Israel arrests leading Palestinian protest organizer

not protest peacefully. Because aint you heard---peacful protesterS are the new "Terrorists" that israel cannot live without. Probably trying to figure out how to demoderate---this moderate. israel hates moderates ---they are dangerous as they might be infected with that fearsome disease known to all as "PEACE".

that support the settlers! How many of them are in jail?

Demonstrate! Demonstrate! Demonstrate! Israels true colours are showing for all to see,it will take a lot more peaceful Samids jailed for the USA to take any notice but its the only way!.....PEACE EVER?

These people carry out weekly violent attacks against the Police and army. They should all be arrested. Enough people have been injured on both sides already. Supposedly its funded by the Palestinian government, who gets their funding from the west mostly. So the west is funding those who organize violent protests against Israel.

You use the term "alleged involvement" yourself because you cannot prove his guilt so why do you want him to be jailed if you are not sure? Are you sure he was involved Dav? Are all Jews guilty by default in your book?

Jerusalem District Court released on Thursday Rabbi Itzik Shapira, who was arrested on Tuesday for alleged involvement in the torching of a Palestinian mosque in the village of Yasuf last month.

israeli government is the prototype of iranian government but with a 21st century repression methodology.

If the Palestinians have given up on the idea of violent protest (intifada) and now are not allowed to otganise peaceful, non-violent protest, what is left for them? Doesn't this play into the hands of Arab extremists who argue the only thing Israel will recognise is violence. And where are Israel's democratic values??

Is this the beginning of the transformation of the Palestinian struggle into a civil rights movement? The Netanyahu regime fears civil disobedience much more than quassam rockets, and with good reason.

Israeli prisons are full of Palestinians who used non-violence as means of protest and most have been held in administrative detention (i,e no trial, no guilt verdict.) Taking away non-violent protesters encourages people to use violence, hence bombs and suicide missions. Instead of locking away the protesters, eliminate the causes of protest: injustice, land theft, discrimination, military occupation.

? Israel doesn't allow peaceful resistance either?

"Administrative detention" is wonderful. I recommend it to repressive governments all over the world. It's not just that you don't have to prove that the person is guilty. You don't even have to accuse him of anything. Just being an embarassment to the Government is enough. Or even a potential embarassment. Or you can just imprison him as a hostage, because he's a member of a political party you dislike, and some of his friends captured one of your soldiers. Look at Burma - they use the system very thoroughly. There's an example for you, Israel.

Mohammed is among the gentlest of men. He is completely committed to non-violence in everything he does. He is very creative, and his contribution to the peaceful resistance that has been going on in his village for the years during which Israel has been stealing land from his village to build the apartheid wall is to invest innovative and artistic ways to illustrate what has been happening. God will surely bless Mohammed for his gentle heart and his determination to seek peace in the face of Israeli brutality.

Israel says that it's against "terrorism" and violence, but Israel is also against any form of non-violent resistance and peaceful protest--highly undemocratic! Israel needs to decide if they are a fascist government or a democratic one, and they don't have much time to make that decision as they've already began sliding down the slippery slope. The rest of the world is watching, very closely, and soon few will support Israel's continued heavy-handed approach to its neighbors!

...to arrest a protest organizer while the settlers and rabbi who burned the mosque are released. Well, who expected anything different? Not I, that's for sure...but I'm always hoping!