Peace. What is peace?
This answer can be found in the first clause of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights’ preamble, which declares: ‘’Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world.’’ The opposite of ‘’peace’’ is: ‘’Whereas disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind and the advent of a world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear….’’, as declared in the preamble’s second clause. With these two thoughts in mind, the Declaration declares in Article
2: ‘’Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs whether it be independent, trust, non-self governing, or under any other limitation of sovereignty.’’ Similarly, Israel’s 12th Knesset, on March 17, 1992, adopted and gave ‘’super legal status’’ of Basic Law: Human Dignity. The ‘’super legal status’’ of this law gives the Israeli courts the authority to disqualify any law contradicting human dignity. (Wikipedia). With these Declarations and Basic Laws in place, both the United Nations and the Israeli government have diverted against them by their agreement to the United States’ ‘’Roadmap to a Palestinian State’’. The Israeli govt.’s first diversion, began when Israeli Prime Minister Sharon, in alignment with the U.S. ‘’Roadmap’’, wrote to U.S. Pres. Bush of his ‘’Disengagement’’ plan from Gaza. The second Israeli govt. diversion in alignment with the U.S. Roadmap, was Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s mini ‘’Disengagement’’ from Amona. The third and final Israeli govt. diversion in alignment with the U.S. Roadmap, is PM Olmert’s plan to ‘’disengage’’ from Judea-Samaria [including Jerusalem]. Many, even most of the Israeli Supreme Court judges said Israel’s Basic Law of Human Dignity began the Constitutional Revolution. (Wikipedia). Israel has only moved backwards and diverted against it with the Disengagement ruling by Israel’s High Court of Justice. On June, 13, 2005, Israel insider published an article by David Bedein of Israel Resource News Agency, in which Bedein reported on the ruling: ‘’…the High Court of Justice had declared that the government’s Disengagement Plan, while violating human rights and civil liberties, was legal. Israeli human rights and civil liberties law, simply do not apply to Israeli taxpayers and law abiding citizens who live in Judea, Samaria and Gaza, the court said, since Israel has not yet annexed these areas.’’ The Israelis of Gush Katif then proceeded to be degraded and humiliated in front of the entire world to see during Sharon’s Disengagement. If one doesn’t have human rights, then he/she certainly doesn’t have any human dignity. The Israeli government, under Sharon, completely abandoned its own Basic Law- its Constitutional Revolution and the basic law of humanity.
As the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights reads in its Preamble’s second clause, ’’disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts’’. This is exactly what happened at Amona as a result from the Israeli High Court of Justice’s ruling. Israeli PM Olmert, confident in the High Court’s ruling, committed barbarous acts against peaceful, non-violent men, women and children with the use of his ’special security forces.’’ As recounted in the chapter of Amona earlier, these barbarous acts included sexual abuse, both verbal and physical. Young religious school girls of modesty and purity, were called ’’whores’’ by the ’special police units’. Many at Amona were trampled by German imported police horses and beaten unconscious. The world has not seen such brutality of this scale in any western or democratic country in the twenty-first century. Even governments that aren’t western or democratic, have acted with such disregard and contempt for human rights. Yet, one year after Amona, two weeks from the exact day, PM Olmert continued to be ‘’encouraged’’ by U.S. officials ‘’to say positive words’’ about the Saudi Peace Initiative [a model for the U.S. Roadmap], reported the Washington Post. In other words, PM Olmert was given U.S. encouragement for more Amona-like expulsions, but on a massive, massive scale. The reason for this ‘’encouragement’’ is that Amona was only the site of nine home expulsions and the U.S. Roadmap [modeled after the Saudi Peace Initiative], requires the expulsion of half-a-million Israeli Jewish citizens from their homes in Judea-Samaria [including Jerusalem].
