Israel Matzav

With friends Israelis like these, who needs enemies Arabs

Leftist Israelis together with Arab radicals are planning to set up illegal outposts and to destroy Israeli crops and plant illegally on the same land in Judea and Samaria. The leader of this group is an American-born 'rabbi' named Arik Ascherman, who has been active in leftist causes in Israel for years.

One of the latest projects of several left-wing organizations, led by Rabbis for Human Rights, is to rebuild demolished illegal homes for Arabs on state-owned lands in the southern Hevron Hills. In another campaign, the activists and local Arabs plan to plant trees in areas of Samaria claimed by the G'vaot Olam farm, near Itamar, as well as in proximity to the Gilad farm.

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As part of their ongoing campaign, left-wing activists have encouraged local Arabs to bring claims against Jewish or state ownership to selected lands before Israeli courts. When they obtain a court order in their favor, the activists and Arabs plant trees or destroy Jewish crops on the lands in question; however, when the courts rule against the Arab claimants (as is the case in the Hevron Hills), many foreign and Israeli left-wing radicals violently block the destruction of any Arab-owned structures on the contested property and help the Arab residents illegally rebuild anything successfully demolished by the authorities.

Last month, Ascherman, an American-born liberal rabbi, led Arabs and foreign activists in an effort to physically prevent thousands of Jewish schoolchildren in the B'nei Akiva youth movement from planting trees in honor of Tu B'Shevat, the Jewish "New Year for trees." The incident took place in the industrial area of the southern Hevron Hills, between Be'ersheva and Hevron. Two nights later, vandals uprooted approximately half of the 5,000 cedar and pine trees that the children had planted.

If the 'Palestinians' ever get a state reichlet, I wonder if they would consider letting Ascherman live there.

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 5:46 PM