In an appearance on Channel 20 TV, former Yesha Council head Danny Dayan in an excited tone explained that he did not resign as executive director as many believe, but he was ousted because of his views, including his opposition to the use of violence as a means to an end. Dayan’s appearance on Channel 20 was on Monday, 18 Menachem Av the show ‘Patriots’.
Following recent acts of violence, the arson in the PA (Palestinian Authority) village of Duma and stabbing attack at the Jerusalem Toeiva Parade, there is much talk about violence in the right-wing Jewish camp.
Dayan explained there were some who believed that when it came to removing outposts anything was permissible but he remained vocal in his opposition regarding violence against IDF soldiers and against Arabs. He added that he has spoken out publically sufficiently for his position to be on record. “My position was viewed as unacceptable” he explained, but when asked to give the names of persons including rabbonim who give backing for the use of violence he stated he does not have names.
Dayan then cited an example, Boaz Albert of Yitzhar, who was arrested repeatedly but Dayan feels he was not jailed for long enough. “He just wiped the dust off his clothing and he was released” explaining Dayan. Albert was held in administrative detention and the brutality and abuse of tasers against him during his arrest led to a public outcry. He adds that making things worse, elected officials went to visit him in prison to give him encouragement. This included then Housing Minister Uri Ariel.
Dayan went on to speak about the lack of effort by the current administration regarding the destruction of the Dreinoff homes in Beit El and the lack of outcry against the government.
Dayan feels the Yesha leadership is not sufficiently vocal when it should condemn the unacceptable actions of some in the community. He adds “I want this to come from our kishkes, like when people are boiling up inside and they must let it out”. He explains that is the education that must be given over to the youth so they have a clear understanding that acts of violence are not to be viewed as an acceptable means to achieve one’s goals. He feels when people understand this message, they will not have to be prompted to issue condemnatory statements but they will do so because they feel it is the correct response.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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He is a capo. Who paid his salary? The leftist regime. Everything he did he did part of and representing the government and not the Jews in Yehuda and Shomron..
Nice general smear…good work,Dayan.(not)
I heard condemnation from the right wing, maybe you missed it.
BTW, I thought “administrative detention” was just instituted this week by the Security Cabinet. Yet, here Dayan admits it was used against Boaz Albert earlier. Perhaps MK Uriel Ariel and others protested the Shabak methods of torture(tazers) and undemocratic(police state) tactics of arrest without evidence. These are separate issues from the silent assent to violence by certain groups. It is wrong that he equates one with the other.
Perhaps, the real reason he was ousted was because the community felt that he falls in lock step with the administration’s policy of home destruction? He gives lip service to that issue but really hasn’t accomplished much for them, in this aspect, during his tenure.
I would like a public official to remind DM Yaalon that Meir Ettinger, who is currently in “administrative detention,” is an orphan and that we are obligated to speak out against inhumane interrogation methods and arrest on “suspicions”, especially in this case.
We are all obligated to cry out against injustice to orphans and widows.
Perhaps, Mr. Dayan, a man of influence, wishes to address this case.
My source for Meir Ettinger’s parental status, I believe, was in error.
I think there was confusion because his relatives, Binyamin Ze’ev Kahane and his wife Talya were murdered in 2000 by “Palestinian” gunmen. It must have been these orphans, his cousins, that my source was referring to.
May his parents live a long life and see their son married and living a Torah true life, and become committed to Torah without all these confusions he has now.
#3 he is already living a Torah life. How dare you accuse him of not being a Torah Jew? He is the grandson of a great Rav. Rabi Meir Kahane ZTL HYD who lived and taught to live a Torah life in the full sense. Perhaps you are the one in need of introspection because your the one accusing and demeaning others.
I’m sorry but you see that I am pointing out his unfair incarceration, something not one else has yet dared to do.(See my post #2, and post of today on the new article about his mistreatment).
I do live in Eretz Yisrael, so I could, G-d forbid, hear someone knocking at my door, for even posting, at this time,statements that don’t condemn him.
I know he is observant and from an observant family but I feel that all this excessive obsession about the political aspects of Torah may prevent a full development in his ability to learn and lead a full family life.
As a parent of similarly aged children, that would be my primary concern.
(I’ve since learned that, B’H, he was married last year.)
My husband always says about HaRav Meir Kahane Z’LT that he remembers the inspiring stories from the weekly newsletter Olimenu, from when he was a child, and for the fight for Russian Jewry. He was an educator and an activist, who should be remembered as such, perhaps his impatient yearning for a true Torah oriented government got him into areas that, at times, were better expressed in a less militant stance.
I do appreciate his best qualities, though.
Please do not misjudge my intentions.