On the other side of the world, Israeli "settlers" (colonialist religious fanatics) were forcibly removed from a house they may have scammed from a Palestinian gentleman.
After losing a swift afternoon battle, settlers struck back into the night with gunfire and arson attacks on Palestinians in this troubled city and other parts of the West Bank, raising tensions between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. Seventeen Palestinians were wounded along with at least 35 Israeli soldiers, police officers and settlers. Fires blazed after dusk along a ravine dividing Hebron, a largely Palestinian city, and the Jewish settlement of Kiryat Arba as police skirmished with settlers on both sides. [...] "The expulsion has begun!" an Israeli named Orel wrote on eretzil.org, a Hebrew-language settler forum. "Anyone who can arrive at the House of Peace should come now. Those who cannot come should begin acts of revenge in the towns." [...] At that point, the settlers began clashing with Hebron's Palestinians, who threw stones at them from rooftops. Settlers set fire to two homes, a store and nine cars, Palestinian officials said. In an incident caught on film, a settler shot and wounded a 65-year-old Palestinian and his adult son outside their Hebron home. Settlers briefly sat on the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv highway, snarling traffic. In the West Bank they pelted cars with rocks and blocked roads with burning tires near Ramallah, Kalkilya and Nablus, and set fire to olive groves near Nablus, witnesses said.Dem a-loot, a-shoot, a-wail & a-arson on the weaker like the bullies they are.
And then blame leftists.
Because elections are scheduled for February and Mr. Barak is his party’s leader, opponents of the evacuation accused him of seeking political advantage through his decision. “Barak sent the army and police as part of the left wing’s election campaign and the blood of the casualties is on his hands,” said Arieh Eldad of the National Religious Party.And they take the Sarah Palin approach to child-raising. Children are little props to be used.
Many Jews who charged into Hebron from Kiryat Arba to skirmish with police had their families in tow. Nir Nahum, a 42-year-old teacher, clutched his 8-year-old son's hand while retreating from a charging police phalanx. "We don't have the power to recapture the house right now," the teacher said. "Our power is in our ideas, in the Torah. This is the land of Israel, and we'll keep fighting to preserve it for our children. We will not give up easily."Your ideas, or the old crap from the Torah? Can't have it both ways there. And don't forget the struggle over corpse worship. Religion. As charming as ever.
The contested building, which occupants had dubbed the House of Peace, is on the road to the Cave of the Patriarchs, where Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and their wives are said to be buried, a site Muslims and Jews have coveted and fought over for centuries.
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