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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.
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4 Comments:
At 8:41 AM ,
Anonymous said...
Talk about sticking it to The Man - this is a masterpiece!
At 9:51 PM ,
Anonymous said...
"We have very real relations with the local Arab farmers who tend old vineyards behind our homes"
How deeply moving. The following report from Yesh Din suggests otherwise:
http://www.yesh-din.org/site/index.php?page=part5d〈=en
ID 2143/05 (Yesh Din file 1090/05)
In June 2002, the outpost of Sde Boaz (also known as Neve Daniel North) was established north of the compound called Ein Qasis by the Palestinians, which contains plots owned by residents of the village of al-Khadr in the Bethlehem area. Since the outpost was established clashes have occurred there between the Palestinian land owners and residents of the outpost, led by the youth M., who tried to prevent the Palestinians from cultivating their land.
A few hundred meters from the outpost's mobile homes is a plot that belongs to the family of Nabil Salah, which contains planted vines. On the morning of Thursday, May 27, 2004, Nabil and his sister Basma Salah went to the plot to tend it. At around 7 a.m. two settlers approached them, one of whom was identified by Nabil as M., with a dog. M. demanded Nabil's identity card, and when he refused he grabbed the card by force and kicked Nabil in the leg. M. made the return of the identity card contingent on Nabil and his sister leaving the site. Nabil refused and told M. to keep the card, and that he, Nabil, would complain to the police. In response M. pulled out a gun, cocked it, pointed it at Nabil's head and threatened to shoot him if he didn't leave. Then M. ordered Nabil to give him NIS 5,000 the next day in exchange for his "permission" that Nabil tend the land, or else M. would vandalize the plot. Only then did M. return Nabil's identity card to its owner, and Nabil and his sister went home without tending the plot.
The next day, May 28, 2004, Nabil returned to the plot with several members of his family and discovered that about 20 vines were uprooted and stolen. Nabil's uncle, Imad Salah, went to the police station in Gush Etzion and reported the damage. Following the report an investigation file was opened (ID 2143/05) in the Hebron Region police.
An examination of the file by Yesh Din found that in two separate photo lineups Nabil and his sister Basma identified the picture of M., and pointed at him as the person who threatened them.
Despite repeated attempts by the Hebron Region investigators, M. did not respond to the messages left on his phone or with his neighbor in the outpost. A search order issued against his home was not carried out, because on the various visits the police made there M. was not home. Only on August 3, 2004, after an arrest order was issued against him, was M. found at his home in the outpost, arrested and brought for investigation – more than two months after committing the actions of which he was suspected.
In his investigation M. denied his involvement in the events. He added that the description of the other person whom the complainants claimed was with him during the events sounded like his friend N. The complainants did not identify the picture of N. in the identification lineups conducted by the police, and therefore he was not summoned to the investigation at all.
M. also said in his investigation that he didn't remember what he did on the day of the event and where he was at the time, and that he would need a few days to provide an alibi. At the end of the investigation M. was released. On August 29, 2004, an investigator called M. and asked him whether he had managed to comprise an alibi claim. M. replied he had not yet managed to ascertain where he had been at the time of the event, and promised to check shortly. After another phone call initiated by the investigator on October 12, 2004, was not answered, the police made no further attempts to receive an alibi claim from M.
Even though the complainants identified M., even though the suspect vaguely denied in his investigation his involvement in the events, even though he did not provide an alibi and even though he repeatedly evaded the police – the head of the prosecutions unit at the SJ District Police decided to close the file on the grounds of "Lack of Evidence."[93] Atty. Michael Sfard appealed on behalf of Yesh Din and on behalf of the complainants against the decision not to indict M.[94] At the time of writing this report no response was received yet from the state prosecutor's appeals department.
At 2:59 PM ,
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 10:16 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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