emails daily  I am combining items so that the people on my list will bli neder get just one email a day with multiple line items rather than multiple emails. If you receive more than one email a day it's because the other emails are sent to you personally rather than as a result of being on my list.   Many of the line items are taken from you, individuals/organizations totally committed to Yishuv Haaretz.  It is my intention to promote and network heroic individuals and organizations whose essence represents love of Torah, Am Yisroel and Eretz Yisroel and to inspire healthy activism for Yishuv Haaretz with energies that we receive from each other. Thank you Rabbi Algaze for the title of this newsletter.  If you wish to endorse this newsletter please let me know by sending me your name and/or a picture of your logo and/or a description of your organization and it will be posted on the newsletter.  It is our collective contributions of material that makes this newsletter and has inspired me. Feel free to circulate line items.  Thanks. Robin Ticker.

 

1. RCRF - Evelyn Haze Anniversary of Dedication Rosh Chodesh Tammuz July 3rd. 2008

2. SOS  Rabbi Yaakov Yosef - calls for establishment of new political party

3. Women in Green - Halamish Brothers, Pidyon Shvuyim update

4.  Root and Branch Dr. Asher Eder - PEACE IS POSSIBLE BETWEEN ISHMAEL AND ISRAEL

ACCORDING TO THE TANAKH AND THE KORAN

 

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1. RCRF - (Rachel's Children Reclamation Foundation) Evelyn Haze

 

10th Year Anniversary of  Dedication of Rachels Children RF Sefer Torah at Kever Rachel Rosh Chodesh Tammuz Thursday, July 3, 2008 in Beis Lechem,

 

Save the date.  More details to follow
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RACHEL'S CHILDREN RECLAMATION FOUNDATION 60 West End Avenue, Brooklyn NY 11235 718-648-2610, <rachelschildren@gmail.com> .054-224-2649 and EMUNAH OF JERUSALEM cordially invite you to join us for our Tenth Year Anniversary of the Dedication of the RCRF Sefer Torah at Kever Rachel  Rosh Chodesh Tammuz Thursday, July 3, 2008,  Rachel's Tomb and Beit Bnei Rachel.

As Israel recognizes 60 years as a modern state, RCRF recognizes over 3600
years that the Nation of Israel was completed by Rachel Imeinu when she
gave birth to Benyamin on the way completing the twelve tribes.
We will celebrate the Anniversary by reading the Torah in Kever Rachel,
hearing our great leaders and remembering our past and so very worthy
participants. A buffet brunch will conclude this remembrance day.
Sadly we will recognize those who particpated in our historical event and
are not longer with us on  this tenth year anniversary .

HaRav Avraham Shapira, A'H hosted the seuda.
Rabbanite Tsifia Goren , A"H was recognized for  the reclamation of Rachel's Tomb, the keys given to her husband HaRav Shlomo Goren, A"H as he passed on the way from the liberation of the
Kotel on the way to Hebron.

We will also recognize Adir Zik, A"H our dear video producer.

  

2. SOS  Rabbi Yaakov Yosef  -Exclusive interview with Eretz Yisroel Shelanu  a MUST READ

 

"...It is high time for new leadership of people whose intent and purpose is for the sake of Heaven and will not sell the Jewish land or people down the river. "

 

http://www.sos-israel.com/index.asp?catID=5798&siteLang=2

 

3. Women in Green - Halamish Brothers, Pidyon Shvuyim Vigil

This coming TUESDAY JUNE 17^th, 2008,Women in Green will hold a vigil in front of the "Third Annual  Conference on Quality of the Government" at Binyanei Hauma protesting the continued incarceration of Itzik and Danny Halamish, prisoners of Zion in Zion,and demanding their immediate release.

The fact that Itzik and Danny are in jail despite them having not done anything wrong, and their Arab assailants are walking around free, is the best proof that in Israel there is no quality of government and that the authorities are corrupt, rotten, anti-Jewish and anti-Zionistic.

We will hold placards and hand out leaflets explaining the Halamish case and demanding their release.  

The authorities want us to keep quiet and bury the Halamish case… A case of legal persecution of loyal Jews by the authorities and a case of capitulation to the Arab enemy-  

Women in Green will not keep quiet. At the contrary! Be there and make your voice heard! 

We will meet at 10:00am in front of the main entrance to Binyanei Hauma.

