 | | Peres Loses Again, Amir Peretz New Labor Party Leader
Amir Peretz, head of the Histadrut Labor Union who left Labor to found the small One Nation party before returning to Labor, eked out a surprise victory over Shimon Peres, and is Labor's new leader.
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Thursday, November 10, 2005
8 Cheshvan 5766
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| | | 1. Peres Loses Again, Amir Peretz New Labor Party Leader
|  | | By Hillel Fendel
Amir Peretz, head of the Histadrut Labor Union who left Labor to found the small One Nation party before returning to Labor, eked out a surprise victory over Shimon Peres, and is Labor's new leader.
| The race for Labor Party Chairman was too close to call for most of the night, but was finally decided early this morning by a small margin of 2.4%. The final results:
Amir Peretz - 42.35%
Shimon Peres - 39.96%
Binyamin Ben-Eliezer - 16.8%
Peretz pulled off a surprise victory after polls throughout the campaign showed him trailing Peres by a significant margin. It had been widely believed - apparently correctly - that Peretz's well-oiled Histadrut machine would help him make up some of that margin by bringing out voters who might otherwise not have shown up.
Peres said this early morning that he would ask the party to investigate charges of vote-tampering in the Peretz camp. "There are real suspicions of forgeries, pressures, and threats," he said. In an unprecedented act of omission, Peres did not call Peretz to congratulate him on his victory.
Peretz, in his victory speech, said that he would act immediately to remove Labor from the unity government with the Likud - one of the main issues on which he differed with Peres. Peretz added later, however, that he would consult with the party's Secretary-General (MK Eitan Cabel) and other party leaders to "decide on the best way in which to inform the Likud that we wish to separate."
When the polls closed last night at 8:30 PM, a major media drama began when the two leading radio stations produced diametrically-opposed projections. The Voice of Israel, commissioning Prof. Yitzchak Katz of Maagar Mohot (Brain Base), reported that Peretz would beat the incumbent Peres by a 46%-41% margin. Army Radio, on the other hand, utilizing the services of the Smith Institute, reported a large Peres victory - 52%-38% - over Peretz.
Peretz's victory is widely seen as the end of the current Knesset and the opening whistle of the national election campaign. Likud MK Gideon Saar said that Labor had chosen an "extreme left-winger on economic and diplomatic issues, who has absolutely no experience in running a country."
Shinui Party leader Tommy Lapid said that Peretz's victory put Labor on the extreme-left of Israel's political scene.
MK Effie Eitam (National Union) called upon Peretz to begin consultations with the opposition parties to determine an agreed-upon date for early elections. "The shake-up in Labor and the split in the Likud leave no doubt that the current government does not represent its voters or the will of the nation," Eitam said. "The left and right must work together to advance the elections."
The next national election is scheduled for a year from now, and Ariel Sharon has promised many times that the elections will not be moved up. Sources close to Sharon have been hinting of late that the Prime Minister is planning to start a new party in time for the elections.
Much of the Labor Party leadership did not support Peretz in the campaign. He called upon them this morning to "give me some leeway," and said that he would meet with them and try to convince them to quit the government.
Approximately 62% of Labor's 100,474 eligible voters cast their ballots in the Labor primaries. Worried that a low turnout would mean a Peretz victory, Peres requested that the polls be kept open for two extra hours - but received only a half-hour extension. He spent the last hours of the vote calling Labor Party members personally and asking them to go out and vote.
It is not yet known whether Peres, 82, who has become accustomed to losing elections, will retire from politics, or whether he will continue with "business as usual." His daughter said this morning that in her opinion, her father will not quit. "He is like the wind; he can't be stopped or closed up," she said.
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| | 2. PA Figures and Israeli-Arabs Killed in Jordan Blasts
|  | | By Hillel Fendel
Among the victims of the three Wednesday night terrorist blasts in Jordan were one or two Israeli-Arabs and several Palestinian Authority officials.
| The Israeli citizen was identified as 40-year-old Hussan Fathi Mahajani. His relatives left for Jordan this morning to identify the body. Another Arab resident of the Jerusalem area was also reported killed.