There is no humanity in forcing out half-a-million men, women, and children from their homes. However inhumane, however degrading, the Israeli High Court of Justice has ruled in favor for the forced homelessness because Israeli Jews do not have rights as human beings. They are being treated like cattle by the court because Israel has ‘’not yet annexed’’ Judea-Samaria. Israel has been reduced to this type of barbaric logic with the helpful insistence of the UN and the U.S.. In order to carry out the Roadmap, both human rights and civil liberties have to be taken away from the Israeli Jews living in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza, which the Israeli Court has already ruled. The U.N. is fully aware of this fact and has not raised any complaints or concerns, but continues to endorse the U.S. Roadmap. The U.S. Roadmap fundamentally opposes the U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights which declares in Article 2: ‘’Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration….Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty.’’ it’s a sad day when the world body needs to be reminded on paper that: ‘’human beings are entitled to human rights’’. Whether or not an Israeli Jew lives in the Judea-Samaria-Gaza region or not, they have human rights as human beings and are not to be treated like cattle. Furthermore, Article 30 of the U.N. Declaration, declares: ‘’Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any state, group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein.’’ Article 30 is the very last article that completes the whole Declaration; it specifically limits any act of a State or group that would violate human rights. In this case, the U.S. Roadmap is that act that would violate human rights and is therefore violating the Declaration as a whole. Moreover, Article 30 clearly states that ‘’nothing’’ in the Declaration may be ‘’interpreted’’ as ‘’implying’’ for any State to violate human rights. The U.S. Roadmap is sold to the public as a ‘’solution’’ for peace by those who are encouraging it upon Israel. ‘’Peace is embodied in the Declaration from the preamble to the last article. The U.S., one of the five permanent U.N. Security Council members, along with the U.N. as a whole, is ‘’interpreting’’ the Roadmap as peace and the Roadmap’s implementation as ‘’implying’’ that it is acceptable to ‘’violate the human rights’’ of the Israeli Jews living in Judea-Samaria.
Peace, true peace, is a beautiful aspiration; however, the aspiration for peace cannot be misused to imply that massive human rights violations are acceptable to attain it. There is human suffering all over the world as there is in the Middle East; must there be more suffering? Is the U.S. Roadmap, the only solution for peace? Since the Israeli govt. left Gaza in 2005, there has been neither peace for Jews or Arabs. Gush Katif, was a community that took 30 years to build, and was destroyed for the Roadmap’s interpretation of peace. The Jews of Gush Katif did not receive peace in return for having their entire community destroyed. Israel has not received a drop of peace in return for destroying one of their own beautiful communities. The U.S. Roadmap is only one idea, one of many, not to be confused for a solution. The U.S. govt. calls the Roadmap, ‘’A Performance Based Roadmap to a Permanent Two-State Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict’’. Based on the performance of Arab-terrorism since Israel left Gaza, there should be no continuation of the Roadmap. Who is to say that after a Palestinian State is created the Gaza-Judea-Samaria region, that the Palestinian Arabs wouldn’t want a larger state over more Israeli territory? After all, the Palestinian Authority ambassador to Lebanon, Abbas Zaki is openly and confidently declaring- as of the year 2008: ‘’[When] we take, at least Jerusalem, the Israeli ideology will collapse in its entirety, and we will begin to progress with our own ideology…and drive them [Israeli Jews] out of all of Palestine.’’ (INN). The Roadmap is being ‘’encouraged’’ upon Israel, but its not even an Israeli created plan. In fact, the Roadmap agreement is being discovered in secret talks between Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian Authority/PLO Pres. Mahmoud Abbas with U.S. Sec. of State Condolezza Rice’s oversight. The meetings are being held even during the Israeli Parliament’s [Knesset] 2008 summer recess. This means that the Knesset, including PM Olmert’s own party have no say in what is being discussed, and there are virtually no press briefings on the secret meetings. Essentially, the Roadmap agreement is being discussed with a backhanded conduct against the Israeli people. The Oslo Accords in 1993, were conducted with the same backhanded conduct as U.S. Sec. of State Rice explained: ‘’…the most successful negotiation that the Palestinians and the Israelis ever had was Oslo, and nobody even knew, in 1993, that they were negotiating.’’ Successful? Its pretty safe to say that the Israeli public, through terrorist attacks, know that Oslo only harmed Israel. How is it that U.S. officials, across the world, are routinely informed of what is being discussed in these secret meetings, but the Israeli public, who will be directly effected form these meetings, are not allowed to be informed of them? Is it because the few involved are trying to reduce opposition to the Roadmap? U.S. Sec. of State Rice, said that the reason for secrecy is: ‘’Because the minute that somebody has to talk about a partial agreement, their exposed politically at home.’’ It is completely undemocratic for one leader, such as Olmert, to conduct secret meetings without even briefing the elected officials or the Israeli people. The Israeli people have a right to know what is being discussed and they have the democratic right to oppose what is being discussed if they so choose. U.S. officials say that a new Palestinian state will be a democratic state. How can a democratic state be created on the foundation of anti-democratic principals? U.S. officials also say that a new Palestinian state will be a peaceful state. How can a state be a peaceful one when its established on oppression, secrecy, and violence against innocents? For that matter, how can a Palestinian state be a peaceful one if its leaders are internationally recognized terrorists? Israelis, who do show any opposition to the Roadmap, are being oppressed and face state persecution. For example, In July 2008, a group of 200 Israeli Jewish trekkers organized a week-long scenic hike in Judea-Samaria, named, ‘’Land of Hilltops Trek’’. The trek included beautiful tours and visits to Jewish communities. One of the sites visited was, Sa-Nur. Sa-Nur was a Jewish community in Samaria that was destroyed with three others during Sharon’s Disengagement Plan of 2005 in addition to the destruction of Gush Katif. The trek was led by Daniella Weiss, a grandmother and a former Mayor of a Jewish city in Judea-Samaria. Being a pioneer in Judea-Samaria, Daniella openly believes that Jewish families should not be forced out of their homes. On July 29, 2008, three days into the beautiful scenic hike, the trekkers were ambushed by Arabs with clubs and rocks. The trekkers’ designated guard shot into the air to make the Arab attackers leave. At that moment, several special security policemen appeared from the direction of the Arab attackers and arrested the trekkers’ guard. Daniella explained in an interview with Israel National News: ‘’Apparently, the police were waiting and watching the whole time, doing nothing until our boy shot in the air.’’ A couple days after the incident, INN printed a report by the Independent Media Review Analysis (IMRA) in which the special security policemen admitted that they used the Arab attackers, ‘’to stop young Jews from hiking through Judea-Samaria.’’ Aaron Yair, a Police detective admitted to defense attorney Naftali Wurtzburger in the Jerusalem Magistrates Court that the special police forces ‘’staked out’’ the area ‘’with local Palestinian Authority Bedouins’’ and together ‘’then waited’’ for the 200 young land of Israel trekkers. As evident, the Israeli special police are working with terrorists to stop even the smallest sign of opposition to the Roadmap, such as scenic hikers! Hikers, and trekkers, who simply take scenic walks are now considered enemies of the state. They weren’t even protesting against any govt. policies, but only walking! Knesset Minister, Professor Areyh Eldad, responded to the police attack by saying, ‘’This is just another step in the police agreeing to become a political police in the service of the Olmert government.’’
The measures being taken to provide for a successful Roadmap agreement, is only pulling Israel backwards, not forwards; into a time of oppression. As MK Prof. Eldad said, ‘’This is just another’’ step backwards. Israelis need to be the ones to take a stand to move forward against this oppression in their country. All Jews around the world need to take a stand against this oppression in Israel. All people around th world who believe that this oppression is wrong, need to take a stand for their fellow human beings living in Israel. This violent oppression cannot be tolerated. The U.S. Roadmap itself, cannot be tolerated as it is violent and oppressive in its plainest form. In preparation for the U.S. Roadmap will accomplish, an Israeli Jewish widow and her orphaned children were forced out of their home onto the street by Israeli security forces. This forced expulsion was not part of Sharon’s 2005 Disengagement from Gaza, but happened on March 23, 2003, exactly one year to the month that the ‘’Saudi Peace Initiative’’ came out and exactly 23 days after the U.S. ‘’Performance-Based Roadmap to a Permanent Two-State Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict’’ was displayed on the US. Dept. of State website. The widow’s name is Livnat Ozeri and she lived in her hilltop farm in Hebron, Judea with her five children. Israeli Special Patrol Unit policemen, disguised as soldiers, forced themselves into the widows house after 11pm on a Sunday night. In causing further