Israel – Rabbis, Yesha Council members, and government ministers are coming together in order to condemn recent settler violence against Palestinians.
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“What happened yesterday is not violation of law and order – it’s much worse,” said Rabbi Menachem Fruman, addressing the torching of a Palestinian field in Samaria by what he referred to as “hooligans.”
“Targeting Palestinians and their property is a shocking thing,” he said. “It’s an act of hurting humanity.”
Fruman, who is the rabbi of Tekoa and one of the leading religious figures in Judea and Samaria, harshly condemned recent violence, which radial settlers refer to as a “price tag” for the evacuation of unauthorized outposts.
The rabbi is joining forces with settler leaders and ministers in condemning acts he characterized as “hooligans committing the crime of hurting Palestinians.”
In the past, settler leaders refrained from publically condemning radical settlers, and any disagreements remained behind closed doors. However, this time the rabbis intend to express themselves unequivocally.
“There are camps that think it’s a good thing to burn the fields of Palestinians…it shocks me, first of all morally and also in political existential terms,” Rabbi Fruman said. “This builds a wall of fire between Jews and Arabs.”
Meanwhile, former Knesset member, Rabbi Hanan Porat, has also joined the initiative. While condemning the evacuation of West Bank outposts, he has expressed his outrage in the face of the violent settler response.
“The ‘price tag’ response is immoral,” he said. “It’s unheard of that one needs to burn the vineyards and fields of Arabs. It’s immoral…and it gives legitimacy to those who are interested in undermining the outpost issue. It’s a very grave matter.”
I’m with the rabbi on this one
I agree with Rabbi Fruman. What is the toeles?
Logically he is correct, but emotionally, to those involved they can’t follow that.
2 “rabbis” including Fruhman who shmoozes with arafat YM”S and the other Rabbi who thinks netanyahu (or any PM) is melech yisrael. It’s tough to care what they have to say, and certaiy has no halachic basis, especially in EY
not me.
the only mistake is that we are not burning the arabs themselves
dont tell me bout wall of fire, they hate us either way
all of a sudden they’re yelping ‘it’s immoral’. faugh! the cursed arabs have been damaging and stealing jewish property for years with no government protection or intervention. the victims finally snapped and retaliated
Amen. When Palestinians riot and throw rocks, I am disgusted at their behavior, and have always taken pride in the fact that the Jews take the high road. Let’s hope that never changes– people who throw rocks at other people should be prosecuted.
i this gets well publicized; utherwise the world will view jews on the same level as chamas.
This Rabbi is not a “Leader” in Yesha. He is known as a radical pro-Arabist. He is not considered to be an objective voice in Yeshas by any measure. He is known as an Arab appeaser. It seems that th editor of this article is putting a spin to this story by portraying this Rabbi as a mainstrearm voice.
i hpe the arab leaders see that we condem even our owen when they do some thing crazy and learn to do the same. ,,, YEAH RIGHT,,,,,
#4 the world will the view jews as hamas anyway.dont try to find favor in the eyes of eisav..it never worked
one of the leading religious figures in Judea and Samaria– BALONEY, he is not respected by any residents of Yehuda n Shomron, he is out of the pale in many instances.
Why only this Rabbi? where are all the Gedolim from Israel?
I’m with the rabbi. When did hooliganism become good midot?
obviously there is no justice or fair rule of law applied by the israeli gov. ,courts or police to the “settlers”.how many times should these people,who have incredible mesirus nefesh for ey,stand by while they’re shot at and hacked to death by arabs.,while their children are killed before their eyes RL?how many more times will they be draged off their their land,homes,buisnesses and farms?
I’m with the rabbi. When did hooliganism become good midot?
The problem is that the cursed arabs will spin this into a publicity frency.
Just to help people understand, while I’m not condoning the violence, you must understand the context. The situation out in these Yishuvim is intolerable. I’m not speaking about whether or not these people should be there. Another discussion for another time. The fact is, they are there and the government accepts them (not the outposts) My relatives live in Yitzhar. They work so hard, do not get any help from the government at all and seriously just want to settle the land for the mitzvah. They do not want the Arabs to have the land, obviously, but they do not seek out violence. I’ve met the people up there.
