Friday, December 18, 2009

RCRF Singles and Couples Event - Motzei Shabbat, Melaveh Malka, Brooklyn, Manhattan Beach Jewish Center 7:30pm Open to all, especially for Jewish activism

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Od Yeshama?  After it's all given away?  Please do what you can to help publicize  this event and better yet, come.  Thanks!

On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 12:35 AM, Robin Ticker <faigerayzel@gmail.com> wrote:
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Dear Brooklyn activists, amv"sh

 Evelyn Haze is having an event on Saturday night in Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn. She is targeting the Singles but couples are welcome as well.  It would be nice to have people that could be there as shadchanim. I thought it was a good opportunity to encourage singles to come especially in order to promote activism against the settlement freeze in Judea and Samaria.
 
Anyone that can publicize this event to singles on the web or send to lists or wherever is encouraged to do so.  Please come yourself!

Please Forward to all Lists

Looking forward to seeing you there!





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Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Fwd: MESSAGE FROM RON NACHMAN, MAYOR OF ARIEL - Practical implications of a building freeze in Ariel

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TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION!
Let's learn from this how to treat the Palestinian communities in Judea and Samaria
The Jews of Judea and Samaria are paying taxes to a government that does not represent them with fairness and equality of other tax paying citizens.  This evil government has no regard for the property of its loyal citizens!  In one stupid vote by a Committee, the entitlement and ownership of ones property in Judea and Samaria in now a question mark .  What heartless laws this government is enforcing on its loyal citizens which changes the direction of our Biblical Covenant. 

Let us learn from these ruthless actions how to reverse Oslo and declare Oslo and the Roadmap null and void.  We must show no mercy on those that wish to destroy the Land of Israel and the rightful settlement of the Jews in their Biblical Homeland. Palestinians communities should be frozen. They should not be allowed to build and grow. Businesses that choose to invest in the Palestinian Territories should be put on hold. 90% subsidies for childcare and nursery should be frozen forcing the young families to pay 100%.  Let young couples move elsewhere.  If International law dictates that the Government of Israel be ruthless to it's own citizens, we should definitely have no issues with acting with similar tactics to those that clearly educate their children to glorify martyrdom and aspire for  the demise of a Jewish Homeland in Eretz Yisroel.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Israel Kaplan <israelkaplan@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 7:15 PM
Subject: MESSAGE FROM RON NACHMAN, MAYOR OF ARIEL
To: Izzy Kaplan <israelkaplan@yahoo.com>



 

 

 

 

Message from Mayor Ron Nachman
The Building Freeze

 

 

 

December 10, 2009


On Friday afternoon at 3:00pm, just one hour before Shabbat, I received a call from an Israeli Defense Forces officer. He came to bring me the building freeze orders.

What had been presented as a government statement, to be implemented at a reasonable pace and with sufficient warning, was all of a sudden propelled into immediate and heavy handed motion.
 
Young families, who took out mortgages to buy homes that were under construction will no longer be able to afford their payments, now that the entry date to their new homes has been pushed off by 10 months.
 
The Netzarim community, which resides in Ariel since the 2005 Disengagement from Gush Katif, has finally received the necessary licenses and permits to begin building a neighborhood of 100 homes in Ariel. The building freeze stops them in their tracks, leaving them in their trailers and shipping containers for yet another 10 months. 
 
Businesses that chose to invest in the region and build their factories in Ariel's Industrial Zone are set back 10 months, paralyzing their marketing programs and threatening them with economic collapse.
 
Unfortunately, the aggressive implementation of the freeze has grossly oversimplified a complex issue. Even the environment is at risk, with concerns that Ariel's connection to the Dan Region Wastewater Treatment Plant may be postponed, or that its budget may be routed elsewhere for lack of progress on the long awaited project.
  
Prime Minister Netanyahu has succumbed to extreme and relentless pressure from the Obama administration and from Europe . I met with him last week, along with other representatives from Samaria and Judea . He explained that the 10 month building freeze throughout Judea and Samaria is a gesture to the international community, indicating that Israel is willing to take practical steps towards a so-called "peace" arrangement. Though he has not personally changed his belief system, he has initiated an unbearable situation with far reaching implications.
 
The City of Ariel , along with 14 other cities and regional councils, has issued a claim against the government's recent actions. The Supreme Court responded that it will address the case in the coming days.
 
We have been frozen in the past, but we have always persevered.
In 1980 Prime Minister begin froze us for 3 months, but that didn't stop us.
In 1992 Prime Minister Rabin froze us for 4 years. There have been many long term affects to that policy, but Ariel remains an undeniable reality.
 
Notwithstanding our strength, we need to understand the threatening nature of this building freeze. It means that we can't absorb new immigrants, because we can't build new homes. It means that we can't attract young couples to Ariel, resulting in kindergartens closing and schools shrinking. It means that people don't know what to expect from day to day, or what their community will look like a year from now.  
 
No less harmful than the freeze are the government's budget cutbacks. Funding that went to Ariel as a national developmental priority has been discontinued. The repercussions are felt in the city's Department of Education, Social Services, Youth Department and in private households. Families who receive a 90% discount on childcare and nursery school are now required to pay 100% of the required tuition. No grants are given for young families to purchase homes in Ariel. No incentives are given to educators to come and teach in Ariel.    
 
Peace will not emerge from this building freeze, just as no good has emerged from the previous so-called peace initiatives, beginning with the 1993 Oslo Accords.  This building freeze is yet another Israeli gesture towards an unwilling group of Palestinians. In the meantime, it causes unnecessary hardships to the people of Samaria and Judea , and it serves to delegitimize future attempts at creating some form of peace in the eyes of the Israeli people.
 
What will emerge is a strong Ariel. Without a strong Samaria the State of Israel cannot survive. Without a strong Ariel there would be no Samaria . The geo-political situation in Israel continues to become increasingly more obvious to Israelis and even to the Western World. The City of Ariel will continue to provide jobs for our Arab neighbors. We will continue to provide them with water and electricity. We will continue to contribute to a meaningful and lasting peace in the region. After all is said and done it is our commitment to progress and to peace that will prevail.   
 
Sincerely,
Ron Nachman
Mayor of Ariel

 

 

 

 

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Monday, December 14, 2009

A personal tefillah of mine for Har Habayit


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 Dear List, amv"sh

Here is the perfect opportunity to make a direct connection to Har Habayit.  This is my own personal teffilah that I sent in.

