This morning Joseph Dana (aka Ibn Ezra) sent us the following email:
This morning the army dismantled parts of hilltop 26 (18), the place that we wrote the article about. Check out the news here (editor note: you can read Ibn Ezra’s coverage here).
It looks like they are going to build it up again this afternoon and Ta’ayush is fearful that there is going to be settler violence in response. I am told this is normally the pattern.
We have been following Dana’s updates on Hilltop 26 and Max Blumenthal recently visited the area in one of his videos. Dana’s fear about violence is rooted in reality. Besides the trend of settlers attacking local Palestinians when they are challenged by the Israeli government, the settlers themselves are openly talking about fighting all who oppose them, which includes the government and even the largest settler organization, the Yesha council! Dana translated the following on his blog from the Kiryat Arba Setter forum which ends with an ambiguous but ominous threat:
Today at six in the evening we will all convene to continue rebuilding the structures that were destroyed yesterday by the bullies on behalf of the government of Israel.
Expansion in response to destruction!
We will not let Bibi and Barak implement a defeatist policy. Israel belongs solely to the nation of Israel!
The Yesha council has signed the outpost agreement with the government and is thus consciously assisting the destruction of entire settlements in Israel. The destruction of outposts and their surrender is the first step in the bigger scheme… we will not be silent any longer! We will not silently abided by false declarations, promises and temptations. We learned the lesson in Gush Katif! Bribes blind the eyes of the righteous. We will stop the cleansing at the source.
Related posts:
- Israeli government and settlers ‘working together to create new facts on the ground’
- Ordered to protect Palestinian farmers, the IDF protects Israeli settlers instead
- Israeli settler violence against Palestinians is routine, and unreported
- Israeli left begins to fight the settlers – in the US
- They will beat their outposts into condoshares….
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I liked this, from an earlier Ynet story about the settlers' plans, which is at http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3720922... Under the title “The Frog Plague”, the move’s initiators explain that:
The outposts are the cheapest pawns Israel is moving on and off the square of public opinion, especially as sold in the USA, the enabler. Some outposts are even populated by IDF soldiers, so they can be rebuilt in a day, while throwing up a smokescreen to give Israeli enablers talking points alleging Israel is serious about uprooting the illegal settlements–I sure hope Obama sees past this smokescreen and takes advantage of his public pulpit to override our whore congress.
Is there a Ruby Ridge on the West Bank?
So settlers are like ugly toads? That's a nice self-description.
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Why don't they build underwater cells into the Med? That would put a lot of people at ease. Out of site, out of mind.
You know, if I had just taken advantage of opputunities offered to me as a teen in my addlescence, I could have been a settler. Could have, would have, feh! I guess they wouldn't want me any more now that I'm old and out of shape. My vision isn't as sharp as it used to be either. I have let myself get to a point where I am no possible good to Israel. Well, I suppose I could give them money. Nah… maybe I better keep a-hold of it, considering the times.
But when I think about it, there must be a tremendous, invigorating effect from living in the holey Land and all. I mean, Jews all over the world, of course, are helpless before the new wave of New Wave anti-Semitism. Doesn't matter how long they have been established, how much they are integrated (as if Jews were ever segregated in the US) and how much influence and affluence they've acquired. One swatstika spray-painted (spray-painted, feh! Real anti-Semites use brushes. Spray-painted swatstikas always look anemic, spindly and nervous. Good brush-work is what puts the real swat in a swatstika, you know) on a Temple wall, and every Jew in town is supposed to turn in their Mercedes for a Masada! 'Come to Israel, where we can protect you, bubele!' the Zionists scream. But the settlers? Now they're a different breed! No problem with them as the naked, exposed point of Israeli expansionism. Sure, they could all get slaughtered if things wrong real badly, but hey, they volunteered, right? What a country!
Still, Citizen, are the settlements really defensible? If things went badly wrong, that is, and all hell broke loose?
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