Rabbi Kahane’s Grandson on Hunger Strike

[Shlomo]

http://jtf.org/rabbi-kahanes-grandson-on-hunger-strike/

[Nachus]

                                                                                                      

 A truly despicable act to persecute this great hero. He is a prime example of what all
 of the world's Jews should be and the kind that should lead the blessed land of Israel! 
 

[Chiram]

The Rav's grandson is a political prisoner, he's been detained and tortured for weeks without charges or a lawyer.

This medieval treatment highlights moral bankruptcy in government leadership. Despite Ettinger serving as a scapegoat, I appreciate Chaim's message to Jewish youth not to throw away their futures by engaging in illegal activity. He has credibility with them and it adds to JTF's respectability.

Netanyahu needs to ask himself if he really wants to return to the middle ages when a Jew was called a Judas?

Does not Israel exist so Jews could have one place on Earth where they can live freely without being arbitrarily thrown into a gulag?

If the Jewish state wants to encourage aliyah, it needs to focus more on evicting the arab enemy, let the kid go and end this abominable practice.



 

[edu]

http://honenu.org/policy-of-administrative-orders-continues/

Policy of administrative orders continues
Posted on January 21, 2016 by admin
Thursday, January 21, 2016, 10:38 Numerous administrative orders were served recently to Jewish youths, one of them in a dawn raid by police on the community of Yitzhar in the Shomron.
On Thursday, January 21, policemen raided “Kumi Ori”, one of Yitzhar’s hilltops, and conducted searches with dogs. A 17 year resident of the hilltop was detained, taken to the Central Unit of the Yehuda and Shomron Police Station and served with administrative orders signed by GOC of the Home Front Command, Major-General Yo’el Strik. According to the orders the minor is banned from entering the Yehuda and Shomron regions for half a year, is under house arrest at night at his parents’ house for one month, and is forbidden to make contact with 28 specific individuals for half a year.
When the minor turned to Honenu for legal counsel the staff noticed that the order was signed by Major-General Strik on January 13 and therefore the last day to appeal was January 20, a day before the order was served. According to a new policy arbitrarily determined by Major-General Strik, the recipient of an administrative order has only one week to appeal an order signed by him.
The GOC of the Central Command, Major General Roni Numa, also signed three administrative orders. These were signed several hours after the murder of Daphna Meir, Hy”d, in Otniel, while security forces were still searching for the terrorist who murdered her.
Two other orders were served on Tuesday, January 19, one to an adult resident of the Shilo Bloc who is required to spend the next four months in the community of Karnei Shomron and forbidden to make contact with 11 specific individuals. The second order was served to a minor residing in Yitzhar. According to the order he is confined to his community and under house arrest, effective at night, at his parents’ house for six months. He is also forbidden to make contact with 28 specific individuals.
Approximately two weeks ago two restrictive orders were served to two minors residing in the Binyamin region. They were interrogated on suspicion of involvement with “Price Tag” incidents and released when no connection between them and the violations attributed to them was proven. The orders ban them from entering the Yehuda and Shomron regions, place them under house arrest effective only at night. The orders have been justified by intelligence information, according to which the minors pose a danger to the area.
Honenu notes that Mordechai Meyer was released recently after spending five months in administrative detention by order of Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon, who had been presented by the ISA (GSS) with erroneous intelligence information lacking any basis. Meyer was released after it turned out that he had no connection to the incident which had been attributed to him.
“Just recently we received a reminder of how a young man can spend five months behind bars on the basis of erroneous intelligence information. We regard with severity the continued use of administrative orders, which are very likely based on the same erroneous information presented in Meyer’s case. Additionally we are sorry to hear that while Israel was mourning the murder of Daphna Meir, Hy”d, and large numbers of security forces were searching for the murderer, the GOC of the Central Command, in whose area of command the murder occurred, was signing administrative orders restricting the movement of Jews.”

[edu]

http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Comment-Wife-of-late-Meir-Kahane-addresses-hunger-striking-grandsons-administrative-detention-442606?utm_source=SpotIM&utm_medium=Recommendation&utm_content=Comments&spot_im_comment_id=sp_jpost_442606_c_wNd4fb

The imprisonment of my grandson Meir Ettinger brings back difficult memories for me. I don’t know how many people remember that my late husband Rabbi Meir Kahane, zt”l was jailed under those same despicable administrative detention orders in May 1980.

An administrative detention order deprives a person of his basic rights. He can be held for six months without being charged or tried and the order can be renewed indefinitely.

If there were any evidence that my grandson Meir committed a crime, he should be put on trial in open court. He has not been tried in court because he has not committed any crime.

What he has done is not considered a crime in any democratic country. He expressed unpopular views in a blog he wrote on the Hebrew website “Hakol Hayehudi.” Simply put, the powers-that-be don’t like the way he thinks. When his case came to court for review after his first three months in prison, the judge ordered his imprisonment continued. The reason he gave was that Meir had not changed his views. The Honenu lawyer said, “If the judge wants him to change his opinions, he can send him to Korea, there they know how to make people change their opinions."

The administrative order imprisoning Meir can be renewed by the simple signature of the Minister of Defense for another six months, and another and another – life imprisonment by installments.

Is Israel turning into a totalitarian state? What is happening to our beloved Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East? Please, Mr. Ya'alon, stop issuing these orders!

With two weeks left of the six months decreed by Defense Minister Ya'alon, my grandson Meir began a hunger strike on Wednesday, January 20. I hope and pray it will succeed in touching the hearts of the powers that be, but what will it do to Meir’s health?