Pinhas Wallerstein – senior member of the Council of Jewish Communities in Judea, Samaria and Gaza and the first to call on the public to break the law in the fight against Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's disengagement plan – said Tuesday he is in favor of recruiting Diaspora Jewry into the settler ranks.

"I have received hundreds of emails from Jews abroad who expressed their support and are interested in coming to Israel to fight the plan," Wallerstein told The Post. "I am personally in favor although we [the settlement council] will have to discuss the idea since there are Israelis who do not like when Jews from abroad interfere with what is going on here."

Whatever the settlement council decides won't seem to make a difference however for thousands of Jews and Evangelical Christians, whose homelands range from the United States to New Zealand, who have already pledged they will come by the masses to help deflect evacuating forces.

The biggest surprise (for me) came in the paragraph on Norway - yes, Viking Eurabia:

Calling the plan "ethnic cleansing," Gro Wenske, head of the Norway-based Christian Bible and Israel Organization, pledged her participation in the resistance. She said that hundreds of Christians from Norway will come to Israel to fight the evacuation.

Helen Freedman, from the New York-based AFSI (Americans for a Safe Israel), said her organization of 4,000 has already vowed to join the fight against disengagement.

"We pledged already in November that should the disengagement come to be a reality, we will go to assist in the resistance," she said

Please read the complete article.

2. "Violent Response to Civil Disobedience in Shomron"

In an omen of things to come, Israeli police acted with incredible brutality against their own, reports Arutz 7:

The mayor related that the police forcibly dragged the protestors away: "I and two other women lied down on the road. At first, against instructions, there were no women policemen, and we were dragged away by men. They behaved brutally." Video footage of a woman being dragged off while holding onto her nine-month old baby was shown on Israeli television.

Two hours after the blockage began, the bus finally made its way to the community of Homesh, whose residents refused to speak with the "guests."

At Sa-Nur, the situation was more volatile. "The gate was closed," Weiss said, "and could not be opened [because of an electricity black-out arranged by the citizens for the occasion – ed.]. The army broke down the gate, and the police and soldiers acted violently towards the citizens who continued to try to block the bus from coming in. They tore clothes, and hit people... People were crying and yelling... While all this was going on, the delegation finally came in and started walking around."

The de facto PLO organ, al-Ha'aretz, had this to say:

Settler Yossi Dagan alleged that many civilians, including children, were attacked and beaten by the police.

3. Yesha Speak Out (YSO)

The communal blog of the Zionist pioneers in Yesha, Yesha Speaks Out, has posted an article on the incident, "The Future of the Conflict", recalling the experience of the anti-Oslo demonstrations. The article opines:

The result, as we saw during the massive demonstrations against the Rabin-Peres governments during the "Oslo Era" was the police's use of violent force to intimidate demonstrators rather than the incarceration of demonstrators. The water shed came when over two hundred thousand demonstrators answered Moshe Feglin's call to come to Jerusalem to protest the policies of the pro-Oslo Accords government. The net result being the exploitation of "Closed Military Areas" within the borders of Israel (as opposed to the use of this legal tool in the territories against terrorists) and the eventual arrest and trial of Feglin - not on charges of causing a public disturbance but of "Calling for Rebellion" - just one short step away from treason (something that has never been claimed when the unions illegally strike causing billions of dollars of damage and crippling the economy, not just blocking traffic for an hour).

4. "Yesha urges disengagement foes to drop Holocaust linkage"

The headline in quotation marks comes from an article in the PLO de facto organ, al-Ha'aretz. As such, the info should be taken with a very large grain of salt:

Yesha settlement council official Yehoshua Mor-Yosef, reacting Wednesday to Kach movement anti-disengagement posters showing Jews being loaded onto cattle cars bound for concentration camps, declared that foes of the pullout proposal should drop all references to the Holocaust.

5. NO!

I have condemned violence and incitement to violence in the past, and the following JPost piece compells me to reiterate: NO to violence, even in the face of police brutality. JPost reports:

More anti-Sharon graffiti was scrolled on Wednesday, but this time at the Gush Etzion junction just outside Jerusalem.

The graffiti reads, "We assassinated Rabin, may his name be cursed. We will also assassinate Sharon, may his name be cursed."

Note: "Resistance News" is a daily column devoted to news about the Jewish resistance to Sharon's expulsion and resettlement plan. Let it not be said that IsraPundit observed the ethnic-cleansing of Jews in Yesha and reacted with indifference.