20 Hebron settlers arrested for violently harassing Palestinians

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"Police on Tuesday detained 20 settlers in the West Bank city of Hebron after they hurled rocks, bricks and glass bottles at Israel Defense Forces soldiers and police. A policeman was lightly wounded in the riot.

The rioting took place next to a Palestinian house where the IDF was securing the construction of a wall to protect its inhabitants from settlers.

The Palestinian inhabitants, living in proximity with Jewish houses, were forced to leave their home due to unrelenting attacks by settlers. The IDF recently began securing the Palestinian house in order to allow the inhabitants to return to their home."



Farmers suspect settlers cut down olive trees

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"Palestinian farmers suspect that settlers are behind the vandalizing of some 45 olive trees in the Palestinian village of Salem near the West Bank city of Nablus.

A farmer working in a field adjacent to the groves on Saturday discovered that many trees in the grove had been cut down. The grove owner filed a complaint with Ariel police.

In recent months Israeli volunteers have been assisting Salem farmers in tilling their fields while suffering from ongoing sabotage by settlers. Buma Inbar who visited the vandalized grove said "the site was horrifying - it's hard to see dozens of old trees broken down so brutally, this is sheer vandalism."

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/726341.html

Don't worry, they'll be out by next week. With an admonishment that they never throw bricks near Israeli police or soldiers.

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Let us know the outcome of this. If and when they are released. If they are actually charged with a crime, and if they are, the outcome of their trial.

I would like to hear you brag here about the fairness of the Israeli justice system.

Help us become a little less cynical.

So if you wish, follow this case.

Why not wait until the story plays out before making it out to the worse case scenario? I met another challenge of yours, only to have the parameters changed twice.

As for bragging here about the fairness of the Israeli system, I don't see that happening. Like every other democracy, they have several problems with their system, racism only being one of them!

I cannot help you be less cynical, that is a personal thing, and even a full Israeli withdrawal wouldn't even accomplish.

That has never been proposed by any Israeli leader.

I said even one wouldn't change your attitude.

with international law, has never been even seriously contemplated, says much about the reasons for my pessimism.

It's happening now, just not to YOUR expectations. Everyone seems to erroneously think it means a total withdrawal to the 1967 "borders." It does not.

with international law and basic human rights standards. Israeli leaders have never met or even come close to those standards, despite the many Israelis, and their international supporters, who have worked so tirelessly to make a just Israel, so that everyone can live in peace.

You say, :"....Israeli leaders have never met or even come close to those standards." This is why discussing the topic of Israel is next to impossible with you. Nothing Israel does will ever be right. To say what you said is presenting "opinion" as "fact." When you can see Israel for the complex nation it is, then we can talk.

comfy homes even as we type. I will have no way of confirming that one way or another, but it certainly would be according to the traditional way of Israeli very criminal system.
They will be throwing rocks next week, but maybe be more careful not to hit soldiers.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/israel/view/
SHMUEL BEN YISHAI
There are certain conditions, according to Jewish law, under
which non-Jews may live here. This doesn't apply to the Arabs. They don't fit the
category. They have to get the hell out. Whoever leaves under his own steam will
save his own life. Whoever doesn't, will have to pay the price. This is the land of
Israel.


NOAM FEDERMAN
AVRAHAM AVINU SETTLEMENT
“Revenge is an important value. The Talmud says that it is one
of the greatest things. Revenge is great.”

“We basically explain the Arab problem as Rabbi Kahane saw it… We say this country
should be a Jewish country, with all of the far-reaching implications.”


The following quotes are taken from the following documentary: Micha X Peled,
“Inside God’s Bunker,” 1994. All the individuals were filmed and identified on
camera saying the quotes that are attributed to them.


RUTHIE HIZMI
AVRAHAM AVINU SETTLEMENT
“I mean, the moment you step outside the fence around Beit Hadassah, you immediately
run into Arabs. It's hard. Arabs, dust, smoke, dirt… It’s hard.”


UNIDENTIFIED HEBRON SETTLER, FACE SHOWN
While driving through Hebron at night, he describes how Hebron settlers destroy
Palestinian cars at night “Cars are the classic targets. You can cause 15,000 shekels worth of damage just like that. It takes very little effort. And if you weren’t filming... We’ve got the technical know-how. We’re trained and equipped – each vehicle has the necessary
gear. Knives to cut what needs to be cut. Petrol and matches, whatever we need.
Contact Glue…
Peled: Why contact glue?
“Contact glue and petrol works like napalm. It flares up and never stops.”
Peled: You throw this on a car, or what?
“Yes. You use a knife to cut the rubber around the windscreen. It falls inside.
You throw the mixture on the dashboard, light a match, say a prayer and that’s
that.”
Peled: You do it as a response to an assault against you?
“Not necessarily. The enemy must be kept down at all times. It’s just that we need
more time and more people to do it.”