לויער פון די בחורים און יאפאן סאטמאר רבי ארבעט פאר זייער באפרייען

Lawyer Tzvin with cuban palestinian consul who helped secure the release of an israeli man while in cuba that got in trouble

In an exclusive phone communication with VIN News, Tzivin ''Is Israel's Jewish DNA dead?'' and concludes, ''If you're in trouble and need help, you'd be well advised to make your first phone call to Satmar activists.''

Three Chasidic bochurim were arrested and jailed over a month ago in Japan on charges of importing illegal Ecstasy pills. In virtually no time, Tzivin reports, the entire Satmar community the world over, from Rabbi Aharon Teitelbaum Satmar Grand Rebbi Of Kiryas Joel, NY on down, have been heavily involved in working for their release. Mr. Tzivin, hired by the boys' families to legally battle the Japanese establishment, is amazed at the contrast between the boys' case and the case of another Jew, a case with far more grim possibilities.

That case is the saga of General Yair Klein, a high-ranking, highly decorated officer and hero of the IDF, and an Orthodox Jew, now rotting in a Moscow prison facing extradition to the unpredictable banana republic of Colombia, where his life would be in serious danger.

''Israeli DNA contains almost none of the age-old mutual responsibility that ignited the hearts of thousands of Jews for hundreds and thousands of years,'' Tzivin tells VIN News. ''When Ariel Sharon worked for the release of [Hezballah-captured Israeli businessman] Elchanan Tenenbaum a few years ago, he explained his actions with the phrase ''Jewish feeling—and that was one of the only times one heard such talk from an Israeli leader.''

Tzivin goes on to contrast the fact that virtually none of the Chasidic activists in the Japan case actually know the incarcerated boys personally, yet are ''up to their necks'' in efforts to free them, while Klein, ''whose merits as a combat hero no one doubts, has not had a finger lifted for him by anyone in the Israeli government, military, legal department of the Foreign Ministry or even his friends (except for a few individuals).''

Another case of Israeli ineffectiveness, Tzivin reports, occurred several years ago when an Israeli Jew landed himself in trouble in Cuba. Tzivin got involved—and, getting no assistance from Israel's official forces, won the friendship and assistance of Cuba's palestinian envoy, of all people, who was instrumental in securing the Jew's release.

Tzivin laments the virtually complete absence of Jewish heart on the Israeli establishment's part, satirically opining: ''If you're an Israeli in trouble, you'd be best advised to shed your rank, your medals and your uniform and sell them to the highest bidder—and with the money, buy yourself a good shtreimel and make that first phone call to Satmar activists.''

The solution, according to Tzivin, is for ''Medinat Yisroel'' to reestablish within itself the value of Kehilas Yisroel, of being a Jewish community.
http://www.vosizneias.com/16175/2008/05/20/isreal-lawyer-in-japan-bocharim-case-state-of-israel-ignors-jews-when-in-need-of-help/