Our World: Israel's anti-Zionist leaders

Jerusalem Post ^ | Nov 5, 2007 20:04 | CAROLINE GLICK

[Esther Ruth]

Nov 5, 2007 20:04 | Updated Nov 5, 2007 20:06

Our World: Israel's anti-Zionist leaders

By CAROLINE GLICK

From October 26-30, a mob of Druse villagers in Peki'in in the Galilee launched what has all the markings of a pogrom against the four Jewish families in the village. They burned their cars and surrounded and torched their homes.

The police took a full day to come to the Jews' defense. And when they did, the Druse mob kidnapped a policewoman and only set her free in exchange for their cohorts who had been arrested. The police then set about evacuating the Jews from their encircled homes and did nothing to prevent their destruction by the mob.

Now the Knesset's Interior Committee is demanding that a governmental commission of inquiry be set up to investigate what the Druse claim was police brutality in attempting to disperse the violent mob. For its part the Olmert government is distancing itself from Internal Security Minister Avi Dichter's decision to suffice with an internal police investigation of the policemen's behavior at the scene.

The question that arises is whether the leftist-dominated Knesset and the Olmert government act as they do out of fear or conviction. This question is given increased urgency as the Olmert government, under intense pressure from US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice moves closer to officially committing Israel to surrender Judea and Samaria and large swathes of Jerusalem including the Temple Mount to the Palestinian Authority.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

I had to look up Druse, Druze!

Druse) are a Middle Eastern religious community whose traditional religion is said to have begun as an offshoot of the Ismaili sect of Islam,
but is unique in its incorporation of Gnostic, neo-Platonic and other philosophies.
Druze consider themselves theologically as “an Islamic Unist, reformatory sect”,

[Esther Ruth]

Rest of the article goes on to talk mainly about the Greek Orthodox Church (Replacement Theology), and Theophilos — who — got approval from palestinians and Jordan by barring Israel and Jews from using church lands, prohibiting all land sales to Jews.