Action Is What Is Needed
IDF Guards Replaced by Private Firms 22 Nissan 5768, 27 April 08 05:32 by Hillel Fendel(IsraelNN.com) In the latest in a series of decisions making Jewish life in Judea and Samaria more difficult, the army is leaving 40 towns.
The IDF is transferring the responsibility for protecting 40 Jewish towns in Judea and Samaria (Yesha) to private firms, and withdrawing protection altogether from ten others. The Yesha Council's Security Officer, Shlomo Vaknin, says, "The government is privatizing our security."
Recent decisions affecting the personal and communal safety in Yesha towns include the following:
* Cancellation of Mivtzar program, in which a local emergency response team is trained by the army, to be utilized in case of a terrorist infiltration or other such crisis. "Mivtzar was the ideal response to the threat on our towns," Vaknin explains. "The fighters know the area, are well-trained, and their presence here was permanent and binding. The towns near Gaza and in the north want to copy this program - yet here the army is cancelling it..."
* Collection of weapons from the communities. The army explains that weapons had been stolen from residents, and that any trained resident who wishes to obtain a gun can do so.
* Cancellation of subsidies for enforcing private cars' windows from rock attacks.
* Withdrawal of National Service girls from security headquarters in the towns.
* Cancellation of budgeted funding for protecting school buses for special-education and handicapped children against shooting attacks. "We will not be able to open the school year next year if a solution is not found," Vaknin warns.
* Cancellation of budgeted funding for running security vehicles. "Some towns simply cannot use their security vehicles anymore," Vaknin says.In addition, many checkpoints at which Arabs are checked for - and often found to be carrying - weapons have been removed. Furthermore, permission has been granted for more Arab policemen to bear arms in PA-controlled cities, and some 20 armored vehicles will be transferred to PA control in the near future.
The left has politicized the IDF for years, and here is the most recent examples of this. These actions endanger Jews and is a tactic to work to push the Jews from Judea and Samaria.
It is time for all, 100% of those families that are religious or want to see a strong Israel with a bright future to use the IDF as a tool to pressure the government to stop the peace process.
We need to stop sending our children to the IDF. Since today we make up the vast majority of soldiers in the combat units in the IDF we have massive power at our hands that can bring about change.
Our boys currently in the IDF stay in the IDF since we have no wish to put Jews at risk, but we refuse to send new soldiers to the IDF until Olmert has fallen and Israel leaves the "peace" process.