 Ruth Matar - Nadia Matar (0505-500834)- Anita Finkelstein (0505-777254)                                          Women in Green   www.womeningreen.org

4.  Asher Eder - Root and Branch

Summary from an essay entitled

PEACE IS POSSIBLE BETWEEN ISHMAEL AND ISRAEL

ACCORDING TO THE TANAKH AND THE KORAN

By Dr. Asher Eder

 

The ruling wing of Islam has severed its original ties with the "Book" (the Tanakh, Hebrew Bible) and the "People of the Book", Israel. It plays out the idea of Jihad, and the quest of Jerusalem.

In Islamic view, a Jihad can end only with a complete victory - or else with an unreserved admittance that waging it was wrong from the start.

The Koran itself suggests such a change of attitude which can help paving the way to mutual understanding, trustworthy peace, and co-operation:

 

1. It stresses the continued validity of the "Book" – Jonah 38; Table 52;   Cow 172; Believers 56;

    Bee  45-47; and others;

2. it recognizes the teachings of the Prophets, even of the rabbis - Table 48,

   (notwithstanding Repentance 30-35);

3. it recognizes the peculiarity of Israel and the unparalleled gifts to its people  (incl. the Land) –

    Hobbling 15;  Cow 44,  116; Smoke 30;

4. the Holy Land prescribed for Israel - Table 23;

5. Israel admonished to stand firmly on the Torah – Table 73, et al;

6. it was Allah who settled the Children of Israel there – Jonah 93;

7. Israel rebuked for not fighting for her land - Cow 60, 247;

8. David's kingdom (Zion), and Psalms, confirmed, and he being acknowledged as a Divine viceroy

    and judge on earth – Zad 19, 25, 28; Cow 252 [cf. Is. 28:16];

9. the Psalms and the Prophets speak of Israel's return to the land and to Jerusalem, and so does the  

    Koran – Bani Israel 8, 105;

10. Israel often harshly rebuked in the Koran, but there is no cancellation of the Covenant or of the

     Promises;

11. on the contrary, the words of the Prophets shall surely be established – Greeks 5; Hobbling 31;

     Believers 76;

12. Abraham is called a true believer, i.e. Moslem - Imram 60; Pilgrimage 77;  Cattle 162; and so are

     the Prophets – Table 48, notwithstanding their keeping Shabbat and their direction of prayer

     toward Jerusalem;

13. Abraham established

      a) Mount Moriah in Jerusalem for Israel - Gen. 22:2; 2.Chron.3:1;

      b) the Kaaba in Mecca for Ishmael - Cow 119, 123;

14. Quiblah (direction of prayer) for Muslims to Mecca, and for Jews to Jerusalem

     (Cow 140,143) - yet see also Cow 171, and 1.Kings 8:41-53!

15. Koran admits different religious rites, and urges us to emulate in good works - Cow 143;

      Table 53; Pilgrimage 66;

16. the God of Israel and the God of Ishmael is ONE GOD – The Spider 45; Counsel 14;

17. Allah wants to be honored by forgiveness and love - Table 15-17; Woman Tested 7; Counsel 14.

18. Rassul Mohammed, as the "Seal of the Prophets" (Confed.40), confirms them!

 

It is the words of the Prophets which provide the base for true peace

(Democracy being merely a form of a people's government but not its soul,

should be guided by them)

 

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Dr. Asher Eder, Jewish Co-Chairman, Islam-Israel Fellowship,

                        Root and Branch Assoc. Ltd,  Yerushalayim/Israel

The essay which carries a supportive foreword by Prof Sheikh Abdul Hadi Palazzi, is available by request from: 

 

  rb@rb.org.il ; or: www.rb.org.il  ; or: avrason@netvision.net.il

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ENDORSEMENTS: This newsletter is honored to be endorsed by RCRF(Rachel's Children Reclamation Foundation   Rachel's Children Reclamation Foundation is a 501c3 formed in 1995 to
reclaim Jewish Identity, the Midos of the Matriarchs and Patriarchs, to
save Rachel's Tomb from Oslo Redeployment, to reclaim Kever Rachel for her
Children, Grandchildren and her Jewish Generations. It has initiated
writing contests, written a song, did Twinning Ceremonies, acquired a Sefer
Torah for Kever Rachel and another for Beit Bnei Rachel, the only Jewish
owned property within the walled Rachel's Tomb complex of which Rachel's
Children Reclamation Foundation is the majority owner. It is in the process
of establishing a post-Ulpana Midreshet Chaya Rachel and Ruth, a Museum of
Jewish Aliyah, a Beit Medrash, a Simcha/Bas Mitzvah Center and Biblical
Garden with a Replica of the Old Kever Rachel with four columns and a dome
which will be as a Chuppah, Dais, Bandstand for events in our Grand Garden

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5768.09.15 Action Alert: Hypocracy?? OU Mesora conference on Kedushas Haaretz

1.  HYPOCRACY????? OU MESORA CONFERENCE on KEDUSHAS HA'ARETZ 

 

BS"D     OU Please Practice what You Preach. 