Wishing you a Happy Chanukah.

Please go to http://www.tmpn.tk/ and send your personal tefillah!

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A tefillah that all the impurities and Avodah Zara in my house be removed entirely and may we, myself, my husband and my children serve Hashem w/o the anti Torah negative influences of the Greeks and the Romans. May Hashem help us so that it is done in a manner that is not forced upon anyone but rather because of a desire and yearning to serve Hashem in holiness as symbolized by Chanukah.

Yakov Menachem Mendel ben Henya (Helen)
FaigeRayzel Tzipporah Cheftzibah bas Sheindel
Pinchus Dovid Yeshayahu ben FaigeRayzel Tzipporah Cheftzibah
Chaya Tikvah Chana Orah bas FaigeRayzel Tzipporah Chetzibah
Moshe Mordechai Shmuel Shlomo Yitzchok ben Faige Rayzel Tzipporah Cheftzibah
Sarah Leah Tova Emunah ShlomTzion Shulamis bas FaigeRayzel Tzipporah Cheftzibah


Sunday, December 13, 2009

Nadia Matar, Freeze decrees are declaration of war against Judea and Samaria,Senator Inhofe Let's review American History

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"Make no mistake about it.  This war is first and foremost a spiritual war.  It is not a political war. It has never been a political war. It is not about politics.  It is a spiritual war. It has its roots in spiritual conflict.  It is a war to be fought to destroy the very fabric of our society and the very things
for which we stand..."

 Please read this unbelievable speech presented in Congress by Senator Jim Inhofe from Oklahoma on December 4, 2001.  In this historic speech he includes portions of the historic speech of Patrick Henry as he stood in the House of Burgess made a speech for them, made a speech for us today. In this address,  Senator Inhofe presents 7 reasons as per Israel's rights to the Land and why the Land belongs to Israel. This speech is a must have for every Jewish acivist and non activist that is hesitant to put a claim upon our land.

http://inhofe.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressRoom.Speeches&ContentRecord_id=CCBF26D9-1428-420E-AE7A-3B5C1643A8D9

Because this is a spiritual War the rulings of Rabbanim are crucial. 

If you can not make it to the AFSI demonstration today at 11:00 and even if you can, let's be activists for Judea and Samaria at our Chanukah gatherings this week.  Most friends and family members are clueless.  How can we enjoy our own Chanuka celebrations when our Jewish brothers and sisters, 350,000 strong, can not have their own Chanukat Habayit?  They can not expand.   Their communities are being strangled. 

When we as a people will come out strong in support of the Rabbinic ruling forbidding soldiers to expel fellow Jews, the government of Israel  will be unable to impose their rule on us.

When we stand up for Tzvia Sariel and her individual struggle for Torah to be the law of the Land, we show that our prayers are relevant and not merely lip service. 

As Nadia clearly says, peaceful demonstrations are not enough.   We need to prevent another expulsion!  Will we stand by for more expulsions and then offer after the fact expressions of "feeling the pain of our brethren" when it is too late and after the fact tehillim for the Matzav in Eretz Yisroel when are brethren are homeless?. 

Nadia writes:

Dear friends, the freeze decrees not allowing any Jewish building in Israel's Biblical Heartland are a declaration of war against the Jews of Judea and Samaria. Let it be clear to all: the freeze decrees are the first step on the way to the elimination of all the Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria, and the expulsion of 350,000 Jews from their homeland, for the purpose of establishing in their stead a Palestinian state, that, as is well-known, will constitute a threat to the little pre-67'State of Israel.

Our opposition to the freeze decrees is therefore a struggle for the survival of the entire state.

We must set forth on a resolute and uncompromising struggle against these decrees. Protests are important, but not enough. There was a large demonstration on Wednesday. It is important to raise our voices against the decrees, but we should not invest all our energy in this. The lesson of Gush Katif is that quiet, organized, and orderly demonstrations will not decide the outcome and will not change decrees because Israel is no longer a democratic country. In a country in which the electorate votes right and nevertheless receives policies of the left, politicians are not influenced by old-fashioned  demonstrations; at least not here in Israel.

 (In contrast, demonstrations in front of the Israeli consulates abroad are important, because they put pressure on Israel; see below, for details on the demonstration by Americans For a Safe Israel.)

Here in Israel, the government must receive a stiff message from the field, that we simply will not let this happen.

The blocking of the communities by tens of residents to the inspectors from the Civil Administration was a good start.

Now the struggle must intensify.

So that this time there will really be a struggle, and not a fake struggle as there was five years ago in Gush Katif, Moetzet Yesha (the Council of Jewish Settlements in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza) cannot be allowed to head the camp.

Moetzet Yesha is limited. It is dependent on government budgets, and therefore it is capable of engaging only in protests, large but quiet demonstrations (like Wednesday's), and political pressure. All these tactics were used in Gush Katif but did not prevent the expulsion.

The true struggle must be waged by extraparliamentary bodies.

What is struggle?

Struggle today is to rebel against the immoral and anti-Jewish decrees, to proudly violate them, and to send a clear message to all: Never again! They will never again succeed in carrying out a destruction program. Jews will never again be expelled from their homeland.

In our humble opinion, the main struggle now must be conducted in two arenas:

1) Construction, construction, and more construction throughout Judea and Samaria. A few days ago our movement, Women in Green, issued a call to establish a fund for light construction for couples and families on the hilltops. In the coming days we will, with God's help, distribute a short video that will exemplify and explain this step. God willing, the lovers of Eretz Israel will mobilize for this project, and we will succeed in erecting houses throughout Judea and Samaria,especially outside the boundaries of the existing communities. We must pass on a clear message: we will not agree to be ghettoized or limited. The Land of Israel belongs to the People of Israel and we will continue to settle, build and expand in it.

2) Expanding the phenomenon of soldiers who already today declare that they will not participate in the expulsion of Jews from their land and the handing over to the enemy of our land, our homeland. Women in Green gives its support to Rabbi Eliezer Melamed from har Bracha, who stated outright that if an order in the army conflicts with our loyalty to Eretz Israel - the order must be refused. We cannot leave the rabbis in the front lines. We, too, parents to soldiers, must send a clear message that we send our sons to the army to fight the Arab enemy, to defend the homeland and the people, and not, Heaven forbid, to expel Jews from their land. The greater the phenomenon of soldiers loyal to their people and their homeland who declare, already now, that they will not give a hand to the implementation of the policies of the extreme left, the faster the authorities will understand that they do not have the ability to realize their plan.

