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The Threat of Violence

VOA reports,

Leaders of the settlers’ movement have called a meeting to formulate a code of conduct to prevent violent confrontations between anti-disengagement protestors and Israel security forces. The meeting comes in the wake of clashes in Gaza last week.
The leaders of the Jewish settlers are expressing concern that further violence will only undermine support for their protest against Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s disengagement plan.
[…] During that incident last Wednesday, several of the Jewish extremists were videotaped stoning a Palestinian teenager. The attackers were heard shouting ‘lynch him’ while they struck him in the head with stones as he lay unconscious on the ground with an Israeli soldier trying to shield him from the attackers.

Haaretz warns,

The Shin Bet security services have an additional concern, in the area of hidden threats: the present generation of Jewish terror. The first generation operated during the first half of the 1980s, carried out the attacks against the Palestinian mayors and planned the terror attack on the Temple Mount. The second generation, according to the counting of the Shin Bet, operated a decade later – this is the generation of Baruch Goldstein (who killed and wounded a large number of Muslim worshipers in the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron in 1994) and Yigal Amir (who assassinated Yitzhak Rabin). The third generation includes dozens of extremists, whose names and photographs are on file in the (security) network, some of them active as individuals or in pairs, and some in units of 10 or more people, who are loosely linked in semi-underground cells.

Fears of extremist violence have even the highest government officials in a tizzy.

Israeli President Moshe Katsav said on Monday the vocal opposition of pro-settler rabbis to Israel’s Gaza pullout could incite ultranationalists to try to assassinate Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
“In the struggle over the disengagement someone is likely to distort the rabbis’ messages,” Katsav told Army Radio.

Yesterday, six thirteen year-old boys were indicted on charges of attacking an Arab family in Gush Katif and seizing their home.

Six 13 year-old Jewish boys who were arrested last week in Gush Katif will be held in jail at least until this Wednesday, under an order handed down by Supreme Court Justice Ayala Procaccia.
The children are accused of occupying an Arab house near the Maoz Hayam hotel near on the Gush Katif beach. They were arrested for questioning and have yet to be formerly charged with any crime.
Despite the fact that under Israeli law, the children, like other suspects who have not been convicted beyond a reasonable doubt, are presumed innocent, Justice Procaccia sounded convinced in her ruling that the children had been involved in wrongdoing.
“This was a mass, violent incident involving a group of Jews seizing a building owned by Palestinians, throwing rocks at Palestinians and injuring at least one of them, and a refusal to adhere to the orders of security forces,” Procaccia wrote.

The threat of violence, however, does not come from all corrdiors. Settlers in the West Bank village of Ganim, for example, have left in advance of their own expulsion to avoid violent confrontation.

While most of the 9,000 settlers slated for evacuation have vowed to oppose the pullout, the residents of Ganim have mostly decided to leave quietly. Cardboard boxes and garbage bags filled with old magazines, books, towels and children’s toys sit on a porch. Garden furniture lies discarded in a large green garbage can.
Unlike the majority of settlers who claim an ideological attachment to the biblical land of Israel, many of the residents now leaving came to these settlements to get away form the city and live in a small pastoral community with their own homes and land.

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5 thoughts on “The Threat of Violence

  1. YYYYYAAAAAAWWWWWWNNNNNN NNN.
    We heard all this before, during Oslo. Nothing ever came of it. No “underground” – except for agent provacateur Secret Service Agent Avishai Raviv and one guy he managed to influence.
    Similarly, almost all the items you have strung together relate to a single staged incident at the hotel. The agent provacateur in this case was whisked out of the hotel the day before it was stormed.
    The media here puffed it up into a “lynch mob” – even though the one Arab kid who was injured was release less than 24 hours later with a bandaid on his forehead. Some “lynch”.
    Most Israelis will immediately connect this to Avishai Raviv’s staged “provocations” – waving a poster of Rabin in an SS uniform – that were repeated ad infinitum in the press even though no underground materialized.
    The Sharon government has descended to the point where it is arresting 12 and 13 year olds to suppress dissent… THAT’s the real story here. These arrests will end as the previous round of arrests did – with the kids being released, far from the camera’s lens, for lack of evidence.
    That’s what happened to the daughter of a neighbor of ours, who spent a month in prison after the last round of traffic blocking. In the end the “video evidence” that the police brought only showed one of the 7 girls arrested at that intersection – and it showed here standind idly on the sidewalk! So all of these 12 year olds walked.
    – 0f course, the leftie cameramen and journalists defending our democracy didn’t report on that – why disturb the smoke-and-mirrors impression that the settlers are a dark, violent force.
    Sorry guy, don’t think the post-Oslo Israeli public is gonna buy it this time… events have already proven that the Right was right.

  2. “Sorry guy, don’t think the post-Oslo Israeli public is gonna buy it this time… events have already proven that the Right was right.”
    You just don’t get it. This is why everybody thinks settlers are crazy. Unilateral disengagement is the most rational “post-Oslo” act conceivable. Build a wall. Get the settlers out of land that is too expensive to defend. Make Israel safe. Allow the completely dysfunctional Palestinians to clean up their own shit. Let them make a state. Bomb the fuck out of that state if they threaten Israel. It’s just too simple for extremists on both sides to comprehend.

  3. Original Dickforce ,
    you obviously don’t know what is in the ‘disengagement plan’.
    The plan actually has Israel initiating reparations and compensation for damages to Palestinian infrastructure, increasing the number of workers allowed into Israel, ‘safe passage’ (i.e. no searching of cars that travel from Gaza to Judea), etc…
    Disengagement is a lie. The only issue here is ridding private Jewish land of Jews.

  4. “The plan actually has Israel initiating reparations and compensation for damages to Palestinian infrastructure…”
    For example?
    “increasing the number of workers allowed into Israel, ‘safe passage’ (i.e. no searching of cars that travel from Gaza to Judea), etc…”
    Really? That’s “The Plan”? That’s why they’re building the “Apartheid Wall”? I hadn’t heard of any such thing. Please provide your sources.
    “Disengagement is a lie. The only issue here is ridding private Jewish land of Jews.”
    So do you think Sharon is an agent of the PA or Hamas?

  5. Six thirteen year-old boys were indicted on charges of attacking
    This is somehow ironic, no?
    (Sorry. I could not resist.)

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