These are (were?) residents of neighborhoods. Jews have lived in Israel for thousands of years and the modern state is 59 years old. A settler is a colonist, which has negative meanings these days. Let's stop using this word for those who have the right to live in their own land.

I refuse to believe that a democratic country with a well-developed legal system could tolerate such a double standard. If there were, as you claim, beatings at Amona and overly strict measures taken by police against right-wing protesters, the press would certainly be all over it. Protest is a right and a necessity in a democracy. Your claim implies that the police, the courts, the press, and the government are ALL anti-right wing. I think you are ridiculously paranoid. I also think you are right but maybe not enough. Don't pull punches. Karadi didn't.

Wow...bet a bunch of their writers just had heart attacks!

and I have the scar to prove what this article is saying. I saw the way the police treated the students - yeah, there's a double standard...but what would you expect from a police force that wears black uniforms??

will soon be 'settlers' too, (along with the namby pamby settlers in Abu Basel Street and Ramat Abu Aviv Jimmel )

Quote:" I also believe that violating the law during this struggle is a legitimate way to achieve their goals. However, they must know and take into account that anyone who violates the law knowingly deserves punishment." The right to demonstrate and the keeping of public order are divided by a fine line. Neither soccer hooligans, student protesters nor settler activists have the right to cross the rule of law. A firm hand by the police, with all the rights an arrested person has + the code of conduct of the police, shouldn't pose a problem. The politicising of policing is undermining the law as well. These MK's should be ashamed of themselves.

We are too poor to afford those extra 500 USA for tuition. And who really cares if they split open Samaria's resident's heads in two while defending their rights to live in their country ? And who really cares if Palis take over Samaria? Arabs always showed peaceful ways so I won't mind having them as my neighbours. Maximum, as anyone residing Tel Aviv and northwards, I've got enough money to go to Europe or US. I really care for what the world has to say about us, Israelis. I am really afraid they will boycott us and plant some atomic bomb here. So maximum, if Israel ceases to exist, I still have where to go, and Jerusalem

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to upset some Israelis and spur them into constant protest against a misguided government, is there any hope for the future of the country? I wonder... Because this discrimination against a sector of the population does not exist in a vacuum. There exists a pool of contempt and indifference for the religious nationalists and Israel's government policy and its justice (?) system reflect that and feed on it. The picture you paint for us is something hard for some of us to accept, but the evidence seems to back it. How very sad.

not comparing the settlers to the Left wing protesters, who are treated much worse than the radical Right. If the violent "children" at Amona had been left wing, the same actions would have found them gassed and shot. Extremists on both sides are a risk to our nation and should be treated equally harshly. When you put our soldiers and civilians at risk, as when you violate govt decisions about disengagement or try to destroy the fence and checkpoints, you need to be stopped. The students are idiots who should have been flunked, but they, in no way, are comparable to radicals who endanger our nation.

Amona residents were being evicted from their land. Leftists are provoking guards and soldiers in an action aimed at weakening and betraying their own country. Any apparent law-breaking equivalence between the two is just not valid. What is putting soldiers and civilians at risk are the disengagement at Amona and Gush Katiff, the fifth column inside Israel (which includes Leftists in the pay of Eurabians), and an incompetent government eager to give more land away and who refuses to protect its citizens. Those are your most serious issues. The settlers are your line of defense. They are your patriots. Do not compare them with traitors. As far as the students go, they should be free to protest for more money, if that's what they want. But they may not have a country in the near future unless they protest against the government, using the same energy and dedication as they show when it's a matter of money.