The more successful we will be in the two areas described above, the more it will put real pressure on the politicians and make it clear that unlike five years ago, when our camp was so well-behaved and docile during the expulsion of our brothers from Gush Katif and Northern Shomron, this time, we are determined to fight for the right of the Jewish People to their G-d given Biblical Homeland.

As Yair Stern wrote: we, the people, are in a "national war. The nation's war for its honor, its freedom, and its life." May it be His will that we receive inspiration from the heroic Maccabees, who did not fear and proved that the little Jewish people is capable of fighting and besting great empires. Like then, today as well, the struggle, unfortunately, is not only against the Greeks, but also against the Jewish Hellenizers who collaborated with the Greeks.

If we succeed in awakening and in understanding that the responsibility and obligation to join the struggle is incumbent on each and every one of us - then we will do and, with God's help, we will prevail.

A happy Hanukkah holiday and Shavua Tov,

Nadia Matar



Below please find the details about AFSI's important demonstration:

AMERICANS FOR A SAFE ISRAEL/AFSI will lead a demonstration on Sunday, Dec. 13, 2009, from 11AM-12 noon, in front of the Israeli Consulate, 42nd Street and Second Avenue, NYC.

People of conscience will gather to protest against the immoral, illegal, discriminatory construction freeze in Judea and Samaria, ordered by PM Bibi Netanyahu.

Participants will carry menorahs to signify that on this second day of Chanukah, the warmth and courage of the Chanukah lights will melt the freeze.

Signs will read, "Let My People Grow", "End the Freeze of Appeasement", "Likud - Honor Your Mandate to Preserve the Land of Israel", "Bibi - You were elected to save Israel, not sell it out," "Obama -Stop Iranian Nukes - Not Jewish Homes."

Speakers will be grass roots activists following the cry of Judah Maccabee - "All who are faithful follow me!"

Contact the AFSI office, 212-828-2424; 1-800-235-3658; afsi@rcn.com for additional information. http://www.afsi.org/

Friday, December 11, 2009

Request from AFSI: We need your help in publicizing and participating in A CHANUKAH PROTEST RALLY AGAINST THE CONSTRUCTION FREEZE



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1751 Second Ave, New York, NY 10128

Tel: 212-828-2424; Fax: 212-828-1717; afsi@rcn.com; www.afsi.org

Contact: Helen Freedman, Executive Director

Dec. 8, 2009

 

JOIN THE PROTEST AGAINST ISRAEL'S CONSTRUCTION FREEZE

 

            Sunday, Dec. 13, 2009, from 11AM-12 noon, in front of the Israeli Consulate, 42nd Street and Second Avenue, NYC, people of conscience will gather to protest against the immoral, illegal, unconscionable construction freeze ordered by PM Bibi Netanyahu and approved by the Knesset.  It's purpose seems to be to appease the Arab enemy, which has already announced that the freeze is insufficient to meet its demands.

            In violation of the right-wing Likud mandate to preserve the Land of Israel for the Jewish people, a draconian order has been issued to stop work on all construction in the Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria for a period of ten months while Arab construction continues unabated.

Defense Minister Ehud Barak is implementing this order with the use of the IDF and Yassamnakim, a special forces unit, dressed in black, reminiscent of the Nazi SS.

            Just as in the expulsion of the Jews from Gush Katif, no thought has been given to the emotional, economic, and physical hardships inflicted upon the 300,000 residents of Judea and Samaria, as well as all those involved in the construction industry.

            We urge all those who care about the preservation of the Land of Israel to be present on the second day of Chanukah, Sunday, Dec. 13, to rally to the cry of Judah Maccabee, "All those who are faithful, follow me!!" Although this rally will be taking place in NYC, we urge people throughout the country to follow suit and organize demonstrations in their own communities.

            Contact the AFSI office, 212-828-2424; 1-800-235-3658; afsi@rcn.com for additional information.

 

 


Fwd: AFSI- antifreeze demonstration Sunday, Dec. 13 between 11-12 noon demonstrations - Israel Consulate 42nd and 2nd Ave.

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I urge you all to go!  Afsi is leading the way.  Sunday Chanuka is a busy day for families with lots of family gatherings. If you can somehow, make the time to go to this demonstration please do so! My own extended family Chanuka party is in my house this year around the time of the demonstration so I can't go, but I will be there is spirit and rooting them on!    Yasher Koach to Afsi and the courageous activists!

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: eli7 <eli7@womeningreen.org.il>
Date: 2009/12/10
Subject: AFSI- antifreeze demonstration
To: eli7 <eli7@womeningreen.org.il>


From: Nadia Matar [mailto:nmatar@netvision.net.il]
Subject: AFSI- antifreeze demonstration

 

 

תנועת AFSI מארגנת הפגנה בארה"ב נגד גזרות ההקפאה- יום ראשון הקרוב

מול הקונסוליה הישראלית בין השעות 11 בבוקר ו2 אחר הצהריים

פרטים בהודעה באנגלית

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        AMERICANS FOR A SAFE ISRAEL/AFSI will lead a demonstration on Sunday, Dec. 13, 2009, from 11AM-12 noon, in front of the Israeli Consulate, 42nd Street and Second Avenue, NYC.

       People of conscience will gather to protest against the immoral, illegal, discriminatory construction freeze in Judea and Samaria, ordered by PM Bibi Netanyahu.  

      Participants will carry menorahs to signify that on this second day of Chanukah, the warmth and courage of the Chanukah lights will melt the freeze.

      Signs will read, "Let My People Grow", "End the Freeze of Appeasement", "Likud - Honor Your Mandate to Preserve the Land of Israel", "Bibi - You were elected to save Israel, not sell it out," "Obama -Stop Iranian Nukes - Not Jewish Homes."

      Speakers will be grass roots activists following the cry of Judah Maccabee - "All who are faithful follow me!"       
                        
            Contact the AFSI office, 212-828-2424; 1-800-235-3658; afsi@rcn.com for additional information. www.afsi.org.




Pidyon Shvuyim activism for Tzvia Sariel, hit a nerve and overreaction by fellow congregants of Judge Lifschitz shul

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Dear List, amv"sh

As an Eretz Yisroel activist, I was very upset about further detainment in prison of a young women, Tzvia Sariel  by a religious Judge on the grounds that Tzvia did not want to identify herself to the Israeli court system. Because Tzvia did not play by the rules, Judge Lifschitz detained her in prison for this crime alone even though her identity was known to the courts based on her fingerprints even without her revealing her identity. 

