Shalom,
This is very sad news but it is not unexpected. Listen to this story:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/128194Gov't War on Yesha Outposts; Shin Bet Predicts Assassinations
Cheshvan 4, 5769, 02 November 08 10:21
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu(IsraelNN.com) Outgoing Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) chief Yuval Diskin put "wild settlers" in their crosshairs Sunday
and vowed an all-out war following further violence between police and supporters of a Jewish presence in all of Judea and Samaria.
Prime Minister Olmert emphasized to the Cabinet, "The overwhelming majority of residents in Judea and Samaria live there legally. They are law-abiding citizens. They love both the people and the land."
But he said that the "wild people" are "not [a] small group" who threaten law and order. The Prime Minister insisted there will be no tolerance of the recent "attacks on policemen." The activists who were involved in the violence at the destroyed family home of Noam and Elisheva Federman at Kiryat Arba-Hevron have accused the police of violently beating a 10-year-old child who asked to enter the Federman property.
However, political leaders and media have emphasized the attacks against the policemen, many of whom were not Jewish and who were dressed in black-clad uniforms in the initial destruction a week ago Saturday night, bringing back heart-wrenching memories of the expulsion of Jews from Gush Katif three years ago.
Prime Minister Olmert vowed to cut off funds to unauthorized communities, commonly known as illegal outposts, and also ordered an examination of "the involvement of public employees in incitement."
At the same time, Israel Security Agency chief Yuval Diskin raised the specter of the assassination Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin ands repeated charges made a number of times: unnamed extremists are planning to further killings.
With the anniversary of the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin a week away, Diskin repeated previous statements that extremists may try to kill political leaders again. "The Shin Bet has spotted among right-wing extremists the readiness to use firearms in order to halt political proceedings and harm leaders," he asserted.
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This is very bad news for the religious Jews who are the forefront of the Jewish presence in the land. I dont understand why the Israeli government isn't helping these brave souls. This is a shame on the Jewish people that Olmert and his henchmen are oppressing our brothers in the holy land. My anger increases daily as they continue to portray the settlers as equal to terrorists.
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