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Don’t de-legitimize us
Meir Bretler
Published: 26.07.11, 12:09
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1. Hill top youth, bunch of thugs
Haim ,   TA   (07.26.11)
Hill top youth, more like a bunch of lawless brainwashed thugs that need to go get a life.
2. LOL
Raf ,   Athens   (07.26.11)
Go home to Israel and you will find plenty of support to protest..........for housing in ISRAEL!
3. Youth of hilltops are our future
meir ,   TA   (07.26.11)
You have been treated unfairly by the media and the police. Brave souls, hang in there! The Jewish people are with you!
4. Ya can't delegitimize something that's illegitimate
Fedup   (07.26.11)
5. 1
Birdi ,   Israel   (07.26.11)
Tg these hill top ''thugs'' have more guts & baitzim than you ever hope to have.
6. #1 and the students protesting in tents..
Rebecca ,   Modiin   (07.26.11)
are students on holiday with nothing else to do, who cannot offer any solutions and are negating anything suggested, but they're the bright youth of the future??? I'll take the hill top youth. At least they are doing something
7. why de-legitimize them? are they Ashkenazi Khazar?
observer ,   Egypt   (07.26.11)
8. Hilltop Youth-our future
jan ,   Jerusalem, Israel   (07.26.11)
No amoount of media smearing or attempts to recreate history can sway you. You are extreme-extremely brave. I believe in you and your attempts to protect the land and all of us-I also believe many ,many more Israelis are with you than you think, you just won't find it in the press. Keep bringing people out to see the land, outside Tel-Aviv or Cesaria or wherever. Not to beelittle them, but I think anyone who sees what's at stake with their own eyes could change their minds Without Yehuda and Shomron who cannot defend the rest of Israel. Continued strength to you all. I like to think if I was young I would be one of you.
9. Any Israeli group that does not
(07.26.11)
recognize the authority of the IDF is by definition seditious and has delegitimized itself without any outside interference.
10. Never give up, no matter what !
Gabe ,   Canada   (07.26.11)
11. Not thugs! Great bunch of kids
Jim ,   Saint Louis   (07.26.11)
12. Rule of law
Gee ,   Zikron Yaakov   (07.26.11)
Supports the Hilltop Youth - it is the government that violates the law. The Mandate for Palestine was the last legal set of laws to govern Judea and Samaria since the government refuses to extend Israel law to the territories. So their building is legal and the government lawyers know that they are wrong.
13. TLC
Michael ,   Haifa   (07.26.11)
These poor little innocent boys and girls just need some tender loving care
14. It's like millions of palestinians does not exist???
Resonans   (07.26.11)
15. Let us hope that one of you will be the future PM !
olim hadashim ,   tel aviv/israel   (07.26.11)
16. #6 Rebecca if thats our future
Haim ,   TA   (07.27.11)
They are nothing but a bunch of lawless thugs. Please do explain to us how they can just build wherever they feel like it , when in TA you need to apply for permission to build a gate post. Shall i just go build a new villa somewhere by the beach and declare it a new settlement. Hate to break it to you Becks but there is a law here, and if they dont like it they are free to leave. Nationalism mixed with religious fundamentalism remains the primary source of bigotry, hatred and racism in the modern era and they certainly play their part.
17. Hilltop youth are the true spirit of Israel.
Chaim ,   Israel   (07.27.11)
What is the true spirit of Israel? Is it the far left dominated media, universities and courts? If they are the true spirit of Israel, why are their Labor, Meretz and Kadima Parties being voted out of existence? Why did a recent poll show almost 80% of Israeli Jews oppose ceding Judea and Samaria? The hilltop youth are the true spirit of Israel. Their ideals are the bedrock ideals of Zionism. They are building our land, as best they can, which is exactly what Zionism and Jewish liberation is all about.
18. Since when is blocking roads and burning tires legal?
James Nichols ,   Boise United States   (07.27.11)
How is burning tires and blocking roads legal? Or attacking IDF when they occasionally demolish house in an illegal outpost?
19. In the tradition of your forefathers, build the future now
Kerwood Derby ,   Frostbite Falls, MN   (07.27.11)
While many will vilify you, you are acting on the old values of Zionism that are your tradition before the term was coined to engender those values in the stiff necked. The assimilated, anti-traditionalists who disclaim their inheritance like Herzl and Ben-Gurion never would have, will claim that you are lawbreakers and anarchists when it is exactly the opposite. Those who serve the electorate, serve at your will and are to preserve your security yet instead issue evil dictates, disenfranchise the electorate and instead of removing the genocidal, mass-murdering extortionist threat, they destroy the lives of those they are to serve and protect. They use quaint phrases like "the law will be enforced with an iron fist" when "the law" is their caprice and often at variance to their own party's charter if not common sense. When you are dis-armed by capricious “law” and then found predictably murdered you are blamed for living in the land of your own name while those who murdered you by removing your means of self-defense against a known threat were loyally following “the law.” You are the builders. Those that come to enforce “the law” are complicit with those that come from the peninsula of their own name to kill you. They both seek to destroy you with the only difference being that those following the capricious orders of those who are suppose to serve the electorate are doing it “lawfully.” I hear the trains ran on time in Deutschland too.
20. #14, the Palestinians exist, since 1967. Before that ...
Jake ,   USA   (07.27.11)
They were called Jordanians (West Bankers) and Egyptians (Gazans). So, it is not the "Palestinians" who don't exist (ie. stateless Arabs) it is just Palestine that doesn't exist, and it won't be established on our 4000 year old ancestral homeland.
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