Give them Jaffa Street!

Next week's headline will almost certainly demand that Israel relinquish Jaffa Street to the Arabs.

The fact that so many terror attacks have occurred on this road, including exploding buses and concluding with today's bulldozer attack is proof that Israeli security forces are incapable of protecting citizens walking or driving on this street. The only possible solution for such a situation is to continue the same policies practiced by the past Israeli governments: If you cannot protect it, abandon it.

Following transfer of Jaffa Street Israel should seriously consider a package deal by which King George Street is also given to the Arabs. After all, who wants to occupy a road named after a British King, and besides which, it's impossible to drive on these roads - the traffic jams are terrible.

It's likely that Neturi Karta will demand equal rights, in which case most of Mea Shearim and Geula will go too.

In the end it's likely that Israel will keep only the Gilo neighborhood in Jerusalem in order to access the tunnel roads leading to Gush Etzion and Hebron. After all, the Jerusalemites will have to have a secure way to escape from the city.

Police confirm overly severe law enforcement in Hebron

Police confirm overly severe law enforcement against Jews in Hebron

This afternoon, at a meeting of the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee, the commander of the Hebron regional police force told the MKs that for years the Hebron police have practiced overly severe law enforcement against the city's Jewish residents.

He informed them that Hebron police formed special 'Israeli disturbance squads' to deal with any and all complaints against Jews, even the most minimal, on the level of 'special investigative squads' (Tzacham in Hebrew).

This is the first time that an official representative of the police has confirmed Hebron community complaints that the police practice 'selective law enforcement' in the city.

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The Supreme Court: Continued tours by "Breaking the Silence" in Hebron will be 'conditional on restrained behavior on their part.'

Supreme Court judge Eliyakim Rubenstein yesterday accepted the Hebron Jewish Community's request to participate as a respondent to the petition filed by the extreme left-wing group "Breaking the Silence."

Following a violent demonstration in Hebron on April 25, the Hebron police forbade further tours by "Breaking the Silence' in the city. The group petitioned the Supreme Court, demanding to be allowed to continue 'educational tours' of Hebron. The state prosecutor's office reached an agreement with the police and the group, allowing limited tours in Hebron. The Hebron Jewish Community petitioned the Supreme Court, demanding to participate as a respondent to the left-wing group's petition, while also requesting that the court issue a temporary injunction disallowing implementation of the agreement until the petition was heard in court.

Judge Rubenstein pointed out in his decision that while the petitioners, "Breaking the Silence" claim to be "discharged soldiers who served in Hebron and are presently 'peace activists,' the Hebron Jewish Community, requesting to participate as a respondent, claims that the petitioners are 'provocateurs, whose goal is to incite the Arab population against the Jews, and not educational, as they claim.'

Judge Rubenstein decided not to issued a temporary injunction preventing an agreement reached between the state prosecutor's office and 'breaking the silence' despite the Hebron Jewish community's claim that 'already on 15.6.08 this agreement was violated by the petitioners when they arrived in Hebron without prior knowledge by the police for a tour in the area.' However, he declared that the actualization of the agreement would be conditional on restrained behaviour by the petitioners.

He also said that the Hebron Jewish community is not immune from displaying restraint.

In conclusion Judge Rubenstein set a hearing of petition for the end of October.

The Left attempt to destroy Jewish Hebron

A quick note before Shabbat here in Hebron:

Again this morning, extreme leftists, led by Yehuda Shaul, founder of "Breaking the Silence," invaded Hebron. They were joined by a busload of Israelis and foreigners, armed with digital cameras, snapping away.

They were greeted by the exit from Kiryat Arba, where they tried to visit the grave of Baruch Goldstein. A few dozen residents from Hebron and Kiryat Arba refused to let them through, and eventually they returned to their bus, which wasn't able to move due to people blocking the way. Finally it traveled a few meters to the actual gate leading to Hebron, where again it got stuck for the previous reason.

After a while a deal was struck: they could come into Hebron but had to stay on the bus. When they arrived in Hebron though they stopped by Ma'arat HaMachpela and all left the bus, attempting to walk from there into the Jewish neighborhoods, in order to incite Arabs against the Hebron community, while slandering the city's residents. However, this too they were unable to accomplish, as dozens prevented them from any forward progress.

At last, at twelve o'clock, the police sent them off.

These people have been classified by the police as 'more dangerous the the extreme Israeli right' because they are trying to cause the fragile peace in Hebron to explode by provocations against Hebron's Jews, waiting for us to react. They also incite against the community, adding fuel the fire. However the Israeli Supreme Court, as they are wont to do, preferring 'human rights' to human lives, resulting in pressure from the court, forcing the police to lift a ban on the group and provide them with security whenever they arrive in Hebron.

Photos from today's adventures can be seen on the Hebron web site at:
http://www.hebron.com/english/gallery.php?id=254 (photo gallery)
or at:
http://www.hebron.com/english/gallery.php?id=254&thumbs=1 (photo page)

To be continued.....

Shabbat Shalom.