All other charges against her were proven false.

This  led me to write a letter in support of the a Beis Din that  summoned Judge Lifshitz to a Din Torah.   Judge Lifshitz ignored the summons. 

Here are some of the letters I received in response.  Apparently I hit some nerve.  How dare I suggest that perhaps Judge Lifschitz was unjust with Tzvia Sariel by ruling to detain her in jail, which translates into a jail sentence for an unspecified crime, for her protest that suggests that the Israeli courts are not executing justice?  

Is Tzvia endangering anyone with her little protest except the courts themselves who can not be objective to judging her accusations against them since they are Nogea Badavar?  Is she really a criminal endangering society  for voicing her protest in the only way she sees how and honestly does she therefore deserve to be locked up?

Is there any validity to her claims that the Israeli Courts are biased to the left and against the Nationalist Camp?  Rather than address her concerns, and a willingness for introspection and self review and examination, they choose to intimidate and squash any opposition to their mode of operation which serves to prove her point.  They show that they don't have to answer to anyone other than themselves. 

  My intent was not spam or to threaten anyone.  My email to shul members was not angry.  I presented the facts. My intent was to free a young girl from prison and give support to her claims that in fact the Israeli Court System has been criminally biased against settlers.  I was hoping that some members of the shul would put some pressure on Judge Lifschitz to recognize a Torah Court especially since my understanding was that she is Orthodox. 

None of the letters I received from shul members addressed the points raised in my email.  If the members of the shul didn't want to help the Beis Din they  could have easily ignored the email rather than intimidate me with threats of a law suit and name calling.   They could have sent me back an email in support of the Judge without being so vindictive and on the attack.  No one wants to ostracize the Judge by putting her in Cherem but incarcerating a young women for political purposes in order not to have to reflect on the courts shortcomings is not something we can ignore.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Jacob Vecht <vecht@alcielo.com>
Date: 2009/12/8
Subject: RE: Sanhedrin ruling against Judge Prives Lifschitz because her ruling is detaining a young religious women in jail on false charges
To: Robin Ticker <faigerayzel@gmail.com>


The email you have sent me is spam of the worst kind. I do not know you, and you are using our synagogue list to circulate your messages. I have not requested at any time any email correspondence form you. I'm a physicist, not a lawyer, but I will ask the lawyers in our community whether they are willing to sue you for sending us this spam. As you know, after the law changed in 2007, we each have the right to sue you for 1000 NIS for each unsolicited email you send.
 
In any event, be sure to remove me from the list that you used to circulate your message immediately. If I should ever see any further email message from your list, I will take legal action.
 
Jacob Vecht
 


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Nissan Zisken <nzisken@netvision.net.il>
Date: 2009/12/8
Subject: Sanhedrin ruling against Judge Prives Lifschitz because her ruling is detaining a young religious women in jail on false charges
To: Robin Ticker <faigerayzel@gmail.com>


Who has appointed you as a ruler and judge over us?

It is claptrap and Bolshevik demagoguery like yours which undermine the Jewish State more than anything else.

Your one-sided presentation of the Eretz Yisrael issues without recognizing other rabbinic opinions, or that perhaps these matters should not be decided by rabbis at all, is stupefying.

 

Rabbi Hananya (Hanina), deputy high priest, said:

Pray for the welfare of the government

For were it not for fear of it

People would swallow one another alive!

(Avot 3, 2)

 

Nissan Zisken

Activist for the Jewish State of Israel

Who is proud to pray in the same community as Judge Miriam Lifshitz

מי שמך לאיש שר ושופט עלינו?

יהירות ודמוגוגיה בולשביקית כמו שלכם חותרות תחת אושיות המדינה היהודית יותר מכל דבר אחר.

הצגתכם החד-צדדית של הנושאים הארצישראליים, בלי להכיר בעובדה שיש דעות רבניות אחרות בנידון, או שאולי נושאים אלו אינם דורשים הכרעה רבנית כלל, מטמטמת!

 

רבי חנניה (חנינא) סגן הכוהנים אומר,

הוי מתפלל בשלומה של מלכות

שאלמלא מוראה

איש את ריעהו חיים בלעו.

(אבות ג, ב)

 

ניסן זיסקין

פעיל למדינת ישראל היהודית

הגאה להתפלל בקהילה של השופטת מרים ליפשיץ

 

 

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Edward Breuer <ebreuer@mscc.huji.ac.il>
Date: Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 6:36 PM
Subject: Re: Sanhedrin ruling against Judge Prives Lifschitz because her ruling is detaining a young religious women in jail on false charges
To: Robin Ticker <faigerayzel@gmail.com>


How dare you compare my daughter, who serves in the IDF and obeys the laws of the state, with a young woman who stands in contempt of court! How dare a beit din, with no responsibilities to the stability of the Jewish state and the democratically expressed wishes of the majority of its citizens, assert its authority over anyone, especially a judge who serves the institutions that preserve law and order! How can a group of rabbanim commit such a hillul ha-shem by pretending that an honest and faithful public servant needs to answer to them? How can supposedly God-fearing Jews be so blind as to confuse their political interests, however sincerely felt, with the authority of the shulkhan arukh?

Eddy Breuer, activist for Torah and truth

P.S. Please do not send such drivel to my email

 
  

 

 


