4 Shevat 5784 | ד' שבט ה'תשפ"ד
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The full title of this (very recent at this writing) guest post by Myrtle Rising is:
Former Prison Director Betty Lahat Shatters the Lies Fed to Us regarding Terrorists, Prisoner Conditions for Terrorists, Humanitarian Assistance, and the Complicity of the Media and Officials in the Intensification of Terror against Jews
She also wrote a post prior to this one about...well, I'll include Myrtle's own introductory words on this:
"...a particularly shocking excerpt about the whole
Shalit episode from Moran Corse's larger interview with former director
of Israeli prisons, Betty Lahat:
myrtlerising.weebly.com/blog/the-truth-behind-the-5-year-shalit-phase-release-exchange-plus-who-really-called-the-shots-during-that-time-you-wont-believe-who-to-what-extent
What follows now is a summary of the rest of the interview, in Hebrew for women only:
https://www.hidabroot.org/article/1189663It's quite illuminating as Betty has inside information she saw and heard first-hand.
Please prepare yourself for a lot of ugly shockers."
Let this sink in before reading the body of the post. My comments follow. —HDG
The General Perks for Terrorists in Israeli Prisons, Plus Their Usual Menus
Betty describes prison for terrorists as "a warm, safe place" with the following perks:
- decent meals
- a rich & varied canteen to supplement their decent meals
- time outside for fresh air and exercise
- free high-quality health care (including life-saving complex surgery in Israeli hospitals)
- free dental care
- free studies
- access
to terror-supporting "lawyers" (who really act as agents for the
terrorists to pass on orders and plots for further terror)
- access to cable TV with a wide variety of channels
Their day starts with breakfast and access to canteens, where the PA (Palestinian Authority) deposits money for them.
(And
they don't just support the actual terrorists. Terrorists' families
also receive financial support from the PA. The more blood a terrorist
has on his hands, the more financial support his family receives.)
How is this money transferred to the terrorists in prison?
Why, via Bank HaDoar, of course!
Every
terrorist holds an account in Bank HaDoar (Israel Postal Bank). That's
where the PA deposits money for the terrorists to enjoy canteen,
studies, and books.
The prison canteen holds a rich and varied selection meant to improve the food options in prison.
Their standard fare resembles standard army food, only even better than that.
Terrorists also enjoy cooking platters inside their cells, which is how they improve their meals even more.
Why do terrorists responsible for the slaughter of hundreds of Jews enjoy better meals than Israeli soldiers?
Why
can't these terrorists at least subsist on the dogfood-like meals
Yehonatan Pollard received in his initial maximum security prison?
Especially
since Betty claims the mere fact we try to prove ourselves as more
humane and nicer doesn't work — but produces the opposite effect: With all the improved conditions we gave them, they despise us, they smirk at us, they laugh at us.
[Sinwar] even stated, "This is your duty."
Leftist Media + Barbaric Terrorists = Lots of Brutalized or Dead Jews
As mentioned, the terrorists enjoy access to cable TV with tons of channels.
Chillingly,
Betty saw the terrorists often watch Israeli TV in order to understand
the nation's mood and to analyze how to proceed with their own
interests.
They know all the political pundits, policy makers, and security officials by name.
She says they do all this because they understand our "weak" points, that we are "rachmanim bnei rachmanim — compassionate people who are the scions of compassionate people."
She says of Sinwar:
He prepared himself for years in prison.
He didn't rest for a moment. He established gangs within the prisons, which were meant to battle against us in the future.
And that's what we're seeing. That's what's happening today.
Most of his headquarters employ those same people he worked to free in the last deal.
With
the exception of Channel 14, the Israeli news outlets lean Left and
hold powerful sway over the weak-minded, more materialism-oriented,
Torah-ignorant minds in Israel (which is how the media cultivates the
Left-wing bloc; the Israeli Right tends to attract stronger minds and
encompasses religious Jewry, a highly Torah-educated bloc).
According
to Betty, the Left-leaning media played right into the hands of the
terrorists, revealing weak spots and ways to manipulate the Israeli
public.
