Elisheva Federman is furious. Her husband Noam is under house arrest, for no good reason that she can think of, yet Prime Minister Sharon has found fit to write a letter of support not to her, but to the wife of the general who put him there. Noam, a former Kach leader, was originally arrested for involvement in the Bat Ayin affair, but was cleared of any wrongdoing. Supreme Court Justice Yaakov Turkel sharply criticized the original decision to keep him in jail, and the Jerusalem District Court ordered Federman kept in house arrest in Kiryat Arba, a few kilometers from his own home in Hevron, until the trial.
Recently, the GSS asked OC Central Command Maj.-Gen. Moshe Kaplinsky to renew the house-arrest order, as the trial did not appear to be getting underway, and this he did. When Kach members placed signs against Kaplinsky around his home, the Prime Minister wrote Mrs. Kaplinsky a letter offering to guard her house himself.
"I would like to know when your guard duty starts at the Kaplinsky home," Mrs. Federman wrote to Sharon this week, "because I plan to demonstrate against Gen. Kaplinsky, and I would be happy to catch two birds with one stone… Gen. Kaplinsky ordered my husband, without any trial, to be placed under house arrest… We have informed him that our lease on the apartment ends this week, and that we would like at least to be allowed to continue the house arrest in our own home in Hevron - for we have no place else to go - but Kaplinsky has not even bothered to answer us… It is infuriating! … Kaplinsky could not sign this order without Sharon's knowledge... The Prosecution did not succeed in incriminating him - so why can't they just admit it? They have to keep on spilling his blood over and over? … Yet despite all, we have been through this before, and they won't break us, nor our ideology."
Elisheva said that her husband, who has often successfully defended himself in court when charged on nationalist matters, spends much of his time advising others on legal issues: "For instance, after some Arabs almost raped a Hevron girl, two girls hung up signs in Arabic demanding that Arabs stay away from Jewish girls. For this, they are being charged with 'instigating violence.' They came to discuss their legal case with my husband…"
Hevron activist Baruch Marzel is being held in another form of detention: He is forbidden from returning to his home in Hevron, leaving his wife and nine children in the lurch. Details in tomorrow's edition.
Recently, the GSS asked OC Central Command Maj.-Gen. Moshe Kaplinsky to renew the house-arrest order, as the trial did not appear to be getting underway, and this he did. When Kach members placed signs against Kaplinsky around his home, the Prime Minister wrote Mrs. Kaplinsky a letter offering to guard her house himself.
"I would like to know when your guard duty starts at the Kaplinsky home," Mrs. Federman wrote to Sharon this week, "because I plan to demonstrate against Gen. Kaplinsky, and I would be happy to catch two birds with one stone… Gen. Kaplinsky ordered my husband, without any trial, to be placed under house arrest… We have informed him that our lease on the apartment ends this week, and that we would like at least to be allowed to continue the house arrest in our own home in Hevron - for we have no place else to go - but Kaplinsky has not even bothered to answer us… It is infuriating! … Kaplinsky could not sign this order without Sharon's knowledge... The Prosecution did not succeed in incriminating him - so why can't they just admit it? They have to keep on spilling his blood over and over? … Yet despite all, we have been through this before, and they won't break us, nor our ideology."
Elisheva said that her husband, who has often successfully defended himself in court when charged on nationalist matters, spends much of his time advising others on legal issues: "For instance, after some Arabs almost raped a Hevron girl, two girls hung up signs in Arabic demanding that Arabs stay away from Jewish girls. For this, they are being charged with 'instigating violence.' They came to discuss their legal case with my husband…"
Hevron activist Baruch Marzel is being held in another form of detention: He is forbidden from returning to his home in Hevron, leaving his wife and nine children in the lurch. Details in tomorrow's edition.