YEARS LATER 21 YEAR OLD JEWISH ANTI-EXPULSION PROTESTER RE-IMPRISONED forwarded with comments by Emanuel A. Winston

SO WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO ABOUT IT????

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May the sentencing Judge and all those involved in this bestial behavior be sentenced one day to 10 years in prison at hard labor. They are the "Fifth Column" undercutting the morale of the Jewish nation in the Land of Israel.

COMMENTS BY EMANUEL WINSTON

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Monday, July 14, 2008

YEARS LATER JEWISH ANTI-EXPULSION PROTESTER RE-IMPRISONED OLMERT GOVERNMENT SURRENDERS TO HAMAS AND HIZBULLAH DON'T EXPECT CEASEFIRE TO LAST =========

BEERSHEBA -- Almost three years later, a Jewish anti-expulsion protester has been re-imprisoned following an unusually harsh ruling by Israel's Supreme Court. Shimshon Cytryn, 21, was sent back to prison for another eight months after the Israel's State Prosecutor's Office appealed to the Supreme Court against an earlier decision by the Beersheba District Court to sentence Cytryn to six months community service. The Supreme Court sentenced him to 15 months. Cytryn, who said that he no longer had any faith in the Israeli judiciary and would not use the final legal tact to request one last hearing with the Supreme Court, appeared relaxed as he was taken into custody at the Beersheba Magistrates and District Court on July 13. At the courthouse, police refused to allow Cytryn to take with him to jail personal equipment, including a fan and deodorant spray. "These are our rules," police officer Yiftach Cohen said. Cytryn, an orthodox Jew, who said that authorities would place him in either Ramle's Maasiyahu or Ayalon prison, insisted that these items are allowed by the prison authorities. "What do you mean I can't take these things with me?" Cytyn asked. "They are allowed." Despite regulations allowing these items, prison authorities said all these items would be confiscated and would go into storage and Cytryn would not be permitted to use them in prison. "This is Gd's will," Cytryn's newly wed wife told family, friends and supporters who had accompanied Cytryn. On June 11, the Supreme Court more than doubled the punishment of Cytryn and sentenced him to 15 months, seven of which he had already served. At the hearing, Supreme Court Judges Miriam Naor and Esther Chaut asked to have Cytryn arrested on the spot and immediately incarcerated but Judge Asher Gronis overruled them asking for one month's leniency. "It appears that the punishment meted out by the district court is exaggerated in its leniency, is not a deterrent and does not manifest the norm of punishment in these cases," the judges said. "There is nothing that connects the actions of the appellant [Cytryn] to opposition of the political plan of the State of Israel," the judges said. "[His actions] reflected a persistence to harm Palestinian Arabs because of who they are." Cytryn was charged with the attempted murder of Hilal Ziad Mujaida during a rock battle between Jewish and Arab residents of the Katif Bloc in the southern Gaza Strip on June 29, 2005 prior to the expulsion of 10,000 Jews from the Gaza Strip and northern West Bank in August 2005. A video presented by the prosecution showed Cytryn hurling something toward the Palestinians, many of whom threw bricks and rocks toward the Jews. Several Jews and Israeli soldiers were injured in the clash. Mujaida, who was also seen throwing rocks, was struck in the melee, and the video taken by television news crews showed him bleeding from the forehead. The video then showed Cytryn leaping toward a stone barrier and throwing something toward Mujaida. No Palestinian was arrested or charged in the melee, but four other Israelis were arrested and charged with crimes ranging from aggravated assault to disorderly conduct. On June 3, Cytryn was acquitted of the attempted murder charge but was convicted of two counts of aggravated assault with intent to cause grievous harm, disorderly conduct, threats and remaining in a closed area after a trial that spanned two years, seven months of which Cytryn spent in prison and more than a year under house arrest. In their decision, Beersheba District Court Judges Ruth Avidah, Hanna Slutky and Avraham Yaakov rejected the prosecution's argument that Cytryn was a violent racist and a danger to society. "We do not think that we can separate the offenses from the circumstances in which they occurred," the judges said on Oct. 16, 2007. "And we don't accept the prosecution's argument that the defendant used the political situation to vent his violent and racial tendencies. The defendant's actions did not cause serious harm and the latter [Mujaida] was already injured and bleeding after he [Cytryn] participated in a 'rock throwing melee' that took place and his injury wasn't related to the rock thrown by the defendant." Cytryn said the Supreme Court admitted that Mujaida was involved in attacking Jews but did not relate to it in their sentencing. "They [the judges] said in their decision that the Arabs had attacked the Jews with stones," Cytryn said, "but this didn't matter at all." www.israeljustice.com:80/news2.asp?key=135

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YEARS LATER JEWISH ANTI-EXPULSION PROTESTER RE-IMPRISONED

by Emanuel A. Winston, a Middle East Analyst & Commentator

May the sentencing Judge and all those involved in this bestial behavior be sentenced one day to 10 years in prison at hard labor. They are the "Fifth Column" undercutting the morale of the Jewish nation in the Land of Israel.

