Posted on 07/05/2004 11:52:48 AM PDT by anotherview
MK Hendel charges “Sharon leading us towards civil war”
New NU faction chairman says government should be immediately replaced. Minister Ezra warns "extremists will resort to violence". Knesset to discuss escalation of public discourse tomorrow.
Uri Glickman and Avishai Ben-Haim
MK Tzvi Hendel.
MK Tzvi Hendel, who was today (Monday) chosen to be the Chairman of the National Union Knesset faction, told his fellow party members that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is leading the country towards civil war. “Sharon is crushing every democratic measure. If we do not want him to lead us down the path of civil war, a concentrated effort must be undertaken to immediately replace the government”.
According to Hendel, “Moves that could lead to civil war would be for example, deploying snipers around Gush Katif during the evacuations, and then one would fire at settlers. That’s civil war”.
Regarding comments made by ISA chief Avi Dichter on Monday by which the extreme right wing is growing more and more radical, Hendel said, “If Dicther has concrete information on someone who endangers the public’s safety, he should charge him and a court should throw him into jail. However, these speculations serve as a tool to disgrace the entire settler sector”.
Earlier, minister Gideon Ezra said that the security establishment is worried of the growing militancy and frequency of seditious statements by right wing leaders, calling for violent resistance to the disengafgement.
The latest one was made by Itamar Ben-Gvir, a well known ultra rigt wing activist. “It is obvious there will be a war, a battle. If Mazuz wants to prevent that, he better tell the PM and his associates to cool off and watch out about their plans”, he said.
The stement came in response to the decision made by Attorney General Meni Mazuz to hold an urgent meeting this week on incitement, and after ISA chief Avi Dichter warned of the continued radicalization among right wing ranks, right wing extremists are only escalating the public discourse against Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and the disengagement plan.
Earlier, the Setters’ Rabbis Committee expressed outrage over Mazuz’s decision to hold an urgent meeting this week to discuss prosecuting those who incite.
“The State of Israel has become a totalitarian state”, they charged. “The legal and media oligarchy have joined forces. Mazuz is being discriminatory. On the one hand he understands the leftist ‘refusniks’ (those who refuse to serve in the IDF because of the government’s policy on the West Bank and Gaza). On the other, he offers harsh treatment to rabbis regarding disengagement remarks”.
Peace Now General-Secretary Yariv Oppenheimer said this morning that the latest surge of incitement by right wing extremists is not coincidental and is a campaign planned in advance. “The settlers want to turn the evacuations of Gaza settlements into a national trauma and to stir fear of a civil war”.
Mazuz will convene the emergency meeting to discuss the “criminal aspects” of some recent comments and consider policy guidelines for dealing with statement that could be consider to incite violence.
The background for the meeting includes the statement made by Rabbi of the Old City of Jerusalem, Avigdor Neventzal last week, that whoever gives up land that is part of the land of Israel should be subjected to a 'din rodef' - a religious license to kill a fellow Jew. Mazuz also called on rabbis and other leaders to be very careful and wary of remarks on political issues that could be misunderstood, and "to refrain from unnecessarily sharpening conflicts in this sensitive time"
Dichter told cabinet ministers on Sunday that a further radicalization has been observed among extreme right wing ranks ahead of the planned withdrawal from the Gaza Strip under the framework of the disengagement plan.
One example Dichter used to illustrate the growing concern was that of an IDF Lt. Col. who was recently beaten up by extreme right wing activists while shopping with his wife in the ultra-orthodox Jerusalem neighborhood of Sanhedria. The activists recognized him from the dismantlement of the synagogue in the settlement of Tapuah.
(2004-07-05 08:56:33.0)
(I realize my views aren't popular view on Free Republic at this point. I am conservative on most issues but I support disengagement. Therefore, though I have supported Likud in past elections I get called liberal, etc... I will not change my views to conform to those on this board, particularly those of people who neither live in Israel nor have family here. I post to provide Israeli news from a center-right Israeli perspective, as opposed to the left wing nonsense normally repeated in the world press and the far right Arutz Sheva extremism normally defended on this site.)
