Yesterday evening, the newly sworn-in prime minister of Israel, Ehud Olmert, gave an address before the nation’s legislature, the Knesset. It was a long address, covering many topics, but in it he said the following:
The strength of this nation is in its unity. I will not help those wishing to cause a rift among the sectors of our nation. It is my intention to take all future steps through continuous dialogue with the wonderful settlers in Judea and Samaria. We are brothers and we will remain brothers.
About the same time that Olmert was addressing the country and the Knesset, this e-mail came in about Hebron from a man who wrote from his home in Qiryat Arba, which is not that far away from there.
Thousands of police and soldiers are gathering at the entrance of Qiryat Arba and around Hebron with the purpose of preventing the entrance into the city of all non residents, in an attempt to pre-empt any form of resistance against the expulsion of three Jewish families from the building bought by the Jewish Community in Hebron.
Among the consequences of the police-military activity, there is the prevention of the entrance of whoever was invited to spend Shabbat in Hebron or Qiryat Arba, or was invited for a birthday party or a Bar Mitzvah.
As it was to be foreseen, the very politicized so-called "supreme court", the bridge-head of the forces that are engaged in the de-Judaization of Israel… has ordered the residents of Beit Shapira to evacuate the premises within tomorrow morning, otherwise they'll be expelled by force.
The Jewish citizens of Hebron, law-abiding citizens who, in spite of everything and of the previous agreements broken by courts, police, army, and government, still believe that there might be a shadow of integrity in the representatives of this regime, really believed that they could trust the nonexistent objectivity of the Israeli ‘inferior court’.
Now, once again, such court has decided against the Jewish Pioneers, exactly as in the case of Amona.
As far as I and half the veterans of the local security are concerned, tonight we'll go out on a hiking trip in the Judean Desert and will be back tomorrow right before Shabbat: none of us would be able to bear the sight of animals in black uniforms beating up Jewish men, women, and children without reacting with all the means that we all have been trained to use to defend innocent Jews from hostile forces.
Some embrace, eh? Some dialogue! Already we see the duplicity of a man who was known as a thief when he was mayor of Jerusalem and as a thieving attorney when he was a member of the Knesset before that.
Article comments
— go to most recent comments1 - Arch Conservative
Is someone going to write a damn post about Patrick Kennedy and what a drunken useless piece of shit he is just like his dad or what?
2 - Blue Meanie
Well Arch, we can put it next to the one of Cheney shooting a lawyer in the face.
Instead, how about we discuss the Post here?
3 - Arch Conservative
Cheney wasn't drunk when he had his hunting accident.
Have you ever seen a Kennedy who wasn't drunk?
4 - Blue Meanie
Arch claims: "Cheney wasn't drunk when he had his hunting accident."
And you know this, how?
As for the original post, not living in Israel and not sharing the deep belief system Ruvy here obviously has, there is not much I can say on the topic.
So I'll leave it be with an apology for the derailment.
5 - Michael J. West
I'm with Blue Meanie...I want very much to talk about this post, but I feel in all ways incompetent to discuss the politics of a country in which I don't live, in a region where I've never even visited. And the more I learn about Israel the more I feel that my perspective is pretty useless.
Bing, spare us the guerilla commenting, okay?
6 - zingzing
bing's turning into a bit of a problem these days, yeah? when there's a post written about the kennedy thing, you can have a holiday bing. until then, just shut the fuck up.
7 - Arch Conservative
NO....... I don't think I'll take your suggestion zing.
It's like one of those logic questions you saw on the SAT......
If all Kennedys are drunks but not all drunks are Kennedys........which train will reach St.Louis first, train A or B.
8 - Michael J. West
Blah, blah, blah. Bing, your obsessions really do get a little scary.
9 - zingzing
bing... you're right. the kennedys are a bunch of drunks. didn't bush get pulled over too? didn't he do coke? throw the first stone if you never drink.
but, throw it somewhere else.
something happened is israel. i think.
10 - Michael J. West
Something did happen in Israel. Will someone with more grounding on Israeli society and politics please comment so we can read a relevant discussion?
Zingzing, don't take Bing's bait.
11 - Arch Conservative
yeah right............
bush never drove drunk off a bridge with a pregnant woman in his car, swim to shore, go home and sleep for the night and then report it the next morning after he consulted with his political handlers
12 - zingzing
yeah. sorry. i've taken my anti-bing thing too far. he's very good at pissing me off. i'll give him that. if you can't tell anyway, i've been acting pretty pissed off all day. actually, it's quite a nice day. lovely weather. going to a show tonight. it's friday.
