Yesterday a Palestinian youth penetrated the Bat Ayin settlement in the
West Bank and killed a 13 year old boy and wounded another 7 year old
boy with an axe. Ofer Gamliel, the father of the wounded 7-year-old, is
serving a 15-year prison term for planting a bomb outside a Palestinian
girls’ school in Jerusalem in 2002 to go off at the busiest time of the
morning. But, according to the N.Y. Times, there was no evidence that
the attack on the boy was retaliatory.
Bat Ayin figured heavily in a PBS documentary on ultra-Zionists that can
be watched online. Go to the PBS website and view the segment titled “A
Plot that Shocked All Israel” for the facts on Ofer Gamliel’s terrorist
plot that involved other members of what might be reasonably called a
fascist Jewish sect.
One thing that the PBS documentary does not get into is the “new age”
character of Bat Ayin, something the N.Y. Times alluded to in its May
19, 2002 report on the bombing plot:
"Most of the six detained so far come from Bat Ayin, a cluster of 13
trailer homes near Hebron that has attracted people known here as the
'New Age' religious, a mix of newly observant Jews, Lubavitchers, and
Bratslav Hasidim, followers of a rabbi who preached joy in Ukraine 200
years ago. Strict rules require men to grow beards, women to wear modest
dress; in contrast to many settlements where menial labor is done by
Arabs, there are no non-Jewish workers."
full:
http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2009/04/03/the-contradictions-of-bat-ayin/
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