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Intolerable Acts in Judea and Samaria:
There is a pattern here of picking on the Hilltop youth and portraying them as radical price tag attackers, sick, twisted, sociopathic, brutish, violent, thugs, judeonatzis, poisonous infections, etc. (no lack of descriptive ways to label the settlers)
Actually, these youth were brought up with a deep love of the Land of Israel and the Torah. Surely these kids are taught the Torah "When you come to Israel plant FRUIT trees"
Leviticus 19:23 ויקרא The Jewish people are commanded to plant FRUIT trees when entering and returning to the land of Israel. The Torah (Bible) says:
"And I will bless those who bless you" (Genesis 12:3 בְּרֵאשִׁית)Iוַאֲבָרְכָה, מְבָרְכֶיךָ
Planting FRUIT trees in Israel brings a blessing to the People and the Land! (kudos to recent Manhigut Yehudit newsletter advertising planting trees for Tu BeShvat for Zo Artzeinu)
Surely it must have deeply pained these kids to see the needless destruction of the recent seedlings planted. The police figure that the religious kids will try to do what they can to protect Torah's honor especially in light of the Chillul Hashem and the uprooting of tree plantings by the Civil Land Administration.
So how do the Settlers and Hilltop youth respond to this painful reality of draconian orders of the Civil Administration? They go on a hike. They are trusting and naive, They believe that Hashem (and hopefully the IDF) will protect them from a lynching. They go in a group basically unarmed. They do not use any weapons to respond to the threat to their lives. They know from the past that the IDF cannot be counted on to come quickly. Settlers who in the past have tried to act in self defense when faced with an Arab mob are afraid to shoot back in self defense. They have been charged with all kinds of crimes that are groundless, based on fabricated lies and without evidence and forced to sit in jail. Here is an example of how they are charged, portrayed in leftist posts with no evidence but lots of vicious namecalling. http://www.richardsilverstein.com/2011/10/25/aish-kodesh-settlers-brutally-attacked-peace-activists-now-accuse-them-of-inciting-serial-jewish-murder/. "Sick, twisted and sociopathic ... right-wing settlers. These are the ones from Aish Kodesh (ironically named "Holy Fire") who brutally assaulted the 61 year-old A. whom I profiled in a post earlier today, breaking his fingers, ribs and stealing several thousands dollars worth of personal property. A. has filed a police complaint and demanded they investigate the crimes. Not that this will matter much regarding the outcome, which is always virtually the same: nothing happens.". ... In Anatot, settlers, a number of whom were Israeli police and residents, beat the living daylights out of peace activists. This included broken limbs, sexual assaults and an attempted stabbing. This week's latest involved a brutal assaulton a 61 year-old Israeli peace activist"
I hope the Aish Kodesh Community prosecutes/ed this guy for slander, libel and defamation of character!
Please read these posts that are merely a sample of the reality that show a pattern of attacking unarmed youth and then slandering them. It happened n
- The Administrative Orders Keep Coming, Democracy Keeps Falling
by Eliezer Ben Avraham (sent to me on Dec 26, 2013)
Boaz Albert has now been in jail over 90 days. It has been almost six months since he received an administrative order barring him from Judea and Samaria. He states proudly that he refuses to follow a draconian order that is given without any proof of a crime. As Boaz sits in prison, the government and the Central Commander, Nitzan Alon, continue to issue administrative orders.
The latest to receive these orders are two right-wing activist teenagers, aged 16 and 17, who are banned from entering Judea and Samaria for six months. If Boaz's case wasn't enough to show how these orders are used improperly, this case makes it clear. The two boys were arrested in Jerusalem about a month ago and were accused of planning a price-tag attack. Police officials claimed that they caught the two in the act and that the boys were carrying spray paint, knives and other weapons. Unfortunately for the police, it seems that the evidence they claimed to have, existed only in their imaginations and a judge released the two boys after a week of interrogations where the boys denied planning any sort of attack. One would assume that is the end of the story. In a normal country either the police can bring charges, which will clearly get dismissed since the court found no evidence to continue to hold the boys, or they can let it go and recognize that there was no crime.
