Settlers, leftists clash near West Bank village of Safa

[IndianaGreen]

As in the days of Rosa Luxemburg, the Left stands alone fighting fascist goons while the government enables fascism.

Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters.

Last update - 14:03 30/05/2009

Settlers, leftists clash near West Bank village of Safa

By Haaretz Service

Clashes erupted on Saturday between settlers and left-wing activists who were trying to help Palestinians with agricultural work near the village of Safa in the West Bank.

Activists from the Jewish-Arab rights group Ta'ayush arrived at the village, which is located near the settlement of Bat Ayin, and were attacked by 15 to 20 masked settlers, according to one of the activists.

Activist Mairav Zonszein told Haaretz that the settlers assaulted the activists and pelted them with stones, breaking one of their cameras, and flipping over one of their cars, breaking the windshield.

Israel Defense Forces soldiers and Border Police armed with batons arrived and forcefully removed the demonstrators from the scene, according to Zonszein. Border Police then declared the area a closed military zone. No injuries were reported.

Zonszein added that five activists were arrested under the closed military zone order, which she stressed had been enforced only on Israeli and Palestinian activists and not on settlers. Two Palestinians were also arrested, according to Army Radio.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1089004.html

[UndertheOcean]

1. what do you expect from a fascist and racist entity ?

Lets try declaring the USA a christian country, with a Christian symbol on the flag, and have everyone do a loyalty oath .See how will that fly.

[IndianaGreen]

2. Those were Israeli Arabs and Jews that fought off the fascist settlers

and I will point out that the settlers in question are not representative of all the settlers. The blame lies squarely on the government which for decades has provided more money to its citizens to settle in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank), than they did to those settling in Israel proper. Many of these settlers were forced by economic reasons, much of it engineered by their own government, to choose to settle in Occupied Palestine.

America's generous financial contributions to Israel is what made it possible for a succession of Israeli governments to afford their settlement policies. America's failure to hold Israeli governments to account is what has led us to our present predicament, a situation in which a 2-state solution becomes a near impossibility and one that could plunge Israel into a civil war if it were implemented.

[UndertheOcean]

3. Israel has Lebanon #2 written all over it , unfortunately ...

They just hate each other too much.

[IndianaGreen]

5. My fears of a civil war are well grounded

Dismantling long existing settlements on the West Bank will plunge Israel into a civil war. It will make the Lebanon civil war look tame by comparison.

[safeinOhio]

4. Not representative of all settlers, that is a true statement

so is, they are representative of most of the crazy settlers. I swear the settlers are the Fred Phelps people of Israel. Just try to talk compromise to most any settler.