Minister Bennett Is Lying. The Settlements Aren't Keeping Israel Safe.

[Israeli]

The heartbreaking truth is that Hallel Yaffa Ariel did not live as a hero and die as a hero. She was stabbed to death in her bed because her bed was spitting distance from occupied Hebron.

Uri Misgav Jul 08, 2016

As he left the Mark family home after his condolence visit, Education Minister Naftali Bennett said that because Otniel and the rest of the settlements are under attack, the Tel Aviv area is not under attack. He is lying. Knowingly. For political purposes. It is a contemptuous and cowardly act. Certainly for the education minister and a person who represents himself as God-fearing.

Otniel is not the security zone for the Greater Tel Aviv area. If anything is true, it is the opposite: In Tel Aviv they are under attack because of Otniel and the likes. The terrorists who shot in Sarona came from the village of Yatta. The terrorist who stabbed in Netanya came from a village near Tul Karm. The terrorist who carried out the attack in Jaffa came from Qalqilyah. All in the West Bank.

The role of Israeli Arab citizens in the present wave of terror attacks is very small. Most of the attacks are carried out in the occupied West Bank by the Palestinians who live there. And they are aimed at the settlers and soldiers who are guarding them. We are in the midst of Operation “Peace for the Occupation.” It will not end without the end of the occupation.

Former deputy head of the Mossad Ram Barak formulated this truth clearly: “This is the price we pay for our sitting amongst a hostile Arab population. This is a price we can want to pay and it is possible to decide we don’t want to pay it.”

read more: http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.729651

[DetlefK]

1. The settlers are religious extremists. They don't care who lives and who dies.

To them, returning the Westbank to Israel is a sacred duty.

There will never be peace in Israel.

Never.

[Ghost Dog]

3. Those people are not reasonable.

Democracy depends on the free exercise of Reason. It should consist of rational decision-making based on accurate information. Let's just say, as a general rule, religions are not like that. They demand faith and obedience based on belief. Democracies could justifiably exclude or disenfranchise, especially when members of militant movements, all the deeply or fanatically or extremely religious from democratic processes, because religions by their very nature are hostile to them.

[Israeli]

4. Already then ..............

Occupation leads
To resistance.
Resistance leads
To oppression.
Oppression leads
To terror
And counter-terror.
Keeping the
Occupied Territories
Will turn us
Into murderers
And murder victims.

( this ad was published
on September 22, 1967
in this paper )

Published in Haaretz, 08/07/16

Source : http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/weekly_ad/1467904888/

[Mosby]

6. how long have Jews been living in Hevron?

Were they settlers 3000 years ago?

[Little Tich]

7. They're probably still there - they never moved out, and their descendants have been living there

ever since...

Where do you think Palestinians come from?

[Night Watchman]

2. Ehud Barak SLAMS Bibi Netanyahu

From Politico, July 03, 2016...

Ehud Barak hadn’t given a speech in months, and speculation was rife about what he was going to say when he took the stage at a prestigious policy conference in Herzliya, an affluent suburb of Tel Aviv, two weeks ago. Barak was one of Israel’s leading political figures for two decades, having served as the country's prime minister in the late 1990s and later as defense minister under Benjamin Netanyahu from 2009 to 2012. Was he about to announce a political comeback?

It turned out that Barak, a former special ops commando officer, had one last mission in mind: To take out his former boss and partner.

In his speech, Barak accused Netanyahu of cowardice, opportunism and fear-mongering. He warned that Israel's current government, arguably the most right wing in its history, was showing “signs of fascism,” and that if Netanyahu wasn’t stopped, Israel was on course to become an apartheid state. “The entire Zionist project is in grave danger,” he proclaimed. And the main source of that danger wasn't Israel’s external enemies, but rather its own democratically elected leader.

Barak hasn’t let up since. “Netanyahu,” he said in a televised interview broadcast a day after his angry speech, “has gone off the rails. He needs to go.”

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/06/netanyahu-prime-minister-obama-president-foreign-policy-us-israel-israeli-relations-middle-east-iran-defense-forces-idf-214004

[rateyes]

5. + a billion times over. Keep saying it Mr. Barak!

[Israeli]

8. Thanks for the link .....

I just finished reading it ....none of this is news for me tho .....see :

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1134129901

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