SETTLERS SHOULD BE ISSUED WEAPONS

Blogmaster's rant: The article below reinforces the cry for the IDF to arm the Settlers and give light weapons, i.e., light machine guns, M-16s and grenades to Settlement Security Forces. Everyone knows that the security situation in Yesha is deteriorating rapidly and that families living in small towns can only depend upon themselves for protection in the event of an attack. The police and the IDF are for the most part, only reactionary and respond only after the damage has been inflicted. The laws which permit ownership of firearms needs to be revised to allow more Israelis, after proper and verifiable firearms training and a class in the laws pertaining to the use of deadly force, to own and carry rifles and pistols. I am not saying that Ido Zoldan would not have been attacked by these cretins, but such cowards would think twice before firing at someone who is armed and could shoot back...nu?

PA policemen behind last week's

shooting attack in W. Bank

Yaakov Katz , THE JERUSALEM POST
Dec. 2, 2007
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1195546785899&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Palestinian policemen were behind the shooting attack last week which killed Ido Zoldan, a 29 year-old father of two from the settlement of Shavei Shomron, the IDF and Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) revealed Sunday night.

Zoldan was killed last Monday night - the day before the Annapolis summit began - when shots were fired at his car as he drove past the Palestinian village of al-Punduk.The three members of the cell were Palestinian policemen and members of the Palestinian National Security Force, which Israel and the United States have been investing in as part of the international effort to strengthen Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and his Fatah government.

Defense officials said that the weapon used in the attack was not supplied to the Palestinians by Israel since it did not belong to the official Palestinian security forces. The officials said however that the IDF expected the political echelon to rethink its policy of strengthening Abbas while his policemen were involved in terrorism. [An Israel Radio report stated that the weapon was a regulation Palestinian Police weapn that had been supplied by Israel -- Mewnews].

The day after the attack, acting on intelligence, IDF soldiers and Shin Bet operatives raided the village of Kfar Kadum, near al-Pundak and arrested Daper Barham and Abdullah Barahm, both 22-year-old Palestinian policemen and members of Fatah. The third suspect, Fadi Jama, also a policeman, was in Palestinian Police custody.

During their interrogation, the two confessed their involvement in theattack and handed over the weapon used in the shooting to the Shin Bet. They said that they had parked their car on the side of the road and waited for an Israeli car to pass by. Once Zoldan's car appeared, they merged onto the road, passed him up and opened fire. They told their interrogators that they decided to carry out the attack to "scare settlers."I

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