On Mon, 7 Dec 2009 16:07:03 -0500, Robin Ticker wrote
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> Dear Shul Members, amv"sh
>  
> It has come to our attention that Judge Lifschitz who davens in your shul has refused to come to a Din Torah regarding a young girl Tzvia Sariel whom she has ordered as judge to be detained in jail knowing that the charges against this girl were false and the only charges are that she had refused to identify herself.  Please note that fingerprints of Tzvia were taken in the past so it is not even necessary for her to identify herself. 
>
> Please support the Beis Din in this matter and show the courts and the judges that they too must answer to a higher authority.  Why should young girls carry the burden alone?
>
> Please review the past history of Tzvia and other young religious girls who want the Law of Torah the Law of the Land of Eretz Yisroel in the links provided.  These are righteous ideological young women perhaps no different than your own daughters.
>
> Sincerely, Robin Ticker, Activist for Eretz Yisroel
>
> I
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> בית דין לעניני עם ומדינה (פועל עצמאית) מיסודה של סנהדרין בית דין גדול של 71*
> רחל אמנו 47 ירושלים 93228   טל. 5661962-02   פקס-0577976007    דואל E-mail dbtc@actcom.com
>  ב"ה ג' כסלו תש"ע  
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>   כתב סרוב  
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> הגב' מרים פריבס ליפשיץ מרח' אהרוני 14 בירושלים היתה שופטת בענינה של צביה שריאל היושבת בכלא עקב החלטה במשפטה שנערך בירושלים.
> לפי טענות התובעים יושבת בכלא על לא עוול בכפה בת ישראל.
> גם לפי דבריה של צביה שריאל לשליח ביה"ד הפרופ' הלל וייס לא עשתה דבר המצדיק מאסרה וכליאתה, כבר שבועיים ימים.
> הנתבעת הגב' מרים פריבס ליפשיץ, הוזמנה להתייצב על פי תביעה שהגישה עמותת חננו ואמה של הכלואה – הגב' רות שריאל ולא הופיעה במועד.
> הנתבעת לא התייצבה כנדרש גם אחרי חצי שעה.
> אי לכך בנסיבות אלו משתמע שהנתבעת סרבה להתייצב לדין תורה.
> לאור האמור, חלות עליה ההלכות הכתובות בשלחן ערוך בענינם של סרבני דין.
> על הציבור לנהוג במסרבת על פי האמור בשלחן ערוך חלק יורה דעה סימן של"ד – היאך נוהגים במנודה או המוחרם ועל מה מנדים,  בסעיפים מ"ג ו-ב, וכן במשנה תורה להרמב"ם הלכות תלמוד תורה פרקים ו-ז.  
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> במותב תלתא כחדא הווינא  
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> ישראל אריאל–אב"ד            יונתן האן                  דב שטיין  
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> בית דין לעניני עם ומדינה (פועל עצמאית) מיסודה של סנהדרין בית דין גדול של 71*
> רחל אמנו 47 ירושלים 93228   טל. 5661962-02   פקס-0577976007    דואל E-mail dbtc@actcom.com
> ב"ה   ג' בכסלו תש"ע
> בית הדין לעניני עם ומדינה
> החלטה בענין צביה שריאל
> והחלטות נילוות בענין העמדת המשפט.  
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> רקע:  
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> צביה שריאל, סמל לאמונה ונאמנות לתורה ולארץ, שוב בכלא  
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> צביה שריאל נעצרה פעמים אחדות במאבקיה למען יישוב ארץ ישראל ומניעת חורבנו.
> היא מתמידה בכך. צביה אינה מכירה בסמכות בית משפט המתנכר לחוקי התורה, במיוחד לאחר שחוותה שמערכת המשפט בארץ מייצגת סדר יום המיועד להוריש את ישראל מארצו ושבתי המשפט לא מצילים מהם.  
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> לפני שלושה שבועות נעצרה צביה שריאל בהגינה על נערה בת 17 , תושבת רמת מגרון, מפני בריונות השוטרים וכוחות הביטחון האחרים שפינו את היישוב.  
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> צביה שריאל וחברותיה נעצרו בטענות שווא כאילו הן אינן מזוהות ואולצו להתפשט על ידי שוטרות בטענה שהן אולי מחזיקות סמים או נשק ולעבור חיפוש גופני משפיל שכל טעמו התעללות בעצירות.  
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> לפני שנה לאחר מעצר ממושך שלא כדין שנמשך שלושה וחצי חודשים שוחררה צביה שריאל לאחר שהתבררה בבית המשפט עלילת הדם שרקחו נגדה השלטונות על ידי גיוס ערבים כדי להפלילה.
> בית הדין התורני לענייני עם ומדינה בראשות הרב ישראל אריאל ז' באדר ב' תשס"ח [14 מרץ 09 למנינם]  הורה לשלטונות הכלא להביא את הנערה בפני בית הדין. הסוהרים אכן צייתו לפסק הדין והביאו את הנערה תחת משמר כבד לבית הדין.
> בית הדין הורה לשחררה על אתר לאחר שנוכח,  לא רק בחפותה המוחלטת אלא בצדקתה ובבור ליבה ונקיון כפיה..
> בדרך כלל קשה מאוד להוכיח את עלילותיהם של השלטונות, אולם, במקרה זה,לאחר יומיים,
> נוכח בית המשפט בניהולה של השופטת נאווה בכור, בעל כורחם של דברים, בחפותה המוחלטת. והנערה
> שוחררה.
> השופטת בכור ציינה בהחלטתה שמוכתאר הכפר השכן לאלון מורה הודה כי דורבן באיומים על ידי רב סרן איאד עמאר להיכנס לאלון מורה ולביים מסיק זיתים שלא בעונתו. המוכתאר בן השמונים הועלה על רכב של המינהל האזרחי יחד עם עוד ישישים והם הונחו להתגרות בנערות בתוך אלון מורה באמצעות מצג של מסיק. צביה שריאל וחברותיה העירו בתקיפות לאורחים כי הם אינם רצויים ואז קפצו עליהן אנשי המינהל ועצרו אותן.
> הקצין לא הועמד עד היום לדין מה שמלמד שהאיש הבין ששקריו יזכו לגיבוי הממונים עליו והמערכת כולה.
> לעומת השופטת  בכור, השופטת מרים ליפשיץ, שלפניה הובאה צביה שריאל להארכת מעצר, הורתה להמשיך במעצרה של שריאל, הגם שיש להעריך שידעה שטענות התביעה שיקריות. השופטת אכן איפשרה לה להשתחרר אם תמסור טביעת אצבעות, אך קודם לכן קיבלה גם את טענת השוטרים כאילו היא אינה מזוהה. צביה שריאל הודיעה שלא תשתתף בהצגות בפשעים ובשקרים של המערכת.  
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> לצערנו זהו אכן פרי הבאושים של שיתוף פעולה  בין המשטרה למערכת המשפט. המשטרה טלפנה לאימה של צביה שריאל ביום המעצר והודיעה לה על מעצר בתה ובכך הודתה המשטרה כי זהות הנערה ידועה לה.
> תביעות אצבעותיה של צביה שריאל נלקחו ממנה בכוח כבר לפני זמן רב וצירוף הטענות הללו לא נועד, אלא, כדי להשפיל ולכופף ולשבור את רוח הנערה.
> צר לנו שהשופטת מרים ליפשיץ מעמידה את עצמה וכבוד תפקידה בדיעבד כשרות להתעללות המשטרה.
> לא יעשה כן בישראל להתעמר איש באחיו, להשפיל בת ישראל שכל כבודה בת מלך פנימה ולהפקירה לאגרוף רישעה. כאחיה של בת מתתיהו מצווים אחיה היהודים לחלצה ממיצר וממעצר.  
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> השופטת ליפשיץ שהיא אישה דתית מחללת שם שמים בהופכה לזרוע שלטונית הפועלת בזדון כנגד יהודים מעצם היותם אמונים על גאולת העם והארץ.
> לפיכך מוצדקת  עמדת צביה שריאל שאינה מכירה במערכת מטעמים עניניים ומטעמים של תורה צרופה.
> אנו רואים בהתנהגותה של צביה שריאל מופת לרבים.  
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> הציבור היהודי נקרא להתגבש סביב בתי דין של תורה בכל אתר ואתר לקיים מצוות היסוד דברים פרק טז
> (יח) שֹׁפְטִים וְשֹׁטְרִים תִּתֶּן לְךָ בְּכָל שְׁעָרֶיךָ אֲשֶׁר ה' אֱלֹהֶיךָ נֹתֵן לְךָ לִשְׁבָטֶיךָ וְשָׁפְטוּ אֶת הָעָם מִשְׁפַּט צֶדֶק:...
> (כ) צֶדֶק צֶדֶק תִּרְדֹּף לְמַעַן תִּחְיֶה וְיָרַשְׁתָּ אֶת הָאָרֶץ אֲשֶׁר ה' אֱלֹהֶיךָ נֹתֵן לָךְ: ס
> כל עוד לא יהיה משפט ראוי בארץ לא נוכל לרשתה.
> כאמור –ישעיהו פרק א(כז) צִיּוֹן בְּמִשְׁפָּט תִּפָּדֶה וְשָׁבֶיהָ בִּצְדָקָה:  
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> אב"ד - הרב ישראל אריאל,   דב שטיין,  הלל וייס.
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> 3 Kislev, 5770 
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> Writ of Refusal 
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> Ms. Miriam Prives Lifschitz of 14 Aharoni St. in Jerusalem was the judge presiding over the matter of Tzvia Sariel, who sits in jail due to the decision on her case which was held in Jerusalem.
> Per the claims of the plaintiff, a daughter of Israel sits in jail in spite of her innocence.
> According to the statements of Tzvia Sariel to the court's emissary, Professor Hillel Weiss, she did not do anything to justify her arrest and incarceration, which has already lasted two weeks.
> The defendant, Ms. Miriam Prives Lifschitz, was invited to represent herself in the claim which was submitted by Honenu Organization and the mother of the incarcerated - Mrs. Ruth Sariel, and Ms. Lifschitz did not arrive at the scheduled time.
> The defendant also did not arrive as required after another half hour.
> Therefore, it seems in this situation that the defendant has refused to appear for a Torah ruling.
> In light of the above, the laws written in the Shulchan Aruch regarding one who refuses to appear in court apply.
> It is incumbent upon the public to act with the refuser according to the aforementioned Shulchan Aruch, Yoreh Deah 334 entitled "How to act in respect to the banished and excommunicated, and for what reasons is one banished", subsections 2 and 43, and likewise in the Mishneh Torah of the Rambam, laws of Talmud Torah chapters 6 and 7. 
