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Israeli teens: We won't dismantle settlements

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JERUSALEM -About 200 Israeli teenagers soon to be drafted sent a letter to Israel's defense minister on Thursday, saying they won't enforce any military orders to dismantle settlements in the West Bank because that violates Jewish law.
The threat is the latest sign of a growing tolerance for military insubordination in religious and nationalist circles, something that was unthinkable just a few years ago. The rebellion has been touched off by a recent Israeli government decision to slow Jewish settlement construction in the West Bank.
Several influential rabbis have urged religious soldiers to violate orders to knock down unauthorized building.
Although insubordination still is not a widespread phenomenon, it has the military worried. Eager to quash a potential rebellion, it has punished defiant soldiers, issued stern warnings to rabbis who promote insubordination and expelled one seminary from a program that combines religious study and military service.
In Thursday's incident, the Israeli teenagers said their paramount loyalty is to Jewish law. Opponents of the settlement slowdown say Jewish law forbids the destruction of Jewish construction, even if it hasn't been unauthorized by the government. Orthodox Jews also believe that God promised the West Bank to the Jewish people in the bible.
"The way the government is acting, the freeze in the West Bank, and the use of violence to implement is very disrespectful toward the Bible," Hanani Lieberson, one of the teenagers who signed the letter, told Army Radio.
The letter urges that soldiers not be used to carry out anti-settlement orders.
There was no immediate comment from Defense Minister Ehud Barak.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's decision to slow construction in the West Bank has provoked a great furor in the largely religious settler community. Netanyahu enacted the limitations under U.S. pressure to try to entice Palestinians to resume peacemaking.
The Palestinians have refused to return to the negotiating table, saying the settlement restrictions are insufficient because they exclude east Jerusalem and 3,000 homes already being built in the West Bank.
The Palestinian claim all of the West Bank as part of a future state, with east Jerusalem as their capital.
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2009-12-24 05:48:56

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pen319073
6:23AM Dec 24 2009 
Israel attacking Gaza, butchering and murdering innocent women and children has almost become a yearly tradition. A tradition that they get away with every single year, and chances are they will never be brought to justice.
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grasshopperjunct
8:32PM Dec 23 2009 
US Media won't dare to ************ you won't get upset.

They also think, that if reuters or AP won't carry it, it won't get out. They think everybody is stupid, well think again.

I had to google translate this:
Quote:

The Chief Rabbinate of Israel has declared war on Christmas ornaments, which considers hurt the sensitivities of the population of the Jewish majority country, and recommends hotels and restaurants to remove them from public areas.

In what for many is the Holy Land, where Jesus took his first steps, he preached his message and was crucified, firs, balls, garlands, ribbons of color, nativity scenes and Santas that commemorate his birth, it seems that their days are numbered .

. "We think this is good advice for owners of hotels and entertainment venues to prevent inconvenience to many Jewish guests," he told Efe Rabbi Oded Weiner, CEO of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel.




According to Yediot, the Chief Rabbinate of Jerusalem is also working to ensure that the traditional Christmas trees are not exposed in recreational areas, who bear the threat that withdraws the certificate of "kosher", ie to satisfy Jewish rules scrupulously.

This has joined the campaign launched last week by the Lobby for Jewish values, "which has distributed circulars condemning the celebration of Christmas and urged the public to boycott the restaurants and hotels to be carried away by these "stupid" Christian symbols.


http://translate.google.com/translat...ml&sl=es&tl=en

here is the original in Spanish
http://www.adn.es/internacional/2009...s-declara.htm
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INITO P
5:10PM Dec 23 2009 
cAbro51
10:21AM Dec 23 2009
Most Jews have no intention of living in Zionist Occupied Palestine. It’s just meant to be the world headquarters for their Jew Empire.>>>>>>>>>Initop Replies: I'd love to answer you but I'm late for my world-domination meeting. Moron. :)
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cAbro51
10:21AM Dec 23 2009 
Most Jews have no intention of living in Zionist Occupied Palestine. It’s just meant to be the world headquarters for their Jew Empire.
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INITO P
10:11AM Dec 23 2009 
draug34 Wrote: Israelis who still have a moral conscience-->>>>>Initop Replies: That's the beautiful part about Israel; political dissent is not only allowed but encouraged. Just because you agree with them doesn't mean you own the moral high ground. In Israel, like the US, you have ultra liberals that always find fault with their own country. The more disturbing question is why political opposition is not tolerated in Arab/Moslem countries? :)
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draug34
9:29AM Dec 23 2009 
Israelis who still have a moral conscience--a small part of the population--endeavor to use moral protests against the inhumanity of the Israeli government. Israelis Jeff Halper and Angela Godfrey-Goldstein lead the Israeli Committee Against House Demolition (ICAHD), a non-violent, direct-action group established to oppose and resist Israeli demolition of Palestinian homes in the Occupied Territories.
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INITO P
9:28AM Dec 23 2009 
Newsom Wrote: Where is the UN and World Court ,now??!!>>>>>Initop Replies: They're too busy ignoring Iran's defiance of the international community, Lebanon's refusal to dismantle Hezbollah in defiance of the UN, Iran's attempt to take Iraq's oil wells, Saudi Arabia's battle against Yemeni insurgents, the slave trade going on in the Arab world, the subjugation and mutalation of Moslem women, the war against the Taliban and al-quieda, the oppression of millions by Arab/Moslem despots, etc., etc. :)
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INITO P
9:22AM Dec 23 2009 
woodsedgeds, your brain would fit in a peanut shell. Israelis of all stripes and colors can vote. Arabs hold seats in the Kinneset and Israel is not a theocracy. The majority of Israeli Jews are secular. You're a putz. :)
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woodsedgeds
6:10AM Dec 23 2009 
Israel is a well crafted shell game of religion, race and state. Shell number one is Israel is a democratic nation. Only if you are Jewish and allowed to become a citizen can you vote. They are a minority in that country, most are Muslim Arabs. Everybody else within the borders is second class at best. The second shell is that they are a separate race as the chosen ones. Chosen for what is rather unclear as in all theocracies. They make up their own brand of racial supremacy. The third shell is where you have to be a member of their chosen religion under the control of your local Rabbi to have any voice whatsoever. Jews that object are proclaimed self hating. All dissention by anyone else causes them to whine their coined term ‘anti-Semitic’ or ‘remember the holocaust’. They do utilize the shell game to great advantage especially when bombing neighbors, robbing them, erecting walls, stealing their properties by calling them settlements and thumping their version of their bible. I for one am ashamed that we as Americans are forced to pay for them. Time to cut off their free welfare payments for which we get nothing in return. They don’t even pay taxes here.
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prioalm4
11:58AM Dec 22 2009 
Anybody who threatens the apocalypse if they don't get their own way is not interested in discussion or facts.

So drop the mask of civility.
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About 200 Israeli teenagers soon to be drafted sent a letter to Israel\'s defense minister on Thursday, saying they won\'t enforce any military orders to dismantle settlements in the West Bank because that violates Jewish law.