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From a Duma WhatsApp chat:
לצערנו בית המשפט הרשיע הבוקר את א', הנאשם הקטין בתיק עלילת דומא בסעיף של חברות בארגון טרור.
מדובר בהחלטה שערורייתית ומופרכת אך גם מפתיעה, זאת בשל הדברים הנחרצים של בית המשפט בחודשים האחרונים כנגד האישום. כפי שמסביר עו"ד ציון אמיר, סנגורו של א', בסרטון הבא.
*קרדיט: ארגון חוננו
From Honenu rough translation
Unfortunately, this morning the Court convicted A. The minor who was a suspect in the Duma arson of being a member of a terror Organization.
We are talking about an outrageous and refuted ruling and even a surprising one.
This in light of the recent decisive position of the court against this accusation as the Defense lawyer Zion Amir explains in the video.
https://twitter.com/o_kirsh/status/1187279847992840192?s=08
Does the elections in Israel have something to do with the sudden shift and bias against Settlers using A. as a political pawn?
There are so many Arab Youth in UNRWA camps who are so proud to be jihadists and openly boast about it who aren't put in jail as was A. for over three years with no conviction. Why pick on a kid who denies he ever was or desired to be a Jewish terrorist (except under forced confession due to physical or emotional duress and blackmail) and rule that he is a member of a Jewish terrorist organization. (Fyi There is zero evidence such an organization exists other than a politically motivated designation.)
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תיק דומא: בית המשפט יכריע אם הנער שהודה בפיגוע חבר בארגון טרור
My comments:
I am not that surprised....
The court ruling that Minor A. belonged to a terrorist organization has apparently achieved the intended goal.
At the start of the trial, the family of Minor A were under tremendous pressure to plea bargain that A. belonged to a terrorist Organization. The family refused to slander fellow Jews even as they reluctantly agreed to plea bargain confessions (probably false) made under emotional duress. After all, surely the prosecution would have agreed to leave Minor A. alone to go on with his life had they only agreed to their terms.....
But now the Court ruled that A. who was 16 at the time, WAS a member of a terrorist organization.
There is no substantiating evidence that such a Terrorist Jewish organization even exists! There is only a politically motivated designation of the late Rabbi Kahana's followers as being a terrorist group after his passing.
This "terrorist group" serves a political purpose to create a veneer of equivalency. There are Arab terrorists and then there are Jewish Terrorist.
What seems obvious to me is that these kids are being used as political pawns. The entire Duma trial has nothing to do about bringing the arsonists who burnt an Arab family to justice! Nobody really cares about finding the true arsonists.
The goal is to discredit the settler movement, smearing ideological and passionate Settlers youth as "Jewish Terrorists" and turning territory folks against one another.
Is it working? For sure.
There has been silence or outright condemnation by Settler leaders themselves of the Duma suspects and Hilltop youth.
Where is Women in Green and Chevron activists and Shomron Liason Council and Nationalist Rabbis????? Are they terrified of being smeared and lose very needed funding if they openly defend these youth? That's the only plausible explanation of their deafening silence.
We need long term vision...
Update: Yizhar Youth smeared in Fake News by Yediot?
Fake News Blood Libel of Yitzhar Youth Playing Paintball in Yitzhar as if they were shooting at Chayalim.
Ultimately the goal of our enemies is to discredit all territory folks.
For self preservation, we therefore need to take a united stand!
We all know that the love and passion for Eretz Yisroel of these youth is no different than ours, as they were nurtured on our passionate love of Eretz Yisroel and Am Yisroel and Torath Yisroel... They are not terrorists as they abide by Torah, no different than those who educated them. If they are designated as "terrorists" it's therefore a reflection on the entire Nationalist community.
Our attempt to distance ourselves saying "they are a fringe minority" won't ultimately protect us. The opposite. All they need is one scapegoat and others who support the accusation, to run with the smear.
Is it right to turn our backs on these Youth who are the subject of a baseless campaign, shouldering the brunt of the enemy's attack...when the goal of our enemy is to discredit a few in order to then discredit the movement who nurtured them!
The recent clashes with IDF with hilltop youth in Komi Ori was a foreshadowing of this ruling. It's political grandstanding. Hilltop Youth are being portrayed as lawless, aggressive, violent kids, anti Zionists, ready and willing to fight the IDF! Surely they all belong to the same terrorist organization as A.! After all even their own leaders condemn them!!!
It is no secret that for years Shabak has planted moles and agents targeting the vulnerable to manufacture a false narrative of Jewish Terrorism.
Why remind everyone of the expulsion of Gush Katif and the progrom at Amona and confuse people with the facts?
Why did the IDF have to seemingly send Golani troops against Hilltop youth protesting the immoral expulsion of Neriyah Zaroge from his home and his land. This settler is an example of being the salt of the earth. There is no evidence of any wrongdoing and their immoral administrative detention orders serve to destroy his efforts and his families', hard work, sweat and tears in the settling and building of OUR Land.
Women in Green...Is Netzer the only hilltop at risk????
What merit will we have to build a lasting settlement if we are passive when our Brother's and Sister's settlement elsewhere in Judea and Samaria are also targeted and we are silent?
Here is the broader picture, a letter written by Helen Freedman co-Executive Director of AFSI
Letter to the Editor: The Jewish Press
The name Neriyah Zaroge is undoubtedly an unfamiliar one to most readers. He is a young resident of Yitzhar, a community in the Shomron which I and the AFSI Chizuk missions have visited many times. By command of the IDF Central Commander, Nadal Feden, Neriyah has been served with a military order banishing him from his home in the hilltop outpost, Komi Ori, his wife and two children, and his herd of sheep for a period of three months. There is no legal basis or evidence of any wrong doing on his part. It is part of what appears to be an ongoing program of favoring the land-grabbing Arabs over the Jews who simply want to hold onto Jewish land. As Neriyah wrote to the IDF Central Commander, "Instead of dealing with the non-stop, illegal building of the Arabs in the area, or the daily stone throwing and acts of terror on our highways, you chose to terrorize the Jews." If Sovereignty was applied to Judea and Samaria, such anti-Jewish discriminatory acts could not occur. They must be ended.
Another example of the military favoring the Arabs over the Jews occurred recently at Amichai, another community in the Shomron, on the outskirts of Shilo, which AFSI has supported from its creation. Born from the need to provide homes for the expelled Jews from Amona, Amichai is a brand new settlement which the government promised and delivered and to which the displaced Jews were able to move. Now they have seen that the Arabs are planning to build a community adjacent to them with the apparent consent of the military. At a recent protest, which was entirely peaceful, the Jews were the ones restrained and threatened, not the Arabs who are violating Israel's land. Again, we believe this could not happen if Sovereignty was applied to Judea and Samaria. This must be the answer to the many anti-Jewish positions taken by the military. There should be no IDF Central Commander giving orders. The idealistic Jews living in the hilltops, raising their families, and holding onto the land should not have to experience or endure discrimination from their own people.
Helen Freedman
Co-Executive Director
Americans for a Safe Israel/AFSI
See how Prime Minister Netanyahu and Yitzhar Leaders recently condemned Settler Youth.
Jpost and Arutz7 unfortunately publicized the smear campaign calling it 'Right Wing Extremism" and "Scandalous and Shameful conduct".
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