Posted on 10/26/2025 5:55:23 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
Two serious incidents that occurred last Saturday in Gush Etzion have sparked anger among local residents, who accuse IDF forces of unjustly detaining Jewish shepherds while failing to act against violent Arab rioters.
In both cases, shepherds grazing their flocks were either detained or arrested by IDF soldiers, while-according to the residents-the Arab assailants who attacked them were not stopped.
The first incident took place during the morning hours near Mikneh Avraham Hill, above Ma'ale Amos. Residents reported that a shepherd grazing his flock was ordered by soldiers to leave the area. When he asked to understand the reason, they confiscated his cell phone and arrested him with what witnesses described as unnecessary force.
Following the arrest, the shepherd’s herd was left unattended and fled toward the nearby Arab village of Rashida. Residents who noticed the herd from a distance managed to retrieve it after a long chase-during which they themselves were reportedly attacked by a mob of Arabs.
Hours later, another violent incident occurred near the Magen Avraham farm, close to Ibei Hanahal. A shepherd grazing several hundred meters from the farm was attacked by dozens of Arabs wielding clubs and stones.
According to residents, the attack was preceded by a call to action from the local mosque, where the muezzin was heard over loudspeakers urging villagers to “get the shepherd.”
Witnesses said that when local residents rushed to defend the shepherd, IDF soldiers who arrived at the scene detained the farm owner and confiscated his car keys. Other residents were also detained and allegedly treated in a humiliating and hostile manner. “All our explanations that the shepherd’s life was in danger fell on deaf ears,” they said.
After the incident, the shepherd reportedly went to the police station to file a complaint-but was instead interrogated ...
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I Sam 25:13 And David said unto his men, Gird ye on every man his sword. And they girded on every man his sword; and David also girded on his sword: and there went up after David about four hundred men; and two hundred abode by the stuff.
14 But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal’s wife, saying, Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to salute our master; and he railed on them.
15 But the men were very good unto us, and we were not hurt, neither missed we any thing, as long as we were conversant with them, when we were in the fields:
16 They were a wall unto us both by night and day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.
17 Now therefore know and consider what thou wilt do; for evil is determined against our master, and against all his household: for he is such a son of Belial, that a man cannot speak to him.
18 Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched corn, and an hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on asses.
JD Vance is satisfied.
Goody for him. I’ve got family in Gush Etzion. They aren’t shepherds, but they would defend shepherds along with their flocks with the best of them.
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