Police raided the home of a family in Karnei Shomron and arrested a person they suspected of setting up an Internet site for the National Home organization. National Home is a group dedicated to using civil disobedience in the struggle to thwart the government's Disengagement Plan, which would forcibly expel nearly 10,000 Jews from their homes in Gaza and northern Samaria.
The web site operator was arrested on suspicion of publicizing calls from the organization's leaders to block roads as part of the group's civil disobedience campaign against the expulsion. Police seized the suspect's computer and computer disks. Police accused the suspect's wife, who ran to the aid of her husband, of interfering with the arrest, but the woman was not arrested. The suspect has thus far reserved the right to remain silent under interrogation.
In another arrest related to anti-Disengagement activism, Alei Sinai resident Yossi Barabi was arrested by police on Sunday afternoon after two M-16 magazines were found in his home. Officials allege he was preparing for an armed resistance against the Gaza/Samaria Disengagement Plan.
Barabi's wife Brigitte explained that the magazines were given to her husband at the time he was issued an M16 by the state, when they took up residence in northern Gaza. While Barabi had since returned his weapon, he apparently neglected to return all the magazines. Mrs. Barabi acknowledged that her husband is an outspoken opponent to the expulsion plan, but this in no way can be used to tarnish his reputation, or to depict him as a law-breaker who would possibly contemplate armed attacks on soldiers.
Today, Knesset Members Effie Etaim (Religious Zionism Renewal), Uri Ariel (National Union) and Yuli Edelstein (Likud), all of whom now live in Gush Katif, are meeting with prominent rabbis from the Gush and around the country in order to formulate an ethical code for the struggle to stave off the Disengagement Plan. The meeting is taking place in the offices of the municipality in N'vei Dekalim. The participants will be discussing the best methods for opposing the planned expulsion as the target date for implementation, in mid-August, approaches.
Among the clauses currently under consideration for inclusion in the "protest code" are:
1. an absolute ban on physical violence of any kind against any security forces;
2. an absolute ban on verbal violence against security services, such as calling policemen or soldiers "Nazis" and the like;
3. voluntary disarmament on the part of Gush Katif and Samaria residents, with all weapons to be deposited with each community's security officer at the time of the forced evacuation. Opposition activists are operating under the assumption that the military and police forces will also arrive unarmed;
4. recognition of the fact that the IDF is still responsible for the security of the area as far as armed conflict with the Arabs of the Gaza region is concerned. The practical import of this clause is to warn protestors against using the cover of the Disengagement for revenge attacks on Arabs in the event of continued Arab terrorism.
The web site operator was arrested on suspicion of publicizing calls from the organization's leaders to block roads as part of the group's civil disobedience campaign against the expulsion. Police seized the suspect's computer and computer disks. Police accused the suspect's wife, who ran to the aid of her husband, of interfering with the arrest, but the woman was not arrested. The suspect has thus far reserved the right to remain silent under interrogation.
In another arrest related to anti-Disengagement activism, Alei Sinai resident Yossi Barabi was arrested by police on Sunday afternoon after two M-16 magazines were found in his home. Officials allege he was preparing for an armed resistance against the Gaza/Samaria Disengagement Plan.
Barabi's wife Brigitte explained that the magazines were given to her husband at the time he was issued an M16 by the state, when they took up residence in northern Gaza. While Barabi had since returned his weapon, he apparently neglected to return all the magazines. Mrs. Barabi acknowledged that her husband is an outspoken opponent to the expulsion plan, but this in no way can be used to tarnish his reputation, or to depict him as a law-breaker who would possibly contemplate armed attacks on soldiers.
Today, Knesset Members Effie Etaim (Religious Zionism Renewal), Uri Ariel (National Union) and Yuli Edelstein (Likud), all of whom now live in Gush Katif, are meeting with prominent rabbis from the Gush and around the country in order to formulate an ethical code for the struggle to stave off the Disengagement Plan. The meeting is taking place in the offices of the municipality in N'vei Dekalim. The participants will be discussing the best methods for opposing the planned expulsion as the target date for implementation, in mid-August, approaches.
Among the clauses currently under consideration for inclusion in the "protest code" are:
1. an absolute ban on physical violence of any kind against any security forces;
2. an absolute ban on verbal violence against security services, such as calling policemen or soldiers "Nazis" and the like;
3. voluntary disarmament on the part of Gush Katif and Samaria residents, with all weapons to be deposited with each community's security officer at the time of the forced evacuation. Opposition activists are operating under the assumption that the military and police forces will also arrive unarmed;
4. recognition of the fact that the IDF is still responsible for the security of the area as far as armed conflict with the Arabs of the Gaza region is concerned. The practical import of this clause is to warn protestors against using the cover of the Disengagement for revenge attacks on Arabs in the event of continued Arab terrorism.