http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/176028#.Us2xKtJDs7ADozens of Jewish men were abducted and beaten in a mob attack in the Binyamin region on Tuesday afternoon. The men, who were unarmed, were set upon by an Arab mob, chased down, tied up and beaten senseless.
One of the men told Arutz Sheva about the vicious attack. The men were attacked as they were walking from the Jewish village of Esh Kodesh to the nearby Givat Hayovel.
Suddenly, they were set upon by an Arab mob, he said. “They blocked us in with trucks. The Arabs started hurling rocks at the Jewish group.”
The Jews were forced to hide nearby, he continued. “We called the army, because we felt our lives were in danger. The Arabs gathered us into one place, tied our hands and legs, and beat us cruelly,” he said.
The beatings were so severe that he passed out, he said.
The army arrived, and convinced local Arab leaders to order the Jewish men released. The victim who spoke to Arutz Sheva said that IDF officers seemed to blame the victims.
He recalled that one officer told him, “You came to do a ‘price tag’ and now you’re going to get it.” Jews living in Judea and Samaria have widely been blamed for “price tag” attacks - nationalistically-motivated vandalism targeting Arab-owned property - despite evidence that most perpetrators of such vandalism are not from the region.
A security source disputed the man’s version of events. He reported that both Jews and Arabs had been throwing stones, and that the conflict moved into the Palestinian Arab town of Kusra.
The AFP news agency confirmed that at least 13 Jewish men were held against their will in a house in Kusra and were beaten. The agency quoted Palestinian Arab sources as saying the Jewish men were “Israeli settlers who had sparked clashes” by entering Kusra.
Residents of Esh Kodesh have reported previous attacks originating in Kusra, including a mob attack in 2012 in which hundreds of Palestinian Arab men surrounded the Jewish village screaming, "Kill the Jews."
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/176060Dani Dayan, the chief foreign envoy for the Yesha Council – an influential leadership forum of the settlement enterprise – expressed his opinion Wednesday regarding the incident in which a group of Jews was seized and almost lynched by residents of the Arab village Kusra in the Binyamin region.
"I am tired of the fools who think the Land of Israel can be gained through the use of clubs, matchboxes and provocations,” he wrote. “I am tired of the masked Jewish bullies who hurt soldiers, policemen and innocent Arabs. I am tired of irresponsible cads who do bad and stupid things.”
"The IDF is not the one that should issue distancing orders against these people. We are the ones who should distance them from our congregations, our communities, our midst,” he stressed.
"Many hours have passed since the event,” he added: “I have waited to see who will be the first one among the Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria – a Knesset Member, a Council Head, a mayor – to speak out againt the provocateurs who almost caused a tragedy with their arrogance and brutal behavior. But there was only silence. Too bad.
"There was no miracle here,” Dayan summed up. “They say that it was a miracle that a tragedy was averted. If there really was a miracle, then G-d had two accomplices in bringing it about. And the two accomplices – how ironic! – are the ones that these same bullies like to curse and hate.
The first partner, according to Dayan – consisted of the officers and soldiers who serve under Major-General Nitzan Alon in Samaria, “who extricated the defeated and terrified bullies from the village's interior. And the second partner – yes, it turns out that some good Arabs are not dead Arabs... The village's bullies were faced courageously by a group of good Arabs – good human beings – who prevented further injury to Jews. Who will thank them properly?”
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