The army is put in position and in bases over there but it’s hard to understand for what purpose. My family has planted wheat fields repeatedly- up in Yitzhar, not in the arab fields. The arabs come by whenever they choose (usually Shabbos) and set the fields on fire. The soldiers come stand right there and do NOTHING- and sometimes even laugh! Meanwhile, should the Jews do anything to protect themselves, they can be assured that they’ll land themselves in jail.
I’m not saying that they’re justified to go into arabs land and do this to them as well- why should we stoop to their level? But they feel that they must make it clear to the arabs that they are unafraid of them and it’s the arabs who should fear them!
Personally, I think that they are mistaken and it’s not our place to start up.
But you can at least understand where they are coming from. The government and the soldiers placed there do everything to hinder, arresting them constantly and harassing them while aiding the arabs and siding with them when they are completely at fault.
Something’s pretty messed up over there.
As for Rabbi Fruman, very few people hold by his extreme views. He is pro-arab rather than Jew…..always. His own yishuv doesn’t consider him their rav. I don’t know what students are being referred to.
Interesting he definitely is.
“It’s an act of hurting humanity” what humanity is he reffering to shooting rockets or throwing stones? And thats not it.
This guy is right. Arbitrarily assaulting Palestinians is NOT the way to go here. How do you know if the one you are assaulting is pro-hamas or not? This is a disgrace and a chillul H”.
In the spirit of honesty (even though I know people will slam me for it):
1. Yidden have killed FAR more Muslims in the last 25 years than they have killed Yidden.
2. Not ALL Muslims want to see Yidden dead… contrary to the popular belief among those ignorant Yidden who have never even MET a Muslim let alone discussed the issue with one.
3. How is a peaceful Muslim supposed to react when he is arbitrarily attacked? This is how we turn good people into extremists. This is the kind of thing that the left-wing media at CNN LOVES to show to the Muslim world. We don’t need anymore terrorists!
If you want to attack Muslims, go find a Hamas training camp and bomb it back to the stone age. THAT would be doing the world a FAVOR!
Please remind me what Shimshon Hagibor did with those torches he tied to the wolves tails in plishtim, didn’t he burn down the Pelishtims/Palastenian fields?
i dont understand where are the rest of em’ where were they when busses were being blown up why didnt everyone pick up baseball bats broom sticks pots and pans and run after every arab just chase them! and then we wouldn’t have terrorism.
and i promise you all that you would do the same if you would be living their night mareish hell of a life that our brothers and sisters are facing every day there!
Terrorism is fought with Terrorism ask the Sri Lankan govt how they are dealing with the Tamil Tigers.
This rabbi shoulod become friends with Obama. He also believes that you should not harm your enemy and never torture them and never retaliate. Obama has allowed the North Koreans to supply Iran with high technoliogy to create and use nuclear weapons. Obama did not stop Iran. Instead Obama stopped Israel from killing Iranians before the Iranians could kill the Israelis (which Iran already announced they would do, publicly).
Thi9s rabbi also thinks that by allowing them to kill us and by not doing it back to them, this will make peace?? Quick, someone teach this rabbi some history about why the other Moslems allow the murder of Jews with not even one protest. Imagine, more than one billion Moslems, and not one group of Moslems complaing not to kill the Jewish people. Yet, this rabbi is p[leading with these great warrior avengers to stop.
see the problem with ashkenazi jews is that they never actually got the chance to live with arabs/muslims until long after they got pissed off and adopted wahabbiism to fight off the french, american, british and by proxy israel’s imperialism.
sephardic jews dont hate the arabs because they lived well in their lands, free to prosper, until the english came along and started carving up the place.
jews and muslims are cousins, it was christianity and bankers that made us enemies.
enough already with the “burn arabs shtick” we are better than that.
To all of you fellows who are so strident about going out and beating up arabs. Sounds to me that you’re letting your mouths write checks that your asses can’t cash. Talk is cheap. Anybody can talk about whupping the arabs as long as they’re not the ones who have to do the whuppin’.