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URGENT: Warrant For Expulsion of The Jewish Families From Hevron’s MarketPlace was Issued
From Sunday - STAY TUNED! For Fighting Back, Call 02-996.5333/#3
PS. David Wilder, Spokesman of The Jewish Community of Hebron, responds to a July 26th Washington Post article that is highly inaccurate, entitled:
"In Divided Hebron, a Shared Despair" (E): http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/25/AR2007 072502360.html
* “Do NOT Expel Jews from Jewish Property in Hevron” by No’am Arnon (H) http://www.inn.co.il/Articles/Article.aspx/6832

Chomesh info: 050-800.7575 / x #4; Report on Police Violence in Chomesh, call Shabtai 0524-291.261
Over 100 people persist on the ruined village, on shifts. ‘Security Forces’ despaired and left!
* If you can come for a shift, please, call 0526-302.222

HaEitam info: Updates and photos can be found on the website www.yishuvnow.com

FREE JONATHAN POLLARD - PETITION reminder! More info http://www.freepollard.net
For the Petition of Academics http://www.mp100.info/clients/pollard2/view.asp
For the general petition http://www.mp100.info/clients/pollard/index.asp

College of Judea and Samaria (Ariel)→University Center: Those professors who responded already and others who still wish to join the congratulations add, Please, send your approvals to boaz@yosh.ac.il
(From Last Reminder: “If you are a Professor (Associate or Full) in an academic institution (In Israel OR Abroad!) and wish to be a signatory to this message, please send your name and academic affiliation to me.”)

Restful Study – “40 Years to The 6-Days’ War” – at K’far-Etzion Field School
TUESDAY - FRIDAY (July 31 - August 3) http://www.k-etzion.co.il , bsade@kfar-etzion.co.il

MOVIE ("Home Game") ABOUT GUSH KATIF IN JERUSALEM, TEL AVIV AND HAIFA
* JERUSALEM SCREENINGS - Aug. 1: Jerusalem's Cinematheque at 9:30 PM
Aug. 3: Jerusalem's Begin Center at 11AM
Aug. 6: Jerusalem's Third Ear Theater at 9PM
Aug. 15: Jerusalem's Third Ear Theater at 7:30PM
* TEL AVIV SCREENINGS: July 28: Tel Aviv's Third Ear Theater at 9PM
Aug. 9: Tel Aviv's Cinematheque at 8PM
* HAIFA SCREENING: Aug. 1: Haifa Cinematheque. Time TBD
* A full listing of all screenings within Israel http://www.homegamethemovie.com/in_theatres_eng.php
"Home Game" is just the first movie we plan on producing and distributing to world Jewry. Movies make an impact, movies carry messages which connect us to one another, to the land of Israel and to the values that we all share. We need all the help we can get to continue to make this happen. "Home Game" is only the beginning." 12Tribe Films Foundation is a not-for-profit organization (awaiting 501c3 status) dedicated to promoting creative projects about the Jewish people and the land of Israel that connect, entertain, and inspire . Contact info@12tribefilms.org

REMIND THEM: “YESH DIN veYESH DAYAN” (H) http://5magnetix.com.vd.tiptip.co.il/yadkatif/
** Encourage The Films about the uprooting (H) http://www.flix.co.il/tapuz/channel.asp?c=80&f=1
Two Years to The Expulsion - Help Us to Help Them! (H) http://4katif.org.il/4gk/4gk.html
** GUSH-KATIF: WE SHALL REMEMBER—AND RETURN! **
“OD NASHUV LE’CHOL YISHUV! www.gamla.org.il
YAD KATIF WEBSITE (H) http://www.yadkatif.com
“The Master Rebuilder of Gush Katif Lives” (E) http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/newscontent.php3?artid=14346&print=y es#
* “Two Armies in Israel” by Amit Barak (H) http://www.inn.co.il/Articles/Article.aspx/6835

Daily Tours with K’far Etzion Field School During The Summer Vacation
Details/Reservations: 02-993.5133, bsade@kfar-etzion.co.il , http://www.k-etzion.co.il/

BEAUTIFUL TRIP (1 hour program including view, planting, and a briefing by the locals)
ON FRIDAYS - Every Friday, 9 - 10 AM. Call Natan 0524-317.333 or Meir 0504-482.848
Kol Zion, a new yishuv in the Shilo area, is offering tours of their area each Friday

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8, 17:00 at the Ein Tzurim temporary housing (caravillot) site of Netzer Hazani
A special exhibit of photos from Gush Katif days will be on display. People from all over Israel are invited to meet with former residents, and special activities will be available for children http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/123184

SPEND SHABBAT RE’AY IN TELEM! with RUTHI'S YESHA EXPERIENCES
AUGUST 10-11, ’07, in Telem, west of Hevron
• Visit the hilltop settlements, Avigail, Asael, Mitzpe Yair on way to Telem
Accommodation in Telem’s Yeshiva; Round-trip bullet-proof transportation from Jerusalem;
Interesting, dynamic speakers (Hebrew); Tour of Telem with explanation; Mehadrin Catering
PRICES: NIS: 255 per adult; NIS 215 per child, aged 2 - 12
Contact Ruthi: luveretz@netvision.net.il , 02-5611.962, 0524-307.405

