Last week, the Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem released video clips showing masked Jewish settlers ganging up on and severely beating elderly Palestinian peasants near the town of Yatta, southwest of Hebron. At least three Palestinians were wounded in the unprovoked assault, including a man and his wife, both in their early sixties. The latest act of settler terror was not an isolated incident, as official Israeli spokespersons would often claim. It represents a disturbing and persistent phenomenon as young and usually heavily armed settlers continue to attack Palestinian farmers, peasants and shepherds and vandalize their property in an effort to drive them away from their lands and villages...
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Hitler Youth in the West Bank
Khalid Amayreh
Jun 15th, 2008
Last week, the Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem released video clips showing masked Jewish settlers ganging up on and severely beating elderly Palestinian peasants near the town of Yatta, southwest of Hebron. At least three Palestinians were wounded in the unprovoked assault, including a man and his wife, both in their early sixties.
The latest act of settler terror was not an isolated incident, as official Israeli spokespersons would often claim. It represents a disturbing and persistent phenomenon as young and usually heavily armed settlers continue to attack Palestinian farmers, peasants and shepherds and vandalize their property in an effort to drive them away from their lands and villages.
We who live in the West Bank know too well what it means to live next to a Jewish settlement. It means constant harassment, unending vandalism and perpetual terrorism, both psychological and physical.
What is even more disturbing is the often brazen collusion between the army and the settlers. Ask any conscientious Israeli or Palestinian and he or she will tell you that the settlers couldn’t do what they are doing without at least a "yellow light" from the government and army.
Israel claims to be a state where the rule of law prevails. However, it is abundantly clear that when it comes to settler savagery in particular, and Israel’s overall violations of Palestinian rights in general, the rule of law is suspended.
For example, when a Palestinian files a complaint against settlers, he or she is asked to produce nearly impossible evidence, like the names of the perpetrators, their identity card numbers and their places of residence. Eventually, the complaint is registered against "anonymous" and consigned to oblivion. Such was the fate of thousands of complaints filed by desperate Palestinians seeking redress in Israeli courts.
And whenever serious physical damage to Palestinian property occurs, as happens often, the Israeli police challenge the Palestinian victims to prove beyond doubt that the damage was done by Jews and not self-inflicted. In other words, Jews can do no harm and settlers are innocent even if proven guilty.
The routine and nearly daily attacks by Jewish settlers on Palestinians and their property throughout the West Bank are not merely mundane acts of vandalism by rogue elements within the settler population. On the contrary, they are part of a larger and well-devised plan aimed at driving Palestinians away from their villages and hamlets and lands in order to make more room for Jewish settlement expansion. It is part and parcel of Israel’s ethnic cleansing schemes against non-Jews in Palestine.
Besides, it is well known that whenever a terrorist settler is detained, and this happens rarely, dozens of politicians, Knesset members, retired army commanders and of course, rabbis, are mobilized to free "an innocent Jew whose only guilt is defending Jewish rights and showing loyalty to the Land of Israel."
This proves, if any proof were needed, that the entire Israeli Jewish society is accomplice and guilty in this shame, not only by keeping silent but also by always covering up for settler crimes.
To be sure, there are some Israeli Jewish and international groups, such as B’Tselem, the Christian Peace-making Teams (CPT) and the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) that monitor settler crimes against Palestinians. On this occasion and on behalf of the Palestinian people, I would like to salute these conscientious people and thank them for their dedication and laborious efforts on behalf of humanity and justice.
Nonetheless, settler crimes in the West Bank are so rampant and pervasive that greater efforts are required to monitor and expose them, especially in light of the obvious collusion between the occupation army and the settlers.
Hence, young men and women from around the world including Jews, Christians and Muslims and others, are encouraged to come to the West Bank to be a voice for the voiceless and lend a helping hand to those helpless Palestinians for whom daily life has become a formidable challenge due to settler harassment, vandalism and terrorism.
In addition to physical assaults on Palestinian villagers, settler terrorists routinely burn down fields, orchards and olive groves, often in full view of Israeli soldiers who look on nonchalantly, if not satisfactorily. Moreover, the settlers close Palestinian roads, even roads to one’s home, break water pipes, power and telephone cables. They also often throw poisonous or contaminated substances in Palestinian water wells.
Again, when Palestinians complain to the police, they are made to feel as if they were talking to a wall.
The criminal behavior of the settlers reflects a virulent ideological indoctrination whereby non-Jews in general and Palestinians in particular are viewed as "not fully human."
For example, Rabbi Abraham Kook, the spiritual Godfather of religious Zionism, e.g. the settler movement, claimed that "the difference between a Jewish soul and souls of non-Jews is greater and deeper than the difference between a human soul and the souls of cattle."
I know that some religious-Zionist pundits would indulge in all sorts of metaphorical interpretations to make Kook’s Jewish supremacy doctrine look innocuous.
