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Detention of stone throwers: Justified, but otherwise

2020-05-15T08:56:19.146Z


Yossi BeilinThe fall of Golani fighter, Maj. Gen. Amit Ben Yigal, made many feel what he himself wrote a year ago on IDF Memorial Day: "The ceremony took my heart, took it by force, gave it a strong blow, and brought it back. Inside. "A colleague has fallen to protect the country, and we all owe him a great debt, but that doesn't mean the mission sent to him - arresting suspects with stone throwing - is a rig...


The fall of Golani fighter, Maj. Gen. Amit Ben Yigal, made many feel what he himself wrote a year ago on IDF Memorial Day: "The ceremony took my heart, took it by force, gave it a strong blow, and brought it back. Inside. "A colleague has fallen to protect the country, and we all owe him a great debt, but that doesn't mean the mission sent to him - arresting suspects with stone throwing - is a right move. His downfall requires a rethinking of this type of operation.

Arrests in the Shuafat Camp // Photo Archive: AFP

Although Israel's overall security responsibilities remain in the territories - according to the Oslo Accords and the agreements that followed - after the densely populated areas of the West Bank were transferred to the Palestinians, Israel refrained from sending the IDF to military operations there. The army returned there only after the outbreak of the second intifada (following the rise of the Second Intifada). Ariel Sharon, as leader of the opposition, to the Temple Mount, accompanied by about a thousand people.) So far, there is debate whether the IDF's response to the beginning of the intifada was not excessive, and whether it did not spark a greater fire, but no one thought he would not respond at all, and during the difficult clashes The IDF returned to the areas from which it was vacated.

In early 2005, with the election of Mahmoud Abbas as president of the Palestinian Authority, the intifada ceased, but all Israeli governments have since left an IDF presence in the West Bank, and even as our soldiers gradually left the Palestinian communities, and the security coordination with the security forces of the PA tightened and succeeded. It is customary to send our soldiers at night to local authority controlled communities to arrest wanted persons. 

These are rarely cases of "ticking bomb". These are usually stone throwers whose right way to deal with them is to do so through the Palestinian forces, and not just to justify the message to these forces that will clear the way for us, and not interfere with us.

I remember conversations I had with former Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, who said that nightly visits were the biggest hit by the Palestinian leadership because they portrayed opponents of violence and sought to build calm and a peace agreement, as slack persons cooperating with the occupation. That Israel withdrew from Gaza because it could not resist the violence Hamas has waged against it, and since then has not dared to seek wanted ones in the Gaza Strip, while in the West Bank, where there is a rule that opposes violence, the IDF acts as its own, while disrespecting the Palestinian leadership.

A number of TV networks are currently airing series on the security band in Lebanon. Many of the interviewees concede that the concept that the Lebanese presence in Lebanon is protecting the northern communities, and because so many of our soldiers were killed, was wrong; but even those in the army who believed that leaving Lebanon would prevent the friction between the IDF and Hezbollah, and therefore the firing On the northern communities - there was no power to express their views.

Areas B, where civilian responsibility is Palestinian, and security is Israeli, have long had to move to Area A, which includes Palestinian security. Care for wanted people should be their responsibility. The IDF needs to cease the difficult situations in which a group of soldiers arrive in the morning, finds itself surrounded by local youth and has to fulfill its mission while avoiding injuries to soldiers and their attackers. The goal is right, of course. Stones can also kill, but the means to deal with that need to change. The new security, Benny Gantz, will have to re-examine the issue.

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Source: israelhayom

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