The following was reported in eJewishPhilanthropy:
“Overnight, dozens of radical settlers attacked the
Palestinian village of Jalud, setting fire to homes and cars, blocking roadways
and assaulting Israeli troops who had been escorting a Palestinian family home
after they had fled following regular harassment and attacks by neighboring
settlers…”
This was not simply a report from some hostile foreign media
outlet. According
to the IDF, more than 100 Israeli rioters were involved. They blocked
roads, set tires on fire, threw rocks at security forces, and set fire to
Palestinian homes, vehicles, and other property. Three Border Police officers
were lightly wounded. Three suspects have so far been detained.
I am sick and tired of the apologetics. Sick and tired of
the defenders of these reprobates who think they are acting in the name of God
but, in reality, are acting on behalf of the devil!
I hear it all the time. Apologetics like: How do you know
how true this is? Don’t believe everything you read. Do you know the details of
what really happened, or are you going to take the biased media’s word for it?
Or… how do you know these attacks weren’t really courageous vigilantes who
prevented a serious terrorist attack? Or… how do you know these were actually
Israelis? They were probably Palestinians disguised as “settlers,” doing damage
to their own people for the sole purpose of making Israel look bad.
Sorry. I am not buying any of that.
Sometimes a zebra is actually a zebra! (…not a horse painted
with white stripes.)
The apologists and defenders do no favors for the Jewish
people by explaining what “really happened.” Is it because they might secretly
agree with them? I don’t know. But those defenders are almost as bad as the
perpetrators themselves. Because in defending them, they think they are helping
the Jewish people survive in a hostile environment when, in fact, they are
helping the Jewish people dig an early grave for their country. Our country!
I know the prime minister doesn’t approve of these people.
He has been very clear about condemning settler violence, including after this
latest incident, and has called for law enforcement to prosecute those
responsible.
The problem is that words alone are not enough.
The people with these extremist tendencies were not born
yesterday. As heirs to the Kahanist ideology, they have been around for decades
in spirit. And the atrocities they have committed have been going on for years.
Now they seem to have increased with unprecedented ferocity.
The prime minister needs to act, and he needs to act
swiftly. With the same intensity and determination he has shown in acting
against Hamas.
These people are causing great damage to Israel’s soul and
to its image as a moral country.
They must not be allowed to continue.
All the stops need to be pulled out to hunt down these
extremists who think they are acting for God and country; arrest, convict, and
punish them to the fullest extent of the law. At the very least, serious crimes
of violence and arson should result in serious prison sentences. The only mercy
they should receive is the same mercy they gave to the Palestinians whose homes
and vehicles they set fire to.
And this is not just about Israel’s image abroad. It is
about the kind of country Israel is going to be.
Israel is a nation of laws. That means those laws must apply
to everyone.
It cannot be that a person who burns a Palestinian home or
attacks an Israeli soldier can hide behind a political or religious ideology…
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