Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Chief of Staff Benny Gantz lit the first candle of Chanukah with IDF soldiers at the Ephraim Spatial Brigade base, a week after extreme-right activists broke into the premises and injured the brigade commander and his deputy.
Netanyahu told the brigade soldiers that the incident was a stain on the rule of law and on the settlers, and as such it must be erased.
Netanyahu denounced “price tag” acts, saying “we cannot accept vandalism of mosques or harming police officers, soldiers or innocent people. This can happen, but if it does, we must act with full authority against the perpetrators.”
The prime minister thanked the army, which he said was placed in a difficult situation, having to maintain the security of the population while protecting itself from attacks.
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Dagger pointed at the heart would be a better word. It’s clear that the religious nationalists have very little support (note how few seats their parties got in the last election, dwarfed by the Hareidim as well as the establishment parties), so now they turn to violence to get what they couldn’t get through elections. In most countries, especially those in a state of war with their neighbors, such dissent usually gets you shot, but the Israelis are too soft to go that far.
Using the IDF (whose purpose is SUPPOSED TO BE to DEFEND the Jewish People) to pull Jewish families from their beds in the middle of the night and bulldoze their homes, THAT is a “stain on the state”!!!