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> The three of us sign unanimously:
> Rabbi Yisrael Ariel – Head of the Court
> Rabbi Yonatan Han
> Rabbi Dov Stein
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> 3rd of Kislev, 5770 
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> To Tzvia Sariel, 
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> Your courageous leadership during your recent incarceration has been brought to our attention. 
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> We bless to be strong and courageous in your steadfastness which is a vital act for Israel's presence in its land. 
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> May it be G-d's will that you merit to see the complete redemption due to your behavior, among other things, and that you merit to see the fulfillment of "May you return our judges like at first". 
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> Rabbi Yisrael Ariel – Head of the Court
> Rabbi Yonatan Han
> Rabbi Dov Stein
> Sanhedrin - Great Court of  71
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> 664137  Telefax   דואל dbtc@actcom.com  e-mail  
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> 3 Kislev, 5770
> Decision on the matter of Tzvia Sariel
> And accompanying decisions regarding arranging court hearings  
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> Background:
> Tzvia Sariel, a symbol of faith and faithfulness to Torah and the Land, is again imprisoned.  
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> Tzvia Sariel was arrested a few times during her struggle for the settlement of the Land of Israel and prevention of its destruction.  She persists in this.  Tzvia does not recognize the authority of a court that ignores the laws of Torah.  In particular, after she experienced that the judicial system in Israel  
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> represents an agenda designed to remove Israel from its land, and that the courts do not protect from this agenda.  
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> Three weeks ago, Tzvia Sariel was arrested as she protected a 17 year old girl, resident of Ramat Migron, from the barbarous acts of the police and other security forces which evacuated the community.  
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> Tzvia Sariel and her friends were arrested due to false claims, for example that they refused to be identified, and were forced to get undressed by female police officers, under the claim that they might be carrying drugs or weapons, and therefore needed to undergo an embarrassing full body search, whose only reason is to abuse the detainees.  
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> A year ago, after an extended unwarranted detention which lasted three and a half months, Tzvia Sariel was released after it was revealed in court the blood libel cooked up against her by the authorities, by enlisting Arabs in order to incriminate her.  The Torah Court for Matters of Nation and State, headed by Rabbi Yisrael Ariel, on the 7th of Adar Bet 5768 (14th of March, 2008) ordered the prison authorities to bring the young woman before the Court.  The jailers indeed followed the court order and brought the young woman, under heavy guard, to the Court.  
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> The Court ordered her immediate release after it was proven, not just of her complete innocence, but her righteousness, purity of heart, and integrity.  
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> Usually, it is very difficult to prove the libels of the authorities, however in this case, after two days, in the court of Judge Nava Bechor, it was proven, against their will, of her complete innocence.  The young woman was released.  
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> Judge Bechor noted in her decision that the Mukhtar of the neighboring village of Alon Moreh admitted that he was urged by threats by Major Iyad Amar to enter Alon Moreh and to orchestrate an olive harvest when it wasn't time.  The 80-year old Mukhtar was loaded in to a vehicle of the Civil Administration together with other elderly individuals, and they were instructed to harass young girls inside Alon Moreh with a harvest display.  Tzvia Sariel and her friends forcefully informed the guests that they are not wanted, and then the people from the Civil Administration jumped upon them and arrested them.  
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> The officer has still not been put on trial, which shows that the man knew that his lies would gain backing of his superiors and the entire system.  
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> Unlike Judge Bechor, Judge Miriam Lifschitz, in front of whom Tzvia Sariel was brought for an extension of detention, ordered the continued detention of Sariel, and it is likely that she knew that the claims in the charges were lies.  The judge indeed allowed her to go free if Tzvia would give fingerprints, but before this, she also accepted the claims of a policeman that Tzvia's identity was not known.  Tzvia Sariel announced that she would not cooperate in the Judicial System's display of crimes and lies.  
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> To our dismay, this is indeed spoiled fruit of cooperation between the police and the Judicial System.  The police called Tzvia Sariel's mother on the day of her arrest and informed her of her daughter's incarceration, and thus the police admitted that they knew the young woman's identity.  
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> Tzvia Sariel's fingerprints were taken by force a long time ago, and the combination of these claims is only meant to degrade, humiliate and break the young woman's spirit.  
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> It pains us that Judge Miriam Lifschitz places herself and the honor of her position, retroactively, in the service of the police.  It will not thus be done in Israel, for one to abuse another, to embarrass a daughter of Israel, wherein all the honor of a daughter of the king is inside, to abandon her to the fist of wickedness.  Just like the brothers of Matityahu's daughter, her Jewish brothers are commanded to save her from distress and incarceration.  
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> Judge Lifschitz, who is a religious woman, profanes the name of Heaven, as she turns herself to a governmental arm acting purposefully against Jews due to their remaining faithful to the redemption of the nation and land.  
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> Therefore, Tzvia Sariel's stance, that she does not recognize the system for practical and Torah reasons together, is correct.  We see in Tzvia Sariel's behavior a good example for the masses.  
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> The Jewish Public is called to unite around Torah courts in every place in order to fulfill the basic command:
> Deuteronomy 17:18 – Judges and officers you shall place for yourselves in all of your gates that Hashem your G-d gives you.  
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> Deuteronomy 17:20 – Justice justice you shall pursue, so that you might live and inherit the land that Hashem your G-d gives you.  
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> As long as there is not proper justice in the Land, we will not be able to inherit it.  As it says:  
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> Isaiah 1:27 – Zion will be redeemed with justice, and its returnees in righteousness.  
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> Rabbi Yisrael Ariel - Head of the Court                   Rabbi Dov Stein                Rabbi Hillel WeissPast History - Illegall Incarceration of young religious women including Tzvia Sariel
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> Please check out these horrible links. They are chronological going from most recent backwards.  Unfortunately it seems things haven't changed much. 
>

