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Arabs Torch Jewish Wheat Fields in Samaria
Arutz 7 ^ | 05/18/08 | Ezra HaLevi

Posted on 05/18/2008 7:08:00 AM PDT by Nachum

(IsraelNN.com) Arabs burned Jewish-owned wheat fields in the Samaria town of Yitzhar Friday. The regular vandalism has led residents to ponder soliciting assistance from humanitarian groups.

The most recent fire was set Friday, minutes before the onset of Shabbat. A volunteer fire brigade made up of Yitzhar residents succeeded in extinguishing the fire, but were then attacked by Arabs rioting and throwing stones at them.

A contingent of IDF soldiers arrived on the scene and used non-lethal riot-control methods to restore order, but residents say their complaints usually result in no response whatsoever from security forces.

The fields, which were sown before the onset of the Shemitta (sabbatical) year, have been burned by local Arabs in the past. Local farmers say that in addition to their livelihood being impacted, the pain of seeing their crops repeatedly burned just before harvest time is too much to bear. The Arab residents of a neighboring village succeeded in burning the entire year's crop two and a half years ago and the fields were set ablaze five times during the course of a single summer last year. In another incident, most of the fence installed around one farmer's fields was stolen.

In 2005, Yitzhar resident Akiva Cohen spotted the raging fire and fired shots in the air to frighten the arsonists away. About 100 dunams of wheat were burned in the blaze. IDF troops conducted a search for the arsonists in the adjacent village of Atzira al-Kabliya to no avail.

Cohen was brought into the Ariel Police station for questioning and had his weapon confiscated. It still has not been returned to him.

Residents Consider Humanitarian Groups Yitzhar residents facetiously suggested that perhaps the Kibbutz movement, which regularly sends volunteers to accompany local Arabs during the olive harvest, would be interested in sending volunteers to guard Jewish agricultural crops as well.

"Is the assistance of [Kibbutz movement head] Yoel Marshak withheld from Jews who are trying to make a living through farming?" Cohen asked. "Is such assistance reserved only for the Arab enemy?"


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: arabs; israel; jewish; torch; wheat
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1 posted on 05/18/2008 7:08:00 AM PDT by Nachum
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To: Nachum
About 100 dunams of wheat were burned in the blaze

1 dunam = 1000 square meters.

100 dunams are about 25 acres.

2 posted on 05/18/2008 7:11:19 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Pray for Rattendaemmerung: the final mutually destructive battle between Obama and Hillary in Denver)
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To: Nachum
A contingent of IDF soldiers arrived on the scene and used non-lethal riot-control methods to restore order, but residents say their complaints usually result in no response whatsoever from security forces.

Time for citizens to start their own armed patrols and use whatever force is proper or necessary to protect thier lively hood.

3 posted on 05/18/2008 7:14:40 AM PDT by Kakaze (Exterminate Islamofacism and apologize for nothing.....except not doing it sooner!)
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To: Nachum
President Bush(2001):
“You’re either on our side or the terrorists’ side”.


(2008)

"Never mind."

4 posted on 05/18/2008 7:21:34 AM PDT by Diogenesis (Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
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To: Nachum

This town and its fields are located on the West Bank.

Its another form of harassment of Jewish settlers there.

Not intending to sound cruel about it, but these people are in the wrong place, they will never be able to live peacefully with the Palestinians, as reforming the Palestinians is hopeless and getting rid of the Palestinians isn’t an option within the capacity of Israel, given Israels humanitarian ideals and its susceptibility to foreign opinion. For Israels sake the best policy is to get everyone on the other side of the wall, defining contiguous borders, and have no contact with the Palestinians.


5 posted on 05/18/2008 7:22:36 AM PDT by buwaya
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A contingent of IDF soldiers arrived on the scene and used non-lethal riot-control methods ...

Mistake #1. Mow down these thugs with some real firepower and they won't bother you anymore.

