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"Price tag" Peace Now offices - thumb (Photo: Hagit Ofran)

The Jewish Intifada: The conflict turns upside-down

The newest chapter of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict – settler-led physical violence and destruction of both Palestinian and Israeli targets, within and beyond the Green Line – has turned regular conflict patterns of political divisions upside-down. Confusion and irony reign. Settler-led violence isn’t new: attacks on Palestinian civilians has been a regular feature of life in…

By Dahlia Scheindlin December 15, 2011

Solution for settler violence? I suggest the Mel Brooks approach

There’s something quite sad about how West Bank settlers are turning on their “creators,” the Israeli authorities who put them there and defend them on a daily basis. Something very Frankenstein-ish about it. Maybe the “creators” should try the Mel Brooks approach. A nice, big sed-a-give. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FPdNpslw-w[/youtube]

By Ami Kaufman December 15, 2011

Does Baruch Goldstein’s rabbi want violent settlers shot?

Wel-l-l… Amazing headline in The Jerusalem Post today: “West Bank rabbis: Allow live fire at stone-throwers.” Mind you, the whole country is outraged today at the spectacle of that mob of settler youths attacking that army base in the West Bank, throwing stones, hitting a commander in the head, but now West Bank rabbis, of all people, are calling…

By Larry Derfner December 14, 2011

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"A Jewish soldier supports the Jews". IDF guard post, West Bank (Photo: Yossi Gurvitz)

IDF on settler stone-throwers: You wouldn’t expect us to shoot a Jew?

An IDF spokesman giving a radio interview casually admits the army’s bias in treating settler pogromchiks and Palestinians protesters in diametrically different ways Gotta hand it to the IDF. We could never have high-lighted its apartheid policy better. Monday night, three days after the killing of Mustafa Tamimi – who was killed by a 40mm…

By Yossi Gurvitz December 13, 2011

Major Negev NGO offices burned down over the weekend

Security cameras captured a masked assailant set fire to the offices of one of the most important NGOs in the Negev, hours before a major protest for the rights of the Bedouins. The Beer Sheva offices of the Arab-Jewish Centre for Equality, Empowerment and Cooperation (AJEEC), were gutted by fire over the weekend, just hours…

By Dimi Reider December 12, 2011