By Stan Goodenough
Sep 03, 2007
Israel's Kadima-led government may be reticent about smashing the Arab terrorism emanating from Gaza, but it indicated Monday there would be no such restraint when it comes to dealing with its own citizens' passive resistance to its policies.
The authorities are gearing up to crush any opposition to the destruction of at least 26 politically-labeled "illegal" outposts in Samaria and Judea.
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has decreed the dismantling of these small Jewish communities in acquiescence to the demands of the international community that Israel's biblical heartland be turned into a Jew-free Arab state called Palestine.
According to a report in The Jerusalem Post Monday, the IDF is finalizing an operational plan to carry out Olmert's wish.
Troops called up to defend the Jewish homeland against Arab efforts to destroy it will be employed in this action which many Zionist Israelis have labeled a pogrom.
A number of conscientious soldiers are expected to refuse orders to participate in the uprooting, even at the risk of being imprisoned
In an apparent attempt to besmirch those who the security forces will be acting against, a high-ranking pro-eviction IDF officer who was not named told the Post as a matter of fact that "there will be extreme violence" from the Zionists.
However, "once the evacuation date is determined by the political echelon, we could begin the evacuations in a matter of weeks," he reassured.
Reports cited defense officials as saying that "one of the reasons behind the sudden activity on the outpost issue [is the] relentless American pressure on the government to begin taking steps to remove the communities.
The US has been pressuring Olmert on this score since he was elected last year, officials said.
As chief sponsor of the land-for-peace process, the United States leadership is at the forefront of the global effort to steal Jewish lands for the creation of a Muslim Arab state.
If spawned, Palestine will be the 23 state for a nation whose homeland was once restricted to the Arabian peninsula, but which now occupies the entire Middle East and most of northern Africa - with nearly 700 times as much land as Israel has.