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'Innocent Citizens' Protecting Terrorists? - No Such Thing
Beit El's Rabbi Melamed: "Those who protect terrorists are not innocent." He was referring to last night's incident in which Arabs gathered at a terrorist's home to prevent Israel from bombing it.
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Sunday, November 19, 2006
28 Cheshvan 5767
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1. 'Innocent Citizens' Protecting Terrorists? - No Such Thing
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By Hillel Fendel
Beit El's Rabbi Melamed: "Those who protect terrorists are not innocent." He was referring to last night's incident in which Arabs gathered at a terrorist's home to prevent Israel from bombing it.
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The IDF called off a planned aerial strike on the home of a leading terrorist commander in northern Gaza last night, after hundreds of Arabs gathered around the building, defying Israel to bomb it. Chanting, "Death to America and death to Israel!" in scenes broadcast on Palestinian Authority television, many of the Arabs said they would be willing to give their lives in the struggle. However, their bravado was, unsurprisingly, not tested, as the IDF called off the strike because of the protest. "The attack plan was canceled because of the people there," an IDF spokesman said. "We differentiate between innocent people and terrorists."
Rabbi Zalman Melamed, however, says that there were no innocent people there to be differentiated. "We must do whatever we can to prevent hits on our citizens," he told Arutz-7 today. "From an ethical point of view, there would have been no problem to hit the building, even with all the people there. Their presence there was part of the war against us. From a practical/diplomatic standpoint, of course, we have to measure our steps carefully."
The question of "innocent citizens" arises, says the Dean of the Beit El Yeshiva Institutions, "only when you have armies fighting each other on the battlefront, and the citizenry is detached from the forces. But in this case, in Gaza, where the terrorists and citizens are intertwined, there is no difference between them."
Rabbi Shabtai Sabato, the head of Yeshivat Netivot Yosef in Mitzpeh Yericho, said the question is "military, not ethical."
"The military echelons should know that in a situation of war such as this one, we must do whatever we can to destroy the enemy and not be defeated," Rabbi Sabato told Arutz-7. "That is the ethically-correct thing to do. Therefore, there is no reason to inform them in advance that we are about to hit such-and-such a building. But when they do warn the enemy in advance, this leads to a situation where hundreds of them come to a building and 'dare' us to attack. At this point, the question is no longer one for 'men of ethics,' but rather for the military people who got us into that situation in the first place and have now 'trapped' the men of ethics."
A-7: "But don't the men of ethics have to answer every question put to them, even if the situation should not have happened in the first place?"
Rabbi Sabato responded, "No, because then what results is not ethics, but something that is twisted and warped."
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2. Kassams Send Sderot Victims to Hospital
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By Hillel Fendel
Over ten Kassam rockets were fired at Sderot and environs over the weekend - and the last one has left a resident in moderate-to-serious condition - the fourth major casualty in four days.
| Two Kassam rockets were fired at the western Negev early Sunday morning, causing no injuries - but shortly before 7:45 AM, another volley hit Sderot, and this time the people were not as fortunate. Shrapnel from one of the deadly projectiles hit one person, causing him moderate-to-serious injuries. A Magen David Adom emergency health crew treated him on the spot, but he was then taken by ambulance to Barzilai Hospital in Ashkelon. Two other people were also taken to the hospital to be treated for shock.
This past Wednesday morning, Fatima Slutzker - a Moslem woman, mother of two, who immigrated to Israel with her Jewish husband and their two sons several years ago - was killed by a Kassam rocket. In the same attack, Maor Peretz, a guard at the home of Sderot resident Defense Minister Amir Peretz, was seriously injured, and both of his legs were subsequently amputated below the knee. On Thursday, a 17-year-old youth was seriously wounded by rocket shrapnel in his stomach.
It was later reported that yet another Kassam was fired, landing in the Eshkol region of the western Negev around 8:15 AM and causing no injuries.
The Cabinet ministers will discuss various options to the ongoing rocket strikes at Israel's civilian population. Though several ministers have been quoted as saying that 'no other country would tolerate such a situation' and the like, the Cabinet is not expected to approve a wide-scale military operation in Gaza.
An IDF strike at a vehicle in Gaza this afternoon reportedly killed one terrorist. The incident was an instance of the practice known as "targeted killing of terrorists."
During the night, the IDF was forced to cancel a planned aerial strike on a suspected terrorist target in Gaza when hundreds of Arab residents gathered around the building. The IDF, as is customary, had given notice to the families living in the building of the impending strike, but instead of leaving the area, the residents notified their friends, who came to the site. The villagers chanted anti-American and Israeli slogans indicating they would rather die rather than surrender to Israel.
