Cities of Israel (COI), a grassroots movement working to neutralize the dangers of the Oslo Agreements, is working hard to get the following message across: Tens of thousands of guns still remain in enemy hands, despite the anti-terror Operations Defensive Shield and Determined Path.
Members of COI stood outside the home of MK Rabbi Chaim Druckman this past Saturday night, demanding that he quit the government coalition over this issue. They handed out fliers addressed to Rabbi Druckman, head of the Yeshivot Bnei Akiva movement, asserting that Prime Minister Sharon "refuses to collect the weapons that killed your students." Three of the 29 terrorism victims of the past three weeks - Rabbi Yosef Dickstein, Rabbi Elimelech Shapira, and Avi Vilensky - studied in Yeshivot Bnei Akiva institutions, and their photographs appeared on the flier. It was also noted that only 5,449 guns, according to IDF figures, were collected during Operation Defensive Shield. In Yavneh last week, other Cities of Israel activists demonstrated outside the home of Justice Minister Meir Sheetrit, demanding, "Confiscate the Oslo guns!"
Following the quadruple murder of Rabbi Dickstein and his wife, one of their ten children, and Sgt. Eliezer Liebovitz south of Hevron less than three weeks ago, the Yesha Council (the Council of Communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza) called on the government to expel the residents of nearby Yata, from where the murderers ostensibly came and returned, and to destroy the illegal bloc of homes where the terrorists hid. Local officials also demanded that the army enter Yata and other PA villages and clear them totally of the thousands of weapons held there.
The calls do not appear to have been heeded. The Yesha Council's Yehoshua Mor-Yosef told Arutz-7's Yosef Zalmanson today that it is "catastrophically true" that the government has not responded at all to the terrorist wave of the past three weeks: "We demand three things: Collect the weapons, destroy terrorist homes - not just one here and another there - and expel terrorist families. This is not being done." Civil security officials said that the army is active in the area - "just recently, it arrested the Hamas leader of the Yata area" - but has apparently not received orders from the government to collect the many illegal weapons held by local terrorists and other Arabs.
Members of COI stood outside the home of MK Rabbi Chaim Druckman this past Saturday night, demanding that he quit the government coalition over this issue. They handed out fliers addressed to Rabbi Druckman, head of the Yeshivot Bnei Akiva movement, asserting that Prime Minister Sharon "refuses to collect the weapons that killed your students." Three of the 29 terrorism victims of the past three weeks - Rabbi Yosef Dickstein, Rabbi Elimelech Shapira, and Avi Vilensky - studied in Yeshivot Bnei Akiva institutions, and their photographs appeared on the flier. It was also noted that only 5,449 guns, according to IDF figures, were collected during Operation Defensive Shield. In Yavneh last week, other Cities of Israel activists demonstrated outside the home of Justice Minister Meir Sheetrit, demanding, "Confiscate the Oslo guns!"
Following the quadruple murder of Rabbi Dickstein and his wife, one of their ten children, and Sgt. Eliezer Liebovitz south of Hevron less than three weeks ago, the Yesha Council (the Council of Communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza) called on the government to expel the residents of nearby Yata, from where the murderers ostensibly came and returned, and to destroy the illegal bloc of homes where the terrorists hid. Local officials also demanded that the army enter Yata and other PA villages and clear them totally of the thousands of weapons held there.
The calls do not appear to have been heeded. The Yesha Council's Yehoshua Mor-Yosef told Arutz-7's Yosef Zalmanson today that it is "catastrophically true" that the government has not responded at all to the terrorist wave of the past three weeks: "We demand three things: Collect the weapons, destroy terrorist homes - not just one here and another there - and expel terrorist families. This is not being done." Civil security officials said that the army is active in the area - "just recently, it arrested the Hamas leader of the Yata area" - but has apparently not received orders from the government to collect the many illegal weapons held by local terrorists and other Arabs.