Ronen Bar sparks row with letter to Netanyahu about actions of ‘hilltop youth’ being a ‘large stain on Judaism’
The head of Israel’s security agency, Shin Bet, has warned the country’s leaders that Jewish terrorism in the, the attorney general and members of the Israeli cabinet, some of whom are outspoken backers of the extremist settlers responsible for the escalating violence.
Bar’s letter focused on Jewish extremists known as the “hilltop youth”, violent militants who have been conducting a campaign of murder, arson and intimidation against Palestinians on the West Bank, aimed at driving them from their land, furthering the far right’s“It isn’t crime because it’s the use of violence to create intimidation, to spread fear.
“We’re on the threshold of a significant, reality-changing process,” Bar wrote. “The damage to Israel, especially at this time, and to the majority of the settlers is indescribable: a loss of global legitimacy even among our best friends, deploying IDF forces at a time the army, which isn’t meant to deal with these missions, is finding it difficult to carry out all its tasks.”
“I am facing the security establishment and the negotiating leaders alone,” Netanyahu said, in remarks quoted by N12. “They display weakness and are only trying to find ways to concede, whereas I insist on the state of Israel’s interests and am not willing to capitulate to demands that will undermine security.”
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