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Well, if one looks at it through the lens of personal ambition, then surely he could have taken another less difficult tack. As to resigning, that was not an option. He was told to ship off, or face the consequences.

In any case, a man who is so talented would hardly find himself adrift financially, when all is said and done.

I disagree with you, but we are free to disagree.

His first stop is America, with an eye towards the west in toto. All the evidence is overwhelming in scope. IF this landed in a criminal court, even a mediocre prosecutor could sleepwalk through the indictment, the proofs are so clear.

I thought the guidelines include that a lengthy article needs to be excerpted....

As to Sharon’s betrayal, it had less to do with Bush/Washington and much more to do with Sharon hewing to the left, as dictated by the leftist held AG’s office, certain to indict him for several crimes. This is a fact As a result, this was written -

The Bitter Fruits of ‘Disengagement’
A Tikkun By Honenu

By Adina Kutnicki

(Aug. 19, ’11) Few events in Israel’s recent history sear the Jewish soul as did the destruction of 25 thriving Jewish communities in Gush Katif and the northern Shomron, as ordered by the Sharon-Olmert government. The sixth anniversary of what is referred to as the ‘disengagement’ of August 2005 now looms over Israel’s collective conscience.

In a move that set Jew against Jew, the IDF was used to engineer the expulsion of more than 8,600 people from their homes. Gush Katif residents watched in horror as the living were dragged from their homes and the burial places of the dead were desecrated. Later, 26 synagogues were burned by Arab mobs.

The destruction itself took place over 10 days, but the physical and mental preparations occupied many months beforehand. Three years later, in August 2008, a report entitled The Mental Preparation for the Disengagement and its Aftermath in the IDF would shed light on the intense preparations that took place.

The authors call the disengagement “a precise operation” performed with seven levels of security that took 18 months to plan.

“To execute robotic responses [by IDF soldiers] in a precision-like fashion, southern military commander Dan Harel appointed a team of psychologists to ‘transform’ the soldiers’ thought processes,” write authors Ruth Eisikowitch, Dr. Gadi Eshel, Dr Amira Dor, Boaz Haetzni, Attorney Aviad Visoli, Dr. Rachel Tassa and Dr. Moshe Leibler.

The report describes a series of psychological exercises “planned to ‘release’ the soldiers from their conscience by carrying out exercises in emotional disconnect.” The psychologists’ notes on those exercises are detailed in the journal Military Psychology (No. 5, December 2006).

The report is consistent with the recollections of Rachel Saperstein, a former resident of Neve Dekalim. When soldiers arrived the night before the expulsion, she tried to engage them in conversation, she said, only to find that they refused to talk to her or even to look at her. “The IDF turned them into robots,” she said.

Army officials were not the only ones dealing with the disengagement months before it took place. Hundreds of thousands of Israelis took to the streets to take part in hundreds of protests, determined to make their voices heard. Such a volume of public protest was striking, and many would suffer for it. Some 7,000 Jews were arrested for their participation.

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This meant, among other things, much added strain on Honenu. As Israel’s only legal defense organization representing Jews like the arrested protesters, Honenu needed more manpower to continue its work.

As the number of volunteers grew, the group became better able to meet the growing demand for its services. Its pool of on-call lawyers swelled to 60; the 24-hour-hotlines were now manned by a full office of volunteers. It was just in time, too. Reports of new civil rights violations seemed to be coming in around the clock.

A particularly poignant Honenu case from the summer of 2005 is that of Beit El resident Chaya Belogorodsky, then 14 years old. Her drama began when she took part in a non-violent demonstration against the expulsion. After watching two friends get arrested, she walked over to the police van to see how they were faring. As she stood nearby, a police officer told her to leave. When Belogorodsky replied that she was permitted by law to stand on the sidewalk, she was arrested for insulting a police officer.

The nightmare was now in full swing. Belogorodsky was placed in solitary confinement for four days. A hole in the ground served as a toilet; there was no shower, no toilet paper, no running water. She was also not permitted visits or phone calls. On Shabbat, the guards shut off the lights, guessing correctly that, as a religious Jew, she would not turn them back on. Belogorodsky spent that Shabbat in the dark. Because of the lack of kashrut supervision, she also avoided most of the food served. The “system” tried to break the spirits of hundreds of youngsters like her, aiming to discourage others from future protests.

When the four days had ended, Belogorodsky was moved to a regular prison cell. She was now granted one hour each day outside her cell for exercise and phone calls home. Her family was permitted a 30-minute visit once a week. Older girls in prison on similar charges were strip-searched after every family visit, ostensibly so prison authorities could find hidden drugs.

