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Video: Excessive Israeli Police Brutality Caught on Tape

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Police crossed the boundaries of reasonable force, and entered into full-scale, unprovoked violence as they began beating resistors sitting non-violently with arms-crossed inside an Amona home.

The protestors are seen sitting peacefully on the floor of one of the nine Amona buildings slated for destruction, with their arms locked together. According to the eye-witness testimony of the photographer Avi Fishman from Kedumim, no one in the room did anything but, as depicted in the footage, sit in.

The police are seen storming the room, and mercilessly beating those sitting in the home with the handles of their night sticks.

More on the subject in the Extended Article.

Debka’s analysis of what went on

Through the eyes of one reporter

Through the eyes of another reporter

Hendel: Olmert’s Advisor Said His Job is to Make Settlers Hated

MK Tzvi Hendel, an expelled resident of Gush Katif now living in Yad Binyamin, said that Acting PM Olmert’s political advisor said outright that his job is to get the public to “hate the settlers.”

Hendel made the accusation at a National Union Party press conference Thursday night. Specifically, he said that Eyal Arad, Olmert’s strategic political advisor, had told a leading Yesha (Judea/Samaria) personality, “The nation hates you [the Jewish public living in Judea and Samaria] as much as it hates the Arabs, and my job is to make sure they hate you even more.”

Hendel offered to resign from the Knesset if it turns out Arad did not say that.

Ynet reported Arad’s response: “Those words were never said, and as proof, there is no one who is willing to admit that he heard them from me. I therefore expect Hendel to resign, and immediately.”

Arad, a former advisor to Binyamin Netanyahu, ran Ariel Sharon’s victorious campaigns in 2001 and 2003. In 2004, Arad served in Romania as the strategic advisor in the campaign of the anti-Semitic presidential candidate Corneliu Vadim Tudor, head of the Greater Romania Party. This, despite Romanian Jewish leaders’ description of Tudor as an “enemy of the Jews,” and the Foreign Ministry’s statements at the time that Tudor was “xenophobic, anti-Semitic and anti-democratic.”

The National Union Party press conference was held in the wake of the the police violence at the Amona evacuation/destruction. The party’s stance is that a national commission of inquiry must be established to trace the orders and events leading to the brutal police violence that brought about some 200 civilian injuries.

In addition to Hendel, speakers included MKs Effie Eitam and Aryeh Eldad, who were both injured by the police at Amona, and party director-general Nachi Eyal, whose 15-year-old son had to be resuscitated by an ambulance driver after he was beaten by police at Amona.

Public Security Minister Gideon Ezra, despite the host of video clips and other evidence showing that policemen used sadistic violence against peaceful protestors, said Thursday, “The police should be congratulated for carrying out the mission.”

Nachi Eyal, whose son awoke from his coma during the course of Wednesday night, said, “I read that a police officer said that they used ‘kid gloves.’ Kid gloves split a boy’s head open and nearly kill him? How is it possible for an Israeli policeman to stand and smash children’s skulls? How can such people grow up here in our country?”

“It can’t be,” Eyal continued, “that we foster a pack of Amstaffs [a breed of dangerous dog] that the moment they are released, they don’t stop, leading to dozens of people in the hospital with head wounds. This cannot be allowed to occur in a country like ours.”

MK Benny Elon said, “Based on what I saw there, I can say that the fact that no one was killed is a miracle. There must be a public commission of inquiry, which is the minimum we can do to prevent a civil war. The committee must check what briefing the Central Commander gave the special Yassam police, and what instructions the Central Commander received from above.”

MK Aryeh Eldad, whose arm was broken by police at Amona said, “One policeman told me that the order was to ‘mow their faces down.’ The responsibility for the smashed skulls lies with the Central Commander and on Olmert. The rocks that flew in Amona were the rocks of Gush Katif, and the rocks that will fly next time will be those of Amona. This public understands that Olmert is going against them all the way, and they are responding as one who is pushed against the wall with no ability to react.”

MK Eitam, who was released from the hospital over 24 hours after suffering a head wound at Amona, said, “If we don’t want to deteriorate to civil war, a public commission of inquiry headed by a Supreme Court judge must immediately be established.”

Olmert Leaning Towards Transferring Money to PA

Acting PM Ehud Olmert, widely praised earlier this week for his decision not to transfer tax monies to the Hamas-dominated Pal. Authority, has apparently decided to transfer the money after all.

Olmert will convene a ministerial consultation on the matter this Sunday, but the ministers are generally in favor of giving the funds. The feeling is that because Hamas is not yet in power, there is no reason to withhold the money.

Strengthening this position are remarks made yesterday by PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen). Abbas said that though Hamas is now the PA’s largest party, he will not assign the formation of the next government to Hamas until that organization recognizes Israel and agrees to abide by all previous PA obligations.

Hamas has murdered hundreds of Israelis in the past several years, and its charter is predicated upon the concept that Israel must be destroyed.

Even if the European Union and United States refrain from sending money to the PA, it is felt that Israel is in a different situation. This is because the EU and US send donations, while the Israeli funds are actually tax monies that Israel collects for the PA.

MK Gideon Saar of the Likud is not satisfied with these explanations. “Olmert, who allowed Hamas to rise to power, now gives it international legitimacy,” Saar said. Hamas itself has credited the Sharon-Olmert government’s Disengagement Plan for its rise to power. In addition, Olmert has been widely criticized for cooperating with the PA in allowing Hamas to run in the recent election.

“Once again,” Saar said, “we see Olmert’s weakness. He is systematically establishing a Hamas state, a front-line chapter of Iran, that will endanger Israeli citizens. We now see why the [extreme left-wing] Meretz Party wants to be a coalition partner of Olmert after the elections.”

A senior PA official said yesterday that salaries for the 137,000 PA workers would have to be delayed by at least two weeks, for lack of funds. The total sum needed for the monthly salaries is $116 million.

Armed Al-Aqsa Brigades terrorists took over the PA Television building in Ramallah Thursday afternoon. The incident is reported to be connected with the decision to freeze salaries of those who receive salaries from other media.