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Report: Rise in settlers' violence in Hebron
Ali Waked
Published: 19.10.07, 07:39
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31. Radical religious people are no good!
DR ,   Florida, USA   (10.19.07)
Whether it be a Muslim, Jew or Christian. Religious fanatics are ruining this world!!!
32. YNET you are so pathetic. You don't even try to mask....
j ,   jerusalem, israel   (10.19.07)
...your blind hatred of Zionist Jews or "settlers". You don't even try to mask your constant, extremist left wing ideology in your stories. It just spills out like an overflowing toilet. If you reported on Arab attacks and violence you would have no room in your paper for other stories. Your bias is pathetic. Do your readers know how close your relationship is with Jonathan Pollack (Anarchists Against the Wall?). Lets see if your "fair reporting" allows this feedback past the talkback editors!
33. 19 Joe Vienna
Leah   (10.19.07)
This has been a typical racist slur antisemites have used against Jews for centuries "we killed Jesus" to justify violence and genocide against the Jewish people. Actually,I would not be surprised one single bit if this was all staged, and this was not even a Jewish settler at all but a foreigner from the ISM or some other antiIsrael organization,or an extreme lefitst who said this to try and make Jewish settlers look as horrible as possible for their antisettler propaganda purposes. If he was a Jew,I agree it is sad and shameful,but his conduct is certainly nothing like the Jewish people including the Jewish settlers I have met in Israel whom I have found very kind and respectful. Should we judge all Americans by the way the Klu Klux Klan or other racists act? I guess a totally different set of principles applies to Israelis according to nice folks like you.
34. Richard 19
Leah   (10.19.07)
I think it is very likely this video was staged. Of course,there's no way to prove this, but then again there's no way to prove this was a Jewish settler either. And this would certainly not be the first time this kind of thing has happened. Palestinians have been caught staging videos of supposedly dead people getting up and running out of their coffins, injured people just gettting up and walking off from stretchers,so why should we be surprised their allies or friends do something similiar? I think the hatred against the Jewish settlers is so strong amongst some of these foreigners from these antiIsraeli groups that they will do anything to make them look as bad as possible. And what better way to do this than to have some mean,threatening looking Jewish settler bragging "we killed Jesus" on camera? The line most often used by antisemites to justify all sorts of violence against the Jewish people throughout the centuries. I have heard some of these people justify murdering Jewish children and infants who live in the West Bank given that I don't think it's too far fetched to think they could do something like staging a video like this.
35. #34
Richard ,   London UK   (10.19.07)
Are you being serious? The journalst I am referring to in Britain is well respected and he has and does work for some of the most respected media in Britain. Are you seriously suggesting that he 'staged' an hour long TV report? AS for the youtube - it looks pretty genuine to me. But then I suppose we could add impersonation and acting to the many skills of the Palestinians. Have a look at this link. There is some great Palestinian acting on it. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=toxHmsWO4to
36. settlers r out of line! this will blow up in their faces...
(10.19.07)
when one forgets all of one's history and carries out violence against another minority...then they become no better than a violent mob. Violence begets violence and no one will be sympathetic to the right wing cause.
37. Everybody knows that hebron jewish settlers are terrorists
Rami ,   Nazareth, Israel   (10.19.07)
38. #37 The most hatred and sick gangs
Dave ,   Washington DC   (10.19.07)
Hebron Settlers are full of hatred to everybody including the moderate Jews and even Israeli soldiers! They are gangs who constantly threaten and attach everybody there, they are protected by the soldiers because no one can expel them from places they occupy because money comes from people who supported them in US, and nobody want to make them angry as simple as that.
39. Again?
(10.19.07)
We read this same story, over and over again.
40. Rami, Nazareth
Helena ,   Finland   (10.19.07)
Already 1000 BC King David reigned from Hebron. The arabs came hundreds of years later. Why do you call the Jews in Hebron "settlers"? And why is it that Israel allows over 1 million arabs live there as citizens but the arabs want all jews out, from Hebron, from Westbank, from Eastern Jerusalem? How are you living in Nazareth-in peace with the jews? I visited Nazareth in 1985 and the arabs told me: "Take a look at israel now. In five years there will be no more Israel left." I am glad they were so wrong!
41. To helena # 40: Israel is here to stay
Rami ,   Nazareth, Israel   (10.19.07)
I do not know whom you talked to in Nazareth, if it happened i'm sure they were not local. Nazareth is a place where everyone is welcomed, if you visit on Sat you will find that there are more Jew than arabs in the shops and restaurant of Nazareth. IDF soldiers walk the streets unarmed. On the other hand, Hebron Jews are one of the most radical and violent jews, they are disliked by the majority of jews in Israel. Moreover do think that jews should be allowed to live in Hebron or any where in the west bank, but not as occupiers, rather as equal to the palestinians and abiding by the same rules like everyone.
42. Richard
Leah   (10.19.07)
Actually ,I am being very serious. I do think some of these anti Israel videos are staged. Having said that, I don't deny some Israelis settlers have committed acts of violence against Arabs which is wrong. I am not defending it. But there has been plenty of violence and harrassment against Jews by the Arabs in the West Bank as well of course the only difference is the Jews don't always conviently have a camera around to record these acts.
