Amira Hass :A planned, calculated killing of sheep in the West Bank
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The Haaretz story
on the Jewish masked men who attacked a Palestinian shepherd and killed
his sheep – in the village of Einabus, south of Nablus – received 96
shares on Facebook. What do these shares express, shock from the attack
or support?
Either
way, the memory of the crime committed almost two weeks ago, on
February 21, certainly has been obliterated under the raucous headlines
about the graft investigations into Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
and his friends, and packed away in the warehouse of Jewish national
amnesia.
A week after the attack, Zafar Ryan, 27, still
looked in shock. His father, Mahmoud, and brothers said he still wasn’t
himself. He too nodded in agreement when asked if he was still troubled
by the event.
But
to make things perfectly clear: The attack didn’t prevent him from
returning almost immediately to grazing his family’s flock with a few of
his brothers. The brothers usually go out to the pasture together. The
sheep pen is a few dozen meters above their home, up on the
mountainside.
But
that day Zafar went out with the sheep alone. It was noontime. The
people there in the unauthorized and illegal outpost at the top of the
mountain took advantage of it, concludes his father. They hurried to
come down to him. Five of them, with their faces masked, hit him with
sticks in the head and hands.
He had a staff; he tried to defend himself and
hit back, he says, but there were too many of them. Other unknown people
descended on the flock, literally slaughtered a few sheep in the neck,
kicked other sheep and drove others off.
A cousin who was doing construction work nearby
saw what happened and immediately called for help. Young men from the
village rushed to climb up the mountain, from which Israeli soldiers and
police came down. Zafar was concerned about the sheep that ran away. It
still wasn’t clear how many sheep were killed, how many were hurt and
how many disappeared and where to.
Zafar was taken to the hospital in Nablus and
remained there until the evening. The swelling in his head shrank. He
had bruises on his hands. Most of the sheep in the flock are pregnant,
including some the attackers killed and some that disappeared. One that
was injured gave birth to a stillborn lamb. If the Israeli police have
arrested suspects, we haven’t heard about it.
The
attack was not perpetuated by hotheads; neither was it a momentary slip
by otherwise moral young Jews, absolutely anonymous, who were suddenly
overwhelmed by the memory of pogroms committed by Christians against
Jews. This attack on Palestinians and their livelihood, like hundreds of
others that preceded it, was very rational and calculated, directed
toward a goal.
Every
attack has a clear division of labor among everyone on the scene: the
attackers; the army, whose duty is to protect all Jews wherever they may
be, settler or visitor to the settlement, including pogromists; Civil
Administration inspectors in the West Bank whose job is to deliver stop-work orders to unauthorized Jewish
structures in the West Bank, but whose duty is not to implement those
orders in most cases.
Then there’s the Civil Administration’s Supreme
Planning Council, whose responsibility is to carefully implement the
policy under which Palestinians are forbidden to build, hike, plant and
graze on their lands; then the council takes the land and gives it as a
gift to Jews, who will build and procreate on it. Then there are the
settlers who don’t attack anyone but demand more protection, including
for the outposts. And there’s the police, whose duty is to ignore the
past attacks, and the Israeli Jews, whose responsibility is not to
connect one attack to the other or think and then to defend the sanctity
of the settlements and the settlement blocs. (All are illegal according
to international law.)
The unauthorized and illegal outpost where the attackers came down from is one of nine outposts born over the
years to the illegal and authorized settlement of Yitzhar. Every outpost
is another brick in another new settlement bloc. It brings the Jews
nearer to the Palestinian villages, orchards and pasture lands.
An
important layer in the army’s defense strategy is the commanding
general’s order that forbids the Palestinians to enter their lands, in
order to prevent friction with the pogromists. This is how the
territorial circle that our Jews, heads high, can reach and then plant
or graze or build on expands a little bit more. And a little more. And
some more.
In
the next stage they will also come close to the Palestinian houses. And
then the army and Border Police are obligated to come and attack with
tear gas grenades and stun grenades, and even with rubber-coated metal
bullets, the Palestinians who are protecting themselves, their families
and their property.
Everything is calculated. The division of labor
has already borne fruit all over the West Bank. A centimeter here, a
quarter dunam there, a full firing area there – and the Palestinians are
pushed more and more into their urbanized enclaves.
By
the way, the Ryan family’s origins are in the ruined Palestinian
village of Majdal Yaba or Majdal al-Sadiq (south of today’s Rosh
Ha’ayin). It had around 26,000 dunams (6,500 acres). In the 19th
century, Sheikh Sadiq Ryan built a mansion on the ruins of the Crusader
fortress on the site. The abandoned mansion overlooks the road to this
day.
Zafar’s
grandfather had a brother who lived in Einabus on the eve of the war in
1948. A few of his brothers joined him instead of moving to a refugee
camp. But the grandfather died of a broken heart and pining for his
home.
The father, Mahmoud, opened a printing shop. His sons learned professions such as engineering and graphics. But
the print shop isn’t enough to support the family. About a year ago
they bought the sheep.
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