Jewish Extremism

Although suspected Jewish militant Meir Ettinger was denied leave from prison to be at his son’s brit milah, the celebrations at the event were nonetheless raucous and the mood upbeat.

The soldier is now serving as a symbol for all sides of the dilemma that our boys and girls must face as soon as they don the uniform.

Leaders of the religious Zionist world say the price tag/hilltop youth phenomenon is a rebellion against their theology.

Ettinger and Evyatar Slonim, two Jewish settler activists currently in administrative detention have been hunger striking recently to protest their treatment.

THE PROSPECTS of the Jewish state employing torture undoubtedly jolt any student of Jewish history who lacks knowledge of the tactics used by gentiles throughout two millennia of exile.

"An administrative detention order deprives a person of his basic rights," Libby Kahane argues.

From the outset, supporters of the extremists among the settlers insisted that Arabs must have been responsible, that Jews would never do such a thing.

Beit Jamal has been targeted in "Price tag" attacks in the past.

The Justice Ministry said that crimes were "ideological" in nature and added that the jail sentences were necessary in order to deter future incidences.

Ben-Uliel apparently confessed to the Shin Bet, but retracted before the police.