Breiman: The media has been enlisted to support "disengagement"
Questions for the Transfer Regime
No training camps or field courts were established to fight crime and traffic accidents, so where did all the money for disengagement from? And will a Druse drag a Jew from his home?
The exuberance for population transfers displayed by the Israeli regime's leadership, particularly Internal Security Minister Gideon Ezra, raises many tough questions.
And it's no surprise that the media, given its total enlistment to the cause of "disengagement," hasn't asked them.
Real versus phony police missions
The first question is, of course: Is it the job of the police to chase citizens from their homes?
The correct answer is no, even if those citizens are Jewish.
We talk about the helplessness of the police in countering the growing crime wave or traffic accidents. However, we have not seen much determination in the pursuit of these law enforcement missions: No training camps were set up; retired cops were not called back to duty; civil liberties were not curtailed, and field courts were not set up.
However, all of the above were instituted in the name of "national" priorities: The expulsion of Jews from their homes in their homeland.
The next question is: Does the police have money to spare?
How can it redirect money from its real missions to a political one, which is the very antithesis of the national interest? Will the employment of the police for disengagement cost Israeli citizens in higher crime and more traffic accidents?
Divided country, divided police
Another question: Will the police be able to deal with the countrywide anti-disengagement protests?
The answer seems to be no.
How will the expulsion machinery work if the streets and intersections are blocked by millions of Jews, secular and religious, who live on both sides of the "Green Line?" The police have been misled by the media in thinking that we will only have to deal with religious protestors. But a majority of secular Jews also oppose disengagement.
Another question: How can you be so sure the police will carry out such a politically divisive mission?
It's fair to assume that there will be conscientious objection and foot-dragging among the police.
More: Opponents of transfer rally under the slogan "A Jew does not expel another Jew." But will Druse be used instead?
The use of the Border Police, among them many Druse, to force Jews from their homes is liable to bring a dangerous and unnecessary rift in relations between Israeli Jews and Druse.
The last question: Will a senior police commander arise and turn in his ranks over this?
Such an action at the beginning of the trouble might raise awareness about how the police are being used for an outrageous political goal.
-- Dr. Ron Breiman is chairman of Professors for a Strong Israel
