Israel Jail suspected Jewish Militant for 6 months without trial

He was believed to have been planning a series of attacks against Palestinians intended to stir up unrest among the Palestinians and bring down the Israeli government. “We are determined to vigorously fight manifestations of hate, fanaticism and terrorism from whatever side”, he said at the weekend. “Whether we like it or not, the make-up of the “stakeholders” of Israeli society, and of the State of Israel, is changing before our eyes”.

The legal system and law enforcement agencies have grappled with loosely organized violent Jewish extremists as attacks became bolder over the years.

These self-defence committees are expected to be established in some 100 villages in an area of the West Bank in which Israel has full control over security, according to Gassan Daghlas, a Palestinian official in the city of Nablus who is in charge of monitoring attacks by Jewish extremists. While some Palestinian outlets described the man as an “Israeli extremist”, other media outlets have argued that such descriptions are inaccurate.

There are many, however, who object to the mourning for a Palestinian toddler. And even if he wants to, will his narrow right-wing coalition allow it?

The group has appealed to Israel’s new justice minister Ayelet Shaked, of the far-right Jewish Home party, who drew outrage last year when she appeared to brand all Palestinians enemy combatants and legitimate targets.

Although different, the pair of fatal attacks prompted authorities to crack down on religiously and politically motivated Jewish extremists, although none have been accused of complicity in the violence.

Israeli leaders thoroughly condemned the attacks, calling them acts of terror and pledged to defeat those responsible.

Editor’s note: Shin Bet is, essentially, the equivalent to the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

“They are still young; they don’t understand anything yet, but they are already very scared because they saw their cousin being burnt”, Hassan Dawabsha said in front of his brother’s gutted home in Duma, nestled in the hills near the Jordan Valley. They are abetted by “rabbis that provide Halachic legitimization to the messianic-jihadist fervor”. After citing Primo Levi’s book “If This Is a Man” (an account of a concentration camp survivor’s time in Auschwitz), Tibi spoke out against what he called the systematic de-humanization of Palestinians by the Jewish nationalist ring-wing camp.

The new measures have been approved by Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu’s security cabinet.

That is no excuse for a country that prides itself on being the region’s only democracy and claims to tolerate and protect all religions. Gilad Erdan, the minister of internal security, said that would include tiltul, a Hebrew term for violently shaking a suspect, which Israel’s Supreme Court has ruled should be used only rarely, and to stop imminent violence.

Dawabsha’s sentiment was perhaps the bluntest expression of a feeling widely circulating here since the July 31 attack that this time, gestures aren’t enough. In practice, the Haredim have been exempt from military service for all of Israel’s history as an independent state, although parliament passed a law last year that seeks to end the exemptions. But the case ushered in no major crackdown on Jewish extremists and was quickly overshadowed by the outbreak of war in Gaza.

Douglas M. Bloomfield is the president of Bloomfield Associates Inc., a Washington lobbying and consulting firm.