Manhigut Yehudit needs observers on 14 August to man 160 Likud voting booths countrywide
Open to Likud members 18 years of age and over. 2 shifts: morning till afternoon, and afternoon till night-time closing
Please send your ID number, address and email address to ellakoblenz@gmail.com (0503-061.591)
To volunteer for Moshe Feiglin any time until 14 August (phone calls, drivers, etc.) call 02-996.1123 (David) or shir@manhigut.org

PROTEST THE CORRUPTED ISRELI RULERS, STARTING WITH THE LEGAL SYSTEM
In NAKIM Forum (H) http://www.nakim.org/israel-forums/viewtopic.php?t=757 (From: Haim Yativ haim@nakim.org , 0546-533.858)
* “Who can Stand The Supreme Court?” by Edmond Chessin (H) http://www.inn.co.il/Articles/Article.aspx/6834
* An Open Letter to Judge A. Procaccia (From: Moshe/Abigail Belogorodsky ydf@013.net)
"he hoped for justice but behold oppression; for righteousness but behold a cry". Yeshayahu (5:7)
I decided to write this letter after I read of your decision to allow the promotion of Niso Shaham to the position of deputy police chief of the Jerusalem district. The same Niso Shaham who, during the expulsion from Gush Katif, gave the following orders to fellow police officers: "I am a pro in dealing with these Orthodox Jews. S**t on them. Let them burn. Hit them from the waist down. I will f**k the hell out of them". Those orders were directed against demonstrators in Kfar Maimon.
After a video of the episode was broadcast on channel 10 national news, Shaham was brought before the police disciplinary court where he was reprimanded and deprived of pay for six days. The police court apparently decided that this was punishment enough for his words which insulted a whole segment of Israeli society. And now you, a judge of the Supreme Court of Israel, have demonstrated your apparent concurrence with the police court's decision. Indeed, you went much further, by deciding to allow Shaham's promotion (!) based on the fact that Shaham expressed regret over his words. In your decision you speak of the need to forgive in the following terms: "a candidate's failure in the line of duty does not necessarily disqualify him from promotion on the count of breaching the public's trust. Public trust is a term that also recognizes penitence, asking forgiveness and seeking answers." You even go so far as to scold the petitioners against his promotion for their "inabili
ty to forgive".
All the flowery words notwithstanding, allow me to question the justice of your decision. And if you ask who am I, a simple citizen of this country, to dare question the decision of the Supreme Court, allow me to remind you.
I am the father of Chaya, the 14 years old girl who was arrested during the expulsion. It was you who decided to keep her under arrest until the end of proceedings against her, all because one policewoman claimed that Chaya insulted her by saying "shut up and arrest me". And because of your concern for the honor of that one policewoman my child spent 40 days in Maasiyahu jail. You kept her in jail even though she too expressed her regret and promised not to make the same mistake again. We asked you to release her to full house arrest so that she would not have to sit in jail (p. 4 par. 8 of the protocol). Unfortunately, you could not find any room in your heart to "recognize penitence", nor to accept my child's "asking for forgiveness". To the contrary, you sent my child to jail because she " insulted a police officer in a crude way" (p. 5 par. 10). It appears you thought that her words were infinitely cruder than those of Shaham. You spoke of the "outright lack of respe
ct for the police officer" as another justification for keeping Chaya in jail. It seems that Shaham's lack of the most basic respect for the citizens of this country is much less "outright" in your eyes.
There is one more sentence in your decision to keep Chaya in jail - a sentence which you must have forgotten when dealing with the Shaham case. "...her behavior does not leave me a choice except to isolate her from the center of her ideologically motivated activities (meaning Chaya's home - M.B.) which swept her into committing the crime"(p. 6 par. 11)”. I ask:
* Is it not fitting to "isolate" Niso Shaham from his "center of activities which swept him into committing the crime"?
* Is it possible that in any normal country a high ranking police officer be allowed to get away with these types of statements?
* Is my child's "crime" more heinous in your eyes than Shaham's truly criminal orders to perpetrate a pogrom against the demonstrators in Kfar Maimon?
* Lastly, how can you justify on any grounds, moral or judicial, your outright discriminatory treatment of my child versus the treatment Shaham benefited from in your court?
It seems to me that it is no coincidence at all that you handed down your decision regarding Niso Shaham on the eve of Tisha B'Av - the day we mourn the Destruction caused by baseless hatred.
Allow me to end my letter with this: We were "privileged" with Niso Shaham's apologies. We are still waiting for yours.

WEBSITES (from miscellaneous)
* “My Good Brother” by Shoshi Greenfeld (H) http://www.inn.co.il/Articles/Article.aspx/6833
* “The Enemy Within” by David Shalom (E) http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/7281
* Articles by Nissan Ratzlav-Katz, John McCaslin, Hilary Leila Krieger, Ilene R. Prusher, Marc Sheppard, An NRO Symposium, Clifford D. May, Prof. MK Arieh Eldad,
http://www.israelunitycoalition.org/news/article.php?id=1587 etc

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