The National Office for Land Defense and Settlement Resistance said in its weekly report today, Saturday, that “settler gangs and their rabbis are strengthening their positions in the occupation army and dictating their policy in the West Bank.”
The report added: “In an unusual precedent, Reserve Major General Amiram Levin, former deputy head of the Mossad and former commander of the Northern Command of the occupation army, said in an interview with public radio Kan that the army is an accomplice in war crimes through profound transformations taking place in its ranks.” Remember the transformations that took place in Nazi Germany.By this, Levin meant the increase in the number of settlers in the army and the transformation of their leaders into central ministers in the current government. These statements of Amiram Levin opened doors to the position now occupied by the settlers in the occupation army, especially after the events that witnessed in particular the towns of Huwwara, Turmus Ayya, and Umm Safa. And Burqa in the governorates of Nablus and Ramallah – Al-Bireh in the past few weeks, including acts of bullying, burning of property, and seizure of the lands of Palestinian citizens through the deployment of settlement outposts and so-called pastoral settlements and the displacement of Bedouin communities from their areas, and these are events that have come to indicate the nature of the relationship between these settlers and the occupation army. It has become clear that the army is functionally subordinate to the General Staff and the so-called Central Command, but in the practical implementation of its tasks it is subject, according to many “Israeli” estimates, to the settlers and their rabbis due to the enrollment of large numbers of settlers in the occupation army and their increasing influence in security services that have not beenAs before, it is subject to the leadership of the army. On the one hand, there is the regular army and the command of the central region, which reports directly to the General Staff, and on the other hand, there is the so-called “police army,” which consists of several security agencies that work in parallel, individually and integrated at the same time within The West Bank includes the police, border guards, and protection forces responsible for the surroundings of the settlements. These forces are present at the level of the settlement, or the settlement council, and are not directly affiliated with the army, but rather to the settlement council.
The report continued: “The most dangerous formations operating in the West Bank are the Judea and Samaria Division, which was established in 1988 to suppress the Stone Intifada, which began at the end of 1987, and the Kfir Brigade, which was founded in 2005. Their number reaches 13 battalions working with reserve battalions.” Another in the West Bank with dual missions: brutal suppression of the Palestinians and providing protection for the settlers, and the “Judea and Samaria” division, led by Brigadier General Avi Plaut, is the formation that manages most of the military activities in the West Bank, and this division, according to specialized “Israeli” estimates, is gradually turning into a division. For the settlers, who describe Balut as one of their group, how could it not be, since he grew up in the “Neve Tzuf” settlement, north of the city of Ramallah, and studied in the “Eli” religious school, south of the city of Nablus. He frequently links his ideas about the stories of the Torah with the Amalekites, who They must be exterminated.The Palestinians here are the Amalekites of the legends of the books of the Torah.”
Elor Azaria, who in 2016 shot the Palestinian citizen Abdel Fattah Al-Sharif while he was wounded and lying on the ground, is a member of this brigade, while paramilitary formations (militias) affiliated with the settlers overlap with the Kfir Brigade, as is the case with the so-called “settlement readiness row.” It is a military group composed of residents of each settlement, and its function is to build semi-regular military cells that undertake army work in the period of time that falls between the occurrence of a security event in the vicinity of the settlement and the arrival of regular army forces to the place. In addition, most of the soldiers and officers of the Kfir Brigade working in the West Bank are graduates of preparatory military colleges operating in the settlements, or they joined the army after recruitment campaigns carried out by the settlements to supplement the army with soldiers from the settler community. Indeed, under the guidance of the settler community and their rabbis, the settlers’ desire to join the ranks of the army is increasing. Out of every five towns that had the highest rates of recruitment into combat units, three were in the West Bank, and the first place was for Beit El in the Ramallah and Al-Bireh Governorate, where 86% of Men born in 1991 served in combat units. The third place went to Ephrata in Gush Etzion in the Bethlehem Governorate, where 81% of men born in 1991 joined combat units, while the fourth place went to the Mount Hebron Regional Council with a rate of 78.4%. Ariel in Salfit Governorate, which is considered a secular settlement with questionable Jewish residents, was one of four cities in which the percentage of conscripts exceeded 90%. The third place went to Ephrata in Gush Etzion in the Bethlehem Governorate, where 81% of men born in 1991 joined combat units, while the fourth place went to the Mount Hebron Regional Council with a rate of 78.4%. Ariel in Salfit Governorate, which is considered a secular settlement with questionable Jewish residents, was one of four cities in which the percentage of conscripts exceeded 90%. The third place went to Ephrata in Gush Etzion in the Bethlehem Governorate, where 81% of men born in 1991 joined combat units, while the fourth place went to the Mount Hebron Regional Council with a rate of 78.4%. Ariel in Salfit Governorate, which is considered a secular settlement with questionable Jewish residents, was one of four cities in which the percentage of conscripts exceeded 90%.
