Do I have a point or not??

Not really. Why do you call her “frail?” I think the daughter of a Shin Bet senior official could hold her own in any situation.

To the officer reading this letter,

The content of this letter is not political or in anyway offensive to the Israeli position regarding its foreign politics or its security issues.
The main goal of the letter is to provide some personal comfort to someone that as been arrested to defend her ideas, without any physical harm to anyone or anyone’s property.
Considering the current (and past) situation to which Israeli people are imposed upon, with their lives and properties being targeted, I believe this an attitude worth of admiration.
I beg of you, Sir, to let these words come to her knowledge, in the hope that one day may pass a little bit easier to a 19 year old teenager locked in a prison, without causing anyone’s harm.

For that, I sincerely thank you from the bottom of my heart.
Thanks

To Miss Omer Goldman

In the past 5th October (yesterday) a news article about you was written in a Portuguese Journal (http://jornal.publico.clix.pt/default.asp?url=%2Fmain2.asp%3Ffd%3DNEXT%26page%3D6%26dt%3D20081105%26c%3DC).
I cannot stop to say how impressed I was by reading your story.
Although it describes an inevitable situation, a personal deadlock in which you are (between what you believe and your personal comfort), it does so, with lightweight speech without the drama that is usually used in such statements (usually with commercial purposes). Still, the sadness reflected in this article is clear, … and comprehensive. As I felt touched by your words, I could not stop to think: “She is only 19”.
For someone of your age, to be ready to go through such an ordeal, in order to maintain your moral credibility, in a pacifist way, it is very impressive. In a landmine of hate and resented and unsatisfied people, it is so much easier to give in to hate, and use it. Yet you didn’t. You stand you ground, … and keep your integrity.!!! This attitude shows a maturity well over your age. And yet “She is only 19”.
I wouldn’t do it. I’m honest and straight forward: I wouldn’t do it!
I don’t consider myself someone who lets things by, just because everybody else does, but getting myself arrested, intentionally to prove a point, I believe to be out of my range of abilities. For that reason I can’t show anything else but admiration for those who do that.

As you may read above (hopefully) this letter is not about your political positions, nor whether they are right or wrong, nor it is about the legitimacy of the state of Israel. This letter is the result of the answer to the question:
If I were to know about someone in jail, for pacifist reasons, for purely altruist reasons, would I be willing to help that person go by another day?

The answer is yes!
I wouldn’t do it, for an ordinary criminal, selfish, carrying the burden of pain caused to someone else,… but I do it for you. … and for your colleges which share this burden in the same facilities as you.
To all of you that read this letter, I wish these words may help you, and comfort you enough, to help your ordeal… one more day.

(ש”ע) הצלחה, מזל, מזל טוב

:)

Rui

You missed my point about Omer’s beauty. I was not being sexist (I’m old enough to be her great-grandpa, for goodness sake. Were it otherwise.). The moral is that, in spite of her beauty, beneath the surface can be found an ethic, principles, and courage. It’s because of what she represents, not how she looks, that I choose her for my pin-up. May my, and other’s, blessings help her through her ordeal.

The problem with the Israeli right is they want ironclad guarantees that all Arabs will sit up straight & sing Hatikvah to them if Israel signs a peace treaty. Won’t happen.