Israel jails two more far-right Jews without trial

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

World | Sun Aug 9, 2015 6:27am EDT

Israel jails two more far-right Jews without trial

JERUSALEM

Israel jailed two suspected Jewish militants without trial on Sunday, the second time the measure has been used to detain Israeli citizens since the lethal torching of a Palestinian home.

Meir Ettinger and Eviatar Slonim, were placed in "administrative detention" for six months, Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon said in a statement. A third man, Mordechai Meyer, was similarly detained on Tuesday.

Israel holds hundreds of Palestinians in administrative detention. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's security cabinet approved using the measure for Israeli citizens after an arson attack in the West Bank on July 31 killed a Palestinian toddler and his father.

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Yaalon accused Ettinger and Slonim of "involvement in activity by an extremist Jewish group". Meyer had been involved in "recent terrorist attacks as part of a Jewish terror group," Yaalon said. No specific incidents were mentioned.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/09/us-israel-palestinians-detention-idUSKCN0QE0CF20150809

[6chars]

1. How can we spin this against Israel?

... a little help?

[aranthus]

3. It's a cover up.

They jailed the two who were going to talk so that they could hide the involvement of people in the government.

The above is not at all true, but you can spin anything. That doesn't mean that the anti-Israel crowd will spin this. We'll have to wait and see.

[aranthus]

5. Well that didn't take long. n/t

[MisterP]

2. of course feeding an eternal "State of Exception" is what they want

they'll just take over any death squads later when they're released: same game as Lopez Rega and D'Aubuisson

[Little Tich]

4. Much ado about nothing. n/t

[azurnoir]

6. Both were arrested early last week, Ettinger is Meir Kahane's grandson

Slonim as far as I can assess doesn't have quite the family history but he was arrested on Tuesday or Wednesday

why Reuters would report it like it was a new development is