Meir is getting out of detention today. FINALLY.
Meir Ettinger wrote this poem in Hebrew, with literary merit and flowing rhymes. Recently sent to Arutz Sheva, the English translation preserves the ideas, so readers can get to know the writer’s feelings, but is not on the level of the Hebrew.
You know, it’s not easy for us to be heard
The media hardly allows us a word
And he who dares say that the media’s wrong
Is ground into bits by their teeth and their tongue.
They have a system that’s oiled to perfection
One schemes, one directs, then they pen a confession
And he who dares question their machinations
Will find out that his past needs “investigations.”
Still, we will try to explain a thing or two
In the hope that you’ll realize it all rings true –
No, I don’t mind repeating our story to you
I’m in prison for months, there’s nothing to do.
If you’ve listened to all the distortions of truth
Then you shudder at hearing the words “hilltop youth.”
Someday we will tell you about the machine
That processes facts and decides what they mean
But for now, here’s a message we hope will hit home
(We’re writing our story in rhyme, like a poem.).
The hilltop youth – you won’t hear in the news –
Have hearts filled with love for their fellow Jews
And when they noticed the emperor’s clothes were awry
They couldn’t, like others, just let him pass by.
In their young minds many questions arose
When they saw that the emperor lacked more than his clothes
True, they had no proper contacts and methods and means
But were willing to try – after all, they are teens.
The truth they were missing, that is what they sought
To fill the lacunae in what they’d been taught
To them life was simple, they needed no frills
They went out to find truth on the bare, rocky hills.
Down below was erudition, with all degrees listed,
Could that be the reason so much had been twisted?
Only when young can this search be undertaken
We could step back from the crowd and try to awaken.
Families murdered on roads? In our land? – we asked why
We know it’s preventable, if you really try
Perhaps someone up there has a head that is hollow
That doesn’t keep him from leading – but why do you follow?
And when no one could give us a good explanation
It deepened our fear for the state of our nation
And led us to feelings of isolation
If matters so crucial are covered in plaster,
It’s no wonder foundations just crack all the faster.
Then many fine youths came to join and do good
Feel the pain of the nation – as all of us should
The establishment shunned them and on them heaped blame
And everyone else rushed to join in the game.
The youth on the hilltops were stunned by this ploy
Why the unleashed aggression, the need to destroy?
How could adults abrogate their own rules
And behave towards their children in ways that were cruel?
At first they had gazed on the children in wonder
But when truth posed a threat, they tore them asunder
For they know by themselves what we know very well
That power and honor is what makes their hearts swell.
We must have stumbled on some great mystery
Maybe someone is trying to rewrite history
Otherwise there is no way to fathom
What led them down to this moral chasm.
How turn evil into good and good into evil?
They gathered against us as if we’re the devil
Why create a new story every few days?
When we’d watch the news, we’d be simply amazed.
True, we do dream of ending our people’s disgrace
Hoping one day to see the Temple in its rightful place.
We believe that all of Israel is our eternal possession
And want our leaders to say no to secession.
This is what Jews prayed for throughout the years
Through gas and fire and blood and tears
So why do they treat us as if we’re deranged?
What Jewish aspiration has changed?
Why did they arrest us with such needless violence?
And leave us to languish in cells of silence?
Police made a mockery of the law
And when they caused us pain, broad smiles we saw.
Why does terror continue despite Tzahal forces
While the world keeps silent and its media endorses?
Our leaders with stopping the terror just toy
But command the army, “Settlement hilltops destroy!”
This policy did not emerge out of the blue
With every new government, it’s resurrected anew
Once again the British White Paper comes to pass
As each new government hopes that their power will last.
If someone notices that the emperor is sans his attire
He becomes a threat to be extinguished like fire
All the media join to burn the witch at the stake
With all of the threats and wild claims they can make.
You may feel that I am too rash in penning these words
But what we have here is a theater of the absurd.
Just one last question allow me to bring:
If my being free is the threatening thing
Maybe something very fundamental is the matter
If I, a singer at heart, am deemed the Mad Hatter.
All right, enough, I will silence my breath
Lest jailers administratively detain this bad poet to death.
“Samaria youth confined to parents’ home 3 weeks before wedding
According to the decree against Ariel Dahari, the young man constitutes a substantial threat to national security.”
Jan 2, 2023
“Ariel Dahari, a resident of Samaria, received a detention order this morning (Monday) signed by the Head of the Home Front Command, forbidding him from leaving the Samaria community where his parents reside.