As Betty notes:
...all those disagreements and advice we give via the media – these hurt us in the end.
For they enable them to understand where our weak points lie.
It
was these imprisoned terrorists who helped orchestrate the
demonstrations & negotiations from inside in favor of Gilad Shalit,
knowing their day of liberation would coincide with Shalit's day of
liberation.
Out of those 1200 terrorists freed, 41 had murdered 570 Jews.
The
terrorist leaders chose exactly which ones one by one and chose the
most lethal ones — with the full knowledge of the Israeli authorities.
(Betty protested this — along with a whole lot of other deadly policies —
but was constantly overruled.)
Sinwar himself helped the Israeli authorities decide which terrorists will be released.
Yeah
— the guy who orchestrated the Barbaric Horror against the Jewish
communities near the Gazan border. HE got to pick which one his men
would get released.
As Betty asserts:
Our
officials, flesh of our flesh, come to build up his leadership in order
to release him and to appoint him to be the substitute of the Holocaust
denier, Abu Mazen.
At least 2 of those released terrorists directly involved themselves in the orchestration and execution of the Great Slaughter.
These
released terrorists didn't stay in Israel and Gaza. They went to Syria,
Turkey, and Qatar to continue their terrorist strategies such as
organizing terror groups to attack Jews worldwide.
So
even a terror attack against Jews halfway across the world can possibly
be traced back to the Shalit prisoner exchange in 2011 — and the
complicity of most Israeli newscasters (except Channel 14) and certain
Israeli authorities who oversaw the exchange.
She claims that just as with Gilad Shalit, terrorists are still controlling the process with the current hostage situation.
Mighty Martyr for Allah or Big Crybaby Bunny? You Decide!
Betty interacted directly with Sinwar during the length of his prison "holiday."
She
remembers when cancer developed near his brain stem — and she recalls
how Medinat Yisrael strove to save his life, providing him with
top-notch hospital care and expensive complex surgery to remove the
cancer.
Betty destroys the popular notion of these "fearless martyrs for Allah" who hold no fear of death:
No, they are afraid of death...Yahya Sinwar is obsessed with his own life.
And he's just a big crybaby bunny.
I saw him when he broke down when he knew he had cancer, how he cried – like a spineless weakling, he sobbed.
Good to know.
I also love her description of him as a "crybaby bunny — shafan bachyan."
Maybe that's how I'll refer to him in future posts, rather than his name.
(If I post about him, that is. When I mention him, I feel the same as when I talk about maggots.)
And
for a host of reasons (including those mentioned above, about us being
oh-so humane), it's a huge tragedy that they didn't let nature take its
course and leave the sick sucker rot to death.
Why go to such extremes to preserve his pathetically evil life?
And who are the members of the medical team who agreed to participate in such a travesty?
(It
could easily be they were never told the patient's name until after the
operation. After all, there was a lot of manipulation going on. Perhaps
the medical staff were victims of it too.)
Why "Humane" Prisons Don't Work for Terrorists
Betty also rips the façade off the "lawyer" visits.
Many
terrorists are serving multiple life sentences. What do they need
lawyers for? Is it helpful if the lawyer reduces 7 life sentences to 2
life sentences?
And the terrorists already enjoy far cushier conditions in Israeli prisons than terrorists deserve.
The lawyers can't ask for better treatment.
In general, these terrorists have no legal needs.
So what purpose do these "lawyers" serve?
Regarding these fake lawyer visits, Betty states:
This is something we screamed about for years and years.
But
in our justice system — I don't know if you heard this name, Shai
Nitzan, who was the State Prosecutor— we actually tried during his time
to install procedures to curb their "rights" — both those of the lawyers
and also regarding the conditions of their imprisonment, and so on.
But
Medinat Yisrael is apparently — I say apparently because for us, it's
exactly the opposite — it is apparently a country that is humane.
And it wants to enable the prisoners to thrive within prison and these aren't the right prisoners for that...
