Zionist Israelis charge government ministers with incitement

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By Stan Goodenough
November 05, 2008

Rifts continue to deepen between secular and religious Israelis, with two ministers in the Ehud Olmert government accused Monday of inciting public opinion against the Zionists who live in the historic heartland of the Jewish people.

The Jerusalem Post reports that "[t]he Committee of Samaria Settlers is set to file a complaint against Vice Premier Haim Ramon and National Infrastructures Minister Binymain Ben-Eliezer, claiming that remarks made by the two during a cabinet meeting Sunday constituted libel and incitement against the settler community."

During that meeting Ramon, a convicted criminal himself, charged that the security forces "practiced discrimination and apartheid" in how they dealt with Arabs and Jews involved in "disturbances" in Judea and Samaria."

Ben-Eliezer said of the overwhelmingly religious Jews who live in Samaria and Judea: "They don't think like us; their thoughts are messianic, mystical, satanic and irrational." He reportedly also called for "a blitz" (a loaded German word in Jewish ears) against the settlers.

In a letter to Attorney-General Menahem Mazuz lawyers for the Judea and Samaria communities said they were also thinking of filing complaints against Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.

"Leading the libelers and defamers is convicted criminal Haim Ramon [who] initiated the meeting and called for the arrest of hundreds of civilians on the basis of 'intelligence.'

"Failure to initiate an investigation of the ministers will constitute clear favoritism… Regrettably, you [Mazuz] not only participated in the cabinet meeting but stood aloof while several of the senior ministers (as well as the prime minister himself) made horrible inciting remarks against a community that is almost exclusively gentle, innocent and law-abiding."

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