Belogorodsky’s father called Honenu. The prosecution wanted her remanded until trial, which at that point could have been months away. Honenu’s lawyers took the case to the Supreme
Court, where Judge Ayala Procaccia, a strong advocate for government crackdown on dissenters, accepted the prosecution’s arguments that teenage Belogorodsky was an “ideologically motivated criminal” who could negatively influence others even in house arrest. The prosecution was willing to allow her to be released to a kibbutz, saying that it would be a “good educational experience for her.” Belogorodsky and her parents refused on religious grounds.

As Belogorodsky’s days in jail grew to 40, public pressure on the State intensified. Eventually, the justice system relented and allowed her to return home. Belogorodsky’s father credits Honenu with extricating her from the nightmare.

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Akiva Vitkin’s story also began at a non-violent protest. As the 19-year old sat in the streets of Ramat Gan protesting the expulsion, three police officers sat on top of him and pretended to handcuff him. Tuvia Lerner of National News Network had stopped his car nearby and caught the incident on film.

“Another police officer approached Akiva from behind, leaned towards his head, stuck his fingers in Akiva’s nostrils and pulled violently upwards and backwards,” Lerner recalls. “Akiva was dragged to a police car while he was bleeding from his mouth, nose and eyes.”

At the Ramat Gan police station afterwards, Vitkin was taken into a room where a witness observed four policemen beating him with their fists and knocking him to the floor before the door was closed. Akiva emerged with his face swollen and bloody, barely able to walk.

Belogorodsky and Vitkin are not alone. Their stories are recorded among dozens of others in a 60-page report entitled Israeli Government Violations of Disengagement Opponents’ Civil Rights. The devastating indictment against the Israeli leadership documents 165 cases of unlawful use of pretrial detention, declared immunity for police brutality, false arrest, torture, and use of General Security Services (GSS) for cases of unarmed civil disobedience.

The report is authored by Dr. Yitzhak Klein, director of the Israel Policy Center; Shmuel Meidad, founder and director of Honenu, and attorney Itzhak Baum. It can be downloaded in full from Honenu’s home page at www.honenu.org.

* * *

Looking back six years later, we know all too well who truly benefited from the disengagement: Hamas.

The destruction of Gush Katif as a Jewish area led directly to its takeover by Hamas, a terrorist group that promises in its charter to eliminate Israel. These six years have seen countless rockets and missiles fired across the border into Israel – rockets that have killed, wounded, damaged property and instilled fear.

These are the fruits of the ‘disengagement’.

Adina Kutnicki is a life-long Zionist activist, having made aliyah in the summer of 2008. Her articles can be found at www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Author.aspx/451

As to your reference to the obscene left in Israel...where to begin....

Post-Zionist Academics Further Israel’s Delegitimization By: Adina Kutnicki Published: February 8th, 2012

Aside from the obvious looming dangers associated with a nuclear-armed Iran as well as attendant regional menaces, there exists an equally explosive strategic threat to Israel emanating from the country’s post-Zionist and anti-Zionist circles. Those ideological forces dominate a large swathe of Israel’s media outlets, diplomatic corps, legal system, cultural institutions and, most important, universities. A significant element of teaching and research, housed within the social sciences and humanities faculties, is demonstrably post- and anti-Zionist in contents and outlook.

A Hebrew University Law School syllabus typifies the post- and anti-Zionist agenda: The course will focus on the controlling techniques that were generated by the Israeli occupation in the territories. We will study the historic sources of these techniques and will attempt to place them within the colonialist context, especially that of the British and French. In addition to Prof. Yehouda Shenhav, attorney Michael Sfard will oversee the course as a guest lecturer and as legal advisor to the Yesh Din NGO Volunteers for Human Rights. Twice a month students will participate in activities within the framework of Yesh Din’s Monitoring the Military Courts Project and with Machsom Watch’s District Coordination and Liaison Aid Project.

By the school’s own description, the course (paralleling many others) serves not as an academic exercise but rather as deliberate brainwashing by leftist/Arabist-focused partisans with the collusion and funding of hostile NGOs. Because a significant number of future Israeli leaders will be the products of leftist social sciences and humanities departments, the pernicious effects of such schooling are long range in nature. Most significantly, their deleterious effects include the undermining of pro-Israel hasbara efforts.