However, the behavior of his followers in the West Bank should leave no doubt as to the virulent nature of his teachings.
Today, the vast majority of settlers in the West Bank believe that non-Jews living in Israel-Palestine ought to be either exterminated, enslaved or expelled. To enforce their racist ideas, prominent rabbis often cite the most extremist biblical and Talmudic passages pertaining to treatment of non-Jews living among Jews.
A few months ago, a settler leader in the Hebron region told me, "you have to choose between death, enslavement and expulsion from the Land of Israel."
Obviously, with such a mindset, there can be no peace and coexistence between Jews, Muslims and Christians in the Holy Land.
Indeed, how can you coexist, let alone coexist amicably, with someone who believes that you are not equal to him and that God created you to be enslaved by him as a wood-hewer or water-carrier?
Finally, a few words to the Israeli government. During the Nazi era, the German authorities gave Nazi vigilantes, such as the Hitler Youth organization, free rein to attack Jews and their property. Now, you are effectively doing the same by giving these settler hoodlums a free rein to terrorize and assault innocent Palestinians. So, take note of what you are doing.
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Comment by bilks - 16 Jun 2008 - 18:39 [USER NOT REGISTERED]
For example, Rabbi Abraham Kook, the spiritual Godfather of religious Zionism, e .g. the settler movement, claimed that "the difference between a Jewish soul and souls of non-Jews is greater and deeper than the difference between a human sou l and the souls of cattle."
- The sad thing is that they have to hate, without that hate they lose the land they have stolen - without that hate they might just go into heaven, but they ar e selling their souls to harm humans - calling them non-Jews with less than huma n rights will just make it eaiser for them to kill Palestianians and Steal their land - the Israelis fault and they can not complain as they enter hell for murder and theft.
Rabbi Abraham Kook knows how to get his worshipers to hate, kill and steal Pales tians, but he has a book that tells him those things are wrong - and his worship ers have oly themselves to blame to listening to such an idiot just becuase they want to be thieves and murderers for the sake of a golden calf - they never see m to learn.
My soul is of no concern to those Rabbis who forget their God, their souls are H is to - the more they hate me the more I learn to love them so I will not be lik e them and avoide that deadly hate their Rabbi's are so good at spreading.
Comment by gordon - 17 Jun 2008 - 13:12 [USER NOT REGISTERED]
What the hell has this article got to do with the Hitler Youth? This whole 'the Jews are behaving just like the Nazis' crap has got to stop. In fact, the attemp t to shame the Jews because of the way they behave only perpetuates wrongheaded stereotypes about Germany under National Socialism. There's no comparison betwee n Israel and the Third Reich. Germany under Hitler was a proud country standing up for itself after being kicked around for twenty-odd years whose image was unfairly tarnished by foreign propaganda. Israel, on the other hand, is a basket case propped up by foreign money whose image is unfairly romanticised by Jewish stooges the world over.
Comment by tony - 17 Jun 2008 - 14:11 [USER NOT REGISTERED]
The Bible is not about "jewish"; Israel - The People - (what the Bible is about} have never been, and are not now -"jewish". Jewish defined means - adhere to ta lmud - Hate Jesus {truth}! Ashkenazim converts to talmudic judaism are not Israe l. Satanic talmudic judaism is as Jesus has decreed @ John 8:44 a lying murderer s way of being. There is no truth in them. Love your neighbor is not a "jewish" value - DUH! All the malicious jew worshipping zionazi "jewdeo-christians" believing lies manufactured by jews, will not abrogate the Truth, Read Obadiah & Matthew 13. Feel the Kingdom Coming. Germany are Judah. Israel are the other European nations. When the people who are Israel stop serving "jew" moneychangers and come into the knowledge of Truth, Jew terrorism will cease. Read Obadiah. Edom is in modern "jewry". Palestinians are semitic...Khazar ashenazim are not. Know the Truth.
Comment by jeverett7297 - 17 Jun 2008 - 16:42 [USER NOT REGISTERED]
Do the Palestinian authorities own televisions and read newspapers? Has anyone heard of South Africa!? HELLO!!???
Why can't you promote your cause the same way the blacks did in South Africa. G ood God people, learn from history. If it worked for them it can work for you. Palestinians need a "Ghandi" or "Mandela" of their own.
Stop throwing rocks at Israeli tanks for starters. You look stupid doing it and even dumber when you're dead.
Destroy Israel with peace. Learn from Ghandi and Mandela you fools.
Comment by jeverett - 17 Jun 2008 - 19:28 [USER NOT REGISTERED]
Sorry for last post sounding so angry. It boils my blood that "poor" Israel is getting away with murder. I'm a white, caucasian, upper-middle class profession al in the USA -- and I HATE Isreal for what it's doing to the Palestinian people . If I were in Gaza I'd be making bombs and rockets too.
We all need to do something, on a personal human level, to help the Palestinians.
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