In
contrast to her justifiably strong stand against comfortable conditions
for terrorists, Betty is very in favor of rehabilitation for regular
prisoners and sought to implement programs to achieve this goal when she
worked with Jewish prisoners.
And she comes down hard against the much-bantered claim of: "The fact that you've taken their freedom is punishment enough."
They don't feel punished at all.
In fact, they view all the nicey-nice in Israeli prisons as affirmation of their terrorist beliefs!
As Betty asserts their view of all the prison comforts:
It's some kind of form of requesting forgiveness for having stolen their land from them.
And they don't believe in it.
With all the improved conditions we gave them, they despise us, they snicker at us, they laugh at us.
[Sinwar] even stated: "This is your duty."
Betty recalls when new & idealistic guy came to work at the prison; he wanted to engage in dialogue with the terrorists.
The militants told him outright that there would never be peace as long as the Jews live on "their" land, only hudna is possible.
"You guys need to turn over all the land [to us]," they said. "We need to be in charge or there will never be peace."
"Let's Not Transform Them into Such Great Heroes. They ARE Afraid – and They Want to Live."
What
about the common claim of "Harsh conditions and death sentences provide
no deterrent! They deal fine with harsh conditions and do not fear
death!"
Based on her interactions with the terrorists, Betty absolutely disparages such claims:
No, they are afraid of death.
If Yahya Sinwar wasn't afraid, he would come out of his den, he would come outside...and anyone who tells you it's not so?
Yahya Sinwar is obsessed with his own life.
And he's just a big crybaby bunny.
I saw him when he broke down when he knew he had cancer, how he cried – like a spineless weakling, he sobbed.
So let's not transform them into such great heroes.
They ARE afraid – and they want to live.
They have their religious belief and their religious belief enables them to come and commit acts of murder and the like.
Betty
explains how "Crybaby Bunny" operates in the background, sending others
to carry out his blood-soaked dirty work, causing others to take the
fall for his ideas and plots.
He carefully manipulates everything behind the scenes to protect his own life.
Everyone else can die — except him.
Another reason why the fact of curbing their freedom (which isn't much curbed as shown above) doesn't work revolves around how Arabs
living outside remain well-aware of the comfy conditions within the
prison because the prison allows the terrorist so many visitors (and not
just the fake lawyers).
So what does Betty recommend for genuine deterrence?
Effective Recommendations to Deter Terror
She
wants Israeli prisons to imitate the American prisons for terrorists —
meaning, the terrorists remain locked in their cell all day and receive
minimum food.
Interestingly, she emphasizes the importance of
following the American prison model for terrorists, and not the Arab
model (a far crueler model). I guess for the sake of the prison wardens,
who could be damaged by following the cruel and inhumane Arab prison
model.
Yet Betty emphasizes the death penalty isn't the only
deterrence. Heavy punishments and much harsher prisons can make a huge
difference.
(At the very least, prisons can prevent imprisoned terrorists from orchestrating terrorism and manipulating Israeli society.)
She also recommends prisons to stop trying so hard to change the terrorists' ideology.
She adds:
We must carry out the death penalty to all the terrorists who enter.
And to whoever says, "That doesn't deter; after all, they commit suicide terror" – it DOES deter!
And oh, how it does deter them!
Where Lies the Root of All This Evil?
But why are Israeli authorities so blind to all this?
Why
does the majority of the media, the top-ranking military leaders, the
politicians, and other officials still push the false beliefs regarding
deterrents and how to prevent the slaughter of Jews?
Why do they persist in pursuing "strategies" that clearly not only don't work, but make everything so much worse?
Moran Corse brought up the root of the evil: the Wexner Foundation (known in Hebrew as "Keren Vaksner"). She claims no one can advance to the top of Israeli society unless they attend courses at the Wexner Foundation.
Only
familiar with the term and knowing nothing about Wexner, I listened
avidly to Betty's description of how they influence Israeli society:
Every
person who is an alumnus of the Wexner Foundation is an administrator
in our army today and also in the security apparatus, the Shabak, the
foreign ministry, the commanders in chief, and the entire upper echelon
of the IDF.
