Doc's Talk: Nitsana's War for Justice

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Nitsana's War for Justice

Nurit Greenger

Bnei Akiva is the largest religious Zionist youth movement. Recently the Bnei Akiva, Los Angeles (http://www.bneiakivala.org/) held an 'Evening of Jewish Heroism' in which they hosted Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, an Israeli attorney,a Jewish rights activist, and the director of Shurat HaDin, the Israel Law Center. (http://www.israellawcenter.org/)

What is the connection between the youth movement and this Law Center? Having values and having strength. To instill in the young generation the belief that everyone can make the difference.

The emcees of the evening were Vic Mellon and Chavee Lerer. David Segal, Israel's Consul General to USA West Coast spoke and told the audience that in his youth he was a member of Bnei Akiva and there he learned Jewish values, Zionism and the love for the Jewish State Israel. That Jewish leadership encapsulates in Bnei Akiva. After all, Naftali Bennett, the new person on Israel's political skies was a member of Bnei Akiva as well.

StandWithUs (SWU) once stated that, 'if there was no Bnei Akiva, there would be no SWU'.

And twenty graduates of Bnei Akiva are now members of the Knesset. And that speaks volume. It appears that Beni Akiva is playing a significant role in Israel and the Jewish nation's future.

The highlight of the evening was the mesmerism speech by Mrs. Darshan-Leitner, a story of bankrupting terrorism – one law suit at a time. What Nitsana and her team do no conventional method can do; they defy terrorism through their pocket book. Without money terrorists cannot buy rockets or guns and thus cannot kill the innocent, cannot be terrorists.

In the Bible, Parashat Yitro, the fifth episode in the book of Exodus marks the beginning of the Jewish Nation – and the world – legal system.

Jethro, Moses' father-in-law arrives to the camp of the Israelites with Zipporah, Moses' wife and her children. Moses receives him and tells him about the miracles made at their flight from Egypt, and in response Jethro praises G-d. Next day Jethro sees how Moses judges the people all alone, and offers him to make a change in the system: to appoint, under him, head-ministers of thousands, hundreds, fifty and tenths who will mediate between him and the people on the milder cases. Moses asks G-d and God allows him to appoint, and so Moses appoints judges, and Jethro then returns to his country.

The Children of Israel arrived to Mount Sinai and camped at the foot of the mountain. Moses goes up the mountain and gets a message from G-d to the Israelites that they stand to sign an alliance with Him and become His "Chosen People". The Children of Israel agree, and Moses prepares them for receive the Torah. After three days of preparation the event at Mount Sinai takes place. G-d is revealed on the mountain though thunder and lightning and gives the people the Ten Commandments, the basis of all universal law. The Children of Israel find it difficult to experience divine revelation directly and ask Moses to mediate between them and G-d. After the Ten Commandments episode comes the episode that deals with the law of the altar. And so a Jewish nation under the law of G-d began.

Fast forward, when Nitsana established her law center, in 2002, she arrived at the conclusion that what unifies all of Israel's foes is their hate for the state of Israel and Jews and there is no end in sight and so there must be consequences.

Since banks keep paper trail that can attest to money paid, deliberately and intentionally to terrorists and suicide bombers Nitsana set her center to follow the banks' paper trail and get the banks to pay compensations to terror victims through the courts. To bring banks to the point they will not agree to open an account for terror organizations, or individual terrorists, or open branches in terror land. For instance, there are no banks in Gaza. It is all cash and carry there.

The formula: if you cut the money well you stop terror, to a large degree or all together. You stop the flow of funds you end the life of terror. One case, if the European Union stops funding Hezbollah, this terror organization's life will cease in no time.

Nitsana Darshan-Leitner and Shurat HaDin are vigorously going after all the banks they have a hint, or they are suspicious to be involved, in one way or another, with terror group and terrorists. The slogan, 'we are trying to make banking much harder for terrorists'.

Nitsana Darshan-Leitner and Shurat HaDin is determined not to let the terrorists kill Israeli children and they will fight them back.

