Police Acknowledge Shooting in Self-Defense, then Arrest Shooter
by Hillel Fendel
16 juni 2011, Sivan 14, 5771
Self-Defense Shooter Arrested Police agents without search warrants raided a home in Alon Shvut (Gush Etzion) this morning, and ultimately arrested M., 27, for a self-defense shooting of an Arab attacker six months ago.
The police burst into various rooms of the house, including where females were sleeping, searching for M. He was not home, but they returned three hours later – this time with a search warrant – and confiscated his passport.
The police then phoned M. and instructed him to come to the police station - and there he learned that he stands accused of killing an Arab near Yitzhar in the Shomron.
The shooting took place six months ago, at which time it was reported that both the police and IDF agreed that it was carried out in necessary self-defense. Despite this, over the ensuring months the police invested great resources in finding the shooter – and their efforts were crowned with success this morning.
As can be seen in this video, taken by an IDF surveillance camera and released by the IDF, two Arabs attacked M., who was alone, with rocks from very close range. After his warning shots in the air failed to deter them, and after he tried to run from them, he was forced to shoot one of the attackers.
The Arabs later reported that the attacker was killed.
Immediately after the incident, both the IDF and the police announced that the Jew had clearly been under attack and that his response was one of necessary self-defense. Nevertheless, the police made many arrests over the past few months and confiscated many Jewish-owned guns in the hope of finding the shooter.
After finally hitting paydirt, the police informed M.’s legal counsel, Atty. Ariel Atari that they would request an extension of his custody for several days. However, in the event, the police agreed to his release to house arrest until Sunday morning. M. also received legal counsel from the Honenu civil rights organization.
Responses
“The police announced at the time,” Atari said before M.'s release, “that this was a case of self-defense, as the video shows, and therefore this arrest is peculiar and totally unjustified.”
Honenu issued this statement: “Nearly every day we encounter incidents in which soldiers and civilians find themselves under [Arab] attack or otherwise in danger. Unfortunately, this is not the first time in which Jews who were attacked are interrogated and arrested, even though they clearly acted out of self-defense.”
MK Michael Ben-Ari (National Union) said, “Instead of giving him a medal for deterring terrorists, they arrest and harass him – even though if he wouldn’t have fired, we would have had to go to his funeral.”
MK Katz:Anarchists Filmed Burning Olive Trees also Burned Mosque
by INN Staff
Nov 8 '10, Kislev 1, 5771
Anarchists, Arabs Burn Trees Foreign anarchists and Palestinian Authority Arabs were caught on film Sunday setting fire to a wooded area outside the Jewish town of Bat Ayin, in the Etzion Bloc (Gush Etzion) between Jerusalem and Hevron. Bat Ayin is three minutes from Alon Shvut and the Har Etzion Hesder Yeshiva. . The fire damaged many plants, including olive trees.
Residents who witnessed the incident said they believe the group was planning to blame the arson attack on the Jews of Bat Ayin.
In the video approximately one dozen people can be seen wandering around the field, stopping occasionally to bend over and set new fires. The group does not appear anxious, and does nothing to extinguish the flames.
In response to the video showing Arabs and anarchists committing willful arson in wooded areas and olive groves near the community, where a young child was murdered by an Arab infiltrator last year, MK Yaakov Katz, ("Ketsale"), head of the National Union party, accused the police and ISA (Shabak) of unjustified blackening the name of Judea and Samaria's Jewish residents on this and other issues.
The MK claimed that law enforcement agencies have known for two years that those who really uprooted trees, burned mosques, wrote grafitti and burned volumes of the Koran were not Jews, but rather anarchists, radical leftists and Arabs who succeeded in their plan to have the blame fall on Israel's most idealistic citizens, those Jews who live in its Biblical heartland of Judea and Samaria. They enjoyed full cooperation of Israel's law enforcement agencies who did not look for the real perpetrators, having decided without question that Jews had done the deeds.
MK Katz demanded that the Prime Minister form an investigative committee that will show the truth and make the police and other law enforcement agencies explain their joint policy that besmirched the reputations of the 350,000 residents of Yesha.
"No Jew has ever been caught uprooting olive trees and certainly not burning a mosque", he emphasized, adding "if a committee is not formed, we will have to do the work ourselves. This finger pointing at Jews without a shred of evidence is unpleasantly similar to Avishai Raviv, the Shabak provocateur, who did the same before Rabin's murder."
Jews living in Judea and Samaria have said for years that reports of Jews burning or cutting down Arab-owned olive trees are manufactured in order to create an olive harvest libel that earns sympathy for PA Arabs. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/news.aspx/140185 In fact, they say, Jews are often the victims of Arab attacks during the harvest, http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/news.aspx/139272 while Arabs are given IDF protection. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/news.aspx/139796
This year, activists in Samaria have created a website encouraging Jews to document Arab assaults during the harvest. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/news.aspx/140086
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Israeli Driver is Attacked, Fires Back
by Maayana Miskin
Jun 4 '10, Sivan 22, 5770
A group of Palestinian Authority Arab teens got more than they planned for Thursday when they lobbed rocks at an Israeli driver near the town of Carmei Tzur, in southern Gush Etzion. The driver responded with gunfire, wounding two attackers who required hospitalization.
Two Israeli citizens were wounded by the PA gang. The two were treated by medics at the scene, and did not require hospital care.
