Our Courageous Defence Minister

The following are two articles about DM BENNETT from the JewishPress. The only paper so far that gives the real news behind the IM (Israeli Media) headlines. In depth and broad information necessary to understand what is happening. Important to read/listen to what the DM says, as it reveals his opinion on many things.

[…] DM Bennett Rescinds Jewish Youth’s Administrative Detention
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[. . .] District Court Judge Ido Dorian-Gamliel ordered Ben David’s unconditional release (DM Bennett Locks Up Jewish Youth in Administrative Detention Moments after Court Release from Shin Bet Dungeon). . . But then, Shin Bet agents abducted Ben David using an administrative detention warrant, in gross defiance of the court’s five-minute-old opinion.

A press statement issued by the Defense Minister Tuesday evening said that he had:

“ordered a re-examination of Eliah Ben David’s administrative detention order. After a thorough investigation, the Minister of Defense will today reduce the administrative detention order against Ben David to a restriction on entry into Judea and Samaria only, which will be signed by the Central Command’s commander, with additional administrative oversight. The manner of continued treatment of this case will be examined further on the basis of the data and facts presented to the Minister of Defense.”

Transport Minister Bezalel Smotrich (Yamina) announced in response:

“The abolition of the administrative detention decreed by Minister Bennett today is a courageous step that required a firm stand against the entire security apparatus. For the first time [we have] a defense minister who does not rubber stamp the demands of the Jewish Department of the Shin Bet. For the first time [we have] a defense minister who tells the system, ‘No more.’”

“I am very closely familiar with the enormous efforts Bennett has invested over the last day and he deserves our utmost appreciation for it. There is still a lot to do until the total abolition of the discriminatory use of administrative proceedings against the settlers, but today we have taken a huge step in the right direction,” Smotrich said.

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Bennett: Don’t Stand Over Me with a Stopwatch on Ending Gaza Terrorism

JPress “The main problem in Gaza is that they still launch explosives-carrying balloons,” Bennett said. “There was an announcement in Gaza that they are going to stop it – these things are not accidental. What do I not want to do? Start a 3-day round of violence with the whole south sitting in bomb shelters and life goes awry.”

The DM, who had been critical of all his predecessors for preferring containment over responding to every terrorist attack, claimed on Tuesday that he “changed the equation – in the past, Hamas bases were not bombed, not over balloons, only in response to rockets. And I personally approve every target – no more bombing empty dunes, we mostly attack rocket production plants.”

“But I don’t want to be dragged into a round of violence. If and when we do it, it will be at our convenience, in a manner and location which suit us, and it will be very painful,” Bennett vowed, adding, “Don’t stand over me with a stopwatch counting the days, this has to be done properly. After 10 weeks on the job, I don’t want to draw the residents of Sderot into yet another round without a clear purpose, I prefer doing nothing for now. If Hamas does not stop – everything is written down.”

Bennett said: “I set up a team to release our boys. We decided on a series of steps, this will take time.” He then made the commitment (which we’ll repeat for his benefit should he break it): “I won’t hand over even a single terrorist’s body in exchange for their release.” (IY”H)

“I will not put in the Knesset a person who despises the state. The reason is not his being too far to the right, that’s not the point. His is a perception of contempt for the state institutions, that the State of Israel is not the beginning of our redemption. For example, when you coach the ‘price tag’ offenders on how to evade interrogation – what does that mean? That for you, the Land of Israel, the Torah of Israel and the State of Israel are a burden – it’s terrible, terrible, terrible.”

“Our parents did not make aliyah to Israel to be partisan militia on the Mountains of Israel, because that is what will dismantle us. We collapsed in the days of the Second Temple precisely because everyone obeyed their own laws. And I will not put in the Knesset a person who does not value the State of Israel or has a perception of contempt about it, and sees the IDF and the police as his enemies,” Bennett said.

“Not everything is right in Israel, and what isn’t, I will right as Minister of Defense,” . . . “But you do not disobey the laws of the State of Israel because you don’t like them. I stand behind this decision, completely, and I will not let anyone dismantle the State of Israel.”

Regarding the rumors pushed mainly by the Likud about Yamina’s joining Benny Gantz, Chairman Bennett said: “We will not go with him. We will join a broad unity government. Religious Zionism has been a growing force in every fields except for media and politics. We’ve always been told, ‘Do the fighting but in all matters of *national decisions – *move aside. As long as you deal with your sectoral issues, fine, but regarding national security, the law, economics – *that’s only for the grownups.’ So, eight years ago, we said it didn’t make sense not to be included in national decisions.”

“I served as a company commander, not the religion NCO,” Bennett continued. “So why on the most crucial issue that determines the fate of the Land of Israel and the nation of Israel, they want us to step aside? […] *They want us to return to being the state’s religion NCO, to host the weekly religious program on Saturday nights with Chassidic music…”

* and that’s what the Leftist Erev Rav have been doing for 70 years. If Bennett can “tame” this evil anti-religious, anti-G–d, anti Jewish group of heretics, more power to him, and Hashem should guide him in his endeavors.