intimidation, the special police unit, of which there were several, conducted a very disruptive search in the bedroom where the children were sleeping and constantly videotaped the startled widow. The widow picked up her three-year-old who began to cry from the fear of strange men barging in the room. With her child in her arms and the other four children still in the house, the special police forcibly pushed her into a police car. The police did not tell her why she was being forced into the car or show her any police order. The police then grabbed her four other children (aged 11 and younger) from the house into a police car. It was a cold winters’ night and the soldiers refused the widow to get any diaper, blankets, food, water, or anything for her very young children. They also refused the children to go to the bathroom. The soldiers also refused to tell the widow where they were taking her and her children. After a long drive in the police car, the soldiers dropped her off in the streets of Jerusalem, near her grandparents’ home. While dumping her on the street like yesterday’s garbage, the soldiers bulldozed and destroyed her entire property, including the farm and the house with everything inside- without the widow’s knowledge. That’s right, the widow didn’t even find out her entire house was destroyed until the next day. The expulsion of the widow and her children from their home, sent shockwaves through the Jewish community in Judea-Samaria. The Israeli High Court of Justice’s legal excuse for such extreme persecution, was that ownership of the widow’s land was being contested and until finalized, a ‘’permanent structure’’ could not remain there. The land was being contested by an Arab neighbor who was claiming that the land belonged to him, but Attorney Nadau Haetzni, who was representing the hill, discovered that the Arab’s documents were forged. Before Livant’s husband died, the Civil Administration had advised him to simply place a ‘’non-permanent’’ roof on the house and thus making the house, ‘’a non-permanent structure.’’ Livant’s husband agreed to the Civil Administration’s request on January 14, 2003. On January 17, 2003, before Livant’s husband had a chance to replace the roof, he was shot dead during a Friday-night dinner with his family, by Arab terrorists who broke into the house.
The Israeli govt. only needed to replace the roof, but decided to make a widow and her orphaned children, the first victims of the U.S. Roadmap’s implementation. This is the end result of the U.S. govt.‘s ‘’interpretation’’ of peace in Israel. (The details of the widow’s expulsion with her children, were taken from an interview she did with womeningreen.com, March 26, 2003).
` How many widow’s and their orphaned children will be stolen from their homes in the middle of the night to fulfill the U.S. Roadmap’s requirements? Half-a-million Israeli Jewish residents will be taken like the widow and her children from their homes in Judea-Samaria, if the people of Israel don’t take a stand. Every Israeli Jew is the widow, Livnat Ozeri. Every Israeli Jew is a settler of Gush Katif. Every Israeli Jew is a settler of Judea-Samaria. Every Israeli Jew is a settler. Article 6 of the Palestine Mandate for a Jewish National Home states: ‘’The Administration of Palestine, while ensuring that the rights and position of other sections of the population are not prejudiced, shall facilitate Jewish immigration under suitable conditions and shall encourage, in co-operation with the Jewish agency close settlement by Jews on the land, including State lands and waste lands not required for public purposes.’’ This article specifically ‘’encourages’’ the duty of ‘’close settlement by Jews on the land and thus making every Israeli Jew a settler.
Now in Israel, the mainstream media attempts to draw a distinction between Israeli jews who don’t live in Judea-Samaria and those who do; calling them ‘’settlers’’, with a negative connotation. The term ‘’settler’’, has become even common around the world media. The Jews of Judea-Samaria are not referred to as ‘’Israelis’’, but as ‘’settlers’’, as if they’re not on the same dignified standing as ‘’Israelis’’. If someone is a ‘’settler’’, then their human rights can be negotiated as with the Roadmap negotiations. If someone is looked at as less dignified or less valued, then that person has less human rights. For instance, in an extreme example, the Tutsie people in Ruwanda, Africa, of whom 100,000 were hacked to death by the Hutus- were increasingly called ‘’roaches’’. The Tutsies were looked at as less dignified, less valued and altogether less human because they were called ‘’cockroaches’’. As the Tutsies became ‘’cockroaches’’ and no longer human, it was acceptable to slaughter them. Words, even the simplest name or term, can devalue a human being to the effect that he/she looses rights as a human. For this reason, the proverb says, ‘’death and life are in the power of the tongue’’. The fact is, there is no difference between a ‘’settler’’ or an ‘’Israeli.’’ Their both settlers and their both Israelis.
