Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is reportedly ‘furious’ following an overnight attack on a mosque in northern Galilee, which left the building and several Qurans burned and police fearing that the “price tag” phenomenon of Israeli settlers attacking Muslim targets to protest against the notion of a peace deal, has moved beyond the occupied West Bank and into Israel proper.
The implications are enormous, as the Israeli government was mostly able to shrug off such attacks in the West Bank with public condemnation, but with many settler factions in their coalition it appears to have neither the stomach nor the capability of doing anything to stop such attacks.
Allowing the settler movement to launch religious attacks inside Israel itself doesn’t appear to be an option, and will add fuel to calls from Israel’s top domestic spy agency to defund extremist settler colleges that promote such attacks.
Price tag attacks have been treated within the settlements as a viable strategy to protest calls to curb settlement expansion, This is because the Israeli government’s usual response to tit-for-tat violence is to back the settlers without question and announce new expansions just to spite the Palestinians. Needless to say, that’s not an option inside Israel, as police struggle to cope with anger in the tiny Bedouin village targeted and diplomats await more fallout internationally from the strike.
Hmmm, seems Bibi's chickens have come home to roost.
What is Netanyahu getting so upset for, isn´t that what he wants, to burn all Mosques and exile all Palestinians. He must be play acting his anger and secretly jumping for joy.
Furious that he didn't get to blow it up first.
he probably lit the match.
the man is pure evil.
A "profound, internal, existential crisis has arrived" – indeed – from Benny Morris himself!
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/Special/2011/09/14/In…
Israel will prevail.
Nothing will change and Muslims around the world will be killed and tortured for nothing only lies. Mosque for me is not important but the people.
There is very little difference between Bibi and the "settlers". Both are racist totalitarians that insist on "special privileges" to rob, kill, expel or put in concenteration camps all those who are not members of the "tribe". Only the methods differ – and only very slightly.
If the settlers continue their childish- but deadly- outbursts in this fashion, they may very well find themselves outcast following Palestinian independence: Palestine won't want them, and Israel won't want them either. Let's see those blast walls moved into position around some settlements and access in and out tightly controlled and see how the settlers like it. Those caught committing such acts should have their Israeli citizenship revoked and Palestine should refuse to accept them- that leaves them as stateless persons who would then have to prove their worth to one nation or the other. Possible? Certainly. Probable? Highly unlikely.
On the other hand, this does present interesting issues for Netanyahu- will he crack down on settlers for committing these acts in Israel proper, or will they be allowed to slide like they have been in cases where the violence is directed at Palestinians? Unwittingly, the settlers themselves have placed him in a very difficult political position.
It's getting harder and harder to distinguish between the radical Islamic Jihadists and the radical Israeli Zionist settlers.
Easy – the Zionist Extremists are funded and armed by Obama and the US Congress…
You poor soul, if you don't know who's worst, you're
Either not living in this continent or you're an ignorant.
The jihadist is one who's fighting either to defend or to
Get back his land on the other hand the Zionist is the
One who has either taking your land or about to do so.
Look at the states of America, the Zionists have taking
Over every thing from the white house and down and
The same all over the world. For your information,
Jihadist means patriot, are you one?
Keith,
you poor soul, who are the jihadis in Pakistan? what are they fighting for? to reclaim their land from whom? Ignorance is not a virtue, my friend. before you go around waving a banner for a cause, it would serve you well if you inform yourself of the facts. If only the mosque and the qurans were burnt and nobody got hurt then this isnt anything to feel sad over.
The only thing that got bibi upset is that the brutality of this action got out. Bibi has no problem with the fact that the thugs who they call settlers are ding bad things. He does not want the world to see what they are doing. The largest employer in Israel is thugs aka settlers who only role is to be the most offensive and disgusting individual as to drive the arabs off the land the Israel is afraid to steal with a rifle. The zionist came to the area starting in 1880 and they have used the "settlers" approach to stealing land from the first day. They arrived and took an oath of loyalty to th Ottoman empire who gave them a chance to get away from the bad times in europe. They immediately created a system of stealing land and doing everything to not being a loyal citizen to those that gave them a new home to be free of the trouble in Europe. So how is it they here hated in Europe and now they are hated in the middle east. They were not met by people who did anything to them. They were allowed as great of freedom in the Ottoman empire as any place on the world. Why did they move to an area then take an oath of loyalty? What is an oath worth?
Not as furious as if it hadn't been. We'll see how furious he is when the Shin Bet can't figure out who dunnit.
Strange that the Army , providing an escort when 'irate' settlers were marking up the outside with their paintbombs last week, decided to go 'on furlough' when the same settlers came back at night to torch the place.
To make up for it, lots of tear gas and a few baton charges into the Palie demonstrators would seem to be in order.
yeah I'm sure he's REAL upset with it all
Israel will not be happy until every single country is lined up against it wholeheartedly – then they can really cry victim.
Why do they want everyone to hate them so much? Why do they continuously show the world how intolerant, racist, hateful and destructive they can be?
Who would want a friend like that?
They are savages, no better than those they condemn.
As a New Yorker, I'm glad these people (settlers) left Brooklyn and also feel very sorry for anyone who has the misfortune of having to be anywhere near them. As for Bibi being 'furious', I find that laughable as he's done more than his share to rile up the racists.
They must be to stupid to see 90 to 95 persent of the world hates them and thats a strong word but its fact.