THE HANDSTAND

AUGUST 2005



       ANOTHER WITHDRAWAL, ANOTHER SHABAK MASSACRE
                                                   by Barry Chamish
www.barrychamish.com


     Barely a week ago I addressed the people of Neve Dekalim in Gush Katif and promised them that just before the pullout there would be a massacre perpetrated by the Shabak. I used the example of the Hebron pullout to make my point.
     Back in '97, PM Netanyahu couldn't get his Hebron withdrawal past his cabinet. The next day, an IDF soldier, Noam Friedman, who had just spent 3 months in a psychiatric ward, took a bus to Hebron and shot up the Arab market in front of numerous television cameras which happened to be there as well. Due to international pressure, the withdrawal was passed by the cabinet that evening.
     And I also told the gathered that the outrage would come from Kach, since the Shabak runs the organization. It is no coincidence that a few days before, Kach members publicly staged a Pulsa Dinura, death curse ceremony against Ariel Sharon. That trick was played one month before Rabin's murder by Kach members led by one Avigdor Eskin. 
      So, surprise, surprise, the Shabak aided by IDF intelligence pulled the old rabbit out of its hat just when they were supposed to. As usual, the patsy was Yemenite.

Here are the predictable details:

http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com

A Jewish soldier who went AWOL from the IDF one month ago killed four people and wounded 12 others when he opened fire inside a bus in an Arab town in the Galilee.

Angry residents lynched the 19-year-old following the shooting. He was identified as Eden Natan Tsuberi from Rishon L'tzion, a city south of Tel Aviv. Israeli media reported that he recently moved to the Kfar Tapuach community in northeast Samaria after turning to religion and becoming involved in extreme political activism, but the administrator of the community said he never heard of the man.
The killer's parents, worried over their son's radical change, said they had asked the army to take away their son's weapon but were told by officers there was no need to do so.
Israel media tried to link the murder with anti-expulsion protests and pointed out that the murderer had refused to take part in the planned expulsion. Former MK Rabbi Chanan Porat told questioning interviewers there is absolutely no connection to be made between the anti-expulsion protests and the murder.

Many questions remained unanswered following the murder, which occurred shortly before 6 p.m., particularly concerning events immediately after the shooting. Police approached the bus in the town of Shafarm after the shooting and removed an angry mob from the bus and reportedly tried to protect the vehicle from hundreds of angry Arab residents. Five officers were injured as the mob pelted them with stones and bottles. Several people got past police, but it was not clear whether the shooter was killed following the police intervention or whether he died from the initial mob attack.
Tzuberi was in an IDF unit other than the Border Police and it is not known how or why he obtained the Border Police uniforms.
MK Uri Ariel (National Union) said the IDF must investigate why the murderer had his weapon with him after having been on AWOL for an extended period of time.
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said, "This was a reprehensible act by a bloodthirsty Jewish terrorist who sought to attack innocent Israeli citizens.... I send condolences to the families of those who were murdered and my best wishes for a quick recovery to those who were wounded. The entire State of Israel, regardless of race, religion or sex, strongly condemns this act of terrorism."


        Once again, the sociopath Sharon had four Arabs killed and 16 others shot just to get his little Gaza withdrawal done. The shooter was another in a long line of  Shabak patsies which includes Yigal Amir and Baruch Goldstein. And, as always, the "leaders" of the Right and the religious communities cower in shame over the incident. None dare actually blame the real perpetrators, the government of Israel and its internal security apparatus.
        This setup is a double-edged blessing for the "peacemakers." Until now, Druze soldiers had mostly refused to drag Jews out of their homes in Gush Katif, cage them like animals and force them away in trucks. Now they will cooperate. And of course, the public opinion that had turned against the rape of Gush Katif will instantaneously and dramatically shift.

Mob kills shooter, who deserted IDF to protest pullout
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/608864.html
By Jack Khoury, Haaretz Correspondent, Haaretz Service and Agencies 4 August
2005
A Jewish Israeli man in Israel Defense Forces uniform opened fire on bus passengers in a Druze neighborhood of the Israeli Arab town of Shfaram Thursday afternoon. Four people were killed and 12 wounded, two of them moderately. The gunman was killed by a mob that boarded the bus after the shooting.
Security forces said the shooting was apparently a Jewish terror attack and that the attacker was a newly religious man, an IDF deserter from Rishon Letzion who recently moved to the West Bank settlement of Tapuah. Security forces said the gunman, Eran Tzuberi, 19, was an activist in the outlawed extreme-right Kach movement. Tzuberi went AWOL a month ago to protest the disengagement plan.

    So let's ask the obvious questions:

   - Why didn't military police find the awol soldier in a full month and arrest him?
   - Why wasn't there a fullscale manhunt to find this "radical" soldier who took his M-16 with him?
   - Where was he for the month? (My answer is being brainwashed, as you might expect).
   - Why would he put on a Border Guard uniform instead of his own?
   - Why did the IDF allow the shooter to keep his weapon when his parents reported a dangerous mental change and requested that he be disarmed?
   - Why would the shooter kill Druze to protest "disengagement?"
   - How did the police identify him before they seized his body from the bus?

    And on and on. It's just business as usual at the Shabak and just as usual, they will get away with murder.



Gaza plan on track, says Sharon
Ha'aretz

Israel's prime minister is determined to remove settlers from Gaza despite the resignation of senior cabinet member Binyamin Netanyahu, say aides.

The finance minister quit on Sunday in protest at the planned withdrawal which is due to begin next week.

"This resignation will have no impact ... and there will be no delay," a senior official told AFP news agency.

Mr Netanyahu is expected to challenge PM Ariel Sharon for leadership of the Likud party before the next election.

Sources close to Mr Sharon quoted by Haaretz newspaper said no other cabinet ministers were expected to join Mr Netanyahu's departure from the government.

Mr Netanyahu submitted his resignation letter on Sunday, shortly before the cabinet voted by 17 to five to approve the initial phase of withdrawals from Gaza's three most isolated Jewish settlements - Kfar Darom, Netzarim and Morag.

"A unilateral withdrawal without anything in return is not the way," Mr Netanyahu said in his resignation letter.

"I cannot be part of this irresponsible move that divides the people and harms Israel's security and will in the future pose a danger for the wholeness of Jerusalem."

Israel's stock market dropped 5% within an hour of the resignation, but shares rebounded in Monday's trading.

Mr Sharon has said economic policy would not be affected, and swiftly appointed his confidant, vice premier Ehud Olmert, as interim finance minister.


The Israeli cabinet has approved plans for the first phase of Israel's withdrawal from the Gaza Strip.

The army is due to begin shutting down Jewish settlements in the territory in about 10 days' time.

The cabinet formally gave the go-ahead for the evacuation of the three most isolated communities, Kfar Darom, Morag and the settlement of Netzarim.