Israeli forces search Pearlman's parents home; Pearlman: Shin Bet encouraged me to commit violent acts.
Haaretz, 16 July 2010
Israeli security forces on Friday carried out a search at the home of alleged Jewish terrorist Chaim Pearlman's parents in the West Bank settlement of Tekoa, less than a week after he was arrested for a string of stabbing attacks against Palestinians over the last decade.
A friend of Pearlman's said the move showed that the Shin Bet was panicking and trying to force the suspect to confess to crimes he had not committed, lest it be investigated for its own role in those incidents.
During their search at the Pearlman residence, the Israel Police officers and Shin Bet agents confiscated a number of old books.
Pearlman was arrested on Tuesday, initially on suspicion of carrying out two murders in 1998 and for a series of non-fatal attacks. The Petah Tikva Magistrates' Court on Thursday extended his remand by six days and announced that he was the main suspect in two other murder cases.
Pearlman has said that he was contacted by a person who allegedly worked for the Shin Bet security service while disseminating fliers for the extreme right-wing Kach movement and encouraged to commit violent acts, including the assassination of Sheik Ra'ad Salah, the head of the Islamic Movement in Israel.
Pearlman recorded all his conversations with the man and says he has 20 hours of recordings that prove he opposed such violent activities.
The Shin Bet denied Thursday claims it tried to coerce Pearlman into carrying out attacks against Arabs, saying the exchanges recorded in the tapes released earlier Thursday represented a legitimate method of extracting a confession from a suspect.
I knew it. The terror regime itself is working with these crazy-arse Kahanist settlers.