Sam Schachter, Deputy Chairman of the World Likud Organization in the U.S., has sent a letter to the nearly 3,000 Likud Central Committee members - asking them to help in "bringing home the father of Shalhevet Pass." Ten-month-old Shalhevet was shot in the head and killed by Palestinian terrorist snipers as she was sitting in a playground in March 2001.
Yitzchak Pass was arrested a year ago, together with his brother-in-law Mati Shvo, on charges of belonging to an underground Jewish terror organization - but no proof was found, and they were finally sentenced to two years in prison only for illegal possession of dynamite bricks. They have not been allowed any furloughs or normal visiting privileges in all this time. Schachter included in the letter to the Likud members a CD detailing their treatment. The CD was produced by Honenu, an organization that provides aid for Jews who, as a result of Oslo War complications, have become entangled in a web of legal difficulties with tremendous financial and other costs.
Schachter wrote to the Likud members, "This is the way the Prime Minister, via the Shabak and his yes-man Defense Minister Mofaz, treats bereaved families: by portraying them as a dangerous and violent underground, and thus removing them from the consensus in order to promote his dangerous moves. Will he do the same thing to you tomorrow, after he uses you for his needs?"
Speaking with Arutz-7's Elkanah Perl, Schachter elaborated,
"The Likud members must wake up, otherwise the Likud will be liquidated by Sharon and his group of supporters, who are not even members of the Nationalist Movement. Mr. Olmert, for instance, who might very well be a Shinui Party leader in the next election. He [as Mayor of Jerusalem] abandoned Jerusalem; he did nothing about our hundreds of complaints of illegal Arab construction in the city... Why is the Prime Minister turning the Likud into the [left-wing] Mapai? The Likud people must wake up before the Prime Minister breaks the nation's spirit. Statements by Sharon and by [Shabak head Avi] Dichter that the right-wing is extremist and dangerous break the nation's spirit - it reminds me very much of the Saison period [in the 1940's] when I [as a member of the Etzel] was persecuted by the Mapai leadership... Sharon sent the settlers to the hilltops; why is he now persecuting them?... It is not due to American pressure... I think that everyone who is concerned for the Jewish Nation's existence in the Land of Israel who does not wake up now, is abandoning his children and future generations."
Yitzchak Pass was arrested a year ago, together with his brother-in-law Mati Shvo, on charges of belonging to an underground Jewish terror organization - but no proof was found, and they were finally sentenced to two years in prison only for illegal possession of dynamite bricks. They have not been allowed any furloughs or normal visiting privileges in all this time. Schachter included in the letter to the Likud members a CD detailing their treatment. The CD was produced by Honenu, an organization that provides aid for Jews who, as a result of Oslo War complications, have become entangled in a web of legal difficulties with tremendous financial and other costs.
Schachter wrote to the Likud members, "This is the way the Prime Minister, via the Shabak and his yes-man Defense Minister Mofaz, treats bereaved families: by portraying them as a dangerous and violent underground, and thus removing them from the consensus in order to promote his dangerous moves. Will he do the same thing to you tomorrow, after he uses you for his needs?"
Speaking with Arutz-7's Elkanah Perl, Schachter elaborated,
"The Likud members must wake up, otherwise the Likud will be liquidated by Sharon and his group of supporters, who are not even members of the Nationalist Movement. Mr. Olmert, for instance, who might very well be a Shinui Party leader in the next election. He [as Mayor of Jerusalem] abandoned Jerusalem; he did nothing about our hundreds of complaints of illegal Arab construction in the city... Why is the Prime Minister turning the Likud into the [left-wing] Mapai? The Likud people must wake up before the Prime Minister breaks the nation's spirit. Statements by Sharon and by [Shabak head Avi] Dichter that the right-wing is extremist and dangerous break the nation's spirit - it reminds me very much of the Saison period [in the 1940's] when I [as a member of the Etzel] was persecuted by the Mapai leadership... Sharon sent the settlers to the hilltops; why is he now persecuting them?... It is not due to American pressure... I think that everyone who is concerned for the Jewish Nation's existence in the Land of Israel who does not wake up now, is abandoning his children and future generations."