In a move they claim was aimed at protesting detentions by Israeli police, residents of the Yitzhar settlement in the West Bank attacked a nearby Palestinian village.
Though there do not appear to have been major casualties in the attack, settlers did considerable property damage to some homes, as they hurled rocks through windows. The Palestinians inside called for help, but it does not appear that the police responded until after the settlers already left.
In the aftermath, the Israeli police were said to have arrested four more settlers on unspecified “disturbances,” and all were released shortly thereafter.
The settlement has been at the center of the so-called “price tag” controversy, in which the settlers vowed to make Palestinians pay for any moves by the Netanyahu government to curb the growth of settlements.
these people are disgusting its only a matter of time before Israels main threat is not palestinians wanting human rights, but home grown religious extremist
The 'Price Tag' policy vividly shows the immorality of the settlers and of the US Government – the one for attacking a third party because the police have attacked them, and the other because Obama and Clinton condone such actions.
Regards, Alex
Though it would never be possible to criticize racist Israel too much, let me me just say that a casual review of the West's relationship with native peoples would reveal 500 years of identical behavior. Is it true that the term 'buck' came from the dollar for a indian buck's scalp? Yes zionism is a hateful ideology but so is the assumption that God blesses America and the theft and genocide from which it was created in the first place. Perhaps it is born from a judeo-christian sense of entitlement and supremacy. The term 'Palestindians' sums it up perfectly for me.
One really has to work hard to summon up the sympathy required by the Zionists for the persecutions they are forced to endure at their own hands . . .