Palestinian 'olive trees uprooted' in West Bank
Israeli settlers invaded Palestinian olive groves in the West Bank on Saturday and uprooted 200 trees, Palestinian witnesses said.
The settlers from Yitzhar, near the northern city of Nablus, attacked the groves around the villages of Hawwara and Ein Nabus, the sources said.
should at least raise doubts in your minds.
Saturday is Shabbat.
Yitzhar residents are Sabbath-observant.
Does tree-uprooting seem to be a Shabbat activity?
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and how about stone throwing for a shabbat activity? Yitzhar settlers have never shown too much repect for shabbat when it comes to attacking the nearby villages... :)
http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-4057116,00.html
Yaron, you surely know there's a big difference between these two events. And I am not justifying but explaining. In April, it seems they were responding to an attempt to do damage, something which the Shulkhan Arukh specifically permits: "The Talmud ruled (Eruvin 45a) that one desecrates Shabbat when gentiles come "with the intent to kill", and in a border town one desecrates Shabbat even if they only plan to pillage the town. And so ruled the Rambam (Laws of Shabbat 2:23) and the Shulhan Arukh (Orah Hayyim 329:6-7) and the Rema adds: "and even if they only plan to come". In other words, it is permissible to attack the enemy on Shabbat as a preventive act, and if on Shabbat all this is permissible, all the moreso on weekdays.
Three) Similarly, the Midrash determines (Midrash Samuel 22:2, ed. Buber, p. 110) that David's war against the Philistines - which was self-defense - was a mitzvah or an obligation. Moreover, the Rambam ruled (Laws of Kings 5:1) "which is a commanded war? …to help Israel against an enemy who attacks them".
But to simply go out and burn or uproot trees on the Shabbat. Even they of Yitzhar, I would venture, would not be involved.
The 4th paragraph talks about the "Israeli military" confirming damage to 40 trees. Somebody should make a film which demonstrates the effort required to uproot one grown tree.
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