For example, a recently released report by Jean Glavary, a Socialist member of the French parliament, accused Israel of using water as a weapon of oppression and apartheid against the Palestinians. Despite the fact that the “water weapon” had already been utilized by Amnesty International, Israeli diplomats and elected officials were caught unawares, forced to play defense rather than offense. Although they denied all the charges contained in the French report, the damaging slander had already spread like wildfire all over the world. It is becoming increasingly clear that without the proper educational background it is difficult if not impossible for Israeli spokesmen to defend against the ongoing international delegitimization of Israel.

One of the antidotes to this depressing and dangerous state of affairs exists within the framework of Dr. Martin Sherman’s Israel Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS), a U.S. non-profit 501c3 tax-exempt entity found online at www.martinsherman.net. Dr. Sherman has long understood the use of water as a propagandistic weapon of choice in the Middle East. His book The Politics of Water in the Middle East: An Israeli Perspective on the Hydro-Political Aspects of the Conflict was a focal point at a Jerusalem Summit forum in response to Amnesty International’s apartheid claims. This is the kind of effort needed to effectively debunk the arguments of post- and anti-Zionist academics and enable students to intelligently and independently assess the issues.

Just as a competent general would never send his troops into battle without the necessary equipment, Israel cannot continue to allow its resident post- and anti-Zionists to indoctrinate the next generation of leaders, schooling them under faulty and dangerous constructs.

Read more at: http://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/opinions/post-zionist-academics-further-israels-delegitimization/2012/02/08/

Another, out of countless -

Justice in the Holy Land?
Is It Ideologically Driven? Honenu can attest that it is.
By: Adina Kutnicki

(July 21, ’10) There is a surreal phenomenon enveloping Israeli society, causing right wing nationalists to pause and contemplate – have they landed in an Alice-in-Wonderland universe?

Could it be true, are there really two parallel sets of justice/rules of law, one applied to leftists and their Arab counterparts, the other to right wing nationalists and their ‘settler’ brethren? These questions require urgent answers, particularly in light of several recent high profile, disturbing events taking place in Israel.

The outrageous, humiliating spectacles of Rabbi Dov Lior and Rabbi Yaakov Yosef hauled into police stations, for the ‘crime’ of endorsing (issuing a haskama) a leading Jewish legal treatise, Torat HaMelech, The King’s Torah, raises the specter of the arrival of a new level of selective prosecution against the nationalist sector. The threatened charge: Incitement. A troubling thought indeed.

Torat HaMelech, the focal point of the office of the State Prosecutor’s outrage, deals with the issue of wartime, specifically, when is it permissible under Jewish law to shed the blood of non-Jews belonging to the enemy populations? The present IDF Code of Ethics, attributed to Tel Aviv University Professor Asa Kasher, has led to the preventable deaths of hundreds of IDF soldiers. Tragically, Kasher’s “morality code” has never been the subject of serious public debate. The hysteria over Torat HaMelech may well serve as the catalyst for this urgent public discourse.

Not surprisingly, in response to the above undemocratic arrests for ‘thought crimes’, thousands participated in mass protests erupting in Jerusalem. 44 were arrested for peaceful civil disobedience, mainly blocking traffic on major thoroughfares in the capital.

Enter Honenu. As Israel’s only legal defense organization for its loyal citizens, as always, rushed to the aid of the protestors, thus making sure that their legal rights were secured. Not only were their rights to due process protected, but many were spared the fate of spending time in jail under the same conditions reserved for criminals and terrorists

On the other hand, unlike Rabbis and Jewish nationalists, leftists do not suffer the same personal and public humiliations nor are they arrested for their comments which actually incite to Jewish murder!

Consider the following, albeit a tiny sampling of their high profile utterances: Professor Yehudah “Judd” Ne’eman, Professor Emeritus at Tel Aviv University Faculty of the Arts, an Israel Prize Winner (usually reserved for those on the far left), publicly called for a civil war. Unlike the above Rabbis who simply interpreted Jewish law, Professor Ne’eman urged his fellow leftists to execute a “war between the political left and the Jews of Judea and Samaria”, AKA the “settlers”. Even though recordings of Ne’eman’s statements were obtained and publicized by Israel’s TV Channel 1, incredulously, he was never called in for investigation by the State Prosecutor’s office.

His call follows a recent statement by former Technion physics professor Oded Regev that he would be willing to volunteer in a civil war against the radical right. Oded lobbed this verbal grenade,”I believe that there is only one way to overcome the religious extremists and that is through organized violence, through launching warfare in the full meaning of the term. Anyone who does not surrender in that war will be incarcerated. Those Rabbis and their friends continue in the tradition of Goebbels”.