The Israeli Jews who live in Judea-Samaria, represent the victory over oppression and persecution. Under foreign rule, Jews were not allowed to practice their faith or express their cultural traditions in public in their own land. Under Babylonian occupation, Jews saw the first Holy Temple destroyed and the Second Holy Temple destroyed under Roman occupation. During the Roman invasion at Masada, Judea, the Jews chose death instead of losing their Jewish identity in 73 A.D.. It wasn’t until two thousand years later, on June 7, 1967, that Jews were allowed to see their identity completely restored in Israel. On June 7, 1967, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF(, liberated Jerusalem completely, with the Old City, and the Temple Mount {including the Western Wall}. The liberation was broadcasted live on Voice of Israel Radio. The broadcast recorded: ‘’Colonel Motta Gur {on loudspeaker]: All company commanders, we’re sitting right now on the ridge and we’re seeing the Old City. Shortly we’re going to go in to the Old City of Jerusalem, that all generations have dreamed about. We will be the first to enter the Old City.
Yossi Ronen: We can see the stone walls.
Colonel Motta Gur announces on the army wireless: The Temple Mount is in our hands! I repeat, the Temple Mount is in our hands!
Yossi Ronen: I’m walking right now down the steps towards the Western Wall. I’m not a religious man, I never have been, but this is the Western Wall and I’m touching the stones of the Western Wall.’’ (isracast.com).
The ancient stone walls, the Temple Mount, Jerusalem with its ancient Old City, Hebron’s cave of the Jewish Patriarchs and Matriarchs, Masada, Rachel’s tomb near Bethlehem, Joseph’s tom in Shechem; are the ties that bind the Jewish identity in Israel. Whether a Jew is religious or not, whether a Jew is young or old, whether a Jew lives in Judea-Samaria or not, their heritage, their roots, their origin, is in Judea-Samaria. If the Israeli government gives up the history of their heritage of Judea-Samaria, how can the Jewish people move forward? How can they attain a future without retaining their history? History is the backbone of the future and without history there can be no future.
The Israeli Jews who chose to live in Judea-Samaria, are physically preserving the history of the Jewish people’s heritage and thus preserving the future of the Jewish people. They love the land, their timeless heritage and they love their people. They should be esteemed, not thrown out of their homes. As Maj.-Gen (ret.) Yiftah Ron-Tal, former IDF ground forces’ commander, said of the Jews of Gush Katif, the Israeli government should be ‘’raising their dedication as a banner of preserving the Jewish identity of the state of Israel.’’ (INN). Instead, the Israeli Jews in Judea-Samaria are insulted, degraded, beaten, and intimidated by the State. Radio stations that report extensively on the human rights violations committed against the Jewish residents in Judea-Samaria, have become illegal by the Israeli Supreme Court. For example, Arutz Sheva Radio, received its legal certification in 1999 by the Israel Parliament (Knesset), but the Supreme Court overturned the Knesset law in 2003 and Arutz Sheva has been banned in Israel ever since. They are also intimidated into not defending themselves against real immediate danger. In February 2004, two members of the local fast-response security team of the Maaleh Rechavam Jewish community in Gush Etzion {in Judea-Samaria], were called upon by the local security officer {hired by the Defense Ministry] to respond to an Arab mob entering a Jewish field where Jewish teenage boys were murdered in the past by Arab terrorists. The three Jews- the two security team members and the one security officer [ hired by the Defense Ministry], went to the field and were met by 20 Arabs. The Arab mob surrounded them, while attacking them with rocks and sticks. The two security team members- brothers, Danny Halamish and Yitzchak Halamish, did not shoot, however, the security officer did shoot at the ground to scare the Arab attackers away and then the three Jews left. As a result, Danny and Yitzchak Halamish, were arrested and sentenced to 7 and 8 months, respectively. They were charged with attacking the Arabs even though there was a lack of evidence. Danny Halamish explained these events in an interview with Israel National News. ‘’Though the Jews filed a counter-complaint’’, INN reported, ‘’the police later acknowledged that they never even interrogated the Arabs, [Danny] Halamish said. ’’because of the weak claim that the Arabs had complained first….’’ INN reported that the Israeli police neutralized the ballistic evidence, which could have been used to redeem Danny and Yitzchak Halamish, ‘’The brothers say that when their weapons were taken from them, they were confident that the ballistics tests would show that they had not been fired. This would support the finding that all the bullet casings had been shot from the security officer’s gun. However, the police did not check the guns; instead they fired them themselves, claiming to want to see if they were in working order. Thus, the brothers’ claim that they had not shot could no longer be proven.’’ This is a scenario where there were 3 to 20 and the Israeli police tampered with the evidence that would have kept the Jews from prison. The Halamish brothers were not two random people breaking the law, but two members of a legitimate security team who were working with the Defense Ministry’s hired security officer.