43. Remove Israel's Hebron Settlers/Terrorists for good.
Lev Bronstein ,   Moscow Russia   (10.19.07)
The Israeli terrorists who claim to be settlers should be removed from Hebron immediately and relocated in the Negev where Israel's future lies as they are quite a disgusting bunch and bring shame to all Jews by their actions. These so called Jews who throw garbage and dirty diapers into Palestinian markets and urinate like uncivilized and barbaric animals from the rooftops only bring shame to the Jewish people and incites more hatred of Jews around the world.
44. Said the mad hatter to Alice
Merle ,   Raanana Israel   (10.20.07)
The Jewish settlement in Hebron does not undermine peace, but rather contributes to it
45. Acts of Violence Against Married Couple for not beng Muslim
Linda Rivera ,   New York   (10.20.07)
http://www.fcnn.tv/start/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5155&Itemid=77
46. See how peaceful the religion of peace is
(10.20.07)
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/
47. Read #38 - This is the kind of hatemongering
Gary ,   N. Jersey   (10.19.07)
that has been carefully cultivated by American academics, left-wing writers and publications, human rights associations, student associations, and so on. The Yesha Jews should know that it's not enough to be right, you have to inform the public of the real facts. The Israeli government of course has its own agenda that coincides with that of the Israeli haters, so don't expect anything to come from official channels. The Yesha Jews have to find their own way to keep a flow of information going to specific sympathetic groups in the US, whether Jewish or not, and keep up a campaign to clear up this hateful disinformation. I'm sure that #38 believes everything he is writing. He has gotten that information from people he trusts, from highly placed officials in human rights organizations. Why should he doubt their word when the other party is so silent. Yesha Jews, send speakers to universities and do it often. They can't deny you access all the time. Don't give up. Sympathizers, call into American radio talk shows. Write letters to the editors. Lots of letters. Send delegations to Congress and speak to as many Congressmen as possible. Yesha Jews, arm yourselves with photographic and film record of Arab aggression. Show the world. Our media reports only what the Jews do to the Arabs in Israel. And most of the time inaccurately. That's all. There is a shameless bias in favor of Arabs. We never hear of the injustices done to Yesha Jews, or by Arabs to Israelis in general. Do not be silent. Spread your truth so that Americans will have the facts before they make up their minds in ignorance and continue to spread these falsehoods.
48. #22 - That makes 7th Century Arabs evil, Zionist Settlers!!
Joe ,   Los Angeles, CA   (10.19.07)
And the Arab/Palestinian occupation of Judea and Samaria an evil, fascist, racist ideology akin to Nazism, whose goal is to wipe out every peace-loving, law-abiding Jew from the face of the earth. Dudu, isn't it funny that when we twist Arab/Palestinian logic around, fiction becomes fact? Let's hope the world will open up its ears!!
49. I do not know
GUH   (10.19.07)
why this article states that the Hebron settlers does not undermine peace. OF COURSE they and ALL settlers undermine peace. Thousands of houses are demolished, land dunams are destroyed all for building illegal settlements for their extremist inhabitants. They continue to harrass, terrorize and even kill; the youngest victim of these extremists was an eighteen-month old; a two year old was also killed using a settler vehicle. The settlers must go, or terrible consequences will result. FREE PALESTINE!
50. Leah
GUH   (10.19.07)
Denying acts of aggression, especially ones proven by powerful evidence as a video, is tantamount to defending it, or committing the acts yourself. This goes for every Zionist in this forum: How can anyone report these settlers' actions if and when they happen? They do happen you know. Settlers are very greedy and cruel people; I have noticed that on Israeli websites the words "leftists", or "self hating Jews", as in Jews reporting these daily acts, is being overused. If you claim that you have read this story over and over again and want something different, then instead of asking Ynet to ignore it, try to stop it/ call for an end to similar acts. Peace upon all of you.
51. #3
EA ,   USA   (10.20.07)
Just think of how much else you don't know about your people...
52. Settlers should be punished!
ezra ,   israel   (10.20.07)
Arabs live here for ages and they must be given respect as those whose land it is! Low is low. Settlers stepped on the land of Arabs and they should be punished. Law is law for everyone.
53. Rami
Helena ,   Finland   (10.20.07)
If Nazareth is so quiet and jews and arabs live there together in peace, that is wonderful. Why can´t it be like that in Hebron? I know that there was a massacre in 1928 and the jews were expelled. That cannot be the reason why they are not allowed to live there today. If there was a Palestinian state, every jew should leave the Westbank. That is grazy.
54. 40
Igor ,   Munich, Germany   (10.20.07)
and what about if Russia takes Finland back and expells all the people from there? I just don´t get all you sick people who refer to some thousands of years old history stuff. llool King David reigned from Hebron 1000 BC. So what does it mean? Does this mean that this land officially belongs to us? By thinking that way we must do a lot of geographical rearrangements in the world.
55. #19, that guy is my hero!!!
(10.20.07)
i would like to marry him and ten kids all like him! that man is my hero! let me pin a metal on him!!! AHAVAS YISROEL
56. 55
Igor ,   Munich, Germany   (10.20.07)
Russian joke: A man writes a letter to Russian authorities: I am a German citizen and live in Germany. I want to move to Russia. Whom should I consult regarding acquiring permanent residence permit for Russia? Reply of the authorities: Please consult a psychiatrist. ..... I would advise you to do the same. Why does ynet censor my posts, but does not censor those of sick people like #55. Ynet please look at this video (#19) yourself....
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