Zionism’s dying between Hebron and Yitzhar

By Zeev Sternhell

“The Zionist Enterprise,” said Berl Katznelson in 1929, when he summed up the first 10 years of the Ahdut Ha’Avoda movement, is a “conquest enterprise.” And in the same breath he added: “It is not by chance that I am using military terms to describe the settlement of the country.” And in fact, Zionism was a movement of conquest, and all means were permitted to carry out the task.

However, what was essential and therefore justified in the pre-state days is now assuming an ugly and violent form of colonial occupation: the authoritarian regime in the territories, the creation of two legal systems, the placing of the army and police at the service of the settlement movement, the robbing of Palestinian lands….

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Last update – 22:38 09/08/2008

By Haaretz Staff and Channel 10

Haaretz.com/Channel 10 daily feature for August 7, 2008.

A group of men who police suspect were hired by an ultra-Orthodox gang recently broke into a Jerusalem woman’s home and beat her because they deemed her immodest.

The so-called “Modesty Guard” is suspected of being behind the incident. The gang has been known to unleash extortion, mercenaries, violence and surveillance on less religious Jews they deem sacrilegious. They claim to do it all in the name of God.

The incident may be one of a string of signs of rising ultra-Orthodox violence. Last year, five Haredi Jews assaulted a woman and an Israel Defense Forces soldier because they sat next to one another on a Jerusalem bus.

Since the so called “calm” has taken effect, close to fifty rockets have been fired from the Gaza strip to Sderot and other Israeli communities nearby, with little if any responce. I don’t think this blog has made any mention of them. I’d like to see the IDF and the IAF hunt down the scum that are firing the kassam rockets on innocent Israeli civilians with an intention to kill.

(I like dogs)

If you look at this from the settler’s vantage pt. it makes perfect sense to target Peace Now because their annual settlement rpt is one of the single most damaging documents to the settler cause. Recently, PN proved that something like one-third (it may’ve been an even higher percentage) of all settlement land was actually stolen from Palestinians who had legitimate title to it.

As for the “logic” behind the flier, I too thought of the idiocy of offering a reward you couldn’t possibly afford to pay. But I think this is giving aberrant wingnuts too much credit. Of course they didn’t think that through. Their sole goal was to announce their intent to intimidate the left & the rest of Israeli society. Not to engage in logical or reasonable thinking.