so there are assholes in every nation...that does not mean everyone in the
nation is an asshole!
I read the whole article and it sounds like the government will take
appropriate action agains the extremists.
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> Last update - 23:10 26/10/2008
> Mazuz calls for incitement probe against settler activists in response
to
> West Bank rioting
>
> By Haaretz Service
> Tags: Outpost, Israel News
>
> Attorney General Meni Mazuz on Sunday called for an incitement
> investigation
> against right wing activists, hours after rioting by settlers in the
West
> Bank that included the desecration of headstones at a Muslim cemetery
near
> Kiryat Arba.
>
> During the rioting, settlers hurled abuse at security forces personnel,
> and
> called for a "revenge attack" against them in response to the evacuation
> of
> an illegal outpost built by Right-wing activist Noam Federman near
Kiryat
> Arba.
>
> "We hope they will be defeated by their enemies, that they will all be
> [kidnapped IDF soldier] Gilad Shalit, that they will all be killed and
all
> slaughtered because this is what they deserve," they said.
>
> In a letter released Sunday, Mazuz said that statements made by
right-wing
> activists during the rioting "crossed a red line", and are not protected
> under freedom of speech.
>
> During the rioting, a number of settlers were arrested for attacking a
> police
> officer, and two young women were arrested after they tried to set a
> police
> car alight.
>
> In addition to vandalizing the graves, settlers also damaged over 80
> Palestinian vehicles by sma****ng windows and puncturing tires. Two
police
> cars were damaged during the altercations.
>
> Settlers, for their part, argued that security forces carried out the
> evacuation without a preliminary order and that they did not give the
> outpost's residents time to pack up their belongings.
>
> Olmert: Anyone inciting violence against troops belongs in jail
>
> The settlers' calls for violence against the security forces drew fire
> from
> outgoing Prime Minister Ehud Olmert at Sunday's weekly cabinet meeting.
>
> "I've ordered Ministers Dichter and Friedman to manage the procedures
> against
> these people, whoever expresses himself in such a manner belongs in
jail.
> We've had enough of all this violence: Verbal violence that brings
> physical
> violence - and we will not abide this," he said.
>
> Olmert was referring to Public Security Minister Avi Dichter and Justice
> Minister Daniel Friedmann.
>
> Defense Minister Ehud Barak joined the premier in his condemnation,
> calling
> for right-wing extremists to receive harsher punishments for such
> outbursts.
>
> Vice Premier Haim Ramon also attacked the phenomenon.
>
> "Everyone who this morning called for violence against IDF soldiers must
> be
> arrested immediately," he said.
>
> "If an Arab had urged on the radio for attacks against IDF soldiers he
> would
> have already been arrested long ago - [our] behavior must be exactly the
> same
> toward the settlers."
>
> The Yesha settlement council, for its part, also issued a condemnation
of
> the
> verbal attacks, branding those responsible for them "troublemakers."
>
> The settler leaders said: "The defamatory words that were spoken by
> troublemakers this morning against IDF soldiers are particularly grave,
> and
> deserve every condemnation. But there is nothing in this to lessen the
> gravity of the acts the government has initiated in Hebron including the
> evacuation of a farm in which Jews have live for two years and the
> insertion
> of Palestinian police in the city."
>
> Israel has repeatedly pledged to the United States that it would
evacuate
> these outposts to meet the conditions of the first stage of the
diplomatic
> road map leading to a final-status agreement with the Palestinians.
>
> Earlier this year, Defense Minister Ehud Barak and settler leaders
reached
> an
> agreement to dismantle some 26 outposts built on private Palestinian
land
> after March 2001.
>
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