Left-wing activists hurt in clash with West Bank settlers

[Violet_Crumble]

Protesters attacked when accompanying a Palestinian who owns agricultural land now enclosed within the perimeter of the Anatot settlement's fence.

By Chaim Levinson

A confrontation erupted on Friday between residents of the West Bank Jewish settlement of Anatot and a group of left-wing activists. The activists had accompanied a Palestinian to Anatot who owns agricultural land within the confines of the settlement, and who came to work his land.

At one point, the activists began hanging Palestinian flags and defaced a slogan that read "the Land of Israel for the Jewish people <"Am Yisrael"> by changing "Israel" to "Palestine." Dozens of Anatot residents who saw what was happening came out and attacked the group of activists, three of whom were injured, including one who broke his arm. Police arrived about an hour later to separate the two sides.

When another group of demonstrators from the left-wing organization Sheikh Jarrah Solidarity came to Anatot on Friday night to protest the earlier incident, they were stopped at the gate to the settlement by the Anatot security coordinator. Before police arrived at the scene, some Anatot residents began to hit the demonstrators. Three people were injured and the car windshields of some of the demonstrators were smashed.

In an apparent reference to Yasin Rifai, the Palestinian farmer, Anatot's secretariat stated that the settlement has been subject to provocations from an individual from Jerusalem who claims ownership of land in the middle of Anatot, only a portion of which he actually owns.

According to the secretariat, the individual had threatened children and passersby, blocked roads, set fire to fields, built illegally, and damaged an archeological site, among other acts.

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/left-wing-activists-hurt-in-clash-with-west-bank-settlers-1.387576

[provis99]

1. those settlers would be happy to see the army kill Israelis,

not just Palestinians. Right wingers are the same all over the world.

[AverageJoe90]

2. FUCK YEAH!

The truth is, you're absolutely right, and also, I for one, have been sick and TIRED of all the Jew-haters out there, such as David Duke, for example, who keep claiming that the Israelis are some sort of ethnic hive mind whose only real goal in life is to further a supposed 'Zionist Conspiracy'(when in reality, most Jews are nothing like the fanatics you see in the West Bank, and are actually real decent people, unlike good chunks of the settlers), and all the other BULLSHIT that keeps coming from their camp. (Thankfully, though, you don't see much of the anti-Semitism here. But sadly, elsewhere on the 'Net, it's still quite prevalent in places.)

[Donald Ian Rankin]

3. Don't entirely agree.

I think that different cultures generate their own different flavours of right winger, and while there are similarities there are also big differences that are probably more apparent to them than to us.

[Scurrilous]

4. The death throes of Greater Israel

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"Above (video at link) is more video from the settler attack on Israeli leftists from over the weekend. Notice the acquiescence (and participation?) of the police.

Watching this I can only believe that the pure fury the settlers display towards the activists is a sign that they know their world is crumbling around them. The activists represent a reality the settlers know to be true - the era of Israeli impunity is coming to an end and their days are numbered. Their illegal and immoral crusade to colonize all of historic Palestine is increasingly being exposed and rejected. The world is watching and has deemed their presence, and worldview, illegitimate. I suspect we'll see many more videos like this, with increasing violence. Those who believe in Greater Israel will fight until the end. The death throes of an idea can be a very dangerous time."

http://mondoweiss.net/2011/10/the-death-throes-of-greater-israel.html


Senior Israeli Police Officer Brutally Assaulted Activists In Anatot Pogrom

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"In Hebrew, it’s called a “lynch.” No, not necessarily stringing a rope over a tree and hanging you. Closer perhaps in meaning to “pogrom.” But “lynch” gives you an idea of what it was like for those brave Israeli peace activists who tried to help a poor Palestinian farmer from having his land stolen from him by yet another Israeli settlement. And that’s what any reasonable Israeli who cares about the mass hooliganism that occurred in the settlement of Anatot is calling it (in Hebrew), a “lynch.”

