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Record Breaking Israeli Violence Must Alarm All!
"The Cabinet debated the increasing societal violence following yet another attack on a passerby last night.The police seek 2.5 billion more shekels, while its main mission remains the disengagement. "The government will not only discuss, but will provide practical solutions," Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said at the beginning of this morning's government meeting. "I want to come out of here with operative solutions."
Just last night, a 13-year-old boy at the Bar Mitzvah of his friend was beaten by several 15-year-old guests. The boy was released from Kaplan Hospital in Rehovot this morning, recovering from injuries he sustained when the drunk youths broke a bottle over his head and punched and kicked him repeatedly. Three of the attackers have been arrested.
In addition, there have been three brutal murders of youths for no apparent reason over the past two weeks. A ministerial committee, headed by Public Security Minister Gideon Ezra, was appointed to investigate ways of dealing with the violence. The committee is to submit its findings in three weeks' time.
It is widely assumed that the rise in domestic violence is related to the allocation of most police resources towards the disengagement. Israel Radio commentator Gabi Gazit, known for his extreme left-wing views, called upon Karadi today to declare that he cannot implement the disengagement because of the price it is likely to exact in murders and the like.
PM Sharon has promised Karadi and Minister Ezra to increase budget allocations to the police and to increase police manpower. Ezra has said that first of all, the cutback of 2,000 police employees, as stipulated in the 2005 budget, must be canceled. Police overload is not new. Sources in the public prosecution say that tens of thousands of criminal files remain untouched, including some from as far back as 1998. Aides to the Prime Minister say they are concerned that if solutions are not found soon, domestic violence will continue to intensify, and citizens will lose confidence in the police ability to protect them.
The National Union party has issued an angry statement condemning the use of the police for the disengagement:
"The National Union has long demanded separating the police from the disengagement. But only today, in honor of the government meeting, does Minister Gideon Ezra admit that it's about time for the police to deal with its real missions. The over-involvement of the police in the expulsion/uprooting plan of the leftist Likud government has led it to deal, too late, with the worrisome phenomena to which we are increasingly witness as the disengagement comes closer - murderous violence towards youths, women and passersby, as well as corruption in both the public and private sectors."
MK Yitzchak Cohen (Shas) told Arutz-7 today that the decision to establish a ministerial committee is foolish, in that it ignores the cause of the rise in crime - the increasing number of non-Jews who have been allowed to immigrate to Israel from Russia under the Law of Return. "Many of them not only have no connection to Judaism, but are actually blatant anti-Semites and neo-Nazis," Cohen said. "When coming to deal with the issue of violence, we must first diagnose the problem, instead of trying to cover it up. The brutal nature of the violence has increased in the recent past - something that we have never had here before.""
Source: Police Overloaded With "Disengagement," Violence Rules. INN.com (5 June 2005) [FullText]
Just last night, a 13-year-old boy at the Bar Mitzvah of his friend was beaten by several 15-year-old guests. The boy was released from Kaplan Hospital in Rehovot this morning, recovering from injuries he sustained when the drunk youths broke a bottle over his head and punched and kicked him repeatedly. Three of the attackers have been arrested.
In addition, there have been three brutal murders of youths for no apparent reason over the past two weeks. A ministerial committee, headed by Public Security Minister Gideon Ezra, was appointed to investigate ways of dealing with the violence. The committee is to submit its findings in three weeks' time.
It is widely assumed that the rise in domestic violence is related to the allocation of most police resources towards the disengagement. Israel Radio commentator Gabi Gazit, known for his extreme left-wing views, called upon Karadi today to declare that he cannot implement the disengagement because of the price it is likely to exact in murders and the like.
PM Sharon has promised Karadi and Minister Ezra to increase budget allocations to the police and to increase police manpower. Ezra has said that first of all, the cutback of 2,000 police employees, as stipulated in the 2005 budget, must be canceled. Police overload is not new. Sources in the public prosecution say that tens of thousands of criminal files remain untouched, including some from as far back as 1998. Aides to the Prime Minister say they are concerned that if solutions are not found soon, domestic violence will continue to intensify, and citizens will lose confidence in the police ability to protect them.
The National Union party has issued an angry statement condemning the use of the police for the disengagement:
"The National Union has long demanded separating the police from the disengagement. But only today, in honor of the government meeting, does Minister Gideon Ezra admit that it's about time for the police to deal with its real missions. The over-involvement of the police in the expulsion/uprooting plan of the leftist Likud government has led it to deal, too late, with the worrisome phenomena to which we are increasingly witness as the disengagement comes closer - murderous violence towards youths, women and passersby, as well as corruption in both the public and private sectors."
MK Yitzchak Cohen (Shas) told Arutz-7 today that the decision to establish a ministerial committee is foolish, in that it ignores the cause of the rise in crime - the increasing number of non-Jews who have been allowed to immigrate to Israel from Russia under the Law of Return. "Many of them not only have no connection to Judaism, but are actually blatant anti-Semites and neo-Nazis," Cohen said. "When coming to deal with the issue of violence, we must first diagnose the problem, instead of trying to cover it up. The brutal nature of the violence has increased in the recent past - something that we have never had here before.""
Source: Police Overloaded With "Disengagement," Violence Rules. INN.com (5 June 2005) [FullText]
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