Border Control / We have no incitement here

Ha'aretz - Akiva Eldar
.......Among us, those who incite against the Arab neighbors are always "rogue elements." So why do Israeli governments irrigate them with public water? Take for example, "Shabbat Beshabato," a weekly pamphlet on the Torah portion distributed in thousands of copies to synagogues all over Israel. Rabbi Yisrael Rosen, the founder of the Conversion Authority and head of the Tsomet Institute of Halacha and Technology, wrote in the most recent edition that "the time has come 'to declare war' on the Israeli Arabs....'"

In an article featured prominently on Tsomet's Web site, Rosen suggests the ammunition to be used against the Arab citizens: "Taking away rights, also collectively (such as traveling on major arteries), as long as they do not meet the test of loyalty to the state. Also the right to vote for the Knesset, and certainly the right to be elected, are not 'God-given rights' and may be encroached on due to disloyalty, and certainly for security reasons, and to protect ourselves from those who would harm us."

The spiritual leader states that "whoever 'everyone is against' runs amok and goes wild."

....what kind of enlightened democracy finances a body that is behind the publication of unacceptable remarks against its citizens? The Tsomet Institute, like quite a few "rogue elements" (such as the Od Yosef Hai Shechem yeshiva, whose rabbi, Yitzhak Shapira, permits the killing of gentile babies) receives thousands of shekels annually from the state. In 2007-2008, Tsomet received from the Science and Technology Ministry over NIS 580,000, and another NIS 100,000 or so from the Ministry of Education, as well as NIS 200,000 from the Gush Etzion Regional Council.

.......Machsom Watch member Edna Kanti, .....dared to suggest to the Palestinians that they should refuse to show their documents and cross through the checkpoints en masse...

.......her family is receiving death threats.......  Full story