Shameful and shocking
12:30pm
I have been following with undiluted dismay and disgust the insurrection in Hebron, where Israeli settlers went on the rampage after 200 of them were removed by Israeli security forces from a house they said had been legitimately purchased from an Arab, but which they were occupying in defiance of an order by the Supreme Court which ruled their presence illegal. Even if they were originally in the right and the Israeli authorities were wrong in evicting them – and there is a complicated dispute over the ownership of this house -- that cannot possibly justify the racist mob violence that followed. All Jews should feel shame at what they did. They attacked defenceless Arabs and their property and even desecrated Muslim graves, for heaven’s sake. They attacked policemen, set homes and cars on fire, shot at Arab...
Monday, 8 December 2008
Posts