The United States congress passed a rule that the right of a terror victim to seek judgment overrides any other claim. This rule opened a wide window to go, according the law, after the banks. Only recent Shurat HaDin found that the bank of China opened an account for Hamas and the bank will now have to deal with the law center. That will end in favor of the Law Center.

Nitsana's stories can made into a movie. She won cases and received millions of dollars in compensation for terror victims and froze billions of dollars the belong to terrorists. She also found a way to go after officials from Iran for crimes against humanity and made them scared. And because of Shurat HaDin, the second and larger planned flotilla to Gaza was canceled.

When Israel's foes realized that they cannot win militarily they waged lawfare and lawfare they will get. The generals in charge of this battle are Nitsana Darshan-Leitner and Shurat HaDin Law Center. While seeking justice, they are also winning their cases and that is good news for any terror victim and bad news for terror, mainly Islamoterror.

Because of constraints no government can do what Nitsana Darshan-Leitner and Shurat HaDin do. They ban terrorism one lawsuit, one case at the time. And as Nitsana claims, "between then and us, we will win."

In 2012 Darshan-Leitner won the Moskowitz Prize for Zionism for her daily devotion to preserve the dignity of the state of Israel. Her persistence and professionalism resulted in achievements that not everyone in Israel, in particular, and the world in general, are aware of People like her are a symbol for all humanity.

Bnei Akiva and Nitsana Darshan-Leitner believe in Zionism; that you fight for what you believe, you fight for the truth, you fight for your values and for your existence.

To that I say Amen!

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The IDF’s Minorities in Numbers and Pictures

In honor of IDF Diversity Week, we present diversity through numbers and pictures. Each year, more and more Muslims, Christians, Druze, Bedouin and immigrants from around the world take on the responsibility of defending Israel.

MUSLIMS:

Muslim Arab Israelis are not required to draft in the IDF, but there are many who volunteer. In 2013, there were over 200 Muslims serving in the IDF and over 300 in the reserves.

Bedouins:

Bedouins are nomadic Muslims who were in Israel when modern borders were set in place and are now considered Israeli citizens. They are not required to draft but a growing number choose to enlist. In 2012, there were over 1,400 Bedouin Muslim soldiers doing regular IDF service and almost 1,500 in the reserves.

Read more:http://www.idfblog.com/2014/02/27/truth-idf-numbers-pictures/#more-34027

Are you aware that in 2013, Middle class taxes go up-significantly?

In January of next year, the federal income tax rate for middle-class taxpayers is scheduled to rise from 25 percent to 28 percent, and the payroll tax is scheduled to rise from 13.3 percent to 15.3 percent… This drives the marginal tax rate based on the aforementioned three taxes to 48.12 percent. Add in state and local property, corporate, excise, and other state and local taxes, and the percentage of each additional dollar that is taxed hovers around 50 percent… When half of each additional dollar earned is taxed away, taxpayers experience a disincentive to start businesses or expand existing ones. This leads to fewer jobs being created.

Why is HAMAS Inside Tampa Schools?

Clare Lopez

Kelly Miliziano, who teaches history classes at Steinbrenner High School in the Tampa, Florida area apparently thinks it’s perfectly OK to invite a senior official of a HAMAS-affiliated organization into her classroom to discuss Islam with her students. According to local media reports, not only has this been going on for years, but in spite of the civil and criminal proceedings that could result from such reckless negligence, the Hillsborough County school superintendent, Mary Ellen Elia, and the chairman of the school board, Candy Olson, also expressed approval for students under their responsibility to be exposed repeatedly to guest speaker, Hassan Shibly, who is the Executive Director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in the Tampa area.
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Did You Know... Ignoring the Call to Islam will Bring Jihad

‘Conquest through Da’wa [proselytizing] that is what we hope for. We will conquer Europe, we will conquer America! Not through sword but through Da’wa.’
-- Yousef al-Qaradawi , Muslim Brotherhood spiritual leader The Arabic word ‘Da’wa’ means the “call to Islam.” But do not think that Da’wa is the same thing as an invitation to an optional holiday event. The classical Islamic doctrine of jihad mandates that enemies must be given the opportunity to convert to Islam or pay the jizya tax before it is permissible to attack them.
Clare M. Lopez

