Itamar

Settler who attacked leftist rabbi: ‘If I kill one it’ll be over’

The young settler charged with attacking Rabbi Arik Ascherman blames human rights advocates for causing tension in the West Bank: ‘If I kill one of them it’ll be over. But that isn’t legal.’ The Jewish extremist accused of attacking Rabbis for Human Rights president Arik Ascherman last month was charged in court two weeks ago with causing grievous…

By Natasha Roth-Rowland November 27, 2015

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A personal thank you to Bibi, Obama and AIPAC

I just wanted to thank, from the bottom of my heart, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, U.S. President Barack Obama, and AIPAC leaders throughout its history for killing the two-state solution last year. Thanks to your never-ending efforts, I will now have to live in one state not only with disgusting Jewish supremacists, but also…

By Ami Kaufman January 29, 2012

Government Press Office doing PR for the settler movement

It seems that every state agency in Israel is becoming a tool in the effort to further colonize the West Bank and deepen the control over the lives of Palestinians. Soon after the government reached an internal “deal” with the settler movement that would keep the families who settled in a so-called “illegal” outpost on the…

By Noam Sheizaf January 13, 2012

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Motty Fogel: Grief shouldn’t be used for peace or war

Translation from Hebrew: Dimi Reider Motty Fogel, an Israeli journalist who lost his brother, sister-in-law, nephews and niece in the terror attack on the settlement of Itamar, spoke yesterday at the joint Palestinian and Israeli memorial ceremony organized by Combatants for Peace. He shared his speech with +972. When they offered me to speak at…

By +972 Magazine May 9, 2011

Army roadblock inside the Awarta

Solving the Itamar case does not justify the means the army used on Palestinians

Now that Israel has in custody two people who admitted to committing the murder in Itamar a month ago, I received several comments demanding I “update” my post on Awarta, meaning retract on the allegations in its last few paragraphs. I really don’t see a reason why. Hundreds of Palestinians were arrested and interrogated without due process.…

By Noam Sheizaf April 17, 2011

Children at the settlement of Itamar (credit: Itamar settlement website)

Israel: Itamar murderers have been found

According to Israeli media, two Palestinians from the village of Awarta admitted killing five members of the Fogel family a month ago This text was updated. According to unconfirmed reports from a rightist Israeli site, the Israeli army has two Palestinian suspects in custody, Amjed Awad and Hakim Awad, who have confessed to the brutal…

By Joseph Dana April 16, 2011

Solider Inspecting Palestinians from Awarta. Photo: michaelramallah/Flickr

Two hospitalized following Awarta raid

Despite Israeli media claims that a breakthrough in the murder investigation of the Fogel family is close, the village of Awarta continues to experience collective punishment. At about 2 AM on the night of 13 April dozens of soldiers entered Awarta as they have been for the past month. Soldiers targeted two homes, which were…

By Joseph Dana April 13, 2011

Stun grenades thrown at a Palestinian house in Awarta (Credit: ISM)

Why are the security forces detaining hundreds in Awarta?

Former IDF Chief Rabbi calls for collective punishment of Palestinian villages in the West Bank In 1990, I was serving as an operations sergeant in the Dir El Balah – a town in the Gaza Strip – in the so-called Civil Administration. On Rosh Hashana of that year, a reservist soldier named Amnon Pomeranz made a fatal error and…

By Yossi Gurvitz April 12, 2011

Breaking the Silence 1:0 NGO Monitor

NGO Monitor – a group specializing in haranguing Israeli human rights organizations – must be really scraping the barrel. Consider the following exchange between them and Breaking the Silence. 16 March 2011 To: Ms Dana Golan, Director Breaking The Silence RE: Your comment on a statement by Yonathan Shapira, made during a Breaking the Silence…

By Dimi Reider March 17, 2011

Boy covering ears 2006 (Photo: Peace it Together/flickr)

The Voice of People: Not always what you expect

The attack in Itamar on Friday night brought out some of the most vicious sentiments among Israelis and Palestinians, and between Israelis on all sides of the many political divides. It’s appalling that some people have justified/won’t condemn the attack on children, or that others support collective reprisals against Palestinian communities and expanding the occupation…

By Dahlia Scheindlin March 16, 2011

Unbelievable racism, hate-talk, from Prime Minister Sharon’s son

Following the murder at Itamar, Gilad Sharon, son of PM Ariel Sharon, published this piece on Israel’s most important tabloid, Yedioth Ahronoth. It pretty much speaks for itself. The only thing that needs to be added is that recently, the young Sharon has joined Kadima – a supposedly center-left party led by Tzipi Livni. The article was translated and…

By Noam Sheizaf March 14, 2011

"HUman beasts": Yediot's headline this morning (Yossi Gurvitz)

The Itamar victimization dance is disgusting

Why I fail to be impressed by the wails emanating from the religious right, in four points The strange call for denunciation: My colleague, Dimi Reider, wrote a sensitive post, calling upon leftist activists to denounce the massacre in Itamar. A list of leftist organizations – from Peace Now to Rabbis for Human Rights –…

By Yossi Gurvitz March 13, 2011

The activist Left must condemn the murder of the Itamar family

(updated below) Late on Friday night, a Palestinian militant scaled the fence of the settlement of Itamar, south-east of Nablus. He made his way to one of the homes and climbed in through an open window. The first room he encountered was a nursery. He paced in and plunged a knife into a sleeping three-year-old…

By Dimi Reider March 12, 2011