It was also reported that two senior figures of the Palestinian Authority security forces, other PA officials, and a brother of a PA legislature member were also killed.
Mahajani, from the city of Um El-Fahm, near Hadera, was killed in the Hyatt Hotel last night when one or more suicide terrorists blew themselves up. Two other simultaneous and similar attacks occurred in other hotels in the Jordanian capital, with a total of 67 people reported killed.
One of the PA figures killed was Bashir Nafa, head of the PA's Military Intelligence in Judea and Samaria, and an ally of Abu Mazen. He was imprisoned in Israel in the 1980's for his terrorist activities, and was expelled in 1988, together with Jibril Rajoub and others. He returned in 1994 after the Oslo Accords established the Palestinian Authority, and in 1999, he built up a terrorist militia that initiated violent riots in Ramallah in May 2000 and carried out shooting attacks at IDF soldiers.
Other PA bigwigs killed in Jordan were Abbed Aloun, the Director of the PA's Interior Ministry and a former PA security figure; Jihad Fatuh, a PA economic official stationed in Egypt; and Mussab Ahmed Huma, former Director of the PA's Communications Ministry.
In other Arab-Arab violence, at least 25 people are reported dead in Baghdad after a suicide terrorist detonated himself inside a restaurant. Yesterday, 13 Iraqi policemen and civilians were killed in a car bomb blast in Baghdad.
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Click Here! | | 3. Thousands Gather Under "Won't Forget, Won't Forgive" Banner
|  | | By Hillel Fendel
Thousands of people took part in a "We Won't Forget, We Won't Forgive" event in Jerusalem last night, billed as the kick-off of the campaign to save Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem.
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Among the speakers at the Binyanei HaUmah Convention Center were: Rabbis Zalman Melamed, Yaakov Yosef, David Druckman and Shalom Wolpe; former Gush Katif spokesman Eran Sternberg, Atty. Elyakim HaEtzni, Noam Arnon, Baruch Marzel, Moshe Leshem and others.
Popular rock singer Ariel Zilber surprised the crowd by performing a song usually reserved for hareidi-religious audiences, known as "B'Shilton HaKofrim." The words are, "In the regime of heretics we do not believe, and their laws we do not consider. We will walk in the way of the Torah and sanctify G-d's Name. G-d is our King."
Film clips from the expulsion from Gush Katif and northern Shomron were shown, and plans were announced to establish a museum for Gush Katif. Certificates of honor were distributed to those who sat in jail for protesting the uprooting as well as soldiers who refused to take part in the disengagement.
Most of the speakers called for renewed momentum to settle parts of Judea and Samaria. Excerpts from some of the speeches:
Rabbi Zalman Baruch Melamed of Beit El, the Yesha Rabbis Council, and Yeshivat Beit El:
"These very days, there are those who continue to make additional plans of uprooting and destruction, and these must be countered in various ways... Several decades from now, people will not believe that after 50 years of existence of the State, a government in Israel uprooted dozens of communities, threw Jews out of their homes, and gave the enemy land on which to base itself so that it could attack us... Everyone who took part in the crime of the expulsion must know that he will be remembered in infamy... We are certain of the Master of the Universe that we will go from these troubles to times of blessing, when all of the Land of Israel will be only ours, just as G-d has promised us."
Former spokesman Sternberg [pictured] called upon youth not to enlist in the IDF "until the army returns to being the Israel Defense Forces," and not the expulsion forces. Addressing the youth, he said, "Smile and go to jail" if an illegal order is given. Sternberg said that he felt several months ago that protesting outside the Prime Minister's Office against the expulsion plan was a waste of time, and that the protests should have been directed against the army that was to carry it out.
