It was recently reported that Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert directed
Israeli forces to use extreme violence against Jewish protestors during
last week's televised evacuation and demolition of Jewish homes in Amona.
According to WorldNetDaily.com a top official in Olmert's Kadima party
divulged this information.

The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, routinely serves as an
Olmert advisor on international issues, has charged that Olmert ordered
the violence as a tactic to win votes from leftist Israelis by
demonstrating that he is capable of withdrawing Jews from Judea and
Samaria.

"The extreme television images last week of settlers being brutalized was
what Olmert needed. He knows he lost the right-wing voters to Likud and
the nationalist parties. He has the center voters. Now he is trying to
attract votes from Israelis on the left who strongly oppose the
settlements," the unnamed official said.

MK Benny Elon said, "Olmert is not a military man. He doesn't have a
strong defense background like Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who
everyone knows can get tough. So Olmert's public relations people told him
he needs to act macho against the settlers ahead of the elections to prove
to them he can push through what the extreme leftists want, a West Bank
evacuation."

It was also recently reported that the Yassamniks and Israeli police
sexually abused young Jewish settler girls. According to direct testimony,
the girls said the police called them prostitutes, threatened to rape them
and touched their private parts. Older women as well have said that police
groped their bodies. "Police officers rubbed up against us and touched our
chest and intimate body parts. They used dirty words while doing it. One
policeman said: 'Come, I'll screw you'... We felt like we were being
raped." (The testimony of a girl in Amona)

It is clear that Mr. Olmert was clearly responsible for the approval of
this heinous brutality and humilation of the settlers. It is clear that in
order to ensure a political victory for himself, he is willing to destroy
the entire settler movement. He has referred to the settlers as the
"Jewish Hamas". He is willing to use the blood of Jewish children in order
to capture votes. The actions of the Olmert government are an egregious
usurption of the basic civil rights of the settlers. It is not surprising
that Olmert has refused to open up an investigation into the police
brutality in Amona. If all the facts were to surface it would clearly
indict him of government sponsored violence of a segment of the
population.

It is also clear that many agree with Olmert's policy of making further
territorial concessions to the Arab enemy. It is also clear that the
Olmert government possesses a self-destructive predilection to hand over
$55 million in excise tax revenues to the PA, which will be controlled by
Hamas. Olmert's vitriolic rhetoric and actions against the settler
movement is going to escalate. His vituperative should be a clarion call
for Jews to wake up and voice their outrage and indignation at this latest
attack on righteous Jews.

The demonstration in Jerusalem in which over 100,000 people attended,
testifies to the strength of the settler movement. There must be many,
many more demonstrations of this kind. We must put relentless pressure on
the Olmert government to proceed with this investigation into the police
brutality at Amona. We must demand that those responsible for this
despicable abuse be held accountable and prosecuted to the fullest extent
of the law. This must include government officials as well, Mr. Olmert
notwithstanding.

We must encourage our Jewish youth to learn to defend themselves against
this Nazi style police violence, for surely such incidents of this kind
are bound to happen again. We must display our support and succor to those
who refuse to acquiesce to the totalitarian rule of the Israeli government.

Mr. Olmert has drawn up the battle lines. It is a battle between good and
evil, between the holy and the profane. May the G-d of Israel protect us,
shield us and strength us for the protracted battles that lie ahead.