Now a Rotter member, posting authoritative photographs with specific senior police officers and Israeli victims identified by name, breaks a major story: a senior Israeli police officer played a major role in inciting the violence at Anatot, in which bones were broken, car windows smashed and tires slashed, and a skull was smashed landing the victim in Hadassah Ein Kerem. I reported yesterday that off-duty police officers who live in Anatot were active participants in the violence. Today, I’m told by an Israeli source that actually 70% of Anatot’s residents are police officers. So it’s no wonder that not only was this a settler pogrom, it was a semi-official police pogrom.

There of course will be no investigation of this mayhem since these are police and intelligence officers doing Israel’s dirty work on behalf of its citizens. As such, they’re given a free hand to do their jobs in whatever way they see fit, even if it involves breaking a few heads in the process."

http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2011/10/02/senior-israeli-police-officer-brutally-assaulted-activists-in-anatot-pogrom/

[King_David]

5. Never visited that website but heard from friends it is not very accurate nt

[holdencaufield]

6. Predicting the Death of Israel...

...has been a regular feature for over sixty years.

It's not a smart bet.

[azurnoir]

7. It is the death of 'Greater Israel' meaning Israel including Judea and Samaria

also known as the West Bank that is being predicted not the death of Israel inside the 'Green Line', do you not separate the two?

[pelsar]

8. greater israeli died with begin and then oslo....

and it was very quiet death.......its been kept alive mostly by the fanatics on both sides, those who need to bash israel use it as demonization stick, the usual religious fanatics that just can't "let go" (btw, this is a minute minority amongst the settlers and others).

a hint: whenever a poster claims something about "greater israel" look for the ignorance sticker and/or demonization sticker, it will be there. (if a jew/zionist-the official fanatic -not living in this world sticker)

[Violet_Crumble]

9. I disagree. Olso was the beginning of the death throes...

...and in no way were they very quiet. The assassination of Rabin is the example that comes straight to mind. The concept is in its death throes, but those throes continue with the extremist settlers and also Republicans in the US who are trying to introduce a Resolution giving approval for Israel to annexe the West Bank.

a hint: whenever a poster claims something about "greater israel" look for the ignorance sticker and/or demonization sticker, it will be there.

This is offensive to me on two levels, pelsar. The first is that you equate posters in this forum as the mirror image of the violent radical extremists amongst the settler movement, and secondly that I have talked about Greater Israel in the past. One DUer who I have a lot of respect for, but who sadly no longer posts in the I/P forum, Jack Rabbit, also used the term. Do you honestly believe that anyone who talks about the concept of Greater Israel is ignorant and demonising Israel?

[azurnoir]

10. Huh the poster I was replying stated Israel when what he was replying to said Greater Israel

to me those are two different things Israel is fact whatever the borders are IMO for now the Green Line 'Greater Israel' is a concept that seems to mean Israel including Judea and Samaria or the West Bank and if settlers in general are not trying to to make this concept reality to whatever degree then WTF are they doing there in the first place? Cheap mortgage?

you may not like Weiss and I know your no fan of Richards but neither was talking about the "death of Israel" as a country

[shira]

11. Bullshit. The anarchists were looking to provoke a fight and claim victimhood...

The end of the article suggests they started the violence on Rosh Hashana while escorting a Palestinian farmer into the settlement to till his land.

However, the person who owns some of the land within the settlement is an Israeli Arab from Jerusalem who has every right to go in there legally - at any time - and use the Israeli court system to his full advantage if there's any trouble at all.

There's no reason for this blatant provocation. Seems the anarchists are attention whores who wanted a little publicity and Haaretz was more than happy to oblige.

These assholes are the mirror image of the most rightwing and extreme settler youth.

[Violet_Crumble]

13. Only if yr prone to believe every word the settlers say...

If settlers didn't make a habit of attacking Palestinians and activists who escort them, and it made sense that people who are trying to escort a farmer to his land would just forget about what they're trying to do and launch unprovoked attacks on poor, innocent settlers, then this would be a 'he said, she said' sort of thing. But it's not...

Here's some more smears and lies being aimed at the farmer:

Anatot: Yisrael Hayom smears Palestinian framer, calling him convicted rapist

[Scurrilous]

12. Kick

:kick: