Israel National News: “First Arab ‘September Attack’: Convoy Approached Negohot; September attacks have begun: Arabs in 40-50 vehicles drove along Jewish community’s fence, taunted and jeered.”
Presumably, this will be used as evidence to suggest that the Arabs “started it,” like the way they “started” the Six Day War. But for a minor incident, it is rather illustrative of the settlement worldview as a whole:
1. Hilltop (Double) Standards – The protesters did not, at least based on what INN has reported, attempt to enter Negohot, a West Bank settlement founded in 1982. Nor did they exit their vehicles or direct anything more than words and posters at the fenced-in settlement. Nevertheless, such actions constitute an attack (not a protest – an attack), according to the settlers. Whereas attacks against Palestinian property and lives are always acts of self-preservation.
2. The Spineless Security Forces – The IDF is criticized for not being more proactive, especially since they have declared there are “red lines” Palestinians must not be allowed to cross around the settlements. According to the article, IDF soldiers simply stood by and watched the convoy slowly drive by. The article asserts that settlers must not rely on a supine IDF in the coming weeks, but rather, on themselves, because Palestinians are hopelessly foolish (but, at the same time, ingenious connivers). The IDF is a potential enemy in the eyes of the settlers, as is the PA.
3. The Arabs’ Useful Idiots – The “anti-Jewish” Israeli Supreme Court is again castigated for a decision made in 2009 that reopened Israeli Route 443 between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem to Palestinian drivers such as these. The road, built on “expropriated” Palestinian land located within the West Bank, was closed to Palestinian traffic during the Second Intifada because of attacks on Israeli motorists. With support from Israeli human rights groups, suits to reopen near Palestinian villages made it to the Supreme Court, which overturned the military ban on Palestinian traffic because a panel of three justices decided the ban was a form of collective punishment. But if the road was still closed to non-Israelis, this provocation would never have happened, it is suggested. The Arab-loving left throws away Jewish lives.
4. The Opinion War – Essentially, “leftist” opinion is just as dangerous, if not more so, than any number of al Asqa Brigadists. It is an “enabler” and must be changed. “Being right isn’t enough, selling it is” – and the main talking points must be the Holocaust and the Torah. Changing the way the government appoints Supreme Court justices and licenses Israeli NGOs activities was on the legislative agendas of far-right Israeli parties during this past Knesset session. Neither effort succeeded, but the far-right has vowed to keep trying to wrest humanitarianism in the West Bank away from a far-left minority (in favor of their own far-right minority, of course – parliamentarianism, everybody!).
So as Israel National News noted, Negohot is only the beginning this September.