Kiryat Motzkin Rabbi Druckman:
"Torah comes before everything, as every child in heder [school] knows. Just as the Baal Shem Tov's father wrote in his will, we must not fear anything in the world except for G-d. We must state clearly and strongly that the Land of Israel is all ours, and the Land, Torah and G-d of Israel are all one... We do not know what the future holds in store, and so we must strengthen ourselves in faith and mitzvot [Torah commandments], especially the two that the Lubavitcher Rebbe [promoted], tefillin and Sabbath candles."
Former right-wing Knesset Member Elyakim HaEtzni of Kiryat Arba: "The grandchildren of those who carried out the crime of expulsion will be ashamed of their grandparents. There can be no forgiveness for those who carried it out, or for those who gave the expelling forces black uniforms reminiscent of the Holocaust, or for those who showed the world that a Jewish house can be razed in a few minutes while an Arab house cannot be destroyed at all." He mocked the "love will conquer all" approach taken by part of the nationalist camp during the months leading up to the expulsion, saying it leads to a feeling that the country can simply move on to the next expulsion.
Earlier in the day, Arutz-7's Amatzia HaEitan spoke with Shai Gefen, one of the organizers of the event. Gefen said that the gathering's motto was, "Disengaging from the regime, re-connecting with the Nation." The event was designed to help prepare for the struggle for Judea and Samaria and Jerusalem, "which has already started," Gefen said. He added that the public also needs an outlet for its strong feelings and to condemn those who carried out the expulsion. "Following this great crisis," Gefen said, "the People of Israel wish to be uplifted. Holding this gathering on the day on which we begin asking for rain [the 7th day of Heshvan] symbolizes our desire to enter a period of blessing."
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| | 4. Supreme Court: Expellees Must be Paid
|  | | By Hillel Fendel
The Supreme Court ruled that the gov't may no longer withhold advance compensation payments to those thrown out of Katif/Shomron. Homeless residents told a Knesset Committee of their plight.
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The High Court ruled today (Thursday) in favor of the homeless residents on a petition brought by Atty. Yossi Fuchs of the Land of Israel Legal Forum and several residents. They had maintained that though their requests for an advance compensation payment had been approved by the relevant committee, the Disengagement Authority suddenly added another condition that most of the former residents cannot meet: The Authority demanded that they sign a form stating they had left their former homes within 48 hours of having been ordered to do so.
Atty. Fuchs told the Court that the extra condition is illegal, as "most of the families owned a home there, and according to Clauses 32-43 of the Evacuation/Compensation Law, their right to compensation is absolute, regardless of when they left the area."
Fuchs said that the government came up with this new decree in the days preceding the High Holidays, "after dozens of families had already received the advance payment, even though they did not leave within the prescribed 48 hours."
The advance payments - 50,000 shekels (less than $11,000) - were designed, Fuchs said, "to help Israeli citizens who de facto became homeless refugees who do not even have winter clothing, who do not have jobs, and who will not receive their final compensation until the application process reaches the finish line."
The Court ruled that the government must pay the advance payments within seven days - and if not, Chief Justice Barak said, the residents should return to him.
In a Knesset Economics Committee session this week, Chairman Amnon Cohen (Shas) said that the "draconian bureaucracy" of the Disengagement Authority had brought some of the expellees to near-poverty.
Several expelled residents participated in the session, explaining how the uprooting had impoverished them.
Yehuda Gross, formerly of N'vei Dekalim, said that had lived in the area for 23 years, and owned a store for picture-frames and keys. "Just a half-year ago I finished paying the mortgage payments on the store," he said, "yet now I am not eligible for unemployment because I was self-employed. I did not even receive the 'adjustment' payment, because of all the procedures and bureaucracy... I don't even have winter coats or clothing for our children because if I open the container in which our belongings are packed, the insurance will be nullified - and the opening itself costs money."
Nachum Hadad, a grocery store owner from Nisanit, where he lived for 21 years, said, "I can't look at my children in the eye. I worked all my life, and suddenly I have become a welfare case, with welfare workers coming to see me. We exist today only from loans and gifts."
