Ben-Eliezer Planning Hebron Pull-Back To Create More Cities Of Refuge For Terrorists

Ben-Eliezer’s crass immorality and hypocrisy continues unabated as he is now planning to create a terrorist refuge in the holy city of Hebron. When he is not busy destroying Jewish homes, he is finding time to build safe havens for mass murderers. What price in blood must we continue to pay to fuel his re-election campaign? What sort of person sacrifices Jewish children for his own blind ambition? The blood of the children of Hebron will be on his hands.

(IMRA) At best, the situation in Bethlehem can be termed a "cocked-gun-arrangement". As Chief of Staff Moshe Ya'alon pointed out, the PA has not cleared out the terror infrastructure in Bethlehem - they have turned it into a terrorist haven. In point of fact, the "cocked-gun-arragement" has already been tried in Hebron. The result was that Hebron was used as a center for organizing terrorist operations - this with the Jewish community paying a dear price for the PR stunt.

There can be no greater irony that at a time of tough talk against terrorism around the world that anyone should push for giving the terrorist more breathing space in Hebron and other cities in the West Bank.

(Ha'aretz) With his "Gaza-First" security plan having failed to get off the ground, Defense Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer said Sunday he was considering expanding the Bethlehem dimension of his plan, which is aimed at effecting a gradual truce in the territories, to include the West Bank city of Hebron.

Several months ago, Israeli and Palestinian officials reached agreement whereby the army would withdraw from a defined area in the territories and the Palestinian Authority security forces would move in and maintain calm. Soon after the deal was struck, troops left Bethlehem and the area has
remained quiet since. That is not the case in Gaza where daily attacks on settlements and IDF forces continue.

Ben-Eliezer, who made his comments just before his departure for France, said the reworked plan, which he called "Judea-First," referring to the southern section of the West Bank, was currently under discussion.

(IMRA) Chief of Staff Moshe Ya'alon said several weeks ago after the IDF pulled out of Bethlehem that the city was becoming a refuge for wanted men. Military sources say that at least eight wanted men have moved from Hebron to Bethlehem in recent weeks.