Jewish National Front head Baruch Marzel said Thursday that the IDF “has clearly shown that it works for Peace Now” by agreeing to remove a mezuzah from the entrance to the Casbah in Hevron. An IDF rabbi, soldiers, and local Chabad chassidim had put the mezuzah up earlier in the week.

Putting up the mezuzah “was a perfectly legitimate thing to do,” Marzel argued. The mezuzah was removed following angry protests from Peace Now, which called Thursday to court-martial Judea Brigade Rabbi Captain Eliyahu Peretz for affixing the mezuzah.