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Rabbis for Human Rights

by Ted Rudow III, MA (Tedr77 [at] aol.com)
Tension is continuing to mount in Israel over a string of recent Palestinian stabbing attacks and an intense crackdown by the Israeli government. Since October 1, at least 58 Palestinians have been shot and killed by Israelis at the scene of attacks or during protests in the West Bank and Gaza. Israeli police say 10 Israelis have been killed in Palestinian stabbings or shootings.
Meanwhile, video has gone viral of a masked Israeli settler armed with a knife attacking Rabbi Arik Ascherman, the co-founder of the group Rabbis for Human Rights. The incident took place after Ascherman tried to film Israeli settlers setting Palestinian olive trees on fire in the West Bank village of Awarta outside of Nablus.

For some 13 years, Rabbis for Human Rights has been accompanying Palestinian farmers to get their olive trees. When they started back in 2002, they were being shot at, threatened. Several of our volunteers had their heads cracked open. It was very violent, with the security forces doing nothing. As a result of our High Court victory, Israeli High Court victory in 2006, the fact is that many farmers are getting to lands that they couldn’t get to for two, five, 10, even 15 years, and now, by court order, the army is protecting them to get to those places.

Invaded their country, took it all away from them, their homes, the farms, everything. Has given them nothing but sorrow, sadness and violence!--Their cruelty, injustice and selfishness where they've persecuted, abused and oppressed the poor Palestinians! So many of them are Christians, poor dispossessed refugees, strangers in strange lands robbed of their possessions.

Ted Rudow III, MA
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