The police raid was clearly part of a growing internal war being waged in Israel by secular politicians against religious Zionists.
This from WorldnetDaily:
At the order of the Israeli Defense Forces, a joint taskforce consisting of 200-300 officers from the Israeli Police Authority and Shin Bet security services swooped down on the Kfar Tapuach settlement in northern Samaria and raided the offices of the initiative's leader, northern Samaria resident Yekutel Ben Yaacov. Computers and documents were confiscated and a kennel started by Ben Yaacov several years ago to train dogs to protect area settlements was closed down.
Simultaneously, Jerusalem police and Shin Bet agents raided a Jerusalem Internet café and a nearby apartment owned by Ben Yaacov. Four computers and stacks of documents were confiscated and four café employees were taken in for questioning.
Ben Yaacov was not arrested in the raid.
On Wednesday, Ben Yaacov is set to deliver his Initiative at a conference in Jerusalem's Old City. The plan aims to create the new Jewish authority in any part of Judea and Samaria, even a small settlement, in hopes of eventually ruling the entire territory, Ben Yaacov said.
Ben Yaacov's group, the Jewish Legion, was founded in 2001 to foster self-protection for Judea and Samaria communities plagued by terror attacks. His Judea Initiative is a new movement of the Legion not yet officially made public.
"We have been around for four years. Suddenly, they raid my offices three days before the conference to announce our initiative? The authorities are hysterical. They want to stop this initiative, but now they have succeeded in giving it a lot of publicity, so the conference, which doesn't violate any law, will go on and probably draw even bigger crowds," Ben Yaacov told WND.
Some of the other prominent examples of government hatred against the religious Zionists over the past couple months include:
- Moshe Feiglin, the religious Zionist member of Likud who came in 3rd place in the party's primaries, essentially was forced to resign as a result of Likud leader Benyamin Netanyahu's efforts to ban him and his religious Zionist wing from the Likud party.
- The expelled Gaza Jews remain largely homeless and eating in soup kitchens as the government continues to withhold their promised benefits.
- The few Jews who remain in Hebron, only perhaps 8 families, are about to be expelled by force because, well, because they are observant Jews and the arabs want them out.
- All three of Israel's top political parties, Likud, Labor and Kadima, have already announced their willingness to implement future expulsions of Jews from Judea & Samaria.
- Religious Jewish military units have been told that since the Gaza expulsion they will no longer be permitted to serve together, as the concessionists view them as a threat to implementing future expulsions.
-MZ
3 comments:
come on kuhnkat! it's the age old story of the favored child, jealousy which leads to hatred. unless you were an only child you know nothing of it.
there were six children in my parent's house and it was apparent to each and everyone of us who the favored child was. it wasn't me.
it's the story of cain and abel, isaac and ishmael, jacob and esau, joseph and all his brothers. so simple and cut and dried, yet complex. it is not until we come into relationship with our maker that we put this pettiness aside. ishmael cannot because ishmael refuses the true promises. instead of being a blessing to his brothers he (nation of islam) is a curse.
genesis 16:12 states: (amp) "and he [ishmael] will be as a whld ass among men; his hand will be against every man and everyman's hand against him, and he will live to the east and on the borders of all his kinsmen."
Kuhnkat, the fight is a very, very old one. Look at what Moses went through in the desert with the "stiff necked" people he led in out of Egypt, or at Mount Sinai with the Golden Calf, or the hellenized Jews that brought about the story of Chanukah, just to name a few.
We, as Jews, struggle with ourselves and with God all the time and tend to be our own worst enemies. The most brutal anti-Semites are often Jews by birth who renounce their birthright and devote their lives to hating Jews and Judaism.
This fight has always been and always will be, Kuhnkat. It will only end in the world to come with the coming of Moshiach, or God's anointed one, who's era will bring unity to the Jewish people once and for all.
May it be soon and in our days, but it sure ain't here today.
Its seems that the secularists are split between those who profess self-loathing / anti-Israeli views and those that support Israel's self defense, but are in opposition to religious Zionism.
This is a delicate situation. Shifting alliances causes chaos in the Israel coalition govts, but unity in the face of terrorism is the glue that keeps the country together.
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