Guy Netanel of Nisanit said that he owned a sewing workshop where he employed 70 workers at the Erez Crossing, and that he began the process of trying to transfer it to Ashkelon a year ago - well before the expulsion. "Those attempts cost me more than I made all my life," he said, noting that he is now in debt to the tune of one million shekels. "I feel like a stranger in the country, even though I am an IDF officer who does 60 days of reserve duty a year."
Debbie Rosen lived in N'vei Dekalim for 20 years and served as a spokesperson for the Regional Council. "The Authority demanded that I produce 1st-grade report cards of my children as proof of how long I lived there," she told the Knesset committee. "Many of the expelled residents see no reason to get up in the morning, after having worked hard all their lives... The re-training courses being offered in Ashkelon are totally not appropriate," saying she is not quite cut out to be an electrician or a kashrut supervisor.
MK Uri Ariel (National Union) said that the Authority's demands for proof of residence are ridiculous: "The Authority is hooked up directly to the computers of the Interior Ministry and the Electric Company, and can easily find the information there." Meretz MK Avshalom Villan agreed as well that the bureaucracy was unnecessarily bothersome.
The Director of the Industry and Trade Ministry, Raanan Dinur, said his office is responsible for finding employment solutions for the evictees, "and we will accompany them until June 2006, or even longer, if necessary." He said that his office is dealing with 520 self-employed workers, 720 salaried workers, and 300 others who worked in Gush Katif but did not live there.
"We have a bank of 1,420 jobs," Dinur said, "and we are in the process of trying to match up jobs with workers - but we know that often the expellees are used to higher salaries than some of these jobs offer." Former farmers from Bdolach now living in the Nitzan pre-fab site say they are not willing to work ten-hour days in a factory and then come home with a tiny fraction of what they used to earn.
Committee Chairman Cohen said that people were forced to borrow gray-market money because of the "obtuseness of the Disengagement Authority." "The criteria for receiving compensation must be eased," he said, "and people should not be forced to bring grocery store receipts from years ago or their children's 3rd-grade report cards as proof of how many years they lived there... The government must pay unemployment even to those who are self-employed, since it was the one that closed their businesses."
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Click Here! | | 5. MK Avital: A Kinder, Gentler Eviction
|  | | By Ezra HaLevi
A new organization seeks to offer compensation to Jews on the “other” side of the separation fence to leave their homes. LaborMK Colette Avital spoke with Israel National Radio about the initiative.
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After ambiguous signs reading "Don't Leave Israelis Behind the Fence" were set up along the main highway through Samaria, Israel National Radio's Eli Stutz & Yishai Fleisher interviewed Labor MK Colette Avital, whose name appeared on the web site printed on the signs.
The following is the interview with MK Avital, on topics ranging from her opposition to language describing the Disengagement as eviction, to her beliefs that the Oslo Accords were not a failure and that withdrawals will truly bring peace to the region:
Fleisher: MK Avital, maybe you can explain what Bayit Echad [the name of the organization –ed.] means to you…
MK Avital: It means "one home" - meaning we all have to live together in one big home – that is the philosophy. The reason for such an organization stems from the fact that a lot of people, in view of the Disengagement, are not living there [in Judea and Samaria –ed.] for ideological reasons, but for quality of life. Once the fence is completed, they will be outside - on the wrong side of the fence. They fear that they will not have the same level of security afterward and also do not know what their future will be – when they may be removed. They don’t know if they should continue their businesses and many of them want to move back within the Green Line [Israel's border before winning the 1967 Six Day War –ed.].
Fleisher: I am not sure how many people in Judea and Samaria are actually not there for ideological reasons. It happens to be that all the five biblical cities mentioned in this week’s Torah portion are within Judea and Samaria [and are wholly or partly cut off from mainland Israel by the partition fence – ed.].
MK Avital: I can distinguish in my own mind and heart between feelings and rationale. I know we are connected to these places historically and that our forefathers were there, but I belong to a group of people that have understood for many years that the only solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict is to divide the land. Of course I would like our country to be as big as possible and to include all the places [where] we think we have roots, but realistically speaking I think that this is not going to happen…Where there are big clusters of settlements which we can include today into our borders, that will be done – but unfortunately there also are settlements in places that are very heavily populated by the Arab population. I believe in trying, even if I have to give up some of my rights. I prefer to know that these people will live within borders that are recognized, peaceful, and where they can live as a majority.