13 - Michael J. West
I'm just going to a happy hour. then going home. But a Nationals game tomorrow night...it's been a rotten week, though, I must say.
14 - Arch Conservative
What exactly about my pointing out what a bunch of scumbags the Kennedys are pisses you off zingzing?
15 - zingzing
you're doing it in the wrong place. and you do it all the time. you're not supposed to post totally off topic stuff, it's just rude to the writer and i'm sure that it's frowned upon by the editors. you did it with the walkout thing earlier this week. it got really annoying. very childish. you also talk about the kennedys every chance you get. it's an obsession and it's kind of sick. we know your viewpoint. i think everyone expected this out of you. it's gotten so far beyond silly that it's to a point of being highly annoying.
16 - RogerMDillon
Arch, I'll do it after you write the article about Laura Bush killing her schoolmate in a traffic accident.
I would think you others would be thankful he forgot about the illegal imm-whoops!
17 - Jet in Columbus
As I recall Roger, George Bush was and still is an alcoholic. Arch's constant purpose is to distract attention away from any article he disagrees with, (if he even read past the first paragraph that is)
18 - RogerMDillon
Jet, I'm well aware of what Arch and his many names are up to. I think your pc's sarcasm filter is too restrictive.
19 - Jet in Columbus
...amoung other things. Excuse me for agreeing!
20 - Victor Plenty
The government in Israel cannot choose between good and evil. Until the people on the ground in places like Hebron resolve the conflicts between them, Israel's government (and by extension, its allies and well-wishers in the United States and elsewhere) can at best try to minimize the harm to all sides. Often it will cause more harm to one side than to another. Under the present circumstances, it is not possible to do no harm.
21 - nugget
hahaha! I think Ruvy would disagree with you, Victor Plenty.
Ruvy: Civil War? Are secularist Jews that vindictive towards the religious ones? Are religious ones feeling cornered? Do you foresee an escalation into mass violence?
If so, awesome!! j/k, my Freudian destructive instinct takes hold sometimes.
22 - gazelle
RinJ:
i'm skeptical of religious governments or government systems from iran, india, pakistan to the US. this has nothing to do with my own religiousness or non.
but, i'm also willing to give them a chance to prove or destroy themselves, again iran/US/india, despite the costs.
Now what would a rightist/conservative/religious government/govt-system in israel look like if the secularists are sidelined ? would it look like another iran?
best
23 - Ruvy in Jerusalem
Shavua Tov,
Bing, aside from the fact that the Kennedy family paterfamilias did was a Nazi sympathiser and did evil himself, and had sons who, though charming and all that, did evil also, I do not see what the Kennedy's have to do with this piece. Unless you are a really sharp boy and wish to point out that the glamourous are often evil, and the idiots in the media go after the glamour first and then, only after the death is done, report the evil...
The evil in Hebron is yet to occur, having been put off til Sunday or Monday. I do not know how many field trips to the Judean desert my friend can afford to take. The boss misses you after a time, you know...
Gazelle,
The people who most resemble the folks in the Iranian theocracy in this country are already in the government. This is the political party Sha"s, which is a religious party seeking to represent Jews who hail from Morocco, Greece, Turkey, Iraq, Iran and the Arab world. The other really religous party wanted to join, but Sha"s got there first. Unfortunately, the religious parties here are selling their souls for money. This is one of the reasons this article has such a bitter tone to it.
The Jews who have a bit of honesty and decency in them are no where near this government.
24 - Ruvy in Jerusalem
I just read the article over, and I see there is just a bit of editing to be done. I broke my own rule and composed on the Moveable Type and did not catch two errors. See you all soon.
25 - Silas Kain
If all Kennedys are drunks but not all drunks are Kennedys........which train will reach St.Louis first, train A or B.
Neither.
What exactly about my pointing out what a bunch of scumbags the Kennedys are pisses you off zingzing?
Though not a huge fan of the Kennedys, I hardly think that immoral, indecent or scumbaggishness behavior is limited to the Kennedys and/or Liberals. There are plenty of demonic, agenda driven scumbags on all sides of the fence.
That being said, I'm ready to pull the plug on all US aid to any and all governments located in the Middle East. It's time for the Arabs, Jews and others to get their acts together and find a way to get along. This 5,000 year war is getting tedious. If they can't come to an agreement to coexist, carpet bomb the entire region and start over. Isn't that basically what Jehovah Yahweh God did in the days of Noah?