The Professors for a Strong Israel (PSI) organization has written a letter to the Attorney-General, declaring that the forced removal of people from their homes, based solely on their ethnic and/or religious background, and even if they be Jews evicted by a Jewish government, is in violation of the law. "Any order to carry out such an eviction is patently illegal," the organization wrote, "and hence both the giving of such an order and carrying it out is illegal." Hundreds of PSI members have joined the struggle to prevent the issuance of these illegal orders by the government.
Ruth Matar of Women in Green writes, "In the past, left-wing figures have called for violence against sectors of Israeli society without any charge of incitement being even acknowledged by the courts." She cited several instances:
* Yehonatan Gefen, 1998: "Secular Israel is the occupied territories of the religious parties. If the secular desire to live here, they have no choice but to start an intifada. Yes, I am prepared to throw the first stone."
* An article in the HaKibbutz newsletter, August 1995: "They [the settlers] are not my brothers... A civil war will be a war [that] I will run to... and I will crush their flesh with mighty blows, to rout them... I will go forth to the foe in order to fight, for once, a justified war... Much blood will be shed."
* Prof. Ze'ev Sternhal, in the Davar newspaper, 1988: "Fascism cannot be stopped with rational arguments. This can be stopped only by force, and when there is willingness to risk a civil war. When necessary, we shall have to forcibly deal with the settlers in Ofrah or in Elon Moreh. Only a person who is willing to advance against Ofrah with tanks will be capable of curbing the fascist drift that threatens to inundate Israeli democracy."
* In an article in the Ha'aretz newspaper in 2001, this same Sternhal incited the Arabs to murder settlers, advising the terrorist organizations to place explosive charges only on the eastern side of the Green Line: "There is no doubt regarding the legitimacy of the [Arab] armed resistance in the territories themselves. If the Palestinians had a bit of sense, they would concentrate their struggle against the settlements... They would similarly refrain from placing explosive charges on the western side of the Green Line."
Matar wrote that several attempts at legal action were taken, but all were dismissed in the courts. "How is it that people are becoming so excited by the statements of Uri Elitzur and the Judea, Samaria, and Gaza Council of Rabbis," asked Matar, "but completely disregard the incitement by the Left?"
Ruth Matar of Women in Green writes, "In the past, left-wing figures have called for violence against sectors of Israeli society without any charge of incitement being even acknowledged by the courts." She cited several instances:
* Yehonatan Gefen, 1998: "Secular Israel is the occupied territories of the religious parties. If the secular desire to live here, they have no choice but to start an intifada. Yes, I am prepared to throw the first stone."
* An article in the HaKibbutz newsletter, August 1995: "They [the settlers] are not my brothers... A civil war will be a war [that] I will run to... and I will crush their flesh with mighty blows, to rout them... I will go forth to the foe in order to fight, for once, a justified war... Much blood will be shed."
* Prof. Ze'ev Sternhal, in the Davar newspaper, 1988: "Fascism cannot be stopped with rational arguments. This can be stopped only by force, and when there is willingness to risk a civil war. When necessary, we shall have to forcibly deal with the settlers in Ofrah or in Elon Moreh. Only a person who is willing to advance against Ofrah with tanks will be capable of curbing the fascist drift that threatens to inundate Israeli democracy."
* In an article in the Ha'aretz newspaper in 2001, this same Sternhal incited the Arabs to murder settlers, advising the terrorist organizations to place explosive charges only on the eastern side of the Green Line: "There is no doubt regarding the legitimacy of the [Arab] armed resistance in the territories themselves. If the Palestinians had a bit of sense, they would concentrate their struggle against the settlements... They would similarly refrain from placing explosive charges on the western side of the Green Line."
Matar wrote that several attempts at legal action were taken, but all were dismissed in the courts. "How is it that people are becoming so excited by the statements of Uri Elitzur and the Judea, Samaria, and Gaza Council of Rabbis," asked Matar, "but completely disregard the incitement by the Left?"