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23 Aug, 2012

Israel Needs to Step Up Fight Against Jewish ‘Settler Terrorism’ – Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East

Seventeen mosques have already been torched within Israel proper and across the Green Line. Graffiti such as “Muhammad is a Pig” has been sprayed on the walls of mosques. Muslim cemeteries have been desecrated. Thousands of olive trees have been uprooted or set on fire. Property has been vandalized. If that were not enough, the last two years have seen a precipitous rise in violent actions by settlers against Palestinians – not just roughing-up or clubbing, but actual shooting. At the same time, we have seen a growing number of incidents where IDF bases and property have been vandalized too. [Israeli settlers vandalized, for the first time, an Israel Defense Forces base in the West Bank on Sept. 1, 2011, signing it as a “price tag” operation against the army.]

via Israel Needs to Step Up Fight Against Jewish ‘Settler Terrorism’ – Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East.