Posted on 10/20/2011 6:27:10 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
Terror victims' group Almagor demanded Thursday that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak immediately publish the conclusions of the Shamgar Committee, which was appointed to set rules for cases in which soldiers and/or civilian citizens are abducted by the enemy. Its conclusions have not yet been made public because the committee met after the Shalit abduction and did not want to influence activity that might have already begun to free him.
The group also announced plans for a new campaign calling for a return to the spirit of Yoni Netanyahu, brother of the prime minister. Yoni was commander of the Sayeret Matkal elite IDF commando unit and was killed in the raid that freed the hostages of an Air France flight forced to land in Entebbe, Uganda, in 1976. At the time, Israel refused the demands of the terrorists to free prisoners in exchange for the hostages.
The slogan will be "Let us return to the spirit of Yoni Netanyahu! – We will not let Bibi destroy the spirit his brother led." "We will not let Bibi [Netanyahu] and Barak continue to hide from the public the principles set by the Shamgar Committee even if they are contrary to the way they chose to act. Otherwise we will turn to the High Court," warned Almagor chairman Meir Indor.
"There are already MKs who are in favor of turning the Committee's recommendations into law," he added. Another of Almagor's planned campaigns will demand a death sentence for terrorists.
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The slogan will be "Let us return to the spirit of Yoni Netanyahu! – We will not let Bibi destroy the spirit his brother led." "We will not let Bibi [Netanyahu] and Barak continue to hide from the public the principles set by the Shamgar Committee even if they are contrary to the way they chose to act. Otherwise we will turn to the High Court," warned Almagor chairman Meir Indor.
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