| Gush Emunim - The Zionist Settlers
By Hashash
The Israeli Israel Shahak and Amerikan-Jewish Norton Mezvinsky give a thorough analysis of the political and religious identity of the settler movement in their book Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel.
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Following excerpts are from chapters that deal with this matter in specific:
The ideology of the NRP and Gush Emunim, the group of religious settlers in the territories occupied by Israel since 1967, is more innovative than the ideology of Haredi Jews . Rabbi Abraham Yitzhak Kook, who was the chief rabbi of Palestine and a most prominent rabbinical supporter of Zionism, devised this ideology in the early 1920s and developed it thereafter. Rabbi Kook the elder, as he was called, was a prolific author. His followers considered him to be divinely inspired. After his death in 1935 he achieved the status of a saint in NRP circles. His son and successor as NRP leader, Rabbi Tzvi Yehuda Kook the younger, who died in 1981 at the age of 91, also achieved saintly status.
In early 1974, almost immediately after the shock of the October 1973 war and a short time before the cease-fire agreement with Syria was signed, Rabbi Kook's followers with their leader's blessing and spiritual guidance founded Gush Emunim (Block of the Faithful). The Gush Emunim aims were to initiate new and to expand already existent Jewish settlements in the Occupied Territories. With the help of Shimon Peres, who in the summer of 1974 became the Israeli defense minister and thus the person in charge of the Occupied Territories, Gush Emunim in the remarkably short time of a few years succeeded in changing Israeli settlement policy. The Jewish settlements, which continue to spread throughout the West Bank and to occupy a large chunk of the Gaza Strip, provide testimony of and documentation for Gush Emunim 's influence within Israeli society and upon Israeli governmental policies.
The National Religious Party and the religious settlers
From the prospective of Jewish fundamentalism the religious settlements should be viewed from three standpoints: their standing as citadels of messianic ideology, their present and potential influence upon Israeli society and their potential role as the nuclei of the new society that messianic leaders want to build.
The nature of the Gush Emunim settlements
These people are a well founded and wealthy movement, primarily focused on expansionist nationalism often driven by a messianic religion of conquest.
Their aim is to cleanse the Arabian pensinsula of non-Jews and revive the ancient Hebrew empire. They are completely brainwashed and manipulated either in their upbringing or by zionist agencies encouraging them financially and psychologically into migrating from Amerika, Russia and other regions into the occupied territories and settling the Arabian pensinsula under supervision and protection of the zionist state and its IDF military.
They breed children for the sole purpose of contributing to future occupation, which is the central aspect around which their lives in the West Bank and Gaza occupied territories revive.
Not only are they under full protection of the military, they are heavily armed, very hostile and extremely dangerous to the millions of Palestinians they are living in the middle of.
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In total there are some 7.000 settlers in Gaza, and around 200.000 in the West Bank.
These men, women and children terrorize the 3 million residents of the Palestinian refugee camps, cities and villages by going into these areas and assaulting, harassing and abusing residents.
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They are free to do so because they are constantly protected by the IDF military.
BBC : Israel 'tolerates settler violence'
An Israeli human rights group has accused the country's security forces of turning a blind eye to violence by Jewish settlers against Palestinians.
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The violence occurs against the background of leniency and prolonged impotence of the Israeli law enforcement authorities
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A report by B'Tselem says six Palestinians have been killed by settlers during the last six months of unrest in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, but that only two of the deaths are being investigated.
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Following 2 identical videos of little over a minute show how settlers parade around in Palestinian neighbourhoods with arms, shoot and kill Palestinians inside their own homes and make a party out of it afterwards to express their superiority and humiliate the Palestinian people . . . all cought on camera:
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These barbaric savages do not stop at harassing Palestinian residents, but Palestinian reporters and journalists just as well.
The following 6 minute report by Patricia Naylor a Canadian TV producer show these events on camera as they are comitted by both Israeli soldiers as Israeli settlers:
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Cameramen Mazen Dana and Nael Shyouki of the British news agency, Reuters, and their colleagues are accustomed to the risks of photographing street protests and riots. But displaying their wounds, they all told Naylor they had become targets of Israeli soldiers firing rubber bullets and even live ammunition.
Mazen Dana and the others showed this private video collection to Naylor. On one tape she sees Israeli settlers in Hebron, some of them children, throwing stones at the cameramen. On another tape, settlers attack and beat unconscious a cameraman for the French news agency, AFP. There is footage of Mazen Dana being shot twice.
Shyouki and his colleagues had just finished covering a march by Jewish settlers who had been forced to return home by Israeli soldiers. The cameramen were standing around, making plans to leave, when soldiers arrived and started shooting at them. Shyouki was hit by rubber bullets. In graphic footage, we see Shyouki lying on the ground, bleeding, as he is shot a second time.