COMMENTS BY EMANUEL WINSTON

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Monday, July 14, 2008

YEARS LATER JEWISH ANTI-EXPULSION PROTESTER RE-IMPRISONED OLMERT GOVERNMENT SURRENDERS TO HAMAS AND HIZBULLAH DON'T EXPECT CEASEFIRE TO LAST =========

BEERSHEBA -- Almost three years later, a Jewish anti-expulsion protester has been re-imprisoned following an unusually harsh ruling by Israel's Supreme Court. Shimshon Cytryn, 21, was sent back to prison for another eight months after the Israel's State Prosecutor's Office appealed to the Supreme Court against an earlier decision by the Beersheba District Court to sentence Cytryn to six months community service. The Supreme Court sentenced him to 15 months. Cytryn, who said that he no longer had any faith in the Israeli judiciary and would not use the final legal tact to request one last hearing with the Supreme Court, appeared relaxed as he was taken into custody at the Beersheba Magistrates and District Court on July 13. At the courthouse, police refused to allow Cytryn to take with him to jail personal equipment, including a fan and deodorant spray. "These are our rules," police officer Yiftach Cohen said. Cytryn, an orthodox Jew, who said that authorities would place him in either Ramle's Maasiyahu or Ayalon prison, insisted that these items are allowed by the prison authorities. "What do you mean I can't take these things with me?" Cytyn asked. "They are allowed." Despite regulations allowing these items, prison authorities said all these items would be confiscated and would go into storage and Cytryn would not be permitted to use them in prison. "This is Gd's will," Cytryn's newly wed wife told family, friends and supporters who had accompanied Cytryn. On June 11, the Supreme Court more than doubled the punishment of Cytryn and sentenced him to 15 months, seven of which he had already served. At the hearing, Supreme Court Judges Miriam Naor and Esther Chaut asked to have Cytryn arrested on the spot and immediately incarcerated but Judge Asher Gronis overruled them asking for one month's leniency. "It appears that the punishment meted out by the district court is exaggerated in its leniency, is not a deterrent and does not manifest the norm of punishment in these cases," the judges said. "There is nothing that connects the actions of the appellant [Cytryn] to opposition of the political plan of the State of Israel," the judges said. "[His actions] reflected a persistence to harm Palestinian Arabs because of who they are." Cytryn was charged with the attempted murder of Hilal Ziad Mujaida during a rock battle between Jewish and Arab residents of the Katif Bloc in the southern Gaza Strip on June 29, 2005 prior to the expulsion of 10,000 Jews from the Gaza Strip and northern West Bank in August 2005. A video presented by the prosecution showed Cytryn hurling something toward the Palestinians, many of whom threw bricks and rocks toward the Jews. Several Jews and Israeli soldiers were injured in the clash. Mujaida, who was also seen throwing rocks, was struck in the melee, and the video taken by television news crews showed him bleeding from the forehead. The video then showed Cytryn leaping toward a stone barrier and throwing something toward Mujaida. No Palestinian was arrested or charged in the melee, but four other Israelis were arrested and charged with crimes ranging from aggravated assault to disorderly conduct. On June 3, Cytryn was acquitted of the attempted murder charge but was convicted of two counts of aggravated assault with intent to cause grievous harm, disorderly conduct, threats and remaining in a closed area after a trial that spanned two years, seven months of which Cytryn spent in prison and more than a year under house arrest. In their decision, Beersheba District Court Judges Ruth Avidah, Hanna Slutky and Avraham Yaakov rejected the prosecution's argument that Cytryn was a violent racist and a danger to society. "We do not think that we can separate the offenses from the circumstances in which they occurred," the judges said on Oct. 16, 2007. "And we don't accept the prosecution's argument that the defendant used the political situation to vent his violent and racial tendencies. The defendant's actions did not cause serious harm and the latter [Mujaida] was already injured and bleeding after he [Cytryn] participated in a 'rock throwing melee' that took place and his injury wasn't related to the rock thrown by the defendant." Cytryn said the Supreme Court admitted that Mujaida was involved in attacking Jews but did not relate to it in their sentencing. "They [the judges] said in their decision that the Arabs had attacked the Jews with stones," Cytryn said, "but this didn't matter at all." www.israeljustice.com:80/news2.asp?key=135