Going
into much more detail about it, Betty notes that all the "progression"
and humanitarianism of the USA is brought over to Israel via Wexner:
Everyone thinks the same.
No one strives to win and destroy our enemy.
We
carry out yet another military operation and yet another military
operation, and we yet again concern ourselves with their subsistence and
we say, "Well, if we don't give them parnasa, then they'll come and
harm us."
We gave them parnasa.
Benet and Lapid raised the number of Gazans allowed entry into Israel for employment by tens of thousands.
And what happened?
Why did they come and slaughter us on Simchat Torah?
What happened?
It's
intolerable that as we as a country bring our dead to burial every
single day, we also nurture their murderers inside the prisons.
Needless to say, it's not as if the Israeli attendees are blind or brainwashed.
They attend these sessions fully aware of the goals behind the sessions.
The attendees do so out of greed for power — nothing more and nothing less.
Everyone understands the goals and the results.
It is simply a partnership between the Israeli Erev Rav and the American Erev Rav.
You cannot blame one without blaming the other.
Two of the Gazan Children Treated Wonderfully by Jews in Jewish Hospitals Grew into Terrorists who Murdered Jews
Even outside the prison, Betty saw how all the humanitarianism worked against the innocent citizens of Israel.
For
example, Betty's young daughter of blessed memory suffered a battle
against cancer, leading to her hospitalization in the children's ward of
Schneider hospital.
Betty herself witnessed dedicated Jewish volunteers from Kibbutz Be'eri bring Gazan Arab children for treatment at Schneider.
Betty watched how they poured tons of love and warmth on their ill Muslim Gazan charges.
And later, Betty met 2 of those loved and cared for children as young men in the terrorist prison:
And those two who were cured there – they became terrorists.
They were arrested for acts of terror.
Does that even register in the rational mind?
How
is that people who, as children, were treated with such warmth and
compassion by Israeli Jews, who owe the very lives to the kindness and
expertise of Israeli Jews, decided to murder Israeli Jews?
Friends
of Betty, who work in the children's ward of a hospital, described to
her how they see the Arabs who come for treatment go hide under the
stairwell and burn Israeli flags.
Based on the above, Betty states:
I do not believe in their "innocent bystanders."
I hold no compassion for them.
"Whoever is Compassionate toward the Cruel will End Up being Cruel toward the Compassionate."
There are so many lies and truths revealed here, it's hard to summarize them properly.
Betty comes off as a wonderful, intelligent, and caring person. She did everything she could to deter terror and save lives.
(Tachlis,
in Jewish prisons, she definitely guided the system toward
rehabilitation, rather than punishment — because it worked. Most of the
prisoners WANTED to improve themselves.)
But in some ways, the Israeli authorities handcuffed her more than the terrorists.
We need to pay close attention to her observations, garnered via years of experience.
And her experiences tragically reflect the age-old Torah dictum:
"Whoever is compassionate toward the cruel will end up being cruel toward the compassionate."
May Hashem shine the light of Geula on us all and bring the Geula speedily b'rachamim.
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HDG: Amen to your b'racha, Myrtle. This whole article and its previous one describes Israel's prison system (if not the entire government, and if not the entire country, has"v) as displaying aspects of dhimmitude, the rule of Muslims over others, in my view. Here's a good description: The Dhimmitude of the West: A New Trajectory. How close to it are we, and how did we get anywhere near there?
Supposedly, dhimmitude was abolished in 1839 (in the Ottoman Empire, which the Holy Land, then known as "southern Syria" and "southern Palestine (this according to Wikipedia)," was part of until 1922. The title looks like Turkish to me, and Bat Ye'or never wrote anything about dhimmitude being limited to the Ottoman Empire. Muslims ruling anywhere use it.).
Is it a fulfillment of prophecy — the one that specifically says that Yishmael will rule over the Jews for nine months? Now that we're here, this would be the best scenario because we are in the third trimester of this "pregnancy" during a "pregnant" year, with two months of Adar.
