Ironically, as the Government of Israel approves the deployment of 600 armed PA (Palestinian Authority) security forces in Chevron areas, an order is given to destroy the home of the Federman family, a veteran family of the Chevron Jewish community. The farm is located near the entrance to Kiryat Arba. Local police and army forces told the media they were surprised when they saw the force accompanied by a tractor, explaining the operation was kept secret from everyone in the area.
The Federman Farm as the complex is known, is composed of four buildings and was home to 17 people. Tens of border police moved in during the night between motzei Shabbos and Sunday morning, arresting the father, Noam Federman, as well as detaining a number of his children, as police moved in and destroyed their home. Orit Struck, a veteran Chevron resident and head of a Yesha human rights watchdog organization explains there are no coincidences. She believes that by permitting the PA forces into the area, many IDF troops are now available to continue harassing the Jewish community of the area.
Elisheva Federman explained that the destruction took place during the predawn hours, about 3:00am, and before she was able to understand what was happening — her home and the family’s possessions were a pile of ruins. “We had no clothing, no blankets, nothing to comfort my children. No cell phones to make calls for assistance, nothing!” she stated. Her husband Noam was taken into custody and was therefore unable to assist her. The “illegal outpost” as the government calls it has been standing for about a decade, but suddenly, the decision was made to remove it, leaving the residents homeless.
Chevron’s Jewish community’s leaders condemned the move, accusing the government and local police of a witch hunt against the Jews of Chevron.
Israel Radio in its report of the event aired some very harsh and extreme responses from the Chevron/Kiryat Arba community, including for calls for attacks against IDF soldiers, wishing them to “fall against their enemy”, and wishing them to “become the next Gilad Shalit”. Police also report attacks followed the destruction of the outpost, including rock attacks against Israeli security forces and Arabs and damage to Arab vehicles in the area, mostly punctured tires. Some residents are calling for attacks against IDF soldiers.
Tzvi Katzover, the head of the Kiryat Arba Council, decried the militant responses, stating the words are quoted belong to a few fanatics and do not express the view of the residents of the area or Yehuda and Shomron. He stated “we cannot permit the government to use the unacceptable statements as a fog to cover the true crime, the destruction of the home.”
Justice Minister Daniel Friedman and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert called on police to act against inciters and law-breakers.
As of Sunday morning, Noam Federman was still in custody, facing charges of assaulting an officer.
(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)
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Hashem Yishmor!!! How can we sit by idly and let this happen?! These people did nothig wrong except follow the mitzvah of living in the Eretz Hakedosha! We must not let the destruction of Chevron as we did Gush Katif!!!
This terrible chillul Hashem is the reason why I refuse to stand up in shul during the recitation of the prayer for the state of israel and the IDF.
#3, welcome to the club.
The Israeli Government and The Latest Debacle:
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I’m not one to spew countless lines of drivel to make myself feel important. That means, I tend not to write things like this, because usually that is the gist of such things.
However, the recent governmental escapade regarding the Federman family is something that cannot go without comment.
You have a family living in Israel, a family infamous for right-wing activity. That means, the government doesn’t like them much. They lived in a home built illegally, a home no differently classed by law than so many homes of their Arab “cousins” all over Jerusalem and Yehuda/Shomron.
(I would have said Yesha, but there is no A in the equation anymore because of the insidious expulsion of Jews from their homes in Aza that caused nothing but more bloodshed).
In any case, the government, as usual, wanted to make these extremists an example. So, they sent in policemen who re-enacted a typical pogrom or aktion of Nazi proportions. 0130, little children woke up to the sound of glass shattering in their bedrooms and black-suited attackers heinously beating them and their mother. The father was already taken into custody.
If this had happened in any other place to anyone other than those espousing the right for Jews to live anywhere they want in the Biblical land of Israel, much of the world, at least the human rights activists, would be up in arms.
The progressive Israeli media, who cries for Darfur and China, would happily expel any religious Jew to substitute them with Darfurians, Chinese, or anyone else who does not believe in the G-d given right of a Jew to live in the holy land. And in this case, when covering this debacle, they prove their sickness uber alles. They cried, yes, they cried. They howled like the tattered, soulless hyenas they are, for the government to arrest a man, a neighbor, who said that “The perpetrators of this attack should either fall or be captured in battle.”
Olmert, still Prime Minister after his ostensible resignation, still perches on his bloodstained, decrepit throne and asserts that people, such as this man, are the ones truly responsible for violence. “We are sick of this verbal incitement which leads to violence. I expect to hear from the Defense Minister and Justice Minister what is to be done against these people.” I guess that robbing people, taking bribes, sending people irresponsibly to their deaths, promoting an oligarchy with only the interests of their personal bank accounts in mind, and other crimes are nothing, tantamount to this man’s words, now stigmatized. If they find that guy, he’s screwed.
Meanwhile, traumatized and bruised children ingest their fear. No doubt, these fragile, holy children are only tormented for the crime of being born to religious Jews who believe in Eretz Yisrael as a holy place for Jews. No doubt, this incident will fester in the hearts of these children who will be leaders more valiant, and more full of vicious hatred against the cowards who have perpetrated this crime against them.
I’m afraid to use stronger words, because I don’t want Shabak writing it down every time I blow my nose. They do anyway, I’m sure. I will say, however, that when first moving to Israel, I had a lot of hakarat hatov, appreciation, for the government, for the financial aid they gave me, for the IDF who are canonized in the mind of so many American Jewish children. It perturbs me that I am now so repulsed by this government, who steals from its constituents on a daily basis and employs tactics no less vicious than those of the Jewish kapo or yevsektzia against people who dare murmur a syllable against its practices.
Why us? Why afflict and oppress people who realize the destiny of Jewish identity and the land of Israel are so closely intertwined? Why are “Israeli” Hamasniks, Islamists, Arabs who burn down synagogues, leftists, anarchists and others allowed to provoke the right-wing population or just charedi Jews? These deeds go unaccounted for by the government, while one word breathed the wrong way by one of the religious can land the speaker in jail.
It’s because of one simple reason: The government fears us. They fear us because if we stand strong to who we are, we are no less dangerous than the Hamasniks. It’s not because we intend to act out physical violence. A lot of people love to talk but they wouldn’t do a thing when faced with an actual physical battle. Nor do they want it to come to that because they still believe that “people” such as the ones who sent Yasam out to abuse the Federman family have a point of the Jew in them.
It boils down to the fact that the government is scared to death of people who actually believe in something, especially those who go against this government’s own narrow self-interests, their desire for power and their hatred of Torah. They hate Torah so much because it demands they answer to Someone much more important than themselves.
It’s sad to me. Little does this government know that their success only lies in doing teshuva, which would entail working with us. So many of their children, (and most secular Israelis) don’t even know the barebones basics of Judaism. These people run away from Israel the first chance they get and quickly become as assimilated as their Diaspora brothers. If they want the country to stay a Jewish state (which I doubt), they need to start working with us instead of against us. Otherwise, all is lost, and their power will be as well.
And although I will not incite against the government for fear of the persecution I described, I am not saying this as incitement against the media, just as opinion without any action intended: I can’t say I wouldn’t be thrilled to see the evil people of the media fall in battle or be captured, especially by those they strive so hard to glamorize and vindicate. I’d rather see them do tshuva though.
In closing, I would like to wish you all a resounding mazal tov on Tzipi Livni’s lack of success in forming a unity government because of her demonic intent to divide Jerusalem. May all those with the same goal meet the same fate (at least): abject failure.
Amen to that brother!