Some 700 IDF officers and soldiers serving in reserve duty have signed a petition to Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman and to the Army’s Central Command, demanding immediate removal of left-wing activists and anarchists involved in inciting violence in Judea and Samaria.
“Permanent activists of Israeli anarchist organizations arrive every week to confront and clash with security forces in Judea and Samaria, inciting the populace and participating in setting up roadblocks and in violent disturbances,” the petition says.
The petition was initiated by the group Ad-Kan (which could be translated as both ‘no more’ and ‘up to here’), whose mission is to expose and document the leftist organizations’ criminal behavior in the field, including their paying Arabs to throw stones.
Ad Kan officially contacted the Defense Ministry in June and August of 2017 with the names of anarchists who are inciting to violence in Judea and Samaria, as well as rich documentation of their criminal in the field, but has yet to receive a response.
“The recent events in Nabi Salah (of teenage girls abusing soldiers who take it on chin, fearing punishment) indicate that the IDF’s forgiving policy in the friction areas is being interpreted as helplessness on the part of the soldiers, leading to attacks on soldiers and further corroding the IDF deterrence – which boosts the international delegitimization efforts against Israel, while presenting IDF soldiers as abusers of the civilian population,” the petition protests, arguing that the same IDF authorities that cut the soldiers’ legs out from under them also fail to provide effective tools to the soldiers in the field to deal with the violent and much publicized situations.”
The petition concludes with the call to the defense minister to exercise his authority and to remove the anarchists who are not residents of the area from Judea and Samaria administratively, “as has been done in the past and the present by the Central Command in many other cases (a reference to the removal of rightwing activists from their homes Judea and Samaria).”
“It would be appropriate for the military establishment that sends IDF soldiers to confront Palestinians who are trained and operated by Israeli activists to punish those activists or at least make sure they are removed them from the area – which is yet to be done to this day,” the reservists conclude their message to Defense Minister Liberman.
Ad Kan CEO Gilad Ach said in a statement: “There is no reason why people who pay money to Palestinians to throw stones that have to this day injured more than 150 soldiers, some of them seriously, would not be expelled from Judea and Samaria.
“We expect Minister Liberman and the chief of the Central Command to act justly and enforce the rules equally against the anarchists who try to ferment the area every day, as they are doing against the Jews living in Judea and Samaria.”
Israel does need to act decisively in self protection and asserting its rights in Judea/Samaria.
Israeli leadership is not revolutionary…unending levels of ambiguity right down the line. To a revolutionary ambiguity is like a sleeping pill.
Israel never (intellectually actually, stated words, specific positions taken and broadcast for all time to the world) went back on that offer to accept the UN partition Plan of 1947-1948. But that was a fatal mistake. The Arabs rejected that plan and went to war. There were two tracks in this “mistake”, firstly it should not have been entertained despite being under international pressure, but based on an understanding of Islam and Taqqiya, and secondly it should have been immediately and unambiguously taken off the table as soon as the Islamic Jihadist Arabs talked war and then entered war.
Looking back over part of this long history of the Jews…Key points were the Jaffa Riots of 1921, the Hebron Massacre of 1929, all of the posturing and wars of 1936 to 1939, the joining of the Arab leaders especially of Hajj Amin el Husseini with the Holocaust of the Jews 1939-1945, the events described in the “Nazi Palestine” book where the plan of the Nazis and Hajj Amin el Husseini with the top world Jihadist leadership was to invade Palestine from the “Desert War” to liquidate the Jews in Palestine, the events then of 1947 as above, the 1967 war, Arafat and OSLO.
At every point on this continuum that particular point was the “key point” for the line to be drawn. The failure to draw that line sadly shows that the condition is indeed representative of a deep problem. This “problem” goes to what we understand is leadership.
It is a fact that at every point Israel and Jews faced and face deep Antisemtiism in the world which runs alongside and as background to these key historical events, not making it easy for Jews to do anything and we understand this sad fact. That however shows how high are the stakes and the necessity for a particular form of leadership.
That is my starting point…that that leadership has never been present. It exists to the present in what I see great courage of the Jewish nation but running side by side with political ambiguity. Netanyahu whether one accepts his greatness or not, still does exhibit this ambiguity the the n’th degree, and some people even argue that this ambiguity is a good thing. But ambiguity in a time of war is never a good thing. Moreover this has always been war.
So the young soldiers of the IDF who presently operate inside of Judea and Samaria are showing great courage and resourcefulness but they are being forced to fight for Jews inside of a condition of mind which is very much the making of the Israeli elite, and Netanyahu sadly is representative of that elite.
These young soldiers are a prisoner of the Netanyahu with Trump alliance. On the one hand Trump moves the American Embassy to Jerusalem which is a very note worthy effort. On the other Netanyahu is a kind of prisoner of the Trump proposterous thoughts of “doing a deal” and making history by the “deal of the century”. Netanyahu plays along with this. He wastes valuable time. He reacts when he should be proactive and tell the basic truth, that deals with Jihadists are worthless…always!
So Netanyahu is marking time. He is wasting everybody’s time. This is what has to be in the minds of these best IDF soldiers. The worst seek a way out in careerism. The best become cynical. That cannot be an answer.
Meanwhile people like Caroline Glick propose taking these Arabs under the wing. They can be developed or at least negatived, she argues. Glick is better though than the many traitors in Israel. The traitors in Israel calling themselves Jews are the operational force who are financing these attacks on IDF youth.
At least Martin Sherman is clearer on that issue. Get rid of the Arabs, all Jihadists, is a better solution but to me Sherman is a little or a lot uncertain on practical action to do this. Who will do it? Where is the operational party? This is not simply a propagandist thing, rather the necessary propaganda has to flow from out of an organized force, a party. That is TOTALLY absent.
The whole thing is just too stupid for words. Why the hell do the officers in command not give orders to the soldiers to aggressively eject these people from the area, take them in handcuffs or chains, and bring them to the nearest detention centre and there is no need to be gentle. If the 700 co-operate together NO Defence Minister would try to penalise them. Enough is enough. No other country in the world would stand for what the IDF is ordered to suffer. The soldiers should drag them , punish them whilst being dragged, beat them black and blue, let 700 stick together. Maybe it will spread to 7000 and more The IDF needs to be able to assert it’s control of an area in a military way. Anywhere the IDF is operation is off-limits to civilians at their own peril