Prophecy and politics : militant evangelists on the road to nuclear war by Halsell Grace

Author:Halsell, Grace
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Falwell, Jerry, Fundamentalism, Christian Zionism, End of the world, Nuclear warfare
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Lawrence Hill & Co.
Published: 1986-03-05T16:00:00+00:00

the attacks on the mayors," said Benzion Heineman, who was sentenced to three years in prison for his role in the Gush underground. "When they heard about Shaka at the military headquarters in Nablus, the military government and soldiers made a b'raha (a blessing) over wine," Heineman told reporter Friedman.

Israeli deputy attorney general Yehudit Karp was chosen to head a secret blue-ribbon commission to investigate the allegations. After more than a year of work, the commission submitted its report, which revealed that Israeli police and military officials had acquiesced in vigilante attacks against West Bank Palestinians.

In 1983 Karp resigned from the commission, charging that Begin was suppressing the report because it was a political liability. Describing law enforcement in the occupied territories as "lackadaisical" and "ineffective," Karp asked, "How is it possible that they (the Israeli government) take measures against each Arab stone thrower, yet fail to bring to justice (Jewish) settlers who open fire on Arabs?"

During the trial, attorneys for the Gush terrorists came up with a politically explosive defense: that Shin Bet (Israel's FBI) knew the identities of the Jewish terrorists soon after their attack on the mayors and had prior knowledge of a Jewish attack on an Islamic College. Shin Bet failed to arrest anyone, according to chief defense attorney Avi Yitzahk, because "top political and military authorities had urged the underground to take actions that a democratic state cannot."

"The truth about the level of government involvement in the Gush Emunim underground may never be known," reporter Friedman noted.

In July 1985 an Israeli judge sentenced 18 members of the Gush underground to prison terms ranging from four months to life. As he read out his sentences, the judge added that the convicted men should be praised "for their pioneering ethos and war records."

The following day, Vice Premier Shamir began to press for clemency. Speaking to graduates of the right-wing Betar youth movement in Jerusalem, Shamir said that the members of the underground were "excellent people."

Rabbi Waldman, named by Menachem Livni as having given approval to the West Bank bombings, was another ardent supporter

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