{"id":69952,"date":"2022-10-14T15:55:42","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T20:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=69952"},"modified":"2022-10-19T09:59:28","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T14:59:28","slug":"with-tensions-high-itamar-ben-gvir-draws-gun-during-stone-throwing-in-jerusalem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/with-tensions-high-itamar-ben-gvir-draws-gun-during-stone-throwing-in-jerusalem\/","title":{"rendered":"With tensions high, Itamar Ben-Gvir draws gun during stone-throwing in Jerusalem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By RON KAMPEAS<\/p>\n<p>(JTA) \u2014 Two weeks ahead of an Israeli election in which he is campaigning to allow security forces to shoot stone-throwers, Itamar Ben-Gvir, the leader of the extremist Otzma Yehudit party, drew his pistol during a confrontation in eastern Jerusalem.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_69953\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/10-14-2022-Ben-Gvir.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-69953\" class=\"wp-image-69953 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/10-14-2022-Ben-Gvir-300x166.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"166\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/10-14-2022-Ben-Gvir-300x166.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/10-14-2022-Ben-Gvir-1024x567.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/10-14-2022-Ben-Gvir-768x426.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/10-14-2022-Ben-Gvir-1536x851.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/10-14-2022-Ben-Gvir-2048x1135.jpg 2048w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/166;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-69953\" class=\"wp-image-69953 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/10-14-2022-Ben-Gvir-300x166.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/10-14-2022-Ben-Gvir-300x166.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/10-14-2022-Ben-Gvir-1024x567.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/10-14-2022-Ben-Gvir-768x426.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/10-14-2022-Ben-Gvir-1536x851.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/10-14-2022-Ben-Gvir-2048x1135.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-69953\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Itamar Ben-Gvir attends a protest in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, March 2, 2022. (Noam Revkin Fenton\/Flash90)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The incident took place after several days of clashes in Jerusalem sparked by the killing of an Israeli soldier in a suburb last weekend. The tensions were intense enough that the city\u2019s mayor took to the airwaves to deny that the city was \u201cburning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Late Thursday, Ben-Gvir posted on Twitter a video of stone-throwing in Sheikh Jarrah, a Palestinian neighborhood where Jewish groups have claimed buildings that were in Jewish hands before 1948, and where tensions have seethed in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo see it is to not believe it \u2014 an Arab terrorist throws stones at Jews, right in front of police,\u201d he wrote. \u201cInstead of shooting or arresting him, the policeman is content to push him back. It\u2019s time we allowed police to crush the enemy, I\u2019m on my way to the area now to protect Jewish residents. Enough with the capitulation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ben-Gvir, who in polls is shown as expanding his party\u2019s single seat in the Knesset to nine or 10, is campaigning on a platform that includes loosening open-fire rules to include stone-throwers as legitimate targets. Soon he was at the site, with media following and recording him.<\/p>\n<p>Ben-Gvir stood in an open area, where he was vulnerable to stone-throwing, and police ushered him behind a truck, out of sight of the stone-throwers. He drew his pistol, waved it for about 30 seconds, and then replaced it in his holster. Throughout, he repeated multiple times, \u201cIf they throw stones, you shoot them!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The incident is an example of why political opponents and liberal pundits commonly accuse Ben-Gvir of being a \u201cpyromaniac\u201d roaming Israel\u2019s combustible friction points with a metaphoric oil can in hand. He made his appearance during the second night of clashes in Sheikh Jarrah.<\/p>\n<p>The tensions follow the killing of a soldier, Noa Lazar, 18, who was shot at a checkpoint in Shuafat, a refugee camp in Jerusalem\u2019s northern area. Israeli raids on the camp in a search for the shooter, as well as restrictions on residents aimed at preventing his escape, have sparked tensions and on Wednesday, they spread to Sheikh Jarrah.<\/p>\n<p>Palestinian merchants held a citywide strike on Wednesday, and Palestinian organizers declared Friday to be a \u201cday of rage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Police arrested 18 people, Jews and Palestinians, for alleged stone-throwing in Sheikh Jarrah.<\/p>\n<p>Moshe Lion, the city\u2019s mayor, told Israel Army Radio that the violence was the work of a small minority, and said the city was functioning and that Jewish residents were enjoying the Sukkot holiday unimpeded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe residents of East Jerusalem are an inseparable part of this city,\u201d Lion said in remarks reported by the Times of Israel. \u201cYes, it\u2019s true that there is a minority that occasionally raises the temperature. I am not here to convince people that there isn\u2019t violence in specific sections, but to say that Jerusalem is burning? Absolutely not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was not the first time that Ben-Gvir had drawn his gun in public. 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