Juan Cole: Top Ten Steps That Are Necessary for Lasting Gaza-Israel Peace

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5. Here is a typical post from his blog about the 2008 bulldozer attack on Israelis by a Palestinian

He spends almost the entire time making excuses for the attack.

I wonder if this was counted as a Palestinian attack breaking the peace or not...

http://www.juancole.com/2008/07/bulldozer-attack-in-west-jerusalem.html

The use of a Caterpillar bulldozer in the attack is probably a symbolic reversal, since Israeli authorities have been demolishing Palestinian buildings in East Jerusalem on “administrative grounds” of lack of permits. The chief cause of a lack of permits is Israeli refusal to grant building permits to Palestinians in East Jerusalem. But they have to live somewhere.

Rapid Israeli encroachments on the Palestinians in the West Bank are raising fears of a water crisis for the native inhabitants of this region. This according to B’tselem.

Those encroachments are attended by violence of Israeli colonists (many of them Americans) against native Palestinians, violence that does not make headlines because Israeli military authorities suppress video and other evidence of it.

The bulldozer operator appears to have been acting alone and was apparently seized with a fit of rage over accumulated grievances in his own mind, real or imagined. Violence against innocent civilians is always condemnable and deplored by IC.