Israeli President Rivlin Too Minor to Assassinate, Says Far-Right Activist
I can’t even… WTF?
A settler activist on Friday said President Reuven Rivlin should not heed the death threats against him, since he is “not nearly important enough” to merit a political assassination.
Daniella Weiss, who served as the mayor of the settlement of Kedumim from 1996 to 2007, dismissed the online threats against the president in an interview aired Friday on Channel 1.
“You can pass along a message to Rubi Rivlin: ‘You can sleep well at night.’ No one is thinking of killing him. He’s not nearly important enough to deserve it,” she said. […]
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In other news, it sounds like things are getting real in the settlements:
Police raid settler outposts, hold 9, in Jewish terror crackdown
Police and agents of the Shin Beit security service raided several homes in settlement outposts in the West Bank early Sunday morning and detained at least nine people, police said.
One of the outposts targeted was Adei Ad, part of the Shiloh bloc of settlements. The outpost lies several kilometers from the Palestinian village of Duma, the scene of a firebombing on July 31 that killed a Palestinian infant and his father. The attack is believed to have been carried out by Jewish extremists.
The far-right legal aid organization Honenu said that in another raid, at the Kochav Hashahar settlement and the nearby Givat Habaladim outpost, also in the region of Duma, seven people were detained by security forces. […]
The raids came as Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon was expected to approve more orders enabling security forces to hold far-right activists without trial. […]
Meanwhile Sunday, security forces were bracing for an escalation of violence in the West Bank after Saad Dawabsha, the father of Ali Dawabsha, the Palestinian infant killed in the attack, succumbed to his wounds Saturday. […]
Annnnd so it continues. *SIGH*
And so the cycle of killing/dying continues: Israeli stabbed in West Bank; Palestinian attacker shot dead by IDF http://t.co/HeFocfo6FO #p2
— CuriousLurker (@CuriousLurker) August 10, 2015
Police release settlers held in raid linked to firebombing
Israel has released all suspects detained in raids that were part of a probe into the firebombing of a Palestinian home that killed an 18-month-old child and his father, authorities said Monday.
They did not provide the number of those detained in the raids early Sunday in Jewish settlement outposts in the West Bank near the Palestinian village of Duma, where the July 31 firebombing occurred at the home of the Dawabsha family. […]
Full details of the raids were under a gag order, although initial reports after the firebombing attack said the killers may have set out for Duma from nearby outposts. The firebombing also critically wounded the toddler’s mother and four-year-old brother. […]
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