The two PA Arabs who were injured were identified by Arab sources as residents of the village of Aroub outside Hevron. Both are sixteen. They were taken to PA hospitals, and their medical situation was not immediately clear.
The incident was the second in the past several days in which an Israeli citizen fired back after being attacked with rocks by PA rioters. In late May, a man opened fire on a group of PA Arabs in Samaria after they hurled rocks at his car, wounding his wife. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/news.aspx/137653
On Wednesday, Jewish motorists reported attacks in two locations. A driver was pelted with rocks on Highway 443 and his car was damaged. Near Kfar Sava, PA Arabs threw three Molotov cocktails at an Israeli driver, but failed to cause injury.
Rocks and Molotov cocktails thrown by PA gangs have caused injury and death in recent years.
Gush Etzion anno 2010
Kinderen Gush Etzion
Lonely Tree_ Gush Etzion
Het is zo heerlijk om te zien dat er weer leven is in Gush Etzion. De zonen en dochters van de oude bewoners zijn weer naar 'huis teruggekeerd' na een veel te lange afwezigheid. Gush Etzion is anno 2010 een geweldige mooie kibbutz geworden, met (helaas) de lidtekens op haar ziel van het verleden. Je begrijpt pas echt iets van de levenskracht van Israel, als je dit soort (speciale !) plaatsen goed op je in hebt laten werken. Zodanig dat je een klein beetje idee krijgt van wat het vraagt aan moed en vertrouwen om altijd maar door te gaan, 'wat de omstandigheden ook zijn...'
Met dank aan een lieve vriendin die mij de gelegenheid gaf deze foto te downloaden van haar persoonlijke foto-bestand.
Gush Etzion Residents Protest 'Obama Intifada'
by Hillel Fendel
(IsraelNN.com) Close to 200 people converged on the Gush Etzion intersection on Saturday night to protest what they called the “Obama Intifada.” The ongoing Arab violence, which has seen a sharp increase in rock-throwings and even live-fire attacks on Israeli vehicles over the past week, continued Sunday morning with riots near Tekoa and an attempted stabbing east of Shechem.
The Gush Etzion demonstrators held signs reading, "Crush the Obama intifada! No more rock-throwing! Stop the building freeze against the Jews."
Among the public figures who arrived and spoke at the Saturday night protest were Rabbis Dov Lior, Gideon Perl, Yosef Tzvi Rimon, and Yaron Durani; Rabbi Avi Weiss from New York, columnist Dr. Amiel Ungar, Atty. Elyakim Haetzni, Efrat Mayor Oded Revivi, and Kiryat Arba Mayor Malachi Levinger.
One woman who was attacked by a rock-throwing mob said, "...I started to drive away, but then I decided not to run away, so I stopped and parked my car across the middle of the road to block it..."
In addition, a woman from Tekoa who was wounded by Arab rock-throwing last week – one of several local residents to be similarly attacked - was also present. She was released from the hospital on Friday after undergoing an operation on her arm.
All the speakers delivered a similar message: “We will not remain quiet as stones are hurled at Jews… Prime Minister Netanyahu, stand firm! Do not cave in to Barack Hussein Obama! The people of Israel are strong and will remain strong even if the US imposes sanctions against Israel.”
A woman from N’vei Daniel spoke about her experience of a few days ago: “Some Arabs threw rocks at my car as I was on my way back from work in Tekoa… One Arab threw a rock at my windshield and smashed it; I started to drive away, but then I decided I was not running away, so I stopped and parked my car across the middle of the road to block it [until the army arrived]. I started to yell at them in Hebrew, and I called at the one who threw the rock to come down towards me and not be a coward and run away; of course, he did not come…” She then said that she feels anger towards the government for not providing her with minimal security in her own country, and towards the Jews who support Obama and particularly those in the United States such as David Axelrod, Thomas Friedman and Rahm Emanuel, “who have forgotten what it is to be Jewish. Perhaps it would be better for us if Obama would take a few non-Jewish advisors…”
Kiryat Arba/Hevron Chief Rabbi Lior said, “We demand that the government do something effective against the barbarians that are again threatening our movement on the roads and our quiet lives. They’re ambushing Jews all over the country. We have no doubt that they are raising their heads because of signs of weakness on behalf of the leadership of the Nation of Israel… Maimonides explained in his Epistle to the Jews of Yemen who were forced to convert to Islam that the character of Arabs is that when you look out for their good, in return, they always give you war. When we tell the Arab, ‘Come, I want to help you and see to your needs,’ he doesn’t look at us like gentlemen. He sees weakness and then the wolf shows what he can do.”
Following the speeches, the crowd started marching south towards the Arab town of El-Aroub to “prove our independence and our determination to continue walking freely everywhere.” Participants stated afterwards that it was clear that this protest was just a start, and that “if the rock-throwings continue or escalate, so will our responses.”
This morning, several dozen Arabs rioted in eastern Gush Etzion, near Tekoa, throwing rocks at Israeli security forces. The latter faced them with riot-control means. Shortly before noon, at a checkpoint east of Shechem (Nablus), two Arabs disguised as farmers assaulted IDF troops with pitchforks and broken bottles, but alert soldiers shot and killed them.
http://wejew.com/media/8112/The_Obama_Intifada_Hits_Israel_In_The_Face/
http://wejew.com/media/8110/Pharoah_Obama:_Let_Israel_Go_-_Israel_Belongs_to_G-d/