RE: OU MESORA CONFERENCE on KEDUSHAS HA'ARETZ "Issues Pertaining to the Holiness of the Land of Israel" 
 

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Why can't the OU speak up with clarity against a 2 State Solution. Why speak of Kedushat Haaretz and Mitzvoth Teluyot Baaretz and boundaries and extended boundaries of Eretz Yisroel and other lofty topics without publicly and politically stating the given and obvious that this Land is the Promised Land to our ancestors and to every generation, and in our generation as well. 

 

In order to keep these Mitzvoth of the Torah we need the Land and its G-d given boundaries.  

 

Any talk of a 2 State Solution is a betrayal of our Torah and will only result in disaster as the Gush Katif expulsion has clearly proven.

 

For the OU Leadership, studying the Mitzvoth Teluyot Baaretz and knowledge of the boundaries and extended boundaries is not relevant to today's politics.  It's simply an academic exercise in learning.  There is no strong yearning to OBSERVE these commandments.  Settling Eretz Yisroel is not on their agenda but settling religious communities throughout America is. If the yearning for Eretz Yisroel was there the OU LEADERSHIP WOULD PROCLAIM our entitlement to all of Eretz Yisroel and would validate the struggle of the settlers in Yehudah and the Shomron who are able to observe these Mitzvoth TODAY if they can stay on the Land.

 

These lectures are empty words. The OU continues to be part of JCPA in spite of the fact that the JCPA endorsed a 2 State Solution. Settlers including young women and security guards  have been imprisoned and harassed for wanting to settle and protect the settlement within Eretz Yisroel  with no distinction of the green line.  The OU USA is silent. Roadblocks in Judea and Samaria to protect settlers from terrorists are being removed and the OU USA is Silent. (Please google Rivka Meirchik and the Halamish Brothers).Over  9,000 people were brutally displaced from Gush Katif and the OU honors Olmert. AMONA, Silence!

 

 We are sure that some of the speakers of today's seminar are wonderful and sincere but the OU Washington office of Foreign Policy will undermine all this Torah Learning. 

 

Unfortunately, these well meaning, learned, respected scholars and lecturers have empowered those that act in a way that clearly misrepresents Authentic Torah Judaism in Washington.  Don't these lecturers realize that now they are the pawns of those that do not have our best interest in mind.  This seminar will delude the general membership who will believe that the OU leadership acts to enhance Kedushat Haaretz rather than in opposition to it.  This will neutralize any protest against American Foreign Policy in support of a 2 State Solution and our caring Jews do not realize that we Am Yisroel are being betrayed by the OU in Washington DC. 

 

Let these same speakers speak under a more worthy umbrella organization or insist that the OU Washington Office represent them and reflect the Torah position or else they disengage from the OU. 

 

Isn't the purpose of learning Torah in order to OBSERVE Torah?

 

Let us take our cue from Non Jews who speak up for G-d's Covenant with Israel. Governor Mike Huckabee came out clearly against the 2 State Solution and for Jewish Entitlement.  Why can't the OU Washington Ofice?

 

Jon Voight On Israel

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phTtykyzWm0

 

 

Voight talks about his support in Israel and its people, about the mistake of Israel's giving up on Gaza and about the current situation in which Israel is facing daily terror attacks from Gaza and about the apathy of the western communications media toward Israel's suffering and their flopping to the propaganda trap of the terrorists.

Toward A New US/Israel Policy

Herbert Zweibon

A "Resolution regarding Israel from Pro-Israel Christian Leaders" signed by over a thousand Christian leaders and urging a new U.S. policy toward Israel is being submitted to Senator John McCain with a request for a meeting with the candidate. AFSI has been working on this project with Rev. James Hutchens, Chaplain and Brigadier General of the U.S. Army (Ret.) and chairman of the Jerusalem Connection, Richard Hellman of CIPAC (Christians' Israel Public Action Campaign), Rev. James Vineyand, whose Oklahoma City church has 3,500 members and Rev. David Welch, who heads up a group of pastors in the Texas region.

