The settler attack on Israelis and Palestinians that I reported on Friday night, which went largely uncovered in mainstream Israeli media, is now being reported on by both Haaretz and Channel 2 news. Both outlets are showing a new video that the activists have publicized, which was not ready when I posted. You can view it here below. We apologize that there are no English subtitles, but the video mostly speaks for itself.
UPDATE: Video has come out with English subtitles:
October 5, 2011
3:18 am
@ RichardNYC
you seem to have a lot of time on your hands so take your time and work your way thru this :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_land_and_property_laws
October 5, 2011
3:36 am
To KIBBUTZNICK who writes Tuesday October 4: “A few words about this settlement: the settlers of Anatot are some of the worst people. It’s a secular, extreme right-wing settlement of police officers and army officers, some of them retired”.
Problem is, KIBBUTZNICK, I had to wait your factual comment to get finally the full picture. I can only repeat what I said last Friday reading the first post covering the clash: “It would be more convincing to be informed instead of being stuffed with sensational activism”.
Because it’s not a political detail that the confrontation took place between left wing activists and settlers with this kind of background (plus “Netanyahu’s personal driver”, you inform us!).
Look, there were so many omissions in the initial coverage and such demagogy afterwards with the use of words (pogrom!) that it seemed some bad guys came to attack an Activist settlement…
October 5, 2011
6:56 am
to Henry Weinstein
i’m not a journalist i’m a farmer and a left wing activist
if you want more info please bookmark here @
http://www.kibush.co.il/index.asp
October 5, 2011
1:33 pm
To Kibbutznick
Thanks for the link, I will pay attention. Hope you understood it wasn’t against you, my comment. I was just remarking, like many other commenters, we got the lacking infos in the thread…
Moreover, very often the politically correct answer was: look this link, moron!
Hey, I’m not journalist either!!
October 5, 2011
10:40 pm
These cannot be religious Jews living in Anatot – they would not have behaved this way on Shabbat. All I hear now is yelling and screaming – there is no video to see what is happening. What I hate is the fact that the world ‘settler’ has become some kind of pejorative. I am a settler!! I live near Tel Aviv – to all the so-called palestinians, I, too, am a ‘settler.’ Now I hear some of them yelling something about Tel Aviv. How can it be confirmed whose cars those are? Why would someone from the community slash a car’s tire? The owner wouldn’t be able to leave. That doesn’t make any sense. I want more information before I decide what really took place there.
October 6, 2011
4:12 am
The “socalled Palestinians” – that our negationist Chaya writes without capital ‘P’ contrary to the other proper nouns ‘Jews’, Tel Aviv’ etc – are natives to the area, unlike the immense majority of the socalled Israelis !
Maybe “Chaya” is Golda-’Palestinians-No-Such-Thing-Exist’-Meirson, our American settler born Mabovitch in present-day Ukraine, speaking from beyond her grave….
October 7, 2011
12:16 pm
RICHARDNYC, thanks for the incomplete quote.
You posted on Monday,October 3, 2011 at 10:59 pm,
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@2
“Very few around the world think that the settlers are anywhere near as violent as some soccer fans.”
–>right, that’s the problem. focusing on their relatively tepid displays of violence won’t impress anyone, especially when the audience isn’t even convinced that the victims were in the right because we don’t know whose land it actually is.
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You co-opted the first sentence of a complete thought, whose assertion was opposite yours above,
posted by 2 on Monday,October 3, 2011 at 2:16 pm
“Very few around the world think that the settlers are anywhere near as violent as some soccer fans. That their violence not only actually approaches that of some soccer fans but also occurs rather more regularly would be an eye-opener for lots of people.”
For the sake of your own intellectual integrity, try to avoid doing the same thing in the future.
October 16, 2011
8:53 am
@2
Quotes have to end somewhere…and what you wrote after the quote I used doesn’t diminish the validity of my point, so I don’t see the problem. Anyway, its not even clear that Anatot-style skirmishes happen more often than soccer hooligan brawls. We certainly wouldn’t know from this piece.
October 18, 2011
2:43 pm
We’ve seen it before – apartheid. It will end when people again realize that injustice to one is injustice to all.
November 27, 2011
1:26 am
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