Report: Far-rightists threaten top IDF general

The army's top general in charge of forces in the West Bank has received death threats from alleged far-right wing activists, Army Radio reported on Thursday.

"You are tainted with anti-Semitism and hatred of real Jews," read the missive which was addressed to Israel Defense Forces GCO Central Command Gadi Shamni. "The Arabs are your cherished ones, these sons of Satan and whoever supports them is himself a Satan and a son of Satan, and this is you."

"We will know how to get to you, too," the letter, which also included threats against the general's family, read.

"You do not take action against the Palestinians, and this proves that you are an ally of the Nazi devil that hates the Jewish people," the letter read.

The missive's author labeled IDF officers as "a gang of despicable Jew-boys who remind us of the Judenrat (the Jewish administrative bodies which operated under the Nazis during the Holocaust)."

The government's policy of removing illegal outposts in the West Bank has embittered the combustible relations between the settlers and the state.

The game of cat and mouse being played between the IDF and the settlers continued Wednesday with the evacuation of two small outposts already evacuated a number of times.

Meanwhile, the IDF removed two roadblocks to ease movement for the Palestinians in the West Bank, and senior officers said that if calm continued in the region, more roadblocks would be removed.

The IDF decided to evacuate Maoz Esther again following reports that settlers were planning to build permanent homes there and had already poured concrete foundations.

After the evacuation of the outposts of Ramat Migron and Maoz Esther north of Jerusalem, the settlers vowed to return. Meanwhile, two new outposts began to go up, one not far from Shiloh and the second near the settlement of Nachliel, in the northern West Bank.

In both evacuated outposts, opposition from the small numbers of setters on the scene to the dozens of riot-control police there was minimal.

Responding to rightist claims that the removal of the outposts and the roadblocks were meant to assist Defense Minister Ehud Barak in his talks in Washington, Barak's bureau said: "The removal of the outposts was done to enforce law and order in the West Bank and the removal of roadblocks is part of a process ongoing for two years to make the lives of the Palestinians easier. In any case, these actions are taken while preserving Israel's security interests."