6 posted on 05/18/2008 7:29:49 AM PDT by pnh102 (Save America - Ban Ethanol Now!)
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To: Nachum

Just as I suspect the muzzies in the U.S. have been doing here — and will soon do at a higher level then we have thus far seen.

If I hated America as much as some of these folks do, arson is a relatively safe and hard to prove guerilla activity with a big bang for the buck in terms of resources consumed to fight and investigate.

And, NO, I’m not giving these clowns ideas they haven’t already thought up — or implemented.


7 posted on 05/18/2008 7:30:25 AM PDT by Dick Bachert
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To: buwaya
What you write is not cruel, it's naive. For there to be no more contact with the "Palestinians" the Jews would have to leave Tel Aviv too. I don't know about the specific wheatfield in question, but most of the land the Jews live on and cultivate in the West Bank was barren, unoccupied land a few years ago. The Arabs only want it now because the Jews have it. Places like Jericho which have long been occupied by the Arabs hold little interest for the Jews.

ML/NJ

8 posted on 05/18/2008 7:37:12 AM PDT by ml/nj
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To: buwaya
Not intending to sound cruel about it, but these people are in the wrong place, they will never be able to live peacefully with the Palestinians

Well, at least one part of that is true. There is no living in peace with them or their religion.

9 posted on 05/18/2008 7:38:16 AM PDT by Nachum
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To: Nachum

um... let me guess. These genius’s will be the same ones complaining that there is no flour available in the markets for their flat bread in a couple of months.


10 posted on 05/18/2008 7:56:41 AM PDT by Walkingfeather
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To: Nachum
philistinians and destruction.

What's the news?

11 posted on 05/18/2008 8:05:01 AM PDT by onedoug
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That the Israeli forces aren’t willing to respond to calls is probably a result of the massive international pressure on Israel to play nice with these racist monsters.


12 posted on 05/18/2008 8:06:49 AM PDT by villagerjoel ("I think my brains are hanging out," he said.)
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To: Walkingfeather

Well, if they were Arab wheat fields they wouldn’t have had to burn them.

It will still be the fault of the Jews one way or another.


13 posted on 05/18/2008 9:11:19 AM PDT by Califreak (Hangin' with Hunter-under the bus "Dread and Circuses")
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To: Nachum

“Cohen was brought into the Ariel Police station for questioning and had his weapon confiscated. It still has not been returned to him.”

sounds like he should of just roll over and play dead./SARC!


14 posted on 05/18/2008 9:19:23 AM PDT by make no mistake
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Non Lethal?

I would have sprayed them with a .50 cal Machine gun.


15 posted on 05/18/2008 9:31:52 AM PDT by troy McClure
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To: Nachum

The Arab residents are responsible for such attacks against Israelis but Israelis elected this miserable current government.


16 posted on 05/18/2008 10:16:44 AM PDT by ricks_place
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To: Nachum

Burning the foodstuffs is an act of war.


17 posted on 05/18/2008 10:18:33 AM PDT by EternalVigilance ("I have a clear record of working with Dems. I will appoint Dems to my administration." -Sen McCain)
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To: Nachum

250 acres of Arab held land should be burned or if there arwe buildings on it, razed. The israelis should fight chaya with chaya..


18 posted on 05/18/2008 10:21:39 AM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: Nachum
"Arabs Torch Jewish Wheat Fields in Samaria"

Can we just go ahead and make it official that the word 'Arab' is synonymous with the word 'moron'!

19 posted on 05/18/2008 10:22:29 AM PDT by avacado
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To: Walkingfeather
These genius’s will be the same ones complaining that there is no flour available in the markets for their flat bread in a couple of months.

Bingo!

And they are too damned stupid to realize they are destroying the only source of food they are likely to have given their inability to produce anything but misery.

Israel needs to drive the palis into jordan and egypt and set up minefields on the borders, gaza and the west bank are festering boils that need lancing immediately.
20 posted on 05/18/2008 10:33:23 AM PDT by Dr.Zoidberg ("Shut the hell up, New York Times, you sanctimonious whining jerks!" - Craig Ferguson)
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