Shabtay Bendet Opinion I Was a Settler. I Know How Settlers Become Killers
I left the West Bank settlement of Rehelim about nine years ago. Since then, I have gone through a profound process of change with regard to my ideology and faith, and today I am a vocal critic of the settlement projectBut still, Rehelim is significant to me as a place I helped establish initially as an illegal outpost, and where some of my children were born and raised. The knowledge that the youths studying in the yeshiva in Rehelim are accused of murdering nearby a 47 year-old Palestinian woman, Aisha al-Rabi, rattles me deepl>> What Do You Call a Rabbi Who Protects and Defends Jewish Terrorists? >> Their Pretense Is Over. The Settler Leadership Is a Violent, Racist Gang of Vigilantes t is important to note at the outset that despite the settler leadership's response, which has ranged from shameful silence, to apologetics, even to an outright defense of the suspects, residents of Rehelim - as far as I know them - are ...