Monday, May 26, 2008

2 months solitary confinement, no phone, no visitation for trespassing. Pidion Shvuyim for young women.


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Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Message from Susie Dym that spoke to Tzvia Sariel personally after release!


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Tuesday, March 18, 2008

ACTION ALERT,Tzvia Sariel,OUTRAGEOUS! Still in Jail, SOLITARY, Sanhedrin ruling


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Monday, March 17, 2008

Tzvia Sariel with iron chains, hands and feet after Sanhedrin ruling!!!


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Friday, March 14, 2008

Why is Tzvia Sariel being punished in jail w/o commiting any crime?




Tuesday, December 08, 2009

Free Gilad Shalit-Don't free Arab terrorists - Baruch Matir Asurim - From Nadia Matar

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Another powerful email from Nadia Matar!  Baruch Ata Hashem Elokeinu Melech HaOlam Matir Asurim! This goes for Jonathan Pollard, Tzvia Sariel and to all those imprisoned like Yosef Hatzadik.  Hamokom Yerachem, Aleyhem, Veyotziem Metzara Lirvacha, UmeAfela LeOra, Meshibud Ligeula, Hashta Beagala UBizman Kariv!  

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Dear Friends,

Below please find two articles that relate to the upcoming Shalit deal. An article by Prof Louis Rene Beres and a release by Helen Freedman from AFSI.

Interestingly, the freezing decrees against the Jews in Judea and Samaria came exactly at a time when, in Israel, one should have a huge outcry against the upcoming release of a 1000 terrorists in exchange for Gilad Shalit.

Israel could have done and still can do many things to release Shalit without capitulating to Arab terror and without having to release terrorists:

1) Pressure on the Gaza Strip. Declaring that each day that goes by and Shalit is not released, Israel will cut off electricity, water and other supplies. For those who might be under the impression that Gazans are starving please take a look at the pictures in the following link. This provides pictures taken in Gaza very recently for Eid celebrations -- they were in an Palestinian Arab paper. Were you under the impression that the Gazans were starving (because of big bad Israel)? You'll change after seeing this:
http://www.paltoday.com/arabic/News-64161.html

2) Each day that goes by and Shalit is not released, Israel should arrest another Hamas and PA leader/activist who roam freely anywhere and everywhere.

3) Worsening the condition of Arab terrorists in prison. Few people know that Arab terrorists in Israeli jails enjoy hotel conditions. Their cells are equipped with TV, DVD, radio and sometimes even computers. They enjoy festive meals. Each Arab terrorist is allowed to study and many have completed B.A's and M.A's in jail. Most of them enjoy visitation rights of their families and even conjugal visits of their wives. All this should have been stopped from the day Shalit and other soldiers were kidnapped.

4) Last but not least, instead of sending its soldiers and elite units against the Jews in Judea and Samaria who might commit "the crime" of building, Israel has the capability of organizing a military operation to enter the Gaza Strip, destroy all terror organizations, free Shalit and finally reinstall Jewish sovereignty over this piece of our Land that foolishly has been given away five years ago to the Arab enemy.

We know that this last option is not what this government wants to do but we, the people loyal to the Land of Israel, must constantly remind ourselves and the world that we have not given up on going back to the Gaza Strip and rebuilding Gush Katif. Firstly because the Gaza Strip (known as "Eretz Grar" in the Bible) is as much part of the Land of Israel as Judea, Samaria, Galil, Negev and Golan. Secondly, because only when Israel is in full control of all areas, including Arab towns and villages, we can be sure there will be no Arab terror and kidnappings.

