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Political war rages in Israel
on car bodies and windows



jewishsightseeing.com
,  March 5, 2005




By Ira Sharkansky

A politically active neighbor, with a tilt to the right.
 
For those whose biblical Hebrew is not up to contemporary slogans, I'll provide the following:
 
First column on the left, from the top:
 
• Jews do not expel Jews
• same as above in green
•Why did you give them rifles?
 
Second column from the left, from the top:
 
•My friends in Maale Rehavam (a settlement outpost named after slain right-wing retired general and cabinet minister Rehavam Ze'evi)
•Free Pollard
•Let the truth speak. The people are with Channel 7 (a right wing religious pirate radio station)
•IDF beware: uprooting settlements is a victory for terror
 
Third column from the left, from the top:
 
•Sharon is disengaged from the people
•No to a Palestinian state
•The Land of Israel for the Nation of Israel
 
Fourth column from the left, from the top:
 
•We have a love and it will win: Gush Katif and Samaria (Gush Katif is a group of settlements in Gaza; Samaria is the northern West Bank)
•Disengage from disengagement; engage with roots: Gush Katif
 
Right edge of window:
 
•Yehuda and Shomrom is here (Yehuda is the southern section of the West Bank; Shomrom is Samaria)
•Free the Temple Mount
•Yehuda and Shomrom is here
 
In case you miss these messages, the two flags are flying in honor of Gush Katif.
 
The left also has its stickers, but I've not seen one of their cars as well decorated as this.
 
The owner of this auto is a soft-spoken older British lady, who also likes dogs. I would not advise standing behind her car when she is driving in reverse.
 

Left rear of car:
•IDF beware: uprooting settlements is a victory for terror

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Sharkansky is a member of the political science department at Hebrew University in Jerusalem