Oh, and a belated Happy Independence Day to our friends in America.
Israel hasn't had any mass car bombings of late. Therefore, the libs brains need refreshing. One article to read is an earlier post entitled: Offended Arabs apply here
Ledger-Dispatch (CA) ^ | 7-02-04 | Gordon Kirkwood-Yates
Inside the article are some quotes from islamic murdering pigs' Mohammed. One in particular says: "War is deception. Negotiate peace with your enemy until you are strong enough to annihilate him." This the practice of araRATfink and his murdering palis. Don't give these murdering islamic swine an inch of Israeli land!
Disengagement has become a euphenism for retreat. At one time it was the liberals who urged it because they reasoned the Arabs would be so grateful they would make peace. That has been disproven so now it is the way to enhance security. Separation, disengagement, retreat, withdrawl, whatever, you call it is like the magical elixirs and snake oils of the old west. It is good for whatever ails you and can cure all ills.
I support Sharon's disengagement policy as well. The first Kassem missile that comes over the line afterwards should be countered with 155mm artillery leveling the general area the missile was launched from. Cheap, effective, and persuasive! All of Gaza can be easily covered with a discrete number of 155mm batteries.
It is not retreat in the conventional sense. It is simply pragmatism. There are over 2,000,000 Arabs in Gaza and less than 7,500 Jews. Gaza was not part of Biblical Israel, it is not "promised land", it has no historical significance to the Jewish people.
What is Gaza? One of the most densely populated places on earth, and it is filled with Arabs with a murderous hatred of the Jewish people. Please tell me what value it has to Israel. Better it is part of someone else's country, and if an act of war comes from there we can deal with it accordingly. Ruling over Gaza Arabs makes no sense. Protecting a few isolated settlements makes no sense.
Judea and Samaria, OTOH, are a very different matter indeed.
Israeli government violence against religious Jews in Israel is not without precedent either. Rabin and Perez used unidentified (no name tags) police to beat up demonstrators, force protesters from their buses on the way to rallies, and administrative detention on religious people who were effective leaders. The most famous example was the arrest of Meir Kahane, but other attacks also included admministration detention against world famous Rabbi Yaakov Ginsberg, and against settler Noam Federman. In Chevron, the police attack settlers regularly.
It is a common practice of the government to incite and perform violence and then claim their religious Israeli brethren were the perpetrators. The Women in Green were attacked by policement at a rally (10 policemen for each protestor) and then filed charges against them for attacking the police. Unfortunately for the police, there were video cameras rolling at the time and that were produced at trial to show the government for being the attackers.
Now some lower level Israeli politian makes inflamatory statements, Sharon complains about being a victim publicly and the religious Jews are the culprits. What a surprise.
Let's see they took this territory 37 years ago. They were not looking for it but took it in a defensive war. They chose to hold onto it to trade it for peace. They also put Jews into parts of it so they could keep strategic parts. Then terrorists start murdering Jews and they are willing to give it up in return for nothing. This is the same thing they did in Lebanon. If you don't recognize it as retreat I can assure you that the terrorists do.
They could do that now and never do. They don't do it to Lebanon when Hezballah fires at them. This is the same lie that has been going on since Rabin and Oslo.
I won't speak for Sharon but if you read Haaretz they are inciting against settlers on a daily basis. If I relied on them for information I would think settlers were worse for Israel than Hamas.
They are the true elitests and have never represented the common man. But they are consummate liars and excel at slight of hand.
Remember how the news media reacted the world over immediately following the September 11, 2001 surprise attack on the United States? Minus the obvious America-haters, they rallied to our country, sent messages of condolence, and some even visited to see the carnage firsthand.
In less than six months the old crones of the Western world were back at their posts, spitting and yelping about American imperialism. Few leftists have the facility for change, at least not change for the better. They are the spiders and hyenas of the political realm, feeding on the crippled, the fearful and the lonely.
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