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Palestinian violence, not settler violence, is the problem

(JNS) — A Knesset committee headed by Meretz Party member Moshe (“Mossi”) Raz recently sounded the alarm — sirens, even — over a supposed rise in settler violence against innocent Palestinians in Judea and Samaria.

The figures provided by Yesh Din, which calls itself a non-governmental organization, do seem alarming. Of course, Yesh Din only deals with violence against Palestinians, not against Israelis.

The organization has counted over 1,400 acts of violence since 2012 — 416 of them in the first half of this year. However, neither the Knesset “fact-finding” committee nor Yesh Din ever bother...

 

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