Who is being discriminated-facts tell the truth

Religious bias

Hate crimes motivated by religious bias accounted for 1,409 offenses reported by law enforcement. A breakdown of the bias motivation of religious-bias offenses showed:

65.4 percent were anti-Jewish.
13.2 percent were anti-Islamic.
9.5 percent were anti-other religion, i.e., those not specified.
4.3 percent were anti-Catholic.
3.8 percent were anti-multiple religions, group.
3.3 percent were anti-Protestant.
0.5 percent were anti-Atheism/Agnosticism/etc.

http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/hate-crime/2010/narratives/hate-crime-2010-incidents-and-offenses.

On March 31, 1977, the Dutch newspaper Trouw published an interview

with PLO executive committee member Zahir Muhsein. Here's what he said:

"The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct "Palestinian people" to oppose Zionism.

For tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa, while as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan."

In March 1977, Zahir Muhsein, a PLO executive, said:

"The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct Palestinian people to oppose Zionism."

"For tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa, while as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan."

The Arab Apartheid

Ben-Dror Yemini
In 1948, the Arab countries refused to accept the UN partition proposal and they launched a war of annihilation against the State of Israel which had barely been established. All precedents in this matter showed that the party that starts the war - and with a declaration of annihilation, yet - pays a price for it. Between 550,000 and 710,000 Arabs fled because of the war and a larger number of 850,000 Jews were expelled or fled from Arab countries (the "Jewish nakba").
Population exchanges and expulsions were the norm at that time, occurring in dozens of other conflict points and affecting about 52 million people. In all the population exchange precedents that occurred during or at the end of an armed conflict, there was no return of refugees to the previous region, which had turned into a new national state.
Only the Arab states acted completely differently from the rest of the world. Instead of assimilating the refugees, they crushed them despite the fact that they were their coreligionists and members of the Arab nation - instituting a regime of apartheid. So the "nakba" was not caused by the actual dispossession, which had also been experienced by tens of millions of others. The "nakba" is the story of the apartheid, oppression, abuse and denial of rights suffered by the Arab refugees at the hands of the Arab countries. (Maariv)

International Law and Military Operations in Practice - Col. Richard Kemp

"Islamist fighting groups study the international laws of armed conflict carefully and they understand it well. They know that a British or Israeli commander and his men are bound by international law and the rules of engagement that flow from it. They then do their utmost to exploit what they view as one of their enemy's main weaknesses. Their very modus operandi is built on the correct assumption that Western armies will normally abide by the rules, while these insurgents employ a deliberate policy of operating consistently outside international law. "

Lost Historical Moments

What Rabin’s last Knesset speech really said:repudiation of a Palestinian state

Rabin ruled out a fully sovereign Palestinian state :

“We view the permanent solution in the framework of State of Israel which will include most of the area of the Land of Israel as it was under the rule of the British Mandate, and alongside it a Palestinian entity which will be a home to most of the Palestinian residents living in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. We would like this to be an entity which is less than a state, and which will independently run the lives of the Palestinians under its authority.”

Rabin ruled out a total withdrawal from Judea and Samaria and thus a return to the pre-June 1967 borders :

“The borders of the State of Israel, during the permanent solution, will be beyond the lines which existed before the Six Day War. We will not return to the 4 June 1967 lines.”

Rabin ruled out withdrawing form the Jordan Valley:

“The security border of the State of Israel will be located in the Jordan Valley, in the broadest meaning of that term.”

Rabin ruled out uprooting settlement blocs, like the Gush Katif bloc in Gaza (which was subsequently uprooted by former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon):

“The establishment of blocs of settlements in Judea and Samaria, like the one in Gush Katif.

