Investigations that are opened are not pursued seriously. As a result, some two-thirds of investigations are closed. Israeli officials have leveled stinging criticism against the Police and the military for their law enforcement failures. Critics have included the 1982 Karp Commission, the Shamgar Commission established following the massacre at the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron, and Attorney General Eliyakim Rubenstein. Unfortunately, these repeated criticisms have fallen on deaf ears.
Israeli authorities are thereby complicitous in the on-going violence and vandalism.
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