The catch? Dahari is expected to marry his fiancée, Emunah, in about three weeks.
Attorney Adi Kedar of the Honenu legal organization representing Dahari sent a letter to the Head of the Home Front Command, Rafi Milo, who signed the order, demanding that it be canceled immediately. “As you know, my client is making final preparations for his wedding planned for January 26 in Jerusalem,” opens the letter. “Last night at midnight the restraining order issued against my client expired and we were hoping that the prolonged harassment of my client and his family members would come to an end. We were hoping that he could now look toward the future and get married with the peace of mind he deserves.”
“Despite my client’s wish to leave the past behind him, you chose to renew the attacks against him during the exciting and celebratory period of his life, placing harsh restrictions on him, without a trial and without evidence, which may de facto sabotage the wedding he and his future wife, Miss Emuna Yehudit Groen, are planning.
“This conduct is a direct continuation of the draconian policy against the subject in recent years; the culmination of which occurred recently when he was forced to change the arrangements for his own engagement party, postponing it from taking place in the Groen family home in Jerusalem as is customary. You are well aware of the entailing saga, Advocate Kedar wrote.
Kedar further points out: “To paraphrase the order, it states that the subject ‘continues to constitute a substantial threat to the security of the state.’ It should be clarified that my client denies the allegations regarding his involvement in any violent activity and that there is no current information regarding his involvement in such activity since my client has been under severe administrative restrictions and in recent weeks, has not left the confines of Nof Ayalon without an individual permit granted by you, which is given to him very sparingly.
“The High Court is well aware of the heavy surveillance of my client and his friends who are part of the so-called “Hilltop Youth” and it is clear to everyone that if there was any evidence of his involvement in violent activity or alternatively of violating the restrictive administrative conditions, criminal proceedings would have been initiated against him,” he notes.
Kedar explains that due to Dahari’s upcoming wedding, he cannot continue his presence within his parents’ community. “Regarding the subject’s settlement arrest in Nof Ayalon, things cannot continue in their current state. The subject and his spouse will in no way be able to live in the house of the subject’s parents, and there is no alternative in this locality due to the lack of available apartments for rent, certainly not in the short period of time until the wedding. A few weeks ago, the young couple agreed to rent an housing unit in the Yad Binyamin community for the initial period of their marriage.
“All my client’s belongings are already packed in preparation for the move to the new apartment – photos of the cardboard boxes packed in the living room of the Dahari family in Nof Ayalon are attached. What is required, at the very least, is to permit the young couple’s residence in Yad Binyamin so that they can carry out the basic tasks of: registering the marriage in the rabbinate, purchasing furniture and electrical equipment, arranging the new apartment, visiting the the wedding hall, and much more.
“We have yet to mention the wedding itself and the ‘Sheva Brachot’ – a period of seven days during which relatives and acquaintances hold a party for the newly-weds. We have absolutely no chance to comply with all of the above under the aforementioned restrictions. Likewise, it will be clarified that advance notification of every movement, action, and submission of an individual request for every exit from Not Ayalon is borderline impossible. My client must be able to perform all of the aforementioned – the necessary preparations for the wedding, the wedding day itself, the days of the Sheva Brachot, as well as my client’s arrival at the bride’s parents’ home in Jerusalem for the Shabbat following the ceremony, as is customary in religious families,” concluded Kedar.”
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/365321
“Democracy” in action. Can Smotrich fix this in time? It’s Smotrich, right, because it’s under the military in Yesha not the police
the judenrat who work in the pay of the euro masters who have defined the boundaries of the jewish ghetto called Israel put this zionist in jail ….while fake zionists daily calling for “tough love” from their foreign employers, and collecting their pay from their foreign masters hijack the name “zionist” to describe their mission to give as much of the jewish homeland as possible to the muslims to build their homes.. instead of the Jews. Enough of all these liars and fakes already….. I can see why purges were necessary in history…. there is no limit to the betrayals of those in the pay of the foreign enemies. One cannot fight terror with kid gloves… nor traitors.
Meanwhile the crook who incarcerated him without evidence is still walking free… the one who abused his position of power and authority to throw jews in jail without evidence and substitutes for that lack of evidence with ludicrous red herring narratives that he is the chief rabbi spreading morality throughout the land….
When is Israel going to see through his red herrings and investigate him for the obvious crimes. He figures that Jews are so dumb that if he makes enough noises, faces and other distractions they wont notice the serious criminal offences he committed and so far has got away with.