The targeted building was the home of Popular Resistance Committees commander Mohammad al-Baroud, who resides in Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza.
The terrorists plan to make this a regular practice. "We call upon all the fighters to reject evacuating their houses," said Abu Abir, a spokesman for the Popular Resistance Committees, quoted by Reuters, "and we urge our people to rush into the threatened houses and make human shields."
The General Security Service (Shabak) announced today that 1,004 Kassam rockets have been fired at the Sderot region in the course of this year. In 2005, the number of rockets was 306, and in the year before that, 159 rockets were fired at Sderot and environs.
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3. Photo Feature: Fear and Rage in Betrayed Sderot
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By Ezra HaLevi
The residents of Sderot, who settled in the southern Israeli town over half a century ago, today refer to themselves as “hostages” of a government refusing to keep its pre-Disengagement promises.
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Sderot is within Israel’s pre-1967 borders, just outside northern Gaza. For the past six years it has borne the brunt of rocket attacks from the Palestinian Authority-controlled town of Beit Hanoun, across the Gaza border.
Though most residents opposed the unilateral withdrawal from Gaza, they all took comfort in the declarations by Israel’s defense and political establishment that any post-Disengagement rockets would be met with a harsh response.
Last Wednesday, on a day of mourning and missiles, residents said they fear for the future of a country that fears civilian casualties in Beit Hanoun more than it does in Sderot.
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It was a foggy morning in Sderot. The early-warning system sounded, as it does most days, during the time when children are setting off to school and residents are traveling to work.
The system sounded. "Tzeva adom. Tzeva adom. Tzeva adom…"
When first installed, the system sounded the Hebrew words shahar adom, meaning “red dawn,” but parents complained that their children named Shahar were feeling stigmatized at being associated with the dreaded rockets. Now the system broadcasts tzeva adom, meaning “color red.”
The system usually provides the men, women and children of the city with 15 seconds to stop what they are doing and scramble for cover. Shopping carts are left in supermarket aisles, phone conversations interrupted, childrens’ baths abruptly stopped, and prayers are recited alongside the sudden tears of children and adults like.
Bystanders said the alarm only offered about four seconds’ warning Wednesday morning, when the rocket fell straight from the sky. Unlike the arc trajectory of the Katyusha missiles fired at northern Israel this summer, Kassam rockets fall straight down once their fuel propulsion is used up. Northern residents were able to hide from the rockets, behind walls facing Lebanon. For the residents of Sderot, there is nowhere to hide.
Fatima Slutzky, a 57-year-old Muslim woman who immigrated to Israel under the Law of Return with her Jewish husband, was struck by the rocket as she walked toward her job in the city center. She was mutilated by the impact and dead upon arrival at the hospital.
Security guard Maor Peretz, assigned to patrol the neighborhood around Defense Minister Amir Peretz’s home, was lacerated and burned by the explosion and shrapnel. Maor had both his legs amputated, just months ahead of his wedding.
A similar explosion the next day injured a 17-year old boy walking to school.
The rockets are still termed Kassams by the Israeli and global media, though the range, amount of explosive material and shrapnel in the missiles has increased steadily over the past six years, since the first rocket struck the western Negev town. Police District Commander Maj.-Gen. Uri Bar-Lev, a commander of the implementation of the Gaza withdrawal, confirmed to reporters recently that the rockets are indeed steadily improving. But any resident of Sderot can tell you that.
“The explosions keep getting louder and now they put shrapnel and ball bearings into the rockets,” says 16-year-old Almog. He says he runs and hides whenever he hears the alert, but has friends who run to the point of impact each time to survey the damage and help people who may have been wounded.
A BBC reporter stands by the unimpressive crater caused by the lethal explosive projectile. “It was here that the home-made rocket struck an Israeli woman,” he says into the camera.
Peretz’s House
Down the block, morose security guards patrol the home of Sderot’s most famous resident, former Histadrut union chief and current Defense Minister Amir Peretz.
“Why do you reporters only come to Sderot on days when someone dies!” yells C., one of Peretz’s neighbors, to the reporters milling around. “Come live here, so you can tell the rest of the country what we are living through. You did it in the north last summer.”
C., who declined to offer her real name, was quite upset. “Nobody cares about us anymore,” she says. “People in Tel Aviv assume we must have done something to deserve this.”