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This identical behavior of the IDF in compare to that of the settlers is only a logical consequence on the practical level, of what has been policy on political level for many years.
Israel Shahak explains more of this shared identity in his article
The Religious Settlers: Instrument of Israeli Dominat ion
With help of the zionist government, its financers and the direct financing by the many zionist economical magnates and strongholds worldwide the settlermovement is kept alive well:
* in recruiting new settlers
* in containing the existing settlements
* in creating new settlements
These are their settlements:
Betar Ilit-1:
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Betar Ilit-2:
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Kiryat Sefer-1:
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Kiryat Sefer-2:
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Givat Ze'ev:
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Gilot Gush Etzio :
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Ramot:
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Larger pictures of:
Har Homa-1
Har Homa-2
Moscovich Housing in Ras al-Amud
Moscovich Housing in Ras al-Amud
These settlements are developped to western standards, and operate as and have the status of forts against the Palestinian villages and cities that surround them. They are placed high to express superiority threatning whatevers left of the simple Palestinian villages.
These settlements are build on top of the Palestinian people, and for their protection:
The Palestinian people are progihibted to travel a 100 meters, as they are surrounded by:
* military checkpoints they can't cross
* freeways around the settlements they aren't allowed to use.
* a seperation wall that is being build cutting them off from their land, and going through the middle of their homes.
The Jewish Benny Bruner's made a documentary called The
Wall and on 14.08 we find an interesting interview and dialogue with Haim Hanegbi, a Jew original to Palestine:
It takes place in front of the Har Homa settlement amongst a Palestinian family:
Again, this is Har Homa:
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Look at those houses over there, in which lives a Palestinian family: it is their little paradise, as it was that of their forefathers. If you have seen this, then turn around and look how much threat comes from that settlement, that fort: The settlement of Har Homa: compact, strong surrounded by fences. It controlls the entire environment as high as it is placed, and then look down again: small against big, weak against strong.
They are victims of a complex situation to which they share no blame, and one day they wake up sourrounded by a fence and a road: they are cut of from their people, their sources of culture and their land behind them.
Haim Hanegbi approaches the Palestinian family and begins a conversation with them, following is an excerpt of that:
I was born in Jerusalem, but my father and grandfather and his father up to 9 generations are from here: they have lived 200 to 250 years here in Hebron. All the elder people from Hebron know my family, they lived as Arabs.
Palestinian: So they could co-exist?
Haim Hanegbi: Co-existance was very normal: in this country the Jews and Arabs lived side by side, in many places. I think that ended due to the striving of the Zionists, to say it carefully: to rule over the entire nation, in a Jewish state with Arabs as second-rate citizens without equality: the Jews here up high, and the Arabs there down low: that is how it is.
Look at that (Har Homa): they are building houses on Arab land. What they win, the Arabs loose.
Haim Hanegbi continues the interview:
In short these people have no future here: the future is for the people on the other side. But if you look at it in a broader more historical perspective and think a little deeper about the conflict, than it is all very different: They (the Palestinians) are the strong and they (Har Homa) are the weak, who now express the strength.
Reporter: How so?
Because they (the Palestinians) are with their roots and history: it is their property and tradition. And they (Har Homa) have newly arrived, they have re-written history. They make the land their property but can only keep it with a strong army, fences, tanks and police. What you see here, there are tanks, fences and police behind it: a colonial power against the natives.
Unfortunatly we see less and less Yahuudi like Haim Hanegbi , and more and more Zionists of the settler religion like the ones that occupy Har Homa, an example would be Tommy Lamb of the Efrat Settlement:
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In Bethlehem District, Jewish colonists (settlers) accopmanied by a large number of Israeli military forces commenced work on expanding Efrat colony (settlement) at the expense of El Khader village. The colonists (settlers) were building 350 housing units on 400 dunums of land, as a preparation to be annexed to Efart colony (settlement).
ARIJ Monthly Report on the Israeli Colonization Activities in the West Bank
In the second part of the FSTV documentary In A Prison Called Palestine on 24.45 there can be found an interview with this founder of the Efrat settlement:
My name is Tommy Lamb, I came to Israel 32 years ago from Australia originally, but being Jewish my background and my education was from day 1: part of the Jewish people and as an essential part of the Jewish people, the home of the Jews is Israel. The area that we live in is Efrat and I was one of the founding members of Efrat, I was one of the first 10 families. Today we have 1.800 families living here, approx. 5 or 6 thousand people.
Tommy Lamb discusses various questions relating to the settlements and Zionist policy in Palestine, together with a group of students (including Muslims) that travelled Palestine for this documentary: here we can observe the psychotic and distorted mind of the Zionist settler and its fallascious results in his argumentation which I will not further adress here at this moment. | |