Stutz: What are you doing with Bayit Echad to help these people?
MK Avital: We are not going out and acting as missionaries - asking the people to leave or even asking to dismantle those settlements – that is not what we are doing now. We are coming to try to help those who say, ‘we do not want to be under pressure – our property now is going down the drain – we would like to take our own and lead our own lives and make the decision to come back…'
Stutz: How are you planning on helping these people?
MK Avital: First of all, we have tabled a proposal in Knesset, which would be more or less similar to the Evacuation/Compensation Law that compensated the people of Gush Katif. In other words, if someone comes to us and wants to move out, we are going to help him to get as much money from the government as possible.
Fleisher: Just a second. Before pushing ahead to get money for the Jews not yet evicted, how about helping out Jews who have already been evicted! I am amazed that Labor, which is a socially conscious movement, is not concerned that there are tons of people, still living in hotels, that have not yet received a penny.
MK Avital: I haven’t said that and I think that if these people didn’t get their money, it is a shame. We are working on it. Many of us meet with the people from the Disengagement Authority. You probably don’t know what we are doing, but we are doing. We visit some of these people in their hotels. We are working with them and speaking with them. I myself am speaking a lot with the Minister of Housing, who happens to be a member of my own party. So I am doing what I can for those people as well.
Stutz: How can it be explained that the government has not compensated these people yet?
MK Avital: I don’t think that this is true. I think that you are wrong. I think that many people have been compensated and I do not wish to get into this kind of discussion with you because that is not the purpose of the exercise. I would like to tell you that I am trying to see if today people want to move out - before it is too late, before they are under public pressure. And you know what – maybe I will connect this to what you are saying about those who have not been compensated. The truth is that from my angle, from what I have seen, for months the Disengagement Authority went to these people and said, ‘Please, let’s discuss it,' 'Where do you want to move?,' 'Where do you want to go?’ And people from the Ministry of Education did the same. But there was this kind of a feeling among the settlers that this is not going to happen and they pushed it away – they said this is simply not going to happen so it does not need to be discussed. So if some of the people would have discussed things earlier with the Disengagement Authority - maybe, maybe things would have looked different.
Yishai: You know, I wanna --
MK Avital: Many of them preferred – let us try to be objective for two seconds --
Yishai: Just one second --
MK Avital: Just a minute --
Yishai: Just let me make one little point. First, I want to tell you that I appreciate that you came on the show and I think we are having a civil discussion – we understand your perspective and I hope you understand ours somewhat. I think when you say that the Disengagement Authority approached people and that they weren’t responsive – that’s true. And when you say the settlers didn’t think it was going to happen – I know that for a fact to be true because I didn’t think it was gonna happen. But if the Disengagement Authority had a sense that it was going to happen, what is so hard to calculate that 8,500 people are going to need new houses? If you know it's going to happen, your responsibility is to make sure these people have a roof over their heads the next day. It doesn’t matter if they agree with you or not. You can understand their feelings – they didn’t want to be ripped out of their homes. They didn’t go shake hands with somebody to agree, ‘you can rip me out of my house and I will accept money’ - but so what? Shouldn’t you be prepared for that eventuality if you know it is going to come to fruition?
MK Avital: You are right. I am not sure that the Disengagement Authority did all the right things. I cannot come and say on this show that they were perfectly right and perfect in terms of how they worked and what they did, but I can say another thing. I don’t think – and I am trying to put myself in the shoes of the settlers. I would not have wished this to happen to me. And I am trying to put myself also in the shoes of the people of the Disengagement Authority and to see, quite frankly, that it is not that simple to plan 7,000 [sic] buildings or houses or apartments if they are not telling you where. I remember seeing on Israeli television some kind of show where they showed people who went to the Galilee to look for houses. So what I am trying to say is, let us try to learn some kind of lesson – and this is what I am trying to do now. If the Israeli government will decide that more people will have to abandon some of the settlements and move into other settlements, etc. – there will have to be much more planning with many more possibilities that will give people much more choices and much more time. But if there are people today who are already willing to move of their own free will, it will save everybody lots of trouble.
