In response to expected clashes between Israeli settlers and Palestinians over the UN vote on Palestinian statehood, the Palestinian Popular Struggle Coordination Committee and the Israel group Anarchists Against The Wall are launching their own patrol efforts around Palestinian villages. Meanwhile, in response to the deaths of two Israelis in a car crash whose cause is now attributed to Palestinian stone throwers, Israeli settlers are demanding that the IDF take action, or they will. The controversial Orthodox Chief Rabbi of the Kiryat Arva settlement, Dov Lior, has told Israeli news outlets that "We have murderous rioters surrounding us, according to the Torah, there is room for collective punishment and the IDF must carry out the punishment against the rioters. There are no innocents in a war."
The anti-price tagging patrol, first reported by the Christian Science Monitor, outlines the actions of the Palestinian-Israeli groups, who are running car patrols around Palestinian villages and lands to keep an eye out for price-taggers, Israeli settlers who attack Palestinians and IDF property in retaliation for any removal of Israeli settlers from the West Bank. The CSM notes the recalcitrance of the Israeli settlers towards these actions, quoting the mayor of the West Bank settlement of Itmar as saying "This is our home, Israel. It’s in the Bible. It belongs to the Jewish nation."
Israeli settlers are already coordinating their own patrols and protests through their community organizations, while the IDF, Israeli Border Police and Palestinian Authority are nominally working together to prevent outbreaks of violence. At least 5 Israeli settlements have also brought in members of the far-right French JDL to prevent "Arab infiltration."
The CSM also quotes Palestinians involved in the anti-price tagging patrols as being unsupportive of the UN effort and willing to engage in a non-violent campaign to resolve the settlements' question. This course of action has also been suggested by outside commentators, such as Carne Ross of Independent Diplomat.
The story about the Palestinian and Israeli anti-price tag patrols as reported by the pro-Israel, Jewish-American weekly The Algemeiner, though, focuses on charges of how these groups are delegitimizing Israel and enabling the deaths of settlers through their (in)action towards Palestinians throwing rocks at Israeli motorists (two Israelis were reportedly killed in a car crash caused by Palestinian stone throwers on Friday):
Among the settlement leaders who have expressed their concerns is David Ha’ivri, the spokesman for the Samaria Liaison Office, the public relations branch of the Samaria Regional Council.
Ha’ivri alleged that the patrol initiative was “another effort by the extremist left wing and Anarchist activists in Israel to cause friction between Jewish and Arab residents.”
Commentary magazine, referring the stone throwers, asserts that "Arabs" are the main source of all West Bank violence and that the "rare" instances of Israeli retaliation are often done in self-defense.
Israeli settlers have reacted strongly to the deaths, which were originally reported as accidental by the Israeli authorities. A public funeral for the dead was disrupted by protests that forced the IDF to intervene. A settler leader told Ynet:
"The hurling of stones must be stopped. If the IDF can't do it, then we'll do it and we know how. We shall deploy our men along the line. Anyone with a licensed weapon will arrive and we'll equip others with batons and protective gear."
So far, according to Israeli media, protests and counterprotests in the West Bank have remained "relatively" calm, though deaths and injuries among both Israelis and Palestinians have been reported since Friday, when the PA formally presented its statehood bid at the UN in New York. Travel is now increasingly being restricted within the West Bank by the IDF.
RE: “Forward magazine…asserts that ‘Arabs’ are the main source of all West Bank violence” ~ Mutter
MY QUESTION: Did you mean Commentary magazine? The link is to them rather than the Forward. There is a very big difference between the two. Frankly, Commentary reminds me of the Heaven’s Gate cult!
