Minister Bennett Is Lying. The Settlements Aren't Keeping Israel Safe.

[Israeli]

The heartbreaking truth is that Hallel Yaffa Ariel did not live as a hero and die as a hero. She was stabbed to death in her bed because her bed was spitting distance from occupied Hebron.

Uri Misgav Jul 08, 2016

As he left the Mark family home after his condolence visit, Education Minister Naftali Bennett said that because Otniel and the rest of the settlements are under attack, the Tel Aviv area is not under attack. He is lying. Knowingly. For political purposes. It is a contemptuous and cowardly act. Certainly for the education minister and a person who represents himself as God-fearing.

Otniel is not the security zone for the Greater Tel Aviv area. If anything is true, it is the opposite: In Tel Aviv they are under attack because of Otniel and the likes. The terrorists who shot in Sarona came from the village of Yatta. The terrorist who stabbed in Netanya came from a village near Tul Karm. The terrorist who carried out the attack in Jaffa came from Qalqilyah. All in the West Bank.

The role of Israeli Arab citizens in the present wave of terror attacks is very small. Most of the attacks are carried out in the occupied West Bank by the Palestinians who live there. And they are aimed at the settlers and soldiers who are guarding them. We are in the midst of Operation “Peace for the Occupation.” It will not end without the end of the occupation.

Former deputy head of the Mossad Ram Barak formulated this truth clearly: “This is the price we pay for our sitting amongst a hostile Arab population. This is a price we can want to pay and it is possible to decide we don’t want to pay it.”

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