THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Axe Attack Infuriates Settlers
JERUSALEM (JTA) —
Jewish settlers on the West
Bank are furious over the
axe attack on one of them in
the Nablus marketplace
Monday morning and the
escalation of stone-
throwing incidents against
Jewish vehicles throughout
the territory.
They are venting their
anger on the military for al-
leged failure to provide
adequate protection and on
government leaders who,
they claim, reneged on
promises to take tougher
measures to prevent vio-
lence against Jews.
The victim of Monday's
attack was Yossi Stern, a
resident of Bracha, a Jewish
settlement close to Nablus.
He sustained moderate
wounds on his head, back
and hand when he was as-
saulted with an axe while
loading vegetables on a
truck in the Nablus mar-
ketplace at 7 a.m.
Stern, who was armed,
as most settlers are, fired
several shots into the air
as he fell to the ground. A
companion, Kalman
Bach from the nearby
settlement of Eilon
Moreh, seized an Arab
who had been standing
close to Stern. Security
forces later detained an-
other suspect.
A curfew was clamped on
the market and on the
nearby Askar refugee camp.
Dozens of local Arabs were
hauled in for questioning as
Stern received treatment at
a hospital. -
Bach was attacked at the
same spot .10 months ago.
His assailant has not been
caught: He echoed the sen-
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timents of Jewish settlers
when he warned that the
situation will continue until
the army and military gov-
ernment take strong meas-
ures. "This sabotage and
hatred cannot be dealt with
in positive terms. It must be
put to an end once and for
all. Every terrorist caught
should be deported out of
the country," Bach said.
Benny Katzover, chair-
man of the settlers council
for the Samaria region, de-
manded that the Nablus
market be shut down until
the perpetrators are found.
He accused Premier Yit-
zhak Shamir and Defense
Minister Moshe Arens of
not keeping their recent
promises to take tougher
measures against West
Bank Arabs.
"If the present situa-
tion does not change we
shall not keep quiet," he
said, a hint that the
settlers would take the
law into their own hands.
The presence of Israeli se-
curity forces has increased
noticeably. Nevertheless,
two Israeli bus drivers were
slightly injured Monday
night when rocks were
hurled through the
windshields of their ve-
hicles. One incident oc-
curred near Nablus and the
other near Ramallah.
Army reinforcements
have been deployed in the
territory in recent days to
deal with an anticipated up-
surge of violence on Tues-
day, the 36th anniversary of
the United Nations deci-
sions to partition Palestine
into Jewish and Arab
states.
Soldiers were manning
look-out posts near refugee
camps. Israeli buses had
armed police escorts and, in
some areas, convoyed by
army vehicles.
Last week, Rabbi
Moshe Levinger, leader
of the Gush - Emunim
militants of Kiryat
Arba, told the Jewish
Telegraphic Agency that
"the Defense Ministry is
helpless and has not
changed its basic posi-
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tacks on us." The army,
while - quelling stone-
throwing and other acts
of violence by Arabs, has
tried, not always suc-
cessfully, to prevent re-
prisals by Jewish
settlers.
When a rock was thrown
at a bus enroute from
Jerusalem to Kiryat Arba,
as it passed through the
Arab town of Halhoul, the
passengers, mostly Kiryat
Arba residents, got off and
began to dance in the
streets. They were joined by
other Jews from passing
cars and the main street of
the town was blocked to
traffic.
The army rushed troops
to the scene and prevailed
upon the settlers to leave.
But a - number of uniden-
tified settlers remained in
the town to smash the win-
dows of several houses and
the windshields of Arab
buses. Arab eye-witnesses
told the JTA that three men
and a woman hurled rocks
through their windows.
Levinger denied that
there was any plan to smash
windows and claimed he
didn't know who was re-
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Col. Shmuel Zucker,
military commander of
the West Bank, met with
the Kiryat Arba leaders
several days ago. He told
them the army was doing
its best to restore law and
order in the territory and
rejected the idea that the
settlers "take the law into
their own hands." The
settlers were not satisfied
with his position and de-
cided to call an emer-
gency meeting of the
settlers council.
The friction was aggra-
Vated when Kiryat Arba
residents went on a one-
hour general strike Nov. 20
to protest the arrest of
Eliezer Itzkovitz, a local
man who was sentenced to a
year in prison for opening
fire on Arab youngsters who
threw stones at him. The
sentence was pronounced
two years after the incident.
Meanwhile, an army
spokesman announced that
the gang responsible for the
murder of yeshiva student
Aharon Gross in the Hebron
marketplace last July has
been apprehended and con-
fessions obtained. The al-
leged killers were not iden-
tified but were described by
the spokesman as "religious
extremists." Kiryat Arba
residents immediately de-
manded the death penalty
for them. Israel does not
have a death penalty.
Labor Alignment MKs
Yossi Sarid and Victor
Shemtov praised the
authorities today for cap-
turing the murderers of
Gross. They expressed hope
that the same efforts would
be devoted to finding the
killers of peace activist
Emil Grunzweig last Feb-
ruary and the perpetrators
of the bomb attack which
maimed two Arab mayors
on the West Bank in 1981.
Jewish extremists are be-
lieved responsible for those
crimes.
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