Jewish settler arrested for murder and bombings
November 2, 2009 by Infowars Ireland
Yaakov ‘Jack’ Teitel a 37-year-old American immigrant, sits in an Israeli police vehicle after being arrested last month in the West Bank Jewish settlement of Shvut Rahel, in this Israeli police handout released 1 November, 2009. Israeli police said on Sunday they were holding a Jewish settler who they said had confessed to killing two Palestinians and bombing the home of an Israeli professor Shterenhel among a string of attacks over the past decade.
In Israel, police have announced the arrest of a Jewish settler on suspicion of murder and carrying out bomb attacks.
The 37-year-old Yaakov ‘Jack’ Teitel is an immigrant from the United States. He is believed to have been responsible for the murder of two Palestinians in 1997.
He is also thought to have carried out four bomb attacks since 2006, one of them on Zeev Sternheil, a professor who has long been critical of the Jewish settlements on the West Bank. In another attack, a boy of 15 was injured; the bomb was intended for his parents, both of whom belonged to a Jewish sect that embraces Jesus Christ.
Mr Teitel was arrested last month as he was handing out fliers charging homosexuals with heresy. The arrest was revealed by police on Sunday at a press conference.
At a news conference on Sunday, officials said Mr Teitel had been arrested earlier this month in the Jerusalem area of Har Nof following a lenghty investigation by the police and the Shin Bet internal security service.
He had been giving out leaflets in the ultra-Orthodox neighbourhood praising an attack on a gay youth club in Tel Aviv in August that killed two people. A large weapons cache was later found at his home in the West Bank settlement outpost Shvut Rachel, where he lives with his wife and four children.
During questioning, Mr Teitel confessed to several crimes, saying he had emigrated to Israel to carry out attacks against Palestinians as revenge for suicide bombings which killed Israeli citizens, the added.
The crimes are said to include the murders of a Palestinian shepherd near Mount Hebron in 1997 and an Arab taxi driver in East Jerusalem two months later, and the stabbing of an Arab whom he suspected of making sexual advances.
More recently, he was allegedly responsible for a pipe bomb attack which wounded Mr Sternhell, a well-known critic of Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank and opponent of the Israeli blockade of Gaza.
After the September 2008 attack, posters were found offering a 1m shekel ($294,000) reward to anyone who killed a member of the Peace Now Movement, which opposes Jewish settlement activity.
Mr Teitel is also said to have confessed to sending a booby-trapped gift basket in March that year to a family of Messianic Jews, who believe in Jesus as a saviour. The blast seriously wounded the family’s 15-year-old son.
Video footage released on Sunday purportedly shows him leaving the bomb outside the Americans’ home in the settlement of Ariel.
He was also suspected to attempting to bomb Israeli police stations and patrols because they provided security for gay pride parades, but not for the attack on the gay youth club, police said. Read more…
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Mr Teitel did a *great job*- he has aggravated the conflict between Palestinians and Israel and hostility of the secular citizens to religious citizens of Israel.