Hirschhorn writes: "After years of impunity for settlers who commit violent crimes, Israel's internal security agency, the Shin Bet, has now supposedly cracked down by rounding up a grand total of four youths believed to be connected to recent acts of settler terrorism - three of whom trace their origins to the United States."
A photograph of Ali Dawabsheh, the Palestinian toddler killed in an arson attack on his home in the West Bank village of Duma in July. (photo: Alaa Badarneh/EPA)
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Israeli Terrorists, Born in the USA
07 September 15
n July 31, in the West Bank village of Duma, 18-month-old Ali Dawabsheh was burned alive in a fire. All available evidence suggests that the blaze was a deliberate act of settler terrorism. More disturbingly, several of the alleged instigators, currently being detained indefinitely, are not native-born Israelis — they have American roots.
But there has been little outcry in their communities. Settler rabbis and the leaders of American immigrant communities in the West Bank have either played down their crime or offered muted criticism.
It’s worth recalling the response of the former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin to another heinous attack two decades ago, when an American-born doctor, Baruch Goldstein, gunned down dozens of Palestinians while they prayed in Hebron.
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