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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Settler to be charged with hate crime for torching Palestinian car
2023-02-02
Tit for tat is the only way to get through to some people.
[IsraelTimes] Shin Bet says 22-year-old from Ma’ale Efraim was known to security forces; incident in early January was allegedly a response to stone-throwing attacks

The Shin Bet security agency on Tuesday said a 22-year-old settler had been arrested for an alleged hate crime against Paleostinians in the West Bank earlier this month.

According to the Shin Bet, on January 2, Israeli troops were called to respond to an incident of stone-throwing by Paleostinians against Israeli motorists on the Route 60 highway, near the West Bank town of Turmus Ayya, near Ramallah.

While the soldiers were trying to locate the Paleostinians, an Israeli man from the settlement of Ma’ale Efraim arrived in the Paleostinian town and set fire to a vehicle, the Shin Bet charged.

"This is an act that harms the military force’s ability to carry out its mission and may even endanger it," the agency said.

The Shin Bet said the 22-year-old was previously known to security forces, and an indictment charging him with a racially motivated hate crime would be filed in the coming days.

"Taking the law into one’s own hands and carrying out attacks and hate crimes, especially when these are done against uninvolved Paleostinians, harms the security of the region, expands the circle of terror, and interferes with the efforts of the security forces against Paleostinian terrorism," the Shin Bet added.

Anti-Paleostinian vandalism by Jewish Lions of Islam is a common occurrence in the West Bank.

Incidents of vandalism against Paleostinians and Israeli security forces are commonly referred to as "price tag" attacks, with perpetrators claiming they are retaliation for Paleostinian violence or government policies seen as hostile to the settler movement.

Arrests of perpetrators are exceedingly rare and rights groups lament that convictions are even more unusual, with the majority of charges in such cases being dropped.

Reported incidents of nationalist crimes against Paleostinians in the West Bank have soared in recent days.

On Sunday, masked attackers set alight a car in Turmus Ayya, destroying the vehicle and causing damage to the home where it was parked, Paleostinian sources and rights groups said.

Another car was set alight and graffiti saying "Jews, wake up" was sprayed on a wall in the Paleostinian village of Jaloud, near the West Bank city of Nablus.

In other violence, Paleostinians said settlers attacked cars and property in a number of locations across the West Bank, including in Huwara, where they reportedly smashed shop windows. Local Paleostinians reportedly hurled stones at the settlers to drive them off.

The vandalism came in the wake of several Paleostinian terror attacks over the weekend that killed seven Israelis and seriously injured five others.

"Incidents of settler violence in the West Bank are not stopping and the army is doing nothing to prevent them. We demand that the defense minister handle these horrific events with severity," the Yesh Din rights group said in a statement on Monday.
Posted by:trailing wife

#6   "Jewish Lions of Islam" WTF is this anti-Semitic bullshit?

If you look very closely at the article, Fat Bob Thrart2867, you’ll notice that Lions of Islam has a pale grey dotted line underneath. That’s our signal that Fred’s cute little auto-translator has made its mark once again. If you then click on the headline to go to the original Times of Israel article, you’ll discover that Lions of Islam is the translation of extremist. No antisemitism involved. :-)
Posted by: trailing wife   2023-02-02 23:19  

#5  Chill pill, Herb Fatty!

We know that when Nazis come knockin'
They always be talkin' "Erwachen!"
The wokest, supreme,
Reject Dr. King's dream:
"Check the black bloc and dreadlocks we rockin'!"
Posted by: Jumbo Glomoting9011   2023-02-02 19:13  

#4  To bad he didn't set a few paleos on fire
Posted by: Chris   2023-02-02 13:28  

#3  if I was Jewish, I'd resent all these people so concerned about my wellbeing after the fact...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2023-02-02 12:28  

#2  "Reported incidents of nationalist crimes against Palostinians in the West Bank have soared in recent days."

In proportion to the amount of jews killed or maimed recently.
Posted by: mossomo   2023-02-02 12:25  

#1  "Jewish Lions of Islam" WTF is this anti-Semitic bullshit?

"Jews, wake up" more disgusting anti-Semitic hate. This is exactly what the Nazis put on their banners "Deutschland erwacht"

Posted by: Fat Bob Thrart2867   2023-02-02 07:37  

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