Officer: Army 'Heartless' When it Come to Outpost Demolitions

Arutz Sheva ^ | 2/2/12 | David Lev

[Eleutheria5]

A top officer in the Israeli Police slammed the Defense Ministry's decision to allow Arab workers to participate in the demolition of buildings in new neighborhoods (“outposts”) conducted by the IDF, police, and Border Guards over the past few months. Last September, Arutz Sheva reported that Arab workers participated in the demolition of Migron. According to witnesses, the Arabs laughed and joked while pulling apart structures, making fun of the Jews who were being “exiled” from the site. The officer criticized the inclusion of Arabs in the demolition and evacuation of Migron, terming it “heartless.”

The officer also criticized the recent late-night eviction of families from Mitzpeh Avichai by Yassam police. The eviction took place in the pre-dawn hours of a very cold night, with residents, including numerous children, roused from their sleep and thrown out into the cold. “I am very sorry that the operation was conducted as it was,” the officer told Arutz Sheva. “You cannot throw families out into the freezing cold in the middle of the night. It's just not right.”

The IDF apparently does not agree. During a press conference after the Mitzpeh Avichai evictions an IDF officer responded to a query by an Arutz Sheva reporter on the timing of the operation by saying that Border Guards had decided to move ahead with the eviction “in order to avoid confrontations with residents and protesters, who would have made the operation more complicated.” By throwing the residents out in the middle of the night, the official said, protesters did not have the opportunity to gather and prevent the evictions.

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[Eleutheria5]

In other words, the Border Guard is admitting to gross cowardice and underhandedness.

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[HiTech RedNeck]

What the HELL is the politics behind this.

[Eleutheria5]

We need a no confidence vote and elections yesterday. That’s what.

[yldstrk]

I first read about Israel’s government blowing up houses of the families of suspected terrorists in the 80s. I thought it was a bankrupt policy that would not help. And it hasn’t.

They are wrong to blow up houses of the families of suspected terrorists.

Israel is also wrong to rip down their own settlements. No land for peace. Who is advising these people?

[Eleutheria5]

Obama is probably standing over them with a whip. But that’s no excuse at all. If you’re PM of Israel, you have to be ready to withstand pressure from America, the UN, the EU and Islamofascistia, and act in the interests of your own country.

Yes, we are tiny, minuscule, microscopic against all of these. But in spite of being such a small people, we excite such unhealthy interest by such giants in our doings. In spite of being such a small people, we’ve survived appallingly serious attempts to destroy us on the part of these giants for thousands of years.

If you can’t make that connection, you have no business being PM of Israel. Bibi must go. There are posters going up around me calling for a general strike by Yesha residents. This is the time for Jewish Spring. I’m down for it.