{"id":18054,"date":"2015-08-03T14:48:15","date_gmt":"2015-08-03T20:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/diaryofawimpycatholic\/?p=18054"},"modified":"2015-08-21T14:01:21","modified_gmt":"2015-08-21T20:01:21","slug":"israel-rules-duma-attack-terror-indicts-two-in-church-arson-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/diaryofawimpycatholic\/2015\/08\/israel-rules-duma-attack-terror-indicts-two-in-church-arson-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel Rules Duma Attack Terror, Indicts Two in Church Arson Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

From Israel and the West Bank: good news and bad news. First, the good news: Israeli courts have indicted two men<\/a> for last month\u2019s arson attack on the Church of the Multiplication of Loaves and Fishes, at Taghba. Second, the Israeli government has officially declared<\/a> a similar attack in the Palestinian village of Duma, an act of terror.<\/p>\n

The bad news: Swelling messianic fervor among Jewish sedevacantists and crunchy cons on steroids may lead to even more violence.<\/p>\n

The Duma attack, which occurred last Friday, claimed the life of<\/a> 18-month-old Ali Dawabsheh and left his father, Saad, and his mother, Riham, badly burned. <\/p>\n

In classifying the Duma attack as an act of terror, Israel\u2019s Security Council has enabled the surviving victims to claim benefits from the Israeli government. It has also granted courts the right to place suspects in \u201cadministrative detention.\u201d<\/p>\n

To this point, \u201cprice-tag\u201d attacks \u2013 acts of violence committed against Christians, Palestinians and their property to protest the dismantling of settlements by the government \u2013 have been classified as \u201cunlawful associations,\u201d one step down from terrorism. This classification gives courts the right to effectively banish suspects from the Occupied Territories, and to prevent them from conferring with their attorneys.<\/p>\n

No suspects have yet been charged in the Duma attack.<\/p>\n

Despite the long-standing presence of a violent fringe within the settler movement, the regular practice of \u201cprice-tagging\u201d is relatively new, emerging only after the Israeli government\u2019s \u201cdisengagement\u201d from Gaza, which included the forcible removal of settlers. Typically, attacks involve vandalism or arson, or the destruction of crops grown by Palestinians and Israeli Arabs. Along with last summer\u2019s kidnapping and murder of 16-year-old Palestinian Muhammad Abu Khdeir, the Duma attack appears to mark a new low.<\/p>\n

The men indicted for the Taghba burning, as well as two other men and a minor who have been arrested but not yet charged, are Orthodox Jews who have lived at various times in West Bank settlements. All reportedly subscribe to an extreme form of religious Zionism, which dignifies redemption of the historical land of Israel \u2013 including the West Bank, Gaza Strip and Golan Heights \u2013 as God\u2019s supreme commandment, and a means of hastening the messiah\u2019s arrival. <\/p>\n

Twenty-year-old Yinon Reuveni, indicted along with 19-year-old Yehuda Asraf, is also a suspect in last February\u2019s arson attack on Dormition Abbey. Both are said to belong to the \u201chilltop youth,\u201d a loose network of young settlers that rejects the authority of the Yesha Council, and which follows, in the words of The Jewish Daily Forward\u2019s J.J. Goldberg, \u201ca syncretic philosophy<\/a> combining religious Orthodoxy, far-right politics and new-age environmentalism.\u201d<\/p>\n

Spokespeople for Shin Bet, Israel\u2019s security agency, report that all five suspects are members of an unnamed organization determined to \u201coverturn the government and bring about messianic rule.\u201d <\/p>\n

Along with the use of fire, the Duma and Taghba attacks have in common Hebrew messages spray-painted near the crime scenes. The Taghba graffiti read: \u201cThe false gods will surely be uprooted.\u201d At Duma, on a wall near the Dawabsheh home, two messages were spray-painted: \u201cRevenge\u201d and \u201cLong-live the messiah-king.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Goldberg, \u201cRevenge\u201d may mark the attack as retaliation for the government\u2019s demolition of two buildings raised by Jewish settlers illegally at Beit El. However, he says, as the message is more strident than usual, and the violence itself more deliberately brutal, it may connect the killing with the murder of settler Malachi Moshe Rosenfeld, by Palestinians, just 30 days earlier. <\/p>\n

Goldberg further suggests that \u201cLong live the messiah-king,\u201d like \u201cThe false gods will surely be uprooted,\u201d reveals the influence of a messianic wing within the Hasidic Chabad-Lubavitch sect. Taking \u201cLong live the messiah-king\u201d for their motto, messianic Lubavitchers believe the sect\u2019s last rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson,<\/a> who died in 1996, to have been the messiah whose triumphant appearance was prophesied in the Old Testament. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe false idols will surely be uprooted\u201d is taken from the Aleinu prayer. Recited at the end of each of the three daily services observed by religious Jews, the Aleinu foretells a messianic age where the wicked will be punished, and the entire world will submit to God\u2019s authority.<\/p>\n

Goldberg stresses, however, that any connection between the two attacks \u2013 and between the attacks and Chabad \u2014 remains strictly in the realm of speculation. Messianic-minded hilltop youth might attach themselves to any number of spiritual camps, including the followers of the late Rabbi Meir Kahane and the followers of the Bratslaver Rebbe, dead since 1810. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been noted in recent years,\u201d he writes, \u201cmostly but not only in jest, that the three movements \u2014 Chabad, Bratslav and Kahanist \u2014 are all led by dead rebbes who aren\u2019t around to discipline their more eccentric followers.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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