The American Board of Rabbis opposes the withdrawal from Gaza Strip know as Gush Katif and four settlements in Samaria.

It is against Jewish Law to give up any part of Biblical Israel. The punishment is a capital offense.

AMBOR encourages the settlers to use any and all means to repulse the expulsion, including lethal force.

The withdrawal rewards the terrorists of Gaza and brings them closer to the cities of Israel, meaning that the terrorist activity will only increase.

We find it morally outrageous to evict 10,000 Israelis from their homes. It is first time in history that the Jewish leadership is enacting a policy of "Judenrein" (Jews Free), which is actively being supported, if not directed, by American President George W. Bush.

We viewed with the utmost outrage on Israeli TV the graphic depraved conditions of Israeli jails, especially in Jerusalem. For decades, Israel was sorely lacking in pr, the worst pr is seeing what transpires in Israel today from your TV programs. The crime, that includes stabbings, rape and murder. Mind you, the most serious rapes appear in your secular state public schools. Over 714 thousand Jewish children go hungry to bed. Life saving medications are not covered by your basket of medications. One can go on and on.

What broke the straw on the camels back,is the way you treat minors, especially females. Jailing 13,14,and 15 year-old females for no legal reason and the deplorable conditions of your jails is appaling and unacceptable. In the USA, this could not happen. Chaya Belogorodsky was kept in solitary confinement. She was not allowed to shower or call her parents! No fan let alone a/c. Male policeman invade her privacy. This all sounds like KGB tactics. Reports with witnesses that religious Jews are selected for police brutality is again outrageous. Your Police Commander of the South Shacham, is what your SECULAR government produces. We saw it on Israeli TV how he instructs a commander of Border police (the commander is a compromised Dati, no longer, worthy to wear a Kippa). The graphic description of get the Charadim and hit them in the private parts is totally outrageous. His rebuke, was a slap on the wrist. Unless, you personally see to the immediate release of these wonderful young ladies (48 hours),we shall initiate a nationwide campaign divulging your anti-democratic tendencies under the Sharon-Peres regime. We can no longer be silent. The Talmudic Tractate of Avoda Zara 18:a, states." Who ever has the ability to rebuke evil, and does not rebuke, shall be punished!" We see on your Israeli TV channels 2,6,10 and mabat, how Isreali police brutality takes place. They push, kick, and throw down onto the ground pregnant women and mothers with infants on their hands! What depravity has transpired in your Secular society? One of your secular psychologists said on Israeli TV, this breakdown of Israeli society into violence is due to lack of Jewish values! The crime we see being committed in Israel on your TV channels is appalling. Judges give a slap on the wrist to Arab terrorists as in the Haifa Maxine resturant is another nail in your coffin in the making. Again, unless, you contact us within 48 hours, that the young ladies have been released and back with their parents, we shgall go public...

Rabbi Mordechai Yitzchok Friedman, President
American Board of Rabbis
New York, NY

ps - NO EXCUSE IS ACCEPTABLE. Moshe Belogorosky is being apprised of this email.

pps - This whole disengagement is anti-Torah,anti-Zionism and a retreat from the terrorists in Gaza and Judea and Samaria. In the USA troops would never be used against civilians! Shame Shame Shame! We see the Mayor of Sedayrout, crying that the kassam rockets has been raining down on his city for along time. He blamed your government for deliberatley not going after the terrorists. And he is a Likudnick!! He wonders what is going to happen when the terrorists are going to move into Gush Katif? Indeed, what will happen to Ashdod, Ashkalon, etc.??

It is Halachically prohibited to give up any part of our Almighty given promised land.  Anyone contributing to such a Judenrein policy is to be executed on the spot (Maimonides: Hilchous Nezekin, Chapter 8, and The Definitive Code of Jewish Law, Shulchan Aruch-Choshen Mishpat, Hilchous Mabad Mahmon,chapter 388). In addition, the Talmudic Tractate of Avowda Zara, portfolio18 (Chat=8,Yud=10=18 Chai=Life),we will have life, if we adhere to the teachings of our sages.  It says,"Whoever has the ability to rebuke evil, and does not, shall be punished!!!!"