To give an idea of the wide geographic range of supportive churches, among those who have signed on are the pastors of the Bible Baptist Church in Fairbanks Arkansas with 525 members, the Northwest Baptist Church in Toledo, Ohio, with 700 members and the Clays Mill Road Baptist Church in Lexington, Kentucky with 2,000 members.

The resolution reads:

WHEREAS, Christian Zionism supports the modern State of Israel as a partial fulfillment of God's covenant promise to provide a national homeland for the Jewish people in anticipation of their ultimate redemption when Messiah comes; and

WHEREAS, These God-decreed covenants have an everlasting validity and relevance for the modern State of Israel; and

WHEREAS, The legal validity of the modern State of Israel has been established by international law in the Balfour Declaration of November 1917, and the British Mandate formalized at the League of Nations in July 1922, the United Nations partition resolution of 1947, the official recognition of the State of Israel by the United States in May of 1948 and Israel's admission to the United Nations in 1949; and

WHEREAS, Since its birth as a nation Israel has been under relentless attack by Arabs and Palestinians whose goal is not peace with Israel but its total annihilation; and

WHEREAS, The various peace proposals advanced by the United States, including the administration's "Land for Peace" to be implemented by a "Two-State Solution," have been historically and factually verifiable failures; and

WHEREAS, These failures have been a result of a dysfunctional denial of the stated goals of Palestinian Jihadists and other Iran sponsored terrorist groups such as Hezbollah to destroy Israel, including the continuing efforts to appease Israel's enemies by requiring Israel to give up land for peace; and

WHEREAS, There can be no realistic expectation of regional peace until Palestinian Jihadists are defeated, disarmed and their terrorist infrastructure dismantled; therefore be it

RESOLVED, That the administration's "Road Map to Peace" with its "Land for Peace" and "Two-State Solution" be deemed unworkable and allowed to lapse; and be it further

RESOLVED, That a serious and engaged consideration be given to a new US/Israel policy that would be comprehensive and practical in dealing with the realities on the ground as well as honoring of God's covenant promises to Israel. (e.g. Please see "The Israeli Initiative").

Submitted by Petitioners, coordinated by Jerusalem Connection.

Like a bird that repetitively bangs against a glass window, administrations for the last forty years have stubbornly pursued the same failed and bound-to-fail policy of "retreat-for-peace." For a core constituency to confront a Presidential candidate with a challenge to the folly that is "received wisdom" is a vitally important first step.

Dear List:  Here are email addresses of some of the employees of OU.  Please ask them to speak to their administration. I am sure there are some very wonderful individuals that work for the OU who feel strongly about this.

borger@ou.org,
davido@ou.org,
howieb@ou.org,
lichtman@ou.org,
mkrupka@ou.org,
ndiament@ou.org,
sallyg@ou.org,
yochevedg@ou.org
info@ou.org
ipadc@ou.org
rakalinsky1@juno.com
daco@act.con.co.il
menp@netvision.net.il
philch@013.net
tt@ou.org
ncsy@netvision.net.il
ncsyoffice@ncsyseaboard.org
ncsysbrd@aol.com
blackmail@ncsy.ca
ncsyce@aol.com
midwestncsy@ou.org
info@nerncsy.org
trencher@nerncsy.org
njncsy@njncsy.com
office@njncsy.com
nyncsy@aol.com
rabbiberman@vncsy.com
chaiyall@yahoo.com
ilashak@hotmail.com
hinda@ou.org
ncsywest@aol.com
resslers@ou.org

 

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5768.09.13 Action Alert and News Items: Israel the Land of my Possession.

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1. Women In Green's response to Inbal's response.

2. Resolution Of The Former IDF Volunteers: To:  The State of Israel. Please send to Media and the Israeli Gov't.

3. Halamish Protest   (Women in Green) Vigil on Tuesday morning with strong placards calling for the release of the Halamish brothers. Binyanei Hauma

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1. Women In Green's response to Inbal's response.

The amount of complaints must have been so great that Inbal's General Manager himself,  Mr Rodney Sanders, took the time to answer by sending each person an email with the same answer.

 Here is his response, followed by Women in Green's comments:

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 Dear Sir/Madam,

I am responding to your note of concern regarding reports of "Plo flags" displayed at our hotel during the last two days of May.

Let me say directly that I am very sensitive to the concerns of our guests, and that I, too, felt uncomfortable when asked, even by the Israeli government, to fly the colors of the Palestinian Authority at the hotel.

