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"Settler Violence" does not happen in a vacuum! see comment below! I urge you to visit the Arutz7 reports posted last night regarding this matter and watch the Miraglim youtubes.  

Netanyahu Vows to End Violence Against IDF

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu condemned the violent raid on an IDF base in Yesha saying "we will stop it now."

By Gavriel Queenann

After reading this Arutz piece all I can say is to the following leaders in the Nationalist camp is "shame on you"  for condemning the angry settlers and the "minority" of them who acted "despicably" and depicting those that are angry as radical .  Pinchus Wallerstein is a known traitor from the Gush Katif saga but Ketzele and Danny Dayan? I hope not!  But I am afraid that they are falling into a trap. i recommend that they watch the Miraglim youtubes so as not to be used by the evil forces.  

Let's say that this "violence" was perpetrated by provocateurs as Ketzele and Danny Dayan suggest.   Still, the reality is such that settlers are subject to day to day violence from Arabs and from the IDF and this violence directed against them is tolerated. It is not a minority of settlers who are very angry at the IDF for expelling Jews from their homes.  It is not a minority of caring Jews all over the world who are angry at the IDF for violence directed at settlers!  Whether or not settlers perpetrated this act of Violence, does not hide the fact that indeed they were provoked either by actual violence directed, such as the expulsion from their homes or by provocateurs implanted by Shabak who led them to believe that they and their homes will be attacked and they must do something in self defense.   Let say that some of these settlers that perpetrated these "acts of violence" had intelligence that Ramat Gilad as well as 5 other outposts was going to be raised as was Givat Aryeh. Let us even say for arguments sake that this intelligence was planted falsely by Shabak.   Are they totally unjustified to burn tires or even throw rocks at an IDF who is oblivious to rocks thrown at them?

If you say that they are unjustified, let me remind you of the intolerable acts directed against the American pioneers that brought on the American Revolution.  Freedom of Self Defense and Freedom to Bear Arms are built into the Bill of Rights of the American constitution.  The settlers of Judea and Samaria are not merely suffering from Taxation without Representation.  They are suffering from intolerable acts. 

Settlers do not want to fight the IDF.  They do not want a civil war.  But the government of Israel is not allowing them basic freedoms and are not protecting them as governments are  required to.  Shame on Ketzele and Danny Dayan for not emphasizing these truths but rather worrying about how the settlers are depicted in the Press.   You and I know that the settler movement  is not a "home grown terror organization".  By suggesting credibility in your statements of this being a possibility by a minority of settlers, strengthens the arguments of the government and makes you their tool to divide the Nationalist camp into 2 camps.  Those who are "violent" and those who are not. 

I suggest you emphasize the American Colonists and the Intolerable Acts that led to the American Revolution. 

From YNet

PM orders emergency meeting on settler violence

Netanyahu to convene IDF chief, police commissioner and defense minister to discuss ways to handle settler violence, vows to take firm hand against rioters

Attila Somfalvi

Published:  12.13.11, 11:52 / Israel News

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered an emergency meeting following settler violence directed at the IDF. The discussion will be attended by the IDF chief of staff, police commissioner, Central Command chief, defense minister and internal security minister.

 

"This is an intolerable state," Netanyahu said. "Tonight's events are very serious. We shall take a firm hand," a statement on behalf of Netanyahu said. The prime minister will demand explanations and will search for ways to toughen handling of rioters.

 

Related stories:

• Settlers raid IDF base, injure commander
• Livni blames PM for radicalization wave
• Settlers gear for outposts' eviction 
  

 

The IDF is also taking the events seriously. IDF Spokesman Yoav Mordechai described the incident in which Ephraim Brigade commander Ran Kahana was hurt. "He was hit by a rock and was lightly bruised," he told Ynet. "Later on a bus arrived and unloaded 40-50 rioters who entered the base, hurled stones at military vehicles, broke windows and punctured tires."

 

Marks of burning tires (Photo: Yoav Zitun)

 

Mordechai said that a red line had been crossed. "Hurting military officials and IDF bases is intolerable. There is an attempt to drag the army into the political discourse with violent means and provocation." He called on Yesha leaders and leading rabbis to condemn the event in an unequivocal manner.

 

Asked about the army's handling of the violence he said that the IDF will draw lessons from the event and noted that the IDF chief of staff is personally dealing with the issue.

 

Traces of burning tires can still be seen near the Ephraim Brigade base. An IDF officer whose car tires were punctured described the events. "They opened the gate by force and hit anything they came by, throwing stones, bottles of paint and puncturing tires. By the time the police came they had ran away. The whole thing lasted 20 minutes."

 

Talking to Ynet Minister Dan Meridor responded to the violence and said, "I don't want to think what would have happened were they not Hilltop Youth members but Palestinians. I think this is a cause for serious concern for us all."

 

He added, "When the rule of law is being violated there is no end to the phenomenon. Some say 'price tag' acts against Arabs aren't so bad because it's against Palestinians. Then it's being done in Israel and people say it's not so bad because it's against leftists. And now it's being done against the army. This challenges the authority of the state and the government. Such violence against IDF soldiers must be met with a firm had and in accordance with the law."

 

Yair Altman contributed to this report

My comments:

There is a direct correlation between "Settler Violence" and Police violence directed against settlers and their homes and properties.  When stones are thrown at settlers  by Arabs, do the Police and IDF call it intolerable and  then take a firm hand against the Arab rioters and stone throwers?  Sadly to say, not only do they not take a firm hand against the Arab stone throwers, they instead take a firm hand against the Jewish victims.   These Jewish victims are afraid to report any Arab violence out of fear of being accused of being the perpetrators and then prosecuted in Israeli court.  Check out the work of Honenu! 

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