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| Jewish settlers seek revenge for attack |
| 2002-06-22 |
| Jewish settlers trudged through the smoldering remains of the Shabo home yesterday, gasping at shrapnel holes in the bedroom walls, then converged on a hillside for the burial of Rachel Shabo and three of her children. The settlers demanded revenge for the family members, killed the night before when a Palestinian gunman slipped over the settlement's fence and burst into their home. A neighbor who headed the community's emergency-response security detail was killed when he rushed to save the Shabos. What the hell did you expect their reaction to be? "Oh, well?" It was the second deadly attack here in three weeks, and the settlers were angry and eager to fight the Palestinians who claim the same rocky hills and valleys of the West Bank. "With God's help, the blood spilled here will be soaked in the land of Samaria and will nourish the olive trees, and with God's help, we will have revenge," Natan Chay, the settlement's rabbi, preached before hundreds who came to bury the Shabos. Oh, shut up, Rabbi. You sound like a Paleostinian. Later, some of the settlers leaving the funeral reportedly rampaged through the nearby Palestinian village of Hawara, shot to death a young Palestinian man, and burned cars and a house. And your congregation acted like Paleostinians. The difference between Israelis and Paleostinians is that Israelis are civilized. There is no "seething Israeli street" because Jews have thought processes. FOLLOWUP: Ha'aretz reports that Police arrested a 27-year-old Israeli resident of a West Bank settlement Saturday, on suspicion of shooting dead a Palestinian man in the village of Burin on Friday. The incident allegedly occurred after funerals were held for five residents of the West Bank settlement of Itamar who were killed Thursday night by Palestinian gunmen. Army Radio quoted Palestinian sources as saying that the Palestinian youth was killed by Israelis who entered the village. The sources also said that the Israelis set fire to several houses in the village. Individual Israelis may sometimes become like Paleostinians, but the Israeli government isn't the PA. No candy was handed out to the kiddies, and there was no dancing in the streets. The perp was simply arrested, and it's doubtful his buds are going to bust him out. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |