Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: It's time Israel looked out for Jewish rights too

On the eve of the holiday, when Palestinian police officers murdered
and wounded Jews at Joseph's Tomb, officers in the Central Command
briefed reporters that a bunch of Bratslav Hasidim had broken through
a roadblock in the rush to their idolatry.
By Israel Harel
About three months after the spring revolution - more than half of the
Egyptians, according to an American survey, are in favor of revoking
the peace agreement with Israel and 62 percent think "the laws should
adhere to the Koran." In Syria, demonstrators are storming tanks. They
are not demanding liberty and freedom of expression, as many Israelis
fantasize, but rather, an end to the rule of the minority Alawi regime
and the handover of government reins to the Suni majority.
Not for democracy, and certainly not for peace with Israel, are the
corpses piling up in Daraa. Among the slogans heard there and in other
places, one stands out in particular - "Assad the coward, liberate the
Golan."
But the lead editorials and opening items on Israel radio and
television this week were not dedicated to the profound significance
of these marginal developments. On the eve of the holiday, when
Palestinian police officers murdered and wounded Jews at Joseph's
Tomb, officers in the Central Command briefed reporters (after the
Fogel family's murder, too, they pointed their fingers at the Itamar
security coordinators ) that a bunch of Bratslav Hasidim had broken
through a roadblock in the rush to their idolatry.
Thus, by attaching this stigma, the electronic media - one news
edition after another - strived to blame the Jews and clear the Arabs.
This is a familiar Jewish trait, which becomes extreme when dealing
with the "other." And Bratslav Hasidim, in every sense, are the
epitome of the other. Of the strange. They do not accept any
authority. They refuse to appoint even a "rebbe," a teacher and
mentor, who will bind them together. As fate would have it, the
murdered man was a Bratslav Hasid, second generation to settlers (from
Elon Moreh ) and the descendant of a family that carries on its back a
hump of hatred dating back to pre-state days, as well as an aunt,
Likud MK Limor Livnat, Israel's controversial minister of culture.
Yael Ben Dov and Ezra Yachin, former Lehi fighters and comrades in
arms of Ben Yosef Livnat's grandparents, can cite numerous examples
from those bloody days. One of them is the cold-blooded British
massacre of a group of teenage boys and girls, combatant cadets, in a
Ra'anana grove ("the Ra'anana children" ). The pre-state
establishment, instead of blaming the British, "aimed all the arrows
at us."
Nothing has changed. This time the defense of the murderers stems -
apart from hatred toward the settlers and the Bratslav Hasidim - from
the need to prove the concept that we have a partner (as Assad is the
Syrian partner, if only we would withdraw from the Golan ) for peace.
Israel has many human rights organizations. Although most of them are
entirely secular, they diligently protect Arab rights and the freedom
of ritual at every religious site. To the best of my recollection,
they have not demanded this freedom for Jews as well. Not on the
Temple Mount, where Jews are forbidden to pray and the Waqf upholds
the prohibition, not at Joseph's Tomb, and not at the Shalom al
Yisrael synagogue in Jericho. Naturally, no such organization issued a
denunciation of the murder at Joseph's Tomb.
In contrast, representatives of such organizations came to Awarta, to
the homes of the Fogel family's murderers, hugged the family members
and condemned the IDF's barbarism during the searches in the village.
When their shame was revealed, the Israeli media hastened to clear
them, saying the visit was held two days before the official
announcement came that the murder had been solved, so the visitors
"did not know for a fact" that the families they visited were the
murderers' families.
They obviously did not go to console the Fogel family. Nor did they
find another way to express their sympathy. Maybe because they didn't
feel any.
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