Outgoing Shin Bet (Israel’s undercover domestic security agency) chief Avi Dichter ran into one of Hebron’s most outspoken residents, Baruch Marzel, while touring Hebron with the Shin Bet’s senior staff. Marzel heads a splinter party known as the Jewish National Front.
The two men met when the Shin Bet chief’s entourage reached Tel Rumeida, the biblical site of the city of Hebron, where Marzel lives. When they approached, Marzel shouted to Dichter, “You should be ashamed of yourself. You said the disengagement plan is dangerous. Why didn’t you resign?”
According to eyewitnesses at the scene, Dichter responded to the Hebron resident, a disciple of Rabbi Meir Kahane. “Resigning is a luxury for cowards,” said Dichter, implying that he also knows how to hold his own when the going gets tough.
One of the tough issues worrying Dichter is non-stop smuggling of weapons into Gaza by Arab terrorists via underground tunnels. As he was meeting up with Marzel Tuesday afternoon, an IDF force on a routine patrol of the Philadelphi Route separating Gaza from Egypt discovered another tunnel, this one with wood panels, running at a depth of four and a half yards underground.
Arutz-7's Kobi Finkler reports that earlier in the week IDF troops thwarted two above-ground attempts at smuggling weapons across the Egyptian border, near Rafiah. The terrorists were caught with 60 rifles, replete with ammunition.
With only a short while to go before being replaced by his successor, Yuval Diskin, Dichter’s resignation now would probably accomplish little. But Sharon’s plan to withdraw from Gaza and hand it over to the terrorists will probably provide Diskin with enough sleepless nights to ponder that possibility on occasion.
The two men met when the Shin Bet chief’s entourage reached Tel Rumeida, the biblical site of the city of Hebron, where Marzel lives. When they approached, Marzel shouted to Dichter, “You should be ashamed of yourself. You said the disengagement plan is dangerous. Why didn’t you resign?”
According to eyewitnesses at the scene, Dichter responded to the Hebron resident, a disciple of Rabbi Meir Kahane. “Resigning is a luxury for cowards,” said Dichter, implying that he also knows how to hold his own when the going gets tough.
One of the tough issues worrying Dichter is non-stop smuggling of weapons into Gaza by Arab terrorists via underground tunnels. As he was meeting up with Marzel Tuesday afternoon, an IDF force on a routine patrol of the Philadelphi Route separating Gaza from Egypt discovered another tunnel, this one with wood panels, running at a depth of four and a half yards underground.
Arutz-7's Kobi Finkler reports that earlier in the week IDF troops thwarted two above-ground attempts at smuggling weapons across the Egyptian border, near Rafiah. The terrorists were caught with 60 rifles, replete with ammunition.
With only a short while to go before being replaced by his successor, Yuval Diskin, Dichter’s resignation now would probably accomplish little. But Sharon’s plan to withdraw from Gaza and hand it over to the terrorists will probably provide Diskin with enough sleepless nights to ponder that possibility on occasion.