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OUTRAGE: Settlers Attack Tzahal and Palestinians

Posted on: Wednesday, November 17, 2004
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{Settlers attack a Palestinian in Chevron while a khayal stands by idly}


HaAretz carried a lead story today about an outrageous event that took place in Sh'chem (Nablus) earlier this morning. As you may know, constant vigilante settler attacks on Palestinian olive pickers have necessitated Tzahal troops to be posted around olive groves so as to protect the peasants from such assaults. During these attacks, settlers (mostly crazed young men) would charge down from their hilltop settlements with sticks, stones and weapons. They would frighten the harvesters into scattering and beat up those they caught. They would then variously destroy the olive groves or steal the olives. This was outrageous in itself. How these by-and-large religious individuals could justify such flagrantly amoral and criminal comportment is altogether beyond me. Today the settlers turned on khayalim, too!

Well, enough is enough! It is high time Medinat Yisrael stopped providing support to these monsters. We must withdraw Tzahal from entire Yesha, save for areas of DIRECT security importance to the STATE OF ISRAEL itself. We should also confiscate all state-issued weapons from the settlers and cut off all funding to them. If they want to live in their Yesha, they should negotiate the terms of their stay with the Palestinians. It is bad enough we're wasting an absolute fortune to enable their stay on the land they consider divinely-ordained as theirs, at the same time that the Israeli economy has been stagnating (although it's back on track and waxing strong now). Young khayalim and shoterim are risking and losing their lives every single day for these ungrateful fanatics. And now THEY have the effrontery to attack them because they are prevented from engaging in yet another subhuman rampage.

Settlers, whatever understanding I may have had for you has steadily been eroded. The disengagement has to be carried out at the earliest possible stage. Frankly, I wouldn't mind personally clearing your asses from your dens of disgusting fanaticism.

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