Is this the real reason for the Gerush of Gush Katif and Northern Shomron in 2005? Did this start in 1990, when Aharon Barak came up with the "reasonableness" standard for the Supreme Court?
Or did it start after the 6-Day War? I remember clearly back in 1969, two years after the miraculous war, a comment on a newscast on how Jews couldn't just walk around in the newly reconquered territory of Yehuda and the Shomron without words from some "common tater" on the radio putting him down for it. A FULL TWO YEARS AFTER THE WAR.
Is this why the residents of Yehuda and the Shomron (Judea and Samaria) are under military rule all these years later, with the defenders' weaponry under the control of the army?
Was the Gaza Envelope in the same category as J&S, and we people behind the Green Line just didn't know it?
Is this why our government believes the words of Arabs over the words of Jews living in the Land of Israel — and why many Jews, especially those from the Shomron, an example being Amiram Ben Uliel, are behind bars for years for confessing their "crimes" under torture?
Is this why we are being charged at the International Court of Justice in The Hague as I'm writing this, with genocide of the very people who attempted it against us, and are still not finished with that?
Could all of the above be summarized in one word: DHIMMITUDE?
I could go on and on with my questions. But yesterday's haftarah, from Yehezkel (Ezekiel) 28, 25-26, foretells the end:
| 25 So
says the Lord God: When I gather in the house of Israel from the
peoples among whom they have been scattered, and I have been sanctified
through them in the eyes of the nations, then shall they dwell on their
land that I gave to My servant, to Jacob. |
|
כה כֹּֽה־אָמַר֘
אֲדֹנָ֣י יֱהֹוִה֒ בְּקַבְּצִ֣י | אֶת־בֵּ֣ית יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל מִן־הָֽעַמִּים֙
אֲשֶׁ֣ר נָפֹ֣צוּ בָ֔ם וְנִקְדַּ֥שְׁתִּי בָ֖ם לְעֵינֵ֣י הַגּוֹיִ֑ם
וְיָֽשְׁבוּ֙ עַל־אַדְמָתָ֔ם אֲשֶׁ֥ר נָתַ֖תִּי לְעַבְדִּ֥י לְיַֽעֲקֹֽב: |
| 26 And
they shall dwell upon it securely, and they shall build houses and
plant vineyards and dwell securely when I execute judgments against all
those who plunder them from all around them, and they shall know that I
am the Lord their God." |
|
כו וְיָֽשְׁב֣וּ
עָלֶיהָ֘ לָבֶטַח֒ וּבָנ֚וּ בָתִּים֙ וְנָֽטְע֣וּ כְרָמִ֔ים וְיָֽשְׁב֖וּ
לָבֶ֑טַח בַּֽעֲשׂוֹתִ֣י שְׁפָטִ֗ים בְּכֹ֨ל הַשָּׁאטִ֚ים אֹתָם֙
מִסְּבִ֣יבֹתָ֔ם וְיָ֣דְע֔וּ כִּ֛י אֲנִ֥י יְהֹוָ֖ה אֱלֹֽהֵיהֶֽם: |
May it happen quickly, and may G-d take His rightful place as King of the World, with Mashiah as His faithful servant!!!
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More reading:
International Court of Justice (Israel Behind the News) | The candle against Hamas' darkness (Forest Rain) |
04-Jan-24: Adjusting to a new reality (This Ongoing War) | Charging Israel with genocide is absurd (Avi Lewis) | The International Court of "Injustice" Begins its Blood Libel Trial against Israel | The Hostage Holocaust | Should we all make aliyah? | ICJ: J'Accusse, the Dreyfus Affair once again | Daled Amos interviews Dr. Harold Rhodes, part 1 | part 2 | Hezbollah has innovated a brand new war crime | How I grew up respecting all people, then came to Israel and learned not to trust Arabs | Betty's assessment is confirmed: 'A rat hiding underground': Gaza residents turn on Sinwar |
