Posted on 06/18/2011 10:24:38 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
An IDF spokesperson said Saturday night that the army “condemns” protests that were held outside the home of Brigadier General Nitzan Alon, commander of the Judea and Samaria Division. “The IDF rejects totally any attempt to connect officers with political motives,” the spokesperson said, adding that “the protests outside Alon's home are disgraceful, and we wonder at the motives of organizers. Any complaints that the protestors have can be dealt with through normative channels without interfering with anyone's personal life.”
The protest took place after Alon wrote a letter calling for soldiers from Judea and Samaria to be investigated and interviewed to insure they won't try and prevent the IDF from bulldozing Jewish homes in the area.
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Peacenikes get to protest all they want, but when Zionists protest the threatened demolition of their homes and the ethnic cleansing of Jews, suddenly it’s a breach?
The subtext is Alon and others don’t want to be faced with the reality of what they were doing. During the Gaza evacuation, they brought in that special force of what appeared to be Russian immigrants dressed like stormtroopers, and the big question was why nobody had ever seen those uniforms before used for crowd control when it came to Arabs.
That said - going to a commanders home is a bad precedence. Israel can’t allow for such security risks.
So use some miluim to handle the crowd and the security. But it’s time for a Jewish Spring. Enough already.
They should bulldoze HIS home. Then maybe the traitors inside the IDF will fear the people.
the protests outside Alon's home are disgraceful, and we wonder at the motives of organizers. Any complaints that the protestors have can be dealt with through normative channels without interfering with anyone's personal life.Not interfering with anyone's personal life doesn't exclude bulldozing their homes.
“They should bulldoze HIS home. Then maybe the traitors inside the IDF will fear the people.”
No need for anything so drastic. Just bring a few bulldozers to the protests, decorate them with protest messages, and circle the block with them. It’ll scare the commander without trying to right a wrong with another one, and also attract the media.
I disagree. If a single additional home is bulldozed in Judea or Samaria, Alon's home should also be bulldozed.
What you’re calling for is civil war, which would be a tremendous help for our enemies, and a tremendous disaster for Israelis on both sides of the so-called “green line”. It is the absolute Himalaya Hilton of last resorts.
No, what I am saying is no more destruction of Jewish homes. Period. And punish the traitors who try it, so they never try it again.
No, what I am saying is no more destruction of Jewish homes. Period. And punish the traitors who try it, so they never try it again.
So you want to knock down the house of an Israeli general, and any other IDF officer who orders the destruction of houses in J&S as punishment for their “treason”. You are therefore assuming the role of a military commander, waging war on “traitors”. You are contesting the legitimacy of the official government’s use of force, and countering it with your own use of force, which you deem legitimate. That is by definition civil war, or at least revolution.
I am all for stopping the destruction of Jewish homes in J&S. But in a democracy there are many measures in between sheeplike submission and outright civil war. Let us try those measures, and peaceably assemble for a redress of grievances. If Bibi goes all Assad on the peaceable assembly, then more extreme measures might be called for, but he won’t. At worst, they’ll call in some Druze on horseback to knock the s#@# out of the demonstrators and arrest some of them. But even then, there is redress within the courts, within the multiparty electoral system. That’s the beauty of democracy, why in a putative Jewish Spring, there can be blossoms of blue, green, orange, and purple, and so much less bright red than in an Arab Spring.
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