But that is exactly what happened. The Israel Minister of Public Security Avi Dicter chose the Inbal Jerusalem Hotel to be the venue for the International Security Forum, a conference on "Challenges to Homeland Security", of which MK Avi Dicter was the chairman. The conference was from May 28 to May 30.

US Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertkoff and a dozen other internal security ministers from Europe and beyond were invited and Minister Dicter also invited the Palestinian Minister of Interior.

We were instructed by the Israel Ministry of Public Security and the organizing committee to fly the flags of all those participating in the conference, including that of the Palestinian Authority.

While not meaning to add to anybody's distress, I think it important for me to mention that other prominent hotels are often asked by the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs to host Israel-Palestinian negotiating sessions. Sometimes this also involves flags.

I can assure you that I, as the General Manager of the hotel had no intent of making a political statement and have no desire of doing so in the future.

I would like to apologize for placing the flag on the building. I have now since learnt how sensitive this issue is to the feelings of our nation and our people, but I believe I had no choice but to follow the request of the Ministry.

I look forward to welcoming you at the Inbal Jerusalem Hotel.

Yours sincerely,

Rodney Sanders, General Manager

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Women in Green's answer:

  Mr Sanders,

You write; "I had no choice but to follow the request of the Ministry".

This is where you are wrong. You DID have a choice.You could easily have said "No" to Mr Dicter's request.

You could have said:

" I am sorry Mr Dichter. The Inbal Hotel has a policy of not flying the flag of Arab terrorists whose platform is: Murder Jews and destroy the State of Israel. In fact, we here at the Inbal Hotel would like to understand how you Mr. Dichter invite  the Palestinian Authority at a conference which title is : "Challenges to Homeland Security" when our homeland security is exactly  being challenged by those PLO terrorists!

We at the Inbal Hotel are loyal to the people of Israel and to the Land of Israel. We refuse to insult and hurt the feelings of thousands of victims of Arab terror in Israel and abroad and hence the Inbal refuses not only to fly the PLO flag but we refuse to host your conference."

You could have said all that. But you didn't.

Sadly you chose to "obey the orders".

The time has come for all Jews to understand that no orders are holy. The fact that a Prime Minister or a minister or a policeman  or a IDF officer gives us an order, does not mean that we immediately must obey. We must think twice before executing the order and ask ourselves: is this an order that I, as a Jew, loyal to my People and my Land, should carry out.

we assume Mr Sanders that if some extreme leftist minister would have asked you to serve pork in your hotel, you would have refused. So why did you not refuse to fly the PLO flag?

People who blindly follow orders are punished by the people for their disloyalty.That is what is happening now at the Inbal where so many people have cancelled their stay.

Let this be a lesson to all the minor officials everywhere in the country, in the government, in the army, in business....: the sentence "I believe I had no choice" is a sentence that must be erased from our vocabulary.

Ruth and Nadia Matar

Women in Green

 2. Resolution Of The Former IDF Volunteers: To:  The State of Israel. Please publicize.

 

Resolution Of The Former IDF Volunteers:

To:  The State of Israel

Whereas the signing of the Olso accords and subsequent agreements between the State of Israel and the murderous "Palestinian Authority" have severely weakened Israel's security.

Whereas closing the Temple Mount to Jewish prayer and severely limiting Jewish visitation has strengthened the morale of the Arab enemy and has weakened the morale of the Jewish Nation.

Whereas the expulsion of Jews from their homes has led to a deterioration of Jewish morale and security and has greatly empowered the Arab enemy.

Whereas the continuous flow of fuel and electricity to the Gaza strip has helped to facilitate the launching of over 8,000 rockets against the Jewish communities of southern Israel.

Whereas the State of Israel has allowed the Arab enemy to fire its rockets with almost complete impunity.

Whereas the presence of the Arab population in the Land of Israel presents a danger to the very existence of the Jewish State.

Therefore let it be resolved that we the former volunteers of the Israeli Defense Forces:

Call for the annulment of Oslo and all other agreements between the State of Israel and murderous "Palestinian Authority".

Call for free access and prayer rights for Jews who wish to ascend to the Temple Mount.

Call for the immediate cancellation of all planned expulsions including the town of Migron.

Call for the restoration and rebuilding of Gush Katif and the towns of Northern Sameria, which were destroyed during the expulsion of its Jewish populace in 2005.

Call for the immediate cessation of all fuel and electricity to the Arab enemy population of Gaza.

Call for the immediate bombing of Gaza and the destruction of its infrastructure.

