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Jerusalem News-768
Jerusalem News-768
9 Iyar 5768, 13th May 2008
Contents:
1. Queries on Re-Sending Jerusalem News
articles and on the Palestinians
2. Victims of Hizbollah
Terror Sue Swiss Bank Through Which the Terror is Funded
3. Holocaust-Era Rescuer Irena
Sendler, 1910-2008
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1. Queries on Re-Sending Jerusalem News
articles and on the Palestinians
Jay wrote:
Re: Jerusalem News 766
#2. Expelled Jews hold deeds on Arab lands
http://britam.org/jerusalem/jerusalem766.html#Expelled
Shalom Yair:
What is the policy about forwarding an article from Jerusalem News? I
would like to forward the article about Jewish property in Arab lands to
someone who is hostile against Israeli occupation of Arab lands in
Israel beginning in 1967.
Some have also wondered why the Olmert government seems so willing to
abandon Israeli settlers in those lands that were abandoned by Arabs in
1948 after advise from their leaders. I guess the Arabic leaders made a
serious error, believing the Jews would be soundly defeated back then.
These Arabs became refugees amongst their own people, as I understand.
Is there some stigma that Palestinian Arabs have to endure? Why are
they not assimilated amongst the other Arabic people?
Jay Tompkins
Brit-Am Answers:
(a) The article (as nearly all articles in Jerusalem News) is not ours but that
of somebody else.
We take the liberty to use it (while giving the correct reference as to the
source) since
the nature of the article is such that we may assume that the author would be
more interested
in spreading the message than in preserving his proprietary rights.
The same applies for all such articles.
You may do the same if you wish but on your own responsibility.
We have been doing this for years and have quoted from thousands of articles.
Only once did we receive a complaint and consequently rectified the matter.
(b) As for the Olmert Government we cannot answer. It should be noted that
tremendous pressure
is being exerted on Israel by all the world including Russia, the EU, and the
USA, not to mention the
Arabs. Israeli is not exactly an independent country since we rely on the
support of the US
as well as having strong economical ties to the EU.
In addition the Jews in Israel do not want to live with the Arabs.
The obvious and only real solution would be to transfer the Palestinians
elsewhere.
See:
Movement of Arab Populations (MAP)
This solution however at the moment is not considered a realistic one and
therefore is not
countenanced by the Powers-That-Be in Israel. Consequently attempts are being
made to placate
the Arabs by giving them portions of the Holy Land.
Many of the Palestinian Arabs in Arab lands have not been absorbed by their host
nations since they
these nations have enacted laws restricting the rights and possibilities of the
Palestinians.
This has been done deliberately in order to sustain international pressure on
the State of Israel.
2. Victims of
Hizbollah
Terror Sue Swiss Bank Through Which the Terror is Funded
Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 11:04:57 -0400 (EDT)
From: imra@netvision.net.il
May 12, 2008
For Immediate Release
VICTIMS OF HIZBOLLAH MISSILE ATTACKS BRING HISTORIC CIVIL
ACTION AGAINST UBS IN NEW YORK FEDERAL COURT
A group of American victims of Iranian sponsored terror have filed a civil
action in the United States District Court for the Southern District against
the Swiss mega-bank, UBS AG. The plaintiffs, all of whom had family members
injured or killed in Iranian-backed terror attacks, allege that UBS'
unlawful eight year-long provision of financial services to the Islamic
Republic at the time Iran was providing material support to terrorist
organizations renders the bank liable for the harm that has been inflicted
upon them and their families.
Included amongst the plaintiffs are three families who were physically and
emotionally harmed by the Katyusha rockets launched by Hizbollah into
Israeli cities during the 2006 war with Lebanon. This is the first civil
action brought by American victims of Hizbollah's katyusha rocket attacks.
The plaintiffs are represented by attorneys Robert Tolchin of New York City
and Nitsana Darshan-Leitner of Tel Aviv, Israel.
The allegations against UBS center around the Swiss bank's involvement in
transferring dollars to outlaw regimes such as Iran, Libya and Cuba. The UBS
operation was uncovered by American soldiers in Iraq in 2003 who discovered
brand new dollars, still wrapped in Federal Reserve casings behind a wall in
Saddam Huessein's palace. A Federal Reserve investigation of the currency
determined that UBS was responsible for illegally transferring between $4 to
$5 billion to states designated by the U.S. as sponsors of terrorism between
1996 and 2004.
At first UBS sought to deny the extent of the money transfers it had
provided to Iran and others, but confronted with overwhelming evidence,
eventually was compelled to admit the scope of its criminal activities. UBS,
one of world's wealthiest banks, was fined a $100 millions by the Federal
Reserve for its conduct.
