Catch the 'price tag' criminals already
When I go to sleep at night, I dream: Catch them. By morning, the delirium is gone. I'm the first to wish the police success: The "price tag" criminals are drilling a hole in my boat. Every public relations achievement evaporates like smoke in the face of burnt Qurans. Everything we collect with spoons, they pour out with buckets.
The strange thing is that they are not being caught...These crimes are committed by careless teenagers who leave fingerprints everywhere. Criminals far more sophisticated than them are caught within a couple of days.
...Out of a total of 612 files, only 83 eventually resulted in indictments. And by the way, only 19 of these are connected to damage of Palestinian property; the rest deal with people accused of demonstrating against Israeli security forces.
...In May of this year, three Arabs from Jaffa were arrested and accused of planning to set off a car bomb at the Hassan Bek Mosque in Jaffa, killing dozens of Arab worshipers. This was right after the Itamar massacre [in which an almost entire family of settlers were murdered in their beds by Palestinians], and the three planned to leave price tag graffiti at the site of the attack, in order to create the impression that this was an attack carried out by right-wingers. The motive was a legal dispute with the mosque's sheikh. Intelligence work foiled the plot at the last minute.
Three months earlier, Samir Abu Lachiyeh, a Palestinian shepherd from Majdal Bani Fadel, lit a contained brush fire. The flames got out of control, consuming most of his flock. [Human rights organization] Betzelem didn't let the facts confuse them, and released a statement blaming the fearsome act on settlers. The media repeated the claims as gospel. The pictures were published abroad, creating yet another media storm against Israel. A police investigation and a polygraph indicated that the shepherd had lied.
...There are provocations by those who hate Israel, there are Palestinians hoping to receive compensation, but there are also real arsonists, attackers and uprooters. They deserve to be punished, and we deserve to see them punished. However, someone has failed. Someone is consciously dragging his feet...In order to silence the conspiracy theorists, and the feeling that someone has an interest in perpetuating the chaos, I implore: Catch them.
And read Haggai Segal.
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"Five Holy Land mosques desecrated since last Yom Kippur, almost certainly at the hands of a small number of militant settlers - militants whom even most settlers condemn. Yet with all of our might and our resources of intelligence, in a tiny place where no one can keep a secret, a year has come and gone, and we have brought not one person to justice."
The only way you can live in the West bank is at IDF gunpoint. violence is inherent in your lifestyle.
You are a disgrace to judaism.
The sin of tzadi'at ra, of hostile intention, of wicked scheming, of taking advantage of a neighbor who has less power, or is more trusting, or has no defense.
This is the original sin of YESHA
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