Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Settlers’ mosque-burning campaign expands into Israel

Gente miserabile con una mentalità da terrorista. Ce ne sono parecchi 
che corrispondono alla definizione di Dichter.
 
Il Caro Pubblico ne conoscerà sicuramente qualcuno, probabilmente 
mascherato da liberale, da democratico, da patriota...
 
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Settlers’ mosque-burning campaign expands into Israel
 
By Allyn Fisher-Ilan
 
JERUSALEM | Thu Oct 6, 2011 5:57pm BST
 
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - They strike in the dead of night, setting fire to 
mosques and daubing their walls with “Price Tag” graffiti, the defiant 
slogan of Israeli settlers waging a vigilante campaign branded as 
“un-Jewish” by President Shimon Peres.
 
The “price-taggers” have vowed to avenge any move by Israeli authorities 
to uproot settlement outposts built in the occupied West Bank without 
Israeli government permission.
 
Dozens of those outposts, which Israel has repeatedly promised its main 
ally, the United States, to remove, remain on lonely West Bank hilltops 
on land to which many settlers claim a Biblical right and where 
Palestinians want to build a state.
 
On some of the few occasions when Israeli army bulldozers have torn down 
structures at the outposts, Palestinian villagers have awoken the next 
morning to find a local mosque charred by fire and with the now-familiar 
graffiti on its walls.
 
Israeli leaders have condemned the incidents. But no one has been 
charged in the three arson attacks in the West Bank over the past year, 
an indication, Palestinians say, of indifference by a right-wing 
government that includes pro-settler parties.
 
Now the “Price Tag” campaign has widened to include vandalism at an 
Israeli army base in the West Bank and the torching of two mosques, one 
this week in a Bedouin village inside Israel, touching a nerve among the 
country’s leaders and the public.
 
At stake is the delicate fabric of co-existence between Israel’s Jewish 
majority and its Arab minority, which makes up some 20 percent of the 
population.
 
“Israel had better know that it will pay for this,” said a resident of 
Tuba-Zangariya in the Galilee, where a mosque was burnt on Monday, 
prompting dozens of Israeli Arabs to take to the streets and hurl rocks 
at police, who responded with tear gas.
 
Graffiti left at al-Nur mosque suggested the “price-taggers” were 
responding to the deaths of a settler father and baby killed last month 
when their car overturned in the West Bank after Palestinians threw 
rocks at it.
 
FIRST CHARGES
 
Police said they had set up a special task force to deal with the “price 
taggers” and announced on Thursday that they had arrested a suspect in 
the Tuba-Zangariya case.
 
In another potential breakthrough against the militants, three settlers 
were charged in a court in Jerusalem on Wednesday with planning to set 
fire to a West Bank mosque.
 
In addition to assaults on mosques, militant settlers have been blamed 
for a string of car burnings and the uprooting of hundreds of olive 
trees and grapevines on Palestinian property.
 
Some Israeli human rights activists link an increase in such incidents 
in recent months to tensions over a Palestinian application for 
statehood at the United Nations, which is strongly opposed by Israel and 
its U.S. ally.
 
The “Price Tag” campaign is widely believed to be the work of a 
clandestine group of young settlers in unauthorised outposts where 
journalists are not welcome.
 
Security officials say such close-knit groups are tough to infiltrate, 
making it difficult to prevent mosque attacks or find out who carried 
them out.
 
But Avraham Dichter, a former chief of Israel’s internal security 
agency, the Shin Bet, told Reuters the time had come to move against 
militant settlers, whom he described as “miserable people with a 
terrorist mindset.”
 
Dichter said that while not as lethal as a Jewish group that killed 
three Palestinians and wounded dozens in a series of attacks in the 
1980s, the recent incidents were still alarming.
 
Attacks on particularly sensitive places, such as the Jerusalem holy 
site that Jews call Temple Mount and Muslims revere as Haram al-Sharif 
(Noble Sanctuary), could swiftly trigger a new wave of Palestinian 
violence, he said.
 
“You can find yourself in no time in the middle of an Intifada, not 
because there were fatalities but just because a very important and 
sensitive target was hit,” Dichter said.
 
FEELING BETRAYED
 
Itamar Ben Gvir, a settler leader in Kiryat Arba, one of the most 
hardline Jewish settlements, told Reuters the attack on the Galilee 
mosque should have come as no surprise.
 
“The writing was on the wall, because a population that feels that they 
are being abandoned, harmed and kicked over and over again, it is only 
natural that individuals from within that population will come out and 
commit incidents,” he said, in apparent reference to moves against 
unauthorised outposts.
 
The Galilee arson attack was swiftly condemned by Israeli Prime Minister 
Benjamin Netanyahu. Peres rushed to inspect the mosque, where residents 
were weeping over charred holy books.
 
“Un-Jewish, illegal, immoral and (it) brings heavy shame upon us,” 
Peres, a Nobel peace prize laureate, said.
 
Peres’s visit was a sign of Israeli concern that any future torching of 
mosques inside Israel could inflame its Arab citizens, who have long 
complained of discrimination.
 
Many Israelis are worried about more violence as Israeli Arabs mark the 
anniversary this month of the killings of 13 young protesters by Israeli 
police in October 2000 when a Palestinian uprising was raging in the 
West Bank and Gaza.
 
Mainstream settler leaders have also voiced concern at the militants 
within their ranks, fearing their actions will tarnish the movement 
whose settlements on land Israel captured in a 1967 war are deemed 
illegal in international law.
 
“Price tagging represents the biggest damage to our future. It is 
immoral. It is un-Jewish. I couldn’t use harsher words,” said Naftali 
Bennett, head of the Yesha (settler) Council.
 
“We are talking about a few hundred people living mainly in the 
northeastern area. I urge the police to arrest these guys and throw them 
in jail,” he told a group of foreign reporters.
 
But Menachem Landow, a former officer in a Shin Bet division that 
investigates threats posed by Jewish extremists, said the settler 
leadership should do more to rein in the radicals.
 
“One of the things that bothers me is that the leaders of the 
settlements are constantly condemning (the attacks). The condemnation is 
not enough — they need to cooperate with the security services, help 
them, because without the help from the surroundings no intelligence 
source has a chance,” Landow said.
 
(Editing by Jeffrey Heller and Alistair Lyon)
 
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http://www.focusonisrael.org/2011/03/12/coloni-israeliani-cisgiordania-itamar-massacro-terrorismo-palestinese/
Ma in questo caso niente condanne da Persio. Solo comprensione.