- "It's a happy day for the Israel Air Force in Fort
Worth, Texas. The first of the force's new F-16-I fighter plane will roll
off the Lockheed Martin assembly line this afternoon, and an Israeli delegation
led by Defense Minister Sha'ul Mofaz will take official possession...."
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- However, in Israel it is reported that it is a sad day
for civil liberty, and he, Defense Minister Sha'ul Mofaz, is being called
upon to help an administratively detained Jewish law school graduate serving
a six-month administrative detention order in a prison with Palestinian
terrorists to at least be relocated and granted normal prisoner rights(he's
been charged with no crime). Mofaz has the authority to overrule the GSS
and (at least) relocate Federman to another prison and grant him normal
prisoners' rights. Mofaz can be reached as follows: Tel: 03-6976663, Fax:
03-6976218, Israel Prison Commissioner Yaakov Ganot visited imprisoned
Noam Federman, who refuses to end his 4-week hunger strike until he is
relocated to a prison without Palestinian terrorists (according to www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=52798)..............
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- "Israel Prison Commissioner Yaakov Ganot visited
Noam Federman in his prison cell on Wednesday night. Ganot asked the administrative
prisoner to end his four-week hunger strike, but the latter refused unless
he is moved to a different prison where Palestinian terrorists are *not*
being held. He also demands visitation and phone rights "like any
other prisoner." Relatives say the strike is taking a physical toll
on his health.
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- Federman is serving a six-month administrative detention
order in the Ashmoret Prison. Charged with no crime, Federman is being
held under a law that allows the IDF and the Minister of Defense to detain
a citizen up to six months with no stated reason. The measure was traditionally
used against Arab terrorists, but has recently been used against some Jews
as well.
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- Women in Green's Ruth Matar wrote this week about the
Israeli government's abuse of the administrative-detention tool, a legal
instrument left over from British Mandate days. In her article, which can
be read at "www.israelnationalnews.com/article.php3?id=2958",
she cited a few examples:
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- "The latest victim of Administrative Detention abuse
is Noam Federman, a 34-year-old man with a wife and seven children, the
oldest twelve years old, and the youngest one year old. He has literally
been whisked away from his family and imprisoned in solitary confinement
since September 22 of this year, without being charged. He has been put
in a cell block together with Arab terrorist murderers, who continually
shout threats against his life.
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- "To protest his incarceration, Noam Federman has
started a hunger strike. He has already lost 20 kilos (44 pounds), because
he is only consuming liquids. His wife, Elisheva, has asked that these
liquids be either milk or juice in order that he have some nourishment,
but her request has been denied. She has further requested that a doctor
be allowed to examine him. This request has been denied as well by the
Shabak (GSS). No one is allowed to visit him in prison, not even his wife
Elisheva. She has seen him only twice since his imprisonment, once during
the Sukkot holiday, and one other time when the court ordered that he be
allowed to attend his daughter's Bat Mitzvah celebration for two hours.
On both these occasions Noam Federman was in handcuffs and leg-irons, and
chained to a Shabak agent, so that he could not have a private conversation
with anyone, including his wife.
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- "Noam Federman is a law school graduate, but is
forbidden to practice law. Some people believe that the reason for Federman's
imprisonment is that he has published a booklet which advises people who
are arrested by the Shabak, amongst other authorities, of their legal rights,
such as being silent when interrogated...
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- "Convicted Arab terrorist murderers are being released
in groups of hundreds, allowing them to immediately organize further attacks
and to once again kill Jews. Jewish citizens, on the other hand, are put
in Administrative Detention for political reasons by a government fearful
of popular protest.
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- "But it is one thing to use emergency wartime regulations
to fight the country's enemies and preserve its security interests, and
quite another to employ them arbitrarily to intimidate political opponents!"
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- Elisheva Federman, in a conversation with Arutz-7 today,
and Ruth Matar recommend writing or calling Defense Minister Mofaz, as
he has the authority to overrule the GSS and (at least) relocate Federman
to another prison and grant him normal prisoners' rights. Mofaz can be
reached as follows:
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- Tel: 03-6976663, Fax: 03-6976218.......
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