AND

Rabin ruled out removing any settlement before coming to a full peace agreement with the Palestinians:

“I want to remind you: we committed ourselves, that is, we came to an agreement, and committed ourselves before the Knesset, not to uproot a single settlement in the framework of the interim agreement, and not to hinder building for natural growth.”

Rabin insisted on Israel retaining full security control of the borders with Egypt and Jordan, contrary to Israel’s relinquishment of the Philadelphia Corridor on the border with Egypt:

“The responsibility for external security along the borders with Egypt and Jordan, as well as control over the airspace above all of the territories and Gaza Strip maritime zone, remains in our hands.”

Correcting Oslo Myths-Part 2

3) Kuttab laments that the post-1993 Oslo process resulted in a Palestinian Authority "whose ministers and legislators are not guaranteed passage between Gaza and the West Bank ...."

Before free passage or other perquisites, PA leaders were obligated, among other things, to eliminate the terrorist infrastructure in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, end anti-Israeli, antisemitic incitement in schools, mosques, and communications media, and resolve all outstanding issues through peaceful negotiations. They met none of these commitments, sometimes bolstering terrorism and greatly increasing incitement.

4) Kuttab complains that under Oslo the PA got "lightly armed police ---- but no real sovereignty over the land or contiguity between our communities in Gaza and the West Bank."

Oslo agreements repeatedly were revised, regardless of Palestinian non-compliance, until the authorized number of police grew from 8,000 to 40,000. Though they were to be the only armed forces in the territories, Israeli estimates early in the second intifada put the number of gunmen - police, "security services," terrorists, and armed gangs - at 85,000. Their armament reportedly included not only heavy machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades, but also anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles.

Sovereignty was to be negotiated in the envisioned 1998 "final status" talks - after a five-year period of confidence-building. Palestinian leadership chronically undermined the process. Palestinian terrorism made the 1993 - 1998 Oslo period more deadly for Israelis than the 15 years preceding it.

The United States doesn't have contiguity between the lower 48 states and Alaska and Hawaii; territorial contiguity between the West Bank and Gaza Strip - that is, through the 20 miles of Israeli territory between them - was never promised and would destroy Israeli contiguity.

5) "Palestinians have been made to endure hundreds of checkpoints in the West Bank, an eight-foot wall deep in our territories, and tight Israeli control over borders."

The security barrier is not "deep in Palestinian territories," but rather encompasses less than 8 percent of Judea and Samaria, and is mostly a fence, rarely a wall; the land in question is not "our [Palestinian] territories" but disputed territory to which, according to the authors of U.N. Security Council Resolution 242, Jews as well as Arabs have claims; and there are no international borders, only the 1949 armistice lines with Jordan. Under 242, borders remain to be negotiated. As for checkpoints - like the security barrier and "tight Israeli control" - Palestinian Arabs precipitated these measures themselves. No terrorism and there would be no fence or tight Israeli control and few checkpoints - like before the first intifada.

Correcting Some Oslo Myths

1) In Oslo "Israeli, Palestinian and other world leaders promised that ... Palestinian sovereignty would be solidified."

No, they didn't. The 1993 Declaration of Principles and subsequent Oslo agreements outlined a process by which final status negotiations about the West Bank and Gaza Strip would be reached. The process required an end to anti-Israel terrorism and incitement and a commitment to peaceful negotiations. The PA, Fatah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and other terrorist groups, sabotaged the process from the start.

2) "The reality is that, in defiance of U.N. Security Council Resolution 242, which states that it is inadmissible to occupy land by force, Palestinian territories are still under foreign military occupation."
Wrong again. Resolution 242 (1967) does note "the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war." It also affirms the right of every state in the area "to live in peace with secure and recognized boundaries free from threats or acts of force." There were no "Palestinian territories." Jordan occupied the West Bank, Egypt controlled Gaza. Israel did not have "secure and recognized boundaries," so retention of some of those territories was possible under 242. Israel is not a "foreign" military occupier in the West Bank but, pending final negotiations, the lawful military administrator as a result of a successful war of self-defense.

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