Amona pogrom

Photos of Amona pogrom.

Jake, Senior Correspondent of mentalblog.com Jerusalem Bureau reports: The Pogrom today was very clearly an attack by the Israeli government on Jewish villagers who are politically inconvenient. (I avoid the term "settlers" - how are they different from Arab villagers???) The police were carefully chosen by their willingness and desire to beat up frummies. The TV pictures clearly show almost ALL of the violence was committed by the riot police force and not by the unarmed teenage protesters.

One 15 year old, still unconscious in hospital, was being visited tonight by his anxious parents when a policeman at the hospital told the father that he wished his son would have been killed today. The father angrily demanded that the policeman identify himself. Several other policemen then attacked the father, dragging him away from the offending officer who walked away, unidentified.

This was all recorded and shown on the TV news tonight.

The HATE that PERES and SHARON have developed against Jewish villagers, especially DATI JEWS - and all only for personal political gain - is now drawing blood. With Olmert's interim government facing criticism from all the other parties and becoming increasingly desperate, expect more of this for-political-profit violence.

If the pictures we saw on TV in Israel would have been shot in the USA, there would be riots in major cities across the USA, lots of cops would be up on attempted murder charges and top brass would be out of office by the end of the week. When the government here feels threatened, it attacks the citizenry. This is "Democracy", Middle Eastern style. Israel is now much more like Syria and Egypt than Britain and the USA.