Nationalist Camp Loyalists Arrested, Detained, and More, By Hillel Fendel (Israel National News)
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Ehud Olmert spoke often of the need for post-Disengagement “internal reconciliation” with the pro-Land of Israel public. His gov’t is now busy arresting many of that public’s most active members.
A large ad published in Haaretz in early August 2005, just before the Disengagement from Gush Katif and northern Shomron, proclaimed that a campaign had begun to promote “mending the rift within our people” the day after the expulsion.
In July of 2005, it was Ehud Olmert – then a Likud minister and front-man for Ariel Sharon – who kicked off the campaign himself. He declared that immediately after the Disengagement, the country must concentrate entirely on two issues: internal reconciliation and solving social problems.
More recently – this past May, when he presented his new government – Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said, “I am convinced, with all my heart, that it [partition of the land] is necessary and that we must do it with dialogue, internal reconciliation and broad consensus.”
Yet recent measures taken by the authorities show that he and his government are not taking that approach.
Arrests for Expulsion Refusals
Over the past two weeks, close to 20 reserve soldiers living in Judea and Samaria have been arrested – for refusing, a year ago, to take part in the expulsion of Jews.Some of them were given suspended sentences, but at least two – from Tekoa and Yitzhar – have been incarcerated for 25-28 days each.
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