While a new demonstration took place against the government’s bills, the Minister responsible for the colonies at the Ministry of Defense, Bezalel Smotrich, said that “Huwara must be shaved”. Class = “Caption”> by Louis Imbert (Jerusalem, correspondent)
The wife of the Israeli Prime Minister, Sara Netanyahu, was blocked by demonstrators on Wednesday evening 1 er Mars, in a Tel Aviv hair salon. This “siege” or this “moment Marie-Antoinette”, as Humor Noa Landau humor, one of the chief editors of the Left daily Haaretz, lasted more than an hour and a half. An impressive column of police officers ended up breaking the ranks of the demonstrators. They gave a passage to the procession of cars of M me netanyahu, which galloped police on horseback.
Three hours earlier, Benyamin Netanyahu had launched an address of an unprecedented darkness on television. He erected a “red line” against “violence and anarchy which he sees settle in Israel. A massive social movement has denounced its justice reform project for two months, which aims to release the executive from any independent judicial supervision.
m. Netanyahu compared the demonstrators to the Israeli settlers who led a punitive expedition on Sunday in impunity against the Palestinian village of Huwara, in the West Bank, after the murder of two of them. He presented the debate on his reform as a cultural war which draws up a part of Israel against the other – opinion surveys indicate that a clear majority feared.
He evoked the trauma that was for the right the evacuation of the colonies of Gaza, decreed by Ariel Sharon in 2005. He suggested to the demonstrators to be inspired by the political fight that the colonists have since led so that Such a precedent cannot reproduce, a fight that culminates in the reform of justice. The Prime Minister forgot to specify that the resistance to the evacuation of Gaza was marked by massacres perpetrated against Palestinians in Shilo and Shefa Amr (eight dead).
This speech and this day mark a turning point. For the first time, the link is made between the reform of justice and the violence exercised by the army and the colonists in the territories. In Tel Aviv, demonstrators launched the police on Wednesday: “Where were you in Huwara?”
“Incitument to violence”
During the day, the Minister responsible for the colonies in the Ministry of Defense, Bezalel Smotrich, had seemed to call the army to carry out an ethnic cleaning there, saying that “Huwara must be shaved. The state of Israel is the one who has to raze it and not, to God does not like isolated individuals. “The American administration, who could welcome Mr. Smotrich in Washington in March, denounced a declaration” irresponsible, repugnant and disgusting “. She asks Mr. Netanyahu to disavow this “incitement to violence”.
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