Cycle of Violence?
The rockets have been striking Sderot with various degrees of regularity for six years. Prior to the Disengagement, residents were told they were being fired upon due to the "occupation of Gaza." Since the Disengagement, every time one Gaza terror faction wants to complicate another faction’s negotiations with Israel, each time a senior terrorist is eliminated, and most of the time for no reason at all, explosive-laden rockets are fired at Sderot and the agricultural communities surrounding Palestinian Authority-controlled Gaza.
Terror groups always fax various lists of grievances to news agencies, which always publish them. Wednesday’s attack, it was claimed, was “revenge” for the IDF’s accidental firing of a mortar shell at a home in Beit Hanoun days earlier, killing 19 people. The shelling, of course, was in response to the firing of missiles at Ashkelon, Israel’s 13th-largest city, a day earlier.
The BBC reporter recites the words “cycle of violence” for the camera - once, twice, three times. After an interview with a Sderot resident calling for the retaking of Gaza, the reporter points out, “The IDF has indeed been engaged in military action in Gaza for four months and it hasn’t stopped anything.”
C.’s husband mutters, “Gaza must be erased, from Erez to Rafiah – translate that for him.”
“Come on,” says his wife, who has lived in Sderot for 52 years. “My husband is just talking. Everyone likes to talk like that, but we are a country that apologized for hitting the home in Beit Hanoun last week. It seems the military route simply is not an option. We are living under attack, so if negotiations are what this government believes will bring an end to the rockets, then what are they waiting for?”
Y., Peretz’s across-the-street neighbor, is also nervous about having his real name in the press. “Every rocket that falls here is courtesy of Ariel Sharon,” he says. “The fact that he fell sick right after that cursed Disengagement is no coincidence. Now we are left with the Kassams for not opposing it strongly enough.”
“Kassams Shmassams!”
Vice-Premier Shimon Peres is the object of particular scorn on the rocket-pocked streets of Sderot. Residents cite his derisive attitude toward the threat they face as proof of the government’s complete abandonment. Last summer’s “Kassams shmassams” statement by Peres has earned him the status of both persona non grata and the most invited dignitary to take up resident in Sderot – “I’d like to see him live here for more than one day,” the owner of a popular falafel joint taunts.
"[We] have to stop being hysterical about the Kassams," Peres told reporters in a June briefing at the Knesset. "We are all fanning the hysteria. What's the big deal? Kiryat Shmonah was shelled for years. What, there were no rockets in Kiryat Shmonah? We have to tell the Palestinians that Kassams, Shmassams, we're staying."
A Kassam rocket fell in Y.’s garden a year ago. “I would leave in a second if I had the money,” he says. “Shimon Peres doesn’t live here. He wouldn’t even visit here without standing near a bomb shelter so he could run underground the second the warning sounds.”
Responding to the growing calls to re-engage Gaza Wednesday, Peres was all over the media dismissing the idea. "We can occupy Gaza, but that would be a cardinal mistake,” he told Army Radio. “Sinking into the Gazan mud will not guarantee an end to the missiles fired at Israeli communities, and then the IDF will serve as a convenient target for hurting soldiers.”
It is for that reason that Land of Israel activists have been drawing up plans to return to Gush Katif and rebuild their former communities. One of the speakers at a meeting of extra-parliamentary activist groups earlier this month urged activists to realize how critical the return to Gaza is. “This is not just a matter of fixing the injustice that was done to the residents of Gaza, but about restoring Israel’s ability to defend itself – to undo the injustice done to the residents of Sderot and Ashkelon as well,” said Boaz HaEtzni.
Military officials confide quietly that without the resettling of Gaza, the IDF’s presence in the area will only be accepted by the Israeli public for as long as it takes to bring a halt to the rocket fire. “Once the rockets cease, the comparisons to Lebanon and Iraq begin - the public forgets what life was like before we returned. Distracted by IDF casualties they will once again ask if it worth the price,” explained an active IDF officer formerly stationed in Gaza.
“The most destructive aspect of the military doctrine that allowed Disengagement," he said, "was the dismissal of the critical nature Jewish settlement plays in making our presence in Judea, Samaria and Gaza an expression of sovereignty in our homeland rather than a temporary military occupation.”
‘Why Don’t We Take to the Streets?’
David Cohen was born in Sderot. He has three children and runs Mamtakei Shir, a convenience store named for his daughter in the center of town.
