Several settler boys between 13-18 (teenagers) who attend the Pri Haaretz Jewish day and religious school/yeshiva in an illegal settlement Rehelim were arrested for throwing a rock at a car windshield that killed a Palestinian woman Aisha Mohammed Rabi.
The Washington Post reported the news of the same hate crime here
that reported the Jewish settlement-residing and day school attending teenagers were charged with "serious terror offenses" and picked a letter to publish here and in the image below.
The only ‘moderate’ characteristic of Rehelim
“We allowed them to establish the yeshiva here, but this is not Yitzhar,” said 31-year-old local Elyashiv Mark, referring to a neighboring settlement pegged by the Israeli security establishment as a hotbed for extremism.
“We’re still very ideological and believe that there must be no compromising on settling the land of Israel, but we’re also more mainstream,” Mark declared in a Monday phone conversation with The Times of Israel.
“Nobody here tries to justify violence.”
Shabtay Bendet, one of the founders of Rehelim, explained that the community was established in 1991 in a similar fashion to other outposts.
“We created facts on the ground without any approval from the government and only worked tried to get permission after the fact,” said Bendet, who left the town roughly a decade ago and now works as the director of the “settlement watch” team for Peace Now, the left-wing NGO.
is whether Jewish settlers commit crimes of actual physical violence against people, or property, or not. Even the ‘nonviolent’ settlers benefit from civil legal inequality regarding freedom of movement of people and goods that causes Aisha Rabi and her neighbors to wait in longer, separate, checkpoint lines to make similar trips. Building Rehelim (alternative spelling Rehalim) without permits, only seeking them later, is what those falsely attacked as ‘new anti-semites,’ 'delegitimizers' or ‘anti-Israel’ mean when they call the settlements a land grab. The only difference between Rehelim and Yitzhar is in the pace of social regression into a worsening conflict between the Israeli far-right and center-right (with their American and global supporters) and the rest of the western (European-inspired) and non-western worlds of many, and no, faiths. The worsening conflict serves neither Jews, Muslims or Christians well.
Calling the teenagers Israeli, as Glenn Easton of Chevy Chase demands, is inaccurate based on the disputed and internationally unrecognized status of Rehelim/Rehalim settlement residence. The Post does not need to "make a point" about Judaism allegedly being a violent religion. Makor Chaim, another yeshiva/day school in another settlement, is 'celebrated' here after it benefits from the same civil legal inequality that Pri Haaretz yeshiva/day school benefits from. The settler teenagers who committed "serious terror offenses" regarding murdering Aisha Rabi already made that point, not for the first time, that Judaism and nationalism (zionism) can lead to violence when they threw rocks at the car Aisha Rabi was a passenger in.
The suspects in the Aisha Rabi murder show again that Yeshivot/day schools, whether Makor Chaim in Kfar Etzion or Pri Haaretz in Rehalim/Rehelim, have more in common with Muslim madrassas where violence, to protect one’s faith-based civil legal supremacy is concerned, than is usually acknowledged. Using BDS tactics to remove the unequal restrictions on freedom of movement of people and goods is what those falsely attacked as ‘new anti-semites,’ 'delegitimizers,' or ‘anti-Israel’ activists mean when they support using those BDS tactics to end what they accurately label occupation and apartheid.