However, here in Israel the police have another option. True it may not really be a reasonable option or a fair option, but never mind that. Here, when the police lose a case in court they can just go to the Central Commander and tell him to sign an order barring the accused from Judea and Samaria. As you may have guessed, that's exactly what the police did. They lost in court, but here in Israel they are fortunate enough that they don't actually have to care what the courts decide and can find other ways of getting what they want.
Now Boaz is much less extreme than many of those supporting him. He recognizes that at times there is a need for such orders. For example, if there is a known threat and a terrorist is about to blow up a bus then it is quite reasonable for the terrorist to be temporarily arrested until enough evidence can be found to convict him in court or at least until the attack has been thwarted. Even then there should be some minimum level of proof required and the accused should be told what attack it is suspected he will commit. However, there is a big difference between a ticking-time bomb and a case where the police were unable to prove guilt and refuse to admit defeat.
I don't know if the two boys plan on following the order or if they plan on sitting in jail like Boaz is, but it doesn't really matter. Either way we must fight on their behalf and fight against the use of administrative orders as a political tool and as a way for police to obtain punishments when they have no proof.
Despite the trauma of a week of harsh interrogations for a crime which never happened nor was ever going to happen, and despite the damper that the order put on the joy of being released without charges, the boys say that "even 1000 administrative orders will not take away our happiness." Further, they told the Hakol Hayehudi new site, "We will continue our activism in areas outside of Judea and Samaria. They are many places that need to be settled and many areas in the Holy Land outside of Judea and Samaria where there are problems between Jews and Arabs."
It is incumbent upon us, every Jew both in Israel and outside to help bring these boys, and Boaz, a little more happiness and stop the Israeli government's improper use of administrative orders.
- Attorney Slams Media 'Slander' of Abducted Jews
Itamar Ben-Gvir meets with Jews abducted and beaten by Arabs in Samaria; attacks IDF police complicity, media distortion of events.
Once again the Arabs and leftists did an incredible media spin"
"I met four 15- and 16-year-old youths at the police station who are not connected to 'price tag,' nor have they ever been arrested before," reported Ben-Gvir. "They told me their story which fits with the pictures we saw."
"The media is repeating tales that the youths came to carry out 'price tag,' but there isn't even partial evidence for that, and what's more, I've learned that a hammer presented by an Arab interviewed by the media was used by him to beat the youth," revealed the attorney. "Once again the Arabs and leftists did an incredible media spin."
Ben-Gvir exposes that the media misportrayal is widespread.
"I looked at the Facebook pages of settlers who are writers, who are supposed to present the side of the youth, but instead they completely adopted the version of the Arab criminals," said Ben-Gvir.
Aside from the media, Ben-Gvir holds the IDF responsible for the violent attack.
"According to what the youths told me, they called the IDF to help them, but at the start it didn't interest anyone," relayed Ben-Gvir. "Afterwards only two jeeps came. It's interesting to think what would have happen if they did a test and announced that there's a lynch, even of an Arab terrorist - would the IDF and police send two cars, or would half of the Yasam (SWAT) and border patrol swarm into the area?"
- IDF May Seize Jewish Farmers' Land
Jewish farmers near Shilo may lose vineyard despite lack of Arab claim to the land. By Maayana Miskin
First Publish: 12/3/2013, 9:05
....The land seizure would be allowed under a "disruptive use order" (tzav shimush mafria). Such orders were termed "draconian" by the Levy Report on Israeli settlement in Judea and Samaria.
"Disruptive use" orders allow the Civil Administration to seize land from Israelis in Judea and Samaria based on complaints from Palestinian Arabs, whether or not there is any evidence that those complaining own the land – or, in fact, that anyone owns the land.
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