Not to be outdone in his leftist vitriol, Professor Eyal Nir, of Ben Gurion University’s Chemistry department, (following in the infamous footsteps of Neve Gordon, BGU’s poster boy for worldwide anti-Israel rhetoric) likewise incited against the nationalist sector, calling “on the world to come and help break these scoundrels’ necks.” His “ scoundrels” were young Jews who marched with Israeli flags on Jerusalem Day through areas lightly populated by Jews in our united capital.

The above heinous utterances, if ever spewed in reverse by the right wing public, to go to war against left wing Jews, would have resulted in immediate arrests. Moreover, the tired mantra, “no one is above the rule of law”, would be heard over and over.

The above vile expressions imparted from professors who teach our students, influencing them in ways both seen and unseen, dare not be underestimated. While hiding behind academic freedom and democracy, leftists are undeterred in their ideological (hate) missions, knowing full well that the justice system is tilted in their favor.

“Within any truly democratic society free speech is one of the most basic and protected tenets, said Honenu spokesman, Shalom Pollack. “At the same time, a society cannot sustain its freedoms without the underpinnings of the rule of law, a law which applies equal justice. There is law here indeed, but it is not equally applied to all. Anytime that is the case, the law loses its legitimacy.”

Therefore, the urgent question before all of us becomes – why are Rabbis arrested, yet leftist academics, cultural icons and Islamic leaders are allowed their inciting opinions, albeit without fear of arrest?

Until the question loses its relevancy, Honenu Legal Defense Organization is the only thing standing between mass arrests of nationalists Jews and an Israeli jail cell, all for the ‘crime’ of expressing their democratic opinions.

It may very well be that a “bolt out of the blue” will appear, and I intimate as much. But allowing it to reach this point in time, having been in office over several years, well, that says a lot. Not only that, but the assessment from Prof Louis Rene Beres - a VERY close associate - is where it is at.
He has given my analysis a thumbs up. That’s enough on this end.
Read his links (background) and tell me otherwise.

Well, yes, in some ways he is a hero. But in the ultimate test - not so much. Also, there are certain persons who know Netanyahu well enough, and they have given the heads up to much of my assessment.
Thanks for taking the time to read this commentary, it was too long to post as a stand alone.

sport, without a doubt, those who voted in the Islamist/Radical-in-Chief deserve all their comeuppance. But it is the rest who will pay the piper too. Therefore, any attempt to remove him from power must be explored, some of which is detailed herein - http://wp.me/p2x3Fm-4Kc

Indeed, Greenfield has “got it going on”, as some of the youngsters say.

I have referred to his work in some of my commentaries too, When Leftists, Mega-Rich, “Peace” Obsessed Instigators Get Involved….What Can Go Wrong? …EVERYTHING - http://wp.me/p2x3Fm-1vC

The point being, we just need to keep exposing the truth, wherever it leads - all of us!

Glad to be aboard! Only so much time in a day, but making room for FR.

Well, thank you for the heads up. I make many friends along the way, as well as many enemies, especially those who are desperate to shut me (and others I work with) up. Know this: they are both die hard leftists AND Islamists who tend to work in tandem!

Yes, they believe if they dictate, “cease and desist”, that this will be the result.

Does spitting in the wind resonate?

In reality, he did indeed publicly pledge his fealty to Islam, as he intoned within his book, Dreams From My Father. He stated he would side with Muslims, if it came down to it....and I am just paraphrasing....

Best to you all too!

To be sure, ACTIONS speak louder than lying,flowery, syrupy words!

GREAT Simpson parody....

Absolutely, he is an enemy to America and to all of the west. In fact, he views the deconstruction of western civilization (upon whose shoulders the “sin” of colonialism was birthed) as his “destiny”.
Righting those “wrongs” starts not only in destroying America’s foundation and moorings, but in empowering his Islamist brothers and sisters in the Mid East. Thus, his assists in their attendant wild fires....replacing Arab strongmen with Islamic jihadists.

A few points: firstly, the deconstruction of the U.S. as a hyper power cannot happen sans economic devastation. Hence, Obamacare was set in motion.

Secondly, without destroying the military - in a myriad of ways - America’s military hegemony dare not be challenged.

Hence, the quest to target both pillars.
Over the next few days, your reference to PLANNED wreckage within America will be addressed.

In the meanwhile, his golf jaunts continue and they are not for nothing...more than meets the eye - http://wp.me/p2x3Fm-2Iw