Israeli police today challenged Washington’s inclusion of Jewish extremist attacks on Palestinians in a global terror report, saying such incidents could not be likened to militant attacks.
For the first time, the State Department’s 2013 Country Reports on Terrorism, published Wednesday, included a reference to a growing wave of racist anti-Palestinian vandalism, euphemistically known as “price tag” attacks.
“Attacks by extremist Israeli settlers against Palestinian residents, property, and places of worship in the West Bank continued and were largely unprosecuted,” the report said, citing UN and NGO data.
But Israel police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said the incidents were far from the global terror threats outlined in the report.
“There’s no comparison whatsoever between criminal incidents with nationalistic motives and terrorist-related incidents,” Rosenfeld told AFP.
The US report noted that “the UN Office of the Coordinator for Humanitarian Affairs reported 399 attacks by extremist Israeli settlers that resulted in Palestinian injuries or property damage.
“Violent extremists, including Israeli settlers, vandalised five mosques and three churches in Jerusalem and the West Bank.”
Defining price tag attacks as “property crimes and violent acts by extremist Jewish individuals and groups in retaliation for activity they deemed to be anti-settlement,” the report said that over the year, the phenomenon had spread into Israel from the occupied West Bank.
“There are a number of ongoing investigations,” Rosenfeld told AFP, saying that four settlers suspected of involvement in a racist graffiti attack on a mosque in northern Israel last month, were taken for questioning on Wednesday and later placed under house arrest.
“It is vandalism with nationalistic motives but these are not nationalistic attacks on Palestinians,” Rosenfeld said. “You cannot compare whatsoever between terrorist acts, the cold-blooded killing of Israelis, and… vandalism on that level.” Read more from AFP here.
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Where are all our Jewish Democ-Rat Senators and Congressmen?Get the Charlatans who make up the current administration out of office.
When will Israel start becoming a sovereign nation and not a banana republic of the United States. What ever Israel does it will always be their fault because Israel acts the victim instead of a survivor. Only in strength you win. Once the Israeli government believes that
then it will not be their fault but the winner.
Once again, there goes the skewed moral equivalency of the Left open for all to see.
What about Obama assassinating his fellow American citizens http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/10/politics/us-killing-americans/
or Democrats calling Republicans “enemies”, “terrorists” and “Jihadists”.
http://redalertpolitics.com/2013/09/30/10-names-democrats-have-called-republicans-on-the-brink-of-a-government-shutdown/
THAT’s the bunch lumping Israel with Hamas, Hezbollah, etc.