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| By: israelinsider staff |
| Published: December 20, 2004 |
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The Yesha Council of Settlements decided Monday to support statements made the day before by the head of the Binyamin Regional Council, Pinhas Wallerstein, who called on the public to disobey the law to oppose the expulsion of Jews from their homes, even if it meant going to jail.
Wallerstein sent an open letter in which he called on settlers and their supporters "to break the law en masse and even at the price of sitting in prison."
The Yesha Council statement, issued by chairman Bentzi Lieberman, called on all side to avoid actions which could incite to civil war. "The Yesha Council stands behind Pinhas Wallerstein," he said. "The proposal to expel Jews from their homes is an immoral decision and a breach of human rights."
Lieberman compared the settlers' commitment to non-violent resistance methods to the struggles of Martin Luther King Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi.
"We will maintain a pricnipled stand against a decision that is, to our minds, a crime on a national and historical scale, of evicting Jews from their homes," he told reporters, clarifying that "we will not call for a civil war, in any way." |
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