I take it back. I first accepted this policy providing it was applied equally to Arabs. The Nationalists are right. Its a price-tag operation. Ted Belman
Grassroots nationalists condemn new policy that will collectively punish Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria for acts of extremist fringe.
By Orly Harari, INN
Demolished home in Yitzhar
The joint headquarters of the grassroots nationalist groups harshly condemned Wednesday the reported new policy of the IDF’s Civil Administration in Judea and Samaria, to rapidly demolish homes in Jewish communities where residents behaved violently.
“The Civil Administration has adopted the Price Tag doctrine,” said the HQ in a press statement, which compared the IDF’s new policy to that of Jewish extremists accused of carrying out nationalist vandalism against Muslim targets in revenge for terror attacks.
The use of enforcement measures against ordinary law-abiding citizens in response to violent actions by their neighbors “is a Price Tag action,” the HQ determined.
While the new policy – which is already being implemented on the ground – is meant to put pressure on the population that allowed “stray weeds” to spring from it, it will only wind up “hurting ordinary citizens without giving them a chance to take legal action against the demolitions,” the activists added.
“The policy, which reflects the thinking of Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon, is the result of the system’s weakness,” they said. “The law enforcement establishment in Judea and Samaria cannot cope with a handful of youths who spray graffiti on cars and homes, and so it tears down the homes of citizens whose only sin is settlement of the land.”
Having said all of this, the HQ called on the Civil Administration to enforce its new policy against all of the residents of Judea and Samaria. “On the eve of the Pesach holiday, Lt. Col. Baruch Mizrahi H”yd was murdered and the murderers’ tracks led to te village of Idna. We trust that the Civil Administration has already mapped out the dozens of illegal homes in the village and that they will be torn down under the cover of darkness in the coming days,” the statement adds sarcastically.
The HQ added that the only violence at Kida, where the home of a prominent activist was razed, was carried out by Administration inspectors, who did not let the family take its belongings from the house, and would not allow the Deputy Head of the Binyamin Regional Council file a motion againt the demolition with the High Court.
@ Ted Belman:
@ Buzz of the Orient:
Like you, Ted and buzz, I am also embarrassed by the so called ‘price tag vandalism’…
But for the complete opposite reason!
I am embarrassed that musloids can and DO walk around with impunity and I daresay are even ENCOURAGED by the goi, the msm, and most certainly the treasonous left.
You are embarrassed because they firebombed a mosque??
I am embarrassed that it is still left standing…
(Not to mention the two blemishes on the Temple Mount….)
@ Yidvocate:
F#$#K and you scolded me for say “opps yawl”. Please Darlin, a little decorum.
What the F#$#k is wrong with Yaalon? I thought he was the “good guy” who stands for Jewish rights! Under Barak one could expect these despicable antisemitic acts but under Yaalon? Collective punishment of this order is not only anti-democratic and bigoted but down right antisemitic, something one would expect from the Gestapo and the SS. That it comes from Jews against Jews in the Jewish state is simply an abomination. It will be our very undoing as G-d forbid, G-d spews us from the land for such unconscionable violations of baisc decency.
Ted,
Do you have proof or does anyone have proof that the beasts in uniform have judicial orders to attack people’s homes as reprisal for crimes committed by the victims?
We, the people, MUST demand proof before we issue agreements with the military using force against civilians. In any case they are forbidden from attacking civilians. The police is charged with enforcing court orders/
If the uniformed criminals acted w/o evidence, then they are criminals of war according to conventions.
@ Buzz of the Orient:I agree with you. In part they do these things because the Israeli government tolerates too much.
As much as I love Israel, and steadfastly support Israel, I am embarrassed by the price-tag vandalism, with the latest and worst being the fire-bombing of a mosque. Whether or not the Arabs deserve some kind of punishment for whatever, the price-tag vandalism is just serving and benefiting the Israel demonizers and BDS movement. It cannot be justified and in balance is doing the greatest harm to Israel.