The Palestinians (Maariv 7/22/2015). And other rabbis, such as Eliezer Rabinovich, Shlomo Aviner, and the Chief Rabbi of Samaria, Elyakim Levanon, who permit the terrorist “Hill Youth” and “Price Tag” hooligans to violate the sanctity of the Sabbath, occupy crossroads, engage in orgies, and attack Palestinian citizens. The influence of these rabbis is clear, as a study prepared by him revealed. The Department of Social Sciences at the Israeli Bar-Ilan University, known for its religious orientations, asked about the extent to which religious recruits obey the orders of the rabbis, as more than 90% of those who describe themselves as religious believe that if the steps taken by the “Israeli” government conflict with the opinion of the rabbis, The first is to implement the opinion of the rabbis, and more than 95% of the religious soldiers confirmed that they cannot obey military orders issued to them, without them being consistent with the religious fatwas issued by the rabbis and religious authorities.”
Such statements were adopted and defended by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, albeit with ambiguous words. Netanyahu replaced freedom of movement with freedom of life in language that is not devoid of racist tendencies, giving the settler freedom of movement and life while depriving it of the Palestinian citizen, who, if he moves to defend his land, becomes a riot in the country. Best of luck. What was said by both Ben Gvir and Netanyahu reflects the essence of the Zionist movement’s racist position. There is no room for equality. The settler’s freedom of movement or life derives its legitimacy from the idea of Jewish superiority, from apartheid, which the settler community in the West Bank sees as a privilege. In the West Bank, about 23 military battalions are deployed (the Judea and Samaria Division, the Kfir Brigade and a number of reserve battalions, which are called upon when needed) to secure the freedom of movement and life of the settlers. This is not enough for the fascist Ben Gvir, and from here he gave his instructions to facilitate the settlers’ access to licensed weapons. The number of settlers carrying weapons rose from 150,000 to 165,000 during the first six months of this year. In this context, Smotrich supported his fellow fascist Ben Gvir and launched a sharp attack on the American administration, accusing officials in Washington of “hypocrisy,” and reminded them of how they behaved in Afghanistan and Iraq, stressing that he would not allow the administration to provide the occupation army or the political level with sermons about morality related to human rights. Human”.
It is delivered to the settlers without oversight and that Smotrich seeks to formalize the settlement department as the official entity responsible for allocating land to the settlers in the context of his political project. It is known that the Settlement Division is directly involved in the seizure of private Palestinian lands, and it continues to help settlers seize vast lands without public bids and behind closed doors. In addition to Smotrich and Ben Gvir, the far-right Likud Minister of Transportation, Miri Regev, had a presence in the settlement scene. In a showy and provocative move, last Wednesday, Miri Regev toured the route of the settlement bypass road around the town of Huwwara, south of the city of Nablus, accompanied by Yossi Dagan, head of the settlement council in the northern West Bank. The two announced that the opening date of the first and main section of the road would be brought forward by two months, and it is considered a bypass. Huwwara is one of the eight most important and dangerous bypass roads that the occupation authorities decided to build under pressure from settlers and settlement councils over the past years to connect the so-called isolated settlements to the interior without passing through areas of Palestinian communities and towns. Work on building these streets was taking place slowly, but the situation has changed since the rise of fascism in “Israel” to power after the recent elections to the Knesset.