Call for peaceful transfer of the Arab population from the historic Land of Israel.

Sincerely,

The Undersigned

Name	Gedud (Battalion)
Yosef Rabin	97, Netzach Yehuda
Aharon HaCohen	. 931
Benjamin Glixman	97, Netzach Yehuda
Yitzchak Lauterbach	. 50
Chanoch Junik	97, Netzach Yehuda
Craig Fox	Tzbar
Dov Stein	. 13
Yoseph Lakein	. 934
Raffi Levine	Soon to enlist
Yosef Gallor	97, Netzach Yehuda
David	. 18
Mayer	Tzabar(432)
Yirmiyahu Fischer	Tsamah, Northen Command
Ben Shlomov	. 51
Shmuel Sokol	97, Netzach Yehuda
Moshe Gordon	97, Netzach Yehuda
Jonah Saidian	. 13
Gavriel Hayehudi	97, Netzach Yehuda
Elie Berman	97, Netzach Yehuda
David Bar-Hayim	egged tahzuqah-piqud darom
Yoni Hassin	92, Shimshon
Levi Miller	97, Netzach Yehuda
Dov Denebeim	97, Netzach Yehuda
Daniel Taylor	לחנ קיחלפ
KB	669 Rescue
Yosef Traube	631, Sayeret Golani
JJ lewis	. 50
Avi Newmark	Chatmar Efraim
Shalom Feigelstock
SHmuel HaLevi	. 976
Ori Ohana	. 8502
Yoni Gormezano	Medical Corps
Uri Silberman	Bodek Ma'avarim
Dr. Shalom Fliesser	Military Chief Rabbinate
Sammy A	Chayal Hayam
Efrat Ohayon	162, Ogda
Michael Fichtenberg	97, Netzach Yehuda
Yonatan Stern	97, Netzach Yehuda
Shaun	97, Netzach Yehuda
Benny Goldberg	97, Netzach Yehuda
Mork	97, Netzach Yehuda
Dovy	97, Netzach Yehuda
Levi Isaac Ross	97, Netzach Yehuda
Anthony Aziz	97, Netzach Yehuda
Bitterli Raphael	97, Netzach Yehuda
David Shenny	97, Netzach Yehuda
Joshua Solomon	97, Netzach Yehuda
Aron Safran	Hativa 408
Avi Ganot	Nahal 50
Joel Abrams*	US Navy

*Joel Abrams did not serve in the Israeli Defense Forces, but is a proud Jew who courageously served in the US Navy to protect the United States of America.

 He requested to be allowed to sign in solidarity with his Jewish brothers.

 

From: Yosef Rabin <613yos@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 7:12 PM
Subject: Resolution Of The Former IDF Volunteers - Please publicize!
To:
Forty-nine former volunteers of the Israeli Defense Force have singed an unprecedented resolution calling for the annulment of all agreements with the PA, the opening the Temple Mount for Jewish Prayer, cancellation of all planned expulsions, peaceful transfer of the Arab population from the Land of Israel and more. In addition one Jewish solider from the United States Navy also requested to sign in solidarity with his Jewish brothers and we accepted his request.

 

There were many more Israeli born soldiers of the IDF who requested to sign as well, but we turned down their requests to keep true to the title of the resolution. In addition many other former volunteers also contacted us privately and informed that they would not sign the resolution for fear of persecution by the Israeli government. Many battalions of the IDF are represented on the resolution including, 13,18,50,51,92,97,162,408, 631, 669, 931, 934, 976, Medical Corps and the Military Chief Rabbinate. It is our hope that the Israeli government will not try to oppress free speech by attempting to persecute the brave young men who singed this resolution.

 

We would also like to request that any group in Eretz Yisrael or in Galut that identifies with the goals of the resolution join us by sending statements of support to the media and the Israeli government in regard to this resolution.

 

 

Thank you,

Yosef Rabin   

3. Halamish Protest   (Women in Green) Vigil on Tuesday morning with strong placards calling for the release of the Halamish brothers. Binyanei Hauma

Next week,  Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday there will be a huge annual Conference on Quality of the Government at Binyanei Hauma.

 

 All the leftist "elite" will be present and participate.

Details can be found on

www.kenesjerusalem.com

Women in green will hold a vigil on Tuesday morning with strong placards calling for the release of the Halamish brothers. Anyone on this list who wants to join or to hold a vigil on any other time duing those 3 weeks, please contact us- we will find a way to give you the placards too.

 

                                                      

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