TEL AVIV, August 3, 2015 (WAFA)
– Jewish assailants who set a house ablaze and killed 18-month-old Ali
Dawabsheh in the Nablus village of Duma last Friday are part of an organized
Jewish gang that has torched mosques, churches and Palestinian homes over the
past year, the Israeli daily Haaretz
revealed on Monday.
It said the gang, which
consists of several dozen people, is mainly centered in West Bank outposts but
wanders all over Israel, including within the Green Line, and strives to
enforce Jewish law.
“Assailants have more ambitious
aims than in the past, such as destabilizing the country and establishing a new
regime to be based on Jewish law,” it said.
“The terrorists came to the
conclusion that mosque fires were old hat, and that a broader approach was
needed,” added Haaretz.
It said that ‘some of these ideas
were expressed in documents confiscated from Moshe Orbach, 24, a Jewish fanatic
who was charged last week in the torching of the Church of the Multiplication
of the Loaves and Fishes on the Kinneret shore.’
Moshe Orbach had written the
document, titled “The Kingdom of Evil,” which targets to escalate attacks
against religious sites and Arabs, and offers practical suggestions for how to
avoid surveillance and questioning.
Last Friday, Israeli settlers
killed 18-month-old Ali Dawabsheh and seriously injured his entire family
during a predawn arson attack that targeted two homes in the village of Duma,
south of Nablus.
Meanwhile, B’Tselem, an Israeli
human rights group, said the attack was only a matter of time. It argues that
Israel’s failure to penalize criminal Jewish terrorists who have conducted
similar attacks in the past was an incentive for terror settler organizations.
“This [attack] is due to the
authorities' policy to avoid enforcing the law on Israelis who harm
Palestinians and their property. This policy creates impunity for hate crimes,
and encourages assailants to continue,” it said.
According to B'Tselem
statistics, since August 2012, Israeli settlers set fire to nine Palestinian
homes in the West Bank. Additionally, a Molotov cocktail was thrown at a
Palestinian taxi, severely burning the family on board. No one was charged in
any of these cases.
It said the fact that Israeli
police and other law enforcement bodies have failed to solve these attacks was
“not fate”, but rather “the result of a policy expressed throughout all levels
of the law enforcement system … including the Prime Minister.”
It continued, “Official
condemnations of this attack are empty rhetoric as long as politicians continue
their policy of avoiding enforcement of the law on Israelis who harm
Palestinians, and do not deal with the public climate and the incitement which
serve is backdrop to these acts.”
“In light of this, the clock is
ticking in the countdown to the next arson attack, and the one after,” said the
center.
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