To further intimidate the Jewish residents of Judea-Samaria with their physical safety, Israel’s Channel 10 TV reported that the IDF is conducting a large scale operation to confiscate weapons from the Jewish residents of Judea-Samaria (INN). Israel National News reported that Knesset Member Aryeh Eldad’s response to Defense Minister Ehud Barak, regarding the dangerous measures of removing the Jews’ self-defense: ‘’When a move such as this is made along with the release of hundreds of terrorists, the deployment of Palestinian [Authority] policemen in [Judea] Shechem [three of whom were involved in the murder of Ido Zoldan] and the arming of these policemen with weapons ammunition and armored personal carriers, this amounts to making the settlers fair game and sending the terror organizations a clear message that they may murder Jews.’’ The Jewish residents in Judea-Samaria, are made to feel vulnerable to terrorists attacks in what is yet another measure of intimidation by the State. From ambushing Jewish scenic hikers in Judea-Samaria to banning radio news stations that report on such ambushes,; there seems to be no limit to the perpetual hostile discriminatory acts by the state or accountability by the international community who is deeply involved in Israel’s affairs with Judea-Samaria. There are countless UN resolutions and discussions on the human rights of Palestinian Authority Arabs in Judea-Samaria, but virtually none on the human rights violations by the state of Israel against Israeli Jews in Judea-Samaria. It can be assumed then that the international community, mainly approves of intimidation against one particular ethnic community. In plain terms, this equates to racism, but since these intimidation tactics are in preparation for the implementation of the U.S. Roadmap which is endorsed by the international community, it is not treated as racism. When only one country or region, such as South Africa, discriminates against a particular ethnic community by clear intimidating acts, the whole international community speaks against it. What happens when the role is reversed and whole international community, discriminates against one particular ethnic community? Who will speak out? There is no one to speak out from the international body, as it is that body who is committing the discriminatory acts. Who will speak out for the persecuted Jewish community in Judea-Samaria? Individuals and groups need to consciously speak out against this racism. Both, private citizens and those in public office, need to speak up. Jerusalem Magistrates Court Judge Malka Aviv, was assigned to a case in which she recognized the unjust treatment of a Jewish landowner by the Israeli police, and ruled against the discrimination. In September 2008, Aryeh King, an Israeli Jew, who legally represented property right outside Jerusalem [and in whose name the property belongs] was arrested with several other Jews when he tried to enter the property to actualize the claim. At the same time, the Arab squatter who was at the property, was left untouched by the Israeli police. Israel National News reported that the reason the police arrested the Jews was that, ‘’the Jews’ presence there was liable to lead to disturbances and riots.’’ This is the most biased and ridiculous reason to arrest an innocent person for simply entering his/her own property. Based on this notion by the Israeli Jewish police themselves, all Jews shouldn’t be living in Israel or the Middle East, as ’their Jewish presence is liable to lead to disturbances‘. Aside from the ridiculous notion by the police, there was no provocation or violence when Aryeh King attempted to enter the property. INN reported that in ‘’ruling, Judge Aviv said, ‘’that the police claims of ‘’feared violence’’ appears to be just a ‘’life raft’’ for the police to justify their otherwise-unjustifiable actions against [Aryeh] King.’’ Judge Aviv also said, ‘’Just like the Supreme Court has ruled that PA [Palestinian Authority] Arabs must be allowed to reach their fields without restriction and under IDF protection, the same is true in this case as well for [Aryeh] King.’’ Individuals and groups need to consciously speak out for justice as Judge Aviv did, whether Jewish or non-Jewish.
There are Arabs who say they have been wronged by Israel, but do two wrongs make a right? The wars of 1948 and 1967, which the Arab League member states started, resulted in Arabs leaving their homes, but it won’t make it right to have half-a-million Jewish residents physically forced from their homes This is a human issue; a human rights issue and it will be one of the worst human rights violations endorsed by the U.S. and the international community in history.
