[Dr. Aaron Lerner - IMRA

"Those who rioted at the IDF Ephraim Brigade base are like those who riot in
Bilin"

Hats off to Prime Minister Netanyahu.

He avoided the trap of treating the radical right jerks who rioted at the
IDF Ephraim Brigade base differently than the radical left jerks who riot
every Friday in Bilin.

Treating the jerks on both sides the same way will help to serve to strip
them of any sympathy from their broader respective camps.

Netanyahu's decision not to define the rioters as terrorists was also a very
wise move as defining the radical leftist groups that regularly organize
rioting "terrorists" would most certainly invite condemnation of Israel,
with leftists claiming that the move was yet another Israeli measure to
silence opposition voices.

The big question here is how the military courts fit into this program and
if the staffing of the military courts will be increased to handle the extra
caseload.

The Israeli civilian court system prefers to let people out on bail until
they are tried. Will we see civilians being held for extended periods of
time by the military on questionable charges until they have their day in
military court in a kind of "administrative detention" stripped of the few
checks and balances that administrative detention has?]

PM Netanyahu Accepts Ministers' Recommendations for Dealing with
Disturbances in Judea and Samaria

(Communicated by the Prime Minister's Media Adviser)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today (Wednesday), 14.12.11, accepted the
recommendations of Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch and Justice
Minister Yaakov Neeman for dealing with disturbances in Judea and Samaria.
The ministers formulated the recommendations after meeting with ISA, IDF,
Israel Police and State Attorney's Office teams.

The recommendations approved by Prime Minister Netanyahu are:

1. The immediate issuing of administrative detention orders against rioters;
2. Immediately increasing the number of those barred from various areas;
3. Trying rioters in military courts;
4. Giving IDF soldiers the authority to detain people; and
5. Increasing both the number of special ISA, Israel Police, IDF and State
Attorney's Office investigation teams and the resources for investigations.

Prime Minister Netanyahu rejected, at this stage, the recommendation to
define the rioters as terrorists.

Prime Minister Netanyahu said that, "Those who raise a hand against IDF
soldiers or Israel Police personnel will be punished severely. Those who
rioted at the IDF Ephraim Brigade base www.idf.il/1283-14152-en/Dover.aspx
are like those who riot in Bilin. It is important to me to emphasize that
this is a small group that does not represent the public that lives in Judea
and Samaria, who are loyal to the state and its laws and who condemn the
rioting."