“The Hareidim [Hareidi-religious Jews], in the name of the sanctity of their city, were willing to set the streets ablaze in order to prevent that parade,” Cohen laments. “But we here, for the very lives of our children, aren’t prepared to lift a finger.”
Asked why he and the group of like-minded individuals having lunch at the falafel stand next to his store don’t take the initiative, Cohen said: “The problem is that there is no leadership and no camaraderie in Sderot. There are no leaders in Israel.”
“We have been turned into front-line settlers against our will. We are the hostages of the state,” he said. “The head of the Shabak (General Security Service) told the Knesset that there is a functional plan to stop the rockets. It is mind-boggling to know that your government is just letting you remain sitting ducks because America dictates that now is not the time to put the plan into effect. They knocked down two towers in America and George Bush erased an entire country – an entire country. And we sit here and shoot at open fields, apologizing when we accidentally hit a house next to the launch-site."
“There are those who say, ‘If we reoccupy Gaza, soldiers will be killed.’ So let soldiers be killed - better them than children. That is what an army is for. That is what war is. Is it better that children be killed? I have three children. One day they will go to the army and risk their lives to defend the Jews of Tel Aviv. But now they go to school in Sderot. We live here. Where are we supposed to go? We are sitting ducks.”
At this point a local customer asks Cohen to extend his credit at the store so he can purchase two cartons of cigarettes on his tab. An argument ensues and Cohen relents. So does the customer, who settles for one carton.
Cohen returns, explaining that the rockets have soured what was once a very simple, but good life, in Sderot. “Life has ceased here. People are powerless. They take out their aggression on each other.”
Cohen has to leave his store in the middle of the day to pick his daughter up after kindergarten. “There are many people here who simply don’t leave their house. I do my best so my wife doesn’t have to leave home. I pick up the groceries, I leave my store to pick up and drop off the kids at school. It’s insane. If the government really has no intention of defending us, then let them give us compensation. Buy my store, buy my house, move us to Ashkelon – but why hold my kids hostage?”
The root of the problem, Cohen explained, is that nobody feels the pain of their fellow Jews anymore:
“The media, which is run by the government, taught us to ignore the plight of the Gaza settlers, first when they absorbed thousands of rockets and then when we expelled them without so much as a thank-you. Now we are the new settlers – without even choosing to be.
“We are being pummeled with rockets and the prime minister is sipping cocktails in Los Angeles with half the government. Channel One came here, asked us what we thought. We told them what needed to be done and that night we turned on the TV and saw the one bleeding-heart quoted and the rest of us cut out. The state runs the media and there is no real democracy.
“We were fooled. They told us Disengagement would bring security, but it was all for money – they knew full well it would be on our backs. We must turn the country upside down – burn it in flames, do even half of what the Hareidim did in Jerusalem. We need to do it, because if Sderot falls, it is all over. I hope it is not too late.”
(Photos: Josh Shamsi, Arutz-7 Photojournalist)
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4. Minister Lieberman: Kill Hamas Leadership, Deal With Jordan
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By Ezra HaLevi
Yisrael Beiteinu Party Chairman Avigdor Lieberman, the newest government minister, has called for discarding the US-backed Road Map plan, ignoring Mahmoud Abbas and killing the Hamas leadership.
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Speaking with Israel Radio over the weekend, Lieberman outlined his vision for the steps Israel must take. He asserted that the Palestinian Authority’s Arabs are not interested in setting up a state, but in destroying Israel "in the service of international Jihad.” Lieberman said that to ensure its survival, Israel must reject all past agreements and current interim proposals, from the failed Oslo Accords to the unimplemented US Road Map to Peace.
"Continued commitment to Oslo and to the Road Map will lead us to another round of conflict - a much bloodier round,” Lieberman said. “And in the end we will be in an even worse dead-end position that threatens our very existence in the future."
Lieberman dismissed efforts to empower Fatah chief and PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen), whose group was trounced by the Islamist Hamas in the PA’s parliamentary elections. The newly appointed Minister of Strategic Threats said Israel should instead develop closer coordination with the Hashemite rulers of Jordan regarding administrating the Arab areas of Judea and Samaria.
“We have always targeted the wrong places and taken care not to speak with the right people. We are seeking a reliable partner and that only exists in Jordan right now. We have to coordinate with Jordan and say that Abbas is simply not relevant. We must ignore him. He has no authority and no power."
The Hashemite regime in Jordan is increasingly nervous that it will be overthrown by Islamist groups such as Hamas, which enjoy massive support among Jordan’s populace, a majority of whom consider themselves "Palestinian."