The plan to establish this project is not new, as it dates back to previous years and went through stages before it was approved in 2013 by the “District Committee for Planning and Construction” affiliated with the Ministry of the Interior of the occupying state, but it was frozen after a series of objections submitted by the people and institutions of the two towns, and it was kept in the drawers of the Ministry of Interior. For the right time. With the new notifications, the committee gave the people of the two towns 54 days to submit their objections to the plan, which has once again returned to the forefront of developments. Establishing such a project would besiege both Al-Issawiya and Al-Tur and prevent their development and urban expansion or solving the problems of construction and housing there. In this regard, Hani Al-Issawi, a member of the Issawiya Land Defense Committee, said that the people will coordinate their steps with the people in Al-Tur and submit objections to the project in order to stop it.” With the new notifications, the committee gave the people of the two towns 54 days to submit their objections to the plan, which has once again returned to the forefront of developments. Establishing such a project would besiege both Al-Issawiya and Al-Tur and prevent their development and urban expansion or solving the problems of construction and housing there. In this regard, Hani Al-Issawi, a member of the Issawiya Land Defense Committee, said that the people will coordinate their steps with the people in Al-Tur and submit objections to the project in order to stop it.” With the new notifications, the committee gave the people of the two towns 54 days to submit their objections to the plan, which has once again returned to the forefront of developments. Establishing such a project would besiege both Al-Issawiya and Al-Tur and prevent their development and urban expansion or solving the problems of construction and housing there. In this regard, Hani Al-Issawi, a member of the Issawiya Land Defense Committee, said that the people will coordinate their steps with the people in Al-Tur and submit objections to the project in order to stop it.”
In the context of Judaization as well, the report explained, “The occupation launched a Judaization project on the land of Al-Hamra, among 13 Judaization projects in the surrounding area of Al-Aqsa, which the occupation authorities consider part of the “Holy Basin.” This land of Al-Hamra exceeds 5 dunums in area, and is far from the wall. West Jerusalem is about 300 metres, and is located at an important crossroads leading to Wadi Hilweh and Al-Rababa in Silwan. The occupation had recently opened the suspension bridge in Wadi Al-Rababa near the land of Al-Hamra. The National Office had in a previous report titled “An Israeli five-year plan in the service of Judaization and Israelization.” “The deepening of settlement in East Jerusalem” made it clear that this plan had overlooked what is most dangerous in the context of the policy of Judaization, Israelization, and silent displacement, through the expansion of settlement and Judaization activities as a parallel plan, by allocating 230 million shekels to complete the American Road, or what is known as the Eastern Ring Road in East Jerusalem. This was hidden from public viewThe road covers hundreds of dunams of lands in Al-Eizariya, Al-Sawahra, Abu Dis, Al-Tur, Sheikh Saad, Jabal Al-Mukaber and Sur Baher.”
On another level, the report continued: “Palestinian Bedouin communities in more than one area in the West Bank are still exposed to attacks by settlers and their terrorist organizations, especially those whose activities have expanded under the current government in building what they call “pastoral farms.” These communities are threatened by the risk of uprooting and forced displacement. With the aim of controlling the largest possible area of Palestinian land in Area C classified in accordance with the agreements signed between the Palestinian and Israeli sides, known as the Oslo Accords.The “pastoral farms” thugs of the “Hill Youth” and “paying the price” have put on their agenda, and the occupation army supports and protects them in this, a policy of ethnic cleansing whose borders do not stop at Ain Samia, Al-Qaboun, Ras Al-Tin and Al-Baqa’a, but extend beyond it to include Al-Rashrash, and Marajat Al-Taybeh. , Abu Fazza, Al-Malihat, Wadi Al-Siq, Al-Marj, Ras Al-Marajat, and other areas, especially in the central and northern Jordan Valley, inhabited by these Bedouin communities, which prompted Al-Baidar Organization for Defending Bedouin Rights at the end of last week to issue an urgent distress call to protect these communities from danger. The policy of uprooting, forced displacement, and ethnic cleansing, practiced by the occupation authorities through their tools operating in settlement outposts and so-called “pastoral farms
Source: Maan News Agency
