The Undercover Jewish Settlers of the Palestinian Authority
So I live on what the Road Map for Peace established as an "unauthorized outpost." The arbitrary date chosen in order to define such a community was the day Ariel Sharon became Prime Minister for the first time (after all, he was the one accepting the Road Map from the aptly named Mafia of nations referring to themselves as "The Quartet" [were their foreign ministers sitting together at a banquet some time and the Russian official suddenly came up with that clever name?])
Normally, life is quite pastoral in Sde Boaz. It is the highest point in Gush Etzion, overlooking all the main roads, Jerusalem, Jordan, the Mediterranean and the Ela Valley. We have very real relations with the local Arab farmers who tend old vineyards behind our homes and who, in turn, ensure that their progeny do not get involved in the local Jihad groups active in the neighboring villages of El-Khader, Husan and Nahlin.
To make a long story short (with the help of a link), this happened over Shabbat Tu B'Shvat: Click here for English, here for Hebrew (includes video)
Incidentally, one of the "Internationals," as she called herself, has a blog and blogged about her excursion to Sde Boaz.
I am excited for her reply to my hasty, unedited missive in her comments section. I am pretty sure she is going to apologize for taking part in destroying our orchard and ask if she can volunteer to do kind of a habitat-for-humanity gig on the hilltop building our first permanent house. And as she reveals in her blog, she is a Jewess.
I have this theory that the Neturei Karta folks who set up a synagogue in Ramallah, all the ISM Jews living in villages around Judea and Samaria - in Area A (full PA control) - all of them: undercover settlers. These are just folks that are sick of the bourgeoisie settlement enterprise and looking for the real Chumra of Yishuv Haaretz - the real stringent application of the Biblical mandate of settling every part of the land.
MK Davis, rock on. You have led the Jewish resettlement of Beit Oumar, under the guise of radical politics, and for that I salute you.
And thank you for the intelligence photos of the fellow in the yellow jacket who escaped arrest with help from the violent internationals (who are also depicted in the act) and other photos of a young man down by the very trees which were destroyed.
I hope I didn't blow your cover.
Normally, life is quite pastoral in Sde Boaz. It is the highest point in Gush Etzion, overlooking all the main roads, Jerusalem, Jordan, the Mediterranean and the Ela Valley. We have very real relations with the local Arab farmers who tend old vineyards behind our homes and who, in turn, ensure that their progeny do not get involved in the local Jihad groups active in the neighboring villages of El-Khader, Husan and Nahlin.
To make a long story short (with the help of a link), this happened over Shabbat Tu B'Shvat: Click here for English, here for Hebrew (includes video)Incidentally, one of the "Internationals," as she called herself, has a blog and blogged about her excursion to Sde Boaz.
I am excited for her reply to my hasty, unedited missive in her comments section. I am pretty sure she is going to apologize for taking part in destroying our orchard and ask if she can volunteer to do kind of a habitat-for-humanity gig on the hilltop building our first permanent house. And as she reveals in her blog, she is a Jewess.
I have this theory that the Neturei Karta folks who set up a synagogue in Ramallah, all the ISM Jews living in villages around Judea and Samaria - in Area A (full PA control) - all of them: undercover settlers. These are just folks that are sick of the bourgeoisie settlement enterprise and looking for the real Chumra of Yishuv Haaretz - the real stringent application of the Biblical mandate of settling every part of the land.
MK Davis, rock on. You have led the Jewish resettlement of Beit Oumar, under the guise of radical politics, and for that I salute you. And thank you for the intelligence photos of the fellow in the yellow jacket who escaped arrest with help from the violent internationals (who are also depicted in the act) and other photos of a young man down by the very trees which were destroyed.
I hope I didn't blow your cover.
posted by Pinchas @ 3:08 PM
3 Comments:
At February 4, 2007 at 10:41 PM ,
Label said...
Talk about sticking it to The Man - this is a masterpiece!
At February 6, 2007 at 4:59 AM ,
Ezra said...
"Very real relations"
Those words are not meant to warm the heart but to describe relations between people whose nation's are at war with one another.
Though I do not know any of the facts of the case cited (and know better than to take Yesh Din's agenda-driven word for it -- notice they don't print real names because they know they would be sued for libel) would it not be reasonable for the security chief of an unfenced community to ask to see the ID of a man approaching the homes where women and children live?
A bomb was placed at a nearby spring where Gush Etzion's youth regularly - who provided surveillance the area? Asking to see some ID is certainly a fair request, even among good neighbors.
I went the other day with our security chief, who was hit by Taayush's Ezra Nawi, to file a complaint with the police.
The investigator, after taking testimony and evidence, advised us that the case would probably gather dust for a while before being closed due to "lack of public interest" because the impact of the vehicle had not caused serious enough injury.
That is what happens without organizations like Yesh Din pushing a case, with their boards full of former leftist judges and their current family and friends in the state prosecutor's office (How DO they have such detailed accounts of the investigator's actions and phone calls in their accounts?).
When Jewish residents are targeted - the knockout punch comes with the initial story - fed to the media and resulting in a loud and much-leaked investigation - to be enshrined in innuendo by European-funded groups with beautiful names like B'Tzelem and Yesh Din.
The differences: The settler cases eventually end in acquittals due to "lack of evidence" (though their name and reputation of their homes town remains tarnished and Google-able as no new headlines are generated to supplant the pre-investigation ones). Leftists get acquitted due to the bizarre Israeli legal evaluation of "lack of public interest."
Would be very interested to continue this conversation, Mr. Anonymous.
At February 7, 2007 at 12:16 PM ,
Anonymous said...
Thanks for you reply, Ezra.
I'm in a dilemma; should I believe a respected human rights lawyer, Michael Sfard, or should I take the word of someone who's violating international law by settling in the Occupied West Bank? as for the settlers' cases ending in aquittals, that says something about how the Israeli justice system fails to punish lawbreakers, like mr. Avri Ran.
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