Stutz: The question is whether this is a humanitarian project where you want to help these people who are in a troublesome situation, or whether this is political activism with a main motivation of ridding Judea and Samaria of Jews.
MK Avital: I think that it is first and foremost a humanitarian, pragmatic movement. It is neither left nor right. It does not belong to any particular political party. You are speaking to me – I belong to Labor – this is true. But there are many people who do not belong to Labor, from the center of the political scene. So it is not that we are doing some kind of political activism. There is political thinking in it – it is not devoid of political thinking - OK. The thinking is that we live in a certain political situation, let us see how we can best benefit without creating problems for some of these people.
Fleisher: Now, one of the things that I hear from Labor MKs is this word “pragmatic.” It is said that the right lives in a world of messianism and the left lives in a world of reality --
MK Avital: I did not say that - don’t put that in my mouth. I think there are people on the left and the right who are pragmatic. You are either born pragmatic or you are not. That is all I am trying to say, and please don’t put the labels, because yes, I think there are more people who traditionally act according to realpolitik – this has been the trend in the Labor Party. We have our dreams, but we know the difference between dreams and reality. But I do not wish to say who is the dreamer and who is not. The person who used the word messianic on this program was you and not me – let’s make this clear.
Fleisher: In my dictionary, messianic is not a bad word.
MK Avital: Very good, so please go ahead and be messianic. I am trying to live in this world --
Fleisher: OK, well I have a simple question. I have a simple question. Those pragmatic, realpolitik ideas that the Labor Party has promoted - Oslo, the Disengagement – have all led to an escalation in terror. Everything you guys have put forward has brought more bloodshed. So your pragmatism – what peace has it brought? Here is another idea – kick the Jews out of Judea and Samaria and we will draw a line between Judea and Samaria and the rest of small Israel and there will be peace. Then when the bombs start falling on Israel and Tel Aviv --
MK Avital: You know what, I am starting to be very sorry for engaging. Will we speak seriously, or you are going to throw at me all this crap --
Fleisher: What crap?
MK Avital: 'You people brought us bloody Oslo' and want to 'kick all the Jews out' – those are not expressions that we are using and if you want to speak seriously, please do --
Fleisher: I think it is very serious --
MK Avital: If you don’t want to engage in a serious conversation then I am not going to --
Fleisher: Hold on a second MK Avital, hold on one second. I am being serious and I am not using --
MK Avital: No, you are not. You’re not! You’re not! I am not kicking Jews out of anywhere! I don’t like this vocabulary --
Stutz: I think we need to learn to have a discussion here between you, Yishai and myself, together with the fact that we don’t necessarily like each other’s vocabulary, but we will still have a discussion.
MK Avital: I have not used any abusive vocabulary towards you.
Fleisher: It wasn’t abusive --
MK Avital: Those were abusive words.
Fleisher: So, what happened in Gush Katif? What do you call that?
MK Avital: I call that Disengagement --
Fleisher: OK, but what about those people that lived there. How did they feel personally? Were they 'disengaged'? What happened to them?
MK Avital: I think that they had to leave their homes and they were made to leave their homes against their will, but I don’t think that this is the kind of vocabulary --
Fleisher: Fine, so let’s call it “kicked out of their homes” – can we use those words?
MK Avital: Yes.
Fleisher: What about Oslo? Was that a Labor initiated peace plan?
MK Avital: I don’t happen to think that this was a fiasco, and I don’t happen to think, by the way, that it was Oslo that brought terrorism, but the fact that people didn’t fulfill their obligations on both sides – because if the agreement would have been respected, we wouldn’t have reached terrorism.