Lieberman flat-out called for the liquidation of the entire leadership of Hamas. "All the leaders of Hamas and Islamic Jihad walk around freely, inciting violence. They have got to disappear - to be send to paradise, all of them. There can't be any compromise."
“There is no point in targeting refugee camps or Beit Hanoun,” he added. “Those people, who live on ten shekels a day, have nothing to lose. When they are killed, they volunteer gladly. We have to focus on those who have something to lose - the leaders of Hamas and the Islamic Jihad.”
Lieberman stopped short of calling for the complete retaking of Gaza, let alone resettlement of its destroyed Jewish towns, but did demand that Israel reassert sovereignty over the Gaza-Egypt border in order to stop massive weapons smuggling.
"We have heard about the smuggling of tons of weapons, missiles and hundreds of millions of dollars into Gaza - the fuel driving this entire war," he said. "They have all failed - the international observers sitting at the Rafiah crossing and the Egyptians [who are supposed to prevent smuggling from the Egyptian side of the border]."
Lieberman said he hopes his entry into the government can finally signal an end to the repetition of the mistakes of Oslo. “We must learn our lessons from Oslo, from leaving Gaza, from what happened following the disengagement,” he concluded. “Without those lessons, moving on is impossible.”
Left-wing Meretz Party Chairman Yossi Beilin demanded that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert fire Lieberman for his statements. “If [Olmert] doesn’t do so,” Beilin said, “Lieberman’s statement become the statements of the entire government.”
Some of Lieberman’s statements, at least, drew support from fellow government member MK Matan Vilnai (Labor), who echoed the call to target members of the Hamas government.
Fellow Labor MK Ophir Pines - former Minister of Science, Technology, Culture, and Sports, who quit the government over Lieberman’s entry - issued a statement shortly afterwards declaring that if voted chairman of the party in next year's party elections, he would issue Olmert an ultimatum: “Either us or Lieberman.”
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5. International Chabad Convention in New York
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By Hillel Fendel
Over 3,000 Chabad emissaries from all over the world, including 250 from Israel, have begun their annual convention in New York. Arutz-7's Kobi Sela was there.
| The convention is taking place at 770 Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn, home of the late Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schnnersohn, and the Lubavitch world headquarters. New ideas by which Jewish content and ideals can be brought to Jewry world-wide are being presented and discussed.
Some 40 workshops and sessions are planned, dealing with a wide range of issues of interest to the emissaries (shlichim) around the world.
The main session will take place Sunday evening, following a visit by all the participants to the gravesite of the Rebbe.
Some 80 new Chabad Houses were established around the world over the course of the past year. Among the new locations to which young husband-and-wife emissary teams were sent to live and work are Las Vegas, Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam, and Cracow, as well as small cities in Germany, China, Brazil and many other countries.
Future plans include opening Chabad Houses in Montana, where 2,000 Jews live, as well as in West Virginia - leaving only four U.S. states without a Chabad House: North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming and Mississippi.
Arutz-7's Kobi Sela reports that one of the most moving moments was when Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky, responsible on behalf of the Chabad Education Center (Merkaz L'inyanei Hinukh) for the "shlichim" international empire, reads aloud the names of the countries in which the various shlichim are active. As each emissary arises in turn, a massive wave of applause conquers the hall.
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6. UN Condemns Israel for Beit Hanoun Anti-Kassam Mishap
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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert slams the United Nations for its condemnation of Israel and decision to send a review committee to Israel to investigate the errant artillery fire that killed 20 Arabs.
| The Geneva-based UN Human Rights Council voted on Friday, by a 156-7 margin, to call for an end to Israel's "assaults" against the residents of Gaza and an investigation into the mishap of last week that occurred during the course of an Israeli retaliation and deterrent attack against Kassam rocket attacks.
Israel's Ambassador to the UN, Danny Gillerman, recommends that Olmert and the government not cooperate with the UN investigation. Israel itself looked into the matter and found that a technical glitch had caused the mis-aimed fire.
Speaking at the start of today's Cabinet meeting, Prime Minister Olmert said that the ones who must explain and be held responsible for the deaths of civilians are "those who systematically fire at Israel with the goal of hitting Israeli citizens - and without being condemned by those who preach and roll their eyes..."
Foreign Minister Tzippy Livny says that the UN decision is merely "letting off steam by Israel's opponents after they failed in passing a similar resolution in the Security Council." However, she said, Israel should present a peace initiative with the Palestinian Authority, without waiting for other countries' initiatives.
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