Tuesday, March 1, 2011

What if Israeli forces treated West Bank settlers like Arabs?

Bradley Burston
28 Feb - What might be the reaction among settlers if Israeli forces in the West Bank treated them somewhat as if they were Palestinians? Now - thanks to clashes with some of the most extreme of West Bank settlers - we have some idea: Outrage. "I've never seen police firing on innocent bystanders and on women," said settler leader Gershon Messika, chairman of the Samaria Regional Council, the administrative umbrella of northern West Bank settlements. "I haven't seen things like this - maybe only with Gadhafi in Libya, or in Bil‘in," he told Army Radio. "But with children, Jews..."
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