Fleisher: Do you believe - and I am using your language - if we disengage from Judea and Samaria that there will be peace with the Arabs, that there will be peace in the Middle East? Do you believe that? Don’t tell me you want to give it a try – but yes or no, do you believe this is going to work?
MK Avital: Yes, I do believe that. I believe it very sincerely. Maybe not peace in the Middle East, but I think it will dramatically reduce terrorism, I think it will dramatically reduce friction or any kind of possibility of having a real conflict. Yes, I do believe that. I think the only way to reach a solution is to separate from the Palestinians. I don’t think we should live in their midst. I think we should live in a Jewish country, with a Jewish majority. Let them live where they live and let us live where we live.
Click here to listen to the entire interview on Israel National Radio, which also touched on the Labor Party primaries and other issues.
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| | 6. Arab Killed in Jerusalem Rioting
|  | | By Ezra HaLevi
Israeli-Arabs rioted in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Issawiya Wednesday night, burning cars in scenes reminiscent of the nightly rioting in France and other European countries in recent weeks.
| The riots broke out after the Lavi police unit entered the Arab neighborhood of Issawiya, located near Hebrew University’s Mt. Scopus campus. They came to arrest a man who had been seen breaking into and stealing a car in the nearby French Hill neighborhood.
Police apprehended the man at the entrance to Issawiya with the stolen car and, despite the violent efforts of a crowd of Arab youths and elderly to prevent his arrest, put him in a police vehicle and brought him to the French Hill police station. Meanwhile, the mob tried to roll the stolen car into the village.
A van then followed the police and, according to the officers, tried to run over a policeman, hitting him and then speeding away. The policeman managed to shoot the driver, 36-year-old Sameer Rivkhi Dari. Dari’s passengers then dumped him out of the van and sped back to Issawiya. He was brought to Hadassah’s Mt. Scupus hospital, where he died of his wounds. The policeman was also hospitalized.
Rioting residents of Issawiya have their own versions of the events. They claim that Dari had not tried to run over the police officer, but was simply concerned with helping out his nephew - the man arrested for stealing the car. Others say he merely got out of his car to see what was happening.
After the shooting incident, a mob tried to head for Hadassah Hospital, where police prevented them from nearing the facility by firing warning shots and using tear gas and stun grenades. Other groups of rioters took alternate routes and succeeded in setting several random vehicles ablaze near the hospital.
“The police seem not to care about maintaining calm,” an Arab resident told Israeli daily Yediot Acharonot. “They murdered Sameer and renewed our Intifada here. Now residents have blocked all the entrances and roads with burning tires.”
Dari's body was taken for an autopsy, and the Israel Police are investigating the incident.
Meanwhile, Israel’s Supreme Court sentenced an Israeli-Arab to two and a half years in prison for terrorist activities. He was found guilty of having contacts with the Fatah terror group, providing terrorists with detailed maps of Israeli sites, and smuggling instruction manuals for producing explosives into Israel.
Arab violence elsewhere Wednesday included attempted bombings of IDF forces in the Shechem region. IDF troops shot and killed a man placing a bomb, and fired shots at four others planting a bomb on a military road near Mt. Eival; three of them were wounded before they escaped.
One bomb near the Balata slums in Shechem blew up and wounded an IDF paratroopers company commander, resulting in the loss of his foot. A roadside bomb was also detonated near an IDF patrol near the Gaza border, but failed to cause injuries or damage.
A large bomb was also found and neutralized by IDF sappers near Kibbutz Nachal Oz Thursday morning, and two mortar shells were fried from PA-controlled Gaza at the Karni Crossing terminal. No injuries were reported.
Twenty wanted terrorists were arrested in Judea and Samaria Wednesday. Islamic Jihad terrorist Sameer al-Ghoul was killed after opening fire on troops who had come to arrest him.
The IDF also closed down two offices of the “Dawa” Islamic charity organizations in Jenin Wednesday, due to the fact that the offices were used to fund the Islamic Jihad terror group.
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