Jerusalem – Israel on Wednesday freed a Jewish extremist detained 10 months ago amid a security crackdown on extremists following an arson attack in which a Palestinian toddler was burned to death.
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Meir Ettinger was arrested last year, shortly after the deadly arson of a West Bank home that killed three people, including the toddler. He was detained without trial or charge, under a measure called administrative detention, which Israel typically uses on Palestinians suspected of militant activity.
A number of extremists were arrested in the sweep, with one man and a minor eventually charged for the West Bank arson.
The Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security agency, declined to say why Ettinger was being released. In an email, it said he was banned from entering the West Bank for a year and barred from contacting certain radical activists for six months, among other conditions for his release.
The 24-year-old Ettinger is the grandson of U.S.-born Rabbi Meir Kahane, Israel’s most notorious Jewish extremist, whose ultranationalist party was banned from Israel’s parliament for its racist views in 1988. He was killed by an Arab gunman in New York in 1990.
Ettinger has been accused of heading an extremist movement seeking to bring about religious “redemption” through attacks on Christian sites and Palestinian property. Sima Cohav, a lawyer for Ettinger, denied the allegations, saying Ettinger was “not involved in anything.”
Jamal Dajani, a spokesman for the Palestinian government said Ettinger “will be now allowed to roam free and put Palestinian lives in danger.”
Rabbi Kahane was a tzaddik.
Will they stop worshiping the Israeli flag after their taste of zionism? Doubt it.
Rachmonus
Hope he’s given a hero’s welcome like chareidim do when a Cantonist is released from Keleh-Shesh.
And I hope he wasn’t injected with some deadly stuff like they did to Rabbi Uzi Meshulam (who uncovered the truth about the thousands of Yemenite children kidnapped by the Zionists) during his 5 years in prison.
The Shin Bet Mafia, the self-appointed-for-life-radical-leftist-judges in the High Court of Injustice, Bibi Netanyahu and the rest of the evil government are quite aware that the Duma arson is nothing but a hoax andy admitted that they found absolutely no evidence and no proof that Ettinger or any Jew was behind the Duma arson but still enjoy keeping “Settlers” behind bars just because…
“a spokesman for the Palestinian government said Ettinger will be now allowed to roam free and put Palestinian lives in danger.”
Has Ettinger ever hurt Arabs or anyone else in the world, Mr. Jamal?
But Ettinger’s grandfather Rabbi Meir Kahana Hy”d AND his son Rabbi Binayamin Kahana Hy”d AND his wife Hy”d, WERE MURDERED by Arabs sent by Israel’s Mafia and so did your Arab brothers murder thousands of Jews.
And this is what the Zionists want to do t all Rabbi Kahana’s descendants!
so in the “democratic” so called Jewish state a Jew is locked up without charges for an entire year and misses his sons bris, simply because the minister of defense didn’t like hi, reminds me of Stalin. For this thousands of Jews died fighting for?
Any coincidence that Boogy is now out of office ? Shameful shameful shameful taht this happened in a democracy. This whole Dume thing was a total scam and obviously it was typical Arab animals that committed the act.
Rabbi Kahane was very very far from a Tzaddik.
He was rabble rouser inciter who seeked on a constant basis to antagonize non-Jews against Jews here in the USA.Typical Zionist tactic. Jews to be uncomfortable in exile in order to be forced to move to the so called Jewish state.
His views were twisted and dangerous.
He was a danger and a threat to Jews.
Ettinger is bringing him Nachas following in his twisted footsteps.