Israel Cannot Stop the Vigilante Violence

The Israeli Deep State recruits and sometimes even organizes many elements across the Israeli political spectrum. The Israeli government is helpless against the vigilante violence, first because the state can only act within the law and bringing evidence against and identifying individual vigilantes is not easy and second because the vigilantes like most of the Israeli political spectrum is ultimately run by the Israeli Deep State. The vigilantes are far right ultra-Orthodox post-Zionists (although with origins in Religious Zionism) who reject democratic authority, the rule of law and advocate the imposition of a theocratic regime in Israel. They are clearly enemies of open society but the Israeli state can only act within the constraints of law. The Israeli Deep State will however continue to operate and even accelerate the vigilantes as long as there is a process of imposition of sanctions against Israel and the law-abiding, restored indigenous communities of Judea and Samaria. At worst, if the Israeli economy is brought down according to the genocidal BDS agenda, then the Palestinians will if necessary be expelled from Judea, Samaria and Gaza by the vigilantes and others to prevent genocide against the Jewish people. Countries that wish to stop the vigilante violence (which is hypocritical considering that they have nothing to say against Palestinian terror against Jewish residents which is 95% of the political violence in Judea and Samaria) would be particularly well-advised to rescind all sanctions against Jews, restored indigenous communities and the Jewish state and specifically refrain from imposing further sanctions. If they accelerate so will alas the vigilante violence.

Published by Daniella Bartfeld

Daniella Bartfeld is the founding director of the Aliyah Organization.

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