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| Israel Police Challenge U.S. 'Terror' Findings |
| 2014-05-02 |
| [AnNahar] Israeli police on Thursday challenged Washington's inclusion of Jewish krazed killer attacks on Paleostinians in a global terror report, saying such incidents could not be likened to hard boy 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-Paleostinian vandalism, euphemistically known as "price tag" attacks. "Attacks by krazed killer Israeli settlers against Paleostinian residents, property, and places of worship in the West Bank continued and were largely prosecuted," the report said, citing U.N. and NGO data. But Israel police front man 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 Agence La Belle France Presse. The U.S. report noted that "the U.N. Office of the Coordinator for Humanitarian Affairs reported 399 attacks by krazed killer Israeli settlers that resulted in Paleostinian injuries or property damage. "Violent krazed killers, including Israeli settlers, vandalized five mosques and three churches in Jerusalem and the West Bank." Defining price tag attacks as "property crimes and violent acts by krazed killer 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. It acknowledged that Israeli police had set up special units to pursue such cases and the government had designated groups responsible as "illegal associations," giving authorities broader powers to act against them. "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 sent to his room. Earlier this week, more racist graffiti was sprayed on the wall of a mosque in Fureidis near the northern port city of Haifa. The town's name means "Paradise" in English. "It is vandalism with nationalistic motives but these are not nationalistic attacks on Paleostinians," Rosenfeld said. "You cannot compare whatsoever between terrorist acts, the cold-blooded killing of Israelis, and... vandalism on that level." Another recent attack targeted shrines at Tabgha on the shore of the Sea of Galilee, where Christians believe Jesus performed the miracle of the loaves and fishes, Roman Catholic officials said. Church officials said a group of religious Jews in their early teens had damaged crosses and attacked clergy. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 Church officials said a group of religious Jews in their early teens had damaged crosses and attacked clergy. At least they're not assassinating prime ministers... |
| Posted by: Pappy 2014-05-02 12:12 |