The plaintiffs allege that without the provision of American dollars to
Tehran, the Islamic regime would not have been able to support terrorist
groups such as Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Hizbollah. The terrorist groups
need the easily convertible and readily accepted American dollars to
purchase weapons (such as Katyushas) and explosives as well as to facilitate
their terrorist training programs and to fund suicide bombings. The lawsuit
charges UBS, which has a branch in New York, with aiding and abetting Iran's
support of terror by illegally providing Tehran the dollars it needed to
pass along to the terrorist groups for their purchases and attacks. .
"UBS knew full well that the cash dollars it was providing to a state
sponsor of terrorism such as Iran would be used to cause and facilitate
terrorist attacks
by Iranian-sponsored terrorist organizations such as Hamas, Hizbollah and
PIJ," said Attorney Nitsana Darshan-Leitner. The plaintiffs are demanding
that UBS compensate them for the injuries they suffered as a result of
Iranian terror attacks in Israel.
FOR MORE INFORMATION & A COPY OF THE COMPLAINT
Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, Esq. (US) 212-591-0073
(Israel)
011-972-523-837020
Mike Cohen (Israel) 011.972.54.499.6453
Robert Tolchin, Esq. (US) 212-227-2780
Email: mike@israelpoc.com
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IMRA - Independent Media Review and Analysis
Website: www.imra.org.il
3. Holocaust-Era Rescuer Irena
Sendler,
1910-2008
by Nissan Ratzlav-Katz
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/126149
(IsraelNN.com) Irena Sendler (Sendlerowa), a Polish woman who risked her life to
save 2,500 Jewish children from the Nazi killing machine during World War II,
passed away on Monday at a Warsaw hospital. She was 98 years old. Sendler is
survived by her daughter and granddaughter.
Sendler was one of the first people honored by the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum
in Jerusalem as one of the Righteous Among the Nations for her efforts to rescue Jews.
However, she was not permitted by Poland's Communist regime to travel to Israel
at the time of the honor, in 1965.
Sendler was recently nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize at the behest of Polish
President Lech Kaczynski. The Polish President expressed "great regret" and
called Sendler "an exceptional person" who displayed uncommon bravery in her
life.
In 2003, Irena Sendler received the Jan Karski Award for Valor and Courage. In
2007, the Polish Senate honored Sendler, as well. In a letter to the legislators
last year, Sendler wrote, "Every child saved with my help and the help of all
the wonderful secret messengers, who today are no longer living, is the
justification of my existence on this earth, and not a title to glory."
Sendler, a Catholic, was in charge of the Children's Division of Zegota, an
underground group in Nazi-occupied Poland dedicated to assisting Jews. She took
part, as a member of Zegota and beforehand, in efforts to provide persecuted
Jewish families with food, shelter and false documentation. However, Sendler is
most well known for her key role, along with a network of 30 others, for having
smuggled approximately 2,500 Jewish children out of the Warsaw Ghetto and into
Polish safe houses in 1942 and 1943.
Irena was eventually captured by the Nazis, tortured and sentenced to death. It
was only thanks to a bribe offered to the executioner that Irena was able to
escape death, and she then went into hiding herself for the remainder of the
war.
In order to assure that the rescued Jewish children would be able to return to
their people after the war, Irena wrote their names and locations on slips of
paper, which were eventually hidden in a jar and buried. At the end of World War
II, it was clear that the vast majority of the relatives of the hidden children
had been murdered in Nazi death camps.
Rescuing the Rescuer's Story
In 1999, the story of the jar of names and the heroism behind it inspired four
American students from Uniontown, in rural Kansas, to study the events for a
National History Day project. Three ninth-grade girls, Megan Stewart, Elizabeth
Cambers and Jessica Shelton, and an eleventh-grade girl, Sabrina Coons, wrote a
performance called "Life in a Jar", in which they portrayed the life of Irena
Sendler. After the girls managed to make contact with Sendler in Warsaw, the
play gained national and international press attention.
Since 2000, the young women, now married and out of college, have performed the
play hundreds of times before varied audiences around the world (245
performances as of March 2008). "Life in a Jar" has inspired an Irena Sendler
Day in Uniontown. The Irena Sendler Project collects funds for Polish Holocaust
rescuers, and grants the Irena Sendler Award, which is given to one teacher in
Poland and one in the United States whose innovative and inspirational teaching
of the Holocaust exemplifies Sendler's respect for all people.
Students currently involved with Life in a Jar have tracked down the fate of
about 650 of the children whose names Irena wrote down. The lists themselves
were taken to Israel after the state was founded.
After meeting the Kansas students and being told of their tremendous efforts to
preserve and pass on her story, Irena Sendler said, "My emotion is being
shadowed by the fact that no one from the circle of my faithful coworkers, who
constantly risked their lives, could live long enough to enjoy all the honors
that now are falling upon me.... I can't find the words to thank you, my dear
girls.... Before the day you have written the play 'Life in a Jar' nobody in my
own country and few in the whole world knew about my person and my work during
the war...."
Further details of Irena Sendler's story can be read on
the Life in a Jar website.
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