It looks like nothing is ever easy when it comes to Israeli politics. Could it be deja vu?
As you undoubtedly know, the Attorney General of Israel, Elyakim Rubenstein, has launched a campaign to smear the name of and disqualify the man, Baruch Marzel, number two man on Herut's Slate. Why? Because at one time, Baruch was allied to the late Rabbi Meir Kahane, OBM. At one time Baruch was the number two man on the Rabbi's Kach Party slate. However, since the Rabbi's murder in New York in 1990, Baruch has had nothing to do with the outlawed Kach Party. Aliza Karp recently said "He has , however, dedicated his life to Eretz Yisrael, specifically, to the security of Judea, Samaria and Gaza, through settlement. In and around Hevron, the security personnel count on him to be a calming influence when settlers conflict with authority."
Baruch Marzel is a true Jewish hero in every sense of the word. He has spoken in Philadelphia a half dozen times over the years, the last time being two years ago January.
During my recent trip to Israel, I met up with Baruch in several different places, at Shilo, at Tapuach and at his home in Tel Rumeida during my visit to Hevron. What was he doing at home you ask? Well it was Shabbat and he was walking up and down the steepest hill I personally remember with trays full of food feeding people who had come to see him or come to visit Ruth's and Jesse's graves just a little further up the hill. Those at his house and in his house numbered around three dozen, sitting around eating what he and his Mrs. Marzel prepared. And they prepared plenty. This is what Baruch Marzel does. He loves Jews and he gets great joy from helping where and when he can. It was a remarkable scene, one that I won't soon forget. Marzel said, "The Gemora teaches us, more than the calf wants to nurse, the mother cow wants to do the nursing". He added, "So it is in Hevron, the City of Avraham, who taught us the mitzvah of welcoming guests. As much! as the guests want to come to Hevron, we in Hevron want even more to welcome them".
This is the man that the Attorney General is afraid of? This is the man that the Attorney General is trying to disqualify? This man has more Judaism in his fingernail than Mr. Rubinstein has in his body! Disqualify Baruch Marzel at the point in time when his presence is most needed in the Knesset? And disenfranchise the tens of thousands that will want to vote for him? That is not the democratic thing to do! It certainly is not the right thing to do! And it certainly is not the Jewish thing to do!
There is a great probability that Mr. Rubenstein has actually caused Herut's status to jump in the polls with all of the publicity the party is getting. Millions of dollars of free advertising in terms of column inches of newspaper stories. This is the greatest opportunity we have had in 16 years to have a man like Marzel in the Knesset and long time Knesset Member Kleiner is banking on us to help with the effort.
The legal battles that lie ahead, however, will cost a lot of money but we should be able to raise it. Michael Kleiner has asked me to raise
5,000 to help defray the costs of the litigation. What is Mr. Marzel in the Knesset worth to you?
We must fight for Herut! We must fight with Michael Kleiner in behalf of Baruch Marzel! And most important of all, we must fight for a safe, secure, strong, proud and Jewish Israel! There is precious little time...the elections are 6 weeks away.
Please don't ignore this message. Send what you can but do it now and also disseminate the message to get your friends and family to also help.
With love of G-d and Israel,
Ken Heller Herut Philadelphia
SUPPORT AND
VOTE HERUT ON JANUARY 28TH
DO YOU WANT AN INCREASING JEWISH MAJORITY IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL?
DO YOU WANT TO PREVENT A "PALESTINIAN" STATE IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL?
DO YOU WANT ISRAEL TO ASSERT ITS SOVEREIGNTY OVER ALL OF ISRAEL?
DO YOU WANT JERUSALEM TO BE THE UNDIVIDED CAPITOL OF ISRAEL?
DO YOU WANT JEWISH ACCESS RESTORED TO THE TEMPLE MOUNT AND OTHER HOLY JEWISH SITES?
DO YOU WANT TO SEE A TOTAL REVERSAL OF THE OSLO AND WYE ACCORDS?
DO YOU WANT TO SEE ISRAEL LIBERATE PARTS OF ISRAEL GIVEN TO THE KING OF TERROR,ARAFAT?
THEN YOU WANT TO SUPPORT HERUT AND MICHAEL KLEINER AND HIS ENTIRE KNESSET SLATE FOR THE UPCOMING JANUARY 28TH ELECTION.
WORLD HERUT
The World Herut Movement that was established in 1999 by Ze'ev Benyamin Begin and Michael Kleiner, is the ideological continuation of the views expounded by Ze'ev (Vladimir) Jabotinsky and the late Menachen Begin. It adheres firmly to the program set forth by Menachem Begin when he founded the Herut Party immediately after the War of Independence. It is founded upon the development of the national consciousness of the Jewish people and the creation of a democratic, free society that will preserve the traditions built during Jewish history.
The Herut Program accepts the inalienable right of the Jewish people to sovereignty throughout the Land of Israel with united Jerusalem as its eternal capital. Thus it embodies the historic ideology of the Zionism of Nordau and Jabotinsky. To achieve these goals, the Herut Movement will encourage aliyah and strengthen the ties that bind Jewish communities to one another around the world. It asks that Israel promote Jewish settlement throughout the Land of Israel and maintain the traditions of Judaism.
Herut has not accepted the OSLO process as the road to peace. It opposes the disastrous appeasement policies that have been followed at OSLO, Camp David, Washington and Taba. Israel has surrendered territory and received nothing in return. Herut does not accept the illusion that a Palestinian State can be permanently demilitarized and serve as a partner for peace. Such a sovereign Palestinian State is not an inevitable result of the conflict in the Middle East. It would necessarily be the result of the appeasement policy that has harmed Israel in the past. Arafat's propaganda and the propaganda disseminated by the Arab countries remains still violently anti-Semitic as well as anti-Zionist. It has spent energy to revive the anti-semitism that made the Holocaust possible. A sovereign Palestinian State will be an enemy on Israel's border.
The American government rearming of Arab States is a threat to Israel. The Arab so-called right of return is a mortal wound for Israel. It will exacerbate the demographic threat to the Jewish State. A tiny Jewish State is an invitation to an Arab attack.
Herut seeks to restore the morale of the Jewish people and to revive the devotion of the youth that was so evident in Zionism in the past. Herut urges that patriotic service to the State and particularly in the IDF should be encouraged. To assist in that Herut urges additional financial rewards to Israeli who serve in the IDF.
Herut expresses the conviction that the return of Jews to Zion is a fundamental, uncontestable, right. It is enshrined in the Bible and accepted by the majority of people in the Western World. Judaism should play a positive role in forming a national government that consciously guards and protects the Jewish traditions of Israel. To achieve that goal effective measures must be taken to diminish the religious strife within Israel to achieve the historic common goal of Zionism.
Thank you very much for your dedication and committment to Israel.
Ken Heller HERUT
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