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"The destruction of the antiquities, in this case probably by Israelis, is part of the process of erasure of 'the other" - of everything that doesn't suit the extremist and one-dimentional ideology of certain Israeli groups."
The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) condemned racist settler attacks, including houses south of Nablus.
Windows were smashed and Molotov cocktails thrown. Women and children especially were terrorized. One house was set ablaze. Israel security forces provide no security for Palestinians and did nothing against those responsible.
On December 15, Haaretz writer Ari Shavit headlined, "Israel has never been so ugly," saying:
Natanyahu wants to silence Muslim calls to prayer, shut down the Palestinian/Israeli peace radio station, and effectively support settler vandalism by doing nothing to stop it.
Moreover, "Justice Minister Yaakov Neeman is trying to turn the Supreme Court into another one of his subsidiaries. Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein is working to prevent the media from reporting on investigations against public figures. Deputy Health Minister Yaakov Litziman excludes women from participation in an official award ceremony.""Coalition chairman Zeev Elkin undermines and neuters civil society. Religious fanatics exclude women, tryannize secular citizens and spit at priests. Jewish terrorists burn Muslim houses of worship, invade Israeli Defense Force bases and attack soldiers."
"We see what we would never believe with our own eyes. Darkness at noon, a dark Israel snuffing out" a once more enlightened society, though never one treating Arabs like Jews.
Under Netanyahu and MK hard-liners, extremism and moral cowardice rose to unprecedented levels. Anything now goes, including police state laws and failing to stop increasing numbers of violent attacks on Palestinians for being Arabs, not Jews.
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