Heaven’s Gate (religious group) – link to en.wikipedia.org
Yes, I did mean that. It has since been fixed. My Freudian slip?
here is a link to go with the french jdl link you provide… this is much more informative… thanks for the article..
link to english.aljazeera.net
A group photo of armed French far right terrorist group JDL in the West Bank
link to angryarabscommentsection.blogspot.com
nah, i’m not buying the ‘both sides’ story. defner
and then last week i entered a draft, not sure why it didn’t cut the mustard but here’s Haaretz reporting “Extreme right-wing Jewish activists” are organizing into terror groups. some fanatics threatened a Peace Now activist with murder. According to the Shin Bet “extreme Jewish activists” have expanded there terrorizing activities from Palestinians in the West Bank to targeting Jews, specifically “left-wing Israeli activists” Shin Bet’s new analysis claims the Jewish extremists have a database of potential targets and are organizing. “Sources in the Shin Bet noted that the planned attacks against Arabs and left-wing Israelis constitute terrorist activity, for all intents and purposes. “
plus another report in the hebrew press about ‘waves’ of attacks on palestinians in east jerusalem.
this is incitement. and i just linked to a video in another thread here it is again about a kid getting attacked by settlers in the same town near nablus settlers shot man for no reason on friday.
no reason Annie? really? how about the father and son who were killed by the stone throwers? I bet you don’t believe that either? Mossad false flag incident?
how about the father and son who were killed by the stone throwers?
according to the terrorist settlers, bla. the government didn’t allege or report they were killed by stone throwers. you know that. i noticed you had nothing to say about the shin bet report:
go bark up someone else’s tree.
you mean the terrorist settler police? I suppose you think the child was a valid target though huh?
link to jta.org
that is a really irresponsible headline by jta. especially when their own reporting said may have occurred after a rock was thrown at the car. i have no reason to believe anything settler police say. nothing.
take the last word
You think that children are valid targets, DBG. Furkan Dogan was under the age of 21, and Operation Cast Lead specifically dropped bombs on schools and hospitals, killing HUNDREDS of children.
So why don’t you answer for your own endorsement of child murder before you throw around your own accusations, DBG? What makes it justified when you murder children?
Because it couldn’t have POSSIBLY been, you know, drunk driving.
The incident of father and son who crashed after the car was hit by stones happened shortly after a Palestinian was shot dead while a group of Palestinians was defending their village from a mob of settlers who were breaking windows.
The guy was shot for a reason: IDF unit was defending attacking settlers. Not a reason that could cheer up Palestinians. Mind you, although settlers most regularly inflict property damage by setting fires, cutting trees etc. they also throw stones.
Can someone explain how progroms became “price tag operations”?
Doz
Short answer? PR firms.
Self righteousness. Because nobody ever stopped the settlers and now they are out of control and drunk on hate.
Seafoid, the psychology of a pogrom is that the people committing it are always self-righteous. What caused the media to change the name was modern marketing tactics.
chaos, check this out Document: Settlers prep to terrorize West Bank. i notice they always put price tag in quotes. “price tag” attacks but i don’t ever see the original text saying price tag.
i notice they always put price tag in quotes. “price tag” attacks but i don’t ever see the original text saying price tag.
link to haaretz.com
ah, thank you shmuel. this reminds me of the graffiti i saw recently @ bir zeit campus. plus in that shin bet haaretz report they also graffiti’d the peace now workers house.
it is not that hard to track down graffiti artists, they have to buy their spray paint somewhere and leave identifying tags. the city of seattle just hired an expert. my son is a tagger and knows about this stuff. it isn’t rocket science.
Can someone explain how progroms became “price tag operations”?
yes, the first i heard of the price tag attacks was directly after netanyahu announced they would be conducting a settlement freeze.
here’s more
and more
lots more here: link to coteret.com
I suppose everyone familiar with this conflict gets used to callous cross-eyed stupidity but when a Rabbi says:
“There are no innocents in a war.”
That seems straight out of the sayings of Adolf Hitler.
“There are no innocents in a war. That seems straight out of the sayings of Adolf Hitler”
Coming from a Palestinian this statement would be considered nazism or terrorism. But from a settler or rabbi…..freedom fighter.
actually, according to that link up there Maariv editor: Settler terrorists and their rabbis are Neonazis. of course calling someone a neonazi is not quite the same as calling them hitler. also, note my first haaretz link up thread:
Sources in the Shin Bet noted that the planned attacks against Arabs and left-wing Israelis constitute terrorist activity, for all intents and purposes.
and the article is titled “Shin Bet: Israel’s extreme rightists organizing into terror groups“.
they just don’t come right out and call them terrorists.
Didn’t see your link at first Annie but thank you. Anyhow I was speaking more in general terms :)