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Dear Friends,
As we are waiting for Bibi’s speech and pray he will stand firm and not cave in, we share with you a few announcements:
1) TUESDAY, JUNE 16, at 1:00pm – Yonatan Bassi will testify in the trial against Nadia Matar
The trial by the State of Israel against Nadia Matar on the issue of free speech in her comments against Yonatan Bassi will continue on TUESDAY, June 16, at 13:00.
Details: Nadia Matar 050-5500834
Yoram Sheftel has called upon Yonatan Bassi to come and testify.
Please show your support with your attendance at the trial. Please call the above number for details, because the courts often change dates and times at the last moment. To read the Arutz 7 report on Nadia’s trial: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/124199
2) THIS PAST FRIDAY IN SHDEMA
Friday in the Land of Israel Cultural Center in Shdema
The former army barrack in Shdema, that function as a “here and now” cultural center every week, was completely filled. On this Friday. June 12th, more than 150 people packed the barrack and many were left standing. Everyone listened very attentively to the lecture by Sarah Jo Ben Zvi on the essential nature of Jerusalem, and they anxiously awaited the lecture by Philippe Karsenty.
Philippe Karsenty is a French Jew who devotes himself to spreading the truth about the Muhammad al-Dura episode (that Arab boy who was not shot (despite Western media claims) in 2000 at the Netzarim junction by IDF forces, while his father protected him).
Philippe began his lecture by saying that it was Nahum Shahaf who was the first to reveal the al-Dura deception. Karsenty continued by showing the extent to which the fabricated film on France 2 television aided the Arab propaganda in causing tremendous harm to Israel and to the Jewish Diaspora. Throughout the Arab world, the child Muhammad al-Dura became a “martyr” used to inflame the Arab masses for actions against Israel. The devisers of the Muhammad al-Dura deception also succeeded in portraying Israel, that in reality was on the defensive, as aggressive and inhuman.
With screen after screen, tables and diagrams, photographs and the testimonies of experts, Philippe, never losing his sense of humor, exposes the falsehood, the deception, the tendentious media work, and details about the exhausting trial, that he lately won, but still has not come to an end.
The Israeli Foreign Ministry, Israeli television, and the entire Israeli establishment should have lovingly embraced him and made use of his Sisyphean labor of collecting the facts, and thanked him for the wonderful information work that he did – but, to our shame, this is not the reality. And so it happens that Philippe spends his time going from one lecture to the next, in Israel and the world, and promises not to stop until France 2 tells the whole world that they lied, deceived, and defrauded.
Philippe’s lecture concludes with thunderous applause by an audience that embraces Philippe with great love and appreciation for his courage. We, the members of the Committee for a Jewish Shdema, thank him wholeheartedly. On Shabbat we read the Torah portion of the spies – 2 out of 12 succeeded in upholding the truth. Likewise, Philippe upholds the truth – a single individual against the world.
Mrs. Ruhi Avital from Ofra volunteered to translate the lecture from English to Hebrew, and to provide the dozens of listeners with the proper technical equipment.
Yehudit Tayar from Beit Horon exhibited some of her beautiful paintings that finely express Israel’s landscapes and life. She offered one to Philippe.
Next Friday Rabbi Shimon Golan will give a lecture on the topic: Unity and Disagreement.
We will paint the buildings after the lecture. Everyone is requested to take part in the struggle to keep Shdema in Jewish hands.
The members of the Committee for Jewish Shdema also read the letter by the head of the Gush Etzion Regional Council to the Defense Minister, as follows:
“A Palestinian/European plan for the establishment of a “hospital” in the area of the Shdema camp is on the Defense Minister’s desk now.
Shdema lies on the road between Jerusalem and Herodium, in an extremely strategic location. It controls Har Homa on the northern side, Beit Sahur on the western side, and the road that connects Jerusalem and Gush Etzion on the eastern side.
* The plan and its scope reveal that it is, all in all, a limited clinic, and this plan cannot be called a hospital. The plan lacks parking lots and areas for future development and growth.
* Anyone standing on the Shdema hill sees tens of thousands of empty dunams around Beit Sahur. Why, then, did the Europeans/Palestinians choose to ask specifically for this area?
* It’s quite clear: the Europeans/Palestinians want to take away from us this little bit that remains. The extent of the remaining Area C is very limited, and they aspire to take control of whatever they can.
* Central Command officers thought that there was no security problem with the establishment of the hospital in the northwestern sector, but I am certain that this won’t end there! The Palestinians will demand afterwards to receive the rest of the area. Then we will have no alternative, and only then will the Central Command object.
* I ask that you oppose the handing over of the areas of the Shdema camp to foreign control, and maintain a permanent military presence.”
This is what Shaul Goldstein, the head of the Gush Etzion Regional Council, requested of the Defense Minister.
In order for the Defense Minister to agree to this request, political pressure must be generated and a permanent presence at the site maintained. With God’s help, there has been a wonderful response by the public in Jerusalem, Gush Etzion, Kiriat Arba-Hebron, and even farther away, such as Ra’ananna, Beit Shemesh, Meitar, Tel Aviv, and more. They all understand that the struggle for Eretz Israel continues to be a dunam and another dunam, a goat and another goat, an expansion and another expansion. We meet at Shdema every Friday morning at 9:30. Join us!
The Committee for a Jewish Shdema
www.womeningreen.org
For pictures by Gemma Blech
http://picasaweb.google.com/gemmablech/PhilippeKarsentyAtShdemaExposingTheAlDuraHOAXJune11th2009 #
For pictures by Rivka Ryback
http://www.yeshabulletin.com/FIGHT%20BACK/FightBack.htm
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