Dozens of Arabs on leil Purim stood on the side of the main road in Huwara and threw stones at Israeli cars driving through the town.
The cars of at least four Jews were damaged, including the uncle of Hallel and Yigal Yaniv, h’yd, who was on his way to Har Bracha to visit the bereaved family.
“I was driving with my son to the Tapuach intersection and while passing through Huwara, I saw a crazed gathering of dozens of Arabs with stones and five Arabs nearby with baseball bats,” a Har Bracha resident said. “IDF soldiers were standing next to them, not doing anything. The cars in front of me were hit by stones. On my way back, the scenario repeated itself.”
Another resident who was driving with his friends to Kriyas Megillah said they saw about 50 Arabs gathering in the center of Huwara and within moments, they were hit by stones. “We were hit by stones on the right side. We quickly continued driving and 50 meters later we were hit again on the left side. It was a miracle we weren’t injured, but the car was damaged. Later, we saw how the entire road was strewn with stones.”
“Another Jew who passed by about 20 minutes after the incident found himself surrounded by Arabs who rammed his car. He had to shoot in the air to disperse them.”
Later, dozens of Jews from the neighboring yishuvim came to the area and held a protest against the inaction of the security establishment.
“The situation here is preposterous,” said Elkanah Pikar, one of the protesters. “A murderous terror attack occurred here just a week ago and the army doesn’t even consider taking harsh steps against the village that encourages the terror.”
“Since the attack, over ten stoning attacks occurred here that were not responded to by security officials, who instead are busy pursuing the Jewish residents who are trying to protect their lives. The government and security establishment are simply abandoning us.”
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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Uh oh. Where is the Xiden administration condemning the violence and proclaiming how disgusted they are and how intolerable it is, etc etc etc etc
Why aren’t target carrying automatic weapons and firing in self defense
Smotritch is right after all.
I’m sure unelected democrats Ned Price and Jake Sullivan are very troubled by this development.
The way to respond to a terrorist attack is not by vandalising and burning a village. Now they are paying the price. Do not expect the IDF to suddenly come to their recue.
Now that its family come again
Daas Tora
Please change your handle to Daas Am Haaretz
If the settlers would not be held back and for every violent incident by an arab they would torch another few houses and several dozen cars, THE ARABS WILL STOP AND THERE WILL BE NO MORE VIOLENCE
@Not getting involved
Did you hear the news that Ned Price is stepping down? HA HA HA !!
Smotrich is shocked that anyone would interpret “erasing huwara” means with people, instead of structure.
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Excerpt from INN, Mar.8.23:
“By G-d, such a crazy thought never crossed my mind, not even for a split second. It’s simply not in my lexicon. When the storm surrounding my comments first arose, I wondered how far they could be taken to criticize and attack me. I thought the farthest they could go was the interpretation that the houses of the villages on both sides of the road would be destroyed to prevent the continuation of the terrorist attacks on that road, which is used for the movement of thousands of settlers, men, women and children. Something like what Arik (Ariel) Sharon in the 80s, and which the Supreme Court forbade in the area of the murder of Tali Hatuel and her daughters.
“At most something like what the Egyptian president did just recently, a kilometer away from the border with Gaza, as part of the fight against the smuggling tunnels between Egypt and the Gaza Strip. In none of those cases was there harm to human life, only against property. I assumed that such a step was also seen as excessive and disproportionate, hence the accusations against me and the accusation of war crimes and the call to not let me into the US. Until this conversation this morning, I really didn’t imagine that anyone could seriously understand my words as a call for the indiscriminate killing of women and children in the village.
“That’s when the penny dropped for me. Pilots who have in their hands a weapon with tremendous firepower, like a fighter jet, are constantly dealing with this tension. They study it, talk about it and live it day by day, hour by hour. Every time when they put on the flight suit, get on the plane and go into action in enemy territory, just before they push the button and release the bomb, they live the dilemma between the just, moral, and critical goal for the security of the country they were sent to accomplish and the collateral damage that may occur.
“In professional legal language it is called ‘proportionality,’ in real life this word takes the form of life and death. This is a dilemma that only those who hold in their hands a tremendous responsibility for human life and forge destinies with the push of a button can really understand. And blessed are the people whose children they are, who live this moral tension, and they do it with all vigilance even after decades of service and countless operations.
“As someone who did not get to serve in combat service, I only know this tension from a theoretical level. From the discussions, from the transcriptions of the standing orders and the orders of the IDF General Staff, and from the investigations of the exercises and operational activities that I had the privilege of taking part in in the operations division of the General Staff, in regular and reserve service, from the training on the values of the IDF that trainees receive, from the study lessons in the yeshiva on the mitzvah of fighting Amalek and the Torah discourses seasoned with the wine of the Purim feasts, and from the discourse – public and social in Israel around the morality of fighting. I can only imagine what that tension looks like in reality – from the air, sea or land – when you hold in your hand a mighty weapon such as a fighter jet, tank or other machine of war.
“And here I came to two insights: the first concerns how much we don’t know each other. How much foreignness and alienation there is between the different parts of Israeli society. We are so close and yet so far apart. So close in the practical partnership of the Zionist enterprise, our enterprise of national revival. We study together, serve together, work together, build the country together. And so far apart in the lack of familiarity with each other’s values and worldview. For years I have struggled to understand the gap between the image I have in certain parts of the nation and who I really am. I know myself. The house I grew up in, the values I bring with me from home, from the environment I grew up in, from the Torah I studied. I know how much light and goodness and justice and morality and love of man and nation there is in all of these, and I don’t recognize the black figure that often stares at me in the media mirror. I can blame it on the media until tomorrow, but it doesn’t change the result.
“And if there is a huge gap between who I am and how I am perceived ‘on the other side’, to the extent that I can be accused of calling for the murder of women and children, who knows what gap there is between how I often perceive people or the statements of parties on the other side and who and what they really are?! Could it be that I’m making the same mistake?
Can all you irresponsible people get the h out of these dangerous settlements ?! You live in Arab territory and u expect to live in peace?! Have u all gone mad?! These places are suicidal. If u choose to live in the lions den then please leave us out of your crazed life decisions.
These poor boys family live in a very dangerous place. They were murdered by blood thirsty Arabs that have no regard to human life. But Y ON EARTH WOULD A PERSON ENDANGER HIMSELF AND HIS FAMILY?!
Beyond comprehension 😭😭
Daas Tora,
That is is incorrect. Halachikly we must respond with a heavy hand. If it means wiping out the village than so be it.
They are all guilty, they have no court system, which is one of the sheva mitzvos. Additionally, we must teach them Jewish blood is not cheap. That is the Torah way