Zionist Terrorists

From The Times of Israel online comes this article by Lazar Berman dated April 10, 2014, calling some Israeli extremists settlers Zionist Terrorists.

“Amid growing concern in the government over unchecked violence by extremist settlers, the six living former chiefs of the Shin Bet security service commented publicly on the attacks, calling the attackers “Jewish terrorists.”

Speaking to Yedioth Ahronoth on Thursday, the ex-directors — Avraham Shalom (1981-1986), Yaakov Peri (1988-1994), Carmi Gillon (1995-1996), Ami Ayalon (1996-2000), Avi Dichter (2000-2005), and Yuval Diskin (2005-2011) — urged Israel to do more to combat the trend, with many insinuating that the security services were being too soft on settler violence in the West Bank.

“There are no results because the government doesn’t say to Yoram Cohen, the head of the Shin Bet, to get results, despite the massive damage this is causing us,” said Gillon. “They are handling these rioters with kid gloves, so they are refusing to talk during interrogations — but there are interrogation methods, and even the worst Hamas operatives talk in the end…Therefore we need to deal with rioters as we dealt with the Jewish underground and like we dealt with Kach terrorists — to come down on them with force, to put them into prison for many years and create deterrence.”

“First of all, we need to define what is happening in the territories as Jewish terror,” Ayalon said. “ All of the other definitions coming from the prime minister, from the ministers, or the president — ‘hate crime,’ ‘bad seeds,’ and such — are meaningless. Laundered words. And until they do this, they won’t solve the problem. The Shin Bet knows what it’s supposed to do, but it can only do it once things are described as they are.”

Zionist Terrorists