Número 36

Radicalismos, independentemente da religião...
 
"JERUSALEM -- Tensions mounted Monday between the Israeli military and Jewish settlers, a day after a decision by Defense Minister Ehud Barak to strip government funding from a defiant military seminary.
Mr. Barak's decision to sever the military's ties with the Har Bracha Yeshiva in northern West Bank -- a seminary that urged soldiers to disobey orders to evacuate settlements -- has galvanized Jewish settlers and raised questions about the military's ability to implement a future peace deal with the Palestinians.
 
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The tensions come as settler leaders flex their muscles in response to the government's attempts to enforce a 10-month moratorium on new Jewish building in the West Bank. The military is responsible for law and order in the West Bank but is also heavily dependent on support from soldiers from West Bank settlements, especially in front-line combat units and the army's junior officer corps.
A deterioration in the military's relationship with settlers could also pose political problems for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is already under attack by some members of his conservative base for agreeing to a partial freeze on building in Jewish settlements in the West Bank. Mr. Netanyahu issued a statement Monday backing Mr. Barak's decision to sever ties with Har Bracha.
The majority of rabbis who lead the seminaries teach an interpretation of Jewish law that forbids the evacuation of Jews from the land of Israel. But most of them have avoided confrontation with the military by teaching that the prohibition applies to the country's elected leaders, who have shaped the resettlement policies, and not the individual soldiers who enforce them.
Har Bracha's Eliezer Rabbi Melamed was a leading voice among a minority of seminary rabbis who advocate the more radical view that calls on individual soldiers to take a stand."
 
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