With love for Israel,

Nadia Matar
Women in Green
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Trading Israeli Gilad Shalit for Palestinian Terrorists - An Illegal and Perilous Exchange
Louis René Beres - Dec 07, 2009
Purdue University
http://www.israelunitycoalition.org/news/article.php?id=4843

Under long-standing international law, every state has a primary obligation to protect its citizens. Yet, it appears that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may soon be prepared to exchange Palestinian terrorists for kidnapped IDF soldier Gilad Shalit. Any such exchange, however humane to Shalit and his family, would imperil thousands of other Israelis.

A core element of all civilized legal systems is the rule of Nullum crimen sine poena, "No crime without a punishment." This principle, drawn originally from the law of Ancient Israel and reaffirmed at the post-War Nuremberg Trials, is part of all international law. It applies here.

To the extent that U.S. President Barack Obama should concur in this impending deal - effectively, an American act of complicity with terrorists - our own country would be in violation not only of international law, but also the law of the United States. Such violation would be two-fold because all international law has been made part of US law (the "supreme law of the land") by Article 6 of the Constitution, and by a number of landmark Supreme Court decisions.

For Israel, there is also a pertinent and portentous history of terrorist exchanges. In June 2003, the Shurat HaDin, the Israel Law Center, in anticipation of then-planned terrorist releases, condemned Israel's freeing of 100 Palestinian prisoners. Later, almost five times that number were freed by then-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. In her letter to the Prime Minister and members of his Cabinet, Shurat HaDin, Director Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, wrote that releasing terrorists for any reason would reignite Arab terrorism against defenseless Jewish men, women and especially children.

Nitsana was correct. Soon thereafter, at least two newly released Palestinian terrorists proceeded to launch suicide bomb attacks in Israel. In these attacks, one "military target" of the heroic fighters was a cafe filled with mothers and their babies.

Every state has an indisputable core obligation under international law to prosecute and punish terrorists. This obligation derives in part from "No crime without a punishment." It is codified directly in many authoritative sources, and is also deducible from the binding Nuremberg Principles (1950). According to Principle 1: "Any person who commits an act which constitutes a crime under international law is responsible therefore and liable to punishment."

Terrorism is a serious crime under international law. The precise offenses that comprise this crime can be found at The European Convention on the Suppression of Terrorism. Some of the Palestinian terrorists previously released were also guilty of related crimes of war and crimes against humanity. These are Nuremberg-category crimes, so egregious that the perpetrators are known in law as Hostes humani generis, "Common enemies of humankind."

International law presumes solidarity between states in the fight against all crime, including terrorism. This presumption is mentioned as early as the seventeenth century in Hugo Grotius' The Law of War and Peace. Although Israel has a clear jurisdiction to punish any crimes committed on its own territory, it also has the right to act under broader principles of "universal jurisdiction." Its case for such universal jurisdiction, which derives from an expectation of interstate solidarity, is found at the four Geneva Conventions of August 12, 1949. These Conventions impose upon the High Contracting Parties the obligation to punish "Grave Breaches."

No government now has the legal right to free terrorists in exchange for its own kidnapped citizens, military or civilian. Terrorism is a criminally sanctionable violation of international law that is not subject to manipulation by individual countries. In the United States, it is clear from the Constitution that the President's power to pardon does not encompass violations of international law. Rather, this power is always limited precisely to "Offenses against the United States."

In originally capturing and punishing Palestinian terrorists, Israel acted on behalf of all states. Moreover, because some of the terrorists had committed their crimes against other states, Israel cannot properly pardon these offenses against other sovereigns. Although Mr. Netanyahu's impending prisoner exchange would not, strictly speaking, represent a "pardon," it would have exactly the same effect.

No state possesses the authority to pardon violations of international law. No matter what might be permissible under its own Basic Law, any impending political freeing of terrorists by Israel would be impermissible. The fundamental principle is also established in law that, by virtue of such releases, the releasing state itself must assume responsibility for past criminal acts, and for future ones.

Under international law, Prime Minister Netanyahu's impending exchange - effectively analogous to a mass pardoning of criminals - would implicate the Jewish State for a "denial of justice." This could have practical consequences. Although it is arguable that punishment, which is central to justice, does not always deter future crimes, such an Israeli freeing of terrorists would undermine the Jewish State's legal obligation to incapacitate violent criminals from committing new acts of mass murder.

A tragic aspect of modern international law is sometimes the need to make hard and painful choices in order to safeguard larger populations from future harms. Mr. Netanyahu should now act accordingly.

LOUIS RENÉ BERES was educated at Princeton (Ph.D., 1971), and is author of many books and articles dealing with international criminal law.


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Dec. 7, 2009

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: SHALIT DEAL MOTIVATES MORE KIDNAPPINGS & STRENGTHENS HAMAS

(Based on a Bulletin put out by Palestinian Media Watch, Dec. 6, 2009)

Americans for a Safe Israel recognizes the extraordinary difficulty in coming to a decision regarding the release of Gilad Shalit in exchange for PA terrorists, many of whom have blood on their hands and are serving life sentences for murder.

It is our belief that the Israeli government might know where Gilad Shalit is being held prisoner and if so, should use its military might and expertise to rescue Shalit from his captors. Instead, it has put the Shalit family and the country through the torturous exercise that seems to be heading for the exchange of Shalit for 1,000 unrepentant terrorists. The record shows that released terrorists return to their pattern of murder and mayhem bringing death and suffering to innocent Israelis.

Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik quote from this month's Al Ayam. Hani Al-Masri, Dec. 1, asserts that "Israel understands only the language of force, since kidnapping is the only thing that leaves
open the gates of hope for freedom for prisoners with long prison terms. This encourages others towards self-sacrifice for the sake of the homeland" Abdallah Awad writes, Dec. 3, "Only, only-says the
Hebrew state - by force, detainment, capture, and kidnapping of occupation soldiers, is it possible to free Palestinian prisoners "whose hands are stained with blood"

Similar quotes have been heard throughout the debate on the prisoner exchange. Can Israel really open the gates wide on future kidnappings and attacks on Israeli citizens? We believe that especially at this
time of Chanukah and miracles and the bravery of Judas Maccabeus, the Israeli government must act to instill pride and strength in its people. It can only do this by "Just saying NO" to internal and
external pressures that would have Israel appease its enemies and weaken itself.


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